My wife and I lived in Brooklyn in the 70s to the 90s and we saw it all: Friday & Saturday night, 86th was jammed in both directions from 26th Ave to 18th Ave. It was like an open buffet, cars full of guys and cars full of girls checking each other out, exchanging phone numbers, setting up rendezvous at 2001 Odyssey or Pastels or wherever. Booming disco, kids driving cars way to expensive for them to actually own lol, that kid Crazy Vinny who's stand at 86th & Bay Parkway with his guitar and sing all day long. It was amazing, looking back. That's how you hooked up then, no one had cellphones or social media. We had Phonebook, not Facebook. So many people met their future spouses (and one night stands) on that street. But when people started to have tailgate parties, double parking and bringing beach chairs and coolers, it got out of hand and the people who lived in the apartments above the stores complained about the noise...all of a sudden we had new parking laws and the social scene on 86th kinda died overnight. But what fun while it lasted!
I'm from 86 st. 26 yrs...Mr demeo...you are an inspiration to everyone in brooklyn...ty for Gravesend...I would be honored to audition for you....I would be truly grateful...I'm 52 and have a wonderfull13 yo son ...just want a better life than Workin 9-,5
Wow, that was my life in the 80s. I was like 18 and driving a white cady fleetwood and cruzin with a car full of my boys picking up girls. Loved those days!
OH MAN OH MAN... WHAT MEMORIES, GOING OUT ON SATURDAY NIGHT, IF YOU DIDN'T HIT 86TH STREET, THEN YOUR NIGHT WAS NOTHIN... LOVED CRUSIN WITH MY FRIENDS... I HAD A 79 MIDNIGHT BLUE COUPE DE'VILLE... GOD WHAT I WOULDN'T DO TO GO BACK IN TIME FOR ONE MORE CRUISE...
I will be shopping for a 79 coupe. Miss the one I had from those days. Looks like a great movie and will bring back many great memories. Use to buy mixed tapes from the Car Wash on New Utretch Ave & 86 Street. Can't wait till it's release!!
86th street was where we went. Anytime day or night, it always had people going up and down it, with their hair perfect, freestyle music blasting. Didnt matter what kind of car you had as long as you had your music blasting. Good times.
Wow!!! Original born raised Bensonhurst Brooklynite !!!! Brooklyn was fantastic!! Flashback video!!!! Thank you what memories. Yep!! Under the L, cars music tinted windows
miss those days big time cruising up and down yhe strip 2 or 3 times ,just hanging out then going to Vegas or Jan's to eat.Hamburger with fries melted mozzarella and gravy
nick avvento Only a joke Nick, but you've got to admit that the guys out cruising 86th weren't Nobel Prize winners. Most of them were New Utrecht HS / Lafayette HS cretins.
and I dated a ton of them... in the late 60's when girls would hang out on the corner of 86th and bay parkway -- with rollers in their hair covered with a kerchief, getting ready for saturday night. Oh, the black eyeliner!
No place in the world has better lookin' girls than Brooklyn. Just a fact. NYC is the center of the universe. Always has been , always will be. The 80's was the peak of everything good . The cars, the music, the clubs . Everyone got along, the economy was booming , the whole city was thriving. the NYC life was unbeatable. It was the place to be, and I'm glad I was able to grow up in that era and experience it all.
Let me tell u I grew up in that life style I was born in 1978 but my mom is from bensonhurst she went to p.s 97 school then lafeyete high school across the street from Marlboro projects my dad was from. The city alphabet city Ave a so he had that city life style my mom from bensonhurst boy my dad met his match !! When he met my mom on 86 st in 1976 my dad and his friends were cruising 86 st in his 1969 convertible caddy he seen my mom with her friends he pulled over right away starting talking to her and the rest is history. If it were not for 86 st I would not be here or my brother n sister 😂 anyway I no it's a long story but I got nothing else to do . Lol so r.i.p dad I miss you I miss hearing your story's about Brooklyn about just life , I miss Everytime my friends came over to the house u would tell them sit down eat and listen to my story's lmao I miss takeing you to spamoni gardens to eat pizza and have a spamoni I miss as a kid u takeing me to Nelly Bly kid rides I miss everything about u . I wish u can give me some advice right now dad I'm going thru something!!! 💔💔 It's not the same without u I'm 😭 as I type this mom is o.k don't worry see u one day pop in heaven
And Yes this was way back in 70's to the 90's happened to be the ONLY scene heard lots of crazy stories about it all, native New Yorker but was way too young to experience it back then.
You forgot the Huge hair brush tucked on the waist side of their sweatpants with their cutoff Funhouse tee shirts and Capezio dance shoes. Real funny looking ! (New Utrecht Ave. in the house ! )
My dad grew up in Brooklyn and loved to cruise 86th occasionally when it was happening! Although I was born in Brooklyn, I wasn't around for all of the good times like this. When he was just a teenager he used to work at Krispy's Pizzeria and on weekends he would go with his friends to the strip and other classic places. He came across this video with me and my brother on Facebook two years back and we have anxiously been waiting for it to come out because he wants us to see what it was like because "words can't explain. You had to be there". Was production on it stopped? What happened? My dad tells awesome Brooklyn stories and this movie would complete the set. Please let me know because we are very interested.
I guess I come back every 3 years. Was this movie ever released? It hurts my heart how 86th St has changed. The smells are disgusting. The streets are littered with garbage. I'm glad I got to see the best of 86th times.
2:00 Guys wore these half shirts first, it was what you wore under your shoulder pads for football, then guys just started wearing them. TG the women took that trend over.
bklynbum091 yup I remember exactly the night they did that, they changed all the street signs to no standing/parking after 7pm, we tried to pull over and hang and the cops came right away busting chops, writing tickets, taking away benzi boxes, we still kept it alive for a while after that
Back when the neighborhood was the neighborhood. It was a glorious time. Guidos were all over the place. It was before grunge and before the tiny hats decided to change the area into little hong kong.
Why the Funhouse??? Whaddayathinkinabout? That's in Manhattan. I didn't see anything about Pastels disco. Although it was 2 blocks away from 86th St.....it was the closest and most significant club to ever grace the presence of Brooklyn nightlife.
Hey MrRobDale hi its nice to meet you love this trailer Crusin 86th Street I'm from Pennslyvania but always wondered what it was like growing up in New York thank you
