The first 30 seconds are like in a movie! The drunken guy who fall down, the guy behind with his broken car, the guy who searches for food in the bin... a sequence like a painting
Back in the 90's they said the 70's were better. In the 2000's they said the 80's were better. In the 2010's they said the 90's were better. Now they say the 2000's were better. Moral of the story is.. WE MISS OUR YOUTH.
I always yearned to know what people were doing on my 5th birthday in a random street in New York city. Now I know and it feels so good to finally have my question answered.
I was 2 months old here and born in the Netherlands on may 23rd. Love to see how other places looked around that time. I've been to New York in august of 2019 and i absolutly loved it, a dream come true. I just wish i could have seen it with the Twin Towers intact and lovely old-timers cruisin the streets of NY ..
This brings back a flood of memories. I just graduated from HS and was headed of to the Army in a couple of months. It was my last summer in NYC before l embarked on my military career. I went to school not too far from Times Sq. I visit NYC from time to time. Just haven't lived over there in Decades. I miss her.
NOW THE CITYS BROKE BECUASE OF BOOM BERG AND HIS HIGH TAXES AND HELL AND HIGH WATER LAWS IDLE LAWS SODA TAX I CAN GO ON AND ON WAS THERE YEARS AGO -- NOT THE SAME----------------- THE PLACE IS PATHETIC NOW
WENT TO MAMA LEONNES ITALIAN RESTAURANT IN 1985 FOR A CLASS TRIP FROM CONNECTICUT COST 10 DOLLARS FOR THE WHOLE TRIP NOW ITS LIKE 100 TIME SQUARE IS A SHITBOX NOW
This is incredible. The first 30 seconds alone show a scene you'd never see today. I went there on my own in 2009 and everyone told me to be careful as they still thought it was like this video - instead I found myself in an incredible city feeling safe throughout.
@alexkx not necessarily. Things were starting to clean up by 1990 when dinkins was there. All giuliani did was allow the nypd to turn into the Gestapo and cost the taxpayers over 17 million during his tenure.
I was a 7 yr old boy living in West Philadelphia on this day who dreamed of coming to New York City then. I was/am a huge Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan and wanted to see the city in which my favs resided. I didn't get to New York until I was 21 in 2004.
@@Helmuesi911 nope. i was born on the west coast and didn't move to Philly until the late 1980's. Will Smith was a year away from moving to Bel Air when i got there.
I was a teenager in NYC Uptown W heights Harlem in 1990 and the chaos seen in this video gave me flashback. Crazy crazy crazy times in NYC. GOOD TIMES I LOVE MY NY !!!
I believe this video was shot in the 42nd Street area. It is an aspect of what Manhattan looked like at that time. I was walking in the same area at the time, so I can feel the passage of time. Thank you!
@@newyorkcity3335 huh, what am I missing here. I can't see Treasure Trails comment. But either way for myself if that's what is being discussed, I'm neither a zoomer, nor millennial. I'm Gen X.
I lived and still live in the suburbs of NYC on this date in 1990.. I was turning 26 this month and starting a new teaching job. I stayed at that job for 20 yrs. I was dating my future husband. If I could go back to this time, I would have done a lot of things differently and changed a few traumatic things that were yet to come. Time moves by quickly.
Yeah, New York before the Giuliani era. New York was dirty and dangerous, but that would change in a few years. I visited New York in the summer of 1991, and remember how grimy it was. Glad to see it got better, though I wish a certain event had never happened.
It's been 4 years since you said this I was young when I went so don't remember much, but I just wish it was affordable, or I would run away there for the American Dream.
@John Jay Is there any way to experience the old NY? Parts of it that haven't been gentrified but are safe for an European like myself? I want to visit your city, but I fear it's just other tourists and gentrified bland neighbourhoods.
I Turned 29 on that day , Wish I knew what I did , but I do know two years later in 92 My Marriage Ended ..I was 31 and yes I started to Have Fun at 31 ..
People here are already dressed pretty much the way they dress today. If you look at 1979, it's totally different. Old-fashioned clothes are still being worn by most people at that time, just 11 years before this. I'm guessing mid-1980s would be a mixture of the two!
The guy at the beginning was like “I’m cool” wheeeeeee! 😂 and with the guy simultaneously rummaging thru the trash 🤣 You even captured multiple marquees. Most NY scene ever. Genius level film making.
My parents were from Nigeria and originated to the USA in the year 1993. But this video of NYC on July 18th, 1990 was so rare, I wasn't even born in NYC since the year 1998.
I'm African American and think that the arrival of so many Africans and Mexicans in NY is why it's not the same anymore... The main minorities used to be African Americans and Puerto Ricans.... NY isn't the same anymore and is so lame now
I find myself watching this video over and over again, and thinking back to those times. I remember the feelings of absolute content emptiness in my own mind: that, in those days before the public internet, knowledge/data was relatively hard to come by, and required energy (wealth) to obtain. General socialization before 1980 had shored up people's networks (data networks = social networks, roughly). But, by 1990, the society was years into a socioeconomic regression (spanning far beyond American cities). Outside of well-connected or tony circles, Americans really struggled hard to communicate and to holistically prosper in this era. I guess I find the internet (world wide web, technically) to be an absolute godsend. I don't think I fully grasped the data wealth (and knowledge potential) it provided until relatively recently.
I would trade everything we have today for this again In a heartbeat. We have nothing with a sense of unfiltered pure free humanity anymore , all of this Interwoven social media access and oversaturated Information Is a controlled and weaponized lie. Even the golden age of the Internet has already long been dead , and the damage to our robotic , desensitized , and dumbed down society Is beyond repair now. I don't even understand how people have fun keeping up with most of these trends and conforming today to fit In , It's so fake and tiring and just not worth It. I cherish Individuality and honesty , and that's what people and places all over the world like this have lost imo.
@@fawkkyutuu8851 Fake and tiring are adjectives I would readily associate with the culture the Baby Boomers fostered in the era you're talking about. A generation that ridiculous has no monopoly on integrity, decency or solid values. Society has changed since then, for better and worse in some instances, but if you think the people who shaped the society that predominated when this video was made were any better, you're sadly deluded.
I was 19 then. Obviously the best time to be 19 in NYC. I saw the spot where I got my fake ID on this video lol. Too bad NYC isn't like what it use to be, so many CRAZY places there were, especially the XXX spots and underground clubs. All but gone :(
Loads of them. It was pretty crazy. use to be 25 cents in the machine, the window would go up and the girls would dance. Then the window would close after 1 minute and you put more money in. Plenty of those in the XXX places thru that entire area. The Mayor and the Guardian Angels cleared that up quickly as well as the hookers down by the Intrepid.
I was working pretty near there in July of 1990, on Eighth Ave and 49th St, at an ad agency in Worldwide Plaza, which was a new building at the time. I remember when we moved to that part of town, someone saying that the city was going to clean up Times Square and make it like a shopping mall. No one believed it but of course it came true.
The first 30 seconds are like in a movie! The drunken guy who fall down, the guy behind with his broken car, the guy who searches for food in the bin... a sequence like a painting
John Doe probably dead right now or fatty liver disease
@@back2the80s What do you know? Did you deal with his medical file personally?
Retrobytes okay nostradamus
Wish they kept recording longer.
and now NYC has deblasio who is allowing this to happen again, which makes this history repeating itself.
Between 0:18 & 0:24
You Have:
1. Guy digging in the trash
2. Guy falling over fire hydrant
3. Guy running from over heated car
+TheNoisePolluter welcome to my hometown NYC lol
Only in New York. Lol
TheNoisePolluter. Exactly!!!!!!
Those days are long gone....
Rob Paradise Poor man...
Back in the 90's they said the 70's were better. In the 2000's they said the 80's were better. In the 2010's they said the 90's were better. Now they say the 2000's were better. Moral of the story is.. WE MISS OUR YOUTH.
no new york was better.period
But it's true that mind/late 90's and 2000's are better than 2020's and late 2010's.
Either that, our the world truly is getting worse and worse lol
how was it not better LOL. before those jab mandate mask mandate plus plane crash dude
@@julied7546what about Early/Mid 2010s??
When New York was New York.
oh yeah, I started working in the city august 1990, it was unbelievable for a single guy!
@Beverly Huttinger true
@@ras124 SHIT PIT EVER SINCE GIULIANI LEFT
And there were over 2,200 murders in NYC that year.
@Beverly Huttinger I miss the twin towers. I visited the twin towers in the early 1990's
This is the NYC I grew up in. Nobody on their phones. No social media. I miss nostalgia NYC. I miss my Twin Towers.
The price of your worldwide USA hegemony 🤷♂
@@zolotoybaton691 I'm sure you benefited off it
@@dachicagoan8185we all benefitted off it in 2008
Edit: though I will agree things have only gone up hill since then thanks to the US.
I always yearned to know what people were doing on my 5th birthday in a random street in New York city. Now I know and it feels so good to finally have my question answered.
My 6 birthday there.
I was 2 months old here and born in the Netherlands on may 23rd. Love to see how other places looked around that time.
I've been to New York in august of 2019 and i absolutly loved it, a dream come true.
I just wish i could have seen it with the Twin Towers intact and lovely old-timers cruisin the streets of NY ..
😂
The same question for me. It was My 7th birthday 😂
0:21 the horn and the fall is priceless
🤣🤣🤣
free laughs!
😂😂
Turns out that police car was the original inventor of dubstep!
This brings back a flood of memories. I just graduated from HS and was headed of to the Army in a couple of months. It was my last summer in NYC before l embarked on my military career. I went to school not too far from Times Sq. I visit NYC from time to time. Just haven't lived over there in Decades. I miss her.
Ya k bud
It is look like GTA people haha
Hubert Materski Now it's just hipsters and businessmen.
The drunk guy is trever
Fix your grammer
xAngelicSnipeZ09x fix your comprehension
GTA 3 was in New York
Those were the days when Times Square was really fun.
NOW THE CITYS BROKE BECUASE OF BOOM BERG AND HIS HIGH TAXES AND HELL AND HIGH WATER LAWS
IDLE LAWS
SODA TAX
I CAN GO ON AND ON
WAS THERE YEARS AGO -- NOT THE SAME----------------- THE PLACE IS PATHETIC NOW
WENT TO MAMA LEONNES ITALIAN RESTAURANT IN 1985 FOR A CLASS TRIP FROM CONNECTICUT COST 10 DOLLARS FOR THE WHOLE TRIP
NOW ITS LIKE 100
TIME SQUARE IS A SHITBOX NOW
Yeah the whole "reduced crime" thing is a real bummer...
E Kop cry some more
Jesus Luna tell me the fun you had at Tines Square?
Ahhh, back when NYC wasn't the mall that it is today.
Why. A mall
This is incredible. The first 30 seconds alone show a scene you'd never see today. I went there on my own in 2009 and everyone told me to be careful as they still thought it was like this video - instead I found myself in an incredible city feeling safe throughout.
+Chica Latina New york used to be a hole lot dangerous then it was today. (not saying it isn't today, just not as bad)
@@FadeingRevolt i know... people don't understand that... and i live in this fawking shit hole
Just stay out of the colored neighborhood and you’ll be ok
By 2022 its starting to look like that again..
@@superjoeny lol no
I remember it being like that. I was so surprised to see it so clean when I went back in the late 90's and early 2000's.
@@wrongcurve5456 That had to do with Giuliani not that anyone from there care.
@alexkx not necessarily. Things were starting to clean up by 1990 when dinkins was there. All giuliani did was allow the nypd to turn into the Gestapo and cost the taxpayers over 17 million during his tenure.
@@alwillk I've never heard this drivel before or who ever this Dinkins person is. Nice try though! 😃
Between 0:22 and 0:25 there's more action than in my home town during a year :D
I was a 7 yr old boy living in West Philadelphia on this day who dreamed of coming to New York City then. I was/am a huge Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan and wanted to see the city in which my favs resided. I didn't get to New York until I was 21 in 2004.
West Philadelphia born and raised? Did you know With Smith?
@@Helmuesi911 nope. i was born on the west coast and didn't move to Philly until the late 1980's. Will Smith was a year away from moving to Bel Air when i got there.
shit funny seeing everybody say how they miss how good everything was back in these days like the city wasnt hyper violent
I was a teenager in NYC Uptown W heights Harlem in 1990 and the chaos seen in this video gave me flashback. Crazy crazy crazy times in NYC. GOOD TIMES I LOVE MY NY !!!
1993-2001 was golden age of new york city
2010-2016 was golden age of roblox
He married his cousin 😂😂😂😂😂
1978-2001
I spent one month in NYC on vacation. It was actually great.
I keep watching 0:23 over and over again
jnyc2007 Nice, the car over heating and the drunk..someone should paint that shot...
Kkk
TheMrZombified It's, like, everything that could go wrong at once is going wrong.
@@TheMrZombified lollll
WASTED
I love watching old videos from New York 80 s early 90 s when ny was normal
I had just turned 4. The early 90s looked like an interesting time to be alive. Cell phones were a luxury and Walkmans were still a thing.
I believe this video was shot in the 42nd Street area. It is an aspect of what Manhattan looked like at that time. I was walking in the same area at the time, so I can feel the passage of time. Thank you!
I' was working on 52nd st between Lexington and Park. Those's were the day's. Word.
This looks so old school. Holy shit!
Thinks changed alot in 26 years.
30 man
Today, 2020, 30 years have passed. Incredible
30 years is not long time tho
Its so cool.
First no phones.
No super rush
Really want to go back there and live
Gimme a time machine!!!
I was visiting New York that week at 21 about to turn 22 . Here I am looking for myself in this video. Lol.
Cringe boomer.
@@treasuretrailscringe zoomer
@@newyorkcity3335 I'm a proud Millenial get it right noob!
@@treasuretrails zoomer syndrome
@@newyorkcity3335 huh, what am I missing here. I can't see Treasure Trails comment. But either way for myself if that's what is being discussed, I'm neither a zoomer, nor millennial. I'm Gen X.
Robocop 2 was playing lol, love that movie
I lived and still live in the suburbs of NYC on this date in 1990.. I was turning 26 this month and starting a new teaching job. I stayed at that job for 20 yrs. I was dating my future husband. If I could go back to this time, I would have done a lot of things differently and changed a few traumatic things that were yet to come. Time moves by quickly.
U are beautiful 🥺
Um, you look 26 in your avatar so we are confused...
@@alexkx8599😂
@@alexkx8599 it's probably an old picture, or it's not a picture of @midnightbrian9132.
Lol, we have fairly similar names
Which traumatic things? Tell us.
I was 8 months pregnant, working on 59th Street. That fall is the norm in NYC!
No internet and no smart phone seen anywhere in the video. The good old days when you compare how things are today.
Yep no lgbtq
0:43 the fact that i walked here so many times and to see it like this years before just blows my mind
wow . i was one month and 17 days.. somewhere in Brooklyn with mommy ... long live 1990 ... #NYC #BrooklynNative
I WAS 6 BACK IN 1990
I was 72
@@shadilyoooo2940 LMAOOOOOOOOO
Priceless. The mere existence of this video pleases me.
YA!!! Robo Cop 2!!! @ 0:33
Yeah, New York before the Giuliani era. New York was dirty and dangerous, but that would change in a few years. I visited New York in the summer of 1991, and remember how grimy it was. Glad to see it got better, though I wish a certain event had never happened.
It's been 4 years since you said this I was young when I went so don't remember much, but I just wish it was affordable, or I would run away there for the American Dream.
@John Jay Is there any way to experience the old NY? Parts of it that haven't been gentrified but are safe for an European like myself? I want to visit your city, but I fear it's just other tourists and gentrified bland neighbourhoods.
To see more of 70s/80s NY, go to Facebook and look for the page:
The Real NY 70's/80's
To see more of 70s/80s NY, go to Facebook and look for the page:
The Real NY 70's/80's
Imagine living there in the south Bronx
I Turned 29 on that day , Wish I knew what I did , but I do know two years later in 92 My Marriage Ended ..I was 31 and yes I started to Have Fun at 31 ..
People here are already dressed pretty much the way they dress today. If you look at 1979, it's totally different. Old-fashioned clothes are still being worn by most people at that time, just 11 years before this. I'm guessing mid-1980s would be a mixture of the two!
this is like Buenos Aires today! lol
This is the most New York I've ever seen New York been and I'm not even from there
Dirty and affordable... how I miss the real NYC!
oldschoolwax And full of homicide.
Hasn't NYC always been expensive?
It's still kind of dirty
@@MrDodger3222 no a one bedroom apartment in the boroughs used to be $500 ..
But in a rough area
@@hereisayana8207 Now it's like $1000
Exactly 4 years before I was born! Amazing video.
This is the NY i remember. Is it bad that i kind of miss it.
To see more of 70s/80s NY, go to Facebook and look for the page:
The Real NY 70's/80's
I visited New York that summer a few days later for 2 weeks. I´m stunned ... this looks so far away from today!
My first time visiting New York city was around this time. Great time with friends!
Thanks for sharing! This was one month before I visited NYC for the first time ever (August 1990)
What was your experience like?
The guy at the beginning was like “I’m cool” wheeeeeee! 😂 and with the guy simultaneously rummaging thru the trash 🤣 You even captured multiple marquees. Most NY scene ever. Genius level film making.
My city 🙌🏻❤️
The good 'ole days when NY averaged over 6 homicides a day (2262 were recorded that year).
Wait hold up
Yep you're correct, thank the crack epidemic for that
My parents were from Nigeria and originated to the USA in the year 1993. But this video of NYC on July 18th, 1990 was so rare, I wasn't even born in NYC since the year 1998.
I'm African American and think that the arrival of so many Africans and Mexicans in NY is why it's not the same anymore... The main minorities used to be African Americans and Puerto Ricans.... NY isn't the same anymore and is so lame now
Everything was soo much more lively back then
Everyone say how they miss the good old days. 1990 was the biggest statistical crime year in history. City is much safer now.
2000+ murders that one year
What a great nostalgia to see in 90s,newyork en other parts have come along way
I find myself watching this video over and over again, and thinking back to those times. I remember the feelings of absolute content emptiness in my own mind: that, in those days before the public internet, knowledge/data was relatively hard to come by, and required energy (wealth) to obtain. General socialization before 1980 had shored up people's networks (data networks = social networks, roughly). But, by 1990, the society was years into a socioeconomic regression (spanning far beyond American cities). Outside of well-connected or tony circles, Americans really struggled hard to communicate and to holistically prosper in this era. I guess I find the internet (world wide web, technically) to be an absolute godsend. I don't think I fully grasped the data wealth (and knowledge potential) it provided until relatively recently.
I would trade everything we have today for this again In a heartbeat. We have nothing with a sense of unfiltered pure free humanity anymore , all of this Interwoven social media access and oversaturated Information Is a controlled and weaponized lie. Even the golden age of the Internet has already long been dead , and the damage to our robotic , desensitized , and dumbed down society Is beyond repair now. I don't even understand how people have fun keeping up with most of these trends and conforming today to fit In , It's so fake and tiring and just not worth It. I cherish Individuality and honesty , and that's what people and places all over the world like this have lost imo.
Nothing has changed in 2023.
@@fawkkyutuu8851 Fake and tiring are adjectives I would readily associate with the culture the Baby Boomers fostered in the era you're talking about. A generation that ridiculous has no monopoly on integrity, decency or solid values. Society has changed since then, for better and worse in some instances, but if you think the people who shaped the society that predominated when this video was made were any better, you're sadly deluded.
@@fawkkyutuu8851 The internet has been censored since 2006 when you know who started to arrive on the scene...
@fawkkyutuu8851 Great comment, you're so accurate with your statement, IMO!
all the good old days
Junkies, Porn shops and traffic moving through Times square
not a M&M's store or knock off Elmo in sight
booo!
to me it doesnt sound better
You miss your junkie buddies
Thus is why dad used to lock the doors when we drove into th city
JUST OUTTA HIGH SCHOOL CANT BELIEVE 26 YRS
UNREAL
LOVE TO GO BACK TO 1990-------------
5 DOLLARS TO PARK YOUR CAR UP TO 10 HOURS???????????
NOW ITS 5 DOLLARS EVERY 30 MINUTES NOW
THANKS TO BOOBIE BERG AND HIS TAXES
more like due to inflation
AHAHAA
YES OH YES
DEBLAZIO IS RUNNING THE CITY TO THE GROUND
NO WONDER PEOPLE ARE BROKE OVER THERE
And we are 10 years later I wonder what new york 2013 looks back then
I love the 90s
This might as well be the 1970s it looks so retro.
Anyone else agree that NYC 2019 is pretty much Disneyland now?
It’s sorta a mixture nowadays. But definitely not like this
THis is incredible, reminds me of my childhood
I always loved how new york looked in the 90s
@@wrongcurve5456 ressecion?
@@wrongcurve5456 ressecion?
This is the NYC that I remember when I lived there.
Jesus Christ i was 18yrs old in 1990 living in the Bronx and i don't remember NYC looking so depressing. The video looks like it's from the 70's..
Looks like a Spike Lee movie
Every video of 90s are so depressing except when you come to retro videos of USA they are so good like in movies 🎥
Wow I turned 3 years old on the day this was recorded!
Love this footage
I was 19 then. Obviously the best time to be 19 in NYC. I saw the spot where I got my fake ID on this video lol. Too bad NYC isn't like what it use to be, so many CRAZY places there were, especially the XXX spots and underground clubs. All but gone :(
+Mindchime Official when u was 19 , i was one month old... im use to the times square around 04' 05' .. was there really a lot of xxx shops ..?
Loads of them. It was pretty crazy. use to be 25 cents in the machine, the window would go up and the girls would dance. Then the window would close after 1 minute and you put more money in. Plenty of those in the XXX places thru that entire area. The Mayor and the Guardian Angels cleared that up quickly as well as the hookers down by the Intrepid.
Yeah, back when you worried if you could get mugged in every block. I'm glad new york has changed.
yep, I had a blast working, partying, mongering in the 80s/90s
The underground clubs are now shows, they're still around. You just gotta look.
One word : Epic
Epic and terrific
0:23 the guy falls over the Johnny pump
Why am i feel nostalgic from this video, even though i wasn't even yet...
To see more of 70s/80s NY, go to Facebook and look for the page:
The Real NY 70's/80's
90's nyc was wild!
People be like "aww, the good ol days"😅
When nyc was real and fun and had passion
this made my day
Was 21. Had just come home on leave from San Diego A School. Bitter sweet memories.
This is how I remember it. Freakin awesome time.
When NYC avg 2K murders a year and Times Sq. was fullah ladies of the evening & dope heads. Wild times back then!
24 sec Holmes was so lit he tried sitting on air. Excellent video
Remarkable, that's amazing😱
thank goodness i was in summer school that year. these streets are crazy.
I graduated H.S. that June wanted to hitch from Pittburgh-NYC. My friend chickened out. Biggest regret.
Just wanted to add that was almost the very end for the grind house movie houses. By 1995 every single grind house was gone and most destroyed.
This is great !
To look at these images I’d say that the thing that looks most different today is the skyline at the end there.
Loved watching that 👍
Robo cop 2 in theaters!
truly a concrete jungle
The first 30 seconds was so real, it looked scripted.
From July 18 1990 to July 18 2022 🙂
NYC had their highest murder rate during this year. over 2200+ murders in 1990 alone
And 2017 I was 239
@@hoesbeforebros6030 I love your stupidity
Born an raised in NY and nothing like it lol
OH grimy perfection!
0:23 That timing tho
Как же хотелось попасть в то время, хотя меня даже там и не было
Its still a bit like that here and there, definitely not in Times Sq
I was working pretty near there in July of 1990, on Eighth Ave and 49th St, at an ad agency in Worldwide Plaza, which was a new building at the time. I remember when we moved to that part of town, someone saying that the city was going to clean up Times Square and make it like a shopping mall. No one believed it but of course it came true.
Ogilvy & Mather Direct?
@@ArtificialBanana NW Ayer--it was a huge agency at the time but is now defunct. O&M was a few floors below us.