New Horizons - New York, 1968

[gli7utubeo]

good stuff here. thank u!

[Hanzey666]

Excuse me, just a question to a real New Yorker.....at 1:43 they show ,,RadioCity,, in as they filmed in 1968. But I thought the complete RadioCity area was demolished somewhere in 1962 because of building the WTC&Twin Towers. Im not even from USA ,but verry intrested in Old Footages/History of NYC whatsoever, and this question just happened to cross my mind.

Annyone ? ?

[DarthFastidious]

@Hanzey666

Real New Yorker chiming in!

You are correct that the Radio Row neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was demolished to make way for the 16-acre WTC superblock in 1966. HOWEVER, what's in the video is not Radio Row, it's Radio City Music Hall, at the intersection of West 50th Street and 6th Avenue in Midtown, six miles north of the WTC superblock. It's a landmark performance hall, home of the Rockettes and part of the Rockefeller Center complex. It's not going anywhere!

[Hanzey666]

@DarthFastidious Thanks for your answer, realy apreciated.

Best regards from The Netherlands, and have a verry good day ! !

[BrianKashman]

The music in this film is fantastic!

[radulica]

haha 3:27 - Restaurant The Ginger Man LMFAO

[RobertoLopezstudyis]

This is one of the best old films of New York and the United States in 1968!

[vexviper]

This was a very clean beautiful time with no open gay fags and liberals!

[wannabesupergirl]

@vexviper go to hell

[vexviper]

@wannabesupergirl LOL :D

[wannabesupergirl]

@vexviper Please do.

[vexviper]

@wannabesupergirl You first >;)

[artstar19]

@vexviper Wrong. New York City had many transsexuals, gays, and so called "liberals" back then. Ask anyone who stayed in the lower and upper east sides of Manhattan during that time.

[vexviper]

@artstar19 Well they were not as open about it as they're today. Now you see guys kissing in the street. I wonder what will happen next. Public sex?

Simpler times indeed.

[zhred]

@vexviper kissing? that aint bad ? :) i think you ment pissing? ;P

[mrmn68]

@artstar19 So what.. if they presented their homosexuality in public they would be committed to a fucking mental institution

[mythbuster43]

@mrmn68 Unless they were on 42nd Street.

[teletubetodd]

Great photography, set to the hip music of the era. I especially liked the footage of old Palisades Park, never having made it there before its unfortunate demise. Thanks for posting this!

[wiedep]

pan american airways did not build 200 park, a developer did.

pan am was a primary tenant and paid for the signage, when the airline went under another tenant bought the sign space.

[miguelmouta]

Strange. There were no hippies on Washington Square. That was not the entire reality, from the apple of those days.

[dagr382]

I agree. Pan Am built that building, and that's what I call it and how I think of it.

[nonthere]

I don't care that the company went out of business. They should have kept the PanAM logo up on the building. It's hard to overestimate the influence that airline had on American life.

[EmceeGlitch]

I don't speak Italian...

[NYBredBamaFed]

What great footage of New York from the year I was born! I'm curious where that amusement park is located. It is Rye Playland? In any case, thanks for posting this video!

[WhiteCamry]

No, that was Palisades Amusement Park in Ft. Lee & Cliffside, NJ. It closed in 1971.

[anghmho]

@NYBredBamaFed That was Palisades Park, across the river in New Jersey. A treasure long gone. Condos now stand where the park used to be, as if we needed more condos.