For those of you in or around the age of 30, consider that when the 1983 video was shot, I was 31 and thought this the best time to be alive, in New York and young. Now, I look back 30 years and wonder how it all went by so fast; Two homes, two kids and one wife later, I am daily flabbergasted that it still isn't somewhere in the late 80s or so, so fast has time flashed by. My message here? Waste not one minute of your life because before you know it, bang, your old, retired...forcibly these days...and often angry.
Born in 1999 in NY but I am not like most teenagers across the US. Lol like I'm more into that old-school stuff. The clothing the movies especially the music the cars and the way things were being invented and discovered. Like I feel like that teenagers (my age I'm 15) were more close and had a fun time. While today, they could be close but tbh they're assholes and they whine and don't go out and do some crazy fun shit. I wish I lived through the 80s and 90s as a teen. Instead I get these times where people depend on phones laptops and all electronics as a whole. Fuck the 2000s.
In my country, price were lower for everything, no smart phone, no facebook, if you want to meet people you need to go out of your home. I spent most of my youth playing outdoor, fishing, biking, making cabin in forest, man hunting (for fun), playing hockey on frozen lake, skateboarding, playing soldier with a wood gun machine (lol again), playing video game with friend. Today when i go back to where i'm from, street are empty, sometime i cross teenager, they're sad, alone, always looking at their smart phone. What a mess. There was a kind of energy during the 90's, and it disapear with 2000.
I worked in the Wall Street district from 1978-83. It's hard to believe that over 30 years have passed. I remember it all very vividly. It was a great experience for a young guy trying to make his way in the world. Thanks for posting.
+Korova Milkbar It's not just NYC... all of our great cities. NYC used to be cultured, gritty and raw. It used to be a place people would go to find themselves, now it's not. Miami used to be a center for vice and a good time, now it's a shit hole. Los Angeles used to be a cheery, sunny city filled to the brim with talent and cute girls, now it's not. Even Vegas used to be amazing. We're losing our culture, that's the problem.
Penske Material It's not about minorities. Minorities have always been in these big cities. It's just the culture. We're a more corporatized and sissy culture is the problem. Politically correct, thin-skinned, and soft hipster generation are taking over these cities.
Aside from the many murders in those days, this New York looks so much "better". I think the real New York City soul is gone, and is replaced by a Disneyland soul.
@@VividFilmProductions Dont be silly. Its far worse now for just about everything other than technology. For starters you have a higher chance now of dying from a virus now than then.
The old Twin Towers were so imposing, and so grand looking. They had "New York" written all over them. If the Twin Towers could speak, they would say "Yeah we're the Twin Towers and this is NY, what the fuck are you gonna do about it"? Now...ugh, Freedom Tower. Such a wimp building. If Freedom Tower could speak, it would say "Hi I'm Freedom Tower, wanna talk about feelings and share a latte with me?" That piece of shit belongs in Seattle, not NY.
+Earth Ruler I'm from Seattle and think your comment is funny. Lattes are grub FYI, when made right. But definitely agree about the Twin Towers vs The "Feelings Tower". I hate this hipster movement and the image that they have imposed on cities across the US. Seattle, like NYC was a city of blue collar workers and longtime mom n pop businesses. Seattle has followed NYC's footsteps by putting all these fancy schmancy businesses and replacing the once affordable and gritty businesses that stood before them. As a kid in the 80s, I had always longed to visit NYC during that time. Still have not step foot there, and don't really care much more because of all the stories I have heard about NYC becoming a hipster haven. I'm sure it's worth visiting still, but sad that I wasn't there in the 80s.
islandbee Hey man sorry I didn't mean to put Seattle down I was just pissed haha. Thanks for the reply. I've never been to Seattle either so I should shut the fuck up about it, but I was just trying to say NY is supposed to be the greatest city in the world so I expected better than the Feelings Tower (haha that is funny I'm stealing that one). You should visit NY there's no city in the world like it. That's what everyone says when they come here. After you visit NY every other city looks small! I'll try to get out to Seattle sometime too. Take care man happy holidays! :)
Earth Ruler It's all good. The closest I've been to NYC are times that I've had to transfer from EWR. Some people talk about how rude NY/NJ'ers are, and thought most of the people I interacted with were pretty nice. I will definitely take time to go see NYC. Ever since I watched the movie Arthur as a little kid in the early 80s I've always obsessed about it. Seattle is a nice city, but I think it use to be a much more down to earth city back in the day. It's still worthy of a visit. Hope your holidays are going well. Take care!
+Earth Ruler I know what you mean. But, since the twin towers were destroyed in such a horrible way, I don't think anything would be as "cool" and as quintessential NY as they were no matter what was erected in their place. That New York is gone. Unfortunately.
Deneen Jeffries I left school in England in 82, times were simple if you could see it it was "real" music was cool, but everything broke, tape player, cars , tech was expensive , 3 TV channels but we were free and had our own identity. All long gone . Visited N.Y first in 2000 loved every minute.
Loved hearing the radio spots from these, too. Always interested in hearing the different prices and ads, even the way jockeys spoke in comparison to today
I am from UK but I really miss these times (I wasn't even born yet). I honestly think the 9/11 thing changed history. Earth in the 80s and 90s just seemed to 'real'. Now the world just feels fake. It's hard to explain.
Man, I love watching videos like this. I was born in 1994 and it's just weird seeing life before I was born knowing I didn't even exist, I don't know. 1986 was thirty years ago, if UA-cam is still around I'd like to see a video of NYC 2016--from 2046!
I was there in 1986 just awesome I loved to listen WBLS the shalamar lisalisaCJ sos band teena maria dudes walking around with huge radios every one was wearing mid reeboks and had long hair
Goddam, it's only gonna get worse. Soon only the rich will live there and the poor will live on the outskirts. It's gonna be the biggest shit hole in 30 years
Thank you for the memories. I was a cabbie in NYC in the 80s, and believe me...i saw it ALL! Perhaps I am in one of your movies, I will never know for sure.
Most relaxing video I've seen. Something about the sounds are as a relaxing as a waterfall to be honest. The ambiance makes me close my eyes. I love how Times Square looks. I was born in '86.
Mark Hazleton i lived in the city till 80...it had an old school feel that has been lost by the modern buildings and Vegas style lights...that is why the Empire State Building holds place in my heart. Old new york in that building
F5Storm1 So true, my son was showing me some old photos taken from the Jersey side. That's the skyline I'm used to, not today's. Was watching Pope of Greenwich Village & they are omnipresent.
The first time I had ever gone to New York City was by way of a ferry from New Jersey. The landing point? Yes, the World Trade Center Plaza. I have a photograph taken from the boat we were on, as it headed towards the WTC on an overcast, gray day. It was a perfect photograph in terms of quality. Less than two years later, the area was destroyed.
Thank you for posting this. I lived in Brooklyn at that time and have no video from those days. This really took me back. I miss the older, grittier NYC. Today is like a Las Vegas version of itself, all sanitized for my protection. Fuck that. Thanks for the great memories.
Ahhh... New York City in the decade when i was born! The Empire State Building, the Chrsyler building, and the TWIN TOWERS of the World Trade Center reigned supreme in the skyline; good feel-good 80s music was playing, people weren't annoyingly looking at their smartphones, rap and hate music was not as prevalent, people actually used payphones, people actually interacted more with each other as people, no internet, the radio ruled the airwaves, the subway was filled with the gritty graffiti...NEW YORK CITY IN THE 80s WILL ALWAYS BE ICONIC
@@Wrestling316 Exactly. Rap and Hip Hop were in their formative years at the time of this video. And that so called "feel-good music" that the OP is dreaming of was nothing more than bland, commercial pap that had zero soul or humanity. For those of us actually around during the 80s it was a depressing, materialistic and bland era
@@JohnnyFriendly True, don’t get me wrong, I love Hip-Hop, been listening to it my whole life, still do, but it was a way to keep people off of the streets and away from crime and drugs. Sadly, it does the opposite
Thanks for sharing! As a teen in the 80's living in Jersey, I used to go to the city all the time. Felt so grown up. lol Totally forgot about WBLS. I was more of a WPLJ girl but my friend liked BLS
I am born and raised in NYC. In 1983 I was 10 years old. I remember this Manhattan and NYC vividly. Sometimes when I close my eyes I am back there. In my heart this will always be the true NYC. Thanks so much for posting this footage.
I always cry when I see the Towers now; whether it is in old movies or whenever. Just sob each time. :-( They were so beautiful. I know that sounds silly since they were steel and part of the concrete jungle but I am a NYer so I am weird. hehe I just love how they looked.
I was born in the late 50s and have lived here my entire life.I still love my city,but I have to say that it WAS better back in the gloriously grimy seventies and even the duller but still cool eighties.The city had heart and soul then.To those who were elsewhere back then,or are to young to remember it,all I can say is;Ya shooda been there.
Around this time in the 80's, my dad used to drive me an my siblings every Saturday night over the Brooklyn bridge into Times Square. Now kids just stare at their phones
U dont see JVC nowadays, odd to see how much has changed since then, the companies, cars, environment, culture, skyline, everything is just completely different
I can't thank you enough. As a kid born in Brooklyn in 1980, this earlier New York lives only in the foggy recesses of my mind. I'm only up to minute 2 but I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this immensely. EDIT: I watched past 2 minute mark and I am LOVING your video. You even added a New York radio broadcast from the time. And I can hear the aural ambience of each place. And you treated each "insignificant" sign with attention, the way I do.
The year Sixers won the NBA 🏆, MTV played Michael Jackson's videos, Al Green came out with ILL RISE AGAIN, SCARFACE AND RISKY BUSINESS top movies, Cabbage Patch dolls came out, first ever COMPACT DISCS came out, NOVEMBER that year the JACKSONS held their VICTORY TOUR press conference at TAVERN ON THE GREEN NYC
I lived here from 1985 thru 1988. Lived on Staten Island and Governors Island. I've never managed to make it back, but hope to someday. I loved the raw grittiness of those times. Spent most of my time in the Village and 42nd St. Sad to hear that it has changed so much.
As a native Philadelphian, I still have an incredible amount of love for the city of NYC. It is never Christmas until I get to go up there in December. Epic footage
It was May 10, 1983 on the '83 part because at 5:01 it shows 445 days to go until the '84 Olympics which began on 7/28/84. I was 13 years old that day and living just a few miles away up in the Bronx. I sure miss these times and that world so much. NYC was still a gritty place, but even at 13, i'd take the #5 train from Gun Hill Road station in the Bronx down to Times Square and walk around with friends all day and never once felt afraid or in danger. Today, I wouldn't set foot there if you paid me but it was nice back then even with all the grit and grime. That world is sadly gone now. :(
Old Times SQ. This brings back so many memories for me. I used to take the bus from the burbs to Port Authority as a teenager and worked in Times Sq. from 1986 to 89.
The transplants and hipsters that came over here caused all the rents to soar! Nowadays even Studio apts are outrageously overpriced because trust fund idiots actually keep forking over these obscene rents and us Natives pay the price!
First of all, thanks for this. Secondly, I'm a NYer so it feels so special to see it good and bad. Also, I am obsessed with NY and love footage of old NY too and history of it; plus other cities. I guess 70s is my fave time in terms of history of the city for some reason - maybe because those were my years. What made you decide to do this particular footage? It is awesomeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing documentary. Unless you were living life in that time and place, it is difficult to fully convey how incredible it really was. Words just can't do it for some things, and being alive (and I mean 'alive') in this town back in these days is one of them. There's no other time and place I would want to be in more than NYC in the 80s.
Well Done Video! So much character and atmosphere! It was captivating and I couldn't stop watching! I was 4 years old in 1986 so quite young. However my very first memories in life were absorbing in that world like a sponge, the music, the vibe, I felt it all even at that very young tender age. In 1991 I was 9 years old and noticed the culture starting to change! Yes even at that young of age I noticed it! The music in particular became darker! Suddenly everyone was being sold a divisive degenerative version of themselves and their cultures. Many young people ate it all up and defended it as their norm too. I guess I was different because I always saw right through it. The lies, the slow break down of our society since that time. It happened so gradually that most people didn't even seem to notice. You don't take over the USA by direct force. You do it subversively slowly over time from the inside out. Couldn't be anymore obvious the weeds that were planted during that time coming to more full fruition these days! Current generations of young adults defending lies, darkness, and degeneracy as normal because they never really knew anything different.
ChillBitz I agree with you. I never knew the skyline without them. I walk by the Freedom Tower everyday. No comparison. I miss the WTC. NY has never been the same since ..
you know what? this footage gave me an idea, I'm going to film a city, wait 20-25 years, and upload on youtube, so young people in that time can see how was life "back then" the way this footage showed me how it was
Lol I mean it looks to me as if the person who recorded this video had the same intentions you just described. However, I do encourage you to make a another video like this one (you undoubtedly would not be the only one) as we are in very interesting and critical time of transition given the advancements in technology. For example, installation of traffic control devices as seen with red-light cameras and speed radars beings installed at intersections. With that being said, perhaps you should reconsider making a film in the first place. How ironic. :0
i'd love to work with someone like you. For many years, I have wanted to film people. I don't mean anyone like a music artist or a pro athlete. Just ordinary people, and from different economic classes, different parts of the same city, and different ages. All to capture something genuine - because when people reminisce, they either accentuate the positives to too high a degree, or they emphasize the negatives of an era and wrecklessly project that to all areas of society. In my conception, the film would have people just talk about whatever. No hamming it up with opinions on world peace or what should happen if they were kind - just being their boring selves, which 20 years later, would seem like media gold.
That's a great idea but keep in mind: this is the era of smartphones & HD cameras. You got like...a thousand clips of modern cities already & assuming youtube doesn't end in the next 30 years, these footage will still be around. I would honestly rather see really old clips of the 20s, 30s, early 1900s, 40s, 50s, even 60s. Those are so rare & such lower quality.
I was working in various buildings all over NYC in the 80s... I keep recognizing buildings I worked in as it went along. I easily could be IN one of these shots! I should get my husband to watch it: he once stopped the Tivo during an episode of Nova and pointed me out in a street scene shot in Manhattan, walking behind Neil Degrasse Tyson!
I lived and walked those streets! Great video!!! I'm a unknown songwriter that lived in New York in the early 80's. I wrote and recorded many tunes while I was there and I'm going to release some of them soon. I lived on W. 47TH. I'm looking for video clips to mix in to my performance clips for that time period. One song is called "New York Rain" and an another is "Spinning in A Circle" which CBS sign but never used. Anyway, I'm editing a public access video, I made in New York City, in 1980. I'm using Davinci Resolve 16. I lip synch with my original studio tracks cut on a Teac 4 track. I'm looking for Midtown scenes to add into the production. Thanks for bringing it all back so clearly. The first time I went to New York as a kid in the 60's I stayed at the Taft! Excellent stuff!
Thanks from myself to the uploader of this video; it brings back a lot of once happy memories. Christ, I wish I could go back to the time you filmed this.
thank you very much, for your answer and for the fabulous upload which makes me miss a magical time when I was only a baby or not even existing at all.
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For those of you in or around the age of 30, consider that when the 1983 video was shot, I was 31 and thought this the best time to be alive, in New York and young. Now, I look back 30 years and wonder how it all went by so fast; Two homes, two kids and one wife later, I am daily flabbergasted that it still isn't somewhere in the late 80s or so, so fast has time flashed by. My message here? Waste not one minute of your life because before you know it, bang, your old, retired...forcibly these days...and often angry.
solid message !
Born in 1999 in NY but I am not like most teenagers across the US. Lol like I'm more into that old-school stuff. The clothing the movies especially the music the cars and the way things were being invented and discovered. Like I feel like that teenagers (my age I'm 15) were more close and had a fun time. While today, they could be close but tbh they're assholes and they whine and don't go out and do some crazy fun shit. I wish I lived through the 80s and 90s as a teen. Instead I get these times where people depend on phones laptops and all electronics as a whole. Fuck the 2000s.
you're right thug aleks, i was born in 1978, being a teen during 90's was a cool stuff. I miss the 90's.
***** really? Can you share how it was like?
In my country, price were lower for everything, no smart phone, no facebook, if you want to meet people you need to go out of your home. I spent most of my youth playing outdoor, fishing, biking, making cabin in forest, man hunting (for fun), playing hockey on frozen lake, skateboarding, playing soldier with a wood gun machine (lol again), playing video game with friend. Today when i go back to where i'm from, street are empty, sometime i cross teenager, they're sad, alone, always looking at their smart phone. What a mess. There was a kind of energy during the 90's, and it disapear with 2000.
I worked in the Wall Street district from 1978-83. It's hard to believe that over 30 years have passed. I remember it all very vividly. It was a great experience for a young guy trying to make his way in the world. Thanks for posting.
Im gonna build a time machine and go back to these glorious amazing fun times.. Who's with me??
Not me. Not interested in getting murdered or robbed.
I'm with you!! Why do you think so many people are so entranced by this video? We miss it so. The nostalgia is killing me.
This Brooklyn grl is ,I miss the knishes,Coney island and world trade I remember looking out my Brooklyn window looking at the whole city skyline
Me!
Yes 100 percent
Memories of a great city, long gone. It was dirty, sleazy and wonderful.
Absolutely, now parts are still sleazy but it will cost you $3200 a month to live there
+Korova Milkbar It's not just NYC... all of our great cities. NYC used to be cultured, gritty and raw. It used to be a place people would go to find themselves, now it's not. Miami used to be a center for vice and a good time, now it's a shit hole. Los Angeles used to be a cheery, sunny city filled to the brim with talent and cute girls, now it's not. Even Vegas used to be amazing. We're losing our culture, that's the problem.
+Matt G uptown still cheap
+Steve From Management just say it, there's more minorities now! lol im joking
Penske Material
It's not about minorities. Minorities have always been in these big cities. It's just the culture. We're a more corporatized and sissy culture is the problem. Politically correct, thin-skinned, and soft hipster generation are taking over these cities.
Ahh the 80s... good old times.
1980s. Quite possibly THE LAST GREAT FUN DECADE of THE U.S.A!!!!!!
Aside from the many murders in those days, this New York looks so much "better". I think the real New York City soul is gone, and is replaced by a Disneyland soul.
YEAH NYC was still THE BIG APPLE in the 1980s. NOW!! 2000 and beyond. COPORATE HOGWASH!!!!!!
Mojo Risin why would I hop on some beef when I could hop on a Porsche
There was a spike in murders late eighties through 1990. Then it subsided. Crack cocaine.
Dave Stewart I have a serious case of swamp ass. Wanna smell it?
Flying Dutchman agreed !!!
Damn I wish I could take a trip to the 80's for like 5 months and just explore. :D The 80's seem so fun and awesome.
They were the best times !!! Trust me !
Assuming you could survive. Back then there was a higher chance of you getting stabbed by a Puerto Rican street gang than nowadays.
It was so amazing.. much better than today..
@@VividFilmProductions Dont be silly. Its far worse now for just about everything other than technology. For starters you have a higher chance now of dying from a virus now than then.
littlegee lmao no we don’t
The old Twin Towers were so imposing, and so grand looking. They had "New York" written all over them. If the Twin Towers could speak, they would say "Yeah we're the Twin Towers and this is NY, what the fuck are you gonna do about it"? Now...ugh, Freedom Tower. Such a wimp building. If Freedom Tower could speak, it would say "Hi I'm Freedom Tower, wanna talk about feelings and share a latte with me?" That piece of shit belongs in Seattle, not NY.
Earth Ruler it's not called the Freedom Tower. keep up with the times. it's called World Trade Centre 1
+Earth Ruler I'm from Seattle and think your comment is funny. Lattes are grub FYI, when made right. But definitely agree about the Twin Towers vs The "Feelings Tower". I hate this hipster movement and the image that they have imposed on cities across the US. Seattle, like NYC was a city of blue collar workers and longtime mom n pop businesses. Seattle has followed NYC's footsteps by putting all these fancy schmancy businesses and replacing the once affordable and gritty businesses that stood before them. As a kid in the 80s, I had always longed to visit NYC during that time. Still have not step foot there, and don't really care much more because of all the stories I have heard about NYC becoming a hipster haven. I'm sure it's worth visiting still, but sad that I wasn't there in the 80s.
islandbee Hey man sorry I didn't mean to put Seattle down I was just pissed haha. Thanks for the reply. I've never been to Seattle either so I should shut the fuck up about it, but I was just trying to say NY is supposed to be the greatest city in the world so I expected better than the Feelings Tower (haha that is funny I'm stealing that one). You should visit NY there's no city in the world like it. That's what everyone says when they come here. After you visit NY every other city looks small! I'll try to get out to Seattle sometime too. Take care man happy holidays! :)
Earth Ruler It's all good. The closest I've been to NYC are times that I've had to transfer from EWR. Some people talk about how rude NY/NJ'ers are, and thought most of the people I interacted with were pretty nice.
I will definitely take time to go see NYC. Ever since I watched the movie Arthur as a little kid in the early 80s I've always obsessed about it.
Seattle is a nice city, but I think it use to be a much more down to earth city back in the day. It's still worthy of a visit. Hope your holidays are going well. Take care!
+Earth Ruler I know what you mean. But, since the twin towers were destroyed in such a horrible way, I don't think anything would be as "cool" and as quintessential NY as they were no matter what was erected in their place. That New York is gone. Unfortunately.
I graduated High school in 82‼️ I was in my early 20s and just experiencing life. Memories... life was simple then
Deneen Jeffries my 20's where in the 90's. Wish it was the late 60's early 70's tbh.
I was born in the year 2000. How were the women back then? How were conversations back then? How was the food back then? The sunshine and air?
Deneen Jeffries I left school in England in 82, times were simple if you could see it it was "real" music was cool, but everything broke, tape player, cars , tech was expensive , 3 TV channels but we were free and had our own identity. All long gone . Visited N.Y first in 2000 loved every minute.
Loved hearing the radio spots from these, too. Always interested in hearing the different prices and ads, even the way jockeys spoke in comparison to today
I am from UK but I really miss these times (I wasn't even born yet). I honestly think the 9/11 thing changed history. Earth in the 80s and 90s just seemed to 'real'. Now the world just feels fake. It's hard to explain.
September 10 ,2001 was the last real day on earth.
Why I feel the same thing !!
That includes the final minutes before the planes hit
Indeed it does especially if you lived then you can really tell
@grimble same here
I miss these days things were more simple back then.
Not for blk people...
I was born in 1990. But i love the 80s. The music. The aesthetic.
It sure was.
@@2FeCarbon things were never simple because our enemies always had their🦶on our necks..SMH
@@mocancer8485 LMAO True and they still do to this very day...
Man, I love watching videos like this. I was born in 1994 and it's just weird seeing life before I was born knowing I didn't even exist, I don't know. 1986 was thirty years ago, if UA-cam is still around I'd like to see a video of NYC 2016--from 2046!
+Zazzirah Kohan What if today's HD and 4K looks like this video clarity from a 2046 perspective? That'd be crazy.
I was there in 1986 just awesome I loved to listen WBLS the shalamar lisalisaCJ sos band teena maria dudes walking around with huge radios every one was wearing mid reeboks and had long hair
That will be crazy
B Tte Seems like whole different lifetime ago lol
Goddam, it's only gonna get worse. Soon only the rich will live there and the poor will live on the outskirts. It's gonna be the biggest shit hole in 30 years
The best time of my life...my teenage years...my home! Thanks for sharing this. Such a gem!!
Thank you for the memories. I was a cabbie in NYC in the 80s, and believe me...i saw it ALL! Perhaps I am in one of your movies, I will never know for sure.
Most relaxing video I've seen. Something about the sounds are as a relaxing as a waterfall to be honest. The ambiance makes me close my eyes. I love how Times Square looks. I was born in '86.
+Mark Hazleton I agree. I call it ambient noise. It's very soothing for some odd reason.
Same here august 6,1986!
greg oscar So true! I was a teen in the 80s and boy do I miss it.
pup lover me too man. Even the radio. Twin towers were so pretty but it was an inside CIA job
Mark Hazleton i lived in the city till 80...it had an old school feel that has been lost by the modern buildings and Vegas style lights...that is why the Empire State Building holds place in my heart. Old new york in that building
This is when NYC was real!!!!!!
It was real back then.
damn those two towers were so beautiful :(
Francoberry you think?
At the time I'm writing this comment you have 110 👍 on your comment 😁
Francoberry It's a shame because at the time they were built no one liked them.
@@samanthab1923 now everyone wants them back
F5Storm1 So true, my son was showing me some old photos taken from the Jersey side. That's the skyline I'm used to, not today's. Was watching Pope of Greenwich Village & they are omnipresent.
So far this would be the closest thing you can get to time traveling!
BEAUTIFUL!
No smartphones. That was a great time, miss those days
my dear dad went there in 1983. I am looking at NY today with his eyes.
my dad grew up there in the 70s and 80s, so same for me
I was born in 1990, but that's a decade too late. I wish I was an 80s kid so I could experience the 90s in my teens in NYC. What an amazing city!
Same here👍
Was born in 77. Can remember riding those old city buses to high school. Great times!!
Gmc rts 4149 buses?
This takes me right back to being a teen. 32 years gone like that. Sigh.
The Twins Towers look more amazing than the Freedom Tower
Agreed! The twin towers need to be re builded.. The freedom tower just isn't the same..
I agreed,The Twin Towers were awesome and beautiful!
The first time I had ever gone to New York City was by way of a ferry from New Jersey. The landing point? Yes, the World Trade Center Plaza. I have a photograph taken from the boat we were on, as it headed towards the WTC on an overcast, gray day. It was a perfect photograph in terms of quality. Less than two years later, the area was destroyed.
Were you born in 1995?
RK NINE Yes
Thank you for posting this. I lived in Brooklyn at that time and have no video from those days. This really took me back. I miss the older, grittier NYC. Today is like a Las Vegas version of itself, all sanitized for my protection. Fuck that. Thanks for the great memories.
Always a Beautiful City. Timeless, but I love NYC in the 80's
Ahhh... New York City in the decade when i was born! The Empire State Building, the Chrsyler building, and the TWIN TOWERS of the World Trade Center reigned supreme in the skyline; good feel-good 80s music was playing, people weren't annoyingly looking at their smartphones, rap and hate music was not as prevalent, people actually used payphones, people actually interacted more with each other as people, no internet, the radio ruled the airwaves, the subway was filled with the gritty graffiti...NEW YORK CITY IN THE 80s WILL ALWAYS BE ICONIC
you really took the words out of my mouth-this is exactly how I feel
Rap and hate music 😂😂😂😂
An extremely boomer thing to say.
LMFAOOOO your crazy if you think rap and hate music wasn’t a thing back then
@@Wrestling316 Exactly. Rap and Hip Hop were in their formative years at the time of this video. And that so called "feel-good music" that the OP is dreaming of was nothing more than bland, commercial pap that had zero soul or humanity. For those of us actually around during the 80s it was a depressing, materialistic and bland era
@@JohnnyFriendly True, don’t get me wrong, I love Hip-Hop, been listening to it my whole life, still do, but it was a way to keep people off of the streets and away from crime and drugs. Sadly, it does the opposite
Thanks for sharing! As a teen in the 80's living in Jersey, I used to go to the city all the time. Felt so grown up. lol Totally forgot about WBLS. I was more of a WPLJ girl but my friend liked BLS
I am born and raised in NYC. In 1983 I was 10 years old. I remember this Manhattan and NYC vividly. Sometimes when I close my eyes I am back there. In my heart this will always be the true NYC. Thanks so much for posting this footage.
Your video is simply amazing. You've captured time. It's good to have the chance to go back for a look. We have changed so much since then.
I love the sound of NYC. :)
Rainbow Room closed in 2009.
Wow. That was such a trip back to my first visit to NYC in the mid-eighties. Well done. Really. The restraint and reverence is so beatuiful. Amazing.
I always cry when I see the Towers now; whether it is in old movies or whenever. Just sob each time. :-( They were so beautiful. I know that sounds silly since they were steel and part of the concrete jungle but I am a NYer so I am weird. hehe I just love how they looked.
miss the twin towers 15 years since
It's going to be twenty years soon😳so much has happened since but it feels like yesterday every time I see them on film...so sad!
I was born in the late 50s and have lived here my entire life.I still love my city,but I have to say that it WAS better back in the gloriously grimy seventies and even the duller but still cool eighties.The city had heart and soul then.To those who were elsewhere back then,or are to young to remember it,all I can say is;Ya shooda been there.
joseph hassett I was born in 2001, I’m french and I often say to myself that I wish I lived during those times.
Around this time in the 80's, my dad used to drive me an my siblings every Saturday night over the Brooklyn bridge into Times Square. Now kids just stare at their phones
Kids still do that today. My Uncle did the same thing with me in modern day lol
U dont see JVC nowadays, odd to see how much has changed since then, the companies, cars, environment, culture, skyline, everything is just completely different
Japanese were dominating in those days, JVC, Hitachi, Maxell, Toshiba, AIWA, Minolta, Sony, Toyota, etc...
I love the added audio as well. Radio stations and such
Excellent footage. Nice work! The 1986 footage was like I remember.
NYC was so much more interesting. Great upload.
Thank you for sharing. I was a kid in NY in the 80s, and this bring back memories.
I love this footage. I love it all.
Damn i wished had the chance see NYC back then. But was way to young and was born in east germany.
I was living there and then 22 y old. Ich stamme aus rumanien und Ich liebe Deutschland
I can't thank you enough. As a kid born in Brooklyn in 1980, this earlier New York lives only in the foggy recesses of my mind. I'm only up to minute 2 but I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this immensely. EDIT: I watched past 2 minute mark and I am LOVING your video. You even added a New York radio broadcast from the time. And I can hear the aural ambience of each place. And you treated each "insignificant" sign with attention, the way I do.
1983 - The year Flashdance was filmed in Pittsburgh, PA. happy to have lived in NYC from 1985 to 1991 (good memories)
The year Sixers won the NBA 🏆, MTV played Michael Jackson's videos, Al Green came out with ILL RISE AGAIN, SCARFACE AND RISKY BUSINESS top movies, Cabbage Patch dolls came out, first ever COMPACT DISCS came out, NOVEMBER that year the JACKSONS held their VICTORY TOUR press conference at TAVERN ON THE GREEN NYC
I appreciate you for understanding the art of archive footage
LOVE THE CLASSIC (WBLS) SOUND TRACK FROM 4:45-5:45.THAT WAS WHEN WBLS!!! WAS WBLS!!!! AND NYC WAS NYC!!! I MISS THOSE DAYS.
I don't suppose you know the name of that electro funk song that plays during that radio segment..?
@Rowan Cairo Spot on, cheers buddy (382 days later...)
i love to watch videos from the past, how wetr the cities, clothes and people and places were before i born
Yeah cool huh! I like it too!
Alexa how much is a round plane ticket to NY in the summer?
Oh how I miss these times. I Want to go back, with the mindset and knowledge that I have now.
Great historic capture of a simpler time in a world metropolis. One of my favorite youtube videos ever!
I lived here from 1985 thru 1988. Lived on Staten Island and Governors Island. I've never managed to make it back, but hope to someday. I loved the raw grittiness of those times. Spent most of my time in the Village and 42nd St. Sad to hear that it has changed so much.
Yup the village and times square were ALWAYS where the fun was.
I was 28 when I moved here in 1987, thank you for this, brings back memories . .
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. The "Old" NY.
Thank you for taking and keeping all your old footage. You are a hero to us New Yorkers who weren't alive to see what NY was really like.
As a native Philadelphian, I still have an incredible amount of love for the city of NYC. It is never Christmas until I get to go up there in December. Epic footage
I just want to say that you're footage is great and you have captured pieces of history. Thanks for uploading this.
So well done. Love the low shot of the cars rolling by and the ephemeral radio chatter floating by...
It was May 10, 1983 on the '83 part because at 5:01 it shows 445 days to go until the '84 Olympics which began on 7/28/84. I was 13 years old that day and living just a few miles away up in the Bronx. I sure miss these times and that world so much.
NYC was still a gritty place, but even at 13, i'd take the #5 train from Gun Hill Road station in the Bronx down to Times Square and walk around with friends all day and never once felt afraid or in danger. Today, I wouldn't set foot there if you paid me but it was nice back then even with all the grit and grime. That world is sadly gone now. :(
People were so.... normal back then. What happened?
***** You mean millennials, right? Because I'm pretty sure people have always fought for social justice.
lol can't handle age old man hahaha
magisterartium
Young people in NYC back in the 80s and 90s were noticeably different than the ones today.
+L'homme le plus intéressant dans le monde yea they had a little more respect
No Cell Phone Culture and No Internet. You had to speak to people back then.. God Forbid that happens now...
Old Times SQ. This brings back so many memories for me. I used to take the bus from the burbs to Port Authority as a teenager and worked in Times Sq. from 1986 to 89.
New York before it became a playground for billionaires and tourists. "Real" New York.
Blair Aquila there were less billionaires globally back then. Million considered a lot.
It was already a playground for the rich. The 80s was the decade of greed, the "yuppy" era.
Nueva York cuando tenía un verdadero centro financiero con el WTC
The transplants and hipsters that came over here caused all the rents to soar! Nowadays even Studio apts are outrageously overpriced because trust fund idiots actually keep forking over these obscene rents and us Natives pay the price!
Really great audio work with the local radio stations. Gives a much more intimate feel of the time.
Love those old school neon. It is much eye catching than the "high tech" LCD panel
Sound effects alone were awesome I could listen all day. The best footage.
First of all, thanks for this. Secondly, I'm a NYer so it feels so special to see it good and bad. Also, I am obsessed with NY and love footage of old NY too and history of it; plus other cities. I guess 70s is my fave time in terms of history of the city for some reason - maybe because those were my years. What made you decide to do this particular footage? It is awesomeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
Gorgeous footage. I'm fascinated by this grungy and seedy old New York that will never come back.
No smartphone era..
Flyinginthebluedream best era!
Yes just a ton of other tech shit!!
Soo classic back then lol just amazing the way it is!!! 😯💯💯
LOVE THEM 80'S FOOTAGE!
My father was out there somewhere !! These videos just get me all choked up !
Amazing documentary. Unless you were living life in that time and place, it is difficult to fully convey how incredible it really was. Words just can't do it for some things, and being alive (and I mean 'alive') in this town back in these days is one of them. There's no other time and place I would want to be in more than NYC in the 80s.
Well Done Video! So much character and atmosphere! It was captivating and I couldn't stop watching!
I was 4 years old in 1986 so quite young. However my very first memories in life were absorbing in that world like a sponge, the music, the vibe, I felt it all even at that very young tender age. In 1991 I was 9 years old and noticed the culture starting to change! Yes even at that young of age I noticed it! The music in particular became darker! Suddenly everyone was being sold a divisive degenerative version of themselves and their cultures. Many young people ate it all up and defended it as their norm too. I guess I was different because I always saw right through it. The lies, the slow break down of our society since that time. It happened so gradually that most people didn't even seem to notice. You don't take over the USA by direct force. You do it subversively slowly over time from the inside out. Couldn't be anymore obvious the weeds that were planted during that time coming to more full fruition these days! Current generations of young adults defending lies, darkness, and degeneracy as normal because they never really knew anything different.
Only in New York would people jaywalk in front of and in the back of a police car...
True! Although back in those days the cops had bigger fish to fry. Now they've changed the law and it's no longer illegal to jaywalk in NY
It's legal to jaywalk in nyc
I noticed that too! LOL
Any east coast city
Fuck that I still do it & people look at me if I am weird 😭 soon real New Yorkers will be a extinct species
Wonderful video with sites n sounds of this magnificent cite in the heyday . So enjoyable to watch . Thanks.
The New York skyline without the World Trade Center towers is just not the same..
those ugly file cabinets?
Yeah, those.
+ChillBitz
the new tower looks waaaay nicer!
+ChillBitz
Dont be there whenever the Grid goes down!!!!
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ChillBitz I agree with you. I never knew the skyline without them. I walk by the Freedom Tower everyday. No comparison. I miss the WTC. NY has never been the same since ..
59 years. This vid brings great memories Thnx for upload bless you!
you know what? this footage gave me an idea,
I'm going to film a city, wait 20-25 years, and upload on youtube, so young people in that time can see how was life "back then" the way this footage showed me how it was
Looks like someone might have beaten you to it
newyorks516 what do you mean ?
Lol I mean it looks to me as if the person who recorded this video had the same intentions you just described. However, I do encourage you to make a another video like this one (you undoubtedly would not be the only one) as we are in very interesting and critical time of transition given the advancements in technology. For example, installation of traffic control devices as seen with red-light cameras and speed radars beings installed at intersections. With that being said, perhaps you should reconsider making a film in the first place. How ironic. :0
i'd love to work with someone like you. For many years, I have wanted to film people. I don't mean anyone like a music artist or a pro athlete. Just ordinary people, and from different economic classes, different parts of the same city, and different ages. All to capture something genuine - because when people reminisce, they either accentuate the positives to too high a degree, or they emphasize the negatives of an era and wrecklessly project that to all areas of society. In my conception, the film would have people just talk about whatever. No hamming it up with opinions on world peace or what should happen if they were kind - just being their boring selves, which 20 years later, would seem like media gold.
That's a great idea but keep in mind: this is the era of smartphones & HD cameras. You got like...a thousand clips of modern cities already & assuming youtube doesn't end in the next 30 years, these footage will still be around. I would honestly rather see really old clips of the 20s, 30s, early 1900s, 40s, 50s, even 60s. Those are so rare & such lower quality.
Wow, THANK YOU for uploading this... I actually think being able to see and share this kind of footage of the way things were is important.
Not even from new york city but the 80s nostalgia is strong in this one
What I would'nt give to go back to that moment in time. My Father was still alive and so were my grandparents.
98.7 KISS FM - iconic NYC radio station
Like steppin back in time, so clear and luv the radio clips, LUV IT!
omg i was just thinking about alexander oneal when he played at 5:20!!
I was 6 yrs old in 1983. I adored my childhood. No time machine, just memories.
I was working in various buildings all over NYC in the 80s... I keep recognizing buildings I worked in as it went along. I easily could be IN one of these shots! I should get my husband to watch it: he once stopped the Tivo during an episode of Nova and pointed me out in a street scene shot in Manhattan, walking behind Neil Degrasse Tyson!
I lived and walked those streets! Great video!!! I'm a unknown songwriter that lived in New York in the early 80's. I wrote and recorded many tunes while I was there and I'm going to release some of them soon. I lived on W. 47TH. I'm looking for video clips to mix in to my performance clips for that time period. One song is called "New York Rain" and an another is "Spinning in A Circle" which CBS sign but never used. Anyway, I'm editing a public access video, I made in New York City, in 1980. I'm using Davinci Resolve 16. I lip synch with my original studio tracks cut on a Teac 4 track. I'm looking for Midtown scenes to add into the production. Thanks for bringing it all back so clearly. The first time I went to New York as a kid in the 60's I stayed at the Taft! Excellent stuff!
I wish I could be conscious and aware in that time and I could start my life there
Why ever?????
Cool video seeing all the old busses and cabs and cars can't believe those years are long gone i hope there's more videos
Beautiful I wish it was like that now
Thanks for posting this nifty little time-warp, RP. I grew up in nyc in the 80's: I loved seeing Manhattan again as lovely as it once was : )
Movie theater had Evil Dead... Dope
great video good come back in the time
the trade center was so great- the new one looks so pussified
Fuck America and the Port Authority for not rebuilding the Twins.
Thanks from myself to the uploader of this video; it brings back a lot of once happy memories. Christ, I wish I could go back to the time you filmed this.
That's the Manhattan I remember as a kid!
5:30 Alexander o'neal what's missing I have the record lp great 80s album!
I remember 1983 & 1986!
thank you very much, for your answer and for the fabulous upload which makes me miss a magical time when I was only a baby or not even existing at all.
Damn all those Japanese tech brands being advertised... Fuji TDK Canon Panasonic etc
Sony
Yeah it was made in Japan back than , now its made in China...lol
Now more and more Chinese brands are taking over
Jeff Remember using Midori to make melon balls!
An absolute Blast from my Past ! Thanks for posting!