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  • New York is a fucking trash can filled with fags.

  • THIS IS THE NEW YORK I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN AND FRIKKIN YUPPIES DESTROYED WHY I LEFT THERE WAS NO TRACE OF REAL LIFE NEW YORK LEFT

  • @ILUVCF1961 I feel your pain, ILUV! I'm Native myself, and I despise those yuppie motherfuckers as much as you do. Sometimes I wish the crime rate skyrocketed--probably the only way to scare those mid-western pussies the fuck out of our NYC!!! Shit, I can dig it--I'm a survivor!

  • Nice, however the video looks like the 70s, but the music is from the 80s.

  • @margaretsville they fucked up the whole place, fat fuckin suburban motherfuckers now block the sidewalks with their waddle , tending to their unruly nastyass bitch ass kids.It makes me sick to see that place developed they should have left it the way it was now its boring , you cant even buy loose joints over there anymore .where does it end.when lindsey,beame,and koch were mayors the place was great later nazi guiliani ''cleaned it up''cleaned it up for who i dont go there anymore fuck them

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  • its really a shame that when i visit family and friends back in jersey that i never go to new york anymore. it just isnt worth the time or effort to me. i remember when i could go there, pay 7 bucks to get into a theater, strip and be ravished by men in under 5 minutes.

    now if you try that you get tossed in jail.

    even the leather bars suck there now! i'd rather go to philly.

  • @Tommyfoot65 You're more than welcome to visit. Gentrification hasn't gone full scale here....YET!

    M.K.

  • It's amazing what film can do. It freezes time. All this stuff is practically GONE. But here it is, in color, and with that glorious Herb Alpert song playing. This is the only way to "go back" , folks! It's true that it was raunchy then & it's "safer" now but...you win something, you lose something, you win something, you loose...".

  • It's human nature to romanticize the past....if there weren't hundreds of New Yorkers of that era who walked around thinking "This city is a mess!!Why doesn't somebody DO something about it?!",it wouldn't have changed.

  • This is what happens when a society sends it's kids to college who then restructure civilization to fit the suburban model and format of shopping malls and cute cafes... today's generation is anti-sex and would not fit in with the NYC of old.

    I'm 56 yo and have watched these people march into NYC over the years from other states with their stupid degrees and ideas, everything to them is "retro" and if they are not paying 3000.00 a month for rent they think of themselves (and friends) as losers.

  • New York is Over !

    too bad.

  • This film used to be on YouTube with the original narrative, which is wholly entertaining...is it still up?

  • i was a baby zero lol

  • Times square was different back in the 1970s and i still miss the old New York alot. Great vidoe and music. I love it!

  • omg herb alpert

  • Just got back from vacation 6 days in Manhatton, no real locals, just us tourists with our cameras, that city, time Square.., all just reminds me of DisneyLand,.. too bad I kinda wanted to see the real NYC.

  • Rindercella's Fellahs. That's a Tom Cruise vehicle waiting for a remake.

  • if this is a continous film shot on one reel then its prior to or in the summer of 1975. the Metropole Cafe closed and the signage removed in that same summer.

  • As a Philly native and frequent NYC visitor,i have to admit when i see midtown nowadays,i'm mortified. That was the place to go whenever you had to "scratch an itch",so to speak. Now,it's a glorified shopping mall with tourists. UGH!!! I know. I'm a visitor too,but old NYC made me feel a sense of belonging with all its tawdriness. I miss it and thankfully Philly hasn't gone overboard with this gentrification shit.....yet.

    M.K.

  • @the215renaissanceman --Brace yourself, it's coming your way (gentrification) soon. I am a native New Yorker born and raised here, but this is happening all over the country. 

  • That is the city I knew. Growing up there, you learned to take it all in stride. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

  • It's kind of ironic that these days I avoid Times Square like the plague because of the heaving crowds of tourists in much the same way that back in the day the tourists would avoid Times Square because of the drug dealers and hookers.

  • Hey: everybody complaining asking where this all went: I live off Bowery this split second and it still exists in The Village. Take the A train south from Times Sq to W. 4th Street and just look around :)

    The sleaze, lunacy and atmosphere are still there, it just moved south. Walking W. 4th at night you take your life in your own hands, it's like being an extra in Taxi Driver! Nuts, scary at night, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. NYC rules.

  • @iwantoldschool no way- its nothing like nyc in the 70s & 80s

  • is it just me , urban decay has a strange haunting beauty to it , even as a child in the late 1950's and early 1960's i was fascinated with the worst looking places, like old hidden alley ways , and very old brick buildings and pealing paint. Even now when i visit some old towns , i always stop to gaze down a alley , like i 've been there long ago.

  • I'm not sure which is worse: Times Square filled with sleazy porn then or filled with Disney porn now. Isn't there a happy medium?

  • @aarfeld A great question. When i heard Show World turned into a comedy venue,i was taken aback. Now,all the adult shops have an art museum feel to them. That is,if art museums smelled like "The power of pine". Even with my nostalgia for a city i was a guest of for years,one thing i don't miss is some guy walking up to me trying to sell me a "Rolax" watch for $10.

    M.K.

  • @the215renaissanceman: Going back 20-25 years more, greedy club owners ruined 52nd Street when they decided to turn those famed two blocks of Jazz clubs, one by one, into strip joints. Then the city, in an earlier attempt to clean up the sleeze, ran them out. Oh well, mid-town was probably soon slated for the redevelopment that followed. Thank goodness for the Village, West and East, as Jazz still found a home within the city there. Most of the Jazz clubs are still down in the Village today.

  • I dont mess the smell of piss and human shit or vomit in the morning. Back in the days it was some rough sections of NY.

  • Anyone know the track behind this? I dig it.

  • @apollosfury Rise by Herb Alpert.

  • If there is NYC like this with video! Thank you! It must be 1977 or so. Time machine already!

  • the place i dreamed of

  • this was when it was so cool to be a native new yorker i loved the old times square it was seedy yet thrilling and full of a unique flavor that only we understood now its sanitized and boring and a tourist trap

  • What a joke! All of you whining about how "great" New York used to be. I simply can't believe so many of you would be WILLING to live in such a toxic sewer environment. Don't you people have ANY standards of living?

    You really wanna walk around bumping into hookers, dealers and junkies every five feet? You really wanna slip and slide in every sex you walk into because HUNDREDS of dudes before you dumped their jizz on the floor?

    You guys can't be serious. If you are, I feel sorry for you.

  • @dgware There's an entire subculture that you clearly don't understand. The fact that you sit on high and insult those who DO understand shows how limited your world view really is. There is a voice, an honest and legitimate voice, that has been completely wiped out. Humanity comes in all colors and has many layers. Corporate gentrification removes ALL of that. THAT'S what the people who miss this New York are truly missing. So feel sorry for yourself that you're living in a fabricated world.

  • If your a native/ real new yorker then you'll understand, if your a NY transplant you wont. Their coming for Coney Island next, it's over. Our city is now a pink pussified version of it's self. When they tore down the Music Factory on 42st back in the 90s that was the beginning of the end. Times Square is gone, the lower east side is loosing its culture, Harlem looks like Soho now, coney Island will look like great adventures in 2 years the twin towners are gone. What more can i say?

  • @Timessquare100 Thanks, that's my sentiment exactly. We were a city of distinctive communities Alphabet City. Delancey, Little Italy. The mom and pop stores..The NYC clubs like" Paladium" gone. These communities deteriorated not because of crime only but because they never poured money back into the infrastructure of NY. I could go on and on. But your right if they're transplants they will never get it. The grit and guts is gone. The "Latte" man has come into his own. LOL!

  • @Petravision2000  The Palladium is gone too? It's time for an uprising!

  • @annikee59 i saw elton john at the palladium 1980ish , we went drinking at luchows before we saw elton oh how I miss my old new york

  • @Timessquare100

    not much else to say...I live in new Orleans, and the same things happening here

  • nyc doesn't suck, not even today, don't believe the hype

  • @Fragem420 it's not the same. it sucks.

  • yes it has changed for the worse, but it's still way better than living in many other parts of the u.s. like the bible belt area...or anywhere in middle america for that matter.

  • As I look at old scenes of New York from 1902 to 1980's there was always a central theme. The guts and grit of New York was unmatched anywhere in the world. The rhythm of New York was passionate, driven... a I dont give a rats ass kind of feel. Hollywood during this time capitalized off of it from Bogard,Cagney,Betty Davis, to Pacino, Streisand, etc. Now its Disneyland..sure crime was bad but in cleaning it up we made the city sterile and plastic with no heart. The best of NYC is gone, Sad!

  • @Petravision2000 ... what's sad is your idolizing of violent crime, prostitution, pollution and disease.

    In other words, what you are saying is... New York City is a disgrace today because: The high crime rate... the abundance of hookers... the slime-covered sex shops... the rampant public drug dealing... the rampant public drug use... the booming homeless population... and the piles of trash on city streets are all gone now.

    NYC today is cleaner, safer and healthier.

    THAT'S sad, you say?

  • PORN!!!!!!!!!

  • Oh, this is when I would've loved to have lived there; like mid to late 70's through the 80's when it was dirty, scary, gritty & most importantly REAL. Today it's just a soulless shell that happens to be in the same location. It's really heartbreaking. :(

  • @foxxyloxx i wouldnt want to live in a city where i would be muged every other day. thank god fr the new nyc. haha

  • @coolshorty360 ... amen! Finally, someone gets it right.

    I've lived in New York City for my entire life of 33 years. I thank god I didn't have to slum through that toxic hell hole as a teen or an adult!

    NYC finally got smart and now we've got a civilized city.

  • @coolshorty360 One of the rules of living in NYC. Look like a victim, get treated like a victim. NYC is not for the weak.

  • This is the Times Square I remember!

  • New york city is a fuckin suburb now, the city lost that urban gritty sleazy atmosphere plain and simple its dead.

  • @crs78 That's because Mayah Mike is a yenta.

  • @crs78 Yeah baby!!! It's a plastic Big Box mall now... no character and more expensive than ever....

  • @crs78 When they "cleaned up" Times Square they cut the heart out. It's all white bread.

  • It's merely a return to what NYC was in the 40s and 50s. The sleaze came around because of the economic trouble the city was in in the 70s. Fulled the vacuum left by corporate decay.

  • Maybe someone could open an OLD TIMES SQUARE themed restaurant for the yuppies.The decor will be all porn and grafitti ,the waiters/waitress's could dress like pimps n hos and for added realism there could be bums,junkies and muggers.I'd volunteer to be a mugger.

  • Yooooo I remember me and my friends as kids would go to the peep and porn shops in TS. I miss the soul of old NY. BTW, all you fuckin' hipsters, gtf outta my NY.

  • Did Whopner,Dinkins and Juliani kill off all the strip clubs and peep shows ?

  • Stop living in the past you losers

  • "Midnight Matinee" Pullman Standard lyrics/song on YouTube completes this:

    DEFINITELY worth listening(and sing).

    PEACE!

  • No matter how dingy, nasty, and crime ridden NY was in the 60's and 70's. New York, for me, was... a wonderland.

    This is the NYC that will ALWAYS be near and dear to my ♥ =))))))

  • LMAO @ the suit stopping to take a look at the latest skin mags 1:03

  • Do you notice when talking about nyc you always and only think of manhattan

  • It's all about the money. Nothing is sacred when money enters the picture. You all should know that.

  • @Handiman544 Just look at the latest Superman re-design.

  • You ever go hang out in LES / East Village now-a-days? Bar hopping? You meet 20 people that night and none of them are from NY. They all just got here 3 or 4 years ago. IM LIKE WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO?

  • @Timessquare100 The only native New Yorkers now are blacks and Puerto Ricans. I think white people stopped breeding in this city a long time ago - or they all moved out lol.

  • Native New Yorkers all feel the same way, especially if your in your 30s or older. We hate what has happened to NY, the fire is gone. Im not bitter, im welcoming of all, but you transplants have sucked the soul and flavor out of this city. Not to mention you drove the rents up and all the real NYers had to relocate.

  • Thiis footage must be from the fall of 1970, based on the billboard at 2:11 for the film "Sunflower"

  • wow now that was a walk down memory lane. that was when the 40 duce was fun

  • damn you Giuliani and Bloomberg...these crooks took the real city away from us to serve the rich yuppies and hipsters.

  • So many memories! Spent way too much time in those fleabag movies on 42nd between 7th and 8th. But what excitement.

  • Is it because i am getting older (44 now) or has the computer world and its internet really pushed real life away?

  • @Piettube It might have, "realism" in todays films and games means everythings grey and the characters are miserable. Despite how it sounds on the internet, this depiction of life is wrong.

  • @Piettube I agree with you 100%. Life was great before cell phones, pagers, computers. Back when people had to stop and think.

  • Real New Yorkers live on the cheap and are laughing at these suckers who are here for the moment much like tourists. New York was transformed by these idiots who made the Real Estate market jump so high it's beyond any thing they now can afford to live with as adults, most of them now need "roommates" and live like that dumb show "Friends" as though they were still in college.

  • New York was transformed by these idiots who made the Real Estate market jump so high it's beyond any thing they now can afford to live with as adults, most of them now need "roommates" and live like that dumb show "Friends" as though they were still in college.

  • There are still plenty of peep shows, topless places and sex shops. It's just not as in your face as it used to be.

  • @slippolives

    umm.. actually, there's like only one really good live girl peep show in NYC and even that one is pretty on its last legs so to speak. Yeah, I know there are those peeps out there that are anti-smut or sleaze or whatever but if you think about it those businesses weren't drawing in crime.. it was mainly the hustlers and riff raffs in the area that were doing the law breaking. Further even without the sex shops, Times Square is still rife with those types anyway.

  • this is 1969/1970 before it really became scary. But still way more funky than the boring corporate tourist trap it is now!

  • Aside from the fact that they bulldozed all the cool peep shows, movie theatres, and other common folk attractions, the main reason why they should have left the ol' NYC alone is because the character of it all was what bred inspiration. Notice how all the good dramas, comedies, poetry etc. that came out during the 70's and 80's were derived from the pulse of this city? That's because the city then had a 'human' element to it. Sad to say, NYC is nothing but a lifeless machine. R.I.P

  • New York is like Toronto now.

  • OK .. this may or may not be a mix of different years. But I say it is 1970. Notice the huge black and white billboard of the band GRAND FUNK RAILROAD that pops up on the left briefly. I remember, fresh from Ohio, being awestruck by that Billboard. I roamed these streets for months in wonder at that time, and knew Times Square in and out. It was a trip. fascinating, exciting, edgy, but not all THAT "dangerous." NYC needed tidying but I hope they didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater!

  • NYC was known as a city of sex.

  • 1.06-1.11. Man thinks "Arghhh! I can't control myself. My eyes just won't stop looking at it!"

  • haha thats Times Square in the 1970s alright...You can practically see Robert DeNiro driving his Checker cab down those streets

  • I want NYC back "THE WAY IT USED TO BE" SIGHS!

    Thank you raulriveranyc for posting a GREAT MEMORY of the good old days!

  • This was filmed the same time I came to New York to go to college. This is the New York City I know and love and it is gone forever.

  • travis bickle...

  • New york city the city that never sleeps back in the days, Now these days new york city

    that fell asleep, I miss that urban grimy city look, where no cell phones, no laptops

    no texting werent around, You had to think fast on your feet, self awareness self instinct counts and streets smarts too, to me the subways were bad if I didnt get tokens to pay Id fucking jump the turnstile, now the fukin MTA are a bunch of crooks waiting on line forever to refill your metro card FUCK THAT!!..

  • to some extent i agree with YUANOBMO as far as the yuppified college students and the changes its going through. However, I've lived in new york city all my life and the memories seen here will always be with me forever. So i cant say that new york city sucks only because i was born and raised here. Was born in 1975 and the scenary seen here was pretty much the same up until about the late 80s and early 90s. Thats when the changes started.

  • Ironic how like modern Time Squarethis video has irrelevant ads on it now.

  • Hah

  • That Rialto Theater at 49th and Broadway (around :20 here)...that is where we saw The Sound of Music, film version, in its reserved-seat limited-engagement opening, 1965.

  • Music and the video go well like PB&J! Yeah, those were the good old days, and I miss them dearly. RIP Times Square...

  • Times Squares gone, Yankee and Shea stadium are gone. Whats next ?

  • I wish there was more of these videos

    I felt the summer heat just watching

    @ 2:43 Playland rules!

  • damn are there any adult cinemas left in nyc?

  • omg...is that...New York???

  • Great video!!

  • Hell I think New York lost its unique taste a long time ago.

  • I SO want this New York back.....

  • @coupleofbeers31 You can thank "hero" Rudolph W. Giuliani for taking it away.

  • @coupleofbeers31 you mean, crime, drug wars and strip joints?

    

  • @coupleofbeers31

    Couldn't have said it any better. Agree with you 110%

  • @coupleofbeers31 brother i could not agree with u more

  • You want a cookie madmaxninja08. Okay I was off my one year with Koch being Mayor.

  • I suggest you hit the reply button rather thane be cowardly. BTW, you said Koch was the one that saved NY lol, when in reality he made it worse.

  • Look here punk, I admit when I'm wrong with the year that Koch was in office but, remember this, that New York City at the time was facing bankruptcy Koch put the city back on fiscal responsibility. That's all I'm saying. You wouldn't last a second on my block where I grew up, Punk. SouthSide, Queens.

  • Yes at the time being 1978.

    But he was a shitty mayor overal. Crime went up at higher levels unde him.

    And wtf with "punk". LOL

  • NYC SUCKS SUCKS, it lost its feeling, its soul, its spice.

    it went from tough, down to earth, multi cultural city full of mom and pop's stores, with its own distinct flavor to an annoying yuppified, college student ridden, starbucks lousy city.

    I laugh at european tourists going to plastic harlem and times square thinking the legend is still there. to find that the craddle of jazz harlem is gentrified and full of rich white people and times square is full of big corporate stores for tourists.

  • Commercialism is probably our cultures biggest threat.

  • You are absolutely right....your so right.

  • Agree with you 100%.....you're more likely to run into a midwesterner in Manhattan than a true New Yorker....I live here and it's true....

  • lmao that's so true!!!!

  • @yuanobmo  I AGREE!!!! them Williamsburgh types,, ya know , Corrrny Fkin Hippies and Homos from Cali fuck'd everything up!Q..remember how cool 14st used to be? and the Lower East SIDE ? NOT NO MORE THNXS TO NYU , they bought evrything out, so fkkn WACK! SO fknn sissies!

  • @yuanobmo you still have brooklyn bronx and queens if you want the real NYC feelin.

  • @yuanobmo

    hm, agreed. i was born in the city, though moved out at 3 but paid a visit last week.

    the "mom and pop" feeling seems still present in chinatown however, it's fantastic there.

  • @yuanobmo I agree about the total saturation of starbucks and nyu students trust fund kids and hipsters. but there is still some genuine stuff in nyc. its not all bad. believe me i wish things could be like they were in this video all my friends that grew up in nyc tell me about how cool it was and i feel bad i missed out. but just scream at the hipsters and punch an nyu/columbia kid and maybe we can scare them away

  • @diminishedlogic Well said ! Those college kids from the suburbs playing bad ass in the city on the weekends.They need a good stompin from some of the locals .

  • @yuanobmo Right on brother! All these modern-day peiople are nothing but shallow snotty and anal mother fuckers that don't know SHIT! New York back then was more for the common person man!! Long live afros, bellbottoms, platfomr shoes, and all the sex, drugs, and rock n roll and salsa music you all dig?! Coprporations can KISS MY ASS!!

  • @yuanobmo this the world we live in today, I liked NYC, especially in the 70's, yes it was dangerous, yes it was filthy, yes it was obscene, BUT, it was an adult 'disney land', it was 'real'. The deuce today, is all that's wrong with 'life' in the politically correct present, of G Bush, Clinton, G W Bush, Obama & the rest of the political shit. Remember the 60's refrain, "Up against the Wall", let's do it, Dem's Republicans, politicans,media 'stars' hands up!
  • @yuanobmo so so true ... great post .... can't beat the old new york

  • @yuanobmo yeah, makes me sick, really dose. It was the city movies were made about, without even a slight exaggeration.

  • I am from Toronto and had cousins in New York. It was an amazing city.

    It has lost its edge. Before the information age it was so different from anywhere else in the world.

  • @yuanobmo AGREED....everything that WAS interesting in NYC died out by 2001....i would gestimate.

  • @victordls UR RIGHT...ITS DIED IN 2001..

  • @elmuneco12 and yet, no matter where you go out there in the world, NYC will still be THE MOST intersting place on this planet. but its those people who've been living in NYC for a long time who truely KNOWS whats missing in NYC right now.

  • @yuanobmo LOL the bloke lying on the ground at 0:07 is surely still happening today. You ain't lost the old NY you just grew older. Suck it up princess.

  • @BarneyBenar pretty much, take a trip over to MSG right around the corner at the 34th street deli, you'll see 1985 minus the XXX theatres unfortunately.

  • @yuanobmo

    I could not have said it better.

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  • @yuanobmo The only reason I gave you a thumbs up...is because I couldn't give ten. THIS is the New York that dragged a teen away from home at age 19. This is the New York that tested him everyday, this is the New York you could see, feel, and smell. I miss this town so much...because this New York City I live in now, is not the crossroads any longer...it's a corporate amusement park, where the cheapest admission ticket is about 100K per year.

  • @yuanobmo I wish I could go there when it was still like this. However I was not even born at the time unfortunately!

  • @yuanobmo YOU RIGHT!

  • I have been to New York a few times, even in the eighties. And for me, I must say Times Square never looked better than today. ( But I am only one of these tourists - smile ).

  • i miss it too!!!

  • what year was this or around...

  • id say 1990

  • this film is from the mid-seventies

  • from the cars and movie marquees you can date it to the fall of 1970

  • IF YOUR NOT from NY then you might not understand why some people would still want NY to be the way it was. If was more real, now it's just plastic. TIMES SQUARE WAS FOR ADULTS, it was the adult playground. Some things are just landmarks and SHOULD BE left the way they are.. THATS WHAT MADE NY DIFFERENT FROM EVERYWHERE ELSE. Every part of NY had it's own feel, it's own identity. NOW THE WHOLE NY IS LIKE BIG MUSEUM with walt disney buildings and rich corporate yuppies running around

  • i think it should go back to how it was but not too far back. look up on google lost ny

  • THE NEW NEW YORK SUCKS! NY lost it's soul and culture. 42 st was beautiful dangerous grimy and exciting at the same time. You can't even find a mom and pop store anywhere, its nothing but starbucks, tourist and college students from other states in NY now. ALL THE REAL NEW YORKERS MOVED OUT. Now we're left with Molly from ohio who thinks jogging in central park at 1am is safe. I MISS THE OLD GRIMY NY.

  • Hahaha i've just re-iterated your point. You're more likely to run into a midwesterner or French tourist in Manhattan than a true New Yorker.

  • nice video

  • New York was much better none of this bullshit. It was much better back then. Not this sensitve bullshit

  • AIDS didn't exist yet back then. This was the 1970's.

  • Yeah, but it was what it was. It cleaned up, which is cool, but I think it lost what made it what it was. There's still plently of crime, don't worry about that.

  • 42nd street may have been filthy....but at least you didnt get a headache while walking down it

  • I like Times Square better when it was sleazy, I don't think 42nd Street should be a clean, safe, family-oriented Disneyland!

  • Zionist Occupied City.

    Goldfieldsteinbergwitzman was mad he was getting mugged every day and he decided to change every law regardless of its effect on any one other than ZOG.

  • @HardBodyNyC You paranoid dumbfuck better grow eyes in the back of your head Mossad might be hiding under your bed!

  • as a small child my mom usto play this song. I still love it.

    what is the name

  • Rise by Herb Alpert

  • They really should have preserved some of the old adult block. People have a right to go to such places. Its discrimination to kick every store out just because some may not like it. Where can people go to see the peep shows now? They got rid of the Wash DC block for the very same reason-so called cleaning up. I'm glad Baltimore still has its block of shops. I see drug crap all over cities even without the xxx blocks, so don't blame sex. I'm very sure bars contribute to drugs more than sex.

  • When Disney decided to come to Times Sq., they demanded that all the low-rent carnival had to go. The Times Sq BID ran a phony survey. asking the people they chose (which did not include other stores and restaurants in Times Sq, but only the more expensive condos and restaurants) if the porn stores, bars and lunch counters were bad for business. You know the results they got. So today, with a few exceptions, you have the most meretricious establishments for the "decent" tourists and corpsuit.

  • and lets be honest.... the jews.

  • what alot of people dont realiza it that ny would have cleaned up on its own. no city is as fucked up and trashed as it was in the 70s and 80s. heroin and crack addicts die, most people smarten up. guiliani etc went too far. there was a fine line around 94. i lived in that city for twenty years. its gone to shit, the fines, ridiculous rent and souless newcomers are a much bigger threat to my quality of life than any crackhead or porn theatre.

  • I really miss the sticky floors and the urine stench, the pimps, hos and 10 dollar blo jobs

  • lol 10 dollar blow jobs?!

  • wow despite all the porn theaters the people seemed so classy and charming check out the fedoras, suits, and the ladies in dresses, and it felt more like old new york...and it seemed less ethnically diverse, it looked to be all white and black. i live here and times square is kinda boring and commercial now....

  • nyc was tha shit back then!!! today too many fuckin suburb people movin to the city.. the city had more grit and attitude back then in the 70s and 80s, I miss the double features on timesquare..

  • The invention of the VCR put most of the big porno theaters out of business. Why would anybody bother to go out to see porno, Eurosleaze, Italian Zombie/Cannibal films, or Asian action films, when they could just rent them?

  • Boy New York was fun back than and speaking of urban blight I can remember when Soho was nothing but big empty run warehouses, Alphabet City was urban decay, along with the Lower East Side. Does anyone remember the lady that was walking to her car on St. Anne St. in lower Manhattan and when she got to her car the rats attacked that women in her car that was in 1979? I would rather have the old New York vs. New York is boring today.

  • Tell me about it; no peep shows, the old trim on the buildings, so much spirit lost that will never be recaptured. *Sigh.*