Train Ride to Coney Island in 1987
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- Enjoy the sights and the graffitti as Nelson, photographer Liz Lizard and her family, Michael Musto and Albert Crudo take the subway from Union Square to Coney Island on June 20, 1987
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this is why it's so important to take videos, even of seemingly meaningless things like a subway ride because watching this is like stepping into a time machine
Totally!
Totally. That reminds me i need to buy a camera.
For random people on the internet!
💯💯💯💯💯
That's a really good point its kinda of funny to see how things were back in the day
Shirtless guy is probably immune to everything at this point in life
He could jump in the Hudson River and be fine
Find him, he probably has the cure to coronavirus
Be careful! Twitter bans people who dissent from what the people who run the UN believe to cure or not cure coronavirus.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
& shoeless
The guy who “thought” of recording this trip is surely a time traveller
Please explain more.
Video cameras existed back then (VHS), was the size of a bazooka!
@@shahedmc9656 - Time travel Traveling the currents of time its cool try it
Maybe I should record more boring and day to day things these days (instead of myself) and it will be interesting in the future
brendielahooha yup that’s what op meant
This footage is a valuable piece of history.
Definitely
And amusing to remember that the guy filming was walking around with a 5 pound plastic box the size of a loaf of bread on his shoulder the whole time.
🤣👍🏾
Now we have video cameras on phones that fit in our pockets, and can easily upload to TH-cam, an extremely popular website.
So now people are spending money on radio equipment.....
🤣
Turbo Pokey glad no one stole it
LMAOO
Safe to say whoever that shirtless boy is now.. he is definitely immune from the coronavirus
LMAO!!!!! I was thinking the same damn thang!!!!!!!!!
why ?
@deadmanw@lk1ng that boy is gonna wind up getting the corona LMFAOOO 😂😂😂😂
@BNOZ99 ! Bruh are u fuckin stupid I’m from the u.s. and I live in NY like wtf are u talking about I’m not from no other country smh 🤦♂️😂😂😂
@BNOZ99 ! Yea I am from the U.S. tho and I’m from queens NY and ur right about that I am one of them I’m like a samurai of darkness #Animeforlife 😈😈
That kid: "It's just a subway, nobody cares if I'm shirtless"
30 yrs later
4 million people:👀👀
Take a picture of him
He must be in his late 40's now.
Why was he shirtless anyway tho... I can never truly know
Yah got it
〘serial sleeper〙 It looks like they were going to swim, in some shots he was holding a towel and he’s wearing what appears to be swimming shorts
This footage from 1987 is still better quality than most CCTV cameras today.
No cell phones... apparently they used spray paint to communicate back then
Shay Kosovac People talked face to face back then. There isn’t a better way to get to know someone. Spay painting, also called tagging, was used to get the attention of as many people as possible. Sort of like posting on the internet.
@@MrWhoevr damn, you really missed the joke.
Lucyller I didn’t miss it I dismissed it.
Shay Kosovac good joke
MrWhoevr Nice one :D
It looks so surrealistic, like a movie from a dystopian future/past
No it looks like a train ride to Coney Island in 1987
PokeDoke Zoomers...
The professional Camper and proud
The professional Camper I mean he/she didn’t lie
Nathan Casey lol
Wtf my wallet was stolen while watching this.
Tremendous. Why doesn't this have more likes?
Hahaha , that was a good one.
is it weird to ask that i didnt get it
yawnb00ty you ain’t from around here 😂
xyre you live ina rough then we all the same
This is a piece of history right here. Nothing short of a masterpiece. Nothing too special just a moment in time captured.
calm down. its nothing to brag about.
masterpiece lol
@@robroy6374 Bro , was lowkey livin the NYC life until 1980 (age 10) shit is real as it gets. Coney was dirty AF, crime was outta control, visiting my relatives at Flatbush & Coney every summer. Foster Ave. & Coney island Boulevard (Ditmas Park) was mostly an Italian/ Jewish neighborhood back in the 70's early 80's. Different times my guy...
@@LeopoldMaysonet so? those days are over.
@@LeopoldMaysonetWhat does that have to do with this guys home video, lol
a person coming onto this train from japan would have a heart attack
Can I ask why ?
@@RandomPerson-hj8fq first of all the boy lying down on the chairs, the graffiti, and everyone talking at a normal voice
@@livindeadghoul also the fact that it is not completely crowded as hell, there's a lot of space between people.
@@livindeadghoul A lot of people talk in a normal voice in Osaka's metro, tho. Also in certain lines of the Tokyo metro.
@@peskymacaw9033 they talk normally in the stations, but its common courtesy to be quiet in the trains
Yoo this dude was way ahead of everyone else by documenting this
PHILLY DOSS truth
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Amazing footage. That half naked guy is about 40 something today
Before cell phones. People would engage
D Maxson you clearly don’t know anything about nelson
This could be 1987, or the year 3000 post-nuclear war.
Then what year is it now meat head
Cuzzy is there any need for that ? Learn some manners
@@vicvvs6189 Cuzzy doesn't understand the joke. It's okay. Cuzzy is from the year 3000 and those jokes haven't been reinvented yet.
M. Stewart I understand the joke it was just a bad one
@@vicvvs6189 it was free. 😁
My dad was born and raised in NY. These videos describe NY exactly how my dad said it was during the 70’s and 80’s. ❤
same as my dad Fürer Orbán Senior
Was it good or bad?
@@Olly07bad
@@davidc4408 Oh. NYC has to be worse now? Sorry, I have never been. Only to Florida back in 2015.
This was the Brooklyn of my youth. Rode that exact subway hundreds of times to Stillwell Ave. 🥰
No cell phones. No social media. Just great hair and cocaine. Ahh the 80s
And gays
@@craftah gays still exist
@@YellowSubmarine8 The cocaine too
@@YellowSubmarine8 but there was more gays in the 80s
Andre De Fleur gays were more gay
This guy travelled time and started vlogging before it was a thing
Kaisy Neistat from 80's
YOUR ON TO SUM
yes
STRAIGHT FACTS
Majority of Americans who owned a camcorder during the 70s 80s and 90s did this. I'm sure it dates back farther
Think they ever imagined 31 years later people from all over the world would watch this? 💖
Never
I mean, Michael Musto (the guy in the very beginning) is still alive and pretty well-known for writing for the Village Voice. I'm sure someone's told him about this by now.
I was replying to your question on who you wondered was still alive and watched it recently.
no worries
They probably imagined you and I were soulmates and that we would find each other one day through watching this video, Monique.
I am from Brooklyn and rode this train every single day! What a flashback! 😊
Legend says the kid is now 47 years old and still shirtless
shut up stupid remark not even funny ,your probably toothless
@@paulmcdonough1093 You're probably the kid shut up
@but2star you want everyone to please your emotions
I wasn't born until 1990. I thought that Blonde Woman in the orange dress was attractive.
Any born in the 80s is pushing 30-40. That kid is probably in his late 40s today
Its weird to think that those teens are now in their 40s-50s
Or dead.
what's weird about it?
17y old +30 =47.....
News flash people age
and some of us weren’t even born 😀
@@thestruggler776 the cameraman didn't die lol. Michael is still living his best life.
That train is literally more vandalized than a back alley wtf.
Or your mum
@@dwad3ify that was uncalled for, my good sir.
I mean that was normal for nyc in the 80's. People didn't give a fuck about graffiti back then
ny graffiti didnt have any laws for a while. you could go right on the rails and paint the outside of trains. then fences came and security. the inside of the trains were still being marked. so now the insides are made in a way they can be cleaned easily and the paint dont stick permanently. they were spending so much money on the inside and outside of cleaning trains they pretty much developed every way possible to make it not work. the graffiti fines werent that much also. i dont know what they are now but you might get $100 fine in ny or even just let go and charged only for some kind of petty vandalism or tresspassing. in my city you can get 5 years of community service if you get caught.
Raoul Duke lol
Videographer Nelson Sullivan was an early vlogger. He recorded this aged 39 and died 2 years later.
Is that Michael Musto?
I wish I was as free as that shirtless boy in flipflops
G foh real
Times where diffrent back then and I wasn't even alive back then.
Yeah man... me too..
My mom will slap my snit on me if I do like that hahha
This is the year I was born.
Imagine going shirtless and barefoot on a NYC subway in any era.
Is it not good?
@@vanilla5710 hell TF no
@I like Potatoes do u have needles on the floor in NYC Metro?
@I like Potatoes 😭
for real that's so gross. i won't even wear open toed shoes in the city!
No ones going to talk about how this was recommended to them 8 years later on TH-cam...
True. TH-cam logarithm is messed up. Lol
What did I do to earn this especially now
Everything in it’s time
We think this is the past, but TH-cam is really just showing us our future, what NYC will look like again under its current Mayor.
Lmao that algorithm
I recognize that movie theater at 4:25. It's a Marshalls store now! People used to always tell me it used to be a theater. But seeing it...wow....
The Loew’s Oriental… one of the great NY movie palaces. It was beautiful.
Graffiti was the first social media.
Cool thought! Lol very clever
No graffiti is cringe
cover tv ho you’re cringe loser
I dont get it
No, Graffiti is shit........
In this timeline Jack Nicholson is the Joker.
He'll get an unexpected visit by some guy named Flash and a big ass Batman.
What timeline? The timeline we're all currently experiencing???
But Jack Nicholson IS the joker in our current timeline lmao. Wtf are you on.
Batman came out in 1989 where Jack Nicolson was the Joker and Michael Keaton was Batman.
And McDonald's food tasted way better than today's.
32 years ago. These kids must now be in their 50s
Thx for the likes
Nah. 40s
Try 60s and Nelson the guy who does the camera work passed away in 1989.
People get old...so will you ...profound isn't it?
Math isn’t your thing I see.
I was 9 years old in 1987. Now I’m 42. Time really does fly by!!!
Gen z studying this video so they can emulate. They’ll obsess with the 80/90s but refuse to acknowledge no cell phones or social media. That’s what made these times special. People had social skills.
This footage from over 30 years ago is still better quality then any UFO video
Lmao good one!
Hahahahaha
Right! Also any nasa footage
Hahahahha
*than
can't believe this was 300 years ago
SIKK RMXS quit messing with the "pasties" here. They always tell us to never meddle. It's all merely research.
SIKK RMXS 30 Bro 30
I think you're off by a zero.
This is obviously 3000 years ago.
😂😂😂
amazing this was actually 3,000 years ago
The train looks like something taken from The Warriors
The Warriors was made in 1979. About the same timeline.
That’s exactly where they ended up; the Warriors territory was Coney Island
When The Warriors see Coney they know their home. They like to think they’re safe. 🌊
This is great
Yes it is
So safe. Literally safe enough to walk shirtless unequipped. Good people around back then
Joaquin phoenix's joker killed three men in this subway.
Vishal Dubey liar
Manda S yes I saw the movie
I can confirm I was the gun
*you're laughing you're laughing three men were killed by joker and you're laughing*
Strange but interesting. How will the world look like in another 31 years?
Justin Carrillo right
It's gonna be like wall-e
RIGGGGHHHTTTT.
By the year 2049. The half century mark.
Watch "Demolition Man"
This just feels a weird dream to me
Omg yes
I experienced this very thing yet it seems like a dream more than anything.
That’s how the 80’s felt.
I'm 49 now , was 15 & in high school in 1987. This video doesn't seem very old to me at all but I know to a 15 yr old, it looks/seems like forever ago. At 15 in 1987 I thought 1967 was a long time ago. It literally felt like 50-60 yrs ago when it was only 20. I can't believe this was 34 yrs ago, it's weird how time and age greatly changes our perceptions of the world. I still ride around on 1985 motorcycle . Teenagers today probably think it's super old school and surprised it still runs.
Whoa! Brings back memories of my train rides as a kid in NYC. I just showed this to my 10 year old and told him "this is the only way you'll experience NYC the way I experienced it as a kid, thru these kinds of videos, etc."
This is the most confusing thing I’ve ever seen like every second it got more weirder
'More weirder' 😄😄
Ikr
Well, it was the club kids
That’s exactly how nyc subway rides are tho till before corona
More diverse but still the essence is the same
Back when it was cheap to live in NY without a credit check. As long as you had a job and paid your rent and didn't smoke crack you could live in any of the boroughs.
Michael Knight Yeah back when NY was a crack town and crimes were prevalent graffiti on the trains. NY is so much better now
So true
Not da Park Avenue
all the scumbags from NYC moved and ruined upstate NY thanks Giuliani you pos
Lol,even if you smoked crack:P
Who else always ends up watching these random ass videos TH-cam recommends
Me
Me too 😱
Me I guess
You should lurk the rest of the videos on this channel. What ends up being a random recommendation ends up being hours of fascinating video. Nelson Sullivan was a vlogger before vlogging was even a thing.
I don't know how I got here
Wow. I was 17 and holy shit do I feel old. Those days are never returning. Cherish those years kids,it flies by
Same here
I was 16
I wasn't even born. I was born in 1993.
Ok TH-cam algorithm, why is this video suddenly appearing on thousands upon thousands of peoples feeds all of a sudden?
Because it's got a dude dressed as a woman. It pushes the narrative.
Because it makes the past seem dystopic, which distracts us from the present state of decay
I know right?!
Drew Hurlbut same
Good question
The late 80’s and early 90’s are what the kids nowadays call “a vibe”
Dickhead
@@accelerator-thegod8991 chill kakashi
@@accelerator-thegod8991 Issa joke chill.
NYC was a $hithole back then.
Accelerator - The God fam relax I was born in 96 lmao I’m a youngster too if it makes you feel better.
this is seriously one of the most raw things i’ve ever watched on youtube. 1987, IN NEW YORK. wow.
rightt!
Exactly. Right when and where I was born. :)
Epic Realist that’s so cool!! i wish i was alive back then.
@@costcofreezers Aww, thanks! Yeah, miss those days.
Proof that Boomers lived through some PTSD- inducing times. Respect.
Look at those kids just laying face down on the dirty ass seats! 😂 so badass!
That young man went down for a nap, and came up with several STD’s.
We didn't think about that back then. All day long, never washed hands unless after bathroom time.
Crawled, layed, wrestled and slept on the shittiest surfaces in high foot traffic areas.
İ'm not even sure if tetanus shots were necessary as we may have already had built up natural immunity to it.
The question is why this kid is shirtless and barefoot walking around in NYC
It's called being dirt poor.
ⒷⒶⓃⒼ|ⒷⒶⓃⒼ you don’t have to say it like that. Nyc is a tough place to live you know
ⒷⒶⓃⒼ|ⒷⒶⓃⒼ and he does have shoes if u watched long enough. He took them off before he put his feet on the bench.
The inmune system is at their best function . In the 80s nobody care about bacteria an viruses 🦠
He must be a RHCP fan.
I feel like I need to shower after watching this video.
LMFAO I felt the same way 😩😂
You would feel the need for a shower after being anywhere in NYC for the whole day.
I’m sure that train car smelled like stale beer, piss, Swisher Sweets and crappy life choices...
Ikr
lmao this middle class white family taking a trip to Coney Island in the 80s goes harder than most gangsta rap today lol
>this
Lmao
not middle class lol
I wouldn’t assume they are middle class, who knows.
There is no gangsta rap today. That shit died in 96'
Whoever upload these videos: thank you. There’s always hate everywhere, even back then.
This video here shows a lot of wholesome moments in 10 minutes. Honestly this is a great education of the life in New York of other folks around.
Again, thanks. And thank you, Nelson. I know he is long gone, but his videos are immortalized.
Haters? This looks like a 3rd world country. A city that ONCE was a shinning beacon of hope for the entire world. But now..... there is no way that I'm visiting that he'll hole unless I'm packing. And don't even think about approaching me on any level. Unless there is an emergency.
All i can think about is
The Warriors
drug god ~ Come out and playyyyyyyyyy
Union sq to Coney Island 🤣
I heard The big cyrus meeting was actually that night!!
CAN U DIG IT?
And John Gotti.. Who was the Godfather of the New York mafia 1985-1991
This train looks like the physical embodiment of drugs
jarrett maltry like riding the mushroom train. Wow
🤣
You got that right!
lolll
Lmao good one. Oddly to me, its this type of "flare" that New York is missing these days. Smh. NY kinda really sucks now.
this could be an 80's music video so easily.
Doogie N.D. This could be a David Lynch film!
Doogie N.D. - it's like Michael Jackson's Bad. video
Doogie N.D.
ALWAYS
SOMETHING
THERE TO
RE-MIND ME (Doo Doo Doo...)
Crown Royal dude yes!!!! *starts applauding* heheh 👌🏻
oh yeah
My heart is literally aching with joy! I made this trek from Queens from 1980 to 1987. The fun we had! Far Rockaway and Coney Island were the places to be! Great video! By the way, several things I love about this video.... First, this looks like such a fun NY group of kids! Mostly, I love that no one is on a damn cellphone. They are connected to each other and not to a damn phone!
It is amazing that will lived without cellphones. If I don't know where my phone is for one minute I am in panic mode.
@chris-tg1hv That sounds kind of sad. No one should live that way. Sounds like an addiction. That can't be healthy. I often leave my phone at home deliberately. I need to know that it has no hold on me.
@@RumbleFish69No it’s just cuz they’re expensive and so necessary in everyday modern life. Also he was talking about losing it, not knowing where it is, by leaving it at home you know where it is.
He literally has a camera on. And everyone seems thankful for the capture. What's the difference? This is a new era. Get over it. Old people back then where probably complaining about the dirty af train, Graffiti, everyone being high of cocaine, girls half naked, guys half naked,... And so on. You just got old, that's all.
You can thank China for the cell phone epidemic
Hi person scrolling through the internet. I wish you a really nice day!
Well thank you man...!!
Thank you , you too ❤️
I wish you too 😊
❤️🇮🇹🇺🇸
Thank you its 23:15 pm on 08.09.2020 and im in London sat on my bed just hoping that something good will happen to me to take away the boredom.
That's the NY I remember. I remember being told these things: "Don't go to the last boxcar wearing jewelry. Don't go to Central Park at night - don't go during the day if you can help it - and mind your own business." My first landlord back in NY told me this: "I know there's cockroaches, but if this place was any nicer, you couldn't afford it." Rent was $450 for a one bedroom apartment in Hell's Kitchen in 1987. I miss this NY.
Now that apt is 3500-4000
I was told, "Don't look up at the Sky scrappers"... Meant you were a newbie!
Were the last boxcars known for more crime? Didn't know that
Grew up in Jamaica Queens 83-89.... This was exactly how I remembered NY. I went to PS 117 and JHS 217... It felt like prison. Those two schools taught me how to fight. It was a jungle.
@King Delevingne Damn, I'm a grown man, and didn't even know that.
That kid literally just got out off bed and is just walking around in his shorts and nothing else.
Back in the 80s anything was possible 😑😩
This is totally opposite of what we would see on Japanese trains. People with suits and sit there quietely.
That’d some shit you’d see in Nigeria. I grew up that way.
It’s a hot scorching day
He's definitely wearing underwear, I looked closely. Even though he wasn't legal, he was absolutely adorable . . . and clearly post pubescent so don't start with "pedophile" shit.
I literally took that ride to C.I. hundreds of times with my mother, as a child, and then with friends in my teenage years! Brings back memories!!
Who’s watching this in September 2020?
Me
It's 9/11 2020
Why is this recommended on 9/11/2020? 🤦♀️
Watching from the end of the world
recommended on 9/11 check
I think it's great that people had enough of a forward-thinking mind and artistic ability to video something because it might be interesting 30 or 50 years later even 100. And had the wherewithal to put it on the proper digital device once computers became common in the 1990s. And now it's Forever on TH-cam as long as this website exists
Agreed. Well said. Also I love the word “wherewithal” 👍🏻
I literally had to google “wherewithal”. Well put indeed.
👍🏾
I just learned the word wherewithal at least.
(English is not my first language, but looks like some natives didn't know it either =P )
home video was a new technology. people were nuts with the idea that they could make movies of their daily lives. in 2020 you're getting filmed whether you want it or not.
"I forgot to bring my pictures!" What a wild statement to hear now in 2017
Nicolite1128 8
Nicolite1128 and the guy is scribbling in a book and has a book on him💣💥
Omg true!
@@alitheabbas45 you think that's sad? You never held a real clay tablet. T
It brought back all kinds of memories. Like being selective of the pictures you took near the end of the film. Having to take it somewhere to get developed and then the excitement when you went back to collect it. Unfortunately I never got into organising my photos, so over the years lost a lot of them which I wish I had now.
Nelson Sullivan truly was so ahead of his time, I do believe his collection of recordings inspired what we know as vlogging today
We are so fortunate to have easy access to such amazing pieces of history at our fingertips
RIP Nelson and thank you for educating us children today on LGBTQ+ culture in 80s NYC
Damn it’s driving me nuts thinking about how this was six days before my moms 7th birthday she was prbly in the same apartment I’m in right now in Manhattan looking out the window at the same train that takes you to Coney Island not know that the train passing held a random guy and a camera that would go on to unknowingly be one of the first known vloggers
And her son would watch and comment this on that vlog decades later
Amberlyn G this was five days after my 14th birthday
Wow, makes me feel old, I was five going on six that summer!
So your mom passed her apartment down to you? You probably pay like $500 a month 😂
@@johnnytheirishman3387 I was 16 (rechecked date) when the vid was made. I prob rode the next train.
This is strangely calming to me
Same
It feels familiar
Me too. Something about the demographics...
Probably cause it was a place where you free to do and say whatever you wanted and nobody would give a fuck
Because there is no diversity. Peaceful
Dirty, shady, crime-ridden but everyone seems happier then than people today.
I've noticed the same thing in Nelson's videos. Everyone seems to be present in the moment, and genuinely enjoying the social interaction taking place. I think smart phones, instant access to pornography from a young age, and constant access/addiction to social media have all taken their toll. We're all too busy hiding in a digital world that doesn't exist to actually live in the world that does exist.
@@ohnoitsskylar Porn has nothing to do with socialising lol. what causes people to be distant is in fact the one and only phones. Why talk to anyone when you can watch shit u like on phone.
@@tiitgeorg720 OK, Coomer
I vivdly recall this period of time in NYC. It was way better than it is now. No comparison. We had zero social media. You had to use a pay phone to call anyone. When this video was taken, I was twenty-four and had the freedom to roam at will. I wasn't part of the gay scene but I could dig a subway ride to Coney. Afterall, It was a pretty cool time for straight people, too. The 80s were great; 2020 sucks.
People are made to adapt.
Brings back a lot of Brooklyn/ Coney Island memories from the 80s! Loved it!! The train rides back and forth from Williamsburg to Coney Island seemed like an eternity when i was kid 😂 but i loved every minute looking out the window and just not feeling at all scared or afraid. It was just great seeing a diverse group of people. It was around the same year of this video, when my family went to Coney Island and my mom said there was a photographer taking pics of people at the beach just hanging out. He asked if he could take a picture of me and my chocolate ice cream covered face 😂😂 I was 6/7 at the time😂
Looking out the window? WTF are you talking about. If those are window, they look like no one cares either to clean them. Or the public doesn't care enough to respect them.
Ya.... at first I thought that this train was part of a nightmare or horror scene in a movie. But this is reality of a filthy, decaying and depressing hot mess. No wonder every person who visits NYC says it a dirty place, that smells like urine and rot.
But I'm glad for this video. Because if I visit m, I'm packing. Ya..... don't even think about approaching me about anything.. I'm going to take care of business, and keep on a stepping. Cuz, that looks like a war zone. And the most important thing in any war, is self preservation. That's right, it's me -v- you, and I'm going to take care of me.
Don't get it twisted, I'm not starting troubles. Just minding my own business. Therefore if you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone.
The comments section is literally people being pissed over public transportation getting cleaner
Mike Someone when having nothing to say is popular
Mike Someone It may be cleaner but the service is still bad if not worse.
Mike Someone shit define cleaner lmao
Fr33 Worker 😂😂😂😂u right bro
Liar
Did I just watch 7 minutes of strangers on a train
Yep
We need help lol.
We all did
from 30 years ago
fft2020 31
As a New Yorker who grew up in Brooklyn, this is AMAZING. Crazy that I remember Coney Island as it looked then. But it's surreal that the SAME line to the area looks exactly as it is today. I'm talking the buildings and area are recognizable if you've taken this route today. And the actual station is EXACTLY the same save for the fact that it's been amazingly renovated now. Crazy.
Its only been 30 years not 200 lol
Yah man but do you know how much changes in 30 years. Have you ever even BEEN to NY in the last 5 to 10 years alone... 😑🙄
Hell yeah, they had union square looking crazy tho lol I wish it was still like this
RoxStarFitness1 not 100%. for example, behind musto's back in one scene you can see the loews oriental theater in bensonhurst -- its a marshalls now. also the station where they got on in union square was completely renovated.
RoxStarFitness1 I hadn't been to NY between the years 2002 to 2012. In that decade, NY had changed dramatically. It looked more like a European city than traditional New York. I think it was the fact that things were smaller generally (cars, food portions, products) and people stopped wearing baggy clothes. There was also less graffiti.
I'm from London by the way!!
I remember the first time I made that trek from Manhattan to Coney... man, it took forever! I was with my lady-friends Bitch and Hookah, and they named me Brother Sylvester on that ride... We got to the beach, smoked a blunt and got in the water -- it was pure magic -- the first time I'd been to the beach since I was 7... at the time, I was 21.
For some reason I find this oddly fascinating.
So do I
The Lone Traveler Me too lol
I think im high
Me too, a real snapshot of the times, but what's so strange about it for me is the video quality makes it seem like it could have been filmed this year.
Same i like to watch 1987 stuff 😆
Vlogs in 1987
Roberto 3p more interesting too.
Roberto 3p casey neistat gonna get jealous for this.
Soki Moh he copied them
Roberto 3p casey nesiat
Roberto 3p g
I'm one of those guy that want to spend a week in this era like mid 80 early 90 just to see and most importantly feel how it was ..I'm born in 94 and I feel like i was too young to really appreciate even 2000"
J Pawf yea you’d really have to be born 1970 to really appreciate the 1980s & 1990s like be woke and stuff
Yes I was born 1993. I missed this ers
80s were so awesome. You're wise to want to go back and spend time there.
There were still problems etc like you have now in life of course but people were more civilized and less crazy and self centered as they are now. There was no political correctness except for extreme weirdos.There was actually a movie that came out around 1992 called PCU (Politically Correct University) with Jeremy Piven about a college of weirdos,environmentalists and crazy people who all acted politically correct. Everyone made fun of these idiots then.
I was a kid and teenager in the 1980s Back then in the 80s people were incredibly influenced by what was on tv, music (mtv) and movies. MTV was HUGE !!!!! Information wasnt readily available like it is now where everything is almost instant .Life was alot simpler. People didnt understand what was going on in the world .Most people also didnt have a computer .In my high school there were 3 kids that had a computer I was one of them . I remember 1984 or 1983 I think when a tv special called Motowns 25 anniversary was on This was a concert with all of the famous motown singers from the 1950s 60s 70s . A young Micheal Jackson got on stage and did the moonwalk for the first time. The next day at school EVERYONE was talking about it and doing it or trying. This was just a dance move on a tv show but it was huge back then .
One day in virtual reality or simulated reality we will be able to live previous times.
Visited Coney for first time today. Your video made for great contrast…thx!
why does the train cart look like it's been abandoned for 20 years
NYC in the 80s
I know! I had no idea 🤯
Because NYC was dead flat broke back then.
This is the kidd in the video, a day like all the rest in New York, Nelson was an amazing individual"the guy filming " he had an unreal shoe collection , he documented everyday people doing everyday things in one of the greatest cities. I was just turning 14 ,my sister and i would visit my mother in the summer from Oregon .
I had no clue about NY dress code.
Not one time did I feel out of place , I would skateboard all over , central park was the best, the boom box pile up playing the same funk , every one roller skating doing tricks . Sean Penn and Madonna drawing crowds as penn would punch out a paparazzi. Power house club listening to music, Eddie Murphy walking in. I couldn't even talk about all the experiences. Keddie if your out there
thank you . Albert thanks for being kind and funny in a time summer and I needed it. I miss surfing at fire island, horse shoe crab infested waters .
Thank you NY for all the crazy memories I can't comment on
wow is that really you? that's so cool :)
wow that’s so cool this must bring back sm memories for you 😯
Cheers for project created existence to a difficult time migrating and for Nathaniel s comment. Experiencing heatwave off the train is worth wearing shorts.
I got a recommendation for this video, that I last watched 6 years ago, (based on an old comment.) And I was scrolling down the comments to read the post from the kid in the video. To my surprise there's a new one from 3 months ago.
@@balazsvarga1636 mythomaniacs everywhere
I'm so thankful someone took the time to record this. I absolutely love everything about this video! Thank you!
Miss Jean - Me too, I feel like I’m in a time machine and experiencing the 80’s.
He recorded a whole lot. Sadly the cameraman died in 1989... he wanted to turn his footage into a tv show. Name was nelson sullivan
Nelson Sullivan is popular now in 2018 sadly hes not here to realize that there is alot audience watching his videos now days
Deathzone - Who the hell is Nelson Sullivan?
devonferris hes the camera man that's what all these videos are about on this channel
The Brooklyn and the subways of my youth. 😘
4:26 Anyone else go to movies at the Loew’s Oriental? 86th & 18th Ave.
(This is also the “Stayin’ Alive” Street made famous by Travolta)
Back when rats weren’t official citizens
LMAAAO!!!! THAT is fuuunny
Lol 😂
Soooo true😂😂😂
LOLOL
A moment of silence that TH-cam haven’t recommended to some people
I am here now
Today it recommend it to me
Boomers : Cheap real estate
Millennials : Chill lo-fi beats to study and relax to
Gen-X : Train Ride to Coney Island in 1987
Gen X listens to lofi too
alaskaxx Gen x would have been the kids in the train to Coney Island video
We're gen z..
Millennial here 😂
@@BrB0424 good for you...? I don't get your point...
Op didn't say anything about gen z...
Whenever you feel like NYC is going down the tubes, watch this video and re evaluate your situation
Who else needs a "where are they now" edition?
yeah I wonder how they look now or if they are still alive
The guy shooting the video died of a heart attack in 89. Alot of his friends died of aids although im unsure if those in the video were victims.
Im sure the mum and 2 kids made it through
Jock uptown can u tell me how u got this info want to research more
Just wikipedia and internet searches. Their lifes have been well documented
@@Jockuptown ok thanks I could only find the guy shooting the vid
I lived in Brooklyn and would take this train ride often in the 80s. This brought back so many memories. Graffiti and all, it didn't seem weird or shady to me. It was always intriguing.
Your face is so young )), are you joking ))?
@@YAntoxa I'm gonna be 40 later this year 😂
@@Bori_princess38 ok, that was late 80th )))
Let's go take a trip through memory lane
@@YAntoxa its in our dna ... jlo genes ;-)
I find this intriguing. Seems like another world
Ahmed Harris Ahmed Harrissa :)
A better world
Yeah... Feels like 1990 sega and nintendo games area...
Without smartphones then
lakers4life2018 Not really.
Watching this from in Japan, I can imagine the shock of any Japanese tourist taking this train.
Back in the day when newyorkers lived in nyc
No kidding!
Where do they live now?
@@joecook5689on a rock floating in space
You mean Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. Do you even NY?
Joe Cook some are homeless, some in neighboring states they've been pushed into because gentrification has made an already pricey city into an unnecessarily expensive one
The weirdest part of this is how normal everything is.
What do you mean normal
@Snails40 thanks just wanted someone elses view on it
@Snails40 at least they don't have ugly ass trains like that year anymore
@Alexander Supertramp Oh yeah it's only literally twice the time I've been on this planet, my bad.
This was just hours before the planes hit
The times when you could dangle around barefoot and wearing trunks only and nobody gave shit about it.
murienrouge who the fuck would want to live in a world like that? it's like everywhere you go, you're in a Walmart world.
Joel Moreno
walmart?.
where are all the fatties
I also think it has to do with our phones. I mean everything is recordable in a second. If you dare to do something different than others like overthere in a subway you can count on it that your face is shown atleast at one social media platform. It's a bit like big brother is watching you all the time.
that's cause it was less people then, without it being labeled like in today's world.
you always belive what you heard?
See this is what New York City used to look like. So when you see the TV show Friends, and everybody asks, ooh how could they afford those nice apartments in NYC on their small salaries?,.. this is why right here. This is what a lot of areas of New York used to look like before gentrification. It changed rapidly throughout the 90s though.
just a regular 80s day at Brooklyn... thanks youtube, that was an intriguing video
Matheus Lima thank Nelson
Only rich people can buy a camera back in 1980s
Not necessarily somebody could have saved up money.
I got my first "cam-corder" in 1987. That fucker was HUGE. Walking around with it in public people would ask what news station I worked for. LOL
@@said.skopal hope thats a joke. 20 dollars buys you a camera
MsCutestOne it’s not a Carmen it’s a video recorder so it’s even more expensive
No, not really. Cameras were getting more affordable then.
I’ve been scrolling in the comment for a while and haven’t found one that’s older than 2 years lol. Oh how the TH-cam algorithm works.
i wonder the same
Yeah it sucks. I would like some mix of old and new (and top and random)
And here we are
Nobody has commented on the quality of the video. It's quite good for the 80's don't you think?
Source have higher resolution than VHS, usual in those years. S-VHS or Hi8 camera must likely. Well preserved and digitized in 90ies.
If I could explain you the sense of "posticcio". I can't find in English a word as appropriate as that one.
Way better then an android camera to say the least
@@alexandr33031 lol a pixel 2 has a much better camera them any iPhone now
@@dario1998 Come mai posticcio? Non avevo pensato a questo termine!
I felt like i got mugged by just watching this video.
Is this the story of how Marlin Manson got his start ?
You got your time mugged 😈
TheNobody1312 yea, to much hatred , selfish ,spoiled ,entitlement now.
@TheNobody1312 Well, unless 80s and 90s kids found their way to Neverland, they aged and survived the 2000s and are currently surviving in this decade as well.
Lmao fuck you
How can someone lay shirtless and barefoot on a NYC subway
I know i thought it was a bum until i realized it was the little boy they were traveling with.
People were having unprotected sex like crazy during this time. They weren't really worrying about STDs much less of communicable diseases from public spaces. They didn't really start to talk about any of that until like the 90's after the AIDS epidemic in 1981.
Kid's going to the beach?
Because it was 1987 lol
davfar459 what the fuck is wrong with you.
This video is really well done, it captures a slice of life at the time it was made. Few of us think to document the present, not realizing how important it might be in the future. Regarding the shirtless guy, New York can get really hot and humid in the summer, and train cars were often not air-conditioned.
When this randomly pops up in your suggested loo
I know. Where the hell did this come from?? Haha
Lowkey Matt yup
Lowkey Matt, I wonder why?
very strange
Lowkey Matt same
Glad I'm not the only one haha