Wonderful New York 1961. In Technirama and Technicolor by Pan American Airlines.

[@gailhausmann1329]

The wonderful days of New York..I was 8 years old back then... Was lovely back then, with everybody dressing beautifully.... I remember those great cars, & yes, Pan American Airways!!. Very clean ...A nice place to travel back to!,😊....... Yes, no cell phones back then. That's when we all talked - sat together on Sunday evenings!!.. Wow, have things changed. I moved out of New York during the pandemic..thanks for for posting on You Tube.. 🙏🤗

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thanks for sharing

[@poitor5915]

new york looked better back then than today 💪🏼

[@notabot2928]

Very little crime and no moral decay and no internet or cell phones. A few channels on a black and white TV 📺 playing andy griffith or leave it to beaver. There is no comparison today to the American experience in the 1950s and early 60s. Its never coming back

[@davidlamb7524]

I was there in '57. As I remember the sound of police sirens was near continuous. It got worse in the 60s. According to the stats the crime rate was worse in '62 than it is now. I think we are better informed now so it just seems worse. www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fa%2Fa9%2FMURDERS_IN_NEW_YORK_CITY_BY_YEAR.png%2F500px-MURDERS_IN_NEW_YORK_CITY_BY_YEAR.png&tbnid=DvuHuIZaaDhmIM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCrime_in_New_York_City&docid=CJJij1PDYmVauM&w=500&h=309&hl=en-GB&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F4

[@whereisthedollar]

It was, LOL. This may have been the highlight.

[@soundshaper]

@@notabot2928 Very little crime, huh? Wonder what the guys delivering milk to Hell's Kitchen or the south Bronx on the days it was time to collect the money would have to say about that. I wasn't around in the 50s but my relatives told me you didn't hang out east of the 3rd Av El back then, due to Irish and Italian gangs. I generally agree with your sentiment, overall the city was nicer, despite the choking air pollution from garbage incinerators and unchecked vehicle emissions. And the 70s were shit, but I still had fun in NYC, you could get away with smoking weed in the movie theaters by then or at MSG during a concert. The attitude was more fun and spirited in those days.

[@notabot2928]

@@soundshaper Of course there was crime but it’s nothing like it was now and if you think that and you’re going to use Hells kitchen as some excuse to say it’s the same as now you’re just completely delusional

[@Lalaland-q2z]

I received my selective service draft card in 1959 which meantthat I could drink at a bar, went to Birdland the Jazz corner of the world that night, for the next 5 years I almost never was awake in daylight becoming a night time worker ,but what jazz music I was listening too ! My life was not like this travelogue and now wished I had a movie camera back then!

[@tonycollazorappo]

If this was shot in 1961, then it was made on the year that I was born. I was born in Brooklyn New York. I enjoyed the 60s and 70s so very much and would go back in a heartbeat.

[@KD-nk3ht]

Thess cau you ignunce. Skrate up ignunce.

[@yvonneplant9434]

You take your smart phone with you. 😅

[@Sonnycorleone162]

Tony, I was born in the late 1960's in New Jersey, and I enjoyed the 1970's very much. My family went to Disneyworld back then and had a lot of fun with friends. We visited New York often. All the best.

[@lisakraemer1453]

I was born in October 1961 in Asheville, NC.

[@Stacie45]

Born in Sept. 1961 in Seattle. My Dad was from New Jersey, in Aug. 1976 he took me to NYC, among other things we went up in the World Trade Center, stood on the observation platform on the roof. Bygone era.

[@stevenwaldman7313]

Great footage of Grand Central Parkway

[@MoMoMyPup10]

Was that airport JFK or LaGuardia?

[@dougowens6180]

Nyc best of times

[@ВячеславБелолипецкий-р8ь]

Beautiful NYC 60s .amazing video

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thanks for visiting

[@HelenTudor-Douglas]

I was born at Mount Sinai Hospital, June 1961 on 5th Ave. in Manhattan. I remember NY City looking like this, while I played in Central Park. The Biggest Thrill, was all of us going to New York World's Fair in Flushing during 1964-1965 & we got to meet Uncle Walt Disney! I still have my white hat with the blue feather in it, with my name embroidered in orange on the brim of my Fair hat. Happy Memories! Too bad all my family members & everyone I knew from back then, are all dead now, it's so long ago.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thanks for sharing your recollections.

[@lizzabbott]

Yes ! I was born in 1960 & went to the Worlds Fair from Buffalo, with my dear late parents. Unforgettable

[@lynnjames6629]

Things may change and time passes, but the precious memories that bring us joy live on forever‼️ 💯👍🙂

[@OfficeofImageArchaeology]

Great film Larry! Thanks for sharing.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@theeshark7038]

If only time travel was possible... I was not born until 1968, but would give anything to go back and experience NYC in the 50's and early 60's

[@luislaplume8261]

I am old enough to remember when traffic looked like this in my old hometown of NYC. I started kindergarten in September of 1961 in Flushing, Queens, NYC. The streetlights had florescent lights that gave off a white color. And most traffic signals were 2 colored lights, red for stop and green for go. 😊

[@yvonneplant9434]

I hope you aware that you couldn't take anything invented after 1960 with you.

[@yvonneplant9434]

​@@jackmeeellleee4896I kinda agree with you.

[@everforward8651]

@@jackmeeellleee4896 Can you fit one more person in your time machine?!

[@everforward8651]

@@jackmeeellleee4896 It's amazing how fast and how much things changed in NYC and in the country as a whole. What a startling difference between 1961 and 1971.

[@1940limited]

I remember when NYC was like this. Not even close anymore!

[@johnmc3862]

Can't beat the nostalgic comments!

[@liamsandal6360]

@@johnmc3862 What's wrong with nostalgia, John?

[@chrisikaris5891]

Amazing to see the old Pan Am airport terminal operating as it was originally designed to.

[@tomservo56954]

14:30--15:00...that footage became part of the credits of the television series MAUDE.

[@kirkmorgan-austin8361]

Hey Yeah ‼️👍 Good catch ‼️

[@brmnyc]

Yes, that scene going over the GWB made me do a double take!

[@vladilenkalatschev4915]

Beautiful fashion, beautiful vehicles, beautiful aircrafts - 60s❤

[@MoviecraftInc]

Yes they are

[@gennaio915]

How the world was much more beautiful then !

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

Demographics.

[@1neAdam12]

And White!

[@joeyjennings9548]

i was born in brooklyn ny. i have good memories of the 1960's 70's & 80's 🌇🌆 i feel old will become new again. people will return to this simple time again. it was a special time 😁

[@MoviecraftInc]

Well said

[@studimeglio7110]

I was three years old then. Brooklyn too. Fond memories of those eras. To think majority of those ppl walking in the streets are dead by now.

[@c.a.g.3130]

Remarkable how clean and traffic-free New York was in 1961.

[@johnfachy393]

Wonderful!! Thanks for posting!!

[@kgblankinship]

I was in NYC that year for Christmas, at age 5. I can't believe how clean the city was back then.

[@paullewis2413]

“Not everyone can stay at the Waldorf”. Well as a 21 year old on my first visit I did”. I had been in awe of that hotel since I was a kid and it was like a dream come true. I loved the city then but sadly no more, it’s completely changed and overall not for the better. Such is life.

[@1940limited]

Loved that Rolls Royce parked out front. It was always a treat to see one of those when in NYC back in this day.

[@jacobrivers5728]

I'm starting to think this was filmed at the peak of civilization because NYC has certainly regressed over the past 63 years.

[@freelancelady]

New York City was still good until the towers went down…after that time it seems everything got messed up… 😢😢😢

[@1neAdam12]

Oy Vey!

[@vandanerisgomes9009]

Muito bom obrigada

[@davidoran123]

I miss Pan Am and those days, most of them anyway.

[@dorotazegarowska4397]

So do I

[@robertoalamo6353]

Fantastic video, the building, the cars , the people, central park, the cinemas whith big actors, Kirk Douglas, Clark Gable, Briggitte Bardot, Alan Ladd, Sofía Loren, thanks very much! bests regards from Santiago, Chile

[@MoviecraftInc]

Many thanks!

[@yvonneplant9434]

Ladd and Gable were hasbeens by then.

[@robertoalamo6353]

@@yvonneplant9434 Thanks ! best regards

[@None-zc5vg]

​@@yvonneplant9434Gable was a dead "has been" by 1961 and Monroe would be gone in '62.

[@shirleywatts99]

Born in 1957 but I love the 60's, I have the archive of Life Magazine on my computer only section I read are the magazines from the mid 60's.. Love to see old footage of the city, even back to the 40's and beyond and try to figure out what street that is and what is there now.

[@farooqghory5432]

New york city has always been amazing.

[@paulgentile1024]

It's a damn shame what the last two Mayors have done to help tear it down

[@newmankidman5763]

If I had a Time Machine, I would flee into the Past to get away from mobile phones.

[@joedimaggio3687]

And you told us this from your smartphone.

[@newmankidman5763]

@@joedimaggio3687, no, of course not. Every time I get home from work, I turn off my mobile phone. I do not like phones.

[@JohnCasciello]

@newmankidman== about that TIME MACHINE you are looking for to ESCAPE INTO 1961 here you are=== CON EDISON MONTHLY BILL $24:00***PHONE BILL $**7:00** MONTH***CHINESE DINNER delivered for 50 cent tip=== DUCK & LOBSTER SAUCE///LARGE CHICKEN CHOW MAIN/// LARGE FRIED RICE///LARGE WHITE RICE///4 EGG ROLLS///25 FORTUNE COOKIES///25 SOY SAUCE PACKS & 25 DUCK SAUCE PACKS///PLATIC FORKS & SPOONS (why not??)///LARGE EGG DROP SOUP=== $$**6:55** TOTAL with enough left over for TOMORROWS MEAL********

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

I hear Ted Kasinsky's cabin is available.

[@newmankidman5763]

@@ADAMSIXTIES, so too is Marilyn Monroe's

[@matrox]

A few short years later I would visit NYC for the first time with my family to the 64-65 NY Worlds Fair.

[@DSAK55]

😃 me too

[@lonniebishop8814]

Another well preserved gem, in wide-screen no less, by Moviecraft.

[@mattdon2164]

This is absolutely amazing. Thank you for posting. A priceless snapshot of Manhattan back in 1961. Seeing Tad's steaks off Times Square made me yearn for one of their juicy sizzling steaks.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thank you too!

[@billybob1620]

They had one of those in San Francisco until they closed it down a few years ago… Iconic

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

Hormone and antibiotic laden then. Thank goodness for Millenials demanding cleaner foods!!!

[@mallorygraf8574]

​@@billybob1620 Actually reopened...it's on Ellis Street right across from John's Grill.🙂

[@petermendoza1170]

Lots of childhood memories Having been born in Manhattan and lived on 66th St across from Central Park in the 50s and 60s,the film showed so much of structures which were there at that time and no more. The Blue whale,for instance.❤

[@thyslop1737]

Forget all about the Blue Whale.

[@gogogo39]

The traffic on the roads seemed very light.

[@Sonnycorleone162]

New York 1961. A bit before my time. I was a 1970's kid from Jersey. But went to New York often. Love scenes at 12:47 "The Misfits" sign with Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. And what's New York 1961 without movie sign "West Side Story at 12:15 on far right. Plus, Love the Ferry boat and Pan Am plane scenes! At 2:57 far right the guy still has his black 1940's car! Plus look at 6:28 the young lady on the horse. You really do not see this sort of thing anymore riding like that in New York! Thanks for the upload.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Glad to oblige...

[@mmjhcb]

When it was exciting to be there. When Macy's was the biggest store in the world and floor after floor of fantastic merchandise. When Broadway was sublime and to see a movie in NYC was thrilling. Paddy's Clam House was there, the Taft Tap room, TV shows, and MLB baseball when it was still baseball. I will never return; I refuse to to be overcome with grief.

[@vickimingus9281]

It's still great. The opening of our borders. But it's still great. The new 20th century wow

[@vickimingus9281]

I want so much to go to see the Yankees at home. My son said it's too bad but he watches the news around the clock, and he served 20 yr in service a Marine and he's been everywhere and all over the middle east. Trump saw big plans for the city he loved. His dad said maybe you need to start slowing on some of the large buildings and he said trust me...And well you can see for yours self......

[@mmjhcb]

@@vickimingus9281 Whatttttt?

[@serenadevon]

​@@vickimingus9281I have family that works there & he says it's a crime haven. Not surprised.🙄

[@j.g.8494]

"I will never return; I refuse to be overcome with grief." Very moving comment.

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

wow , when life was so simple

[@scarpfish]

No, not really.

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

@@scarpfish when you have less crime

[@letmebereal]

Please God let me go back to then.

[@penguin44ca]

Bye. Go back to the past.

[@nickslick75]

Lol. It's a propaganda movie, mate. Are you too smart to realise that? Lol

[@coffeetime1001]

After this life, you will because time is irrelevant.

[@sharksinc.6707]

I would date this film 1963 or later based on the shot looking up Park Ave. @4:47. The Pan Am Building, seen behind the Helmsley Building, was completed in 1963.

[@poitor9217]

Yes i thought that✅records show the pan-am building was topped out May ‘62 officially opened in ‘63

[@doeleoe474]

Wonderful video TY. I Remember going to the children’s Zoo in CP around 5 years old.

[@AgathaLOutahere]

Anyone of a certain age who grew up on Long Island remembers those wooden lampposts along the parkways.

[@MoMoMyPup10]

@@roncaruso931 Belt Parkway for sure but they were also out east on the other highways too. Seeing them instantly brought me back to those times.

[@jbarnes2288]

RIP NY

[@johnmc3862]

😅

[@liamsandal6360]

@@johnmc3862 Oh, shut up.

[@serenadevon]

💯😫

[@JJJBRICE]

Pan Am... A name in the past !

[@doctorbohr1585]

Too big to fail!

[@timburr4453]

it's embedded in my mind. Nomatter how long it's been when I think air travel...I think Pan-Am

[@j.g.8494]

PAN AM - the ultimate in transatlantic jet travel in the early 1960s.

[@Chrissy-rs8xl]

At 9:51-9:55 I like the nice, clean-cut hair of the Cute boys on the ferry, young blonde lady dresses nicely. And man at 10:19 too! The males and females dressed up more back then! Good blast to the past video! ♥

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thank you very much!

[@MoMoMyPup10]

That's all they ever wore in public. Men wore suits and the women wore dresses, even for food shopping or a ballgame. Kids wore whatever they could find for them! Hand-me-downs mostly.

[@hdholl9696]

I adore the opening jazzy background music that is so typical of the sixties, like in Mannix or Mission Impossible. Puts you in the right mind from the start.

[@freelancelady]

I still remember the Pan Am building when I came to New York in 1987. 😊😊😊.

[@jasonpeters9295]

I remember these times quite well. I couldn't help but smile at 1:12 when I saw the former name of JFK airport: New York International Airport, more commonly known back then as Idlewild Airport.

[@szarefeen9744]

New York was very cool city during those days, unlike today's influx of countless people from all sides. However, I do appreciate the style of this genuine American English accent through the narrator. I can't recall specifically now, but perhaps this person also narrated some other TV documentaries during 50s and 60s. Surely, we nowadays miss this kind of manly voice which was often heard then in movies and TV programmes.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thanks for sharing!

[@EricLehner]

Hello - Yes, the narrator's voice reminded me of this person, from that era: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_MacNeil

[@EricLehner]

@@jackmeeellleee4896 Excellent! Cheers from Canada...

[@WaltGekko]

I think this is actually 1963. The Pan Am Building was under construction in 1961. It has actually been the Met Life building longer than it was the Pan Am Building.

[@Lalaland-q2z]

I also thought that ,and probably Pan Am would put this out closer to the opening of the NY World's fair.

[@wmbrown6]

I'd agree on that basis alone, in terms of the release in this form. Much of the other footage came from '61 though, with the buses and their color scheme (from Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, before their lines were taken over by MaBSTOA) being the main giveaway.

[@whereisthedollar]

Sidney Poitier "all the young men" released 1960-08-26 shown on movie marquee.

[@wmbrown6]

@@whereisthedollar - Let's face it, the shots they used, in terms of when originated, were all over the place.

[@billhosko7723]

@@wmbrown6 god grief you kareians.

[@timburr4453]

Thank you for sharing. The NY I long for Staten Island Ferry going by at 10:30 I dont think the GW had a lower level yet

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thanks for watching

[@gsm4708]

Wonderful memorabilia if you were lucky enough to be around then. Thank you for sharing!

[@MoviecraftInc]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@mehmetyanilmaz1167]

Narrated by Robert MacNeil, later the co-producer and presenter of MacNeil Lehrer Report at PBS.

[@pjalsen]

Except the opening credits list narrator: Robert Ware

[@walteralbertoruiznieto7281]

🎉😊 Qué emoción una película de New York. Recordaré mi amada ciudad❤❤❤❤

[@EricLehner]

From a time when people had a more civilized appearance. The woman in the white dress reminds me of so many neighbourhood mothers and teachers of that day: 15:18

[@timburr4453]

heck you still see white gloves here and there

[@vulpo]

The Empire State Building looks so majestic poking up through the smog.

[@Chrissy-rs8xl]

Wonderful video! This was all way before my time. But Woweee! If I was an adult young lady back then, I would have loved being a Pan Am Stewardess! Haha! Thanks for the upload. 😊♥

[@edgardoortizayala6379]

Wonderful

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ethandeeple8643]

Amazing !! Thx

[@MoviecraftInc]

Glad you like it!

[@CharlesPress]

Wonderful memories! It was an end of an era - when ladies were smartly dressed , many men still wore hats and nearly everyone smoked cigarettes!

[@j.g.8494]

..." when ladies were smartly dressed, many men still wore hats - and nearly everyone SMOKED cigarettes." All true!

[@Filidor_Kamennyj]

No smoking ☝️🤔

[@tangerinedream7211]

707s benefitted from the Comets problems and ruled the skies .

[@whereisthedollar]

Boeing was the best of them back then.

[@gregvassilakos]

The narrator keeps referring to mist, but I suspect it is actually smog. Back then, coal was burned for heat and for electric power generation. Many cars used leaded gas, and none had catalytic converters.

[@timburr4453]

It was smog. Remember it as a kid. On some brutally hot July/August days I swear you could taste it😖

[@poitor9217]

Yer looked like smog😩probably the cabs😅

[@dingdong5379]

Loved the video, better than todays 4k videos

[@MoviecraftInc]

Wow, thanks

[@utuBrV1oI]

Love the sound of those early jets & their sleek much smaller engines much less likely to ingest birds.

[@johnmenendez79]

JFK was then called New York International Airport (1:11).

[@doctorbohr1585]

AKA Idelwild Airport in those days.

[@ericoverton5039]

I noticed a movie called town without pity in the time square segment that movie came out in 1961.

[@Sonnycorleone162]

Plus "The Misfits" with Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe movie sign at 12:47 came out same year.

[@1940limited]

A lot of good movies and actors of the past appeared on those marquis.

[@herecomesforego1787]

Hello World ! The pinnacle of western and world civilization before WW3 will be recognized to have transpired in mid 20th century New York City… Very proud I was born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn at that time… incomparable perch from which to survey and judge millennia, thank you and good night😅🎉

[@Broadway789]

I was 6 years old and in school on the upper west side. 💗

[@cesarvargas1124]

So iconic in the past, now New York is old news

[@TheMisterGriswold]

Nonsense.

[@liamsandal6360]

@@TheMisterGriswold Oh, it's done like dinner. I'm a Bronxite born and raised. New York is long past her glory.

[@TheMisterGriswold]

@@liamsandal6360 Bollocks.

[@liamsandal6360]

@@TheMisterGriswold Stop upvoting your own comments, Mister.

[@nelbcn2244]

I was born in 1962.So neeed to wait some more years to know about this nice city.I am from Spain

[@perezfecto]

God I love the 60s. Early 60s, that is

[@james5460]

42nd Street before it ... changed. I've spent a lot of time at pretty much every spot shown in this, and it's all the same physically, and it hadn't changed too much from my early days, but society was just about to get hit with a hammer. They were keeping up with the maintenance then, but that began to fail soon after. People dressed well, and that changed soon, too. The 1960s were a real turning point for NYC, this caught it right before all the issues. It's amusing that the narrator says "The winds of change blow strongly" - they just blew in the opposite direction than he was implying.

[@paul41to45]

well said

[@juniorjames7076]

The majority of those theaters/cinemas (12:52) had become either strip clubs and peep shows or Kung Fu/Black Exploitation film venues by the late 1970s/early 1980s. It fascinating to see footage of the area just before it began to decay into depravity. Don't worry, its all Walt Disney World and Broadway is back again.

[@lencortigiano1450]

holy crap! Look at the smog. Didn’t get cleared up until the EPA in 1970.

[@richardanderson5078]

And Richard Nixon. Right?

[@NoOne-sn2si]

Actually it was more like the 1990s. Same thing happened in Los Angeles. Natural Gas/LPG busses was a huge factor. Catalytic converters also which did start in the 1970s

[@poitor9217]

It was that line of cabs😅

[@carltonmcroy3222]

When America was great.

[@Elainerulesutube]

NYC has certainly changed a lot since 1961.

[@MrSloika]

Seeing the Jersey side of the GWB is interesting. In this film it looks rural, today it's all covered with skyscrapers.

[@clarklk]

GWB?

[@MrSloika]

@@clarklk George Washington Bridge.

[@serratograffiti]

Ah, yes. Palisades Park.

[@mohammedcohen]

...Pan Am Airlines & Idlewild Airport!!!

[@bernardescolier9526]

At 12', many great 59/1960 movies titles on cinemas lights ! West Side Story, The Misfits, The Truth... and others.

[@peterquennellnyc]

Haha! True. Those theaters all became porn theaters, then were torn down and replaced by one big building along most of each side of that block, made to look like many cafes and theaters.

[@lesleyheller2271]

I was ten when this was filmed, growing up in Manhattan. Very nostalgic for me, but it's hard to miss the smog that has been mostly eliminated due to unleaded gasoline and banning of incinerators. I'm still living in Manhattan, happily aging in place in my beloved city.

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

No one speaks English there now

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

All the wonderful illegal immigrants there today!!!

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

@@esmekaffen4961 The city you see in the film doesn't exist anymore. The location is there today but it's a completely different place. Whatever nostalgia you had much of it is no longer there.

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

​@@esmekaffen4961 The ones then integrated. I don't see that today. Keep deluding yourself. Why don't you go out of your Manhattan condo and see the rest of the city???

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

​@@esmekaffen4961Lol. I've lived around people that look different for decades. The problem now is no one integrates and they all stick to their own communities. I've heard them even comment about how segregated NYC is today.

[@suzyf5733]

NY used to be wonderful indeed!........Sadly not any more..enough said😢..

[@user-xr2vl1vq2i]

Commented 6/2024. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Park avenue, Central Park and many of the roads and highways look much the same today as they did 63 years ago with the exception of the peoples dress code, vehicles and smog. Man has done excellent when it comes to clean air, preservation of waterways and conservation. You don’t hear any talk about the Ozone layer depletion and for that I must give credit to man.

[@JesusSaves827]

Make America Great Again. 🇺🇸👌

[@robertabrams8562]

No one is more proud of being a New Yorker than I am 🗽

[@rknine7998]

At 10:04, the neighborhood I was born in grew up and is currently living!

[@garrywood5345]

Just been, February '24...fascinating place

[@DrewTillman-tr4ex]

Born in Brooklyn in 1949 and graduated in 1967 from Stuyvesant and in 1970 from Brooklyn college. Was out of town from 1971 to 1975 when I returned to NYC. Still have the apartment in coney Island which mom,dad and I moved in to at Christmas 1965. Coney island was still glorious until the early 1960's until decline started with steeplechase closing in 1963. Beach and board are still great for bathing and walking.The Russian population has invigorated the eastern part of the boardwalk with some decent restaurants.

[@neurogence]

Oh mines loved it just watched it on a projector 📽️

[@utuBrV1oI]

At 13:27 that also looks like route 21 North leaving Newark.

[@jamesjwalsh]

Two way traffic on the GW bridge. This was shortly before they added the lower deck to accommodate more traffic.

[@Badger345]

Interesting…the traffic is moving

[@LTHanlon]

What's with the abrupt insertion of contemporary music between 12:13 and 13:10?

[@1940limited]

The musical background wasn't the greatest. I dont' know who dreamed that up but overall a great video.

[@thyslop1737]

NYC what a place in 1961. Today what an Shole.

[@theprogressiveatheist7024]

More time has passed between the time this was filmed and today than between the 1800s and the time this was filmed.

[@JulieAnderocci]

Look at those clean streets😅😅😅😅

[@JeffreyGSmith]

The music, starting around the 12:00 mark almost sounds like 1970s funk. Ahead of its time.

[@pete49327]

Went to observation deck of Empire State Building as a kid and looking down at street below all the people looked like tiny ants.

[@achecase]

Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I'd like to see these rescored. That "modern" mix of '61 hard on the ears and chops the heck out of the flow.

[@OfficeofImageArchaeology]

Live with it, lol. We had to😉

[@MoviecraftInc]

Ahh, the 60's, I remember it well...Edwin Astley wrote the music for the TV series Danger Man and The Saint back then. He is a accomplished composer of the period.

[@fromthesidelines]

Yes, Edwin Astley later wrote the original themes and scores for "DANGER MAN" (the hour-long episodes became "SECRET AGENT", with a new theme for American viewers in 1965), "THE SAINT", "THE CHAMPIONS", and "RANDALL AND HOPKIRK" {aka "MY PARTNER, THE GHOST" in the U.S.}.

[@tomservo56954]

@@fromthesidelines Any relation to Rick? Or Jon, whose song "Jane's Getting Serious" was used in a Heinz ketchup commercial.

[@fromthesidelines]

Yes, Jon was his son.

[@rr7firefly]

If a person is old enough he or she can remember a time before there was visual clutter everywhere, before ugly spray-painted graffiti, before plastic trash everywhere. A time when most people behaved with some level of dignity and courtesy, especially in public.

[@1940limited]

I can.

[@peterquennellnyc]

It is much better today. Most of the graffiti is long gone, Manhattan is kept pretty clean, and there is a general high level of "I'm pleased to be here" The million tourist a week who come looking for the raw experience this will tell you New Yorkers are much easier to chat with than Parisians on Londoners. And crime is a small percentage of what it was in the 60s and 70s, the era of gang warfare. Central Park was almost universally avoided.

[@stevenphillips3466]

I love the Cars ...but I remember cars before catalytic converters , Smelly and Noxious gasses when you were behind a untuned V - 8 . Carbon Monoxide was a big problem then.

[@vincentl.9469]

American cars of the 50s & 60s were ridiculous . the amount of raw materials used in their making and the size of them ...often carrying no more than 2 people going shopping..but then petrol was very cheap-too cheap

[@argopunk]

About seven years before slob culture and drug culture took over. I remember NYC in the 80s and it was a mess. I got assaulted twice in broad daylight just walking over to my dad's office on Park Ave from the Port Authority. The Giuliani team led the clean up and that seemed to hold up until about five years ago. Maybe the youngsters of today will get to experience the adventure and thrill of the 70s and 80s again...or maybe they'll just have to step over human feces.

[@1940limited]

It's rampant there today.

[@peterquennellnyc]

It was not Giuliani it was Bloomberg who cleaned up, put in bike lanes, millions of new trees. Giuliani did next to nothing except try to ban food carts. Ridiculous remark about feces.

[@cubbie8330]

How did such a grand city of the world become such a cesspool today?

[@PaulMaudlin]

Out of control spending And sending the wrong People to congress for Starters..irs blackmailing the American people every Freaking year didn't help Either..also military spending went completely bonkers... Now homelessness and joblessness is tearing the country Apart...vote Trump Or were toast.

[@joedimaggio3687]

​​@NoPrivateProperty the progressive democratic party.

[@peterquennellnyc]

You're confused. The city looks amazing and is very safe and attracts 1 million tourists a week. Shopping is the best. Broadway sells 40,000 seats every night.

[@richardanderson5078]

Democrats

[@peterquennellnyc]

@@richardanderson5078 Ooooh, spoooky, do hold mommy's hand.... In fact Democrats grow the economy faster at every level. Hundreds of billions annually are transferred from Blue states to Red.

[@leotherealtor9342]

Who is/was the narrator? It almost sounded like Dick Cavett ....

[@superelectra]

I'm reasonably sure it was Robert MacNeil, later of NBC and PBS, under the name "Robert Ware" in the credits. (MacNeil's full name is Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil.)

[@3markaw]

Yes , it does sound like him and he also sounded like Cavett a bit. @@superelectra

[@chrishintz1077]

Opening shot: building that is first in intro to north by northwest.