this is why it's so important to take videos, even of seemingly meaningless things like a subway ride because watching this is like stepping into a time machine
Now we have video cameras on phones that fit in our pockets, and can easily upload to UA-cam, an extremely popular website. So now people are spending money on radio equipment.....
Shay Kosovac People talked face to face back then. There isn’t a better way to get to know someone. Spay painting, also called tagging, was used to get the attention of as many people as possible. Sort of like posting on the internet.
@@robroy6374 Bro , was lowkey livin the NYC life until 1980 (age 10) shit is real as it gets. Coney was dirty AF, crime was outta control, visiting my relatives at Flatbush & Coney every summer. Foster Ave. & Coney island Boulevard (Ditmas Park) was mostly an Italian/ Jewish neighborhood back in the 70's early 80's. Different times my guy...
I mean, Michael Musto (the guy in the very beginning) is still alive and pretty well-known for writing for the Village Voice. I'm sure someone's told him about this by now.
i just wish there was more lol.. every time the video ends i'm feeling like there should be more! i love how he recorded so many things its like he knew people were going to want to watch all of it. thank you nelson rip bud
My heart is literally aching with joy! I made this trek from Queens from 1980 to 1987. The fun we had! Far Rockaway and Coney Island were the places to be! Great video! By the way, several things I love about this video.... First, this looks like such a fun NY group of kids! Mostly, I love that no one is on a damn cellphone. They are connected to each other and not to a damn phone!
@chris-tg1hv That sounds kind of sad. No one should live that way. Sounds like an addiction. That can't be healthy. I often leave my phone at home deliberately. I need to know that it has no hold on me.
@@RumbleFish69No it’s just cuz they’re expensive and so necessary in everyday modern life. Also he was talking about losing it, not knowing where it is, by leaving it at home you know where it is.
He literally has a camera on. And everyone seems thankful for the capture. What's the difference? This is a new era. Get over it. Old people back then where probably complaining about the dirty af train, Graffiti, everyone being high of cocaine, girls half naked, guys half naked,... And so on. You just got old, that's all.
ny graffiti didnt have any laws for a while. you could go right on the rails and paint the outside of trains. then fences came and security. the inside of the trains were still being marked. so now the insides are made in a way they can be cleaned easily and the paint dont stick permanently. they were spending so much money on the inside and outside of cleaning trains they pretty much developed every way possible to make it not work. the graffiti fines werent that much also. i dont know what they are now but you might get $100 fine in ny or even just let go and charged only for some kind of petty vandalism or tresspassing. in my city you can get 5 years of community service if you get caught.
I'm 49 now , was 15 & in high school in 1987. This video doesn't seem very old to me at all but I know to a 15 yr old, it looks/seems like forever ago. At 15 in 1987 I thought 1967 was a long time ago. It literally felt like 50-60 yrs ago when it was only 20. I can't believe this was 34 yrs ago, it's weird how time and age greatly changes our perceptions of the world. I still ride around on 1985 motorcycle . Teenagers today probably think it's super old school and surprised it still runs.
I'm so glad I clicked on this video! What a cast of characters, I mean, you could have written a broadway musical about this trip alone!! Thanks for posting this absolute jem!
A Broadway musical...I love it...get a bunch of guys to blow some producers. Hire Miranda and his clan and write some shitty music and you've got a hit Broadway musical.
The guy in the yellow pants is Michael Musto. He was a prolific writer, journalist, and television personality. He had a very popular column in the weekly newspaper, The Village Voice, and was MTV’s nightlife correspondent for quite some time.
Back when it was cheap to live in NY without a credit check. As long as you had a job and paid your rent and didn't smoke crack you could live in any of the boroughs.
You should lurk the rest of the videos on this channel. What ends up being a random recommendation ends up being hours of fascinating video. Nelson Sullivan was a vlogger before vlogging was even a thing.
Whoa! Brings back memories of my train rides as a kid in NYC. I just showed this to my 10 year old and told him "this is the only way you'll experience NYC the way I experienced it as a kid, thru these kinds of videos, etc."
That's the NY I remember. I remember being told these things: "Don't go to the last boxcar wearing jewelry. Don't go to Central Park at night - don't go during the day if you can help it - and mind your own business." My first landlord back in NY told me this: "I know there's cockroaches, but if this place was any nicer, you couldn't afford it." Rent was $450 for a one bedroom apartment in Hell's Kitchen in 1987. I miss this NY.
Grew up in Jamaica Queens 83-89.... This was exactly how I remembered NY. I went to PS 117 and JHS 217... It felt like prison. Those two schools taught me how to fight. It was a jungle.
He's definitely wearing underwear, I looked closely. Even though he wasn't legal, he was absolutely adorable . . . and clearly post pubescent so don't start with "pedophile" shit.
We didn't think about that back then. All day long, never washed hands unless after bathroom time. Crawled, layed, wrestled and slept on the shittiest surfaces in high foot traffic areas. İ'm not even sure if tetanus shots were necessary as we may have already had built up natural immunity to it.
I think it's great that people had enough of a forward-thinking mind and artistic ability to video something because it might be interesting 30 or 50 years later even 100. And had the wherewithal to put it on the proper digital device once computers became common in the 1990s. And now it's Forever on UA-cam as long as this website exists
home video was a new technology. people were nuts with the idea that they could make movies of their daily lives. in 2020 you're getting filmed whether you want it or not.
Whoever upload these videos: thank you. There’s always hate everywhere, even back then. This video here shows a lot of wholesome moments in 10 minutes. Honestly this is a great education of the life in New York of other folks around. Again, thanks. And thank you, Nelson. I know he is long gone, but his videos are immortalized.
Haters? This looks like a 3rd world country. A city that ONCE was a shinning beacon of hope for the entire world. But now..... there is no way that I'm visiting that he'll hole unless I'm packing. And don't even think about approaching me on any level. Unless there is an emergency.
I also think it has to do with our phones. I mean everything is recordable in a second. If you dare to do something different than others like overthere in a subway you can count on it that your face is shown atleast at one social media platform. It's a bit like big brother is watching you all the time.
Brings back a lot of Brooklyn/ Coney Island memories from the 80s! Loved it!! The train rides back and forth from Williamsburg to Coney Island seemed like an eternity when i was kid 😂 but i loved every minute looking out the window and just not feeling at all scared or afraid. It was just great seeing a diverse group of people. It was around the same year of this video, when my family went to Coney Island and my mom said there was a photographer taking pics of people at the beach just hanging out. He asked if he could take a picture of me and my chocolate ice cream covered face 😂😂 I was 6/7 at the time😂
Looking out the window? WTF are you talking about. If those are window, they look like no one cares either to clean them. Or the public doesn't care enough to respect them. Ya.... at first I thought that this train was part of a nightmare or horror scene in a movie. But this is reality of a filthy, decaying and depressing hot mess. No wonder every person who visits NYC says it a dirty place, that smells like urine and rot. But I'm glad for this video. Because if I visit m, I'm packing. Ya..... don't even think about approaching me about anything.. I'm going to take care of business, and keep on a stepping. Cuz, that looks like a war zone. And the most important thing in any war, is self preservation. That's right, it's me -v- you, and I'm going to take care of me. Don't get it twisted, I'm not starting troubles. Just minding my own business. Therefore if you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone.
Do u think in his wildest dreams Nelson would have imagined more than 5 million people would one be watching his videos one day? Wherever u are mate I hope u know how special u were.
I've noticed the same thing in Nelson's videos. Everyone seems to be present in the moment, and genuinely enjoying the social interaction taking place. I think smart phones, instant access to pornography from a young age, and constant access/addiction to social media have all taken their toll. We're all too busy hiding in a digital world that doesn't exist to actually live in the world that does exist.
@@ohnoitsskylar Porn has nothing to do with socialising lol. what causes people to be distant is in fact the one and only phones. Why talk to anyone when you can watch shit u like on phone.
I vivdly recall this period of time in NYC. It was way better than it is now. No comparison. We had zero social media. You had to use a pay phone to call anyone. When this video was taken, I was twenty-four and had the freedom to roam at will. I wasn't part of the gay scene but I could dig a subway ride to Coney. Afterall, It was a pretty cool time for straight people, too. The 80s were great; 2020 sucks.
I'm one of those guy that want to spend a week in this era like mid 80 early 90 just to see and most importantly feel how it was ..I'm born in 94 and I feel like i was too young to really appreciate even 2000"
There were still problems etc like you have now in life of course but people were more civilized and less crazy and self centered as they are now. There was no political correctness except for extreme weirdos.There was actually a movie that came out around 1992 called PCU (Politically Correct University) with Jeremy Piven about a college of weirdos,environmentalists and crazy people who all acted politically correct. Everyone made fun of these idiots then. I was a kid and teenager in the 1980s Back then in the 80s people were incredibly influenced by what was on tv, music (mtv) and movies. MTV was HUGE !!!!! Information wasnt readily available like it is now where everything is almost instant .Life was alot simpler. People didnt understand what was going on in the world .Most people also didnt have a computer .In my high school there were 3 kids that had a computer I was one of them . I remember 1984 or 1983 I think when a tv special called Motowns 25 anniversary was on This was a concert with all of the famous motown singers from the 1950s 60s 70s . A young Micheal Jackson got on stage and did the moonwalk for the first time. The next day at school EVERYONE was talking about it and doing it or trying. This was just a dance move on a tv show but it was huge back then .
Me too, a real snapshot of the times, but what's so strange about it for me is the video quality makes it seem like it could have been filmed this year.
Damn it’s driving me nuts thinking about how this was six days before my moms 7th birthday she was prbly in the same apartment I’m in right now in Manhattan looking out the window at the same train that takes you to Coney Island not know that the train passing held a random guy and a camera that would go on to unknowingly be one of the first known vloggers
This is the kidd in the video, a day like all the rest in New York, Nelson was an amazing individual"the guy filming " he had an unreal shoe collection , he documented everyday people doing everyday things in one of the greatest cities. I was just turning 14 ,my sister and i would visit my mother in the summer from Oregon . I had no clue about NY dress code. Not one time did I feel out of place , I would skateboard all over , central park was the best, the boom box pile up playing the same funk , every one roller skating doing tricks . Sean Penn and Madonna drawing crowds as penn would punch out a paparazzi. Power house club listening to music, Eddie Murphy walking in. I couldn't even talk about all the experiences. Keddie if your out there thank you . Albert thanks for being kind and funny in a time summer and I needed it. I miss surfing at fire island, horse shoe crab infested waters . Thank you NY for all the crazy memories I can't comment on
Cheers for project created existence to a difficult time migrating and for Nathaniel s comment. Experiencing heatwave off the train is worth wearing shorts.
I got a recommendation for this video, that I last watched 6 years ago, (based on an old comment.) And I was scrolling down the comments to read the post from the kid in the video. To my surprise there's a new one from 3 months ago.
I lived in Brooklyn and would take this train ride often in the 80s. This brought back so many memories. Graffiti and all, it didn't seem weird or shady to me. It was always intriguing.
This is so fking cool I mean look at those tacky colours and prints the lady is literally rocking that dress, the gay dude is the most amazing person and that teenage boy is moving around shirtless in NYC and no one cares This is life, document whatever you can
This isn’t fake and yes in NYC there were many out men.lol Go check out the rest of the videos in this channel. It also features a very young RuPaul in the 1980s
@@christylynn451 she's not a man and it isn't fake, youtube didn't exist in the 80s. you'd be surprised, i suppose, to hear that lgbt people existed before the 21st century. and as a trans person myself, you'd be surprised to hear that a lot of us would rather be out and hated for it than be hiding our entire selves completely.
freddyy I know right lol I guess over time things dumb down and people become less appreciative of things but this is retro man it's crazy how trends back then make these trends we have now or grew up with makes us say wow we use to watch cartoons on tv in the morning kids can stream it on a ipod laptop if they want
Nelson Sullivan truly was so ahead of his time, I do believe his collection of recordings inspired what we know as vlogging today We are so fortunate to have easy access to such amazing pieces of history at our fingertips RIP Nelson and thank you for educating us children today on LGBTQ+ culture in 80s NYC
In a way New York seemed more interesting back then. It wasn't overrun with billionaires buying up apartments that they don't live in, overpriced bougie pizzas, and hipsters causing rents to go up.
this is why it's so important to take videos, even of seemingly meaningless things like a subway ride because watching this is like stepping into a time machine
Totally!
Totally. That reminds me i need to buy a camera.
For random people on the internet!
💯💯💯💯💯
That's a really good point its kinda of funny to see how things were back in the day
That kid: "It's just a subway, nobody cares if I'm shirtless"
30 yrs later
4 million people:👀👀
Take a picture of him
He must be in his late 40's now.
Why was he shirtless anyway tho... I can never truly know
Yah got it
〘serial sleeper〙 It looks like they were going to swim, in some shots he was holding a towel and he’s wearing what appears to be swimming shorts
Shirtless guy is probably immune to everything at this point in life
He could jump in the Hudson River and be fine
Find him, he probably has the cure to coronavirus
Be careful! Twitter bans people who dissent from what the people who run the UN believe to cure or not cure coronavirus.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
& shoeless
This footage from 1987 is still better quality than most CCTV cameras today.
Safe to say whoever that shirtless boy is now.. he is definitely immune from the coronavirus
LMAO!!!!! I was thinking the same damn thang!!!!!!!!!
why ?
@deadmanw@lk1ng that boy is gonna wind up getting the corona LMFAOOO 😂😂😂😂
@BNOZ99 ! Bruh are u fuckin stupid I’m from the u.s. and I live in NY like wtf are u talking about I’m not from no other country smh 🤦♂️😂😂😂
@BNOZ99 ! Yea I am from the U.S. tho and I’m from queens NY and ur right about that I am one of them I’m like a samurai of darkness #Animeforlife 😈😈
It looks so surrealistic, like a movie from a dystopian future/past
No it looks like a train ride to Coney Island in 1987
PokeDoke Zoomers...
The professional Camper and proud
The professional Camper I mean he/she didn’t lie
Nathan Casey lol
And amusing to remember that the guy filming was walking around with a 5 pound plastic box the size of a loaf of bread on his shoulder the whole time.
🤣👍🏾
Now we have video cameras on phones that fit in our pockets, and can easily upload to UA-cam, an extremely popular website.
So now people are spending money on radio equipment.....
🤣
Turbo Pokey glad no one stole it
LMAOO
This footage is a valuable piece of history.
Definitely
The guy who “thought” of recording this trip is surely a time traveller
Please explain more.
Video cameras existed back then (VHS), was the size of a bazooka!
@@shahedmc9656 - Time travel Traveling the currents of time its cool try it
Maybe I should record more boring and day to day things these days (instead of myself) and it will be interesting in the future
brendielahooha yup that’s what op meant
No cell phones... apparently they used spray paint to communicate back then
Shay Kosovac People talked face to face back then. There isn’t a better way to get to know someone. Spay painting, also called tagging, was used to get the attention of as many people as possible. Sort of like posting on the internet.
@@MrWhoevr damn, you really missed the joke.
Lucyller I didn’t miss it I dismissed it.
Shay Kosovac good joke
MrWhoevr Nice one :D
a person coming onto this train from japan would have a heart attack
Can I ask why ?
@@RandomPerson-hj8fq first of all the boy lying down on the chairs, the graffiti, and everyone talking at a normal voice
@@livindeadghoul also the fact that it is not completely crowded as hell, there's a lot of space between people.
@@livindeadghoul A lot of people talk in a normal voice in Osaka's metro, tho. Also in certain lines of the Tokyo metro.
@@peskymacaw9033 they talk normally in the stations, but its common courtesy to be quiet in the trains
This is a piece of history right here. Nothing short of a masterpiece. Nothing too special just a moment in time captured.
calm down. its nothing to brag about.
masterpiece lol
@@robroy6374 Bro , was lowkey livin the NYC life until 1980 (age 10) shit is real as it gets. Coney was dirty AF, crime was outta control, visiting my relatives at Flatbush & Coney every summer. Foster Ave. & Coney island Boulevard (Ditmas Park) was mostly an Italian/ Jewish neighborhood back in the 70's early 80's. Different times my guy...
@@LeopoldMaysonet so? those days are over.
@@LeopoldMaysonetWhat does that have to do with this guys home video, lol
Wtf my wallet was stolen while watching this.
Tremendous. Why doesn't this have more likes?
Hahaha , that was a good one.
is it weird to ask that i didnt get it
yawnb00ty you ain’t from around here 😂
xyre you live ina rough then we all the same
No cell phones. No social media. Just great hair and cocaine. Ahh the 80s
And gays
@@craftah gays still exist
@@YellowSubmarine8 The cocaine too
@@YellowSubmarine8 but there was more gays in the 80s
Andre De Fleur gays were more gay
Think they ever imagined 31 years later people from all over the world would watch this? 💖
Never
I mean, Michael Musto (the guy in the very beginning) is still alive and pretty well-known for writing for the Village Voice. I'm sure someone's told him about this by now.
I was replying to your question on who you wondered was still alive and watched it recently.
no worries
They probably imagined you and I were soulmates and that we would find each other one day through watching this video, Monique.
My dad was born and raised in NY. These videos describe NY exactly how my dad said it was during the 70’s and 80’s. ❤
same as my dad Fürer Orbán Senior
Was it good or bad?
@@Olly07bad
@@davidc4408 Oh. NYC has to be worse now? Sorry, I have never been. Only to Florida back in 2015.
Legend says the kid is now 47 years old and still shirtless
shut up stupid remark not even funny ,your probably toothless
@@paulmcdonough1093 You're probably the kid shut up
@but2star you want everyone to please your emotions
I wasn't born until 1990. I thought that Blonde Woman in the orange dress was attractive.
Any born in the 80s is pushing 30-40. That kid is probably in his late 40s today
This could be 1987, or the year 3000 post-nuclear war.
Then what year is it now meat head
Cuzzy is there any need for that ? Learn some manners
@@vicvvs6189 Cuzzy doesn't understand the joke. It's okay. Cuzzy is from the year 3000 and those jokes haven't been reinvented yet.
M. Stewart I understand the joke it was just a bad one
@@vicvvs6189 it was free. 😁
Yoo this dude was way ahead of everyone else by documenting this
PHILLY DOSS truth
เคาบนสืเเกกรนยบวใใมา
Amazing footage. That half naked guy is about 40 something today
Before cell phones. People would engage
D Maxson you clearly don’t know anything about nelson
i love how VHS renditions try to be as low quality as it can be
but when i look at VHS from the actual era, they seem pristine and recognizable
this video seems to be up-rezed in some way. extremely high quality for the cameras at the time.
Upscaling
The audio is pretty good. It could also be Video8.
I wish I was as free as that shirtless boy in flipflops
G foh real
Times where diffrent back then and I wasn't even alive back then.
Yeah man... me too..
My mom will slap my snit on me if I do like that hahha
This is the year I was born.
Imagine going shirtless and barefoot on a NYC subway in any era.
Is it not good?
@@vanilla5710 hell TF no
@I like Potatoes do u have needles on the floor in NYC Metro?
@I like Potatoes 😭
for real that's so gross. i won't even wear open toed shoes in the city!
This guy travelled time and started vlogging before it was a thing
Kaisy Neistat from 80's
YOUR ON TO SUM
yes
STRAIGHT FACTS
Majority of Americans who owned a camcorder during the 70s 80s and 90s did this. I'm sure it dates back farther
i just wish there was more lol.. every time the video ends i'm feeling like there should be more! i love how he recorded so many things its like he knew people were going to want to watch all of it. thank you nelson rip bud
have a sex change and a fire hose
Yeah I've watched this a bunch of times when it comes into my feed.
Who was Nelson?
This footage from over 30 years ago is still better quality then any UFO video
Lmao good one!
Hahahahaha
Right! Also any nasa footage
Hahahahha
*than
Its weird to think that those teens are now in their 40s-50s
Or dead.
what's weird about it?
17y old +30 =47.....
News flash people age
and some of us weren’t even born 😀
@@thestruggler776 the cameraman didn't die lol. Michael is still living his best life.
The train looks like something taken from The Warriors
The Warriors was made in 1979. About the same timeline.
That’s exactly where they ended up; the Warriors territory was Coney Island
When The Warriors see Coney they know their home. They like to think they’re safe. 🌊
This is great
Yes it is
I am from Brooklyn and rode this train every single day! What a flashback! 😊
Graffiti was the first social media.
Cool thought! Lol very clever
No graffiti is cringe
cover tv ho you’re cringe loser
I dont get it
No, Graffiti is shit........
This is the most confusing thing I’ve ever seen like every second it got more weirder
'More weirder' 😄😄
Ikr
Well, it was the club kids
That’s exactly how nyc subway rides are tho till before corona
More diverse but still the essence is the same
32 years ago. These kids must now be in their 50s
Thx for the likes
Nah. 40s
Try 60s and Nelson the guy who does the camera work passed away in 1989.
People get old...so will you ...profound isn't it?
Math isn’t your thing I see.
I was 9 years old in 1987. Now I’m 42. Time really does fly by!!!
My heart is literally aching with joy! I made this trek from Queens from 1980 to 1987. The fun we had! Far Rockaway and Coney Island were the places to be! Great video! By the way, several things I love about this video.... First, this looks like such a fun NY group of kids! Mostly, I love that no one is on a damn cellphone. They are connected to each other and not to a damn phone!
It is amazing that will lived without cellphones. If I don't know where my phone is for one minute I am in panic mode.
@chris-tg1hv That sounds kind of sad. No one should live that way. Sounds like an addiction. That can't be healthy. I often leave my phone at home deliberately. I need to know that it has no hold on me.
@@RumbleFish69No it’s just cuz they’re expensive and so necessary in everyday modern life. Also he was talking about losing it, not knowing where it is, by leaving it at home you know where it is.
He literally has a camera on. And everyone seems thankful for the capture. What's the difference? This is a new era. Get over it. Old people back then where probably complaining about the dirty af train, Graffiti, everyone being high of cocaine, girls half naked, guys half naked,... And so on. You just got old, that's all.
You can thank China for the cell phone epidemic
That train is literally more vandalized than a back alley wtf.
Or your mum
@@dwad3ify that was uncalled for, my good sir.
I mean that was normal for nyc in the 80's. People didn't give a fuck about graffiti back then
ny graffiti didnt have any laws for a while. you could go right on the rails and paint the outside of trains. then fences came and security. the inside of the trains were still being marked. so now the insides are made in a way they can be cleaned easily and the paint dont stick permanently. they were spending so much money on the inside and outside of cleaning trains they pretty much developed every way possible to make it not work. the graffiti fines werent that much also. i dont know what they are now but you might get $100 fine in ny or even just let go and charged only for some kind of petty vandalism or tresspassing. in my city you can get 5 years of community service if you get caught.
Raoul Duke lol
In this timeline Jack Nicholson is the Joker.
He'll get an unexpected visit by some guy named Flash and a big ass Batman.
What timeline? The timeline we're all currently experiencing???
But Jack Nicholson IS the joker in our current timeline lmao. Wtf are you on.
Batman came out in 1989 where Jack Nicolson was the Joker and Michael Keaton was Batman.
And McDonald's food tasted way better than today's.
Strange but interesting. How will the world look like in another 31 years?
Justin Carrillo right
It's gonna be like wall-e
RIGGGGHHHTTTT.
By the year 2049. The half century mark.
Watch "Demolition Man"
Lol NYC was so fckin dirty in the 70’s and 80’s and we just accepted it.
I preferred it that way. Best place to be a teenager at that time.
Vlogs in 1987
Roberto 3p more interesting too.
Roberto 3p casey neistat gonna get jealous for this.
Soki Moh he copied them
Roberto 3p casey nesiat
Roberto 3p g
This just feels a weird dream to me
Omg yes
I experienced this very thing yet it seems like a dream more than anything.
That’s how the 80’s felt.
I'm 49 now , was 15 & in high school in 1987. This video doesn't seem very old to me at all but I know to a 15 yr old, it looks/seems like forever ago. At 15 in 1987 I thought 1967 was a long time ago. It literally felt like 50-60 yrs ago when it was only 20. I can't believe this was 34 yrs ago, it's weird how time and age greatly changes our perceptions of the world. I still ride around on 1985 motorcycle . Teenagers today probably think it's super old school and surprised it still runs.
No ones going to talk about how this was recommended to them 8 years later on UA-cam...
True. UA-cam logarithm is messed up. Lol
What did I do to earn this especially now
Everything in it’s time
We think this is the past, but UA-cam is really just showing us our future, what NYC will look like again under its current Mayor.
Lmao that algorithm
I'm so glad I clicked on this video! What a cast of characters, I mean, you could have written a broadway musical about this trip alone!! Thanks for posting this absolute jem!
I'd go to the performance if it existed! If created, please bring the production to the Des Moines Civic Center, :-)
A Broadway musical...I love it...get a bunch of guys to blow some producers. Hire Miranda and his clan and write some shitty music and you've got a hit Broadway musical.
The guy in the yellow pants is Michael Musto. He was a prolific writer, journalist, and television personality. He had a very popular column in the weekly newspaper, The Village Voice, and was MTV’s nightlife correspondent for quite some time.
All i can think about is
The Warriors
drug god ~ Come out and playyyyyyyyyy
Union sq to Coney Island 🤣
I heard The big cyrus meeting was actually that night!!
CAN U DIG IT?
And John Gotti.. Who was the Godfather of the New York mafia 1985-1991
The late 80’s and early 90’s are what the kids nowadays call “a vibe”
Dickhead
@@accelerator-thegod8991 chill kakashi
@@accelerator-thegod8991 Issa joke chill.
NYC was a $hithole back then.
Accelerator - The God fam relax I was born in 96 lmao I’m a youngster too if it makes you feel better.
Back when it was cheap to live in NY without a credit check. As long as you had a job and paid your rent and didn't smoke crack you could live in any of the boroughs.
Michael Knight Yeah back when NY was a crack town and crimes were prevalent graffiti on the trains. NY is so much better now
So true
Not da Park Avenue
all the scumbags from NYC moved and ruined upstate NY thanks Giuliani you pos
Lol,even if you smoked crack:P
I recognize that movie theater at 4:25. It's a Marshalls store now! People used to always tell me it used to be a theater. But seeing it...wow....
The Loew’s Oriental… one of the great NY movie palaces. It was beautiful.
this could be an 80's music video so easily.
Doogie N.D. This could be a David Lynch film!
Doogie N.D. - it's like Michael Jackson's Bad. video
Doogie N.D.
ALWAYS
SOMETHING
THERE TO
RE-MIND ME (Doo Doo Doo...)
Crown Royal dude yes!!!! *starts applauding* heheh 👌🏻
oh yeah
Joaquin phoenix's joker killed three men in this subway.
Vishal Dubey liar
Manda S yes I saw the movie
I can confirm I was the gun
*you're laughing you're laughing three men were killed by joker and you're laughing*
Who else always ends up watching these random ass videos UA-cam recommends
Me
Me too 😱
Me I guess
You should lurk the rest of the videos on this channel. What ends up being a random recommendation ends up being hours of fascinating video. Nelson Sullivan was a vlogger before vlogging was even a thing.
I don't know how I got here
Wow. I was 17 and holy shit do I feel old. Those days are never returning. Cherish those years kids,it flies by
Same here
I was 16
I wasn't even born. I was born in 1993.
this is seriously one of the most raw things i’ve ever watched on youtube. 1987, IN NEW YORK. wow.
rightt!
Exactly. Right when and where I was born. :)
Epic Realist that’s so cool!! i wish i was alive back then.
@@costcofreezers Aww, thanks! Yeah, miss those days.
Proof that Boomers lived through some PTSD- inducing times. Respect.
The question is why this kid is shirtless and barefoot walking around in NYC
It's called being dirt poor.
ⒷⒶⓃⒼ|ⒷⒶⓃⒼ you don’t have to say it like that. Nyc is a tough place to live you know
ⒷⒶⓃⒼ|ⒷⒶⓃⒼ and he does have shoes if u watched long enough. He took them off before he put his feet on the bench.
The inmune system is at their best function . In the 80s nobody care about bacteria an viruses 🦠
He must be a RHCP fan.
"I forgot to bring my pictures!" What a wild statement to hear now in 2017
Nicolite1128 8
Nicolite1128 and the guy is scribbling in a book and has a book on him💣💥
Omg true!
@@alitheabbas45 you think that's sad? You never held a real clay tablet. T
Not phones, not the Internet, not social networks. Humanity is beyond digital slavery! Cool time!
can't believe this was 300 years ago
SIKK RMXS quit messing with the "pasties" here. They always tell us to never meddle. It's all merely research.
SIKK RMXS 30 Bro 30
I think you're off by a zero.
This is obviously 3000 years ago.
😂😂😂
amazing this was actually 3,000 years ago
I feel like I need to shower after watching this video.
LMFAO I felt the same way 😩😂
You would feel the need for a shower after being anywhere in NYC for the whole day.
I’m sure that train car smelled like stale beer, piss, Swisher Sweets and crappy life choices...
Ikr
This is strangely calming to me
Same
It feels familiar
Me too. Something about the demographics...
Probably cause it was a place where you free to do and say whatever you wanted and nobody would give a fuck
Because there is no diversity. Peaceful
Whoa! Brings back memories of my train rides as a kid in NYC. I just showed this to my 10 year old and told him "this is the only way you'll experience NYC the way I experienced it as a kid, thru these kinds of videos, etc."
That's the NY I remember. I remember being told these things: "Don't go to the last boxcar wearing jewelry. Don't go to Central Park at night - don't go during the day if you can help it - and mind your own business." My first landlord back in NY told me this: "I know there's cockroaches, but if this place was any nicer, you couldn't afford it." Rent was $450 for a one bedroom apartment in Hell's Kitchen in 1987. I miss this NY.
Now that apt is 3500-4000
I was told, "Don't look up at the Sky scrappers"... Meant you were a newbie!
Were the last boxcars known for more crime? Didn't know that
Grew up in Jamaica Queens 83-89.... This was exactly how I remembered NY. I went to PS 117 and JHS 217... It felt like prison. Those two schools taught me how to fight. It was a jungle.
@King Delevingne Damn, I'm a grown man, and didn't even know that.
That kid literally just got out off bed and is just walking around in his shorts and nothing else.
Back in the 80s anything was possible 😑😩
This is totally opposite of what we would see on Japanese trains. People with suits and sit there quietely.
That’d some shit you’d see in Nigeria. I grew up that way.
It’s a hot scorching day
He's definitely wearing underwear, I looked closely. Even though he wasn't legal, he was absolutely adorable . . . and clearly post pubescent so don't start with "pedophile" shit.
Who’s watching this in September 2020?
Me
It's 9/11 2020
Why is this recommended on 9/11/2020? 🤦♀️
Watching from the end of the world
recommended on 9/11 check
Look at those kids just laying face down on the dirty ass seats! 😂 so badass!
That young man went down for a nap, and came up with several STD’s.
We didn't think about that back then. All day long, never washed hands unless after bathroom time.
Crawled, layed, wrestled and slept on the shittiest surfaces in high foot traffic areas.
İ'm not even sure if tetanus shots were necessary as we may have already had built up natural immunity to it.
Boomers : Cheap real estate
Millennials : Chill lo-fi beats to study and relax to
Gen-X : Train Ride to Coney Island in 1987
Gen X listens to lofi too
alaskaxx Gen x would have been the kids in the train to Coney Island video
We're gen z..
Millennial here 😂
@@BrB0424 good for you...? I don't get your point...
Op didn't say anything about gen z...
I think it's great that people had enough of a forward-thinking mind and artistic ability to video something because it might be interesting 30 or 50 years later even 100. And had the wherewithal to put it on the proper digital device once computers became common in the 1990s. And now it's Forever on UA-cam as long as this website exists
Agreed. Well said. Also I love the word “wherewithal” 👍🏻
I literally had to google “wherewithal”. Well put indeed.
👍🏾
I just learned the word wherewithal at least.
(English is not my first language, but looks like some natives didn't know it either =P )
home video was a new technology. people were nuts with the idea that they could make movies of their daily lives. in 2020 you're getting filmed whether you want it or not.
I don't know why this has been recommended but I will watch it nonetheless
Billy Bob definitely a victim of child abuse.
Call 1-800-4-A-CHILD for help.
Billy Bob you are why people hate men. troll or not you're a fuck
after a week i was like " fuck it ill watch"
Cheyenne Same. Confused by it's selection, but still strangely intrigued.
Cheyenne haha I said the same thing to myself, video was stupid but the comments on your comment were hilariously worth it!
Whoever upload these videos: thank you. There’s always hate everywhere, even back then.
This video here shows a lot of wholesome moments in 10 minutes. Honestly this is a great education of the life in New York of other folks around.
Again, thanks. And thank you, Nelson. I know he is long gone, but his videos are immortalized.
Haters? This looks like a 3rd world country. A city that ONCE was a shinning beacon of hope for the entire world. But now..... there is no way that I'm visiting that he'll hole unless I'm packing. And don't even think about approaching me on any level. Unless there is an emergency.
The times when you could dangle around barefoot and wearing trunks only and nobody gave shit about it.
murienrouge who the fuck would want to live in a world like that? it's like everywhere you go, you're in a Walmart world.
Joel Moreno
walmart?.
where are all the fatties
I also think it has to do with our phones. I mean everything is recordable in a second. If you dare to do something different than others like overthere in a subway you can count on it that your face is shown atleast at one social media platform. It's a bit like big brother is watching you all the time.
that's cause it was less people then, without it being labeled like in today's world.
you always belive what you heard?
Ok UA-cam algorithm, why is this video suddenly appearing on thousands upon thousands of peoples feeds all of a sudden?
Because it's got a dude dressed as a woman. It pushes the narrative.
Because it makes the past seem dystopic, which distracts us from the present state of decay
I know right?!
Drew Hurlbut same
Good question
lmao this middle class white family taking a trip to Coney Island in the 80s goes harder than most gangsta rap today lol
>this
Lmao
not middle class lol
I wouldn’t assume they are middle class, who knows.
There is no gangsta rap today. That shit died in 96'
Brings back a lot of Brooklyn/ Coney Island memories from the 80s! Loved it!! The train rides back and forth from Williamsburg to Coney Island seemed like an eternity when i was kid 😂 but i loved every minute looking out the window and just not feeling at all scared or afraid. It was just great seeing a diverse group of people. It was around the same year of this video, when my family went to Coney Island and my mom said there was a photographer taking pics of people at the beach just hanging out. He asked if he could take a picture of me and my chocolate ice cream covered face 😂😂 I was 6/7 at the time😂
Looking out the window? WTF are you talking about. If those are window, they look like no one cares either to clean them. Or the public doesn't care enough to respect them.
Ya.... at first I thought that this train was part of a nightmare or horror scene in a movie. But this is reality of a filthy, decaying and depressing hot mess. No wonder every person who visits NYC says it a dirty place, that smells like urine and rot.
But I'm glad for this video. Because if I visit m, I'm packing. Ya..... don't even think about approaching me about anything.. I'm going to take care of business, and keep on a stepping. Cuz, that looks like a war zone. And the most important thing in any war, is self preservation. That's right, it's me -v- you, and I'm going to take care of me.
Don't get it twisted, I'm not starting troubles. Just minding my own business. Therefore if you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone.
Did I just watch 7 minutes of strangers on a train
Yep
We need help lol.
We all did
from 30 years ago
fft2020 31
This train looks like the physical embodiment of drugs
jarrett maltry like riding the mushroom train. Wow
🤣
You got that right!
lolll
Lmao good one. Oddly to me, its this type of "flare" that New York is missing these days. Smh. NY kinda really sucks now.
When this randomly pops up in your suggested loo
I know. Where the hell did this come from?? Haha
Lowkey Matt yup
Lowkey Matt, I wonder why?
very strange
Lowkey Matt same
Glad I'm not the only one haha
Do u think in his wildest dreams Nelson would have imagined more than 5 million people would one be watching his videos one day?
Wherever u are mate I hope u know how special u were.
Dirty, shady, crime-ridden but everyone seems happier then than people today.
I've noticed the same thing in Nelson's videos. Everyone seems to be present in the moment, and genuinely enjoying the social interaction taking place. I think smart phones, instant access to pornography from a young age, and constant access/addiction to social media have all taken their toll. We're all too busy hiding in a digital world that doesn't exist to actually live in the world that does exist.
@@ohnoitsskylar Porn has nothing to do with socialising lol. what causes people to be distant is in fact the one and only phones. Why talk to anyone when you can watch shit u like on phone.
@@tiitgeorg720 OK, Coomer
I vivdly recall this period of time in NYC. It was way better than it is now. No comparison. We had zero social media. You had to use a pay phone to call anyone. When this video was taken, I was twenty-four and had the freedom to roam at will. I wasn't part of the gay scene but I could dig a subway ride to Coney. Afterall, It was a pretty cool time for straight people, too. The 80s were great; 2020 sucks.
People are made to adapt.
I find this intriguing. Seems like another world
Ahmed Harris Ahmed Harrissa :)
A better world
Yeah... Feels like 1990 sega and nintendo games area...
Without smartphones then
lakers4life2018 Not really.
I'm one of those guy that want to spend a week in this era like mid 80 early 90 just to see and most importantly feel how it was ..I'm born in 94 and I feel like i was too young to really appreciate even 2000"
J Pawf yea you’d really have to be born 1970 to really appreciate the 1980s & 1990s like be woke and stuff
Yes I was born 1993. I missed this ers
80s were so awesome. You're wise to want to go back and spend time there.
There were still problems etc like you have now in life of course but people were more civilized and less crazy and self centered as they are now. There was no political correctness except for extreme weirdos.There was actually a movie that came out around 1992 called PCU (Politically Correct University) with Jeremy Piven about a college of weirdos,environmentalists and crazy people who all acted politically correct. Everyone made fun of these idiots then.
I was a kid and teenager in the 1980s Back then in the 80s people were incredibly influenced by what was on tv, music (mtv) and movies. MTV was HUGE !!!!! Information wasnt readily available like it is now where everything is almost instant .Life was alot simpler. People didnt understand what was going on in the world .Most people also didnt have a computer .In my high school there were 3 kids that had a computer I was one of them . I remember 1984 or 1983 I think when a tv special called Motowns 25 anniversary was on This was a concert with all of the famous motown singers from the 1950s 60s 70s . A young Micheal Jackson got on stage and did the moonwalk for the first time. The next day at school EVERYONE was talking about it and doing it or trying. This was just a dance move on a tv show but it was huge back then .
One day in virtual reality or simulated reality we will be able to live previous times.
NYC transit in the 80's and 90's so gritty... Love it!
For some reason I find this oddly fascinating.
So do I
The Lone Traveler Me too lol
I think im high
Me too, a real snapshot of the times, but what's so strange about it for me is the video quality makes it seem like it could have been filmed this year.
Same i like to watch 1987 stuff 😆
Damn it’s driving me nuts thinking about how this was six days before my moms 7th birthday she was prbly in the same apartment I’m in right now in Manhattan looking out the window at the same train that takes you to Coney Island not know that the train passing held a random guy and a camera that would go on to unknowingly be one of the first known vloggers
And her son would watch and comment this on that vlog decades later
Amberlyn G this was five days after my 14th birthday
Wow, makes me feel old, I was five going on six that summer!
So your mom passed her apartment down to you? You probably pay like $500 a month 😂
@@johnnytheirishman3387 I was 16 (rechecked date) when the vid was made. I prob rode the next train.
This is the kidd in the video, a day like all the rest in New York, Nelson was an amazing individual"the guy filming " he had an unreal shoe collection , he documented everyday people doing everyday things in one of the greatest cities. I was just turning 14 ,my sister and i would visit my mother in the summer from Oregon .
I had no clue about NY dress code.
Not one time did I feel out of place , I would skateboard all over , central park was the best, the boom box pile up playing the same funk , every one roller skating doing tricks . Sean Penn and Madonna drawing crowds as penn would punch out a paparazzi. Power house club listening to music, Eddie Murphy walking in. I couldn't even talk about all the experiences. Keddie if your out there
thank you . Albert thanks for being kind and funny in a time summer and I needed it. I miss surfing at fire island, horse shoe crab infested waters .
Thank you NY for all the crazy memories I can't comment on
wow is that really you? that's so cool :)
wow that’s so cool this must bring back sm memories for you 😯
Cheers for project created existence to a difficult time migrating and for Nathaniel s comment. Experiencing heatwave off the train is worth wearing shorts.
I got a recommendation for this video, that I last watched 6 years ago, (based on an old comment.) And I was scrolling down the comments to read the post from the kid in the video. To my surprise there's a new one from 3 months ago.
@@balazsvarga1636 mythomaniacs everywhere
I literally took that ride to C.I. hundreds of times with my mother, as a child, and then with friends in my teenage years! Brings back memories!!
For a second I was thinking to myself, "why are they so fidgety?" Then I remembered smart phones weren't around back then lmao I feel so young.
I feel so young already before you said that
Me who can remember before smartphones. I feel old
Beatrix that’s a dumb stereotype
Oh jesus, the truth hurts. random people would have conversations all the time.
@@freedomf1ghter77 im so glad i live in this time. christ i hate talking to strangers
I lived in Brooklyn and would take this train ride often in the 80s. This brought back so many memories. Graffiti and all, it didn't seem weird or shady to me. It was always intriguing.
Your face is so young )), are you joking ))?
@@YAntoxa I'm gonna be 40 later this year 😂
@@Bori_princess38 ok, that was late 80th )))
Let's go take a trip through memory lane
@@YAntoxa its in our dna ... jlo genes ;-)
The comments section is literally people being pissed over public transportation getting cleaner
Mike Someone when having nothing to say is popular
Mike Someone It may be cleaner but the service is still bad if not worse.
Mike Someone shit define cleaner lmao
Fr33 Worker 😂😂😂😂u right bro
Liar
I love this video. Looks like a fun gathering of friends hanging out at someone’s house or apartment - except it’s on a train.
Hi person scrolling through the internet. I wish you a really nice day!
Well thank you man...!!
Thank you , you too ❤️
I wish you too 😊
❤️🇮🇹🇺🇸
Thank you its 23:15 pm on 08.09.2020 and im in London sat on my bed just hoping that something good will happen to me to take away the boredom.
I never played this mission in fallout 3!!!
This is a DLC
LMAO
More like 76.....
I'M LOGGING OFF.
Hahahahahahahahaha
This is so fking cool I mean look at those tacky colours and prints the lady is literally rocking that dress, the gay dude is the most amazing person and that teenage boy is moving around shirtless in NYC and no one cares
This is life, document whatever you can
This isn’t fake and yes in NYC there were many out men.lol Go check out the rest of the videos in this channel. It also features a very young RuPaul in the 1980s
momokoblue just checked out this channel, best advice 👍🏿 I’m glad 😂
Being shirtless used to be extremely common. What happened to people so that it's seen as unusual?
@@christylynn451 she's not a man and it isn't fake, youtube didn't exist in the 80s. you'd be surprised, i suppose, to hear that lgbt people existed before the 21st century. and as a trans person myself, you'd be surprised to hear that a lot of us would rather be out and hated for it than be hiding our entire selves completely.
If a dude went shirtless today people would stare a hole in you.
Always wanted to go to Coney Island , the warriors🇬🇧🇬🇧
Bro it's dirty AF just giving you a heads up..
i dont know why but videos from the 80s and stuff are so fascinating
edit: thanks for 2k likes :)
freddyy imho it showed the realness and grittiness of the streets...that jungle life
freddyy I know right lol I guess over time things dumb down and people become less appreciative of things but this is retro man it's crazy how trends back then make these trends we have now or grew up with makes us say wow we use to watch cartoons on tv in the morning kids can stream it on a ipod laptop if they want
freddyy what jungle. life?
concrete is ugly as fuck, nature is beautiful
freddyy because these modern days videos are so edited they loose their natural flavor
no im just saying its videos from wayyy before i was a born. its pretty cool
That was a boy on that dirty seat with no shirt on! Bruh
Hanging with gays.
I wonder hold old he was when he died of AIDS.
saintgauden this is a gay guy filming u ass. Wtf is that suppose to imply?
Ikr?
@@bluBlaq33 that the boy is a dirty fuck for laying on train seats with barely any clothes in 1987
why does the train cart look like it's been abandoned for 20 years
NYC in the 80s
I know! I had no idea 🤯
Because NYC was dead flat broke back then.
This was amazing, can’t wait to dig into your channel further.
The gay guy was high asf 😂 talking about a pedicure then start rapping 😭😭😭
I think she’s a trans woman actually
BMT how do you know? They definitely look trans
Shay your average gay guy doesn’t present female and attempt to look like a woman
Or they are died :v
@@Luka-zi9kv Who cares about the definition? Just stop putting people in categorical boxes. Spread love, not boxes.
I’ve been scrolling in the comment for a while and haven’t found one that’s older than 2 years lol. Oh how the UA-cam algorithm works.
i wonder the same
Yeah it sucks. I would like some mix of old and new (and top and random)
And here we are
2:52 the only way to enter a public train full of strangers.
I thought the dude was wearing a dress until he sat down.
waterandafter it is a dress
:D the are Always there. No strangers
😂😂😂 hilarious! I’m going to start doing that when I get on a train. 😬😂😬😂
great comment me chuckle
Nelson Sullivan truly was so ahead of his time, I do believe his collection of recordings inspired what we know as vlogging today
We are so fortunate to have easy access to such amazing pieces of history at our fingertips
RIP Nelson and thank you for educating us children today on LGBTQ+ culture in 80s NYC
I wouldn't lay across the seats of a NY subway without a shirt. Yikes.
The kid is not among the smartest
Ah, come on... it'll toughen up your immune system...
@@outdoorsguy that's what the food carts are for. LOL
... not without a hazmat suit, you mean?
E coli all over everything, and that’s no 🐂💩💩
just a regular 80s day at Brooklyn... thanks youtube, that was an intriguing video
Matheus Lima thank Nelson
everyone's commenting on how "gross" the train was .. appreciate the grime culture bro this is peak late 80's everyday dirty boredom , embrace it
semilla sol this comment reeks of hepatitis
dorito's comment is grim. you are so right Semilla!
Yeah the same culture that brought us AIDS
In a way New York seemed more interesting back then. It wasn't overrun with billionaires buying up apartments that they don't live in, overpriced bougie pizzas, and hipsters causing rents to go up.
Visited Coney for first time today. Your video made for great contrast…thx!