An excellent video of the Brooklyn trolleys. My mother always tells me, when she was 10 years old, she used to ride the Coney Island Avenue 🚎 to her piano lessons. I also got to meet a few long time motormen, who actually operated the trolleys in Brooklyn
@@hornet6969 Same for me. When we moved to Flushing in 1961 there were trolley tracks on Main Street next to the Long Island Railroad station and I assumed there would be a return to trolleys. That was the year I started kindergarten. The only thing close to that is the Hudson Bergen Light Rail line across the Hudson River that runs from Bayonne thru Jersey City to Union City, the second largest concentration of Cuban refugees and immigrants next to Miami.
Thanks so much for your video Suum.. I live in Brooklyn most of my live. Im 71, but I was young I used to see where these tracks underneath the elevated lines in the 50 and 60s. I never knew what they were for.. I only seen trolleys when I was going to college in Boston back in 1970. They were small and tight but a new experience to ride. Thanks for these videos by the way the Governor wants to make a a light rail from Bay Ridge to Woodside Queens.. I hope I'll be able to see it in my lifetime l would love to ride it.
Omg! Been Searching for years to find my carousel ride it’s at 3:53. It was horse drawn and the guy turned the ride with a crank! Omg! Thanks so much!!!
I wonder if there is any footage of Fresh Pond Rd trolleys and the trolley barn area at Fresh Pond Rd, from the elevated station as this was a popular place for rail fans.
Awesome video, going back in time is fun. I noticed the trolleys especially in the color videos early look like they're in disrepair in a lot of weeds on the tracks. I guess they were at their end at that point.
I dont mean to be so offtopic but does any of you know a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I was dumb forgot the login password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me.
@Jad Bowen Thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm in the hacking process atm. Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
I want one of southern boulevard in the Bronx. I remember seeing an abandon streetcar station when I was a kid. Btw they used to call these streetcars not trollies.,
I rode one of the last ones (circa 1960) on the Graham Ave. line in Williamsburg with my mom when I was 4 years old. I still remember the blue-white flares from the trolley pole/overhead wire connection.
Hello! Just wondering - where did you find this footage? I'm working on a video project about Brooklyn and was looking for some stuff like this (public domain? old archival stuff?). Any info would be amazing - thanks!
I’ve never ridden on the trolleys. Either I wasn’t born yet(which is very likely)or I was just too young. The closest I ever came to the trolleys was the electrical buses.
Those were the green and grey trolley-buses. About halfway through 1960 they were replaced with gas buses. I remember riding on it a couple of times on the Graham Avenue line and being totally into the blue/white arcing and sparking as the buses' contacts moved against the overhead wires. I was four years old then.
I’ll stick to Subway n bus 2021 LMFAOAOAO... After watching da Coney Island / Luna park ... back than looks like hell 👀😬 Also no technology, baby I can’t 🤭😥😩😩😩😩
WELL DONE! Someone who knows how to mqke videos! NO 'bugs' no frame counters just nice raw footage: I hqd known a for,er driver 'à years older than me who I had learned quite a bit from: George Edward Horn: He had taken much film footage; however sorry to say that it all has been donated to the Smthsonian Institution tand never put on RU-vid or the like! Shamful loss All this footage 'died) along with hi, as George died in 2005: Sad loss.
I wish they built subways in NYC like they do in Putin's Moskva the best in the world!My mom thinks many stations are little prettier than out houses and compared to Moscow I agree!
Nice attempt to gentrify away a community of ethnic people by labeling Sunset Park as Greenwood Heights. How can you have a "heights" at a sea level of around 40'? Greenwood Heights is a high income, white area of about 6 square blocks on the north side of the cemetery....a small enclave at the juncture of Sunset, Park Slope & Windsor...words - labels can hurt.
Yeah man, I dig what you're sayin'. I grew up in the Bush Terminal section (Industry City) in the 1950's/60's. Now that's called Sunset Park. Went to Dewey. In 1954 I lived on 39th street and FHP (Ft. Hamilton Pkwy) and remember the trolleys on 39th street. Moved to 33rd street and 4th ave soon after that. Never heard of Greenwood Hgts??? We used to hang out in Greenwood and smoke weed in the late 1960's. Great place on a hot summer day.
Tell me, how does one "gentrify away a community of ethnic people by re-labeling"? And BTW is there something sacrosanct about an ethnic neighborhood? I'm merely asking because I remember when the concept of wanting to holding on to your ethnic neighborhood was viewed as being something negative. Getting back to gentrification. Gentrification takes place when property values increase. Property values increase for a variety of reasons.... greedy realtors for one, but also because there has been such an influx of people INTO this city over the last 25 years or so. In fact, the city population has increased by well over 1 million persons. And why has this happened? Perhaps it's because of the dramatic reduction in crime, thereby restoring the quality of life this city making it, once again, an attractive place to live. Let's not forget that back in 1990, we had 2,262 murders that year. Last year we had 295 murders. What happened? Did the city resolve all those underlying socio-economic issues that we are told breed crime? Is that what happened? What about all building fires in Sunset Park back in the 1970's with scores of vacant buildings? That was lovely, wasn't it? That was not happening in the early to mid 1960's. So what caused it to change? Do buildings just burst into fire? Do false alarms get sent all by themselves? Listen, I'm a lifelong resident of this city and I genuinely feel for those who are losing their ethnic neighborhoods and being forced out because of escalating property values and rents. But let's face it, there were neighborhoods that changed back in the 1950's, 60's, and 70's forcing people out as well, but it was due to depreciating property values, crime and fires, and the quality of life here was getting worse. So, my friend...those changes negatively impacted ethnic groups as well, although perhaps different ones than are being today.
