Refreshing to see NYC with not one person staring into their phone while walking, no camera surveillance and no war on terror, wish I could relive 1998 again just for a week
A few years prior to this footage the United States and Britain were bombing the shit out of Iraq based on a false testimony (Google the 'Nayirah testimony'). It should have been the awakening for many, but unfortunately that wouldn't come until 1) Wikileaks and Assange hit the scene and 2) Trump took office. Not even WTC-7 suddenly collapsing into freefall could prevent the American public seeking revenge on the boogey man 'Bin Laden.' Yes times were MUCH better due to a functioning society that didn't resemble a generation of mentally ill 'Tik-Tokkers', but the deep rooted evil in American politics and their need to destabilise the Middle East was alive and kicking.
I landed in NYC in 1990 as a teenager. I stayed until 2008. The 90s rocked. There was more breathing room and more normal random people living there. All of them (us) have been priced out. I went back to NYC for the first time since I left and was struck by the lack of energy. When I lived there, everybody was heads up, looking for the next crazy or cool thing that was bound to happen. Everybody's energy was flying all over the streets. When I returned, I was shocked at the lack of energy. Everybody is face down in their phones, pouring all their essence into these little screens. Feels like a blanket over the whole town. Such a lack of vibrancy. Drones being prompted to their next mediated experience. Glad I left. Don't know what's left there.
Bro, it’s literally the same today, you’re all just being nostalgic lol! Except for 911, the city’s soul and everything remains the same with the exception of a few new skyscrapers
@@mml1426 I've never even been to New York and I can tell it's not the same anymore. I'd love to live in the old NYC for a couple of years, but now it's filled with influencers and gentrified neighborhoods. 😒
and its not bright now? lmao have u been to times square, i wasnt even a month old when this video was taken but i've been to nyc recently and its lit up 24/7 with ads, restaurant signs, upcoming promotions, etc , i think its just the nostalgia hitting you
I love the the 90s. I grew up watching the best movies, cartoons, and played with the best toys! The things we've experienced back then are just a memory that'll always be remembered.
@@MarmaladeSally Not necessarily. I can objectively say the 90s were good - people weren't yet completely uptight about everything. Political correctness didn't dominate media. There was just enough technology to make stuff interesting, like the early Internet. Cars looked better. Music was listenable. People weren't buried in their phones. The 90s had a feel - just like the 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s - all of those decades had a feel with distinct styles. The 2000s - not so much. 2010s? No. Now? Definitely not. It feels like a lot of cultural identity has been lost.
honestly I have to say..im only 19 years old and was born in 1998 but I wish every second that I could experience/grow up in the 80's and 90's. Mostly the 90's. I hate the way society is now a days. everyone glued to there phone screens, and not communicating like regular people. It really is a shame, the 90's was the last great decade. It kills me I wasn't able to experience it. I definitely grew up in the wrong decade.
Well...I’ll tell you: I was born in 1998 too, 4 months before this video was taken. I completely agree with you. I’m too young to remember the 90’s but I feel so proud to be a 90’s kid by just 2 years. You know what? I have a great interest for old cassette tapes and I stil listen to some old tapes I have in my house every now and then. It’s cool! I love it! 😍
@Claudia Ficicchia: Here, since you love Cassette Tapes so much, here's a great classic from the 80's (I know you love the 90's more) with plenty of Cassette's! Enjoy: ua-cam.com/video/cXQ3aJR_fUg/v-deo.html
I wish I lived in NYC in the late 90s. In 1998, I was 9 years old and living in Illinois. I visited NYC for the first time in the summer of 1999 with my family. I moved to NYC at 18 in 2007 for college. I’m still living in NYC, after 14 years. In 2021, NYC doesn’t seem the same to me anymore. We are definitely living in weird and crazy times.
I was born in the late 60s and enjoyed the 70s, 80s, and 90s. To me, the 90s was the last great decade. Thank you for this great time capsule video. I was actually in NYC for work in 1998, though I can't recall which month. It was hot and humid, so it could have even been the same time this video was captured. It's neat to look 25 years into the past and think that you and I might have even passed each other on the street as you were filming.
"To me, the 90s was the last great decade." For NYC residents, the early years of the 1990's were definitely not great. There was a crack epidemic in the city and violent crime was rampant. Crime only began to subside beginning in the mid 90's.
@@OrkoSukisuki alcohol? Who is talking about alcohol? The peak of the crack epidemic in America was the early 1990's and it led to crime rates peaking in big cities like NYC. Sure, it was great in your suburb, but the fact is the early years of the 90's for NYC were not so good.
@@johnyossarian9059 Compare that "crack" epidemic with problems alcohol cause and you maybe get the point. Media loves to scare people with these "epidemics".
those were them days G no beards women without any make up etc weirdos nowdays are stupid as fuck they dont make them this badass anymore like in the old days
In 1998 I was 9 in 4th grade living in my home town of Los Angeles, I definitely agree with you life was way better back in the 90s. 1998 was a great year, I was playing Pokemon red and trading pokemon cards at school lol great times!!
I'm so glad I could at least be born and spend my child hood there from the beginning til the end of the 90s. Even though I was a kid I have sooo many great memories there. Wish I never left but my parents moved us to Florida a few years after 9/11. Still visit NYC and it's changed a lot from the 90s. I liked it better then. There was a lot more people. It had a certain charm. Now it seems like a big shopping mall.
I miss my city. The noise, the hustle and bustle, the adrenalin rush of moving quickly through the city streets to get to work from the train station, or get to the train station to get back home; running quickly to the pizza shop to pick up lunch, (eating it in Bryant Park, if it was a nice day, or right on the front steps of the NYPL); or forgoing lunch, and shopping at Macy's, Lord & Taylor, Benetton or the Gap; going to the theater, MSG... Looking forward to the day that we can take those activities for granted again
Arguably the best year of my life. I was 26, great relationship, parents were alive, was making very good money, bought my first home, paid off my truck and bought a Harley. Sad thing is, you knew he was going to show the twin towers. RIP Andrew
Hey I was 26 and that year was probably my best too! I went to New York in May 1998 - the only time I was in New York or the US. Went on to Australia and had a great time (from UK originally). Life felt so free and easy back then.
0:01 Carnegie Hall (57th and Seventh Ave), 0:34 Central Park, 1:41 Midtown, 57th St, 4:38 Plaza Hotel, site of "Friends" opening fountain, 11:22 WTC from Circleline boat, 13:40 United Nations from East River, 13:55 helicopter footage
I was 13, about to turn 14 in a month. Great memories in my city. Born in Bellevue Hospital, raised in Spanish Harlem, live in the Upper East Side. Love my NYC
indiana jones security everywhere is so much more intense than it used to be, in first world countries at least. Everyone saw what terrorists are capable of and everyone stepped up their security and it motivated terrorists to take it to the next level as well. Any first world country today will feel significantly more militarized and tense than it used to in the years prior to 9/11.
The most difference that i notice between then and now (2017) is how less crowded streets were back then. Not only with traffic but pedestrians as well.
I'm in my late 40s now, born and raised in NYC and still living there today. This video is a month after I returned to the city after graduating from college, and right around this time I was frantically trying to find my first real full-time job. It would take two more months to eventually land a 9-5 office job working at a magazine publisher, but man do I remember walking up and down these streets wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase -- going from interview to interview. Even though it was a rough time for me, I fondly wish I could return to this time when the city was so exciting and full of life and possibilities! I truly miss the way things were then--in my early 20s--and before 9/11 happened. Such a different vibe compared to the years that followed 2001. Thanks for the memories! Incidentally, the corner of 57th and 7th Ave where most of this was filmed is where my dentist of 18 years has his office. LOL! So I'm extremely familiar with this stretch! It's amazing how much has changed compared to how it looks today. Although some old standouts are still there. The BK Diner for one; and of course, Carnegie Hall. I was just there for a concert a few months back. I love this city!
Liam Blackman exactly man, if this video was to be taken today more than half the people in the video would have their heads down, looking at their phones..
For a Baltimorean like me, there is no place like New York. It's basically a second home for me since my relatives reside in East Queens. 90's & early 2000's was the life. Haven't been back since 2015 but "the city is still the city" no matter the era.
I just graduated HS. This looks so old. Time sure does fly by. Need to not take anything for granted. I sure miss those days. Music was great and videos were on MTV and VH1 unlike today reality tv
Snaziko I am fairly sure/certain that at least some of them are deaed fr om the 9/11 terrorist attack, don't you think? I mean some of them were in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center up on the higher floors.
Thanks for sharing. Seeing the WTC was bittersweet. I had a lot of good memories there, as well as riding in the old Crown Vics and Chevy Caprice cabs.
Good old times no social media no Twitter no facebook when play station and 64 was popular at the time the 990s is so much better then today stuff period
The first time i went to NYC was in 1998, labor day weekend. Its was a sweet 16 birthday big family trip to celebrate my 16th birthday and my Dad's 50's.
I was only 3 then but i would give anything go back to being a kid then.... to me things were soo pure... and carefree. Sucks that time goes so fast and you can never get it back. I’m learning to cherish every moment i have with my son because one day i won’t be able to hold him and do fun things with him anymore and these things will all just be memories for him and I. Cherish the moments❤️
I was 29 years old in 1998 and young people back then worried only about one thing - finding Mr or Mrs Right! It was all about love and relationships because the world was at peace. The biggest tragedies were Princess Diana's death and JFK Kennedy Jr's death a year later. Other than that, life was great and NYC was thriving and safe. The economy was doing great. Few cell phones, no social media, no wars and lots of good music and movies.
I went to NYC with my family in August of 1998 and took pictures of the Empire State building and the New York City skyline on a boat tour and saw the beautiful Twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Brooklyn bridge and went everywhere with my young cousin. Went back again in 1998 in November on a plane and landed at JFK airport. Beautiful memories in the city in 1998.
No need to rate. Just cool, really love the 90s-2000s . Music, movies, cars and other people of that time. The atmosphere of that period is especially unrepeatable. It would be nice if you posted the video in original resolution, without cutting top and bottom. Thank you for the precious footage. I watched fully without interruption.
Nothing better than a video capturing time and freezing it. It’s such a weird thought to think this was a real day and time that is now captured and shared here for us all to see many years later. Trying to think what I would’ve been doing that day. I was 11 school is out so I was probably riding my bike with friends.
i moved to manhattan with my family when i was 10 a month after this was shot, i love how simultaneously familiar and far away this feels. i wish there were more neighborhood-y versions of these videos, i know why they're all of touristy places since why film your walk to work or school, but after the first year we avoided going anywhere near times square
Back when I was born in year 1998, I did not know what New York City look like. Full of cities, cars, humans, and even what the world look like when I was a baby and can't talk. Thanks for uploading the memories of NY, June 1998.
@@danikoo582for me i was born in 2010 In Nyc But i didt see the world trade center only my older brother saw it since 1998 or 1999 he was born in 1993 in nyc
These types of videos are cool because they're rather rare from the 90's or before. Many didn't do these prior to 2005 (when UA-cam began), because there was really nowhere to share it.
Yea cameras where quite big back then and you had to buy blank tapes videos from before the 90s are way rarer its very hard to find videos from before the 60s.
@@qewfsdsd65445 You've got it backwards, bro. You're probably just trolling for a reaction, but I'll humor you. So for starters, in 2005, many people (including myself, at the age of 9, and my out-of-touch, middle-aged parents) hadn't heard of video-hosting sites. I never even heard the word UA-cam before until 2007 from the song "What Is It" by Baby Bash where he says "Dancing on UA-cam". And at the age of 11, I didn't care to search for it because I assumed it was either a _ site or an alternative to MySpace. It wasn't until January 2009 when my friend got me interested in UA-cam because it had footage for cheats of my favorite video game. And in 2009, UA-cam was still kind of primitive and MySpace-like, and it lacked many songs & music videos. So it's impossible that UA-cam would've peaked in 2005, the year of its launch. It was popular, but nowhere near as popular as it is today. Also, more people around the world today have access to high-speed internet on practically almost any device than they did in 2005. UA-cam today is a powerhouse search engine, you can find almost anything on here. Practically almost every able human being on earth today visits UA-cam. Even more senior citizens who aren't tech-savvy are starting to use UA-cam in recent years. UA-cam and the internet today is more popular than television, that's why it's infested with advertisements. 'Cause companies need to be seen by the masses. Even if some people are 'leaving' UA-cam due to it becoming commercialized, it's not gonna make much of an impact. No other video-hosting site will *ever* become more popular than UA-cam, it's too big of a powerhouse in today's world to ever collapse. It has too much content. UA-cam's popularity can only increase as more senior citizens and people in developing countries discover the internet and video-hosting sites.
Came to nyc to go college was 18 from africa. Moved to Philadelphia after that i remember hopping on the greyhound and go visit my sister in nyc 1998, was going to st Joseph s université in pa, moved to the mid south since nearly brought me to tears so many memories time flies. Was 18 now 38 usa became my new home since. Oh life, thx for the video
This was when I took my first ever vacation as a kid with my family, 7 Years old at the time. We went to Staten Island and Manhattan. Daaaaamn time flies by.....
I can’t believe you got the Brooklyn diner. It’s still one of the best breakfast spots like it was back then. I was a kid moving from Italy to a foster home on Long Island in 2000. The first time I came to the us was in 1998 though in may stayed in Manhattan In Tribeca through til august. I remember I experienced the fire works…it’s crazy that we can go back in time like this.
i left NYC on the last months of 1997 so by the year after I was in California that same year and month of this video the best years of my life would begin
Thanks for the nice video! I lived in New York City for 5 years starting in 1989, so I recognize some of the scenes in this video. I am also making a documentary about New York City in the early 90's, so I found your video very interesting.
I was born on this month. My mom is actually from Queens.. it looked so nice compared to now. I wasn't born in New York sadly, but I still uphold the fact some of my family was born and raised there.
2010s was way worse in the 2000s you had some shit music and 911 but the rise of the proper internet (90s internet was a joke) made up for it now in this decade we have all the bad things about the 2000s but we also have insane politics with bad ideas from the early 1900s being resurrected movies are way worse now many video games are being ruined by micro transactions and unnecessary forced online.
eldo59 I think apart from the Checker cabs of earlier times, the 90s was the best time for New York taxis. Nowadays there's such a mix, there isn't really an iconic cab anymore. And when the last Crown Vics go in a year or so, it will be lost forever.
To Infiniti, And Beyond I wish I was around to see the Checker cabs. '81 or '82 was the last production year. I believe the last ones went out around '86 or '87. By the time I was born.
I just feel weird by watching these videos and seeing what you people are typing how good that decade was .... while i wasn't even born yet .... i wish i had grown up in the 90s life feels like shit now
Compared with today the 90's seem like a dream world... like a beautiful dream world which is lost forever and only lives on in our memories and hearts. 2020-24 seems like a nightmare compared to this beautiful footage and not just because of the pandemic, the inflation or the war in Ukraine, in general!!!!
AWW I grew up in NY up until the mid June of 1998, the time this video took place. I was almost 7...that was the last time I was there. Can't believe that was 20 years ago.
I miss the 90s. The Berlin Wall was down and the Twin Towers were up.
The berlin wall is still down
Natürlich!
I don’t remember the Berlin Wall being rebuilt since the 90s? 🤔
First Last you can see part of Berlin Wall in New York City that they got from the wall. I just saw it in a video
Why do they call it the 90s when it's the 19s? I wasnt born in the 90s or 19s I was born in 2010
wow 98' . i was 8.. probably somewhere in Brooklyn playin outside , riding my bike through my projects.. good times
13 in 1998. Went west to LA and Vegas that year!
+Eric S. Powers (ELux85) nice !!
That is cool
life was diffrent than!!
Eon Hardy damn I was just born that month lol. Right in Queens
Refreshing to see NYC with not one person staring into their phone while walking, no camera surveillance and no war on terror, wish I could relive 1998 again just for a week
You got it me too.
Прикол в том , что США и есть страна террорист . США развязывали войны по всему миру, в том числе и на моей родине Украине .
If you went back for a week I guarantee you wouldn't return. I know I wouldn't.
A few years prior to this footage the United States and Britain were bombing the shit out of Iraq based on a false testimony (Google the 'Nayirah testimony'). It should have been the awakening for many, but unfortunately that wouldn't come until 1) Wikileaks and Assange hit the scene and 2) Trump took office. Not even WTC-7 suddenly collapsing into freefall could prevent the American public seeking revenge on the boogey man 'Bin Laden.' Yes times were MUCH better due to a functioning society that didn't resemble a generation of mentally ill 'Tik-Tokkers', but the deep rooted evil in American politics and their need to destabilise the Middle East was alive and kicking.
War on drugs was active. Same criminals.
I landed in NYC in 1990 as a teenager. I stayed until 2008. The 90s rocked. There was more breathing room and more normal random people living there. All of them (us) have been priced out. I went back to NYC for the first time since I left and was struck by the lack of energy. When I lived there, everybody was heads up, looking for the next crazy or cool thing that was bound to happen. Everybody's energy was flying all over the streets. When I returned, I was shocked at the lack of energy. Everybody is face down in their phones, pouring all their essence into these little screens. Feels like a blanket over the whole town. Such a lack of vibrancy. Drones being prompted to their next mediated experience. Glad I left. Don't know what's left there.
And where are you from??
@@Cristal-zv8ht as a wise New Yorker once said: It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at
i'm glad there are people like you who preserve the old new york with these marvelous time capsules of video
20 years ago
Bro, it’s literally the same today, you’re all just being nostalgic lol! Except for 911, the city’s soul and everything remains the same with the exception of a few new skyscrapers
@@mml1426 Not even close, it has a different air and they even said NY accent is fading away with this new generation. How old are you?
@@mml1426 I've never even been to New York and I can tell it's not the same anymore. I'd love to live in the old NYC for a couple of years, but now it's filled with influencers and gentrified neighborhoods. 😒
Everything was so bright back then miss the '90s
and its not bright now? lmao have u been to times square, i wasnt even a month old when this video was taken but i've been to nyc recently and its lit up 24/7 with ads, restaurant signs, upcoming promotions, etc , i think its just the nostalgia hitting you
Robert Lee, Countertenor seriously! People act like this is so old. Only difference is more cellphone/computer use
20 yrs ago was a generation ago dont let these clown talk you down..
oochie wally I feel old now! I was bloody 12 years old in that year!! 12. I'm old.
@Robert Lee, Countertenor yeah man you are really right
The thing is 90s people had the best time of their life. Everything was not too much or not too less.
I love the the 90s. I grew up watching the best movies, cartoons, and played with the best toys! The things we've experienced back then are just a memory that'll always be remembered.
YOKO
That's only because you were young. EVERY generation says this.
The best movies for sure,unlike the garbage woke shit that Hollyweird make these days
@@MarmaladeSally Not necessarily. I can objectively say the 90s were good - people weren't yet completely uptight about everything. Political correctness didn't dominate media. There was just enough technology to make stuff interesting, like the early Internet. Cars looked better. Music was listenable. People weren't buried in their phones. The 90s had a feel - just like the 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s - all of those decades had a feel with distinct styles. The 2000s - not so much. 2010s? No. Now? Definitely not. It feels like a lot of cultural identity has been lost.
the memory is not enough for me, I want to live forever in the 90s, I'm tired of living in the future, with cars that drive themselves
The good old days when life was still normal.
+Your Mom Nothing was normal after 2001
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Danny Leo i was born this year
I know there was going to be a film called "Superman Lives" to be released in 1998, but was cancelled for reasons.😐
Guerrilla Warfare98 me to
All those sweet 90s cars.
I still have the same car that I bought in June 1998,a Cavalier.At the time,Bill Clinton was telling us that he did not have sex with that woman.
tiny? cars in 90s were fucking huge now you have those fucking small european cars
Back when some cars doesnt uber
You do have to admit, automatic windows are the shit now.
murican power back then, now american people buy japanese poop cars such as corollas or camrys and general motors is dead now
honestly I have to say..im only 19 years old and was born in 1998 but I wish every second that I could experience/grow up in the 80's and 90's. Mostly the 90's. I hate the way society is now a days. everyone glued to there phone screens, and not communicating like regular people. It really is a shame, the 90's was the last great decade. It kills me I wasn't able to experience it. I definitely grew up in the wrong decade.
I grew up in the 90s, and it seems to be more fast paced these days, we need to make a time machine
Well...I’ll tell you: I was born in 1998 too, 4 months before this video was taken. I completely agree with you. I’m too young to remember the 90’s but I feel so proud to be a 90’s kid by just 2 years. You know what? I have a great interest for old cassette tapes and I stil listen to some old tapes I have in my house every now and then. It’s cool! I love it! 😍
I was born in 1994 I do remember the 90's being spontaneous giving life a full thrill of fun and fun. Literally
@Claudia Ficicchia:
Here, since you love Cassette Tapes so much, here's a great classic from the 80's (I know you love the 90's more) with plenty of Cassette's! Enjoy:
ua-cam.com/video/cXQ3aJR_fUg/v-deo.html
chris lynch the 90s were fun and I got to experience them as a kid. Felt like the best toys, games, and cartoons ever!
I wish I lived in NYC in the late 90s. In 1998, I was 9 years old and living in Illinois. I visited NYC for the first time in the summer of 1999 with my family. I moved to NYC at 18 in 2007 for college. I’m still living in NYC, after 14 years. In 2021, NYC doesn’t seem the same to me anymore. We are definitely living in weird and crazy times.
All I read here is "NYC NYC NYC NYC NYC NYC NYC NYC NYC NYC NYC"
Around this time Gonzalez Gonzalez was a popular spot on Houston and Broadway... Great spot for drinks and mingling!
A wonderful time when "Despacito" wasn't on the radio 😞
Who Let The Dogs Out was though..ugh..lol
WHO, WHO WHO, WHO
WHoOoOoOoO LeT dA DaWgZ OuT?!?!?! Da party was nice da party wuz jumpin WhOoP DeE EyE OH
@IPA SOLÉ nah, now the awful song is dead, reggueton & trap are the worst music genres & they tie!!
@@desertrose1226 no that song didn't come out till 2000 lol
Despacito isnt even that bad compared to what's out there. Let me remind you WAP is a song.
I was born in the late 60s and enjoyed the 70s, 80s, and 90s. To me, the 90s was the last great decade. Thank you for this great time capsule video. I was actually in NYC for work in 1998, though I can't recall which month. It was hot and humid, so it could have even been the same time this video was captured. It's neat to look 25 years into the past and think that you and I might have even passed each other on the street as you were filming.
Nobody really cares that much that you think life is just terrible after the 1990's. Get a grip.
"To me, the 90s was the last great decade."
For NYC residents, the early years of the 1990's were definitely not great. There was a crack epidemic in the city and violent crime was rampant. Crime only began to subside beginning in the mid 90's.
@@johnyossarian9059 Funnily enough the alcohol will always be the problem maker n. 1. The 90s was the last great decade.
@@OrkoSukisuki alcohol? Who is talking about alcohol? The peak of the crack epidemic in America was the early 1990's and it led to crime rates peaking in big cities like NYC. Sure, it was great in your suburb, but the fact is the early years of the 90's for NYC were not so good.
@@johnyossarian9059 Compare that "crack" epidemic with problems alcohol cause and you maybe get the point. Media loves to scare people with these "epidemics".
I miss the 90s
Can we all just take a moment and appreciate the camera man. Very good work
Thank you.
The camera man doesn't deserve ANY thanks.
when people still wore baggy jeans and clothes
Better then men in skinny jeans and mendresses.
And beards and glasses
those were them days G no beards women without any make up etc weirdos nowdays are stupid as fuck they dont make them this badass anymore like in the old days
I was 16 when this film was made. So many memories. Thanks for sharing. What I wouldn’t give to relive 1998 over again.
Me too. I was 16 as well.
I was -5 🤣
Would be cool to experience the 90s
I was 13
In 1998 I was 9 in 4th grade living in my home town of Los Angeles, I definitely agree with you life was way better back in the 90s. 1998 was a great year, I was playing Pokemon red and trading pokemon cards at school lol great times!!
Man the 90s in New York were good times
I'm so glad I could at least be born and spend my child hood there from the beginning til the end of the 90s. Even though I was a kid I have sooo many great memories there. Wish I never left but my parents moved us to Florida a few years after 9/11. Still visit NYC and it's changed a lot from the 90s. I liked it better then. There was a lot more people. It had a certain charm. Now it seems like a big shopping mall.
Puerto Rico bien
Wish you can relieved the 90s in NYC again while you are still older.
Oh yeah New York was on the upswing back then. It has steadily declined since 2001.
I was a sophomore at John Dewey high school in Brooklyn. The good old days. The 90s officially ended on 9/11/2001
Normal life ended on 9/11
No, the 90s ended on January 1st, 2000. Don’t you know how decades work?
culturally, the 90s stuck around until the mid 2000s, at least from what i remember
@@dontbotherreading EXACTLY
It ended 2010! Starting 2011 and onwards time flew by so fast
I miss my city. The noise, the hustle and bustle, the adrenalin rush of moving quickly through the city streets to get to work from the train station, or get to the train station to get back home; running quickly to the pizza shop to pick up lunch, (eating it in Bryant Park, if it was a nice day, or right on the front steps of the NYPL); or forgoing lunch, and shopping at Macy's, Lord & Taylor, Benetton or the Gap; going to the theater, MSG... Looking forward to the day that we can take those activities for granted again
Arguably the best year of my life. I was 26, great relationship, parents were alive, was making very good money, bought my first home, paid off my truck and bought a Harley.
Sad thing is, you knew he was going to show the twin towers.
RIP Andrew
ziggy morris Who’s Andrew?
Ninja 0808 that's why growing up is SHIT - nothing's the same. Everyone you love, fucking dies. If only I could restart life again...
Hey I was 26 and that year was probably my best too! I went to New York in May 1998 - the only time I was in New York or the US. Went on to Australia and had a great time (from UK originally). Life felt so free and easy back then.
I’m still waiting to hear who Andrew is.
0:01 Carnegie Hall (57th and Seventh Ave), 0:34 Central Park, 1:41 Midtown, 57th St, 4:38 Plaza Hotel, site of "Friends" opening fountain, 11:22 WTC from Circleline boat, 13:40 United Nations from East River, 13:55 helicopter footage
Thanks.
It's amazing how uncrowded NYC was! We've gained MILLIONS more people than there were at this time.
I adore watching such videos. I just feel I am alive. I feel a great love for this world and I am so grateful to have my life.
1998 the year I started NYC nightlife: Soundfactory, Tunnel, Limelight, Vinyl, Twilo and Exit. Those were some incredible times!
Hooty75 Twilo Saturday’s... Cafe Con Leche.. Sunday
Hooty75 , Life on Friday’s
Fiona Fitzgerald Miss those days!!
Did sex and the city made some places popular? it started that year
And the China Club I believe it was called.. carbon was also a bar around that era. NYC was crazy fun in the 90s.
I’d do anything to go back to that year... when I still had a world full of opportunities within my reach....
Wouldn't we all!
Gosh, you sound like a loser
At this time I had lived in NYC for three years and was 25 years old. I stayed until 2003. Now I am 41 and living in another city. Time flies!!
Now u 45 time waits for no man
Jon Bois I wish I could just smash the clocks and time will stop lol
Now 46
@@diyarsirwan7502 47 actually...lol
xpat73 lol , have a nice long life ✌🏻
I was 13, about to turn 14 in a month. Great memories in my city. Born in Bellevue Hospital, raised in Spanish Harlem, live in the Upper East Side. Love my NYC
I was about to turn 8 in a month.
Victor Anthony man the upper east side would like to live around they're nice
Victor Anthony I was 4 - 5
I was 10-11 months 💀
this city changed after 9 11 ... so sad how the world did also
I always say this. 9/11 changed the world for the worse
Micky don't think so, it just changed america to the worse, it didn't change the "world"
@micky
yeah man. The City was so great pre-9/11. And now although it's cleaner it's totally boring and sterile. I miss NYC so much.
indiana jones security everywhere is so much more intense than it used to be, in first world countries at least. Everyone saw what terrorists are capable of and everyone stepped up their security and it motivated terrorists to take it to the next level as well. Any first world country today will feel significantly more militarized and tense than it used to in the years prior to 9/11.
also true, but western countries doesnt represent the world
The most difference that i notice between then and now (2017) is how less crowded streets were back then. Not only with traffic but pedestrians as well.
Deehaw got all these tourist now
So many teenagers these days to. I think the age majority of the world these days are people aged 13-21. Teenagers are literally everywhere.
@@desertrose1226 Yeah, in africa and india...
@@agontprevarator5214 because they have so many kids and the life expectancy is low
@@dragomilosevic4823 Obviously, and?
then 3 years later was total chaos
Midnight Rocker39 __ Blame your government.......
I'm in my late 40s now, born and raised in NYC and still living there today. This video is a month after I returned to the city after graduating from college, and right around this time I was frantically trying to find my first real full-time job. It would take two more months to eventually land a 9-5 office job working at a magazine publisher, but man do I remember walking up and down these streets wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase -- going from interview to interview. Even though it was a rough time for me, I fondly wish I could return to this time when the city was so exciting and full of life and possibilities! I truly miss the way things were then--in my early 20s--and before 9/11 happened. Such a different vibe compared to the years that followed 2001. Thanks for the memories! Incidentally, the corner of 57th and 7th Ave where most of this was filmed is where my dentist of 18 years has his office. LOL! So I'm extremely familiar with this stretch! It's amazing how much has changed compared to how it looks today. Although some old standouts are still there. The BK Diner for one; and of course, Carnegie Hall. I was just there for a concert a few months back. I love this city!
Didn't see one person on their phone in this video LOL
In 1998, a phone wasn't worth pulling out of your pocket every 30 seconds ;)
Liam Blackman exactly man, if this video was to be taken today more than half the people in the video would have their heads down, looking at their phones..
That's the 90s for ya!
That was a time when a phone was a phone...and cost too damn much to look at all day and drop multiple times!
Yeah 1998, I'm sure there were cellphones.
For a Baltimorean like me, there is no place like New York. It's basically a second home for me since my relatives reside in East Queens. 90's & early 2000's was the life. Haven't been back since 2015 but "the city is still the city" no matter the era.
I just graduated HS. This looks so old. Time sure does fly by. Need to not take anything for granted. I sure miss those days. Music was great and videos were on MTV and VH1 unlike today reality tv
😣
I wonder where all the people shown in the video are today...
Dead
Snaziko I am fairly sure/certain that at least some of them are deaed fr om the 9/11 terrorist attack, don't you think? I mean some of them were in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center up on the higher floors.
I wonder where they were going at this exact moment, where they came from. I pause and look at em.. I am creeping up myself now....
gentrified out
some of them are dead i think
When NYC truly was the most exciting place on earth!
Liberty city stories
Damn Right.
Foreal & GTA 3 🔥🔥
GTA 1 Era
Facts Gta 3 too 😂😂
GTA 2 era
Thanks for sharing. Seeing the WTC was bittersweet. I had a lot of good memories there, as well as riding in the old Crown Vics and Chevy Caprice cabs.
Made me smile when I heard a Wu-Tang song in the background @ 0:55. I miss them old days.
SEMS the Golden era of it all wow
Busta rhymes...extinction level event album year🤗
Can it be all so simple!
Such an appropriate song for this video wow!
@@PremierAutoMan86 Gives you chills😞😞😞😞
If you dont hear a paramedics or police vehicle every minute, you ar not in NYC
The calm before the storm
Good old times no social media no Twitter no facebook when play station and 64 was popular at the time the 990s is so much better then today stuff period
The first time i went to NYC was in 1998, labor day weekend. Its was a sweet 16 birthday big family trip to celebrate my 16th birthday and my Dad's 50's.
@Qwerty 370 ^
Did you get any poon?
1998 what a time to be alive!!
I was only 3 then but i would give anything go back to being a kid then.... to me things were soo pure... and carefree. Sucks that time goes so fast and you can never get it back. I’m learning to cherish every moment i have with my son because one day i won’t be able to hold him and do fun things with him anymore and these things will all just be memories for him and I.
Cherish the moments❤️
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I was 29 years old in 1998 and young people back then worried only about one thing - finding Mr or Mrs Right! It was all about love and relationships because the world was at peace. The biggest tragedies were Princess Diana's death and JFK Kennedy Jr's death a year later. Other than that, life was great and NYC was thriving and safe. The economy was doing great. Few cell phones, no social media, no wars and lots of good music and movies.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Don't forget that Columbine also happened before JFK Jr.'s death. That event also "took the innocence" of America to a degree.
I went to NYC with my family in August of 1998 and took pictures of the Empire State building and the New York City skyline on a boat tour and saw the beautiful Twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Brooklyn bridge and went everywhere with my young cousin. Went back again in 1998 in November on a plane and landed at JFK airport. Beautiful memories in the city in 1998.
I never liked the inspectors at JFK airport. But the city I definitely enjoy it
No need to rate. Just cool, really love the 90s-2000s . Music, movies, cars and other people of that time. The atmosphere of that period is especially unrepeatable. It would be nice if you posted the video in original resolution, without cutting top and bottom. Thank you for the precious footage. I watched fully without interruption.
Ahhh the sweet 90's 🎈✨😌👌🏽
I was married..the economy was on fire
The Unknown yes from all over the world not just Latin America just to make sure especially those Jews that play the system
Great memories..I went to visit New York in 1998.... I was 10 ..
drosh413 david thanks again for your time to respond back to me.
Nusrat Jamia To be fair you posted the same comment twice...
blackham7 thanks for letting me know.
So was i
I was also 10 in 1998 but didn't visit shit :-(
This was the NYC I grew up in
6:03 this is a really good shot. i cant tell why , but just the biker turning so smoothly in contrast to the taxis driving forward was cool
Nothing better than a video capturing time and freezing it. It’s such a weird thought to think this was a real day and time that is now captured and shared here for us all to see many years later. Trying to think what I would’ve been doing that day. I was 11 school is out so I was probably riding my bike with friends.
real day? as opposed to an fake day? weird...
I was 4 years old at the time, god I miss the 90s the 90s were iconic, NYC is still iconic
Somebody bring back the 90s pleeeeease 😍
This is as close as we're gonna get.
We gotta get a time machine and a car that can hit speeds of 88MPH
Whoever you are, thank you for sharing this. Its as good as time travel. I hope that you find yourself well wherever life took you.
i moved to manhattan with my family when i was 10 a month after this was shot, i love how simultaneously familiar and far away this feels. i wish there were more neighborhood-y versions of these videos, i know why they're all of touristy places since why film your walk to work or school, but after the first year we avoided going anywhere near times square
I lived in NYC from 1987 to 2002 and never once watched the ball drop
Back when I was born in year 1998, I did not know what New York City look like. Full of cities, cars, humans, and even what the world look like when I was a baby and can't talk. Thanks for uploading the memories of NY, June 1998.
1998 was 25 years ago, so yeah, it was long ago.
Think of it as 2008 minus 10 years , not long
It’s crazy to think how much NYC has changed since 2001 and from that point I was 6 going on 7 years old
nostalgia from something I never lived!
cheers, from Brazil
I feel the same thing and I wasn't even born!
@@danikoo582for me i was born in 2010 In Nyc But i didt see the world trade center only my older brother saw it since 1998 or 1999 he was born in 1993 in nyc
These types of videos are cool because they're rather rare from the 90's or before. Many didn't do these prior to 2005 (when UA-cam began), because there was really nowhere to share it.
UA-cam was created in 2005, but it wasn't really well-known until the Late 00's at the peak of Soulja Boy's career.
Yea cameras where quite big back then and you had to buy blank tapes videos from before the 90s are way rarer its very hard to find videos from before the 60s.
@@qewfsdsd65445 You've got it backwards, bro. You're probably just trolling for a reaction, but I'll humor you. So for starters, in 2005, many people (including myself, at the age of 9, and my out-of-touch, middle-aged parents) hadn't heard of video-hosting sites. I never even heard the word UA-cam before until 2007 from the song "What Is It" by Baby Bash where he says "Dancing on UA-cam". And at the age of 11, I didn't care to search for it because I assumed it was either a _ site or an alternative to MySpace.
It wasn't until January 2009 when my friend got me interested in UA-cam because it had footage for cheats of my favorite video game. And in 2009, UA-cam was still kind of primitive and MySpace-like, and it lacked many songs & music videos. So it's impossible that UA-cam would've peaked in 2005, the year of its launch. It was popular, but nowhere near as popular as it is today.
Also, more people around the world today have access to high-speed internet on practically almost any device than they did in 2005. UA-cam today is a powerhouse search engine, you can find almost anything on here. Practically almost every able human being on earth today visits UA-cam. Even more senior citizens who aren't tech-savvy are starting to use UA-cam in recent years.
UA-cam and the internet today is more popular than television, that's why it's infested with advertisements. 'Cause companies need to be seen by the masses.
Even if some people are 'leaving' UA-cam due to it becoming commercialized, it's not gonna make much of an impact. No other video-hosting site will *ever* become more popular than UA-cam, it's too big of a powerhouse in today's world to ever collapse. It has too much content.
UA-cam's popularity can only increase as more senior citizens and people in developing countries discover the internet and video-hosting sites.
I moved to NYC on exactly this month in 98. It was a great place to be as an 18 year old college student. Things definitely changed a lot after 9/11.
What if things changed naturally after the new Millennium Not just because of the attacks ?
Those were the best days. No iphones and galaxies, headphones. People were very social and friendly.
Easy to say but with tech today we can save more lives than way back in the late 1990s.
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Came to nyc to go college was 18 from africa. Moved to Philadelphia after that i remember hopping on the greyhound and go visit my sister in nyc 1998, was going to st Joseph s université in pa, moved to the mid south since nearly brought me to tears so many memories time flies. Was 18 now 38 usa became my new home since. Oh life, thx for the video
This was when I took my first ever vacation as a kid with my family, 7 Years old at the time. We went to Staten Island and Manhattan. Daaaaamn time flies by.....
90's New York was the best! Well, it still is. :)
that was 6 years before i was even born, and i'm 20 now...
10 years before I was born
3 yeas after
I can’t believe you got the Brooklyn diner. It’s still one of the best breakfast spots like it was back then. I was a kid moving from Italy to a foster home on Long Island in 2000. The first time I came to the us was in 1998 though in may stayed in Manhattan In Tribeca through til august. I remember I experienced the fire works…it’s crazy that we can go back in time like this.
i left NYC on the last months of 1997 so by the year after I was in California
that same year and month of this video the best years of my life would begin
I lived in NYC in 1998. This brought back tons of good memories
Wow this was exactly 20 years ago
highlighted comment yep.... seeing this video
makes me mad as hell for what the world
is today
Nope 21 or 22 years ago
@@Omar_-5 yup
Thanks for the nice video! I lived in New York City for 5 years starting in 1989, so I recognize some of the scenes in this video. I am also making a documentary about New York City in the early 90's, so I found your video very interesting.
Wow, My best friend, I liked the video very much, thanks you for sharing, stay safe, stay blessed
I was born on this month. My mom is actually from Queens.. it looked so nice compared to now. I wasn't born in New York sadly, but I still uphold the fact some of my family was born and raised there.
Wow, how amazing, I really enjoyed watching this.
2000's changed everything
Jmendoza1988 for the worst
I brought the life when I was born in January 2000
@QuestionsandAnswers So what you're basically saying, is that I caused the great depression when I was born?
2010s was way worse in the 2000s you had some shit music and 911 but the rise of the proper internet (90s internet was a joke) made up for it now in this decade we have all the bad things about the 2000s but we also have insane politics with bad ideas from the early 1900s being resurrected movies are way worse now many video games are being ruined by micro transactions and unnecessary forced online.
belstar I agree
People need to remember to do this again. Nobody just films life anymore
I was 3 years old then and 6 when it happened 2001 : / now I have 19, that city It was better before
When life is better without smartphones! Evreyone is paying attention to the streets. No distress!
I was looking to see if I was in any of the crowds---I was 20 at the time and worked in the area...!
I would’ve loved to live in New York around this time
Me too
your footage took me back directly to 1998. Good times. Thanks for posting this.
Nothin' but Crown Vics, Caprices and Town Cars on the streets. Now its Prius, Camry, Maxima, Transit, and the last Crown Vics.
eldo59 I think apart from the Checker cabs of earlier times, the 90s was the best time for New York taxis. Nowadays there's such a mix, there isn't really an iconic cab anymore. And when the last Crown Vics go in a year or so, it will be lost forever.
To Infiniti, And Beyond I wish I was around to see the Checker cabs. '81 or '82 was the last production year. I believe the last ones went out around '86 or '87. By the time I was born.
+To Infiniti, And Beyond Since it's the "spiritual" successor of the Crown Victoria, New York City should have use the Ford Fusion.
Christopher Berry Fusions are too small. The Taurus is a better fit.
How about the newer model Fusions?
Aah! I miss those days, me and my father would walk the street having our hotdogs looking at the WTC
I just feel weird by watching these videos and seeing what you people are typing how good that decade was .... while i wasn't even born yet .... i wish i had grown up in the 90s life feels like shit now
oh wow! I was born in June 98'... looks like a really fun time to be alive...
I lived there from '97 thru 2004...........safest city during those days.......
My first trip to NYC was in 1998, this brings back so many good feelings.
I was there in Manhattan in this moment... remind me my deep & happy summer in NY 🤩🤩🤩
Thank you for uploading this video!!
Compared with today the 90's seem like a dream world... like a beautiful dream world which is lost forever and only lives on in our memories and hearts. 2020-24 seems like a nightmare compared to this beautiful footage and not just because of the pandemic, the inflation or the war in Ukraine, in general!!!!
I'll agree on that
if only the cameras back then were the cameras of today...damn
I was 1 year old in 1998. It's cool to see how life was back in 1998.
AWW I grew up in NY up until the mid June of 1998, the time this video took place. I was almost 7...that was the last time I was there. Can't believe that was 20 years ago.
Sucks out here...its the haves n have nots going against eachother now..too much pettiness
I’m amazed how quiet this video is. Very little horn honking.
''1998, i'll never forget it'' Leon S Kennedy
I was born May 26 1998. I'm glad this video exists
Thinking about it now, computers were a thing but not to the extent that it had taken everything over yet. And I can remember that world -ish
That's a coincidence my sister's birthday is just 6 days before yours May 20 1998
I miss the days when people weren’t glued to their phones, they actually looked around and talked to people
That's true.. I bet you don't miss those nasty dirty pay phones though..