Back then, they dressed neat and fashionable. Now, a random New Yorker cannot be distinguishable from homeless people in Asia. Plus, less fat people.

Where Can i find b stock footage like this?

No overweight people

Surprisingly few checker cabs considering it's 1972.

I collect toys and model kits from the 1970s. MY BRAIN EXPLODES when I see old footage like this. IF you were on the street here, and walked into a Woolworth's with a $50.00 bill in your hand--AND you know what to look for -- you could probably walk out with $5000.00 worth of "future" stuff !! NO JOKE !!

I want to add: IF you are old enough: Do you remember when the 1970s was only "10 / 20 years ago"? Now it feels like 200 years ago. LOL .

Suits / ties / trench coats / comb-overs . REPLACED by "casual office wear" , shaved heads , hoodies.

I can picture Felix Unger getting out of the cab, cigar in mouth heading to his job

all these people are most likely dead

No illegals spilled out over the sidewalks.

Nice soundtrack. Who's playing on that?

4:39

I Choose California to be my Resting Place ❤❤😢

I remember the great music of that time!! 72’ was a great year in my life!!!

Que sonido choto

I would’ve been ugly as heck back then. No more lip fillers or veneers for me.😢

People walked fast to reach their offices, and nothing has changed for the past half a century. But most of pedestrians in the footage have passed away.

Same audio we had in school, approx 1976, when the projector was wheeled in.

I was a freshman in high school in 72. I always wanted to visit New York but now I'm 67 and in poor health so it doesn't look like I'll be going😢

Oh look when it was a real place with a strong downtown, not mile after mile of the same crappy chain stores as everywhere surrounded by acres of asphalt

Has that been stabilized in post? If not that footage is bloody phenomenal stable, way better than a Bolex.

I hate Louisiana.

I was 5 years old at this time

Ants on the street, when they get home they are humans.

Where are all the overweight people?

audio track : trips by topher mohr and alex elena

They are slim and beautiful dresses and clothes

Trying to imagine my 7 year old self in this video!😂, looking for kids

Mad Men's timeline was already over when this very old-looking footage was made.

Andava di moda il rosso

interesting to know where are they now

a lot of those people have passed on by now,but was great footage.

I can hardly believe that was over half a century ago. Goodness, I was seven years old, and I lived only minutes from there.

Alguien pudo reconocerse en las imagenes?

Excellent video.

I wish they would start making all the cars looking like that again.... they probably won't... I wish I could go back to living in the 1970$

Super! Looked for my businessman uncle, but, of course...no.

Did anyone else notice the jogger at 0:15 coming from the left side perfectly fitting the onbeat and then crossing the street like Rocky in his gray hoodie? Love this little detail.

Still in those """OTHER"""NEIGHBORHOODS== plenty of MOM & POP COFFEE SHOPS**BARBER SHOPS with about 25 """FELLAS""" on site**SOCIAL (fellas loaded) CLUBS**BINGO nights at CHURCH**BUS RIDES to BEAR MOUNTAINS**WEIGHING SCALES in front of DRUG STORES (soon to come to an end)**STICKBALL GAMES (soon to dissapear by 1977)**BUS RIDES to ATLANTIC CITY for plenty of RETIRED SENIORS**ITALIAN """EAST HARLEM""" GROCERYS (to DISSAPEAR by 1977)**UN GRAFFITTED MAIL BOXES**POLISH BAKERYS**SODA TRUCK delivery guys who actually OWNED THIER OWN DELIVERY ROUTE**CATHOLIC SCHOOL children going around selling WORLDS FINEST CHOCOLATE BARS (and no thieves DARED TO TOUCH THEM)**HAPPY NEW YEAR 1973 on the way****

Era of destruction ON THE WAY of== SUBWAYS**PUBLIC SCHOOLS**APARTMENT HOUSES (tenements mainly)**PHONE BOOTHS**CENTAL PARK STATUES**WATER HYDRANTS**SUBWAY CARS**BRIDGES LOADED WITH GRAFFITTI** Also on the way== LONGER HAIR STYLES**BULKIER SUITS**FLARE PANTS**BIG SQUARE GRILLES ON CARS**PLENTY OF DETECTIVES ON TV==FAT**BLIND**OLD**FASHION MODEL TYPE**PRIVATE** off center commercials== RING AROUND COLLAR**HEY JERRY WHATS the STORY?**TAKE HOME 3 from CHUN KING**DODGE GIRLS**FOR BEST BUYS ITS 2 GUYS**BUY 2 ALBUMS GET 18 FREE!!!!!**THIS WEEK IN T V GUIDE...**

that's another dimension where nyc is civilized and sanitized. No cell phones, hoodies and not any deranged mental patients making trouble

This is just so amazing, like you're actually there. I'm struck particularly by how different the women look.... Today they would all be in sweats and t-shirts, and anybody under 30 is basically in gym clothes. So many people here all look so professional and business-like. It seems the further you go back in time, the better dressed people look, heh. Weird.

Nice try. People were not around in 1972.

I remember seeing No, No Nanette on Broadway, and being shocked to pay $3.50 to see Cabaret at the Ziegfeld! A freshman in high school....

I see well dressed and hight-weight proportionate people, all going normally about their business. Note the absence of migrants and street vendors.

A good year in NY,everybody was around,we were there we owned it. Nobody got away with much.If they messed with the wrong guy.

See the young woman with long hair wearing a tan coat, orange top and specs at 59 seconds? Well I gave her $2 for a taxi fare home. She took my address and promised to return the cash but she never did! If anyone watching this knows the woman please contact me at my grave in Allerton Cemetry, Catholic section, plot 155, Liverpool, L19 5NF, England. Thanks!

Notice the blind man walking at 5:10.

Seems like yesterday!

Not one fat person