The subways looked so colorful and alive back then thanks to the art of graffiti which by the way was NOT in any way a cause of other serious crimes like the MTA idiots said it was... such a shame it's no longer on the subways. Now they look so damn dull and plain. I hope the trains look like they did 25 yrs ago again... someday.
NYC was a total mess in 1987. Murders were over 2000 per year versus 500 today. The City started declining in the early 1960s and didnt get better until the mid 1990s.
This used to be the place for grindhouse flicks. Now it's a place for anyone who's either a square or a wimp. I'd also like to say the same for L.A.'s Hollywood Blvd.(including Downtown L.A.),Frisco's Market Street,and Boston's Combat Zone.
@oldschoolbx1970 Agreed. There will never be another era quite like the 60s- 80s for either cinema or theaters. I read about 42nd streets insane past (and that of the Combat Zone as well) and just try to envision how cool/fucked-up/scary/exciting it would be to go into one of those theaters like the infamous Anco theater and watch a tattered print of something like The Headless Eyes, or I Drink Your Blood or Welcome Home, Brother Charles or any given Andy Milligan film.
@grindhousejunky79 Not to also mention others like Five Fingers of Death,Triple Irons,The Blood Spattered Bride,Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster,Horror On Snape Island,Daughters of Darkness,Mark of The Devil,The Family,and many many others.
In 2011, we just have white collar crime with bankers bankrupting the middle class.... and that's just so much better than having dirty theaters, authentic street life and small businesses... NOT!
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0:12 "New policy, best porn in town." I guess people had complained that there was better porn some place else. At least they listened to the complaints and got a new policy. It's better that this has been cleaned up. Hipsters and wanna be gangsters are full of crap when they say it was better back then. Most people that say that were born in the '90s. What do they know? Why don't they move to the ghettos of Chicago and see how "cool" crime, filth, and random murder is.
@Mainsail76 Most of the people who said it was better back then weren't hipsters or wanna be gangsters, you know. They likely lived in the city back then and likely were born between the 1940s-early 1980s. I'd say they know plenty, plus if they didn't live in the city, then chances are they have family residing there and they often went to the city to visit them. Don't write off people you disagree with on this as being hipsters or wanna be gangsters who were born in the '90s and full of crap.
@flawedbeauty82 Anybody that lived in NYC back then and enjoyed the filth and crime were nuts, or they are looking at things through rose colored glasses. But I believe I'm correct when I say that most people that talk about "the good 'ol days" either weren't around at the time, or they lived outside of the city in Conn. and came in for a bit of adventure but left and went back home to the suburbs at night. That, or they're hipsters that think graffiti and porn theaters are "ironic."
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No wonder my dad never let me go to manhattan with my friends in the 80's when I was a kid. lol. I'm so glad it's not like that now. My husband proposed to me in Times Square. And if we have kids, we can take them there with no problem because it's family friendly now. Thank Goodness.
My Grandad was in NYC in '87 and said he stayed in a shithole in the Lower East Side that was owned by a crooked priest who made no repairs and was waiting for the tenants to die so he could collect insurance money or something.
He also said he saw a pimp roughing up a hooker with a cop standing a few feet away ignoring it - the same pimp he had an altercation with earlier haha. He LOVED New York nonetheless
I think people just miss the feeling of not knowing what was gonna happen at any moment. It was crazy and unpredictable, but exciting at the same time.
All you guys reminiscing about NYC "back then" are so full of shit. 1987 was "the wilding". If you think that time was awesome you're either bat shit insane or full of it.
You want "real" NYC today? Move to Marcy tough guy. You'll get some realness right in your fucking head.
You know, perhaps it's good that the porn theatres are out... with the Internet, who'd go to them today? They'd just take up space in the Square...
Besides, TS may be Disneyfied, but that doesn't mean you need to be a part of it... if you want old NYC close to there, just walk closer to the East or West. 40th and 10th Ave is still a pretty seedy area.
@xNeo2Rememberx You should have actually been born in the '40s or '50s, otherwise you would have been too young to have seen it. I was born in '78 and I lived in NYC until 2000, and I only saw the very tail end of the real city before Ghouliani got to it and raped and pillaged it into what it is today.
@presare The last time I went to NYC was in late March in 1998, Times Square still had a few strip joints left. I wish I lived in NYC back then, it would've been scary, but at least you learned to keep your wits about you. That's why I originally wanted to live in a city, I like keeping my wits about me and I love challenges. If I were to walk through GENNYC now, I'd get nervous as hell.
@usra41: "Geez, forgive me, but there are times I'm wishing this recession gets so fuckin' bad the crime rate'll shoot up ten-fold "
You certainly have never been a victim (or a relative of yours) of a violent crime. Unless you are yourself a criminal, which I'm not saying, it takes a gun pointed to your head to understand how there is no "upside" in "ten-fold (upped) crime rates" but suffering and pain for everyone affected.
@lotwyo you do have a point but i also agree with USRA to some degree. Dont get me wrong, i dont wish anything bad on anybody but as a native new yorker, i also miss the old new york. Hes right about how new york is full of stuck up yuppies. Maybe u dont understand because you're not from here. If you knew somebody who was a victim of criminal acts, im sorry for your lose. Even though new york had its tough times back then, those are still memories. So take a chill pill
I find it somewhat hilarious that tourists now take their children to see shows at the New Victory theater, totally clueless to the fact that the original Victory theater was an XXX movie house.
@mythbuster43 Hell I'd say you walk up to some of those people and mention that. Chances are the fathers of the kids would be pissed while their mom is horrified and in a haughty way, is thankful that it isn't like that anymore. It'd be funny as hell to see how some of them would react.
@flawedbeauty82 Heh, I think the teenagers that hang around 42nd Street at night would be surprised to hear that previous generations to actually leave the house to get their porn.
hahaha! I remember visiting my uncle in manhattan in 1988 it was soooo sleazy...there was people who pooped on his porch...and people with squeegees who tried to clean your car windshield a far cry from todays NYC....i like it now too
hahaha! I remember visiting my uncle in manhattan in 1988 it was soooo sleazy...there was people who pooped on his porch...and people with squeegees who tried to clean your car windshield
@tac62184 it's the worst. all the dudes handing out all the cards for strip clubs secretly selling substances, not to mention the obligatory 2 strip joints/porn stores per block
I grew up in Queens and Times Square was oftenly compared to where I grew up in, Jackson heights. dirty crime filled and not very attractive either. sort'vr like
@GracieAncelotti i might be moving their or to bronx (sorry for bad spelling) so I can tryout for Laugaurdia High School.....so is queens or bronx better?
@KiU2222222 I lived in the Bronx for 3 years since my apartment in Queens was to be demolished and rebuilt. What I moved into was supposed to be the "nicer" part of the Bronx. Quite frankly, the pollution was terrible and crime was worse than what I had in Queens. So I'd definitely move to Queens if I were you. Some neighborhoods are a little trashy there, but I think that Forest Hills is my favorite. The only neighborhood I didn't go to was Hunter's Point.(continued on next comment)
@KiU2222222 (continued from previous comment-please read=)) Queens is great. It's not far away at all from Manhattan and it's neighborhoods are very ethnical and diverse. Aside from a few places, Queens is safe and a great place to live in the City. They way I saw it was the closer to Kennedy or La Guardia you are, the more cops, and with more cops comes more safety. But don't rely completely on that advise 'cause there are exceptions. Good luck with LGHS, it's a great school-my niece goes there
@GracieAncelotti Ok thanks you really hepled. This is IF my parents move. Its a 50 50 cuz dey think dat NY is too unsafe. Mhm like Clevland is sooooo great. Highest rape and murder rate. THATS SOOOO GREAT. Bunch of un educated retards. Tryna take me down. Ha. Well thanks. Well I didnt think Bronx would be as good. You know the rappers talk bout how their from Bronx and their bad lifes. Well Nicki apparently had one too, but lived in Queens. I had a teacher from their. But she was my fav.
@KiU2222222 Yeah, I've heard of Nicki and 50 Cent both coming from Queens. Both of them are a bit young for me to know them, not to mention all of the crime that surrounded them where they grew up, or so I've heard. New York can be a very tough place to live and assuming that you live in Cleveland, New York will be a piece-of-cake crime wise. Ask me if you have any other questions.
@GracieAncelotti haha well ohio isnt nice...not the big cty.........colombus...people think it is eaisy. well go to the west side and east side....need a gun ALL the time for real no joke....BUT YA.....Cinci is okay......still alot of crime. But i love my clevland andcoloumbus grw up in both places...n ok okay. Thankyou again.. so yeah is LaGaurdia HS a good school acedimcally.
@KiU2222222 LGHS is a great High School... If that's what you're asking. I can't tell you off the top of my head what they have to offer. I know my niece enjoys their program of arts.
I'm a New Yorker and I remember times square being that nasty shit hole you see in the video. It really wasn't until the late 90's that they cleaned it up from the hookers and crime like that.
full of starbucks, mcdonalds, disney stores and so expensive... that real new yorkers are having to leave the city in order to move elsewhere because it's too outrageously expensive!
welcome to the gentrified, plastic, souless, yuppified NYC of today!
@TheYaom I guess I prefer the new Times Square, I really'd rather see this over developed and overly excessive commercial tourism district rather than get mugged for walking in the center of midtown.
@GracieAncelotti: I gotta agree... I miss the un-gentrified NYC where everything was unique and authentic, but I don't miss the crime and drugs that came with the old NYC. I don't want to go back to seeing parks with crack vials all over the place. I like the fact that I can take the train at 1am without fear.
@GracieAncelotti Exactly, even if it is a bit too commercialized now, it's better than watching the city literally falling apart the way it definitely was back then.
@NeverDoubt1 There's absolutely nothing wrong with what it is now aside from not being as it was originally. It gives New York a higher quality of living and makes life a whole lot easier for everybody. (also easier for me to drive to my sister's apartment as well!)
New York I remember, is gone the heart and love for the Apple, alot of people from other places moving there and messing up a once beautiful city I Love N.Y. always
The "old 42nd street" was better. It had a unique aura to it,"character". Kind of fun to sometimes walk thru & watch the weirdos & others on the fringe of society. Crime could have been controlled back then if it was not for corruption. I liked all the bright neon on the porn shops & the legitimate businesses. Those who were opposed to it should have stayed away. I miss the "old" New York". Pre Rudy Guiliani.
@alloutoftime - There always has been corruption .. There still is. New Times square looks way better and more appealing to the world. The New York before Giuliani was a dump .. Streets were so fucking dirty. Subways looked so awful with all the graffiti ..Crime rate was 2 times higher then it is now .. So much more modern. If the world wasn't so corrupt .. Then NYC would be so fine.
During the early 80's , you could J-walk and no one would give a damn . These days , Times Square has become a playground for the Rich and Famous because stuff are so expensive there and if you J-walk you would be fined by cops in riot gear armed with SMG's .
CRS78 RIGHT ALSO. NY'ers also have street savy and the pedestrian choreography with each other & traffic gives her the pulse. NYC is much cleaner, but has a sanitized blahness to it. I even miss the buses when the driver would drop the lever to hear the coins in the old token machines count and swirl. Anyone remember the blue, orange & green paper transfers the drivers would fold at the bottoms for tear-offs to give you? Remember the green buses and the Checker cabs? Days before Metrocard. LOL.
ed60000 is correct. I lived in NYC and the erosion of rent stabilized apartments over the past ten years during Bloomberg have displaced many so that only the super wealthy can afford Manhattan, otherwise know as "the city". Didn't think I would ever say, I now miss seeing those seedy porn theatres that since about mid-90's have been torn dorn for overbuilt Disneyesque crass marketing. Times Sq is overbuilt with skyscrapers that basically all look like glass behemoths. esp 42nd from 6th to 8th.
I think we can all agree that even as dangerous as NY was, it was such a great, amazing colorful vibrant place like no other. Being from New york is a statement in itself... Real New Yorkers are strong, survivors, fighters... You had to fight just to live. Nowadays it's so over run with arrogant snob ass pussies from the suburbs. I cursed out this taxi driver for almost running me over and my voice being to loud made a whole group of Napoleon Dynamite clones simultaneously piss their pants.
Wow, looking at this vid it brings tears to my eyes. This was way before NYC became sterilized and drained of all it's color. Granted Times Square was kinda scary back then but then again what could have happened to you over there could have happened to you just by stepping right outside your own front door if you think about it. Nowadays it's a fucking tourist trap and even the tourists don't find it too exciting without all the porn. The porn was the reason to go there in the first place lol.
@666robinator My first time in New York was in 2003. I like Times Square and had a good time. Lots of young kids hanging around. It looks like there was no Mcdonalds or crap like that back then. Would you say that years ago Times Square was meant for Adults?
@pettyofficer30 Well, I wouldn't say Times Square was always meant for adults for that would make it seem like it was Las Vegas then, lol.. No, quite the contrary actually. In fact, I'd say that Times Square or NYC in general was meant for the middle class.. not these yuppie corporate types for it's the corporate types that drained so much of the character that it was infamously known for during the 70's and 80's. Just the fact that we lost the legendary CBGB's speaks volumes!
@pettyofficer30 If that sign says "NEW POLICY BEST PORN IN TOWN 1. DIRTY PASSIONS 2. SLEAZY SEXMATES 3. FRISKY NYMPHO GIRLS" then yes I would say that it was more for adults!
@23AClark & tsskiller08-you guys think RTS's were something,you guys should've rode the old"New Look"GMC "Fishbowls" & Flxibles of the 60's & 70's.Talk about character!And most did not have air conditioning so it was a hot ride especially in the back over the engine compartment.They also had a window in the back that you could look out of.Miss them much!By the way tsskiller08,you work for NYC Transit?Lol.
@FFL357 Those buses were retired in 2002 (but I haven't seen those buses since the mid-90's). They were 1981 RTS-04's (I remember riding on them when I was four, and I recall those buses had a heck of a time pulling out of the bus stop).
I remember when I like 4 or 5 me and my moms had to meet my pops at the port aauthority she wouldn't take me out the train station cause she aint want me to see the crazy shit on 42st
40duece was wicked back in the 80's- I say bring back mayor Koch! Even 4th of July was fun as shit!!! All that paper to be cleaned up/bricks of M80's going of all night/sounds like the invasion of Baghdad. NYC is boring now- 3 in the morning now all you see is cops......back then it was nothing but prostitutes from the east side to the westside/ then yougo tohunts point....bx was raw as he'll/ glad I was a teenager back then/that's when you learned the streets for real.....
@bigscore I always loved NYC, being a Jersey girl and far from the real NY'er, I was there in 1998 when I was 15 nearly 16 years old. That was when the city was starting to lose the raw uniqueness and character that made me fall in love with the city. Plus, my father was a regular NYTimes subscriber growing up, I pretty much learned how to read by looking at that paper to see what was going on in the city in those days. Sure there was crime, that's reality. Gentrification removes all that.
Brklyn - Bedstuy, Fortgreen, Clinton hill, you'll pay just as much for a apt here as you will in Man.
Times Square - if you want that old NY feel take a walk on 40st on the side of the port authority bus terminal b/t 8th and 9th ave. Porn shops crack heads freaks, the NYC parole board and a liquor store occupy this area (ah the bad ole days)
Tourist - Walk faster or get run the F#@k over, stop taking pictures of everything and looking up at the buildings like a retard! I WANT MY CITY BACK! : (
@Timessquare100 I was a tourist once there once, before 9-11 and when Times Square still had some strip joints and porn shops left, and I took NO pictures out of courtesy for the NYers I didn't want to slow things up and stare up at buildings. Buy a picture book or postcards. I've been considering visiting, so would I still get that old NY feel taking a walk on 40 st on the side of the Port Authority Bus Terminal b/t 8th&9th ave?
Im a new yorker born and raised, NY is plastic now, L.E.S (lower east side) and the Village are home to corny ass NYU students who think getting drunk and vomiting all up and down Ave A is kool. Times Square is dysneyland now, you can't even afford to live Harlem now. I think most people who moved to NY think the city is better like this (a police state where everything cost more then average) and the REAL New Yorkers who were born here wish NY still had it's grimy feel and character
Not to mention all the guys in Manhattan are total pussies nowadays. They act like and talk like little bitches, wheras the old school Boomers were tough as nails, the toughest ever I think. Peace.
As a native NYer, it's a shame what Manhattan has become today! I no longer care about going into the city anymore. It's taken over by fuckin' yuppie wannabe NYers from other "howdy-doody" states. Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens are the REAL NYC now, but I still miss Times Square. Geez, forgive me, but there are times I'm wishing this recession gets so fuckin' bad the crime rate'll shoot up ten-fold and force these "outsider" obnoxious motherfuckers out and we get our Manhattan back! For real!!!
As much as I hate the yuppies and what is happening to nyc, I like the safety that comes with it. Was NY more entertaining and adventurous back then? of course. Was it fun seeing the multitude of crackheads, freaks, and other characters roaming the streets? Sure. Do I want to be watching my back every block and every time I step into the subway station? Nah. But I do feel you though.
Time Square was pretty dangerous back in the 70s and 80s. Now there is Police everywhere, New York City is very SAFE, not dangerous at all. And of course the whole scene at Time Square today is much different.
I loved TS when it was dirty. There was a lot of excitement and u didn't have to pay for everything to have a good time. Now if u wanna go there and have fun be prepared to spend a small fortune. Guliani went a little overboard. I remember hangin out in the village w/ some friends one day and some guy pulled up in a nice ride w/ a boomin system. B 4 u knew it there was a party going on right on the corner of 6th ave & W 5th. Cops just let it go. Can't do that n e more. That was the early 90's
Times Square is different, but things have not changed as much as they seem - the smut shops have just been squeezed out and moved west to 8th avenue. Also, the theaters have been replaced by porn shops. Sketchy characters can still be found in the area near Port Authority down to MSG, if you find them interesting. It's true that there is less crime and it is safer to walk around, though. So there's less of an edge in that sense. That seems like a good thing to me.
yep, once you exit the main times square area, it looks a hell lot more run down, kinda like disney world does once you leave the resort, it immediatly begins to look seedy and kinda run dowwn
Thanks to Giuliani the city it's safer and cleaner... I know that the thrill of the old New York is now gone but New York deserves to be at the same urbanistic level of the great metropolis of the world... New York It's not a theme park for sleazy people, it's an icon of America.
it was, its become an icon for the future of mtv, rich people who will and already have ruined some of its most important artistic resources while never even visiting 90 percent of the city. the fine line has been heavily crossed.
You got a point, a strong one. A true urban regeneration must be centered on centers of artistic expression from the public and for the public, A really cultural progress is only achieved by creating spaces where individuals can share thoughts and experiences not by creating aesthetic fields populated with advertising and joints based only on profit and elitist consumption. This eclipses the rich cultural & intellectual opportunities of the city where many identities of the world meet.
Sure Giuliani cleaned up NYC but he also fanned out much of it's fire and exciting edge that made it such an amazing place. It may never be the same again. But hey, times do change...
wow, I remember those days with the pornflick theathers on 42nd street. prostitutes coming up to you etc.... crime going on, it was crazy. I remember we used to come from the bronx just to hang out on the corner of 42 and broadway on a Friday Night. . It was dangerous but exciting. I live in Jersey now(10 minutes outside manhattan) but still work in the city. I miss those days, Does anyone know if the arcade is still on the corner of 42nd and broadway? I havent been down there in a while.
I agree, NYC has lost it's grimy edge, but it's far better off...... It's strange how old NEw yorker's long for that now.....sometimes I do...miss the graffitti on the subway
My dad grew up in Canarsie in the 70's and 80's and he always tells me the people in manhatten now arent real new yorkers just rich folks from out west trying to be all urban. you can tell who they are if you just walk around uptight,trendy, obnoxius assholes
@ed60000 New York is more expensive because it is nicer now than it was before and there is a higher demand for living there. It would be nice if everyone could live in a nice apartment in the west village, but we live in a world with scarce resources.
@ed60000 You're right man. I was born & raised in NYC still live here. I'm considerin movin out. Ticket/fines given without reason. I see people left & right gettin tickets 4 simply lookin left when they should have looked right lol. It's crazy. That's just added money to the cost of living here in NYC. Average apartment is 1200 & no jobs are paying to support that. Gotta live with 2 or more roommates & that's just not my style. Any movin suggestions? LOL gotta love the diverse integration here.
@VanillaRice24 real new yorkers have that instinct, street smart savvy... nowadays fuckin tranplants walk around thinking they own this city, go fuck themselves and fuck you bloomberg!!
@crs78 haahahaha the city is full of yuppies from the midwest that drink starbucks and think they are very multicultural and cool and of course the fucking sex in the city wannabe bitches that come to NYC thinking they own the city.
All that remains of the "real, old NYC" is great video nostalgia like this one. The way I see it, today, it's only NYC by NAME...nothing else!!! Thanks for posting...
The subways looked so colorful and alive back then thanks to the art of graffiti which by the way was NOT in any way a cause of other serious crimes like the MTA idiots said it was... such a shame it's no longer on the subways. Now they look so damn dull and plain. I hope the trains look like they did 25 yrs ago again... someday.
fr8ARTruleZ 1 month ago
NYC was a total mess in 1987. Murders were over 2000 per year versus 500 today. The City started declining in the early 1960s and didnt get better until the mid 1990s.
gaguy1967 1 month ago
This used to be the place for grindhouse flicks. Now it's a place for anyone who's either a square or a wimp. I'd also like to say the same for L.A.'s Hollywood Blvd.(including Downtown L.A.),Frisco's Market Street,and Boston's Combat Zone.
oldschoolbx1970 2 months ago
@oldschoolbx1970 Agreed. There will never be another era quite like the 60s- 80s for either cinema or theaters. I read about 42nd streets insane past (and that of the Combat Zone as well) and just try to envision how cool/fucked-up/scary/exciting it would be to go into one of those theaters like the infamous Anco theater and watch a tattered print of something like The Headless Eyes, or I Drink Your Blood or Welcome Home, Brother Charles or any given Andy Milligan film.
grindhousejunky79 1 month ago
@grindhousejunky79 Not to also mention others like Five Fingers of Death,Triple Irons,The Blood Spattered Bride,Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster,Horror On Snape Island,Daughters of Darkness,Mark of The Devil,The Family,and many many others.
oldschoolbx1970 1 month ago
In 2011, we just have white collar crime with bankers bankrupting the middle class.... and that's just so much better than having dirty theaters, authentic street life and small businesses... NOT!
bamkablam 2 months ago
Filmed the year i was born.
Loveschuck87 2 months ago
I notice the buses don't have the route numbers on the back.
A08041988 3 months ago
@A08041988 I didn't notice that, but I did notice how much more modern the buses looked as compared to the cars.
eee11112 3 months ago
i grew up in the city and would go to $@nd with my friends> It was dangerous as hell!
ylookhere 3 months ago
@ylookhere what area was dangerous...hell all of nyc was dangerous back then!!!
gqpostaboi 3 months ago
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THYRDEYE 3 months ago
42nd st
KHWADI 4 months ago
I remember it looking like this. Even though it's been a long time, part of me still associates Manhattan with being the capital of sleaziness.
serialclone 4 months ago
I remamber Driver Paralles Lines
jamespeter125 4 months ago
80's fucking sucked ass. what a crap time.
coldbrewbeer 4 months ago
@coldbrewbeer Fuck you moron. The 1980's will always be 1000x better than the crappy 90s and 2000's combined.
TheKimberBenton 2 months ago
@TheKimberBenton Yeah...AIDS, Crack, the burning of the the South Bronx....What part of reality are you not understanding?????
InsaneNuYawka 2 months ago
@InsaneNuYawka Idiot.
TheKimberBenton 2 months ago
0:12 "New policy, best porn in town." I guess people had complained that there was better porn some place else. At least they listened to the complaints and got a new policy. It's better that this has been cleaned up. Hipsters and wanna be gangsters are full of crap when they say it was better back then. Most people that say that were born in the '90s. What do they know? Why don't they move to the ghettos of Chicago and see how "cool" crime, filth, and random murder is.
Mainsail76 4 months ago
@Mainsail76 Most of the people who said it was better back then weren't hipsters or wanna be gangsters, you know. They likely lived in the city back then and likely were born between the 1940s-early 1980s. I'd say they know plenty, plus if they didn't live in the city, then chances are they have family residing there and they often went to the city to visit them. Don't write off people you disagree with on this as being hipsters or wanna be gangsters who were born in the '90s and full of crap.
flawedbeauty82 2 months ago
@flawedbeauty82 Anybody that lived in NYC back then and enjoyed the filth and crime were nuts, or they are looking at things through rose colored glasses. But I believe I'm correct when I say that most people that talk about "the good 'ol days" either weren't around at the time, or they lived outside of the city in Conn. and came in for a bit of adventure but left and went back home to the suburbs at night. That, or they're hipsters that think graffiti and porn theaters are "ironic."
Mainsail76 2 months ago
lol Sleazy Sexmates ftw :D
Garrett1974 4 months ago
got my first bj down near the fed x building not far from there in 87................20dollar
TheGravygun 4 months ago
@TheGravygun Nasty OLD BITCH
SantaBadd 4 months ago
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40belowceo 5 months ago
No wonder my dad never let me go to manhattan with my friends in the 80's when I was a kid. lol. I'm so glad it's not like that now. My husband proposed to me in Times Square. And if we have kids, we can take them there with no problem because it's family friendly now. Thank Goodness.
nycnena78 5 months ago
My Grandad was in NYC in '87 and said he stayed in a shithole in the Lower East Side that was owned by a crooked priest who made no repairs and was waiting for the tenants to die so he could collect insurance money or something.
He also said he saw a pimp roughing up a hooker with a cop standing a few feet away ignoring it - the same pimp he had an altercation with earlier haha. He LOVED New York nonetheless
Crispysmith123 5 months ago
... tha good old days.
UGHC1 5 months ago
I think people just miss the feeling of not knowing what was gonna happen at any moment. It was crazy and unpredictable, but exciting at the same time.
ceeIoc 5 months ago
All you guys reminiscing about NYC "back then" are so full of shit. 1987 was "the wilding". If you think that time was awesome you're either bat shit insane or full of it.
You want "real" NYC today? Move to Marcy tough guy. You'll get some realness right in your fucking head.
dearthpanda 6 months ago
You know, perhaps it's good that the porn theatres are out... with the Internet, who'd go to them today? They'd just take up space in the Square...
Besides, TS may be Disneyfied, but that doesn't mean you need to be a part of it... if you want old NYC close to there, just walk closer to the East or West. 40th and 10th Ave is still a pretty seedy area.
wxsyz 6 months ago
I hope Times Square returns to the way it was.
alloutoftime 6 months ago
@alloutoftime hahahaaha yeah not a chance. I wish I was born in the 70s so I could of seen and expirienced all this. I LOVE 70's THROUGH 1999.
xNeo2Rememberx 6 months ago
@xNeo2Rememberx You should have actually been born in the '40s or '50s, otherwise you would have been too young to have seen it. I was born in '78 and I lived in NYC until 2000, and I only saw the very tail end of the real city before Ghouliani got to it and raped and pillaged it into what it is today.
presare 5 months ago
@presare But the thing is I wouldn't want to be too old in 2000. I just.. want to stay young forever.
xNeo2Rememberx 5 months ago
@presare The last time I went to NYC was in late March in 1998, Times Square still had a few strip joints left. I wish I lived in NYC back then, it would've been scary, but at least you learned to keep your wits about you. That's why I originally wanted to live in a city, I like keeping my wits about me and I love challenges. If I were to walk through GENNYC now, I'd get nervous as hell.
flawedbeauty82 2 months ago
@alloutoftime ME TOO
TLJAWSIMIB 5 months ago
@usra41: "Geez, forgive me, but there are times I'm wishing this recession gets so fuckin' bad the crime rate'll shoot up ten-fold "
You certainly have never been a victim (or a relative of yours) of a violent crime. Unless you are yourself a criminal, which I'm not saying, it takes a gun pointed to your head to understand how there is no "upside" in "ten-fold (upped) crime rates" but suffering and pain for everyone affected.
lotwyo 7 months ago
@lotwyo you do have a point but i also agree with USRA to some degree. Dont get me wrong, i dont wish anything bad on anybody but as a native new yorker, i also miss the old new york. Hes right about how new york is full of stuck up yuppies. Maybe u dont understand because you're not from here. If you knew somebody who was a victim of criminal acts, im sorry for your lose. Even though new york had its tough times back then, those are still memories. So take a chill pill
noreaga12326 6 months ago
i remember all of those rows of movie theaters ( mostly porn and kung fu).
acestarone 7 months ago
@acestarone Yep. Exactly how I remember it.
kzfive 7 months ago
I find it somewhat hilarious that tourists now take their children to see shows at the New Victory theater, totally clueless to the fact that the original Victory theater was an XXX movie house.
mythbuster43 7 months ago 15
@mythbuster43 Hell I'd say you walk up to some of those people and mention that. Chances are the fathers of the kids would be pissed while their mom is horrified and in a haughty way, is thankful that it isn't like that anymore. It'd be funny as hell to see how some of them would react.
flawedbeauty82 2 months ago
@flawedbeauty82 Heh, I think the teenagers that hang around 42nd Street at night would be surprised to hear that previous generations to actually leave the house to get their porn.
mythbuster43 2 months ago
Las Vegas is the same way now.
Antiks72 8 months ago
hahaha! I remember visiting my uncle in manhattan in 1988 it was soooo sleazy...there was people who pooped on his porch...and people with squeegees who tried to clean your car windshield a far cry from todays NYC....i like it now too
pika23 8 months ago 5
@pika23 They still try to do that. Clean you're car with all there shit and make you pay Just go down by the linncon tunnel .
67tr876 8 months ago
hahaha! I remember visiting my uncle in manhattan in 1988 it was soooo sleazy...there was people who pooped on his porch...and people with squeegees who tried to clean your car windshield
pika23 8 months ago
i was 4 years old , i like 1970 cars
valentin13015 8 months ago
Pee-Wee loved TImes Square in the 80s
nomadcowatbk 9 months ago
People! This is all still there if you know where to look! By which I mean go to 8th avenue in the 30's and 40's. lol
tac62184 10 months ago
@tac62184 it's the worst. all the dudes handing out all the cards for strip clubs secretly selling substances, not to mention the obligatory 2 strip joints/porn stores per block
wescobar 2 months ago
in 1978 my brother was born in new york and grew up in the same neighborhood as biggie... then in 1993 i was born in ct... god damnit
RLhockey203 10 months ago
Great old shots.
ImOfNope 1 year ago
harlem during the "crack epidemic"
GracieAncelotti 1 year ago
I grew up in Queens and Times Square was oftenly compared to where I grew up in, Jackson heights. dirty crime filled and not very attractive either. sort'vr like
GracieAncelotti 1 year ago
@GracieAncelotti i might be moving their or to bronx (sorry for bad spelling) so I can tryout for Laugaurdia High School.....so is queens or bronx better?
KiU2222222 11 months ago
@KiU2222222 I lived in the Bronx for 3 years since my apartment in Queens was to be demolished and rebuilt. What I moved into was supposed to be the "nicer" part of the Bronx. Quite frankly, the pollution was terrible and crime was worse than what I had in Queens. So I'd definitely move to Queens if I were you. Some neighborhoods are a little trashy there, but I think that Forest Hills is my favorite. The only neighborhood I didn't go to was Hunter's Point.(continued on next comment)
GracieAncelotti 11 months ago
@KiU2222222 (continued from previous comment-please read=)) Queens is great. It's not far away at all from Manhattan and it's neighborhoods are very ethnical and diverse. Aside from a few places, Queens is safe and a great place to live in the City. They way I saw it was the closer to Kennedy or La Guardia you are, the more cops, and with more cops comes more safety. But don't rely completely on that advise 'cause there are exceptions. Good luck with LGHS, it's a great school-my niece goes there
GracieAncelotti 11 months ago
@GracieAncelotti Ok thanks you really hepled. This is IF my parents move. Its a 50 50 cuz dey think dat NY is too unsafe. Mhm like Clevland is sooooo great. Highest rape and murder rate. THATS SOOOO GREAT. Bunch of un educated retards. Tryna take me down. Ha. Well thanks. Well I didnt think Bronx would be as good. You know the rappers talk bout how their from Bronx and their bad lifes. Well Nicki apparently had one too, but lived in Queens. I had a teacher from their. But she was my fav.
KiU2222222 11 months ago
@KiU2222222 Yeah, I've heard of Nicki and 50 Cent both coming from Queens. Both of them are a bit young for me to know them, not to mention all of the crime that surrounded them where they grew up, or so I've heard. New York can be a very tough place to live and assuming that you live in Cleveland, New York will be a piece-of-cake crime wise. Ask me if you have any other questions.
GracieAncelotti 11 months ago
@GracieAncelotti haha well ohio isnt nice...not the big cty.........colombus...people think it is eaisy. well go to the west side and east side....need a gun ALL the time for real no joke....BUT YA.....Cinci is okay......still alot of crime. But i love my clevland andcoloumbus grw up in both places...n ok okay. Thankyou again.. so yeah is LaGaurdia HS a good school acedimcally.
KiU2222222 11 months ago
@KiU2222222 LGHS is a great High School... If that's what you're asking. I can't tell you off the top of my head what they have to offer. I know my niece enjoys their program of arts.
GracieAncelotti 11 months ago
@GracieAncelotti they hve dance, art, singing, and drama. I think....ya ll be auditioning for At, dance, and drama
KiU2222222 11 months ago
I'm a New Yorker and I remember times square being that nasty shit hole you see in the video. It really wasn't until the late 90's that they cleaned it up from the hookers and crime like that.
GracieAncelotti 1 year ago
@GracieAncelotti yeah and now is so much better!!!
full of starbucks, mcdonalds, disney stores and so expensive... that real new yorkers are having to leave the city in order to move elsewhere because it's too outrageously expensive!
welcome to the gentrified, plastic, souless, yuppified NYC of today!
TheYaom 11 months ago
@TheYaom I guess I prefer the new Times Square, I really'd rather see this over developed and overly excessive commercial tourism district rather than get mugged for walking in the center of midtown.
GracieAncelotti 11 months ago
@GracieAncelotti: I gotta agree... I miss the un-gentrified NYC where everything was unique and authentic, but I don't miss the crime and drugs that came with the old NYC. I don't want to go back to seeing parks with crack vials all over the place. I like the fact that I can take the train at 1am without fear.
LadyJay114 10 months ago 3
@GracieAncelotti Exactly, even if it is a bit too commercialized now, it's better than watching the city literally falling apart the way it definitely was back then.
NeverDoubt1 11 months ago
@NeverDoubt1 There's absolutely nothing wrong with what it is now aside from not being as it was originally. It gives New York a higher quality of living and makes life a whole lot easier for everybody. (also easier for me to drive to my sister's apartment as well!)
GracieAncelotti 11 months ago
NYC HAS CLEANED UP ITS ACT... THAT LOOKS FUCKING GROSS!
themadscientest 1 year ago
I grew up in nyc and i'm GLAD that this crap is GONE !
EFMEDITOR 1 year ago
Southern Brooklyn is the real Brooklyn & the outer boroughs are the real NYC
BriansWaffleMmm 1 year ago
Southern Brooklyn is the real Brooklyn.
BriansWaffleMmm 1 year ago
perv
1l2nb 1 year ago
New York I remember, is gone the heart and love for the Apple, alot of people from other places moving there and messing up a once beautiful city I Love N.Y. always
GMCKid 1 year ago
@GMCKid Don't be so negative- the outer boroughs are the real NYC
BriansWaffleMmm 1 year ago
I'm glad New York was still a grimy sleazy place in the year I was born!
ufuckfacesonofabitch 1 year ago
Wow, same old whine about the city being better back then..Yawn.
Neville6000 1 year ago 2
@Neville6000 I agree.
ufuckfacesonofabitch 1 year ago
The "old 42nd street" was better. It had a unique aura to it,"character". Kind of fun to sometimes walk thru & watch the weirdos & others on the fringe of society. Crime could have been controlled back then if it was not for corruption. I liked all the bright neon on the porn shops & the legitimate businesses. Those who were opposed to it should have stayed away. I miss the "old" New York". Pre Rudy Guiliani.
alloutoftime 1 year ago
@alloutoftime - There always has been corruption .. There still is. New Times square looks way better and more appealing to the world. The New York before Giuliani was a dump .. Streets were so fucking dirty. Subways looked so awful with all the graffiti ..Crime rate was 2 times higher then it is now .. So much more modern. If the world wasn't so corrupt .. Then NYC would be so fine.
AnotherYankee 1 year ago
year i was born..seems like yesterday
Franz1987 1 year ago
damn. the old grindhouse row. what's there now? a sephora makeup store and another starbucks?
illuminatioracle 1 year ago
i miss the old ny.
bigben1986 1 year ago
During the early 80's , you could J-walk and no one would give a damn . These days , Times Square has become a playground for the Rich and Famous because stuff are so expensive there and if you J-walk you would be fined by cops in riot gear armed with SMG's .
azyaninvasion 1 year ago
CRS78 RIGHT ALSO. NY'ers also have street savy and the pedestrian choreography with each other & traffic gives her the pulse. NYC is much cleaner, but has a sanitized blahness to it. I even miss the buses when the driver would drop the lever to hear the coins in the old token machines count and swirl. Anyone remember the blue, orange & green paper transfers the drivers would fold at the bottoms for tear-offs to give you? Remember the green buses and the Checker cabs? Days before Metrocard. LOL.
OSTARAEB4 1 year ago
ed60000 is correct. I lived in NYC and the erosion of rent stabilized apartments over the past ten years during Bloomberg have displaced many so that only the super wealthy can afford Manhattan, otherwise know as "the city". Didn't think I would ever say, I now miss seeing those seedy porn theatres that since about mid-90's have been torn dorn for overbuilt Disneyesque crass marketing. Times Sq is overbuilt with skyscrapers that basically all look like glass behemoths. esp 42nd from 6th to 8th.
OSTARAEB4 1 year ago
why do you pricks always film the x rated movie ads?
nerdflanders8710 1 year ago
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iJavin1030 1 year ago
I think we can all agree that even as dangerous as NY was, it was such a great, amazing colorful vibrant place like no other. Being from New york is a statement in itself... Real New Yorkers are strong, survivors, fighters... You had to fight just to live. Nowadays it's so over run with arrogant snob ass pussies from the suburbs. I cursed out this taxi driver for almost running me over and my voice being to loud made a whole group of Napoleon Dynamite clones simultaneously piss their pants.
TheVisionary84 1 year ago
Wow, looking at this vid it brings tears to my eyes. This was way before NYC became sterilized and drained of all it's color. Granted Times Square was kinda scary back then but then again what could have happened to you over there could have happened to you just by stepping right outside your own front door if you think about it. Nowadays it's a fucking tourist trap and even the tourists don't find it too exciting without all the porn. The porn was the reason to go there in the first place lol.
666robinator 1 year ago
@666robinator My first time in New York was in 2003. I like Times Square and had a good time. Lots of young kids hanging around. It looks like there was no Mcdonalds or crap like that back then. Would you say that years ago Times Square was meant for Adults?
pettyofficer30 1 year ago
@pettyofficer30 Well, I wouldn't say Times Square was always meant for adults for that would make it seem like it was Las Vegas then, lol.. No, quite the contrary actually. In fact, I'd say that Times Square or NYC in general was meant for the middle class.. not these yuppie corporate types for it's the corporate types that drained so much of the character that it was infamously known for during the 70's and 80's. Just the fact that we lost the legendary CBGB's speaks volumes!
666robinator 1 year ago
@pettyofficer30 If that sign says "NEW POLICY BEST PORN IN TOWN 1. DIRTY PASSIONS 2. SLEAZY SEXMATES 3. FRISKY NYMPHO GIRLS" then yes I would say that it was more for adults!
ufuckfacesonofabitch 1 year ago
@666robinator lol
8bobthebuilder 9 months ago
now thats a sight 4 sore eyes
horror780 1 year ago
@23AClark & tsskiller08-you guys think RTS's were something,you guys should've rode the old"New Look"GMC "Fishbowls" & Flxibles of the 60's & 70's.Talk about character!And most did not have air conditioning so it was a hot ride especially in the back over the engine compartment.They also had a window in the back that you could look out of.Miss them much!By the way tsskiller08,you work for NYC Transit?Lol.
bwork66 1 year ago
Really Cool video! Was this something you made? I bet that bus in the film is still being used today, no joke!
FFL357 1 year ago
@FFL357 Those buses were retired in 2002 (but I haven't seen those buses since the mid-90's). They were 1981 RTS-04's (I remember riding on them when I was four, and I recall those buses had a heck of a time pulling out of the bus stop).
tsskiller08 1 year ago
@tsskiller08 Hell,I'm 13 (born in 1997) and remember riding gmcrtses when I was little. This was when buses had great character.
23AClark 1 year ago
I remember when I like 4 or 5 me and my moms had to meet my pops at the port aauthority she wouldn't take me out the train station cause she aint want me to see the crazy shit on 42st
MrWARBUCKS24 1 year ago
I went to NYC in January 2010
whattheheck1000 1 year ago
40duece was wicked back in the 80's- I say bring back mayor Koch! Even 4th of July was fun as shit!!! All that paper to be cleaned up/bricks of M80's going of all night/sounds like the invasion of Baghdad. NYC is boring now- 3 in the morning now all you see is cops......back then it was nothing but prostitutes from the east side to the westside/ then yougo tohunts point....bx was raw as he'll/ glad I was a teenager back then/that's when you learned the streets for real.....
meanrun 1 year ago 2
NYC in the 1980s were good times my son told me that era sucked I disagree with that
MegaGiovanni1984 1 year ago
i think I was born in wrong generation
Levazoid 1 year ago 24
Long live the Duece...You ar sorely missed...real NY'ers know what i mean...the flavor is gone!!!
bigscore 1 year ago
@bigscore I always loved NYC, being a Jersey girl and far from the real NY'er, I was there in 1998 when I was 15 nearly 16 years old. That was when the city was starting to lose the raw uniqueness and character that made me fall in love with the city. Plus, my father was a regular NYTimes subscriber growing up, I pretty much learned how to read by looking at that paper to see what was going on in the city in those days. Sure there was crime, that's reality. Gentrification removes all that.
flawedbeauty82 2 months ago
Brklyn - Bedstuy, Fortgreen, Clinton hill, you'll pay just as much for a apt here as you will in Man.
Times Square - if you want that old NY feel take a walk on 40st on the side of the port authority bus terminal b/t 8th and 9th ave. Porn shops crack heads freaks, the NYC parole board and a liquor store occupy this area (ah the bad ole days)
Tourist - Walk faster or get run the F#@k over, stop taking pictures of everything and looking up at the buildings like a retard! I WANT MY CITY BACK! : (
Timessquare100 1 year ago 2
@Timessquare100 I was a tourist once there once, before 9-11 and when Times Square still had some strip joints and porn shops left, and I took NO pictures out of courtesy for the NYers I didn't want to slow things up and stare up at buildings. Buy a picture book or postcards. I've been considering visiting, so would I still get that old NY feel taking a walk on 40 st on the side of the Port Authority Bus Terminal b/t 8th&9th ave?
flawedbeauty82 2 months ago
Im a new yorker born and raised, NY is plastic now, L.E.S (lower east side) and the Village are home to corny ass NYU students who think getting drunk and vomiting all up and down Ave A is kool. Times Square is dysneyland now, you can't even afford to live Harlem now. I think most people who moved to NY think the city is better like this (a police state where everything cost more then average) and the REAL New Yorkers who were born here wish NY still had it's grimy feel and character
Timessquare100 1 year ago
Not to mention all the guys in Manhattan are total pussies nowadays. They act like and talk like little bitches, wheras the old school Boomers were tough as nails, the toughest ever I think. Peace.
oceanbelow 1 year ago
As a native NYer, it's a shame what Manhattan has become today! I no longer care about going into the city anymore. It's taken over by fuckin' yuppie wannabe NYers from other "howdy-doody" states. Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens are the REAL NYC now, but I still miss Times Square. Geez, forgive me, but there are times I'm wishing this recession gets so fuckin' bad the crime rate'll shoot up ten-fold and force these "outsider" obnoxious motherfuckers out and we get our Manhattan back! For real!!!
ursa41 1 year ago 11
What's good about crime? Is it "fun" to get shot? What a shame this kind of comment.
lotwyo 1 year ago
You're obviously not from NY are you????
ursa41 1 year ago
Just an avid tourist who love to visit the city here and there :)
lotwyo 1 year ago
@lotwyo get the fuck outta new york you iowa yuppy bitch!!!
TheYaom 11 months ago
As much as I hate the yuppies and what is happening to nyc, I like the safety that comes with it. Was NY more entertaining and adventurous back then? of course. Was it fun seeing the multitude of crackheads, freaks, and other characters roaming the streets? Sure. Do I want to be watching my back every block and every time I step into the subway station? Nah. But I do feel you though.
ceeIoc 1 year ago
@ceeIoc
If that's the price we have to pay for it to be exciting again, so be it.
BigWorm242 1 year ago
Thanks! This is the same year & month I moved to Hell's Kitchen! Great memories.
annikee59 2 years ago 3
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AlgonquinRider810 2 years ago
go fuck yourself you bitch ass transplant migrant
skymunro 2 years ago
i like the american cars in this time looks like america :) now it looks like spacecars :D sometimes i hate japanese cars design^^
luckyluckymali 2 years ago 2
I agree!! thats what I feel too!
CDTbossy 1 year ago
Time Square was pretty dangerous back in the 70s and 80s. Now there is Police everywhere, New York City is very SAFE, not dangerous at all. And of course the whole scene at Time Square today is much different.
braziliannegro 2 years ago
I have been to Times Square a few times ,even in the eighties. For me Times Square never looked better than today. I love New York!!!
maryjulie2 2 years ago 2
I loved TS when it was dirty. There was a lot of excitement and u didn't have to pay for everything to have a good time. Now if u wanna go there and have fun be prepared to spend a small fortune. Guliani went a little overboard. I remember hangin out in the village w/ some friends one day and some guy pulled up in a nice ride w/ a boomin system. B 4 u knew it there was a party going on right on the corner of 6th ave & W 5th. Cops just let it go. Can't do that n e more. That was the early 90's
sonofsam717 2 years ago 4
Times Square is different, but things have not changed as much as they seem - the smut shops have just been squeezed out and moved west to 8th avenue. Also, the theaters have been replaced by porn shops. Sketchy characters can still be found in the area near Port Authority down to MSG, if you find them interesting. It's true that there is less crime and it is safer to walk around, though. So there's less of an edge in that sense. That seems like a good thing to me.
weehawcub 2 years ago 5
yep, once you exit the main times square area, it looks a hell lot more run down, kinda like disney world does once you leave the resort, it immediatly begins to look seedy and kinda run dowwn
Jobafan08 2 years ago
Thanks to Giuliani the city it's safer and cleaner... I know that the thrill of the old New York is now gone but New York deserves to be at the same urbanistic level of the great metropolis of the world... New York It's not a theme park for sleazy people, it's an icon of America.
franciscojavierm 2 years ago 3
it was, its become an icon for the future of mtv, rich people who will and already have ruined some of its most important artistic resources while never even visiting 90 percent of the city. the fine line has been heavily crossed.
zootedloody 2 years ago 3
You got a point, a strong one. A true urban regeneration must be centered on centers of artistic expression from the public and for the public, A really cultural progress is only achieved by creating spaces where individuals can share thoughts and experiences not by creating aesthetic fields populated with advertising and joints based only on profit and elitist consumption. This eclipses the rich cultural & intellectual opportunities of the city where many identities of the world meet.
franciscojavierm 2 years ago 4
Sure Giuliani cleaned up NYC but he also fanned out much of it's fire and exciting edge that made it such an amazing place. It may never be the same again. But hey, times do change...
KungFuChess 2 years ago 3
economic feasability cleaned up times square
laurensadriaanse 2 years ago
wow, I remember those days with the pornflick theathers on 42nd street. prostitutes coming up to you etc.... crime going on, it was crazy. I remember we used to come from the bronx just to hang out on the corner of 42 and broadway on a Friday Night. . It was dangerous but exciting. I live in Jersey now(10 minutes outside manhattan) but still work in the city. I miss those days, Does anyone know if the arcade is still on the corner of 42nd and broadway? I havent been down there in a while.
m33smitty 2 years ago
I agree, NYC has lost it's grimy edge, but it's far better off...... It's strange how old NEw yorker's long for that now.....sometimes I do...miss the graffitti on the subway
Ted22219 2 years ago 2
better off? ...youre obviously a toy.
zootedloody 2 years ago 4
My dad grew up in Canarsie in the 70's and 80's and he always tells me the people in manhatten now arent real new yorkers just rich folks from out west trying to be all urban. you can tell who they are if you just walk around uptight,trendy, obnoxius assholes
lookin4brainz 2 years ago 24
Real new yorkers can't afford to live in new york anymore, it's such ashame.
The people are what define a city. Everything that made new york great is lost.
ed60000 2 years ago 33
@ed60000 Do you really know who real ones are?
g0dLikeGR 1 year ago
@ed60000 New York is more expensive because it is nicer now than it was before and there is a higher demand for living there. It would be nice if everyone could live in a nice apartment in the west village, but we live in a world with scarce resources.
IpONu4money 1 year ago
@ed60000 You're right man. I was born & raised in NYC still live here. I'm considerin movin out. Ticket/fines given without reason. I see people left & right gettin tickets 4 simply lookin left when they should have looked right lol. It's crazy. That's just added money to the cost of living here in NYC. Average apartment is 1200 & no jobs are paying to support that. Gotta live with 2 or more roommates & that's just not my style. Any movin suggestions? LOL gotta love the diverse integration here.
FortuneGranted3000 1 year ago
@FortuneGranted3000 DENVER IS NICE ...DONT GO TO FLORIDA!!
blakefeeldz1 1 year ago
no more great pizza..
gildedintention 1 year ago
@ed60000 Ehh. New York City itself is awesome. The people kinda suck.
mpope409 1 year ago
@ed60000 I disgaree- there's plenty of native NYers in the outer boroughs
BriansWaffleMmm 1 year ago
Your dad is right tell your dad you can't even get a good hot dog on the streets like back in the days.
artness1968 2 years ago
lol He works in the city but we live in queens. I personally dont like going to the city anymore just so lame
lookin4brainz 2 years ago 3
i agree...all the yuppies from PA, OH, VA, NC, etc, etc...trying to be new yorkers!
Bucs211 2 years ago 4
yea i am one of the last of the mohicians or manhicans when i tell pople i am from the city they are amazed i was actually born here
doc312 2 years ago
@lookin4brainz. It's very true. The real new yorkers are good folks. It's the people from the outer states that give this city an obnoxious setting.
VanillaRice24 1 year ago
@VanillaRice24 real new yorkers have that instinct, street smart savvy... nowadays fuckin tranplants walk around thinking they own this city, go fuck themselves and fuck you bloomberg!!
crs78 1 year ago
@crs78 haahahaha the city is full of yuppies from the midwest that drink starbucks and think they are very multicultural and cool and of course the fucking sex in the city wannabe bitches that come to NYC thinking they own the city.
Real new yorkers are becoming extinct!
TheYaom 11 months ago
@lookin4brainz Brooklyn is the new New York.
dwshill2 1 year ago
@dwshill2 doubt it, Brooklyn became gentrified heavily in the last decade... the bronx is holding on.
NYPDTB 1 year ago
East Hollywood, CA is fairly close to this today (but not quite).
pannoni1 2 years ago
RIP
THISFUKKINGGUY 2 years ago 3
I think Brooklyn and the Bronx is the REAL NYC today.
pannoni1 2 years ago 5
yea, thats the only city not infested with out of staters because they're scared they'll get shot in the ghetto...haha
Gabe6767 2 years ago
@pannoni1 Depends on what part of brooklyn... No neighborhood on the east river waterfront are real new york. just hipster/yuppie transplant trash.
Gpapa718 1 year ago
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zootedloody 2 years ago
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zootedloody 2 years ago
Wow it's changed alot since then"/
AlboBabee1996 2 years ago
It got bland, more family safe.
Ryoku75 2 years ago 3
Welcome to the jungle baby!
Man pre-90s New York was one helluva place!
skyrazer16 2 years ago 3
omg that was times square!!!!
chuchi025 2 years ago
This brings back memories, the days when tourists were scared to come to NY. I'll take the crime over the tourists lol.
soulsurvivor52784 2 years ago 7
Safe for midwesterners? Have you ever been to Chicago?!
Naerbu 2 years ago
crack is wack.
wekwafe 2 years ago
All that remains of the "real, old NYC" is great video nostalgia like this one. The way I see it, today, it's only NYC by NAME...nothing else!!! Thanks for posting...
ursa41 2 years ago
iwas knee high to a hookers eye
beavisrulesbutthead 2 years ago
Thaks for posting. When New York really was a special place.
simonbnyc 3 years ago
new york had some edge then is to commercialized now
brookelynnnnz 3 years ago
Well i wasnt born during this era but Id rather go to this times square than the other
FUCK YOU GULLIANI
exodia333 3 years ago