Old New York 30s, 40s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

[@NASS_0]

Which city in the world would you like to visit in the 30s or 40s??

[@robertajoanna973]

Rio de janeiro

[@dumitruzagorschi7326]

New York, at that time 1930 was perfect clean, but now present 2023 is dirty.

[@MistaShawn]

Berlin

[@benjaminyaary8419]

Warsaw

[@nikorusmedi8145]

Shanghai

[@Broadway789]

Aside from the wonderful film, I love catching glimpses of the wall ads!

[@Deutschie]

So do I !

[@kennethnero2011]

Love love love these Vintage Videos! Wish I grew up in an era where people dressed so modest

[@HxTurtle]

that's exactly my thought as well! 👍 edit: even commented that; until I realized, that's what essentially everyone's saying in here, lol.

[@fdrstan]

I don’t. You say that now but most wouldn’t last a day in the conditions back then.

[@HxTurtle]

@@fdrstan no, the opposite would be true! most of us going back to this time wouldn't last for a day once they get back.

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

Ye!

[@kennethnero2011]

@@fdrstan I disagree but I respect your opinion

[@Zoomer3989]

FYI, the train this is filmed from, in the middle - end of this video, is either a New York Central or New Haven commuter run going southbound into Manhattan. The passing train is a set of New Haven multiple units, and the very end of the video is where the train enters the park avenue tunnel to finish the trip underground

[@luislaplume8261]

Bullseye! I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s! Even though I was born elsewhere buy came with my late parents to my old hometown of NYC on August 2, 1956 when I was a baby.

[@bdog1323]

I wonder if that was an old style 2 colored traffic light from back in the day. Last one I remember seeing was in the North Bronx in the mid 80's.

[@JoseNunez-hh1yr]

Was a NYCTA subway conductor 1983-2013. Born in St. Vincent's Hospital ,1958. Most of the city looked like this until 1970. Can still walk through a few blocks, especially in industrial areas, that still looks like this.

[@JamesWoodring-mu2iz]

the master of film restoration delivers once again . thanks for the vid nass

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@benjaminniemczyk]

The MetroNorth ride is one of the coolest parts, because so much has stayed the same (though so much has changed too, particularly on the other side of the train). Another really great video.

[@NASS_0]

Like and Share Please

[@Relcilisity_Official]

Will do

[@NASS_0]

@@Relcilisity_Official Thx!!

[@CommanderLongJohn]

​@@NASS_0Please if you could upload footage of Pittsburgh from this era or the 50s/60s I'd die happy 🙏 Appreciate these priceless gems nonetheless ❤️

[@warnutztheloser]

gotchu! Great video

[@maxmad4666]

...🙂👍

[@wilfredoolitan]

Absolutely amazing. Thank you, from a lifelong native.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@SonnyCorleone-tg1ik]

Nass, Thanks for the upload. I always loved the menswear of this period and the cars! The females looked fabulous too! Too bad we lost that sense of dressing up today!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much bro

[@richmeyer2064]

The added sound effects really bring these old movies to life. I wonder how many traffic cops were phased out of their jobs as traffic lights became automated.

[@londonwestman1]

Yes. Great video and sound. Liked the train sound in the second half. Not such a great fan of the single-person footsteps at the start.

[@pbasswil]

@@londonwestman1 Yeah, the isolated hard-heeled steps, too close mic-ed, in the wrong spacial ambience... Sounds like foley from an old radio show.

[@lugano1999]

The train sequence in the latter part of the film has got to be taken from the New Haven railroad, which, at the time, skipped the 125th St. station as in this film. I am a native New Yorker (as were my parents and two of my grandparents) and fantasize that at some point I am going to see my older relatives (my parents, grandparents, various aunts and uncles and great aunts and uncles, etc.) in some of your street scenes...

[@paulm.newitt3246]

Like a Time Machine!! WOW. Thank you!!!!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@madmikemackas]

NASS as always with not only the stunning HD quality videos, but the best sound designs, crystal clear color, and overall amazing work bringing us into another time altogether. Think about it. Isn’t this a modern day Time Machine????

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;)

[@44032]

Although cars seem easier to do than people.

[@bobtaylor170]

I love the shots of the apartment buildings taken from the train. Old New York.

[@seanmacleod1724]

These films are such valuable historical documents. Showing the businesses, the fashions, the street furniture etc etc.... All those 1001 things that get lost in the memory or that have no record left of their existence, but once they are captured on film we cant forget them. Beautiful to look at.

[@cats0182]

"The good old days"? Not for me. I'm 83 and remember much of that NYC. Also remember Summers without air conditioning, with polio epidemics, with Neanderthal medicine that would not have helped me live as long as I have. No thanks. I'll take today. Believe it or not, I still look forward to a tomorrow.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Yes, now we have Covid mania, AIDS, an epidemic of obesity, and rampant drug abuse and homelessness, on a scale not seen in most peoples lifetimes. I can go on.........

[@brijmsn]

All the people with the rose colored glasses thinking it was a utopia and vote republican disgust me.

[@cjaquilino]

Thanks for saying this. I find the comment sections to these videos so bland, all saying the same thing with nostalgia goggles on, like everything was perfect.

[@anteuzel5324]

NEW YORK IN 1930 AND 1940 WAS A BEAUTIFUL GREAT CITY THANKS NASS ON THIS GREAT OLD VIDEO OF GREAT OLD NEW YORK GREAT OLD USA

[@spindalis79]

Absolutely fascinating. When the train footage starts, the year is 1947 based on the movie marquee for "Lady in the Lake." The Ronald Corman movie advertised was released in 1947 as well. Due to the leafless London Planetrees I saw, as well as the date of the movie's release, I put the date of filming roughly around April 15, 1947. Also note the faded ads on the side of buildings. Given the year of the film, the "old timey" advertisements fading into obscurity are probably from the 1880s to early 1900s.

[@poluticon]

What fascinates me is how well dressed everyone is

[@Alpha_Damon]

Right, and I do mean everyone, it's amazing to see

[@rechelieu]

@@Alpha_Damon Even the guy pushing the fruit cart had a full suit one. Just wow....

[@Alpha_Damon]

@@rechelieu right

[@wildcat64100]

Wonderful! The clarity of these images is amazing. Thank you for producing these videos!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@whitedovetail]

This really is a great video. It is amazing how the population has changed about the view of a camara. Now, nobody normally stares at a camera. Nice work!

[@LostintheTangle]

It was so cute to see them smile, or look around them, wondering perhaps if someone famous was nearby. 😊

[@octavius8562]

By now you mean since the 1950s.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@stevenbarnett-ui4ql]

I WASN'T HERE,YET,BUT IT'S THE DAYS WHEN BOTH MY PARENTS WERE VERY,VERY YOUNG=THEY WILL REMAIN IN MY HEART FOREVER❤️🙏❤️🙏🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️😔

[@markcastrovinci6074]

On the train ride I saw a movie poster for The Late George Apley with Ronald Coleman. 1947.

[@andrewk2996]

Amazing work colorizing these old films, it brings that period out so much more. Great job thanks for doing this

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@Zoomer3989]

The actual line itself is the New York Central's (now Metro North's) Harlem Line, from somewhere in the Bronx (I want to say Fordham Road but don't quote me) over the east river bridge, then curved onto Lenox/Park Avenue and into the 125th St. Station. at about 7:00. After, the train continues south on what I think is the 3rd track (if looking left to right) into Grand Central

[@cl-jh8bu]

The gas tank that appears at 8:54 was around 110th St.

[@randymoyan7871]

My day is complete with another NASS post. I'll never get tired of traveling to the past. Thanks NASS!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@merlinsclaw]

Gorgeous work!

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!

[@geneval3151]

Always enjoy your work NASS. Your efforts and talents are obvious. Thank you for sharing them.

[@JohnMcaulay-gp6nb]

The scene from the train at 8.13 where it opens up onto a street , huge appartment building on one side , the building site on the other, all the people going about their daily business, sunny day, so much to take in, absolutely beautiful imagery & then by 8.34 it's gone. I keep running that sequence again, one minute you're close to the buildings you're passing, then it all opens up to this massive scene of beautiful imagery & excellent quality too. Well done NASS. First Class.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@alfredkloos8591]

Really enjoyed watching this video..the clarity is excellent considering the age of the original film.Thanks! 🇨🇦 June 16,2023

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@daveweiss5647]

I was born on the wrong year and am nostalgic for a time I've never experienced.

[@gustavoperez5480]

What you feel is called " anemoia". I have anemoia also just like you, specially to wish to live at 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's decades, i from time to time like to watch vintage old golden Hollywood era films, here at KZbin there are a lot of channels to watch lots of these films by free.

[@daveweiss5647]

@@gustavoperez5480 that's exactly it, I am obsessed with previous eras, the modern world feels completely foreign to me.

[@wearetheremnants1615]

In Welsh it is haerith

[@gustavoperez5480]

When I watch films from Hollywood golden era, i have the strong desire to Cross the screen of my device To invite those actors for some coffee and get to know the city from those decades, perhaps it sounds for you weird or silly but believe me this is what I feel.

[@rechelieu]

Oh my goodness, you hit my sore spot. Yeah, if there was time travel, I would love to go back to those days and see for myself.

[@siddrajput1029]

The train ride was great!

[@andrewwilliams6936]

another gem from Nass, great work!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@DerBingle1]

Capturing a moment in time and sending it into the future.

[@OldDood]

Out of all those apartment buildings the train at the end was passing I noticed just ONE window with an Air Conditioner in it. That was back when they were expensive and a lot more rare.

[@rout66music56]

Adoro ver essas filmagens de uma época do pleno crescimento de uma cidade como essa !! adoraria poder ter vivido essa época....

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

Si

[@KerryEriksson]

People seem facinated when they spot a camera love seeing all the old buildings even clotheslines

[@jamesdouglas5450]

Excellent video the policeman operating the traffic lights was very interesting i guess this would be the 30s the train part loved it noticed the sign showing for victory so now into the 40s going past all the buildings with signs great piece of film.

[@spindalis79]

1946 during the train ride segment.

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025]

These videos and pictures are always a nice step back in time.

[@olrikm]

Mind boggling! History will be kind to you for providing those masterpieces of restored footage.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@bobtaylor170]

These are always a treasure. Thank you, NASS.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@libertycan6959]

beautiful work. Id love to try to watercolor some of those scenes. thank you for sharing these videos!!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@arthurkettle3010]

The train ride views are incredible...

[@NameRequiredSoHere]

Wonderful. The sound effects really add to the experience.

[@carmelbrain7399]

terrific train travel tour

[@aissamaksene7502]

C'est vraiment de l émotion quand on regarde cette vidéo de la vie d avant

[@patriciamason9884]

These videos are awesome!!! Thank you very much!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@rumham7130]

Love watching these. It's so eerie to think that everyone is gone from this world in these videos. Gotta appreciate life!

[@domenicv7962]

Not all

[@rumdo5617]

Beautiful. People had respect for themselves, for each other and their environment. Look how clean the streets are and no graffiti.

[@rechelieu]

It's not cool to be modest and clean nowadays.

[@novemunumunum980]

And all the people are white. Then there were 90% of white people in New York. And now 70% of colors

[@TheDanEdwards]

"Look how clean the streets" - the film is deceptive. First the coloring is too blue (makes things look cleaner), and secondly the film is selective in what it shows of the time.

[@TheDanEdwards]

@@novemunumunum980 Are you a bigot?

[@rumdo5617]

Yes - I know the colour is not perfect. And I’m sure if we were to dig deeper we could find poverty, pain, disappointment, loneliness and alienation etc. But I was commenting on what I saw - men and women dressed smartly and moving purposefully without hostility and antagonism - and what I didn’t see - takeaway boxes strewn across the pavements, overflowing rubbish bins, burnt out pieces of abandoned furniture, broken bottles, human excrement in the gutter - or graffiti. Personally, I am grateful for this delightful piece of film and to the person who made the effort to remaster it. 🙏

[@phoenixtimes2]

Love these!!! Thank you!!!

[@scottswagman1472]

Sunbather on the fire escape was a nice surprise.

[@alanpecherer5705]

WOWWW, look at that entrance to the Holland Tunnel 2:40. Fascinating footage!

[@marilynfrett-id8qe]

The cleanliness of the streets are amazing.

[@peucellipiu5216]

Que espetáculo de vídeo!!!

[@AvyScottandFlower]

Back when the US was about manufacturing, wow..

[@714metaldetecting]

Awesome job as always NASS

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@jweyek]

Some of the men are not wearing hats. Outrageous!

[@anthonychihuahua]

Put a lid on it! Lol! 🎩

[@luislaplume8261]

The stairs going up are for the elevated trains at the South Ferry Terminal of the 2nd,3rd, 6th, and 9th Ave. El lines.

[@Zoomer3989]

Thank you, how were you able to determine that? I saw the El supports and subway signs but couldn't make head or tails of where it was

[@greg434]

Well spotted luis

[@Anita66608]

Loved this, thank you~~

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@aarons3695]

Coming into the screen at 4:15 from the left is the 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Brewster bodied "Windblown" coupe chassis number S132PR that Rolls-Royce of America presented at the 1930 New York auto show and then sold to socialite and heir to the Johns-Manville asbestos fortune Tommy Manville. Simply incredible that a random film of traffic would capture a one off incredibly important show car owned by a famous person and is a car that still exists today.

[@hlk5887]

I'm looking at the officer who's directing traffic.The pollution he must have inhaled is incredible. The gasoline was combusted in the engine and blown out the tailpipe. The dirty 30's.

[@Macrocosmnouveauriche]

❤감사합니다

[@edisontelles7165]

Excelente video, nos mostra um pouco da pujança de um cidade nos 30/40 em pleno periodo de guerra e a cidade funcionando normalmente. É sem duvida uma volta ao passado, parabens...

[@JDH_MUSIC]

Classy video, nice vibe

[@jody6851]

Again, as if time travel was a reality. To a world that seems so close, but as if a parallel universe.

[@StudSupreme]

Look how everyone is dressed. It's WONDERFUL! Even the STREET VENDORS pushing carts are well dressed!!!!!!!

[@StudSupreme]

@@Crazy_Clown_In_Town Actually, they had teh equivalent of all those things. What they had in addition was dignity.

[@UberDurable]

Everybody is so well dressed!

[@edwardoalvarez5566]

Beautiful sinery of New York.

[@Thesotochannelblock]

One of my favorites so far. I love seeing the old advertisements. Any of Boston from this time period?

[@billace90]

Traffic cops wearing white gloves. Amazing.

[@jimang5523]

That's where Michael Jackson got the idea.

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

Flashback in the 30's & 40's

[@richmeyer2064]

Forgot to note the train footage dates from 1947.

[@arjivar]

Elegantly dressed persons.

[@jchapman8248]

Back then, in society, it was expected (customary) that if one went out into public, one was expected to dress respectably.

[@gustavoperez5480]

Even the transit police men.

[@ronaldmiller2740]

HI NASS,, WHAT WORLD IS THIS WOW!! THE FAMILY IS SAYING WHAT CLOTHES,,MEN WEARING HATS..DAY AND NIGHT A POLICE WORKS THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS?? A DIFFERNT LIFE STYLE ,,MAX MY SON LIKED THE TRAIN RIDE..WHAT AREA WAS THE TRAIN GOING?? UP TOWN ,, APT.S ,, WORK AREAS.. THANKS..

[@timvanarsdel]

Nice one, Nassy. Wish the photographer shot at a more orthogonal angle so we could see all the way down the streets. Alas...

[@asan1050]

NASS! ThanksMuch!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much bro!

[@sidilicious11]

The cars are adorable.

[@Kritiker313]

From "City on the Edge of Forever": Strangely compelling, isn't it? To step through there and lose oneself in another world.

[@ccsportsfan7886]

awesome

[@Reezour_Waargh]

все в костюмах тройках, шляпах, платьях, нет фриков, трансов, лгбт и наркоманов, люди как люди)

[@RealROI]

So civilized compared to today in every way. Amazing. Wish I could go back. The best future would be in the past.

[@EdgarRoock]

5:02 a modern-looking warehouse 9:15 that's one dangerously long clothing line

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

The clothing lines were on wheels, which allowed the clothing items to be retrieved after drying. A common feature with those apartment blocks.

[@regisvoiclair]

What strikes me is the elegance of the people. People are better dressed than nowadays when people are scruffy. We can measure the degeneracy of Humanity through its clothing habits. As Karl Lagerfeld said, *_"Joggers are a sign of defeat. You've lost control of your life, so you go out in joggers."_* Thanks for the video. I relay it.

[@TheDanEdwards]

"We can measure the degeneracy of Humanity through its clothing habits." - I measure the twisted atavism of KZbin commenters by how powerfully myopic their nostalgia is.

[@gustavoperez5480]

Even those two transit police men were wearing dress shoes and the first one who appears at the video is walking with style and elegance.

[@regisvoiclair]

@@TheDanEdwards Humanity is degenerating at high speed, especially the West, starting with the Americans, but you don't even realize it. And you dare to treat others like mipes... That's quite tasty. Buy yourself a mirror.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

I'm in with Karl Lagerfeld. It is ironic that people today have much more money to spend on items such as clothing, but dress like paupers, slobs and tramps. It goes to show how priorities and attidudes are disordered and off kilter. There will be many who defend the crassness and disheveled look of Americans today, as expressions of honesty, or ring it up as comfort. Its tawdry and classeless, no matter how one looks at it.

[@yamil.343]

Wow the traffic was controlled chaos 😮

[@althepenguin]

This makes me wish time travel really was possible.

[@thunderball6908]

People took so much pride in their appearance.

[@salty3522]

A time when everyone had Standards.

[@hestheMaster]

Did you notice that people were so skinny back then.

[@gustavoperez5480]

Because those past generations have tendency to Walk more, you know, no TV, no social networks, not much industrialized food,

[@henrychubbs2823]

Please add more NYC videos from 1900-1960. And do you have any videos featuring downtown Newark for the same era? I sold women's shoes and went to college there. Great (and not so great) memories.

[@robervalmachado5709]

Nass muito obrigado seus vídeos muito legais e uma máquina do tempo, saudações parabéns brazil.

[@pbase36]

Watching these vids ALWAYS makes me want to go play Bioshock again. And HOLY CRAP! Several men are NOT wearing hats in this video! Uncouth ruffians!!!

[@pmafterdark]

3 cents for an apple. Now you pay about $3 for one. 🙄

[@eddihaskell]

AT 9:19 is 104th Street and Park Avenue - filmed at some point in the 1940's. My grandparents, who were immigrants from Eastern Europe, and mother (when she was a girl) lived here in the 1930's and moved out in 1940 to the South Bronx. Their tenement is still there, but out of this photo. My mother went to the elementary school on the right side of the photo on the north side of the street. On the left side of the street there is a low grey building with a cornice. My grandfather, who died before I was born, was an iceman in the 1930's and kept his horse and wagon there. I know my grandparents did not have much money -- and lived on the fifth floor of the tenement -- rent was cheaper. My grandmother was a seamstress and would take home work, watch my mom through the window, and then get paid by the piece. There is a famous photo of New York City children playing in water in the hot summer in an open fire hydrant in the 1930's what was photographed right here. I have only heard fond memories of this neighborhood, East Harlem, now The Barrio, when I was growing up.

[@successmusicvideo]

Great job!

[@patriot388]

The golden years of America! Never to be seen again!

[@cynthiamincher5154]

Nice see people dress up

[@llianneolivoreyesmusic]

Everyone looked nice.

[@jorgejefferson8251]

I really like watching these videos, but the one fact that I always come back to, is that pretty much everyone you see except for some very young children is dead.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

No kidding.

[@bdog1323]

I like the Esso gas station that later on was renamed Exxon.

[@mikavirtanen7029]

Here in Finland the last Esso gas station was phased out in 2010. I drove a lot back in the day and Esso's were always my favorites...fresh sandwiches and fresh coffee were the norm. I miss them.