i was here, in NYC, in the 1970's, 80's and today, its a totally different place.

You definitely deserve more recognition for this!

Lifelong NYC resident here and trust me when I tell you, people living in these 'hoods in 1974 or 1984 would consider 2024 a futuristic paradise by comparison l.

I used to make deliveries from philly to nyc in the late 70's 2-3 times a week on foot, ... I never imagined it would be turned around...Going there used to make me happy to get back to PHILLY... :)... I was on google street maps recently; It's night and day...Very clean for a giant city!

As someone who was born and spent a lot of my youth in the BX, I remember a lot of those abandoned buildings, I remember my family had a high rise in a white building (clinton tower) and the BX was always on fire. I later found out a lot of those fires were intentional, building owners trying to get insurance $$$ was rampant.

I didn't know CharlieBo313 had the ability to time travel.

I was reading an article about Sesame Street not long ago and the whole show was created to try and give the kids that lived in those ghettos a hope in heII. Hits harder actually seeing how those neighborhoods were. Thanks for the video.

Yhea that New York was terrible. I remember visiting Brooklyn in the 80’s coming from canada . The energy was unmatched but. NY was really scary and extremely dangerous .

0:33 I heard that Mercedes-Benz 300 diesel before I saw it! May still be running today!

this is so interesting! It would be great to get some interviews from people who have lived on those times

Its nice to see charliebo go back in time and share this with us

Oh God, the Boogie Down Bronx was the worst of the worst 😫 total waste landscape ever

Looks like a war zone - buildings in rubble/ruins. Love seeing the old cars.

Great compilation!! Thank you for creating this video.

broken glass everywhere.....

100% solid gold footage, Charlie. I think it's important for people to remember that what happened in the South Bronx wasn't merely neglect but coordinated arson and insurance fraud perpetrated by the buildings' owners. Hardly anyone was ever prosecuted let alone convicted for this wholesale destruction.

Charlie as a kid in the back seat of family car taking video, on a trip to NYC.

You have the best videos ever!! Love them.

Must of been a hell of a playground for kids. I'd imagine quite a few kids and even adults got into bad accidents exploring the rotting buildings.

This is the NY I always remember growing up.

Wow nobody with phones in their hands! 😂😂😂

No Cell Phones only Beepers back then!

Yo im from the D to good to see your almost at 1million subscribers keep pushing you will be there soon

This is what parts of Philadelphia looks like today.

Wow! This is some amazing footage. It almost looks like an apocalypse at times.

From Illinois! About 7 years or so ago I took a road trip to NYC and of course had to hit The Bronx. The clip of the school house/lot with the kids is from a video posted on YT many years ago. I made it a point to find the school and I did - P.S. 61, I believe. Big difference in how the whole neighborhood looks now compared to the old bad days of The Bronx! Crotona Park is right behind the school.

NY in the 70's looks like Detroit today...

Excellent video

0:22 bro beeper went off 😂. I remember those days, in the mid nineties I had one.

❤ very good video ❤ it reminds me a city, that's a prison. I visit there, and NYC, drove through all of it. When I got back on I94 , i promised I would never be back. Sad.

Leningrad looked better after the siege

At the 0:45 mark you see an old abandoned school building. It's location is 220 West 148th Street. When you look at it now on Google maps you'll see that it's not abandoned now. It's the PS 90 Condominiums.

😮 Damn Charlie, you're good with vidz, didn't know you conjure up the last Millennium, the Cadillacs were the newest vehicles on the street , thanks for the past visits

this is great but a video retracing the route in the car would be gold.

I played in these abandoned buildings during the bronx is burning Era and then visit my grandmother in East new york cypress p's where they were shooting off the roof

What kind of city is this? Is this Johannesburg South Africa? 🤔

I still feel the sadness in the air. It's triggering me, it always seems like it's too hard to live in America. Very sad.

Proper old NYC the way i remember it and loved it

Old time New York is soo interesting and fun to watch. I wish I was alive back in this time era.

If you've survived in NYC from 1970 thru 2000, you're truly special!!! My Hat tilts to you

In the late 60's- early 70's went to a few Yankee and NY footballl Giant games with my Dad and you had to park in these sketchy lots and leave the keys. Scary place. Driving through the South Bronx on a hot day with no A/C my Dad would say "Roll'em up." Times Square smelled like sex and piss. The city is so much better now.

Neighborhoods reflect the values of the people that live there.

Awesome comparison video mr. Transformed but still ‘challenging’ and ‘tricky.’ Thank you

What movies were filmed in the Bronx in this era, Superfly?

Re-upload? I know I've seen this.

This was what Washington DC looked like in the 70s.

Imagine how many unsolved crimes/ murder/ kidnappings took place back them…sad 😢

This is late 80s 87-89 to early 90s Jeep Cherokee didn't come out until 87 or 88

It's incredible that Hip Hop came out of the South Bronx.

I remember driving through there in 1989 and thinking I was in a war zone. It was like another planet. All the crumbling buildings. I had just come back from the army in Germany, where I'd seen old bombed out WWII buildings in better shape.

It may not be perfect but it's definitely changed for the better.

70's nyc was rough, nyc is a paradise today compared to then -- pretty unbelievable actually.

It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under !! Grandmaster Flash

Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message" playin in my head while I watch this video. "Like"

Like my hood in Czechia is called Bronx, last year there was triple murder in next to my flat

The place did a 180 from the 70's & 80's, but has regressed a lot in the last 8 years. The unremoved graffiti and gang tags all over (which ain't street art) is always a dead giveaway that a city has gone into the sh*tter.

Wow the difference is night and day. That was back in the time where everyone would throw trash out their car windows. The bldg look so old and outdated. New York looked like a junk yard.

Incroyable je suis de France 🇫🇷 et je me dis que j’ai eu de la chance 😱 mon dieu les gens vivait la 🥵 J’essaye de trouver des documentaires avec le New York de l’époque quand elle était prospère, cette ville mais j’ai du mal en France. un jour quand j’étais plus jeune, j’ai regardé le film Warriors et ça se passait là-bas sur ces images incroyables

They said back then that they were doing what they were doing in those neighborhoods because they were a product of their environment. They became as grimy as the blight they were living in. They said, "If they fixed up our neighborhoods and made our areas a better place to live, we wouldn't be doing all this drug dealing and gang stuff." So. The city listened, and fixed up the areas and made them the better place to live that they are today. But still, they just sell drugs and do gang stuff. Maybe it wasn't the environment that was the problem after all. Maybe the people had a lot to do with it. 🤔

I was born in 91 at Lincoln hospital was it like this at that time

It looks even worse than described in grandmaster flash song: It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under Broken glass everywhere People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care I can't take the smell, can't take the noise Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice Rats in the front room, roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat I tried to get away but I couldn't get far Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car

Wow, this was bad the Government made sure people live in poverty,mean while their wallets are getting thicker. Dirty sh*ts get rich off poverty, it truly looked like a 3rd world Country. An eye opener for me, love Aotearoa New Zealand.❤❤❤❤❤

I was living in a suburb of Boston in the 1970s when the arson plague was at its height. Brick buildings would literally crumble from the flames! Baltimore, Philly, Canden, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, and other cities today have nothing on what happened to the South Bronx, Harlem, and parts of Brooklyn in the 1970s! "Ladies and gentlemen, The Bronx is burning."

Imagine night time

still a dump

The graffiti got better didn't it

Charles Bronson fixed that.

We could easily go back to this or much worse

I think the city is getting better. I remember the late 60s and it was a complete dumpster fire. I think bad things peaked in the early seventies and it's only been getting better from there. I used to live in the city, now I do not as well as the state.

Looks like it was filmed in 1986

Sad reality for an American place

I've seen New York when it was good,bad,and ugly. Now it is beautiful and I Love New York always!

That's a damn loud heavy breathing!

This is the NYC that I was born and raised in! I was living in Flatbush, Brooklyn during these days, and even though it wasn't nearly as bad as the boogie down south Bronx, it was still mean on those streets of Brooklyn! Lots of ILL shit was going down!

Looks like 3rd would slums !

Where was located 1:15 ?

My playgrounds was the abandoned buildings. Please tag if that was u to.

Can anyone explain why the city looks so destroyed? What happened here and why are the buildings all broken down and abandoned?

Going to Yankees stadium. What a sight back then.

I'll bet the rents were cheap.

excuse me, but what in the fuck. I live in Chicago but been to Harvey as well a few times as I used to manage properties over there. I thought there was terrible but this looks like...a 2x warzone. That 8 ball + corruption really hit that city hard.

That’s Freeman intervale Simpson BX early 80s

The old footage shows the effects of deindustrialization and job loss, coupled with policies like redlining that starved inner city areas of capital. One form of redlining meant that certain areas were designated "slum" by the US government, and banks wouldn't issue mortgages for properties in those areas. Most of these were areas with large black or brown populations. Meanwhile, freeway construction and the GI bill which allowed service members to get mortgages on favorable terms for new construction but not existing properties also spurred white flight from inner city areas to the suburbs. Since building owners couldn't get money to fix places up or properly maintain them, by the late 1960's many started resorting to arson to collect the insurance money. The phenomenon continued through the 1970's, when Howard Cosell famously remarked on it during a World Series broadcast. It's how large sections of the South Bronx ended up looking like Berlin at the end of WW2. So sad and wasteful.

Im 51 from The Bronx NY and remember this I dont care what anyones opinion is I will always Love The Bronx

Whoa ❤

This is the Bronx not Manhattan!

So it really did look like a bomb went off. What man has done for these parts of NYC is incredible. Im deeply impressed by the good in mans hearts.

Thank for teaching the whiny Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Y who pretend the Cities were better back in the day. At 60, I remember both Los Angeles and San Francisco with neighborhoods like this....the Tenderloin, South of Market, Skid Row, Cabrini Green in Chicago. This is what Cities were like.

The 80s 💎💎

Where was Big L during this era?

NYC going to the 70s again

Funny in fact Where's watchmen?

Geeesus why is there so much trash. The hippies finally got something right

You sure this wasn't recorded last week??

the only common thing that hasn't changed in 50 years is the crap on the streets. Garbage and waste everywhere. I guess everyone throws their garbage out the window there.

😮 parecia zona de guerra

Still looks like a dump

I don't see any attempt at a comparison here.

even the Rats were tougher in those days

born in queens in the 80s. right at st. johns. lived on long island . haven't been back as an adult since 07. what i remember is the beat patrol cops in full gear, even the old-style hats. "the club" on EVERY steering wheel. fdny shooting silly string in random neighborhoods. commack motor inn drug busts. garbage piled to the sky. violence without consequence. gunshots without reaction. nobody jogging or anything like that. trenchcoats and fur. burned buildings being lived in. actual bums; not young people with luggage, but elderly people with shopping carts covered in tarps and they were usually crazy or comatose. punx n skinheads everywhere. subcultures of all kinds. yellow cabs gridlocked on side streets. hassidim in groups. hare krshnas at la guardia. nyc was dangerous, fragile, beautiful and gone forever, along with all romantic memories, thanx to invasive tech and scrolling apps. but in my mind, in my heart, it will always be *this.*