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- From 1986 to 1992 I lived in The Westleigh on 35th Ave and 84th St in Jackson Heights. I always enjoyed the walk to the Flushing Line and also comparing it the long gone Manhattan els. The neighborhood has been designated a landmark district. I felt it was a safe neighborhood and I never encountered any problems. This 8mm tape shows my earliest shooting of the Flushing Line on video, and I did more the late '90s through 2003, when the R-36s were retired. Of special interest is the panoramic view before entering the tunnel portal where you see the formerly unobstructed view of the east side midtown Manhattan skyline and the now famous and threatened Five Pointz graffiti mecca at 5:10 with just a few tags on it. Also look for the yellow ribbons on trees and lapels showing support for Persian Gulf soldiers fighting in Iraq at that time. Video was taken in March 1991, which marked the end of the last major US economic recession until 2008. Although subway car graffiti was gone by May 1989 (1983 or 84 on the 7) crime and decay of visible infrastructure had yet to subside to contemporary levels.
Breaks my heart when I see the towers in these old vids.
Man, that video takes me back. Still have a soft spot for those Redbird since the days when they ruled the 2 line.
You can say that again I really miss the redbirds.
I went to NYC in the summer of 1991. I was 7 and it was one of the best vacations of my life. I remember riding these redbird trains many times and also walking in Queens and watching the trains go by. Great times.
I remember the flushing line having those older red trains. The Astoria line acquired the newer trains. I liked the red ones more. I remember passing the Fisk stop.
These redbirds had a small light bulb in the middle of the air conditioner that went on when the train switched tracks.
Emergency lighting @@luislaplume8261
I wish I could jump in thru the screen ... God bless the person who filmed this for no reason but for the people in the future
This is a great video representing what we no longer see nowadays on the 7 line. The only IRT line with its own fleet of cars, now has hand-me-downs from the main lines. The 80's and 90's were a real treat riding the 7 train.
The 6 also used r36wf
In my time the 7 line had vintage 1948, 1949, 1950 subway trains of the R12, R14, R15 class. These were the pre New York World's Fair trains of 1963,1964. We lived in Flushing then.
Thanks for this video! I wasn’t born yet. Born in 1993 and raised in Jackson Heights. Roosevelt looks so different and much cleaner.
No illegal immigration.
Way before the illegals
Took over
Thank you very much for posting this video and thus bringing back good old memories of the 7 line which, I have been riding from 1981 and still doing it now in 2021. Great video!...
Dude, I I grew up on the other side of Roosevelt Avenue from where you filmed this! I actually remember seeing sights like this (including old buses and roll signs). Wow! So many memories...
Thank you for uploading this. I moved to Woodside in 92 and 7 were my train for many years. Great memories.
That’s my hometown forever and ever. I love NY one of the best and worst times of my life. This city molded me for real.
Remembering the past
Dear God... i'm going to cry if I keep watching this. My heart has stopped. I grew up in Flushing, Maple Ave. The Birthplace of the 7 :) There is a God. Greatest era of my life. LIfe was different back then, the music was good, Grunge was just beginning, we had some serious issues in NYC, the sad deaths of Yusuf Hawkins, Brian Watkins, Gary MOrales was from our hood... drugs, crimes, Flushing's Asian diaspora was not as big, almost seems centuries apart... wow. MEmories galore. TY !!!!
Yes true , makes u wana cry , sad how time goes
Grunge sucks.
7:21 LOL Hot 97 before they went full hip hop!! thanks for uploading this!
I love these ancient videos
Trainluvr, as always you provided some wonderful memories to those of us that live in NY and often rode our favorite transportation vehicles: The Redbirds (although I rode them long before they were called that). I really appreciate you loading these vids and their good quality. Something I noticed about the car you're riding in from 6:24-6:30. It has a rotary air compressor, which makes a whirring, airplane-like noise, instead of the old traditional Westinghouse air compressors which made a very noticeable rapid pumping sound. A number of the Redbirds were updated with the newer compressors. But for rail fans that enjoy hearing "mechanical music", rotary compressors sound quite bland.
That's a 2C3YB compressor. The Main Line R33s and R26/R28/R29s were upgraded to D-4.
these were phased out by the time I started riding this line. really beautiful trains. and the neighborhood looks pretty much the same as well.
This is a great video. It's crazy to see how much has changed along the 7 line. And like most other people here, I sure miss those Redbirds too.
7 Train will always run in my memory.
Amazing video! Thanks for sharing!
So crazy to see how as years passed by Jackson Heights revolutionized to what is today there's people of many countries and different cultures style changed damn
😭😭😭😭💔💔somebody takes me back to those days please
Wow, at 5:20 that's 5 pointz not graffitied out. What a transformation from then to now...
Thank you soo much I go to school on Thompson ave and sometimes take the 7 this is crazy to see
Good video, but I've never seen the northernmost end of the Main Street-Flushing. Let's hope that the bumper blocks are like the Court Street-Transit Museum station.
You sure took some nice movies! Thx!
amazing footage!!!
I miss the old New York City
Same here! I use to ride the Red Birds on the 2 and 5 Trains to The Bronx
Thank you so much for the nastalga ohh that was a great time back then I loved the red trains
wow the 5 Pointz when it was just a factory when hot 97 wasn't a hiphop station also a New Jack city advertisement wow I was only 5 in 91 but thanks for refreshing my memory
82nd Street
Glad you like it. Someday more redbirds will appear here.
Man, i miss those redbirds, as well as the old Triboro Coach buses..i always wondered if you had any more bus footage.
I Like the way when this Car did that hard jerk before it pulled off at 82nd street Jackson heights at that 4:11 clip in this video🙂🙂.Those R-36WF Redbirds always do that❤️❤️.
Facts!! I loved them trains!! especially on the 2 and 5 Trains.
This is an Amazing video man. Props to you big time!
This video is now 30 years old, 2021
Great video! Just curious, as a budding videographer living here in NYC, ever noticed any hostility or discomfort from people being filmed. This fear of offending or creeping out others is something that's prevented me from taking my camera out on the city more.
I love this video I remember going to Queens to my aunt house back in 95 I was only 15 years old and I miss the private line buses in Queens new York
Wow!!! The streets were SUV-FREE!!!! People were more NORMAL driving decent regular cars... Simpler times too. Miss the No. 7 Redbird trains--Used to shop at the bookstore on 78th and 37 ave in JH. Man, MEMORIES galore!!! Thanks for posting!!
I'd take Jackson Heights of 91 any day of the week. It's a complete cess pool now.
Exactly, a complete Third World shithole, hellhole 😞.
Man I live around here and comparing this to what it is nowadays is a HUGE difference
from the year I was born 1991 I love New York City old school vibe my mom graduated in 1991 from Bladensburg High Class of 1991 the year I was born yeah old school I love it always need reunion at my hometown high school in Bladensburg my mom in Class of 91 my mom old school I love myself we all from United States yeah my mom serval different schools as teen when thirteen years old to nineteen years old she had me at that teen age.
Very classy.
Great cell phone video!
do you have more footage of 4:59 ?
The memories, I remember this like yesterday. This is when QUEENS WAS QUEENS compare to now. It is so sad and depressing how things have changed for the worst. Glad I don't live in NYC anymore.
What's wrong with Queens now ?
@@rodolfo7183 It's a complete DUMP
@@GoodfellasNYC Explain
@@rodolfo7183 Explain? 🤣 . Just compare Flushing, Jackson heights for example to 30 to 40 years ago. Wasn't a dump back then. What's there to Explain?
@@GoodfellasNYC You're talking to someone who wasn't alive 30 years ago. What changed? What was different 30 years ago that made it better ?
NICE JOB...
Oh man. I was born in '91 but obviously wasn't able to take anything in. I get "French Connection" vibes from this video. And it's a real shame that a NYC resident's acquired ability to decipher the conductor over a PA is a dying art.
@Hotters70603XL Thats great i miss the Twin Towers also thanks for sharing your memories.
This is a keeper. Awesome!
I was a toddler in 1991.
I was just born in 1991
I am from that era!!!
You're 24 now
Man those R33 Worlds fair Door VLVs and that WestingHouse Propulsion damn!!!!!!!!!!!
@trainluvr I'm getting fond of your channel. While the redbirds were rough and less pleasant than the New tech trains, it would be fun for them to return every once in a while, just like how they bring back R1-9s during the holidays. Weren't the interior lights supposed to flash as the train entered Times Square at 10:03? There's a diamond crossing there, so the third rail stops briefly.
Sad part is that the subways are as crappy as they were back then but cost five times the price
i tell ya, i come home from a 10 hour shift at the pharmacy, and what do i do? i come on here to watch some trainluvr vids of the old times haha. So great to watch them using payphones and dropping tokens to ride the red birds. i toggle between this and google maps to try to ID locations. The corner of 82 and roosevelt has a bakery now. great stuff
thank you. I have a 1997 Gansevoort Market area video on deck. I want to get after views when the weather picks up.
was 74th street little india back then? love that area.
Sad to know alot of people forget how they looked and operated when unrebuilt. With their Orange and Beige interiors. Some retaining the GIANT TA logo.
5pointz looks so blank. its hard to see it like that lol
Nice shot at 5:11 of PS1 without it's concrete walls.
The memories of riding those redbirds as a kid on the 2,4,5,6 and ocasionally on the 7. Now im enjoying the R32,R42 and R62,R62A,R68 and R68A
i used to take the 7 train from main street to roosevelt and then go downstairs to catch the E and get off on 169th Street. very surreal after living in Florida for so many years
Things havent changed that much since '91 it seems...good times
Plenty has changed since ‘91, especially in NYC. What an dumb comment
This was back when 82nd / Roosevelt was mostly Colombian ...over time more Mexicans migrated into the area ...I have vague memories are I was 4 but real talk not too much has changed ...the area is still a working class immigrant section of Queens
"Rawson street is next!!!!!!!"
0:12 What was that sound in the background?
I call the IRT #7 train line the “international line” because it goes through just about every ethnic neighborhood you could think of! It was also ranked by the NY Daily News paper as the best and cleanest train line in NewYork City! I remember riding those red trains back then. Now the Flushing line has stainless steel trains. It is now 2023 as I write.
wow. really old school. fishbowl buses still running for MTA and Triboro. Even a Grumman 870 on the Q104 at 46th Street from Queens Surface.
Triboro Coach looked almost as dirty back then as it did in 2004.
Wow! Great Vid! I miss the old 82nd St. station with WiNdows, not ugly diamond design. So ugly. I know a great group on facebook who will really appreciate this, called Did you grow up in Jackson Heights, Astoria, Woodside, Queens? Plenty of people from Long Island City, Sunnyside, Corona and Elmhurst on this page too. Mind if I post this video there?
No not at all
@tomthefunky how can you say nothing has changed.. those redbird cars are gone .. sitting on the bottom of the ocean off the shore of South Carolina.. and now you can no longer even look from the first cars door window like @ 4:25 ... a lot has changed.
OMG CARS THAT HAVE BUMPERS!!!!!!
I now realize that the TV series the King of Queens started 32 years ago in 1990!
King of Queens started in 1998. An google search ain't hard.
They changed the signals to be slower and made switches thru 74th st.
Love R33/R36 WH
I was 11 lived on 81st street and 37th ave miss my family and friends
MTA needs to upgrade to the latest train models or at least bring back the Redbird benches...
Hey i remeber i saw a guy recordinh
Cool
damn, the barrio hasn't changed at all :')
I like how I've just stumbled upon this video and it has 6.66k subscribers
The code for more trouble
oh those annoying car alarms @1:00 very common in early 1990s. They would go off if you farted next to the car.
they still need led screens on the buses though
@ 7:08 I hear seimens propulsion... creepy. Those redbirds sure do whine!!
Those are GE 1240 Traction motors.
Redbirds! Yea!
This is now the seven train.
it's always been called the 7 train.
R36 retired because of the rust stains and plus structural issues. The R36 I think would of lasted until 2017 when it would be replaced by the R188 unfortunately didn't happen
My former residence .78 st jackson hrights lmao daum i miss it
@Hotters70603XL You should move back the R62A are coming back to the 4 and 6 lines so thats a change.
#GoodTimes
I take the same train to work every day. Nothing's changed.
Nothing's changed? that's someone who isn't an new yorker would say.
Most of the action is under the 7 train.
I have no legs, I have no legs
Idk to me it looked better at that time then it does now.
@Hotters70603XL lol ok hopefully u do get back ive been born and raised in the bronx lol ive live around the 2,4,5,6 lines my whole life.
that's 8409!
The Phun Phactory didn't look very phun back then!
There are sounds in this video you don't here everyday anymore for instance, when the doors on the train closes and a "puff" of air is sounded. And how about those Twin Towers holdin' it down in the background.
These were cars with original SMEE braking and manual load valves.
0:16 Why in Queens the buses have a different design.
This was back before the MTA took over the private bus lines there. Plus, the current logos didn't come until '95.
No smartphones people are more aware of there surroundings
John leguizamo ❤
what about him?
@grindsoul I meant nothing has changed in terms of the view of Queens from the 7 train. As for the redbirds, I say good riddance. The new cars offer a much smoother ride. Redbirds threw you around like a ragdoll. And I'm sorry but the fun of looking out the front of the car wore off on me when I was about ten or eleven. I'm now forty.