Thank you ... I can't get enough of these old 1990s videos of NYC... What a great time b/f smartphones and social media! People walking and living... How I miss those days!
This is the most beautiful video I've ever seen. I was born in February 1995 just outside of the city in Connecticut and had gone through absolute hell. Seeing this, the video cameras in the windows, hearing this Pink Floyd song... it brought me back to memories I didn't even remember that I had. Almost as if the spirit of God had touched the very core of my soul that I had lost so many years ago. So much pain and grief all released from this one video. Please, never delete this.
Beverly Huttinger that's what happens when socialists take over a city. Turns them to shit. They leach off of the wealth and infrastructure that the entrepreneurs establish and then when they all leave the oppression of socialism, the socialists blame the big bad capitalists and all that is left is a shell of a city a la Detroit (or whole sad, poor countries like the eastern block or Venezuela). Hopefully NYC finds itself again. Back in the 90s it had a tough, mayor and city government that encouraged business and was tough on crime. The result was a prosperous and hopeful NYC.
This is the New York I would see watching Letterman in the 90s! Funny thing is, he used to complain that they'd ruined New York and made it clean, or Disneyfied. He missed the Times Square of the 70s and 80s that was dirty and smutty. And here we are missing the 90s. Anyway, I got to finally visit New York in 2003 and was approached by someone from the Late Show to give us free tickets, a dream come true. Sting was the guest that night. I returned in 2007 and 2019. Always a great place no matter the era.
i can almost feel the heat of that summer along with the hot dog scent. walked around all the places in the video that entire month. nostalgia kicks in hard af
I miss NYC pre-9/11. From 1993-2011 I worked in the Empire State Building. Fun times.The 90s was the last great decade. Even the Manhattan Mall(formerly A&S Plaza) is gone now.
@@David1212-p9d probably not long after this video was taken. Giuliani had just taken office as mayor of nyc and he got rid of a lot of the sex stuff in times square. if i remember correctly, a lot of it was gone by 1997
@@David1212-p9d early 90's me and a friend saw the last of it. Guiliani shut them all down but im noticing some funny sex stores are poping up again today but spread out in Queens
Such a different time and different world. I remember it vividly just feels like a dream back then things seemed better. Things changed. Life is now nothing what we used to know.
I can't watch vids like this because I get emotional...going to blockbuster and rent movies, playing N64 while eating great quality pizza, enjoying New Yorks views and listening to some of the best music of that era....I look out the windows today and just shut down
Think everyone thinks the same these days were best man, although I’m British and have been to New York once !! These are the best days 80s and 90s man stick me in a time machine
1995 in NYC was a special time. The city was in transition. Still a bit dangerous, but it was magic. I don't have many regrets in life, but leaving NYC in July 1995 is one of them. I could have stayed, but decided not to. Thanks for uploading. This is great raw stuff.
if you don't mind me asking, how com eyou deccided to leave ny in 1995? i wasnt alive in the 90's so im not so sure of the timeline and crime rates in ny during that time frame
I wish i left nyc a long time ago. Had i moved to florida 12 years ago i woulda had a cheap house. Instead most of us stayed in nyc paying rent all your life. Every time you save more property values went up making it hard to get a loan in nyc.
@@kennyadvocat was in love with nyc in the 90s, the freedom to dress how we wanted without judgment, music had meaning, and the food quality was top notch...I'm still here...and now I wanna leave
This is the city as I remember it! Great times! I was 9 & my family went into the city at least once a month. I loved the energy there still do but it’s not the same. It’s not gritty like it used to be. It’s not bustling with the same electricity.
NYC in the 90s was MY era! I was a kid, like a sponge, soaking up all of the atmosphere, the history, the flavor, the culture of this ever-evolving city at a specific period where the changes were coming hard and fast. Growing up in the 90s and especially making trips to the city, usually to see my grandparents, was a unique and special time. Parts of older 20th century society were still present but blending and disappearing into the future. Things of the past side-by-side with the emerging future, and you could especially see this in big cities like Manhattan. I remember Times Square, how it was before it became sanitized. I remember some of the grime and grittiness of the city before it became massively cleaned up in more ways than one, later on in the decade and 2000s. I remember the different attitudes and vibes of 90s NY compared to now, more of a feeling of freedom and diversity, believe it or not. It was rough around the edges and that's precisely the way I expected it to be, not an urban recreation of something I could see in the suburbs. I also had my own perspective on suburban vs. urban living considering I actually grew up in Virginia but went nearly every summer to see my family in NYC. The differences were amazing. I'll always treasure my 90s New York memories, they were a hell of a time in my life! This brought me allll the way back.
The 90s was everything, people weren't judgemental, fast food taste and quality were to die for, and we were so rebellious lol...fighting the power and actually being there for each other...a time I'd love to go back just stay there
I hear ya, I was probably down in the middle of that chaos that night, I was waiting tables in times square in a TGI Fridays in my 20s. Time flies by...
Hahaha, I remember you. It was hot sticky Sunday night and I picked you up in my yellow taxi at Bus Terminal. You had a dark green suitcase and big naive poppy eyes of a 22 years old. Some black homeless hustler opened the door for you, and then demanded you give him a dollar. You were scared of all the noise and movement around this dirty place, so you gave it to him. You asked me to take you to Astoria, to your friend's pad. The fare was $12.80, you gave me $14 and said "keep the change"... And look at you now! You are the King of New York. :)
I was 23. As a exchange program student coming from a third world country, was the most important experience to me ever in my life. Lived good and bad moments. Literally I became a man :-) . Learned the hard way that family is not always there for you.
Oh I wish we were in July 1995. I had just finish college. And was waiting for my degree in the mail. And 51 days after this video was shot, I was turning 23. Yeah yeah yeah 23+27 is exactly I am turning 50 in Sept. And not ashamed of saying it. How is it that blinked twice and 27 years went by?😭😭
Oh how i would just jump into a time machine and go back, I was 7 at the time. We was fighting the power and eating whatever we wanted, we were less offended and more rebellious, we were tough in the streets...music was poppin. How did we get to this?...
Honestly, being an early-mid 70s born Gen Xer was probably the sweet spot of experiencing the last of the "old" in your youth/college years and if you did things right got in owning a home/having a family before everything officially went to shit.
wow you would have had so much ..i was in these streets in these days 42 and West 4th was the spot to be in these nights ...so much was going on around there
@@Inaworldoflove Boredom is good for mental health, creativity and the spirit. Like winter makes you appreciate summer more, boredom makes the exciting parts even better. Now people's minds are over stimulated to the max every waking minute and we're inured to everything. Nothing satisfies like it used to.
Hey this is a real long shot but I guess I could try. I'm a music producer and I'm trying to make a beat inspired by New York. I was wondering, would you be willing to let me use some of this footage for the video to accompany the music? It will only be posted to my UA-cam Channel and I will give you any form of credit that you desire. I would really love to use some cool VHS footage of New York and this is incredible!
@@jordancooke5980 social media didn't take over our lives, McDonald's and fast food tasted amazing back then, music was powerful, movies that released in that decade paved the way for films we see today, we dressed however we wanted and people werent offended. We socialized alot more, and rollerbladed/biked everywhere..there was a better sense of freedom, and nostalgia I no longer get in today's time
It wasn’t bro trust me I almost got killed in Manhattan back in 1993 they was tryna rob me especially in the subway stations in the nighttime it was man sketchy bunch of crackheads it was creepy New York in the nighttime lol.
New york is Disney land right compared to the 90s. There was no cameras back then and the subway at night was a scene out of a movie, But it still had a beautiful element to it un like now
It was the time for a new generation and a beautiful atmosphere. New York was everywhere a place in trouble and I find this is a trademark for this town, beautiful.
Aw that United Artist movie theater .my dad would take me to a movie at that exact theatre everytime I'd come to visit him in the city when I was little. summer of 95 (when this was filmed ) I had seen Batman Forever, The Net and Clueless. 2x. We also saw pulp fiction there in 94 and Fear in 96. Many others as well but those I remember off the top of my head. I remember i begged him to take me to see KIDS and my dad never bothered checking ratings took me . Even though it was NC 17. They still let me in lol. i miss this Nyc. it's just not the same anymore.
I graduated highschool in 1995 in cedar park, tx (outside of austin). My basketball team also won state championship that year and we got to play in the alamodome before the spurs and orlando magic (Shaquille o'neal baby!!). My middle son just graduated at the alamodome in 2021 which was surreal. I went into labor and gave birth on 9/11 to my firstborn son who just turned 21 years old this year. Time flies so fast and sped up exponentially since 2001 .... now those days are just a memory .... a time we will never get back to ... a simple time long since passed. 💔 i felt back then, we actually had overcome racism ... where i was, parents weren't teaching it to children on either side. We grew up together and were just ... humans ... americans .... kids. And not just blacks and whites, but we had asian and hispanic friends as well. We did not think of it like that then, but thanks to our current atmosphere, i do now. It is as if that time never even existed. A fever dream. Nothing to go back to .... just gone ... like the towers.
Thank Obama and the Democrats. They opened the sewer and dragged out all the muck. Made raw again the racism we'd put behind us. 8 years ago we said he pushed us a decade backwards. Now it looks like a century. Deliberate destruction of the USA.
I remember when I was a kid and always thought there was only one "city" in America. I always thought that city was New York City. Like whenever anyone in the whole country wanted to go to "the city" they were going to New York lol. I was a pretty dumb kid. But, what do you expect? That's all they showed on tv and in movies!
I'm Canadian and I thought this too. How naive we we're but it was also a much simpler time. I grew up watching all the American movies and what not. So to me Home alone 2 in New York was the "city"
I was in China still. I came to NYC at 2000. I then finished High School and joined the Marine Corps in 2003. I came out and went to College in 2008 and got a Master in Accounting in 2013. Now I work for for some of the Greatest company in the world. I appreciate all these great experience I have had in life. The sad part is I'm 33 now... 8 (
This was the best time to be in NYC still a little dangerous but nothing like the 80s when I had visited it last. And not totally Disneyfied yet. Kinda like old scary NYC and Toronto in one city
Yeah wow why did they need to put that in the video? We could go listen to that on our own if we wanted to. Rather hear the natural street noise. I had to skip until it was over.
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Rest in peace, everyone who has headphones and could not watch more than 10 seconds of the video without one ear bleeding and the other ear wondering why there is no sound.
@@UnknownMoses true, it just made everyone snitches, by recording everyone’s business and everything for social media for clout and attention just to show the world and pretend they are “do gooders”
@@UnknownMoses People had their minds hijacked by Silicon Valley dweebs and their ambitions. Nobody was fucking asking for social media or smartphones, but we got them anyway.
@@liamoconnell1308 It's a fine record, not great, but good. Post RW Floyd is IMHO not as good as the classic PF, but mind you I don't think Solo RW ever released anything as good as The Floyd did in his time w/ the band. To me 'the whole was always greater than the sum of its parts'. Meaning Waters, Gilmour, Wright, Mason. I think they all released fine solo stuff, but not as good as PF. To tell the truth I haven't listened to 'The Division Bell' in its entirety in perhaps some 20 years. But it definitely has its moments. I say it's well worth checking out, so you can judge it for yourself.
Yeah same here I agree with Celeste I almost cannot believe that it's has almost literally been 27 years exactly from this particular video 👍I was 3 at that particular time.
Gosh! Manhattan was so empty... The last two mayors are one stupider than the other. They turned a multitude of three lane streets in to single lane. They put up all of those stupid bike lanes (which are barely used) and enormous flower and tree pots where cars used to move. They blocked off Times Square and a bunch of other random streets, squares and portions of avenues. Today NYC is a never-ending traffic disaster these days. I moved to ATL, and don't even miss it NYC as it is today. I mean, I do miss the old days, but all of it is gone now. All I have left now is my memories and these youtube videos of big wide streets with big cars on them, where you could run and do some crazy shit, and not get arrested for petty things.
Yea man People are way more stressed out now than in the 90s with so many traffic regulations ..plus these mayors destroyed Sections of the street from making their job easier...i think they did that on purpose.. now this stupid mayor wants to charge ppl from entering in manhattan called congestion pricing i will be moving out...
@@bojack40 I miss wide avenues and streets, where cars could actually move, and pass one another. A taxi ride which takes you 20 to 30 min today, 25 years ago used to take 5 to 8 min.
Hard to say. It was a holiday for me. But a holiday in another world. I was used to living in communist totalitarianism. And today's world? In our country in the Czech Republic better than before. But youth was youth :-)
@@drakosek Thanks for the answer. I'm from 1997 and now i'm just beginning to glimpse this sensation of nostalgia, but maybe in a decade or two i will fully understand what you're talking about, to have memories from another world.
I already stopped hanging out on the norm in 1989. I wish I could go back in time. If only for a weekend. I miss, Roseland, 1018, Studio 54, The Fun House, etc. It was a every weekend thing.
I was 6 months I don't know how many days old I was but I was actually born on December 30, 1994 but I celebrate my birthday on December 31st because that's the day my mom was told to go home on that day but anyway the 29th was my last day as a 6 month old I turned 7 months old on the 30th of July
Thank you ... I can't get enough of these old 1990s videos of NYC... What a great time b/f smartphones and social media! People walking and living... How I miss those days!
My right ear is having a great time
Mine is left
LOL SAME
that’s mono for you..
🤣🤣🤣 Left for me ... but only bc i put the right earbud into my left and left into my right. 🤷♀️
@@dreikjapan4061 you have them switched
This is the most beautiful video I've ever seen. I was born in February 1995 just outside of the city in Connecticut and had gone through absolute hell. Seeing this, the video cameras in the windows, hearing this Pink Floyd song... it brought me back to memories I didn't even remember that I had. Almost as if the spirit of God had touched the very core of my soul that I had lost so many years ago. So much pain and grief all released from this one video. Please, never delete this.
1995-1999 so perfect
Beverly Huttinger that's what happens when socialists take over a city. Turns them to shit. They leach off of the wealth and infrastructure that the entrepreneurs establish and then when they all leave the oppression of socialism, the socialists blame the big bad capitalists and all that is left is a shell of a city a la Detroit (or whole sad, poor countries like the eastern block or Venezuela).
Hopefully NYC finds itself again. Back in the 90s it had a tough, mayor and city government that encouraged business and was tough on crime. The result was a prosperous and hopeful NYC.
What about 2000?
I lived in Midtown for about 4 years starting in 1989. This video reminds me of what Manhattan looked like back then. Thank you!
This is the New York I would see watching Letterman in the 90s! Funny thing is, he used to complain that they'd ruined New York and made it clean, or Disneyfied. He missed the Times Square of the 70s and 80s that was dirty and smutty. And here we are missing the 90s.
Anyway, I got to finally visit New York in 2003 and was approached by someone from the Late Show to give us free tickets, a dream come true. Sting was the guest that night. I returned in 2007 and 2019. Always a great place no matter the era.
i can almost feel the heat of that summer along with the hot dog scent. walked around all the places in the video that entire month. nostalgia kicks in hard af
I miss NYC pre-9/11. From 1993-2011 I worked in the Empire State Building. Fun times.The 90s was the last great decade. Even the Manhattan Mall(formerly A&S Plaza) is gone now.
the video shows nude girls signs in neon lights and all that stuff. do you know what year that stuff went away?
@@David1212-p9d I have no idea, sorry.
The 21st century has been a bit of a letdown
@@David1212-p9d probably not long after this video was taken. Giuliani had just taken office as mayor of nyc and he got rid of a lot of the sex stuff in times square. if i remember correctly, a lot of it was gone by 1997
@@David1212-p9d early 90's me and a friend saw the last of it. Guiliani shut them all down but im noticing some funny sex stores are poping up again today but spread out in Queens
Such a different time and different world. I remember it vividly just feels like a dream back then things seemed better. Things changed. Life is now nothing what we used to know.
Yep
I can't watch vids like this because I get emotional...going to blockbuster and rent movies, playing N64 while eating great quality pizza, enjoying New Yorks views and listening to some of the best music of that era....I look out the windows today and just shut down
same.
My God I was there from 1991 to 1998... Tough but beautiful city...
Used to be tough, now it´s a sugar coated Disneyland.
The 70s was tough lol
When yall say its tough im very curious to hear wat it was like back then compared to today's now
Love those old Caprice taxis!
Before the strange Mandela effects when everything was normal and no cell phones (flip, Nokia, iPhones etc), no social media… I miss those times!
Every generation thinks they were the normal ones. What a joke
@kyfaydfsoab completely subjective
Think everyone thinks the same these days were best man, although I’m British and have been to New York once !! These are the best days 80s and 90s man stick me in a time machine
1995 in NYC was a special time. The city was in transition. Still a bit dangerous, but it was magic. I don't have many regrets in life, but leaving NYC in July 1995 is one of them. I could have stayed, but decided not to. Thanks for uploading. This is great raw stuff.
if you don't mind me asking, how com eyou deccided to leave ny in 1995? i wasnt alive in the 90's so im not so sure of the timeline and crime rates in ny during that time frame
I wish i left nyc a long time ago. Had i moved to florida 12 years ago i woulda had a cheap house. Instead most of us stayed in nyc paying rent all your life. Every time you save more property values went up making it hard to get a loan in nyc.
@@kennyadvocat was in love with nyc in the 90s, the freedom to dress how we wanted without judgment, music had meaning, and the food quality was top notch...I'm still here...and now I wanna leave
This is the city as I remember it! Great times! I was 9 & my family went into the city at least once a month. I loved the energy there still do but it’s not the same. It’s not gritty like it used to be. It’s not bustling with the same electricity.
Perfect song to go with it my dad's a huge pink Floyd fan showed him how cool the video goes with this song he agreed we both miss the 90s and 80s
The nostalgia hits hard and I wasn’t even born yet lol
NYC in the 90s was MY era! I was a kid, like a sponge, soaking up all of the atmosphere, the history, the flavor, the culture of this ever-evolving city at a specific period where the changes were coming hard and fast. Growing up in the 90s and especially making trips to the city, usually to see my grandparents, was a unique and special time. Parts of older 20th century society were still present but blending and disappearing into the future. Things of the past side-by-side with the emerging future, and you could especially see this in big cities like Manhattan. I remember Times Square, how it was before it became sanitized. I remember some of the grime and grittiness of the city before it became massively cleaned up in more ways than one, later on in the decade and 2000s. I remember the different attitudes and vibes of 90s NY compared to now, more of a feeling of freedom and diversity, believe it or not. It was rough around the edges and that's precisely the way I expected it to be, not an urban recreation of something I could see in the suburbs. I also had my own perspective on suburban vs. urban living considering I actually grew up in Virginia but went nearly every summer to see my family in NYC. The differences were amazing. I'll always treasure my 90s New York memories, they were a hell of a time in my life! This brought me allll the way back.
The 90s was everything, people weren't judgemental, fast food taste and quality were to die for, and we were so rebellious lol...fighting the power and actually being there for each other...a time I'd love to go back just stay there
@@psychokinesis878 It was really special.
awesome video. thank you for sharing it. i started working there in 95 and this is how i remember it.
i was 22 days old at the filming of this video
i was 24 and most likely drinking down in the village with my friends during this taping
Just imagine the amount of movies and music and tv shows all the shit that was happening in New York in the 90s
I moved to NYC in July 1995. I was 22. Now I'm nearly 42. Where did the time go??
Time is a bitch, my friend. I'm only 26 and i feed like my time is running away... Fortunately i believe in Jesus and in eternal life after death.
Greetings from Italy :-) .
Wow i was only 5 years old during that time living out hampton,va life was diffrent huh?
I hear ya, I was probably down in the middle of that chaos that night, I was waiting tables in times square in a TGI Fridays in my 20s. Time flies by...
Hahaha, I remember you. It was hot sticky Sunday night and I picked you up in my yellow taxi at Bus Terminal. You had a dark green suitcase and big naive poppy eyes of a 22 years old. Some black homeless hustler opened the door for you, and then demanded you give him a dollar. You were scared of all the noise and movement around this dirty place, so you gave it to him. You asked me to take you to Astoria, to your friend's pad. The fare was $12.80, you gave me $14 and said "keep the change"...
And look at you now! You are the King of New York.
:)
I was one day old when this was recorded. ❤️
if this was july first, then this is 10 days before my birth
I was 23. As a exchange program student coming from a third world country, was the most important experience to me ever in my life. Lived good and bad moments. Literally I became a man :-) . Learned the hard way that family is not always there for you.
Have you made good in life? And do you live in usa
lol BS
@@Jay-ru3mu lol do you not belive this lads story?
@@paulbirkbeck1790 Not Really :)
@@Jay-ru3mu i dont like it when they dont reply lol
Oh I wish we were in July 1995. I had just finish college. And was waiting for my degree in the mail. And 51 days after this video was shot, I was turning 23. Yeah yeah yeah 23+27 is exactly I am turning 50 in Sept. And not ashamed of saying it. How is it that blinked twice and 27 years went by?😭😭
Oh how i would just jump into a time machine and go back, I was 7 at the time. We was fighting the power and eating whatever we wanted, we were less offended and more rebellious, we were tough in the streets...music was poppin. How did we get to this?...
Honestly, being an early-mid 70s born Gen Xer was probably the sweet spot of experiencing the last of the "old" in your youth/college years and if you did things right got in owning a home/having a family before everything officially went to shit.
@@calvinbaII us 2001 baby was born in the old barely now we adult this year
wow you would have had so much ..i was in these streets in these days 42 and West 4th was the spot to be in these nights ...so much was going on around there
I miss New York of 95, I wish we could go back in time and prevent so much.
I'm with you, I'd give up everything to go back
This is a great video! You captured everything well. I liked it
This is a time and a place to which I can never return.
No such thing as a time you can return to lmao
Ahh 1995. Bill Clinton was president, Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York, and OJ Simpson was on trial. Good times.
And Seinfeld was running on TV
Playstation 1 came out. Jumanji, Braveheart and Bad Boys were in the cinemas. And AFC Ajax won the UEFA Champions League for the 4th time.
Not Gonna Lie, looking at these old vintage night photos and footages give me chills.
especially the recruiting center
Vintage? Lol 🤦🏻♀️
how is 1995 even vintage?
Somewhere on planet earth ,….. I was 20 years old. Damn,….. times flies. I’m 47 now.
I was coming into the world this year
Not so sure about the planet part but that’s cool!
@@nyccollin maybe Uranus… lol 😂
@@kumikonaito7348 possibly! Hahaha
Wasn't even born yet, but this feels so nostalgic because of the old American movies I watched
This was just before the internet and cell phones exploded and ruined everything. People were still engaged with life and each other.
Yes, but we spent a lot of our time being bored out of our minds. So there's that.
so true!!!
@@Inaworldoflove Boredom is good for mental health, creativity and the spirit. Like winter makes you appreciate summer more, boredom makes the exciting parts even better. Now people's minds are over stimulated to the max every waking minute and we're inured to everything. Nothing satisfies like it used to.
Hey this is a real long shot but I guess I could try. I'm a music producer and I'm trying to make a beat inspired by New York. I was wondering, would you be willing to let me use some of this footage for the video to accompany the music? It will only be posted to my UA-cam Channel and I will give you any form of credit that you desire. I would really love to use some cool VHS footage of New York and this is incredible!
I love this time capsule footage
I wish they still had PEEP LAND (13:46) in Times Square
I was born that year, my earliest memory is from 1998, still remember watching TV with all those commercials of Disney movies coming out
Do you remember the show All That
@@AfternoonDaydream8809 I do on Nickelodeon!! Such nostalgia lol
@@kevinsjournal I’m really a 00s kid my bro was more into All That but I grew up on Drake and Josh great times these kids today are missing out
@@AfternoonDaydream8809 That's amazing and yeah I feel you, that was objectively such a golden era of children's Television!
@@kevinsjournal absolutely I miss those days but it’s also nice to be 21 lol more freedom now
I was in my thirties and it truly was the city that never sleeps
I'm in my thirties now and I absolutely miss the times, I would give up everything to go back
@@psychokinesis878 Why do you want to go back?
@@jordancooke5980 social media didn't take over our lives, McDonald's and fast food tasted amazing back then, music was powerful, movies that released in that decade paved the way for films we see today, we dressed however we wanted and people werent offended. We socialized alot more, and rollerbladed/biked everywhere..there was a better sense of freedom, and nostalgia I no longer get in today's time
@@psychokinesis878 Interesting.. I'm 32. What about you?
@@jordancooke5980 turning 36 in March
Born in 94. Grew up majority of my 20s pre pandemic. Sad to think a new generation will never experience the wonder years of the true New York vibe
great stuff. love the giant sign for audio and video cassettes...
It's crazy how things feel familiar. The only difference are phones, cars, and the twin tower
The cars designs feel more squared and flat for some reason lol
nyc looked way calmer back then. LOL
It wasn’t bro trust me I almost got killed in Manhattan back in 1993 they was tryna rob me especially in the subway stations in the nighttime it was man sketchy bunch of crackheads it was creepy New York in the nighttime lol.
Thanks for clarifying, it is way too easy to romanticize(not stopping me though😗)
New york is Disney land right compared to the 90s. There was no cameras back then and the subway at night was a scene out of a movie, But it still had a beautiful element to it un like now
It was the time for a new generation and a beautiful atmosphere.
New York was everywhere a place in trouble and I find this is a trademark for this town, beautiful.
Good old days, wish NYC was reverted back to 1995 (or at least 2000)
ikr
So sad just i miss old US, i start wondering what if US spend trillion for the people not for war
God I miss how Times Square used up look back then. Way before they closed the streets up, and the diesel buses were still around.
I was negative 3 months old in july 1995, now im 24 and 2 months old ~ 15/01/2020
September 1995 here
The year Toy Story first appeared 1995 was a awesome year
Why would anyone think of Toy story??😂😂
@@rutter1ify Considering his pic is from a Buzz lightyear animated series villain I'm not surprised at all lol.
Aw that United Artist movie theater .my dad would take me to a movie at that exact theatre everytime I'd come to visit him in the city when I was little. summer of 95 (when this was filmed ) I had seen Batman Forever, The Net and Clueless. 2x. We also saw pulp fiction there in 94 and Fear in 96. Many others as well but those I remember off the top of my head. I remember i begged him to take me to see KIDS and my dad never bothered checking ratings took me . Even though it was NC 17. They still let me in lol. i miss this Nyc. it's just not the same anymore.
What is the diference
90s NYC and a Pink Floyd Tune
I got tears in my eyes
I graduated highschool in 1995 in cedar park, tx (outside of austin). My basketball team also won state championship that year and we got to play in the alamodome before the spurs and orlando magic (Shaquille o'neal baby!!). My middle son just graduated at the alamodome in 2021 which was surreal. I went into labor and gave birth on 9/11 to my firstborn son who just turned 21 years old this year. Time flies so fast and sped up exponentially since 2001 .... now those days are just a memory .... a time we will never get back to
... a simple time long since passed. 💔 i felt back then, we actually had overcome racism ... where i was, parents weren't teaching it to children on either side. We grew up together and were just ... humans ... americans .... kids. And not just blacks and whites, but we had asian and hispanic friends as well. We did not think of it like that then, but thanks to our current atmosphere, i do now. It is as if that time never even existed. A fever dream. Nothing to go back to .... just gone ... like the towers.
Thank Obama and the Democrats. They opened the sewer and dragged out all the muck. Made raw again the racism we'd put behind us. 8 years ago we said he pushed us a decade backwards. Now it looks like a century. Deliberate destruction of the USA.
It’s just a way to keep us divided against each other
I remember when I was a kid and always thought there was only one "city" in America. I always thought that city was New York City. Like whenever anyone in the whole country wanted to go to "the city" they were going to New York lol. I was a pretty dumb kid. But, what do you expect? That's all they showed on tv and in movies!
I'm Canadian and I thought this too. How naive we we're but it was also a much simpler time. I grew up watching all the American movies and what not. So to me Home alone 2 in New York was the "city"
Funny :o)
the city is not same anymore I feel bad for kids these days that didn't experience no cell phones and just enjoying another's company
it really isnt at all
Crime rate was twice as high as it is now.
Awesome true comment!
@@steveb796 well what happens when your more worried about getting yourself rich
twin towers
I was in China still. I came to NYC at 2000. I then finished High School and joined the Marine Corps in 2003. I came out and went to College in 2008 and got a Master in Accounting in 2013. Now I work for for some of the Greatest company in the world. I appreciate all these great experience I have had in life. The sad part is I'm 33 now... 8 (
Good for you for coming here as an immigrant and contributing to the country so promptly and meaningfully.
This was the best time to be in NYC still a little dangerous but nothing like the 80s when I had visited it last. And not totally Disneyfied yet. Kinda like old scary NYC and Toronto in one city
Ya not it’s a liberal hell like la
yep bingo
@@diangelo6686 it is now
That Pink Floyd song tho wow omgggg
The song is called high hopes?
Yeah wow why did they need to put that in the video? We could go listen to that on our own if we wanted to. Rather hear the natural street noise. I had to skip until it was over.
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It was 1995 when I was born
*_wow so many young folks here_* I was 15 years old when this came out.
I was born in the January of. It's been at the top of my list of places to visit for years, hopefully next year.
A simpler time …. remember
No I do not I wasn't fucking born😭
Nyc and especially Times Square is so vanilla bubblegum bullshit now
Agree. I loved times Square as a kid. it was so seedy,dirty but intresting. Now it's too squeaky clean. Boring
Good times
This is a so beautiful I’m a 4 year transplant but I miss our city and it’s history and it’s allure every morning
Rest in peace, everyone who has headphones and could not watch more than 10 seconds of the video without one ear bleeding and the other ear wondering why there is no sound.
A crazy year especially in Brooklyn
My mom was dead in 29/12/1995
after 5 months those video date
I was 4 living in the upper part of Manhattan
The city never sleeps, full of villains and creeps 🔥🖤
That's where I learned to do my hustle had to scuffle with freaks
Good ol days
Big deal….
the Times when America was genuinely interesting. Not this shit
Technology has not done us any favors
@@UnknownMoses true, it just made everyone snitches, by recording everyone’s business and everything for social media for clout and attention just to show the world and pretend they are “do gooders”
@@UnknownMoses People had their minds hijacked by Silicon Valley dweebs and their ambitions. Nobody was fucking asking for social media or smartphones, but we got them anyway.
Better times in NYC
Nice profile pic
Yeah, Pink Floyd's 'The Division Bell' had been released the previous year, in early 1994. Good times.
is that album good i never gave it a listen
@@liamoconnell1308 It's a fine record, not great, but good. Post RW Floyd is IMHO not as good as the classic PF, but mind you I don't think Solo RW ever released anything as good as The Floyd did in his time w/ the band. To me 'the whole was always greater than the sum of its parts'. Meaning Waters, Gilmour, Wright, Mason. I think they all released fine solo stuff, but not as good as PF. To tell the truth I haven't listened to 'The Division Bell' in its entirety in perhaps some 20 years. But it definitely has its moments. I say it's well worth checking out, so you can judge it for yourself.
thank you very much! i’ll give it a listen asap!
I miss the days when the streets were flooded by yellow taxi cabs
MY RIGHT EAR ENJOYED THIS VIDEO. MWAH.
Thanks for the upload
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when New York was NEW YORK, today the skyline looks crap
I know right. Damn arabs..
Ok cool story. Lets start with you
That fucking sauron eye freedom tower, f the 2010s
***** If a building had autism, it would be one wtc
Yes, the twin towers was THE symbol of New York. Now it´s like Paris without The Eiffel Tower. Like pizza without cheese.
Awesome!
Yeah same here I agree with Celeste I almost cannot believe that it's has almost literally been 27 years exactly from this particular video 👍I was 3 at that particular time.
I was in NYC just a few weeks prior to this video being shot.
Is Sbarro's pizza still at this same location in Manhattan?
no, the whole buildings been gone for a min
Man this makes me feel old.
Gosh! Manhattan was so empty... The last two mayors are one stupider than the other. They turned a multitude of three lane streets in to single lane. They put up all of those stupid bike lanes (which are barely used) and enormous flower and tree pots where cars used to move. They blocked off Times Square and a bunch of other random streets, squares and portions of avenues. Today NYC is a never-ending traffic disaster these days. I moved to ATL, and don't even miss it NYC as it is today. I mean, I do miss the old days, but all of it is gone now. All I have left now is my memories and these youtube videos of big wide streets with big cars on them, where you could run and do some crazy shit, and not get arrested for petty things.
Al Bundy don’t you have shoes to sell, Bundy?
Yea man People are way more stressed out now than in the 90s with so many traffic regulations ..plus these mayors destroyed Sections of the street from making their job easier...i think they did that on purpose.. now this stupid mayor wants to charge ppl from entering in manhattan called congestion pricing i will be moving out...
So you miss the cars?!?!?! That’s the one improvement!
@@bojack40 I miss wide avenues and streets, where cars could actually move, and pass one another. A taxi ride which takes you 20 to 30 min today, 25 years ago used to take 5 to 8 min.
What does it feel to be in a world that is so different from what you remember?
Hard to say. It was a holiday for me. But a holiday in another world. I was used to living in communist totalitarianism. And today's world? In our country in the Czech Republic better than before. But youth was youth :-)
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Thanks for the answer.
I'm from 1997 and now i'm just beginning to glimpse this sensation of nostalgia, but maybe in a decade or two i will fully understand what you're talking about, to have memories from another world.
I already stopped hanging out on the norm in 1989. I wish I could go back in time. If only for a weekend. I miss, Roseland, 1018, Studio 54, The Fun House, etc. It was a every weekend thing.
Great times
My Birthday. Only 5 years later.
Old.year😭😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😔😔😔😔😔😫😫😫😫😫
Damn I never existed in 1995, I wasn't born until 1999
I visited New york city in 1995 and the twin towers saw the bottom of Trump tower.
I wasn't born till 1999 either so we missed a lot of the 90s.
This is the real NYC. Not that shit now. I miss these days.
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What’s changed?
@Jules thx
@kyfaydfsoab yeah, i’ve never been in NY, thats why I’m asking
@@Ivan11989 Skyline in Lower Manhattan, (Two towers of the WTC)
My born in 26/2/1995😃
I was 6 months & a day old when this was recorded 🙃
I was 6 months I don't know how many days old I was but I was actually born on December 30, 1994 but I celebrate my birthday on December 31st because that's the day my mom was told to go home on that day but anyway the 29th was my last day as a 6 month old I turned 7 months old on the 30th of July
@kyfaydfsoab no I didn't this is their video
New York before 9/11 seemed to be more peaceful
Almost 30 years ago
This looks weirdly hellish
That’s midtown for ya
🎉pink Floyd 🎉
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SONG AT THE 20:47 MARK
The winner loses , Body Count ( Ice T).
@@drakosek are you sure its body count by ice-t
this is why i used to love america
Me 2
Im surprise i didnt see any advertising for the hit series FRIENDS, especially in 1995 as it was huge during that time and took place in NYC
Brent Clarke you do. check the video at 7:20-7:30
Thats seinfield lol i liked friends better
Shucks I miss read what you wrote I had Seinfeld on my mind lol
Amazing