New York City in 1902 - Restored Footage

[@gentlegiants1974]

As someone who still works heavy horses daily it is wonderful to see an entire city moving at the pace of the horse. It adds a nobility and grace to human existence to match our pace of life with such intelligent creatures. It is good for the soul in my experience.

[@Billcarsonstobaccobox]

You explained it better than I would have

[@schmingusss]

I wonder how often people were trampled by horses back then.

[@Superman-j1v]

Good for you that you work in horses nobody cares

[@autumnrenee077]

@@Superman-j1vyet here you are commenting, trying to make someone's day as bad as yours seems to have been going.

[@autumnrenee077]

@@Superman-j1vif you would've clicked his channel you'd have seen on that very day you left that rude comment, he lost a horse he had for almost 30 years.. I just figured that out clicking his comment & watching videos. Go touch grass.

[@anonosaurus4517]

Many major Civil War personalities were still alive and the last veteran of the War of 1812 still walked the Earth.. History is mindboggling.

[@csidun9087]

Very nicely done! I enjoyed your hard work in doing this!

[@sugarfalls1]

Wow, are you serious? Who was that man? I am blown away! I can't believe someone that was 18 in 1812 would still be alive in 1902. That's over 100 years.

[@anonosaurus4517]

​@@sugarfalls1 His name was Hiram Cronk, he was a sailor during the war. I think he died in 1905. He wasn't 18 during the war, he was younger than that, though I couldn't tell you how young at the time.

[@sugarfalls1]

@@anonosaurus4517 Wow, you're right! He lived to be 105! Died in 1905 born in 1800. It does say he was the last veteran of the war of 1812 but he went in in 1814 as a Private which was still very young! I found him on Wikipedia.

[@LuisSanchez-en3sf]

@@sugarfalls1what’s his name I would love to look this up?

[@roystrickland3363]

Beautiful and haunting, especially with the musical score. Surprisingly, many of the buildings shown are still there!

[@TW-vl4wj]

We are all just passing through this life...Crazy to think about. Live your life to the fullest and love along the way..😊 one of these days all of us will be gone too.

[@rynfloa731]

What love ??? Love of money, that's the only thing i see our days

[@junecat1597]

​@rynfloa731 John 3:16...For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. ❤🙏🏽

[@bryancross5014]

Everybody's in a big hurry to get through life it seems somehow somebody we need to take the time catch your breath slow down a little

[@branevans3705]

Wish there was a pause button

[@kevinbraden9445]

Amen❤

[@bobbysands6923]

My grandfather was 12, living in NJ. These types of videos bring up endless thoughts.

[@garrettkelly5568]

So you must be in your 70's/80's then?

[@Orion-uz2jx]

​@@garrettkelly5568que grosero,no ves que te escribe desde el mas alla😂

[@anakatrien2463]

My great grandmother was 14 at the time. A far simpler time then for certain

[@Ryan-on5on]

My own great-grandfather was 15/16 at the time, but living in a rural village in the impoverished hinterland of Campania, Italy, a real backwater of a place, then and now! He would make the crossing to the New World in 1913, finding employment as a mason in Westchester County, NY, before returning to his homeland sometime between 1914-20 for reasons unknown but probably war-related, as his second passage back to America in 1920 was paid for by the Italian Government, suggesting some kind military or government service by him in the interim. His wife only emigrated to the U.S. in 1921, indicating to me that he, as with many other Italian immigrants migrating without their wives or family, initially had no plan of staying permanently in America. He did finally settle down here, siring four American-born children, finding success as a contractor only to lose it all in the Depression, and dying at the age of 52 from tuberculosis, which in the pre-antibiotic era was a terribly lethal disease. Great-grandpa died nearly 58 years before I was born, so there was little chance of my meeting him even if he had lived longer!

[@ivo3598]

My great great was around 30

[@desertlillie9659]

When watching these old films, my son used to say it was like watching ghosts.

[@TiKscHBiLa]

am 48 years old and i've had exactly the same feeling watching this, but i think it's coming from the mystic combination with this strange music

[@AndySaenz924]

He’s a wise man!

[@williamoleschoolarendt7016]

I'm 60 years old and feel the same way!

[@MatMat-qi2rd]

Their style back then was so refined and polished ...

[@miluskamyska9652]

Vše takové klidné, pomalé. Hezké👍

[@ingridseim1379]

Only if you had money. Google new York 1900s tenements and look at the photos. No windows to the outside, no running water, families living in 1 or 2 rooms and these were factory workers, not beggars.

[@jl453]

@@ingridseim1379And yet even the poor tried to dress well.

[@ingridseim1379]

@@jl453 the poor just tried to survive. They dressed the best they could because poverty was blamed on the poor, rather than on the robber barons, who were the actual cause of the poverty. So, not only were the poor victimized by their overlords, they were fooled into playing into their victimization. Have you ever stopped to think that the greatest period of technological innovation took place in a democratic country during one of its most democratic phases? If you aren't a paid troll, stop and think. Find solid information sources. Find several with different points of view. Learn from them. Ponder. Think for yourself, but don't reinvent the wheel. If you are a paid troll, go eff your mother.

[@Acorn11982]

​@@ingridseim1379those were all immigrants. If you think about it. Things for them haven't gotten much better.

[@Meemeeseecoo]

Look how nice everyone looks. It’s almost like this is the future and we’ve gone back in time.

[@jimhattery4348]

This channel is a wonderful time machine.

[@ingridseim1379]

@@jimhattery4348 why on earth would anyone want to go back in time to when people didn't even know what vitamins were? When they didn't know what caused heart attacks ? When doctors prescribed cigarettes because no one knew they caused cancer? I don't mean to be harsh, but stop and think about what we have today. Really THINK about it.

[@ront769]

@@ingridseim1379 Because society was much more civilized.

[@ingridseim1379]

@iofthetiger67 back then, people spit in the faces of the small children they sent down coal mines because, hey, no child labor laws!

[@ingridseim1379]

Bullshit. My best friend's great grandfather raped her grandmother when he was 28 and she was 14. The solution? The parents had them get married! When my friends grandmother was born, great grandfather told great grandmother that he would rape their daughter, too, when she got to be eight. Great grandmother went to the police. This was Manhattan. They told her to go home and make her husband too happy to rape their daughter. So she left, and put the girl in an orphanage while she got a low paying job because she had no education. Great grandfather checked all the orphanages, found his rape target, had his wife declared an unfit mother, got the girl back, and proceeded to rape her over the years at his leisure. So you tell me who had respect there? Police? Child welfare (oh! they didn't exist yet!) the orphanage? The courts? The neighbors? The teachers? Take your hookah dreams of a better past and puff away, bruh.

[@BabyBugBug]

@@ingridseim1379 You are foolish.

[@НатальяСадыкова-й5к]

Все мужчины в костюмах,а женщины элегантны и стройны.Восхитительно!!!С уважением из России.

[@johnmcgrath1657]

All the males have a hat

[@mike7696]

The men are slender as well. Didn’t eat the processed crap that has made Americans overweight/unhealthy. “If mankind makes it don’t eat it. If it grows, eat it.” Words to live by.

[@AndreyReactor]

Это конечно здорово. Но мне бросилось в глаза, с первых кадров, другое. Много трамваев. Но на какой тяге они передвигаются??? 😳

[@strufian]

@@AndreyReactor Их тянет трос проложенный в дорожном полотне. Такие были во всех крупных городах США, того времени.

[@ИванКорнилов-у7ю]

просто на женщинах длинные платья надеты😅

[@Beerpopnana]

Have noticed how slim everyone is. Thankyou for the amazing video!

[@vasilioshioureas2607]

No processed food back then

[@phatmanlovescake]

People actually walked around

[@Practicalinvestments]

That’s what happens when you’re too poor too afford a hearty diet, and have one that consists of potato skins, and Vegetables from the garden, it’s still the same nowadays, it’s just that after refrigeration and automation of cattle farms,z meat became widely available and a more common staple among the American diet, people got fat. But also yes data shows that in this current climate obesity is still rising while access to food isn’t correlated with that rise, so obviously there is another piece to the modern obesity, as another commenter above noted, a common theory and area of study for this is processed foods, as the rise in processed foods does tend to correlate with a rise in obesity

[@atrifle8364]

​@@Practicalinvestments- Meat doesn't make people fat, it makes them lean. We need protein. Vegetables are vitamins. Potatoes mostly starch. It's portion sizes and all the endless sugar and salt.

[@Watkinsstudio]

Look how slow they were. I guess restoration didn't include walking and moving at a realistic pace. Lol.

[@jerrycarlson8968]

What a more simpler time. Incredible footage.

[@FAISAL-9178]

كم احب هذه اللقطات سواء كانت في نيويورك او في أي مدينة او في أي بلد احب الأشياء القديمه لانها هي الأصل في هذا الزمن شكرا لك ياصاحب القناة شكرا 🙏 ❤

[@imbaby666]

اتفق معك 🥺

[@dagneytaggart7707]

Thank you for your work and for posting these movie shorts.

[@bessie9755]

Did you know that in the 1900s they had the silent picture movies and if they still have them on KZbin if you go to KZbin and type up the first silent picture movie type it up just like that it'll it'll pop up like it'll have like thousands of videos that are silent picture movies real silent picture movies

[@GDeanG1963]

These people walking would be saddened and appalled to walk those same streets today. Elegant and respectful it was. 🗽

[@deannasage5491]

You're absolutely right my friend they would be absolutely appalled not only how the city has changed but how the world has changed here in 2024😢

[@End_Zionism]

NYC is cleaner now than it was at that time and is a good city.

[@tbec3011]

Doubtful. They would be in awe of the technology.

[@gerardmackay8909]

They would certainly be pleased they didn’t have to suffocate in summer and freeze in winter, they would be pleased to be free of the fear of tuberculosis, typhoid, diphtheria, any number of bacterial infections. They would be pleased to have all manner of legal protections and not to be exploited in the work place as a matter of course. You people who idealize a past you never experienced really need to learn how grim life was for most people (and short too) and thank your lucky stars, if you’re an average Joe or Jane, that you live now not then.

[@MrPlowboy66]

Take a walk through Hell"sKitchen in 1902,and get back to me.

[@Matt-rj2vj]

That slow pan up the flatiron building was very artistic, nice cinematography.

[@Ewisabef_79]

The ghosts of time, just love to watch these, thank you 🎉❤

[@jpturner171]

Well said!👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@Ewisabef_79]

@@jpturner171 Thank you!

[@jpturner171]

@@Ewisabef_79 👍🏽❤️

[@gyges5495]

Everyone looks like a million bucks - today everyone looks like a slob, no fashion, tattoos and fat

[@BreakfastEveryday]

Not too many fat people in nyc these days. It’s a bit of a chore to get around.

[@jemini48]

Yup. Started with printed t-shirts then baseball hats, then wallpapering our skin, our faces. Esp bad to see women's skin papered and not smooth and soft bc of tattoos everywhere1

[@oysterman962]

Slow fashion back then. Thousands of tailors, shoemakers, hatters & dressmakers. Almost all gone now. And they call it progress😢

[@patrickbateman7122]

This tattoo epidemic needs to stop!! 🤢

[@oysterman962]

@patrickbateman7122 so does the breast implants.

[@Romafood]

that 8th October 1902 those curious people could never have imagined being seen in 2024 ... much less on these devices.... truly fascinating

[@kaykiekid]

What a beautiful, wonderful video to go back in time! ❤😊 Wonder and amazement!

[@ferrark1]

I always look back a these pictures and videos looking for my Grandfather hoping too see him He came to New York back in 1903 With his mother he would have been 3 years old miss him

[@ivo3598]

Thats very slight chance to see him in these videos

[@miguellehman6951]

Fantastic views from the past . Thank you😊😊😊

[@gracepeace487]

Every person here had a story. Wonder what stories they could tell?

[@petebondurant58]

Eventually, you will be able to ask them...and see the world in which they lived.

[@Crazy-Clown-In-Town]

You may need a translator. I'm sure many of these folks didn’t speak English. This was the time when mass immigration from Europe happened during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Many of them were Italians, Polish and Germans.

[@EstebanTHL]

@@Crazy-Clown-In-Town ahí abuelo de Donald Trump era un inmigrante que no hablaba inglés

[@moshodi100]

​@@petebondurant58 Amen.

[@GH_Entertainment]

​@@Crazy-Clown-In-TownA lot of them also probably came from the UK which is where the Trans Atlantic Accent came from, a mixture between British English and American English.

[@StacyL.]

I LOVE the remastered footage of this beloved city. To see the city that way made me proud of my roots but so very sad of what it's become. 😢

[@userperson5259]

Beautiful restoration. Thank you for this.

[@branevans3705]

Watching these films always gives me such a weird feeling that I can't explain.

[@keithcummings3260]

Not a cell phone in sight. Just people living in the moment.

[@tubularbill]

Brings tears to your eyes. Such a young and vibrant country.

[@license2kilttheplaidlad640]

Those people probably considered all of that as chaotic and were relieved to just get home . Cant imagine what those same journeys would be like for them today . Imagine walking around new York without sirens and car horns. Just millions of clip clops of hooves and metal wagon wheels.

[@boyoffall5478]

These videos make you feel like you’re in a dream. So cool.

[@j.g.8494]

This video, with its haunting background music, has a dream-like quality-just like life itself. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

[@drevakelemen52n92]

OUR ANCESTORS.... THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXCELLENT WORK.... love 😘 DrEva

[@mddell58]

I believe that about 90% of us tend to completely forget that ALL of the horses had to 'relieve' themselves all over the city streets. That was an unsightly thing.

[@averyvaliant]

Wasn't there dedicated street sweepers for areas like this?

[@Lunchladydoyle]

They had young men who picked it up. It was considered a respectable job as well.

[@bernieoconnell5515]

People are relieving themselves all over the streets now never mind the poor horses in the film reel. Standards of human behaviour since then have hit rock bottom. People are disgusting now in their morals, their dress, and in their foul mouths. No matter the hardships back then, at least people knew how to present themselves in public.

[@smooshiebear80]

Not to mention the smell and walking hazards.

[@Badgerlust]

Well today we people crapping on the road and sidewalk and flower pots

[@angelatanese2131]

Tristezza infinita ,ma anche un senso di pace ❤

[@lvelez1999]

Sadness?

[@redpill8274]

كل واجد مات بحكايته....كم انت عظيم يا رب

[@donnamylife1981]

My grandpa was born in 1900 and this makes me miss him ..

[@armondlevinia9221]

No cars at all! No high rises! The streets are chaos! I would like to meet just one person there and hear what they think about. Thanks for this!

[@bradbutcher3984]

There was an automobile driving past Madison Square at the end. It was probably electric by the way it looked.

[@megan2176]

I thought the same thing, so chaotic! People just walking around willy nilly, in front of moving "vehicles", yikes! I wonder when traffic became more structured...? Googling now! 😊

[@DanteTimberwolf]

2:01 there's high rises

[@batootcat]

@@DanteTimberwolf Actually, Rome in the first century A.D. had high rises because they had invented concrete by that time..

[@RyanYoungMan]

Medicine in that era was terrible, there were no antibiotics or effective drugs. But the food was natural, without preservatives, without chemicals, without GMOs.

[@Eva-Maria7o]

My grandmother was born in Germany in 1902. She lived through the time of Wilhelm II. The First World War. The Weimar Republic. The Third Reich. The Second World War. Then the Federal Republic of Germany. In East Germany socialism. A whole life full of hardship and deprivation. Like so many

[@AlexejSvirid]

The problem is Devil runs the world. He is liar and murderer. This is the reason why liars and murderers feel good while righteous persons are persecuted. That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our loved ones again! :-)

[@j.g.8494]

Your grandmother witnessed a lot of incredible changes in her life.

[@dsm2240]

She moved from West to East Germany?

[@Eva-Maria7o]

@dsm2240 A country was divided. Families were brutally torn apart. My grandmother and her sister were finally separated when the wall was built in 1961.

[@EdnaMillion.]

Their sense of reality was the same as ours. Time stretched out before them with all their hopes and dreams still to be lived. They're all gone now.

[@jayydee72]

Love when they colorize these old film footage gives us a glimpse of how it really looked back then.

[@Ronald-o9x]

I'm a great Scott Joplin fan, who died in 1917. Funny to think this is what society was like when he was writing his immortal rags.

[@cindyfoley1675]

That was wonderful to see. All the people were dressed so nice Thank you for this

[@erdal-kartal]

Cindy foley bu gul sizin için 🌷💙

[@est141]

WONDERFUL NEW YORK 🗽 🗽 🗽 🗽 🗽

[@AnnaViola3]

Какие красивые здания, средства передвижения и одежда 🤔👋🍀

[@carolyearsley]

My grandmother was born in NYC in 1899. She was three years old at this filming.

[@eldorado1830]

Awesome video, thanks for posting.

[@davehue9517]

Before the great market crash and both world wars....an incredible and hopefull period

[@parkerpaulj]

I am hypnotised by this video. Watching it over and over again. My only wish while watching, is that I could somehow jump into the vid and say hello to the people, may I buy you a coffee ma’m/sir ? Shall we share stuff about our lives, May I meet the people you live with and love ?

[@AngelRoseHeaven]

Love it

[@Davett53]

11/2024.....The oldest artifact in my house presently, sitting on a table across the room is a Edison Cylinder Phonograph. ( A black colored resin cylinder, with recorded music on it, engraved onto the resin.) It was being sold in 1901.

[@Practicalinvestments]

The days when college textbooks weren’t just a scam and actually gave you genuine knowledge you couldn’t get elsewhere

[@2460joel]

Man, that city has always been bopping.

[@Davett53]

11/2024.....I Love this! 1903,....50 years before I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1953. In 1901,....a warehouse , with 3 floors was built at 55 East Spring Street, in Columbus, Ohio, that by 1979, I would begin renting the top floor as my Art studio, along with 10 other artists. In 1905, the house I would eventually buy in 1993, was being built, a few blocks North of The Ohio State University. Electric trolleys were still passing by my street, until 1948. In 1902, in Cleveland , Ohio was 9 years before my father was born, in 1911 and 20 years before my mother was born, in 1922.

[@dd-bf3ch]

3:34 I'm pretty sure that horseless buggy is an electric taxi if you could believe it. No horse, no exhaust and a big motor mounted on the front axle. Could also be steam but it's fascinating that electric taxis were popular in nyc. Jay leno has one of them. Very interesting.

[@toddp3111]

The transformation that happened to the world in just 100 years between 1902 and 2002 is truly amazing when you think about it.

[@fob1xxl]

It's amazing to see real footage. There are so many untold stories of people we might have liked to have known more about. My dad came to New York in 1906 at the age of 3 from italy , so it was probably very similar to this. Fascinating footage. Thank you.

[@quatz1981]

Everyone in this film are long gone now. So sad that life is so short.

[@davidmitchell6873]

No. that's me crossing the street at the one minute mark. I was on my way to the 5 and dime for a cherry fizz.

[@TiKscHBiLa]

someone's gonna say the same thing about you reading your comment 80 YEARS LATER

[@Southeren]

Just to add another notch to your comment....I have seen videos of people finding lost graves. Graves from back then or before that were forgotten about and had been taken over by nature. These things really are a reminder that life is short and eventually we will become distant memory as time moves on.

[@rpminc1974]

It’s amazing how much construction there was even back then of the buildings downtown and all done without any kind of transportation of materials that we have today

[@Poisson4147]

Our ancestors were damm capable people. It's mind-blowing that Rome had about a million people ... two millennia ago!

[@ZeroFooksGiven2U]

Wow 😮

[@fazeljigry4896]

Hi, your very nice videos i like it also thanks ❤👍

[@guillermo2411]

Incredible, you see even more people than nowadays.😮

[@mirjanakucinic6711]

In these times people are lived their lives,today people don't live life but empty careerism.elites through the years created such human with tools of social engineering-(like media, populism,kitch, wrong values,sick school system)-because empty careerist is ideal type of human for total control.

[@karimattiya9799]

The world 🌎 is big stage.evry One acted his role in this world then lifted this life. God rest there souls. From Bahrain. Thanks you for sharing this video. ❤

[@Contessa6363]

Thank you 👍👍 very cool. While I was watching this my NYC from my youth 50 years ago will be like this in the not to distant future.

[@mirkotinucci8295]

La bellezza e la semplicità di un mondo che purtroppo non c'è più ❤

[@AngelRoseHeaven]

I love the modest dresses

[@victoriajesusismysavior]

Same here ! The women covered themselves up, dressed respectfully. I like that ! God bless you 🙏 ❤️

[@jorgecabrera1668]

No creo que lo sea pues era la moda de esa época entre la gente rica, estaban bien vestidos pues además en ese tiempo, eso de ir al centro de la ciudad o lugares importantes era pretexto para usar su mejor vestimenta.

[@ingridseim1379]

Those dresses were not so modest. I used to be a historical reenactor, and under those skirts, the underwear had to be crotchless. You can't pull panties down and back up when you wear corsets and petticoats. So a married woman having a sex with the milkman would be easier to do than today. Most of the ideas we have about the past are false. Think about it: there's a reason we haven't gone back to it in a hundred years.

[@ingridseim1379]

​@@victoriajesusismysaviorthey didn't do it out of respect. They did it because they didn't have the elastic that gives us modern women's lingerie. Those skirts were the most practical solution to how to go to the toilet, since women have to sit or squat. Under those long shirts the underwear was crotchless. I used to be a historical reenactor at a state park, this is how I know. Once technology gave us elastic we could use in lingerie, we cut our skirts short, put on pants, and NEVER looked back.

[@BabyBugBug]

@@ingridseim1379You’re out of your mind if you think our current level of ridiculousness was matched by the modesty of these folk.

[@jpturner171]

Beautifully presented!👏🏽👏🏽

[@bartonpercival3216]

Just think that during this time period the Statue of Liberty was still a dark copper color and hadn't turned to it's famous patina green color yet!! 🗽

[@marlenepearson3936]

These videos are great 👍

[@patriciaroult1988]

Émouvant 😂❤🇫🇷

[@OsvaldoMasolini]

Volver al pasado increíble ❤❤❤

[@phil7721]

So many people and they all had suits on

[@Kjdjrh]

Outstanding. It’s time traveling!

[@zambufly1]

I worked on the boat docs in NYC in the 1920's. don't miss it at all.

[@davidmusicmaker]

So you must be 120 years old, then. Or at least 110, if you were working as a child.

[@scootron2000]

Time traveler 😅​@@davidmusicmaker

[@PauloCesar-jv3pf]

Eu aqui do Brasil amando essas imagens restauradas!

[@johnangela1933]

Hat makers must of been the richest people of them times

[@petealonso2535]

Everybody was very well dressed , very elegant.

[@robbie-vh3ed]

Much simpler time ❤

[@rmorales3553]

I hated history in school... it fascinates me today...I should've listened more...

[@MrPlowboy66]

Back thenthey weren't worried about global warming,they were concerned with the horse shit crisis. It's always something.

[@cantwheelie525]

Would be cool to set up a camera in the same spots today for contrast.

[@slammer7625]

They were then as we are now...as we are now, we shall soon be how they are today..

[@ivo3598]

Not really

[@slammer7625]

@ivo3598 How do you figure ?

[@GaboOo239]

Thanks for your page and vidéos, make travel and feel good .!

[@augustofaustinodecastro5492]

A sociedade dessa época era mais tolerante 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@ikaikamaleko8370]

Wow this gave me real pause, made me real pensive.

[@mbayatab4326]

This is how ladies and gentlemen should dress!

[@alejandroestradapena1747]

What a beautiful city

[@heavyd777]

Wow, New York has always been crowded and smelly.

[@hotrod6349]

Look how clean the streets are. People had respect back then. They were happy to be there.

[@JayKarpwick]

These films were mostly taken in the business district. If you went to neighborhoods like the Bowery or other slums it would have been anything but clean and pretty.

[@jasonexploring]

Ummm the horse shit!

[@hotrod6349]

@jasonexploring yes sir horses do shit

[@vladpetrov6552]

❤🎉Спасибо за видео !🎉❤ это волнительно видеть жизнь наших предков ! И трамваи едут без проводов ! электрокары как бы так !

[@strufian]

Это не трамваи. Вагоны тянут тросы, проложенные в дорожном полотне.

[@benia_corde]

Нow slowly the traffic flow moves. People walk between it, like drops between streams...

[@sharonrose50]

The society was much slower paced and people just seemed happier.

[@benia_corde]

@@sharonrose50 The speed of life is always the same. What is different is the density, its saturation in every inch -- events, emotions, activations, cataclysms.

[@nicholasselvaggi54]

Beautiful. 😊

[@karlvilla9643]

Time when RESPECT was a daily bread between humans

[@ingridseim1379]

Only if you were white, male, and straight. Think of all the brilliant people who were members of minority communities whose potential was wasted because they weren't allowed to work it could only get second-rate "separate but equal" educations. How many engineers could only work in stables? How many doctors, lawyers and teachers had to stay home and do housework? It was a shitty time when people considered themselves over the hill by 45. They didn't even know what caused heart attacks it that smoking causes cancer. They didn't even have antibiotics, do you could cut your finger and die of the infection. Think about what you have. Really think about it. Vitamins? They didn't know about those back then. They thought opium was good for quieting crying babies. Shitty shitty shitty time.

[@KtotheG]

Ha....there was crime and disrespect present then.

[@Crazy-Clown-In-Town]

Crimes were high and they blamed it on Italian and Irish immigrants. People lived in poverty. Newly arrived immigrants settled in the lower east side Manhattan. It was a slum area and the city smelled like horse poop.

[@notabot2928]

@@KtotheGnot nearly as much not even close you’re wrong

[@johngrogan4609]

And respect for one’s self.

[@richardkeilig4062]

Amazing picture of those people from all cultures that built America. God bless them all.

[@feliciajenkins5041]

I wish there was a time machine so I can meet my great grands😎

[@judithoconnor6442]

I really enjoyed this. The women were so elegant. And the buildings were higher than I would expect for the time.

[@JayKarpwick]

A quick bit of Googling told me that the first US skyscrapers were built in the *1880s,* when mills were able to produce steel construction beams. Like now, NYC was a major business and financial capital; the growth of construction over two decades isn't surprising.

[@patrickpaalman]

Imagine so little number of cars on the road..

[@Gabriel-kx4kc]

WOW!!! Just amazing.

[@poc329]

Crime was low

[@prkremer]

Today’s migrants are a different kind.

[@ingridseim1379]

Actually, violent crime rates are lower now than ever in human history. We know this from studying statistics in modern years, court records from centuries ago, and archaeological human bones from the ancient past. It's just that news outlets make more money covering crime than, say, how the graduating class in your locality scored on the SAT test last spring.

[@Crazy-Clown-In-Town]

Crime was high cuz they were living in poverty. Many Italian and Irish immigrants were gangsters. This was the time when mass immigration from Europe happened. Italians were hated so much and people called them WOPs (without papers). They didn’t speak English and always committing crimes.

[@Crazy-Clown-In-Town]

Crime was high cuz of mass immigration from Europe. The Italians and Irish were menace to society. They were gangsters committing crimes like pickpocketing, rape, murders...etc.

[@sugarfalls1]

Look at that young girl crossing the street around 1:20! They lived through WWI! She is so cute in her skirt, boots and ribbons coming down from her hat! How sweet!

[@thunderdeed1]

It was the best of times it was the worst of times. Less pollution, great optimism, technology was in its infency. On the other hand so was medicine and communication and let's not forget a terrible war and global pandemic which were connected just on the horizon.

[@Poisson4147]

There was PLENTY of pollution - wood and coal for heating, no controls on factory waste, etc. It wasn't the pristine time many people think.