New York 1970 archive footage

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA in 1970
It contains stock footage of New York:
0:46 - Horn & Hardart automated food service area. At Horn & Hardart restaurant people used to pick food from various small windows (almost like modern food dispenser machines) and then carry items to the cashier where they pay
0:48 - Christopher Street - West Village
0:58 - Village Voice Newspaper headquarters: a very radical and very left wing (much more so than today) publication. The Village Voice is the nation's first alternative weekly newspaper, covering the counter-culture, politics, and all things New York from 1955 to now
1:44 - Chinatown on the east side of Manhattan
1:52 - a policeman on his 1970s vintage uniform
2:38 - Central Park
2:56 - the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Center
4:37 - the Empire State Building
4:49 - New York City Public Library building, with a really quick look at the iconic lions flanking the staircase
5:12 - people walking while carrying what might be one of the Chinese Dragon floats
5:18 - aerial view of New York showcasing the Art Deco Chrysler building and the UN Building on the East River
5:29 - PanAm building, now the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building
7:00 - Rockefeller Plaza building and the ice skating rink;
8:23 - Manhattan skyline with Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground and Manhattan Bridge behind it. This must've been shot from Lower Manhattan
8:27 - The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island: halfway between New York and New Jersey. The two states fought over the island but it's now considered to be part of the state of New York
8:48 - the Verrazano Bridge connecting Brooklyn with Staten Island
9:06 - the Statue of Liberty
9:13 and 9:30 - Close shots of the Verrazano Bridge
9:35 - driver's point of view while driving on Shore Parkway (part of the Belt Parkway system) and going under the Verrazano Bridge
9:53 - Manhattan
10:04 - the Queen Elizabeth 2 liner docked on the west side of Manhattan
10:20 - Central Park
10:48 - Upper West Side of Manhattan
11:10 - 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan
11:36 - St Patrick's Cathedral
12:01 - Wall Street
12:34 - Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch commemorating the Civil War at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, right at the entrance to Prospect Park
13:23 - probably Columbia University
13:40 - Morris-Jumel Mansion. The Morris-Jumel Mansion or Morris House is an 18th-century Federal style museum situated in upper Manhattan
13:46 - public housing, probably in Harlem or in lower East Side
14:08 - the Third Avenue Bridge connecting Manhattan with the Bronx
14:22 - W 45th Street in Manhattan
14:34 - New York City's hero Firefighters in the Bronx
15:00 - St Patrick's Cathedral
15:16 - Rockefeller Center
15:34 - New York City Public Library
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[@michellebeckstrom6110]

The music with it's funky beat is so fitting for this era.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@FunkyMonk6 that's the name of the tune? Thanks! Just found it and they do *Jazz!* My favorite!

[@ashcruz904]

I don’t know why, but I love seeing footage from the 70s and 80s. Of course the NYC ones are my favorite. I’m always looking for my street!

[@tomspeed3354]

i think your street is 125th Street, Lexington Ave, right?

[@woxyroxme]

Love seeing the old cars in this video

[@saha5768]

God bless the person, who film this gem , a piece of fantastic history. Love to all.

[@MegaSickcat]

Thank you for this! I miss those days in NYC...especially seeing the Village Voice building...that was a great newspaper...

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@tonycollazorappo]

It was a great time for a kid to grow up in, I was born in 1961.

[@samanthab1923]

I just saw Michael Musto on another channel & I remember my dad getting the Voice

[@ralphsanchico2452]

This was my time, I was raised in Brooklyn, but my dad was a postal worker in the village, I'm always on the look out for him when watching these!

[@geemonster9179]

@@tonycollazorappo 1969 for me

[@Claudiaamato777]

This is terrific! Was a toddler hen, with a bedroom window that framed the Verrazano Bridge. My dad was an amateur photographer back then & I have a box of the stills he took of the bridge being erected. He'd go up on the roof of our building & captured a moment in history. Still live in the neighborhood, but the quietness & cleanliness are long gone...

[@Bishopspipes]

What’s great about this is that this was innocently recorded likely by a tourist who was just trying to capture the pulse of the city for their own memories of their trip there. Fortunately for us, they have done much more - they preserved raw footage of everyday NYC from a moment in time decades ago for us to look back on and enjoy (whether we were around back then or not). Amazing. Half of the people recorded are likely dead, more than half of the businesses are gone but life has continued on. Imagine being a child who was captured on video here and then stumbles upon this video decades later to see themselves as a child. That would be amazing.

[@luislaplume8261]

By 1974 until March I had long hair over my ears, long sideburns and a mustache. I went to the barbershop next month and had a haircut and shaved my sideburns off but kept my mustache. I remember that 1970 was when the last year of I Dream of Jeannie TV series and the full fleet of air conditioned subway trains the R42 arrived and ran on the line 40 yards away from my home on the Jamaica Ave El.

[@nickcef]

Actually happened to me. I was watching a random video on KZbin from 1995 of a town in Italy and saw my younger image as a tourist walking through the scene! Totally amazing!

[@garyburch2042]

It might be some footage from some unused news stories

[@wandarask8444]

@@nickcef seriously

[@wandarask8444]

Absolutely

[@carmenpabon8839]

I was 15yrs old loved those days! Have no regrets ❤

[@amakuaole]

Thankful for the person who was filming so we could see this. And also the uploader.

[@Larry-qz3es]

I was a child at that time at the age of 9 going on 10 and this city had a whole lot of grit and character. Mom & Pop stores flourished in all neighborhoods and you knew the owners by their first names. Rents were actually affordable, and people would hang out on the streets, playgrounds, and parks.

[@ecamp6360]

Me too. Same age. Free-range.

[@SumthinVicious]

Love the video 🤙🏻 and the music is funky yes sir!!!! 👌🏼👌🏼

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Great footage. What an amazing city it used to be.

[@EdKazO-Vision]

Still is.

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

@@EdKazO-Vision is NOT libtard

[@tshandy1]

I find this to be unspeakably comforting. I'm happy to know a time existed like this. I realize these were ordinary people and their problems were just as vivid, real, and complicated to them as ours are to us, but still, isn't this a beautiful, almost otherworldly place?

[@ront769]

Very well said. Comments like yours

[@Greencloud8]

I go back and forth reminding myself they aren just like us but then why is it so fascinating

[@DianaChick-ge1it]

I I I I I I🎵 LOOOOOVEE🍎 NEWWW🍎 YooooRKK🥰👌🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🎵🎶

[@shanebriggs1039]

Love your comment, well said

[@kimlr-herring]

It wasn't otherworldly, it was quite, quite real. Loud, huge and scary. And it wasn't that long ago 🙄

[@ps_nyisgone]

Love the music and the video!

[@marioronda1841]

S bomberos

[@marioronda1841]

Gracias por esté hermoso recuerdo , viví en NYC..en la 48St.y 8 Av. en 1970 frente a los bomberos todavía existe el edificio del año 1900..las torres una estaba terminada y la otra a la mitad tengo fotos...

[@briankelly85]

i remember it all. the city was so alive. life everywhere.

[@pmafterdark]

Love the 1970 Coronet taxi's and other old cars. The Molly Maguires with Sean Connery on the theater marquee.

[@moparsnguitars6034]

1970 Superbee / Coronet Mopar ,Awesome 🎸🎸🎸⛽⛽⛽🐱

[@eo6374]

My husband’s grandfather was in that movie with Sean Connery and Richard Harris. His name was Art Lund, an actor and a big band singer.

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

he wouldnt be allowed today- he's a white guy.....

[@claudiahansen4938]

Thanks for showing a lot of Rockefeller Center. My first job 1973 at Ad-Ex Translations.

[@ralphsanchico2452]

WOW! I really enjoyed that trip back to my time. As always, when I watch these vintage NYC Videos, I'm always on the look out for someone I might know, or my late Father who was a mail carrier who's route was in the Village!

[@Ekmu5]

OMG, 13:17 The bike shop around the corner from my apartment on CPW where I got my brand-new Ross stingray bike from at 9 years old!

[@velocita6907]

Brings back memories of my teenage years in the 70's.

[@tenorly]

A city among the cities! Thanks for sharing these; keep'em coming!

[@Footageforprocom]

You bet!

[@brötzmannsax]

This year I was living on the Lower East Side and lived at the Fillmore East on weekends and although I read the Village Voice every week, that's the first time I ever saw their building! Great clips, thanks for sharing.

[@dallas1417]

How much was the rent back then?

[@brötzmannsax]

I was living off 2nd Avenue started at $65 a month -to $75 for electric and heat, by the time I left it was $135 under rent control.

[@janejames9173]

Love this video.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@danielboone3770]

Awesome! I wish i could've gone to New York as a kid in the 1970's.

[@MrEnoBeano]

I worked in the Post office on 34th street in 1970 and 1968.

[@samanthab1923]

My dad & uncle did too. While going to NYU & Manhattan College. In the 50’s

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

That post office was gorgeous. I've been in there during the years I worked because my agency wasn't far from there!😁

[@king-xerxus7040]

It was tough in those days, but, I appreciate more than ever the moments with family.

[@ralphsanchico2452]

It was tough all right, but it was NY tough! You could pretty much survive if you just mind your business and look as if you're no push over, by the same token, New Yorkers back then, if in a pinch would band together if there was an emergency. Not today! Crime is more random and most criminals could care less what you look like, if they see an opportunity, they'll attack! I'm so glad my wife and I left that place!

[@king-xerxus7040]

@@ralphsanchico2452 well, everybody has a story to tell. One could more than just ‘survive’ just traveling around and enjoying the freedoms of going to the park and sitting watching the people walk on by, and go to the movies, or participate in summer youth programs, mingle with celebrities, and most of all being around family. No matter where you go as long as there are humans there’s always going to be crime, there’s always someone in the group who doesn’t like order but rather controversies, history has proven that.

[@yohannesaklilu2697]

​@@king-xerxus7040How did the war in Vietnam affect people's lives back home during those days?

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

I was dreaming of getting away from mine. Don't ask!😒

[@yohannesaklilu2697]

@Randy_Richmond There wasn't a draft for Afghanistan though.

[@glendajohnson5797]

Wow, I see my building! Proud to be a New Yorker.

[@victormanuelrodriguez3852]

WTC Towers were still babies.

[@demonhalo67]

Only to be destroyed by errant aircraft 31 years later.

[@ront769]

@@demonhalo67 Errant?

[@DianaChick-ge1it]

When cars were cars😁👍🤗✨ NYC forever beautiful, especially at night 🌠 still beautiful, nothing like it at cozY Christmas time Midnight mass, Hotdogs from carts rollerskating in central park , little Italy😁👍,, I love it with a passion , always have, always will✨🌠🌜✨🌠✨🌛

[@popeyetsm2750]

No. The twin towers were still under construction in 1970; they did not "open" until 1973 & 1974. My dad was a contractor for the installation of the acoustic ceiling systems. Didn't you see the sections of the video showing lower Manhattan where the WTC would eventually stand? Notice that they aren't there... yet (5:54 & 6:29).

[@Jason.King.at.your.service]

@@DianaChick-ge1it It's a cesspit now.

[@diedonner299]

I wonder how many of those people are still with us? Even a long life is so short.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

Well, I'm still here at 75!!! Expect to live for at least another 10-15 years.

[@xzem613]

@@kalinystazvoruna8702 I hope you live a good life

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@xzem613 Thank you! May you live a long healthy life and prosper.

[@calirose2860]

My uncle was born in Brooklyn in the 50s. He was in his mid to late 30s at the time of this filming, and he's still *with us*

[@BeemWeeks]

Cool footage. I was 3 years old in 1970. But even so, I have a head full of great memories from that era.

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@user-dc1dw2np1w]

Amazing love those '60-'70 videos, what a great treasure , wish i could jump into it and stay there when the world was much better

[@luislaplume8261]

And during the Mad Men era of the 1960s buses that had air conditioning was the talk of the neighborhood as well as subway trains that also had the same thing. I was a boy back then living in the borough of Queens when the only neighborhoods with tall buildings were Jamaica and Long Island City.

[@TSC-hr7ir]

1970 .. my office location was 636 Fifth Avenue travel on the D train from Brooklyn I am now 75 Beautiful Memories

[@wakeup3456]

Thank you❤ you have brought so many loving memories to me by watching this New York film. P.S. I love the music also so suitable for this film

[@Footageforprocom]

You are so welcome!

[@InvestBetter.]

I was raised on Bleecker Street, in the early 80's, so I recognize many of these classic spots. Great to jump in the old Time Machine, and see how the world was, 50 years ago.

[@demonhalo67]

A vitality and look of NY that's long gone. Same for many cities in the US and elsewhere. Change is a natural course of city life, which is why these urban recordings are so important, as they allow all ages to look back and discover or reflect.

[@angelagm566]

The music and the video are a perfect match

[@merccadoosis8847]

Outstanding video. I was a college freshman at CCNY in 1970. Those were what we called "the best of times, the worse of times". We feared nuclear war. But we were optimistic that things could change for the better. Somehow, I survived the years. Look forward to viewing more of your videos.

[@yohannesaklilu2697]

Were you drafted?

[@merccadoosis8847]

@@yohannesaklilu2697 Nope. Was, in fact, a draft reject (high blood pressure - a life long problem). The draft is unjust & evil. Totally at odds with the idea of freedom. It is nothing more than institutional slavery.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

I was at Hunter College during the late 60s and early 70s. Paid for my own tuition which was only $35 per credit. Affordable college - yes. Not nowadays where everything is $500+ a credit. Feel badly for the kids of today. It's *greed* that's ruining this country, and the world for that matter.

[@yohannesaklilu2697]

@kalinystazvoruna8702 What was the attitude towards the vietnam war at that time, was there any fear among people of being drafted.

[@merccadoosis8847]

@@yohannesaklilu2697 The majority of Americans were opposed to the Vietnam war. Many did fear getting drafted and some fled to Canada to escape the draft. Interestingly, right wingers hated when people fled to avoid the draft. Yet, they had no problem with people escaping from Cuba or Russia or Israel and enter the USA to escape the draft in those countries. In my years of growing up in NY, I knew at least a dozen people who came here to escape the draft. What incredible hypocrisy on the part of those idiotic right wingers! After the 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 were disclosed nobody supported the imperialist Vietnam war. Only those who profited from war such as the military industrial complex supported that colonialism. Real Americans condemned the war.

[@bondwin7025]

This was so nice and crisp!!! Thank you .🖐🖐🖐🖐😉

[@Footageforprocom]

Thank you too!

[@ericamiles666]

When I was a young child back in the 70's my family took a vacation to NYC. We had so much fun. 🥰

[@RobertodelaVega-t3w]

I was 16 yo in 1970, to see the WTC in the distance being built is amazing, looks like 40 floors have been completed. 5:51

[@ny718bx]

Incredible footage. Thanks for posting this.

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@stephendiamond9893]

What’s amazing about this are used to drive a checker cab in the city some of the best days of my life were spent.

[@Frannylucks5821]

God there is no traffic! Someone should do a video of Manhattan today. All you'll see is traffic traffic and more TRAFFIC....Great Video

[@epicsseven7686]

I'm digging the music. It has that early 1970s funk a d jazz feel. A Bob James, Grover Washington and Funk sound

[@RonaldWilliams-qh7zc]

Damn I was 1 years old in 1970 wow man I thank God I was born in 69 really wish I could go back to this era 👍💯💯💯💯💯 oh and by the way I definitely love the music 👍👍💯💯

[@jasjas-rm9kc]

NYC in the 70s was a fun place.

[@alexberisha8305]

I came to US in 1970 and lived in NY for the next five years. I was young so I totally enjoyed my time there !!

[@Lightsngear]

Great stuff! I did a transatlantic crossing (NY to Northampton) on the QE2 about 4 years after this was filmed.

[@Footageforprocom]

Cool!

[@mikeyoung7660]

I love watching this. I'm in the UK, but I love watching films of the 70's

[@ras124]

Amazing footage

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you liked it!

[@maxshenkwrites]

Interesting to note the shots of the lower Manhattan skyline sans the Twin Towers, which weren't completed until 1973.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

My ex-husband and his brother worked for an architectural firm that built those towers.

[@caribman10]

Great footage of what we now know was the end of Old New York, as can be shown by all the classic New York businesses - which no longer wxist. Barricini. Fred Leighton. Childs. Horn and Hardart. Howard Johnson. Bonds. All good. And all gone.

[@ny3683syr]

That quick flash of the Horn and Hardart gave me a jolt.

[@Salvadorbalihai24]

I can't get over how few people there are. You watch a current walking tour and all you see are people.

[@paolazuffinetti]

Thank you, thank you for this marvelous doc on the New York of my adolescent years, when I had my first contact with this unique city. I keep watching it and sweet memories come back. ❤️

[@Footageforprocom]

Wonderful!

[@Johnnypoundcakes]

I like this song. Its a smooth groove. Great bassline

[@lillydejesus9510]

I was 8 years old. From lower Manhattan. My dad was a letter carrier/mailman. And a taxi driver at the same time. I used to ride with him on the front seat and it was fun going to time square.

[@8avexp]

I remember that time period. We were living in New Jersey and I was a regular Saturday commuter to the city.

[@lauraarcher1730]

I love the music! What is it?

[@stevia3162]

To me, the New York City of early 1970 was like the 1960s hangover! When I went into NYC with my parents at that time, the rock music scene still had people like Jimi,Janis, and Jim Morrison. I remember going to eat in the Lower East Side, and looking up at the Fillmore East Marquee! I would always get the Village Voice, and look to see who was playing in the city. Sadly, during that Golden Era, the closest I got to going to the Fillmore was sticking my head in the front door, and looking up at the bulletin board!

[@davidmusicmaker]

Gotta love that Starsky-&-Hutch-on-the-prowl music.

[@canadaverydry]

Less people, no mobile, wonderful fashion and more respect!.. When men were real men

[@notsparctacus]

Music taken from the soundtrack of "The Guy from Harlem"

[@ThomasBaum-vl4zz]

Song is called Double Hard by Jive Ass Sleepers.

[@davidwhitney1171]

I was 12 years old in 1970, lived in Brooklyn but spent much time in Manhattan as both parents worked there, in Gramercy Park. Much of the city was absolutely delightful to a 12 year old, places and sights long since gone, but I remember that more and more the city became frightening and creepy. That was when the mentality ill started to wander the streets with nowhere to go following "deinstitutionalization," and they were scary to s kid. On outings out of the city my mother and I often had to walk through 42nd Street/Times Square to get to Port Anthority Bus Terminal, and she would warn me not to look at certain shop windows, theaters, and the like - no need to draw a picture- but she didn't have to tell me twice... as we scurried past I was totally freaked by what I was glimpsing and didn't want to look....

[@BabyBugBug]

And now I fear we are going back to the creepy days where random shootings in broad daylight are commonplace and criminals run free. I pray it will not come to this. Greetings from Astoria Queens

[@luislaplume8261]

@@BabyBugBug It already is thanks to every District Attorney in all 5 boroughs being liberals!

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was 9yr old in 1970, lol. Wow, time flies, the 1960s and 1970s were times for kids to grow up in. Today, nothing like then.

[@ThunderAppeal]

Shut up idiot. No one cares.

[@tedstrogis4823]

I remember the same thing, walking to port Authority via 42nd. I was always told not to make eye contact. But I did, and I took pictures of the people and streets with my 35 mm. Never had an issue. It was the seventies and I was a kid. Great memories.

[@Amanglophile]

I love the music in this video. It's really 😎

[@ravisriram6746]

The real New York!

[@ortizmusic7115]

That groove is contagious 😂🎶🕺

[@emitch9213]

A neighborhood I never was, but Rockefeller area to the north in east & west of park...the city came alive in the fall season and celebs were everywhere. Summers, everyone who could, left the city.

[@peterparker9286]

Baby London. Throwbacks to a different Time and Space. Thank U.

[@williambone7724]

Wow. Seeing NYC before I was born. What a thrill!

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

I actually saw a similar car model in this video while I was out with my family today in the parking lot. Its amazing how people manage to keep those cars running.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

What's the old saying? They don't make them like they used to. 😸

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

@@kalinystazvoruna8702 When you live in Buffalo, you’ll see a lot of old stuff.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@ToxicCatt-y7c Never been to Buffalo. I think the lake effect snow scared me away, but I love the Eddy Grant song, Electric Avenue, which, I think is a street in Buffalo, right?

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

@@kalinystazvoruna8702 here, everything is practically aged. We still have an old wonderbread factory just sitting in the middle of a neighborhood.

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

@@kalinystazvoruna8702 also I believe so. Haven’t went but apparently there’s bars and cafes.

[@Darrin.Crawford]

What music is this?? I absolutely love it.

[@whereisthedollar]

Double Hard · Jive Ass Sleepers

[@peterguindo1576]

I saw a another video from 1940 filmed in NYC so in 30 years happened a lot of changes , cars, people, buses, stores, places.

[@luislaplume8261]

Yes! Except for Orthodox Jews, every man had a shaved face and no sideburns, very few had mustaches. Buses bad small Oval windows above the passenger windows and folding doors front and back and the windows slide up and down. The fate was 5 cents for trolleys electric buses, subway and elevated trains.

[@johnpastore7685]

The music from the band called The Meters?

[@oliverv291]

I was 5 in 1970 ,wish I could have experienced it as a young man

[@strongman410]

Beautiful video even better beautiful music this was way before my time but I'm pretty sure it was probably 100 a month to live in Manhattan back then lol

[@Claudiaamato777]

Actually, my grandparents' building in Little Italy was rent-stabilized. I remember being a young girl in the late 70s & my grandpa had the check for the landlord all made out- $65. Pretty sure Rent Stabilization doesn't exist anymore. If you didn't have that, rents were probably triple that amt. in a pre war building

[@davidbrianhydehyde1102]

I recognise a few places from our visit in may last year It’s a lot different But should not be surprised as London is exactly the same 🥰

[@mohamad-ms2pb]

Too bad that clip of the Verrazano bridge was short. What I liked about the Belt Parkway was the wooden lamp posts.

[@gsentinel4821]

I have to admit I miss the old gritty 1970’s New York City - It had character now New York is sort of like Disneyworld just a huge tourist attraction - it looks fantastic but it Just doesn’t seem to have any personality you know what I mean?

[@Mr.Robert1]

Thanks to the internet, Walmart and Amazon. The day's of the mom and pop shops are closed and out of business for decades. I made a fortune in my own electronics stores throughout the years. Currently retired, I miss those days.

[@viu1558]

0:18 We'll never see a guy like him anymore.

[@dicarts558]

I was born in December, 1970 in NYC. Crazy to see what NYC looked like the year I was born.

[@buhransavar5874]

Aufregend genug 👍💯

[@newyorkcat]

This made me laugh. I was 10 years old in 1970.... This was when there was a big exodus to the new suburbs like Levittown and places like that. We stayed in the city because my dad didn't want a long commute. My cousins in LI had more freedom that's for sure. I was under constant surveillance. Growing up in Manhattan is perhaps a mixed blessing but you develop instincts that come in handy for the rest of your life.

[@samanthab1923]

My parents bought a Levitt home in NJ 1963. We still went into the city for the Circus & Ice Capades. Later the Nutcracker & Knicks games. It’s funny we were the typical suburban brats. My older brother went to Pace & never looked back. Married & raised two kids in the city. Beautiful place over looking the East River near 23rd St.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

Actually, Levittown (in the Town of Hempstead) on Long Island, was created after WWII. The first Levittown was built out on the Island in 1947. I remember Alan Sherman singing, "My heart is down, my head is turned around, because I gotta sell the house in Levittown," on one of his gag records.

[@garyburch2042]

Yo!!! The beat used in this is 🔥🔥🔥🔥…who is this??? Random studio jam session??

[@josefnitervol6415]

Nice a short shot of old Yankee Stadium!!! I was a baby....

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

In 1970, I was working on Waverly Place in the West Village when this was being filmed. Certainly captured the City at that time. BTW, LOVE the music!!! 0:46 - Horn & Hardart - I think I actually was at that one. It's a "automated" food service area. You go in pick your food from various small windows (almost like modern food dispenser machines) then carry your items to the cashier where you pay. 0:48 - Christopher Street - West Village - In 1970, I was working on Waverly Place in the West Village which crosses Christopher Street. 0:58 - Village Voice Newspaper headquarters. Very radical, very left wing (much more so than today). "The Village Voice, the nation's first alternative weekly newspaper, covering the counter-culture, politics, and all things New York from 1955 to now." 1:44 - obviously Chinatown on the east side of Manhattan 1:52 - Policeman on his beat. Don't see that anymore! 😆 2:38 - Central Park 2:56 - Ice Skating Ring at Rockafeller Center; there's a restaurant there and in 1967, I and a co-worker went there one Christmas holiday for dinner. You can see the restaurant at the 3:32 point. 4:37 - iconic Empire State Building 4:49 - New York City Public Library building with a really quick look at the iconic lions flanking the staircase 5:12 - I have no idea what these folks are carrying but I suspect it might be one of the Chinese Dragon floats 5:18 - "aerial" view of New York showcasing the Art Deco Chrystler building, and the UN Building on the East River 5:29 - PanAm building. I applied for a job there but didn't get it. It's now the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building. 5:56 - You can see the amount of pollution that was in the air then. Now the Republicans want to gut the Clean Air Act. Sigh... 7:00 - Rockafeller Plaza building again, and the ice skating ring. The person filming this must've been really interested in ice skaters! 😸 8:23 - Brooklyn Bridge with the Manhattan Bridge behind it. Subway trains go over the Manhattan Bridge. This must've been taken from Lower Manhattan. 8:27 - Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island halfway between New York and New Jersey. The two states would fight over the island, but apparently, it's now considered to be part of the state of New York. 8:48 - Verrazano Bridge connecting Brooklyn with Staten Island. I grew up about 1/2 mile from that bridge and watched them build it in 1964. 9:06 - Statue of Liberty again. 9:13 & 9:30 - Closer shots of the Verrazano Bridge. 9:35 - Driving on Shore Parkway (part of the Belt Parkway system) and going under the Verrazano Bridge. 9:53 - Back in Manhattan again. 10:04 - Shot of the Queen Elizabeth 2 docked on the west side of Manhattan. 10:20 - Central Park again. 10:48 - Upper West Side of Manhattan, where all the rich people live. 😼 11:10 - Midtown Manhattan, on 5th Avenue 11:36 - St. Patrick's Cathedral 12:01 - Wall Street 12:34 - Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch commemorating the Civil War at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, right at the entrance to Prospect Park 13:23 - I think that's Columbia University 13:40- Morris-Jumel Mansion. "The Morris-Jumel Mansion or Morris House (also known as the Roger and Mary Philipse Morris House, "Mount Morris"[2] and Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum) is an 18th-century Federal style museum home in upper Manhattan, New York City.[6] It was built in 1765 by Roger Morris, a British military officer,[2] and served as a headquarters for both sides in the American Revolution." Wikipedia) 13:46 - Public Housing. Not sure if it the one in Harlem or the one on the lower East Side, looks like the one in Harlem. 14:08 - I think that's the Third Avenue Bridge connecting Manhattan with the Bronx. 14:22 - Back in Manhattan at W45th Street 14:34 - New York City's hero Firefighters in the Bronx 14:48 - Did the filmmaker just flash by the Apollo Theater? 15:00 - St. Patrick's Cathedral again. 15:16 - Rockafeller Center again. 15:34 - New York City Public Library again.

[@Footageforprocom]

Thank you very much, I'll add your information to the description.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@Footageforprocom Well, I figured for people who weren't there at the time, they might want to know where all these places are/was.

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

Wow..."Superfly" looked boss!✌️

[@denisceballos9745]

Might be March of 1970. I see a movie poster for “End of the Road”, a very strange Stacy Keach movie released in February of 1970. Folks are wearing heavy coats and no leaves on the trees in CP - gotta be the cold days of March when the Knicks were winning their first title at the new MSG.

[@edshoaff3055]

In the film PULP FICTION a similar 1950’s street scene was shown as a background on the walls of the Jack Rabbit Slim’s 1950’s restaurant which was a stroke of genius to make you feel like you were transported back to the 50’s !

[@piedmontphilly]

9:53 movie marquee is for "The Only Game in Town" released 1/21/70, at 16:00 "End of the Road" released 2/10/70. Most likely this was shot some time in February, 1970. Also the dude at 15:20 is looking sharp!

[@administerhiltonf.braggsl.3930]

That is The Absolute Greatest Funk Tune Ever Recorded Period!!! Who made it?

[@eugenesmith3611]

Good afternoon from Boston Massachusetts

[@Reggie-The-Dog]

I could be in this video. I was there in the late 70s. I miss those times very much. They were not perfect of course but a lot better than today imo.

[@shawnmarengo494]

At 1:00 - Mmmmm 😊 …. I wonder what’s in that cute little French Pastry shop. It’s got a blinking neon sign!

[@billlombard9911]

My childhood , I remember the telephone. Booths in Chinatown , to the generation that were adults back then going to Chinatown was a big deal .

[@luislaplume8261]

I remember that my family and my uncle's family went to the Silver Star Restaurant. The biggest Chinese restaurant in NYC. My late uncle and aunt used chopsticks to eat Chinese food.

[@claudiahansen4938]

My favorite restaurant in Chinatown was 4-5-6, near Bowery I believe. 1973.

[@c.e.6229]

@@luislaplume8261 I believe it was Silver Palace not Silver Star; on the Bowery across the Manhattan Bridge entrance. It became a Duane Reade.

[@fidokalman]

I met my life Partner in Julius' in 1970. We were together 50 years! I lived at 3 Sheridan Square 17 D

[@EDIFnikkor]

Where is Oscar Madison and Felix Unger ..

[@PerryNight-gc3fp]

In 1970 I was 7 years old and I still live in New York City.

[@rudolphsimmonds1382]

That's how I remember NYC. It was filthy and crime infested but it was uniquely beautiful 😍

[@newyorkcat]

And smelly before all the doggy poop laws.

[@TimGrimes-q2q]

does anyone know if the buildings shown at the 1.22 mark still stand? just look at all that smog, New York sure has some interesting building, but I think I would freak out if I woke up there one morning. thanks for posting these videos