OMG the sounds bring back such fond memories thank you Vintage City Dreams...THANK YOU!!!!

Not even born yet but I see people look much much more in shape my mom allways tells me though the food was less processed 😮😮

Looks disgusting 😕

Subways are nasty now . But this looks so much worse and no air conditioner for the summer time sheesh

Travis Bickle era ❤

How did they get away with tagging?

The TOWN Y'ALL 🤷🏿‍♂️💭

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Everyone in shape

Grew up riding subways almost everyday in the late 60’s, 70’s and 80’s loved every minute of it, but the 70s was the worst of it. Crime and graffiti were out of control, and trains broke down all the time because the city was too broke to maintain them!

Amazing, thank you

Home phone 📱 Phone Home 😔

😲🥺I Get 🤳 Now 🎉 Ty 😶‍🌫️

"You could lose your purse, or lose something much worse on the subway.....SUB-WAY!" - Sesame Street

Unexpected thing: compared to soviet subway, these old US cars are completely noiseless. Soviet subway roaring like jet fighter.

I rode a lot of those old graffiti trains in the 1980's. By the 1990's the trains didn't have graffiti anymore.

Remember it well. Mechanically the subway system was in much worse shape in the 70s and 80s, but I wasnt scared to take the train. Today it is in better shape mechanically, but I don't feel safe because of the crime, mentally ill homeless, and general disorder and disrespect for the law and other people.

What struck me immediately was how much cooler and durable the automobiles were from that era!! There is a .00003% possibility that a car built today will survive 30 to 40yrs like they did regularly in those days. Only reason that we don't see more today is because the govt had that big cars for cash thing like 10 or 15yrs ago to help the auto industry

No bike lanes bus lanes, trees ( you can actually see up the blocks, architecture character of city), no chairs and tables in middle of avenues, no cement dividers, plant pots, blocked off avenues or streets, basically no clutter, there was nothing wrong with any of that, now narrow European streets..

I loved the electronic stores in Times Square.

Bucharest M4 line now:

you could still smoke on those trains

Life before this pathetic phone. Pathetic internet. Just life

When life was normal

Deadpool Kentucky fried Chicken up on Chicago and lake and I haven't even had any

Was there really a political ad that said "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo"?!?!

There's still a remnant of the grace of the 1950s but it's rapidly slipping away.

Feels like SF is heading that way.

Warriors............come out and playyyyyyayyyyyy...............(bottle clink)

This is actually very relaxing to watch.

It was much better back then than now 😊

My mom used to work in the fashion district. We used to live on 28th, Between eight and ninth. It was about 10 years old around this time. You never think about where you grow up. But it was a good time. I used to go to sleep every night looking at the empire state building.. from my window

Fast forward 40 years, still the same crap, just less graphite

40 years ago, I was a teenager growing up in that dump. Thank GOD I got out 20 years ago.

my favorite part about this are the weird looks the cameraman gets for filming. nowadays people don't even register that

this looks more cyberpunk than our current times.

The end of the analogue age

The A line in mornings used to be crowded!!

Donald J. Trump 9:30- 9:36?

i remember these times it was crazy asf but in 2024 we in a new kind of crazy here in nyc zooyork i blame democrats when rudy came in was the only good change for nyc in a 100 years

This is how the subways were in my earliest memories growing up.. such nostalgia!

I was expecting to see The Warriors somewhere in this footage.

Everyone is thin

They're all dead now 😔

Where's the teenage mutant ninja turtles when you need them

The harmless innocent man in his hat at 16:07

What a sad timestamp.

looked so cool

It sucked out there back then.

I wish I could go back to New York in the 80’s.