Wonderful New York early 1950s in Color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of New York early 1950s we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight, Park Avenue, cars, people walking in the street, horse carriages and more, newest car seen, 1951 oldsmobile
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source from: Prelinger Archives
B&W Video Source: archive.org/de...

[@NASS_0]

Like and Share Please

[@Hundeputzmunter]

Can you do historical events from the 1900s? Or would copyright/ownership be a problem?

[@Dhjlkdhn1123]

I want you to remaster 60fps this one. It's Seoul in 1938. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXnLe2asmLCXhqc

[@Man.Well93]

BACK WHEN MINORITIES KNEW THEIR PLACE AND WOMEN DIDNT HAVE MUCH SAY; MAKING IT A CLEAN SAFE AND WONDERFUL PLACE!

[@tomm5356]

a😮🎉😢😢😢😢😮😮😢😢😅😢🎉😢😅😮😮s​@@Hundeputzmunter

[@TomBarradas]

Like it was shot yesterday... Like stepping back into a virtual time machine. Awesome vid!

[@mr.bnatural3700]

My country is still just like this. So beautiful, 40s & 50's cars. Petro is so cheap.

[@robertnycguyraisedonrecord7587]

Babe, so true!

[@MilanNedicSerbia]

@@mr.bnatural3700 Cuba?

[@andyd9204]

@@mr.bnatural3700 what's your country? Cuba or Venezuela?

[@vincentl.9469]

@@mr.bnatural3700 talking about petrol...those cars would drink plenty of it! and having driven behind old American cars, you can smell the fumes. not good on a still day or in fog...but people survived

[@DR-cr3zo]

my favorite thing is the sound. the fact that you dont add music makes it brilliant

[@PincoPallino-zh8wm]

Ironically every sound here is not from the original video but added to it to recreate the atmosphere.

[@mybigbluetoad]

I'm so fascinated about time travel that if I could only force my way inside the video and stay in that era forever.

[@anthonyeisenhower9960]

@PJM1 Now that makes a lot of sense!

[@anthonydpearson]

I'm not sure if you would though. So many things that we take for granted you'd miss. Being able to hop onto a plane and travel anywhere in the world for a $1500. Being able to call loved ones at any time. Not dieing from simple diseases. Being able to date someone of a different race. It wasn't as wonderful as it seems.

[@newmankidman5763]

mybigbluetoad, in that case, I have to assume that you are neither of Colour nor of Asian descent

[@antoniosoul]

You'd be crying to come back to the present after a few hours I bet, most of us would.

[@newmankidman5763]

@@anthonydpearson, you are correct

[@roy2495]

Wow, Loved to see people without mobile phones snapping pic, streets without bright flashy ads, and aesthetic buildings. Truly the golden times!

[@troye1740]

And they would say the exact opposite probably. "Cool to see people with a device that has all information they need at their fingertips, that can make high definition pictures, video's and everything else. They would probably be amazed by all the flashy ads and bright lights too and would call our age the golden times with all the oppertunities there are (or should be). If humans still had the mentality and ethics of the people back then and the tech and innovation of today the human race would be a rediculously well oiled machine right now. I think it's clear we f*cked up somewhere along the way..

[@HILAL19564]

​@@troye1740 let them swap one year to 2023 let's see how quick they want to go back to the 50s.. Today live sucks

[@Austin-5098]

​@troye1740 I agree with the smartphones but I don't think that even they would want the super aggressive advertising that people have nowadays

[@TheGeorgeD13]

@@HILAL19564 Meh, I'll take today every time.

[@HILAL19564]

@@TheGeorgeD13 you're probably Gen z is why

[@ViveSemelBeneVivere]

Random observations and thoughts while watching this history capture: it was just before the hippie 60s and 50s women still dressed like during WWII years, cars were parked with front wheels turned to the pavement so they didn't trust their brakes much, only some apartments had AC units so they must have been very expensive, there was street trash but mostly degradeable cardboard and paper, there were a few what looked like loitering Teddy Boys, a horse and cart passed by so it was one of the very few anymore, there were no electronic toy gadgets so children healthily played outdoors in large groups, children had bubblegum so the disgusting urban scourge of gum on sidewalks had already started, rail tracks had those wooden sleepers and gaps so were very clickity clackity, safety windows for highrise apartments were yet to be invented. Thanks NASS for uploading this. Your films always sobering put life as we know it now into histrorical context.

[@JohnCasciello]

@Vive === Read your comment of that 1050s video and you were SPOT ON!!!! And one item we NEVER HEARD of was the RECALLS RECALLS RECALLS as of 1995 tru 2024s DEFECTIVE week after week of CARS***APPLIANCES***FOOD PRODUCTS***EXPLODING BATTERIES***MEDICAL ITEMS*** BUT NEVER ANY RECALLS on AMERICAN MANUFACTURED GOODS BACK THEN****

[@CJ-oq6xs]

The little boy pushing the baby carriage 😍 It's so fascinating seeing real people out and about, instead of movie scenes. The contemporary 1950s movies went above and beyond to make everyone look fabulous, but even in more modern movies where they try to be more realistic, it's never going to be *truly* realistic. Wardrobe and hair and makeup people will try to create "aesthetic poverty" with stuff like faded or frayed clothes, but the clothes always fit perfectly, the hair is always perfect, etc. I love seeing what normal people looked like on just a random day.

[@hugodaniel8975]

Boys became father at young age

[@francishughes2016]

I came to New York in 1952 as a baby, i dont remember much, but in about 1959, i do remember the cars, they all had lots of chrome, & were very wide, & stylish, my old man had a buick, & i remember the seats being huge, & my 7 year old legs could,nt reach the floor, oh what happy memories.

[@LatinPlayer10]

Good shit, Francis. You still live in the city?

[@benhur1959]

Those kids if alive now, would be around 80 years old, time waits for no one

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

Time does not move, we move thru time.

[@ninja1676]

@@canuckprogressive.3435Wise man

[@falahalhajri5067]

@@canuckprogressive.3435 it is the same thing.

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

@@falahalhajri5067 Well all motion is relative but still, not really.

[@joyodrobina6893]

My mom was born in 42. She’s 82 years old , born in Manhattan, raised in. Astoria. Still alive 🙏🏼

[@fedecasares]

It's funny because the cinema and also television have spent years and years trying to make the new look like something old, and now I see something old as if it were something that is happening right now. The quality of the images and especially the speed that adjusts to the normal movements of people, cars, etc. is really impressive. Excellent work. Many congratulations and greetings from Argentina.

[@sonnycorleone3251]

WOW! You can never really go wrong when NASS uploads another one of his masterpiece videos. LOVE these New York scenes! Thank you! 😊

[@NASS_0]

Thank you!

[@AlxndrKplnsky]

@@NASS_0 It Is All Good But The Trains Are Not Going With Steampunk Here You Can See By The Rails A Trolley Contact Rail From This All Of These Sections Are Feeded With Electric Power Till Our Days Please Pay Attention! :)

[@baberoot1998]

Assuming this footage was around 1951, or 1952, my mother and father, (father now deceased, and mother turns 79, this coming autumn, 2024), would have both been around the age of 6 or 7. Amazing how mankind figured out a way, after thousands of years on planet earth, to "capture time", on film, so generations later can "see" how things used to be. Think about, just how amazing it is...mankind can "freeze" time, in film and pictures. Absolutely astonishing when one thinks about it.

[@radom6265]

Almost feels futuristic in a way. The body style of the cars. The technology free people. An alternative universe where calmness strives and the sound of the everyday man can be heard eternally.

[@Man.Well93]

BACK WHEN MINORITIES KNEW THEIR PLACE AND WOMEN DIDNT HAVE MUCH SAY; MAKING IT A CLEAN SAFE AND WONDERFUL PLACE!

[@epice6463]

@@Man.Well93wow thanks, we all needed that 🤦‍♂️

[@MarklovesAngels]

@@Man.Well93 I'm getting kinda' tired of this comment in every video like this. 99% of people who comment about earlier times are well aware of the problems that abounded then. They're wishing for a more respectful time. Also, the civil right and women's movements didn't suddenly spring out of the 1960s overnight. Their 'growth began in the 1950s in the churches and work places. My grandmother WAS battling sexism in the work place in the 1950s but she had plenty of allies.

[@geneval3151]

Its always a good day when I get a notification from NASS. But today was extraordinary. That film was fantastic. Couldnt even tell it was shot on film, looks like it was shot this afternoon!!!! The sharpness was unbelievable. That was fun to watch. You're still the best NASS. Thank you.....

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much 🙏 🙏

[@michaelmeiers3639]

What is admirable in this vision of New York in the 1950's, is to note all that is missing compared to New York today; a clean city, without graffiti on the walls and other forms of urban violence, such as gangs of young delinquents in the streets, drug addicts shooting up, but women peacefully pushing baby carriages in 1950, no trace of the rabble hanging out in the streets today, but gentlemen in suits and hats! Children playing safely in the street! One has the impression that in 70 years since 1950 New York has gone from the highest civilization to a fall into decadence and barbarism!

[@ggbeastsike]

True but is it still true that many tourists go there?

[@yosefmekouar]

Barbarism? That is an exaggeration+ look up 1960’s New York that’s when society peaked in terms of balance between individuality and respect for the community. If only people treated the hippies right, the culture war wouldn’t have grown until how big of a divide it is today! People like you, like to compare 50’s America to today, but it’s in the 70’s when all went loose, it’s the 60’s that we should compare today’s society to

[@TheGeorgeD13]

Your description matches some (emphasis on SOME, not all) of New York in the '70s and '80s. Not as much now. And there definitely was urban violence, gangs, and drug addicts shooting up in the 1950s. Actually more then than now when you look at the statistics. But it's very clear you haven't been to New York recently. That's just not the impression you get in most of New York City. And who the heck wants to wear Suits, especially in the summer? That's torture! And people still wear hats. That's always been true in every era of 20th and 21st Century New York.

[@donaldmarcus9655]

Yes even more rapidly with two years since the Communists took over they don't want us like that civilizing decent human beings looking forward to making the world better tomorrow that is a strong Nation they cannot control dirtbags who care about nothing but drugs I sex and partying makes America week easy to control. They're doing now

[@daemondost7168]

the 60s was the beginning of the end. it was the start of the decline, all of the liberal policies that plague us today which lead to all of the degradation of society began in the 60s, I wish we were frozen in 1955 would've been much better for civilization. @@yosefmekouar

[@gryhze]

Simply another masterpiece in remastering history! Thank you.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much 🙏 🙏

[@hayleynadel6808]

This is amazing! This is exactly the kind of content we need in this crazy upside down world we live in today, to give us some warm fuzzies of yesteryear. Well done, and many thanks!! 😊

[@SydneyRadio2UE]

It may give you the warm of fuzzies from yesteryear, but those folks you see in the video are thinking the same thing you are, reminiscing about yesteryear in the same nostalgic way.

[@Brady_Da_GOAT]

Pretty sure the 50s weren’t all warm with fuzziness. Poverty, extortion, violence and depression was still present as it is today. Just cause this was 70 years ago doesn’t mean life was simple. World War 2 just relatively finished up and civil rights for minorities weren’t taken serious yet. Mccarthyism and the red scare was happening and WW3 with the Russians was a constant talking point. Hard to say this was a peaceful time for everyone.

[@suppylarue220]

fuzzy for some people, the back of the bus for others.

[@discodirk48]

This was the spring of our generation or the first turning the summer was between 64-84 and then the fall and now we are in the winter or fourth turning where everything from the old world dies and is replaced with the new generation and so on it goes for another round at life.

[@suppylarue220]

@@discodirk48 thank you mr. philosopher, now it's time to rake up the leaves until the next caretaker.

[@justoestaba2986]

This must be the best and most realistic video posted by NASS. The time machine gets better and better... my god.. now we can look in the past like it was yesterday.. thxs a lot

[@NASS_0]

🙏

[@TheRealHungryJoe]

Hello! Thank you always for your hard work. Your effort shows in these timeless archives. It isn’t overlooked by me ! Have a great day 👍🏽

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much🙏

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

Yes car ownership was higher then in the city. A sign of economic boom!!!

[@gasaholic47]

My mother passed away 2 weeks ago. She graduated high school in Brooklyn in 1950. This is the NYC she was experiencing in her late teens, early 20’s. Thank you for this. It’s a little bit like seeing what my mom saw in her time.

[@robertspencer2647]

I’m sorry to hear about your Mom.

[@matthewpaanotorres7309]

Damn, I feel sorry about your loss. What a wonderful time for her, right?

[@normhanson981]

Sorry for your loss , she must have had a good , long life , maybe 90 years old ?

[@gasaholic47]

@@normhanson981 Yes. She was exactly 90. And thank you.

[@guyaldrich5878]

my mom graduated HS in 1949 also in Brooklyn !

[@Jaffar540]

It is sheer ecstasy whenever I watch your videos of past history.

[@VariedVids]

The character of the city was so much better back then. I was born on the other side of the river from Manhattan in 1951, and this video reflects how ancient I am.

[@buck9668]

Everything was so clean.

[@mritzs5142]

wow I must be ancient too born 50 ib NYC

[@TGWMPE]

Yes. It was very clean. No litter.

[@d23g32]

@@TGWMPE Really? What's all of that trash and litter the camera purposely zooms in on and slowly pans past starting at around 3:50? Whoever made the film was apparently making it a point to show how dirty it was. In fact, all through this film, any place you can see the sidewalks, gutters or streets, there's litter.

[@catsmeow669]

Finding these buildings on Google Maps made this video a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing!

[@margaretduffy4990]

OMG! I attended kindergarten in Central Park near this area. A lot of my playmates there came from these blocks around 96th and Park (I came from the West side). Some of them may be in this footage. It really takes me back.

[@pervaizshiekh7821]

In which year did you attend Kindergarden

[@margaretduffy4990]

@@pervaizshiekh7821 Around 1952

[@pervaizshiekh7821]

@@margaretduffy4990 Thank you for your response. It is great to hear from you, a person, who has lived the era filmed in this video. I wish I could live even a fraction of that era. I look at everything shown this video, trying to pay attention to all the details, using my imagination to transport myself back into those days, I kind of try to live those moments (captured in this video) in my imagination. such videos of past make it so easy for me to understand that this worldly life is actually too short. In every 50 or 100 years, almost everything changes, even generations come and go, and it keeps going on and on.

[@margaretduffy4990]

That’s true and not true. The exterior of our lives changes, with different cars, trains, buses, etc., but we don’t change that much. The little girl who walked on those streets is the older woman who still walks them. I’m still the same person inside. The memories of playing with friends from those streets haven’t changed, though the physical surroundings where we played have. I revisit that area of the park on and off and the major difference I notice is that the trees seem much taller. But they’ve had 70 years to grow! The cars, trains and buses, etc. are different, but they are still cars, trains and buses. In the area covered by the film there have actually been very few physical changes, even to the buildings. I’ve lived through the a lot of political changes in the world, but it is still recognizably the same world. I’ve gone from an era in which children spent a lot of time learning to write longhand to the era of the smart phone where one types instead of writes. But my grandmother went from a world that moved only as fast as a horse could run to the jet age, where people could move thousands of miles in a few hours. In her childhood one could communicate with a few people face-to-face or by telegraph. Before she died people were able to speak across continents by phone, radio was already eclipsed by television and international TV using satellites was just starting. I think those changes were much more startling than anything I have lived through.

[@Edward-jn5pl]

@@margaretduffy4990 I love this thoughtful response.

[@dereka5310]

It's just so refreshing to see what they were like without phones back then. You can see people having conversations, playing games with each other and some just there walking around with their thoughts and the big city

[@billace90]

This had to be before August 31, 1950. Because that’s the date NYC Mayor William O’Dwyer resigned after being confronted with police corruption allegations. At 0:44 theres a big sign about Lexington Houses and there is the name of William O’Dwyer Mayor of the City. He hadn’t resigned yet.

[@shadykatie100]

Good call! I was just about to look him up.

[@DNBursky]

Ir says mayor Robert Wagner on the Lexington Housing. He was mayor 1954-1965

[@Mussi93]

The clarity is really incredible on this one.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@MarioMartinez-tt9ly]

I bet the camera used to record this footage was the size of a fridge.

[@chantheartist5384]

for history buffs like me, this is exciting to watch. Most of theses OLD CITIES are gone. For someone like myself who was born in the 70"s, I missed all of this!❤

[@MikeLeePhoto]

I'm sure Nass goes back in time once a week with his digital camera to bring us back living memories!!

[@LynnMaudlin-qd7hr]

yeah, and nass films it all in about 8 mins. and 3 secs....aprox., give or take a few mins.

[@CustomSneakers]

The clarity of the video is really good for this time period.

[@rsj1799]

I used to work in the Carnegie Hill section (shown in this footage) and most of it still looks the same!!! This is awesome

[@elinavtithanos6270]

How much i love these beautiful seasons... everything was so romantic, so simple,so melancholic.... This season we live now is out of me... Thanks mr.Nass for this so adorable video 🌷❤️ Really for a few minutes i believed how i lived to this video 😐😐😐🌹🌹🌹😔😔😔🙏🙏🙏

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much🙏

[@brucetaylor607]

Excellent time machine of the Upper East Side/96 St and Park Ave. It was so simple back then. I love footage of old New York City. I'm starving for more. 🙏👍

[@ronijoseph8527]

As usual, another incredible NASS video takes us back in time 👍 Thank You for sharing it with us!

[@Stan_o7]

60fps conversion turns these old films into a time machine, great work!

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much ;)

[@milla698]

You do a vatastic job restoring and adding color. Keep up the great work and thank you for posting them they need to be enjoyed

[@gwtwvivien]

You did an amazing work on this video. Everything seems to be so real !!! The cars are beautiful and because of them I think this film is from 1950-1951. Congrats from France!!!!.

[@philsmgb4393]

O'Dwyer was New York's Mayor from 1946 until August of 1950 when he resigned due to being linked to the mafia. He was NY's 100th mayor.

[@gretetimm]

Danke für den Einblick/Eindruck. - Thanks for the insight/impression.

[@eldoradony]

One of your best! Very few air conditioners back then, open windows! How we have gotten spoiled.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much🙏

[@robertthomas6127]

In summer when it was real hot we went to sleep at night with the windows and apartment door open to enjoy a possible cool breeze. Imagine doing that today. You would find your apartment half empty in the morning.

[@suppylarue220]

you wouldn't say that if you had to open your window for ventilation.

[@MatusCreationVideos]

I really find these videos fascinating. I really like the period 1930-1950. Type of dressing, cars, music. That's why I also love the Mafia game series. It fascinates me to see the people in these videos walking along the roads, how children are playing together in the streets. How they look at the camera and take it as something fascinating. It's beautiful.

[@josefnitervol6415]

Yes, I agree, and the Mafia games gives a glimpse of it.

[@epice6463]

@@josefnitervol6415and L.A. Noire

[@josefnitervol6415]

haven't played that ill check it out thanks@@epice6463

[@cedabb]

Every time I think this is your best video yet, you convince me otherwise...great job😀

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much ;)

[@davethorstry6700]

Being close in age to that era I would go back in a flash and stay there, far, far better than today. Not a fraction of the drama. People mostly respected each other, life was simple. You cannot miss what you did not have. Phones, elctronic comms a hassle. We done very well without it. You did not see people walking about with bottles of water and cups of coffee everywhere. Nor buried in their phones. Silly. Everything has value and was not taken for granted. The simpler things is life meant more. Minds were applied more. When you listened to a story on the radio, you had to conjure a picture of it happening. A door closing, a bottle being opened, whatever. Now your mind does not have to do a thing, tv does it for you.

[@bdog1323]

At 2:30, I was fascinated by those 2 color traffic lights as a kid. In one part of the Bronx, 2 intersections had them up until 1984.

[@Daweisstebescheid]

awesome Footage, amazing Videoquality 👌👍, look how the Children used to play outside, today they only play with their mobile phones and not with eachother 🤷‍♂

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much🙏

[@sonnycorleone3251]

Daweisstebescheid, Hi so true. I was born later than this video. But I can relate. I was a kid in the 1970's and 1980's and that was before computer, cell phone,VCR and Answering Machine too. And my brothers, myself and friends used to be outside all the time playing baseball, football, or soccer in my neighborhood. We did not have computers and such. But when you don't have it. You do not miss it!

[@CamcorderHomeVideos]

@@sonnycorleone3251 I'm 15, born in 2007. I know I am very fortunate to have the things now, that they didn't have then. But people seemed so much happier, and more kind to each other. Things weren't as fair then, but it just seems better than things are now. 😔

[@sonnycorleone3251]

@@CamcorderHomeVideos Samuel, Yes. I agree with your thoughts. That is another thing about the 1970's in general. People were nicer to each other back then. They really were. I lived it. All the best to you. :)

[@timjohnson8820]

it was so clean and nice. Best of all not a single "you know what" to be seen at all. No wonder it was so much nicer back then

[@animalactivist7820]

Excellent! Love the cars and fun to see the way styles of clothing have charged. Thank you!

[@MlpPegasister2011]

So cool!, My maternal grandpa was born in '51 and my grandma in '55, My Grandpa remember much the 50s than my grandma, What a beautiful time, right? ♥

[@dr.hamz7]

How nice to see people busy at work and no one staring at their iPhone كم هو جميل ان ترى الناس مشغلوين في اعمالهم ولا ترى احدا يحدق في الآيفون الخاص به

[@362436yy]

Es un trabajo genial, se ve tan actual que parece que fue grabado ayer. Felicitaciones! Amazing job you are doing!

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much ;)

[@atleastmypalmsarewhite9960]

Look how clean, presentable, proud people were back then. Different times and different people I suppose.

[@tomekhauzer]

This is just beautiful. Thank you Nass for a great job.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much ;))

[@USERNAME1-x5u]

Love these videos. Hard to find good quality pictures taken from that time let alone video with the added color.

[@lugano1999]

Amazing how the Park Avenue (and the entire neighborhood) changes right at E97th St where the Metro North suburban trains emerge from the tunnel - at 1:48.

[@lugano1999]

@Lucien Indeed! I have for a long time noted that the 19th century housing stock on the Upper East Side was, and is, nothing special as you go east from Lexington Ave. as you note.

[@elenatramsti5176]

I wish I could go back there for about a week. I'd have a great time.

[@urszulakarolkiewivz1437]

Thank you very much. Amaizing ❤️❤️❤️

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@puckvoice]

The latest this could've been was 1950 because William O'Dwyer left office as NYC Mayor that year. Great restoration!

[@BowWowVideo]

Color quality is really well done. Interesting how this has progressed over the past few years.

[@iamkman]

Please re post this video again with the Title ( Newyork 1950s ), You will get way more views , I just love this so much

[@jonisyoutubechannel]

WOW! SO CLEAR! JUST LIKE A DIGITAL CAMERA...

[@davidtosh7200]

Most vintage street lights on selected streets in New York City are Westinghouse Type OV-20, remote ballast and they are Gumball style in the early 1950s. On the other hand, they are vertical model of Westinghouse Type OV-20 with a more rounded shape instead of slightly concave shaped globes.

[@ИннаМашева]

Огромное спасибо за Вашу работу! Чудесный, потрясающий город!

[@Jigmaster55]

Really beautiful. No drugs, no looting, no burglaries, no shootings, no graffiti, no catch and release programs of criminals, no made up viruses, no rigged elections, no terrorist bombings, no gangs, no women getting raped in the subway, no one being pushed in front of train tracks, no homeless scumbags on the streets, no littering, no reckless driving,

[@marleenscholz4386]

I love your Videos ♥ Oh, was that the slum ?

[@norwegianblue2017]

1885-1995. We had a good run in this country. Been downhill ever since, especially this last decade.

[@imatroll7095]

1885-1959 . Everything absolutely degenerated after the 1950's . The 1950's was the peak of it all

[@johnholme783]

A window into the past! Great footage!

[@daveb8576]

Wow. This is amazing - so clear. Thanks for sharing.

[@Rescue162]

7:32 - William O'Dwyer was mayor of NY from 1946 to 1950. Good video.

[@RobertCeisler]

Yes, interesting that the caption says there is a 51 Oldsmobile in the video. Either the car was early or the sign hadn't yet been replaced.

[@BradThePitts]

1:12 Park Avenue & East 97th street, where the Amtrak Trains pop out from underground. Current day Park Avenue Malls Park. 2:55 1235 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10128 Listings are $1.5 - 4.0 million.

[@carolynwilliams3502]

Omg, this is fantastic. Thank you.

[@joeyphenomenal]

Who and what ruined it? What an amazing time IT was.

[@buck9668]

For one thing, drugs were rare back then.

[@kevinkent6351]

Nice architecture, nice looking cars, well dressed people. But yeah, we've "progressed" so much.

[@AgathaLOutahere]

The 20 years post WW2 were in many respects some of the best in NYC. The demographic changes during the period slowly built up (as in most northern U.S. cities) and the city became increasingly unlivable as the late 60's transitioned into the era of Martin Scorsese flicks.

[@charlesseiderman29]

A time capsule, amazing! I might be in there somewhere?

[@sonnycorleone3251]

At 0:29 The Waldorf -Astoria ! The Luxury Hotel. Where notorious Mobsters like Mob boss "Lucky " Luciano and Ben "Bugsy" Siegel use to live in the 1930's!

[@charlescrawford7039]

Beautifully done! The only thing I can criticize are the added sounds for the trains coming out of the Park Avenue Tunnel. The New York Central and New Haven electric locomotives and Mutiple Units did not sound like a steam locomotive.

[@d23g32]

I think that rhythmic noise was supposed to represent not steam chuffing but the train's wheels going over a joint in the tracks. If so, that's not necessarily inaccurate, but the absence of any other noises even for an electric train isn't very realistic. Having been around many electric trains/subways over the years, I know they make a lot more noise than that. The rushing wind sound of them passing through the air, the hum and whir noises of their motor(s), the high pitched squeals and other racket made by all of their wheels on the tracks, and the rumble and vibrations of them passing by that you can feel and hear.

[@ruslankonovalow]

Спасибо большое, как всегда очень круто.😏👍 С любовью из России.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you!

[@OSTARAEB4]

Good luck over there Ruslan! Be well and safe!

[@ruslankonovalow]

@@OSTARAEB4 Thank you very much! I wish you good health too.

[@HarryFrost-qu8th]

I like those old classic cars they had back in the 1950s they are extremely beautiful cars.

[@LaRafa7]

Love the New York vids. ❤

[@Risteard156]

The good old days may be gone but not forgotten 😢

[@chicobicalho5621]

Sadly, despite the amazing Kodachrome 16 mm footage, our cinematographer did not have an eye for color, shooting essentially bland scenes of brick buildings, and other things, many backlit, that made no difference for color film, so, in essence, if this had been photographed in black and white it would have made no difference.

[@arjivar]

William O'Dwyer (July 11, 1890 - November 24, 1964) was an Irish-American politician and diplomat who served as the 100th Mayor of New York City, holding that office from 1946 to 1950.

[@sonnycorleone3251]

Arnaldo, Thanks for saying. My best guess is this is 1947-1950 NYC. No doubt if it's the 1950's .It's the early 1950's. One commenter said he saw a 1951 Oldsmobile. So who knows?

[@mr.bnatural3700]

In my beautiful country everything is just like this; people dress nice; the women are beautiful and so friendly. Everyone drives 1950 & 1940s cars. Children can play safely outside until the street lights come on.

[@tml184]

Are you in Cuba?

[@EtoRom]

@@tml184 North Korea

[@tml184]

@@EtoRom You have that maniac for a leader though.

[@thetapheonix]

Yup and no food, medicine, or freedom to criticize your own government too.

[@mr.bnatural3700]

@@thetapheonix Why all the nasty bitter hate toward me? You have no idea what country I live in and the complete freedoms and prosperity we enjoy. ✌️ Peace.

[@yesthatsagrubworm.7732]

Absolutely mind blowing for us future folk! 70 years from now...we will be 'these people'. I vividly remember being 16 y o and thinking..."In a blink of an eye, I will be 30 yrs old!" That blink came quick and here I am 30 yrs old...+ a decade or 2.😐

[@machomota]

What I notice this is that when you walk down hill on Park Avenue past 96 Street, you have entered the poor neighborhood there in Manhattan. You have to walk uphill on that same street to enter the rich side of that intersection. Good video, though.

[@xfosda]

Before the enrichment . . .

[@JimDoblin]

Fantastic. I grew up in the New York area in the 60s so this brings back a lot of memories.

[@anamericaninrussia01]

Looks clean - I'm betting this was easily a safer time too...without random attacks and all the known blight of today. Sometimes things really were better.

[@Lalaland-q2z]

I was a young teen in this era living in Manhattan ,what was safer in ALL neigborhoods were the NYPD "vagrancy laws" if you did not belong in a neighborhood other then where you resided with proof and caused any trouble you could be arrested as a vagrant..imagine that today, I would not really have nostalgia for this era as it had it's problem's but the USA dollar was still backed by gold or silver and $1.00 went a long way ,I lived well on 25 dollars a week salary ..but at the time of this film, kids had deathly crippling Polio and I think the life expectancy was 55 for men largely due to diet and who did not smoke cigarettes back then?

[@groundcontrol436385]

Those apartments at 1225 and 1235 Park Avenue look exactly the same today. I was born in NYC in 1951. Love seeing these. Thank you. Re remarks about cell phones. They are a wonderful and valuable invention obviously. The problem is people always go overboard. Extremism usually ruins everything it touches.

[@arrowcrusher]

There is no graffiti and no drug dealers or homeless people

[@bderrick4944]

Born n raised Brooklyn, born in 1943., this was my childhood. Thanks!

[@NASS_0]

Thx!

[@OSTARAEB4]

Mostly all lower and Upper Park Avenue in 1950, maybe 1951. Those tenements although somewhat aesthetically unattractive are New York City and sadly many were razed to build sterile project developments.

[@珍惜-d3d]

Those old style cars was so beautiful

[@THT01]

It’s soooo clean.

[@bryp6553]

yeah well look at the people who are living there and look at the people who are living there now that should explain it

[@PincoPallino-zh8wm]

That area is, but most of NYC wasn't. Go look for some pictures of the the slums of the 50s in NYC.

[@LifeofWalk]

OMG this is amazing! I feel like there is a possibility I could exist in this world unlike with other footage that I can't relate to because it's too grainy and 10fps!

[@williamwebb7917]

What a great film. Colorization is wonderful. Life was more orderly( not perfect ) compared to the present.

[@RobMoses]

Amazing video! What a time to be alive.

[@johngreen6783]

Most of this appears to be Park Avenue between 96th Street and 97th Street, where the tracks come out of the tunnel

[@kirsten1992]

Life was so much simpler and better back then, now the world is is a big mess

[@suppylarue220]

the world was a mess at that time. you forgot WW2 and the Korean war?

[@kirsten1992]

There was never a war in the USA, they always started the wars outside US, but its the worse today ever , i'm sure that u know what i mean, no need for any details

[@suppylarue220]

@@kirsten1992 there's been never ending war from the United States. Hit your history books again . (not the revisionist books)

[@kirsten1992]

Ok, i will ... "thanx for the heads up ! "

[@suppylarue220]

elaborating further, THE HISTORTY OF HUMANS IS WAR!

[@CoolMonkey55]

This time shows how safe the Children have been on the Street 👀