New York / Manhattan 1965

[@diannefaith7866]

I was born in 1959 in Manhattan NY… These streets and the way people dressed bring fond memories!,, My parents met in NYC… my dad was a singer…. He sang in Carnegie Hall !! So proud of him !,,, I was born from Puerto Rican Parent’s🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 I studied to be an Educator and a Librarian!! And a proud New Yorker!!

[@lillydejesus9510]

I was born in 1962 in Bellevue hospital after my father came from the Korean war he met my mom. My dad became a mailman and life was good. every summer my dad took us to Puerto Rico and we would spend two months out there and life was good I miss those early years of my life. I'm glad my parents stood married for almost 60 years my father passed away 7 months ago. And I miss him. He was born in 1930 and he's a purple heart recipient. Strong strong character funny and badass. But to be in New York you had to be like that.

[@holysmokes4259]

As a 23 year old my father landed in NYC from South America 3 months prior to this video being recorded. It's interesting to see what he was seeing in 1965, the clothing, womens hair styles, vehicles etc.. He lived in Manhattan and commuted to his job in Astoria Queens for 10 years. He told me the train fare was 15 cents and that you could buy a soda and a pizza for 25 cents. A few months later he experienced the blackout of 1965. He was coming home from work on the uptown 1 train and it came to a complete stop in the tunnel between 79 street and 86 street. The police came and everyone on the train was escorted out of the tunnel. Thanks for the video.

[@tonyc7301]

Most men wearing suits and women wearing dresses. You're lucky if a wedding looks that formal today.

[@00wynters]

I’ve never seen anyone wear anything other than suits or dresses to a wedding

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

Most people dress like hobos in NYC including the rich. People are heavily overweight or look sick these days and either physically or mentally or both.

[@shaylawatson1244]

Yeah you right about that because this genration act like they ain't got no common sense 😂

[@user-xg5kh9ci4f]

Today's generation is rude disrespectful with no common sense and simply put, just dumb

[@kevinmadden1645]

Th​@@shaylawatson1244They don"t know much about grammar either .

[@capricorndragon6268]

The island of my birth has changed so much in the past 60+ years. I was raised far from the city and went back only 2 times after. Life moves on.

[@kathryneconomou791]

I was 13 in 1965 and remember visiting my nana who lived on the upper east side. We used to go to the automat. When I was younger, our school took us to the Central Park Zoo and my nana met us there and bought me a cupie doll on a pole and cotton candy. We also went to the Met to see the Mona Lisa. Wish we could go back... The best was the NY World's Fair '64/"65!

[@likespurple2261]

I was 4 years old in '65. I just barely remember the way the cars looked back then.But I remember that at 5, in the NE Bronx, I was allowed to walk two blocks to the library by myself for "Children's Hour", and at 6 or 7 years old, I was allowed to go to the grocery store 2 blocks the other way to pick up a few light groceries for my mother, and put them on the house account.

[@freespirit21newyork]

I was just born in June 1965 so I was 1 month old, but I too vaguely recall the old cars/taxis, I do recall feeling car sick in a taxi with my Mom back in the late 1960s🌞🌟☀️💚☀️💗

[@jimvinespresents...8463]

I was born in NYC in 1963...so I was there. It's wonderful seeing that town the way it was. Thank you for posting!

[@saeedurrahman2056]

You are 56/57 years old now

[@Papa-o33963]

I was born in 1963 NYC. I miss Mom n those years. Great times n experiences.

[@jimvinespresents...8463]

@@Papa-o33963 If you don't mind my asking: Where'd you live?

[@alanmoon636]

my dad born 1963 to😂 i am born 1998

[@christinefleetwood6632]

I was born 71, but I remember what you all said when you were with us as kids, the stones and cher, its was really modern in 65.

[@TesticoloGonfioGaming]

Im italian and this is beautifull to watch. I wish i could have visited NY during these times

[@darkwoodmovies]

So much is the same, so much has changed. But one thing will never change - the spirit and spark this city has. It will never die.

[@bluesborn]

I'm 55 and was 7 years old when this was filmed.It was so different back then it's hard to describe.No cell phones or computers,stereo equipment was primitive.I never even saw a color TV until about 1969 and the television we did have was comprised of about 3 or 4 good channels. CBS-ABC-NBC were about it with a few local shows and half the time the reception was awful! Still it was a wonderful exciting time to be alive.

[@billanthony7896]

Come on, bluesborn. Half the excitement was waiting on the technology to catch up with consumer demand. Personally, I'm still hoping for those personal jet packs to get perfected and catch on!

[@ralphsanchico2452]

Im 60 and a native New Yorker from Brooklyn. I concur, and even the worst moments were good compared to today. My dad knew this city like the back of his hand and we ALL couldn't wait for those Sunday drives after church either to Coney island Sheepshead bay and parts of Queens and Long Island to visit some of their friends. Obviously Summer was the best time. We would go to the city (NYC) via the A train and walk for hours just to past the time. I sometimes have to stop watching because it really gets too nostalgic and I get a bit emotional inside remembering those days and the many people (who have past on) that we grew up with. But I'm so glad that these vids are posted. Oh! and don't forget those little transistor radios we used to carry around with us. The original Ipod! (lol)

[@SNLGUY]

The radio was still somewhat popular and if you go back in time from 65 the radio was the only thing. You had radio programs like "The Shadow". Families gathered around the radio the way they do with television now. Although families do not gather as much as the old days.

[@ZnenTitan]

Ralph Sanchico I remember those days as well, but from Washington D.C. (my dad grew up in the Bronx and later Hempstead) and know the longing for a time when things seemed to just make more "sense" can be overwhelming. BTW, I remember when my sister got one of those "new" transistor radios, I think it was made by Zenith.

[@ralphsanchico2452]

Your'e absolutely correct. I think RCA might've had one as well. But if I'm not mistaken, didn't the Japanese have a strong market in those devices? Anyway, I remember walking past some of the shops and seeing them in the display windows. it was like electronic "Eye Candy"! (haha)

[@tonycollazorappo]

I remember a lot about NY in the 60s, I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn. Those were the days, playing the streets, so carefree at the time.

[@Alex-fx5es]

I love watching old footage and trying to grasp how it was like to live back then, but I always struggle. I guess you truly had to live back then to fully grasp it.

[@zinzanishful]

me too

[@christinefleetwood6632]

I was born 71, but I got taught a lot about the 60's when I was a kid, so it was sorta of still with us, and people were still playing all the songs and we were sorta trying to act the same. So, you CAN know what it was like, you just have to believe in yourself and keep in that time, by what music you play and things you watch. It was much better back then.

[@novaonpluto]

Me too, it's so fascinating.

[@ramencurry6672]

Really not much different from today. Just a slower pace and people more social in public with no cell phones. One annoying thing though is without a GPS, much easier to get lost while driving especially in New Jersey and in the outer boroughs like Brooklyn.

[@ramencurry6672]

Also when you turned on the TV you had very limited choices of only a few channels. Maybe around like 5 (more or less). And there was a good chance that your TV was black and white

[@cllrbck]

Oh man, what i would give to live in those times...

[@ns7353]

People weren't so divided and had still had unity in the church or in love for their country.

[@themaestro3034]

Nostalgia for the lead-laced constant smog, regular occurring race riots, and the bankruptcy that hit the city a few years later, huh? You remember how squalid times square was with the peep shows and hookers everywhere? What a strange sense of nostalgia you have.

[@teletubetodd]

What beautiful footage of simpler times! This was the summer my family moved to Park Avenue, and I fondly remember those tailfins, small restaurants, green buses and well-dressed people. Today it's mostly luxury boutiques and chains, cellphone immersons, grungy attire, and real estate no one can afford. Thanks for bringing back this memory!

[@countalucard4226]

In 65 I was fourteen. Our parents had no fear letting us just kids going to Yankee Stadium ourselves, taking the bus then the subway. One thing I loved about going to the city was getting to read the New York Post.

[@hewitc]

Kids could do that today. It's not more dangerous, parents are overprotective now.

[@jkryanspark]

We took the 17A to Jamaica, the F Train to Manhattan, and the D Train to Yankee Stadium. Total cost of a Yankee game, hot dog and a soda, and travel: $5.

[@countalucard4226]

Jeff Karas if I remember the best seats “box seats” were $3.50. Of course the bleachers were $0.75 cents.

[@jkryanspark]

@@countalucard4226 We sat upstairs for $1.50.

[@countalucard4226]

Jeff Karas if you wanted ice cream you got the old Dixie Cup. Half vanilla half chocolate with a wooden spoon. Who knows what they sell today.

[@BenRook]

Seeing this today ~60 years later...lots less traffic then, etc...wow. Thanks for the memories.

[@benjaminbath8782]

So, this is a coincidence almost beyond belief. Those shots were taken from an apartment that my grandmother lived in from the mid 70s until her death a few years ago and I grew up with those views. I’d love to know who took this home video and whether the family who lived there in 1965 knew our family.

[@oliverv291]

I was born in 1965... moved to. New York City in 1987... then left in 1993 to go back to the suburbs

[@redt4056]

Smart move.

[@FRANKIESIXTOES]

I was eighteen in 1965 and had just started working in the Wall Street area. This film brings back good memories of a simpler more civilized time.

[@douglapp5211]

Yes, so true. I graduated in 1965 and went into the Navy and did a year in Vietnam and was proud to have served. I was 17 when I graduated high school and think back to those times a lot now.

[@neilwilson5785]

I know, 'all lies and jests, but a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...'

[@M-Is-For-Margaret]

Hi FRANKIESIXTOES, Do you recall how much your first paycheck was? And how much you paid for rent? Were you renting or still living with your parents? Did you eat lunch around Wall Street? How much was lunch?

[@jamesmack3314]

Yes...more real,nicer people

[@plank7316]

Oh yeah ofc... for a white man

[@860anthony]

I was 8 and living in the Bronx then. I love these trips in the time machine. Wish I could stay. Thanks for the post.

[@JeffFrmJoisey]

WOW! NYC the way I remember it as a kid. I was 8 / 9 years old when this was filmed, and remember Manhattan well. I used to there a lot when my Dad would bring me and my brother to work with him @ NYU, 51 W 4th St, on Saturday mornings from NJ. My parents put us in dress clothes whenever we went anywhere public. We got dressed up to ride the Staten Island Ferry, to see planes land at Newark Airport, the Circus, etc. That's the way it was around NYC in the mid 60s. A comment below asked how NYC changed so much by the 70s. It started in the 50s as people fled to the suburbs of NJ, Long Island, Upstate NY and Connecticut. Crime in the Boroughs was getting out of control. Landlords found it paid off to torch their buildings instead of making them habitable. It continued as budgets tightened and the City's finances worsened, finally crashing & burning in 1975, when the City was at the brink of bankruptcy. The gray, gritty, filthy, burned out vision of NYC you see in 1970s cop movies was not created in a studio, it was reality, it's what NYC really looked like.

[@spreadthelove77]

Love hearing this, Jeff. As for the other hating assholes, go hang yourselves

[@zbdot73]

theDracoIX - whats with the hate? The guy was just giving us a glimpse into the past, it's interesting. Why you get triggered brah?

[@STKeTcH]

could you tell me which 1970s cop movies you are referring to?

[@steviechampagne]

As usual. The crime of our own beautiful cities, caused by nonwhites has forced us to flee further and further away

[@STKeTcH]

@Matt Beeman Thank you! I loved this movie..!!!! please share any more you know

[@danwolven2321]

From one New Yorker To Another I Gotta Say This is Perfect!

[@alvojnikovic2171]

I try to make the best out of my time and era here on earth but nothing compares to the 60's .. the cars, the woman, the music, and the politeness of people was top notch.

[@j.a.bettig772]

yeah they were so polite when half the population were hippy bums and another quarter were rioting every day

[@OneLoveRSR]

You have no clue about the 1960s if "the politeness of people was top notch" is your take away. Blacks were being beaten and hosed. Gays were being jailed and humiliated. An unpopular war raged on and was causing division across the nation. Political assassinations became a theme. Protests and riots were a trend. Watch this documentary: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4bGY5iCmpKlq6s

[@JH-cy7rk]

allen vojnikovic Yeah. They were soooo polite to black people.

[@onenikkione]

you meant the 50's (and early 60's) after that it all went down hill

[@bonnieandclyde222]

So clean, beautiful. I was 6 then , in England though. It was like a fairytale compared to now

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

So much more elegant than today. And Central Park looked like woodland! I was 11 and in the UK in 1965, and did not go to the US until I was in my twenties - lived in New York in 1982-3.

[@Leatricaw]

I was born July 1965. Nice to see this, thanks so much.

[@waynewonder89]

Tee L u soo lucky

[@adamgoodword7888]

Wow you are really old then!

[@Maarccopollo]

@@@adamgoodword7888 53 it's not old, chill.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Beautiful civilised city . Known & loved all over the World 🌎 what the he'll has happened a completely different world. Sad 😔

[@freespirit21newyork]

Wow I was just 1 month old baby girl then, I love this video!! What a great time to be born & alive. I vaguely recall in the late 60s those well made cars that were very heavy & dense so happy I was born in that year June 1965 🌞☀️💚☀️💗☀️🌞

[@jpolar394]

Look at that, no walking cellphone zombies, just normal people. Amazing !

[@Revolver1981]

Why do fools always say something about there being nobody on cellphones on old videos? Just shut it lol.

[@jpolar394]

@@Revolver1981 .......you would say the same thing if you hit with a car driven by someone talking on a cellphone and when you are walking in the sidewalk you are bumped into at least 2 times a day. And I'm not exaggerating either. Because it has happened to myself. I lawyered up and I made a nice bundle of cash.

[@Revolver1981]

@@jpolar394 If they had cellphones in those days they would be just as addicted to them as we are. It's the modern world now. Times change. Technology changes. They would've loved to have had Smartphones and Laptops back then.

[@rovhalt6650]

@@Revolver1981 True. It makes it easier to spot the real humans though.

[@hewitc]

Teens walked around with transistor radios next to their ears sometimes.

[@ScottCaldwell]

Love KZbin for footage like this.

[@jamesmack3314]

Indeed

[@luislaplume8261]

Iwas at the World's Fair that year we took some photos in color which even then was not even then commonplace. We went ther the previous year. 1965 was a booming economy and there were many Mom and Pop stores,and work in NYC. I am a New Yorker. Am now retired and believe me the best years were 1964, 1965 1969 in NYC Igrew up in the borough of Queens.Old NYC, OLD AMERICA.

[@alcamerc9970]

I miss those times. I know there was dirt all over, the subways were grimy, there was garbage on the street for weeks, but they were our times. Life was easy then and we knew how to live it, we knew who we were and where we belonged. I’ll probably get a lot of flak, but that’s ok. That life was a challenge, a dare of nature, a kick in the ass to get you going, but they were good times. Life is difficult now, and for those of us with a few years under our belt, too darn confusing.

[@AbidingDude420]

I wish I could go back in time to this era. I wasn't alive then. I bet things were simpler.

[@dorojessy6932]

Incredible footage! Thanks to the tourist who filmed this stay. It's so valuable and interesting to watch this from a person who wasn't around in 1965. It looks much more civilized than these days.

[@michaelworse6034]

The year ' We can work it out ' from the Beatles came out

[@davehall44]

The Stones released I can't get no satisfaction in the same year. It was flogged to death on the radio, still ringing in my ears :o

[@45vinyljunkie]

@@davehall44 "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was No. 1 for the whole month of July, which is when this was filmed.

[@Bates1960]

I like it when people walk normal and not looking at their phones and admiring the world around them and just being themselves everyday better times. Look around not a single phone in hand. No annoying devices, no smart phones, no distractions.

[@moritzschafer3930]

I always wonder how it felt like living there back then.Even though I wasn't even alive in those days I'm still getting these vibes like I just wanna jump into the screen to be there and experience it in reality, it just seems much more convenient and homely back then.

[@freespirit21newyork]

Sweet thanks for sharing that, I was just born in June 1965 just a 1 month old baby girl, my spirit belongs to the 1960s & 70s🌞☀️💚☀️🌞☀️💗☀️🌞

[@TheSpogNYC]

Thank you so much for sharing this video, I found it fascinating. I'm a New Yorker, but I was born in 1981, so I didn't get to experience the 60's and 70's here, but it's always been interesting to me to see my city in a different era. New York in 1965 seems more simple and wholesome, but it wasn't without it's problems (one of which, homelessness, which is visible in the footage, the person sleeping in the doorway). That feeling of a more calm, more safe, more simple time kind of radiates from this footage, after all, this was before all the technology that exploded from that time to the present (one of which I'm using to make this comment, the internet, and others, cellphones, computers, etc.). I love old footage of my city, and, once again, I thank you for posting it.

[@sixsixxsixxxx]

hahahaha! NY in the 60's and 70's was a sewer of drugs pimps gangs...go check the number of rapes and murders they dwarf today's numbers...graffitti and slums too...wholesome! holy shit u oldsters are so full of shit

[@GenK1991]

+Robert Bermudez woah, way to take it from 0 to 100. Thanks for the statistics but calm the fuck down bitch.

[@blazerman61]

+Robert Bermudez ..70s into 80s maybe..60s were relatively calm...

[@bluegillphil1427]

I grew up in Jamaica Queens 1950s & 60s. It was a different world, a different time, a different age. I feel as if Im a time traveler. Indian head pennies & real silver dollars were still in circulation, subway ride was 10 cents, slice of pizza & coke 25 cents ,etc etc,

[@luislaplume8261]

It was exactly like that except for the Prohibition era and the Great Depression of 1929 til 1941.

[@OliwiaLi.]

I didn't expect time travel today. I am captivated. Thank You.

[@MarkinDC]

WOW - great time capsule of 1960's Manhattan, probably in Kodachrome, as the colors are so vivid. THANKS for sharing this.

[@jkryanspark]

The wonderful quietude and aquamarines of 8mm/Super 8 film. It enhances the feeling of nostalgia to know this is somebody's home movies.

[@oneafter9095]

Awesome...when I saw that freighter sailing in the Narrows I thought of my father who was an AB seaman for S.I.U. at that time and thinking he could have been on that ship...we lived in Brooklyn...and I was only 4 years old in ‘65

[@user-db7ju4ls1l]

51 years later, I was there.

[@justicewillprevail1106]

I was born 10 years after this time. It’s amazing to see the world change so vastly yet the same.

[@annaagolli4140]

We came to NYC in 1956, this is the NYC I grew up in. 1965 was the year my parents and sister became USA citizens.

[@adamredfield]

I am almost certain the image at 20 seconds is taken from the Paris Apartments, which back then was called the Hotel Paris, on 97th st. and West End Ave. If I'm right, the building across the street is the one in which I grew up. I lived there from 1963-1983.

[@johnstutzman5520]

I remember visiting the World’s Fair in Queens, N.Y., July, ‘65, I had just finished my three year hitch in the Army and was on my way to my family’s home in Pennsylvania from the Army discharge center in Oakland, Ca.

[@allanotropy]

You started out somewhere over West End Avenue or Broadway, with a view of the Master Apartments in the upper left corner of the frame, where I moved into 28 years later. I also recognize the Upper West Side and Chinatown of my childhood; I lived just north of Chinatown in Little Italy in 1965. That was also the summer my family went often to the World's Fair. And Fifth Avenue was still a two-way street; it would become one-way southbound in January 1966, just after the transit strike.

[@michaelbeza7469]

I was about 7 at the time New York was wonderful then.. simple time..yea they had problems but not like nowadays..the vibe was different..people enjoyed each other's company people interacted a lot more. And their was more respect for one another back then..you could be content just sitting outside your house..their was no internet..no cable..no cell phones..just a regular phone in your house. Great music was made back then...tv shows were great too...

[@freespirit21newyork]

Yes! Well said thank you 😊

[@Hamerguy68]

While I am in Germany and born a few years after this was filmed, I just love this, as this scenery is the one that was in many movies and comic books (I grew up with the early Marvel Comics of the 60's in the 70's).

[@johnd.1849]

No social event in Manhattan was complete without an appearance from the lovely Edie Sedgwick. Those were indeed the days...

[@moritzschafer3930]

Yeah that's so true

[@erickonphoenix]

Damn, I can't believe how uncrowded it is.

[@j.a.bettig772]

NYC actually had around the same population back then that it does now. A ton of people left in the 70s/80s, and the numbers have only returned to their peak recently.

[@hewitc]

But look at the smoggy air. That's been cleaned up. No more coal furnaces and incinerators for one. Car exhausts were changed too.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@hewitc unfortunately the cars changed as well...

[@lordsod69]

And before Covid too; did they not have stuff like that back then?

[@TRUCKOCD]

@@hewitc Whete do you see “smog”

[@Themanwhocameback2]

I see "The Subject Was Roses" on Broadway. It was made into a movie in 1968 - Martin Sheen's first film. And he and Jack Albertson starred in the play.

[@christorpher84]

Themanwhocameback2 And filmed in the Bronx on Andrews ave and University ave at 174 st

[@holymolystudios8467]

Great film, i use to live in the area in the opening scenes. It seems to me that it was shot from the old Hotel Paris on 96 st and 97th street and west end ave. You can see footage where PS 75 there and also on the side street on 97th you can see the old fire escape for the old movie theater the Riverside and Riviera. I use to walk those streets everyday. Brings back great memories from a time of the early sixties. Thank you.

[@NickAndTommyFight]

How old are you?

[@Tflexxx02]

I live in the area now. To a great extent, the area hasn't changed that much in 50 years. Parts of West End Avenue/Riverside Drive north of this point were recently designated a Landmark Preservation Area by the NYC Landmarks Commission...buildings can't be torn down or greatly altered. So, in another 100 years, its should look pretty much the same, still.

[@vjoaquin]

Awesome, I noticed the same thing, I am 56yrs old and went to P.S 75 : )

[@cac7549]

beautiful videos. These videos prove in a way that we can time travel. Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheSpogNYC]

+Carlos Elias I totally agree with you, I wish I could just experience my city in that time period, but watching videos of old footage is the closest I can get, until we get that "Back To The Future" movie's time travel, haha!

[@cac7549]

Yeap, and the older we get the more we will want to know about our past and about our people.

[@cac7549]

I love every single second of these old films brother. I am trying to get them on DVD so I can play them somehow on my television. They are super !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dobermanguy9437]

Wow a look back in time no cell phones no internet no social media BS no political correctness a time when people respected each other and respected the police I was born in 1962 in Queens

[@themuffinman775]

crazy how those cars were driven everyday and now they are collectors items. some of them from this video probably don’t even exist anymore

[@HonestJunkie]

I love that this little gem isn't accompanied by some cheesy music .... Thank YOU!!

[@johncroghan6943]

Amazing how clean thing's were,see how new Yorkers from back then dressed and carried themselves.I was a year old growing up in Washington heights nyc and it will always be called the Heights,the original's were Irish,Jewish,Greek,Puerto Rican and Black.Guess what we all got along and shared the neighborhood.

[@MrEnoBeano]

I went to high school on 54th street from 66 to 69. Midtown was my hangout with my school friends. Especially central park.

[@billlombard9911]

My NYC that had a million neighborhoods that made it what it is , Coney Island to Harlem it was unique and like no where else , a place you love and hate at the same time but you can’t imagine being anywhere else . Like the cops say “ front seat to the greatest show on earth “ or Alicia keys : “ concrete jungle where dreams are made of “ damm right

[@stephenspinelli4265]

I was born in July 1965!!!! This is awesome 😁

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

I hatched in August of '65 Roosevelt Hospital NYC

[@freespirit21newyork]

I was born in June 1965 a 1 month baby girl 🌞☀️💚☀️💗

[@edski8536]

I was 5 yrs. old....born on LI...raised in. Bklyn/Qns....I remember those big steel cars....those bubble cabs......people hitching rides on the backs of NYC buses......🗽

[@mattwilliam4803]

-I was born in this year - 1965 - wow, everything so clean !!! It's truly amazing, just how far down, the U.S.A. has fallen, during my lifetime.

[@tomsisson660]

No internet, no laptops, no desktop computers, no cell phones, and no cell phone networks; just by looking at the video and comparing it to our world you can see the difference. Tom Sisson

[@rrider3946]

It reminds me of the opening scene to the television show the Odd Couple.

[@themachine798]

What a wonderful city New York WAS! And then the you know what happened. How sad.

[@neronevetti4540]

Born March 1 1962 south Bronx left to Miami in late 1971 with the grandparents and siblings.

[@GabiN64]

1960s NYC is very interesting. This is before the decline in the 70s but there was still enough video camera technology around to capture what it was like.

[@johnaddeo2251]

"Everything looked so nice", "people were not fat", "everyone dressed so well", in '65 this city was only a few short years from becoming a cesspool. It was the complacency of the "establishment" and the clash of the counterculture of the later '60s that drove this place into an almost unrecognizable sea of filth, peep shows and crime. You are looking at the calm before the storm here. Sad.

[@StevenLAkins]

New York City became a sleazy, crime-ridden cesspool in just a few short years after the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Reform Act that turned NYC into a 77% minority third-world dystopia.

[@chrism1236]

The dawn of Pres Johnson’s “Great Society”. Quite a shift coming in US society just within three short years.

[@rick3747]

And a $21T failure as well.

[@Jonathanbroder]

An awful lot less traffic (both people and cars) in midtown than there is now. I've lived in Manhattan for 30 years and I've decided it's gotten too uncivilized for me. NY looks like it may have had a little charm back then. Now, it's every man for himself.

[@vstu7643]

I was 12 and 3 significant family events that year. Notice how people dressed. Slack suits for women came into vogue around 1970 and men wore dress shirts or suits and ties walking around Manhattan.

[@octavioramirez4360]

Wahoo I arrived in 1974 it was fun afro and belt bottom

[@valvlog4665]

7:05 Coffee Shop B4 Starbucks. So cool to see.

[@ernestkovach3305]

Notice how the vast majority of people back then were fit looking and far thinner and in far better shape than Americans are today!

[@DannyEastVillage]

it's still like that in New York: the people here are much more fit than people in the burbs, the Midwest, the South--just about anywhere you can name. New Yorkers eat smarter, still walk a lot, and many, many of us belong to gyms and play sports. Obesity just isn't a thing in Manhattan.

[@ernestkovach3305]

False! You are delusional. Indeed, I have rarely seen any city with more grotesquely obese people OF ALL AGES than NYC. Least fat: Hard working Midwesterners. Still, compared to way back then Americans generally are far more apt to be overweight than Americans from the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s. CASE CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@iramos2488]

high fructose corn syrup

[@ernestkovach3305]

Tim Tripas yup.

[@citizen1163]

Danny Berry Do they still dress well? Here in London & I live 2 miles from St Paul's Cathedral, many look as if they're dressed for the beach. I'm no fan of the workout clothes & trainers with everything look either. Maybe ppl dress down bc of the scruffy, dirty appearance of our iconic sites such as Oxford St, Piccadilly Circus & Shaftesbury Avenue..theatre land! If I were a tourist I'd be disappointed. Chelsea is a different story & the Govt even bother to put a couple of policemen on the street nr Kensington palace sometimes, with carbines! London has changed so much from even 20yrs ago let alone 50! Sad.

[@richardr655]

My last year in NYC. I left never to return again. I miss it and wish that I had stayed. Great film of great times. Many thanks.

[@PR4470]

Why did you leave? Where do you live now? Just curious.

[@christorpher84]

Richard R your not missing anything it’s shithole

[@briankeller788]

Was waiting for the "Naked City" title to zoom up towards me. That was my first glimpse of NYC.

[@norakat]

City looks much cleaner than in the 70s

[@jpwjr1199]

That's true. The overt descent of the city's appearance that followed in the early 70's was striking.

[@tommytruth7595]

It was.

[@MrCarguy2]

That's what drug use and rioting do to a city, it quickly reflected upon their homicide rate

[@merccadoosis8847]

Not really - do a Google search for urban smog in the 1960s. It was actually FAR worse than in subsequent decades when we had environmental reforms.

[@hewitc]

Look at the Empire State views. Smog everywhere. This was before pollution controls on auto emissions. Many buildings still used coal furnaces and incinerators. Much much cleaner air today. NYC used to dump raw sewage into the rivers. A "Hudson River Whitefish" was a used condom floating down the river. There were lots of them.

[@luislaplume8261]

In 1961, NYC had these channels 2,4,5,7,9,11,13, 21,25. It was the TV Network Capitol of America!

[@marchbabi323]

My mom lived in Brooklyn, and she had her 7th child in May 1965. I had a brother who came behind her in 1968, but he died in his sleep at 3 months. I came in 1975 and we moved to Delaware when I was a year old, after our dad passed away. I always asked my mom how come she didn't go back to NY. She said she couldn't live there without my dad. I understood her feelings, but she saw Delaware as a better fit for us.

[@RandyTheWildHorse]

This video is so visible and alive! No corny music to make me either mute of shut the video off! Perfection personified!

[@stefanzimmermann4757]

I was born at this year, but in Berlin Germany. 50 years later for my Birthday i was in the City that never slept. 😁 ❤️NYC

[@christofour217]

In 1965 i was 4 and i could have been on that ferry this day the film was taken. I have pictures of me and my brother at the Statue in 1965. Thanks for the video.

[@unitor699industries]

wow the streets are so clean people had manners and respect back then what happened to us?

[@azul8811]

@RPQ How do you think John Lindsay impacted the city? When first elected, he was a Republican WASP, correct?

[@mrdiplomat9018]

RPQ - What kind of sick logic is that you’re using? Anti Semitic thoughts and actions only bring down those individuals and countries that allow its demonic influences to fester and grow. Conduct a cursory examination of history, and you may have your eyes opened.

[@jamesmack3314]

Well for one rap and hip hop...crap

[@jamesmack3314]

So overrated

[@413smr]

Where do you get the "manners and respect" from watching people walking around?

[@pacorodriguez1394]

Its hard to describe how much life was different.

[@gonzoexpress9885]

A bright shining beacon of hope. When people still had respect for themselves and others and believed in God and country.

[@spider82666]

How refreshing : ) Back when native New Yorkers could afford to live, work and raise a family in New York. Thank you Mayor Bloomberg : (

[@warmonger2998]

Wow. All the women wearing dresses.

[@marcelodaneriperez6128]

War Monger In 1966 or 1967 she's become to used short-skirt and pants i think.

[@nuckymancini7013]

Today they think theyre men (covered in tattoos)

[@tommytruth7595]

They way it should be, War Monger. Today they look like a bunch of tattooed and pierced, crackhead, homeless slobs

[@tommytruth7595]

Nucky, back in that day the only ladies with tattoos were in a carnival freak show. And that is where they still belong.

[@lucase9698]

Dresses are nice but more uncomfortable than pants, its most comfortable for women now to wear mostly pants, skirts or shorts and in special occasions wear pretty dresses.

[@nativetexanful]

I sure wish I could have seen New York in those days.

[@James7796ify]

its hard to imagine that was the most advanced life up until that poi nt. only 20 years later was completely different

[@iskanderkhan5980]

What do you mean

[@ralphiew98]

World fair in queens, the best time ever,waffles with whip cream 1965s

[@Thebrothaisback]

Man, good thing it was in color. That was the NYC that Malcolm x saw, and the last version that he saw. NYC did not have as many really tall buildings then. Now, they are put of control.

[@joelfeuer619]

I believe the beginning of film is the Upper West Side, but I can't picture exactly the street. It looks like the 80's into the 90's.

[@jimmyrodasmolestina979]

NYC was different back then we played out on the streets till midnight on hot summer nights

[@johnray3705]

Great stuff! I was born in July 1965 in NYC. This was the world my parents lived in.......and I did too......sort of. Great video thanks. :)

[@59jmartin]

Being a kid then,...it was a gentler time. Crime rates have skyrocketed since then. Pornography then was what you see on cable TV today. People dressed up everyday and treated each other with respect. New York City was more enjoyable since tourism was scant compared to today. The World's Fair was happening at this time and I went with my dad many times. Good videos of that on KZbin also....Thanks for posting this!

[@skylark9770]

What would being Jewish have to do with possessing porn? And unheard of among normal people? How many men bought Playboy?

[@alexricketts273]

And back in 1965 black people were still not equal

[@PR4470]

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[@spencerpetunia8268]

Eh, you were a kid then. Rose-colored glasses. The funny thing about NYC is that though its crime skyrocketed over the course of the 60s, starting in the mid-90s it plunged and today in 2018 it's actually about as safe as it was in the mid-1950s!

[@modernist2628]

As they say (they were saying it then too), 'nostalgia's not what it used to be'. In fact the homicide rate in New York is lower than it's been since 1951.

[@thomasn3882]

Sad. Makes me long for a time that I never experienced.

[@jacobrivers5728]

NYC in the mid 1960s was pretty much like my home city of London. There were fewer people around, the streets were much cleaner, and the city was safe. In theory London and NYC should have progressed, not regressed, with the passage of time.

[@frog5104]

Thanks for sharing this video with us.