Harlem, New York 1930s in color, [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

[@NASS_0]

Would you like to live in the 1930s??

[@Edward-jn5pl]

I wold love a time machine to visit for a month or so. Your videos are always amazing and this is no exception. I'm always happy when a new one is released. Thank you for bringing history to life.

[@trudy_triad]

No. Lol but this is interesting to watch. I would love to visit the 70s though. But I will have withdrawal symptoms from my cellphone

[@Michail_Ivanov]

Yes on one hand, and definately NO on the other...

[@plunkervillerr1529]

Better then, than now. 11/15/23

[@fleurstarable]

It was THE GREAT DEPRESSION idiots! About what's almost here 23/24 . You'll get that vibe. Not good you can see too many on streets not working.

[@eulawade3058]

My son sent me this video. I was born in Brooklyn, April 12th 1930.family moved to Harlem 1931.Grew up there, got married,moved to Qeens in 1955, now live in Florida. The best days of my life was growing up in Harlem.Thank you for the memories. Iam 93 andstill remember.

[@eulawade3058]

We had so much pride in the way we looked and you captured it in the videos thank you again. God Bless.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@monica62888]

93 on the internet is amazing! ❤😊

[@brandonseyfried1251]

May you live many more years and share your stories. God Bless.

[@BT_Spanky]

God bless you

[@righteousness8606]

This is the closest thing to time travel. Magnificent.

[@AmberSumerall]

They have time travel machines now, they just can’t let the public know, they mainly go back in time for destructive business purposes. Do you know what they’ll do to the cosmic balance of the universe if the public had access to a time travel machine?

[@righteousness8606]

@@AmberSumerall from what I understand, you can go back in time but you can't change anything.

[@PeterJPickles]

@@righteousness8606 You can but it becomes an alternate reality. That's why the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, due to, too many alternate realities happening, someone is going back or forward in time, messing things up, simple quantum physics proves this.

[@Wkwk-k7g]

😅😅

[@LancelotLink1]

In color it doesn't look as different and it looks in black and white. My father was a child in the 30s in the lower east side of Manhattan. I always wondered what it looked like back then.

[@olivia-x6y]

I'm 75 years old now, remember my mother taking me to visit her friend who lived there. It was 1952 and I was 4 at the time. Everywhere the streets were clean of trash including the apartment buildings. The hallway floors were finished in mosaic tiles and the stairway railings shined like mirrors. A funny note when we exited the subway, my mother said "Welcome to Harlem". I looked up at her and said Holland thinking of the windmills She said no dear Harlem

[@JudgeJulieLit]

In the 1600s Harlem, NYC began as Nieu Haarlem, named for old Haarlem in the Netherlands.

[@patreon.comAminaWarsuma]

I grew in Harlem in the 50's 60s. The 60's is when it started to go down the parents didn't teach their kids not to destroy property and the slum land lords left but tenants should have kept the upkeep of those beautiful buildings. They were built with real craft, and really well. Even the projects had big rooms. Peace!

[@xineohp2810]

It's weird, once I see these old videos In color and Improved framerate I can much more easily Imagine what It must've been like living In that time period. With Black & White footage I've always felt a sort of sense of 'detachment'... Like It's almost happening on another planet or something.

[@bobchris11]

Exactly. The times have changed, but people went on with their lives as we do now.

[@jo9354]

It's funny how the pace of life back then suddenly slowed down...with the right framerate.

[@mexican-americanpatriot721]

I'm using my phone to watch this video.

[@robsemail]

I can’t imagine it at all. I’m not sure I’d want to live in a time when my clothes would be changing color every time I move slightly.

[@MariselaR.da1daOnly]

​@@mexican-americanpatriot721 that is kind of crazy to think about.

[@garycole520]

Wow, amazing to see this footage of a bygone era. The streets were clean and the people were dressed sharply.

[@RayRay-i3w]

And it was too hot to be overdressed! Thank God fashion has changed to be more kool and comfortable!

[@artv.9989]

Is this what everybody is copy-pasting like NPC's on this channel?

[@Veniamin7657110]

@@RayRay-i3wyea,you look like homeless

[@johnmc3862]

They weren't going to show the slums.

[@klavier285]

rap culture didn't exist yet

[@buffalopatriot]

My dad grew up in Harlem in the 1930’s. He had an apple cart and sold horse manure to housewives for their flower pots. He learned to swim in the East River and went to the WMCA on 135th and Lenox. My grandfather was a Pullman Porter and his run was to Toronto Canada. He had a small meat operation and brought back Canadian bacon to sell (at a discount). He also served in WW1 with the 369th Infantry (the Harlem Hellfighters). My uncle Jack owned a ‘speakeasy’ on 131st and 7th Avenue called ‘The Hi Lo Club’. It was definitely a different time when people ’strived’ to improve their lot.

[@auntie9077]

WHAT A RICH LEGACY!!

[@janisameduri2212]

Loved your family history! The Speakeasy story was fabulous! My maternal Grandfather had a vegetable cart as well in the South Bronx. Precious to keep their memories alive, by remembering their work ethics back then. ❤

[@olivia-x6y]

Ever thought about writing a book? Your family has a rich history that would benefit the youth of today.

[@KarenRodriguez-bi7ft]

No gangs terrorizing people.

[@LeonFowler-rz4gs]

That is so Dope....proud history

[@luciaterrizzi1881]

Look at those clean streets back then! Look at the stylish and beautiful way of dressing! No sloppy jeans or ripped outfits!. Ladies and gents wore HATS when they went outdoors, and there was dignity! Dignity and respect on the outward appearance even if you were poor! WOW if it could look that way again!

[@Maldoror200]

@luciaterizzzi..I Agree..Soo Lovely."Where have all thee flowers gone..?"

[@fluffy1931]

you probably missed that dumpster fire WW2 circa 1939' along with the rise of nazi germany starting in 1933' when Adolf Hitler became chancellor. And the Holocaust was a major bummer also ! @@Maldoror200

[@adrianwalker2833]

@@fluffy1931 ...but not in Harlem.

[@fluffy1931]

Harlem is in NYC dude. Feb 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended complete with swatzikas & goose stepping goodness.@@adrianwalker2833

[@初日の出_初日の入り]

@@fluffy1931 bro what

[@Arthur5260]

People had serious style. Love this footage.

[@jimzucker]

the style back then was amazing even more because people kinda dressed up to go out in public it was shameful not to be dressed up at least decently, even if you were poor. Now you see people around in pijamas, even if they have money.

[@Ze_Moose]

And now people wearing Crocs? 🙄

[@realityanalyst]

Whatever the prison allows you. Nothing special.

[@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci]

​@@Ze_MooseI wear Crocs and I'm very chic

[@Ze_Moose]

@@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci exception to the rule 😉

[@martynkingsley9805]

This is how human-beings should look, everyone in this video clip looks so naturally authentic. The street looks like love. Thanks for uploading. I love this so truly much.

[@williamlloyd5600]

Back when people of all cultures had some dignity and self respect and actually knew what that meant not like the backwards vulgar Dumbasses we've got now!!😂😂

[@rayhall6520]

Human- beings are not a monolith

[@sharbear4734]

I know! Everyone looks so nice. I love those dresses ❤

[@YvonneBlake-d5j]

Looks are deceiving

[@yum8666]

You can not bend people to your fantasy. Every man in history who tried to do that even with the best interest for humanity has come out the villan. Expecting people to look a certain way is wrong

[@remote4719]

No one left home without their hats . Classy , and well dressed..

[@themessengacross1581]

Forreal😂

[@ninoblakk]

That was all they had......that was there cell phone....dont leave home without it

[@thetruthhurts131]

There was nothing classy about the southern Inbreds harassing people

[@Gofroze]

@@ninoblakk😂

[@monocomo1675]

And from 60s to 90s violence began

[@Hevynly1]

Everyone looks so sharp and elegant, so beautifully put together! Such a rare sight now. Fashion-wise, we have fallen hard.

[@graficaink9601]

It shows people were concerned or strived to look their best in public. Wonderful times make me really want to have a time machine... Thank you for the video!

[@areguapiri]

We have hit rock bottom.

[@aquaman199]

Mmm. Ok

[@fluffy1931]

@@graficaink9601 Wonderful Jim Crow & segregation & KKK strict race laws along with 'Great Depression' era enjoy !

[@fluffy1931]

@@areguapiri only in your fantasy.

[@ericcummings9671]

My mom tap danced at the Lafayette Theater, and my pops knew Billie Holiday hanging out at 'spots' in Harlem. They moved to Brooklyn in the '50s because Heroin was becoming a problem in the neighborhood. I was born in the late '50s and they told me numerous stories about Harlem. God bless their souls.

[@GoldenBlissWithin]

Compared to the usual black & white footage of it's time. It's amazing how this simple remastered colorized footage, instantly inspires such a deeper connection to the people, heritage, history and stirs my imagination of living during this time. 💖

[@lessonsfromthequran924]

I am not naïve to believe that there weren’t several forms of injustice and obscenity during any era, but the decency of the era is far more evident. Clean people, cleanly dressed, clean streets. I love it. Especially the decency of the women and girls in the footage; virtually none wore pants/slacks except where the children played in the water near the end. Much respect.

[@christianamericandominican2470]

I'll take that any day compared to what we have now. No one can walk safely in the streets much less children, murder rate is out of control, aborted and fatherless children, men are no longer the head of household. The culture of drugs, thuggery and the degeneracy is what is applauded in Hollywood.

[@Qtevwa]

Romanticizing the past because the clothes are clean in an 8-minute video is also naïve, especially with the problems and misery that existed in the 1930s.

[@jenniferlloyd9574]

​@@Qtevwa I'd rather live in decency than the misery and filth of now.

[@hubriswonk]

We are lead to believe racism and privilege has ruled our society but this video and others like it clearly show thriving communities living very well. Scenes such as this was the standard in cities across America prior to the welfare programs of the 60's, cocaine and crack epidemic of the 70' and 80's and still feeling the affects today amplified by rap music. Pun intended.

[@repentyasharahla7632]

@@hubriswonkthis is how it was in New York but down south they where hanging black people.

[@ventromanable]

All of those folks have passed on, its nice to see them brought back to life in this clip.

[@PHlophe]

Dave, the adults one for sure but the chirren . some are still alive. This right here is less than a decade removed from the Tulsa massacre and some of the kids from the 1920s are very much alive

[@krozareq]

Looking at the evidence in the video, it was filmed in the Summer of 1938. A 10-yr-old in the video would be 96 or 97 today. The Social Security Administration's actuarial life table shows that roughly 2.5% of kids that age then would still be alive today. A child of 5 years of age in the video would have ~12% chance of still being alive today. Since at least 40 children are shown, chances are at least 1 is still alive. :D

[@FUNNYMANERICWHITE]

@@krozareqinteresting

[@nikedoesthings]

My grandma is from '27 and she's still around. She could very well be one of the youngsters in this video.

[@Toni-id2pv]

Drugs ruined us.

[@rickyparrilla2426]

This is the best restoration video I have ever seen. It's absolutely amazing. You can actually make out people's faces and everyone is dressed so elegantly. I have to honestly say we as a nation have gone down hill with the way we dress and the way we let our young people dress. Many dress up literally in pajamas to go shopping at the mall. How low we have become.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

Same in England. We stayed at a good hotel in Chester last month and at breakfast a young couple thought it a good idea to come down in their pyjamas. They didn’t acknowledge the waitresses and left their cutlery all over the place when they left.

[@BlindMellowJelly]

If you go to NYU and check into their archives you might really be impressed. Same with the Library of Congress. There is footage from all over the country that has deep meaning and could answer lots of our questions. The prob is it all depends on who views it. This was just after black Wall Street was demolished in the midwest because of whites viewed black people as progressing with great success. This could never happen in NYC because people in general had no idea of racism because they were mostly from countries where they were treated poorly. That all soon changed once it became popular to demonize the black citizens.

[@kathleenking47]

Pajamas & bonnets today Then, they wouldn't wear a dress without a slip

[@rickyparrilla2426]

@@kathleenking47 Exactly!!!👍👍👍

[@madmanmechanic8847]

Well discipline and respect is no longer taught this is what you get . So sad

[@FABRIZIOZPH]

great work, this is not just a video, this is a historic treasure and a humanitarian contribution

[@NASS_0]

Thx ;)

[@genesisthepoet815]

This was in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance era … so many famous ppl going through Harlem at that time: Louis Armstrong; Bessie Smith; Zora Neal Hurston; cab Calloway; Billie holiday; Langston Hughes … what a time to be alive ❤

[@hubriswonk]

Amazing time! Why is it no longer like this? Crime, poverty and what passes for music is ridiculous! I could not imagine going to a club to see Bessie Smith sing! Or a dance hall to see Cab Calloway!

[@genesisthepoet815]

@@hubriswonk agreed

[@rob_cd]

So caught up in the footage I didn't even think of the talent, the brilliance. Hear, hear!

[@laca7676]

Amazing to see our ancestors in coloured videos. No one is alive probably from this footage and it is weird to watch these people once lived and simply disappeared with that world they lived in.

[@waynegruber9122]

That's what I said.

[@palepride7530]

Ancestors? 😆

[@ATHTA_]

Когда-то на этой земле жили индейцы, которых уничтожили ваши предки.

[@1990758]

There are other videos of our ancestors and colored video.

[@davidmitnick868]

There’s probably people still alive that we’re in this footage. A 90 year old would have been born in 1933.

[@robinafrica3456]

My mother was born in Harlem in 1931, she’s now 92yrs old. I watch these videos with the hope of seeing and recognizing my people…🤗

[@Midlifesimmer]

Wow! ❤

[@tenbroeck1958]

It's amazing to look back at another time/culture, while right here and now. You can kind of get the feeling of the place. For you it must be special, thinking of your mom and family

[@geraldbarreno535]

Who cares

[@Midlifesimmer]

@@geraldbarreno535 and obviously you’re a true asshole!

[@jeremyblackwater439]

@@geraldbarreno535I care you taint 😒

[@TheVinci19]

I believe it happens in every western country; watching a 30's footage, everything and everyone seem to be more clean, elegant, peaceful, than it is in our age. Harlem looked a very pleasing place to live, looking at the footage

[@kingsittystudios2400]

Awesome! my parents came to NYC as part of the great migration . My dad came in 1930 from North Carolina, My mom in 1955,from Tuskeegee ,Alabama.

[@kevingomez-johnson140]

Yeah, My great grandma moved from SC to NYC, and my dad side moved from SC to the Mid Atlantic city of DC.

[@Ze_Moose]

What caused the migration? 🤔

[@starboy5177]

​@@Ze_MooseLess racism, more economic opportunity.

[@stephenkinq5425]

Yep. My folks came from the Carolinas nd BAMA as well. Many uprooted; if you were in Tennessee, Mississippi, you more than likely would migrate to L.A , Illinois [Detroit] .. From The Carolinas , you came to D.C , Philly , NYC

[@FBA_God_Emperor_Doom]

Same here all 4 of my grandparents came up from South Carolina.

[@NicCageForPresident2024]

I'm staying with my grandpa right now because Grandma passed away earlier this year and my grandfather was born in Chicago 1935. It absolutely blows my mind to think of all the different eras and times that he has gone through.

[@hubriswonk]

He has lived in an amazing time. get a notebook, write the year at the top on every page and ask him to write down everything he recalls from that year! I did this for my mother and was amazed how much she remembered. Family history :)

[@jeanetteroberts4427]

My grandmother and grandfather were in Harlem during the 1930s. She often said how beautiful it was then. Houses were clean, streets were clean, sleep on the stoop at night. People were kind to one another. Harlem Renaissance.

[@vycanismajoris5501]

and what the hell happened to it afterwards?

[@pistolpete8231]

​@@vycanismajoris5501you're asking a random KZbinr about social economic issues? Can't you do your own research?

[@bryanr.2649]

@@vycanismajoris5501Heroin happened in the 50s and the rest is history.

[@krozareq]

@@vycanismajoris5501 Drug abuse is the root. Most addicts can't hold down jobs. They become desperate. Desire to control the drug and sex trade builds, leading to gangs. This causes a breakdown in social capital (shared norms and trust in a societal group). Kids are born into dysfunctional homes fraught with abuse and neglect. Those who pursue a rewarding career often leave, creating a drain of education, ethics, and leadership away from the community. Fewer businesses want to invest in the area and that leads to fewer jobs except for low wage positions such as fast food and budget stores. Then it becomes a feedback loop, like placing a microphone too close to the speaker.

[@saudade369]

People who say how good things were in their youth are often laughed at , well here it is in full colour, everyone looks well dressed , happily going about their day , walking safely in the streets , prosperous and purposeful . Amazing . It makes me a little envious .

[@bootlegapples]

All the old reels I access are the same.All of them. They had tougher lives then and may have soot on their suits but the people have spirit and you see people bonding,they don't look atomized as is common now.

[@fluffy1931]

You seriously think the period of 'Great Depression' 1929' - 39' the most serious economic downturn in history was prosperous & purposeful & people were happy. Hang on to your hat & bendover because by 1936' their whole world is about to slide into WW2 & Holocaust fiesta.

[@LeydenAigg]

This is the era of lynching for black Americans, even in Northern states. Jim Crow segregation is in full effect in the South. The KKK de facto runs much of the country. The only jobs for black people are crooks, maids, Pullman Porters, shining shoes, sharecropping down South. Only a tiny few business owners (like my late Great Uncle, a Harlem grocer), and professionals like doctors and attorneys were anything but abjectly poor.

[@brijmsn]

Safely?

[@jenniferlloyd9574]

​@@brijmsn Safely. Are you ok? Something wrong with you?

[@GregPeters1]

Omg - Great footage! This was during the Harlem Renaissance era. The works that were fostered there had a global impact. Well done

[@NoahBodze]

Why do you compare black people squatting in a city they didn't build to the great manifestations of civilization? Blacks didn't build any part of Harlem and weren't there when it was built, but destroyed it within a generation. Why would you compare that to Michelangelo, Copernicus or Brunelleschi? It's vulgar. Stop calling it that. What were you even rebirthing that you could call yours?

[@paulyricca3881]

🚬👴🏿🥃WRONG THE RENAISSANCE ERA WAS IN THE 1920s MY MOTHER HERE CAN PROVE IT .

[@yolandagaines1760]

@@paulyricca3881 Yes, you are very correct.

[@ElitePhysiqquesAndForm15]

The Harlem Renaissance was in the 1920's! Please study b4 u speak

[@rayman5011]

Maybe you should take your own advice. The Harlem Renaissance Era was from 1918 to 1937.

[@topazrichmond7426]

I like the this footage everyone was dressed neatly.

[@SecretWars98]

This has sincerely become one of my most favorite channels on YT. From the personalities & charm of everyday people, to the realistic colors added in, this is the Nostalgia that old movies just can’t quite capture. I am always on the lookout for a new upload notification from Nass.❤

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much god bless you

[@SecretWars98]

@@NASS_0 Thank you for your wonderful work. God bless. ❤️

[@stevenkastein1374]

Sad to see what we’ve lost.

[@Maldoror200]

💀..@SecretWars..Agree..Mr.NASS is doing Beautiful work..!!

[@bisonkambaine5628]

Fantastic work as always. Everyone looks elegant, classy and presentable.

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

So, WTF happened 🤔 ?

[@yolandagaines1760]

Communism. Same fate as Newark, New Jersey@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0

[@fluffy1931]

@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0 Those were Jim Crow & segregation times in US along with 'Great Depression'.

[@Danzo1212]

@@fluffy1931 i dunno seems to me that black people had more class and style in the 1930s

[@sniffiejoe9370]

@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0 They voted Democrats that is what destroyed them

[@N11-xr9pi1]

My maternal grandma and grandpa have albums full of these kinds of photos from when they came to NYC in the early 1930's from the south. They lived in Harlem and owned a brownstone, dressed impeccably, and ran their own office cleaning business. They left Harlem for St.Albans, Queens as a way to get to the suburbs... glad they did because my mom met my dad on her block and they were neighbors living three houses apart from each other on 198th street. My paternal grandmother immigrated from Trinidad with the whole family after my grandfather passed.... bringing my dad with her and the rest is history!

[@randomvintagefilm273]

Wow, this was great! Everybody cared about their appearance and dressed well.

[@NASS_0]

;)

[@Retrosigns1]

Looks like everyone took pride in themselves and their neighborhoods, look how clean the streets and sidewalks were. It could still look that way today if people wanted to make the effort

[@Rasira2023]

No flip Flops, no spaghetti straps, no tights, no skinny jeans, no yoga pants, No torn jeans-just love the way women were presentable as opposed to now where they dress like sluts with lots of Tattoos and piercings you would think they were branded cattle

[@brandywineblue]

​@Retrosigns1 there's an old expression, where there's a will, there's a way. It is not heard much anymore...probably because no one has a will anymore, they just want to blame everyone else

[@mrHoppedupford]

Nobody is stopping you from wearing a suit the next time you go grocery shopping.

[@rbj1jcp]

Nass, as always your wonderful work is really fantastic. You've gotten so good that it's hard to believe that this wasn't filmed in color. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. JoAnn

[@NASS_0]

Thank you very much ;)

[@TS-1267]

.... If there was only Footage of The 1700s MMmmmm 4:04

[@vanillasmerk5742]

Look how clean the streets are. Ooooooooo beautiful

[@jnm2088]

Everyone is fit and well dressed. America has really changed.

[@eileenweeks1815]

They had their town owned by black businessmen. Then jealous white business and politicians👹👿👺😟😟 took it all away. The basterds!!.

[@omegaweapon116]

There was nothing to do at home probably lol

[@artv.9989]

skinny doesnt mean fit

[@Mr.rukus1]

@@artv.9989better of than those with too much blubber on their skeleton but you’re absolutely right.

[@UnDark1]

@@artv.9989 fat is definitely not healthy

[@mister_bojangles]

everybody looks respectable, clean and well-dressed. I am sure they would be appalled to see NYC as it has become today

[@joachim5080]

Ever seen w130 street today? Much more upscale than back then

[@Kevin-e3s6i]

@@joachim5080It’s starting to become that way because of gentrification. There are still pockets of “ghetto” all over Harlem though. Which would still make this look better. You don’t see homeless people, drug addicts, etc. like you find now. Even though it’s changing for sure, you can tell the overall pride during this time was different.

[@franklinhernandez683]

This is not just an era or past time gone by know this is the way it should be even better and it's not so what does that tell you and I'll tell you why is that humans were not divided so much and so many this and that and also did not fragmented humans

[@joachim5080]

​@@franklinhernandez683 Let's also not forget, that in this glorious past, people used punctuation in their writings.

[@nicktaylor1015]

@@joachim5080dude, in this “glorious past” unemployment was well over 10%, life expectancy was barely over 50, and the citizens you’re watching faced racism you couldn’t imagine . The good old days are now!!! Stop glorifying a past that doesn’t need it.

[@soulfyahmanagement3904]

The fashions, the cars, everything was so unique. Absolutely stunning.

[@Jack908r]

I love these old movies. You get to see and feel the people, and the styles of clothing that were popular at the time. While its only a snapshot in time, I get to see it. Actually see it. Its amazing. All these people are gone, but we get to see them. Its almost like time travel. And everyone is so very well dressed. And all the little shops. I grew up in the 60's before malls. My mom would take us downtown to the shops. And I remember it so well. All the little shops, and their shopkeepers, and the smells. I miss it, but thankful I got to experience it before it was all gone. Makes me realise that the world I grew up in is gone. And this could just as easily be me.

[@edmorrisonline]

NASS, now, you have outdone yourself! Seeing Harlem during "The Harlem Renaissance," made me want to shout! This bit of video should be shown to those who thought Harlem has always been associated with failure. Seeing people going about their everyday business is quite normal, but, yet, extraordinary. Sir, continue your excellent work.

[@emylrmm]

a couple of comments have suggested 1936 or 37. Nice restoration. Thanks for uploading.

[@rileyb2752]

As someone who moved to Harlem last year, this is amazing to see. Quite sad how fast things can change

[@robfut9954]

How’s the jazz scene there these days? You a fan?

[@rileyb2752]

There’s a spot called Bills Place in my neighborhood that’s good but other than that there’s not much in Harlem. I haven’t been to the Cotton Club mainly because the bad reviews. Sounds like they’re just using the name since the original is gone.

[@robfut9954]

@@rileyb2752 yeah I heard they tore down the original a while back, didn’t even know someplace was trying to use the name. That’s a shame. That whole area was jazz paradise in the 40’s. Now it’s no so much I guess

[@DerrickW30]

When I watched this I thought to myself, "Nicky Barnes destroyed that city and its culture." Maybe if he hadn't it would have been someone else anyway. I just don't know. It's a sad story though.

[@NoahBodze]

Just over a decade before this video, there would be no black people there or, really, in any American city. They hollowed out Harlem within a decade of this video, you know.

[@shotelco]

"Opened in 1937, the *Harlem River Houses* were the first government-funded housing complex in New York City. At that time, the development was meant to be an environment in which African Americans could live safe from the effects of discrimination. Even though it was _Segregated housing_ by today’s standards, the Harlem River Houses were a safe community for its residents. Designed by John Louis Wilson, Jr., the first African-American graduate of Columbia University’s School of Architecture, the complex still stands today. Because the families that occupied it were _not allowed to purchase their flats,_ the city ownership has recently changed to Private ownership, and the threat of Gentrification looms.

[@themessengacross1581]

Good and sad...thanks for the info

[@JohnTaylor-bd1uy]

The Queensbridge Houses: Future projects where Nas and others would come up.

[@dbrown9495]

This wasn't the reason. It was an affordable place for working class to live. Wasn't for whites

[@Getoutofthetimetrap]

My God , how we have devolved in the last 100 years …..so much for all the tech advancement we are less human for it. A simpler time and a different vibe back then .

[@bawillard2578]

Folks of all ethnic backgrounds dressed clean and pressed .. Most times folks had only afew good pieces of clothing but the best one could afford..no one would think of going in public like most dress today!

[@kipdr]

All ethnic backgrounds? It's literally a segregated Black american neighborhood with white police and firemen.

[@sew_gal7340]

@@kipdr There was a black police officer there too. People in those days did not like ghetto culture so white flight was a thing, white flight is still a thing now which is why the hood still exists. It's not that different now and will never change for all of time.

[@riaa8689]

​@@sew_gal7340Ghetto "culture" was created by the government. It doesn't mean black smfh 🤡

[@BigBoss-zi5ss]

​@@sew_gal7340where do you see a ghetto?? Maybe lower income but everyone back then had respect for the city and was clean and clean dressed

[@theredmistiscoming609]

@@BigBoss-zi5ss yeah but they’re not exactly wrong, lol. people don’t talk about the lesser known “black flight”. back then whites were not the only ones fleeing from areas where (poor/“urban”) blacks lived, more established blacks were also fleeing. You can even find black and white vids like this of more upper class black peoples expressing their concerns about poorer more urban blacks moving into their neighborhoods and towns and wanting to flee to a different area. Not saying whites who did white flight weren’t racist, some of them were, but not all of them were and were fleeing solely for safety. And whites also weren’t the only ones trying to get the heck away from certain blk ppl In a segregated area like this, most of the power was in black peoples hands (they were still oppressed ofc, but in their own communities they pretty much had most of the power) As in the mayors were usually blk, or the sheriff was black, business owners etc, were black. So 5/10 if a white cop was in a black neighborhood/town it’s bc a black sheriff/chief hired him and put him there. I’m black btw so I’m in no means defending racism or anything, just speaking up about history is all lol.

[@1001Hobbies]

Thank you for your efforts to give us this window back through time.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@AllanGildea]

Absolutely extraordinary. Very tough times and yet people look impeccable. Your video is of outstanding technical quality, also.

[@alexcicada5805]

I am delighted to watch this video.Thank you so much for the work done!

[@NASS_0]

Thx ;)

[@brownhornet1975]

This remastered video was perfectly executed. It actually feels like im there with those folks in Harlem, at that time! Also as a teenager I used to surf the back of the bus in NYC back in the early 1990’s. I see there really is nothing new under the Sun, because I caught a shot of that young boy surfing that Bus in this video. Once again thank you so much for posting this

[@dontworry4831]

It's crazy that these images can have the color added back to them. It's like giving the old images another dimension of a reality so that we can relate properly. To look at these videos is like learning history, whereas black and white doesn't quite do it justice. TY ❤

[@johncornell3665]

Great footage, thanks for your efforts!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@NASS_0]

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[@rinahall]

allahou akbar

[@XXXGRAPENUTSXXX]

Why? You spelled Harlem incorrectly

[@XXXGRAPENUTSXXX]

It’s not Harelm

[@theypeedonmyrug]

Liked and shared!

[@NASS_0]

thank you! @@theypeedonmyrug

[@merlinceltic4387]

Danke,für diese Zeitreise.Sehr gute Arbeit.Respekt.

[@jeffreyworthen7033]

It looks like they recorded it live yesterday....it looks so sharp and clean.

[@j1st633]

Glad you posted the cross Street. Born and raised in Manhattan. Know the area. Great channel.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@bermudaguy5003]

I can't compliment you enough on the great work you accomplished! This is an extraordinary chance for us to see & feel this time period. I'm an "old timer" now & it reinforces my thoughts lately that we were Blessed to be "Just Passing Through". Thank you.

[@rosieparez]

My grandfather is 91 and alive and well. He was born 1932. I know he has seen so much in his life.

[@hubriswonk]

he has lived in an amazing time. get a notebook, write the year at the top on every page and ask him to write down everything he recalls from that year! I did this for my mother and was amazed how much she remembered. Family history :)

[@MisterRico101]

Thank you for making these video's.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@TUCOtheratt]

Enjoying my time travel experience. What happened at 8:14? People not happy.

[@sophiabrown9423]

Makes me want to spend 24 hrs there times we're hard for our people but at least we stuck together. These people took pride in themselves. Bravo to the person who restored this it's funny I only saw this in black and white color makes it more real THANK you

[@MrRiceandbeanz]

Also, based on the construction of the Harlem River Houses, this puts the video around 1937. They were a precusor to the "projects" built in the 1960s.

[@grahamsmith6210]

They were also projects, but one of the earlier ones. At the end of this video, you can see them constructing the Queensbridge Houses

[@robinsss]

you can see them constructing projects at 6:53

[@mickyboymccoy7632]

So nice to see what Harlem was like, Before Robert Moses and LBJ rebuilt the physical and mental slave plantation.

[@mickyboymccoy7632]

@@grahamsmith6210 Queensbridge House were downtown, not Harlem.

[@grahamsmith6210]

@@mickyboymccoy7632 they're in Astoria, not Manhattan at all

[@Rock486-bg4zg]

I just looked up Lenox Ave and W 130 St, New York City on Google Earth. Lenox Ave is now Malcolm X Blvd. In the 1930s Lenox Ave was jazz capital of the world. Changed but not changed. Almost 100 years ago. Real times, real people. Grateful these videos were preserved.

[@brianmcghee9313]

Love these videos it’s great just watching people being people observing things through there own eyes and not smartphones like we see today keep doing what you do ❤

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@queenree-v2l]

The construction of the housing projects floored me!

[@Pink_celeb420]

I’m from Harlem. It’s always a pleasure to watch videos of Harlem back in the day. I came here because I was watching Harlem Nights lol

[@mikemasiello9625]

Nass the colorization done on this video is spot on, amazing work. Really shows folks in a nice community. When I grew up in NYC I can remember police on the main streets like in this video, always gave you a feeling of security.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you so much!

[@nfucied]

it feels like traveling back in time.

[@beard6160]

It kinda is

[@monocomo1675]

From 60s to 90s violence began was soo high

[@rickey9159]

This was really awesome, a trip down memory lane, I felt like I was there ❤

[@daveweiss5647]

Another great video! I truely wish I could go back... the modern world seems so foreign, alien even... these old videos, I look at them and feel at home.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;))

[@helisoma]

perhaps you were there in a previous life

[@edwardalamo2507]

We see no hatred

[@northstarstatepolitics1652]

Yes I’d love to go back to the 1930s when the economy was in a huge recession, unemployment was over 15%, racial tensions were high and the world was on the verge of war. Sure, the 2020’s also suck but not to this extent. You guys are all brainwashed by propaganda.

[@monymony68]

2:50 Keep your sidewalk clean. You mean, no homeless, no tents, no drug users and no illegals loitering in the sidewalks? What a novel concept.

[@dmitrykondratenko4116]

I wonder if there was such a sign on Kensington Avenue?

[@NoahBodze]

You know that Harlem would look like bombed-out Beirut in under two decades of them coming north, right?

[@NothingToPointOut24]

And most of the footage shown in this video, is of poor communities too. Weird how "poverty" is used as an excuse for crime rates and filth these days, yet the people in this video suffered just the same if not more than they do today. For as long as we are on this Earth, there will be poverty. That much is certain. Something changed as far as humanity goes over the last 100 years. The more people have gotten from this country for free, the more they think they deserve.

[@MissJK_]

@NothingToPointOut24 Also ask yourself if the heavy influx of drugs pushed into the community is what was the catalyst that was/is the change. It makes humans turn into something unrecognizable. Pair that with poverty and you have destruction. All things ‘free’ aside.

[@NothingToPointOut24]

@@MissJK_ The drug epidemic is definitely a reason. I'll even say its a big reason. I just dont think its the main reason. I think culture and DNA has more to do with it. Drugs can also be more excused for the breakdown of society in a lot of cases. Why people lose jobs, family, homes etc. But for simple filth? I dont buy that. There are a lot of videos of life 100 years ago and a lot of the neighborhoods are spotless.

[@MatthewGarcia-pl5tg]

2:56 love how that guy took a free ride on the bus

[@pawgconoseur705]

100 years later blacks still stealing fares in NYC.. jumping subway gates and causing chaos

[@Zulu-jz7jt]

This person did a Remarkable job. It's actually reminiscent of a movie set. The colors are Fantastic and the skin tones are Very Good. 1930s Harlem N.Y. Wow.

[@BradThePitts]

6:58 The Queensbridge Houses were, and still are in Queens, not Harlem. I always thought they were post-war buildings, and I was wrong.

[@grahamsmith6210]

me too. I didn't realize how many projects were built before WWII.

[@francesfarmer736]

Love the colorized, you can see much more detail……..like a time machine and you’re there…..Thanks for posting! I’m a subscriber……

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@dxwallace55]

They've come along way since that Ted Turner, TNT colorization a few decades back.....

[@kennethnero2011]

Wish I grew up in this era… love the fashion & Cars

[@bawillard2578]

One can still dress beautifully 😍

[@fluffy1931]

You would have not enjoyed WW2 or Holocaust and Jim Crow era along with segregation strict race laws ffs.

[@runawayuniverse]

This was just the beginning of the Great Depression, so the odds are very good you wouldn't have the money for that fashion or a car.

[@SanaasimonB-tu9qm]

​@@fluffy1931she Dreams hell

[@SanaasimonB-tu9qm]

No darling Klux Klux Klan wasnt playin black then

[@Petermomo5050]

The kid riding the rear bumper of the bus was pretty cool 2:56. Today he'd probably got 30 years for that one. Could i say nothing has really changed but the health of the people, I would get a one way ticket back to that time.

[@Papawcanner]

I’m 78 . Growing up in Chicago we climbed on trucks and buses . We were poor and respectful . My parents ran a house of ill repute but I never saw anything I shouldn’t .

[@abdoumhp7728]

hello and congratulations for your work I must admit that I really like it, it's a journey into another time, I thank you for continuing because you are gifted and for me your work is an Art

[@muscleboy101]

Nass, Love your channel. Harlem, New York. The Mecca of black life in New York City. Big time gangsters namely Dutch Schultz set up his numbers racket in Harlem at this time. Thanks for the upload. Love the scenes.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much!

[@comicus6769]

One of my favorite stories is how his mathematician pal Otto Berman devised a way to skim even more profits from the payout. Pure genius of a scheme.

[@glorymosbyfloyd3878]

This is what I was looking for and I absolutely love it ❤❤❤ More Harlem footage please New subscriber here ❤

[@thomaspennfenn6649]

👍 Nice , well dressed and very clean area , you can see the pride in the citizens. Great video !

[@saul890]

Nice clip , Thanks for sharing 👍🏾

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@punkanellylovejoy702]

Did anyone notice the guy hanging on to the back of bus at 2:52? 😂

[@lorascelsi8102]

❤ Love the fashion. Looked like happy times in NYC. Everyone looked like movie stars.

[@julianneale6128]

Incredible footage!

[@NASS_0]

Thank you so much!

[@Sky-y5i1b]

Amazing, nice to see in color too with sounds, and not in bad condition, born in Harlem but way after. Nice to see how people lived and dressed back then. It's history, one we don't often get to see.

[@jody6851]

Amazing how Harlem seemed to be a very vibrant, thriving community in those years. There's no sign of homelessness or squalor or drugged-out souls wandering the streets. Not even any litter. The Federal and NY City Housing Authority public works buildings shown already inhabited (not counting the footage of other apartment buildings still under construction) -- today often referred to disparagingly as "the Projects" -- seem to be pleasant places to live while today they are often places of great dysfunction and troubled souls, and a lot of crime.

[@rodneybatts9784]

There were no projects in the 1930's

[@rodneybatts9784]

My bad. Harlem, River Houses were built in the late 1930-s. They were built for working class people, and were successful. The philosophy later changed and things went South.

[@DerrickW30]

When I watched this I thought to myself, "Nicky Barnes destroyed that city and its culture." Maybe if he hadn't it would have been someone else anyway. I just don't know. It's a sad story though.

[@NoahBodze]

Because that's just after the neighborhood turned. White people would have been all you saw in those streets just over a decade before. The only thing new there was black people, not the buildings or streets or structure.

[@krazyfan2000]

​@@DerrickW30it happened way before Nikki. Harlem was flooded with heroin by the Mob purposely to destroy the community and it worked.

[@pentagramyt417]

Looking at that time, the USA later between 1950-1970 was something else. Something that never been anywhere else before, and anywhere else after that. Like a different world, that most of us would like to live in.

[@presspound7358]

Yes… it’s called Post WWII wealth. Baby boom, economic boom. No serious competitors worldwide. Lots of jobs that allowed a one salary household to earn a decent living in the suburbs. Consumer explosion without the consequences yet, pop music explosion and kids everywhere. Folks could sit on the porch with a beer or a lemonade and shoot the shit all afternoon and not feel guilty because they had been physically very active all week. Simpler times. What’s not to like.

[@JailaSea766]

Incredibly amazing you are a genius. I watched this 6 times back to back. It was soooo clean. People who lived there in that time period are so blessed.

[@VeronicaLovesAI]

Oh, dear. I hope you’re kidding…

[@detroittucker6267]

Look at the clothes woow how the styles has changed everybody looks so nice and clean even the working peoples. Everyone looks so peaceful those were the days when everybody mind their own business wasn’t nobody getting mad because you accidentally bumped into them wasn’t nobody getting mad because you had something they didn’t have. Not a whole like of fighting over nothing also everything was cheaper to buy.What a shock even the streets are clean.! Memories for those who lived in that time and can remember how peaceful life was and this footage is in Harlem.. For I hear Harlem is not like that now. Thanks to you going back down memory lane we all need to remember this time quiet and peaceful.

[@Gofroze]

They had their own set of problems. Trust me. It was older people back then complaining about how they missed the 1800s. Life is a cycle of complaining

[@Silveradoman61]

Sad to think everybody in this film is deceased even the kids.

[@bardo0007]

The smaller kids are in their late 80's or 90's so they could still be alive.

[@WhenTheLionRoars]

Why is it sad?

[@Midlifesimmer]

Probably not. People born in 1931 would be 92 right now. So if you were anything older, the odds are against them still being alive.

[@finnhoydal2028]

Watching it in color makes it seem so much more current, aside from the vehicles

[@momofaleotv6506]

The lack of spandex and other stretchy fabrics back then shows how important tailors and seamstresses were! I love the shoes and hats!

[@Maldoror200]

@momofaleotv..I hear ya..I , also, loved how honest , and "candid", or, un-rehearsed.., Natural..(smfh)~Peace, K

[@LIVETODAY_0]

A lot of black women back then made their own clothes and their husbands and children’s

[@ryckyfredop1474]

C'est Magnifique 🤩 ! Superb work, very well done ! Do you use any special software to colorize black and white films? Here in France, I'd like to colorize old French B&W movies to give them a new lease of life.

[@henrysantos121]

I really love watching this type of videos very well done ✅

[@felinetherapy4782]

Just fasinating. I'd love if someone could make a side by side modern comparison to see how its changed.

[@rileyb2752]

I was thinking of maybe trying since I live in Harlem. Would be fascinating to see side by side

[@felinetherapy4782]

It would be amazing - just if you wandered around those areas for yourself. Quite jealous. @@rileyb2752

[@helisoma]

yes same streets same camera angle

[@QuadriviumNumbers]

@@rileyb2752 More heartbreaking than fascinating I think. Slim and elegant black women almost brings a tear to the eye.

[@jeffreyworthen7033]

If they did a side by side from this to now it'll make you cry....😢

[@kikinnit]

Look how clean everything is - no graffiti or papers flying around - decent people living life - now look at this generation - pitiful - I can watch this stuff all day long

[@yeenkno]

Before Crack

[@AWDBOOSTEDTSI]

Dude at 4:02 wasnt having it with that lady!! LOL, threw his hand up and then down. Too Funny!!

[@piemack9389]

The black dude at 0:35 was ahead of his time with what he wearing lol, could easily fit in today and no one would question it

[@FUNNYMANERICWHITE]

lol so true

[@hill16gs83]

Look how clean and peaceful the streets are

[@ThePandaPhotographer]

7:01 is queen bridge houses, You can see the queensboro bridge in the background

[@Pgschool37]

I couldn't help but think about how those who traveled from the south must've felt witnessing this for the first time. Probably bittersweet due to the inspiration of what their lives could become & the reality of what they had to deal with in the south.