Harlem New York Hoods In The 1980's

[@CharlieBo313]

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[@kevinanderson4804]

Do you have merch

[@taraerskine3954]

@@kevinanderson4804 that's a good question??? Omg what slums imagine breaking down there! Or forced to live there

[@taraerskine3954]

The video of Lick it up by Kiss is done in the Bronx check it out! They didn't even need props!!!

[@brentfarvors192]

Looks like they used the A-Team van to film this one...?

[@jimmythemadostrich8947]

Coolio kno'm'sayin'? Ain't no jive-assin'around y'dig? Vinyl albums, movies played in theatres, good coke, No non-binary/gender specific sexual politics, no cancel-culture , and best of all, no god-damn Ed Sheeran on the radio, y'get me!!?

[@Zombertino]

Imagine someone watching this now in their 60's and seeing themselves walking around in the video when they were like 20 years old... Man, that would blow your mind and skip a few heartbeats I bet 😆

[@kenlompart9905]

I watched a video like this but it was Brooklyn in the 80s which looked pretty rough too and a woman commented about one spot in the video where she was skipping with a couple of other girls on the sidewalk in front of their apartment. I had a short conversation with her in the comments and she sounded legitimate and was quite excited to see herself and her friends in the video which she had no idea even existed.

[@Matutazo23-y7e]

Imagine Samuel Muthafaka Jackson Walking there

[@daddygrace253]

Yes, it did. I was born in Spanish Harlem in 1955 and I am still alive and well at 67 years old.

[@labla8940]

@Baby Lane Stanfield 25 in 85 62 is the average age this was clearly 1980 81 Mamas went out of business in 82 and here its still in business this may even be ate 70s. So 25 in 82 probably even earlier makes average 65

[@ChicagoMillingCo.]

@@kenlompart9905 what video was it?

[@SilasBudman420]

The time traveling fearless man uploads another great one

[@TravelingOnStardust]

This is pretty cool to see! I wonder where this footage came from? New York was no joke in the 70s and 80s! 😳

[@kenlompart9905]

@@TravelingOnStardust It looked like hell on earth, at least Harlem did.

[@TravelingOnStardust]

@@kenlompart9905 I believe it!

[@JohnnyT002]

@@TravelingOnStardust I know part of the area where this footage came from. It looked like it started around 127th Street and then went down 8th Avenue past the 28th Police precinct down to about 111th Street. I remember those days but now every thing has been rebuilt in that area.

[@MrCrowebobby]

He was driving pretty fast for a fearless man. I watched this slo-mo at 0.25 speed.

[@petetj333]

I love that someone had the foresight to do this. The plainness of this captures a nostalgic, poetic beauty of this rough yet simpler time.

[@theblackmoth1111]

A scroll in time . Feels like I am a passenger in first person

[@NoahBodze]

All it does is show white kids who were raised on guilt that black people have always been destructive.

[@joshholgate3074]

Amazing words! Spot on

[@streetfighters805]

Damn greatly put. 👏👏👏👏

[@billjohnson2081]

I love footage like this, especially from places like New York. Every building and every block has a story to tell.

[@gammie1017]

Though gritty, watching this took me back. Wow, Harlem has truly evolved from then. I saw Martin Paint, blew my mind. Thank you for this!

[@mistofoles]

Who's he ?

[@heybabycometobutthead]

@@mistofoles If you weren't there you wouldn't know! I wasn't there so I don't know!

[@Harlem-ub3tn]

Yeah! I saw it too. I remember when they went out of business. Good sales. You remember Steak and Take? Now that was some Good eating!

[@sonnycreativemedia9494]

It's cool to see the old cars from the 80s

[@blueeyedsoulman]

I worked there and also played in a music group from '89 to 2001. I only had one issue where a guy called me honky because I brushed up against his side mirror. His girlfriend jumped out of the car and started shaming him and he stopped. I was very respectful. Aside from that, no issues. It was a great experience with people very welcoming towards me.

[@jasonjay1053]

Crazy to think , some of the most well known Harlem legends are probably in one of those buildings as a toddler watching transformers.

[@meegssan5716]

Like who? Frank lucas?

[@meegssan5716]

@@robertmoray988 but wasnt biggie brooklyn hood?

[@slicks8078]

@@meegssan5716 Big L, RIP

[@hto560]

@@meegssan5716 Yeah Biggie is from Brooklyn. Across the East River

[@dannydubya9410]

Big L

[@karinaafrolatina]

This is the Harlem I grew up in. So glad to be around to see it look so much better 😀 Just came across the building I've lived in all my life and got so emotional. Wow

[@klaasj7808]

sure

[@magnareslibertas3468]

Puuhh i am from East Germany 1990 and i think my hood have the Same Charaktersistik no Money all Closed but better Cars in Harlem and more Criminal Background..... My hood have more land and more Nature.... Harlem is build on Asphalt Stone all the same Buildings streets for me is this sick for Humans but i can Underatand why a Human Love his Childhood but i wish more for Everyone

[@elijahtt4853]

Give the Dems a few more yrs and rest assure it will be a 💩hole again

[@karinaafrolatina]

@@elijahtt4853 41 years and I have seen a significant amount of improvement. By the way I lived in a building where: *the lobby doors were always open. *Every single drug under the sun was sold which is why I know the smell of each one. *The stairs were falling apart *the elevator hardly ever worked (often had to help carry my handicapped brother up 4 flights of stairs after school) *Father was almost robbed once *rats could be heard in the walls and there was a bad roach problem. *constant drug raids I say all that to say this... Harlem has come a long way and I only see it getting better.

[@elijahtt4853]

@@karinaafrolatina Sorry you had to go through that my friend. Sounds pretty rough. Sincerely hope youre living a much better life now🙏... all im saying is it was a republican that made these areas so much better, and now from what i hear from New Yorkers things have taken a turn for the worse now with the dems in charge, more generally speaking of New York as a whole. "Turning into a 💩hole" were their exact words

[@Alexander196210]

I visited NY in 1982 with the Royal Dutch Navy. Before our trip we were told not to go to Harlem and not to travel with the underground, it was considered too dangerous. I was a young sailor and listened to my superiors, but when I see these images of that era I always regret not doing those things. I "only" walked the streets of NY city and I loved it. It was a life changing experience. I've been back to NY many times after and it will always be my favourite city.

[@klondike69none85]

They were right you woulda got jacked

[@MC32595]

a

[@BigbearTKO]

Bsck then it was really dangerous to go out there if you weren’t from Harlem. That was the height of the crack epidemic.

[@captaincrispier8155]

@@BigbearTKO '82?

[@BigbearTKO]

@@captaincrispier8155 80s was when crack was new and fresh and was the beginning of the end of Harlem. Harlem is a crack infested wasteland now. Sad shell of what it used to be.

[@stepheng3667]

The hoods were worse back then but the cars were cooler.

[@julienbee3467]

Honda Civic, Renault Alliance

[@valentinrobert1192]

Ill see new cadillac deville buick regal Cutlass Supreme Chevrolet caprice And chevy van and 70 s cars the area Is a dump but cars was great lot of good memories Living in the 80s

[@julienbee3467]

@@valentinrobert1192 are you French ?

[@AlexStudio0610]

@@julienbee3467 yes his french from paris

[@resdabest27292]

Wow reminiscing of old NY with all the abandoned buildings and empty lots. We use to play baseball /football in those empty lots. Even seeing pay phones on the corner is crazy looking.

[@cv1368]

Yup the hood ole days… if they wasn’t there they wouldn’t understand

[@Freelandrew]

If you bought an abandoned building, how much would be worth today?

[@kingmoney05]

@@Freelandrew 3.million.. we own one

[@simplyshatina]

I love watching footage which captured the real NYC from these time periods; they make me miss the NYC I remember visiting as a child. So nostalgic.

[@dominickcamry5247]

Thanks Charlie for taking us down memory lane in Harlem. I did a Google maps analysis and from what i can tell it shows going westbound on W.127th, then southbound on St. Nicholas Ave. then cuts to rest of the trip southbound on Frederick Douglas Blvd, looking west. Many of those empty shells are still there and have been nicely renovated, probably several times over since then. In this video we can see the many signs of future development of those shells at that time, as well as new construction projects like the Antler Apartments at 6:45. Other things to note are: what is now the Greater Zion Baptist Church, NYPD 28th precinct, subway stairways are there at same locations. Would be nice if most of those cars from that time were still around. Wonder how many of those people and kids you see are watching themselves in this video today? Thanks for sharing!😊😊😊

[@antmck99]

I remember that area. That where I use to get all my crack from

[@RoscoMontana21]

Thank you for your research!

[@klaasj7808]

most is gone

[@MrCoffeekelly]

These clips are years apart

[@cv1368]

8th ave… I remember it oh so well… best of times

[@omkzion1353]

You went back in time to give us the hood in the 80s appreciate it man :) 💯

[@Eman1900O]

something tells me this is charlie in the same damn vehicle that needs new shocks

[@Мммакс]

Это не они стучат, держу в курсе.

[@coubri4205]

I should have followed a family members advice and purchased one of those boarded up properties. Hers appraised recently for several million. The neighborhood has changed so much,including the faces!

[@azt69boyz72]

Yes! That was the time to buy. I knew someone in Bed Stuy who bought back then with the same appreciation in value.

[@teekolinski491]

They were selling some buildings for a $1 in Harlem & BedStuy. It would have been a great investment if you could keep it up throughout the years.

[@cv1368]

Yea unfortunately the faces changed. Miss the old neighborhood how it use to be. Great times and memories

[@kingsittystudios2400]

I remember performing at the Apollo, they robbed our dressing room while we were on stage. that use to happen a lot at the Apollo.Then they kicked my crew out the theater when we tried to get at who did it. crazy night.In the 90's I was on 125th every saturday night. the good ol' days. My fave spot was Perks on Manhattan Ave, had a birthday party there. Wil Smith (fresh prince)performed a the rooftop when he first came out. 1,000 thugs in the spot and he did "girls of the world ain't nuttin but trouble.lol.

[@pawelsawicki1750]

Priceless piece of document. No pseudo-emotional music, no comments, pure vision.

[@eliskakordulova]

It's never gonna come back, is it. The 80s and 90s were just different time for everybody. It's been too long, man. I miss my childhood.

[@muppelmuh1445]

As a European who only knows the USA through movies but grew up in the 80s: oh look, the real sesame streets!

[@sputzelein]

Exactly my thoughts.

[@williamdtt]

Me too. Now i have the Starsky and hunch song in my head 😁

[@sidigs344]

@@williamdtt lol 😎👍🏽

[@theghostinthemachine5602]

Ugh I wouldn’t go if I knew the way😂

[@ugosausset286]

@@theghostinthemachine5602 ugo

[@adamfrazer5150]

Can't tell you how much I appreciate you making this available 👍 These slices of history, like being on the corner, back then - 🙍 it lands hard for me, not entirely sure why. Regardless, many thanks man, this is priceless 👍🍻🇨🇦

[@NoahBodze]

Redlining and segregation make crystal clear sense when you see what blacks do yo places they weren’t kept out of. Even if you don’t understand it, the rest of us see it now. Harlem was founded by the Dutch and was beautiful until blacks arrived. That’s also a common theme in history.

[@RonaldDregan]

Harlem world 139 and Lenox avenue RIP Big L Big Lamont Coleman Harlem Born and Raised RIP

[@oneLEADFOOT]

This is incredible...I was there in 1983 and this looks very close to what I remember.

[@антонантонов-н6е]

What did you do there?

[@dalestephen1361]

@@антонантонов-н6е Blow and Snow and Hookers and Traps ...

[@антонантонов-н6е]

@@dalestephen1361 I in this time went to the school in Donetsc city in USSR - and i didn't think about Harlem at all )))

[@oneLEADFOOT]

@@антонантонов-н6е My father was a truck driver and I would ride with him.

[@ПавлоСідоров-щ7ю]

@@антонантонов-н6е А зараз ти де?

[@Max-wd6og]

These throw backs are so cool

[@KingNeutral1]

The 80’s were such a rough decade…high-crime, AIDS, crack, cold war, etc, etc

[@marcusleja7133]

We've traded the AIDS for fentanyl, and now have overt limited war.

[@for_real5912]

Why Aids ?

[@KingNeutral1]

@@for_real5912 This was when it was 1st discovered and it was completely untreatable for the most part. AIDS ran through many high-risk groups like wildfire and the fear was everywhere..

[@for_real5912]

@@KingNeutral1 ☹️😱

[@KingNeutral1]

@@for_real5912 Yeah check out some of the early AIDS documentaries here on KZbin..some scary stuff

[@JWalker1976a]

I wouldn't be surprised if Charlie was really filming this 🤣 This is the definition of a real hood

[@TravelingOnStardust]

That would be crazy if he kept (and found) this old footage from almost 40 years ago! 😳

[@gameguru1488]

Charlie couldn't film this. He cannot travel back in time. It's impossible.

[@bubbadoe8970]

@@gameguru1488 duh

[@ArkOmen1]

@@TravelingOnStardust yeah that's what I was thinking, like maybe Charlie Boi had this and is now springing this as a secret weapon!

[@TravelingOnStardust]

@@ArkOmen1 Could be, lol! That's pretty cool if so!

[@chrisblack5054]

81 I was still doing the disco fever in the Bronx and Harlem world...I worked on 23rd and my best friend lived in Grant projects Tony Barnhill rip...

[@marcelhumes1360]

I've lived in Harlem since 2005 and I can't believe the difference. I'm shocked that all this was even able to be renovated and upgraded from the extreme blight I see here! These streets of then and now are like night and day. Great video. ty.

[@KarolinaSłaboń]

Hi! Can you remember names of some streets we see in this video? I would like to find this places at Google Maps and compare. I'll be gratefull to you.

[@M987M-f5x]

Чарли, попробуй проехать по тем же самым улицам сейчас, и сделай видео, где на половине экрана будет эта старая запись, а на половине экрана новая. Интересно сравнить.

[@moremusic868]

Good idea

[@iivaridark6850]

Yes, it looks like in Ukraine, in some places.

[@vdubskiee5356]

that’d be 🔥

[@антонантонов-н6е]

@@iivaridark6850 Where have you seen so many blacks in Ukraine? )))

[@iiii-nn1dt]

@@iivaridark6850 most of Ukraine looks like that the last 30 years, nothing new has been built but ukrainian flags all over the place.

[@karenk3458]

My hood it’s so very different now thank goodness breaks my heart seeing this and it also gives me great vibes as well from memories more than half of the people living there now would never live there.

[@reallife0728]

GOOD OLE HARLEM!!!! WE HAD SUCH A STRONG SENSE OF COMMUNITH BACK IN THE DAY!!!!💯💯💯💐💐💐

[@cv1368]

The best. These were really the good ole days.

[@Harlem-ub3tn]

You right! I'm proud to say I grew up there. Prepared me for this Cold World! An education like no other.

[@bro0406]

The fact you see not 1 person w a cell phone makes me smile so damn much

[@agustindejesus7398]

Rat, out of these ugly buildings some one was working on the cell phone, and then....bingo.

[@bro0406]

@@agustindejesus7398 I mean people had to actually talk to each other

[@for_real5912]

I love That way 😍

[@sylviaruth5008]

I was trying to figure out what was different. That’s it! No cellphones.

[@robyncook5255]

the landlines wifiers something horrible saying targeted there was a horrible gang out in the world at this time even

[@ryanthompsonthompson820]

I felt so many emotions watching this. It felt like I was really there.

[@jrallday]

I like watching vintage footage of The 80’s 🎥 ❤

[@WickedGaming005]

charlie became a time traveler damn

[@Tiberius291]

I was in my early 20s living in Miami Florida enjoying my youth, thanks for the trip down memory lane. 🌤 🏖

[@craiggillett5985]

Amazing footage. What buildings survived that period went on to be renovated and are worth millions now

[@for_real5912]

Bro 😀

[@briansmith48]

I would like to see a side by side viewing of then compared to now.

[@TXnine7nine]

Had to do with LA, but I’ve seen similar style driving videos on KZbin from back then with a second video of the same route and as it is today. The video are then played on a split screen side by side. I can only imagine how crazy that would be if it were done for this video. So many abandoned buildings and empty lots in this one.

[@Swoop2565]

There are some bldg that are still here but have been renovated but most are gone…8th Ave was blocks of abandoned lots back then…it could dangerous late night

[@AURIANNA1234]

Harlem looks like Disney World now compared to the 80s&90s

[@waynegoodman3345]

I don't understand the nostalgia for the 1980s as someone who grew and was a teenager back then it was a tough time for many people.I remember a lot of unemployment and "deindustrialisation" some places have never really recovered even now.

[@armorpro573]

Well people nowadays are blinded by nostalgia. That’s why they tend to focus on the “good old days”

[@brandtc.7991]

Damn, they did not mess around with boarding up places! They straight up cemented them! lol

[@mksolid82]

There will always be a charm to the 80s even in the image of these old and ruined hoods. It’s fascinating.

[@MadX8]

It's charming on a KZbin video yeah. Living there though, not so much

[@julied7546]

No

[@bobbykiriakidis9753]

I was a teenager in Toronto in the 80’s and we had most of our downtown looking pretty rough and industrial not at this level and yes I don’t miss it. Gentrification is a great thing that I never thought would have such an amazing impact

[@jeffreyhaynes5774]

The last GOOD decade in America.80's

[@dazinqwilly3385]

@@jeffreyhaynes5774good decade? Did you watch the video 😂

[@reallife0728]

116TH ST. NOW LOOKS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!!!💯💯💯

[@Ktgsvtrdg66]

Watching this makes me wonder who in the video is still around and kicking? Love these shots really gives a brief real life view into all the tales of city hoods and scary places. I would have loved to have been there in the 80s with a camera! Thank you Charlie!

[@CanariasCanariass]

I always ask myself the same question when I see videos like that. Would love to have a time machine as well..

[@ksdk326]

I went to school where this being filmed. I remember seeing it like this

[@valentinrobert1192]

Half those people are dead or old The cars are gone building are gone New building Charles is older that was he was young

[@VinDieselXXX]

Lol this really isnt that long ago. Mostly everyone is still around. The abandoned/burned up buildings are gone. A bunch of white people have moved in. But everything else is the same. I would say this decade is the last hurrah if you were born in the 50s and 60s. By 2030 you guys are pretty much FOSSILS.

[@nuyorican91st]

I'm still kicking...but I was only a baby in 1985

[@davidblack2693]

My brother ,& I lived at 2211,& 8th ave when we were kids during the 70s

[@RPKGameVids]

The video quality seems to look really good for a handheld camera in the 80's. I would love to take a walk around there, it just has a certain atmosphere that I find appealing.

[@ROROSMACHINE]

Yes I agree very good quality video recorder and video tape, nice light absorption, almost looks like 16mm but very unlikely...

[@MultiTrace22]

Watching these videos gives you that feeling of being alive in ways that you can not put into words.

[@Pink_celeb420]

Wow so interesting to see how much and how drastically my hood has changed! The precinct on 123rd and 8th avenue is still the same today @ 3:24

[@thewhitedevilfromthebible5899]

Facts

[@IndyCrewInNYC]

Let's see, I saw Riverside Church and Grant's Tomb on the horizon so this is Central Harlem heading south. At 6:58 you see the huge Cathedral of St. John the Divine in the distance which is around 110th - 111th and Amsterdam Ave. Being an '84 baby, I would've most likely been a toddler living about 30 blocks up near the Hudson River. Nice time capsule for us Natives.

[@cv1368]

Yea lot of this is 8th ave going downtown

[@IndyCrewInNYC]

@@cv1368 Exactly or its better known name of Frederick Douglass Blvd.

[@cv1368]

@@IndyCrewInNYC we still call it 8th ave, 7th Ave n Lenox… born n raised 115 st and Lenox. Foster projects.

[@IndyCrewInNYC]

@@cv1368 I hear ya...like 6th Ave. vs Ave. of the Americas. Born and raised adjacent to the RiverView Towers in Hamilton Heights - 140th St.

[@cv1368]

@@IndyCrewInNYC yessir

[@robbieeades1956]

I loved seeing all the cars . They were real cars with power and 4 barrel carburetors. Find more of these videos CharlieBo.

[@julienbee3467]

They were more exciting

[@captainfreedom3649]

back when they were built out of metal, without that electric garbage inside

[@robbieeades1956]

@@captainfreedom3649 yessir that's right!!

[@zoomanx9661]

They did that Cadillac dirty 😂😂

[@hoopty.]

Straight mob cars 😂. They don't make em like that anymore.

[@TacSav253]

Only Charlie would risk time travel to bring us footage like this. Appreciate ya pops

[@Des_Zee]

this looks like mid to late 80s footage

[@antmck99]

I remember that area. That where I use to get all my crack from

[@BML_006]

K>

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

@thedarkage187now everyone's car is shaped like a tank 😪

[@MC32595]

@@antmck99 we get it, you’re a junkie

[@emileneslo5695]

You can tell the Dutch were once there. Very similar buildings. The only difference between Amsterdam and New York would be the sidewalks. New York's sidewalks are much wider and very spacious.

[@shaunmckenzie5509]

These buildings were built well after the Dutch left

[@diangelo6686]

Italians not dutch

[@darkmatter7668]

@@diangelo6686 What do Italians have to do with the architecture?

[@bkboy8259]

@@darkmatter7668 a lot of my it was built by Italian immigrants

[@teekolinski491]

Sidewalks were widened over time

[@tommos2967]

I was there in 2018, close to the Firebrigade, it changed totally and that gives hope, people changes too. Thank you posting!

[@chosenone2472]

Yeah due to gentrification 😏

[@harlem-bx]

Homie this is great video.This area is my hood navigating back and forth to my mother and grandmothers house uptown to downtown.This had to be around 86,87..I was about 10 but outside Literally.Great video of st.nick and 8th Ave. 💪🏿💯

[@ksdk326]

That's where I grew up. It's completely gentrified now. Looks NOTHING like this

[@sal2975]

Looks nicer now 👍

[@DrummerJacob]

That's called progress.

[@frankrohr8108]

Having worked there, and lived and worked in Philadelphia, the one thing missing to really give you the experience is the smell. And the heightened sense of awareness, that hood readiness.

[@tonyharvin]

classic, keep it up Big C

[@Grafite949]

Pause

[@TravelingOnStardust]

This is pretty awesome!

[@iiii-nn1dt]

@@TravelingOnStardust what awesome? looks like a nightmare.

[@chosenone2472]

@100 No what you all are doing to Ukraine is a nightmare. Mind your business 👺

[@TowManDave00]

Wow... What a flashback!!... Cool footage man!!

[@Jhihmoac]

Woww! I was living in the Chicago Area during this time, but I always tried to make a "pilgrimage" to NYC once a year to see relatives living in different parts of the City, and could remember driving through Harlem on the way...

[@charlesedward5047]

2:35 Judging by that Toyota Supra, this is around 1986-1988

[@Ja-chevy]

Man I didn't know you can time travel too. Just kidding man keep up with the great work! Love your videos!

[@dunderwood4444]

Tire service flats fixed business is the only business that survived that Era, This was our Vietnam, Vietnam in Harlem

[@jaybird185]

I know you will think I’m nuts, but there is something so beautiful about this. NYC is amazing in every way and so are the people who live there. Thank you for this video. Peace to all.

[@santiagoblasgilabert2877]

Estás loco.

[@Quarantineism]

The typical setting for all the arcade fighting games/brawlers back in the day.

[@Josh_1312]

No cell phones, no TikTok, just people enjoying the moment.

[@Gofroze]

Enjoying the moment smoking crack ..sounds better for sure

[@damianb7710]

Nah this video is so clean it’s like it’s from an iPhone. Great work.

[@lifeislife489]

The sounds and even the smell is different now. I wish we could bring the 80's back.

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

Believe it or not but The East Village Manhattan (Ave B-to Louisiga Ave e12th st down to Lower East Side ) looked even worse in the early 1980's

[@GeeEm1313]

Alphabet City was no joke.

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

@@GeeEm1313 No it wasnt. I remember I dropped a friend off in front of a condemned building on E6th st, there was an "X" painted on entrance boarded shut. I said "where are you going i? she said "there's a club in the basement you just have to avoid the rats" lol

[@Swoop2565]

Lower East side gave Harlem a run for it money when it came to blight..although L.E.S didn’t have quite as many vacant lots

[@Terra_Rex_Shop]

@6:05 Message for the 80's....Nyc writers - *Crack Kills* "Take it from the Kings TPA? BudIsm". Pose TFO RIP, Easy, Josh5, (Joz RIP), Fec, Chama, Jew to name a few kingz seen here. The 80's were some of the Illest, realest times, the air was different then. Thanks for posting this vid !! RIP DEZ aka Dezzy Dez aka DJ Kay Slay

[@damin9913]

I appreciate my time so much it was magical

[@iconocolor643]

That's just 40 years ago. 6:59 that view of that church rooftop at the end of the street is pretty epic...

[@mikeoglen6848]

I was wondering if that is St James Cathedral?

[@Roofers-Nail-Hardest]

What a thrilling environment. This was probably the only working camera for miles around. It has a Wild West vibe but in a more modern time.

[@bronx-calizoo5132]

Driving south on Frederick Douglass Blvd. That's my neighborhood where I live now. Most of those buildings don't even exist anymore. Now, that area is being gentrified and many Columbia University students, C U employees and even many White people are taking over that area. Google map it and you'll see how it has changed. I used to live right by the 28th Precinct, in Harlem, which you can see as the person drives through. It's the building that takes the entire block as he drives south on Frederick Douglass Blvd. I now live on Fred Douglass, the building that's being constructed right at the corner before the video ends. It's a building mostly for seniors, retirees and those who are collecting SSI.

[@NonameNoname-rf3hg]

We're traveling south on Frederick Douglass Boulevard starting above 133rd Street and ending at 111st Street. At 2 or 3 seconds into the video the red brick house is on the SW corner of 133rd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. We know this because on 133rd Street the house has a window-door-window, with newer bricks reducing the sizes of the windows and door, and we see these same features in google streetview today. Near the end of the video we see in the distance the Cathedral of St John the Divine which is at 112nd Street. Even though the video seems to be made up of separate clips, it's probably only the one southbound trip with the filmmakers sometimes stopping the camera to save film.

[@year3tho5]

Wowwwwww 119th street and 8th avenue yo it was like living in hell for real. The lobbies had no light so when you walked past the building, it was nightmare. I can’t believe my eyes watching this video. Man I miss that vacant lot feeling.

[@Swoop2565]

😂😂😂

[@VJSmith-eg8dt]

Sidewalks was surprisingly mad clean

[@roseeze166]

This would have made more sense if the street numbers were filmed too so one could compare and contrast to what is around now.

[@LocationLocationLocation247]

Ya fuck CharlieBo313 get those street numbers next time you go back to 85!

[@KCNYC]

It looks to be north of 125th Street west Harlem

[@Swoop2565]

@@KCNYCcentral Harlem going south on 8th Ave …west Harlem was a blighted

[@joeyjennings9548]

i was there.. yep thats there then.. all missing is sounds & smells. but i remember it well. 70's is when it started going downhill so bad. but honestly today in 2022 its more scary knowing what could come next

[@queenratv115]

I remember these days before gentrification

[@robertrichardsonjr.6705]

This was either 1988 or 89,due to a Honda Civic LX body style.

[@interesting2491]

I used to live here in the 1920’s, how Times have changed

[@AimnHmz]

How old are you now?!😮

[@Meatballs545]

​@@AimnHmz Hes Probably Just Joking

[@anthonyyoutubefan7567]

I remember this. I didn't see it much, because I was just a child, and Harlem was not to be messed with then (and now, to be honest..my guard is always up, when I'm in Harlem), but I was well-familiar with its look, feel, smell, drugs, and poverty. Thank you, Sir.

[@TheOldTapeArchive]

Great archived footage. Some of those street hustlers are still standing around doing nothing.....only in front of fancier digs.

[@agustindejesus7398]

Old, selling coke.

[@ronloc3309]

If they hustlers they gotta be doin something

[@Ihuffglue91]

JOZ and EASY popping up nearly every 10 seconds in this video. They HAD the streets locked

[@OJ-Simpson]

Damn cuz. You’ve been doing this for 40 years?!

[@thepanel2935]

NYC real estate is too valuable these days to ever let it sit there and rot like seen in this video. This area would now be beautified and gentrified and expensive. Nobody from the '80s can afford their former NYC residence anymore.

[@kajouman]

when i see this ,it gives me the vibe of hill street blues or streets of san fransisco series. but some great classic cars i see,much nices then modern cars.

[@cardphins68]

Very interesting video. The Overcast Sky pretty much sets the mood for this video. I wish there was a way to shoot this video again in 2022 tracing the same steps and same areas. NYC was really hurting back then, just look at the scenery. Abandoned and burnt out buildings, pretty much urban blight. I think New York City is still a great city, I guess every place seems to have its ebbs and flows. Thank You for posting this.

[@dennisbobongie3848]

I wish I could travel back in time to the 80s and buy one of these Harlem properties

[@hasandemirkiran2752]

Took me back to my childhood, a lot of good and bad memories thank you for bringing me back in time, hope and wish for your child to grow and wish for you to come up

[@dannywilkins887]

What’s with the banging?,someone locked in the trunk?😅

[@lindagoldsmith5899]

Harlem was and always be my Home sweet Home, miss being there, now I don’t even recognize it , completely different 😔

[@davidblack2693]

I saw a lot of things a kid should never have seen growing up in Harlem during the 70's.Who remembers wild Irish rose,& Thunderbird,Woolworths,thom mcan

[@washingtonsteven6885]

Night Train wine

[@FlorinBaci]

Would be nice to have this updated to today...

[@josefl3349]

You should do the same tour and compare how you are now.

[@jessblulove]

This video brings me memories of my single digits days. Many fun days, sad days, and how much has changed. I miss my childhood days.

[@jayski8987]

I miss the old gritty NY with graffitied subway cars

[@dollasignmic18344]

All them old school rides they didn’t even know could be fixed into G rides candy paint switches low rider’s and slabs in the future

[@leilazarmie6184]

Hey Charlie, are you a time traveler? Because, it's looks like you had shot this video on today's recording, like them car's camcorders. Did they had car's camcorders back in the 80s? Some one please correct me on this.

[@nige3801]

You could get video cameras back then, they were expensive though. They would record onto VHS tapes. No digital technology then, analogue only