It was actually a lot more democratic back then, before big corporations got more powerful and brainwashed people through mainstream media, research, etc.

Sweet stuff.

I’ve seen some amateur rubbish on You Tube before but this takes it to a much lower level

this was so fun to film!

Stop recommending me to Trump Nazi communist propaganda videos

Seeing a camera recording: 1976: smile and wave 2024: wtf get the f*ck outta here and don't film me you d*ck!

I LOVE MIKE

The travis buckle era ...you talking to me?

Why is 40s music playing?

Son of sam

Manhattan in the days of Kojak. Who loves ya, baby!

It feels like a Woody Allen movie is going to start at any moment

Studio 54 was the best and never again will any club even have the ability to compare. It was Awesome.

I love the video and all the nostalgic, bittersweet comments. But in fairness, any city around Christmastime is a more romantic atmosphere. In fact, autumn through New Year's. It's all fun and games until --- suddenly it's January 2nd and you're back to reality, and realizing you're a year older.

NY in the 1970's was magical; it was the pivot between the "Old New York" of Fred Astaire, 1950's optimism, 1960's chic, and the modern era ushered in by the Reagan era and ascendancy of "greed is good" culture associated with that. NYC still had a lot of soul that hadn't quite been sold yet at that stage. I may be weird, but Gimbel's department store epitomized NY in this era: unlike the polished, ever-new glamour of Macy's, Gimbel's had the gritty glamour of a still-hanging-on 1940's atmosphere. Back in the 1970's before it became the center of global hyper-hyper-wealth, everywhere you looked you had these gritty remnants of earlier decades. When money levels associated with Wall Street and investment banking skyrocketed in the Reagan era, all that "grit" got laundered away like a Michael Milken/Ivan Boesky insider trading deal. I MISS that OLD NEW York. Great musuc, btw, capturing the mood and style of that period.

Saw them at this years Glastonbury Festival, in the Green Fields, this & all else they do is epic, great band & people.

I was a year old. Just passing through the 70s. Hello 1980s!

if i were in nyc back then, the first thing i would have done is gone to cbgb to see the ramones.

I was 20. Always wanted to go to New York but never made it😊

I was only 1 in 76...i really enjoy looking into the past to see how life was like when i was to young and innocent to remember...

I don’t get why the soundtrack predates the era of the video so dramatically but I like it.

And in october of 1969, a ticket to see a movie and the rocketts show was $1.35. And this was during the week!!!

In fall of 1977, a ticket to go up the empire state building was $1.00. I still have the ticket stub to this day!!!

Era anche un puttanaio...ma N.Y.C. anni 70/80 è stata la migliore. 🌟🤟✨🎥🗽

I never thought I'd see the day when instead of not finding a WORKING PAY PHONE.... That you wouldn't be able to find a PAY PHONE.... AT ALL! 😂😂😮

The Gowanus canal is still the best swimming spot in the city 🏖

Cop at 11:46 is thinking to himself, "how am I gonna tune up the cameraman while making it look like an accident"

Auto exposure is insane in this camera

Where are the lights on fire scapes and Christmas decorations

I was just a little big head skinny child at the very tender age of 5... My whole family was here and now they are someplace else ... And now at the age of 52 I am sober and clean I have a beautiful woman in my life and a good job and my other family and friends are giving me the attention and love that has been missing for so long... Thank you God for believing in me and blessing me ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Time Stamp 8:54 I saw The Clash / The Ramones at BONDS in the summer 1981. Fun Times.

The music sounds crooked.

Anyone know the music playing at 2:17?

Never understand why my parents didn't take me to see it then. But at six years old, most people were working saving & advancing in their careers. Plus the crime then. But I would rather have gone then when everyone was alive & people were living. At least it was civil. Now @ 53 old & aunt who actually lived in a subsidized New York Manhattan apartment passed. If civility is a thing of the past, then there is too much unrest at 53 years of age so forget it.

Something wromg with the musi.c. did you have your finger on the record player

1976 was a terrible time for NYC in terms of crime, drugs, and economics, but there was opportunity for Olympia and York who bought up so much cheap real estate and made a fortune. Plus, the mom and pop shops and burgeoning punk scene made parts of it interesting.

Eighteen years of age that year , and I grew up in Brooklyn across the bridge . I was part of the ‘ bridge and tunnel crowd ‘ . The film ‘ MaCarthur ‘ , starring Gregory Peck , was playing at Radio City Music Hall that Christmas season . My mom and I were in the habit of having our Thanksgiving dinner at Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips restaurants , or sometimes we’d schlep into Manhattan to eat at the Weinerwald restaurant , where I would always order veinerschnitzle .

60's to 90's nothing like NY,now its all gone,because no leadership.Just Lap Dogs.And the Klan with a Tan

Dont care what they might say about NY in the 70's just needed the right person and time,today its the worse time ever,nothing can fix it unless you get rid of the Leaders[so called] of today and the Lap Dogs,will never happen they gave the city away to the savages,and people are not uniting and fighting back NY is Finished,now you have Rich who wont walk outside bythemselves and the Projects who rule the city because they let them,unless i can carry a gun good bye NY.Your Polititions today are spinless and worthless and plain Dumb.Soon the tourist will stop cant waite to see that,so go ahead you Bums hand it over to the animals.

In our Bicentennial year, we were in the midst of a "Stagflation Recession" caused by OPEC quadrupling the price of Oil. It doubled again in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution/Hostage taking, in 1979. Gas-Guzzling Continental and LD2 cars were OUT...and fuel-sipping compacts were IN. In the Reagan years (really-beginning in the Carter years) All of the Old Industrial Sinecures disappeared, and Union membership Plunged. Reagan would not even set aside funds to retrain the millions of workers. If you weren't college-educated, you could either flip burgers, or risk dealing Crack Cocaine. Crime Soared in the Reagan/Bush era, capped off with the LA riots of 1992. Homlessssness increased as Mental Health clinics closed, and SRO hotels vanished in our Big Cities. With EV technology, those Nations KNOW that their days in the Oil Business are numbered.

It was civilized as it was NO REGI NO MICHAIL JACKSONS WRAPER and NO OF THE AFTER SHIT> but the jews get in to Germany and form there continue the black bashing boat by get them in the soap opera and to get them rich so they would classified as NON CRIMINAL becase of the CRIME how they get there mans of jews maffia would protect them . ALL THIS IS DUE TO HOLYWOODs BASTARDS and the so called RED carpet. RED IS STANDS FOR THE JEWS IN HOLYWOOD

Increíble, se puede ver el estreno próximo de rocky 1😮

0:42 Looks like Kojak has parked his Century there. 😂

Miss the 70s, miss those Twin Towers too.

women wearing pants by then and some Dorothy Hamil hair cuts

NYC was much better than in 1976 ... Today, NYC is a battle field thanks to criminals like Andrew Cuomo, Bill Diblasio, Eric Adams, & Cathy Hukoul...OH MY GOODNESS THEY ARE democRATS FEEDING ON THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS

"Christmas" without any " christmas décoration" ???

Google Maps, o começo.

I was 18 yrs old,, graduating high school... What a different time it was (obviously) for a lot of us back then. I'm just glad I kept my nose clean and didn't venture out into the self destructing things others were doing. I'm 66 yrs old and in moderately good health today.

Might it be said that the United States is experiencing a period of exceptional vitality?