A Drive Through NYC In 1997

Unedited footage of a drive through Manhattan in 1997. Shot on a Sonny Handycam Camcorder by my father Rachid Echahly

[@spaman7716]

"The World you grew up in no longer exists"

[@tejayschwartz7681]

Sadly no .. and it ain't coming back :(

[@jtgd]

@@tejayschwartz7681 we can try and aim for a good future. This century is going to be wild

[@JesusChrist2000BC]

"You will own nothing and like it" - Klaus

[@swgmyster]

@@the_free_mind Klaus Schwab seems to think so.... Dang, Saint Jeremy beat me to it 🤣

[@tootsitroll9785]

it persists we are in fact in the same time frame of 2000s even though it don’t feel like it, that’s the power of gen x

[@Uaarkson]

Back when NYC was cleaned up enough to live a decent life, but still rough around the edges enough to be fun. And rent while not cheap, was still affordable.

[@kinggadm1234]

Excellent way to put it! Manhattan was cleaned up and the LES was truly experiencing the start of transition. Miss these days. Graduated high school in 96.

[@Eighk47]

Lol the same can be said for every other place

[@HamburgerHelperDeath]

@@Eighk47 Not the Midwest. Not for the margins New York provides due to the high cost of Real Estate.

[@paulmanfredi9473]

Literally the most dangerous time in NYC. The crime and trash was out of control.

[@Superschemer34]

@@paulmanfredi9473 yep the 90’s were roughy in New Orleans too

[@Norsilca]

I love that the radio, including ads, is included. Commercials are some of the least preserved things but formed such a large part of the experience of certain eras.

[@cawashka]

right? it really adds to it

[@jeremybarcelo6486]

I wanted Howard Stern to come on

[@chocolatechipslime]

I love it, I forgot about some of these songs that are playing

[@bushraptor]

@@jeremybarcelo6486 hey now

[@cansofswine126]

Finally SOMEONE gets it!!

[@idiotic1021]

The nostalgia is killing me. NYC in the 90s was a magical place, full of adventure, classy people, no social media and no smartphones. There was a certain special vibe in the atmosphere of the city back then, that you just don’t feel anymore.

[@rusav81]

No one wanted to live in nyc until 1985. Best Times to live were from 1994 to 2001

[@Supertzar999]

@@rusav81Rudy Juliani's NY was the best.

[@tylercouture216]

thats the 2000s period smartphones and social media ruined evrything

[@KingoftheRoad-2023]

whats wrong with social media and smartphones? get with the times-smartphones have put a computer in your hands with internet

[@rusav81]

@@KingoftheRoad-2023 there was italo disco

[@djmutt2000]

“You will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory” - Dr Seuss

[@BMFstudiosNYC]

so, hindsight is 20/20... thanks Dr. Seuss for making that saying unnecessarily longer lol

[@Salman2323Putera]

​@@BMFstudiosNYC 🧆

[@jo-ce]

Definitely true 🥹

[@omarcominyo4481]

Man, I miss the 90s. You never realise you're living in the "good old days" until they're gone.

[@benjammin8510]

The good old days could be now if your attitude wasnt holding you back.

[@toamatau8785]

@@benjammin8510 yep. Best episode of the Twilight Zone isn't any of the creepy ones, but "Walking Distance" where the guy realizes his nostalgia for a past he can never return to is keeping him from living a fulfilling life in the present.

[@kelseastar950]

Nostalgia is a drug your memories distorted

[@pabloescobarschanclas]

@@benjammin8510 so insightful, so profound.

[@Spiritualchick82]

I agree with you. And I know that people like to say that missing what is in the past, means we are not enjoying our lives in the present. But I can personally say that it is entirely possible to appreciate our lives in the present, while also acknowledging that the past was indeed better. Our world is on a downward spiral now, and time is drawing to a close, spiritually speaking. Our way of life in the 90's, and even early 2000's was distinctly different, and yes, better than present day. I don't understand people who act like just because we miss the past, that means we cannot appreciate the present. With each passing year, and as decades elapse, life truly has gotten less enjoyable and more stressful. It's the truth, and anyone living today should be able to see that, I would think.

[@foreignparticle1320]

What I wouldn't give to have experienced NYC in the 80s and 90s, when it really was the epicentre of global popular culture. Footage like this is priceless.

[@sleepingwithcats5121]

I was there in part of the 70's, 80's and 90s.

[@djRoyalTee]

@21:25 Smith Houses.. I was born and raised there . Through that time. The stories that a NY'er from the LES have might sound crazy because at any given moment you're elbow 2 elbow w/celebs doing blow right in the open, Gay, straight, Trans, Sub-doms walking around freely, bj's in the bathroom and no one gaf cause the drugs were easily available and all of this while the birth of hip hop was taking hold...I wouldn't pick another era.. When I leave this plane, I get to take those memories w/me. It's what I put into my music... every single time.

[@spb7883]

I was 19 in 1997. Visited NYC a couple of times that year. I remember thinking “What I wouldn’t give to experience NYC in the 1950s, to see Charlie Parker play or walk through the old Penn Station.” The past is *always* preferable to the present.

[@jl696]

Peak fun in NYC was in the 80s and 90s. NYC's highpoint, cleanest and safest streets was probably during Giuliani's mayoralty, shortly after this video was shot.

[@good1day726]

This video captures how alive and vibrant things used to be - not just NYC, everywhere, before the digital age or whatever this is now (apparently still enough human compatible analog around in 1997.) wonder why they wanted to destroy it? The chain stores in the beginning threatened to spoil the mood but thankfully they went away! People were still cool and had style - or if they didn't they had something to emulate and they tried to look good. Today is shield your eyes, cover your ears, cringe personified.

[@CorruptionDee]

As a native NYer, this video hits deep. For me, 1997 was one of the best years of my life. So sad seeing and living in what NYC, the country, and the world has become. I don't think NYC will ever be the same. Thanks for sharing this.

[@yankees29]

Same here. I just had got a brand new Honda Accord that summer and went on Phish tour.

[@johnwaffleh2p70]

Dee Jimenez because you had a real mayor who actually gave a crap and no lazy socialist politicians wake up

[@CorruptionDee]

@@johnwaffleh2p70 I agree. NYC has gone really downhill since Giuliani left. I wasn't a fan of Bloomberg, but at least he kept most of Giuliani's policing policies. The last two socialists, both mayors and governors? Not so much.

[@henripentant1120]

@@CorruptionDee bloomberg sucked and still sucks he set the stage for nyc today that’s when it all started

[@CorruptionDee]

@@henripentant1120 Trust me, I didn't vote for him either. He became mayor to use political power for permits to help further build his empire.

[@glizzyhendrix]

this really captures the 90s energy, there was a certain electricity in the air back then

[@G2Bryce]

it's because there weren't cameras and social media everywhere. You could goof around or have a bad day without a million strangers filming it and posting it everywhere. people lived in the moment, not lived for the internet.

[@The1Music2MyEars]

​@-RoyBatty- Unfortunately, technology will continue to progress by further interweaving the spiderweb of connectivity. Pretty soon, you'll be able to have cars drive you around while you shop for products on the web. Everyone forgets that what we put in is what we get out. I'll give you another good example you can look up, ghost kitchens, which spawned from businesses simply getting way more take out orders than dine in. And that was driven by the decisions society made, or put in. Look it up, very interesting topic. But to summarize, you just have to trace what we do as a whole down the road and you'll get your final product. I just hope that everyone shopping online doesn't eventually lead to all retail stores closing down.

[@Racistdog]

Huh? what are you guys talking about lol i was done with highschool around this time

[@salamisumo2]

We didn’t have to work quite as much as we do now. College was way more affordable. All the major sports leagues were killing it. Capitalism & its greed has made it all worse.

[@ajplays7241]

Power of The Twin Towers But remember guys at the end of the Day The Twin Towers were Twin Tall Office Buildings but they had a Magnetic Pull to them

[@coachNewman17]

Such a great era, great decade. Nothing is perfect of course. But the 90's had it all. Tech boom, music was amazing, movies were amazing, sports. Just everything was still in that non-social media time period and it ROCKED

[@uneedtherapy42]

Literally say everything you said here 24 hours a day now. This will be known in history books as the greatest period of time to have ever lived. Your comment is spot on!! 90s Forever!!

[@ivonneroman3878]

hell yeah everything was more real and pure now everything is fake and all about money

[@the_free_mind]

Yes, well said.

[@the_free_mind]

One could argue now that the results of the tech boom turned out to be both a blessing and a curse. It can't be said that the world is entirely 100% better off if you think about it.

[@pp3k3jamail]

Yeah I was born and raised in Philadelphia and then we moved down to the Washington DC area but I was a kid in the '80s a young teen in the 90s and a young adult in the 2000s. And like you said the music during those times was awesome whether it was pop, rock, R&B, hip hop, reggae etc. And like you said about tech we got to see how tech evolved especially from the mid-90s to the present day. About cell phones how we watched cell phones evolved from the late 90s to what we have now and in the 2000s watching other electronics like laptops and computers evolved was a great thing. Where at a point now technologically where everything is kind of stale we hit the peak. Cell phones over the last what 8 years is basically the same thing over and over. Same thing with laptops and PCs it was cool to see cell phones go for them huge brick phones in the 90s to the Nokia's in the late 90s and you know then the flip phones in the mid-2000s and then you start having the touch screen phones coming around and the late 2000s and early 2010s. We got to see the evolution of when the original iPod came out in like 2000 and and MP3 players. I remember everybody had either iPod or MP3 players in the 2000s and then we saw how those went away when those started getting replaced by the cell phone in the early 2010s.

[@terrrell7798]

That's the NYC I grew up in. I miss that NYC. I miss the Twin Towers.

[@tropicalpalmtree]

They should have rebuilt them, the skyline and city was destroyed forever when they fell.

[@MyAlishka]

Is there huge difference between todays New York and that period?

[@kisherkinashwest2023]

@@MyAlishka Yeah a lot of things. The old New York had cooler people. The subways was older. The Twin Towers was up. There was a lot of Rockstars and medal heads. There was a lot of stores that are not big companies. It was just a whole different time. New York used to be its own city. Now New York has changed so much after 9/11 and now Covid19

[@tropicalpalmtree]

@Mastnaer Ceef I'm jealous, i'm from the UK and i would have done anything to see them, the most extraordinary buildings.

[@jacobmassey3897]

I'm sure at the time you probably didn't feel that way though lol. You never know what you'll miss until it's gone.

[@carl_anderson9315]

Late 90s hit hard for me because they feel so close, so around the corner. By that we had everything we needed as teenagers: Internet, cool music, awesome video games, blockbuster movies, hi-tech devices, CDs, cellphones, lots of friends, we had the best of both worlds, past and future, without drowning ourselves in the toxicity of social media, Twitter, absolute invasion of our privacy, an epidemic of mental health problems, complete lack of common sense. It was a nice time to be young and alive.

[@Bloombaby99]

Beautifully stated. Excellent work.

[@beverlygannon4141]

So true

[@leesha0707]

100%

[@methafuture]

True indeed I've always said this we had a balance best of both worlds. I remember we used to make fun of kids that stayed in like an aim chat all day like u dont gotta life. Now its like ur life is the damn phone

[@KshitijBhambri1]

I wish I was born in 1985-1990 than in 2000 bcoz I only fondly remember such era till 2009-10 but even here in India things changed

[@rickwong9049]

The 90s had the special 'raining nostalgia' effect on camera that no one can describe. I can even smell the air and its unique aroma. What an era!

[@G2Bryce]

The air literally felt and tasted different in the 90s. It feels so dry and harsh today.

[@7evenLandGmoneyManTaliban]

Man dat NY air smelt and tasted like 💩 then and still do

[@brodylanetx]

@@7evenLandGmoneyManTaliban 😂😂

[@Wippzi]

@@7evenLandGmoneyManTalibancrusty dry shit now😂

[@7evenLandGmoneyManTaliban]

@@Wippzi shit went from crunchy to crusty

[@Erix442]

1:42 Allure - All Cried Out (1997) 2:43 unknown 5:26 Company B - Fascinated (12" Inch Club Mix) (1986) 6:38 Monica - For You, I Will (1996) 7:38 Club 69 feat. Suzanne Palmer - Much Better (1997) 7:52 Az Yet ft. Peter Cetera - Hard To Say I'm Sorry (1996) 9:12 Love Tribe - Stand Up (1997) 12:42 Soul II Soul - Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) (1989) 13:08 Call Me - Le Click (1997) 13:41 Ricky Martin - María (1996) 13:55 Captain Hollywood Project - More and More (1993) 15:43 No Authority - Don't Stop (1998) 18:44 Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - Joy and Pain (1988) 20:28 unknown 21:16 Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart (Classic Radio Mix) (1996) 24:04 Yo No Se - Pajama Party (1989) ______________________ Thank you, Shazam.

[@ZenithAstrology]

I love this fascinated one 🕺🏼

[@Erix442]

@@ZenithAstrology yes, I love too. It's a reason I wanted to find these into Shazam. It was first track (5:26) I found. I really like how it blends seamlessly into the next trick (6:20), just beautifully flips to next track. I created a playlist of these songs on Spotify.

[@MelGibsonFan]

Lmao captain Hollywood project. Completely forgot that even existed.

[@cabooseabs6864]

This playlist is just as interesting to me. I know all these songs but dont remember half these artists names.

[@awood817]

Thank you, Eric!

[@ownedbymykitty270]

I moved to NYC in 1997 at age 23. I stayed for almost 5 years. Good times. The internet was new, the world was less depressing, there was A LOT more human interaction and there were new forms of music and art coming out each year. Culture was not so stagnant like it is now.

[@tedmack1945]

Culture wasnt also so commercialized/corporate like it is today

[@chrisstucker1813]

That human interaction part just makes me sad. I bet great cities like NYC were amazing places to be back then, full of life and spirit.

[@F4682-v6s]

Culture now is not stagnant. Now we just go downwards every year unfortunately.

[@MahiTanMazy]

A big reason is just everything, in particular housing, is so much more expensive. Hard to be free when you're worrying about paying out of your ass for rent every month (I say that as a 20-something year old living in similarly expensive London)

[@peterthompsoncomedy]

Stern Show was still funny…

[@ww21943]

I grew up across the river during this time. I couldn’t make it through this video without getting really sad. For some reason that world still feels more real to me then this one. I can’t explain it, everything looks/feels familiar. The cars, business, the radio in the background. I always knew I would get older but I didn’t quite realize that while I changed, so did the world. I’m not going to say one time is better than another. People have been saying that for all of recorded history. But, I don’t think the world will ever feel as optimistic and familiar than it did when I was younger. I bet the youth of today will feel the same way when they get older too. Last thing, I used to think I was born in the wrong time. I wished I could have grown up in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70’s. All of those decades seemed so much better to me when I was younger. Now, I want nothing more than to go back to the 90s. It was a golden age for me and I didn’t even know it.

[@JM-kv2kn]

I think its fair to say social media and the internet led to less real life social experiences making people psychologically more stressed and depressed if you don't find a balance. This problem didn't exist back then. People had to leave the house to hang out with friends to find something to do.

[@ebazileyes1475]

@@JM-kv2kn I agree 1,000 % makes one sad at times to see what one had to now this bizarre reality

[@nicola6323]

You were younger, experiencing new things more often than now, it was more intense. Sometimes I feel the same about my childhood and teenage years. But it was also a simpler world than now, without the internet and social media.

[@ww21943]

@@JM-kv2kn I think smartphones, combined with social media is one of the worst things to happen to society.

[@istarteverysentencewithbro]

Less people

[@VELVETPERSON]

it feels like that era had a much bigger vibe than today.

[@TacoJ1LL]

Sure did...still remember some good days in the late 90's...I miss it. My family were more connected in a positive way back then....before facebook.

[@ToiletPlugger]

That's because people spent enough time in moments to actually feel things.

[@fiskerboy2011]

Dude, people had to figure it out how to deal with each other in a positive way, instead of staying behind a screen all day. Now that would be impossible to achieve in the way people in 97 did. Unless you take people's gadgets away from them for good 😂 even children nowadays do not know how to play with each other. With so many gadgets around them, they have a harder time to develop both emotionally and cognitively... and to think these children will be the adults of tomorrow gives me goosebumps 😂 Ps: this video was shot 3 days after the infamous Montreal Screwjob I believe LOL

[@the_free_mind]

@ Kurt Yes, no doubt.

[@the_free_mind]

@@fiskerboy2011 Thanks for the honest comment. You said it very well.

[@winterlynn9012]

I was 14 when this was filmed and spent every other weekend in NYC with my dad. I remember the KTU radio station thats playing throughout the video as that was my mom's favorite station in the 90s. One of the many things I miss most about 90s NYC was all the cool little shops that sold the most unique things, things that you couldn't find in big chain stores. My favorite shop was in the East village, they sold all kinds of rare and vintage posters, blacklight stuff, candles, body jewelry and even had a licensed piercer with a booth in the back. Got my nose pierced there for my 13th birthday, still have it, lol. Went to visit NYC in the 2010s and all the cool little shops were replaced by either a Starbucks, CVS or some other big chain store :(. Seeing the twin towers here really made me sad, but still great footage of a great era!

[@TheMarkoPoloProgram]

Bodegas right?

[@dmmj8987]

Yep it has lost its charm to big comp. So sad! Super gentrified in NY now

[@leehoven5687]

Well...i was 3 😂👌🏻

[@trilolgy3948]

my mom was also 14 when this was filmed and had me 8 years later

[@amuroray9115]

I was born this year

[@sully10791]

This video is beyond awesome. I turned 18 in 1997. This hits in all the right spots. Wouldn't give up my life now for anything but if I had to go back to any part of my live to relive the 90s and in particular 1997 would be it for me! Thank you.

[@kylemoore801]

We're the same age! Class of 98, the 90s Ruled!

[@kennyb.729]

Class of 1997...The good ol days

[@sully10791]

@@kennyb.729 preach man

[@JamesChatting]

Class of 2000. Remember how the millenium seemed brand new?

[@Cha4k]

I was 12 but I agree, 97 was the best time. Still really good right up until 2001 and then the whole western world started turning to shit.

[@allisonsephora]

It both pains me and makes me feel grateful I got to grow up even for just a glimpse of the 90s. It was truly the best era. The world with no social media was the best world.

[@Jeremy_Timothy]

I think it all comes back to how we all use it. It has it's benefits of staying connected, but the problem is too many people are TOO overly obsessed with its use, and that's taking away from creating within our current present times. It's causing more stress, mental delusions, and a sense of detachment from the real world. I'm going to be optimistic and say that in the next 10-20 years we'll have learned to teach how kids how to use social media properly without abusing it the way all of us did growing up without any restrictions.

[@Tyler-uo7rf]

80s was the best era but 90s were good to

[@chardiemacdennis7218]

The early 2000s were also great.

[@ftrsaliyf-zd4wk]

They were kind of tacky @@chardiemacdennis7218

[@zaymoney252]

To think without social media we wouldn’t b able to look back at memories like this

[@Quetzalioshun]

I remember this. I was 19 years old. Growing up in DC I’d just hop on 95 and just figure it out. No GPSno cell phone. I was partying, shopping, hanging out. It was the best without internet. Meeting people everywhere you go. There was more soul back then. ❤ I’m grateful to be the age I am.

[@illizcit1]

I'm from DCand the first time we drove up to NYC in 98 and I saw those tall buildings come into view, I thought we were in another country.

[@r.j.3040]

So funny you say this bc it was the opposite during this time for me, and I would go down to visit friends in DC… but everything you say is 100% …the entire vibe I think that if ppl then could see what was coming with the cell phones/internet… ppls heads would be on a spike

[@alexandermercer4473]

I was born in 2003, unfortunately. There are times when I wish I lived through the 90s; everything about that decade seemed exciting and beautiful. I envy my parents - they got to live in that era. Either way, I'm glad I get to watch videos of that decade, to at least feel as if I was alive in that era.

[@franklinmardy8171]

Early 2000’s was great too

[@RockyTheTigerYT]

Well you saw the 2000s

[@azariacba]

Every decade's got its own strengths and weaknesses.

[@woIfson]

I was born in 96 in Portugal but because my mom collected a lot of American magazines with NY Skyline photos in them it really made me dream about living in NY. The tall buildings, The smoke that came out of the chimneys, the sky when it was getting dark, the music, movies etc ... I love The 90s...

[@brandnaqua]

I was born in 96 too! We are age twins!

[@renaldsunset]

Born in 86 in Guadeloupe but I feel the same fascination for the same things as you. Also seeing Christmas movies in NYC made me want to experience snow over there especially since there’s no winter where I’m from. I have a huge poster of the city 🏙 by night in my purposely loft-shaped apartment to give me the impression of living in a skyscraper 😅 Listening to SmoothJazz when it’s raining…. Aww NYC

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

I was born in 1984, and lived the 90s, the 80's were the better era by far.

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

@@renaldsunset Christmas movies like Home alone 2, lol. Everybody liked it.

[@Tyler-uo7rf]

I was born in 85

[@TypeZero31]

This was the golden age!! PlayStation 1, N64, great tv shows & cartoons, music….greatest time to be a kid/teenager during this era!!

[@studas2011]

Yeah, everything didn't seem to have a brainwashing agenda back then.

[@bluemagic8601]

Facts

[@Super122291]

@@bluemagic8601 nah.

[@SevenFootPelican]

@@Super122291 Yah

[@jeff4362]

That's your nostalgia talking.

[@booch2912]

The best thing about seeing this video is watching everyone walking around and not a single cell phone! What a wonderful world we used to live in.

[@goldie862]

Oh right !!! Not a damn phone in sight, of course!!! Such a different reality!

[@FlightDreamZExtoicz]

Wasnt for social media for family friends girlfriends / emergency service green screen days

[@Karuska22ps]

@@goldie862 I miss not having phones

[@nrbmemes2414]

dawg get off youtube then if you hate it that much????

[@goldie862]

@@Karuska22ps I know what you mean lol. I'm using mine constantly but the "phone" feature is the thing I use it for least. Remember when you could pretend to be unavailable!

[@ulovetashi]

Wow! I know you’ve heard this a million times but New York City in the 90’s was an amazing place. I miss it.

[@MsMollah]

I visited there for a month in 1998. It was magical. I went to the top of the towers. I would not want to go back now, as I think it could never live up to my beautiful memories.

[@Xayja2]

It was in the 80s too👍😀😍

[@maywalker997]

I've never been there. How has NYC changed since the 90s?

[@jaynycha1705]

@@maywalker997 NYC Native born and raised and I'm still here (born in 75). NYC is going through some structural difficulties at the moment due to the pandemic, inflation, etc. the result is many store fronts have closed because of skyrocketing rents (that the current city hall could not care less about. Crime has come back in a noticeable way, if not statistical.) The current mayor is a complete jackass beholden to the NYPD, his ego, and his staff is based on nepotism and cronyism. The subways have lost ridership- on their best day they only reach 40% capacity. And ASSHOLE OLD MEN sit in the train and blast they're fucking phones inside the subway cars as if the pieces of shit were sitting in their own living room, because fuck everyone else around them. ...The downward spiral, starting with the large rents came to a crash March 2020 when the Pandemic started and the city basically shut down. Since then things have improved. But NYC is nowhere near it's 90 and early 2000's peak.

[@acfwolfwood]

@@maywalker997 Everything is a lot more expensive. Every interesting and unique shop/store turned into a Chase or Starbucks. NYC nowadays is so much more corporate and bland where the only thing to do is go out to overpriced bars and restaurants.

[@komi-origami]

This type of drive through videos might be my favorite on KZbin, it’s all an atmosphere, an era, songs, advertising, a different way of living captured in a video.

[@Bulldog75stp]

Would be neat to see a split screen of this same route taken today.

[@MallaWallaZoom]

Stumbled upon this a few weeks ago but saved it to watch now, exactly 25 years on from the day it was filmed. Really beautiful to see pure, unedited camcorder footage like this, thank you for uploading (and to your father for filming). I was born in 1993, so I only have a childhood view of the (late) 90s, but I heartily echo others' comments about it here. It really was a special time and I'm glad to have even hazy, rosy memories of it. It's also really nice to see others' warm reflections and stories in this comments section. Plus this is a new source of 90s songs I'm unfamiliar with!

[@rowdyelitehater8595]

I was born in 93 also, the late 90s were better then the early nighties.

[@MallaWallaZoom]

@@rowdyelitehater8595 Early nineties or early noughties? If 90s, I couldn't say from personal experience being either not born or a baby, but I definitely prefer the late 90s vibes to early 90s. If 00s... I still have a lot of love for the early 00s too, it was still part of my childhood. But I understand as an adult how 9/11 was a cultural watershed moment and the world started to change from there on. I do subscribe to the "2004 was the end of the 90s" idea/meme, though. Seems to be the point where that late 90s stuff finally faded out.

[@rowdyelitehater8595]

@@MallaWallaZoom the 90s ended for me in 2001, I think after 9/11 , something didn’t feel right, I’ll be honest my memory isn’t that sharp , I more remember the feelings I had around 98-99, I’m 30 now , so you can work it out I was a toddler threw most of it.

[@MallaWallaZoom]

@@rowdyelitehater8595 I get you with the 9/11 aspect. I'm British so I don't think the effect was quite as acute as it was in the US, but I can definitely see the change in hindsight. It's like 2001-2004 was kind of a transition, I guess. I'm 30 too, so I'm right there with you in having more of a general sense of the late 90s than a whole tonne of clear memories. Some of that appreciation will be because we were kids and everything was warm and exciting, which is why it was nice to see so many people older than us speaking fondly about the late 90s in this comments section. Makes me know it's not just us 30-year-olds with our childhood nostalgia.

[@rowdyelitehater8595]

@@MallaWallaZoom I’m English too, but I watched a lot of wwf when I was a kid , it was always in MSG so I saw the twin towers a lot, it’s why it changed it for me.

[@deenice9169]

The thumbnail to this video is freaking beautiful… reminds me of when I was young on those beautiful rainy dusk days in NYC. Just that image made me feel it

[@TheJoumal]

Thank you !

[@user-wo7dl6tb2q]

I moved to NYC in 1995 & just moved away 1 year ago. I truly miss the 90’s NYC & this made me shed a few tears… I was young & had so much fun back then running around Manhattan & boroughs… I wish I had a time machine cause I’d go back in a heartbeat

[@yaboijack67]

Where did you move

[@kosomkosom2616]

yes to time-machine....I want to go back to 1986/1987 into 1990's till 2000's

[@Pher0cious]

@@kosomkosom2616 Someone really start make this happen

[@feilongish]

You do have one. Its your mind.

[@andiuptown1711]

@@feilongish Nah living in the past will only give u depression

[@ruzzelladrian907]

Even in the 90's, Manhattan has that charm to it. It's never boring.

[@robotomo4249]

I wasn't alive during this time (born in 2004), I don't even live in America (live in Sydney), but I do get the strongest sensation of walking through these NYC streets in the 90s. This type of nostalgia is called 'anemoia', which is nostalgia from a time in which you have never existed. Obviously this is most common from places near me, but I found it fascinating how I can feel this way for a place that I've never even been to before. Watching these types of videos I see a city in the center of the once hustle and hurry world, a city where the vibrant night lights once fascinated you, a city where technology was only housed in tall buildings and not in our pockets, a city where everyone was so uniquely different yet all connected at the same time, A city where things just worked. For those who have actually lived in NYC or Sydney during the 90s, what's changed?

[@G2Bryce]

Ironically all 3 times I went to NYC were before you were alive. 1998, 2001, and 2002. I rubbed the bulls balls on September 8th 2001. I went back to NYC in spring 2002 for a bike ride with over 30,000 people. You could feel that the city had changed. The entire spirit of the 90s had been snuffed out. The terrorists didn't succeed in breaking America or NYC, all they did was unleash the modern monster we have today. The only thing they managed to change was breaking the laidback fun loving attitude of the 90s. You'll never see that 90s side of NYC again except in 90s TV shows.

[@chillvibed]

I'm in my 30s now. Lived in NYC back then. Still come and go. What changed? people hang out less outside now. Friendships don't mean anything cause of social media. You think everyone's your friend until you realize, they don't even hang out with you. Friendships were more real back then. Economy was better. 20 bucks meant a lot more. You felt like America was on top. Now you feel we are doomed. The vibe was dark, but positive back then. Like hopeful. Now it's dark and negative.

[@TylerCornelius1128]

Gosh. You're making me feel old and I will be turning 28 on the 28th of this month. I know what you mean- I feel very strong nostalgia watching videos from the 1920s - 1970s.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Born in 2002, I understand what you mean.

[@rowdyelitehater8595]

Sydney, poofter capital of Australia

[@dream.machine]

This is the best footage of New York in 1997 I've seen so far... Very clear and what a cozy day that was back then too. The cars look more relaxed than the future and the city looks calmer lol. Cheers!

[@heightsfynest6023]

Cause there was alot of money being made in the streets dudes were more calm and no social media

[@bikelifepov9617]

Looks can be deceiving. Ny was the wild west back in the day. Dont fool your self.

[@bobsnow6242]

It probably looks calmer because November 30th, 1997 was a Sunday.

[@gentle285]

Search for: "new york dvhs"

[@coomcake]

@@bikelifepov9617 not in 97

[@darkwoodmovies]

New York always goes through different eras. The 90s in NYC was my childhood, but it would be wrong to say it was the best era. NYC is a place that always re-invents itself every decade or two, some things get worse and other things get better. But it always seems to come back stronger than before.

[@DougieYT]

Finally someone that isn’t worshiping the place solely because of a decade

[@Vichu.]

That's some facts. I could imagine other type of people saying older decade is better than 90s

[@Fritha71]

What things are getting better recently? Nothing is eternal, not even N.Y.C as it has been known for a good hundred years. I really can't see the city "coming back stronger than before" considering the very dark times ahead...

[@DougieYT]

@@Fritha71 Dude, NYC has survived the crack & aids era of the 1970s & 1980s, Rampant crime throughout the 1990s & Ofc September 11th in the early 2000s, Im most certain NYC will be fine in the years to come

[@darkwoodmovies]

@@Fritha71 This isn't even in the same category as 9/11 and it's far less bad than the 2008 economy. I think in a few years, things will normalize again.

[@youngOG87]

I will be saving this video. This is the closest I will get to a time travel machine. This video reminds me of my childhood. I’m from CT but I was 10 in 1997 and my stepfather would always bring me to NYC during Christmas season. He’s from there so we would go visit his family and he would take me to all the things like arcades, FAO Schwartz, Times Square, rocafeller center etc. nothing beats it I’m almost tearing from nostalgia.

[@sugarspice8300]

I was 12 in 97. I miss those days too.

[@RippedfromVHS]

NYC in the best city in the world and nobody does Christmas like NYC. You are allowed to feel this way.

[@beverlygannon4141]

@@RippedfromVHS I agree. I've always wanted to go to NY more so at Christmas. Never got there . I won't fly now. I'm wary. I'm now 68 in UK 👍🇬🇧

[@beverlygannon4141]

It sounds lovely. I always wanted go NYC. I'm 68 now.. I'm a Londoner.wont go now. Took scary. 👍🇬🇧👋

[@hernandoarce5804]

I was born and raised in nyc. Queens. My mom raised 7 kids driving and owning a yellow taxi cab. I drove in the 90s. I got some crazy stories. These days are gone for ever. Thank you for posting this video ❤

[@lariayuyam7393]

I was born in the 00s,I must say I wish I could go back in time to the 90s just for one day to see how people lived without internet or phones and how the music was back then.

[@innosyde7188]

There were phones (even cellphones) and the internet back in the 90s. The early 1800s and before was when there wasn't either.

[@ALLw3rk]

@@innosyde7188 the internet wasn’t as insidious and the cellphone wasn’t as invasive then. They also weren’t packaged into one forming an insidious and invasive object.

[@redadamearth]

There was internet in 1997, with 130 million users - as well as cell phones. Internet was just slower and cell phones were bigger. In other words, there was internet, but it wasn't a huge part of our lives - and cell phones were pretty big, so kind of cumbersome. If you want to travel back before ANY internet or cell phones, that would be the EARLY 90's, but there were even cell phones in the 1980's.

[@ElFuego121]

@@redadamearth Mobile phones in '97 were smaller than the iphones and androids they sell today.

[@vonvision]

I was born only couple of weeks before this was filmed. Never been in the US, hope to see it some day although I know it nowadays is nothing like this.

[@Eli-ss9gj]

Wow I was 9 days old when this was filmed! (Born Nov 21 1997). My mom is a native New Yorker, it’s cool to see what the city looked like around this time period

[@pabloescobarschanclas]

ain’t it something? i was born in february of ‘97 across the atlantic, wtf is time man

[@badgerden7080]

Do you still live in NYC? I grew up there too. Brooklyn.

[@Eli-ss9gj]

@@pabloescobarschanclas crazy! Already at or damn near 25, life is crazy haha

[@Eli-ss9gj]

@@badgerden7080 nah but I’m in Brooklyn all the time bc most of my mom’s family is still up there if not in Jamaica. I grew up near Baltimore, 3 hours south

[@dadbodmascot]

As a New Yorker growing up in the 90s, this is amazing! Thank you for sharing and for the memories it brought. I truly hope others like me feel the same.

[@zephynum]

I'm 16 but I bet the 90s must've been one of the best decades to live in and experience

[@j-smooveproductions3973]

It was

[@shanebriggs1039]

Ditto....it was

[@nelliesmith5699]

It amazes me how much I can observe and learn just from watching people’s everyday activities from the past. If anyone’s reading this please don’t stop filming or writing about your life just because it seems mundane. It’s a piece of history we take for granted.

[@gdtyra]

Dear diary: eleven thirty AM: I pooped, likely a result of the usual caffeine intake. Consistency soft but solid with regard to the integrity of the loaf

[@xxpsilocybinxx8878]

90s NY was something else

[@livannal.t.9068]

indeed

[@dailydoseofsunshine2319]

Ehhh, i guess. Gentrification was already happening at this point, and it would be a short while before NYC became disneyland and lose it's edge

[@brendadrew834]

You should have seen it between 1930s and the 1970s! That was something else, too! The ever changing scenes!

[@Super122291]

@@brendadrew834 not now Brenda

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@Super122291 what are you 9?

[@rockydee2967]

God I miss the 90s

[@floopfloop4774]

I dont

[@rockydee2967]

Floop Floop Awesome👍🏽

[@supersmashmaster43]

Wasn’t alive yet

[@equillibria]

Amen

[@justjilly1966]

@@floopfloop4774 🤨 You prefer the 2010s and early 2020s?

[@matthew.m.stevick]

I LOVE THIS! NYC / NJ / PHL guy, est. November 1982. Thank you filmer and or uploader so so much.

[@brianhughes3312]

Thank you for posting this. I had just moved to NYC from Yonkers and my father's friend had an apartment available - a one bedroom for my best friend and i - for $750 a month - on 106th street in the Columbia university neighborhood. It was an incredible time.

[@MachineGunPepe]

I miss back when things were affordable.

[@innosyde7188]

I hope that was a big apartment for two persons.

[@hisokamorow3611]

Damn that's still super expensive, i pay 380€ for a 54m² appartment where i live

[@Uniques-95]

I was 16 back then and I miss it. The '90s were exciting and magical.

[@jahclspuyess3108]

I’ll make you fee 16 again

[@Super122291]

@@jahclspuyess3108 u old. Fool

[@messerschmittsreaver]

@@jahclspuyess3108 lolol hahah 😹

[@steveestebon2079]

@@jahclspuyess3108 FBI open up!

[@mackmann450]

My mother was pregnant with me when this was filmed. My father was from Brooklyn, but lived in Philadelphia, where he and my mother met a few years earlier, (and where I was born less than three months after this video was taken). They visited the city about a week after Princess Diana died. Nice to know that this was what they would have seen on their trip.

[@MalkaLand1996]

I was a year old :)

[@Aliali-yo1oh]

so your parents met and in three months you were already born HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE

[@mackmann450]

@@Aliali-yo1oh LOL, I can see how my wording tripped you up. My father and his folks moved from Brooklyn to Philly in '88. He and my mom met in Philly in '93, and started dating the following year. Their trip to NY was in September '97, and I was born in February '98 in Philly. Hopefully the edit of my original comment makes more sense.

[@RichieRouge206]

This is amazing. That sounds like the unmistakable growl of a GM 3800 V6 too in the car with the camera! What a fabulous video of simplier, happier times. Haunting to see the Twin Towers too

[@michaelcosgrove4027]

Yup! And with 103.5 KTU playing on the radio. Life was great back in the 90's

[@numan2985]

oh man, the 90s were really something

[@rusty9508]

The 90s was by far the greatest decade.

[@veeeen]

definitely not in the balkans lol

[@sunyata150]

90's America - what Agent Smith chose to plug us into, because it was the peak of civilization.. before everything slowly became worse... then not so slowly.

[@1695AB]

@@veeeen nor in Russia

[@mistere9099]

Holy crap, what a time machine this is. I can practically smell the rain.

[@travel9two557]

Was born in 92’ Brooklyn. Didn’t really start exploring NYC until my college days in 2011. This looks and feels the same as i know it to be the last 10 years honestly. I do remember going to chi cation often with my mom/aunt to buy jewelry and seafood in early 2000s that’s about it lol . I’d love to see some price comparisons of daily things in these videos that would be super dope 🔥

[@dannylay7965]

2011 was a great year! I remember visiting NY and got to ride in a Hummer limo for $50.

[@themaverickfiles2020]

Great footage! We need a damn time machine already. I miss the 90s so much it’s beyond ridiculous.

[@mrandrossguy9871]

Yeah well still have to think about Space 'n Time Laws that could Destroy the Entire Universe 😆

[@themaverickfiles2020]

@@mrandrossguy9871 of course. There's always some kind of risk as nothing is as easy as ABC 123.

[@TECHLOVER_91]

🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[@kareemestwani2400]

I’m a 2004 whenever I see videos of the past I feel like I live in a crummy time😭

[@ninja_tony]

@@kareemestwani2400 Yeah, I'm 36 and I hate to say it, but we do live in a crummy time. It's not just nostalgia, I know things were never perfect, but the world really was a different - and better - place in the 90's. I would give anything to go back.

[@thickbagina8370]

I loooove this video. The nostalgia is hitting hard 😢

[@manomenon1]

What bagina mean?

[@iandanielcassidy8126]

I'm truly a nostalgic person.

[@justinbristol8315]

lol, a bit too hard, the music, the stores, what used to be the seaport :(

[@emmanuelespataro3139]

Would you like to dance to the song More and More by Captain Hollywood Project with me?. 😏🎶💃

[@Realitybit]

when he went thru downtown i almost started crying I grew up on 27th street and spent so much time exploring. I was obsessed. And the musicccccc wow that brought me back. I miss the old NY so much. We lost it a while ago.

[@memyselfandi4581]

This was my 24th birth day ...thanks for bringing me back to a time when I was very young and happy

[@10171981]

As an 80's baby I can collectively agree that no matter WHERE you were when those towers fell the world changed FOREVER !!!

[@winecrimesfoodandtime7119]

Yes it did

[@khanf13]

get over it, its been 2 fucking decades no one cares no more

[@youngshutup4162]

The us*

[@Mk18_40mm]

@@youngshutup4162 world

[@LmH89]

I was only young, but politically and culturally everything seemed to get weaker.

[@cmg2445]

Everything seemed so simple compared to how things are now. Nobody's bombarded with influencers or feeling pressured to be something they're not. People living their lives and that's how I remembered America before the new millennium. I was a lot younger so that may just be my perspective as an adolescent. But I feel like this country was a lot more united in the 90s than it is now.

[@SammyLeau]

I, wholeheartedly agree with everything you've said. Well said.

[@thegmack1019]

I wouldnt say united… more like….glued together.

[@Matt-ky8re]

Well put

[@Lallint]

ok boomer

[@ember-brandt]

100% that's because it was deemed an unwritten rule of politeness in society to never discuss religion or politics back then - but then 9/11 happened, and overnight people were more outspoken in their views and we realized how divided we all _actually_ were. It's not that we were more united back then, it was just hidden from obvious plain sight that we weren't :/ You miss the *illusion.* It's the same heartbreaking conversation that I had with my grandmother years ago when she tried to insist to me that things were so much better back in the 1950s. Maybe for her, the pretty heterosexual Christian white girl - but not for the poor black boy being lynched in the south, or for the gay athiest being chemically castrated by the Christian homophobic men in power. I say this all as a Millennial who VERY MUCH misses the 90s, oh my god. Ever since 9/11 happened, it was never the same... but that being said, it wasn't perfect back then, either, and people like my grandmother (as I mentioned) despised the late 20th century and considered them to be classless and crude. Victorians considered the 1920s and beyond to be the same. It's all relative... and most of us who miss it were also young back then, too - so in large part, what we also miss is our youth. One day, the children of today will shed tears that _this_ era was better, and so on and so on. I'm eternally nostalgic for the 90s and I wish so often that I could take a vacation in that time and experience it all again, trust me - I *know* it was special. I used to be depressed/in denial that it was over for so long... I've had a hard time letting go of things that have meant a great deal to me for most of my life. But it helps to remember that it's really all a matter of perspective, which is also why we need to appreciate the present (for whatever it's worth) while it's still here... it won't always be.

[@ThisWalks]

The video is still great in stabilization considering 1997. which shows how flat and good the roads are built. Great video and very advanced development even if you compare it to 2022

[@Opandort]

I would like to live in a world where phones only use for calls and live in reality social, not social media

[@IGH414]

The mere fact that he’s playing a lot of mid 80’s music in the late 90’s really multiplies the nostalgia ratio… nice video

[@Saltinator]

No, thats all mid late 90s man lol no 80s here

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

​@@SaltinatorA couple of tracks are from '89 to be fair.

[@Utonian21]

I was born just after the turn of the century, and I wish I could've expierenced the 80s and 90s. Videos like this are closest we'll ever get to time travel! Thanks for uploading 🙏

[@redeemingthetime782]

As someone who grew up in the 90s, I wish I appreciated it then the way I do now. I suppose the best we can do is learn from the mistake and appreciate these days we have now before we regret another decade gone by. It may not be what it was then but especially if it gets worse, we will miss these days just as much.

[@alainportant6412]

You sound surprisingly eloquent for a 10 years old

[@redeemingthetime782]

@@alainportant6412 might want to check your math, bud.

[@alainportant6412]

@@redeemingthetime782 not you, the other kid

[@tyson211]

I was a senior in high school in 1997, this video makes it feel like it was yesterday. All we did was drive around listening to the radio just like this.

[@b.s.adventures9421]

Same here

[@missj2045]

Me too! 17 at the time. My fave times! God, it was awesome in the late 90s.

[@Christopher070]

It's jarring how vintage this looks. I was 27 in '97 and watching this makes me realize this was a long time ago even though it doesn't seem like it in my mind.

[@zb3391]

A radio shack, Monica playing on the radio, crowded retail stores … NY is nothing like this now. I love NY today but this is some great footage. I was only 1 here

[@Dia249]

i was born in 2006 but i feel like I was there, in New York in the 90's. everything seems so familiar, life was so simple, I would give a million lives to be able to live once there in the 90s.

[@nickolas6060]

Smartphones and social media ruined everything. Shame people just can't give up that shit

[@j_bailey11]

@@nickolas6060 it’s a drug no surprise

[@MaGiKRat420]

I would have been 4 years old... its a strange feeling seeing a world you only have brief flashes of memory of.

[@markaurelius3119]

Same Life is just a spark

[@rowdyelitehater8595]

same,its crazy how the 90s are a flash.

[@Skedadlee]

Today, this video is officially 25 years old.

[@Galidorquest]

Pretty clear quality for 1997. About as good as 2006.

[@matthew8153]

That’s the advantage of using film instead of tape.

[@BabyFawnLegs]

@@matthew8153 this is video tape, not film

[@matthew8153]

@@BabyFawnLegs How? I’ve never seen anything from tape this clear.

[@BabyFawnLegs]

@@matthew8153 it would have been recorded onto a sony video8 cassette, then captured on a PC or other device via an s-video cable. video8 cassettes were of high quality and transfering over s-video (instead of composite) gives the cleanest transfer with no RGB artefacts.

[@scottstiefel2061]

Nah, it makes me think they took 100 potatoes, made vodka for themselves with 99 of them, and used the last one to record this

[@bkohler89]

Let's give this guy some respect just for being able to time travel all the way back to 1997 just to video tape this!

[@Krystal_Kitty7]

This is so cool, I love that we all agree the 90's was a one of a kind era that we would all go back to in a heartbeat 💗

[@the_free_mind]

Absolutely. :)

[@innosyde7188]

Oh yeah. :)

[@winecrimesfoodandtime7119]

Yes indeed!

[@official_alphabet_inc]

Has to do with the age of the avg youtuber. There's less people inclined to prefer the 80s and older on the platform. The algorithm also plays its part: this video isn't likely being pushed to e.g. people only listening to music from the 50s or people that yt knows/thinks is old for other reasons.

[@amuroray9115]

@@official_alphabet_inc true

[@tylerhergott3893]

I loved watching this, thank you! I just turned 19 about 40 days before this video was recorded, I miss thoughs days. I love the song at 13:54 it was played a lot on my CD-player in high school. NYC has changed a lot in 25 years!

[@tyburvandeezo8218]

I love how mundane things become nostalgic with time!

[@armyman3666]

In hindsight the 90's will be remembered as the apex of the western civilization and wealth, where by wealth I don't mean in strict monetary terms pumped up by inflation, but a wealth that most of the population could share

[@iamtechnoman]

I've always thought that too

[@yumallah]

This all so foreign to me as a Russian. For us, the 90's were an era of steep decline of absolutely everything - our economy, living standards, just everything. Even today they are seen as a dark age by practically everyone - from communists to nationalists. Only some insane young liberals that never actually witnessed the decade would ever come to idolize it.

[@brijmsn]

Right before the American middle class was decimated

[@Yeomannn]

The good old days and they're not going to come back

[@TheThriftShopSampler]

The last decade of the analog era.

[@spg5658]

Compared to today this was paradise. So sad what's happened.

[@glowandtravel]

Wait what’s happened?

[@notrius7754]

@@glowandtravel Everybody stopped giving a shit about anything, and went full woke, instead of fixing problems we are too bothered with creating them.

[@notrius7754]

@Duolingo Owl And isn't that basically "woke" or at least a big part of it?

[@notrius7754]

@Duolingo Owl But look at my original comment, i've said that people today instead of fixing issues are creating them. Social Justice movement isn't fixing issues, they are creating them, like in 2020 for example, they've caused milions of dollars of damage, hurted and in some areas even killed people because of thier "peacefull protests" they destroyed roads, shops, historical monuments, all because one black guy who later turned out to be a criminal got shot. Those things dont reduce the number of racist people and homophobes, they create even more of them and i bet most of these people are aware of that, but they just need to feel like they're important, so they create problems out of nowwhere and then make from themselves the heroes who solve them.

[@Bloombaby99]

@@notrius7754 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@drzfinezt180]

That Energy, that Allure, that Nostalgia from the Great city during its Golden Years exudes just from this video.

[@horselover7744]

Thank you for taking us on a trip 😊 Missing the twins 😢

[@MyLife_in_aNutshell]

Yes friend, I miss the twins too.. and in our future we have a ugly tower in the ground zero "The freedom tower", dude, we need the twins back

[@Ai3r]

@@MyLife_in_aNutshell dont think it will be easy u have to pay billions to construct parts and stuff for the building then when your done doing that people will backlash your project then terrorist might want it down so they either bomb it nuke it do classic 9/11 way which was planes shoot it with explosive weapons or destroy it with weapons they have

[@MyLife_in_aNutshell]

@@Ai3r That TERRORISTS ARE DEAD.

[@Ai3r]

@@MyLife_in_aNutshell i know but new terroist will come

[@MyLife_in_aNutshell]

@@Ai3r That's impossible.. The Empire State building still alive, the Pentagon still here.. Every important site.. still alive in actual 2022

[@justinbricks492]

The 90s was the last good decade after that every thing changed.

[@th3azscorpio]

True, but I'd cite that everything changed after 9/11. It didn't just change New York, it changed the entire vibe, spirit, and energy consciousness of this country. A lot of the negative stuff that's plaguing our society today, originated in seeds planted between post 9/11 2001- 2005. Even while being 10 in 2001, I could sense a shift.

[@lanthanumlanthanium6373]

@@th3azscorpio It's because the whole event was a sacrificial ceremony for that country we cannot speak of or you'll be labeled for hate crimes. Agents of Mossad were even spotted around towers during and after the event speaking in Yiddish. Believe it or not, there are forms of life we cannot see that influence how we feel. Demons are real and so are angels.

[@sfarrell71138]

@@th3azscorpio Interesting

[@shawn6306]

I love all decades equally i don't prefer one decade over another that's just me i love and dislike both old and new shows, movies and video games equally there are some old and new school shows, movies and video games i love i think it's good and some i think it's bad i didn't like in my unpopular opinion

[@salam-peace5519]

As someone born in 1995 in Germany, this reminds me of movies I watched in my childhood, like The Day After Tomorrow, the 1998 Godzilla movie, Madagascar, Stuart Little. Even for people in europe growing up in the 2000s this is very nostalgic because of all the 90s and early 2000s american movies we watched in our childhood.

[@Edis97]

I bet people gonna look at this footage after a 100 years and will say : "WOW"

[@valmacclinchy]

I'm looking back now, 2022, and saying Wow...this footage really brings back memories..

[@JunshuLiu]

The thumbnail looks like it’s for a Vaporwave album. I wish I was born earlier and lived in the 80s-90s, so I could had a chance to explore the NYC with the Twin Towers, Japan especially before the economic crash, and the boom of the Internet especially in US and China…must be a great time to live!

[@carloscastillo5411]

i live your dream (^_^)

[@Erix442]

I found all of these songs:)

[@ninja_tony]

I'm 36, so I grew up primarily in the 90's and it really was a different world. I would give anything to go back to those days again.

[@robloxvids2233]

Back when everyone wasn't batshit insane. Miss the '90s.

[@bertcabasares4633]

It’s interesting that 2 months before this video I had just graduated college. I like the radio playing in the background.

[@amnomad1009]

NYC ... a November rain; what a perfect day. Oh my, I have a tear in my eye, where has the time gone... I had to leave after that horrific, sad, sad day. I worked the towers everyday... doing deliveries & repairs.... up a certain flight of stairs. Now .... honestly; just can't say. I miss this NYC & the 80s & even the bankrupt / burned out 70s NYC. Remember the NYC from the Robert Redford movie ... "Three Days of the Condor" ? I was at home in Alphabet City, The Bowery; CBGBs; The Ramones... that was My NYC; but also THE Bronx, the docks, the bridges... the fringes ... both sides. I miss the ( I dunno how to explain) the gritt, the danger, but I never felt threatened; even when I was; I wasn't...Had to say Goodbye to My Hometown....I miss ya everyday. Now... oh boy, gotta keep it together. Thank You Rachid & Adam Echahly Take Care everybody.

[@StillaYouTubeGuy]

Love your comment! How blessed we are to have be able to re capture this beautiful moment in time all over again. The sloppy rain makes it even more perfect, as you said. Blessings and life ever after to yours, Nomad ❤️

[@Elhastezy888]

This is THE BEST comment on the board. So glad you decided to put your 2 cents in💗 thank you for sharing, many blessings.

[@th3azscorpio]

Great comment. Im sorry you and many other New Yorkers had to experience that day. But may those good memories stay with you, and keep you happy and warm, forever.

[@ProjetPro2024]

Whoever uploaded this, thank you !

[@williamtell5365]

By 1997 NYC was cleaned up some. But let me say, in the late 80s and early 90s, it was a fun town in many ways but it was thuggish as hell. I think young people would be shocked if they knew how much grittier it was back then.

[@williamtell5365]

@I forgot I'm not certain but I think the stats show that crime peaked in the US in the late 70s and early 90s (obviously varying a lot based on crime and location)

[@williamtell5365]

@I forgot yep. Now that I'm thinking of it young people probably also don't know NYC came very close to going bankrupt back in the 1970s. That was even before my time.

[@prettyclassyladyOG]

No we all know how violent New York is

[@TheRX78ONE]

Mayor Rudy Giuliani did a good job back then. Cleaned up Times Square by getting rid of all those porno shops and sex theaters making it more tourist friendly and beefed up the NYPD to crack down on crime. Mostly Manhattan was cleaned up Brooklyn, Queens some parts of Staten Island and The Bronx were still kinda rough

[@EnhancedSimplicity]

Man, this was JUST YESTERDAY!! these 2000's feel more like a nightmare & watching this feels like i woke back up to my REAL WORLD!

[@alicekat11]

Man the nostalgia is uncanny. I have so many childhood memories of nyc from a car as odd as it sounds. Late 90s to early 2000s. With my Walkman and game boy color🥹

[@uneedtherapy42]

Videos like this (and I'm not ashamed to admit it) make me cry like a baby. I don't know.... I know life moves on and times change but man this was the greatest decade in human history. Everything was amazing about the 90s. Phenomenal time period to be alive!!!!

[@Lordran__]

Agreed 🥲🥲🥲🥲

[@loclovelifeloclovelife8935]

It is heartbreaking

[@JesusChrist2000BC]

It's possible to bring it back. You just have to get rid of social media globally.

[@josebro352]

If you think the 90s we're great you should've seen the 80s!!!!!

[@Bloombaby99]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@authenticallykennedy1870]

Keep this video safe at all costs

[@JusPhucket]

All of humanity and civilization came together for this moment right here.

[@TimKuat]

What I would give to live in the 80s and 90s. I was born in 1999 and it sure feels like I missed the best 20 years humanity had. Now we are so divided and hateful to each other it's heartbreaking. Will we ever get to this peak existence again? I honestly don't know.

[@axolet]

Gotta thank social media for making this mess happen

[@TimKuat]

@@axolet The thought of today is that we are more connected than ever but perhaps we aren't. Actual human face to face interaction is less now than ever and even if we are more connected maybe that isn't a good thing. We didn't use to live to post to social media to make ourselves look better to our peers.

[@tejayschwartz7681]

I grew up in the 70s And 80s with the 90s being my early adulthood years .. they are a era that can never be repeated.. I do miss them

[@dx112596]

Pretty sure we’d have to reset everything and start from scratch to have even a chance of repeak

[@Cakaholic365]

Love that it’s raining on this. Add to the feeling I have

[@shanebriggs1039]

Agree 100%

[@officialdiarbekirian]

Reminds me of riding through the city with my dad (RIP) blasting ktu as he aggressively navigated traffic. Thank you for bringing me back in time

[@Kenmobaybee]

I was 7 years old living in Brooklyn, NY 🫶🏾 I remember this NYC. Thank you for this amazing footage 🫶🏾

[@SammyLeau]

I was 7 too!

[@yatansehrawat3570]

Kids born in 1999: Damn, the 90s were the best

[@sugarspice8300]

😂😂

[@galileajimenez858]

What beautiful songs were on the radio, I love them 🥰😍

[@branbozic]

I've been to NYC twice in the past decade (I'm 30yrs old). I wish I could have been old enough to visit or live in NYC in the 80s and 90s. I know some things were worse, like crime, but the vibe and look of the city in those decades just seems amazing! I would love to hear more about it from people who lived there in those decades.

[@ember-brandt]

_"The highest crime totals were recorded in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the crack epidemic surged, and then dropped through the 1990s and 2000s except for murders."_ (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City ) So yeah, you're right about the crime rate - I'm glad you're thinking realistically about the pros and cons of that time because nostalgia tends to give us rose-colored glasses. That said, 1990s popular culture and musical subculture scenes were 🔥🔥🔥

[@frankgonzalez966]

The city seemed bigger back than for some reason now not so much

[@TheMarkoPoloProgram]

@@frankgonzalez966 More people now making it feel crowded and smaller than it actually is

[@badgerden7080]

That's because there was a Democrat in charge in the early 1990s. That all changed when New Yorkers decided to do something revolutionary groundbreaking like vote for a Republican Mayor, Giuliani. Crime went down, I wonder why?

[@michaelmcdonald9847]

Crime is definitely worse now in 2022

[@bighuge1060]

I loved watching this video. The last sustained time I was in NYC was 1997 living in an apartment in the Southbridge Tower directly across from the South Street Seaport. It's bizarre to think twenty-five years have passed. Thank you.

[@bighuge1060]

Just one addition: a comment on the Twin Towers. I found their size intimidating as I walked up Fulton Street to take my 1 train. They loomed above all else. I could have taken the 2 or 3 a couple blocks from my apartment but I enjoyed the walk to the WTC every weekday morning to get to work. The downstairs concourse had a tremendous magazine and newspaper shop that carried almost every conceivable publication available. I was going to NYU for filmmaking in the mid 1980s and there was a whole selection devoted to that. As much as I liked the towers and wanted them rebuilt (only with added structural changes for stability and safety), I'm glad they weren't rebuilt. Rebuilding them would show the world that whatever happens, the damage was temporary and we'll always come back. It would also be a visual reminder of the disaster and a constant reminder that such a thing could happen again (even though the new tower is prone to that as well). It's a psychological thing, I think. There also would be the problems of getting the space used by businesses. Anyway, that's one opinion on the matter.