NYC was a lot cooler back then. Now it's just a place for rich bastards and it sucks! You can't even walk the streets unless you are a millionaire let alone live there.
The Headless Eyes, Basket Case, Andy Milligan, Ralph Bakshi's 70's output, The Warriors, The Wanderers, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Andy Milligan, Midnight Cowboy, Chappaqua, Panic In Needle Park, Ms. 45, Bill Lustig's Maniac, The New York Ripper, Andy Milligan, Superfly, Black Caeser, Larry Cohen in general, Riot on 42nd St, Mike and Roberta Findlay, The Amero Brothers, and all the other films and their makers that captured the Times Square/New York of old, u did a great service we say THANK YOU
Born in 1997 nd a native born nd raised newyorker ik time square looks different but it is better tht way, the tourist are the only sucky part about it. Nd trust me the rest of manhattan is still just as dangerous nd seedy. Stop going here if u want real nyc go to uptown harlem or the south bronx. Lol im from upper west side but i've seen it all
@mrclutch88 you're a teenager born in the late 90's... you know nothing about the old New york.... I am sure if you had the chance to be in that new york for a day you would change your mind!
NYC was out of this world back in those days, the vibrant street art, the freaky weird people with loud NYC accents, the colorful eveyrday living, the street poets, the nutty people, the struggling artists, the street corner hookers next to bible freaks announcing the end of the world etc. etc.
That New york was lost.... today is a gentrified shithole full of yuppys who think they're new yorkers but were born in texas and iowa, sex in the city wannabes, and obnoxious rich people from elsewhere.
@TheYaom Well fucking put, both your posts, bud. Hearing ex-mayor Ed Koch on the Taxi Driver dvd talking about proud he was of what he ultimately accomplished, shutting down and bulldozing all the grindhouses and revitalizing the area to make it safe for families and children made me want to throttle him with piano wire!
@grindhousejunky79 Towns and suburbs are supposed to be safe for children and families; NYC is a major world metropolis, huge cities worldwide are chaotic, colorful, dangerous, freaky, artsy, diverse, places of contrast; NYC is becoming so dull it feels like suburbia!
All the latino/jews places in williamsburg are gone, even the warehouses where they had street artists are gone, now it's all generic stores like starbucks and yuppies/hispters from milwaukee pretending to be rough new yorkers!
@grindhousejunky79 New York city as New Yorkers knew it and loved it is almost dead, it started in Manhattan and now gentrification is happening at an alarming rate in Brooklin, Queens and the Bronx, you can see soccer moms driving around south bronx these days!
The mom and pop's stores that made NYC so different from the rest of the US are also dissapearing at an alarming rate being raplaced by big generic places like walgreens, starbucks and target!
@TheYaom The same thing is happening currently as i write this, to East Hastings aka the DownTown East Side here in Vancouver. Everything from the city's origin era is being knocked down, all the cheap pizza places, pawn/porn/used cd shops, old buildings, pubs even, are being knocked down and replaced with banks, Subway, London Drugs, Starbucks, slick n shiny market places, (vomit sounds proceed). Amazing how long the area has lasted in it's infamy era well into the mid-late 2000s.
@Nezz415 Do you happen to have any video clips of Frisco's Market Street from when it looked like L.A.'s Hollywood Blvd. and NYC's Times Square to post? If so,I'd be very delighted to check 'em out.
@Queenlafry today new york is a shithole that smells of fresh paint!!! can't stand gentrified craphole it is today.... funny enough most actual new yoekrs are leaving in hordes... it's all full of california upper class bimbos and yuppies from the midwest
I liked this place for a couple of decades, but it wasn't for the timid or vulnerable. I was there for two days last year, '10, and was surprised to find it was actually still okay. I still saw male hustlers and drug dealers, and some of the old theatres were still there, restored. I'd heard it was a plastic Disney Park but to me, it was as hot and sweaty as ever. And noisy! Uprated.
Great video, who doesn't love seedy! Also check out THE URBAN EYE.
"Join your host Jerry Rio as he takes you on a nostalgic tour as he explores the disappearing icons of this metropolis and find out what New Yorkers think about unchecked development and the corporate homogenization that has altered and destroyed much of the uniqueness of the New York City landscape"
Loving the "Orange Julius" sign @ 2:27 damn! That place will reign over Grays Papaya any day! True tasty filth for your dollar! LOL :) Great video and great song too by the way.
@Nezz415 does the current tenderloin district compare with old new york at all? i stayed in ny from '08 to '10 and while i had a good time there i found the city itself to be full of pretentious jerk dicks. the old school guys were cool as shit once i figured out where to find em, but the ones my age... fucking bubble heads.
It's funny...was watching Taxi Driver on TV tonight and unlike De Niro's character I was longing for the golden days of seediness in the big apple! Now NYC turned into an expensive disneyland just like vegas. Sucks.
I miss going to the deuce back in the early 80's. Used to get off the E train and straight to the Subway Arcade with the Pizza shop across from it. Cops asking you if you want to get paid to do a line up. Going upstairs to catch a triple feature of Kung Fu for 3 bucks. Buying loose joints in the theater. I miss those days of my teens.
On 42nd, I caught a glimpse of sparkle in a tiny shop, and discovered several ladies, making sequinned pasties. There were pasties of all sizes & colours, including a pair of "missile cones" in emerald green sequins.
My dad & I stood there, watching the ladies at work, and Dad bought a pair of little pink pasties as a souvenir.
That was how I learned to make pasties. Today, I perform & make costumes in the neo-burlesque scene!
As a 20 year old from Minnesota visiting Times Square in 1977, I could not believe the incredible sleeziness of it. I had never seen anything like it. Of course we'll never see anything like that again. Those days are long gone. I visited NYC last year and it looked like a different city. It's certainly a cleaner, more maintained and a much more safe feeling city today than I remember from 1977.
@Glinkaism1 ...Yeah, well, I guess you think anybody who doesn't like to roll around in the mud and feces of a pigpen is a "wimp". What a twisted person.
@2indulgent Twist and shout, baby! Seedy was lovely. T2 had been Disney-ized. But T2 is but one part of NYC. There are zillions of places elsewhere to seek out and discover/rediscover.
So enjoy your sanitized version, you hick from the sticks. :)
wow i went to new york for the 2nd time in march and i always thought times square always looked like it does now...i just learned that no....it used to be a pretty seedy place...the graffiti in the subway lol
It fuckin pains me to see these images of Times Sq/42nd of the 1970s. I was born in 1979 so by the time i was old enough to get out to the City on my own in the late 1990s this was already "cleaned up." I am obsessed with things 1970s... especially New York City. I live in the tri-state area so I make it to the city, myself, at least 2x a year. I love the City dearly but there was just something special and unique about the grit and grime of this period that can't be duplicated or overshadowed.
@NTK2A I was born in 1987 and live in Australia, but i'm fascinated by old New York city of the 70's and 80's. I visited there over Christmas and went to Times Square and seeing parents taking there toddlers out at 9pm just reminds me of how far things have come.
At around 4:00 there is some graffiti... that was actually a prop graf piece for the movie BEAT STREET. The character's graf name was RAMO. If that is just a regular picture and not a set still or production still, that is kindof cool!
It's actually very bad as far as graf goes... for all the attention they pid to real breakin in that movie, it was funny to see them scrimp on graf talent.
I came to NY in 2005, and while it is interesting to see how times sq was in the 80's. I'm glad for the most part it isn't like that anymore. Imagine taking your children there.
It's hard to say which is more pathetic, the disgusting way things were (which I knew firsthand), or the illiterate commenters who shed a crocodile tear over its demise.
Thank you so much. You captured Times Square with it's true essence. Not the Glass & Steel Tourist Trap Mayors Gillan & Bloomberg turned it into. With Tourists eating $18 Hamburgers & saying thats Times Square. Thank you again Lenny Waller (Former Manager Hell Fire Club NY)
@smdad holy shit..hell fire...the one on the triangle on 14st and hudson st ? me and my boy would go in there and rob all the perves wallets when they was geting down. haha. back around 85/86. my old man owned the `peter rabbit` and had a piece of the `mineshaft`. didnt marty dobson and dickie bell (both dead) ownn that place. holy shit to see that name brings back some sweet memories. glad ya never caught us ;)
@NYOLSKOOL sorry to say the guy from 'Hell Fire' died a couple of weeks ago. reached out. too bad. woulda had some funny shit to talk about. RIP Lenny...
@smdad it's really bloomberg's fault,he made it even more expensive so rich hipsters to move in,Giuliani really wanted to get rid of the Mafia,I heard rumors in my neighborhood that he use to get bullied as a kid,so i guess he wanted to even,he really didnt care for the city only to bring in the buck$.
Worked in Times Square for a while its fucking wack now , Tourists up the ass and people who walk around acting like there from New York because they moved here ..please go back to kansas ya fucking hipsters
as the song says: those were the days my friends we thought it never end...never thought that "Forty Duce" aka "42nd Street" would change for the better..which it has..wow!..what a change! =ol
Times Square was better in the 70"s & early 80"s. There used to be LIVE peep shows where they offered "lap dances". It was fun to watch the sleazy & the weirdos also. It was the REAL New York/Times Square Who cares about Disney?They also had cheap eats & I remember Tad"s Steaks, the porn theaters with the bright neon marquis", the "book stores, arcades, & novelty/soveneir shops, etc. If anyone did not like it, they did"nt have to go. There is a place for everything.
I'm a going to NY over Christmas and I definitely agree that I would rather it be the seedy Time Square of the 70's as opposed to the Time Square of today.
What I love most about this vid, you don't see any "Corporate" takeover at all. No Ernst & Young building and corporate buildboards all over the place lit up like a Christmas Tree. I will alway's love my old New York with the seedy underground stretching from the upper Westside down to the West Village and in midtown from 7th Avenue all the way over to the Westside water front. Funny, when John Gotti was taken away, that's when NYC was ate up by the Corporate monster. Damn shame.
@Baltimorehop kinda like when they got the mob outa vegas in the late 70`s early 80`s....its an opening for corporate america to seize all aspects the mob had..i aint that old but i imagine vegas back in 50s-70`s was much better than is now...they did it `their way`..haha..and this is what u get when u elect a federal prosecutor to be mayor of the biggest city in the world...RIP..Hells Kitchen,Harlem,Fulton Fish Market,Meat Market, Chelsea,Wash Sq Park,LES,and ofcourse..`The Deuce`..
@NYOLSKOOL ~ You're right on the money! Your YT names say's it all. Giuliani had a big hard on for Gotti and in turn, took him down along with the rest of the good times the city ENJOYED when Gotti was running the streets. That may sound off base to some but those NY'ers who knew about something, they know.
@Baltimorehop and u knew what was to transpire when Dinkins was still in office and Giuliani made Dinkins shut down all fireworks in `90. he wouldnt even let the chinese use em for their new year. just to get at the italians. lost my corner on howard and crosby st..man those were good times..so RIP Canal st...
@NYOLSKOOL ~ Oh yeah. Jewls as we called Guiliani shut the City down and was an igomaniac in the process. The power definitely got to his head. That's the reason he's not a bonified Presidential candidate today. Anyway, to stay on the topic, I really knew NYC was screwed when he inserted those steel dividers that stopped people from crossing the street except at the corners. If anyone knows NY, it's to damn crowded to cross at the intersections only. Now there's even more ppl there. SMH
@Baltimorehop haha..yeah i remember those along 5 and 6 ave around the holidays..making people look like cattle..so RIP jaywalkers..sure they saw a spike on pick-pockets cause of that..
@Baltimorehop what about times square BEFORE the 50's, when it had real theater instead of cheap movie theaters. Those people want that times square back
@mjackson5alpha ~ that's a little before my time but if it's anything like the golden movies use to portray it, I'll take it. All in all, New York, New York they way we knew it, is truly missed.
If I had a choice between the tall black trannies, sashaying the streets of Time Square then, or these fat, big haired tourist with pink sweat shirts and puffy ankles...I think I'll take the tranny, thank you very much.
It was a wonderful time despite the creepiness of Times Square. Young girls would often disappear if they went to the Playland arcade. Other than that it was nice <3
@Kell1295 yeah they would walkin in on 7ave side and disapear coming out bwy side...i LOVED playland..and i feel ya on the kung fu flicks..and u were able to smoke in the theaters..imagine that...and when they did marathons..that was the shit..all day watching `planet of apes` series or all day sonny chiba flixs..yeah `the deuce` was a one of a kind place in one of kind time...miss em both ! !
@Kell1295 no doubt...today a family of 4 would have to plop down close to $100 to see a movie, dogs, candy and soda. ridiculous. even the `dirty water dogs` from vendors on the deuce are gettin close to $5 a dog. no more 50cent dirty water dogs. haha, i would eat like 5 of those a night back in the early 80`s. sad. real sad,
@NYOLSKOOL The prices zoomed up because the city was and still is catering to tourists while turning its back on us long time New Yorkers. In a way I'm happy they did clean it up a bit. I was so embarrassed when I first took my son downtown during the holidays when he turned 3 in '82. The bright lights fascinated him but the naked ladies on the posters well...he's a boy, I understood that look but its not somehting a mother wants rushed on her child.
@NYOLSKOOL We ended up going to another vanishing blessing, Woolworth. Best darn food ever. Had to go to the diner on the upper level. Eat til you bust all for $3.00.
The thing about NYC is it always gets rid of the better deal and opts for bland-glamour. I'll take gawdy yet tasty any day. peace <3
@NYOLSKOOL : Yep!..REAL SAD!..no more of the dogs/burgers w/ fried onions & soft drink for $2.50 at a hole in the wall mini restaurant that had five stool chairs right in the middle of Time Sq 42nd street & @ night the Guy behind the counter serving food was real nice & told lots 'n lots of stories bout the place...Good Old Days!..even though the whole area was rough but i didn't mind! =0)
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Eisenhower Interstate System (I-95 and etc) created a quick path to the suburbs, and wealthy mostly white people sick of crime by minorities moved away from the city core into the suburbs. It was called "White Flight" Then the minorities were left in the city alone and turned it into the steaming pile of shit you saw in this video from 1970-1990. In the 90s whites moved back and cleaned it up and made it safe again
@StoneCold75 r u kiddin me..yeah riis built a bunch of hwys in 50`s and 60`s. and a bunch of peeps moved to burbs. but most were already livin in bkln or queens. manhattan peeps for the most part stayed. the city gov fuckd up and got into all kinds of debt. there was all kind of union stikes that all occured in early-mid 70`s. beame wasnt doing shit for city so city said fuck it. but if u were from there u knew what was safe and what wasnt. just like any city. to blame `white` people leaving
@StoneCold75 for the decline of NYC is horseshit. and then u get a 180 w/ bloomiani from mid 90`s gentrifying the shit outa manhattan. and for what? the moron tourists that plop down $100 to play lazer tag and $50 to get on them stupid buses to hear what nyc really was. u cant take a working class family to the city nomore. they cant afford it. yeah it was a steaming pile of shit back then. but i would take that pile of shit over the corprate/ disney effect and morons snappin photos anyday..
I think it's quite unfair when white people get blamed for what became of New York City in the '60s and '70s when White Flight began to take place en masse. You think these people didn't love the neighborhoods where they grew up? Their churches? Their synagogues? They were just looking after themselves and their families.
Thanks for posting.. I LOVE this New York, and wish I could go and visit then. Growing up in the 80's, when it was still pretty gritty, that's how I remember it!
Wow, it's pretty amazing to see how far the city has come since then.
I don't think there's any need for a red-light district like 1970s/1980s Times Square in New York now that we've got the internet. You can probably see most of the movies that played in the grindhouses online now.
People went to those places not usually because they liked the raunch but because they wanted to see porno and wank, and that was the only place one could do that.
In the 70s even mainstream theatres showed Emmanuelle-type pictures, and dudes went in there on lunch-hours to beat off.
@NYOLSKOOL Rememeber those $2.00 movie theaters where you could see a horror movie, 3 kung fu flicks (yay bruce lee!), 2 comedies and the main Hollywood produced film? Huge tub of popcorn $1.00, large soda 75 cents, a hot dog was about .50 and those huge boxes of Goobers, Raisinets and whatever were 80 cents. Now you plunk down $10.00 to see ONE movie. Forget about popcorn or dogs. They rip a hole in your pockets now. Give me the 70s over this crap any day! <3
What a total trip! Too bad I didn't make it there until 1992. I grew up in Washington State in the 70s and I remember when FM Radio ROCKED and played songs like this.
MAN!. NEW YORK CITY USED TO BE SO REAL BACK THEN. I MISS THE 1980s STYLE AMERICAN CARS, THE WOMEN WERE SO REALISTIC UNLIKE GIRLS TODAY LIKE MILEY MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING WHORE CYRUS, AND OF COURSE TWIN TOWERS THEY SYMBOLIZES EVERYTHING ABOUT THE 1980s.
MAN!. NEW YORK CITY USED TO BE SO REAL BACK THEN. I MISS THE 1980s STYLE AMERICAN CARS, THE WOMEN WERE SO REALISTIC UNLIKE GIRLS TODAY LIKE MILEY MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING WHORE CYRUS, AND OF COURSE TWIN TOWERS THEY SYMBOLIZES EVERYTHING ABOUT THE 1980s.
where 5 or 6 naked girls of ALL types...white, black, spanish....blondes, brunettes...big tits, little tits...beautiful, ugly...great bodies, fat, skinny...would be awaiting you beckon. In those days, for $5 you could feel her tits for about 30 seconds...or for $10, you could fondle her nether region. I remember one time when one of the girls shouted, "I'm cumming, I'm cumming!" And she was!!
This vid has great shots of the exteriors of the Deuce back in the good old days...but to get a feel for the real depravity of the era, you have to step through the front doors of these palaces of sin and into their back rooms...places like the Playpen or Peepland which featured naked live girls. In those days, for a dollar you could get a special coin which, when inserted into the box, would raise a window onto a holding pen...
I just noticed something in this, that makes me long for the New York. Yes there was sleaze but carefully, this was also a neighorhood. There is a neighorhood coffee shop in this video, AND GD STARBUCKS!! i" LOVE IT!!!
I was lucky enough to have hung around Times Square long before Giuliani screwed it up and yuppified it. Now there is even a 'museum' devoted to the evil DEA!1 So sad!
I was lucky enough to have hung around Times Square long before Guliani screwed it up and yuppified it. Now there is even a 'museum' devoted to the evil DEA!1 So sad!
it's so fascinating how places can change! my first visit to the us and nyc was in 2009. but as a huge fan of 70/80ies trash and grindhouse movies I would love to travel back in time and see this weird place for my own.
Maybe some eyewitness could tell something about "old" nyc and the "deuce" here?
what song is this?? what song is playing in this video???? please tell me I REALLY NEED TO KNOW
come on pleaseeeeeeeeee
i beg of you you fucking homo. pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH fuck me kill me with your heroin in my vein. PLEASE TELL MEEEEE
Fuckin' gentrification might take it all away, but it cannot take the memories! As a native NYer, R.I.P. good old Times Square: you were the shit, the style, the soul and the REAL NYC, not this goody-two-shoe punkass Disneyland piece of boring sorry-ass shit there is now.
I fucking HTE gentrification! 666! 322! Yuppies die! Im from Philly! The old philly is 100% gone now! Replaced by white bread yuppies - the fun is gone replaced by posing and cockamamie double dog walking latee sipping tapas resurant fuck fuck bullfuck shit! 666! 322! I hate you faggot ass yuppies! Philly used to be fun!! I want teh old days! I want the crime! I want the fuking shootings! it was fucking life! I was alive goddam you! Why do white people have to fuck up everything!?!
o sorry for making your property value go up and reducing the crime rates if you want shooting and crime may i suggest detroit or oakland or if you want serious crime there are plenty of violent places all over the world im sure youd enjoy
Damn, I was born twenty years too late. I visited NYC in the late 90's, and it sure as hell didn't look anything like this. Looked like Disneyland, really.
The strange repeated clips of Jamie Gillis and Richard Roundtree made me imagine a movie in which Shaft was on the trail of Gillis's character from 'Water Power'. I'd pay to see that movie. Preferably at the old Lyric.
One good thing about those days were the numerous mainstream movie theatres not just on the deuce but throughout Times Square,Just to name a few: RKO Warner Cinerama,Rivoli D150,Movieland,Embassy's 1,2,3 & 4,Loews State twin,Critireon Center(now Toys-R-Us),Loews Astor Plaza(now Nokia Theatre)RKO National(now ABC NEWS Studio)and the lesser theaters on the deuce e.g. The Lyric,The New Apollo and so on...
The crime, The hustle, The graffiti, The hoes and sometimes pimps, The tourist getting robbed , basically ''hustled'', Only In The Rotten Apple...shit has changed over the years. I remember a pack of Newports was like about $2 and change....lol
I have to know who did this song!!! I have rocked it 7 times!! Also remember the sleazy NYC good times!!!
GambleMc68 7 hours ago
5:56 OUUUUUUCH!
eoguy 2 days ago
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eoguy 2 days ago
NYC was a lot cooler back then. Now it's just a place for rich bastards and it sucks! You can't even walk the streets unless you are a millionaire let alone live there.
butterpoop 4 days ago
New York used to the cultural mecca of the world. Now it's fuckin Yuppieville and I despise it.
I hate this gentrified consumerist pop culture. They've destroyed what once was the most diverse city in the world.
TheGirlFromCRUSH 2 weeks ago
Where are the RrrRrrraAAAAAAAmmmmooonnness ???? Richard Hell ? N.Y R & R clubs ? Max's on Park av. ? the CBGB's ? Mother 's ?
redtorso 2 weeks ago
Is that footage from Water Power i'm seeing.
dave4378 3 weeks ago
used to be scores of hookers who would rub you up and pick your pocket---what fun ---lol
EMCEMITCH 3 weeks ago
I ate at the Howard Johnson's, whata shithole! hahaha
bolex62 4 weeks ago
Give it a thumbs up if you ate at that Tad's Steak.
Douglo5 4 weeks ago 2
Love the shot of "Orange Julias"...I used to hit up the one in Port Authority.
Douglo5 4 weeks ago
Jamie Gillis RIP.
Spartacus217 1 month ago
The Headless Eyes, Basket Case, Andy Milligan, Ralph Bakshi's 70's output, The Warriors, The Wanderers, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Andy Milligan, Midnight Cowboy, Chappaqua, Panic In Needle Park, Ms. 45, Bill Lustig's Maniac, The New York Ripper, Andy Milligan, Superfly, Black Caeser, Larry Cohen in general, Riot on 42nd St, Mike and Roberta Findlay, The Amero Brothers, and all the other films and their makers that captured the Times Square/New York of old, u did a great service we say THANK YOU
grindhousejunky79 1 month ago
Born in 1997 nd a native born nd raised newyorker ik time square looks different but it is better tht way, the tourist are the only sucky part about it. Nd trust me the rest of manhattan is still just as dangerous nd seedy. Stop going here if u want real nyc go to uptown harlem or the south bronx. Lol im from upper west side but i've seen it all
mrclutch88 1 month ago
@mrclutch88 you're a teenager born in the late 90's... you know nothing about the old New york.... I am sure if you had the chance to be in that new york for a day you would change your mind!
TheYaom 1 month ago
NYC was out of this world back in those days, the vibrant street art, the freaky weird people with loud NYC accents, the colorful eveyrday living, the street poets, the nutty people, the struggling artists, the street corner hookers next to bible freaks announcing the end of the world etc. etc.
That New york was lost.... today is a gentrified shithole full of yuppys who think they're new yorkers but were born in texas and iowa, sex in the city wannabes, and obnoxious rich people from elsewhere.
TheYaom 1 month ago
@TheYaom Well fucking put, both your posts, bud. Hearing ex-mayor Ed Koch on the Taxi Driver dvd talking about proud he was of what he ultimately accomplished, shutting down and bulldozing all the grindhouses and revitalizing the area to make it safe for families and children made me want to throttle him with piano wire!
grindhousejunky79 1 month ago
@grindhousejunky79 Towns and suburbs are supposed to be safe for children and families; NYC is a major world metropolis, huge cities worldwide are chaotic, colorful, dangerous, freaky, artsy, diverse, places of contrast; NYC is becoming so dull it feels like suburbia!
All the latino/jews places in williamsburg are gone, even the warehouses where they had street artists are gone, now it's all generic stores like starbucks and yuppies/hispters from milwaukee pretending to be rough new yorkers!
TheYaom 1 month ago
@grindhousejunky79 New York city as New Yorkers knew it and loved it is almost dead, it started in Manhattan and now gentrification is happening at an alarming rate in Brooklin, Queens and the Bronx, you can see soccer moms driving around south bronx these days!
The mom and pop's stores that made NYC so different from the rest of the US are also dissapearing at an alarming rate being raplaced by big generic places like walgreens, starbucks and target!
NYC is the new Orange county!
TheYaom 1 month ago
@TheYaom UUUGGGGHHHH!!!!
grindhousejunky79 1 month ago
@TheYaom The same thing is happening currently as i write this, to East Hastings aka the DownTown East Side here in Vancouver. Everything from the city's origin era is being knocked down, all the cheap pizza places, pawn/porn/used cd shops, old buildings, pubs even, are being knocked down and replaced with banks, Subway, London Drugs, Starbucks, slick n shiny market places, (vomit sounds proceed). Amazing how long the area has lasted in it's infamy era well into the mid-late 2000s.
grindhousejunky79 1 month ago
@Nezz415 Do you happen to have any video clips of Frisco's Market Street from when it looked like L.A.'s Hollywood Blvd. and NYC's Times Square to post? If so,I'd be very delighted to check 'em out.
oldschoolbx1970 2 months ago
@oldschoolbx1970 And any footage of the infamous Combat Zone as well!
grindhousejunky79 1 month ago
@grindhousejunky79 Now that's what I'm talkin' about.
oldschoolbx1970 1 month ago
what decade is this in
Toxiejunkie 2 months ago
new york was such a dirty place, corrupting so many people. Im glad it was fixed up.
Queenlafry 3 months ago
@Queenlafry today new york is a shithole that smells of fresh paint!!! can't stand gentrified craphole it is today.... funny enough most actual new yoekrs are leaving in hordes... it's all full of california upper class bimbos and yuppies from the midwest
TheYaom 1 month ago
Shaft was a bad motherfucker!
arnold84500 3 months ago
Damn i miss the 70's and the superfly pimp cars! where's my time machine?
arnold84500 3 months ago 2
better than disney
stevenblouis 3 months ago
I liked this place for a couple of decades, but it wasn't for the timid or vulnerable. I was there for two days last year, '10, and was surprised to find it was actually still okay. I still saw male hustlers and drug dealers, and some of the old theatres were still there, restored. I'd heard it was a plastic Disney Park but to me, it was as hot and sweaty as ever. And noisy! Uprated.
CuteCatFaith 3 months ago
Great video, who doesn't love seedy! Also check out THE URBAN EYE.
"Join your host Jerry Rio as he takes you on a nostalgic tour as he explores the disappearing icons of this metropolis and find out what New Yorkers think about unchecked development and the corporate homogenization that has altered and destroyed much of the uniqueness of the New York City landscape"
THYRDEYE 4 months ago
What's this song?
bigjimmurray 4 months ago
i miss the old ny : (
ae86driftmaster 4 months ago
about .24 jamie gillis , n.y jew pornographer yessssss
stevenblouis 4 months ago
@stevenblouis actually he's dutch :)...he passed away in 2010 :(
Ishitonyou666 3 months ago
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It was filthy..It was dangerous... It was Paradise.
rich107s 4 months ago
It was filthy... It was dangerous... It was Paradise..
rich107s 4 months ago
Loving the "Orange Julius" sign @ 2:27 damn! That place will reign over Grays Papaya any day! True tasty filth for your dollar! LOL :) Great video and great song too by the way.
ANGRYEEL 4 months ago
@Nezz415 does the current tenderloin district compare with old new york at all? i stayed in ny from '08 to '10 and while i had a good time there i found the city itself to be full of pretentious jerk dicks. the old school guys were cool as shit once i figured out where to find em, but the ones my age... fucking bubble heads.
mySTALEMATE 4 months ago
Don't worry...after America's imminent total financial collapse, the whole nation will be like the Deuce in its glory days!
robert101455 4 months ago
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hansel1jensen 4 months ago
It's funny...was watching Taxi Driver on TV tonight and unlike De Niro's character I was longing for the golden days of seediness in the big apple! Now NYC turned into an expensive disneyland just like vegas. Sucks.
keerkhor 5 months ago 2
This vid rules. It'll come to mind every once in a while and I'll come over and loop it for like an hour.
It sounds like sand paper and razor blades too. I feel like I havta take a shower afterwards. One of the best vids on you tube.
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DUNGEONMASTERSEXPO 6 months ago
The music killed it.
savere2006 6 months ago
This song rocks your face off. Perfect song for this video.
DrRonPaul 7 months ago
I miss going to the deuce back in the early 80's. Used to get off the E train and straight to the Subway Arcade with the Pizza shop across from it. Cops asking you if you want to get paid to do a line up. Going upstairs to catch a triple feature of Kung Fu for 3 bucks. Buying loose joints in the theater. I miss those days of my teens.
kzfive 7 months ago 2
@kzfive sounds like a virtual utopia...
betterversionn 7 months ago
I remember my first trip to NYC, in 1991.
On 42nd, I caught a glimpse of sparkle in a tiny shop, and discovered several ladies, making sequinned pasties. There were pasties of all sizes & colours, including a pair of "missile cones" in emerald green sequins.
My dad & I stood there, watching the ladies at work, and Dad bought a pair of little pink pasties as a souvenir.
That was how I learned to make pasties. Today, I perform & make costumes in the neo-burlesque scene!
OofusTwillip 8 months ago
As a 20 year old from Minnesota visiting Times Square in 1977, I could not believe the incredible sleeziness of it. I had never seen anything like it. Of course we'll never see anything like that again. Those days are long gone. I visited NYC last year and it looked like a different city. It's certainly a cleaner, more maintained and a much more safe feeling city today than I remember from 1977.
2indulgent 8 months ago
@2indulgent And without balls. No character. White bread, sanitized Disney. A wimp like you would love it. Not we old-timers.
Glinkaism1 6 months ago
@Glinkaism1 ...Yeah, well, I guess you think anybody who doesn't like to roll around in the mud and feces of a pigpen is a "wimp". What a twisted person.
2indulgent 6 months ago
@2indulgent Twist and shout, baby! Seedy was lovely. T2 had been Disney-ized. But T2 is but one part of NYC. There are zillions of places elsewhere to seek out and discover/rediscover.
So enjoy your sanitized version, you hick from the sticks. :)
Glinkaism1 6 months ago 2
Who does the song in the this video. Its awesome. Iron Butterfly?
2011pb 8 months ago
@2011pb Egor
Zerkzeez 8 months ago
complements the photos perfectly.
DTrain1204 8 months ago
sick song. what is the name of it and the band ?? complements thenpho
DTrain1204 8 months ago
wow i went to new york for the 2nd time in march and i always thought times square always looked like it does now...i just learned that no....it used to be a pretty seedy place...the graffiti in the subway lol
MileyCyrusVideos23 9 months ago
P.S. le Playpen existe encore, un des seul vestige des année 70 qui existe encore aujourd'hui, très bon magasin.
MrElvisgratton 9 months ago
J'aurais aimé être à NYC à cette époque, sa avais plus tripant à cette époque qu'aujourd'hui
MrElvisgratton 9 months ago
Times Square back then you could get your hands on ANYTHING you wanted.
thegreeninferno 9 months ago
the song is exellent !
Plane60 9 months ago
It fuckin pains me to see these images of Times Sq/42nd of the 1970s. I was born in 1979 so by the time i was old enough to get out to the City on my own in the late 1990s this was already "cleaned up." I am obsessed with things 1970s... especially New York City. I live in the tri-state area so I make it to the city, myself, at least 2x a year. I love the City dearly but there was just something special and unique about the grit and grime of this period that can't be duplicated or overshadowed.
NTK2A 9 months ago 4
@NTK2A I was born in 1987 and live in Australia, but i'm fascinated by old New York city of the 70's and 80's. I visited there over Christmas and went to Times Square and seeing parents taking there toddlers out at 9pm just reminds me of how far things have come.
thegreeninferno 9 months ago
and back then we didnt call it `forty` deuce. it was just called the DEUCE ! !
NYOLSKOOL 10 months ago
@NYOLSKOOL fixed that for ya.
Zerkzeez 10 months ago
@Zerkzeez my man..keeping it real ! !
NYOLSKOOL 10 months ago
@Zombeelily did u ever lose ur wallet..haha
NYOLSKOOL 10 months ago
What is that Fred Williamson movie?
ufuckfacesonofabitch 11 months ago
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NYOLSKOOL 10 months ago
@ufuckfacesonofabitch SHAFT
NYOLSKOOL 10 months ago
@NYOLSKOOL Oh, so it's Richard Roundtree. My bad!
ufuckfacesonofabitch 10 months ago
I'ma peep show seeking on the forty duece!
ufuckfacesonofabitch 11 months ago
At around 4:00 there is some graffiti... that was actually a prop graf piece for the movie BEAT STREET. The character's graf name was RAMO. If that is just a regular picture and not a set still or production still, that is kindof cool!
It's actually very bad as far as graf goes... for all the attention they pid to real breakin in that movie, it was funny to see them scrimp on graf talent.
lensjockeyvideo 11 months ago
@lensjockeyvideo no doubt. that movie was a farce but so many peeps outside of NY loved it. my boy did some graff in the roxy`s scenes. KANO BYB.
NYOLSKOOL 10 months ago
@NYOLSKOOL I remember Kano. Bad Yard Boys.
kzfive 7 months ago
I came to NY in 2005, and while it is interesting to see how times sq was in the 80's. I'm glad for the most part it isn't like that anymore. Imagine taking your children there.
Fragem420 11 months ago
@Fragem420 why the hell would anyone do that?
14jwh 11 months ago
I liked it funky. Damn Suits! They're homogenizing the very soul out of the city.
aarfeld 11 months ago
It was my favorite place on earth. A national treasure of freaks and extreme porn. It broke my heart when I saw Show World was closed.
satinbarbi 11 months ago 8
@satinbarbi show world is still open..only place they didnt butcher.on 8 ave between the deuce and 43rd..
NYOLSKOOL 9 months ago
It's hard to say which is more pathetic, the disgusting way things were (which I knew firsthand), or the illiterate commenters who shed a crocodile tear over its demise.
anarchristian 1 year ago
Thank you so much. You captured Times Square with it's true essence. Not the Glass & Steel Tourist Trap Mayors Gillan & Bloomberg turned it into. With Tourists eating $18 Hamburgers & saying thats Times Square. Thank you again Lenny Waller (Former Manager Hell Fire Club NY)
smdad 1 year ago 5
@smdad holy shit..hell fire...the one on the triangle on 14st and hudson st ? me and my boy would go in there and rob all the perves wallets when they was geting down. haha. back around 85/86. my old man owned the `peter rabbit` and had a piece of the `mineshaft`. didnt marty dobson and dickie bell (both dead) ownn that place. holy shit to see that name brings back some sweet memories. glad ya never caught us ;)
NYOLSKOOL 10 months ago
@NYOLSKOOL sorry to say the guy from 'Hell Fire' died a couple of weeks ago. reached out. too bad. woulda had some funny shit to talk about. RIP Lenny...
NYOLSKOOL 10 months ago
@smdad yea they fked it all up it used to be cool in the 70s
stevenblouis 4 months ago
@smdad it's really bloomberg's fault,he made it even more expensive so rich hipsters to move in,Giuliani really wanted to get rid of the Mafia,I heard rumors in my neighborhood that he use to get bullied as a kid,so i guess he wanted to even,he really didnt care for the city only to bring in the buck$.
Ishitonyou666 3 months ago
Worked in Times Square for a while its fucking wack now , Tourists up the ass and people who walk around acting like there from New York because they moved here ..please go back to kansas ya fucking hipsters
KidDebsBklyn 1 year ago 2
The reeeal 42nd Street. The place to check out b movies from Hong Kong,Japan,South Africa,Canada,and various countries from Europe.
oldschoolbx1970 1 year ago
as the song says: those were the days my friends we thought it never end...never thought that "Forty Duce" aka "42nd Street" would change for the better..which it has..wow!..what a change! =ol
tornmask 1 year ago
this video actually makes gentrification look like a good thing.
donklue 1 year ago
Times Square was better in the 70"s & early 80"s. There used to be LIVE peep shows where they offered "lap dances". It was fun to watch the sleazy & the weirdos also. It was the REAL New York/Times Square Who cares about Disney?They also had cheap eats & I remember Tad"s Steaks, the porn theaters with the bright neon marquis", the "book stores, arcades, & novelty/soveneir shops, etc. If anyone did not like it, they did"nt have to go. There is a place for everything.
alloutoftime 1 year ago
I'm a going to NY over Christmas and I definitely agree that I would rather it be the seedy Time Square of the 70's as opposed to the Time Square of today.
Very nice video you have here!
ufuckfacesonofabitch 1 year ago
What I love most about this vid, you don't see any "Corporate" takeover at all. No Ernst & Young building and corporate buildboards all over the place lit up like a Christmas Tree. I will alway's love my old New York with the seedy underground stretching from the upper Westside down to the West Village and in midtown from 7th Avenue all the way over to the Westside water front. Funny, when John Gotti was taken away, that's when NYC was ate up by the Corporate monster. Damn shame.
Baltimorehop 1 year ago
@Baltimorehop kinda like when they got the mob outa vegas in the late 70`s early 80`s....its an opening for corporate america to seize all aspects the mob had..i aint that old but i imagine vegas back in 50s-70`s was much better than is now...they did it `their way`..haha..and this is what u get when u elect a federal prosecutor to be mayor of the biggest city in the world...RIP..Hells Kitchen,Harlem,Fulton Fish Market,Meat Market, Chelsea,Wash Sq Park,LES,and ofcourse..`The Deuce`..
NYOLSKOOL 1 year ago
@NYOLSKOOL ~ You're right on the money! Your YT names say's it all. Giuliani had a big hard on for Gotti and in turn, took him down along with the rest of the good times the city ENJOYED when Gotti was running the streets. That may sound off base to some but those NY'ers who knew about something, they know.
Baltimorehop 1 year ago
@Baltimorehop and u knew what was to transpire when Dinkins was still in office and Giuliani made Dinkins shut down all fireworks in `90. he wouldnt even let the chinese use em for their new year. just to get at the italians. lost my corner on howard and crosby st..man those were good times..so RIP Canal st...
NYOLSKOOL 1 year ago 2
@NYOLSKOOL ~ Oh yeah. Jewls as we called Guiliani shut the City down and was an igomaniac in the process. The power definitely got to his head. That's the reason he's not a bonified Presidential candidate today. Anyway, to stay on the topic, I really knew NYC was screwed when he inserted those steel dividers that stopped people from crossing the street except at the corners. If anyone knows NY, it's to damn crowded to cross at the intersections only. Now there's even more ppl there. SMH
Baltimorehop 1 year ago 2
@Baltimorehop haha..yeah i remember those along 5 and 6 ave around the holidays..making people look like cattle..so RIP jaywalkers..sure they saw a spike on pick-pockets cause of that..
NYOLSKOOL 1 year ago
@Baltimorehop what about times square BEFORE the 50's, when it had real theater instead of cheap movie theaters. Those people want that times square back
mjackson5alpha 5 months ago
@mjackson5alpha ~ that's a little before my time but if it's anything like the golden movies use to portray it, I'll take it. All in all, New York, New York they way we knew it, is truly missed.
Baltimorehop 5 months ago
I'd like to have lived in NYC in the 60s, but not in the 70s/80s (too dirty and crime infested for me)
mythbuster43 1 year ago
If I had a choice between the tall black trannies, sashaying the streets of Time Square then, or these fat, big haired tourist with pink sweat shirts and puffy ankles...I think I'll take the tranny, thank you very much.
I Miss Old New York.
tonybklyn 1 year ago
It was a wonderful time despite the creepiness of Times Square. Young girls would often disappear if they went to the Playland arcade. Other than that it was nice <3
Kell1295 1 year ago
@Kell1295 yeah they would walkin in on 7ave side and disapear coming out bwy side...i LOVED playland..and i feel ya on the kung fu flicks..and u were able to smoke in the theaters..imagine that...and when they did marathons..that was the shit..all day watching `planet of apes` series or all day sonny chiba flixs..yeah `the deuce` was a one of a kind place in one of kind time...miss em both ! !
NYOLSKOOL 1 year ago
@NYOLSKOOL Yep, and you didn't have to spend a fortune to see movies. huge tubs of popcorn, candy, soda, hotdogs and even beer.
Kell1295 1 year ago
@Kell1295 no doubt...today a family of 4 would have to plop down close to $100 to see a movie, dogs, candy and soda. ridiculous. even the `dirty water dogs` from vendors on the deuce are gettin close to $5 a dog. no more 50cent dirty water dogs. haha, i would eat like 5 of those a night back in the early 80`s. sad. real sad,
NYOLSKOOL 1 year ago
@NYOLSKOOL The prices zoomed up because the city was and still is catering to tourists while turning its back on us long time New Yorkers. In a way I'm happy they did clean it up a bit. I was so embarrassed when I first took my son downtown during the holidays when he turned 3 in '82. The bright lights fascinated him but the naked ladies on the posters well...he's a boy, I understood that look but its not somehting a mother wants rushed on her child.
Kell1295 1 year ago
@NYOLSKOOL We ended up going to another vanishing blessing, Woolworth. Best darn food ever. Had to go to the diner on the upper level. Eat til you bust all for $3.00.
The thing about NYC is it always gets rid of the better deal and opts for bland-glamour. I'll take gawdy yet tasty any day. peace <3
Kell1295 1 year ago
@NYOLSKOOL : Yep!..REAL SAD!..no more of the dogs/burgers w/ fried onions & soft drink for $2.50 at a hole in the wall mini restaurant that had five stool chairs right in the middle of Time Sq 42nd street & @ night the Guy behind the counter serving food was real nice & told lots 'n lots of stories bout the place...Good Old Days!..even though the whole area was rough but i didn't mind! =0)
tornmask 1 year ago
normal people will not live where they're constantly afraid, black or white.
rickster348 1 year ago
GENTRIFICATION dumbed down for you
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Eisenhower Interstate System (I-95 and etc) created a quick path to the suburbs, and wealthy mostly white people sick of crime by minorities moved away from the city core into the suburbs. It was called "White Flight" Then the minorities were left in the city alone and turned it into the steaming pile of shit you saw in this video from 1970-1990. In the 90s whites moved back and cleaned it up and made it safe again
StoneCold75 1 year ago
@StoneCold75 r u kiddin me..yeah riis built a bunch of hwys in 50`s and 60`s. and a bunch of peeps moved to burbs. but most were already livin in bkln or queens. manhattan peeps for the most part stayed. the city gov fuckd up and got into all kinds of debt. there was all kind of union stikes that all occured in early-mid 70`s. beame wasnt doing shit for city so city said fuck it. but if u were from there u knew what was safe and what wasnt. just like any city. to blame `white` people leaving
NYOLSKOOL 1 year ago
@StoneCold75 for the decline of NYC is horseshit. and then u get a 180 w/ bloomiani from mid 90`s gentrifying the shit outa manhattan. and for what? the moron tourists that plop down $100 to play lazer tag and $50 to get on them stupid buses to hear what nyc really was. u cant take a working class family to the city nomore. they cant afford it. yeah it was a steaming pile of shit back then. but i would take that pile of shit over the corprate/ disney effect and morons snappin photos anyday..
NYOLSKOOL 1 year ago
I think it's quite unfair when white people get blamed for what became of New York City in the '60s and '70s when White Flight began to take place en masse. You think these people didn't love the neighborhoods where they grew up? Their churches? Their synagogues? They were just looking after themselves and their families.
orvgg 1 year ago
sstrrraight KNOCKIN 'em OUT !
jaqueships 1 year ago
The late 1970s, when New York hit rock bottom...
mythbuster43 1 year ago
Thanks for posting.. I LOVE this New York, and wish I could go and visit then. Growing up in the 80's, when it was still pretty gritty, that's how I remember it!
at1212b 1 year ago 2
Wow, it's pretty amazing to see how far the city has come since then.
I don't think there's any need for a red-light district like 1970s/1980s Times Square in New York now that we've got the internet. You can probably see most of the movies that played in the grindhouses online now.
mythbuster43 1 year ago
People went to those places not usually because they liked the raunch but because they wanted to see porno and wank, and that was the only place one could do that.
In the 70s even mainstream theatres showed Emmanuelle-type pictures, and dudes went in there on lunch-hours to beat off.
junkboxxxxxx 1 year ago
THE DEUCE !!
NYOLSKOOL 1 year ago
@NYOLSKOOL Rememeber those $2.00 movie theaters where you could see a horror movie, 3 kung fu flicks (yay bruce lee!), 2 comedies and the main Hollywood produced film? Huge tub of popcorn $1.00, large soda 75 cents, a hot dog was about .50 and those huge boxes of Goobers, Raisinets and whatever were 80 cents. Now you plunk down $10.00 to see ONE movie. Forget about popcorn or dogs. They rip a hole in your pockets now. Give me the 70s over this crap any day! <3
Kell1295 1 year ago
I was recently at times square at 10pm. The streets were fucking dead.
Singabus66 1 year ago
Zerkzeeez, please tell me where did you find those awesome photos of city streets, subway, sidewalks, etc???
miljenko1 1 year ago
Hey thanks right on! Great video...great song....
What a total trip! Too bad I didn't make it there until 1992. I grew up in Washington State in the 70s and I remember when FM Radio ROCKED and played songs like this.
AIKevorkian 1 year ago
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MAN!. NEW YORK CITY USED TO BE SO REAL BACK THEN. I MISS THE 1980s STYLE AMERICAN CARS, THE WOMEN WERE SO REALISTIC UNLIKE GIRLS TODAY LIKE MILEY MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING WHORE CYRUS, AND OF COURSE TWIN TOWERS THEY SYMBOLIZES EVERYTHING ABOUT THE 1980s.
TLJAWSIMIB 1 year ago
MAN!. NEW YORK CITY USED TO BE SO REAL BACK THEN. I MISS THE 1980s STYLE AMERICAN CARS, THE WOMEN WERE SO REALISTIC UNLIKE GIRLS TODAY LIKE MILEY MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING WHORE CYRUS, AND OF COURSE TWIN TOWERS THEY SYMBOLIZES EVERYTHING ABOUT THE 1980s.
TLJAWSIMIB 1 year ago 2
1:56- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, my mouth is watering.
RAWNLEY 1 year ago
Home Sweet Home.
bjroberts65 1 year ago
where 5 or 6 naked girls of ALL types...white, black, spanish....blondes, brunettes...big tits, little tits...beautiful, ugly...great bodies, fat, skinny...would be awaiting you beckon. In those days, for $5 you could feel her tits for about 30 seconds...or for $10, you could fondle her nether region. I remember one time when one of the girls shouted, "I'm cumming, I'm cumming!" And she was!!
xtc283 1 year ago 2
This vid has great shots of the exteriors of the Deuce back in the good old days...but to get a feel for the real depravity of the era, you have to step through the front doors of these palaces of sin and into their back rooms...places like the Playpen or Peepland which featured naked live girls. In those days, for a dollar you could get a special coin which, when inserted into the box, would raise a window onto a holding pen...
xtc283 1 year ago
This is when New York was real...Toaday it's HORSESHIT.
bjroberts65 1 year ago
Times Square was dangerous with a big D, but man, what fun it was!
TheJoeyD27 1 year ago
The epicenter of filth and depravity.
caesiume 1 year ago 7
I just noticed something in this, that makes me long for the New York. Yes there was sleaze but carefully, this was also a neighorhood. There is a neighorhood coffee shop in this video, AND GD STARBUCKS!! i" LOVE IT!!!
needlove1982 1 year ago
The Duce (42nd Street ) as it once was filled with Lust Sleeze & ??? Yes Good Times
smdad 1 year ago
@EMCEMITCH: Jamie Gillis
vtelibrl 1 year ago
some porn star in the past---jamie something
EMCEMITCH 1 year ago
classic i miss the old 42st
burnsluciano 1 year ago
i know this sounds daft, but this is the new york i want to see
chchedda 1 year ago
Where can i find these pics need them for a project would be a great help.
kasharm5493 1 year ago
Gentrification SUCKS!!! That is killing our essence and we need to stop this and bring New York back to these good old days the 70s!! Dig it?!
70sman4ever 1 year ago
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I was lucky enough to have hung around Times Square long before Giuliani screwed it up and yuppified it. Now there is even a 'museum' devoted to the evil DEA!1 So sad!
beatnikjd 1 year ago
I was lucky enough to have hung around Times Square long before Guliani screwed it up and yuppified it. Now there is even a 'museum' devoted to the evil DEA!1 So sad!
beatnikjd 1 year ago
ny sucks now the city shouldn't be safe for outtter towners
MrWARBUCKS24 1 year ago
it's so fascinating how places can change! my first visit to the us and nyc was in 2009. but as a huge fan of 70/80ies trash and grindhouse movies I would love to travel back in time and see this weird place for my own.
Maybe some eyewitness could tell something about "old" nyc and the "deuce" here?
Extremmetzger 1 year ago
@Extremmetzger , I was there..
sarahshevett 1 year ago
@sarahshevett
and? waht can you tell about it?
Extremmetzger 1 year ago
@Zerkzeez
what song is this?? what song is playing in this video???? please tell me I REALLY NEED TO KNOW
come on pleaseeeeeeeeee
i beg of you you fucking homo. pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH fuck me kill me with your heroin in my vein. PLEASE TELL MEEEEE
tekmatic38 1 year ago
the song is called "The Street" by Egor.
Zerkzeez 1 year ago
@Zerkzeez : thx for the info..the music is fantastic! =o0
tornmask 1 year ago
THREE CARD MONTE.WATCH THE RED CARD. WATCH THE RED CARD.
Porn,pimps,ho's, knives on display in the windows. Kung Fu tripple features. Nathans...music blasting out of store fronts
A sense of danger mingled with that smell(or was it smells)
you can have
920jimbo 1 year ago 3
I miss the hell out of the 42nd street aka Da Duece!!! Good and bad it was a HUGE piece of the flavor of the big apple.
bigscore 1 year ago
what music is this???
joeblowthehot 1 year ago
FUCK DISNEY!
joeblowthehot 1 year ago 4
As Josh Alan Friedman said "a beautiful vision of Hell."
CTM1978 1 year ago
Fuckin' gentrification might take it all away, but it cannot take the memories! As a native NYer, R.I.P. good old Times Square: you were the shit, the style, the soul and the REAL NYC, not this goody-two-shoe punkass Disneyland piece of boring sorry-ass shit there is now.
ursa41 2 years ago 4
I fucking HTE gentrification! 666! 322! Yuppies die! Im from Philly! The old philly is 100% gone now! Replaced by white bread yuppies - the fun is gone replaced by posing and cockamamie double dog walking latee sipping tapas resurant fuck fuck bullfuck shit! 666! 322! I hate you faggot ass yuppies! Philly used to be fun!! I want teh old days! I want the crime! I want the fuking shootings! it was fucking life! I was alive goddam you! Why do white people have to fuck up everything!?!
djhivesdotcom 1 year ago
I hear you, djhives!!! I know just how you feel.
ursa41 1 year ago
o sorry for making your property value go up and reducing the crime rates if you want shooting and crime may i suggest detroit or oakland or if you want serious crime there are plenty of violent places all over the world im sure youd enjoy
Urbanstealth 1 year ago
Detroit is serious fucking crime, man.
Some who live in The D say "no, it aint!", but it's fucking rough and dangerous.
StevePaparazzi 1 year ago
GOOOOO ROCCO! QUE THE ROCKY THEME SONG
elmuneco12 1 year ago
@ursa41 Well said.
CTM1978 1 year ago
Are you a negroid or something?? Good lord go to harlem if you want that shit. Classless piece of garbage.
Alfrunk 1 year ago
@Alfrunk
Nazi scum.
yochanan12 1 year ago
Damn, I was born twenty years too late. I visited NYC in the late 90's, and it sure as hell didn't look anything like this. Looked like Disneyland, really.
vtelibrl 2 years ago
Go to detroit if you want violent negroes. lol freaking classless loser!
Alfrunk 1 year ago
@Alfrunk Go fuck yourself fuckin' pendejo-maricon!!!! Racist bitch !
ursa41 1 year ago
Quiet mexcrement! Go poop in the lettuce fields.
Alfrunk 1 year ago
The strange repeated clips of Jamie Gillis and Richard Roundtree made me imagine a movie in which Shaft was on the trail of Gillis's character from 'Water Power'. I'd pay to see that movie. Preferably at the old Lyric.
Raider17 2 years ago
@Raider17 HOLY SHIT!!! Shaft chasing down the Enema Bandit, I'd pay to see that!!!
CTM1978 1 year ago
Gentrification is a bitch. If you're scared stay in the suburbs. Atlanta is going through this process. It sucks the life out of a city.
farrazano 2 years ago 9
One good thing about those days were the numerous mainstream movie theatres not just on the deuce but throughout Times Square,Just to name a few: RKO Warner Cinerama,Rivoli D150,Movieland,Embassy's 1,2,3 & 4,Loews State twin,Critireon Center(now Toys-R-Us),Loews Astor Plaza(now Nokia Theatre)RKO National(now ABC NEWS Studio)and the lesser theaters on the deuce e.g. The Lyric,The New Apollo and so on...
bwork66 2 years ago
The crime, The hustle, The graffiti, The hoes and sometimes pimps, The tourist getting robbed , basically ''hustled'', Only In The Rotten Apple...shit has changed over the years. I remember a pack of Newports was like about $2 and change....lol
KING5TORM1418 2 years ago