Born in Bronx 1992. This video really clicked with some long forgotten memories for me. I moved away from NYC in 97 so early in my life this video feels strangely tangible.
1991 I was 10 years old. Still living at 689 East 233rd Street In The Bronx. Attended St.Anthonys on Richardson Ave. My dad was a Conductor for the NYCTA. Operated out of E. 241st St.
Oh yes lm riding this 7 train right now wanting to shove this Mexican out on the next train just because he's a drunk piece of pile shit shoving his little ass in when he couldn't fit.. The 4 train ahhhh the city lm over here with the worst.. I hope this train crashes and only l survive lol
Wow!! I remember when the 62’s were on the 4 my dad took me to yankee stadium in 85 I remember how traction motors sounded different on the 62’s as opposed to today. Now they’re on the 3 line. But wow memories. Thanks for the post.
Dinkins had these stations cleaner than any other mayor. Not one piece of graffiti anywhere. For 91 i am really impressed how clean everything is. I was not expecting this.
Style Wars came out in 1983, the FIRST 10-Car train of R62s were built in 1983 and hit service LATER on that year after Style Wars was shot and debut. I lived on the concourse from 1984-1987. I rode the R62 cars on the (4) during those years, they were NEW to the (4) and officially made the (4) line a 100% graffiti free line.
Awesome video! I'll never forget my summer trip to NYC in 1991. It was even before the Giuliani era! He didn't take office until 1994. NY was so different them. Very grimy and dirty, but I still loved it. I had so many chances to visit the twin towers but never did so. What an idiot I was.
I went to New York City back in the late eighties, and got to go to the top of the Empire State Building and the South Tower of the World Trade Center. It's turned into a gentrified pile of shit. They've destroyed so much of the city's history. The Freedom Tower? 432 Park Avenue? Are you fucking kidding me.
Marc Cisneros Go fuck yourself. I'm a 37-year-old adult, goddammit! This country's gone to shit thanks to the goddamn fucking Democrats. I'm sure New York City's a great place to live - it's filthy and disgusting, and rundown, hyper-policed, with sky-high rent and taxes, and crime is through the roof. What's a pack of cigarettes going for in New York City these days? $15? What a fucking joke. Haha!
+Paul Williams gentrification is like removing cancer from one point of the body and insert it in another part of the same body... if a City is a shit hole it means the country in which it resides need a cure needs an evolution... Removing nat8ves from their homelands for the rich is never the answer then again you prob not from NYC and prob never been poor so what do you know
Since I visited Moscow subway in 1971 can tell you it was spectacular. Moscow subway has new stations and they are spectacular and can be explored on internet.
If you're in the NYC area or plan to visit, just contact the subway division of the MTA and ask a rep when will the next run of the "Train of Many Colors" occur. It runs several times a year. I'm hoping to be able to ride it in the future.
Worked for NYC transit for only a few weeks in about 1985. Was station agent on F line underground in Brooklyn. Hours were from about 10:30 pm to about 6:30 am. At same time had a part time position in Manhattan with parking violations which started in am. Couldn't work that second shift without rest. A few months afterwards took a full time position with DMV and retired in May 2020. Always thought about being train operator.
I was 20 years old and living on Long Island. We used to go into the city a lot, then I moved there in my late 20s. Although I wish I knew it was going to change so much.
I was wondering the same. I remember if kids got caught “bombing” the subway cars they had to do community service to clean the trains. But i thought it was later that the date in this video.
@@ThatGuy-te9wh Sounds about right, but I think there was still a lot of graffiti in 1991. I'm a Staten Island guy (we don't have a subway here, just buses and Staten Island Rapid Transit) and I started riding the subway regularly to get to Brooklyn College in 1988. Definitely when I started commuting to school, the subways were still full of it, the cleanup must have been underway by '91, but I'm not sure if it was all gone yet then.
they started cleaning up the city by 1984. they removed all the rubble from the bronx and demolished damaged buildings. they left vacant lots filled with grass and they painted the ugly walls of those tenements standing around alone. arson stopped cause they changed some laws i think. and they locked away the subway cars at night so they could clean the trains and keep them clean because no one was covering them in graffiti at night. but the crime became worse and the city clean up only started with giuliani in like 1994/95.
@@Kareem4692 you got problems act like things can't change and the r142s look cool stop being a whiny b**** and I tell you this right now things don't stay the same deal with it
I remember often being floored by encountering missing tiles from along the walkway to the Williamsburg Bridge promenade..I mean, what kind of tourist would I have been had I taken no walk across the East River.
1991=Freddie Mercury of Queen dies.. (Although he was still alive during this video.) Music that year: Queen, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Michael Jackson, Metallica, Genesis, Dire Straits, Madonna, Roxette, R.E.M., Guns N Roses and Extreme. Movies that year: Beauty and The Beast (the good one), Terminator 2, Hook, Oliver Stone's Doors film, The Addams Family movie and Fievel Goes West.
I know this is 8 years old. Maybe you're dead. We all die but you're not replying correctly. The person will likely never see your reply comment because it's a new comment outside of the comment you meant to reply to I think dying in a car crash is the kind of death I fear most. True, it could be quick and relatively painless but often your last moments are excruciatingly painful and stressful. What a terrible and sad way to go. Life
Thats just a MOVIE and R62 enetered service in 1983 on the 4 and by 1985 all R62s ran ONLY on the 4 yes there were Redbirds on the 4 but it was mostly R62s so u have to get ur info straight because wat ur saying is very incorrect.
omg 1991 the greatest year in history, wow i cant believe how advanced civilization was back then, i cant believe they had trains back then, and cars and tall buildings, wow
You know what bugs me is that hardly anyone knows about these videos like this. These are classic videos of an era that many miss.
Yes many do miss them
Facts
@Hotters 7060 Kids playing outside in Manhattan pre-Giuliani would be a death wish...
Agreed
Facts
Born in Bronx 1992. This video really clicked with some long forgotten memories for me. I moved away from NYC in 97 so early in my life this video feels strangely tangible.
1991 I was 10 years old. Still living at 689 East 233rd Street In The Bronx. Attended St.Anthonys on Richardson Ave. My dad was a Conductor for the NYCTA. Operated out of E. 241st St.
There's a special place in heaven for whoever recorded this
Hopefully the person who recorded this (if still living) will be saved for sure. Awesome video. Peace!
Their pillows should be cold at all times, this is some stuff you’d never see today like the Redbirds or R62s on the 4 line.
Those old trains are killing it! Nice!
Damn I miss the old Stadium so much.
Wow nice to see this year. I was born in Brooklyn in Feb 1991. Always liked riding trains. I also can't stand when an express train is crawling.
:( I miss the 4 train, a lot. When it had those R62s.
Miss Jennifer Banks same
Miss Jennifer Banks the r62s are on the 3 line now
Charlie Gerald jr Back when the 4 line was more fun to ride until April of 2009. Now the line is boring with just r142s and r142as.
Oh yes lm riding this 7 train right now wanting to shove this Mexican out on the next train just because he's a drunk piece of pile shit shoving his little ass in when he couldn't fit.. The 4 train ahhhh the city lm over here with the worst.. I hope this train crashes and only l survive lol
Charlie Gerald jr, you're right
Wow!! I remember when the 62’s were on the 4 my dad took me to yankee stadium in 85 I remember how traction motors sounded different on the 62’s as opposed to today. Now they’re on the 3 line. But wow memories. Thanks for the post.
brownhornet1975 They recently started using them again on the 6
Atari81 • no that’s the R62As from the 7. Not the R62s.
redphone243 ah ok
Dinkins had these stations cleaner than any other mayor. Not one piece of graffiti anywhere. For 91 i am really impressed how clean everything is. I was not expecting this.
Bullshit Dinkins was a useless asshole
yes very clean but it was the 2nd worst year after 1990 in nyc 2154 murders in 1991.
Dinkins inherited a 100% grafitti free system on his first day of office. 🙄
Style Wars came out in 1983, the FIRST 10-Car train of R62s were built in 1983 and hit service LATER on that year after Style Wars was shot and debut. I lived on the concourse from 1984-1987. I rode the R62 cars on the (4) during those years, they were NEW to the (4) and officially made the (4) line a 100% graffiti free line.
@The Legend 27 Returns to TH-cam I was born in 1980.... And not a nigaa, I'm too old for that.
Awesome video! I'll never forget my summer trip to NYC in 1991. It was even before the Giuliani era! He didn't take office until 1994. NY was so different them. Very grimy and dirty, but I still loved it. I had so many chances to visit the twin towers but never did so. What an idiot I was.
I went to New York City back in the late eighties, and got to go to the top of the Empire State Building and the South Tower of the World Trade Center. It's turned into a gentrified pile of shit. They've destroyed so much of the city's history. The Freedom Tower? 432 Park Avenue? Are you fucking kidding me.
Marc Cisneros Nope. I blame liberals and Jews.
Marc Cisneros Go fuck yourself. I'm a 37-year-old adult, goddammit! This country's gone to shit thanks to the goddamn fucking Democrats. I'm sure New York City's a great place to live - it's filthy and disgusting, and rundown, hyper-policed, with sky-high rent and taxes, and crime is through the roof. What's a pack of cigarettes going for in New York City these days? $15? What a fucking joke. Haha!
+JMMT7022801 gentrification was needed New York was a shit hole !
+Paul Williams gentrification is like removing cancer from one point of the body and insert it in another part of the same body... if a City is a shit hole it means the country in which it resides need a cure needs an evolution... Removing nat8ves from their homelands for the rich is never the answer then again you prob not from NYC and prob never been poor so what do you know
This video was taken in the year "Smells like teen spirit" came out!
Nostalgia right here!😭
The good old days .I always wish I could go back in time .
we all do
How I remember the 4 train as a kid, R62 with no RFW
Since I visited Moscow subway in 1971 can tell you it was spectacular. Moscow subway has new stations and they are spectacular and can be explored on internet.
Nice video! :) Wow 1991! NYC looked different back then!
I wish I rode the redbird... I wasn't born that time even when they took it out of service
If you're in the NYC area or plan to visit, just contact the subway division of the MTA and ask a rep when will the next run of the "Train of Many Colors" occur. It runs several times a year. I'm hoping to be able to ride it in the future.
**Insert cringey username here* * you missed something great.
Worked for NYC transit for only a few weeks in about 1985. Was station agent on F line underground in Brooklyn. Hours were from about 10:30 pm to about 6:30 am. At same time had a part time position in Manhattan with parking violations which started in am. Couldn't work that second shift without rest. A few months afterwards took a full time position with DMV and retired in May 2020. Always thought about being train operator.
we will be looking with nostalgia the same way about 2021 in 30 years. this never ends.....
Good action shots and am glad to see Redbirds and a Silverliner too! Thanks for posting this.
@The Legend 27 Returns to TH-cam Silverliner at time stamp 13:14. That location looks like New Jersey
@The Legend 27 Returns to TH-cam Understandable.
i'm old enough to remember when the C went to the bronx. randomly. =0
bigdrew565 Bedford Park Boulevard lol
Me too. When Callisto during rush hours, did what’s Drew’s job now: provide express service on IND Concourse.
These trains still look the same lol. This was five years before I was born.
This was cool, brought back a lot of good memories
I was 20 years old and living on Long Island. We used to go into the city a lot, then I moved there in my late 20s. Although I wish I knew it was going to change so much.
Wow this brings me back to when i was a little girl. I was 7 yrs old. I love ridding trains.
I miss those days, Nice videos!
These look like the best days ever except for that 4 train incident In 1991
was this the time the subway started getting cleaned up or was it already cleaned?
I was wondering the same. I remember if kids got caught “bombing” the subway cars they had to do community service to clean the trains. But i thought it was later that the date in this video.
If it's 1991, all the graffiti was gone for two years.
@@ThatGuy-te9wh Sounds about right, but I think there was still a lot of graffiti in 1991. I'm a Staten Island guy (we don't have a subway here, just buses and Staten Island Rapid Transit) and I started riding the subway regularly to get to Brooklyn College in 1988. Definitely when I started commuting to school, the subways were still full of it, the cleanup must have been underway by '91, but I'm not sure if it was all gone yet then.
cleaned, the cleaning process ended in 1989
they started cleaning up the city by 1984. they removed all the rubble from the bronx and demolished damaged buildings. they left vacant lots filled with grass and they painted the ugly walls of those tenements standing around alone. arson stopped cause they changed some laws i think.
and they locked away the subway cars at night so they could clean the trains and keep them clean because no one was covering them in graffiti at night.
but the crime became worse and the city clean up only started with giuliani in like 1994/95.
Our subway system has changed so much. Its more modernized. Thank you M.T.A.
The Subway System Sucks Today Fuck Modern Day MTA
@@Kareem4692 you got problems act like things can't change and the r142s look cool stop being a whiny b**** and I tell you this right now things don't stay the same deal with it
@@jimmyjj9410 your the whiny bitch fool I'm voicing my opinion why the hell are you under my comment can you stop me from having my opinion man stfu
@@jimmyjj9410 go love your piece of shit NTTs and stop disrespecting Transit history
@@Kareem4692 ..... This was a year ago you responded man late
Atleast the 1 is still the same to say the very least.
That is some nice footage there, back in the day where you were aloud to record on PATH.
Before the R142 cars were born
bluer68 and R142a too!
R142s sucks
Me three
The diamond 5 is my dream train
@Hotters 7060 me too
I was 13, will never forget it.
In 91 my dad had just retired from the MTA and my future husband was in his first year on the job.
I was 16...lol...had been taking the train and bus by myself since 1989....made me feel grown.it was exciting!
1983 GMC T8J204 RTS #3241 @ 0:02
imagine the R62 before they blocked the front and end cars view..the redbirds on the 7 were less than 30 years old...
🎤🎼those was the days!🎵🎶
We paid 1 dollar per ride for years. We had to purchase tokens not metro card yet.
i was born in 1991. and 19 years after I came to New York and the funny thing is that still look the same
Did the R62s come with exterior speakers back in the day and time?
I heard this was when NYC was really dangerous
those trains reminds of my county and in Maryland where I am from Seabrook and my town Bladensburg all my county and state in Maryland.
Subway in Maryland is trash it only has a few stops and only goes up and down lol Maryland subway is a joke compared to new York city
I miss the 90s of NYC
I was 4 years old at that time lol
0:49 Is that a diamond 4 train?
No
4:13 9 TRAIN!!!!!!
Still waiting for a video of the 8 train...
Gerald Seixas The 8 train only existed as the third avenue el, the mta just put a 8 rollsign on the r62a's, that's all
who else paused at 12:34 to see the retro movie posters! I got super excited when I saw the poster for silence of the lambs lol
r40 slant f train at 21 street aka my stop lol brings back memories
I remember often being floored by encountering missing tiles from along the walkway to the Williamsburg Bridge promenade..I mean, what kind of tourist would I have been had I taken no walk across the East River.
Wow 33rd street looks so colorful
At 0:23 that was the last time for the GMC Fishbowl bus I think it retired 1994 or 1995 that's just my guess What about yours?
The official year was 1998. Many buses just leave NYC Transit 2-3 years prior. GMC RTSs retired in 2007 but left NYC Transit by 2005.
What kind of image stabilization software did you use?
I noticed the PATH train at Newark was a mixed consist.
1991=Freddie Mercury of Queen dies.. (Although he was still alive during this video.)
Music that year: Queen, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Michael Jackson, Metallica, Genesis, Dire Straits, Madonna, Roxette, R.E.M., Guns N Roses and Extreme.
Movies that year: Beauty and The Beast (the good one), Terminator 2, Hook, Oliver Stone's Doors film, The Addams Family movie and Fievel Goes West.
I was born in 1993 in New York
Cool
me 85 Kings county Brooklyn
+Casey Perez lol I was already 6
I see
AlvisWuRailFanoffical I was born in 1984 in Brooklyn, NY still living in Brooklyn in 2017
I was working on 3rd avenue and 46thst at this time....MEMORIES
I liked the 4 better like this I wish it still was imo mostly R62s with a few NTT
12:00 old path
It's weird how the video is stabilized but the date in the bottom isn't 🤔 the first minute or two of the video
The good ol days!
The timestamp floats funny on stabilized foootage. Too much stabilization at times - horrible warping.
My favorite IND cars would be the red bird series, blue birds, R62, R62A, and R262
Those are IRT cars.
My favorite New subway cars R62 and R262 The R62 From 1984 and New R262 By 2024
Wow at that time when 9/11 never happened! And oh shit the 9 train was in service on that time!
This was even before the first attack on the Trade Center in February 93
Andy Molina Yup
@@visionist7 wait there was an attack on wtc before 9/11?
@@AndresEdna yes there was a van bomb in the underground parking lot. I think six people were killed.
It looked like the R62As had different door frames back then.
@mythbuster43 The cars themselves were cleaned by this point, but the tunnels were still grimy.
I miss the Pa-4
My Oldest brother turned 11 or 12 that year.
12:36 Silence of the Lambs promo poster
good ol days
Back when seats were comfortable now
Feels weird to see a r62 4 train
When R62/As had RFW connected with them
to believe christopher street on path still looks the same.
My first time Seeing a kind if train like that
This was before I was born.
0:48 NIS R62A 4 train
4:16 R30???
10:00 It is always terrible when the local is faster than the "express".
Where the iPhone x at
I was living queens just left high school I was 20 years old back then
Wow! My ninth birthday!
Look at all those clean trains. What a shame..
@kmothersil If you know how / where I could get them more noticed then please let me know....
I know this is 8 years old. Maybe you're dead. We all die but you're not replying correctly. The person will likely never see your reply comment because it's a new comment outside of the comment you meant to reply to
I think dying in a car crash is the kind of death I fear most. True, it could be quick and relatively painless but often your last moments are excruciatingly painful and stressful. What a terrible and sad way to go. Life
@DrSurprise It was mostly cleaned by this point.
R.I.P V & 9 trains
You probably got unlucky but the R62 since they came dominated the 4 from 1983-2003 lol
junjun798 2008/09 I was at all-star week in Old Yankee Stadium they we’re still on the 4 train but very little.
WHERE THE REDBIRD (4) TRAINS.
I don't know
Ah train lovers, I’m 18 years old not 40 but I remember the (V) train in 09 and the (B) train with the R68 Slant cars
You mean R40 slant
Thats just a MOVIE and R62 enetered service in 1983 on the 4 and by 1985 all R62s ran ONLY on the 4 yes there were Redbirds on the 4 but it was mostly R62s so u have to get ur info straight because wat ur saying is very incorrect.
junjun798 The R62s entered service on the 4 Line in 1984. The R62As entered service on the 1 in 1985.
nice video!
@boratfantaic Unfortunately "that's all folks" other than those on my channel.
(btw I love Borat too!)
Lol some the old train are still in service and they almost sound different.
Those freshly painted white cars were R62s lol
omg 1991 the greatest year in history, wow i cant believe how advanced civilization was back then, i cant believe they had trains back then, and cars and tall buildings, wow
Caliente631 Troll?
Terminator 2
Damn is 2020 this apocalyptic for kids? Lmao
The year I was born. I wasn’t born until September 9th of that year.
I wonder what the system would be like today if it was word for word the way it was there
i tell you people would complain much more
12:34 Silence Of The Lambs.