New York City 1965

New York City
Home to the Empire State Building, Times Square, Statue of Liberty and other iconic sites, New York City is a fast-paced, globally influential centre of art, culture, fashion and finance. The city’s 5 boroughs sit where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean, with the island borough of Manhattan at the “Big Apple's" core.

[@alcamerc9923]

Aaaah! New York City! Lived there in the sixties when my children were growing up. Good memories from those times. Life had a good meaning and the expectations of the future were huge. The field of dreams was wide open. If you are from those times and lived there, well then, you know what I’m talking about. America, America may God thy gold refine. . . . .

[@raynardabraham7831]

I never lived in New York City, but this video reminds me of the America I love and miss so much. Seeing the Pan Am building, the Greyhound buses, the United Airlines airplanes, an Esso gas station, a Lerners clothing store, a ship with the Gulf Oil logo, American made cars almost everywhere, makes me wish that I could travel back in time to this great era.😊

[@8avexp]

We visited the city in July of 1965. Went to the World's Fair, the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and took the Circle Line around Manhattan. July 21 was a red-letter date in my life becaue I rode on the subway for the first time, starting a lifelong love affair with that subway system. We moved from Indiana to New Jersey two years later and I became immersed in the subways.

[@cdog9559]

there's some great channels on YT that have preserved clips of the El and subway system of NYC. I've learned alot from them .

[@azul8811]

Have you been to the NYC Subway museum in Brooklyn?

[@8avexp]

@@azul8811 Yep, sure have!

[@soapbxprod]

I was 5... living on 81st Street between 5th and Madison. Used to play hide and seek with my friends in the Metropolitan Museum

[@dimon10033]

And the Guggenheim was so close and the Museum of New York City.

[@saeedurrahman2056]

You are 59/60 years old now

[@larciabella]

how was that neighborhood back then?

[@jamesmack3314]

larciabella upper east side...always a desirable place to be...and mostly rich

[@larciabella]

@@jamesmack3314 Yorkville,Kramer's bakery,Kliene Konditorie and Heidelberg is still there.

[@markwhite5638]

The city was magic; the noise, people, urgency, heat (you could fry an egg on the pavement that summer), the traffic and the different areas of the city (the Village, Chelsea, the Bowery, the East and West Side, Broadway, the Hudson and East rivers, Harlem, Central Park, China Town, Little Italy, Ellis Island, the Staten Island Ferry, Wall Street, the museums, the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Cloisters, the World’s Fair in Queens, the beaches on Long Island), I visited them all. I quickly learned how to navigate the subway system and took an occasional bus. I could not afford taxis. I really was a rube in the big city; but I didn’t care; I had arrived in the Big Apple and I ate it up. Joe Namath had just signed with the Jets.

[@chrisbrady-t1u]

We were paying 250 a month for a duplex in Cobble Hill in '67.Largely Puerto rican n'hood back then.A man with a huge wagon loaded with produce came around once a week.I felt sorry for his horse having to pull that load.Subway was 15 cents,pizza 25 cents a slice.Now tell me that the good ol days werent always so good.Bullsit!

[@williamneumyer7147]

Always nice to see the Singer Building (1908-1968).

[@terencesommer6307]

Very nice 👍. What good clarity! New. York looks so elegant.

[@mackenzierough]

Hi Terence, I'm glad that you enjoyed my movie

[@YbYBwRbY]

I was 12, living in Washington Heights & attending Walden on W. 88th. It isn't standing anymore. The world was SO much better then! As you can see.

[@saeedurrahman2056]

You are 66/67 years old now

[@YbYBwRbY]

@@saeedurrahman2056 Precisely. How old are you? I hope you and your family are well and safe in these strange times.

[@larciabella]

@@saeedurrahman2056 you are great at math!

[@kelliceswaggerty7662]

I was 7. Many of these scenes brought back memories of travelling around Manhattan on the Circle Line. Seeing the cruise ships docked on the Hudson along the West Side was a common sight. Also I found it interesting to see how many of New York's prominent skyscrapers (e.g. the RCA Building and Chrysler Building) dominated the skyline, unlike today where they are overshadowed by so many high rectangular style box office buildings. Thanks for posting a very enjoyable video!

[@mackenzierough]

Hi Kellice, I'm glad that you enjoyed my film.

[@saeedurrahman2056]

You are now 61/62

[@larciabella]

yeah the new buildings have no character and do not blend in with the already existing buildings.just look at Central Park south a mishmash.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@larciabella you should see the new glass supertall sticks...pathetic in everyway, I haven't liked a building put up since 1998

[@larciabella]

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar where are they?

[@solenekhouri3954]

Thanks for sharing this beautiful interesting vid

[@mackenzierough]

Hi, I'm glad that you enjoyed my movie.

[@christiancastro2442]

I was born in 1971 , was amazed on how many buildings that are not there anymore . Who can tell me that big smokestack factory near the united nations building ..a lot of rusty old ships , big gas tanks ,docks cranes amazing ..best old nyc video i ever saw .and yess i took the circle line tour in 1980 much later after the video

[@ecamp6360]

ConEdison steam and electric plants. Coal-fired, of course. Now rebuilt site is the Copper building and future(?) U.N. development site.

[@TeamSpecial3419]

5 семей во всю делают дела!!! Самый расцвет их криминальной деятельности...

[@larciabella]

I was 7 and we used to take the orange and brown colored bus into the city and see the AMNH ,the boat and car show at the old Coliseum on Columbus circle...fun times.As Bob Hope sings"thanks for the memories!"remember watching his shows for the troops? We also took the bus into the Port Authority and then took the subway to the World's Fair! Unbelievable time to grow up.

[@BradfordPost]

This was back in the "Good Old Days". I was 7 in 1965.I grew up in Rockland County,about 20 miles from Manhattan. NYC was cool in those days. Today it's too crowded and expensive.

[@saeedurrahman2056]

You are now 61/62 year old

[@larciabella]

@@saeedurrahman2056 why do you keep stating peoples age?

[@Qboro66]

@ 3:57 The project building on the left was my home from birth a year after that film to March 1969. Woodrow Wilson Houses 435 E.105 st.

[@ecamp6360]

Mostly the Circle Line tour, but good to see back when NYC had a working waterfront. Those shots of TriBoro and Hell Gate bridges is now blocked by highrise condos.

[@duradim1]

I love looking at the cars from back in the day. I think some of those scenes were from 1967, possibly 1968 looking at some of those cars.

[@ВячеславБелолипецкий-р8ь]

Wonderful musik

[@snaggletooth7031]

I was 15 then,oh they were the best of times,hittn the beach,,going to moveis downtown,n shoppn,,picinics,,and camping in upper N.Y,,yupp i ms those days often ,but i have a great memory,,

[@saeedurrahman2056]

Wow you are 69/70

[@saeedurrahman2056]

Now

[@raedwulf61]

New York, New York. A city so nice, they named it twice!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

New York is a place where dreams are born No city is as interesting and intriguing and captivating as New York

[@hectorlopez1069]

I was there, it's a nice city.

[@shanebriggs1039]

So you haven't travelled much then?

[@shin-i-chikozima]

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[@shin-i-chikozima]

​​​@@shanebriggs1039 I don't travel in forein countries I don't almost understand the affairs of New York My good comment is Dreams to New York I know Defects of New York, There are many dust , guns, beggar, big rats and scary affairs in New York

[@shanebriggs1039]

@@shin-i-chikozima Yes your absolutely right, I agree with you

[@BuLLReD86]

Awesome

[@camilledumange4609]

La REALIDAD siempre supera la ficción. Paraíso del documentalista. NYC 1967-80, PARIS 1968-81

[@AgathaLOutahere]

The 1960's was the decade NYC made its transition from the relative calm of the 50's to the era of Taxi Driver.

[@carltonmcroy3222]

When America was great.

[@ВячеславБелолипецкий-р8ь]

NYC amazing

[@chrisbrady-t1u]

whenever the subway fare went up,overnight the price of a slice of pizza went up too

[@gli7utubeo]

That's a New York State Thruway service area at the start (one of the Savarin plazas). I think that one is Iroquois, 210 miles from the NYC line (mileage sign at 0:13).

[@williamsimmons152]

I remember those....”maaan that’s coffee “.

[@tayjones8552]

1965! My parents were practically babes!😊

[@jd3076]

Ahhh good ol days i miss growing up in the 60s even tho i was born in 97' 😂 lmfao

[@mackenzierough]

Yes it was a great time to be a teenager.

[@luislaplume8261]

We had Murray the K , the biggest disk jockey and Don Cornelius on radio. It was a great time for radio and TV. NYC was and still is the center of media and the press.

[@geri4064]

Beautiful

[@michaelhatcher5264]

Wow look at those old Greyhound scenic cruisers.

[@hectorlopez1069]

goosebumps

[@SaintDanielMusic]

Omg is that Singer Building still standing?

[@amauricosta7728]

Interessante vídeo. Bons tempos !

[@gdawg1585]

The Beatles played at Shea Stadium on the 15th of August 1965

[@michaelcrockette8694]

nice photography but would have been more interesting to see more vehicles and people to give us more of a sense of 1965. many of these pictures could have been from 1955, 1965 or 1975.

[@steveabitante8220]

Classic!

[@davidfreesefan23]

This was the year of the “great blackout” (the first one, that is).

[@luislaplume8261]

I was there. It happened in November, there were people who walked down the embankment of the L.I.R.R. Maine line to the sidewalk 3 blocks from our home and got on buses and taxis to take them home.

[@silvialopes9877]

NYC, SEMPRE BELA🙏❤️👏🏼🌈

[@bluegillphil1427]

Back in 1965 my mom & dad were paying $135 a month for a 2 bdrm house with a full basement & garage in Jamaica, Queens. A bus or train fare was a dime, a candy bar or Staten Is Ferry ride was a nickle. WTF happened ?

[@mackenzierough]

What indeed?

[@wilfredruffian8429]

Somebody said:"hey kids, things are looking good, let's try some socialism"

[@yusadani755]

Wilfred Ruffian That’s not what happened, you ignoramus. What happened was that the government began over-taxing the people. Both state and federal levels of government. This is to fund the corrupt military, to provide aid to our “allies,” who’re really just American vassal states, and to provide the elite in government with endless amount of money. Of course, big corporations also take part in this because they have the power to influence government and politicians with money. If you really want things to go back to how it was in the 50s, you’d need to do the opposite of everything I’ve said above. Stop taxing people so much, then people can live better lives. Shut down all military bases abroad, we don’t need them there. Our best interests should only lie with America.

[@wilfredruffian8429]

Hyumanggis Fatsou I couldn't even begin to unpack the ignorance in this comment. You need a good deal more education before you engage in public conversation

[@yusadani755]

Wilfred Ruffian Can you please explain why I’m wrong?

[@mustafajackson9430]

I was born the year before in Harlem, NY.

[@randrianabel]

The same year than the beatles concert in Shea Stadium... on August 15th.

[@sonjapeterson7366]

My birth year.

[@johnf.kennedy7339]

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first film _Hercules in New York_ would be filmed in 1969 and captures some of this scenery herein. Separately, the Domino sugar factory closed down to the chagrin of many New Yorkers.

[@hectorlopez1069]

You are right. Arnold did Hercules in NY in 69.

[@johnf.kennedy7339]

@@hectorlopez1069 Some fans argue with me about the year of this film - HINY. Thanks!

[@arravYT]

where wilt at

[@jxpx0]

I can see Singer building

[@dannydaw59]

Was times square full of smut shops and strip bars in 1965?

[@mackenzierough]

No it wasn't!

[@djp6191]

What a shame, disaster NY is today... so glad I'm not there

[@anon4932]

Beginning of the end.

[@DarthVader-il2cy]

Would you say 1965, being the heart of the 60s, generally still felt like the late 50s? Or did it feel more like the 70s?

[@luislaplume8261]

Yes, as a New Yorker, I can say most adult men still had short hair and only a few had long hair or beards.

[@MatrixDiscovery]

Most of the people in the video's are most likely in their 90's or passed away :-(

[@hectorlopez1069]

Greyhound buses in that time. old buses.

[@marcodagnino7879]

Buon giorno , qualcuno conosce il titolo della musica ? Grazie

[@mackenzierough]

It's a Royalty free track not commercially available it is included with my editing software.

[@marcodagnino7879]

@@mackenzierough I thought so ! Thank you

[@qolspony]

1:13 no twin towers. I did not exist 1970. 1:44 Wow! That PanAM building is still around. 3:43 This building was still around, interesting. My sister was not born yet 1966. My mother married my father this year.

[@ribeirobruno]

Thank you, I was trying to identify where the Twin Towers would start building one year later of this video

[@pablovillaman93]

I WAS 16 LOVE THE PEEP SHOW IN TIMES SQUARE.

[@albertoasi1654]

5:03 SS United States 😁

[@raedwulf61]

Recognized her instantly. Great ship.

[@bparks1952]

How can you go up the East River side of Manhattan on the Circle Line and not include Yankee Stadium in your video? For that reason alone I give it a thumbs down. Must have been a National League fan

[@FCm-tq2ho]

Well if this footage was taken a few years earlier up the East River.. they would of seen the Polo grounds played by the NY Giants...a national league team. The NY Mets were a couple years old in 1965. The Brooklyn dodgers had already left. The Aftershock was still felt around this time. The 65 Yankees were practically in last place. They would stay like this for a couple years. Times in NYC were much different then.

[@enarcm39]

Cool. But the music is driving me nuts.

[@mackenzierough]

Sorry about that, you don't like Jazz then?

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

Boohoo

[@Chasecka]

Back before m i noir ties took over and destroyed a beautiful city.

[@DrPhilby]

Maga