Rare Unseen New York 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added 

Better than the glass monoliths of today.

Now in 2023 New York City my old hometown doesn't look as it did when I was a boy living there a few years past the middle of the 20th century.

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Not just NY.Take a look at the german cities

@@TexasChilliMassacre Sure. 90% of Germany's cities were nothing but rubble by the end of WWII. They started building new all over again.

And sadly they've never left!!

It's unimaginable today, but you're correct.

And now we are drowning in plastic, something that did not exist only 100 years ago.

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Flatiron bldg was not in the footage.

@@sir.fuentes7642 Oops! Well, there was a building that looked very much like it.

Could be the beaver building

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New York was then at its peak. It stayed that way until the 1950s. Then, downhill all the way.

@@williamrubinstein3442 I'd think more the 60s. Kitty Genovese was murdered in 1964, and that's not a ridiculous time to consider as the beginning of the downfall of New York.

Yes, and it was probably leaded gas, too.

Thanks for pointing that out. I laughed out loud and clapped my hands when I went back to watch!

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Pal! You do not know how right you are about my old hometown of NYC. It is the most historical city in all of America since it started as a Dutch colony as a small village in 1624. That is why the New York State and City flags are orange, white, and blue.

@@luislaplume8261 Nyc is great but St. Augustine, Florida is way older. It started in 1565 believe it or not.

@@donnytucker Absolutely, by Spaniard. Good observation!A lot of beauty and culture of Spain are evident in every corner of San Agustin. NYC was marked by the political and economic events marked by British Interests . Aren’t beautiful the History and Geography. ?! Thanks for that to this channel

Thanks for pointing this out.

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Actually, I think Manhattan was more crowded with immigrants filling tenement neighborhoods at 700 people per acre! (The same density as Calcutta!) Subways helped spread population to other boroughs--a reason they were built--and reduced Manhattan's density.

It was more dense than even today.

@@awbelton Yes, Manhattan has hundreds of thousands fewer people than it did then.

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I do struggle to imagine all those majestic highrises built with tech of that day. a few perhaps but 100's? And all finished, no scaffolding or construction or remediation anywhere

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Not that much of a difference even after 100 years. Except for improved medical techniques, the Internet, and advanced computing including the first advances into AI, this footage shows that by the 1920s pretty much the whole tenor of the 20th Century going into the first decades of the 21st was pretty much set. There is nothing in this film that is fundamentally any different from now other than refinements to what you already see in this film. A time traveler from now back to the 1920s wouldn't feel that the world was so fundamentally different. Advances in space and aviation may not have been achieved yet, but they were already conceptualized and predicted as simply a matter of time before they would be achieved. Airplanes were already flying. Robert Goddard was already experimenting with rocketry. The first national radio stations were already on the air. Scientists were exploring how to achieve television which they'd solve by the late 1930s. Einstein's Theory of Relativity had already been published 15 years earlier, scientists were already researching how to split the atom to achieve atomic energy, and Quantum Theory was already being developed in Europe. So many of these NYC buildings are still standing and still fully operating, too. The same time traveler wouldn't experience the profound culture shock until going back from the 1920s to just a few decades earlier into the late to mid-19th Century. That's what would be a major culture shock to anyone who grew up in the mid-19th Century and lived to see the incredible advances made by the 1920s. It would be a totally different world. Yet, there still WERE people alive at the time these films were made who did experience the incredible advances and changes to society made in just that short period of time. Just think: at the very moment these film clips were made, there were still people alive who either fought in or at least lived through the American Civil War. A person born in 1830 would be in his or her 90s if they aged in a healthy manner with longevity! Imagine how they experienced the 1920s when comparing it to their childhoods and young adulthoods. Born perhaps into a world that hadn't even figured out or at least applied steam power yet -- the first steam locomotive and train were still a couple of years away -- a world that was still totally animal-powered not much different than 10,000 years earlier. That person born in 1830 who lived into the 1920s could very well even have met a very old surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War. Far more profound and shocking than someone in 2023 looking at footage shot in 1923 -- the year my father was born.

​@jody6851 Well that's me told.

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Да удивляет масштаб ,если верить что раньше не было такой техники как сейчас как это можно было строить в таких количествах

Starting at 4:14, as the camera pans, we see in the background. The Sherry Netherland Hotel, 781 5th Avenue 40 floors 560' 1927. The Savoy Plaza Hotel, 767 5th Avenue 33 floors 420' 1930. The Fuller Building, 41 East 57th St. 40 floors 492' 1929. The Ritz Hotel Tower, 465 Park Avenue 41 floors 541' 1926. As one can tell, skyscrapers are a passion of mine, and I would have loved to be able to see Manhattan in person in 1931.

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Yankee Stadium.

Was wondering the same thing.

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A 1 year old baby could possibly be alive, in theory.

At Herald Square.

Oh yes!! manhattan ! Thx :)

Bootleg alcohol destroyed lives then. Nothing changes much

Hah! AS IF there was not drug use back then.

Nass, uses real life images!

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