New York - 3rd Avenue - (1950's)

[slobomotion]

I was the secretary to the director of the film program at AFA for two years in the late '70s and we rented out and sold THE WONDER RING. This is just terrific. My nearly 20 years in NYC were formative to say the least. Greetings from France. Uprated and shared.

[7855waldo]

@slobomotion - Funny you should mention that.

My twenty-plus years in NYC were deformative.

If you see Herbert Lottman's "The Fall of Paris" (1992 HarperCollinsPublishers), steer clear! Not a good read.

Bon soir.

[slobomotion]

@7855waldo Thanks for the tip.

[StateOfTheArts]

back then it cost a nickel to ride the subway...

[KilluminatiTupac96]

Im guessing third Avenue train station is not their no more.... Why did they take it down ???

[MurcielagoCar]

@KilluminatiTupac96

its now a subway

[MurcielagoCar]

@MurcielagoCar sorry wrong answer

[7855waldo]

@KilluminatiTupac96 Obsolete, and always creating auto traffic jams below. If you noticed, the seats and other features in the train were on their last legs. During WWII, no money for maintenance, just war.

Same thing for the Sixth Avenue "El" ("Elevated") railroad today. Now it is unimaginable that there was once a train like this over 6th Ave, but @ 80-90 years ago, it was how the big swinging d***s of Wall Street who lived in midtown got to their offices.

[macpduff]

@KilluminatiTupac96 Friend, - they took down the 3rd Ave El as part of a gentrification project of Manhattan's East Side

[cr22wild]

it's nice to see videos like this that show what cities in america looked like when people actually gave a rats ass about one another.

[SweetJaneofGoth]

My grandpap says they tore these down because Laguardia was getting payoffs from real estate crooks.

After they were gone the subway was packed like sardines and it took hours to get to work.

He says LaGuardia was a goddamn crook.

[sopaman1234]

@SweetJaneofGoth your grandfather was right not just that he was responsible having the trolleys (streetcars) removed from the entire city got a big payoff from the bus compaines at that time to get ride of the street cars he was in Robert Moses's pocket back then..that litlle bastard really destroid the city's transit system..

[SweetJaneofGoth]

@sopaman1234 Like old grandpap is always right. He's reading the paper right now.

[sopaman1234]

@SweetJaneofGoth Cool that's why i like talking to the old timers about the past you always learn something...

[ThomasDeLello]

@SweetJaneofGoth

Do you really think that the trollys were not mechanically obsolete by that time anyway.

[SweetJaneofGoth]

@ThomasDeLello Like Let me ask grandpap right now. He's sitting in his chair reading the paper. Grandpap says - "Tell him maybe his goddamn ass is obsolete. What the hell is wrong with going through a fucking turnstile? And those goddamn delinquents they have driving those fucking buses? Shit, those ignorant fucks are too goddamn lazy to even make change. Great fucking exact change, lazy ass bastard world. Does that asshole own stock in traffic light companies?"

[ThomasDeLello]

@SweetJaneofGoth Your granpa sounds like a comedian...!

[liljgoneman]

@SweetJaneofGoth your gramps is my HERO.

[sopaman1234]

@SweetJaneofGoth and if tht's the case that the trolleys were absolete why are they still in serv in certain parts of this count they're called light rail it just goes to show you really runs this this city and is till trying to round the world the jews look wht they did in seattle washington's airport they complain so much about the xmas trees during the holiday season that the airport had to relocate them somewhere hidden..away from pub view. i bet as christ i couldn't nev getaway with tht

[sopaman1234]

@SweetJaneofGoth he's right typical thieving half jew bastard..

[SweetJaneofGoth]

@sopaman1234 Like my grandpap says " "What the fuck does goddaomn fucking religion have to do with any fucking thing? I don't give a fuck about god!!!!"

[sopaman1234]

@SweetJaneofGoth True it holds and represses people That's why this world is and will always be fuckedup all in the name of religion..i couldn't give two shits one way or another myself..

[sopaman1234]

@SweetJaneofGoth your grandfather would prob. run this country better then what's his name..lol



[dam2630]

Amazing shots - audio sounds authentic too

[ANTHMX]

new york grimmy city

[AIKevorkian]

Dang! Who made this? I love this old video from before I was born...this has to be from early 50s like 1953?

[dam2630]

@AIKevorkian Yes cause Third Avenue El was torn down in '55 I believe

[dao3rd123]

Exellent vid! I remember the el and also trolley cars too. They were good days back then. Not like today when everything is crowded and people are impolite.

[sopaman1234]

@dao3rd123 and pigs too

[MyComputerwizard]

is that turntable exists

[JohnnyT002]

Thanks. This is an Excellent Video. I only remember the 3rd Avenue El from 149 street in the Bronx.

If they had kept the 3rd Avenue El running today they may have not been a need to build a Second Avenue Subway.

But if they kept the 2nd Avenue El running there would have been 3 train lines on the east side.

[sopaman1234]

@JohnnyT002 your right back then every Ave. in the city inculding the sunbways on underneath had thier own subway line but since Laguardia was in the pocket of the politicians number one being Robert Moses

who thought he was god himself had every city politician in his pockets ruled with an iron fist they all feared him

didn't care anything about the NYC transit system all he wanted to do away with it and build bridges ahd highways

[eles214]

@sopaman1234 Robert Moses was in the pockets og big auto...then GM would have choked us to death with those flxible buses that seemed to puff their nasty fumes in my face when I was a kid....I never bought that argument that the trolley system in New York was obsolete. If nothing else, it would have gotten better and cleaner hadnt the aformentioned Moses did away with to please BigAuto.

[sopaman1234]

@eles214 i remember as a kid in the 60's they still had those old green and yellow old Mack buses from the late 40's & 50's boy were they fucking noisey like old dirty ass

there was an old Irish bar in my block and old bums would try to sneek in the back of thoses buses to catch some ZZZZZ's i remember one day the bus driver got so pissed off that he had a louievillslugger with him hit one of those bums in the backside to get the fuck off the bus..

[eles214]

@sopaman1234 LMAO, WOW thats a story I m still chucklin over. I could imagine those Mack buses smelling worse than dirty ass like an old Flxables. As a 70s baby, the Flxables with the old sea green paint...when they plumed gas on a summer afternoon, Im fortunate I had no respiratory problems. LOL

[macpduff]

@eles214 I loved the NYC trolleys. Yes Moses was in the pocket of big auto and many other pockets too, I'm sure.

Moses filled in the beautiful Bronx/Long island Sound marshlands, - and built Public Housing. Moses never saw a piece of empty marshland for it's own beauty and purpose.

My father-in-law knew him and idolized him.

I didn't and don't

[eles214]

@macpduff wow.. you know what this reminds me of. watching this HBO special on how Walter O'Malley became such a villain in Brooklyn. O'Malley was going to put a stadium nr the Atlantic Terminal for LIRR commuters etc. which he was going to finance out his own pocket...That SOB Moses turned him down and forced the Dodgers to leave...Ironically, 50 yrs later, a basketball arena will take up the same space at taxpayer money and eminent domain...Moses was a power hungry turd

[macpduff]

@eles214 Oh my, - is that why we lost the Brooklyn Dodgers?!

My Bronx parents hated Robt Moses.I married into a LI family that idolized Moses.

I still can't say "Dodgers" without saying "Brooklyn" first. I was a Yankee fan, but as a New yorker, I hated seeing any part of our city sold.

The spunky Brooklyn Dodgers can NEVER be part of California

yes Moses was a turd

[eles214]

@macpduff The public housing I have to say really was an unatural eyesore. Unaesthetically tall, crude, etc.I only seen pictures of what most of Spring Creek Brooklyn used to look like since I from that area. They could have designed it better and not pack folks in like roaches.

[macpduff]

@eles214 Robt Moses' Public housing in The Bronx and throughout the 'City' was a disastrous eyesore.

Yes

Design-wise, they showed disrespect for the residents, aesthetically, they were horrible, and the housing filled in the magnificent wetlands of the Bronx and other boroughs.

I don't know what motivated R.Moses. He seemed out of control

Every wetland,- every low density acre he sought to pave over with concrete and bricks

[murmurmouth]

thanks for the video what a treat!

[sopaman1234]

@PenderGilchrist FUCKU

[sopaman1234]

@PenderGilchrist FUCKU

[macpduff]

By 1957 when i started High School in manhattan, the 3rd Ave El (elevated) was completely torn down. All that property became prime real estate. No more noisey trains rattling outside people's windows.

[sopaman1234]

@macpduff no thanx to the KIKES..

[macpduff]

@sopaman1234 at 2:23, there is a little girl riding the subway alone.

that's how it was in the 1950's

i started riding the subway everyday from the Bronx to my Manhattan High School.

I was only 12, but my parents didn't worry, because NYC was a safe place with lots of GOOD people who would have torn a child pervert limb from limb, if i had ever been interfered with!

At night, and in certain bad neighborhoods, it was understood to stay away.

Everyone knew the "rules"

I loved NYC then

[zeuqzavaj]

no magic markers no spray cans pollack got the dime which bought a hershey bar back then.

[rrhobbs]

thanks Thomas - VERY kewl! :)