Thank you, I so miss my city. I lived on 12th between A and B late 80's early nineties. I am so grateful I lived in this daydream (and at times nightmare) world. We had nothing and wanted for little.
Underacheiver2000, I originally come from Allen st. Below Houston st.Lower East Side, But during 1992- 3 while my Building was going through a Slight renovation, I lived on 12st. bet Ave. A & B, near the corner of B, Great area, even if it was only temporary for me. I'm just asking out of curiosity, Did you know Mikey Francis, his family ? he'd usually hang out on 12st. & A,. Sometimes outside the Butcher.store, He was a good friend of mine, but he moved and I lost contact with him. Unless, your not familiar with Mikey, Either way, Happy Holidays, 👍
I moved into that block in 1989 and have been there ever since and I've loved every minute of it. It was super raunchy back then. Most of the buildings in that block are still there but even the squats have been cleaned up and made "respectable" (thanks to the sweat equity of their residents). Shooting galleries at the Avenue B end. Crackheads later--they made it so dangerous you sometimes wouldn't leave your building at night. Now those buildings are loaded with Millenial trust-fund babies. I wouldn't go back to the danger and filth, and I'm glad kids can grow up safely in our neighborhood now, but the LES culture of that time was incredible. Glad I got there in time to see it for myself before it vanished.
I was born and raised in downtown brooklyn and was born in 96 so it's safe to say it's been changing steady my entire life. But my god, I moved back home after graduating this year and it breaks my heart how much I want to leave. I want to find that special place that my parents found when they experienced new york in the 70s and 80s and it's sad that it will be far away from new york if I ever find it.
When you loose someone, when someone passes that you cherish, it seems like an hour ago, and an eternity at the same time. I know this for a fact. It happened to me 3 times in a year and a half time span.
Did I just hear George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess "Summertime" ? Geez. I miss this New York. The East Village has always had its musicians and bohemians, immigrants and first generation people. Going back there again, for a visit.
Oh my i just came across this and this is just classic NYC at its best. Whatna wonderful voice and that flute was so beautiful as well! Thank you for sharing this!
I'd just discovered this and I'm taken aback. Khusenaton, who's Christian name was "Dana Evans", was a close friend of mines and many others. The last time I'd seen Khusenaton, after we'd been hanging out all night, we'd walked across Manhattan from West to East, on 14th Street, starting around 9th Avenue. We'd stopped at 8th Avenue to buy a fifth of Thunderbird wine and continued our path West. And that fifth lasted us perfectly until we'd reached Avenue D. Then we'd parted out ways, me having no idea that that would be the last time I see Khusenaton. That was in January of February, 1992. Khusenaton died within the next week or two after our last meeting. If my memory serves me right, he'd died over at Jameel Mundoc's crib. And this is the first that I've seen of him in 29 years. Thank you for posting this!
I lived in NYC recently, from 2002-2012 and it's nothing like this anymore. It's now a playground for the wealthy, for hedge fund people, for hipsters with trust funds, and the poor people have to live 4-5 in an apartment in Queens or the Bronx. Not too many native New Yorkers left anymore. Everyone is from the Midwest, California, some other state, or some other country. Doesn't feel like NY. Sure it was more dangerous back then but there was a sense of community and pride and it wasn't some overgrown shopping mall for stuck up rich people like it is today.
coupleofbeers31 Very true I agree, The real New Yorkers had street smarts, we were aware to our surroundings, Now you have bunch of cell phone slaves looking at their phones 24/7, All the stores look alike, I remember shopping at antique boutique, bang bangs, Benittton, etc,lol
Chris Bano . I can understand being upset at our new generation but be grateful for gentrification. Nyc was crime ridden in the 90s, it needed to change. So tell me would you would rather crime then a bunch of hipsters walking around on their phones? I agree nyc lost that vibe but its for the best. The poor mentality stays poor and it becomes a vicious cycle, look at chicago, they cant control it. nyc would have been worse imo if it wasnt fixed.
It's been 6 years and I had to revisit this video again for a quick smile. Ray's bodega/candy store is still across the street from Tompkins. I stopped by last week for a quick hello and to support 1 of only 3 businesses that still stand there since the late 70's. Despite a pandemic and the city on Phase 1, I was shocked to see so many people out and about in the east village on Avenue A. I noticed everyone looked the same, dressed the same and all seemed very privilege. (SIGH) No musician in sight, no artist in sight, just starbuck latte holding 20 year olds.
@@abdulwahidburhani9245 yeah!!! I visit him and the store often. It’s one of my favorite stores because I can get anything at almost any time of the night there. He has the best deep fried Oreos in NYC.
@@ulovetashi Ray is taking a beating because of his landlord Always increasing the rent, this has been going on for years now. Don't be surprised if you don't see him around much longer. Take care, Chick
@@abdulwahidburhani9245 yes, you’re absolutely right. These landlords are horrible. It annoys me how so many well known established stores and or restaurants are forced out and priced out. I wish ray and his crew the best on avenue A.
I miss NYC and the lower east side. Lived there from 92 to 2000 and it was the best. Once I arrived in NY one of the first things I thought was this is where I belong, I wanna live and die here. Unfortunately it didn't work out that way, I'm still very much alive but not in NY and not even close. 424 east 13th street was my hood and only a block away from you. I remember in 93 when the national guard tank and soldiers came to your block (at least I think it was between A and B) and kicked out all the squatters in that building. One of the squatters ended up being the Super at 432 east 13th for a very short while. I also loved going down to the free flea market on 9th and Ave. C every Sunday to sell and buy stuff. That ended in 95 I think when they shut it down. Shortly thereafter A friend and I started the flea market and I think it might still be going on Ave A and I forget, maybe 12th or 11th ? Right behind the church there in the big lot. Thanks for the memories.
I remember that day too, when the squat got raided, word spread like a fire, and we ran over there from 6th St. to see what was going on, a crowd had gathered and we were chanting at the cops, some bottles were thrown, back then they didn't just shoot poor people on the spot. It amazes me that so many documented clips are on youtube, but creative people filmed and then videoed art from ordinary life, of course there were no cell phones but phone booths and I miss that too. While there were no cameras in our pockets, the benefit was that when something was recorded to film it had some thought behind it, and people lived their lives first hand and saw each other in flesh and blood first, before they saw the scene through a lens. There was sublime and dangerous and exciting thrilling life in the streets, the energy in summer was electric, and while I cursed the heat and the stinking sidewalks at times, I'd give anything for just one night back in those days, sitting on a stoop or park bench with a brown bag over a can of beer and just hanging out, moments when strangers laughed together like old friends and goofed on passers-by, when people had a sense of all being in this struggle of life together, even if it was just for a few hours. I bought some pieces of that colorful thick hand blown glass from that flea, one I still have sitting here, a yellow heavy abstract bowl, you can see the bottom where they cut the hot glass to complete it, the touch of a human hand. It may have been someone else's junk but it was and still is ART to me.
I remember the flea market on Ave. A in the lot, I bought an Army Original Field jacket there, for $20.00 bucks, anybody remember Leschkos Resturant on Ave. & 7st. I used to eat there a lot. I know everyone remember,s the Newspaper place a little down the block from Leschkos rest. There still there, I Believe, they used to make a good Black & White malted. Across the street is I believe it's called Tompkins Square park, (I hope I got that right). My brother and I used to take our Dog Skipper to that park. I especially remember all the"Hippies from the 1960,s, ( maybe I'm going back too far). I had A good friend who used to work with my father, he lived on Ave. A & 12st., everybody knew him, Mikey Francis, his wife Vicky, & sons, Gene & Scotty, geez, it was a long time ago, & yet, it seems like it was yesterday. A lot of good times, back then, not like today. Seems like something took the Life & Soul Out of everything.👍
@@eBrigid Very cool, Brigid. Yeah, that was surreal seeing those tanks coming down 13th st. It was my first year in NYC I think, and also they had a 24/7 Paddy Wagon parked right across from Tompkins Square Park for at least my first year there. Thanks for your story and reply.
@@brianpress1392 I don't remember Leschkos but I do remember the Odessa at 119 ave. A. My boss Lucille who owned Lucille's Antiques would take us there all the time. She loved that place. Maybe I never at at Leschkos, I just can't remember. Yes definitely Tompkins Square Park. Thanks for your memories.
@@koyoteman58 I'm glad someone remember,s some of the old places, Odessa,s Resturant, I used to eat there also, pretty good food. Leschkos rest. Was on the corner of Ave A & 7st. But, then again, the last time I ate there was back in the early 1990,s, the new Owners I think changed the name, anyway, that's what an old friend of mine, told me, a while back. Now that I think about it. But Anyway, it was nice back then, the way I remember it. Hay, I don't know who you are other than, T Paul, But, I Thank you for responding back, Happy Holidays,👍👍👍 Ps, across the street, the famous Tompkins Square Park, Now that Park had a Wild History of its own.lol👍
man nothing old days in good old New York City in 1991 from the 1990s decade gotta love it that woman have a sweet voice she sings so beautifully man what happened during the years now everything is just crazy in the world today in 2016 but this earth will get better nothing like it was back then when life was good now looks what going on and happening🌎.
Max Coller hell’s yeah, I want to go to cbgb,limelight, Times Square playland, The roseland, shop at tower records, watch my Kung fu movies at the Music palace at Bowery street, New York is for the rich brats and idiots, looking and staring at their phones 24/7
Salvatore Lanzieri haha I mean obviously you ain't from Regular Inda Day neighborhood's I mean fa real tho!!! All I see is all these people always commenting on the old this an old that, obviously all whitebread Liberal's etc!!!! Yeah I knew of these ways in Manhattan/uptown let's say other area's of different Boroughs that were uttm Changed!!!! This an Crime wernt in the Beautiful neighborhood's an in which the world's like someone like myself Came from!!!! If you wanna call regular neighborhood fights from kids goin on dangerous than knock ya self out!!! Our neighborhood's were enforced, by us!!! Italiano, Clean beautiful everybody knew everybody an no undesirable's were let in!!! At one time!!! then the then Ginny landlords couldn't resist the 2G's a month rent offered by the liberal hippie yuppy whitebread an all neighborhood's were over before you knew it, know my neighborhood Beautiful SOUTHBROOKLYN is an been Manhattan fa ages!!!! But you don't come from da goods!!! Evidently, Just sayin know what I mean!!!!!...Later!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐅🐕🐳🐻🐖🐄
That's the kind of spontaneous, real New York I knew when I visited in the 70s and 80s. Not this sanitized, gentrified nothing full of trust fund hipsters and $30 avocado toast.
Does anybody remember Carla Cubit? She was featured in a documentary ("Images from the Edge") on homelessness. She lived there during the time the doc was filmed.
Rudy and Bloomberg tried hard to get rid of this type of nyc .it was people like this who made a neighborhood special.replacing middle-class workers and artists with rich people who have no connection with the city in a real way is pretty shitty.i see this kind of going away in some ways,but you still can't afford to live here in a normal situation
@@musicaltheatergeek79 You know what he means, and nobody misses that (crime). Stop repeating comments you read on Facebook. Let's not pretend that crime isn't still rampant in NY and that the city isn't going broke.
I'm down on 5th st and my god how this area changed! I prefer it this way than to all the fuckin Starbucks and yuppies that moved in and all the rents are like 2 grand for a studio! Wtf! But I still stay here
Would it be ok for you if I used a short part of this video in my schools production of RENT? It’s for a clip in the trailer that is supposed to be around 3 to 5 seconds long. If you don’t know RENT is a musical written by Jonathan Larsson and takes place in the 90s. Mostly in an apartment complex on the 11th street and AVE B in New York.
@@555millie I lived here beginning in the autumn of 1986... I still can remember the enormous piles of plaster throughout most of the "apartments"---a kind of war had taken place about which almost nothing is written or anyone really knows about....
When I lived here in the seventies, it was the East Village, I didn't think of it as the Lower East Side. Remember Leshkow's? The Ukrainian easter egg store? Anyone remember Shagorika, the fantastic Bangladesh restaurant in a basement near 6th Street?
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Thank you, I so miss my city. I lived on 12th between A and B late 80's early nineties. I am so grateful I lived in this daydream (and at times nightmare) world. We had nothing and wanted for little.
Underacheiver2000,
I originally come from Allen st. Below Houston st.Lower East Side, But during 1992- 3
while my Building was going through a Slight renovation, I lived on 12st. bet Ave. A & B, near the corner of B,
Great area, even if it was only temporary for me.
I'm just asking out of curiosity, Did you know
Mikey Francis, his family ? he'd usually
hang out on 12st. & A,.
Sometimes outside the Butcher.store,
He was a good friend of mine, but he moved and I lost contact with him.
Unless, your not familiar with Mikey,
Either way,
Happy Holidays, 👍
This is the way the world should be.
NYC was so vibrantly beautiful man 😢 I miss when our city was like this. Crazy I know
i can't believe this video exists...it's a time capsule
Same
Lived in East Village for over 20 years...it changed so much so I had to leave...love this video of the old days.
I moved into that block in 1989 and have been there ever since and I've loved every minute of it. It was super raunchy back then. Most of the buildings in that block are still there but even the squats have been cleaned up and made "respectable" (thanks to the sweat equity of their residents). Shooting galleries at the Avenue B end. Crackheads later--they made it so dangerous you sometimes wouldn't leave your building at night. Now those buildings are loaded with Millenial trust-fund babies. I wouldn't go back to the danger and filth, and I'm glad kids can grow up safely in our neighborhood now, but the LES culture of that time was incredible. Glad I got there in time to see it for myself before it vanished.
Thanks for sharing Danny :) maybe one day I’ll meet ya! I love visiting LES. Hope to live around there one day.
Looks like the danger is coming back 😳
Wouldnt mind seeing more regular middle class people though as opposed to rich peoples kids.
I was born and raised in downtown brooklyn and was born in 96 so it's safe to say it's been changing steady my entire life. But my god, I moved back home after graduating this year and it breaks my heart how much I want to leave. I want to find that special place that my parents found when they experienced new york in the 70s and 80s and it's sad that it will be far away from new york if I ever find it.
That specialness is not there anymore
Its not just NYC. It was the era - late sixties into 70’s all the way into the 90’s was a special time.
@@norakat Facts
When you loose someone, when someone passes that you cherish, it seems like an hour ago, and an eternity at the same time. I know this for a fact. It happened to me 3 times in a year and a half time span.
Did I just hear George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess "Summertime" ? Geez. I miss this New York. The East Village has always had its musicians and bohemians, immigrants and first generation people. Going back there again, for a visit.
I loved the city then - so much creativity everywhere - an everyday thing.
i wish it was like this now
Oh my i just came across this and this is just classic NYC at its best. Whatna wonderful voice and that flute was so beautiful as well! Thank you for sharing this!
I'd just discovered this and I'm taken aback. Khusenaton, who's Christian name was "Dana Evans", was a close friend of mines and many others. The last time I'd seen Khusenaton, after we'd been hanging out all night, we'd walked across Manhattan from West to East, on 14th Street, starting around 9th Avenue. We'd stopped at 8th Avenue to buy a fifth of Thunderbird wine and continued our path West. And that fifth lasted us perfectly until we'd reached Avenue D. Then we'd parted out ways, me having no idea that that would be the last time I see Khusenaton. That was in January of February, 1992. Khusenaton died within the next week or two after our last meeting. If my memory serves me right, he'd died over at Jameel Mundoc's crib. And this is the first that I've seen of him in 29 years. Thank you for posting this!
Was he the flute player?
When New York had a lot of character, the neighborhoods were so different and the people was just great and real.
Panoce Lepo You're a judgmental jerk.
Roy Phillips
The truth hurts
Torque Pilkington It's your truth, lowlife.
Panoce Lepo Nope.
Roy he's right. New York, Manhattan rather, is now just a city for the wealthy. The middle and working class are gone.
I lived in NYC recently, from 2002-2012 and it's nothing like this anymore. It's now a playground for the wealthy, for hedge fund people, for hipsters with trust funds, and the poor people have to live 4-5 in an apartment in Queens or the Bronx. Not too many native New Yorkers left anymore. Everyone is from the Midwest, California, some other state, or some other country. Doesn't feel like NY. Sure it was more dangerous back then but there was a sense of community and pride and it wasn't some overgrown shopping mall for stuck up rich people like it is today.
coupleofbeers31 Very true I agree, The real New Yorkers had street smarts, we were aware to our surroundings, Now you have bunch of cell phone slaves looking at their phones 24/7, All the stores look alike, I remember shopping at antique boutique, bang bangs, Benittton, etc,lol
Chris Bano . I can understand being upset at our new generation but be grateful for gentrification. Nyc was crime ridden in the 90s, it needed to change. So tell me would you would rather crime then a bunch of hipsters walking around on their phones?
I agree nyc lost that vibe but its for the best. The poor mentality stays poor and it becomes a vicious cycle, look at chicago, they cant control it. nyc would have been worse imo if it wasnt fixed.
bacchanal888 the crime was always there, like I sed before you had to have streets smarts and book smarts, I don’t mind hipsters some of them are cool
@@chrisbano9216 i see ur point
Mark Grant
💯💯💯 agreed
Living in NY is like living on stage. Great video.
It's been 6 years and I had to revisit this video again for a quick smile. Ray's bodega/candy store is still across the street from Tompkins. I stopped by last week for a quick hello and to support 1 of only 3 businesses that still stand there since the late 70's. Despite a pandemic and the city on Phase 1, I was shocked to see so many people out and about in the east village on Avenue A. I noticed everyone looked the same, dressed the same and all seemed very privilege. (SIGH) No musician in sight, no artist in sight, just starbuck latte holding 20 year olds.
Ray is still there, he's in his 80s.
@@abdulwahidburhani9245 yeah!!! I visit him and the store often. It’s one of my favorite stores because I can get anything at almost any time of the night there. He has the best deep fried Oreos in NYC.
@@ulovetashi Ray is taking a beating because of his landlord
Always increasing the rent, this has been going on for years now. Don't be surprised if you don't see him around much longer. Take care, Chick
@@abdulwahidburhani9245 yes, you’re absolutely right. These landlords are horrible. It annoys me how so many well known established stores and or restaurants are forced out and priced out. I wish ray and his crew the best on avenue A.
Beautiful... real NY...
I miss NYC and the lower east side. Lived there from 92 to 2000 and it
was the best. Once I arrived in NY one of the first things I thought was
this is where I belong, I wanna live and die here. Unfortunately it
didn't work out that way, I'm still very much alive but not in NY and
not even close. 424 east 13th street was my hood and only a block away
from you. I remember in 93 when the national guard tank and soldiers
came to your block (at least I think it was between A and B) and kicked
out all the squatters in that building. One of the squatters ended up
being the Super at 432 east 13th for a very short while. I also loved
going down to the free flea market on 9th and Ave. C every Sunday to
sell and buy stuff. That ended in 95 I think when they shut it down.
Shortly thereafter A friend and I started the flea market and I think it
might still be going on Ave A and I forget, maybe 12th or 11th ? Right
behind the church there in the big lot. Thanks for the memories.
I remember that day too, when the squat got raided, word spread like a fire, and we ran over there from 6th St. to see what was going on, a crowd had gathered and we were chanting at the cops, some bottles were thrown, back then they didn't just shoot poor people on the spot. It amazes me that so many documented clips are on youtube, but creative people filmed and then videoed art from ordinary life, of course there were no cell phones but phone booths and I miss that too. While there were no cameras in our pockets, the benefit was that when something was recorded to film it had some thought behind it, and people lived their lives first hand and saw each other in flesh and blood first, before they saw the scene through a lens. There was sublime and dangerous and exciting thrilling life in the streets, the energy in summer was electric, and while I cursed the heat and the stinking sidewalks at times, I'd give anything for just one night back in those days, sitting on a stoop or park bench with a brown bag over a can of beer and just hanging out, moments when strangers laughed together like old friends and goofed on passers-by, when people had a sense of all being in this struggle of life together, even if it was just for a few hours. I bought some pieces of that colorful thick hand blown glass from that flea, one I still have sitting here, a yellow heavy abstract bowl, you can see the bottom where they cut the hot glass to complete it, the touch of a human hand. It may have been someone else's junk but it was and still is ART to me.
I remember the flea market on Ave. A in the lot, I bought an Army Original Field jacket there, for $20.00 bucks, anybody remember Leschkos Resturant on Ave. & 7st. I used to eat there a lot. I know everyone remember,s the Newspaper place a little down the block from Leschkos rest. There still there, I Believe, they used to make a good Black & White malted.
Across the street is I believe it's called
Tompkins Square park, (I hope I got that right). My brother and I used to take our Dog Skipper to that park.
I especially remember all the"Hippies from the 1960,s, ( maybe I'm going back too far). I had A good friend who used to work with my father, he lived on
Ave. A & 12st., everybody knew him, Mikey Francis,
his wife Vicky, & sons, Gene & Scotty, geez, it was a long time ago, & yet, it seems like it was yesterday. A lot of good times, back then, not like today. Seems like something took the Life & Soul Out of everything.👍
@@eBrigid Very cool, Brigid. Yeah, that was surreal seeing those tanks coming down 13th st. It was my first year in NYC I think, and also they had a 24/7 Paddy Wagon parked right across from Tompkins Square Park for at least my first year there. Thanks for your story and reply.
@@brianpress1392 I don't remember Leschkos but I do remember the Odessa at 119 ave. A. My boss Lucille who owned Lucille's Antiques would take us there all the time. She loved that place. Maybe I never at at Leschkos, I just can't remember. Yes definitely Tompkins Square Park. Thanks for your memories.
@@koyoteman58
I'm glad someone remember,s some of the old places, Odessa,s Resturant, I used to eat there also, pretty good food. Leschkos rest. Was on the corner of Ave A & 7st.
But, then again, the last time I ate there was back in the early 1990,s, the new Owners I think changed the name, anyway, that's what an old friend of mine, told me, a while back. Now that I think about it.
But Anyway, it was nice back then, the way I remember it.
Hay, I don't know who you are other than, T Paul,
But, I Thank you for responding back,
Happy Holidays,👍👍👍
Ps, across the street, the famous Tompkins Square Park, Now that Park had a Wild History of its own.lol👍
So sorry to see he died. So much talent.
537 was my home for 4 years. Thanks for posting this!
She makes a stage of the place.
This is beauty.
The East Village was still the slum. The early 90s marked the peak of New York's decline just as it still had some grit left from the 70s and 80s.
Yeah, nope! Better a slum with some life than the safe, sterile, gentrified landscape devoid of life and energy we get today.
Rest in paradise James! Your spirit lives on
I miss the 60's and 70's. Those were the best.
Who is singing? Beautiful scene. I miss the old NYC, great times and people.
@jetsfan2351 exactly..he letting this footage gas him up
jetsfan2351 lol if you think the 90’s were dangerous. You’re too soft. Obviously you weren’t here for the 70’s.
G Wise lol. Another Mr. Softee. The 90’s were a walk in the park.
Excuse me Mr Softie but your girlfriend won't get off me.
lmao that place was full of crackheads, junkies and gangsters
When every neighborhood in NY was amazing and different... with character !!!!
the flute player was awesome
man nothing old days in good old New York City in 1991 from the 1990s decade gotta love it that woman have a sweet voice she sings so beautifully man what happened during the years now everything is just crazy in the world today in 2016 but this earth will get better nothing like it was back then when life was good now looks what going on and happening🌎.
This is gold
Jesus Christ, can we please return to this time? Gentrification has ruined everything.
Max Coller hell’s yeah, I want to go to cbgb,limelight, Times Square playland, The roseland, shop at tower records, watch my Kung fu movies at the Music palace at Bowery street, New York is for the rich brats and idiots, looking and staring at their phones 24/7
SOUND COUNCIL don’t forget Rays pizza!! I miss those day you buy a slice it’s extra cheese already!!
Salvatore Lanzieri haha I mean obviously you ain't from Regular Inda Day neighborhood's I mean fa real tho!!! All I see is all these people always commenting on the old this an old that, obviously all whitebread Liberal's etc!!!! Yeah I knew of these ways in Manhattan/uptown let's say other area's of different Boroughs that were uttm Changed!!!! This an Crime wernt in the Beautiful neighborhood's an in which the world's like someone like myself Came from!!!! If you wanna call regular neighborhood fights from kids goin on dangerous than knock ya self out!!! Our neighborhood's were enforced, by us!!! Italiano, Clean beautiful everybody knew everybody an no undesirable's were let in!!! At one time!!! then the then Ginny landlords couldn't resist the 2G's a month rent offered by the liberal hippie yuppy whitebread an all neighborhood's were over before you knew it, know my neighborhood Beautiful SOUTHBROOKLYN is an been Manhattan fa ages!!!! But you don't come from da goods!!! Evidently, Just sayin know what I mean!!!!!...Later!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐅🐕🐳🐻🐖🐄
love this !!!!
Wow! Now I can see why people love this city the way they do. Now they wanna declare the city dead. Never! #longlivenyc
This was when NYC was fun.... now it's just expensive and NOT as much fun.
New York now is no any different from any other city in the world back then it was something much more interesting.
I was 16 years old at that time 😢
That's the kind of spontaneous, real New York I knew when I visited in the 70s and 80s. Not this sanitized, gentrified nothing full of trust fund hipsters and $30 avocado toast.
this gives me goosebumps...
Stuff like this isn't happening anymore. You can tell this was all spontaneous and not contrived.
boogiechillen123
NYC was magical like that back in those times 😔
@@Bleek17Six remember when even the air had an electricity about it too, back then
@@hereisayana8207 the electricity was the hormones of your youth
@@titania4347 did you live in NY back then? It had nothing to do with our age
She can sing
Remember all the LES dope spots: E.T., General, 357, 7 Up's, Laundromat, Presidential, Green Tape Lovers, Hell Raiser, Poison
wow. my old home!
Does anybody remember Carla Cubit? She was featured in a documentary ("Images from the Edge") on homelessness. She lived there during the time the doc was filmed.
Rudy and Bloomberg tried hard to get rid of this type of nyc .it was people like this who made a neighborhood special.replacing middle-class workers and artists with rich people who have no connection with the city in a real way is pretty shitty.i see this kind of going away in some ways,but you still can't afford to live here in a normal situation
beautiful
i would love to meet her!!
Hi Jamzik Do you know who shot this? I'm on the stoop. Remember the day. Anyway, magic & real times. You sound good.
THE SOUND COUNCIL who is the woman singing?
I think Xavier shot this.
I always loved Khusenaton too. Thanks for posting.
Gun shots going off at 0:12 like nothing, good old 1990s New York.
Manny Z
Vintage NYC ... I miss this era man 😔
*bleek Cartier* you miss the rampant crime and danger? You're romanticizing a NYC that had been on the verge of bankruptcy.
@@musicaltheatergeek79 You know what he means, and nobody misses that (crime). Stop repeating comments you read on Facebook. Let's not pretend that crime isn't still rampant in NY and that the city isn't going broke.
Put a smile on my face. Nyc seemed pretty notmal till around 2001 🤔
I like to know Where is that lady Right Today in 2019
James what is the name of the woman? There is something about her I can't put my finger on it
You guys certainly have beautiful souls... I wish I had the lyrics to this song.. what is the name of this song?
Poor People - Alan Price / Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald
@@thesoundcouncil3771 who is the woman singing? Thanks for the reply.
I'm down on 5th st and my god how this area changed! I prefer it this way than to all the fuckin Starbucks and yuppies that moved in and all the rents are like 2 grand for a studio! Wtf! But I still stay here
BasqueNYC It does look pretty good. The only problem back then was the crime and murder rate. I definitely don't miss that.
Rip ❤️
Would it be ok for you if I used a short part of this video in my schools production of RENT? It’s for a clip in the trailer that is supposed to be around 3 to 5 seconds long.
If you don’t know RENT is a musical written by Jonathan Larsson and takes place in the 90s. Mostly in an apartment complex on the 11th street and AVE B in New York.
The year I was born
is that rosario Dawson's mom singing? I know they use to squat on that block and it sure looks like her..
NO! It is not Rosario's Mom. Her name is Anna.
No, but she does look a little like Isada. They lived across the street. I'm in the video, lived there, and yes, it was a magic time.
@@555millie I lived here beginning in the autumn of 1986... I still can remember the enormous piles of plaster throughout most of the "apartments"---a kind of war had taken place about which almost nothing is written or anyone really knows about....
She looks like Rosario is Anna still alive?
Wow
When I lived here in the seventies, it was the East Village, I didn't think of it as the Lower East Side. Remember Leshkow's? The Ukrainian easter egg store? Anyone remember Shagorika, the fantastic Bangladesh restaurant in a basement near 6th Street?
Someone needs to sample this.
I’m so glad I moved in 1994.
And the city was horrible then too.
People were actually outside lol
That girl has a great voice. Dos she have a manager???
Back when NYC wasn't overrun with posers
Quién es la cantante, quién es el flautista....? que canción canta ? El video es Genial , quién lo grabó ? Gracias......
Did she make it to Broadway? Beautiful voice
I'd bet a lot of money this video was the biggest audience this lady has ever had in her life.
Awwh how'd she die? :(
Patrick
probably crack or aids
Whats going on here?
life and death
No cell phones
black and white getting along together great to see why so much hate in world :(
Where the fuck is Nelson Sullivan
Is this a set?
No
Nope. Home to many of us
Now everyone looks at phones 😂
I never drank that soup Daniel Rakawitz offered me, but I finally managed to eat me a sweede....
My dad ex
Zzzzz
I moved out of there in 2000 ( e11 & A) alphabet city become a yuppie playground,rent vent up the roof it wasn't fan anymore...