Ever New...New York, 1962 

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

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

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

do you still dress?

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

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

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

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

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

The Singer Building!

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

Elvis Presley time

"Jailhouse Rock" was released in 1957..

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

And are still doing it.

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

Yep!

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

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

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.

Get to the choppaaa!

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

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

@@robertmasina4610 what innocence?? Lol

Ok greatest generation

Born in '62

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.

You mean without the Twin Towers?

how come?

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

Even somewhat earlier, I suggest.

Then we got invaded by south america

Then The Beatles happened

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!

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!

@@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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

@@johnscanlan9335 today’s it’s cesspool

lol

Yup!

It's awkward.,victor

John Lindsay is to blame

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

США великая страна

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

The Dodgers and Giants moved to Cali during that era.