What I find amazing is that people actually like when the city was in ruins. I love hip hop but lets admit it that the graffiti in the late 70's and into the 80's was horrible. Who was to ride a train with a bunch of graffiti on it? Who wants to live in an area where there are a bunch of abandoned buildings with drug dealers and crack heads? I live in the Bronx in the 80's as a kid and was scared to death having to walk by those places. So good for New York for gettin their act together.
@gotflava1 Maybe you don't know this but I am guessing you obviously really don't because anyone who assumes ghetto=crack head has no clue but... crack didn't come around until the late 80s cuz. There is more to a city than just what it looks like, it was about the people! You're the pussy if you were scared, sorry but that wasn't our fault no one taught you how to deal with the real world where things aren't always happy and pretty and sugar coated like a Disney movie. You're problem, not ours
@christm5 maybe u were at the wrong place at the wrong time. this could of happened to u in any big city. Just because u've had bad experiences here, doesnt mean everyone else here has. And i know ur not comparing chicago to new york. I have friends living in chicago and they tell me that gang violence out there is HUGE and very often there are drive bys. Kinda like living in LA. heres a simple solution for u. stay out of nyc if u dont like it.
@christm5 That's a stereotype, New Yorkers don't spit on you no one spits on. Its a city with alot of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds all living together.
We need to bring back the color coded street signs instead of those horrible green ones. Thank GOD we have the yellow license plates back with the blue letters!
I remember NYC then because I lived there for over two decades.I don't miss the graffitti subways. Times Square has become too Disneyfied and looks cheap. Now everyone is a suspect since before you could walk into buidings unimpeded. The streets are much cleaner now. The Bronx was a burned out slum, as was parts of Harlem and Crown Heights in Bklyn.I miss the closet sized candy stores.Still great city for food, but terribly expensive city where ppl pay extortion for shoebox living!
thats a 70s commercial kid that was the real NEW YORK when it was real gangs sticks bats chaines crime rapist night slashers muggers drug addicts good movies good music no terror alerts welfare boose needles hardcore dirty NYC now too many lights and too many stinkin tourist in disney land what a bummer
I miss New York of the 1970s man! Those beautiful yellow street signs with black letters in Manhattan and all the graffitti on the subways, people wearing bellbottoms and platform shoes ducking into Times Square Record Mart on 42 St in the subway to buy LPs it brings a tear to my eye man you all dig?! New York today SUCKS too square and pretentious today and shallow! What a disgrace!
@70sman4ever The "new" vinyl street signs were introduced in 1964.Manhattan & Staten Island were the same color scheme,Queens was a silver background with dark blue lettering,Brooklyn was a black background with white lettering & The Bronx was a dark blue background with silver lettering.All five boroughs had the signs changed in the '80's to a green background with white lettering.
@70sman4ever dude, i couldnt agree with u more. i miss the old nyc the way it used to be. now a days, these young college yuppies are ruining it for real new yorkers like us.
@christm5 the same thing goes for NYC. Sure, every big city such as NY and chicago has its bad areas but it has improved through the years. Around 1990 or so, new york city had its highest crime rate. Now a days, its not as bad as b4.
@noreaga12326 Actually,in real terms New York was at its worst from about 1973 to 1977..the period when the city was in financial trouble. People always quote the murder rate for 1990..but look at the rate for 1985..it was much lower. Fact is 1990 was an exception..and not the rule.
@mooneepondskid i was born in 75 so i dont remember too much about it. But since i grew up in the 80s, i know that violence then, was still bad. for example, around Washington Heights, in the 80s and most of the 90s was at its highest crime rate ever. the bronx in the 80s was also hell. 90% of the bronx during that time was mostly burnt down abandoned buildings. they started cleaning up the bronx around 1990 or 91. But i do miss the old nyc. NYC is too modern now.
@mooneepondskid i'm not really talking about crime. im just talking about how new york city looks now a days. its cleaner (which is good) but in other aspects, its way too different. for example, the new subway cars they've come up with in the last few years look like shit to me. what can i say, im from the old skool and i miss the old skool graffiti trains.
@christm5 just because new yorkers spit on you doesnt mean they do it to everybody. i lived in new york all my life (35 years) and nobody has ever spit on me
This PSA is just so old school New York.This commercial aired well into the early 90,s for a very long time.From the subway ride to the grittiness of the train and it,s people was a reflection of the real N.Y.Now it has emerged into a overly commercial and capitalistic place that,s only beneficial to tourists,yuppies and corporate America.How much I miss New Yorks golden years.
What's with people getting into pissing matches about who is or isn't a "real" New Yorker? Jeeziz. Grow up, will you?
I find this hilarious. Too bad it probably didn't work. NYC didn't really start getting cleaned up until the mid-90s. I don't enjoy giving Rudy Guliani praise (believe me), but he does deserve the credit for giving the city a much needed kick in the ass that helped get it out of the doldrums.
Those people on the subway shouldn't be shaming that guy for littering--they should shame him for being bald, fat, and ugly. And he doesn't even have a recurring role on "Seinfeld".
Like I said dude .."YOU haven't a clue" ... New york here 1954-1980 .. Let me break it down fror you .. new york was really bad from 68-80.. now its kinda "candy - coated " .. when a Ghetto was a "SLUM " . and real gansters weren't BRAGGING about it ..was the real deal son ..
@donmacauley I wanna puke when I think what NY is nowadays. I'm now glorifying the horror and filth that was so rampant... But damn the city had so much soul and character. Now these dumb ass little hood rats who need a new pair of sneakers every week are spazing out to Soulja Boy and don't know wtf it's really about. People were starving, had nothing... kids were playing in massive burnt out buildings were junkies and crack heads were. Look at how pretty Harlem is now.
1970'a? I would be far more worried about the gangs and the violent crime that the subway was infamous for back then. Yes, I know about the broken window theory.
you live in ny for 12 years and you think that makes you a NYer!?!! You are the same level as transplants and migrants...you're no native...my family docked in NY harbor in 1873 and has been here ever since.
@skymunro If somebody lived through the Koch era, and was still here you'd have to at least cut him some slack. 136+ years in NY is pretty exceptional.
believe me theyll probably throw you in jail for 3 days for littering now. ive gone to jail for peeing in dark pissed filled rat infested alleys, hoping the tuenstile, at the time a 1.50$ offense, i think its 2.50 now and that was only a few years ago, drinking a beer outside got me put in jail. FUCK NYC 2009 it is not new york.
The voice over is Danny Aiello NOT Jack Klugman, I was the producer
Schlockumentaries 3 months ago
Thanks.
trainluvr 3 months ago
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Schlockumentaries 3 months ago
Isn't the Garbage all on Wall Street ??
indyfan22k 3 months ago
The narrator is Danny Aiello!
jahnbon 5 months ago
Thank you! I was thinking Klugman, but yeah Danny Aiello, who I’m sure enjoyed many a splendid evening down in Little Italy.
trainluvr 5 months ago
What I find amazing is that people actually like when the city was in ruins. I love hip hop but lets admit it that the graffiti in the late 70's and into the 80's was horrible. Who was to ride a train with a bunch of graffiti on it? Who wants to live in an area where there are a bunch of abandoned buildings with drug dealers and crack heads? I live in the Bronx in the 80's as a kid and was scared to death having to walk by those places. So good for New York for gettin their act together.
gotflava1 1 year ago 6
@gotflava1 Maybe you don't know this but I am guessing you obviously really don't because anyone who assumes ghetto=crack head has no clue but... crack didn't come around until the late 80s cuz. There is more to a city than just what it looks like, it was about the people! You're the pussy if you were scared, sorry but that wasn't our fault no one taught you how to deal with the real world where things aren't always happy and pretty and sugar coated like a Disney movie. You're problem, not ours
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
@christm5 maybe u were at the wrong place at the wrong time. this could of happened to u in any big city. Just because u've had bad experiences here, doesnt mean everyone else here has. And i know ur not comparing chicago to new york. I have friends living in chicago and they tell me that gang violence out there is HUGE and very often there are drive bys. Kinda like living in LA. heres a simple solution for u. stay out of nyc if u dont like it.
noreaga12326 1 year ago
Yeah, it was the middle class guys in business suits who were trashing the subway....
Patrickprescott 1 year ago
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backwardk 1 year ago
LMAO!!! Absolutely hilarious! I remember seeing this commericial in the mid 80's! Too bad New Yorkers were hard of hearing.
gotflava1 1 year ago
@christm5 That's a stereotype, New Yorkers don't spit on you no one spits on. Its a city with alot of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds all living together.
slicingwater 1 year ago
It didn't get better till the new Millenium
slicingwater 1 year ago
Totally funny! :)
ImOfNope 1 year ago
We need to bring back the color coded street signs instead of those horrible green ones. Thank GOD we have the yellow license plates back with the blue letters!
70sman4ever 1 year ago
@70sman4ever i know your comment is old but i totally agree with you lol. i miss the white ones too though. they were ok
STBNY 1 year ago
People always glorify the "good old days"...for the most part it is bullshit.
xpat73 1 year ago
@xpat73 The "good old days" is what got us all fucked up today!
sonnyandbilly 1 year ago
@DerKosmonaut1972 Even though people still throw shit on the ground.
peacelord 1 year ago
I remember those vividely
dduras 1 year ago
I remember NYC then because I lived there for over two decades.I don't miss the graffitti subways. Times Square has become too Disneyfied and looks cheap. Now everyone is a suspect since before you could walk into buidings unimpeded. The streets are much cleaner now. The Bronx was a burned out slum, as was parts of Harlem and Crown Heights in Bklyn.I miss the closet sized candy stores.Still great city for food, but terribly expensive city where ppl pay extortion for shoebox living!
OSTARAEB4 1 year ago
I remember this during the Independent Network News
level242 1 year ago
I remember this...i always thought if he didnt pick that up those people were gonna start whalin on his ass.
bjroberts65 1 year ago
thats a 70s commercial kid that was the real NEW YORK when it was real gangs sticks bats chaines crime rapist night slashers muggers drug addicts good movies good music no terror alerts welfare boose needles hardcore dirty NYC now too many lights and too many stinkin tourist in disney land what a bummer
horror780 1 year ago
I miss New York of the 1970s man! Those beautiful yellow street signs with black letters in Manhattan and all the graffitti on the subways, people wearing bellbottoms and platform shoes ducking into Times Square Record Mart on 42 St in the subway to buy LPs it brings a tear to my eye man you all dig?! New York today SUCKS too square and pretentious today and shallow! What a disgrace!
70sman4ever 1 year ago 2
@70sman4ever The "new" vinyl street signs were introduced in 1964.Manhattan & Staten Island were the same color scheme,Queens was a silver background with dark blue lettering,Brooklyn was a black background with white lettering & The Bronx was a dark blue background with silver lettering.All five boroughs had the signs changed in the '80's to a green background with white lettering.
East180thStreetYard 1 year ago
@70sman4ever dude, i couldnt agree with u more. i miss the old nyc the way it used to be. now a days, these young college yuppies are ruining it for real new yorkers like us.
noreaga12326 1 year ago
@christm5 the same thing goes for NYC. Sure, every big city such as NY and chicago has its bad areas but it has improved through the years. Around 1990 or so, new york city had its highest crime rate. Now a days, its not as bad as b4.
noreaga12326 1 year ago 2
@noreaga12326 Actually,in real terms New York was at its worst from about 1973 to 1977..the period when the city was in financial trouble. People always quote the murder rate for 1990..but look at the rate for 1985..it was much lower. Fact is 1990 was an exception..and not the rule.
mooneepondskid 1 year ago
@mooneepondskid i was born in 75 so i dont remember too much about it. But since i grew up in the 80s, i know that violence then, was still bad. for example, around Washington Heights, in the 80s and most of the 90s was at its highest crime rate ever. the bronx in the 80s was also hell. 90% of the bronx during that time was mostly burnt down abandoned buildings. they started cleaning up the bronx around 1990 or 91. But i do miss the old nyc. NYC is too modern now.
noreaga12326 1 year ago
@noreaga12326 New York too modern?.. New York has been the epitome of modern for over 100 years.
When people think of modern buildings and modern street crime ,it's New York that comes to mind.
mooneepondskid 1 year ago
@mooneepondskid i'm not really talking about crime. im just talking about how new york city looks now a days. its cleaner (which is good) but in other aspects, its way too different. for example, the new subway cars they've come up with in the last few years look like shit to me. what can i say, im from the old skool and i miss the old skool graffiti trains.
noreaga12326 1 year ago
@christm5 just because new yorkers spit on you doesnt mean they do it to everybody. i lived in new york all my life (35 years) and nobody has ever spit on me
noreaga12326 1 year ago
Is that the voice of Rocky Graziano???
libere 1 year ago
That poor man. How embarrassing.
felderkirk 2 years ago
lets cleanup the Bronx. I still see scumbags throw their wrappers on the ground! Why?
oceanbelow 2 years ago 6
This PSA is just so old school New York.This commercial aired well into the early 90,s for a very long time.From the subway ride to the grittiness of the train and it,s people was a reflection of the real N.Y.Now it has emerged into a overly commercial and capitalistic place that,s only beneficial to tourists,yuppies and corporate America.How much I miss New Yorks golden years.
dcflava74 2 years ago
@dcflava74: so dirt subways, rampant crime, crak cocaine are good things you miss?
lotwyo 2 years ago
NY FTMFL
foxized 2 years ago
What's with people getting into pissing matches about who is or isn't a "real" New Yorker? Jeeziz. Grow up, will you?
I find this hilarious. Too bad it probably didn't work. NYC didn't really start getting cleaned up until the mid-90s. I don't enjoy giving Rudy Guliani praise (believe me), but he does deserve the credit for giving the city a much needed kick in the ass that helped get it out of the doldrums.
qualmful 2 years ago
Those people on the subway shouldn't be shaming that guy for littering--they should shame him for being bald, fat, and ugly. And he doesn't even have a recurring role on "Seinfeld".
funkmike 2 years ago
Like I said dude .."YOU haven't a clue" ... New york here 1954-1980 .. Let me break it down fror you .. new york was really bad from 68-80.. now its kinda "candy - coated " .. when a Ghetto was a "SLUM " . and real gansters weren't BRAGGING about it ..was the real deal son ..
donmacauley 2 years ago 18
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oceanbelow 2 years ago
@donmacauley Very well said. But NYC's murder rate was at an all time high in 1990. I thought that period was it's worst. The Crack-Cocaine Era?
oceanbelow 2 years ago
@donmacauley I wanna puke when I think what NY is nowadays. I'm now glorifying the horror and filth that was so rampant... But damn the city had so much soul and character. Now these dumb ass little hood rats who need a new pair of sneakers every week are spazing out to Soulja Boy and don't know wtf it's really about. People were starving, had nothing... kids were playing in massive burnt out buildings were junkies and crack heads were. Look at how pretty Harlem is now.
TheVisionary84 1 year ago
oh yeah, especially during the crack epidemic of the late 80's....yeah they'd run it over and over...
skymunro 2 years ago
This was 80's...I remember this too...and Im only 27...so this was late 80's.....
skymunro 2 years ago
oh wow i remember watching this when i was a kid. thanks.
fahqmein 2 years ago
1970'a? I would be far more worried about the gangs and the violent crime that the subway was infamous for back then. Yes, I know about the broken window theory.
plateshutoverlock 2 years ago
read a book called sidewalks...goes well into the broken glass theory..
skymunro 2 years ago
I remember this commerical back in the day and it was in the early 80's it came out not the late 70's.
m33smitty 2 years ago
Typical Wall Street banker, he thinks the world is his dumpster. To bad they didn't kick the shit out of him for littering.
bubba5000 2 years ago 4
if your not "Old Scholl "New York .. you haven't a clue !! 1968-1980....
donmacauley 2 years ago 6
you live in ny for 12 years and you think that makes you a NYer!?!! You are the same level as transplants and migrants...you're no native...my family docked in NY harbor in 1873 and has been here ever since.
skymunro 2 years ago
@skymunro If somebody lived through the Koch era, and was still here you'd have to at least cut him some slack. 136+ years in NY is pretty exceptional.
oceanbelow 2 years ago
lol if you think your comparing, 1980s newyork to today, your out of your damn mind
MistrEgg 3 years ago 4
LOLOL---no dude--its not clean but nothing ---and i mean NOTHING like what it used to be.
hg915 3 years ago
Gahbidge!
You don't hafta puddup wit it no moah!
UdallIn72 3 years ago 25
Any body been to NYC today, noting but litter slobs everywhere.
prausch65 3 years ago 3
i remember this commercial- it worked
philosopher1976 3 years ago
as if it worked!!!!!!!!!
Haydz01 3 years ago
hey talibi22 our subway was dirty so what, your a pussy so u can't handle
andrewduhmetroid 3 years ago
Lots of memories! Thanks for posting...
ursa41 3 years ago
Does anyone know who owns this PSA or who produced it? I am looking to license it for a project, but need to find the creators???
Your ideas are welcome!
Thank You!
anna
annaobropta 3 years ago
Jeez, I actually remember when this was on the air. They broadcast it all the way up through the 80's.
Luckilius 3 years ago
I remember it, too. And I didn't realize it was that old!
Luzern76 3 years ago
And now New York is spotless!
stargate121 4 years ago
any one that litters should be fined heavily... nice job ny for cleaning da place up.. Guess in Vienna they would shoot the guy..hmmm
irish89055 4 years ago
believe me theyll probably throw you in jail for 3 days for littering now. ive gone to jail for peeing in dark pissed filled rat infested alleys, hoping the tuenstile, at the time a 1.50$ offense, i think its 2.50 now and that was only a few years ago, drinking a beer outside got me put in jail. FUCK NYC 2009 it is not new york.
zootedloody 2 years ago
i dont know why people thumbbed you down...you're speaking truth...a fare is 2,25 now...
skymunro 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
thank God my hometown Vienna was nevery filthy and unsecure, like New York was 15 years ago.
talibi22 5 years ago
What a classic. I grew up on that commercial. Thanks for posting.
jmb11238 5 years ago 4
Danny Aiello narrating
JimR541 5 years ago
Really? Amazing. Great clip.
myrurgia 4 years ago