I can remember the soda and candy machines in the Subway stations. I remember buying hotdogs and Knishes in the Subway. Getting haircuts and shoeshine in the Subway. Buying clothes at the 14 street station of the A train and Canarsie Line now the L train. It was the BMT. IRT AND IND Lines. No air horns just train whistles. One station even had a Modell's! I use to buy my clothes from there.
I remember those with air whistles were used mostly in rush hours in the 1960s NYC when I was a boy. As a New Yorker the last 1914 til 1918 ones with the small roof vents on the Stillwell roofs were retired in August 1969 on the Mrtle Ave. Line. Today's M line. They were called the BMT STANDARDS.
The oldest ones we see now is the R46 of 1975 to 1978 vintage. On the 6th and8th Ave. Subway.the subway car you see with a 500 series number board is from 1975.
i find it sad lol, these stations still look run down and the old trains are super uncomfortable. feels like they’ve made no progress. the city should really start renovating the stations at one point. (just to note, i take these same trains and ride to the same stops on a daily for work)
So the faded, yellow-orange line further back from the platform edge has been there a lot longer than I would've thought. That's some impressive paint to not be touched up for so long, but still exist today.
the orange strip near the platform edge only dates back the 1970s. 49th Street Station (N,R & W) was one of the first (if not the first) to have it (1973 renovation).
the local trains used to have two letters and the express trains have one letter in rollsigns in 1980. Nowadays the local and express trains have one letter in rollsign
The AA, CC, GG, LL, QB (used to be my favorite line because it was right by where I lived, rare, and weird) and RR. Those were the days. And the old brown R/Nassau RR was always an enigma to me.
I just immigrated from the Philippines, and I now live in Queens, I have to say that the stations in this video look exactly just like the stations from Elmhurst Avenue to Forest Hills; my station is Grand Ave Newtown Station. Nothing changed except everything is way more dirtier.
only difference from then and now instead of everyone just sitting there reading there newspapers everyone is on there phones. Same trains different times.
@@quanbrooklynkid7776 people wonder why crime went down, it wasnt stop and frisk or broken window theory- it was cell phones. before phones, you just got to trust when you get shot, somebody else will run over to a payphone and call the police
I remember the subway very well in the 1980s. The R46 cars were the newest. Now in 2022, they're the oldest. Back in the 1980s, the R10s were the oldest.
Great footage of NYC subway in the 1980s. I remember it well. This is back when those colorful R46 Pullman Standard cars were assigned to (E) train and were blue-striped and had different roster numbers before they were re-built in 90's. Glad you caught that old R10 graffiti train passing by, most likely the (C) train. This (E) 8 Ave local ride along this route between 14th & 7 Ave-53rd got some weird stations, especially 42nd St (with long-range off-set platforms and a secret lower level platform), 50th St (with upper & lower tracks) and 7Ave-53rd (also with upper & lower tracks) and the weird routing between the (B)(D) tracks and (E) tracks. Good times (of course I was a kid then), but the subways are much cleaner, newer, brighter and hi-techy today. Thanks for sharing! 😊🚇😊🚇😊🚇😊🚇😊
LMAO Yeah its still like that lol, im from Michigan and rode the train for the first time last summer and I was like OMG! Its hot down here lol even clinical deodorant didnt help me that day LMAO
J Tuggs yea I know its still this way because Im still living here in nyc.But now alot of violent attacks are happening on the trains as well so I drive, bus it or cabby it everywhere🚍🚗🚖
Thats crazy I did not know that and I love NYC I always tell people its my second home away from home but I did not know it be a lot of attacks smh, I try not to ride it at night when im out there
Almost nothing has changed over the last 40 years. It is just as hideous today. Any other subway system (Paris, London, Berlin) puts that of NY to shame.
Anton Chamkin Exactly. I'm native new yorker and son of immigrants. When I hear new immigrants say, "Oh the Shanghai subway is much cleaner, and modern", I get so triggered. Like... When NYC subway was built a century ago, when whatever city you're from didn't even know what a subway is. People all around the world know what new York subway look like. Countless movies are shot on nyc subways, and stations. God, it makes me mad why people don't appreciate how unique nyc subway system is.
I would not exaggerate so much fan boy. Most of them don't run 24/7 nor do many have system wide free wifi. And to top it off many charge you more the farther you go. NYC transit does not and gives you free bus transfers to boot. Not a bad deal. @Vital Mark
@@ZlingZlang99the MTA has stopped using the double letter routes for their local services in the B division in May 1985, to reduce confusion and to simplify the subway system.
I really wish that the subway cars' interiors and exteriors were still covered in graffiti like they were back then; I think that would be really cool. It'd add a bit of New York-esque pizazz to them, too.
you gotta admire the balls of someone bringing what was not a cheap or easily concealed video camera onto the new york subway during this time
This is a Nelson Sullivan film
I can remember the soda and candy machines in the Subway stations. I remember buying hotdogs and Knishes in the Subway. Getting haircuts and shoeshine in the Subway. Buying clothes at the 14 street station of the A train and Canarsie Line now the L train. It was the BMT. IRT AND IND Lines. No air horns just train whistles. One station even had a Modell's! I use to buy my clothes from there.
I remember those with air whistles were used mostly in rush hours in the 1960s NYC when I was a boy. As a New Yorker the last 1914 til 1918 ones with the small roof vents on the Stillwell roofs were retired in August 1969 on the Mrtle Ave. Line. Today's M line. They were called the BMT STANDARDS.
Dang I want the 1980s nyc subway hotdog
Someone actually just opened a coffee shop in the subway
as a native new yorker, i can say the stations didn't even changed that much in 40 years?? makes you think how effing dirty the stations are.
There are many stations that have been renovated in the past 20 years but there are many that need renovations, like on the (G), (J/Z), & (7) Lines.
facts some of them still look like this
@@michaelmorales1475Now that you mention the G and 7 lines, MTA is working on giving them new trains not modernizing their subway stations.
Chambers Street on the 1,2,3 line 😣😫🤮
ikr!
Hard to beleive a lot of those same cars are still running on the lines today. Almost 40yrs later. A lot of them been running since the 70s
Hopefully VERY well maintained and taken care of!
The oldest ones we see now is the R46 of 1975 to 1978 vintage. On the 6th and8th Ave. Subway.the subway car you see with a 500 series number board is from 1975.
40 years is normal life expectancy for a train car
i find it sad lol, these stations still look run down and the old trains are super uncomfortable. feels like they’ve made no progress. the city should really start renovating the stations at one point. (just to note, i take these same trains and ride to the same stops on a daily for work)
@@PHLYogi only way the subway gets better is if they privatize with city and state funding. Kind of like what they do with access a ride.
0:24 is the "aw fuck" that we hear in B3
Me when rabies:
Wow! This brings back memories. Rode the subway for years for school and jobs and clubs back then. Using tokens. Good times!
So the faded, yellow-orange line further back from the platform edge has been there a lot longer than I would've thought.
That's some impressive paint to not be touched up for so long, but still exist today.
right that's crazy nd I'm 28
the orange strip near the platform edge only dates back the 1970s. 49th Street Station (N,R & W) was one of the first (if not the first) to have it (1973 renovation).
Please let me go back. I was a club kid in the 80's and rode the trains at 3pm or 3am, good times I miss the real NYC ❤️
New york was bad in the 80s. It was poor, a lot of crimes, it was dirty, it was graffiti everywhere and it was many dr*g dealers
I know right!
the local trains used to have two letters and the express trains have one letter in rollsigns in 1980. Nowadays the local and express trains have one letter in rollsign
I wish it could say the exact year. This is pretty cool. I love looking into the past.
I know the exact year it's 1986 I saw part 1 of this video
Thank you for uploading this awesome piece of history!
I miss the 80’s
Me too!!
Likewise
early 2000s
Water and Fire Tarot be grateful you experienced it😣
@@Bates1960 not to forget. Crack, heroin, extreme poverty, extreme crime rates, trash problem, you name it
Right off the bat this screams old school, when you see a sign for the "LL" train. I still remember the days of double letter routes on the subway.
Same here
me too!
The AA, CC, GG, LL, QB (used to be my favorite line because it was right by where I lived, rare, and weird) and RR. Those were the days. And the old brown R/Nassau RR was always an enigma to me.
I lived in NY 80"s 179 -87 Jamaica Ave , now a live in Ca,
I'm from Jamaica Queens used to shop on the Av all the time miss it now I'm in Texas
@@Mhel2023 you cute
Those trains look so nice I remember the ones that had the glass in the partitions.
This brings back so many memories of being in NYC in the 1980s.
My left ear is lonely
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I thought it was just me!!!!
@@mikej6624 😂😂😂
omg i got scared for a sec. thought i was the only one.
My left ear is like that too and I thought I was the only one
Very good New York City Subway 1980s video
Wow you can actually comprehend what their saying on the intercom
Amazing footage, thanks!
I just immigrated from the Philippines, and I now live in Queens, I have to say that the stations in this video look exactly just like the stations from Elmhurst Avenue to Forest Hills; my station is Grand Ave Newtown Station. Nothing changed except everything is way more dirtier.
Not dirtier but definitely still dirty.
NICE CATCH OF THE R10'S & R44'S.
The last time I was on the train 1989, this bring back memories. .
only difference from then and now instead of everyone just sitting there reading there newspapers everyone is on there phones. Same trains different times.
+jzrocks94 it was much more dangerous back then.
+ alot of graffiti
jzrocks94 the city is a lot safer now .
Paul Williams *Their
Not even close
Surprisingly clean for the eighties? Thought we would see more subway art
I rode the subway everywhere in the 1960s fare was only a DIME back then
My first subway fare remembrance is 35 cents
so grimey, reminds me of being a kid again. Life before cell phones, when somebody can stick you up and kill you and people just watched lol
DAMN
@@quanbrooklynkid7776 people wonder why crime went down, it wasnt stop and frisk or broken window theory- it was cell phones. before phones, you just got to trust when you get shot, somebody else will run over to a payphone and call the police
@@FutureLaugh yeah technology really is the reason why crime went down for sure
@@brianb7423 true
well those days are back!
I remember the subway very well in the 1980s. The R46 cars were the newest. Now in 2022, they're the oldest. Back in the 1980s, the R10s were the oldest.
Gotta say the cameras on phones back then are a lot better then i thought they would be
Lived there. I remember! Thanks.
Great footage of NYC subway in the 1980s. I remember it well. This is back when those colorful R46 Pullman Standard cars were assigned to (E) train and were blue-striped and had different roster numbers before they were re-built in 90's. Glad you caught that old R10 graffiti train passing by, most likely the (C) train. This (E) 8 Ave local ride along this route between 14th & 7 Ave-53rd got some weird stations, especially 42nd St (with long-range off-set platforms and a secret lower level platform), 50th St (with upper & lower tracks) and 7Ave-53rd (also with upper & lower tracks) and the weird routing between the (B)(D) tracks and (E) tracks. Good times (of course I was a kid then), but the subways are much cleaner, newer, brighter and hi-techy today. Thanks for sharing! 😊🚇😊🚇😊🚇😊🚇😊
People always had cell phones since the 1600's.
My left ear enjoyed this
By the mid-80s, the R-46s had new trucks that replaced the problematic Rockwell trucks that kept cracking.
AND R42'S BEFORE THERE'S REBUILDMENT IN 1988 & 1989.
Summers were the worst waiting for the train.Hot humid muggy and stale.
LMAO Yeah its still like that lol, im from Michigan and rode the train for the first time last summer and I was like OMG! Its hot down here lol even clinical deodorant didnt help me that day LMAO
J Tuggs yea I know its still this way because Im still living here in nyc.But now alot of violent attacks are happening on the trains as well so I drive, bus it or cabby it everywhere🚍🚗🚖
Thats crazy I did not know that and I love NYC I always tell people its my second home away from home but I did not know it be a lot of attacks smh, I try not to ride it at night when im out there
Nicole HJ Nobody fucked with and I was riding the train after hours
Those overhauled R44s or 46s look shiny as fuck!
the r46 had rolling signs when did they change
Roblox and transit R46 trains were overhauled beginning in 89. They were all done in house.
Somebody has found the secret of visual time travel using high speed fibre optic the photon and the slit
Thank you for the video.This kind of video is the one that gives me imagination about how America is a developed nation
The real New York City
2:41 what is the music name?
The good old days
it reminded me of the subway stage of the game Final Fight
I miss the 80s 😔
Lets go back! :)
In delorion from back to the future.
1980s ?...Reminds me of 2020-2021-2022 !
I was minus nine years old when this was taken
Great vid. 'used to ride this line back in the 70s to school and work. Thanks!
I bet you got mugged
Tremendos recuerdos bendiciones...
VHS ??
Some things never change
Different planet, all together.
The warriors...COME OUT TO PLAYYYY
Ummm that was the 70s not 80s
@@oochiewally2783 1979? That was pretty much the 80s, believe me I was there.
@@tonygamblesyt so your 60 yrs old?
@@oochiewally2783 Haha, No...I was 12 when I saw the warriors back in 79' I turned 50 last month.
@@tonygamblesyt oh aight im 42 my uncle was a housing cop in Brooklyn by coney island ..was pretty bad there
Almost nothing has changed over the last 40 years. It is just as hideous today. Any other subway system (Paris, London, Berlin) puts that of NY to shame.
Anton Chamkin Exactly. I'm native new yorker and son of immigrants. When I hear new immigrants say, "Oh the Shanghai subway is much cleaner, and modern", I get so triggered. Like... When NYC subway was built a century ago, when whatever city you're from didn't even know what a subway is. People all around the world know what new York subway look like. Countless movies are shot on nyc subways, and stations. God, it makes me mad why people don't appreciate how unique nyc subway system is.
Anton Chamkin expect NY subway is 24/7 !
They’re finally redoing the majority of subways which is something that should’ve happened 10 years ago but it least they system is getting updated
I would not exaggerate so much fan boy. Most of them don't run 24/7 nor do many have system wide free wifi. And to top it off many charge you more the farther you go. NYC transit does not and gives you free bus transfers to boot. Not a bad deal. @Vital Mark
Best thing I ever did was move out of NY almost 30 years ago.
There is a LL train. Please stand away from the platform edge. 0:00
I'm glad they cleaned up this shit.
This shit you mentioned may come back in 2022
@@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 Why
0:01 what happened to the F bullet sign
That's a L train first of all. And second of all, they had double letter lines in the system in the mid 90s but disconnected in early 2000s
@@ZlingZlang99the MTA has stopped using the double letter routes for their local services in the B division in May 1985, to reduce confusion and to simplify the subway system.
Missed those swinging yellow doors n tokens
What Month and Date was in the 1980's?
1986
@highburyhoops6074 but what month and date was it part of 1986? Do you know?
@@brandercolque6946 the date in question was October 5, 1986. I got that information from a video from 5ninthavenueproject.
can i use this video clip for a project im making?
Sure go ahead
its very cool in 80s here i am in the 2020's
The financial problems come back since 2014
Milwaukee protocol anyone?
r46 nostalgia
Awesome!!!! :-D
Was That The R44 (A) Or (E) Train Before The R44's Rebuildment In 1994.
Or Was That The R46 (E) Train Before The R46's Rebuildment In 1991.
R42 Fan No. Those were R46s. In those days, the E were exclusively R46s. The A were R38s and R44s.
you could get robbed or killed at the drop of a hat in 1980s nyc
Really? Was it that bad?
Awesome
I really wish that the subway cars' interiors and exteriors were still covered in graffiti like they were back then; I think that would be really cool. It'd add a bit of New York-esque pizazz to them, too.
Oh the 80s. Where trains still had double letters if they are local.
But..wait...
R44s ON THE L?!
E train.
2:53 idiot running down the stairs shouts "hold that door".
Also near the beginning the woman or kid says the F word as the train leaves. That was me 1000 times.
Back In The Days The (L) Train Was Called The (LL) Train.
R42 Fan stands for lower level of hell
The only way to get around in New York.
It was more dangerous 40 years ago
That look like the A line.
Hopefully the modern mta doesn’t get to have a severely rundown system,reverse conditions to 2010.
Y’all know dang well those trains were not that clean
1:00 Sound Like A B Train Departing 145 Street
1980s gopro
why was the subway closed?
It wasn't...
wait this 1980 ohhhh I thought it was 2020
Crazy , half of these people are either dead or old lol 😆
100% more like
0:32
JFK Express, 1978-1990
Hey Father! Can you help an older altar boy? I'm a Cat'lick!
Demi?
I can tell no difference apart from some peoples outfits...
LL train, 1980s
Where are the ripped jeans, the skin graffiti, the nails and pins drilled in the face, eye, nose ??
No knee on their phone
If this is the 80s where’s the graffiti??? Must be after 1990
from 86 oct nov..
WHAT THE THE LL?
Only the brave.
The LL 😮
I wonder how many of the people still live today!
Andy Kolb most of them.
Much older, but the 80s were only a little more then 30 years ago, it isn't as far back as it seems.
Except the elders, nearly all of these ppl is still alive, this is not 1910
Looks too clean to be the 80's
ChromeLeatherGel It was 1986
I literally cringed when I saw the skirts women wore back then
Pleated skirts
... and I cringe when I see what is being worn today... 2lb. sausage in a 1lb. casing 😂
撮影者は上手く隠し撮りをした様だね。恐らくこの時代のニューヨークの地下鉄じゃデカいビデオカメラなんか持って撮影してたらすぐトラブルになったからだろうな
it looks as crappy as today.. :/
Nah, not really.
Michael Morales most definetly
As of 2013
There was A LOT of smees in the 90s and the mta actually cleaned the cars like today.
Pet Rat New Yokk
ll
LoL an LL train
Third world standard
Not to self. Never go to NYC.
way too many liberals here
JorgeCat78 stfu u conservative shit
I'm honored. No really I am
It’s much better now you’ll be fine. Remember this was over 30 years ago much has changed
JorgeCat78 it's not the new types of annoying liberals. It's the smart classical liberals. Educate yourself and stop being brainwashes.