OLD NEW YORK WINTER

[caleb6868]

lovely.

[PAWASHUPA]

a way of hillbillies places,,,....true Europeans./.

[lechelers]

THIS REMINDS ME OF ARRDIGGERS IN LUYKSGESTEL,NL.

[irish89055]

@lechelers my father was from New York City.... he participated in the Dutch food drops, last week of the war.... New York rarely freezes like that any more..though it did in last two winters..

[Ypipable]

thats so sweet....

[TheNewFormat]

Classic - This early work is very Good! : ) *****

[KScarlett777]

AH, I love this. Thank you!!! 

[lechelers]

reminds me of henk winters(aardigers) EINDHOVEN,NL

[Rayarena]

@blackrockbitch I'm glad that you like our city. It's truly the greatest city in the USA. 

[Rayarena]

@blackrockbitch Yes, indeed! Ski weather! That's exactly what it was back then! I think that the warmer winters [at least here in NYC] are due to global warming. They say that because we're a coastal city, if the sea continues to rise as the polar caps melt, we'll become submerged under the Atlantic.

[Speedraid]

And in Europe was a war.

[MPL029]

Also love the Victorian kids sledding...love this video!!!!

[MPL029]

fave photo....2:08..could be made into an xmas card...

[MPL029]

Is the image at 1:29 that of the conservatory pond in central park? If so...how cool people used to be able to skate on it!

[newmediaformat]

Yes, you know I like this ***** : )

[chess1458]

I Miss Big City Living,I Remember The Winters Growing Up In Baltimore,Md,Dad Pulling Us Around On The Sled,Great Memories,Still Miss Baltimore A Whole Bunch

[1400deadwood]

I loved NYC in the 60s as it had a greater sense of character than it does today. However, parts of it were still segregated and it was less than ideal for minorities. Luckily, times changed and society evolved into a more integrated and cohesive society for which I am most thankful.

[redgrapeskins]

@1400deadwood society hasn't evolved .It has eroded and deteriorated since the late 50s- early 60s- It's now crime ridden with many people living in fear -The music. charm, decency, class, style, etc has been gutted from this country- By cohesive do you mean skewed in favor of the minority-- Either you're a young lad and have no idea what was, or you are a mere bleeding heart who cares nothing about what I have just alluded to- If this is your idea of lucky then you've never been -

[1400deadwood]

@redgrapeskins - nonsense. I'm old enough to remember when blacks were still being lynched, when water coolers and bathrooms were racially segregated, and Robert Moses spent taxpayer dollars on creating segregated housing.

Skewed in favor of minorities'? Moses's Levittown is an example of just the opposite. Do your homework buddy. I'm old enough to remember that stuff. Are you?

[daddyavenue]

You dont really see winters like that anymore in New York.

[Rayarena]

NYC is truly the greatest city in the world. I've traveled all around the USA and I've seen great world capitols and nothing compares to NYC, especially around Christmas! It's unbelievably beautiful, wonderful, exciting, the sites, the Christmas decorations in the store windows, the Christmas caroling, the smell of roasting chestnuts from a street vendor on a cold winter day. Ah, its just so incredible!

[maryjulie2]

I totally agree with you!!! New York is really the greatest city in the world!!!!

[kunvar25]

@Rayarena AH another prejudiced American who only sees his nation on the globe......so arrogant and ignorant u Americans are of anything outside your own nation.........LONDON is by far the greatest city in the world........though I must say these pictures look really great......

[edwardoalvarez22]

I would love to be back in New York City  1960s it was alot better then,then now.

[TheLarbacmc]

true

[edwardoalvarez22]

Who can for get New York City doing the winter specially, Centro Park not to mention Grand Centro Station plus Madison Ave. It been 20years since I left New York City but, She has a place in my heart. I missed all the Mofia Folks ha ha

[NYer79]

That WAS BEAUTIFUL...great memories of my NY in Winter !

[kalabm]

here you can see that we wre just too many. And concerning your comments, happier or not, I guess it was more real happiness back there, now adays people gat happy by watching other people lifes in tv or in sports, mmmm who knows

[deadnursewalking]

wonderful video. thanks for sharing it

[StimpyLoc]

looks like those days were a lot fancier

[Portis1Luv]

btw, simply stunning.

[Portis1Luv]

So, with all of the social, economic, and tehnological "advancement" of the last 100 years are people any happier than folks were back then?

[cannuckistan]

People are as happy as they make their minds up to be...I don't think the era in which they live has much to do with it. I bet people from the turn of the last century were alot more resilient than us, though. They had to be.

[AdamDeLaMer]

Merci!

[BK2dafullist]

Whether it was 300 years ago or last year, WINTER SUCKS!!!!

[MPL029]

Winter is fun!!!

[lander4545]

A better place in time!

[Talulah1997]

Looks like people had much more fun in life with smaller things and so much less material things than today....

[sueezee]

I too, am fascinated with Old New York in the winter .... It takes my breath away. By the way, I remember the song, "My love is blue" from the 60's. Gret vid!

[Drobcio]

I love New York,

I've never been there,and hope that some day will be able to see:-)

[jimbobklyn1963]

i remember snow storms in the 70's. bklyn. soooo huge we couldn't identify our cars. school would be canceled. the streets where really quite. it was amazing. miss it. nice video.

[Rayarena]

Great pictures of old New York when we used to have horribly cold winters. I read that the enormous Hudson River used to freeze so densely that people could walk from one bank of the river to the next and even horses drawing sleighs could cross over it. When it freezes now, it's usually thin sheets of ice impossible to cross.

[MPL029]

somehow I doubt it ever froze that deeply to where a horse drawing sleighs could go over it...I suspect thats more of ancestors saying that..along with their.."i walked 3 miles thru the snow with no shoes on to get to school" memories...hA!!

[Rayarena]

@MPLO29, I know what you mean, it sounds a bit of an exaggeration, but I remember reading this from a reputable source, I didn't just hear it from some old timer with an over active imagination. Supposedly, it was so common to cross the frozen Hudson River that there were even concession stands in the middle of the river that sold pedestrians hot chocolate to keep them warm! If you do look at the records, winters in NYC were a lot colder a hundred years ago than today.

[MPL029]

@Rayarena Wow..how cool!! Yes winters were colder years ago..plus there were no underground wirings, subways etc that keep the ground warmer. I live one block from the East River and to imagine it that frozen to be able to hold a sleigh is mind-boggling. Do you by chance remember where you read that?  Its not that I dont believe you..but it sounds like a very interesting book/article to read!!!

[Rayarena]

@MPL029. If you start searching in Google you can find information. For instance, during the revolutionary war, it was so cold that: "Judge Jones, who lived at Fort Neck (now Massapequa), wrote in his book that 200 provision-laden sleighs, pulled by two horses each, escorted by 200 light cavalry, made the five-mile trip from New York to Staten Island.

From: Frozen Ducks in the Kitchen

Nations at war shiver through the Northeast's hard winter of 1779-80

By George DeWan | Staff Writer

[Rayarena]

@MPL029. More from the George DeWan article:

"Long Island Sound was almost completely clogged with ice, and people were able to cross from Long Island to the vicinity of Stamford on the Connecticut shore for several days," Ludlum writes in "Early American Winters: 1604-1820." "Some Hessian soldiers took advantage of this route in order to escape from their regiments."

[TamarZucker]

@Rayarena @Rayarena You don't have to go that far back.This is all still in living memory! I remember through the 1960s NYC winters always looking like it does in this video. A very common toy and every child had one, was the sled. We got a lot of use from it as we regularly had 3 to 5 BIG snow storms every winter. (they averaged a foot or two. Drifts covered cars.) It really was much much colder. My grandmothers remembered the Hudson freezing up enough to ice skate on it, a common place.

[Rayarena]

@TamarZucker Yes, you're correct! Very observant. I'm, also, old enough to remember snow sleighs being a very common Xmas toy. I remember summers being very short & winter snows lasting for weeks. Nowadays it snows and the snow starts to melt the next day!

[TamarZucker]

@MPL029

No, it IS true! I am 54 and even in my memory the winter weather has really altered here in New York. Both my grandmothers had stories of ice skating on the Hudson and people walking across the river in 1910-1920s. Maybe even later. The idea of a heavily laden horse drawn sleigh going over it 30 years earlier is not too great a stretch. This global warming thing is happening very very fast.

[MPL029]

@TamarZucker thats so cool.. Its just hard to beleive that a body of water like the Hudson River could ever be that frozen to support the weight of carriages and horses...now THATS frozen!!! Ive lived here since 1987 and Ive def seen a change in Winters over the years..much milder now.

[Rayarena]

@MPL029 Here is testimony from the revolutionary war: General Johann de Kalb wrote: "...so cold that the ink freezes on my pen, while I am sitting close to the fire. The roads are piled with snow until, at some places they are elevated twelve feet above their ordinary level." Taken from: Revolutionary War Historical Article: Winter of 1779-80 In New Jersey by Donald N. Moran. You can search it on google.

My note: you know what 12 feet of snow is!!!!!!

[cadrolls1]

Great film. Thank you for sharing it with us. It's better here than hanging around in an attic someplace. Thank you.

[gijohnny59]

very nice, like the music and visual.

[glenzhere2]

The song is "Love is Blue", 1968

[sebbbo77]

I love New York in Winter. I went in Winter 2005 during a snow storm. It was February 24th and all the streets were decked in snow. It was a terrible cold winter but everything looked so pretty!!

Can anyone tell me please the song that is playing in the background??

[JigglyPwn]

i love new york i have no idea why, but new york is my favorite place in the world, its so enchanting.

thanks for the video

[gpc]

The photo at 1:50-1:52 was taken right after the Great Blizzard of March 1888 - commonly considered the worst blizzard to ever hit the Northeast.

[cadrolls1]

Yes, a few of them were of the "88" storm. Imagine, not one person is still alive who went through that storm that killed so many New Yorkers. More in New York died than from any other area because they were so dependent upon outside sources for food and other types of help.

[MPL029]

one of the last photos..dont know the time int he video...is from that too..its with the little girl with on foot on a huge snowbank...and a somewhat fallen sign that read "groceries" hanging overhead..thats a photo from the 1888 blizzard from Brooklyn

[janicesoprano]

I was born at Flushing General Hospital in August of 1943. The first memories I have of snow was in the winter of 1947, when the snow fell so hard it went over the top of my Dad's Chevy parked at the curb. I will never forget that! Thank you so much for these memories!

[GDLR]

Wow, it's been a long time since we had snow like that! Thanks for sharing your memories. :)

[BrooklynSal]

I think that the storm you are talking about is the one my grandfather always talked about when I was a kid. It was after the war and the snow was up past the stoop in Ozone Park .

[beccaiscolness4life]

@janicesoprano Thats such an honor to hear that! What is your name!? :)

[MarioOhlert]

If one had ten million dollars, what would be a good thing to do in New York during winter; compared with staying in Hawaii or Goa or Sydney, for the duration thereof.

.

Any suggestions?

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[GDLR]

Hi, Good question. Winter is a big tourist season. I would definitely go ice skating at Rockefeller Center and get out of the cold and catch some good Broadway shows. If it was a snowy day, I would walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, that's free! Or go up to the top of the empire state building. I would go shopping! I love being out in the cold it wouldn't bother me to go to fancy stores along park avenue. Go to the Met and stroll through central park admiring the snow on the foliage and icicles.

[MarioOhlert]

Dear GD., Thanks for your response; I feel chasened, as you are absolutely right about the many fab things to do in NYC during winter. . I wonder what it would be like to live all the time in NYC and to have only that amount of sunshine and heat, per year. . The difficulty I have must therefore be personal, and linked with personal factors about which mild winters are associated in my mind. . Madonna went one winter to LA, citing London grey skies as reason. Cheers. from, del-boy.

[MPL029]

@GDLR there are no "fancy stores" aong Park Avenue..its mainly residential.

[stealthmeth]

@MarioOhlert go snowmobiling upstate....

[dam2630]

@MarioOhlert Besides head for Miami??? Seriously, we just had the worst (2010-2011) in my 47-year old NYC memory.... But, there is always Rockefeller Center and the Christmas Tree, Central Park and many warm bars

[Inwoody]

Very, very nice. Bravo

[Ofarim]

Great video and the music fits perfectly. I was for a month the very first time in NY. Thanks for posting and sharing this great pitures.

[Ecuapana]

I love also New York

But I'am in love with any old city including New York.

[GDLR]

Yeah, when you see the old buildings or neighborhoods, or even the pieces of cobblestone street poking out of the tar it gives you a nostalgic feeling, like it was once very charming in its day.

[aminrd2]

i remeber once i saw a pic of my street in the bronx from 1920 and it looked like the country side, because of course thee bronx was like the country, there were farms and everything, its great, very facinating

[tapper36]

Nice work.

[1400deadwood]

GREAT video!

[just2w4tch]

this is pretty cool

[yankeegwagen]

NEW YORK IS AWSOME!

[JavierVMaldonado]

Life is love and hate.

Life is passion and kindness.

Life is born and reincarnate.

Life is lovely and sad.

Life is like a rose and grey.

Life is you, and when you are not here.

Love you all.

Javier

[GDLR]

Thank you for the poetry and translation, very beautiful:)

[JavierVMaldonado]

You wellcome dear friend, this is not poetry...they are just words from my deep of my heart and spirit, warm greetings, Javier

[GDLR]

Very sweet, I think true poetry comes from deep within our hearts.  With your words you must be true a poet. :)

Thanks again for the warm greetings.

[JavierVMaldonado]

La vida es amor y odio.

La vida es ternura y pasion.

La vida es nacer y renacer.

La vida es amable y es triste.

La vida es color de rosa y gris.

La vida eres tu, cuando tu no estas.

Les amo.

Javier

[anthology80]

reminds me of best friend hank winters in the netherlands whom i miss like crazy.hope you here this vidio hank and think of me in the usa whom loves u most !!!!!

[ChomuSclavus]

Oh, and where can I download this song? I love it so much, I've gotta have it!

[ChomuSclavus]

That song gave me a new feeling while it played. Unfortunately, I can't describe it. I don't know the words to convey how I felt. Can you suggest?

[GDLR]

It gave you a sweet, joyful feeling of winter and blustery chilly air?? :)

[aminrd2]

wow me too, the song gives u a sort of nostalgic feeling for something i never even exprerienced, GDLR it would be greatly appreciate if u could tell me what this song is called and by who? thank you very much

[GDLR]

Hi, the song is called 'Love is blue' and this version is done by Paul Muriat. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the experience! :)

[JavierVMaldonado]

Old times always will be the best! thank you so much dear GDLR, to share this amazing music/video with all of us, cool greetings, Javier/PERU

[GDLR]

I agree! You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it:)

[franctireur]

Wow, it used to snow in NYC? No way... I was thinking that the way the entire city freaks when they get a few inches nowadays... Oh, nevermind.

[GDLR]

Lol, nowadays, your right, pull out all the trucks and salt for an inch. No days off from school or anything anymore. N.Y. had a cool blizzard last year about 2 feet.

[GorillaInella]

yeah it snows in NYC, every now and then like every 10-20 years we get a nice sized blizzard...

[GDLR]

That is very true, lol. I wonder what this winter is going to be like, we had a pretty cool summer.

[3DFILMS]

hey, good for u by this clip, have u other videos of paul muriat...?

[GDLR]

No, I haven't made anything else with his music, but he made some beautiful songs. Thanks:)

[zagod5]

what a song right?

[dunemoonbeam]

music is fitting

[GDLR]

Thank you, it was tough choice:)

[et7waage]

I love New York! I've been there in February 1999 for five fantastic days! I always have a calender with pictures of old NY on my wall. Thank you for the memories! Great video! :)

[GDLR]

I'm glad you liked it. New York is wonderful. I suffer this syndrome though, that because I live in Brooklyn, I take Manhattan for granted and don't get out there as much as I should. It's only a subway ride away, sigh. Must be lack of funds:) Thanks for the comment!

[KrisShred]

That was a beautiful video! Loved the music too, who's made it? :)

Kris

[GDLR]

That was me, Ginger, Vally's sister, I'm glad you liked it. You have a real talent too, she showed me your videos. Great singing voice.:)

[KrisShred]

TY.. That's interesting, does Christine also produce some vidz from time to time?

Erm.. *blush* what I actually wanted to know is ..what's the name of the artist who's written the song? (Sorry I didn't know how to put that question right) :-D

Kris

[GDLR]

Lol, that's ok, Paul Muriat, he makes real nice instrumental music. I really need to fix the description. The song is Love is Blue.

[KrisShred]

'L'amour est bleu' 1968 :o) ..oh, he died in November 2006 :(

Well well, the 60s and 70s.. was a time of really good music (for my taste). But the 90s too (Grunge;)

Bye, and thx for the info,

Kris

[GDLR]

Your welcome,60's and 70's music is some of the best! I grew up with some 90's music, so I can be partial to it, but you are absolutely right, way too grunge! Ginger

[celestialsam]

I love big cities in winter. Everything's so lovely. And ze music is superb;)

[kjim101]

Beautiful

[dabiribd]

Thank you for sharing.

[cecil360]

Thank you. I'm hoping to spend this Christmas in New York. For two and a half minutes I thought I was already there.

[Lizslovelys]

great montage of old NY pics! Thanks for sharing. Liz