amazing pictures and sound. thanks for posting! I have a D6C but not those expensive sounding mics you mention!, great stereo audio you've captured too - stereo really makes the footage come alive. I didn't see your music version but I would probably like it better the way it is now - unadulterated. I kinda like all the graffiti too, I think the location might look rather bland and dead without it. a real film art journal entry!
@rectorman1 I rode the subway a lot back in the 70's 80's and 90's and nothing happened to me....... EVER!!!! YOU JUST HAD TO BE STREET SMART.... yuppies / hipsters ruined NYC
Wow. I remember riding these trains when I was kid. Especially, when the red birds were once painted white and also green. I remember riding a green train once or twice, but never again did i see one.
This is WILD! My first time in NYC was 1998 ... and I moved here this January. Cannot believe how graffiti-ed the trains and on the inside too. I'm in this station on an almost daily basis, so its amazing to see it in "another life". The signage is all different, yet I still recognize it. Thank you for this!
This is the TRUE New York (as well as the eras which preceded it). BEFORE politically-correct behavior, ridiculous store-chain monopolies, monotonous radio (Clear Channel) and ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OVERCROWDING the subways, buses and cities. People weren't scared to say what they mean and mean what they say (I still do this, in public) without hiding behind computers and ranting. Times Square was still XXX rated and not owned by DISNEY. Now, everyone tries to copy this era, but inauthentic.
@2conscious what are u smoking? there has been illegal immigration in America, since America was born!!! it started with the english who sneaked into Indian land illegaly, it continued with irish, italians, jews til nowadays mexicans.... god knows who'll be next.
@TheYaom Oh, my lord. Stick to the subject of NYC over-crowding. Because, as an African-American male, If I were born in North Africa, I could easily commit a crime and go on a rant in the courts about "the Arabs invaded and slaughtered the ORIGINAL, dark Africans and mixed with them and made the remaining a lower class". The question the judges would still ask: did you break an existing law? Yes or no. I know the history of the Americas and Africa, I'm talking about overpopulation
I'm up at 3:30 in the morning, watching clips of trains coming into the station in new york in 86, and I don't even live there, live in friggin Sweden, youtube's crasy
@mightyflux Graff artists try to write on trains even to this day. It's only because Transit has been so vigilant in keeping their subway cars buffed that you rarely, if ever, see it from the late-80s-present.
@mightyflux They were in the Clean Car Program. The Redbirds, Green R10s, The 24 R27s painted in the redbird paint scheme, and both the rebuilt and unrebuilt red R30s. Same with the stainless steel cars. If graffiti was spotted on them they were removed from service. 1 R17 car and 1 R21 car both painted green and 16 R17s painted in the redbird paint scheme were the only other single cars cleaned up except for the R33WF cars. The were retired in February of 1988 on the 5 line.
Wow, great job on this video. Not many videos out there of the subway system from the 70's and 80's. Wish there were more out there. It's what I grew up seeing and not ashamed to say that THIS is what gave N.Y.C. character. Otherwise, it probably would have been another boring big city.
U mean New York City (the most famous city in the world) ? When i look to this movie i see a garbage subway and durty stations, for many peoples NYC represent USA, the richest and most modern country in the world, how could the gouvernment leave the city like this ?
Truly excellent footage! I remember taking the subway for the first time as kid in 1988. Compared to the Metro here in Montreal, it was kinda scary with graffiti and lights flickering on and off. Imagine how lucky I felt to have rode on a couple of Redbirds in 2003 just before they mostly sunk or scrapped.
@mtanyc wow, you are a poet!! You took what was in my heart and mind and put it into written form. People now don't understand that this is the reason NYC was so admired and feared. It was real, now it's like Disneyland.
@mtanyc Yeah.Surveillance everywhere, insane rent and housing prices, unique businesses closing, and a tyrant mayor :( If the person who made this video were to attempt this today, the transit police or the NYPD might beat him and hurl him into the nearest dungeon for the paranoid fear he was a terrorist spy. On the bright side, the subway cars are cleaner and more modern now, but the fare has gone up several times, probably double the fare, if even more by now, what it was in 86.
I was born and raised in NYC. I was a kid in the 80's and I always remember that there was a graffiti problem back then in the subways. But to actually see it again makes me realize just how bad it was. Wow. It's good to look back though, to see how it compares to present day. Thanks for posting your video.
it might be a lot blander today - but the squalor is quite shocking from this perspecitive - I remember being quite unerved on my first subway ride in 1984 - and that was in the CBD area.
Poor lighting also.
Cant have been much fun being an employee in those days , spending all day in a vandalised environment.
Not sure if anyone else asked but do you have any footage of using the 8th ave crossunder using the LL platform? Never got to make it down there before they demolished it for this 7 extension.
wow i find this so astonishing :O Ive lived in New york my whole life (i was only born in 93 lol) so my earliest memories were on the redbird trains. Its crazy how much the subway as changed in 25 years!
I love this video. So much an open freeier time in New York, a person could be a street artist without being harasses, or a street vendor without going through bureacratic hell to get a license. I would love to have been there then. I'd rather be mugged than lose my precious liberties (;-
i'm kind obssesed with this year 'cause i was born in 1986 and i was looking for something interesting on you tube and i found your video, it is amazing i loved it so much!
This is so cool!!, I can see how the things were back in those days!! the graffiti marks the difference from those years n today!...I was born in the Bronx (april 86) but living in Dominican Rep since 10!
It's astonishing to me how DIRTY the subway was compared to now! (not that the MTA is sparkly clean or anything, but it's definitely an improvement). And the graffiti, it was out of control.
@RailroadPacific Great :) I love to see 80s videos in America :) Sooo interesting :) Also did u record inside the Twin Towers :) Anyway I gonna subscribe you :)
I use the trains almost everyday, like any New Yorker who doesn't own a car and I have to say I'm so appreciative that the city cleaned up the subway system the way they did over the years, makes all the troubles MTA is currently having like degrading stations, budget issues, increased fares, seem insiginificant in comparison.
Tokens!!! remember those? I remember lookin on the floor because I didnt have enough for token and some lady was nice enough to give me one...now we have these defective metrocards lol
1986: the year i started attending the high school of music & art in manhattan, which meant a daily subway commute from brooklyn. this is exactly how i remember it!! (except for the sounds of XTC, queen, elvis costello and squeeze in my walkman headphones.) thank you for your foresight!
do this type of filming today and they would call u a terrorist. its all good, nothing interesting to see in nyc today anyways. u filmed it in its prime.
@DanaPaige22 It was the late 70s to mid 80s that it was noticeably that much graffiti. They might have cleaned it up, but everything now is still shitty. Announcements on all subway trains were audible and understandable (unlike nowadays). There might have been grafitti, but today there are more assholes bringing food and drinks and spilling it all over the floor then walking away.
Amazing video. Brought memory when I was young and riding the trains looking like this. Not to mention in the beginning at 42nd street you see the staircase which are no longer there to access lower level. Watching trains in the late 70's and early 80's was so much fun.
@RailroadPacific wow... this takes me back, i was 5. all i could remember was how loud it was then, the rumbling shook your whole body. it felt like the ground was sliding and moving..
When my friends were telling me that they believed in America and it's population i always told then to go visit New Yuck (aka the city of ghetto rats) They did and all hated it. It's not worth losing your life to some baboon-looking Afrikanoid over a few "attactions"! Wow. "the capital of the world" is just another example of yanks inventing their own american dictionary. NY never had any class I feel sorry for a few hard working blacks and whites
@copilot7777 What made it the greatest city? - The hard working people from all over the world, not the welfare addicted underclas that we call "underprivileged". Lets tell the truth - too many people of color who don't have any education and skills; too many undereducated whites; too many ghetto criminals who terrorize the streets. Because of colored criminals and their crime rate, huge resoursed are diverted to police and big areas stay UNDERDEVELOPED cause no one wants to move in
@copilot7777 This is exactly how most empires have crumbled - from within. This time it gonna be the libtards-ghetto people's fault. No one believes that NY can be turned into Hong Kong, and this is the problem - people have no faith, just knowledge and that is not enough. You need 1000 Rudy Giulianis to rebuild this city's crumbling infrastructure and to clean brooklyn, Bronx and Queens of it's criminals, even if it would take forced relocation of these subhumans. NY has cancer - treatment?
Its funny to see people get all nostalgic about graffiti now but back then, most people hated it. It seemed like the only ones who liked it were the ones who were doing it. By 1986, all the graffiti looked terrible to me. That's one part of "old New York" that I don't really miss that much.
I remember the squealing used to be so loud and the sparks use to fly on the tracks as well. NYC subways were the pits back then... how much was a token in 1986? It must have been 75 cents... i remember there was an uproar when it went to a $1.00
@inE5C4P3able are you kidding me, how is that? i was born in the early 80s and i have too say i never heard a day go by with out hearing something bad happen in the subway back than, rapes, murders, robberies, all at a all time high than it was so bad my parents didnt take me on train rides anywhere for years, i hated the smell of the trains and subways back than and not one ever cleaned anything ever it stayed that way for over ten years untill the 90s than i saw a big change, i
I should have been more clear; it was incredibly difficult to operate 40 year old, poorly maintained equipment. The railroad itself in terrible condition as well. Our finest hour meaning, for we, the crews who daily performed feats of amazing mechanical skill. It WAS pure hell for the passengers, but again; something of a miracle a train got down the road at all.
Amazing. Simply amazing to see what the subway was like when I was a kid, and remember all of this, to where it is now. It's night and day. Thank you so much for taking me back to my childhood with this video.
So Love this, The graffiti just adds so much character to the film, Today the trains just looks so clinical.
The Graffiti will never die, it still gets done, I Hope it returns again in force,But I don't think it would be as magical has back then in the day with the styles
Thanks for uploading, Its a great help to me, I'm painting a series of paintings about the NYC Subway of the 80's.
With portraits etc, of the writers as they look now.
Great Ref for my work, of the Subway back in the 80s.
This is amazing. just a few years before the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority implemented a “clean train” policy which removed all trains featuring graffiti tagging off the tracks for good.
Clearly, things have improved. The trains today are all clean and graffiti free for the most part, the brakes are not noisy on today's trains for the most part and things are generally cleaner and brighter in the stations. What hasn't changed is people - they were just as dour then as they are now. In the summer of 1986 I was 21 and worked in Long Island City. I used to ride the 7 train from 33rd/Rawson to Times Square all the time to make deliveries and pick up checks.
Oh man :( I miss the graffiti-ed trains of the nyct
twintowers1970 2 days ago
idk they had a K train
SuperCoolDude2014 4 days ago
film is better than vhs
SuperCoolDude2014 4 days ago
This a great capture of time and place.
Hinklish 3 weeks ago
OMG I could understand the guy on the loudspeaker!!!
DolzaB 3 weeks ago
amazing pictures and sound. thanks for posting! I have a D6C but not those expensive sounding mics you mention!, great stereo audio you've captured too - stereo really makes the footage come alive. I didn't see your music version but I would probably like it better the way it is now - unadulterated. I kinda like all the graffiti too, I think the location might look rather bland and dead without it. a real film art journal entry!
redgenner 3 weeks ago
Fantastic video
Emmylie2 1 month ago
WHAT-A-DUMP!
durece100 1 month ago
miss the graff on trains nowadays....
Spitfire995 1 month ago
awesome
SoraInuyashaAsh 1 month ago
It was such a different city, than these days!
Kregonov 1 month ago
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Kregonov 1 month ago
THANK YOU! I've longed to see this classic NYC.
leticiavee 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
OMG how dirty those subways are...
Perle3456 1 month ago
NYC back then looked so classic!!
zxcv2705 1 month ago
Why NY subway is SO DIRTY??
I'm from Moscow, Russia. Just take a look on our subway (Metro) stations and sparkling clean trains.
130513Patrick 2 months ago
@130513Patrick That was back in the 1980's. The subway today is much more cleaner than it used to be.
ct1660 1 month ago
@130513Patrick in soviet russia you Don't drive car, car drives YOU
137913792011 1 week ago
Even I was never in NY (by now) I have to say that I love the old NY, the city I saw in movies, back in time.
Thank you for this video.
Greetings from Romania.
cristi884 2 months ago
Priceless footage of a long gone era. Well done!
P.S. It's "Times Square."
3253Gman 2 months ago
nowadays nyc is full of ANNOYING YUPPIES AND HIPSTERS and frozen japanese yogurt stores!!
TheYaom 2 months ago
Subway sat not as safe as today back then
rectorman1 3 months ago
@rectorman1 I rode the subway a lot back in the 70's 80's and 90's and nothing happened to me....... EVER!!!! YOU JUST HAD TO BE STREET SMART.... yuppies / hipsters ruined NYC
TheYaom 2 months ago
so much graffiti lol
2GirlsAndOneDuck 3 months ago
Wow. I remember riding these trains when I was kid. Especially, when the red birds were once painted white and also green. I remember riding a green train once or twice, but never again did i see one.
JCA0720 3 months ago
This is WILD! My first time in NYC was 1998 ... and I moved here this January. Cannot believe how graffiti-ed the trains and on the inside too. I'm in this station on an almost daily basis, so its amazing to see it in "another life". The signage is all different, yet I still recognize it. Thank you for this!
NealHyde 4 months ago 6
K Train?? CC??...WOW THIS MUST BE OLD
sacita3590 4 months ago
This is the TRUE New York (as well as the eras which preceded it). BEFORE politically-correct behavior, ridiculous store-chain monopolies, monotonous radio (Clear Channel) and ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OVERCROWDING the subways, buses and cities. People weren't scared to say what they mean and mean what they say (I still do this, in public) without hiding behind computers and ranting. Times Square was still XXX rated and not owned by DISNEY. Now, everyone tries to copy this era, but inauthentic.
2conscious 4 months ago
@2conscious what are u smoking? there has been illegal immigration in America, since America was born!!! it started with the english who sneaked into Indian land illegaly, it continued with irish, italians, jews til nowadays mexicans.... god knows who'll be next.
DONT U KNOW YOUR HISTORY?
TheYaom 2 months ago
@TheYaom Oh, my lord. Stick to the subject of NYC over-crowding. Because, as an African-American male, If I were born in North Africa, I could easily commit a crime and go on a rant in the courts about "the Arabs invaded and slaughtered the ORIGINAL, dark Africans and mixed with them and made the remaining a lower class". The question the judges would still ask: did you break an existing law? Yes or no. I know the history of the Americas and Africa, I'm talking about overpopulation
2conscious 2 months ago
Lets see the hipsters survive this
dizkoteck 4 months ago
It's 2:45 in the morning and I'm doing the same thing. I live in Texas
20poundbuster 4 months ago
I'm up at 3:30 in the morning, watching clips of trains coming into the station in new york in 86, and I don't even live there, live in friggin Sweden, youtube's crasy
Daazbee 4 months ago
one question: Have the redbirds ever been so targetet of graffiti? Seems like they were always clean.
mightyflux 4 months ago
@mightyflux Graff artists try to write on trains even to this day. It's only because Transit has been so vigilant in keeping their subway cars buffed that you rarely, if ever, see it from the late-80s-present.
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@mightyflux They were in the Clean Car Program. The Redbirds, Green R10s, The 24 R27s painted in the redbird paint scheme, and both the rebuilt and unrebuilt red R30s. Same with the stainless steel cars. If graffiti was spotted on them they were removed from service. 1 R17 car and 1 R21 car both painted green and 16 R17s painted in the redbird paint scheme were the only other single cars cleaned up except for the R33WF cars. The were retired in February of 1988 on the 5 line.
kmothersil 2 months ago
I am not stupid. Somebody got a time machine.
1tripz 4 months ago
i can smell the crackheads
purewaves1 5 months ago
WOW i remeber the trains where White and then there was graffiti everywhere Now most of the trains are silver and the citty has cleaned up alot
KMNKeyboardVault 5 months ago
D: I wouldn't ride the subway back then...
ThePokemonMunchlax 5 months ago
lol @ the guy at 5:10 missing the train
officialxCTx 5 months ago
Wow, great job on this video. Not many videos out there of the subway system from the 70's and 80's. Wish there were more out there. It's what I grew up seeing and not ashamed to say that THIS is what gave N.Y.C. character. Otherwise, it probably would have been another boring big city.
vynilspinner 5 months ago
U mean New York City (the most famous city in the world) ? When i look to this movie i see a garbage subway and durty stations, for many peoples NYC represent USA, the richest and most modern country in the world, how could the gouvernment leave the city like this ?
magnum172 6 months ago
Truly excellent footage! I remember taking the subway for the first time as kid in 1988. Compared to the Metro here in Montreal, it was kinda scary with graffiti and lights flickering on and off. Imagine how lucky I felt to have rode on a couple of Redbirds in 2003 just before they mostly sunk or scrapped.
retroolschool 6 months ago
wow the subway train filled with graffiti inside and out looks creepy.
ZzGORDOXzZ 6 months ago
you got more subway footage from the 80s and early 1990s
redbirds and R62s
GhettoKarter1992 6 months ago
i was there in 84. when America was great.
n4wgt 6 months ago
WOW! 25 YEARS LATER! WHAT DID I DO SINCE THEN IN MY LIFE TO IMPROVE MYSELF AND BE A BETTER PERSON, THAT IS THE QUESTION I MUST ASK MYSELF.
Yaqidh 6 months ago
real ny
cr85651 6 months ago
i came here to look at the graffiti lol
The656 6 months ago
R.I.P the real New York City...
Now it's for the rich only and you have very little rights and freedoms.
A special thank you for the person who took the time to film and upload this...
thank you...
mtanyc 7 months ago 22
@mtanyc wow, you are a poet!! You took what was in my heart and mind and put it into written form. People now don't understand that this is the reason NYC was so admired and feared. It was real, now it's like Disneyland.
rafaelsiegel 6 months ago
@mtanyc Yeah.Surveillance everywhere, insane rent and housing prices, unique businesses closing, and a tyrant mayor :( If the person who made this video were to attempt this today, the transit police or the NYPD might beat him and hurl him into the nearest dungeon for the paranoid fear he was a terrorist spy. On the bright side, the subway cars are cleaner and more modern now, but the fare has gone up several times, probably double the fare, if even more by now, what it was in 86.
zipthepinhead 1 month ago
@mtanyc Yes, it's really fucked up that the city is much safer and cleaner now, what a shame, right...?! Dumbfuck.
tokemarton 1 month ago
@tokemarton go toke your marton again a get cancer you waste of life..
you must have gotten gangbanged by a bunch of bikers and caught aids..hahaha dumbfuck
mtanyc 4 weeks ago
I was born and raised in NYC. I was a kid in the 80's and I always remember that there was a graffiti problem back then in the subways. But to actually see it again makes me realize just how bad it was. Wow. It's good to look back though, to see how it compares to present day. Thanks for posting your video.
nycnena78 7 months ago
i see the 2 always had newer cars than the 3
MICROSOFTGAMESTUDIO1 7 months ago
it might be a lot blander today - but the squalor is quite shocking from this perspecitive - I remember being quite unerved on my first subway ride in 1984 - and that was in the CBD area.
Poor lighting also.
Cant have been much fun being an employee in those days , spending all day in a vandalised environment.
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jamestargetedindiv 7 months ago
Not sure if anyone else asked but do you have any footage of using the 8th ave crossunder using the LL platform? Never got to make it down there before they demolished it for this 7 extension.
xtimx2 7 months ago
wow i find this so astonishing :O Ive lived in New york my whole life (i was only born in 93 lol) so my earliest memories were on the redbird trains. Its crazy how much the subway as changed in 25 years!
IlikepurpleXP 7 months ago
I love this video. So much an open freeier time in New York, a person could be a street artist without being harasses, or a street vendor without going through bureacratic hell to get a license. I would love to have been there then. I'd rather be mugged than lose my precious liberties (;-
needlove1982 8 months ago
This is the subway I know and love! Great memories! Thanks for posting this!
bxrican347 8 months ago
I guess they only had black spraypaint in those days...
kewlmynd99 8 months ago
nice pieces
mightyflux 9 months ago
let the paint spray. real NY subway steezy
SWEETKICKSWILLY 9 months ago
i'm kind obssesed with this year 'cause i was born in 1986 and i was looking for something interesting on you tube and i found your video, it is amazing i loved it so much!
madgirl1986 9 months ago
@madgirl1986 oh man you're old.
kewlmynd99 8 months ago
love it!
AVIATIONluv 9 months ago
Twins at 3:14??
FS3K 9 months ago
The best film I have ever seen of the NYC subways, fantastic thank you for posting
island29 9 months ago
I remember when R27 and R30s use to run on the J trains.
SubwayFan83 9 months ago
I was 3 when I saw these trains.
SubwayFan83 9 months ago
Wow, this is absolutely incredible. Thanks for providing it.
poncewattle 9 months ago
Thanks! I enjoyed it alot.
That's how trains should look =)
shamzam2007 9 months ago
This is so cool!!, I can see how the things were back in those days!! the graffiti marks the difference from those years n today!...I was born in the Bronx (april 86) but living in Dominican Rep since 10!
Alv286 10 months ago
It's astonishing to me how DIRTY the subway was compared to now! (not that the MTA is sparkly clean or anything, but it's definitely an improvement). And the graffiti, it was out of control.
simpliste90 10 months ago
The subway looks crazy! No wonder everyone makes stereotypes.
enlargemedia 10 months ago
CRACK ERA ... mets world series winnaz....
ALPO... PREME TEAM... BOY GEORGE... KILLER BEN....
i wish nyc was this violent again.....
teknashend 10 months ago
i like trains.
MrSpinecrusher 10 months ago
wow.
700MBFHarlem 10 months ago
This is great, if you have anymore besides the four you posted please post them.
Murderermarv 10 months ago
thank you.
EPICSKATENYC 10 months ago
time machine
Queh 10 months ago
Do u have a video inside World Trade Center Station1980s-2000?
Romerjon17 10 months ago
@Romerjon17
I think I have some slides from this decade & location, -´I´m scaning my archive of slides in the next years...
RailroadPacific 10 months ago
@RailroadPacific Great :) I love to see 80s videos in America :) Sooo interesting :) Also did u record inside the Twin Towers :) Anyway I gonna subscribe you :)
Romerjon17 10 months ago
Man Love the 70s and 80s and 90s :D
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unreal3010 10 months ago
So ugly and untidy :S
dicf21 10 months ago
I use the trains almost everyday, like any New Yorker who doesn't own a car and I have to say I'm so appreciative that the city cleaned up the subway system the way they did over the years, makes all the troubles MTA is currently having like degrading stations, budget issues, increased fares, seem insiginificant in comparison.
TheMusketITuckedIt 10 months ago
This is fucking classic, I was born this year. And yeah, NYC used to be dirty as fuck, it was even worse in the 70's.
This was when my grandfather was still a train driver before he became a road track inspector and then a car mechanic supervisor.
I think the new trains still have similar HVAC systems according to him, the outside just looks sleeker and shinier lol.
TezukaKohei 10 months ago
no cellphones......feels good man
acktar666 10 months ago
nice, they really cleaned those things up since then, I think it still smells like 1986 though...
SomeFunkyDude79 10 months ago
This is wonderful!
HaciendoAmigos 10 months ago
nope so ugly
MrSupervazquez 10 months ago
Tokens!!! remember those? I remember lookin on the floor because I didnt have enough for token and some lady was nice enough to give me one...now we have these defective metrocards lol
jodona76 10 months ago
Cool videos man
NegativeX83 10 months ago
I love how nobody cared they were being filmed then, just goes to show how times have changed, and how society sucks now.
SammmySlammmaJammma 10 months ago 17
oh they were painting on trains now they are more civilization
Shammari4Ever 10 months ago
1986: the year i started attending the high school of music & art in manhattan, which meant a daily subway commute from brooklyn. this is exactly how i remember it!! (except for the sounds of XTC, queen, elvis costello and squeeze in my walkman headphones.) thank you for your foresight!
johnmontagnamusic 10 months ago
do this type of filming today and they would call u a terrorist. its all good, nothing interesting to see in nyc today anyways. u filmed it in its prime.
Love4SK 10 months ago
I think it was worth it to add in the original sound - just makes it feel "whole", especially for someone like me who wasn't around in '86 yet.
Stmtrolleyguy 10 months ago
watching this video i feel like i can smell and feel the atmosphere of the NYC subway
musieswim 10 months ago
i was born in 87
MrSupervazquez 10 months ago
wow it was dirty even when it first opened up ?
glassking99 10 months ago
Not a laptop, earbud, or cell phone ion sight. :)
samgraves2 10 months ago
The subway totally looks like it does in "The Warriors". I love NYC (been there twice) and I love this video, many thanks for sharing.
droningforever 10 months ago
omg that's awesome
sj4709 10 months ago
A lot of good movies came out in 1986. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Top Gun, Pretty in Pink, Little Shop of Horrors, Labyrinth...
blwbl 10 months ago
The state of the trains looks like something from a post apocalyptic movie!
alexvegas 10 months ago
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this is awesome. man ppl tagged everything up back in the day.
nvlptl 10 months ago
this is awesome. man ppl tagged everything up back in the day.
nvlptl 10 months ago
now i understand why my mom hates the subway
thank god they've cleaned that shit up
DanaPaige22 10 months ago
@DanaPaige22 It was the late 70s to mid 80s that it was noticeably that much graffiti. They might have cleaned it up, but everything now is still shitty. Announcements on all subway trains were audible and understandable (unlike nowadays). There might have been grafitti, but today there are more assholes bringing food and drinks and spilling it all over the floor then walking away.
Schwhat 10 months ago 2
@Schwhat Oh, the newer trains have recorded announcements now, they're even better!!
Spectacular66 10 months ago
I was six then, funny how nothing ever changes. Its all go, as they say. Happily I've chosen a different path.
mrbarnowlful 10 months ago
Olha o piche da minha avó aí
gundamzerostrike 10 months ago
i can smell the urine.
TheBodyless 10 months ago 20
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i can smell the urine
TheBodyless 10 months ago
mmm these warm analog colours...
Eisencyanblau 10 months ago
time is such an interesting thing
showstopas 10 months ago
This is great footage and certainly brings back a lot of memories
ranus42 10 months ago
Isn't 42nd abondond now?
NeverlessNintendo 10 months ago
@NeverlessNintendo Not hardly.
ranus42 10 months ago
shoulder pads!! i just saw shoulder pads
Jflow724 10 months ago
Damn, I was just a little nut stain in my daddy's underwear when this was record.
aprox23 10 months ago
this is good no narration just the feel of the city
donklue 10 months ago
yes it's definitely an '86 the graffiti is the giveaway
jp0484 10 months ago
No jeans?
X2ander 10 months ago
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X2ander 10 months ago
wow
pulsarL4D 10 months ago
Reminds me of The Warriors
charlesr456 10 months ago 2
Lol is it bad that the first thing i thought of was that "sarah palins alaska" didnt exist? hahaha that mustve been nice
LandofCort 10 months ago
Sorry lol.. meant to say that your camera gave you awsome results. looks like a real 70s hollywood film
STBNY 10 months ago
WOW.........................O MY FREAKIN LORD.
STBNY 10 months ago
Amazing video. Brought memory when I was young and riding the trains looking like this. Not to mention in the beginning at 42nd street you see the staircase which are no longer there to access lower level. Watching trains in the late 70's and early 80's was so much fun.
SuperStarRendon 10 months ago
Looks like a thriller video.
hendrikwiersma 10 months ago
very eerie and unsafe.
ieatcolour 10 months ago
@all
I have added two new movies, same style, unspectacular , the typical perspective of a tourist in this June of 1986.
NYC Chinatown market @ youtube.com/watch?v=wXURd-5U9Yc
NYC WTC outlook @ youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6UDT8p1RE
I´m very happy to see how much fun this videos give to you! Thank you for the big feetback from Munich!!!!!!!!!
RailroadPacific 10 months ago
@RailroadPacific wow... this takes me back, i was 5. all i could remember was how loud it was then, the rumbling shook your whole body. it felt like the ground was sliding and moving..
blairduboir 10 months ago
@RailroadPacific omg i love u !!
sooooooooooo tuffffffffffffff
reminisces about the CRAK DAYS " my 86 style Now "
teknashend 10 months ago
The graffiti at 5:51 could be an animation :)
AidarAlgozhin 10 months ago
@copilot7777 Can it you proto-fascist fucktard
dogdove 10 months ago
the subway looks so empty! and it's full of graffitis
gumgl 10 months ago
42
thesoccerduchess 10 months ago
The R32 had door chimes?
BROAdWAYexpressN 10 months ago
its funny how the a train still looks the same
gtasandman 10 months ago
When my friends were telling me that they believed in America and it's population i always told then to go visit New Yuck (aka the city of ghetto rats) They did and all hated it. It's not worth losing your life to some baboon-looking Afrikanoid over a few "attactions"! Wow. "the capital of the world" is just another example of yanks inventing their own american dictionary. NY never had any class I feel sorry for a few hard working blacks and whites
copilot7777 10 months ago
@copilot7777 lol if you hating on the greatest city in the world where are you from
DaKillerBizcuit 10 months ago
@DaKillerBizcuit nyc hasnt been a great city in decades
Love4SK 10 months ago
@Love4SK well everyone is entitled to their opinions
DaKillerBizcuit 10 months ago
@copilot7777 What made it the greatest city? - The hard working people from all over the world, not the welfare addicted underclas that we call "underprivileged". Lets tell the truth - too many people of color who don't have any education and skills; too many undereducated whites; too many ghetto criminals who terrorize the streets. Because of colored criminals and their crime rate, huge resoursed are diverted to police and big areas stay UNDERDEVELOPED cause no one wants to move in
copilot7777 10 months ago
@copilot7777 This is exactly how most empires have crumbled - from within. This time it gonna be the libtards-ghetto people's fault. No one believes that NY can be turned into Hong Kong, and this is the problem - people have no faith, just knowledge and that is not enough. You need 1000 Rudy Giulianis to rebuild this city's crumbling infrastructure and to clean brooklyn, Bronx and Queens of it's criminals, even if it would take forced relocation of these subhumans. NY has cancer - treatment?
copilot7777 10 months ago
Its funny to see people get all nostalgic about graffiti now but back then, most people hated it. It seemed like the only ones who liked it were the ones who were doing it. By 1986, all the graffiti looked terrible to me. That's one part of "old New York" that I don't really miss that much.
glamslamcam 10 months ago
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10 minutes of my life wasted.
edpantous 10 months ago
This video is hilarious with the 1911 filter.
bblasphemous 10 months ago 8
@bblasphemous what is the 1911 filter ?
TheBodyless 8 months ago
you can actually hear the loudspeaker!
boogerpckr 10 months ago
I remember the squealing used to be so loud and the sparks use to fly on the tracks as well. NYC subways were the pits back then... how much was a token in 1986? It must have been 75 cents... i remember there was an uproar when it went to a $1.00
gingernyc 10 months ago
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LadyGaGaExposed 10 months ago
i live in nyc and it seriously looks the same, just washed off the cool graffiti of the trains
featheredmusic 10 months ago
@ ghostdein1,
I lived through those times, I was a NYCTA Conductor. They were, despite the look of things, our finest hour!
inE5C4P3able 10 months ago
@inE5C4P3able are you kidding me, how is that? i was born in the early 80s and i have too say i never heard a day go by with out hearing something bad happen in the subway back than, rapes, murders, robberies, all at a all time high than it was so bad my parents didnt take me on train rides anywhere for years, i hated the smell of the trains and subways back than and not one ever cleaned anything ever it stayed that way for over ten years untill the 90s than i saw a big change, i
chrisjct 10 months ago
@chrisjct
I should have been more clear; it was incredibly difficult to operate 40 year old, poorly maintained equipment. The railroad itself in terrible condition as well. Our finest hour meaning, for we, the crews who daily performed feats of amazing mechanical skill. It WAS pure hell for the passengers, but again; something of a miracle a train got down the road at all.
inE5C4P3able 10 months ago
Weird seeing people on a subway platform with nobody looking down at their phone or with headphones in their ears...
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hidethis2654 10 months ago
Amazing. Simply amazing to see what the subway was like when I was a kid, and remember all of this, to where it is now. It's night and day. Thank you so much for taking me back to my childhood with this video.
glamslamcam 10 months ago
First time I visited US was in 86 : ) wow I remember and NY does not look anything like this now lmao!
RGxScorpionGlr 10 months ago
So Love this, The graffiti just adds so much character to the film, Today the trains just looks so clinical.
The Graffiti will never die, it still gets done, I Hope it returns again in force,But I don't think it would be as magical has back then in the day with the styles
Thanks for uploading, Its a great help to me, I'm painting a series of paintings about the NYC Subway of the 80's.
With portraits etc, of the writers as they look now.
Great Ref for my work, of the Subway back in the 80s.
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scroez 10 months ago
This is amazing. just a few years before the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority implemented a “clean train” policy which removed all trains featuring graffiti tagging off the tracks for good.
JonneyeTV 10 months ago
Clearly, things have improved. The trains today are all clean and graffiti free for the most part, the brakes are not noisy on today's trains for the most part and things are generally cleaner and brighter in the stations. What hasn't changed is people - they were just as dour then as they are now. In the summer of 1986 I was 21 and worked in Long Island City. I used to ride the 7 train from 33rd/Rawson to Times Square all the time to make deliveries and pick up checks.
paktype 10 months ago 2