Simpler times !! Audio and Video cassettes were the thing .

I was also born in 1981 .

‘81 baby too! And I remember everything about the 80’s also. Was really young but fun times!

81 baby too. Remember 8years old hanging out at my great grandmother house in Brooklyn and my dad playing micheal McDonald in the CAR. LOL no joke

7-5-81..#the 81 CREW...whats good fams all around..yes i also remember 88 in NYC..NYC was.NYC what can we say..it was real and poppin city..i miss those times

Rest in piece😥

@Michal Lebeda ahh. The simple SPAM Dont listen to these, they are spam and scams. The ones said worked are also bots

The 90s weren't all that different except for the music. Cell phones and smartphones is what really revolutionized society, and obviously not always in a good way.

@@gato7908 The 90s were very different than today ... people actually talked to one another, not texted. People actually went outside and lived life in real life, not online.

You ain’t no ‘goddess’

I always think of 'Coming to America' with Eddie Murphy.

SevenFoot Pelican hell yeah coming to America

I always think of “The Muppets” when I see New York City in the 1980s

Really?, I think of Wall Street especially if it’s the late 1980s. It came out in 1987 so it makes me think of it so. But you’re right movies come to mind looking at NYC.😉👍

OHHHHHHHHH HELL NOOOOOOOOO

I don't recognize the skyline I grew up with. Real New York is gone.

american here, you remember what nyc 2000 was like or

+simmsr801 please do

+skylander please give me all your money and house , and leave now

why

I would go to the 50s. What a simple time.

it is usually young people who say this but you need to realise that adults lives back them were just as stressful and grim as they are now

qwandiddy Now it’s replaced with ugly looking Chinese-Imported cars

I think the first of the 1998-2012 Crown Vics replaced the last of the box-shaped vehicles.

Air Aero The only chinese made cars in America come from GM

Jesse Powell those were around until 1996, not 1997

Yes Im born & Raised New Yorker!

I miss high crime and crack wars

Me too but I was born in 1997

@@andybrar3599 that´s too bad..

@@Bates1960 okeh but OKEH!

Jojdjd

@@andybrar3599 born in 91 ..In Brooklyn,NY

And you lived? Were you raped? Shot, stabbed, mugged

Ok

It's over! You can forget it! Now close this window and go back to watching Jake Paul do something stupid and listen to some Cardi B.

It lives within us my friend. Transcend it!

@@BigBadJerryRogers Imagine 30 years from now for example 2050! i wonder if the future generation will wish to come back to the filthy years of 2020, 2021 and 2022. Nothing could be missed from the era of covid 19 & war in Ukraine and not to mention the horrible inflation facing America and the world !

@@BigBadJerryRogersyou are awful.

NYC today looks like and sounds like every bit of this film. Maybe MORE trashed and crowded is all.

You are right Iridium242 This brings back a lot of memories. Like at 6:38 I see the old Nathan's I worked there on the weekends for a little while. And at that time they only had the Two stores the one on 43rd St & Broadway and the main store at Coney Island.

Alex Rodriguez and somehow we all managed to survive back then. Now its a shell of its former self. Sad to see what nanny Bloomberg did to that city New York has become dell and dead with nothing but sterile busybody drones who hate having fun and would rather have Manhattan look like Disneyworld for adults

They turned the place into Disneyland and made it a tourist hotspot. New York then and now were so different. I was born in 1981 and raised in New York so I don't remember '80s New York that well, but asides from a few neighborhoods, I believe everywhere else in New York weren't really livable. Fortunately, I grew up in Upper West Side so I wasn't exposed to much of this gritty atmosphere but I did meet lots of kids growing up in conditions that were worse than mine. In general, I feel ambivalent about the gentrification of NYC and whether the old or new NYC is better.

Alex Rodriguez Whereabouts did you grow up? It's really hard to believe that New York, once a criminal haven, is now one of the safest cities in America. Despite the high crime rates, I liked growing up in Upper West Side. My dad told me never to go to the subway at night and never to wonder around outside at night alone. He also told me that I should generally avoid going to other neighborhoods asides from Upper East and West Side and Central Park. I still visited other neighborhoods with a friend and saw how shitty the living conditions of some kids were compared to mine. Nevertheless, I made friends with lots of kids, both rich and poor. Well despite the gritty atmosphere of New York, I still had a normal but awesome childhood like any other kid at that time. Had fun growing up in the 80s and 90s, living with Reagan and Clinton as presidents were great times.

If you were born in 1988, then you do not remember. Your memories begin in 1990.

Well of course. But she saw. See - remember...SEE - Reeemeeember.

Never mind, they mention the ship capsizing as a result of Typhoon Ruby, placing the date of this video as October 24, 1988. Not born yet.

Cars were better looking then.

Michael Farrington Exactly! I don't understand how cars got to be so round. They can still be "aerodynamic" if they have corners!

***** I agree! Cars look so crappy now.

Sir Crap-a-lot cars do look great still you probably miss them old cadilacs

BananaPhoPhilly The 1982 Lincoln continental!

I was also 7 that year too.

And you felt safe

There was a high crime rate in New York during the 1980's. Hope it is less now. Hope you didnt personally witnessed any crime

Im 51 in Tennessee and always wanted to go to NY

It really is like time traveling, will always fascinate me tremendously.

No cell zombie $icko$

Y2Jin99 IKR

you're funny

I was thinking the same thing!

Y2Jin99 “Look up a video titled New York City in 1993 in HD” Check the first comment, then fast forward to the 0:58 mark..

I'm the lady in the white hair and blue jacket sonny. 👵 2:41

Great film

a good film by a shitty director

Great picture

mickey mouse telephone!

It was amazing then. I feel bad for people who could not experience it live because you are right on. A great city but back then it was even greater. The essence of NYC has been eroding for the last 20 yrs.

I was born in '75. I lived on the east end of Long Island. My dad worked for the railroad at Jamaica station in Queens. my sister and I would take the train in with him on weekends and go to Rockefeller Center during the holidays. I miss those days. Real New York City magic.

born in 1979, but yet great memories from the 80 's

"The essence of NYC has been eroding for the last 20 yrs." You can thank Rudy Giuliani for that.

@@pdottie212fu I'm born in 1/8/1985 Tuesday. And I didn't start school till 1990. Ain't no way you went to school at four years ago 😂

Unfortunately this is no longer true, millionaires and billionaires have made the city devoid of culture.

Pretty sure the actual Checker Cab company went out of business by the mid 80s. Could be wrong.

what about chevy caprice and ford crown victoria ?

they were gone by 1983!

Guiliani brought them back in 1996. slowly i guess they are going to the midwest and there are a bunch of those cabs in FL now.

There were Checker Cabs in service when this video was shot. There were 10 checker cabs in service in 1993 (according to the NYT). The last Checker Cab ran in service on July 26, 1999.

Mocha18 we are both 29. We grew up in the mid 90's 00's. We had it better so I wouldn't complain.

Norbert Janz I’m not saying technology doesn’t have its perks, but walk down the street or take a ride on the train and 95 percent of people are on their phones. No one bothers to even interact with each other. People are even turning to apps just to date. No one stops to appreciate the simple things anymore.

Mocha18 __ Let me take you old school style 😉 Just joking lol

Mocha18 you say that not but depending on where you grew up New York was gritty and harsh damn near almost went bankrupt and crack ran everything

This generation is @joke⊙

You're right! I loved hitting the Loft every Saturday night, the Limelight, Palladium, and the Latin clubs for salsa, what were they called? The Corso? The Copacabana? Saw all the greatest Latin artists, and moved to the beat along with 30,000 other fans at the Fania Allstars concerts in Madison Square Garden in the seventies...1976 in particular!

I miss asking a girl out and then getting the butterfly's after

I came to the big apple in September 1989 for the first time in my life and i was 13 years old. I truly liked it but the stories of high crime rates were bit scary. I came again in 2013 and i realized that the city was much cleaner & more organized and lot safer ! If i have the chance to come again i would definitely wont hesitate for a minute ! I never get bored while walking at fifth avenue or central park !

I Dunno Yah, and remodeled out of all resemblance to what they were.

I Dunno I’ll bet they are all gone!

@@garychiappa3676 I lived there in the 90's and work in the area now. You're right, most of those older buildings are gone, especially on 8th Avenue.

@@garychiappa3676 .. ..it wasn't that long ago for all the people to be gone.

I Dunno Weren’t they already worth a lot back then? It’s still NYC we’re talking about. Cities are always more expensive to live in than the countryside.

I totally agree.

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Liberty city stories

@@christophercastillo3808 None of them is on the 80's.

Steve, same here. I still call it the PanAm Building, I still say the RCA Building. Christ, I still say the Allied Chemical Building. 😥

rocketcab so you're dead? @alive

It's just when you nineteen life is a endless vista before you.

nice thought man!

Must’ve sucked. The internet & cell phones are revolutionary and so is the technology that is allowing you to view this video right now.

No, not really. There were enough pay phones if you needed to make an important call and you didn't have to take nonsense phone calls or carry around a cell phone.

Only cigarette addictions, the good addiction.

More like virtual Insanity

yes, Halloween decoration in Rockefeller Center

I had just turned 4 years old then on October 15!

Do you ever miss the city

+Random Person 😂😂😂😂😂😂👌

I'm still around. I was 18 in 1988. I'm 48 now even though I look a lot younger. But you're probably right. Most of those people in the video probably moved out of The Big Apple.

@@craigsmith157 I am from Beirut, Lebanon. New York city will remain part of my soul for reason i truly dont know why. I visited this city in 1989 when i was 12. Then i came again in 2013 and 2014 and i found it changed for the best as streets and subways became cleaner especially Pennsylvania station. Also it became much safer. I believe that Rudolf Guliani was a magician lol. Good luck for NYC

Yes. I do!

rocker1821 what? If you look at NYC today is still looks amazing... it has great taste and culture...

@@SquidCena nah I don't see it

Exactly. The perfect phrase I'm gonna use from now on. Dull Hipster Disneyland. You should copyright it, I'll buy the first tee and hoodie. So fucking sad. My city is dead.

@@SquidCena Manhattan was ALIVE. Now it's Dubuque.

Born in 95. If I believed in reincarnation I’m sure I lived a relatively short life from ~’72 to ‘93 before the life I live now.

Jaem Maddog Chevy Caprice.

Yeah I was 18 --- Just moved to NYC in September of 87 after I got expelled from high school. My Mom kicked me out and sent me to live with my Dad in NYC. I remember taking NJ transit to the Path train to Chambers street at like midnight and walking under the Brooklyn Bridge at 1 am by myself at age 17 to St James place where my father lived at the time Lots of out of towners would probably be nervous doing that. Lived at 13th and 8th , 38th and Lex and 80th and Amsterdam over the next 6 years. Back in Jersey since 93 sadly. Miss living in NYC. I used to work at 6 WTC also in 89. Now long gone :(

Y2Jin99 how's life for you now? Do you still stay in tough with your mom?

Yeah my father got remarried and then I moved back home with her and her new boyfriend who liked me. We get along. She will be 68 in December and I am 46 now. Wish I was young again.

Y2Jin99 Cool. I was 15 in 88 and remember the times well. I can't imagine being in NYC though during that time though. I know what you mean though. Kids these days have so much access to information via the internet, I do wish I was 20 or 21 now. What's your most vivid memory of being in NYC in the late 80's as a teen?

Damn I was only 4 in 1988.time goes so damn fast

Early 200s was pretty decent

So you don't use your phone to call people?

This was filmed on a hand held device...

And back before people were stupid enough to buy anything but American cars.

+loyal4 the way Manhattan is now a home for the wealthy and has lost all it's soul as a result. But besides shit music 2016 is pretty good.

as someone who wasn't born in the 80s i see no reason why it is viewed as great, my country was war torn in the 80s and it would have been filled with boredom, TV was pretty poor so chances are you would just spend all your time in a bar as there wouldn't have been much else to do

the 80s was shit 😂😂 guys dressed like girls (leather pants, make up and curly hair) everyone was on drugs trying to prove theyre billy bad ass and the music sucked. I love everything about being a millennial

Skinny jeans? Have you actually ever seen the jeans guys wore in the 80s? Especially the guys that were considered cool? Them jeans were TIGHT and had a high waist. Men's butts were nicely contoured. Believe me, as a hetero girl back then I had a field day with ogling at good-looking guys in 80s jeans - especially the ones with long, often permed hair, which was also common. =D

Let me say, I am not a homo sexual, but in the 80s the men's hair was gorgeous. Some of the time from the back you couldn't tell which was the girl or the guys. Especially when they both had on blue jeans and dungaree jackets.