Ever New...New York, 1962

[@deneenjeffries2768]

Love the way people dressed so classy! , I'm a 1964 baby, so I remember getting dressed to go downtown.

[@scarecrow2885]

The early 1960's had the best fashions, imo.

[@dragondescendant1]

today people are spending money on smart phone, electronic devices instead of buying suits.

[@TheSmartLawyer]

I still get dressed up, no reason to look like a dirty scuzzzz

[@yeahx32p69]

do you still dress?

[@ruth2232]

I like that women always wore gloves in public back then. That is classy and sophisticated.

[@joegy9944]

Love the narration and music. great scenes and filming. can't even make a decent film today. a time gone forever.

[@Qboro66]

Yeah even my two young kids were dancing to the music!

[@johnsain]

Grew up just on the other side of the Lincoln Tunnel....when I was a kid in the 60's,...my family dressed up in formal clothes to see a movie, a ballgame, visit a museum, or see a show in NYC....nowadays, and increasingly since then.... it seems 'anything goes'...

[@아델유세푸]

were things better than now and did you have fun in thr 70s and 80s

[@johnsain]

Thing were worse crime-wise in the late 70's til the mid 80's.

[@icantthinkofaname6991]

You can still dress fancy, nothing is stopping you :) and let the other people wear what they want.

[@timgan19]

Isn’t it great that someone filmed this in 1962, knowing that someday, there would be an internet.

[@VinceHere98]

I was born in this city in 1998. Lived here for 10 years and I moved to NJ in 2008. I MISS LIVING IN THE GREAT CITY!!!! Ny and its skyscrapers are great!!!!

[@harryshuman9637]

Dude, you were 10 when you moved. You know nothing about the city or how it is to live there. Everything you had was provided to you as a child.

[@MarkinDC]

Nice to see NYC in an earlier, nicer era, but it's also quite painful to see those historic buildings coming down, SO MANY of them were lost in NY in the 60's.......

[@emello4you]

The Singer Building!

[@MichaelJ.RichardII]

Well you can't fight progress that's how it was in the 1960s

[@MooPotPie]

They tore down blocks and blocks of truly beautiful architecture to build that cold, sterile crap of the 60s and 70s.

[@italia689]

And are still doing it.

[@jameshourston8800]

you are sadly so right. and everywhere. the classless 70s esp

[@jaqatlantic]

Yep!

[@wildearth3992]

@Logan Bishop you’re a very insecure lil man. Good luck to your girls friends 😩

[@emello4you]

Especially in 1968 when they tore the beautiful Singer Building down and replaced it with that god awful Liberty Plaza.

[@u.s.a.1957]

I AM A 1957 BABY BORN IN NYC . HOW NICE AND WONDERFUL IT WAS BACK THEN..

[@marashdemnika5833]

Elvis Presley time

[@kevinmadden1645]

"Jailhouse Rock" was released in 1957..

[@formwiz7096]

Born in '48. You didn't have a chance to really appreciate it.

[@jimvinespresents...8463]

I came along the following year. It's always so great to see how my old home town was back in those days. I only lived in Manhatten until I was five, but oh, it left quite an impression. It's still my favorite city!

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn and I still remember a lot of these areas and miss then since moving to Florida. I do go back for the occasional visit every few years and almost tempted to stay, until I feel the cold weather, lol.

[@RRaquello]

The Sixth Avenue El was torn down in 1938 to pretty up the city for the coming World's Fair of 1939. At the time, Fred Allen said "They tore down the El on Sixth Avenue. When they saw what Sixth Avenue looked like, they wanted to put it back up." Mayor LaGuardia tried to change the name of Sixth Avenue to Avenue of the Americas to give the street a new image, and all the street signs say Avenue of the Americas, but 75 years later New Yorkers still call it Sixth Avenue.

[@JL56K26r]

Nice! thanks for sharing! New York Airways Vertol 44 helicopter landing at 3:10 at the Wall Street Heliport, which means that part was filmed before July 1962, because after that the Boeing Vertol 107's went into service . . .

[@newzcutter]

Get to the choppaaa!

[@frankdiaz9783]

So amazing, breath taking. NYC. I love you forever.

[@ВячеславБелолипецкий-р8ь]

Awesome beautiful NYC . Big apple

[@alexscher1609]

Loved NYC yesterday today & tomorrow

[@josnaz1]

I was born in this wonderful city in 1957 as well (in Manhattan.) However, I was raised in Westchester.

[@ecamp6360]

3:24 I love seeing 20 Exchange Place (the Art Deco bldg in the middle) in these old films. I worked there for 9 months in 2001. These days, it's blocked out by the cheesy skyscrapers from 1970s and '80s.

[@realtk6482]

The good old times

[@ggphipps1]

i was born in manhattan(raised there as well!) in march of that year! i will always adore new york!

[@VMA225]

The Good Ole Days !!!

[@poitor9217]

New York looks great any year💪🏻thoroughly enjoyed ☝🏼😊

[@bertchiu9265]

I loved the “old look” GMC buses ... such a classic design!

[@luislaplume8261]

They were copies of the PCC type trolleysof the post war era 1946til1958 when the last ones with the small oval windows above the regular windows were built.

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

The city should have started saving many beautiful old buildings in the 1950s instead of replacing them with new ones in its place!

[@billgeorgesr1457]

NEW YORK IS THE.GREATEST.CITY IN THE WORLD Iam.74yrs old now and.was born in Brooklyn NY l remember walking over the Brooklyn Bridge with my.Dad many.times We moved to Jersey.when l was around 14.years old and live in Florida now but l will.always be a Brooklynite Iam the last one in my family New York. New York my home town

[@Film2Digital]

Cool footage! Thanks for sharing!

[@thejerseyj1636]

'62, the last full year of an era that was based on civility and decency. Not that things were perfect, just better, way better. JFK in office, the space race really starting to go, And American prestige at an all time high. All in all '62 was the last, and best, of the good years.

[@BANANASAUCEYUM]

I mean Kennedy was killed at the very end of 1963 so I tend to say 63 is the last great year

[@robertmasina4610]

Before America lost its innocence. Just watch the movie American Graffiti as an example. The movie takes place in 1962.

[@GiveItUpDot]

@@robertmasina4610 what innocence?? Lol

[@hanphilnoffz8827]

Ok greatest generation

[@deanchapman1824]

Born in '62

[@jamesfox2579]

Just as I remember it. ❤️❤️❤️

[@abc64pan]

The 50s was still alive and well in the early 60s.

[@liamallen8968]

Then The Beatles happened

[@johnscanlan9335]

I've long argued that the JFK years should rightly be referred to as "the high '50s," meaning the overall tone of the country in those years were far more similar to the Eisenhower years than to what came to be beginning in 1964!

[@deekaye25]

It's more or less like that in every decade. Living through the 60s onwards, I noticed the early part of each decade had the look and feel of the previous one. Obviously this makes sense, considering it takes a few years for actual change (within a time period) to filter through to the general population!

[@johnscanlan9335]

@@deekaye25 While the scenario you describe is often true, it's not always. My experience was that there was a very sharp delineation between the 1970s and '80s almost immediately at the stroke of 12:01am on January 1, 1980. That may have been due to the advent of the Age of Reagan after the completely disastrous Carter years!

[@outlawboxing1923]

John Scanlan yeah it’s incredible how much the world changed in 1964 it’s like even today it lol started from that year and hasn’t looked back since even 1967 is when it really took of it seems to the culture we have today

[@gwinnet3142]

Lovely video

[@shauncampbell969]

I was born 1962, In Manhattan. I have never seen footage of that year. Shaun

[@chuckygrief]

lived at 42 clinton st in the LES at this time...brings back memories as a little kid..

[@davecom3]

And it all went downhill after '63...

[@yeahx32p69]

how come?

[@robertmiller7721]

I firmly believe that the day Kennedy died so did the 50’s. With the Beetles a few months later the 60’s began in earnest. Seems like such a peaceful city. A lot has changed in 58 years

[@jaqatlantic]

Even somewhat earlier, I suggest.

[@anthonydifiglia7233]

Then we got invaded by south america

[@Zoubirking-1970]

Very interesting footage it’s a treasure

[@bellesativa]

I had my first shoes, white leather booties carefully fitted at Best & Co. Then on to Bonwit Teller, now replaced by, never mind.

[@AIRpursuit]

I'm sure if they had youtube and watch how New York is like in 2020, they probably feel the same way, wishing they were in our era! with all the tech and entertainment all over the place.

[@qolspony]

A lot of these buildings 0:56 was lost to 1:06 I'm finally seeing the building of those white condominiums. 5:39 How sad. This video is more about Buildings from the past to building in the future.

[@electrojones]

I visited NYC in 1998. When I went back in 2002 it wasn't as tall as I had remembered...

[@Nb005]

You mean without the Twin Towers?

[@timothysdog6130]

Everyone was good looking in those days

[@PorkChopJones]

This is so very nice....and wonderful!

[@ironbody2682]

Did anyone caught it at 3:43-3:46? The lady walking along in the Blue and the other ladies stop and turned around. Wonder what that means. Did they like what she was wearing or...??? But anyway she looked nice

[@williamlevi5051]

Car 54 where are you???? Old NY where did ya go?? I still love my NYC though. Born and raised...

[@tr8847]

I was in public High School in Manhattan in 1962. As Mario Cuomo said: "A tale of Two cities" Not much of that shown here. It sure wasn't "Equitable" or like living on the Donna Reed Show

[@toshiojohnston3732]

Born that 1962 April 9th reminds you life goes on before you re born while living your and it goes on when you die.because everything in life happens in real time born today ,live today ,die today the past is just the old present,and the future is tomorrow's today.live life everyone for the alternative is death and that comes for all of us and may we all live long happy healthy lives were born healthy,may we live healthy but none of us dies healthy,and one day will leave home and never return or enter our home but never leave accept in a body bag so let's all live long happy lives and see everyone in heaven(l.i.p)live in peace to all.

[@paullewis2413]

The closisng years of NYC´s golden age. Not that it was perfect by any means but it was a real working city and a place of genuine top class entertainment and great stores etc., not a Disneyfied tourist hot spot centered around a sham and tacky Times Square as it is now. Used to love New York City but now couldn´t give a damn if I never saw it again.

[@drpoundsign]

Times Square?? LOL Between the Old Era and Disney it was Porn and Prostitution Central1

[@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669]

And what Cuomo and DeBlasio did to this great city cements its total annihilation.

[@broughmar]

...and then there's the current arsonist aka E. Adams. Few sane voters left.

[@alfalfa6644]

I Love NYC For ever!!

[@johnlumwhal155]

The v-shaped triangle with the black iron grated fence enclosing it on either side from the statue of Father Duffy to the statue of George M. Cohan was especially iconic. That was definitely something to see but they tore it all down and flattened everything out. At least there's a great photograph of James Dean walking just outside of that black iron fence back in the 50s. I suppose they were trying to clean the area up but it's almost like they tore down a very important landmark to do it. All of those theaters that they wanted to get rid of would have eventuality gone out of business on their own without them having to flatten everything out -- at least in my opinion. Now on to another disaster. The reshaping of Washington Square Park. There used to be a number of trees with

[@johnlumwhal155]

Continuing -- on the outside of the main walking area. Just underneath the trees were these concrete sitting areas in the shape of a half circle. There were always some different musicians in those areas playing music. It was a great vibe and a really good experience to hear that. Now all of those trees and the concrete sitting areas have been completely taken out. It has changed the whole scene from what it used to be. I even heard that they moved the entire fountain area a number of feet from where it used to be. Even the surrounding pedestals around the outside of the fountain look different. Now, last but not least -- the complete and total demolishing of the House that Ruth built. That was truly a sad , sad day. It seems to me that they could have worked out something by using the Mets stadium when the Mets weren't using it or maybe using another stadium in New Jersey or a combination of both. Instead, they just tore the whole stadium down and paved over the hallowed ground of the original Yankee Stadium that Ruth built. They could have taken down the part of the stadium that was used for seating by the fans and built a brand new seating area around the original field. Now that original field and the stadium is covered by a big concrete parking lot. I suppose whoever made the decision on that one never heard Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi or if they did it went in one ear and out the other. I wonder what the Babe would think about what they did to the great Yankee Stadium that he, Lou Gehrig, Joe Dimaggio, Yogi Berra and so many others played on. I don't think he would be very pleased.

[@chairlesnicol672]

​@@johnlumwhal155Why was it called "The house that Ruth built."?What or who was Ruth?

[@payamism]

When my parents should have bought apartments!

[@johnscanlan9335]

Actually the best time to buy any type of real estate in NYC was in the 1970s when the city was in the economic toilet!!! You could buy a big two-bedroom apartment with a formal dining room on Park Avenue for $40,000.

[@2eretz]

@@johnscanlan9335 today’s it’s cesspool

[@mattdon2164]

Great mini-documentary. That shiny new Equitable Insurance Company Building seems outdated now in 2025. Time marches on….

[@TheMarilyn1969monroe]

@messager3000 Its a Plymouth from 1961

[@thatssomething1]

I expect to see a beatnik any second now

[@yeahx32p69]

lol

[@histubeness]

At 8:47 - right out of a James Bond movie. And the chic on the phone at 8:50! Wow. She'd be about 80 now.

[@HuyLe-ux5qb]

I love the soundtrack. Does anybody know the name of it?

[@edgardovelez4973]

I was born n new york 1962.. The world capital. Big apple.

[@nelbcn2244]

I was born i 1962 but in Spain.Never been in Nyc Nice city

[@PorkChopJones]

Why am I thinking about Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse at the 5:58 mark?

[@kevinbryant4692]

@electrojones, it only takes two of the largest buildings to make one city look tall.

[@randomguy56789]

Back when kids acted like kids and adults acted like you know adults

[@messager3000]

8:04 what's this car ?? It's great !

[@neronevetti4540]

Born March 1 1962 NYC

[@saeedurrahman2056]

Those teenagers in the video are now between the age of 71 to 77

[@jaqatlantic]

Yup!

[@mostkoed]

1996 here!

[@ballaz7307]

Man the MOB runned the city back in the days 😂

[@KaB__1]

"New York side and present, live side by side"... or "How to destroy an old beautiful district"

[@CamstonIsland]

1:00 The Chrysler building doesn't look too good. its a bit too dark, like mold or charcoal.

[@thejerseyj9422]

At 7:50 there is a quick look at some NY cops. I can remember when city cops looked like that. Nowadays they're not so impressive for the most part. We've got gotten fatter and sloppy as Americans. 1962, at this point New York would only be a couple of years away from the big downward slide into what it is today. A damn shame.

[@390rambler]

John Lindsay is to blame

[@Qboro66]

At the beginning of the video, the lack of ADA compliance at the crosswalk.

[@jpjpjp453]

Right about when the NYC's economy was on a steep downslope that led to the 70s collapse.

[@Nexus104]

It was in the 60s wtc was being build

[@Arkanov501]

Good times.

[@heterosectional]

"Sorry, that's not covered in your policy. You should have got it updated." Destroy a landmark. Build another.

[@SuperCoolDude2014]

I was born in 1996 too

[@MerleOberon]

Car 54, where are you?

[@Richard-lw2gr]

"The city that never sleeps " as frank Sinatra said.

[@soundshaper]

There were good things about NYC in this era, but it was still dangerous, especially in the south Bronx, lower East Side, Hell's Kitchen and certain sections of Brooklyn. I also don't miss all the people smoking cigarettes. Or the having to go to church every Sunday morning. Yeah, if we could cherry pick from each era, I'd have the perfect NYC, lol.

[@sarahnp490]

I bet Don Draper wrote the narrative voice over.

[@Виктор-я4ф9о]

Work with zest / gusto.,victor

[@Виктор-я4ф9о]

It's awkward.,victor

[@zeroair4]

he tried to tag her purse LOL

[@vumaivangvu5860]

Wow

[@tanyamccann9478]

Change just for the sake of change..

[@Personlpp]

The cop car looks bad ASS

[@benmussolini2284]

If you look at all those views and what you dont see in the crowds of people is why it was more civilized back then ,than now .

[@UnitedPebbles]

Beginning the age of outsourcing, mostly to his other island colony, HK?? so many French hoarders and guinea pigs, he have to find a mean to stop the invasion?

[@steveabitante8220]

NYC was Capital of the World @ 1 Point

[@Petterson2]

Fully expected Don Draper to show up at some point...

[@AdrianToonsStudios]

9:41

[@bekmyrzaturatbekov8982]

Я вижу что в Нью-Йорке в 1962 ом было лучше чем у нас

[@websperedoz466]

Точно также как и в СССР, Москва 1962 чем хуже Нью Йорк

[@AdrianToonsStudios]

0:26

[@nurim.4439]

Before the Beatles.

[@2eretz]

Today it’s a cesspool

[@АрдакСулеймен]

1958 s

[@FarhanSpecialty]

New york 2024

[@ЛюдмилаР-з5н]

Офигеть!Уже какое строительство было в США в год моего рождения!!!

[@websperedoz466]

США великая страна

[@GentlemansWatches]

It was kinda European and English city that time.

[@Movingforward2000]

But I think the US was newer as white as Hollywood made it out to be

[@urszulagromadzka9880]

Ciekawe kiedy ta ziemia straci równowagę?

[@gonzoexpress9885]

Gotham city at its best.

[@niezdecytowana.k.a.2conten835]

*"Old* York"

[@iwx2672]

It's not your town anymore.

[@erwannlegrand1197]

Des annes 60 70 début des tours jumelle et le pentagone

[@hanphilnoffz8827]

I see lots of dead people except kids teenagers and young adult still half of 1/3 young adult dead

[@Qboro66]

Weissberger!.. mmmm...bur-ger.😋