For real, all that knowledge for the taking and they pass it up for the smoke shop or liquor store. People wonder why business's don't want to operate in NYC. You are creating your own food desert that they always complain about after they run target out because they have been operating at a loss for a decade.
@johnford9070 no idiot People that owned them lost all their money they had invested in them For years no one would invest in the neighborhood For years there were no food stores clothing restaurants cell phone ect Just empty burnt out shells selling Crack to the blacks that lived there
@@mistersquare7327 you are absolutely right! The Television Studios in Hollywood wanted to.pirteay Americans as being Wholesome, Attractive, Super Brave, etc. As an isolated kid, I too watched TV but, I really thought there were places like Green Acres, Mayberry, Dick Van Dyke was a favorite of mine..I must have been 4 or 5 years old..
I remember some Astoria Park teen age mafiosos setting a trap for the Son of Sam in the parking lot. They sat in the Astoria Park's ''lovers lane'' with their girl sexily dressed girl friends.There was a substantial reward and these young gangsters were smart operators. Burkowitz was real wise to never chose Astoria Park as a place to shoot couples. The young Astoria Park gangsters would have left him looking like Swiss cheese.
Most of Queens, Bronx, and half of Brooklyn are all immigrants from the 3rd world and in Manhattan half are transplants and half natives Most New York natives have long gone
It’s weird to hear people talk about New York in the 70’s as some sort of “Golden Age.” I suppose it was for the arts, but that was largely because misery and cheap rent from run down buildings breeds artists of all sorts
@@royale7620Philistines crack me up. It was one of the best decades for all popular music. Also films by Scorcese and Coppola are considered some of the best American films ever made, and NYC was where most of that was coming out of.
@@matthewgabbard6415 Movies that low key showcase that it was a failed liberal society that couldnt civilise and that the reforms of 1965 were a huge mistake
I worked as a Lorillard tobacco sales rep in Brooklyn in from 1977 to 1979. JOE AND MARY'S RESTAURANT on Knickerbocker was one of my stops. I went there on a Friday to inventory their cigarette machine close to lunch time. The following Monday , Galante was killed by persons unknown. I went out and got drunk and called in sick the next day. LIVING ON THE EDGE !!!!!
As bad as it was, I really never noticed, except the blackout of '77. Was too busy playing with GI Joes and Tonka trucks all day. Was not born with a silver spoon with my mouth but had great parents. I thank God everyday that they're still alive! Lived in Taft housing projects from 1975-80. Born and raised in NYC (1970-80) until age ten when we moved to PA. My parents thought yep, time to move on!😅 Fights everyday after school was a pain in the butt though (PS 108) Taught me a valuable lesson, win some lose some..
All of those stolen goods, where are they now?? In a land fill....🤣where are those arrested back then now?? Thankfully I was 11 years old when this was going on, and THANKS to not having access to social media I turned out to be a hard working American. Son of Sam is a Christian in Jail now.....Amazing. My first car was a 1975 Plymouth Fury. Good STRONG CAR, but every time it rained the carburetor choke would get stuck closed and I always had to shove a stick in there just to start my car.....true....
I watched that game with friends at college in Louisiana. All the country folk were rooting for the Dodgers, and were laughing at me, after the Goodyear Blimp showed a South Bronx building on fire. I told them, "not so fast". 😆
Perfectly compiled. Just as I remembered on the late news. The facts. Just the facts and no blurred out photos. The reporters were down in the mix and are considered heroes of a bygone era in my eyes.
I was already out 9f the house and I resided between lower manhattan and Brooklyn. The night of the blackout, I happened to be staying in Lower Mahhattan. It was particularly frightening because of all the very tall and crowded office buildings near City Hall. My boyfriend held me very close to him because we could hear a couple of guys following us. My girlfriend was raped several.blocks over that same night. I happened to be wearing black pants and a black top. Thank God I wasnt alone that night. That blackout was terrifying. It was literally pitch black outside. My boyfriend pulled me into a deep doorway, and those guys somehow missed us and kept walking down the street. I remember this like it was yesterday.
Son of Sam needed an adjustment everyday, in a room with 5 Muhummad Ali's, and 5 Mike Tyson's, 5 George Foreman's using ol' SonofaSamboy for a sparring partner. No facial protection or gloves for Samboy. Then at night, make him listen to Hillary talk on a looped recording.
Were still masculine and handsome. You women are so full of yourself today you think you all deserve the 6 ft 6 figure and 6 abs while you weigh 150 and are 5 4. Lol
I remember the hit on carmine Galante like it was yesterday, i was a teen then. The covers of the daily news and new York post had the picture of his dead bullet riddled body, with his cigar still in his mouth.
This was the days of the old incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent tubes. Different kind of light, not as wh te or as strong. Plus the economy was bad so probably they tried to save money in some places by just not lighting it so much.
i was 13 and living on the upper west side near Lincoln center. the blackout was the only time i ever saw my father and other tenants scared and openly armed in the lobby. they called it the night of the animals.
For persons of my age..67.. this brings back those memories of a city that was managed by corrupt officials and ruled by street gangs and drug dealers. It was tan age of innocence lost that will remain with me for the rest of my life.
The 70s blackout Played an important Part in the Creation of hiphop. I'll Explain: 0:22 Most Dj's in the ghettos bac then had limited income, they couldnt really Purchase Good Djing equipment to enhance their sound ect. So when the blackout hit, lots of dj went out and Took this equipment that was needed. Hiphop was already "Active" before the blackout, but After the blackout was over the djs had the equipment they needed, they were able to do Waay More w the New equipment. Hiphop sound was Enhanced and blocked parties were held All Over. So i will Forever be Greatful for that 70s blackout. #50yrsofhiphop🎤🎚🎧✊🏼✊🏼
After the blackout, you could get a $350 moped for $50! 😂 Many stores in all boroughs had no gratings to cover their windows, and the rest was history. I remember "The Moped Store", in Queens, on the LI Expressway service road near Springfield Gardens, a huge place, that had to have over 100 mopeds just in the showroom. The day after the blackout...EMPTY! 😂😂😂
You don't hear this NY accent as much. Most of Queen, Bronx, and half of Brooklyn is 3rd World immigrants populated while Manhattan is half transplant and half Native and 60% of Staten Island is still native. Although you can go to Long Island to hear :)
Why would people destroy their own cities knowing they all have to go back. & now suffer more than before. Just think history is repeating itself . This time it will be worse & tha end.
I remember this big time. I lived in Northern Manhattan (Inwood) at the time. Myself and family went upstate for vacation but my dad and dog stayed behind. I remember seeing the news reports but luckily it never reached to the tip of Manhattan.
@@darlingjessi668 No one is. But you have to admit that you cannot find just as many videos of us burning, looting and murdering as you will find with POC.
3:45, 11:37 carmine galante and the Lufthansa heist report used some high quality video footage If you told me it was the 90s I would probably believe it.
