New York subway trips 1991

Various train trips on the world's largest subway/metro system.
@ 12:00 the separate PATH railway and
@ 13:33 Central Park, Manhattan

[@KevinCNYC1991]

You know what bugs me is that hardly anyone knows about these videos like this. These are classic videos of an era that many miss.

[@hereisayana8207]

Yes many do miss them

[@Hotters9060]

@@hereisayana8207 This was when children played outside and had fun instead of using cell phones. I miss the old days.

[@teccash3507]

Facts

[@Enigmatism415]

@@Hotters9060 Kids playing outside in Manhattan pre-Giuliani would be a death wish...

[@Kareem4692]

Agreed

[@dannyleo4791]

Awesome video! I'll never forget my summer trip to NYC in 1991. It was even before the Giuliani era! He didn't take office until 1994. NY was so different them. Very grimy and dirty, but I still loved it. I had so many chances to visit the twin towers but never did so. What an idiot I was.

[@JMMT7022801]

I went to New York City back in the late eighties, and got to go to the top of the Empire State Building and the South Tower of the World Trade Center. It's turned into a gentrified pile of shit. They've destroyed so much of the city's history. The Freedom Tower? 432 Park Avenue? Are you fucking kidding me.

[@JMMT7022801]

Marc Cisneros Nope. I blame liberals and Jews.

[@JMMT7022801]

Marc Cisneros Go fuck yourself. I'm a 37-year-old adult, goddammit! This country's gone to shit thanks to the goddamn fucking Democrats. I'm sure New York City's a great place to live - it's filthy and disgusting, and rundown, hyper-policed, with sky-high rent and taxes, and crime is through the roof. What's a pack of cigarettes going for in New York City these days? $15? What a fucking joke. Haha!

[@paulwilliams2024]

+JMMT7022801 gentrification was needed New York was a shit hole !

[@G5ive1]

+Paul Williams gentrification is like removing cancer from one point of the body and insert it in another part of the same body... if a City is a shit hole it means the country in which it resides need a cure needs an evolution... Removing nat8ves from their homelands for the rich is never the answer then again you prob not from NYC and prob never been poor so what do you know

[@VioletPrism]

Born in Bronx 1992. This video really clicked with some long forgotten memories for me. I moved away from NYC in 97 so early in my life this video feels strangely tangible.

[@100spurs]

Damn I miss the old Stadium so much.

[@MJBYouTubeNetwork]

:( I miss the 4 train, a lot. When it had those R62s.

[@michaelmorales1475]

Miss Jennifer Banks same

[@charliegeraldjr5926]

Miss Jennifer Banks the r62s are on the 3 line now

[@karenevans9232]

Charlie Gerald jr Back when the 4 line was more fun to ride until April of 2009. Now the line is boring with just r142s and r142as.

[@michaellove9547]

Oh yes lm riding this 7 train right now wanting to shove this Mexican out on the next train just because he's a drunk piece of pile shit shoving his little ass in when he couldn't fit.. The 4 train ahhhh the city lm over here with the worst.. I hope this train crashes and only l survive lol

[@DominiMex777]

Charlie Gerald jr, you're right

[@thehamiltonfirefighter4746]

Those old trains are killing it! Nice!

[@tmalone2530]

There's a special place in heaven for whoever recorded this

[@RapidCycling07]

Hopefully the person who recorded this (if still living) will be saved for sure. Awesome video. Peace!

[@karatekidfahim5]

Their pillows should be cold at all times, this is some stuff you’d never see today like the Redbirds or R62s on the 4 line.

[@bigdrew565]

i'm old enough to remember when the C went to the bronx. randomly. =0

[@redbird1train855]

bigdrew565 Bedford Park Boulevard lol

[@kitsunefaye1661]

Me too. When Callisto during rush hours, did what’s Drew’s job now: provide express service on IND Concourse.

[@junjun798]

Thats just a MOVIE and R62 enetered service in 1983 on the 4 and by 1985 all R62s ran ONLY on the 4 yes there were Redbirds on the 4 but it was mostly R62s so u have to get ur info straight because wat ur saying is very incorrect.

[@redphone1438]

junjun798 The R62s entered service on the 4 Line in 1984. The R62As entered service on the 1 in 1985.

[@franklyspeaking8335]

1991 I was 10 years old. Still living at 689 East 233rd Street In The Bronx. Attended St.Anthonys on Richardson Ave. My dad was a Conductor for the NYCTA. Operated out of E. 241st St.

[@DrSurprise]

was this the time the subway started getting cleaned up or was it already cleaned?

[@slickjames1]

I was wondering the same. I remember if kids got caught “bombing” the subway cars they had to do community service to clean the trains. But i thought it was later that the date in this video.

[@ThatGuy-te9wh]

If it's 1991, all the graffiti was gone for two years.

[@grasmereguy5116]

@@ThatGuy-te9wh Sounds about right, but I think there was still a lot of graffiti in 1991. I'm a Staten Island guy (we don't have a subway here, just buses and Staten Island Rapid Transit) and I started riding the subway regularly to get to Brooklyn College in 1988. Definitely when I started commuting to school, the subways were still full of it, the cleanup must have been underway by '91, but I'm not sure if it was all gone yet then.

[@konedaniel3808]

cleaned, the cleaning process ended in 1989

[@l.n963]

they started cleaning up the city by 1984. they removed all the rubble from the bronx and demolished damaged buildings. they left vacant lots filled with grass and they painted the ugly walls of those tenements standing around alone. arson stopped cause they changed some laws i think. and they locked away the subway cars at night so they could clean the trains and keep them clean because no one was covering them in graffiti at night. but the crime became worse and the city clean up only started with giuliani in like 1994/95.

[@bluer68]

Before the R142 cars were born

[@andymolina5737]

bluer68 and R142a too!

[@Hotters9060]

Andy Molina This was when the Redbird trains were on the 6 line.

[@Kareem4692]

R142s sucks

[@Hotters9060]

@@Kareem4692 I miss the twin towers in Lower Manhattan.

[@Wbishop1995]

Me three

[@claudiaficicchia446]

This video was taken in the year "Smells like teen spirit" came out!

[@Carl-Romero]

Atleast the 1 is still the same to say the very least.

[@saltysweatyhands]

I wish I rode the redbird... I wasn't born that time even when they took it out of service

[@ACLTony]

If you're in the NYC area or plan to visit, just contact the subway division of the MTA and ask a rep when will the next run of the "Train of Many Colors" occur. It runs several times a year. I'm hoping to be able to ride it in the future.

[@richiebee1984]

**Insert cringey username here* * you missed something great.

[@Hotters9060]

SaltySweatyHands You can still ride the Redbirds today. They are on the Train Of Many Colors.

[@TrevorLogan]

Style Wars came out in 1983, the FIRST 10-Car train of R62s were built in 1983 and hit service LATER on that year after Style Wars was shot and debut. I lived on the concourse from 1984-1987. I rode the R62 cars on the (4) during those years, they were NEW to the (4) and officially made the (4) line a 100% graffiti free line.

[@TrevorLogan]

@The Legend 27 Returns to KZbin I was born in 1980.... And not a nigaa, I'm too old for that.

[@JRnyc]

Dinkins had these stations cleaner than any other mayor. Not one piece of graffiti anywhere. For 91 i am really impressed how clean everything is. I was not expecting this.

[@christorpher84]

Bullshit Dinkins was a useless asshole

[@l.n963]

yes very clean but it was the 2nd worst year after 1990 in nyc 2154 murders in 1991.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Dinkins inherited a 100% grafitti free system on his first day of office. 🙄

[@andymolina5737]

Wow at that time when 9/11 never happened! And oh shit the 9 train was in service on that time!

[@Hotters9060]

Andy Molina This was when the number 6 line operated Redbird trains.

[@visionist7]

This was even before the first attack on the Trade Center in February 93

[@masatonagai8966]

Andy Molina Yup

[@AndresEdna]

@@visionist7 wait there was an attack on wtc before 9/11?

[@visionist7]

@@AndresEdna yes there was a van bomb in the underground parking lot. I think six people were killed.

[@velocityraptor6884]

Wow nice to see this year. I was born in Brooklyn in Feb 1991. Always liked riding trains. I also can't stand when an express train is crawling.

[@brayan9645]

These trains still look the same lol. This was five years before I was born.

[@DominiMex777]

Nostalgia right here!😭

[@C.O-EDITS]

I heard this was when NYC was really dangerous

[@jams501er]

The good old days .I always wish I could go back in time .

[@PRHILL9696]

we all do

[@brownhornet1975]

Wow!! I remember when the 62’s were on the 4 my dad took me to yankee stadium in 85 I remember how traction motors sounded different on the 62’s as opposed to today. Now they’re on the 3 line. But wow memories. Thanks for the post.

[@tin3216]

brownhornet1975 They recently started using them again on the 6

[@redphone1438]

Atari81 • no that’s the R62As from the 7. Not the R62s.

[@tin3216]

redphone243 ah ok

[@blakemcnamara9105]

0:49 Is that a diamond 4 train?

[@fw3nyc]

I was 4 years old at that time lol

[@CameronLandels]

Nice video! :) Wow 1991! NYC looked different back then!

[@bk_knight256]

🎤🎼those was the days!🎵🎶

[@theofficial1train]

These look like the best days ever except for that 4 train incident In 1991

[@Carl-Romero]

I liked the 4 better like this I wish it still was imo mostly R62s with a few NTT

[@AlvisWuSky]

I was born in 1993 in New York

[@AlvisWuSky]

Cool

[@G5ive1]

me 85 Kings county Brooklyn

[@G5ive1]

+Casey Perez lol I was already 6

[@AlvisWuSky]

I see

[@richiebee1984]

AlvisWuRailFanoffical I was born in 1984 in Brooklyn, NY still living in Brooklyn in 2017

[@josephrowe849]

1991=Freddie Mercury of Queen dies.. (Although he was still alive during this video.) Music that year: Queen, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Michael Jackson, Metallica, Genesis, Dire Straits, Madonna, Roxette, R.E.M., Guns N Roses and Extreme. Movies that year: Beauty and The Beast (the good one), Terminator 2, Hook, Oliver Stone's Doors film, The Addams Family movie and Fievel Goes West.

[@thetrainguy400]

4:13 9 TRAIN!!!!!!

[@gerbs139]

Still waiting for a video of the 8 train...

[@redbird1train855]

Gerald Seixas The 8 train only existed as the third avenue el, the mta just put a 8 rollsign on the r62a's, that's all

[@W.L.Customs]

Did the R62s come with exterior speakers back in the day and time?

[@r42fan15]

WHERE THE REDBIRD (4) TRAINS.

[@Wbishop1995]

I don't know

[@yojo7870]

This was cool, brought back a lot of good memories

[@K1_Trains]

I wonder what the system would be like today if it was word for word the way it was there i tell you people would complain much more

[@no1likeyou]

Look at all those clean trains. What a shame..

[@jessicatran6297]

We paid 1 dollar per ride for years. We had to purchase tokens not metro card yet.

[@cesarcueto1995]

The overall look of this video is utterly depressing. I don't know why but it seems gloomy and perhaps overwhelming. Looking at all those people who most likely are using the transit system to get to work or to run an errand or pay a bill, well it just adds to the mood of the video. I wonder how many people have used those tracks to commit suicide. I'm serious though. I know it happens but how often, especially on days like this one in the video

[@michaellove9547]

lm moving out of Jackson Heights soon to many hairy legged mexican woman with mustaches smiling at me on the seven line

[@kalelc1996]

1983 GMC T8J204 RTS #3241 @ 0:02

[@deontemerritt91]

those trains reminds of my county and in Maryland where I am from Seabrook and my town Bladensburg all my county and state in Maryland.

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

Subway in Maryland is trash it only has a few stops and only goes up and down lol Maryland subway is a joke compared to new York city

[@PinkLaffs]

What kind of image stabilization software did you use?

[@aaronsamuel2823]

At 0:23 that was the last time for the GMC Fishbowl bus I think it retired 1994 or 1995 that's just my guess What about yours?

[@danielsamuels5857]

The official year was 1998. Many buses just leave NYC Transit 2-3 years prior. GMC RTSs retired in 2007 but left NYC Transit by 2005.

[@DJB635]

The good ol days!

[@DrewTillman-tr4ex]

Worked for NYC transit for only a few weeks in about 1985. Was station agent on F line underground in Brooklyn. Hours were from about 10:30 pm to about 6:30 am. At same time had a part time position in Manhattan with parking violations which started in am. Couldn't work that second shift without rest. A few months afterwards took a full time position with DMV and retired in May 2020. Always thought about being train operator.

[@kentchin2249]

imagine the R62 before they blocked the front and end cars view..the redbirds on the 7 were less than 30 years old...

[@andrew5traindollartree700]

I miss the 90s of NYC

[@G5ive1]

good ol days

[@DrewTillman-tr4ex]

Since I visited Moscow subway in 1971 can tell you it was spectacular. Moscow subway has new stations and they are spectacular and can be explored on internet.

[@crystalswirlzreloaded9350]

JFK was still alive😭😭😳...with his fine self.

[@galore497eliteganggang7]

r40 slant f train at 21 street aka my stop lol brings back memories

[@ScottSpotMedia]

I was 20 years old and living on Long Island. We used to go into the city a lot, then I moved there in my late 20s. Although I wish I knew it was going to change so much.

[@TinLeadHammer]

The timestamp floats funny on stabilized foootage. Too much stabilization at times - horrible warping.

[@deontemerritt91]

its good take shots of New York City on NY Subway train this is footage is from the year I was born 1991 love it love New York New York City peroid shouts out to all the cities out there and people from there and everybody else much love in every city I am coming soon for a visit working on my first passport flight first class up in the air I was born Prince George's County from small town in my state of birth Maryland called Bladensburg my hometown of Bladensburg High School and others in Prince George's County my county of birth all Prince George's its still my hometown cause its residence and its in State of Maryland also in Prince George's County where other cities and towns in Prince George's County its all home born in State of Maryland all myself Deonte Lamar Merritt all my life for 26 years I have have been there born there grew up there I was thinking about making a full documentry for my cpunty Prince George's County let everybody know where I am from by taking them back where I was born from Bladensburg to what it is today all in the State of Maryland and Prince George's its my hometown residence main residence but I live in a city in my county Prince George's called Greenbelt.

[@marialvarez4212]

Wow this brings me back to when i was a little girl. I was 7 yrs old. I love ridding trains.

[@kitsunefaye1661]

The year I was born. I wasn’t born until September 9th of that year.

[@thetrainguy500]

When R62/As had RFW connected with them

[@trinityf-s-hs2918]

Ah train lovers, I’m 18 years old not 40 but I remember the (V) train in 09 and the (B) train with the R68 Slant cars

[@Kareem4692]

You mean R40 slant

[@TheMrOct]

I was born in 1991

[@tristanbravo3099]

Did you die

[@andrewwisner7134]

Cool story bro.

[@tristanbravo3099]

Cool 🤚👍

[@cesarcueto1995]

So were millions of other people.

[@TheMrOct]

Tristan Bravo no but unfortunately you didn’t

[@xSoporific1]

Feels weird to see a r62 4 train

[@jetlee6174]

Where the iPhone x at

[@junjun798]

Those freshly painted white cars were R62s lol

[@ElliottConceptsX]

I miss the Pa-4

[@DjediMind]

I was 13, will never forget it.

[@trackwerkOG]

That is some nice footage there, back in the day where you were aloud to record on PATH.

[@BaronOfAnarchy]

I was a baby at that time.

[@vanpilatus7847]

These R62/As Were Shiny And New Back Then

[@danyelleterry2138]

Our subway system has changed so much. Its more modernized. Thank you M.T.A.

[@Kareem4692]

The Subway System Sucks Today Fuck Modern Day MTA

[@jimmyjj9410]

@@Kareem4692 you got problems act like things can't change and the r142s look cool stop being a whiny b**** and I tell you this right now things don't stay the same deal with it

[@Kareem4692]

@@jimmyjj9410 your the whiny bitch fool I'm voicing my opinion why the hell are you under my comment can you stop me from having my opinion man stfu

[@Kareem4692]

@@jimmyjj9410 go love your piece of shit NTTs and stop disrespecting Transit history

[@jimmyjj9410]

@@Kareem4692 ..... This was a year ago you responded man late

[@ACLTony]

Good action shots and am glad to see Redbirds and a Silverliner too! Thanks for posting this.

[@ACLTony]

@The Legend 27 Returns to KZbin Silverliner at time stamp 13:14. That location looks like New Jersey

[@ACLTony]

@The Legend 27 Returns to KZbin Understandable.

[@dan5979]

I miss those days, Nice videos!

[@alephnull7410]

12:36 Silence of the Lambs promo poster

[@junjun798]

You probably got unlucky but the R62 since they came dominated the 4 from 1983-2003 lol

[@BXpitbull24]

junjun798 2008/09 I was at all-star week in Old Yankee Stadium they we’re still on the 4 train but very little.

[@fredola2600]

My favorite IND cars would be the red bird series, blue birds, R62, R62A, and R262

[@blakemcnamara9105]

Those are IRT cars.

[@vicentesilverio858]

My favorite New subway cars R62 and R262 The R62 From 1984 and New R262 By 2024

[@tristanbravo3099]

R.I.P V & 9 trains

[@Dortizr160]

to believe christopher street on path still looks the same.

[@crystalswirlzreloaded9350]

I was 16...lol...had been taking the train and bus by myself since 1989....made me feel grown.it was exciting!

[@stephensimington479]

Wow! My ninth birthday!

[@Yolticat]

Irrelevant

[@KLM747-king]

0:48 NIS R62A 4 train

[@albertgaming7509]

12:00 old path

[@DJB635]

I was working on 3rd avenue and 46thst at this time....MEMORIES

[@nikita70]

Damn, these Underground/U-Bahn/Train videos in all big cities always make me think about smack and I can't help anything against it feels so fucken triggering to me.

[@deneenjeffries2768]

In 91 my dad had just retired from the MTA and my future husband was in his first year on the job.

[@jayreal1971]

I was living queens just left high school I was 20 years old back then

[@rominn2184]

Ah, the days when everything didn't have a f*cking American flag on it..

[@michaelmorales1475]

Romin N true

[@kbron3250]

Romin N Hey Romin. I will buy you a one way ticket to North Korea. Then I bet you never complain about the American Flag on the subway again. USA-Love it or leave it.

[@Chowbizful]

what's the point of puting a usa flag on the new r160 cars ?

[@skendersinanaj1947]

9 Train

[@MrJerryRio]

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[@TheDavinchoo]

Hey do they have the 9 train with the 1 train man I never seen 1991 I was born in 1998 there's we're no c train in 90s 168 at is fix but the train sign in 2010 the b train sign on the way to go to the other 2 train is steel there in but no b train sign lol

[@antoniomiranda1427]

i was born in 1991. and 19 years after I came to New York and the funny thing is that still look the same

[@Yolticat]

@boratfantaic Unfortunately "that's all folks" other than those on my channel. (btw I love Borat too!)

[@larchlarch9851]

we will be looking with nostalgia the same way about 2021 in 30 years. this never ends.....

[@myradioon]

When these graffiti proof trains came in the graffiti artists started finding ways to scratch their tags into the metal and plastic.

[@trainrover]

I remember often being floored by encountering missing tiles from along the walkway to the Williamsburg Bridge promenade..I mean, what kind of tourist would I have been had I taken no walk across the East River.

[@RedStarPiru]

It's weird how the video is stabilized but the date in the bottom isn't 🤔 the first minute or two of the video

[@nysubwaydude5634]

Lol some the old train are still in service and they almost sound different.

[@mythbuster43]

@mythbuster43 The cars themselves were cleaned by this point, but the tunnels were still grimy.

[@redphone1438]

It looked like the R62As had different door frames back then.

[@beatthecrowd001]

who else paused at 12:34 to see the retro movie posters! I got super excited when I saw the poster for silence of the lambs lol