New York World Trade Center Area 1999 Unedited
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- My original video upload "New York - World Trade Center 1999" includes edited footage of my trip to the World Trade Center, set to the some of the beautiful 'Across the Sea of Time' score composed by John Barry. However, I've noted that a few have commented that they would like to enjoy not only the sights - but also the sounds - of New York City and the World Trade Center unedited - exactly as they were when I filmed this material in mid June 1999. So here's (mostly) the same material - with some new - as filmed at the time.
There was such a lasting innocence about the 90s. Social media wasn't around, texting wasn't a thing, the internet was new. As a 90s kid, I badly miss it.
Same, truly the end of a millennium never to return.
I agree. I was born in 1982 and I am so very grateful I got to grow up when I did. I graduated high school class of 2000, then a year later the Towers came down. It did bring people together for awhile but then it passed. Nowadays people are more stupid and fake and divided as ever.
Anthony, so do I. Also movies tended be more about telling a story for fun rather than making a political virtue signal.
Yeah, the 90’s were a 100%, but light years better than the present day. I last visited lower Manhattan in December 2000, and on the final day my mother and I looked back at the Towers not knowing it would be the last time we would see them in person. Photos and film didn’t do them justice. They were a sight to behold.
Basically everything was better and there weren't any annoying overly political assholes either.
Thank you for having taken the time to film this footage back in 1999. None of us knew the tragedy was going to happen a little bit more than two years later. This video serves a great reminder what a beautiful place the World Trade Center was. Especially, seeing how massive and daunting the Twin Towers were. Still miss 'em.
Shoulda rebuilt them. They were so massive and they were the heart and soul of New York. Not one of charm and "Human Scale" but of sheer capitalism, the fully required space to achieve that form, and the kind of peace that can only be achieved by a nation which fought for its independence. Lasting peace. One facilitated by trade and economic stability, however fleeting.
Larry Silverstein & other "mafia guys" knew ....🥴😡😠
I can definitely agree !!!!!!!
Yes, it was a beautiful place, beautiful, it's sad and painful
@@shanekeenaNYC eh I personally think they did the best thing and honored where they did stand with memorials and built a singular tower in its place. A tower which imo looks like the mixing of the twin towers in one building(might be what they where going for).
The shot with the sun between the towers is amazing.
Every footage of WTC like that worths gold.
It’s a window to an era long gone. The world had alot of problems and we tend to minimize them, as time goes by. But changes we have had since that era were huge and the shock of those events, in 9/11, kinda like sanctified the period before.
Thank you for sharing this.
Yes. Well look at the USA and rest of the world now in October of 2022.
Footage from a prehistoric world of innocence.... Great video.
Beautiful video! Also, The concert was awesome, the crowd was actually paying attention to the band, which is very unlikely these days, everywhere ppl go, they are so busy updating their activities and events in social Media rather than enjoying the moment!
The only memory they'd be left with is the time they used their phone at that moment. Ughhhh!
Yes everyone was paying attention- apart from me maybe, waving a video camera around instead of just enjoying the band 😄. (In reality we were there a good while, so I did get to enjoy the atmosphere...).
@@michaelrunnicles7196 Yeah, but it's so different: just taping one or two songs in whole and just enjoying the rest, compared to the many people these days that stick out their phone from the crowd for the whole performance. Like you're going to watch it in whole ever again...
And probably, most important (for me ;) ) I still think that most 'home'-videos taken by people back then were more enjoyable to watch: tape was rather costly and thus one had to decide what to tape and what not to tape. This makes most footage just that much more interesting to look at.
And most importantly: you took shots of the stuff YOU saw as well, instead of all the people with selfie-sticks these days, like the person viewing it otherwise would not believe the person that made the footage was really there or something...
Liked what you did around the towers ;) I'm from the Netherlands and the tallest buildings I've seen for real are the Rembrandt tower in Amsterdam (135 meter tall, with the spire extending to 160 meter, you can't enter it unless you work there) and the 'Delftse Poort' skyscraper in Rotterdam at something like 151 meter high.
The tallest structure I've seen is the Gerbrandy-tower TV-transmitter at IJsselstein, that is now somewhat 350 meter high or so (it used to be 385 until the analog TV-antenna was removed).
You could visit it on special occassions, but that ended straight after 9/11 with the object listed an A-target on the terrorism-likeliness list. There have been a few times it was reopened to the public, but under very strict conditions (if I remember it right, you had to file your request a month in advance, with your person being scrutinized by almost every enforcement-agency we have)
Even though you can't enter it (and can't stand on the guy wire anchor-blcoks anymore) just looking up to it along the guy-wires at a few hundred meters distance, just keeps you staring in awe of its height.
I just can't imagine what it feels like to be at the foot of those 2 giants and you're footage really showed how you felt 'Let's take a shot of those again... and again' ;)
@@weeardguy Especially at 7:48
Perfect capture of the twins
People still do pay attention to bands that way. Your comment is a myth
A home video that is now part of US history. Thank you for the trip back!
No-one in their wildest dreams could have imagined what terrible events would happen in 2years time. Still unbelievable.
I feel like this is how NYC should look in 2021. :(
Just incredible video...reminds me of when I was at the top looking out of those windows. Still unbelievable. 😪
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Even though all decades have difficult times the late 90's had a certain joy , people wondering , excited about the new millennium. Little did we know how much the world would change in a few years after this. I'm a UK Citizen but the global political landscape changed drastically .
Things changed with regards to laws being rushed through following the 9/11 "attacks", and I say "attacks" because I do not believe for one minute that 19 hijackers (who couldn't even fly a plane and were useless as pilots during their training) and Bin Laden carried out the attacks. Little do most people know that building 7 also collapsed, which was reported by BBC News reporter Jane Stanley, yet when she's saying this the building can be seen still standing behind her. After 9/11 things have gotten worse for peoples freedoms, especially with increased surveillance and airport security, something which would've had alot of push back if it wasn't for Sept 11th 2001.
Yes, all the people of the world were looking with hope at the arrival of the new millennium, better times would come ... but you see, we are in 2021, and it sucks in every way (culture, politics, society, music, etc, etc. , etc) The eighties and the nineties were good times that will not return
@@Andy-xm1fg Governments (or rather the ones pulling their strings) are the ones who are ultimately behind the decay and decline of society over the past couple of decades, it's no accident it's by design.
Si supiera la gente que eran mejor los 90 fue bueno mediados de los dos mil.en la década antepasada.
Let's face it, everything what made the West great has been turning to shit steadily since the 90's ended. Dystopian present we live in nowadays.
8:15 Twin brothers performing right in front of the Twin Towers, how awesome!!!
In same colors as towers )
Fantastic 😊
Was there late October of 2000. Spending time in Manhattan with a coworker who had never been there in her life and wanted to see everything! We did the ride out to the Statue and Ellis and then went to visit the towers. This brings back so many memories as a former JC girl.RIP.
This is 1 reason why i like the WTC is because of the outdoor observation deck. You don't have that anywhere else. Like a total 360degs open air without any spire obstruction.
Que hermosa presentación de estos cantantes!! Que viva el pueblo latinoamericano!! 🌎💪🏼
The only time I was ever in New York was a flight layover for a company trip to Puerto Rico! Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful memory. What a beautiful day it was.
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This wonderful hoem movie is truely priceless and precious. You captured a moment in time so special and so treasured now. The edited version is a master piece and this one with the voices and the excitement is just as good. I can't help feel sadness seeing the crowds and knowing some must have been there still two years later.
Yo great camera work starting at 7:22, climbed up the entire tower and then spun to the other one and descended back down. Nice shot :)
Thanks for uploading, absolutely brilliant piece of film that tells a bit of history.. even if it is a little eerie!
Superb quality recording. Should be saved in a national archive.
I was only 5 when 9/11 happened but I can honestly say the New York skyline looked so much more iconic and nicer and more like New York with the original towers.
Beautiful video. NYC is not the same anymore. Twin Towers should have been rebuilt, just twice as tall!
James Keefe
Agreed 💯%
Twice as tall? Not possible, that would be 220 floors tall and 2730 feet tall. Two tall blocky towers can’t be that tall.
@Gavin Slatter you’re right, but it would’ve been nice to have them rebuilt 100ft taller
I totally agree with you
And have more people killed next time another attack happens. As much as i would love to see them rebuilt, it would eventually happen again.
It's not just the size of the towers, and how different the skyline looks now. It's the footage of the people milling about in the plaza outside. Michael obviously was a tourist, but how many of those office workers you see there having lunch went to work on September 11th 2001 and never came home? I miss these innocent times a lot.
How I wish I could’ve experienced this
Pretty cool how the Puerto Rican singers are twins performing at the Twin Towers 👌
Those singers are from Colombia, their orchestra was called Alquimia.
They should return to the new site and perform a memorial tribute to the original towers and victims
@@armandoduranb7171 Those singers are waving Puerto Rican flags.
i wish that the skyline could go back to 1999 it looks so much better
The New tower looks much better than those grey boxes
At least build a second freedom tower to restore the skyline in a futuristic way
I know right
I wish that we could go back to the year 1999 to see the old WTC twin towers
@Lucas Robinson I still love the older ines cause they both were exactly same and thats why they were called twin. The new ones are also good looking but they aren't twins and look very modernized both in terms of architecture and the skyline of new york
What I find very eerie and strange is the fact that there was the “American Airlines” banner on the amphitheater wall
Thank you for these priceless pictures. Absolutely wonderful. I never had a chance to go to the top. I'll always regret it.
I remember - in the late 70s early 80s -- can’t remember -- on a trip to New York -- having dinner at that “Windows on the World” restaurant. I wanted to get out of there as soon as I got off the elevator. My mind immediately went to a horrible memory of my father and I watching the local news in New Orleans when I was a young teen, of the Howard Johnson hotel being burned and the poor women at the top in the beauty salon were trapped and either burned to death or jumped. It was actually televised and my father found out the next day that his co-worker, who was about 8 1/2 months pregnant, jumped to her death. We realized that we probably witnessed her jump as it was televised. No, I did not enjoy being in the Twin Towers. I even asked the waiter as soon as we sat down - “what happens if this place catches on fire ? How do we get out of here” ? The waiter laughed and in his French accent and stated “Madame, nothing like that could happen here” which gave me no sense of feeling comfortable. The couple we were with were not willing to leave so I was stuck. Probably had one of the most expensive meals ever up to that time in my life and I could not enjoy it because I hated being up that high. But the champagne and 3 bottles of delicious red wine helped. ( I remember looking out of the window and thinking - “this is like looking out of an airplane window. I’m seeing clouds and almost the curvature of the earth”. 🫣
The unedited video is capturing it so perfectly also
So beautiful 💗🌈⛅️
Another time....
9/11 changed this entire landscape
Both literally and figuratively.
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(Emergency call. Interesting)
I like the sculpture with the fountain.
Thank you for this so much. The nostalgia were things were much simple back then.
For some reason I just had a flashback when he was filming on top of tower two, when I was a tourist over there. The flashback is difficult to explain but it's kind of like being at a high elevated area and being able to touch the high elevated area with the difference of pressure.
The quality of your videography is amazing! Thank you for recording your day and sharing it with us. Now all of us that never got a chance to visit can see what it was like. I’m sure I will watch this again.
i wish i could go back and see them
8:57 Nice to remember what WTC7 looked like from the ground. Spent some time in that building in the early 90s when Salomon Brothers was doing some work for my employer. Got to go to some nice restaurants and stay at some hotels overlooking Central Park.
Native New Yorker. I remember when I was 14 years old when I first began high school and this happened. If you look closely at 5:46, you will see on the right hand side a red beacon on top of the South Tower. I remember looking at those blinking red beacons at night.
6:27 Midtown was more majestic when the Empire State Building dominated its skyline rather than being flanked by those God awful super tall/skinny residential towers on billionaires row. They look like smokestacks! I’m glad I got to visit in the 90s and take my one and only trip up to the observation deck on WTC2. Still hard to believe those buildings are gone. Someday I’ll make it for a visit to the memorial.
Amazing piece of heritage! Thank you so much!
without words!! Thank you for sharing.
The American Airlines Banner on the stage is kinda eerie
I am Colombian and I wish the towers were still standing there, I miss them and I didn't even know them, it's so eerie and sad.☹
Tengo 41 y estuve en el mismo lugar que este video en el año 95. Eran imponentes. Cuando estabas en Nueva York podías ubicarte viendo dónde estaban las torres gemelas.
@@fastica Y ud que edad tenía cuando las tumbaron? Y quién y porqué las tumbó?
@@rebeltough7 Wow are you seriously from another planet? You have no idea how they fell? You need to do some simple research.
9:30 American Airlines banner.
What a sad irony.
This is an awesome video. Thanks for posting it.
I was almost 7 when 9/11 happened. My only memory of seeing the towers was when I went to the Statue of Liberty in the summer of 2001. 2:41 is the exact view I remember.
i never visited, yet 9/11 is an event that marked me,
i always look back and try to figure out what's the reason i find it fascinating..
then the Beirut Blast happened last year in my hometown so..this too..
thank you for sharing this, i'm using it to sleep and dream of better days! :)
My parents visited the World Trade Centre towers just a few years before. Superb video!
The video on top of the twins just makes me imagine what the workers on the top floors must have felt and how they either had the decision to jump or burn to death.
Beautiful ❤️ Thank you for sharing this!
Fabulous video. And the singers were very good. Nice to see the plaza all cheerful and happy. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for your video, Twins torres were beautiful buildings, I hope God gave to all families comfort and resignation families that lost loves ones on 9/11/2001
These two made southern Manhattan look small, i wish i could have visited them to see them with my own eyes, but i was born in 1997, and the first memories i have of them are not pretty ones.
Thank you for sharing. I will never forget 😞
Awww what a beauty. So unfortunate it is no more.
Beautiful 👍
Michael Runnicles, you're going to think this is silly, but I bought lavender petunias last week for my garden and suddenly thought of your video because of the flowers at the fountain. 11:01. I think they should be planted again at the New World Trade Center as well. I hope all is well with you, wherever you are. Be blessed!
Hello Lukas - not at all, the flowers at the WTC fountain were beautiful, and I can see how the colors may have stuck in your mind! I certainly noticed them, and that's why I captured them on film. I hope you get a lovely display in your garden this year. Kind Regards
@@michaelrunnicles7196 Here's my garden with the lavender petunias. It is my goal to create my own Howard's End like the film of the same name.
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@@michaelrunnicles7196 Hello Michael just a short question do you remember which month did you film this in 1999 ?
Thank you in advance ^^
@@horselover7744 this was filmed in June 1999
I was the concert that was outside one of the towers?
awesome video! this reminds me of when i was in the 7th grade in the spring of 1999, and my school took us on a field trip to NYC. We also went in the world trade center, and i swear i think i was in that exact same room! 3:12 april/may 1999 ish.
NYC doesn't seem to have the same charm anymore. Is that true? I'm just wondering because it had so much of a better feel back then. I would like to know your opinion.
Yes, I was in NY in 1988 and 1989, worked there. Looking back it feels to me like the specific NY spirit went with the twin towers. It doesn't feel like it did back then. All the New buildings can't replace the twin towers
@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω Honestly, If you could save the Twin Towers, Would you do it?
Such a shame they weren’t rebuilt. I don’t like modern skyscrapers, nothing says size like an enormous square stretching a quarter mile into the air
Yeah modern skyscrapers are all about who has the bigger, and better spire.
I was at fidelity in early 1999 at 1wfc across from 2wtc and intitally traversed the concourse to get to my n train forr a while at the courtlandt street station from the concourse entrance then. I then went to the rector St station which was more convenient to get to walking a few blocks away.
Its an eerie video to watch now
Simply beautiful 🥰. Life was a little more simpler back then, before the world would change forever…….and by change I mean for the worst. All Because of those evil satanic monsters 👿.
Those old towers looks haunting, I like the new tower better, it is less haunting and has a more positive look
Can hear the Interference from the antenna on the other tower
Summerstage in the plaza was it!
Sinceramente se veía mejor New York con sus edificios de antes que los que están en la actualidad mil veces se veía mejor esa Ciudad muy linda
Keep asking myself the rhetorical question "why?", as in what the hell did these monsters actually think that they might accomplish with this act?
Its difficult to put yourself in there mind if your a sane reasonable person
Beautiful architecture and an icon. It’s a shame. I wish they would’ve rebuilt them
I’m not from the USA, but I think that would be too emotional, to rebuilt those two towers.
Many people are traumatized by the 9/11 events, I think it would only be a constant reminder about what happend that day.
@@Soldiertjj indeed, its much better they made it memorial site to honor the dead, much better decision than rebuilding them.
@@Balnazzardi I think if they rebuilt them, they could have put them in another area, not where they were originally, that would have been the best thing, leave the freedom tower where it is, but rebuild the twin towers in another area of NYC.
@@Mrd9960 well if they did that I think they should have asked first from the families of the victims what they thought about it plus im quite sure New York has limitations where you could build such high towers so they couldnt be built just about anywhere
The music is really good ..! So sad two years later some assholes killed the twins sisters ☹️
I feel the same way about the worthless asshole that brutally killed my own mom. Fuck people like that.
🏙🏙🇺🇸🇺🇸 an iconic Amerika back then!
who are these 2 twins singers? they should definetely come back to sing to the new world trade center as a tribute
Is it right to assume that that huge gold ball at 9:04 was destroyed when the Towers Fell ?
Thanks for letting me know.
It is still in existence so it did make it (there has been damage to it but it's still standing strong )
I believe you can view it at liberty park
90’s New York = Best New York
Dios Mío!Quien iba imaginar algo tan Tremendo que sucedería Por Dios!💔😔
What camera did you use great quality 23 y ago
6:40 Alquimia (Alquimia La Sonora Del XXI)
2:36 Now that's what I call New York
What's the name of the music, I'm diggin it!?
I used to work down on John St in 2017 near the WTC. Sadly never saw the old twin towers in person...=( even though I was born in 93 in ny. I remember walking by the new tower they have there and it looks kinda shitty compared to the old ones tbh. These are way cooler looking and more fun with the concerts in front. Lower Manhattan is kinda dead nowadays.
Ever noticed all these videos seem to have major radio waves interfering. I can only imagine people up there where radio active
It had a lot of TV and radio antennas on the roofs (maybe even cell antennas) so yeah it was pretty powerful
It's the Antennas on the North Tower roof.
@@Nick-kc6bt i figured that, but it’s crazy loud and must be going through people
This is a treasure!!
NYC in its prime!
9:29 eerie on how that is the same company that got their plane hijacked and flown into the building
Wow listen to that buzz...very powerful antenna!..What a beautiful and picturesque view of the flat earth..
"Flat Earth" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
¡Que viva mi Colombia mi hermano!
We should've rebuilt the Towers exactly as they were. Brick by brick. Like Wayne Manor
I know right, that's what I was hoping for, what a big let down with the freedom tower.
Something went terrible wrong after 9/11. Something? Everything!
I always wanted to visit NY becuase of the towers... godspeed bless all the lives the were taken of 9/11 Rest in paradise.
Gracias!!!!
To think how easily it was to bring those towers down. It’s probably time to put up a new Statue of Liberty with her right hand up - palm facing out saying “Stop. Turn around and go back where you came from. We’re full”.
Yo nací en el 2004 pero la verdad me hubiera gustado estar ahí 🥺😅
7:44 Is a Mexican song?, Because here in Mexico in the 90s, the dance music like that was famous and nostalgic.
My bad, actually is a Puerto rico song.. but, one question, in some moment, a Mexican song was played in the plaza? ❤️🇲🇽
while this guy was filming al gayda was plotting
Wow .. this is scarry ... Like a ghost that comes to life ...
Who performed in front of tower 1?
BEFORE THE AIRPORT OPENED
سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم
"Unedited"
… first cut after 19 seconds.
Yes alright... if you're being pedantic! I included all the footage I had, and put in smooth transitions between the separate clips, and didn't add any commentary or music. So that's what I meant by unedited
@@michaelrunnicles7196 I know what you mean don't take it too seriously! it just made me laugh to see a cut after 19seconds reading the title
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