In my opinion, despite crime rates dropping, as well as gentrification projects, NYC has lost some of the nitty gritty urban charm it once had. there was a certain magic that left the air when they started tearing down the PJ's and tennements, and cleaning all the graffiti. Don't get me wrong, i'm all for a clean, safe city, but not if it sacrifices culture and character. Unfortunately in my opinion, that's been the case with NYC
1990's were the time when I built my world vision as a kid, I used to the cars, the time without internet (being so big part of life), kids shows, we had our own money, Finnish Markka etc. and then in the 2000's, maybe in 2005, I started realizing theres something different. I was watching a Finnish sketch show, kummeli, made in -92, and it was different.
I wish I can be transported back into those younger carefree days since landing a job back then was relatively and comparatively much easier than now.
I can't believe how much New York and other major cities have changed over the last 20 years, change that certainly hasn't always been for the best. This video is a nice look back.
@magnum172 Regardless of the year (you are in the right range though), it's true. I read up on it. This whole "EVERYTHING WAS BETTER IN THE 90S" nostalgia is really starting to piss me off, that goes for the 70s and 80s too to some extent, NYC was a mess from what I've gathered from those decades, dirtier and higher crime rates. Other than the lack of twin towers, this city is in better shape overall today than 20-40 years ago. Of course, it will never be as amazing as the 60s and before
@mythbuster43 Seems the ones who prefer NYC from the 70s to the early 90s are either the those who grew up there during that time (which I sympathize with them because they're the only ones who can truly tell us what was good during that time despite the skyrocketing crime rates), or the ones who jump on the "OH EVERYTHING WAS SO COOL UNTIL 9/11 OR WHATEVER NEAR RECENT DATE I CAN COME UP WITH" type bandwagon, the ones who do nothing but complain about today (*cough*90s kids*cough*)
Omg time square looks so peaceful! I miss when manhattan used to be like this. Now everyone wants to move here expecting to live like carrie from sex and the city.
This was the middle of the summer and the streets are not clogged with tourists. How nice that was back then. Times Square was getting cleaned up but the DisneyWorld era had not yet started. It was nice. These days you cannot walk through Times Square. It is completely hostile to New Yorkers. It's just a big tourist nightmare.
This was the middle of the summer and the streets are not clogged with tourists. How nice that was back then. Times Square was getting cleaned up but the DisneyWorld era had not yet started. It was nice.
90's New York was AMAZING!! The 90's were my era, man! I had so many incredible vacations in NYC back then. 90's New York was perfect..it didn't have the sleaze of the 70's but none of the fear of New York, post-9/11. Everybody was so much freer!
0:40 u shoulda went right down 7th ave and then made right on 42st instead of left..woulda loved to see `the deuce` then..end of `92 is when they began to rip it apart
You should check out vintage New York Magazine issues from 1968 to now on Google Books, and see how the styles and life of the City changed over the years. But my all time favorite video about NYC back then is Glen Frey's You Belong To The City video from 1985! At least we have plenty of classic movies/TV shows/music videos to keep the legacy of old New York alive!
DINKINS-ERA NY!!! It's incredible how much character the city lost in just 19 short years. I'll take the NY of 2200 murders a year to the New York with 2200 cell phone stands on every corner ANY DAY!
I didnt know that was his name we called him "Mr Walt" dont ask me why, maybe that was his nickname? Yes I remember the big black guy didnt know his name though. I def miss those days, I was a highschool kid still wet behind the ears. I still have all those records with the "music factory" stickers on them. those were the days.
this is how I remember the city from when I was a kid living there. Times square wasn't as flashy, commercial, and crowded like it is now. I kind of miss NY of the past in a way.
When you hit 42nd street and 7th ave you should have made a right so you would have caught all the porn shops and real grimyness of times square. but you made a left and went down towards 6th ave, it's ok, good video and great choice of music.
new york had attitude back in the good old days, the city that never sleeps!! now you got fuckin yuppies, hipsters movin to nyc now the city sleeps! lol
@crs78 you're absolutly right! I'm native, born and raised, and YES, those were the good 'ole days!!!! I wish those pussy-crying motherfuckers all went back to where the fuck they came from!!
@crs78 true that. Im young,21, native new yorker. Now when we want to go places there's sound limits, no making noise or you'll get a ticket. Bullshit to me.
youd welcome back the hordes of junkies, homeless, violent crime, prostitution, etc so that you could do what, claim you live in a hard, edgy city?come to baltimore or detroit, plenty of urban decay and grime.plenty "edgy" for those who claim they miss this part of NYC.new york has always been a very cool city, dangerous or not. It has a soul that you can feel and draws you in.i agree it lost some of its soul when it got cleaned up but you're by no means better off back then than you are now.
you hit it right on the nose. I was born in nyc in 1976 and grew up there in the 80's and I tell u that we went through some rough times but I do miss the true essence of new york with the graffitti and the hiphop movement. I think when people say they miss the old new york they miss the nostalgia that it brought
HAHA with the rthe way this recession continues, NYC is heading back slowly to the old days. If this recession can end and jobs are created, then nothing to worry.
I was 9 years old, my mother worked for the actors fund then right on 45th..I was born and bred, raised on 92nd and 3rd...this city has turned plastic...the great malling of America wasn't suppose to be here, Jane Jacobs is rolling in her grave...
in 1992 NYC had its highest homocide rate @ 2,700 that year...look it up...damn right the city was still "edgy " then..it was edgy till 9-11 really...then it went soft...you out of towners better not get it twisted, whether tourist or transplant, you guys got your heads in your asses now, I see how you walk, like shit is still sweet, dont bumb into me..old habit die hard for natives..yeah, Im a native, my family docked in 1873 in NYC harbor and have been stuck on this island since...
Man I remember those days. I used to go to Music Factory down in times square. Mr Walt owned the shop. this fat old white dude knew every rap single out by name and artist. he used to bug us out. RIP to MR Walt.
@m33smitty Yeah...I remember those days too! You mean Stanley Platzer, the big guy at Music Factory who knew all the break beats, he used to keep a binder behind the counter where he wrote all the break beats. The owner of Music Factory was a jewish guy named Manny. Do you remember the big black guy who used to work at Music Factory, John Thibeaux, also very knowledgeable about all kinds of records but mostly house music. I miss those days!!!
@m33smitty Yeah...I remember those days! You mean Stanley Platzer, the big guy at Music Factory who knew all the break beats, he used to keep a binder behind the counter where he wrote all the break beats. The owner of Music Factory was a jewish guy named Manny. Do you remember the big black guy who used to work at Music Factory, John Thibeaux, also very knowledgeable about all kinds of records but mostly house music. I miss those days!!!
@m33smitty Yeah...I remember those days! You mean Stanley Platzer, the big guy at Music Factory who knew all the break beats, he used to keep a binder behind the counter where he wrote all the break beats. The owner of Music Factory was a jewish guy named Manny. Do you remember the big black guy who used to work at Music Factory, John Thibeaux, also very knowledgeable about all kinds of records but mostly house music. I miss those days!!!
@m33smitty Yeah...I remember those days! You mean Stanley Platzer, the big guy at Music Factory who knew all the break beats, he used to keep a binder behind the counter where he wrote all the break beats. The owner of Music Factory was a jewish guy named Manny. Do you remember the big black guy who used to work at Music Factory, John Thibeaux, also very knowledgeable about all kinds of records but mostly house music. I miss those days!!!
@m33smitty Yeah...I remember those days! You mean Stanley Platzer, the big guy at Music Factory who knew all the break beats, he used to keep a binder behind the counter where he wrote all the break beats. The owner of Music Factory was a jewish guy named Manny. Do you remember the big black guy who used to work at Music Factory, John Thibeaux, also very knowledgeable about all kinds of records but mostly house music. I miss those days!!!
@m33smitty Yeah...I remember those days! You mean Stanley Platzer, the big guy at Music Factory who knew all the break beats, he used to keep a binder behind the counter where he wrote all the break beats. The owner of Music Factory was a jewish guy named Manny. Do you remember the big black guy who used to work at Music Factory, John Thibeaux, also very knowledgeable about all kinds of records but mostly house music. I miss those days!!!
Err... commercial construction dried to a halt around 1989. Surely you mean the economic boom of the mid '80s, 'cause by 1990 we were definitely in a recession.
Hasnt really changed alot! Im in nyc all my life....LMAOOO DID I NOTICE A ROY ROGERS AT 0:39? THOSE ARE NO LONGER IN NYC THEY HAVE BEEN EXTINCT RESTURANTS!
Theres one Roy Rogers left in Midtown, right across the street from MSG, around 31st / 32nd street, 7th ave. I remember the old roy rogers in times square, it was at 1515 broadway, the MTV building. Its funny how i can still be in NY and miss it at the same time.
The late '90s was MUCH DIFFERENT than the early '90s in NYC: there was a big change in the 1994-1998 period! I felt like the city "sold it's soul" during those years. 1991 was a recession year, BTW.
wow !! memories of being a kid watching teenage mutant ninja turtle !! plus the music perfectly fits the video to me !!
Thegroove1984 8 hours ago
1 person isnt from new york
nynycnew 1 day ago
"What America is saving by using MCI instead of AT&T" lol
Highflyerone 1 month ago
i love seeing the roy rogers in the beginning of the vid miss them
87camro 2 months ago
In my opinion, despite crime rates dropping, as well as gentrification projects, NYC has lost some of the nitty gritty urban charm it once had. there was a certain magic that left the air when they started tearing down the PJ's and tennements, and cleaning all the graffiti. Don't get me wrong, i'm all for a clean, safe city, but not if it sacrifices culture and character. Unfortunately in my opinion, that's been the case with NYC
lookitsapanther 2 months ago
@lookitsapanther I got back from the city a week ago and it's still dirty and covered in graffiti. There's graffiti on the trash cans, lol.
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@lookitsapanther Tell me about. I'm born and raised in NY but after my parents died I got so disheartend by my city that I moved to Asia.
velvetnectar81 1 month ago
damn this guy was ahead of his time...video taping the streets..gotta love it
TheNewAlias 2 months ago
1990's were the time when I built my world vision as a kid, I used to the cars, the time without internet (being so big part of life), kids shows, we had our own money, Finnish Markka etc. and then in the 2000's, maybe in 2005, I started realizing theres something different. I was watching a Finnish sketch show, kummeli, made in -92, and it was different.
goldbullet50 2 months ago
I wish I can be transported back into those younger carefree days since landing a job back then was relatively and comparatively much easier than now.
abc1236948 2 months ago
This was before the internet.
blackandgold51 3 months ago
I was 17 back then the City was fun back then it is not the same anymore.
Speedknot3131 3 months ago
I can't believe how much New York and other major cities have changed over the last 20 years, change that certainly hasn't always been for the best. This video is a nice look back.
paulph12002 4 months ago
the year when my father came to america.
adedsfsdedasewdaww 4 months ago
bobby caldwell
The808Prophet 5 months ago
dam i was born in 1991 it looks so different from now...i cant belive its bin 20 yearz dam time flys bye
29twisted 5 months ago
Did u know NYC had the highest criminality record in 1991 ?
magnum172 6 months ago
@magnum172 Actually, that was in 1990.
mythbuster43 5 months ago
@magnum172 Regardless of the year (you are in the right range though), it's true. I read up on it. This whole "EVERYTHING WAS BETTER IN THE 90S" nostalgia is really starting to piss me off, that goes for the 70s and 80s too to some extent, NYC was a mess from what I've gathered from those decades, dirtier and higher crime rates. Other than the lack of twin towers, this city is in better shape overall today than 20-40 years ago. Of course, it will never be as amazing as the 60s and before
classicsguy626 3 months ago
@classicsguy626 Yeah, it was a real mess before the mid 1990s
mythbuster43 2 months ago
@mythbuster43 Seems the ones who prefer NYC from the 70s to the early 90s are either the those who grew up there during that time (which I sympathize with them because they're the only ones who can truly tell us what was good during that time despite the skyrocketing crime rates), or the ones who jump on the "OH EVERYTHING WAS SO COOL UNTIL 9/11 OR WHATEVER NEAR RECENT DATE I CAN COME UP WITH" type bandwagon, the ones who do nothing but complain about today (*cough*90s kids*cough*)
classicsguy626 2 months ago
@mythbuster43 what do you mean?
Thegroove1984 8 hours ago
I def miss the 90's. but than came the internet and has to mess it all up :)
lalis2011 6 months ago
@lalis2011 whats so wrong about the internet? i mean ur using it right now arent you?
punkedge2 5 months ago
very cool
tito8834 6 months ago
was this 1990 or 1991?
DJMimzy 6 months ago
So, thats when Le Mis was running. Right at the start then.
Crazy, because I've seen that posted used in the background of anime from aroung that time.
What a trip.
zomgtehrei 6 months ago
20 years later and the taxi's are still yellow. :-)
TheSisko1 7 months ago
yayyy no bullshit pedestrian plaza taking up the road !!
718LIGHTUP 8 months ago
2:34 a typical new yorker hot dog stand
and when Pepsi logo wasn't blue
20 years ago, so cool
Luisofbrazil 10 months ago
good stuff , thank you .
Matzaco 10 months ago
Omg time square looks so peaceful! I miss when manhattan used to be like this. Now everyone wants to move here expecting to live like carrie from sex and the city.
mamiroczjordanz 10 months ago
@mamiroczjordanz
If you loiter for more than a minute these days, you could be assaulted AND THEN arrested by police.
Morrowinda 7 months ago
1991... the year I started pre-school right there in Manhattan... now I feel old!
dadsoldtapes 1 year ago
This was the middle of the summer and the streets are not clogged with tourists. How nice that was back then. Times Square was getting cleaned up but the DisneyWorld era had not yet started. It was nice. These days you cannot walk through Times Square. It is completely hostile to New Yorkers. It's just a big tourist nightmare.
susangpyp 1 year ago
This was the middle of the summer and the streets are not clogged with tourists. How nice that was back then. Times Square was getting cleaned up but the DisneyWorld era had not yet started. It was nice.
susangpyp 1 year ago
OMG Lechters Housewares in 2:20 work there in 1990
pazeocolon 1 year ago
oh snap, Roy Rogers @ 0:38 :-D
TheNorthEestern 1 year ago
90's New York was AMAZING!! The 90's were my era, man! I had so many incredible vacations in NYC back then. 90's New York was perfect..it didn't have the sleaze of the 70's but none of the fear of New York, post-9/11. Everybody was so much freer!
RETROGEMS 1 year ago
hmmm...doesn't really look much different than now....guess the last 20 have been pretty bland...bring back 1970!! Now that was fun!
ioriorioriorio 1 year ago
0:40 u shoulda went right down 7th ave and then made right on 42st instead of left..woulda loved to see `the deuce` then..end of `92 is when they began to rip it apart
NYOLSKOOL 1 year ago
I was in NYC during the summer of 1991.
Things were very different back then. Rudy Giuliani wasn't even mayor yet, and the last thing we worried about was terrorism.
My grandmother and I would go into the city several times, but never once did we visit the World Trade Center. We really should have.
TheMiguelvalles 1 year ago
it's always fun to see how people used to dress in the past and laughing about it ^_^
lol
richieasian 1 year ago
sorry , the "master tape" is with music too .....
thx1024 1 year ago
@thx1024 Its ok anyway. Love this video its a classic..
masterlee123 1 year ago
Can you post the first recording of this video with out the music? Would love to hear the streets sounds.
masterlee123 1 year ago
Classic video love it.
masterlee123 1 year ago
where was this taken from
MrSubwayTrainMan 1 year ago
what is the name of this beautiful song, please?
TLJAWSIMIB 1 year ago
Almost everywhere you look you would see a Chrysler minivan. You would see one amost in every block.
masterlee123 1 year ago
But their was no ipod. Walkman and cassettes rules the land almost everyone had one.
masterlee123 1 year ago
You should check out vintage New York Magazine issues from 1968 to now on Google Books, and see how the styles and life of the City changed over the years. But my all time favorite video about NYC back then is Glen Frey's You Belong To The City video from 1985! At least we have plenty of classic movies/TV shows/music videos to keep the legacy of old New York alive!
pannoni1 1 year ago
There was no cellphone in 1991
masterlee123 1 year ago
@masterlee123 There was, but few people had them because they were expensive and the size of a brick.
Paulph04 1 year ago
@masterlee123 The first cellphone came out on 1973 look it up. My mom had a cell back in 1987.
67tr876 1 year ago
DINKINS-ERA NY!!! It's incredible how much character the city lost in just 19 short years. I'll take the NY of 2200 murders a year to the New York with 2200 cell phone stands on every corner ANY DAY!
bpeck77 1 year ago
I LOVE that bird flying @ 0:25
Wildcock23 1 year ago
I didnt know that was his name we called him "Mr Walt" dont ask me why, maybe that was his nickname? Yes I remember the big black guy didnt know his name though. I def miss those days, I was a highschool kid still wet behind the ears. I still have all those records with the "music factory" stickers on them. those were the days.
m33smitty 1 year ago
gotta miss the days before the digital age...
Conduit13C 1 year ago
wow, the neighorhood pizza joint!!! There are not many of those left in times square!!
needlove1982 1 year ago
the music fits the nostalgia perfectly
rickrenny 1 year ago
wow, it seemed so much more 'peaceful' in a way, and not so much confusion
nydeucesfilms 1 year ago
this is how I remember the city from when I was a kid living there. Times square wasn't as flashy, commercial, and crowded like it is now. I kind of miss NY of the past in a way.
Rach84 1 year ago
@Rach84 That makes two of us!!!! I hardly go into Manhattan anymore as often as I used to 10-20 years ago!
ursa41 1 year ago
can u imagine riding through there with a Hummer H2? LOL
msincred 2 years ago 9
When you hit 42nd street and 7th ave you should have made a right so you would have caught all the porn shops and real grimyness of times square. but you made a left and went down towards 6th ave, it's ok, good video and great choice of music.
Timessquare100 2 years ago
new york had attitude back in the good old days, the city that never sleeps!! now you got fuckin yuppies, hipsters movin to nyc now the city sleeps! lol
crs78 2 years ago 4
@crs78 you're absolutly right! I'm native, born and raised, and YES, those were the good 'ole days!!!! I wish those pussy-crying motherfuckers all went back to where the fuck they came from!!
ursa41 2 years ago 2
@crs78 true that. Im young,21, native new yorker. Now when we want to go places there's sound limits, no making noise or you'll get a ticket. Bullshit to me.
dabx1 1 year ago
Now THIS is the New York I used to love. And I want it back.
lshplayer90 2 years ago 11
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nyc was so bland looking back then, now its vibrant and beautiful
jferkfjkj 2 years ago
I miss the guns and crack. Times Square-- with all those hookers, junkies and serial killers. Back in the day when niggas' would stab you for a
Starter Cap...at least the rent was cheap, but then you get what you pay for.
Great video--I love that song.
oceanbelow 2 years ago 3
The song is :
What You Won't Do For Love
From the album "Smile Blue"-Ricky Peterson
thx1024 2 years ago
Thanks! I'll look it up on Limewire.
TheTransitMan123 2 years ago
What song did you use? I love this video!!! Nice touch!!!
TheTransitMan123 2 years ago 2
OMG who is singing this?!?!!!! This is awesome version of this song!
transitmaven 2 years ago
youd welcome back the hordes of junkies, homeless, violent crime, prostitution, etc so that you could do what, claim you live in a hard, edgy city?come to baltimore or detroit, plenty of urban decay and grime.plenty "edgy" for those who claim they miss this part of NYC.new york has always been a very cool city, dangerous or not. It has a soul that you can feel and draws you in.i agree it lost some of its soul when it got cleaned up but you're by no means better off back then than you are now.
thork86 2 years ago
you hit it right on the nose. I was born in nyc in 1976 and grew up there in the 80's and I tell u that we went through some rough times but I do miss the true essence of new york with the graffitti and the hiphop movement. I think when people say they miss the old new york they miss the nostalgia that it brought
MrMorningside125 2 years ago 4
HAHA with the rthe way this recession continues, NYC is heading back slowly to the old days. If this recession can end and jobs are created, then nothing to worry.
madmaxninja08 2 years ago 2
@thork86 Still plenty of homeless in New York. They may be swept under the carpet more nowadays but they are still there.
mooneepondskid 1 year ago
I was 9 years old, my mother worked for the actors fund then right on 45th..I was born and bred, raised on 92nd and 3rd...this city has turned plastic...the great malling of America wasn't suppose to be here, Jane Jacobs is rolling in her grave...
skymunro 2 years ago
Wow, good ol' times. I miss NYC so much. I left the City in 1999 but the City never left me (and I don't think it ever will).
jorgem140 2 years ago 3
Its not the same...hold onto that memory...
skymunro 2 years ago
Great comment!!
maryjulie2 2 years ago
Great time... NYC was still vibrant and edgy.
KungFuChess 2 years ago
in 1992 NYC had its highest homocide rate @ 2,700 that year...look it up...damn right the city was still "edgy " then..it was edgy till 9-11 really...then it went soft...you out of towners better not get it twisted, whether tourist or transplant, you guys got your heads in your asses now, I see how you walk, like shit is still sweet, dont bumb into me..old habit die hard for natives..yeah, Im a native, my family docked in 1873 in NYC harbor and have been stuck on this island since...
skymunro 2 years ago
1990 actually
schmonkey 2 years ago
This was my era.
hecrpd 2 years ago
Man I remember those days. I used to go to Music Factory down in times square. Mr Walt owned the shop. this fat old white dude knew every rap single out by name and artist. he used to bug us out. RIP to MR Walt.
m33smitty 2 years ago 18
@m33smitty Yeah...I remember those days too! You mean Stanley Platzer, the big guy at Music Factory who knew all the break beats, he used to keep a binder behind the counter where he wrote all the break beats. The owner of Music Factory was a jewish guy named Manny. Do you remember the big black guy who used to work at Music Factory, John Thibeaux, also very knowledgeable about all kinds of records but mostly house music. I miss those days!!!
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@m33smitty Yeah...I remember those days! You mean Stanley Platzer, the big guy at Music Factory who knew all the break beats, he used to keep a binder behind the counter where he wrote all the break beats. The owner of Music Factory was a jewish guy named Manny. Do you remember the big black guy who used to work at Music Factory, John Thibeaux, also very knowledgeable about all kinds of records but mostly house music. I miss those days!!!
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@m33smitty Yeah...I remember those days! You mean Stanley Platzer, the big guy at Music Factory who knew all the break beats, he used to keep a binder behind the counter where he wrote all the break beats. The owner of Music Factory was a jewish guy named Manny. Do you remember the big black guy who used to work at Music Factory, John Thibeaux, also very knowledgeable about all kinds of records but mostly house music. I miss those days!!!
Jyullya257 1 year ago
Wow, we didn't pass one Starbucks or a pedestrian talking on a cell phone.
SC11420 2 years ago 40
@SC11420
They existed but they were not as popular with the youngsters.
MirageBistro 1 year ago
@SC11420 Yeah....and it was just before Al Gore invented the internet...
diapermanful 7 months ago
they dont let you make those turns anymore from broadway to 7th
courageous917 2 years ago
there was another version of this song ..does anyone know whats it called
inwoodboy171 2 years ago
What You Won't Do for Love
from Ricky Peterson
thx1024 2 years ago
the original was created by Bobby Caldwell
tmp197 2 years ago
@inwoodboy171 sucker for love-Tupac
Flash13FLy 11 months ago
@inwoodboy171 bobby caldwell same title
NicKingPapiChulo 10 months ago
the beginning of turning times sq. into disneyland...
wiedep 2 years ago
yup this is when things were getting fixed up because of the economic boom in the late 80s and early 90s
STBNY 2 years ago
Err... commercial construction dried to a halt around 1989. Surely you mean the economic boom of the mid '80s, 'cause by 1990 we were definitely in a recession.
kz1000ps 2 years ago
oh ok lol . thanks
STBNY 2 years ago
Hasnt really changed alot! Im in nyc all my life....LMAOOO DID I NOTICE A ROY ROGERS AT 0:39? THOSE ARE NO LONGER IN NYC THEY HAVE BEEN EXTINCT RESTURANTS!
jmhs866 2 years ago
@jmhs866
Theres one Roy Rogers left in Midtown, right across the street from MSG, around 31st / 32nd street, 7th ave. I remember the old roy rogers in times square, it was at 1515 broadway, the MTV building. Its funny how i can still be in NY and miss it at the same time.
Timessquare100 1 year ago
This is a smooth video.....
BigFella11233 2 years ago
The late '90s was MUCH DIFFERENT than the early '90s in NYC: there was a big change in the 1994-1998 period! I felt like the city "sold it's soul" during those years. 1991 was a recession year, BTW.
pannoni1 2 years ago
the pre-giuliani years
ed60000 2 years ago 2
Good times....Good times
dimension144 3 years ago
Damn, the music and everything is so 90's. I never thought I'd be looking back at that time with such nostalgia.
jbc25 3 years ago
me too
iceman050890 2 years ago
nyc was good back then but i liked nyc form 1973-1984
67tr876 3 years ago
What song did u use?
mrchip101 3 years ago
Times Square was a lot different then thats for sure!, I love NY!
ryan9942 3 years ago