The Streets of New York City - Oct.1987 -Pt.2

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  • @MrMorningside125
    @MrMorningside125 12 років тому +15

    I was 11 years old that year and I must say it new york doesnt have that same feel anymore! I know things never stay the same but watching this is like going into a time machine! Nostalgia is an understatement right about now!

    • @psychokinesis878
      @psychokinesis878 2 роки тому +2

      I feel the exact same way....what I would give to go back

    • @kristinaking4680
      @kristinaking4680 Рік тому

      Nostalgia about childhood time and teenage

  • @Tark75ifty
    @Tark75ifty 12 років тому +37

    I am from Paris(France), and I visited Big Apple in April, 1987 for the first time! It was a big shock for me, I fell in love with this city immediately! Paris is really beautiful but we have not the atmosphere and the energy as N.Y. had in this time! I lived in Greenwich Village (St Mark's place), I kept of this period of my life good memories!

    • @gato7908
      @gato7908 3 роки тому

      That's funny I was in Paris in the summer of 83 and had a great time. Not sure how great it is now. Same for NYC.

    • @user-or6yn8pm3c
      @user-or6yn8pm3c 3 роки тому +2

      @@gato7908 Both cities are now like being in third world countries. Hardly any French in Paris and hardly any Americans in NYC.

    • @jusliving7977
      @jusliving7977 2 роки тому +5

      @@user-or6yn8pm3c Jeez keep your xenophobic banter to yourself. Paris & NYC are international cities with residents from all over the globe. That's what makes them great cities.

    • @kristinaking4680
      @kristinaking4680 Рік тому +1

      My cousin and his father lives in Paris. I am from Ukraine but live in USA, and watching video about New York city

  • @bramblebrook
    @bramblebrook 8 років тому +70

    Totally different vibe then. More danger, less rules.
    Freedom if you could handle it.

    • @xUzi786
      @xUzi786 4 роки тому +6

      Especially the 70s and before

    • @Rhythm973
      @Rhythm973 3 роки тому +3

      Freedom; If you could handle it. Such true and deep words

    • @jusliving7977
      @jusliving7977 2 роки тому +2

      Yep...was a rough, gritty city back then but it's missed. No cell phones, people had better communication skills, kids played outside. Boys were boys, gals were gals now it's all gone. Well l guess that's progress.

  • @beyondthematrix3945
    @beyondthematrix3945 Рік тому +2

    I was born and raised in NYC in the 1960’s and I remember 1987 very well. I miss my NYC from the 1980’s. There will never be an era like this!

  • @Iridium242
    @Iridium242 10 років тому +35

    NYC was pretty cool back then, Thankfully I got to live it during this time. Now its a joke compared to what it used to be. Great video.

    • @PabloCruise91
      @PabloCruise91 10 років тому +4

      ***** People are too tamed nowadays.

    • @indyguy1000
      @indyguy1000 7 років тому +5

      That's the ny I remembered as a kid. Guliani fkd it all up.

    • @SevenFootPelican
      @SevenFootPelican 7 років тому +9

      PabloCruise91. Yep. We've all sold out, collectively, as a culture, to corporations. Pretty sad. We're not only tame, we're highly sensitive and highly politically correct idiots. Why'd we do this to ourselves? We chose comfort over freedom.

  • @Iridium242
    @Iridium242 13 років тому +17

    Now THAT is the city I remember.. back when it was cool.

  • @coldcrush9
    @coldcrush9 Рік тому +5

    15 years old in 1987 me and my best friend took the train in to the city. A guy named "Fox" followed us into a McDonald's and was trying to sell us a nickel bag of oregano. Great times

  • @kvngvuggottoa7139
    @kvngvuggottoa7139 Рік тому +4

    It’s amazing how much has changed over the years . Really brings a tear to my eyes

  • @drylaundry
    @drylaundry 11 років тому +4

    the last time I visited Manhattan was in 89, I was underage then, I remember driving with my parents through 42nd and saw all the xxx spots, it's a surreal memory now, in one part I wish I was older then so I could remember it more....I'm sure it changed for the better but I remember wanting to get out and walk that street..now I have a family and I still looked back and wish I can travel back in time to that era...thanks for the post :)

  • @dionalexander7080
    @dionalexander7080 8 років тому +17

    My Grandmom used to keep me locked behind the gate in the 80s in bed-Stuy crazy and even though the city was bad and high in crime in the 80s people was more nicer here then more polite

  • @markbrautigam2502
    @markbrautigam2502 Рік тому +2

    Best days , fantastic energy

  • @cinnomonsinner
    @cinnomonsinner 12 років тому +7

    i dont know what is it about 1950-1990 videos of new york that i love so much

  • @manilo20000
    @manilo20000 12 років тому +5

    I was 14 yrs old in 1987...
    Hot 103.5 WQHT was my favorite radio station...
    I wish I could turn back time!!!!!

  • @gbond
    @gbond 11 років тому +10

    Wow dude I was 5 years old when you shot this. I'm 31 now and I still remember the Minolta sign in time square. Thank you for my childhood memories from Time Square. Never thought I'd see it again.

    • @tracywilliams7929
      @tracywilliams7929 6 років тому

      gbond 36 years old now. It was 31 years ago. World has cjanged a lot during your life and you are still so young. At least you show an interest in history. I like to go back to times before I was born like the turn of the century. This footage shows the little but important details the historybooks leave out.

  • @brianparker9631
    @brianparker9631 12 років тому +4

    Truly priceless video. I spent a year in NYC 1979-80. I did not have a video camera then but I took an hour of the sounds of NYC on a boom box. I still have the casette; have not played it for decades. NYC was certainly much better back then than it is now. There was more spirit back then, to say it simply.

  • @doggman824
    @doggman824 11 місяців тому +1

    I remember New York City so well during this time I was 6 years old back then I am surprised I wasn't in any of the shots in this video either walking around with my dad or my grandma or my mom. I love nyc its been my home all my life. but now I call Florida home as well. I remember the Beefsteak Charlies in Timessqaure back then.

  • @Ilovemovies917
    @Ilovemovies917 9 років тому +24

    The city use to look exactly like the movies back then. When I visited one time I felt like I was being in the movies. It doesn't look like the movies much anymore.

  • @mantanasauce
    @mantanasauce 13 років тому +4

    I LOVE THIS!! Thank you for sharing. I grew up in the 80s in NYC and miss this city. Today this city is a mere shell of what it used to be...truly 1 of the more sad things of the last century

  • @rachelj0an
    @rachelj0an 2 роки тому +2

    I worked at 1515 Broadway when this was filmed and it did hit the nail on the head this is what looked like--high brow theater goers were inches away from those who enjoy a lower class ofentertainment

  • @bittymiles8331
    @bittymiles8331 7 років тому +17

    any 1 else notice how the sun gave off a different color , especially around sunset. I remember it that way before September 11. the sun in this new reality gives off more of a white tint. when I was younger the sun was orange, with an orange glow at sunset. nowadays its whitish, almost like an electrical glow. just my observations. 111. even the radios sounded different. love you guys!

    • @BadDriversOfNapa
      @BadDriversOfNapa 7 років тому +6

      More pollution back then. That's why the deep orange tint to the evening sunlight.

    • @thelightskincutie3699
      @thelightskincutie3699 7 років тому +3

      Bad Drivers Of Napa Valley that def makes sense! Even in late 90s early 00's i remember the sun with hints of orange. Ugh i wish i was alive back then in the 80s my mom had so much fun and she knew it was bad to go to 42nd street and now the tourists wont go home. Even in movies from 80s-90s i recall the sunrises just how she described them

    • @djack915
      @djack915 6 років тому +4

      Maybe it was the lead in the gas...or smokestacks ... idk but it sure was purdy

    • @zedster8200
      @zedster8200 4 роки тому

      A crazy nutnob would probably be saying we live in the matrix.

  • @juanpabloarena2724
    @juanpabloarena2724 5 років тому +4

    Viajar en el tiempo es posible?? ... Definitivamente sí! Gracias a este video. Saludos desde Argentina!

  • @Chelz12
    @Chelz12 3 роки тому +4

    Take me back

  • @pezcore68
    @pezcore68 12 років тому +1

    im not even from new york and i can appriciate this.. i always tell people the NYC i remember from TV growing up was WAAAY different than what it is now .. glad theres videos up for us all to see ;)

  • @ChiliCheeseD0g
    @ChiliCheeseD0g Рік тому +1

    Holy moly. I worked at 43 and Broadway(03-2005). This brings me back. I didn't know that Nathans was before NASDAQ on that corner. That's awesome. It also explains the 2 floor of Duane Reade between 42nd and 43rd.

    • @siobhananna
      @siobhananna Рік тому

      Duane Reade is now a McDonald's

  • @TheJazzyjeff333
    @TheJazzyjeff333 9 років тому +7

    Wow... this is how I remember my "Times Square" NYC. I was 22 years old and running with the "scene". Thank you very much for this moving nostalgia from the past. I love it....

    • @mconcaz
      @mconcaz 9 років тому +2

      TheJazzyjeff333 and i was 15

    • @mmsibi
      @mmsibi 9 років тому +3

      +mauro contreras and i was 5

    • @DeltaSniperZRR
      @DeltaSniperZRR 8 років тому +5

      I was -8 ...

  • @ursa41
    @ursa41 12 років тому +3

    As a native NYer born and raised, I'd give ANYTHING to have those days back. I sure as shit don't recognize New York City anymore, except by name :-(

  • @calatis4u
    @calatis4u 8 років тому +5

    that year was there and lived in ridgewood Queens NY and became an US citizen

  • @kristinaking4680
    @kristinaking4680 Рік тому +2

    This city never sleeps

  • @plateshutoverlock
    @plateshutoverlock 10 років тому +12

    lots of 1970s cars

  • @danawadd
    @danawadd 11 років тому +13

    I miss seedy old Times Square. It's so plastic and Disney now.

  • @nystmind
    @nystmind 12 років тому +1

    I love old clips of NYC, just great to see people walking around w/o a cell phone !

  • @azaccone
    @azaccone 11 років тому +3

    God! I was 20 years old and worked at 49th and Broadway (Brill Building) at this time. I miss those days so much. Going there now makes me physically ill and sad.

  • @rocketcab
    @rocketcab 10 років тому +4

    .... Ahhh, the Times Square I remember.... the one with heart and soul.... the one that still catered to grown-ups.

  • @donnix6931
    @donnix6931 8 років тому +56

    I love looking at stock footage of NYC and Times Square from the late 80s early 90s. It was dangerous but it was authentic, it had life. It was gritty but it was real, cigarette and whiskey billboards, adult film theaters, open drug dealing, crack was king in 1989, old taxis graffiti on the subway cars. Now it looks like a suburban shopping mall after the extreme gentrification, no soul at all.

    • @noelanderson969
      @noelanderson969 4 роки тому +2

      It's been SUCKED OUT by Mayor Giuliani!

    • @Mr__Singularity
      @Mr__Singularity 2 роки тому +3

      Primitive, dirty, more crime, poverty, dealers on the streets, crappy graffiti, poorer infra, primitive tech, is not better in any way. Everything is better now.

  • @Pineapple-zj3nx
    @Pineapple-zj3nx 7 років тому +9

    I loved roy Rogers chicken back in the day. personally I liked it better than kfc

  • @qolspony
    @qolspony 12 років тому +1

    New York was much better back then if you were in your 20 and over. If you were in your teens, it was pretty rough for some of us.

  • @maltesemassive
    @maltesemassive 12 років тому +3

    Hey moviemagg, I enjoyed that! What were the streets of NYC like back then in contrast to now? Were some of them dangerous? I notice there seems to be more locals about and few tourists. What was Times Square like? I heard it used to be a tricky place unlike now which is full of tourists.

  • @borrachoblanco
    @borrachoblanco 7 років тому +3

    I was born 12/ 17/1987. time flies

    • @kyleh3693
      @kyleh3693 7 років тому +1

      04131986 checkin in:)

  • @calvincrews3885
    @calvincrews3885 6 років тому +2

    I love the older buses and the Detroit Diesel engines

  • @myradioon
    @myradioon Рік тому +1

    A reminder - The Stock Market had just crashed or was about to. "Black Monday" October 19, 1987. " The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 22.6 percent in a single trading session, a loss that remains the largest one-day stock market decline in history.".

  • @Zoubirking-1970
    @Zoubirking-1970 2 роки тому +1

    I was 17 years new Yorker

  • @ursa41
    @ursa41 13 років тому +3

    October 1987, huh? Wow! I was working in a naval architectural firm in Manhattan by day and attending NYC Tech in Brooklyn (today NYC College of Technology) by night; then, every Friday night after work , we'd hit Copacabanna up in 62 St & 5th. Shit man those were the days...sorry for thinking out loud, but I am just WAY TOO NOSTAGLIC! That was THE REAL NEW YORK CITY!! Word up!

    • @tracywilliams7929
      @tracywilliams7929 6 років тому +2

      ursa41 It was paradise for us young people. You could afford yr own apartment or live with someone. Jobs were plentiful. We used to say fired in the morning hired that afternoon. There was more to do if you were young. Lots of affordable clubs, bars and restaurants and movie theatres and concert venues. Girls were friendlier (altho 21st century beauty is unmatched) and we had a way of making our own fun on the cheap. I could leave the house with practically no money and still come back satisfied I had a great time. It was easy to make new friends because people were not absorbed in their smart phones. You did not need Facebook. People were more interesting and dared to think.

  • @cylinder4ify
    @cylinder4ify 11 років тому +2

    Yeah I recall my first 'bus' trip to NYC around that time, it was like stepping right into Bangkok.

  • @jondoe1592
    @jondoe1592 11 років тому +2

    Times Square was a mess in 87. Half of those store fronts were empty. My girlfriend nearly had her purse snatched but I busted the guy before he could do it. Rudy really turned it around in the 90's and made it what it is today.

  • @noelanderson969
    @noelanderson969 9 років тому +2

    Now THIS is New York right here!!!.

  • @richardkuszel2351
    @richardkuszel2351 6 років тому +3

    I liked it better than. Now there's so many people all tourists you can't even walk it's so crowded. Everything corst three times as much. and it's like being on sesame Street everything is kid friendly.

  • @Divinely_ProtectedAse
    @Divinely_ProtectedAse 5 років тому

    I miss you dad RIP 🥀 1941-2017 I still mourn you 💔 daddy’s girl 👨‍👧

  • @CraigStewart736
    @CraigStewart736 4 роки тому +2

    I wish I was born in the 90s

  • @musicom67
    @musicom67 10 років тому +3

    This was how I will always remember this area (my college years).... Although only a few things are refurbished (New Amsterdam, marquee back on Paramount bldg etc), alot has been demolished with weirdo glass eco-buildings as replacements. Also love the now low-tech signage and people not walking around with a phone in their face.

  • @suncandan1
    @suncandan1 12 років тому

    I never going to forget this spot , greeting to all students Spanish American institute 43 street class 2010/2012

  • @Beamer66
    @Beamer66 13 років тому

    Great to see The 'Bond' building, being a huge fan of The Clash and how they rocked Times Square on their 17 night residency there.

  • @pointuout2020
    @pointuout2020 4 роки тому +1

    Well I just like the video cause I can see my Hotel Diplomat just past the Cafe-43 sign!
    I wish I could of bought the Diplomat....

  • @TheToonkeeper
    @TheToonkeeper 12 років тому +2

    @NeverContactMe Very true, that's why I don't jump on the "OH EVERYTHING WAS SO MUCH BETTER BEFORE ______" bandwagon, especially when looking at New York City. The city has had its ups and downs each era, in fact, if anything, today's NYC looks cleaner and safer in comparison to the 70s-early 90s. Also notice the abundance of x-rated theaters at the time, not that adults won't enjoy it ;), but NYC should be something for the whole family, and that's why I prefer NYC of today.

    • @Wrestling316
      @Wrestling316 3 роки тому

      Agreed. Modern New York City is awesome to me. It’s annoying when people hop on The Nostalgia Bandwagon

  • @troyalexander65
    @troyalexander65 10 років тому +2

    WOW! Thank you soooo much!

  • @psychokinesis878
    @psychokinesis878 2 роки тому

    I was only 7 months old at that time....born and raised in NYC..

  • @prisco-net
    @prisco-net 3 роки тому +1

    Soy argentino pero quiero vivir en eeuu no sé porque pero siento que en mi otra vida nací ahí

  • @tyburns3689
    @tyburns3689 10 років тому +2

    Hey thats my hometown!

  • @SomethingReal1119
    @SomethingReal1119 12 років тому

    This vid brings back AWESOME memories of the nyc I remember growing up in the 70's/80's. Look at the fashion!! LOL I was so fortunate to have experienced how "real" that place was back then. Thank you for this vid.

  • @626SupremeLogic
    @626SupremeLogic 12 років тому

    I love this video...feels like u are transported back in time.....funny thing is that i was 11 years old in 87',living in Cali...i wonder what i was doing at the very moment this was being filmed????

  • @aprilrains973
    @aprilrains973 6 місяців тому

    I lived on W47th Street during the '80's. The city had a lot more character then.

  • @b7k1l8yn
    @b7k1l8yn 11 років тому +3

    my 1st year of High School Thomas Jefferson in BKLYN.. NYC was very Tuff but it was Authentic.. individuals were individuals ... it's like a giant Walmart now unreal

  • @indyracingnut
    @indyracingnut 12 років тому

    Man, where IS everybody? Times Square is always twice as crowded as this now, even in a snow blizzard!

  • @PrettyinPink9789
    @PrettyinPink9789 6 років тому

    Damn time flies and to think I was born 2 yrs after this video

  • @liz326522
    @liz326522 12 років тому

    What a great idea... I would love to hear that. Too bad an audio recording isn't something that can be posted in any kind of way. I grew up in the city, NYC and miss it terribly. That would be fun to listen to and then try to guess what all the different sounds are... lol.

  • @luislaplume8261
    @luislaplume8261 3 роки тому +1

    Oh yes station wagons. The SUVs of their time 1930s til 1990s!

  • @SomethingReal1119
    @SomethingReal1119 13 років тому

    @mantanasauce I too grew up in this area during the 70's/80's. Haven't been back to NY in many years and I miss it so much! But why do you say it is now a mere shell of what it used to be????

  • @thelightskincutie3699
    @thelightskincutie3699 7 років тому

    I wasnt even a thought yet but i wish i was here!!!! I wanna cry when i think of the past. Things may have not. Been greater but the reality of things and the grittiness of what my city used to be is more preferred. Ppl from other countries never wanna go home from our city because its so glamorous how about they come to the hood. They only fix what they want. The hood still the same it just looks a little polished

  • @jimamia77
    @jimamia77 11 років тому

    The great thing about the Port Authority Bus Terminal was it's location. Tourists were bussed right into the middle of the wildness!

  • @imsolive89
    @imsolive89 12 років тому

    great upload its like a real time machine

  • @mj0sefs0n
    @mj0sefs0n 12 років тому

    Sure. I think I recall seeing one in a James Bond movie, too. But I was just waxing nostalgic about my first personal experience seeing one. I can't wait until they develop the Maxwell Smart "shoe phone" in real life!

  • @g.m.8327
    @g.m.8327 4 роки тому

    Slightly less crowed than nowadays that's for sure. Foot traffic is Up and it's a pain when you have to get to 47th Langans for work and tourists are staring all around instead of watching out. But hey I know that's the gig right. BTW - I am 85% sure that guy on the film waving is Eric Roberts (Julia's Brother) :-)

  • @TheViewingBox
    @TheViewingBox 12 років тому +2

    Great footage. I know it was for all the right reasons polution wise etc, but I can't help thinking that America lost a lot of it's unique identity when they started to phase out all of all the large automobiles for the more european small sized cars we see today! There must've been another way around the problem! America was famed for its large cars!

  • @jlomax
    @jlomax 11 років тому

    I grew up in NYC, I left in October 1986 for Sacramento Cal...the clips moves me to tears because I walked those same streets..I worked on East 23rd street...West 52nd street..went to NY inst of Tech on W 62nd street..back then times square was a DUMP and that's paying it a compliment!! I think around 1987 or 88 they cleaned it up and brought in major stores cleaned up the porno theaters and brought in tourists. Times square looks a million times better! Why did the clean it after I left? LOL!

  • @OnRock19
    @OnRock19 13 років тому

    good quality, was this filmed on video8 ?

  • @Kontragraphic
    @Kontragraphic 12 років тому +1

    What's the guy at 0:44 saying?

  • @therealjoebloggs
    @therealjoebloggs 12 років тому

    By this time, they had prettty well cleaned it up from what it had been in the 1970's, but this shows what it looked like before they "beautified' it.

  • @mytime103
    @mytime103 11 років тому +1

    same spot today would be good as a comparison.

  • @TrumpetMonkeyy
    @TrumpetMonkeyy 11 років тому +3

    I was born october 27 1987 .. Cool vid

    • @kyleh3693
      @kyleh3693 7 років тому +1

      April 13 1986 checkin in ;)

  • @craziikid9
    @craziikid9 12 років тому

    how can you save this video for such a long time. amazing

  • @cerclebruggezot
    @cerclebruggezot 12 років тому

    do you have any WTC footage from that period?

  • @Victor_CoverMusic
    @Victor_CoverMusic 12 років тому

    I Love Chevy Caprice & Impala '80s Taxi cab!!!

  • @Coolasion
    @Coolasion 12 років тому

    From now on, I'm going to film streets and post the vids on whatever ppl will get together on in the future

  • @Gilbquick
    @Gilbquick 13 років тому

    Real NYC the vibe is so different now

  • @moviemagg
    @moviemagg  12 років тому

    Raymond Burr had a phone in his car on the old Perry Mason episodes filmed back in the 1950s.

  • @danielsantana540
    @danielsantana540 7 років тому +2

    Back when new York was new York

  • @mj0sefs0n
    @mj0sefs0n 12 років тому

    There were people with cell phones in 1987, but you had to be rich. The first time I saw someone walking with a mobile phone was probably in 1985 or 1986, and he was a big fat man carrying a box with a handle in one hand (kind of like a lunchbox size or small attache case) and it had a cord traveling out of it to the handset, and he was having a very loud, ostentatious conversation. I remember him giving me what seemed to be a wink while I gaped at him, it made an impression on me.

  • @victormaitland1611
    @victormaitland1611 5 років тому

    What a time to be alive a stock market that crashed 22% ,but no cell phones

  • @qolspony
    @qolspony 5 років тому +2

    0:24 Liberty Lines

  • @TheEllielana
    @TheEllielana 12 років тому

    awwwwwww i was there even though i was 8 months old

  • @darrellmason5574
    @darrellmason5574 Рік тому +1

    The days when the gangsters ran the streets kids was millionaires

  • @moviemagg
    @moviemagg  12 років тому

    Sorry dude, but I was only visiting New York for the day when I shot this video back in 1987. I drove down from upstate NY where we had a summer home up in the mountains, just to spend the day in the city. My home has always been in the sun and fun capital of the world, the great state of CUBA-USA. Only a real New Yorker can answer your questions.

  • @HikikomoriDev
    @HikikomoriDev 3 роки тому

    So cute at the start!

  • @janpracht6662
    @janpracht6662 4 роки тому

    2:15 min This guy looks like Tom Cruise in "RainMan"... ;-)
    I was twice in New York, always a fantastic experience for a while. But I would become crazy, if I had to live there.

  • @Spiritual64Surrender
    @Spiritual64Surrender 7 років тому +4

    i just turned 23. I love this Times Square compared to now. No soul as the gentleman said below. Looks like Disneyland now, kind of ridiculous,

    • @thelightskincutie3699
      @thelightskincutie3699 7 років тому +2

      Spiritual64Surrender i just turned 24 so sad we should have been there in these days.

  • @anthonymullen6300
    @anthonymullen6300 7 років тому +2

    giuliani took away New York's character.

  • @jonathan75801
    @jonathan75801 7 років тому +1

    Did that guy say something in the yellow jumper?0:44

  • @NeonConceptMusic
    @NeonConceptMusic 13 років тому

    The baby at 1:51 is now about 25. Wonder where he/she is now!

  • @tanvideo11
    @tanvideo11 11 років тому

    I like this! very nice. thanks

  • @dimegoat
    @dimegoat 12 років тому

    damn, the cars are so cool

  • @phillipboothe4611
    @phillipboothe4611 2 роки тому

    I was just a baby but those days were so good without the pandemics.