I'm currently watching it from the distant dystopian hellhole that is the year 2022.

They didn't realise they were at the peak of our era and bit by bit, things would start going downhill shortly.

Aaahh those beautiful NYC 90s vibes. Those days are long gone :(

Look at the towers, they were gorgeous and nice in NY. I wish they were still there today. The one tower isn't as gorgeous as those two.

Enjoyed this immensely. I was born October 1999.

As each year passes even though we're getting older I'm blessed I got to grow up when I did. I was 11 about to turn 12 in January 2000. Those times were just better in America. Pre 9-11, MTV was still going strong with TRL and music videos. Worse technology but more fulfilling, meaningful, simpler nicer times.

Back when drawing pads and game boys were vastly more common than any cell phone. It’s actually creepy how fast “smart phones” and “social media” took over our lives only since 2012ish. I haven’t had Facebook since 2014 and I don’t miss it at all.

people ice-skating and having a good time. Gorgeous memories.

KZfaq is a time machine

Thank you for this video, videos like this are becoming more and more valuable each year. I wish more people would share them on yt

This is simply awesome....don't have words to describe....i completely agree with those who says that we were at peak of the era...everything went downhill after that....what a time to be...was 19 in 99

I remember going there that year! I was 15, went there for the millennium celebration during winter break and there was a blizzard a day or few days before new years. I'm from LA and it was my first time seeing snow and I think it was well over 24 inches of snow that day. I remember flying back to LA on 1/1/2000, the plane was so empty lol Good times.

Same ice skating rink was featured in “Elf” (2003).

They were all smiling: no phones, no internet, no covid, no inflation. That's the life

Having a wonderful time in '99!!!

Great memories! This video is precious.

this makes me want to time travel to that video

great video you put together on here and the music too. Beautiful

i wish i was young in 1999 and not now, it would be nice

Rezmorize by Salt Tank is a trance/techno track that was released in September 1999, only a couple of months before the date of this video. Songs like that make me realize that the 90's wasn't as "vintage" as a lot of people think. Electronic music from the 90's was just WAY too ahead of its time to the point of being kind of jarring... When I listen to 90's EDM classics like Rezmorize by Salt Tank, or Mirror (Signum Remix) by Stray Dog from 1998, or even Offshore (Disco Citizen's Remix) by Chicane from 1996, it feels COMPLETELY out of place to me for the years they were released. The fact that this phenomenon existed ubiquitously in 90's, much more than any other decade in history, makes the 90's so vastly different from those before it. When you hear music from the 80's, 70's, 60's, etc. you instantly know what era it's from. But in the 90's music technology came so far that some of that stuff sounds like it could've been made yesterday. The 1990's really was the fuckin future. Still blows my mind, and when I watch old grainy videos from the 90's like these ones while listening to tracks like those, it's really something special. I can almost imagine everything in "HD" and put myself in the mindset of someone living in the 90's who saw the present moment as nothing BUT the future itself. VHS, PS1, N64, Windows '95, etc. WAS cutting edge and at the time I'm sure it really felt like it. It's no different from today. Sorry for the rant. The thought just seems so profound to me. I can't possibly do this with footage from any other decade pre 1990's because all the media and music sounded like you would expect: old timey and dated. In the 90's this wasn't necessarily so.

Always New York Christmas, New York Eve, Summer, Helloween, Cafe,Shopping

I was 30 and working my W-End part-time job, which was a 2nd job next to my FT during the week as a short-order cook in La Rosa's which I SO enjoyed, @ the time this video was shot.

Fantastic video! If you want this video to be of more historical significance, I think uploading it at normal speed and with the original audio would be wonderful - it would allow us to hear what it was like, the hustle bustle and the music playing at the time. (Of course I completely understand it if you wouldn't want to do that due to privacy concerns, but it would be nice!)

Last days of the latest of the best ✨

Hi Brad , Merry Christmas My Friend , Thanks For The Memories !!! 🎅🎄🎁❄🕎🕊

This happend all in 1999 :O

the only person who is holding a electronic device is the person who is filming this video.

Ah yes. Back in those days we'd go to see the tree then to St. Patrick's, then see the storefronts on 5th. Then we'd head to Times Square, walk around and have dinner at Tad's steakhouse. Now it's too expensive and too dangerous. Ever since covid the vibe is different.

This looks like you had a great time! Thanks for sharing!

This is truly amazing.

I was in Times Square for NYE 1999/2000 🎉❤

Everyone was shocked to be on video and had no idea that they'd be viewed almost 24 years later

Nostalgic! Love it!

I'd do anything to get back to that time...

I'd been hired at a big law firm two blocks from Saks/Rockefeller Plaza only four days before Dec 17, 1999. I'm verklempt.

I was 9 years old living just through the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City when this was recorded lol

Paradise on earth😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

Crazy to think they all only had 2 weeks left to live 😢

I was born in 1999

TAKE ME BACK

I was living in NYC during this time

This is how things should be now, but instead we are way too diverse and way too different to get along like this anymore.

It would be good if it wasnt in fast forward.

The time when KZfaq and Facebook did not happen, yet.

KZfaq is the best time capsule!

What a difference 25 years makes in 2024. What a different time it would be in 2001.

Nice Cherish vhs.

I ♥️ MiniDV and h8 the new millennium.

Wow a Times Square without umbrellas and chairs blocking a whole ave and no bikes with bike parking which take up thousands of parking spaces and omg a city that is flowing normally oh how nice back in the day it was

Jesus be a time machine 😭

Funnily enough a young pizza man would end up running his last stop... for a few thousand years atleast

Amazing watching this video seeing the twin towers. My daughter was 7 months old on this date. 6 years later we visited NYC the towers were no longer there. Visited Ground Zero to pay our respects 😢 possibly the same ferry we travelled on to Liberty Island! We've gone through a pandemic, my daughter's left home & I'm grateful to seeing videos of a happier time in history . Thank you so much ❤

Merry Christmas

If he came 2 years later

What a scene, im content with living in this current time but man it would be cool to spend an hour or 2 here in 1999

why every time there is a comment about nyc people comment only sadness tragedy of 9/11 i mean that day was a shift a paradigm shift.

Little did we know. 2 years later. The world 🌎 would go to shit 💩. Its never been the same. The 2000s. Are horrible.

I think i saw the McAllister family

Beautiful video 😊 I don’t know what happened to people in general but they are not anything close to what we see here 23 years ago they were happy, dressed nice, not obese. what on earth has happened to our society did today’s people come from underground ?

New York city and country turned into a cess pool . Will never be like that again ..

Buy a bunch of 1st Edition Base set boxes and hodl. You won't regret it.

what camera was used to record this? :D

5:10 I spotted Stuart Little toys.

I was in 6th grade then. How old were you?

Nobodys staring at their phones. everyones genuinely talking to each other and enjoying the festival, hard to see these scenarios at the moment

have? you been back since the turn of the of the century

Furbies! 😍

The past: The future seems bright, and the technological advances are looking quite impressive. .... Modern era: Technology is at its best so far. Meanwhile, everything else has gone downhill.

I used to work for NBC and try to avoid you people like the plague on that side of the building when I worked late because as a 29 year old it was less time at my local bar called “fubar” down on 50th past Lexington…Now if I could hug these people in this video I would and tell them life will be tough but worth living…update 2023 was fired from that job in 2009 (was sick of being a “yes” man and having my knees always blistered lol), oh yeah the bar I went to was destroyed by tragic accident when a crane toppled over on it in 2013, I would of been in that bar at that moment if I didn’t lose my job most likely

A lot of these people are dead

Do you remember a time before terrorism and rampant drug use, when NYC was a great place to live? Pepperidge Farm remembers, and so does this channel.

was people scared about 2000 year coming?

In 2 more years tragity will happen

Kinda sad and funny to think that there were two genders back then

Wanna feel old, this video was made 4 days after I was born (December 15th) I’m 22 now turning 23 in 10 days

Infact the Last cristmas of 20th century

That was the year when Arnold Schwarzenegger fight with the devil and he saved the world hahaha hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i just messing with y'all hahaha

KZfaq is a time machine

I'm currently watching it from the distant dystopian hellhole that is the year 2023.