New York 1970s

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[@hejiranyc]

I still vividly remember my first trip to NYC in 1976 as a 7-year-old. At once I thought it was the most horrifically filthy, chaotic place I'd ever seen, but at the same time, I was utterly in love. For years I would doodle NYC skylines during boring lectures at school. Anyway, it all finally came full circle 22 years later when I moved to NYC and I know in my heart that I will never leave.

[@Wa3ypx]

I feel ya on that one!

[@metalEric69]

I bet the taxes suck .

[@hejiranyc]

@@metalEric69 They do! I just moved to Florida because of the taxes and the shitty weather. LOL

[@gabrielmartines3510]

I don't know why i feel the same, it was an utter shithole, but it had so much character to it compared to the corporation shithole it became nowadays.

[@robertnussberger2028]

​@@hejiranyc It seems as though every 70's and 80's recorded films of new York city is almost always gloomy and grey.

[@gaborkun7290]

Probably the most interesting time and place in recent history. All these cars, the music scene, fashion, movies, architecture, the shops, clubs, grittiness and beauty. Never a dull moment, seemingly.

[@5Giants5]

A transition era, notice the present people who still wore Fedora Hats, and the Checker Cabs. Classic New York!

[@robertnussberger6449]

Pretty high in crime though at this time

[@claudiapennisi3844]

​@@robertnussberger6449yes it was! 😳

[@factnotfiction3544]

Back when the people who worked there actually could afford to live there

[@cosmosgato]

Fact Not Fiction It was cheap because no one in their right wanted to live there if they had a choice. I was born in the Bronx and have lived in NYC my entire life. New York City has never been better than right now.

[@elkabong6429]

cosmosgato I grew up in Manhattan in the 1960’s and 70’s and I gotta say; you are both right and wrong at the same time. Yes, it was dirty and dangerous and there was a lot of crime and vandalism, etc; but to say that the only way to counteract that is to have made NYC become only a playground for the rich, which is what it is essentially now, is not right. What is happening with both residential and commercial rents there is out of this world pure, unadulterated greed and has resulted in, on the commercial side; thousands of storefront vacancies because no one can afford those rents, except for big banks and big name retail pharmacies and similar stores. All of the mom & pop stores and the small independent shops that made New York City the wonderful place that it was are gone, because they cannot afford absurd rents of $50,000/month that these greedy bastards are demanding. So the stores sit empty for, literally years. It’s a phenomenon called “high rent blight”. Also, there is now a situation, as someone else mentioned above, where average working people, or young people just starting out on their own, cannot afford to live. Residential rents are also out of control, so you have five and six people crammed into one bedroom apartments in neighborhoods all over the city, creating unlivable conditions. So, yes, New York City is cleaner and safer than it’s been in two generations, but at what cost? There has to be a solution that finds an answer somehow.

[@777keko]

@@elkabong6429 Do you think that the pandemic crisis might somehow change the reality you are describing?

[@elkabong6429]

777keko That’s a very interesting question! In the short term, at least, the present emergency may make things worse, due to so many people having lost their jobs and no sense of when they’ll regain them. Ultimately, the only way to even come close to solving the problem, from my non-professional point of view, is to somehow create incentives for builders to create affordable housing by the thousands, combined with living wages for those people we all are now calling “essential workers” who ironically are often times the lowest paid workers! It’s not going to be an easy problem to solve, that’s for sure!

[@777keko]

@@elkabong6429 I envy you. I wish I could've been in NYC during the 70s. It just had a certain aura hard to replicate anywhere, even in the same city 40 years later. I went there for the first time a few years ago and it sure looked like gentrification is taking away the character NYC once had

[@76NightProwler]

It’s fascinating to see all those 70’s and older cars looking so spotless and new. Today, those cars are buried and rotting several stories underground in a junkyard. Awesome video.

[@karlabritfeld7104]

No reason for that. Cuba is still driving cars from the 50s, restored and looking fabulous.

[@volactic5240]

Those boomers time 😌

[@quang5DCameras]

Yes Very Fascinated by Classics cars 70s all made in Metal. They HAD Character unlike New cars today which made Cheap plastic. I Don't care or intend to buy any those Electric cars nowadays.

[@RamsLakersDodgers]

@@quang5DCamerasSame ol’ tired comment you see on all nostalgia clips on KZbin🤦🏽

[@proclaimer2u]

Ah The 70s. I was 15 in 1970. The music was absolutely touching my heart and everyone else. The Beatles the Bee Gees and so many others. Girls were girls friends were real friends people helped people, Baseball was fun, romance was real, dad‘s were home, mom fix dinner, Saturday morning everyone Watch cartoons, food taste great, no GMO, doctors cared, hospital bills were low, men were gentlemen, ladies were nice, downtown was great, and love was real. What else can I say. It was a really great time to be alive.

[@v44n7]

today's time are just as great but its just a generational thing.

[@markholroyde9412]

@@v44n7 BS, its crap and they/you know it.....tick tock.....

[@easportsaxb8057]

As someone born in 2003, I can only dream of having grown up in the 70s. I find it an extraordinarily fascinating time. I do however think there were both great thing worse thing compared to today. Of course every decade has its pros and cons.

[@shrimpymacdougall3134]

You must be a white male,lol

[@fernandowong371]

Well said!

[@guypalumbo7892]

It was the Best of Times yet the Worst of Times! God, bring me back!

[@chatman2a]

Guy Palumbo Please, take me with you.

[@pdizbon]

1000 times better than what we live in now

[@robertortiz8540]

Brings back memories.

[@bbygrlpt2]

I think any time was better than what the world is goin thru right now

[@sixtoco4044]

@@bbygrlpt2 so true.

[@rubiescube]

Wow! Thanks for the post. I grew up in NYC during the 70's & early 80's. It brought a lot of memories of how NYC used to be before Guliani. Cutting school, bombing the trains and going to the duce were my routine as a youth. The city and times are so different today. Truly miss but not forgotten.

[@alainvosselman9960]

This was the NY we saw on TV when we was just kids growing up in Belgium....watching this on screen was like the hole world was happening right there, and we weren't part of it. But we could enjoy it from a far through an endless stream of tv shows, series, movies : Taxi, Different Strokes, Cheers, Cagney & Lacy, Starsky & Hutch... just too much to mention. I Could watch this all day long..lol. Thnx for sharing

[@philipklug7784]

Cheers was Boston.

[@khayman181]

Will Will you get the award for buzz kill of the week, congrats!

[@AntonioCostaRealEstate]

Cheers was as Boston as America is ruled by a Prime Minister. All it had from Boston was the building’s front facade on Beacon Street. All the indoor takes were recorded in some studio in California , my guess , Burbank. Everyone around knew it. Neighborhood bar .... yeah right. Maybe a lawyer’s swanky lounge. Biggest tourist trap in town, over priced beer and T-Shirts. During the 90{s along with Faneuil Hall , the most tourist visited spot. Real Boston places in Dorchester, Brighton, East Boston, Chinatown, Roxbury, the Old Jamaica Plain, Roslindale.

[@GUITARTIME2024]

It was still gritty until the mid 90s, then it improved quickly. Its a mixed picture today. (My wife is from Belgium. She loved Dallas, Falcon Crest, A Team).

[@alainvosselman9960]

@@GUITARTIME2024 Hehe..; what are the odds ! Yeah, Falcon Crest... that was for the women.. I watched Dallas with my parents... it was HUGE here. Still remember when the world stood still wondering who shot JR... lol..

[@walesdad]

This looks like a scene from 'Taxi Driver'.Wonderful.

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

Exactly! This looks like a deleted scene from a movie.

[@Mustafa-fm7kg]

It reminds me Midnight Cowbow

[@ponrix]

Not really. It was broke and lawlessness everywhere.

[@UtenZork]

Dude! I watched this video meanwhile the theme of Taxi Driver was playing! it's delicious!

[@countdown2xstacy]

“All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”

[@g.v.3573]

I was there too and boy was it amazing! All the way from 7 to about 34, and would never trade it for any other way. The time, the people w no phones and the many conversations. Moving back to a bigger city. Done with driving in the south. I miss the stories you pick up from strangers.

[@sukie584]

Oh how I miss that time!! You could afford to live and create there. Nightlife was incredible.. No place like it. Wonderful time to be a teenager in THAT city... though NYC is part of my DNA, She's nothing like that now. Cleaner yes, less crime yes, but much of the soul has been sucked out, and it's all about how much money one has.. At least I got to come of age during that time.

[@brassknucks2548]

Yep...it was an exciting city. Had it's own rules and style. We will never see that again.

[@sudipta1502]

@@brassknucks2548 but someday?

[@post-hardcoreGuy]

Wasn’t nyc always expensive

[@filipelimartins]

You just got older

[@blondie2998]

its still a great time to be young in new york

[@nikmills]

It was the best of times. When New York wasn't for everyone. So much energy and potential and music. I loved it. It was balancing between chaos and creativity. It was on the edge for about 15 years. I went back a few times in the 90's and 2000's and it's just Disneyland now.

[@BabyBugBug]

Mickey Mook there were 2000 to 3000 murders a year then and through the early 1990s. I don’t miss that I’m sorry.

[@nikmills]

@@BabyBugBug : Did you at least see Mongo Santamaria at the Mud Club? Tell me you didn't miss the greatness of New York and just worried about getting mugged the whole time.

[@DAREDEVILBKLYN]

Grew up in NYC $3 pitchers of beer and 2 hot dogs for a dollar at Grey Papaya's on street corners. People where stressed with NYC hustle but happy you could enjoy things. Not any more big $ and a corperate circus sucks now just a rich man's playground.

[@DAREDEVILBKLYN]

@@BabyBugBug I remember crack came in to NYC like a storm in 1980's. "it was bad" I was there, peace.

[@DAREDEVILBKLYN]

@@nikmills Enjoyed alot in NYC funny never was robbed directly. But did have 2 bikes robbed. I loved the east and west village, Coney Island great comic conventions and concerts were awsome. I liked a rustic Sin City NYC now a corperate light show. It was bad NYC in late 1980's and early 1990's but if you knew how to move not that bad. I as a white shadow knew the do's and do nots in NYC there we rules survival street rules, peace.

[@andyappleton3353]

That artist who decorated the subway train is still alive and well. I see the same virtuosity displayed on several street corners in my local ghetto every day.

[@cadicorniche]

Now, that’s MY New York! The city was exciting, vibrant, scary, dangerous. IT WAS WONDERFUL!

[@ursa41]

GOT THAT RIGHT BROTHER!!!

[@karlabritfeld7104]

Yesssd

[@easkeybikes1966]

2:48 I can literally smell this scene. The rain and diesel oil and feel of the humidity.

[@pdizbon]

Me too !

[@pr0ject25o1]

Lol. Remember turning my face up and smelling the rain well before it came. That scent of concrete when it got wet from afar. Those days are gone.

[@brianvail9212]

I remember the smell of walnuts and it was great

[@blackbway]

and smug! don't forget the SMOG!

[@nohaylamujer]

oh boy, it was the first thing I thought too.

[@AndrosBabheira]

I wish I could fly back those times... dark vibes and dreary atmosphere but it also had such a romantic and magic apealing... I would give all I have (which's not too much) to spend a few weeks in NYC in the 70's... in summer.... and party at Studio 54

[@bizzlowthxx]

Arent you a millenial?

[@AndrosBabheira]

@@bizzlowthxx Born in 1986, whats your point?

[@xraystudios3693]

NYC was full of crime back then, try reading "welcome to fear city" a paper written by cops and firefighters from 70's New York, it's guidelines of how to survive New York.

[@brennocalderan2201]

@@xraystudios3693 Ah! The Fear City, it seems being a New Yorker back in the 70's wasn't very fun.

[@claudiahansen4938]

FunkTuristic Inc. , party at David Mancuso's The Loft!

[@alvarez.l9422]

When actual New Yorkers lived and ruled the city.

[@shrek19yearsago78]

Louie Alva yup i bet the new york accent wast still alive during this time

[@KOLDBLU3ST33L]

Riiight? Those were the days...

[@KOLDBLU3ST33L]

@mo zack Lol, same here. I had guys(in the military) say they "couldn't understand me!" Fuhget-aboud-it! 😄

[@RafaelSantos-vd6be]

Yes not THESE DID NOTHING FOR DA CITY BUY COME TO TAKE AND NOT PUT IN ANYTHING. THEY DONT CIRCULATE DA DOLLAR BUT TAKE IT ALL TO DA UNCIVILIZED LANDS.

[@philtripe]

idiot...it was run by the Italian mob dummy! remember how much it used to cost for trash service back then? then in the 1990's they were forced out and the Russian mob took their place ... i have an idea...buy a book and read it

[@BBOYWORLD]

Can somebody build a time machine and take me back to the 70s im tired of 2020

[@PRHILL9696]

yes please!

[@yournaturalbuffguy7202]

@M smith fax

[@HobbiesRfun]

Don't need one now. It's December of 2020, and Mayor De Blasio, and Governor Cuomo are making damn sure New York City is much worse than it ever was in the 70s. At least in the 70s you could actually run your business, go out to eat, have parties, enjoy the holidays, socialize with friends, and family, and live like a human being, despite the high taxes, high crime rate, and trashy neighborhoods. Not only do you have high taxes, high crime rates, and trashy neighborhoods in December 2020, but thanks to all this Covid-19 hysteria pushed by the media, De Blasio, and Cuomo, you're no longer allowed to run your business, go out to eat, have parties, enjoy holidays, socialize with friends, and family, and live like a human being, because of the tyrannical lock down, and mask rules implemented by these two Demonrat stooges. Even Hell seams like a better place to live at the moment, than New York City.

[@mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853]

Exchanging safety for coming back to the good old times... when this was one of the most dangerous cities in America. Someone's blindfolded by nostalgia big time.

[@PRHILL9696]

@@mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853 new york is very dangerous now

[@margiesbeauty]

Born and raised in New York City, 1973 Baby here. Looking at this video makes me think of how things were back then when it was a reason to live here but now, not sure anymore

[@kevinshockey2765]

Wow I love watching these old videos. Thank you so much

[@tomsreviews238]

You know your old when you can identify every car in this video.

[@davestewart2067]

Nowadays every other car is a faceless blob indistinguishable from another

[@tomsreviews238]

@@Alliwantedwasapepsi I think it's a Mercury

[@tomsreviews238]

@@Alliwantedwasapepsi Very cool, but now you made me feel older lol

[@eskimoto4417]

not really

[@vicenteDLH34]

Ok boomer.

[@lewiss.3786]

To be walking through the streets of New York, on a rainy day, in the 1970s, what a mood.

[@charlesfuentes3695]

WTC stood majestically on the SW skyline. I remember when they were built. Conceptualized on a bar napkin. Nice short film. TY 4 posting.

[@tswagg504]

The new WTC just doesn’t have the same allure

[@jimgag2]

@@tswagg504 I remember taking the PATH train every day from Jersey City and walking to Rector St. (before I worked on Wall St.) and watching the WTC being built.

[@tswagg504]

@@jimgag2 The original?

[@beatrizrobinson6481]

Raised in Brooklyn, New York in 1970. Thank you for the memories!!!

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

Love NYC, especially when it was a gritty city. These great old clips are like watching Kojak re-runs... heck there’s even a brown cop car with a removable red flashing light @2:02!

[@MohammedAli-oi3gx]

Im from london but im surprised that these were a thing, i thought these were just from Hollywood movies. Heck, i even would say that the clip even looked like it came out of a movie which is really impressive.

[@nightrider5109]

YES !!! When I saw the brown car Thats the FIRST thing I thought was KOJAK !! The part in the sub way with the white tile reminded me of The Warriors and the 1st Deathwish with Charles Bronson

[@Just1American1966]

Federal Equipment "Fireball" light. I was a volunteer firefighter in the early eighties, and a police officer beginning in the late eighties, and they were still a thing. I think I might even still have a blue one around somewhere (red=fire, blue=police here in Florida.)

[@Jaydoggish]

Omg love those lights. Back in like 1996 I think I saw a Brown Buick Lasabra with blue rotating light pulling truck over and couple plain clothes cops. Miss those lights.

[@robertbeirne9813]

Kojak drove a Buick Century, but, it was brown.

[@Traderjoe]

Not one person had a cellphone. If you wanted information that nobody had, you’d go to the library. Or, ask people who might be knowledgeable. And people back then stored their information in their heads. You knew maybe a dozen people’s phone numbers by memory or, you’d have a little black book in your pocket. You found out what happened in the world either on the radio or at 7pm on the news. Or, a newspaper the day after it happened. You would talk to people for hours and hours and they’d look you in the eye. Virtually everyone knew how to do something really well and you were truly free. Nobody knew your whereabouts and you literally could disappear and it would take the FBI months to track you down. You could go to any airport and buy a plane ticket right then and there and fly anywhere in the country immediately.

[@johnnydoubleu3656]

Im 56....I remember there was a club I used to go to called the rooftop....All though it was in the early 80's it had such a good vibe... Yeah sure there was nose candy but I have to say people talked to each other..Everybody was interested in what you had to say..You looked forward to it.....Girls were hot and with all that was going on not one stitch of trouble....$13 bucks to walk in and I think alcohol was free.....You would leave there sometimes 6 am... Those days are gone....

[@unglemergy]

lol at remembering peoples numbers anymore. i know people that have forgotten their own.

[@unglemergy]

@@johnnydoubleu3656 got check your prostate

[@markb20]

Now if you just want to unplug, relax, and disappear for awhile, people either think you're weird, anti-social, hiding- or dead.

[@markb20]

@anne smith Good for you, I admire your ability to disregard the pressure to conform to society's need to always stay "in touch" with the world. It still amazes me how people can't wait 5 minutes until they're out of the store to call someone back.

[@WinstonGuitar]

"Hi, I'm Mike. I'll be your robber today." "Here you are, my good fellow. Don't spend it all in one place."

[@gregh7457]

bernhard goetz is waiting for you to say that to him

[@hazelwashington665]

@@gregh7457 "Get away from me or I'll use my screwdriver and make your glasses really wobbly!"

[@elkabong6429]

Hazel Washington Bwahahahaha!

[@gregh7457]

@@elkabong6429 he don't like vigilante justice

[@cyberspore00]

LoL

[@StylesMusic]

This look will never get old. I love NYC ❤️

[@joselo-zl5wo]

The world population has doubled since 1970. We didn't have cellphones, no computers and no Facebook . It was awesome. No doubt everything is different nowadays

[@juliamontour434]

I lived in Brooklyn that time and we didn’t even have a phone in apartment. Was to expensive for depositto phone company. We made our social contacts throughout work phones.

[@elkabong6429]

Remember bookstores? NYC used to have lots of them! Where I lived for years, in the East Village, there was a ton of them. They were all gone by the mid 1990s.

[@butterfliesandfate]

Bill and Melinda Gates are working very hard to bring that population down with that mandatory vaxx most traitors and cowards are begging to receive.

[@christopherwood2290]

@@juliamontour434 I grew up in the Bronx. I remember the noise 24/7.

[@christopherwood2290]

@@elkabong6429 And all the peep shows and sex acts lol!

[@vinniecorleone62]

I spent a lot of time there with my father on his business trips there in the late 60's & early 70's then, your video is the real deal.

[@israelc1717]

vinniecorleone62 did you spend a lot off time in Time Square with all your quarters

[@mamertomanglejr2249]

@@israelc1717 I enjoyed your video. Grew up in jcnj. Path train 30 cents. Wtc just finished. Little italy Chinatown cool time.wiseguys with their brown leather 3/4 length. L.e.s. orchard rivington. Dope and firecrackers 8$ a mar. Times square show world. Went by myself @ 10 years old.best time of my life. I am a 1st generation filipino. Proud to american. Love usa. Peace. I wired at the Mudd club.

[@if6was929]

@Maw is Back You're so clever! o.0

[@RafaelSantos-vd6be]

I TEMEMBER DA PART IN DEATH WISH MOVIE MOVIE THAT LAND DEVELOPER TELLS CHAR LES BRONSON LET ME KNOW WEN YOU GET TIRED OF LIVING IN DAT TOILET BOY I.PACK.MY.BAGS RITE NOW WAY TOO MUCH FILTH HAS CME TO DAMAGE DA FABRIC OF THIS TOWN.

[@stateofmind4341]

@@mamertomanglejr2249 you're not philipino your a newyorker ✌🏽🇵🇷🇵🇭

[@sirich7751]

Back when the word neighborhood had a meaning.

[@elkabong6429]

Link Age WTF does that even mean?

[@reillymoore3257]

@Joey Balas You got that right, Joey.

[@elkabong6429]

Link Age So, the “Pervert Left” are the ones who ruined NYC? Are you a complete moron, or only a partial moron? It’s the rich fucking Republicans like your boy Trump that obliterated neighborhoods and jacked up commercial rents so high that only banks and places like Rite-Aids can afford it. All you Trumpanzees can go fuck yourselves.

[@elkabong6429]

Joey Balas Fuck you, I was a union tradesman for 33 years in NYC. This bullshit about “liberals ruining NYC” is fuckin’ bullshit and you know it.

[@elkabong6429]

Joey Balas IBEW and IATSE stagehand. Good for you. Any union man that’s for Trump or any Republican is a JACKoff! Go ahead and vote against you and your families best interest: remember Ronnie Raygun and the PATCO strike? That was the beginning of the end of unions, bubba. Have a good rest of your short life as you choke on your own blood from Covid-19! 😆

[@LadyQuick]

Who else remembers life with out "Cellphones " 😅📳📱📟📞☎️

[@julieerin115]

Born in the '70s so I remember.

[@Ralphie_Boy]

@@julieerin115 I remember black & white t.v.'s and 1th. rerun's of the honeymooners! 🤣

[@fastica]

Born in 1980, so I remember. Last generation to have a childhood without cell phones and internet.

[@marklennox2151]

I saw a show where they put a rotary phone in front of a bunch of GenZers and they had no idea how to dial. It was like cavemen looking at the wheel for the first time !!!

[@lt4324]

born in 60, and loved those years growing up. everyone was more personable and we had fun OUT DOORS playing every kind of sport you could squeeze in during the day.

[@JoeR203]

Looks like the opening to "Welcome Back Kotter".

[@Name-jw4sj]

Dirty then and still dirty now. With all that tourism you will expect they will use that money to clean it up but nope it’s only getting worse.

[@brianglade848]

It is

[@Apefather]

Listen to a song about Brooklyn, New York in the 70's and 80's!kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKO0iaGhhbV3n68

[@Ben10Arg]

Hard to believe some of those cars, trucks and buses are still on the road today in 2020.

[@loveparkes]

2:47 that footage is so clear, it’s so strange. It’s like someone went back in time with their phone and took a video.

[@101Volts]

If it was shot in film, there's nothing strange about it.

[@fastica]

Film is as good as digital video. The problem is that many films weren't stored well. Watch the restored Beatles videos. They look like they were filmed yesterday (no pun intended).

[@steveconn]

It's the '70s, not the 19th century, putz.

[@metalmusic4958]

Because there were no ufos!

[@wsemmons2001]

Looks blurry to me, but my glasses are out of reach and cannabis is legal where I live jk

[@literallyunderrated]

I remember my Dad driving us on the Cross Bronx Expressway and pointing out the fake cardboard windows that the city would put in abandoned buildings, to kind of dress them up and make them less ugly. Some of them even had cats and flower pots printed on them to make them look real

[@ellorial]

Grew up in Queens in the 70's, life was outside! Every kid on the block was your friend, every race, every religion! Life was good.

[@mm6461]

More serial killer’s back then

[@vitocangialosi4878]

I grew up in Astoria in the 70s and you are right rain, shine, or snow we were outside playing ,all the neighborhood kids Italians, Greeks, Irish ,Puerto Ricans etc. GOD to be young and playing wiffle ball again 😊

[@saulchapnick1566]

Loved living, studying, and working in the city then. You felt alive and alert. The grittiness!!!

[@samp7003]

We thought there was some crazy stuff back then. We could never imagine the insanity in 2021. Take me back PLEASE!!

[@brianl8540]

Back when interesting poor people still lives in the city. It’s ALL Finance now, every neighborhood. People paying $3000/month to live in freaking RED HOOK. Yikes. New York is Squaresville now. Get out!

[@RafaelSantos-vd6be]

Who DA HELL THOUGHT THESE CRUMMY RUN DOWN RAT ROACH INFESTED FILTH DA NICE COUNTRY PEOPLE WOULD WANT TO BE PAYING SO SO MUCH. TO RENT OR BUY TOP $ FOR THIS RAT.NEST.

[@scholarlycat8180]

Yeah NYC seemed like such a fun colorful place 45 years ago. Now it’s overrun by pretentious hipsters and cold blooded money-hungry business people. Strictly a place of finance now. Not the vibrant culturally rich city it once was.

[@crisl9518]

@@scholarlycat8180 that's a bit of an exaggeration lol

[@spensert4933]

It is a worldwide phenomena. What is next?

[@elkabong6429]

The two room flat I rented on East 14th Street in Manhattan in the 1970's for $200 and was only $400 when I moved out in 1992 now goes for $4500!! Who can afford that shit? Not me! I retired in Virginia, I couldn't retire in my own freaking city! Back then it was really true that 1/4 of my monthly salary was equal to my rent. Now? Fuhgeddaboutit!

[@cpsmonroe1]

Such good footage I can almost smell and taste the City.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

This was neat to watch! 🏙

[@admagnificat]

Man -- thanks for putting together this song and video. It was a real tonic at the end of a tough day.

[@dez-ef5bo]

Great video! this has to be in late 1979 or very early 1980 can tell by the bus at 3:07 a 1980 GMC RTS with the orange stripe!!

[@MrBillBronx]

I was there. I came to New York in 1978. What a dump it was. BUT I HAVEN’T LEFT YET. 😆

[@messimanuel1076]

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[@timetraveler2518]

I visited New York City in November 1982. I was shocked to see the horrible and dangerous place to visit New York City. Graffiti was all everywhere, especially in the dark subway. Stink urine and BO, trash, prostitutes and pimps, drug-addicts, hardcore drugs, crimes, low-life scenes, a glut of adult and liquor stores were everywhere. I first visited New York City in 1965 and it was much better than the late 1970s and the early 1980s. My last visit of New York City was autumn 2013 and I stayed three months in Manhattan. I was shocked to see New York City became a beautiful, clean and safer city, and even the subway. Wow! Republican New York mayor Rudy Giuliani ordered to clean up the city. Thanks to him for rejuvenating New York City to rise again. Now it is reverse to decay again because of Democrats-controlled politics.

[@messimanuel1076]

@@timetraveler2518 oh stop the cap "visited new York in 1965" like You can't be 80 years old

[@timetraveler2518]

@@messimanuel1076 No, I was seven years old when my family and I visited New York City and the World Fair in the summer of 1965 after we returned from South Vietnam. We had a marvelous time in New York City. I remembered most of it. The subway was pleasant but it was crowded.

[@MrBillBronx]

@@timetraveler2518 Your description is absolutely dead-on. A good presentation of Manhattan in the early -mid 70s is Scorsese's "Taxi Driver". By the 1980s a despairing urban life was taken for granted in New York. The smart and rich abandoned the town: the down and out, the perverts, the stuck, the nostalgic and the adventurous stayed behind. By the year 1990 things hit their bottom worse. I think their were over a thousand homicides that year, a record. And Giuliani, who was a US attorney and mob buster came into office, the first Republican since John Lindsey and started cleaning up the city. Violent crime has been ticking up the last couple years, homelessness is on the rise again and the city seems dirtier than I can remember three decades.

[@scottmoore1614]

That is just the way I remember it the first time I visited NYC in the summer of 1977...nasty, smelly, seedy and utterly fascinating! I was 7 years old and I loved it!

[@benjaminsmith2287]

This is the worse areas. A lot of areas weren't like this. Upper Park Av. wasn't much different than today, midtown Av. of the Americas, the upper East side. NYC always had it "nice" areas vs. seedy type of areas. It was dirtier, though, overall and more neighborhoody.

[@thomasmartin-rx2uu]

@@benjaminsmith2287 people were actually afraid to visit New York back then

[@Batman2StaticShock]

How was the 90’s? M

[@elgalan718]

Heeyyy those two guys in leather jackets approaching the corner at 1:37, they look just like Starsky and Hutch.

[@gavinmcalpin9612]

That’s funny

[@IWAITEDDAYSTOGETKNOCKEDOUT]

The guy in the dark leather jacket was Tommy Desimone, he passed away in 1979. He always had two pistols with him.

[@XxowendanxX]

I hate to break this to you but those are two chicks. New York, where the men are men and so are half the women.

[@royrogers3404]

That was actually haldeman and ehrlicman incognito.

[@XxowendanxX]

@@IWAITEDDAYSTOGETKNOCKEDOUT he's in heaven now, telling the angels to go get their shine box

[@lorenzodelre7001]

LOVED THIS VIDEO OF YOURS!! thx for sharing and very good job, who ever you are

[@u.s.a.1957]

I LOVE🥰 NYC!!! I WAS BORN IN BROOKLYN 1957 RAIS3D IN BORO PARK . WOW .. LEFT NYC TO FLORIDA IN 1990 .. BUT THIS MAKES ME CRY WELL BECAUSE THE 70S WERE THE BEST TIMES....ESPECIALLY IN NYC!!!!!

[@IamOrangeGT]

All cars are so beautiful

[@richarddrolet7746]

Something so special about this wonderful city....rick.

[@robertbrindamour8309]

Thank you for this mini-documentary.A reminder of a not so far era.

[@pr0ject25o1]

Loved it. Had nothing, literally not even the shirt on my back but had REAL people. Do or die friends. That’s what made it great; the fact that even we had nothing (comparatively speaking) we’d all still give everything we had. We were together.

[@caha9583]

So when you lived in NYC you couldn´t even afford a shirt to put on? Sounds like a cliche to me.

[@kevp9601]

New York City (1970s Version), We Will Never Forget You.

[@barrydiamond5193]

In the mid 70’s, I worked at the Lido Shoe store. It showed at the beginning.

[@chard404]

3rd Ave between 75th and 76th?

[@noumenon6923]

A lot of great music was made in the 1970’s.

[@michaelgenzale7537]

Best decade for music

[@bennysmemestore2274]

I still live in the house I grew up in Williamsburg Brooklyn. My dad bought it for 2700 hundred dollars from the last Italian on the block. Loved playing skelly with all the kids in the neighborhood.

[@Movieman1965]

Skelly was the game! Did you use the coca cola glass bottle upper rim pieces or the cap itself with melted candle wax was in them?

[@truthcrackers]

Great blast from the past thaks for posting.

[@LeopoldMaysonet]

NYC born and raised 1970-80 , it was a learning experience for me! Learned how to fight in first grade! Born in Concourse Bronx, lived in Yorkville (Manhattan) '72-75 and moved to east Harlem, 112th/ Madison Ave. (Taft houses) '75-80 . Definitely a different place and time..

[@PubliusSPQR]

Even though I'm from Yonkers in Westchester County, this is the New York I grew up in. I understand that Getty Images owns the rights to this video. But I would rather they simply post this fact instead of ruining the video with "Getty Images" on the screen throughout.

[@edwardvelez6764]

Wow. Thank you so......much. My father had a grocer store in East New York and Ralph Ave. And also St. John Place and Ralph late 60's and 70's. Great times. I am retired from the Air force and Post Office. I was born in Brooklyn 1951. I still love New York. Thank you

[@johnnydoubleu3656]

Ahh yes, only American made cars and pay phones..

[@philtripe]

boy do i remember...every time you made it somewhere you were elated if you made it without any car troubles

[@marcchevalier3750]

the bad old days filled with scumbags yes i am talking to that disgusting dumbfck generation (Baby boom / silent gen) shouldve been jailed / aborted a long time ago for ruining this once called a great country

[@tacoconch7678]

Yeah, I can smell the fumes already!

[@gregh7457]

@@marcchevalier3750 shuddup and get back to work. i've got a pension to collect and you're paying for it kid

[@John_Rogers]

@@philtripe That's right and everyone back then was an amateur auto mechanic.

[@laurallama73]

Couldn’t have picked a better song.🎶🎶❤️😎

[@tomfields3682]

Jerry Rafferty! 👍

[@SixFeetUndr101]

Wear is Billy Martin??? LOL. Great video friend!

[@OnettBoyXD]

It looks like Gotham City in the new Joker movie.

[@exequielmorancrowley6726]

For me Gotham is New york in the 70s, i was thinking the same when i was watching the movie haha

[@Metalgearbro]

According to the director of Joker, videos like this had a lot of inspiration for the movies atmosphere.

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

Astro Can’t believe they went back in time to film that movie. By the way, the original Batman authors confirmed that Gotham city was based of New York. And the Joker movie takes place somewhere between 1976 and 1980. During the 70s New York was going through Shit. The homicide rate was through the roof, youth gangs were taking over the streets and so were drugs, the city and the country was going through a recession and a gas crisis. The NYPD was notoriously corrupt aswell. So yea, real life Gotham city. Although New York made it through the 70s, Detroit did not.

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

Astro Here’s a documentary on the events that inspired Gotham city. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHm7coyambV_qa8

[@RandomnessTube.]

Nothing sums up 70s new york city more than the movie taxi driver the joker was inspired by it.

[@patton303]

Remember how cool we thought the future would be? We were wrong. And still no flying cars.

[@zoesdada8923]

Im from New Orleans. I've never been to New York but it seems to me that they've done the same thing to my city they did to New York. Sucked out the soul and flavor.

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

I'm from the UK but I lived in NYC 1982 - 1984. I thought about taking a load of photos of it then, wish I had!

[@if6was929]

@@jaspjody-wb9ef It's an oasis for the rich, are you wealthy?

[@mayaroberts4275]

What are the biggest changes in N.O?

[@citizenmope605]

Zoes Dada The Illuminati eats souls and hates flavor. Bad for business.

[@citizenmope605]

Link Age Uhhhh 🙄 No, I don’t. And I can’t tell if you’re attempting a joke or making a serious attempt at a conversation. Everyone who is in the know, knows that the Illuminati is a hodgepodge of leftist views, tempered by right-wing traditions. Democratic ideology and Republican virtue.

[@calrissianlando7792]

THAT was New York, maigical, affordable, fun and wickedly diverse. Not the piece of junk you have now, man what a great time to be alive that was.

[@eddiegonzalez6824]

This makes me wanna cry. My childhood and the world I knew a 5 minute youtube video.

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

Back when safe spaces meant not being robbed, shot, stabbed, or killed.

[@dominiceugenio3694]

I'll take that NYC over this crap any day

[@chrisbano9216]

Me too, I'll take NYC in the 80s And 90s anytime! I miss my Ray's Pizza, Davids Cookies, Shopping at Antique Boutique, riding the vandalized subway trains! Buying records at tower records on Broadway 4th Street, Renting videos at Kim's Video! Clubbing at the Tunnel, Limelight etc, Miss those time!!

[@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN]

@Kahinur Nessa hipster...

[@mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853]

Mhm. Y'all would have gone back to the Syrian warzone just for the sake of having fun like in the "good ole days".

[@Apefather]

Listen to a song about Brooklyn, New York in the 70's and 80's!kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKO0iaGhhbV3n68

[@dominiceugenio3694]

@Umb Ojust live in this overpriced overpopulated dump we are in now

[@lorenzor4024]

Cars in the 1960s and 1970s looked much more elegant than the plastic vehicles we see today. I experienced the 1970s just for a couple of months but I'd like to get back to those years and buy a beautiful technology-free car for a reasonable price.

[@5Giants5]

Most fascinating are the Checker Cabs, they look straight out of the 1950s but are all new cabs, they just never changed their design.

[@lorenzor4024]

@@5Giants5 Yes, I totally agree!👍

[@armorpro573]

@@lorenzor4024 What's your favorite vehicle?

[@lorenzor4024]

@@armorpro573 I'm not a car expert actually, so I can't recall the name of any specific vehicle. All I can say is that I like every single car shown in the video much more than any modern car you can see today.

[@armorpro573]

@@lorenzor4024 Ok

[@capriomrowkicz1751]

Beautiful times, smartphones, PCs and other devices that destroy modern society did not exist. Beautiful times, especially in the USA!

[@musicforyourminddjjohnny]

That's a great video brother but you missed Yankee Stadium oh my and Shea Stadium it's still a great great video I loved it watched it four times sent it to friends

[@canadianc420]

Never will be a new York like this again . The 80s were great too

[@benjaminsmith2287]

The 80s was full of Yuppie values, greed is great mentality and clubs and galleries changing into trendy stores. There was also disco, if you liked that.

[@canadianc420]

@@benjaminsmith2287 scrotum Bob!

[@billbright100]

@@benjaminsmith2287 disco was in the 70s.

[@benjaminsmith2287]

@@billbright100 Yes, it gets blurred to me after a while. It kind of died out in the early 80s.

[@ulovetashi]

The first part of this video was filmed on Third avenue between 75th street and 77th street. McCabes liquor store is still there on the corner but I remember the owner saying they were going to relocate, maybe because the rent is too high or they plan on knocking some buildings down on that street, not for sure of the reason. 1313 third avenue looks different now. In this video it was a bar and grill, today it's the Citarella Gourmet Market. This area is on the east side, (upper east side) and to be honest that area or that strip is changing rapidly. A lot of buildings are being knocked down and new ones are going up unfortunately.

[@Ojromero_88]

Gentrification

[@thecardsaysmoops3]

Also see Ruppert Brewery Urban Renewal which opened in 1975 as Ruppert Towers on 3rd Avenue between 90th and 92nd. Colonel Ruppert owned the Yankees in the 20's and engineered the purchase of Babe Ruth from the Red Sox.

[@cukikutya3716]

beautiful giirl

[@fanpage3631]

Third avenue 76-77 all the stores got knocked down bout a couple of months ago

[@ulovetashi]

@@fanpage3631 That's sad but we seen it coming unfortunately. Thanks for the update, I appreciate it.

[@DavidinSLO]

"Clowns to the left, Jokers the right" --- nice choice of lyrics

[@carlostorres4662]

I remember 1969. I was 5 years old,and lived at105st,between broadway and amsterdam. I was watching T.v one day in 1969 and proudly witnessed the landing on the moon. I remember like if it was yesterday. Those were the good old days.I also remember skating in lincoln center. That was the real nyc.

[@ozdiaz1048]

What a beautiful time era all American car's on the road and just the look of things they look simple and nice .

[@NatJac-gg3mv]

Excellent video/film quality!!

[@dmscholl4]

It’s like a montage of the B roll of every Scorsese film.

[@Apefather]

Listen to a song about Brooklyn, New York in the 70's and 80's!kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKO0iaGhhbV3n68

[@wanderingwade8877]

Is this Popeye Doyle and Serpico's New York? "Warriors! Come out and PLAYYYEEEAAAA!"

[@JohnnyBeane]

Very cool footage!!!

[@Metsfan1986]

There are issues in every decade. But the world has gone completely to crap in recent times. We have been on a long term downtrend. While you might think that it can't get much worse. See how things will be in the future. There will be another virus that's way worse. World population will exceed what the planet can handle. There will be more civil unrest. We will run out of resources that we depend on today. And much more. I would love to go back to the 70's in NYC. While NYC wasn't exactly a pleasant place in the 70's, it had character to it. Now it's a corporate crap hole. The 5 boroughs were actually somewhat affordable for people to live in too. Now many people who grew up here are forced to move out of state. Even in Queen's or Brooklyn the homes are very pricey. And you're not really getting anything for that type of money. And rents are out of control too. It's a no win situation. And don't think for a second that the crime rate is so amazing now. They tend to understate the numbers. I don't view many areas in the 5 boroughs as necessarily safe.

[@jodydavis161]

Wow i seen a Vaga just love the the 1970s i was a young kid oh how miss it ! The vans the trucks and cars Wow

[@marklennox2151]

....you're right JD...I'm currently looking for a Ford van and I see from this footage how little they've changed in basic design since then...

[@perrysar5954]

I saw at the end a 1975 AMC Red Pacer,so this is definetly 75 and on,back when the city was for real New Yorkers who lived and breathed the city.Times Square now is like going to Disneyland,I want the low down dirty funky NY!

[@awakendify]

That car the looks like a pushed in station wagon

[@FatBichon]

Yessssss AMC PACER at 3:07. Clip must be ‘75 or later since the Pacer was introduced on March 1, 1975

[@nickyl9040]

OK I get that this clip is supposed to show the urban grittiness of NYC in the '70's But as native of NYC I am outraged that it didn't end with the positive uplifting images of the Tall Ships sailing under the VZB and into NY Harbor on 7/4/76

[@mias4696]

I'm an old soul and love New York 70s culture and life.. Hot summers ...fire hydrant sprinklers and sitting on a stoop

[@carlostorres4662]

Manhattan,105 Columbus,ave Westside.I was 12 in the 1976 blackout. amazing days.

[@alcamerc9923]

Now this I remember well. This is my time and my turf. I remember the smell the music, the people. Wonder what if I had stayed. True my life became more sedate but you can deny the excitement of those working days, the subway to and from work, the sirens, the noises you ignored because they did not involved you. It is great where I am, but it was nice back then too.

[@haeleth7218]

Back when cars in America actually looked American.

[@martinliehs2513]

First thing I noticed was that there was not a single foreign car in that clip ( as far as I could see). I don't think that Hyundai existed as a carmaker in its home country of Korea in the mid 70s.

[@philtripe]

dirty...graffiti everywhere...this is the worlds richest nation? its gotten nothing but dirtier and more embarrassing since then

[@mariogiresi6792]

Haeleth 72 And Americans were actually Americans too. We had the whole country to ourselves and had no idea of how good we had it. Now we are forced to share everything that’s ours with Central America, South America, Africa, and Asia and are told by our politicians to shut up and take a back seat. They favor them over us.

[@elizandrolopez6295]

Exactly my man!! Not like today who the streets are full of japanese 1.0 liter junk😤, this is the way people today support what ur country produce ooo man🙄

[@Jbaron9834]

Hey.... was that a 1973 AMC Gremlin ??? Yeah .. that green ugly thing.

[@mattsagonas8594]

1976 or so? I see the Roosevelt tram in a couple of shots of the Queensboro bridge.

[@andreascool3041]

Look how beautiful these classic cars then VS 2020 ugly dam cars

[@corvetcoyote443]

The music, the traffic, perfect video,the Ford Fairmont unmarked police car 2:00 must've been filmed around 1978.

[@deuteriummeridian8998]

Agree, and there were two 1977ish B-body Chevrolet taxis also, outnumbered by the Checker cabs. Am no New Yorker, but I remember when the lanes approaching intersections were all stained with oil and other fluid leaks from vehicles waiting at the lights or at stop signs. That's been gone for a long time now.

[@t-squared6406]

People going about their business,not congested,a little dreary,a little smoggy but decent,alot better than today!

[@excelerater]

when MOM and POP could open a business and make a living in NYC and before the corporations ruined NYC

[@brucebainmatunucksurfrat7911]

I miss the grit that New York had

[@kcash6359]

I remember the sidewalks felt sticky by Times Square.

[@mickroyster6442]

@@kcash6359 o.0

[@Apefather]

Listen to a song about Brooklyn, New York in the 70's and 80's!kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKO0iaGhhbV3n68

[@larrymcjones]

The quality of some of this footage is incredible

[@scottminnella1880]

My father lived in Jersey and talked about NYC. He hated it. Freezing cold. Bums. Beggers. No parking. Traffic. It's a nightmare. He preferred less people and warm weather and moved out in 1975 to Dallas.

[@BlackAlbino2000]

This really speaks New York, nowadays it lost most of it’s meaning. Dull architecture , plain ugly hybrid cars, and everything is way too clean . ;)

[@peterlazaridis1991]

The amazing and great memories of what NY was and will never be again!