Olde New York

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

Many of those people didn’t even know they were having their picture taken. Imagine if they could have known that someday people all over the world would be watching them walk down the street and that that would be the worlds only memory that they had ever even existed.

[bittermelonpro]

very nostalgic. Nice background music.

[lucasfv]

Biurifl sere!

[eddie100]

Thank you for showing. What snapshots, pictures, movies, video tape, CD or DVD, HDD, Blue Ray, BRHDDP, EEP, SCP, and finally D. It stops after D. Direct. Search direct

[oguzthelast1]

such high buildings in that times amazing...

[michaelHda]

It's traditional English.

[313pookie313]

amazing photos...love watching them.

[RFBJr1965]

What is the name of this piano song ?

[Angel7black]

im actually amazed at how old this pictures are yet i can just look and tell that this is clearly new york and how alot of the achitecture from this period still remains in the city today. proud to have been born here

[coppurt]

it's strange how American culture only started diversifying from European around the 30's, these photo's could have easily been photographed in Brussels or Copenhagen.

[zargitario]

Can any body tell me who are authors of these pictures?

[ClassicsforKids]

Nicely done! Thank you JDProductions.

[TheShaolinScholar]

hey i always wondered what it meant by they build on top of old new york now that i see the dock im completely confused now /:(

[RedneckZ284]

I think I was born in the wrong time. I wish I could have been born back when these photos were taken or around that period. Just to see and live life back then would be just....amazing.

[torcolito]

@RedneckZ284 Jorge Luis Borges would say: "As all the people (in history), I have bad times to live".

[RedneckZ284]

@torcolito - Jorge was a great writer. A lot of great quotes and good poetry. I concur and admire your usage of his quote. Not too many people; on here anyway...know of him.

[PismoBeach]

Remarkable photos, beautifully assembled.

[Videomanjohn]

Great photos...well produced.

[Rstars11]

Lovely to watch and well composed - Thank you! Assuming you like vintage photography set to music check out my YT video called "Moments In Our Time".

MIiwVK2S7gE

[MrB17FlyingFortress]

olde? How olde are you? I hope you still live with your parents!

[63gstone]

Look at the archetecture and the style of the buildings and even the clothes people wore. It's interesting how they could afford to build souch ornate buildings back then and today the cost would be prohibitive.

[natureperson420]

what a wonder to look back in time

[tryithere]

I still don't know how people lived in black and white, color is much more lively.

[Hoosierwoodcraft]

Love the photos. Love to know the source of the shots.

[norriedee]

I Found This Rather Moving?

Made Me Wonder If I Was Born Too Late.....

Think The Music Helps.

theres A Hustle N Bustle You No Longer

get

thanx For Posting

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

The birth of a new age. These were the gritty glory days. NYC (or any other city) may never be that alive again.

[greekgd]

Well, it may have been a more simple time back then but it was anything from easy. Crime in New York at the turn of the century was very high. Corruption was rampant. You think we have a gang problem now? You should have seen it then. (No, I wasn't around then). The stench in the air from the horses and the sewers were almost unbearable especially during the summer. The waters were polluted. Could you imagine what NY was like during the hot, humid days of summer with no AC!

[bduncombe]

Absolutely beautiful

[sillbill94]

I would easily go back and live in the 20s!

[The1NAUTILUSMAN]

Thumbs up, 4 new york!!

[shinesthrudarain]

im glad things arent in black n white now how ugly was the world before?

[mmmbeachlover]

@shinesthrudarain white was right and black knew it's place...now look at the mess.

[wmdbassplayer]

@JDProductions2: Beautiful! Simply beautiful! I am very much into history in general and especially the history of my city. Just looking at pictures like this brings about a feeling of desire for a simpler time. Yes, each age has it's hardships, but as each generation progresses with technology, interpersonal relations and social skills go out the window. People are, for the most part, so detached and anti social today. Thanks you for a beautiful view of yesterday.

[ixy1987]

old is gold !!

thats wot they call golden times !!

[lordofwrath88]

olde? was this before spelling?

[JDProductions2]

@lordofwrath88  google "old english"

[lordofwrath88]

@JDProductions2 I'm right. cool, its from before standardized spelling. thanks

[67tr876]

@lordofwrath88 dumb ass

[TheDzikaswinia]

hey

any idea who's playing this song?

awesome

[1loveshop]

@JDProductions2 old was never spelled that way

[88888Rob]

@lordofwrath88 that's how they used to spell old

[chimp644]

its clover field

[castrullas]

Excelente, impresionante. Y la música de de fondo de piano es impresionante. Así se construyó New York.

[MPL029]

funny how we look back and glorify different eras..but trust me..in the future they will look back on this time and glorify it....we even glorify now (well..some do) the 1970' s and 80's..and I lived then..and its nothing to pedestol!

[LordoftheKaty]

No, people will look back at our time and think of how stupid and ignorant we are, and the 60's-80's isn't being looked upon in a really good light. They will look at our time as the begining of our downfall.

[LordoftheKaty]

No one said those times before were easier, you would have to be crazy to think so. The fact is, no matter what the time is, it will always be difficult for us, for that is simply life. However, on the brightside, the style of the 30's and 40's were pretty kickass.

[LordoftheKaty]

And people are not poverty stricken and places aren't war plagued today? Hello, India, Africa, middle eastern countries like Iraq, the financial collapse of the worlds global markets, the war in Afghanastan, 9/11. Would you not consider that bad? Hell, we just may be heading into an era far worse than what the people in those times could have imagined. And yes, I am glorifying the syle and moral ethics of the time, which we do not have today, in that since, then yes I am glorifying it.

[LordoftheKaty]

What I am saying is that there is no such thing as a time without hardships. We only have it easier today because of technology, that is it. BTW, the depression never ended for those in the Appalachine mountains. And what about the poverty with native americans. Why the hell are you trying to start a fight? The fact is there is no good time because there will always be suffering somewhere in the world.

[MPL029]

HA!!..not trying to start a fight..but you completely contradict yourself in every posting..scroll up..re read...

[LordoftheKaty]

Once again, I am not glorifying the pain and suffering of the people in those times, which you seem to have this thought that I am. Hell, I really don't know what you are arguing about. But what I am praising is their endurance and their strength and ability to get things done in the worse of the worse. Those people had endurance we could never have. That is what I am glorifying.

[LordoftheKaty]

BTW, I never said anything about the travesty of the tsunami and earthquake. Wait...how about the earthquake which ravished San Francisco in the 1900's? Thats beside the point, you pulled those from nowhere, not once did I mention them. What I'm talking about is the poverty today, and the effects of the global economic collapse, which the devaluing of the dollar is making worse for us.

[LordoftheKaty]

Once again, I never brought up the tsunami and earthquke, you did. I'm saying that there are 3rd world countries with poverty and war plagued lands to this very day with suffering like that of the 30's and 40's. And btw, you contradict yourself because I agreed with you that looking back at those times as easy is outlandish.

[LordoftheKaty]

Bye! Person who only likes to argue. And do us all a favor, loser who lives in his mom and dad's basement, stop trying to start fights online because you have nothing better to do.

[LordoftheKaty]

BTW, I knew my greatgrandmother who lived in that time, and she told ud about the hardships so I know that, but she also told us about the good things, and she did talk about how good the style was.

[LordoftheKaty]

You're basing your point on the fact that I said they had good style back then, which is irrelevent to your point.

[jsimone1320]

nobody today would be able to live in them times are you kidding me no air conditioning half of all the fat ppl would die lol and most would not be happy i know i would cause i live a life like most of them ppl man i wish i can go there and never come back how fun cant wait im next to go

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

For those of you who are intrigued by the thought of time travel I recommend a movie..."Somewhere in Time" with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Trust me, it's worth renting and watching. It's even worth buying.

[MPL029]

Love tha movie...

[sixspeed2]

Great video. I wish I also could go back in time, even just for one week to live life in those days. Must've been hard but it would certainly be an experience that would teach us young people a thing or two.

Whats that song called?

[TheSteverino1]

LindaDooWop..scientists are working on it..it has to do with Quantum physics,and traveling through "bent" parts of space...its facinating..hope it happens someday

[LindaDooWop]

@TheSteverino1

I read somewhere that Tessla figured it out. I'm sure someone would have followed up on it by now if that were true.

[GeminiNightOwl]

yes, I'd go back and never return...

[LindaDooWop]

@GeminiNightOwl

I wish we could find out how to time travel and go back to different time periods on our vacations.

[TrancetasticWilza]

great thought that. but you wouldn't be able to just pop in Starbucks! haha

[LindaDooWop]

@TrancetasticWilza

Most of us can't anyway. It's too expensive these days with the jobs shot to hell. But we couldn't play on YouTube either!

[LindaDooWop]

@GeminiNightOwl

But I don't think I could stand being restricted by all that binding and ugly clothing from this time period!

[matrags]

wouldn't time travel be a fine thing.

[Frenk78rpm]

Music goes really well, nice production, Thanks!

[1400deadwood]

Wonderful pics - wish I could be there!

[etiennehungary]

Nice video. Greatings from Hungary

[yedon68]

...nice time to be in NYC...!

[streetwhereulive]

I liked you video. The music is haunting. Mixed with the pictures it presents an amount of bleakness to life. We sit here looking at these pictures wondering about all sorts of stuff. Antibotics is first on MY list. The people sit there or walk there or go there without knowing the advances just down the road a few years. I don't know why some videos are so different than others with the same material but I think for me, you captured the look and sound of regret. Thanks for sharing.

[Aleksandarart]

Excellent work!

[atmanman]

This is the best I have seen so far.

I wonder how you would feel about posting my Yonkers, Getty Square,1920 Photos here as a Video Response.

It is amateurish but authentic. I did not know you could only do

one video response, and choose the wrong place to get traffic.

There is a Getty Square Fight with 15,000 views but I don't think it

would draw the right audience.

[Camnun]

The world has changed a lot, unfortunatly to worse... people were much more polite with each other, murderer and rape were things unthinkable and they had no celular, computers, tv etc and people were very happy still.

[Lengsel7]

Murder and rape were unthinkable? You've got to be kidding!

[Jsd8675]

Did you talk to them? did they tell you they were happy? Don't speculate. They suffered through every illness, died young, smelled like crap, and women and minorities were discriminated against and harassed.

[filmmunition]

Well done. I love the music - maybe try importing the midi into iTunes or Logic? Better piano samples, nice grand and steinway.

Excellent work!

[opelske]

Very nice!

[Igelkuesser]

Very, very well done. I'll have my final history exam tomorrow about New York City, and this video set me in the perfect mood, a little bit sad, melancholic. Thanks :)

[madread]

Que hermoso, ¿quién deja caer sus dedos sobre el piano tan dulcemente?

[JDProductions2]

era de la lista que el youtube ofrece. Apesadumbrado, I don' t sabe el nombre.

[Nationsnotregimes]

The genetic material that made NYC physically no are there.

[edwardoalvarez22]

The Jewish Community made an excellent job of establishing business. There kosher meat was very good. There was good people to have arouod. They would turn the neigborhood prosperious. Since, I left New York City I missed the Jewish people very united in family.

[lucasfv]

@edwardoalvarez22 stop with the propaganda

[DeafJoy]

It kinda hard to imagine that I live in this year... :|

[estelle715]

This is truly amazing! A "Gone with the Wind" moment,a civilization that no longer exists,but, hopes that we will never forget as long as we have these pictures.

[ladynw777]

how beautiful the interior of the theatre is

[ericwhithr2007]

excellent video, could you enable the embed?

[JoseEduardoNZ]

JDProductions2 this video is so powerful, evocative and intense, it would be a wonderful thing if the embed was enabled so that other people (my friends from orkut) could enjoy it as much as I do.thanks

[JoseEduardoNZ]

Could someone please let me know what is this tune called? It goes so well along with the olde pictures. Thank you for posting this.Someone made my day, again.

[JDProductions2]

this came from the audio swap section. The original track was a copyright issue. Since they don't credit anyone on the selections they offer, I'm afraid I don't remember who it was.

[stokepogue]

These were very fertile, exciting times. I don't know how many books and stories I've read about people of all races who came to the Land of Opportunity to "be somebody".

They never expected handouts, just a chance of making it simply by being there. It was the greatest gift they ever had and they left their mark through their descendants today.

Today, there are so many handouts and subsidies given to millions of people, it's much harder to see what's possible anymore.

[stokepogue]

The socialists/Obamites of today would likely think of these times as a horribly freakish class/caste structure.

But you could argue that if the classes are economically polarized it would make those who have the "nothing" realize what's possible with hard work and careful planning - no where to go but up.

[spirmessi]

if you like old films watch *BIRTH OF CINEMA

[JoseEduardoNZ]

Spirmessi, Thank you. This is when it is worth reading the comments. There is someone who comes up with something that is really cool.Thank you for that tip, I loved it. Very,very nice indeed. cheers

[myrnaxx95]

That was amazing!

The music and the pictures go together beautifuly , and it really makes you want to know about the people that lived there their lives , thier stories , Everything.

I would have loved to live in those times it might look hard to us now in the 21st century but to think of it , everything was so simple, and everything needed hard work to achive it was real life not like now where we get everything we want without even moving ....

[lander4545]

No hiring quotas,no Afirmative Action. Just think, you had to earn your way.

[rglinNewMex]

and....fortunately for these people, no MSNBC and even better, no Obama.

[alittlelightmusic]

What a great video. Thanks a lot for sharing these pictures, I was surprised with the scenes. Not that I wanted to be there, as life seems to have been hard, but one does feel a nostalgia about seeing the images of people who have lived in the past.

[reads1337]

Stunning.

Looking at all these photos make me wonder who each person is, what their story is. I get a feeling I can't express in words :).

Definitely a masterpiece.

[toxicMDR2]

I get you :(

[rozzbox]

@reads1337

i agree

[Jikk]

You definitely might be less than a fart in the wind. Seems about accurate. Why would you cry over people from the 1900's than?

Nice video by the way JD :)

[Dooqx]

I want to thank you for this beautiful music video.

The music in combination with the pictures makes it all so emotional to watch.

In those days everything was a big dream. Everything was so glamourious and elegant.

Again, thank you very much for posting this.

(I'm sorry if some of the scentences are not correct. I'm Dutch)

[JDProductions2]

I'm glad you liked it. Your English was perfect!

dank u zeer!

[StewedTomato]

Sorry they stopped your music JD, you are still #1 in my book!

[jefephilippe]

It's not unreasonable for JDProductions2 to assume that you would be upset from your comment "makes me want to cry". This makes him or her a moron? It's more likely that you're on some lame existential kick. Here's what it all means... you are a moron. Thanks JDProductions2 for a great post.

[AbdullaDXB]

exactly how old these pic's? i am looking for the oldest photo for new york

[brycepunk]

I saw one that was dated from (I believe) 1846. Some sort of steel plate photo (or something like that -- I don't recall the exact details.) It was of the "skyline," which was a lot of wooden buildings very close together.

Wish I had more info.

[crepitus1097]

Nicely put....

[JDProductions2]

Perhaps you should re-read your original comment and let us all know what your point was...

[Dooqx]

Ah! Your Dutch is good! haha :P

[sHaDoWoFsWoRdS]

i was just thinking the exact same thing

[Yetti0]

We stand on the shoulders of giants. We need to teach more history.

[JDProductions2]

That would hold true for most photographs of World War II and older. If they upset you, I'd suggest staying away from the history section in the library.

[vmdct]

What a wonderful video, the ragtime music is perfect. Thanks, JD.

[JDProductions2]

Glad you liked it!

[holyoakproductions]

:)thanks

[StewedTomato]

Brilliant!

[JDProductions2]

Thanks much!

[JDProductions2]

It WOULD be nice...

[backintheday1940]

A pleasure to watch. The city has changed so much that it's like looking at another planet. The accompanying music is a wonderful choice.

[JDProductions2]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[BellovVideo]

Sweet!

[JDProductions2]

Thank You!

[WolfArden44]

Native of NY here.Love the vid.Great music too.

[JDProductions2]

Thanks!

[janicesoprano]

Thank you for posting this video. My great-grandfather Patrick emigrated from Dublin, Ireland to New York City, he became a citizen in 1875. He and his wife Bridget raised five sons and two daughters in a huge Victorian mansion on the East River. How fabulous to see what he saw! Thank you again, so much!

[JDProductions2]

Glad you liked it, Thanks!

[foremanrocks]

dang.

this makes me wanago watch spongebob.

by! (:

[petritias]

pretties pretties

[Voyagersguidebook]

Very sweet video. I live in NY and it really makes you yearn for these simpler old days. I love looking up the history and learning about NY's roots. Very nice images, beautiful music and tribute to this bygone era.

[JDProductions2]

Thanks!

[1400deadwood]

BEAUTIFUL!!!

[JDProductions2]

Thanks!

[missionfarstar]

wonderful music...who's is it. Great vid thanks

[JDProductions2]

Thanks. It's an excerpt from Randy Newman's "Train Ride" from the soundtrack of "Ragtime"

[missionfarstar]

Thanks soooooooooooo much !!

[eriswen]

Is this the lower east side? which el is shown, looks like one shot is on the Bowery, with the el running on both sides of the street. Is this pre-1900?

[JDProductions2]

I believe it is the lower East Side. Photos are mostly 1905

[ghs45]

Wonderful photography The vid was awe inspiring as it made me realize what it was like when my parents arrived in 1905 and 1921.We take so much for granted Thanks for 'an eye opener' about the 'reality' of a struggle to survive

[JDProductions2]

No automobiles, no phones, no air conditioning... yet they survived. Thanks for watching!