BQE to the LIE (New York City 1990)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Brooklyn Queens Expressway to the Long Island Expressway with your humble host from Texas. See this grand expressway and read of the memories it elicits as you listen to a sound track provided by The Colours of Austin, TX - precursor of Johnny Law!
Bro has been waiting 33 years for this moment to share and I’m all for it.
32, but yes, when I saw what was there I couldn't wait to share. With whom? I did not know. Thanks for watching and posting.
Crazy how such a random, seemingly mundane video of a person driving through traffic one random day in my city would mean so much to me, a teen with nostalgia for a past I can just barely remember. Thank you for documenting this.
And thank you for posting. I am glad that it has resonated with you and that you have found something in it for yourself. I know that I was taken by surprise when it resonated with me. Kind regards.
I am glad that you got so much out of it and took the time to post your thoughts and comments. Thank you.
I love seeing all those 70’s and 80’s cars on the roads. It’s like I’m 10 years old for a moment..simpler times..the first summer of the 90’s ❤ 🌻
I just remember the noxious fumes if I was in a car or truck without AC.
poor@@thethomasj1795
crazy how clear the road looks with out a million oversized suvs
Back when car manufacturers were still building actual cars and wagons. Nowadays, its just trucks and crossovers.
@@Ru2stee True & soon it will be electric garbage everything
I still remember my mom's crappy Plymouth car and we had to hold the door shut with rope
That makes no sense.
@@Carl_McMelvinof course it does, lol. Back in the day, dorks weren't buying SUVs and trucks as penis-extensions. Trucks were reserved for work. Now everyone thinks they need an oversized vehicle for their family and it's congested the roads.
The algorithm brings us together once again
And for that I am grateful. Thanks for posting.
loved this video, amazing era for cars and id give anything to get to drive in nyc during this time
I do consider myself lucky to have been there during the years that I was. And glad that I was driving also. I remember driving all the way down the upper west side on Broadway, passing right through Times Square, on my way down to the Village. If you hit the lights right you could literally sail right through the heart of NYC. Did that many times. Today, it is no longer possible to do that. I guess everything changes eventually. Thanks for posting.
Memories of riding out to the family's holidays that's what I'm seeing here, good memories thank you
Thank you so much for posting your comments. I can imagine going out to an aunt's house or grandma's somewhere out in Suffolk County. Family picnic at Robert Moses or another park. Or simply in the backyard. I totally felt the vibe then, and now - although I was from the windswept desert, and my grandmother lived on the windswept plains of North Texas.
Man I love how 1990 this is: post-Reagan,pre-Clinton, not 80s, not 90s, neither here nor there, just....peak of the egg.
Thank you so much for posting.
And thank you for watching and leaving your comments. Glad you enjoyed it.
Came for the footage, stayed for the music and conmentary. Spectacular stuff…a window into an America I was too young to see
Glad you enjoyed both the video and music. More of that old 80's & 90's music from that band to be found on my channel. Appreciate your comments.
Clicked for the 33 year old driving footage, stayed for the story. Funny that I and others got so into what you are saying here, I think it happens to all of us in life, you just get to a point where you hate your situation soo much it HAS to change, and when you look back documenting it I bet it brings back a tonne of emotions. For me watching this video made me think about my life at that time - I live in the UK, I was just a kid in school, and all my friends at the time were talking about that Turtles movie (1990) which was probably being filmed nearby where you are driving in this vid at the time. New York looked an awesome place when I was younger. Coincidentally I just got done watching that movie on TV today, I'd actually never seen it till now! And then this vid comes up on my UA-cam recommendations. Funny old world. Soo much going on at different times yet we are all connected somehow...
Thanks for posting.I have to admit at this point, that it is very gratifying that folks are getting out of this as much as it made me feel when I decided to post it and add the music and commentary. I did not expect it to gain this much traction, but I am glad that it has. We are connected. Best of luck as we all move forward.
It is amazing how something so mundane back in 1990 could be so enjoyable in 2023
Thanks for posting. Glad that you enjoyed it.
I got invested in your storytelling like you would not believe. It's incredible just how intense and interesting something as mundane as old driving footage can be crafted into the stage for a thrilling origin story with the mind (and keyboard) of a good writer. Well done!
Thank you so much for your kind words and taking the time to post your comments. It really was all one burst of inspiration - such that it is. I was laying out the video and that was going to be it. But then I thought, probably should add music. Realized I had some old demos of my brother's band from that time period, what better. And no copyright problems! Then the emotions and memories started flooding back powerfully with both the video and music that I had to put down some of it in words - to at least preserve for myself what I was feeling at the time - years from now. It all came together in just a couple of hours, and I just posted it. I knew if I went back and started tinkering with it that I would run the risk of never finishing it, endlessly perfecting and procrastinating it - to death. There are things that I would like to change, typos to correct, other comments to add - but I won't. The flaws lend it character. And I am so glad that you, and others, have enjoyed some part of this journey also.
Man, the cars were so gorgeous. I'm jealous.
Not mine! But still trying not to be jealous!
This video brings back so many memories of being a backseat passenger with my parents as they'd make so many drives along the BQE and LIE over the years.
Seeing the old Kosciuszko Bridge and its old road surface that made that buzzing sound, the giant gas tank in Maspeth -- so many memories
Somehow this video appeared on my feed and I am so glad it did. This video speaks to me in so many ways. The highway driving, the music, plentiful big boxy cars from my favorite era 70s and 80s. I really liked the captioned narration which tells the story behind this video. I will look for more videos on your channel.
I am so glad that you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for posting and leaving your comments.
Thank you for uploading this video. I drove these roads countless of times since ‘94 (when I was 19) until 2021 when I moved away from NY. I’d be excited to see this video in recent days but seeing in this era just brings back so many memories. The cars me and my dad had at the time, figuring out how to get to certain places without gps, the stuff me and my gf at the time was talking about…etc. also the video faded at the end right before my exit (Main street, Flushing). This is wonderful.
And thank you for watching. I am glad that you enjoyed it.
No Google or Apple Maps, just rawdoging the road 😂
Never! Paper map briefing before the reconnoiter! Then best of luck!
Born in 2002 and lived right there on 48th street my whole my life. Commute via the BQE everyday. To see how little it has changed is crazy.
I was born in 89 I’m from 46st and 48th ave lol
@@Quepasaaqui718 I’m from the cosmopolitan buildings on 47th avenue. Lol. My older sister was born in 93 you probably went to school w her at some point. She went to 125.
Most big cities don’t change, however parts of midwest have the biggest change.
Lmao dude you were born a year after 9/11. There is NOTHING the same about NYC post 2001. This is coming from a Staten Islander who was born in 87. You have no idea how different the city was just a year before you existed. Another incredibly dumb comment from yet another college educated genius. God Bless America lmao
@@nicofromqueens5249I graduated from 125 in 2003 my name is Gabbi I’m from the cosmos too 4815 46 street lol I was born in 89
This is the Brooklyn I loved and miss! Thank you for taking me back
My pleasure. Thanks for watching and posting your comments.
I swear this whole road looks the same way now in 2023 😂 btw i miss the 90s.... I wish i could relive that whole era.
Lol yea it really does! NYC infrastructure doesn’t change much.
Except for the Kosciuzsko bridge, now it's brand new
I wish the road was filled with old cars like this
No you don't...You wouldn't be able to breathe from the smog...
@@bruisersdilemma354 good
They’re ugly and make smog and are bad on gas. It’s fun to watch historic videos like this from the 1900s but we have to remember that in 2023 we can breath by the freeway and not smell gas and diesel. It’s clean healthy air by the highway just like by a nature preserve. Back in the 1900s there was a lot of polluted air by the roads
@@bruisersdilemma354 this is the 90s not the 60s
I drive a 1989 acura legend snd its amazing how 1990 was. I also have a 1990 buick lesabre
I remember the LeSabre well. My folks had one back in the 70's! Gone but not forgotten. Thanks for posting.
New York has always been a special place to me. It’s managed to not lose too much of its grit over the years, notwithstanding the scarcity of the New York accent nowadays. I enjoyed the watch, and the commentary to boot.
Thaks for watching and for leaving your comments. I appreciate it and glad that you enjoyed it.
This video showing you driving around 2 years before i was born; somehow makes me feel strangely nostalgic.
But from a guy who like to drive to another, i totally get this feeling, i also endured certain jobs because i loved the commute and im also in an inflection point in my life, driving there, knowing i won't be doing this job anymore.
Anyways, I also happen to have this thing for a peaceful moment inside of my car, driving smoothly, enjoying the moment of existing and being in motion, gliding over the asphalt, i can't explain. Its a "driver thing".
This vid talks to me in many ways lol
Thank you for posting. Reading your comments it is clear that you absolutely "get it". Sometimes that commute is the only time you have to commune with yourself. Gather your thoughts. And see where it is that you need to go. Safe travels on your journey.
These video were very valuable, regular road journeys from the days before dashcam became a thing are rare, not many people would use their expensive storage space for such thing.
I am glad that you watched it and appreciated it. I sure didn't think much of it at the time, but now I do. Thanks for posting your comments.
I can only imagine how that era was. I was born in 94. Stress free ride while listening to Mike and the Mad Dog on radio.
Say something funny, Mike!
@@jasonbastidadds7817 "Numbah one"
You and me both. Early 2000s wasn’t that bad tho, even post 9/11
Another cool vid. I wasn't born yet but it was cool to see the highways of my city in 1990, enjoyed your stories as well.
Thanks for watching and posting your comments. Glad that you enjoyed it.
Thanks for this, my home for 54 years. So much has changed,
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and posting.
This brings back a lot of nostalgia.
It sure did for me. When I watched it for the first time in 30 years. I am glad that it has struck a chord with so many. I never would have guessed. Thanks for posting.
Fascinating to say the least! i have lived in brooklyn as a jobless fresh graduate looking for first real job after college for about 3 months, summer of 2006. Clearly remember hot humid days of summer taking a subway to manhattan going for dead end job interviews, getting lost on the way, confused between uptown / downtown lines, on my way back debating should i eat a meal or save money by eating 99c pizza. If you are not set NYC is a brutal place. 17 years later, i am doing very well, and everytime we go for a dinner or a broadway show to the city, it all come back to me, that once i struggled hard in this city and now i drive in comfort, not worried about making ends meet.
Thanks for posting. I took them at their word. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. And those memories stay fresh with you for a lifetime. Best wishes as you continue down the highway.
Born and raised in Queens and my Dad and I would drive this route every day and I still do for my commute. Thanks for the video because it brings back good memories from the 90s
You are welcome. I am glad that you enjoyed the video and posted your comments.
Notice all the foreign cars on the road. Peugeot, Honda, Toyota - Nice to see an old Cadillac like the one Henry Hill had in Goodfellas, which wouldn't be released for another couple months after this video. Thanks for posting this. I lived in Bay Ridge at this time on Ovington ave.
Thank you for posting. It is interesting what people notice in this video, but cars are always a great time stamp that define an era. I was in a Mazda pick-up truck. Don't see those anymore. And later had an Isuzu Trooper. Definitely don't see those anymore. That old caddy though is a classic, just like the movie "Good Fellas". I appreciate your comments fellow Bay Ridger.
"Marathon Man" style gasoline tanker up ahead. Yikes!
I cant believe that this was in 1990 and was 9 years old watching this in 2023 and 43 now times were different especially no Facebook UA-cam and social media
Incredible video.. It was more than worth 14 minutes of my time to watch it.. It brought back some memories, some things have changed, but much of the infrastucture hasn't really changed at all.. It was great to see the old gas tanks in Greenpoint and Elmhurst that are no longer around..
Thanks so much for posting your comments. It is interesting to see what folks reflect on from this video. Sometimes it is the cars of the day, the volume of traffic, the buildings or simply memories that the whole thing provokes, but now people have mentioned these Elmhurst Tanks at least a couple of times. That is fascinating. They really were quite prominent. Part of the "landscape" as it were. Sadly, like the Towers once were. Hard to imagine these things ever changing or never being there, they seemed such a part of our daily life. The tanks should've been an album cover like the power plant in London from Animals, by Pink Floyd. Preserved forever as some sort of urban art installation. Thank you for mentioning this, and so glad that you enjoyed the video.
Love the nostalgia in this footage. The real NY!
This is a pretty cool ride along, I missed the good olds living in NYC. Thanks for making this video.
The ONE thing that sticks out to me most in this video...
Lots of yellows, blues, greens, red cars...
Color! Where did it all go? Today just whites, blacks, greys. Thanks Geico...
thank you
this lost 20 year old from the other side of the world appreciates part of the life story shared in this video
I am so glad that you did enjoy it. I wish you all the best wherever you may be. Thanks for posting.
Love seeing old footage like this. Thx for posting. Nice looking International 9670 bobtailing at 13:56.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for posting!
About 1:44 we see a red 89 or 90 Taurus SHO. A pretty striking design for the time in a sea of boxes.
The Taurus was in the 90s and even 00s before everything else was. Revolutionary.
Thanks for posting. Interesting the things that people are commenting on in this video. I am going to have to look at it again carefully.
@@hughescreativeservicesllc3436 I'm kind of a fan of those cars, my parents had two in the 90's and they were a blast. The SHO model in particular was very quick for a 4-door. When it was introduced; if you wanted a faster sedan you'd have to spend double for a BMW M5.
@@SPTunnelMotorToday Ford only produces electric SUVs, and perhaps it is even going out of business
There is something so interesting about looking back on the past, the way things used to be. I was not born until 2004 but it still seems so nostalgic or like what a time to be alive. Additionally, I never considered myself a city person, but I do live only an hour and a half from NYC, and the last couple times I went I started to realize why people enjoy it. Not that I would want to live in a small apartment for any period of my life, but visiting the city and just seeing everything going on is cool.
New York City is cool. A great place to live for a certain period of time in your life. Always a great place to visit. New Yorkers are good people and the city has a vibe that you cannot feel anywhere else. It will always be a part of me.
Wow, excellent footage of the past!
Really entertaining to watch in to every minor detail, the sound, the quality, the cars and everything else.
Thank you for that great video!
So glad that you enjoyed all the elements. Thank you for watching and posting your comments.
The miss the old NYC that I grew up in. Safe to say that ALL of those street lights and poles are long gone. LOL
I still drive that route nothing changed just more cars
you didnt notice the new bridge? lol
Great video , are driving ford ranger lol reminds my first truck / car 🚙 love that thing drive it from LIE TO BQE couple time s god old days
I drive this road every week and its so cool seeing it back then. 3 years before I was born actually haha
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for posting.
It's funny, being older i remember a time in NYC and no matter what changes that time i remember lives on as "my nyc" in almost a romanticized place that only existed for a moment.. thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for posting and for your reflections. Very poignant. Captures my feelings as well. The river of memories keeps slipping past. But the river runs deep and I find myself drifting back to that time when that NYC was mine also, but for a brief moment.
Great historical video , another 23 years and the young generation will be asking people
like you so much ! That is if they will be interested in the history of their own city at all ./
Yes, we will see just how interested they might be. I love history and read quite a lot. A natural curiosity is required. Thanks for watching and posting.
At the 12 minute mark, off to the right, is the block I grew up on. We used to hang out along that wall and drink beers.
What a cool comment and reflection to post for all of us. Brings a bit more life to the video. Thanks.
U can timestamp what u say
Seeing those twin Desky NYC standard poles on the highway median brought back some nostalgia as being young in the backseat of car seeing my grandparents in Queens in the 80's and 90's.
Thank you for posting your comment. I am glad that this video brings back some powerful memories for you. I know that it very much does for me.
And some of the other larger variants of the Desky or SLECo's as I call them...
@mike, same here! Those poles were on every expressway/parkway in the city when I was a kid in the 80s/90s. They even had some really long ones...lol
crazy i was born in 98 live right in front of the LIE for all my life. right by that big lefrak city bulding on the left at 12:47 thats my area. cool footage
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
Great video and story. A real time capsule!
Thank you for your post. I am so pleased that you enjoyed it. It really was simply for my brain and nostalgia, so it is a real kick that others get something from it also.
Thank you for this video very nostalgic
Significantly less traffic back then. I used be a delivery driver for a Freightliner dealer so I took this drive every single day from South Brunswick NJ to Long Island City. That ITC tanker truck in the beginning I bet is going to their yard under the Kosciusko bridge
Really enjoyed this look into the past and hearing about your story. I look forward to watching more of your videos
Thanks for watching and leaving your comments. Glad you enjoyed it. Will try to get those others up soon.
I drove that route with my eyes closed. I was hoping you passed douglaston on the LIE. I wanted to peak at the old sporting goods store “Herman’s” I loved the old NYC!! Thank you for sharing!
I don't remember if I remember Herman's. I might if I saw it again. Wish I had taped a little longer. Thanks for watching and posting your comments.
@@hughescreativeservicesllc3436 if you continue to drive east on the LIE. You will be met with a long straight strip declining while passing “cross island parkway” as it inclines to your right is “douglaston” where there’s a small plaza that had Burger King, Stern’s, Toysrus and Herman’s. It’s a 80s/90s thing. I always passed it when going to Long Island. Wonderful video.
Thanks for watching and posting your comments.@@erock8678
My grandma bought me a basketball at that Herman’s😊
@@erock8678I loved passing there. Sad that burger king, the movie theatre, toys r us, sterns/Macy's, dicks sporting goods is closed down for good
That was very cool bro... Thank you for posting!! Loved seeing that old footage of the highways in BK/QNS full of dirt and trash and stripped cars... LONG before the hipsters came in and gentrified it all with the luxury condos... I even saw a JA tag on one of the overpasses in Williamsburg!! LEGENDARY.
Glad you liked it. And thank you for posting your thoughts and comments.
Man 33 years have passed and the road signs are exactly the same! It’s just the cars that are different haha!
Great video. As a person form Long Island I greatly appreciated that you correctly state that you lived ON Long Island.
Thank you so much for posting. It really was one of those weird things when living up there that no one wanted to admit that they did not live in Manhattan. Whether they lived in Jersey, Connecticut, Staten Island, or Brooklyn or Queens. I found that so bemusing. I generally worked most of my freelance life in Manhattan, but never wanted to be able to brag about actually living there. Nothing wrong with Manhattan, but I wanted a life also and Long Island offered that. It didn't offer lunatics arguing or dumpsters banging at 3am, but it did have Robert Moses State Park!
Wow, a blast from the past! Love it. Its all familiar scenery and it makes you realize both how much things have changed and how much they're the same. Awsome man, thanks very much! PS I lived in Bayville (Oyster Bay) during this timeframe - 1990 - 2000.... Toward the end of the decade I/we spent ALL our spare time in Manhattan. I worked behind JFK in Inwood, LI at the time...
Glad you enjoyed it and posted your comments. Thanks for watching.
Right up the Van Wyck from me back in the day
What a nice look and throwback. Thanks for the video.
It's completely different now. If you did it today, it would be bumper to bumper traffic from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Kosciuszko Bridge. No matter what time of day, there is always insane traffic now because those neighborhoods are repopulated. It's worse than LA.
Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Long Island City look like Dubai now with all of the fancy new high rises and condos all along the BQE.
New Kosciuszko Bridge is fancier looking now too and all lit up at night.
There is even talk and plans to move the BQE underground and tear down the Brooklyn Heights part.
Amazing how it changed so much in over thirty years.
Thanks for filling me in on the details. Hard to imagine, as I have yet to see it. But I did hear and see some pics of LIC. Thanks for watching and posting your comments.
Wow 🤩 the good old days ❤missed those days . Thanks for the memories 🍻🍻🍻🍻
And thank you for watching and posting your comments.
This was great. I watched the whole thing and now I need more lol.
Thanks for watching the whole thing and thanks for posting your comments. I appreciate them.
How cool it is to think that a young Doug Heffernan traveled those same roads...
Things were much simpler. If we can only go back 👍🏼
I really enjoy reading your personal story while seeing some footage of it. I'm 27, a computer programmer, and I have a feeling that the next step in my life is coming around the corner. I'm not sure where I'm gonna end up but I'm both nervous and excited about it. Reading this story helped. Great footage.
Thanks you for posting and leaving your comments. Good luck on your journey. I wish you well.
First excellent. This is wonderful! The captions give this a Charles Bukowski Hunter S. Thompson vibe. I love it.
Glad that you liked it, and I appreciate the Hunter S. Thompson reference!
I drive to/from Syosset on LI to Manhattan pretty frequently. I know the characteristics of the road like the back of my hand. Watching this is kind of surreal because it seems nearly identical 30+ years later, but with that slightly off feeling. The charm of the olden days adds a slight sense of eeriness and nostalgia, especially since it's before my time! That little slip of the Twin Towers near the beginning is just unreal man, they came down just a couple years after I was born. Thanks for the upload!
Also from around there, and the roads do look pretty much the same pretty cool.
I've been on this stretch of the BQE and LIE my whole life.
The old Kosciuszko bridge is in there, as well as the Elmhurst gas tanks, which I lived no more than a few blocks away.
Facts. You:re 1974 and I:m 73.
So many awesome cars. Sweet Camry wagon, Benz W116 and a whole carrier of Isuzu Troopers. Swoon
The things that I still haven't even noticed in this video that others are still picking up on is incredible. The broken speedometer, and now the truck load of Isuzu Troopers! It is ironic because a couple of years later when the Mazda pick-up finally died, my next vehicle was an Isuzu Trooper. Coincidence? I think not! Thanks for posting.
i'm a videographer also on his journey, and i also ride motorcycles. This speaks to me on a personal level.
All good wishes on your journey, and please be careful on that motorcycle! Thanks for posting and sharing your thoughts.
Great vid. Especially when you mentioned Huntington. That was one of my haunts back in the day!
Good place, good times. Quite a bit I miss about it.
I was born in early 2000s but idk there's something just special about 70s 80s 90s or maybe I'm just weird idk. I'm fascinated about the older days and sometimes wish to time travel and see what a regular day felt and look like in the 80s or the 90s. brilliant footage though I'm from Ja Queens
Thanks for posting. I am surely biased, but I thought the 70's and 80's, and for the most part 90's, were pretty terrific. I never heard my elder relatives talk much about a yearning for the 20's, 30's or 40's (The Depression and WW2). A few really liked the 50's, and some the 60's. For me though the 70's and 80's were a good compromise between the simpler times of those earlier decades, with a lot of the technical conveniences that we take for granted now (ubiquitous AC, affordable air travel and multiple TV viewing options) in the latter decades.
Do not worry I am exactly the same. I was born in 1992 and despite I dont remember much about 90s only the feeling of it which was amazing. When I was little I was always thinking I was born at best times ever but maybe every child feels like that who knows. But still I love videos like this one.
Thanks for watching and thanks for posting your thoughts and comments.@@simonabilkova4029
@@simonabilkova4029 good to hear
This is the New York I remember. Full of crappy drivers that can't stay in their lanes yet nobody got into an accident. Miracle footage.
8:16 that Bridge doesn't even exist anymore.
Thanks for watching and sharing your observations.
The old kosciuszko bridge!
@@Fizz826 you mean the Kamikaze bridge!
I wish i was around back then and could have bought so many nice 70's and 80's cars for dirt cheap
Yes, indeed, and cheaper to repair also! Thanks for posting.
@@pmicki8116garbage you’re smoking saw dust clearly these newer vehicles are way more troubling you clearly are not mechanically inclined
hah, watching you tailgate that *new* corolla E90 was great, it was a time when you could see heads poking out the interior through the back windshield >.< if you had tailgated that corolla today, the driver would've had a fit and of course it'd be on camera
I was drafting! Yeah, definitely too close a couple of times with a couple of vehicles there. My depth perception was impaired by the viewfinder of the camcorder! Thanks for watching and posting.
When I watch this, all I hear is the opening music of the Sopranos tv show.
i wasn't even born in 1990 or remember the 90's remotely but this kind of boosted-up good nostalgia of NYC :D
80 and 90 the best of NY
I miss old America.
Great footage, but what really grabbed me was your commentary. I appreciated the words as a companion to the moments captured here-these would only be mere images if not for the memories attached to them. What presents as a fascinating window into a bygone era is actually much deeper; your entire life was about to change, and woven into this video is all of the small moments of doubt, fear, and stress that begin to build as things change course. I believe this is why so many of us become attracted to creating our own personal archives through video-at some point, despite every unknown, we can finally zoom out and appreciate a time and a place. Looking forward to your USSR travels, hopefully with commentary ;)
Thank you for taking the time to post your comments, I appreciate them. I am glad taht you enjoyed the video and I'll do my best to get cracking on the USSR footage. This is a busy time of year, but I really do need to get started - thanks for the nudge.
What an interesting glimpse into the past. enjoyed hearing a bit about your journey. Brings back memories, I was in the military and driving around Washington DC at that time. A reminder how much cars have changed. Watching you drive and thinking many of those drivers are dead or too old to still be behind the wheel, and almost all of those cars and trucks were junked long ago.
The relentless march of time. Makes more progress than we realize, until we pause to take a look back. Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and posting your thoughts and comments.
This was shot the same year i was born and it's crazy that i still see some of these cars on the road
That is crazy. Thanks for watching and posting your comments.
Man, I love 90s cars!
90s New York City was the best...rent was cheap,McDonald's was delicious,but video games didn't took off and I was only 10 years old just came to america at JFK Panam Airlines.
very nice quality footage. Colors are amazing! I wish someone would AI upsample this to 4K!
Love all the older cars :)
Great video, it feels nostalgic even though I've never been to the U.S. and frankly, haven't even been born for another 8 years. Also really enjoyed the commentary, especially since I'm 25, unemployed and trying to start my freelance career so it really resonated with me. Thanks for sharing & greetings from Frankfurt, Germany!
Thanks for watching. I am glad that you enjoyed it and that it resonated with you. Best wishes and good luck on your journey.
@@hughescreativeservicesllc3436 Thank you very much! Take care
This is a trip. I'm from NYC and was just at that BQE overhang a few months ago and along this road.
Hope you are finding it interesting. Thank you for posting.
I still take this ride 2023
the old Marshall's building. Love looking at this video and visually comparing what you drove through and what are they now.
I am glad that you are enjoying it. Thank you for posting.
@@hughescreativeservicesllc3436 i should be thanking you for posting this piece of history.
Kind of you to say so, but I did it for selfish reasons. I did not want to forget, and I needed a way to preserve the memory.@@incognitotees
thank you for being selfish lol @@hughescreativeservicesllc3436
amazing that it still looks exactly likt this today.
That's hilarious. Good to know if I ever make back up that way that I won't get lost - since it looks the same! Thanks for posting! Happy New Year!
It doesn't quite look the same...
They've since replaced the Kosciusko Bridge with a new one...
And nearly all of the streetlighting equipment has been changed over to LED...
From Canada, it seems 1990 still had the 80s culture left from 1988-89
Absolutely it did.
Tàkes me back to bein a kid ridin with my dad back then, familiar af, miss NY, moved when I was a teenager south with my pops
jersey south or georgia south
Virginia/Carolina
Great video and compelling backstory. Thank you.
Thank you so much for watching and for posting your comments. I am happy that you took the time to follow and comment on the back story also. I'm never sure if folks catch it, or if they are so caught up in reliving the journey and the memories that it evokes that it slips past them. Glad that you enjoyed it and took the time to mention it.
Sure thing. Thanks again for the video.@@hughescreativeservicesllc3436
Even though I wasn't born, and my dad was 12, it doesn't feel like that long ago. Maybe because alot of the stuff I grew up with was 90s and 2000s.
It really wasn't that long ago and what everyone soon realizes, as they continue to grow older, is just how recent all of it is. And how quickly it all passes by. Thanks for posting.
That bump at 3:14 is a core memory for me as a kid. It only got worse as the years went on until they finally fixed it properly and for good. And just for reference, I was born in 91 lol
That's funny, the things that we remember, memory markers. Thanks for watching and posting your comments.
I was 6 years old in 1990. God I miss these days. Even remember these cars trucks and vans. No SUVs like you see today. BQE was moving but today it’s a parking lot.
It was so much better in NY back in these days! Was a total TMNT and Super Mario Bros fanatic back in 1990 (was also 6 at the time of the filming of this video). Back then we were all just Americans and not this liberal vs conservative divisive nonsense. Anyway, have a great day and please don’t take Our Lord’s Name in vain. Peace!
@@RapidCycling07 amen
I was born in 1984. I was 6 years old watching Nickelodeon.😂
Amazing that regardless of the size of the camera and the manual transmission that you still captured this footage, and saved it! This camera may have been "crap" relative to others of its time but that stuff was not nearly as accessible as it is today. And better to be able to watch it from a crap camera thab none at all. This is great video and thank you for sharing!
And thank you for watching and appreciating it. And for sharing your thoughts and comments. I wish I had done more.
Amazing. You drove right by the building I grew up in, 1 year before I was born. Also, you can catch a quick glimpse of the WTC at 0:35.
Thanks for watching and posting your comments.