New York 50's 

I worked in a nursing home during the summer between school yearsand I loved talking to the old people that still had their mental facilities working. Just about everyone agreed the 1950's were pure magic. This man in his 80's back in 2016 told me California was the dream. He would show photos of his wife and their home.

This is one of the best videos of this type because it shows people, not just the building in NYC. Might be lunch hour with all the attractive secretaries walking around in their summer dresses? Those shots of Coney Island are something else, I can smell the salt air and Nathans French fries, I loved that place! Great video of the city and time that I grew up in. Sadly, it'll never be like that again.

I remember these times in NY..the video tells all ..in the faces of the people and a sense that you got that the country and New York in the 50s were in a time and place of normalcy.Eisenhower was the president so you could go to sleep at night with out worries…the tragedy of what is happening in NY today is more than stunning..if it’s ever to return to it’s greatness..one can only guess.it’s the people..and only the people of the city can make these changes.

im from canada ,, but i remember going to visit my favorite aunt in albany ny in 1960 , my parents went every year,, to visit,, that was my moms sister,, big sister 30 yrs diff in age .,,, my dad brought me to the empire st building,, he made me touch the outside of the building ill never foget,, my dad is 93 now im 66,, love ny

Everyone slim and classy looking.

The people watching in this film is literally the best I've seen on RU-vid! This was really enjoyable to watch!

no tattoo, no plastic surgery beatiful people

New York in 1950’s looks what my country will never look like in 2050’s😀

Based on looks, truly the best years to live in new york

Any footage of any era of New York is fab✅great upload💪🏻

this video makes me think of my grandmother who was born in 1910 and she always had such class and sophistication which I never appreciated growing up, I remember her white gloves and dresses and huge shoe collection. I would sit in her closet and hide and look up at all her dresses. People took pride back then. Men had hats and style and women too. It was truly a glorious time...what happened people? America was truly great at one point in time and now that time has changed drastically we are a nation of slobs and disrespect...not everyone but many. It all starts with the family and unfortunately family values have declined for decades.

Ladies with gloves and scarves, cars with fins, guys with hats, some traffic lights with only red and green. I was a just kid but recall those times. Put on some Sinatra , Dizzy, or Brubeck and enjoy.

From the movie titles and the cars, this is most likely in 1957.

Scenes of a vibrant and largely prosperous late '50s New York. Little did New Yorkers at the time know that the notorious "bad years" of urban decline, white flight, crime surge, declining municipal services, racial unrest, and financial insolvency were just around the corner. Though the city has since rebounded from its late-twentieth-century nadir, the working-class character, grit, and atmosphere on full display in this film have been consigned to the past by the decades-long advance of gentrification and corporatization. You may find evidence of the city's working-class element in the outer boroughs and in the remaining immigrant enclaves of Manhattan, but, in the main, New York is now a town that caters exclusively to the monied Jetset and glitterati who have no real meaningful attachment to the city outside of real estate holdings. What results is a place devoted to the vacuous and vulgar tastes of our late capitalist society's most bougie and tasteless nouveau-rich, becoming progressively devoid of the very elemental urban charm that had attracted these plutocrats to an urban lifestyle.

Women definitely looked fit and classy!!!!!

This was filmed in the summer of 1957.

Beautiful women and sure of themselves.

The 50s heading into the 60s.

So cool! I would love to be able to go back in time. I was born in 1992 so the oldest memories of NYC are like 1999-2002 but would love to step back to 1955 and just run up to someone and say so show me what there is to do, and see!!!!!!!!

This guy certainly had an eye for the pretty, young well dressed ladies. Back when New York NY was still a hell of a town ! If a time machine is ever invented I'm going back to the 50's.

How beautiful NY was before the societal decay. 😥

Remember what they took from us

great video...thanks for uploading...very fitting that it ends with a squirrel outside the WH seeking a nut :)

It looks like people had it together, dressed to the nines, in shape and generally being quite civil. But there were bad neighborhoods that existed even then, the Bowery, east Village or Hell's Kitchen, not safe to walk. Safer today, in fact, than back then.

It's not actually the Garment District, it's the Fur District, which was located along 28th and 29th Streets from 6th Avenue to 8th Avenue, and most of these shots are on 7th Avenue near 29th Street.

JUST MAGNIFICENT!

The late 50s and late 80s are the fashion peaks (at least according to my taste).

There's no tents and homeless people lying on the streets...two genders,the women are attractive ,slim and classy and the men are manly and I love those cars❤

Back when NYC was civilized.

Astonishing. When normal middle class people were the lifeblood of the city.

Zero obese

Fascinating. The city looked opposite to how it is now, clean highways and dirty buildings. Now the buildings are all cleaned up and the streets are trashed.

Time machine i like how nobody is wearing plastic all natural fibres aesthetics elegance and classiness .

That's the world I remember when I was young. Look at those trees and see how lush and green everything is in a world without chemtrails.

Yes, those were the days when America was America! Great America! But those years are gone :-( .

Now. Just look how the people and streets are today.

Simply wonderful

Imagine if you could go back in time to this era with your iPhone and show people this video on it.

People in The Bronx used to leave their doors open. Now we got people on mopeds going up-and-down the streets drug dealing graffiti. Litter loud speaking people who do not discipline their children. You get the picture.

When men looked like men...and women like women

A non-Religious regular person of this era is sometimes Holier than some Religious persons today.

Fabulous. So concrete and immediate compared to the hazy diluted 50s we get from the movies.

wonderful video from a great time in a great country😀

At 23:08 I knew that had to be Coney Island even before the following shot of the Tornado roller coaster, I could practically smell the salt air! I was born in 1950 and growing up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, this was they way I saw the city. I remember some of it so clearly. I really don't know what happened to us, its more than just the changes in fashion, people are so different now. Advances in medicine and progress in technology are great but the disparity in income has caused so much damage to society. Did anyone really want to see us change to the point where so many people live on the street, where young men wear their pants so low that they expose their underwear, where women are covered with tattoos, where nearly everyone is hypnotized by their smart phone, where men randomly sucker punch women in the face, where children are being shot while in school? Its unlikely that anyone foresaw or wanted this, so how did it happen?

Of all things we lost self respect

So many elegant women.

How much has America degenerated😔

I like this video without sound effects.

And we are supposed to have progressed.

Just about everyone is so chic!

If you showed these people what NY looks like today, they'd think we lost the Cold War

"Designing Woman,' one of the Times Square films, dates from 1957 - these videos were clearly made in 1955-57, although possibly during different years. This was now 67 years ago - the great majority of people filmed here are now only memories.

To think almost all the adults in this video are now residents of a cemetery.

It's enough to make you weep when you see old film like this and realize what so-called "progressivism" has done to this nation.

GOOD OLD GOLDEN DAYS

I was born in 1952 but still have memories of visiting Nana on the East Side. It's funny, but I remember in black and white. Strange...

This is cool, but you should put some music on it, and take the annoying timecode off (if possible).

i think we can all agree that new york lost its charm like it used to have

When everyone was well dressed and cultivated. What a downfall, Jesus Christ.

I wish I could jump into Doc Brown's DeLorean Time Machine and go to NYC at this juncture in time! Looks heavenly and beautiful compared to now!

@Artisan Video---We scream today in 2024 about shoplifters walking out with EXACTLY $899:00 worth of items without PAYING as COURAGE LESS SHOP OWNERS ALLOW IT but I wonder how many of the fellas we see in this film CARRYING FUR COATS DO NOT HAVE A BUYERS RECIEPT to show a policeman or some of these guys seen here are ACTUALLY STEALING THOSE FURS and NO ONE NOTICES because that's the GARMENT DISTRICT?????

Somebody notice the ambient sound those days! Only horses steps people conversation. No honking .no music .beeping or else!!!😮😮😮😮

Amazing how clean the streets were 15:42

It's too quiet some music from the era would be nice

After watching this video why do I get the feeling that society has regressed?

Maaaan… when people actually looked civilized.

We were once a proper country.

On a hot summer day : who wants HOT buttered CORN ? Gimme Lemon Italian Ices .

31:24 that looks like Gerry Mulligan (baratone sax) with Bob Brookmeyer(trombone). Billie Holiday 32:14

I can't believe hot women's face in 1957!!!

I wouldn't set foot in NY now if you paid me

Best I can tell, this was shot sometime around late July or early August 1957, or at least some of it thereof in NYC.

My first thought was that all the women seemed to be walking a bit awkwardly. Then I noticed the heels...

Great video but maybe add music and take your watermark off it and that time stamp it’s frustrating

Diversity ruined this great city.

Might be just about LATE 1956 as those 1957 FORDS seem to be appearing with the last of the 1940s & early//mid 1950s fat chubby cars****

I live in Orlando and the thought of walking through a city without trap music playing from each car, and LGBT+ flags littering the street seems euphoric.

Its amazing yes but it would have been paradise if it subtracted the racial discrimination. It would have been paradise.

Then 172 million people, 2021 338. I’m shocked.

1955 because of "Revenge creature" (Jack Arnold) around minute 30.

Anyone noticed how modestly women are dressed?

16:26........Lee Remick and Elizabeth Montgomery !!!

At 16:26 there are two ladies walking together. One of them looks like it might be Elizabeth Montgomery.

Time traveling threw RU-vid does exist

This is like a time travel.. it looked nice, although the sexual harassment at work, oppressed women. On the other hand, today is toxic feminism as a product of this age.

15:05 woman in pink is a timetravler

Back when coffee was coffee ☕️

Cars back then be like: wassah dude classic sneaks hop in me

Why so many men carrying new women's coats on the street????

26:50 wherever you are THANK YOU, you are awesome

imagine how dead some of those people are

Gerry Mulligan at 31.23 and Billie Holiday at 32.13...

When the U.S was great then.

I'm seven again!

Where are the beltless trenchcoats?

Doesn’t appear this was colorized. If I’m correct, thank you for not falling for that temptation.

Everybody looked so nice it a shame oeopledon don't dress like that anymore

16:33 looks like two time travellers, if you wear dress like these two ladies and walk in the street today (2022) no one would say its out of style.

15:27 Blonde women looked like Marilyn Monroe.

Didn’t see any pregnant men?