Hopefully the video stays up though. The uploader could lose his account, taken down by outdated and ineffective copyright laws, and God knows what policies RU-vid will have in the future. Or even something simple like the uploader setting it to private or losing the original file. There's so many videos in my classic 2005-2011 RU-vid Playlist that are missing and aren't able to be found on other sites to be lost forever. It can unfortunately happen to important videos like this as well.
Its amazing. I grew up in NYC in the 80s. As a grad student in Manhattan, I remember being so annoyed at tourists who were blocking traffic to take photos and videos of the city streets. Now I am soooooo grateful to them because decades later, they are uploading them to RU-vid and we all get to enjoy them. I am so sorry to anyone I snapped at or was mean too back then as i was rushing to class or work!!
Me 2 lol for me it was coming home from high school on the 49th St. crosstown bus. All the tourist would go there to see the tree and my trip would be about 25 minutes longer :) in December
I was living in Bay Ridge Brooklyn around that time. It was before 9 11, climate change... I remember there were talks about the holes in the ozone around that time. There were a few places selling hot dogs and papaya juices.
I grew up in the lower east side in NYC in the late 80s to early 90s, and never really went to the touristy areas of the city during that time until I met my husband in 2006 and now I'm living in Midtown where I'm always surrounded by tourist. It's like walking down memory lane when I go back to the lower east side now.
@@TECHLOVER_91 r u calling the crap they r playing on the radio these days music? Well if you do, you clearly have no idea what we r talking about, what good music is, and what we r missing.
@@Andili76 I never said anything about Music and there is still some great music being made today it's people like you who just want the world to revolve around their generation and the music they grew up on forever as if that's how time works 😒
Спасибо за документальные кадры Америки 80-х г. Смотрю, и поражаюсь по тем временам, что насколько жизнь в США была более устроенной, комфортной, с налаженной инфраструктурой. Американские возможности и технологии даже тогда ушли далеко вперед. Вообще, с ностальгией вспоминаю любые кадры 80-90-х г.г. 20 века. Ведь узнать, как жилось тогда на западе, можно было по видеофильмам, которые начали у нас массово завозить в СССР, а затем и в России по видеокассетам. P.S. Привет вам из России! Оператор русскоязычный, советский гражданин... Съемка того времени просто великолепна. Благодарю.
@@iliapopovichтебе откуда знать бомжара? только не пиши что ты 25 лет живёшь в США и здесь настолько хреново, что ты даже не думаешь возвращаться на родину😂
@Quirky Rainbow Rose Queen yeah I grew up then. I did enjoy the 80s TMNT show. Back then I was a bigger fan of the "Bionic Six" cartoon show. Sadly it ended after only two seasons. 😢😢
@Quirky Rainbow Rose Queen had a good ending. It's just that it ended way too soon. I uploaded all the episodes on RU-vid many years ago and they were online for a long time. Till NBC decided to be jerks as always and remove all the episodes. Funny thing it was a different company back then that was bought by NBC later on lol.
Katarina G haha yeah i can imagine. but as far as just aesthetics go i think the 70's is when american cars really hit their peak. in the 80's they still stood out from cars from the rest of the world but by then they already were putting less thought into how they looked
Ah... NY back when it was still a real city for real working class people. Nowadays feels more like a gigantic Monopoly board for billonaires to speculate. Also, how I miss the orange sodium-vapor lights, those eye-piercing white led streetlights kill the nocturnal mood of any place they get installed.
Lol the funny thing about your comment is the last time I visited NYC in 2016 I came home to find they had changed the street lights on my street from HPS to LED and I was legit sad.
Ugh, jerky blinking, blindingly bright LED lights have killed the mood a lot of places. Their brightness should be regulated, but doesn’t appear to be. And people thought fluorescent was bad.
I've never been to New York. I was born in 1987 in Russia, and I live here to this day. I watch this video and I am overcome by an inexplicable feeling of nostalgia and something beautiful. Although I don't even know English, but everything in the video seems to somehow concern or concern me. It's amazing! P.S.The text that I am writing now is translated by a translator in the Yandex search engine, so I apologize if there are errors in it.
Back when crack was on the streets and the Mob ruled the city. Hip Hop was in it's purest form. Old school New York had it's own identity...💯I'm in love with everything from this time period despite how bad it was in retrospect. Life had different swagger back then.
Hell yeah, when New York City was New York City. Before gentrification, mafia hits in downtown Manhattan during Christmas time, crack being smoked in back alleys by homeless and wall street hedge fund guys, you had a worldly wealth , culture, arts, and entertainment intermingled with crime and danger, subway violence and upper east side extravagance, man what a time. I remember my dad went there on business in 1989 and he said there is no place like Manhattan when the sun is going down and reflects off of the sky scrapers as the city descended into a night of adventure. What a time , NYC 1985-93. I’m from Chicago and even I can recognize how cool that time was.
@@TheGr8one1022 You actually could get by pretty safe and unharmed only if you were one of the middle-upper class wealth at that time. You'd be able to afford your own car (or driver) and wouldn't be relying on the shady subway system or taxi services back then which were notorious in playing a part in a lot of crimes then. Plus be able to afford a comfy and safe apartment (like in the show Friends) on Manhattan instead of some shady building on the Bronx.
Most of those kids that are ice skating are now 40y old parents. Thank you for these, it's so cool to see people at night with hairstyles of that time, talking, chilling with boom-box...
My childhood! Thank you, warms my heart seeing these streets that I walked with my father so many times. He passed and this makes me feel him close. Thank you
Too many past memories swirling in my head as I'm seeing these footage. I grew up and went to elementary school in the lower east side. Reminds me of my grandparents that used to help pick me up from school. Now all of my grandparents are passed. I wouldn't mind going back in time and reliving the golden years of the late 80s and 90s, it was just such a wonderful period in my life.
LOL it's only 1988... the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was filmed here the next year. Jurassic Park started preproduction in 1989. This is not freakin 1888 or something. Let me guess... you're from generation z who thinks the 1980s were eons ago.
You should check this one out.. a few years later but same vibe.. Digital VHS.. like you are watching HD ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fT4lDU-QLUY.html
Back when a working class family could afford a home in a nice neighborhood to raise their family. NYC had many blue collar enclaves back then. Now it's a town for the Uber rich.
I turned 24 in September of 1988 I am going to be 56 in September. I still have to pinch myself how fast time goes by so beware. I can't believe my mother was only a few years older than I am now. She passed. So future is scary and I am living the future now. I can't believe how old I am and how it just speeds by. Especially when you get 30 it goes like a speed volt. I did some acting gigs so I would go into New York a lot then. young, had my dreams, full of dreams, moved to Los Angeles and actually did have some speaking acting gigs and a couple commercials but that was it. Not many make it big where they can just live on it. I finally lost interest cause I stopped chasing rainbows. After you get older all your fairytales and dreams seem to become reality. I am not saying don't dream, I did have some acting gigs but there's a point if you don't make it big by a certain age, it's just going to get harder and so I moved on. I am trying to tell this lady who started pursuing acting at 12, she is now going to be 30 in October. I look 35. Fillers, botox. Anyways I tried to tell her and she thinks I am being mean and spiteful and this and that. She's been taking acting classes since her teens and shooting to 30 this year and hasn't made it. Also in your 30s your body changes, you can weigh the same but look more bloated and not the same, loss of muscle mass, and aging, slower metabolism, your face begins a ugly aging prcoess, more so towards your mid to late 30's and her and her sister got mad at me for trying to wake her up to reality, that at this stage of her life, I hope she has other purpose besides acting and good looking shallow boy friends and just the type of people who always got by on their body image and looks is going to be in for some rude awakening soon so they need to find themselves and their purpose and they get all mad at me and tell me I am full of crap. I lived it. I go out now and i get called "ma'am" and like I don't exist. people like her who is living in a fantasy, it's fine when you're young but not turning 30, it's time to wake up. and she will not look the same in 6 years, she don't want to listen to somebody who has been there and done it. She works as a waitress and lives off her parents at her age, walks around with shades on in these little short dresses and leggings, and I tried to warn her, a rude awakening is about to kick her ass soon, she's getting pass this cute kitten and dream fantasy youth. she will end up broke if she don't do something instead of keep dreaming, the dreaming was fine but it didn't' happen and you're getting up there. she got so mad at me. she'll see. this is not just a year older for her, going into your 30\s is a big change from your 20s. She is living like she did when she was 19. putting herself on video with these scenes and begging casting directors to hire her on video, going around like she's still 20. time to wise up. she'll see and think back how right I was while she falls into depression. because she is not accepting it. when you're young that's shit is fine, and I would love to be 30 again but at that point is when I realized acting dreams were diminishing, my youth was diminishing, and your body and looks go down hill from there on. , but 30 and still pursuing acting like you're still 20, no, and just going around with hot people like you're in high school and Disney land when you're almost 30, wow, she is about to be in for a rude awakening , she had her fun in her 20s and her fantasies but still at it. she'll be 40 and trying to be cute and pursue acting. Her mother was like "dont worry honey, you'll still be rocking a thin body" like when she ages nobody is going to care about her thin body and nobody, is going to look the same thin or fat when they are 30's and than 40s like when they were teens and 20's, she is setting the girl up to wake up one day miserable. I was just trying to place REALITY on her. She only has a few more years before slowly she will see the changes. And she will have to stop eating so much and diet heavily and work out a lot and still not look as good. I have been there. anyone knows. She can keep rocking a thin body but do you see a thin 20 year old in shorts, and a thin 40 year old in shorts, both thin but a big difference, the mother is just as stupid. I was told i was being verbally abusive. what I said is only common sense. LMAO plus I have lived it and been through it. she also brags how she can eat anything and be thin, that's about to change in the near future. they tell me I am abusive. how? they'll see. at least I am living in my reality, not fiction, it's fine when you're super young but 12-30 and not much accomplished, and she thinks she is going to be cute and young forever, she already has the type of face that is not going to age well. thin long face and thin lips. and her friends in their late 20's are like "wtf the bitch" about me, and crap, but who here does not agree when you hit 30 things just go down hill for acting dreams, and living off your looks and body image and I've been there, they're the joke and will see. Even 35 is technically middle age. 35-65. she is close, getting close and she and her friends who did nothing but live fantasies and act like teenagers and getting off strictly on their looks have a big rude awakening soon. I was just trying to warn her and she is like "you don't bother me anymore" I wasn't trying to bother her, I was trying to wake her up at her age. she was like "I am perfectly content going into my 30's " than why are you still not have a real career job, why dress in teenage clothes showing off your body like you're still 20, why go to Disney Land every weekend and still after years and years and years just only concentrating only on acting, after years and years and years still taking acting classes? Like maybe you don't have the talent? For women it just gets twice as hard the older you get in this business unless your are established and character, do you think the acting roles are going to get easier with age? If you were so content why living the same life she did when she was 19? not one change. . One day after eating her French fries and Taco Bell and triple cheese burgers she will wake up with rounder thighs, a wide body structure, tiny lines on the side of her eyes, nasolabial folds worsening, lines and loss of cheek volume slowly and the hot guys that dated her will look the other way and she'll be standing there waiting tables in her 30s with nothing. Sure seems like you are ready to grow up. not
OK BOOMER 🙄😒 You all just love posting comments like these but use Smartphones daily smh just stop the Hypocrisy we have unlimited knowledge at our fingertips and y'all still complain humans are never pleased
Get rid of it, refuse this technology garbage. It serves to lead you into the total enslavement of the NWO, in connection with "health crisis" and all the irreal nonsense.
Born in 1975 in nearby NJ. NYC was an exciting day trip In the 80s and 90s. Folks from outside the metro area don't realize that there is more in the mid-Atlantic region than Manhattan. Going into the city was just another way to kill time back then. On Saturday a trip to Peddler's Village in Bucks County, PA and on Sunday a trip to NYC was common. 2 completely different environments. I remember riding the NJ Transit NE Corridor line and feeling a sense of peace and safety upon coming out of the tunnel and seeing the NJ Turnpike and the bowling alleys. The stops in Newark and Elizabeth had an erie sense of quietness. The occasional person hallucinating, the girls with high hair and short skirts, the plethora of Z-28 Camaros. All normal. Life as usual. At the time I couldn't image how life could be any different. I thought it would always be that way.......
‘88 was an amazing time. I was only 12 living in Long Beach, Ca during that time. It’s amazing to see the fun we all has in those days, before 9/11. Amazing footage!
I was living in hawaii , turned 15 in '88 , started my freshman year in high school I just turned 50 ! Lol. this year. 🤙 time surely passed by fast man.
My first visit to NYC 1986. Last 2016. What a difference!!!! Back then it was a lot more diverse, a lot crazier, a lot cheaper but also dirtier, more dangerous. However today seems like NYC is only for the rich. No more "artsy", "original", "creepy" stuff. Where did all the normal to crazy people go??? Thanks for sharing this time travel :-) I enjoyed it a lot.
19:33 I was very surprised when the cameraman and his buddy left the car and start a conversation in Russian. They were talking about filming: - So... we are going this way? - Yeah, we'll go like that [shows the way by gesture] - It will be great to reshoot 42 street... - You know, we had drove past an enormous quantity of advertisements... - Look! [pointing on the police] - Let's place our camera rack here. - We should be careful about filming here... We shouldn't do that here. - Why? - It's a dangerous place... freaking many junkies, prostitutes...
Интересно конечно мозг устроен. Испытал такое тёплое чувство ностальгии, при том что запись сделана за 7 лет до моего рождения, а в Нью-Йорке в первые побывал вообще в 2012 году... )
And the 1999 Ford Crown Victoria was the last era of cool taxi cabs & cop cars. They dominated the streets by 2003 and nearly all retired by 2013. And now, most cop cars are bulky SUVs or pickup-trucks, and most American taxi cabs look European.
You should check this one out.. a few years later but same vibe.. Digital VHS.. like you are watching HD ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fT4lDU-QLUY.html
@Ed Rice It’s not 8 or 16mm film, there would be noticeable grain on 8mm at least. I would say uncompressed (apart from RU-vid) HD analog video which was available then, definitely professional equipment.
I saw the 80’s, I was born in ‘78 so was just a boy. It was pretty cool. I got to fly from Indiana every year to see family outside Boston. Back then, the airlines still served meals on domestic flights, which were like TV dinners. I got to see the cockpit and talk to the pilots. The pop music on the radio was the greatest. Pop radio has never been so good. In New York City, the crime rate was probably through the roof, but that’s the big city right? It’s hard to experience an era in real-time in the same way you look back on it, but certain things do stand out in hindsight. Everyone was much more present. They had to be, as this was long before smartphones and internet as we know it, but of course nobody was missing what was not available. Mario Bros. on the old 8-bit Nintendo was a barrel of fun, lol. But we played outside a lot more. I was aware of political unrest in the world, and there was a lot of it then. But the world didn’t feel high strung and flaked out in the way it does today. And racial relations were a lot better too believe it or not. I think we’ve probably become too fast for our own good these days. The world was complex then, but felt far simpler than now.
@@johnp82y? Yo soy del 80 y soy plenamente consciente como se sentía el mundo mucho antes del inicio de los 90´s y el contexto del video es el 88. Quizá no leíste bien, puede que hoy en día un niño de 6-10 años no deje su celular y prefiera recluirse en la vivienda familiar. Desde luego no era el caso en esa época.
This was filmed in late Nov/early Dec 1988. I was out of the Marine Corps for 3 months and working in Manhattan at the time this was filmed. I lived through it and I can't believe how much I've forgotten about the cars/clothes/and how run down 42nd street was. Wow! What a time capsule! I guess I am too! Thanks for posting this....brings back some memories!
@@Music-ys3cb Не тявкай кремлевская падаль... Уж в чем,а а в том что они помогают странам бывшего СССР защищаться от кремлёвской агрессии это правильно! К русским в сша относятся нормально.
This is New York in 1988, the 80s were a time when people lived, had fun, of course they talked, etc. It was the best time for music, movies, series, etc.
something about watching footage from a different time when you were alive, when none of your problems existed yet, when the world was still filled with limitless opportunity, but which you know will never exist again is a little bit heartbreaking.
I grew up in NY at this time. It brought me back immediately when I saw the video. From the cars, the styles, the lights, everything about the video is a representation of New York's past. People of all ages, demographics and walks of life were courteous. Hopefully that aspect of life will return to all people, sooner than later.
1980s, were one of the worst times for crime and drugs in NYC - the city was dying. People fled to the suburbs and crack-fueled epidemic would continue to grow until the early 90s.
The 80s and 90s was the peak of Western civilization. We had the fruits of our ancestors labor, United States wasn't a police state yet. The petrodollar was still rising
Great footage! For those interested, those dreary, orange-looking street lights were called high pressure sodium. They were incredibly efficient and long-lasting but unfortunately, the quality of light was poor. Everything from red to blue to Brown looked dark navy blue under those lights. I have no idea how the filmmakers made this film stock looks so good, but it must have been quite a trick.
@@RealSamuelGibson Most of the NYC Metro and surrounding area has been retrofitted to LEDs, 5000K or 6000K in color temperature. Some complain they are too bright and/or too blue, and they resemble a prison yard. There is a push towards 3000K which is warmer (more yellow.) A good thing about the old. orange high pressure sodium lights is they help with sky glow. You might find a lot of them if there is an observatory nearby. The new LED lights also give a lot of glare, not so with orange high pressure sodium. In the industry, they are called HPS. Cheers,
@@BradThePitts My opinion is the sodium lights gave off a more natural and better light. I was born in 1965 so im old enough to also remember the mercury bulbs which were the turquoise, blueish street lights that came before the sodium. Those type of lights you found, not only on the streets but also in NYC's parks. Then the sodium lights followed first on the streets then in the parks. And most fellow old school New Yorkers like me also remember the orange fire alarm lights that were mounted on the side of the street lights as well as on top. Those lights usually came on at the same time with the street lights. However in late 2003 those fire alarm lights changed into the crappy red bulbs you see today. Those are one of the things that gave NYC its character along with the graffiti trains. Today NYC is bland and boring. Shitty stadium LED lights, ugly bland tech robot subways etc etc. Thanks to the millennials that have no taste they have ruined this once great city
@@alexmunch6118 You're kidding right? Those orangy lights made the streets look dull and depressing as if the city was in perpetual twilight. Not to mention, as OP said, they mess with the colors of anything standing within proximity of them. Nearly everything had the same color as their shadows: dark navy-blue black. And the subway platforms/trains with those lights were even more dim and depressing. I'm glad they were changed to more brighter, neutral white lights. It really helped a lot with illuminating the city at night. Plus even in the 80's, many car headlights were already white instead of orange because white light doesn't affect any colors it shines on which are important for cars in preventing any road accidents.
As a kid growing up in a small upstate city outside of Albany, my first memorable trips to NYC were in high school at this exact time. Art Class would do a trip to the Met. History took us to the Cloisters and the Frick. My Italian class would take us to Little Italy and when we got time to wander I would scramble to Tower Records on West 4th and try to spend whatever money I was able to bring with me on records or tapes I couldn't get back home. I eventually went to undergrad at Columbia in '91 and moved to Brooklyn after graduation in '95 where I am today. So to say this vid brings back a lot of memories is an understatement for this long-time NewYorker. Thanks for sharing.
I wish they were still the same today like years ago. Squarish looking, carbureted, cap and rotor with distributor. Ah, I miss the old cars. Quick question, doesn't the new honda accord 2018 model to present look squash and polygonal?
Born in 97 but I swear I had a past life that must have ended in 97 cause I feel like I have core memories from this era and place that I can’t explain 😂
Probably 'cause the 90's & 00's still kind of had lingering 80's vibes. A lot of vehicles, technology and so forth were still left over from the 80's for awhile. And the Emo fashion trend you might remember from school was very retro-80's, and Emo hair was a throwback to the 60's.
I owned a 72 Plymouth Fury, as big as a whale! I once got pulled over by the NYPD for speeding on 7th Ave. I explained to the policeman that I had to stay in-front of the Taxi cabs because they were so ruthless. He told me to slow down and let me off with a warning. They really liked my car, it reminded them of the 1970's Police Interceptors!
I was born in 03 but this is just incredible to watch to me. Seeing the things people reference when they were common, hearing the songs people wish were still made (Joe Walsh at the end!) and the difference in how people acted. Nobody glued to a device, just walking about their day. Amazing to see with such great quality
Your generation are literally a nightmare of dim-witted drones and a mix of autism. Creepy creepy My generation always notes how slow you guys are with humour and the lack of personality. Proud 80s boy here. The cellphone once it had merged into the internet caused all of your problems.
It astounds me how many people upload things in horrible quality (even in recent years), unlike this video, which by comparison, is so clear and enjoyable to watch, thankyou! 👍 Historic movies like this are really cool but also really important to preserve in good quality.
@@Galidorquest Yes, this is true, but even home style movies filmed on tape based video cameras can have a lot of clarity too (obviously not quite the same level seen here), if they are dumped and edited correctly on a PC, especially with modern software's improvements of up-scaling and sharpening etc (not to mention AI) because tape actually has a very high raw bitrate to begin with, so lots can be done to preserve and enhance quality. Sadly most things I see of this category, are so badly handled and compressed and then uploaded, seemingly without a thought towards the end product or any reasonable effort for quality. I guess it comes down to ignorance in most cases, where people just don't realise that good results can be extracted from even the most banal VHS footage, if the person doing it has a little bit of knowledge and time and some basic tools. While I'm ranting, I also see this issue with a lot of images found on line too. There are nice high quality images out there if you look, but it's usually the minority, with folks often uploading things that are so pixelated and muddy, that I don't even know what they possibly did to the original image to arrive at such an offensive end result. I guess it's a similar issue of ignorance on the users part, but consumer level flatbed scanners have been giving excellent high quality results for more than 2 decades and they are also really easy to use, so this one really baffles me!
No masks...No cell phones...Just good times with human interaction...This is what socializing looks like ladies and gentlemen!!!💕♥️❤️ I was 13...Would literally go back in a NY minute!!! Best era eveeeeeeer!
Спасибо! Очень лампово получилось. Забавно слышать на 3:20 чистую русскую речь. Воистину , самый мультикультурный город в мире. Желаю его жителям процветания , гармонии и любви между собой.
Этот футаж снимался как заготовка или к репортажу или фильму. Заметно что снимают со штатива. Да и сам штатив мелькает в кадре. И камера проводят плавно,статично с различными фокусными расстояниями, такие ракурсы ,планы, характерны для репортажей. На катке например слышно, снять какой третий ракурс например .
There was just a lot to appreciate about the time. As many here have said, it was the best balance of tech and social interaction of any period in history. In essence, it was tech that was non intrusive. People were well dressed and fixed in public. Beautiful vapourwave neon lights compared to blinding institutional LED lights. Rents were affordable, plenty of jobs. And most of all people really did have a better head on their shoulders. Everyone's views are subjective based on what they value. For myself, these are things which I find made life a lot more enjoyable. I try to limit my technology usage as much as possible and have eradicated social media. I won't be able to go back in time, but I'm able to make the best out of today with the values of the past.
Footage like this makes it very easy to romanticize. Don't forget the rampant crime of the 80s, the fires in the Bronx, the crack epidemic. But yes, it was nice for some people.
As if there's no rampant crime in NYC today? They just manipulate the data now. How many people were pushed off the subway today? Funny I don't recall hearing that in the news everyday in the 80s.
@@205inbox6 Этот футаж снимался как заготовка или к репортажу или фильму. Заметно что снимают со штатива. Да и сам штатив мелькает в кадре. И камера проводят плавно,статично с различными фокусными расстояниями, такие ракурсы ,планы, характерны для репортажей. На катке например слышно, снять какой третий ракурс например .
