NYC Chinatown 1986 original footage.mpg

[gli7utubeo]

no cellphones!

[Emmylie2]

Such a great video. Bring back memories. By the way, I also have been in New York in 1986 for a short trip:-). Thanks a lot for sharing

[adedsfsdedasewdaww]

triads were prominent back then

[edgie168]

A-Team van @ 3:37 :)

[crazytalk84]

wow thank you so much for the upload. I recognize some of the places my parents would take me, brings back so many memories

[dutchairlinesbeatrix]

the year that i was born

[DarkestBlackPerson]

Wow memories. Thank you for uploading the video.

[djslash20]

Maybe somebody in 1986 could say "this is a useless footage" But know, this is a priceless footage!! Thanks for sharing, it´s very exciting!!

[supertrouper]

Does anyone know how large Chinatown was during the 80s? What streets were the borderlines of Chinatown back then? I was born in the late 80s so I don't really know too much about it. But from what I heard, Bowery and Hester Streets were the borderlines of Chinatown back then and beyond those streets there were Chinese but mixed neighborhood. Was East Broadway and Division Streets even part of Chinatown before the Fuzhou influx? I am just wondering.

[changyimei]

omg what memories thanks so much for uploading this. CT was my all time favorite hangout spot, in the 1980's and in some respects even today. My landmark was always Confucius Plaza Building on the Bowery :) loved the building shape.

[dsmcc2176]

what beautiful footage. thanks for sharing....

[dvdfath]

I'm surprise by the lack of younger people and kids in the video. You go to Chinatown now and there are so many young folks walking together in groups.

[TheChinkstaShow]

@dvdfath That's because back in the those days, Asian gangs roams the street & every parents including mine wouldn't allow me to roam the streets in Chinatown. Of course at the time of this footage was taken, I was only 7 yrs. old. The generation nowadays don't have to deal what I did and can roam around freely without having to dodge bullets.

[supertrouper]

This the Chinatown that I like. When it was not all commercialized and gentrified. It was actually a place where Chinese can settle. Now, it is not even a place where Chinese people can settle anymore. It is too commercialized and too expensive and now the culture is being destroyed. It really is not the same anymore.

[fobsternd]

@supertrouper yea too many tourists and street vendors

[supertrouper]

thank you for agreeing. I used to be a resident of this neighborhood and thank god my family and I had a chance to get away from all the gentrification and the housing conditions are not that great anyway. Brooklyn is now the new area of emerging Chinese communities and although they are not fully developed yet, at least it is affordable for them and Chinatowns are developing fast in Brooklyn now and more authentic.

[tmac62rocks]

everything seems so much cleaner then..damn. good times

[Rockyeeful]

Thanks for uploading this! :D

[OfficialDmack716]

Thanks! I really appreciate video like this without the cameraman talking and the natural sound of ny!

[Goose511th]

This makes me so nostalgic. This is the New York of my childhood.. this and your subway video really take me back. Please post everything you have! :D

[CryBearARiver]

Very interesting!!! Would love to see more of it. ^_^ Thank you.

[NegativeX83]

Things sure have changed. You got great videos.  Keep adding if you have more

[Vettz93]

this is somethin else, a piece of history forever preserved on the internet.

[ihfppl]

i have to pinch myself after watching these videos that im back to 25 years later.. this is great.

[herenthere]

Awesome! You should come back to NYC! Much of the storefronts and streets in the area still look the same!