Oh, me too. My grandfather was born in New York in 1885, what a treat it would be to walk into one of those pictures and come across a 10- or 12-year-old, who happened to be him.
@@AdaKizi248 I'm sure you'd recognize him instantly and he might wonder why you look like his family members. He might think you're his uncle or something
These videos are really cool. Makes me feel like im actually there watching a simpler time pass before me. Very nostalgic, thank you for your excellent work!
My great grandfather was born in 1899. He died 2 months after I was born at 88 years old in 1987 because 3 guys mugged him coming out of a casino and he died about a week later of his injuries. He was a real small man who never weighed over 120 pounds his entire life from what I've heard. He was still in amazing health though and probably would have lived to 100 or better if it wasn't for those punks.
I have been painting streets scenes of Buffalo and NY after one of my favorite painters, Childe Hassam (1859-1939) and these photos include some great reference photos. My great grandfather (1845-1927) was a lumbar inspector in Buffalo --I have a nice cedar chest he made about 1905. My mom (1918 - ) will be 100 in November. Her father (1882-1970) went door to door in Buffalo teaching piano. At first I thought the clomp clomp of carriages was charming but then I read how the manure really piled up and how many horse were lost each year, especially in winter, from falls and accidents (thousands/yr).
I once asked my grandma, born around 1920s, on how they lived such "boring" life. I was a child and asked that coz i knew there was no tv, phones, cars etc back then. She said "though we did not have all those we still knew people who lived far from her home. People had time to visit family and friends. Children had time to play and there were lots of open land to play. People got together and shared their stories which not only passed their time but also helped people de stress if it was something bad. So she was a happy young woman.The one thing she like liked about the later years was that medical advancement helped cure diseases which used to be fatal.
@Ken Lompart When I got bored as a kid in the 1940's /50's. I learned to keep my mouth shut. If I complained to my mother ,that I was bored, she would say ,''Aren't you the lucky one'', See that tin of polish ? or, ''that bag of spuds over there, and that peeler''
Time for you to go back to school and study history. The car was invented in 1886 by Karl Benz and the phone was invented in 1849 by an Italian, but it was Alexander Graham Bell who won the first patent for the phone in 1876.
@@MrDaiseymay Well the poor still have to be content that way... But if you are saying there weren't any kids around to play man you sure must be on an isolated island
Thanks for sharing that. Yes, it is hard to miss what you've never had. Except for me, because I miss flying cars. Indeed, it is true I've never had them, but I know these wonderful passenger drones are right around the corner! It is just a matter of patience to be able to watch happily all our roadways turn back into meadows🌾
Salute to brilliant visionary who took such photos. Those were the days.No pollution,no traffic jams,no hectic and no tension. Heart diseases, strokes,cancer ,diabetes to name a few are the byeproducts of today's artificial hectic life in pollution .Salute once again from Indians.
I get the attraction. But living then was not romantic at all. These photos guve a very false sense of how hard life was this far in the past. No phones. No electricity. No easy transportation. No washing machines. On and on. You are alive now, in the 21st century because this is the time you are meant to be alive.
@@yvonneplant9434 You are silly. All of it you notised were at that time. Were phones. Were electric maschines, elevators for example, were railways ( about century allready ), were automobiles. And many others. Automatic telephone exchange, cinema, sound recording. Americans, do you know your own history at least ? Or you intrest are only money, glamour, instagram ? Be well
It's funny looking at those people. You wonder what sort of lives they led. They would have had to face World War 1 in about 20 years time, the Russian Revolution etc etc. Little did they know. Just as we today know very little about what will happen in 20 years from now.
That architecture was fantastic. ---SNIP--- yeah my past self had some stupid ideas about modern architecture so I deleted the idiotic tirade against modernism that used to constitute the rest of this comment.
@@zachmcewen4048 It depends for what. Generally speaking, that's true, but if humanity disappeared tomorrow, what do you think would collapse first? all the modern buildings. Old stone architecture will stand for a lot of centuries even without human presence, while modern architecture need constant care (and eventually destruction in most cases). Another thing: the old architecture is a testimony a civilisation, a culture. Modern architecture is just that worldwide stuff that doesn't have this kind of meaning anymore.
I tell you what why don't you go back to that time and live for a couple months ! Fire hazard buildings. - walk-ups- no hot water- one toilet per building and no ! Electricity- no heat ! - no welfare no food stamps no unemployment no social security = you wouldn't last a week !
Amazing photos. How I wished cameras were invented much earlier cuz I would love to see how New York looked like during the 1600s when it was called New Amsterdam.
That architecture was fantastic. I'm so glad much of it is preserved today, but it sickens me to think that during the mid-20th century people actually thought they weren't worth keeping, or that a glass box would be better. (Edited to remove some overly harsh comments about modern architecture that I made when I was less experienced in architecture. I actually love a ton of modern architecture, I just hate when a developer builds some cheap crap for maximum profit where there used to be a historic building.)
Modern buildings have structural strength and performance. Architecture back then doesn't have structural framing meaning that buildings are not flexible. The invention of steel framing enables builders to builder taller, flexible structure. Plus its lightweight and and bear wind resistance
@@c.benmansour3546 We do. I've been studying architecture history at the university level for a few years. Most of these buildings were built in the 3 decades after the Civil War, while some of the smaller wooden buildings date to the early 1800s or the 1700s. I guarantee the historical societies and landmarks commissions in the region have their dates of construction archived.
Wow, all the buildings were solid as a rock! I wouldn't be surprised if most of them are still standing today (unless they were deliberately subject to the wrecking ball). Wish the Post Office was still around for all of us to admire today.
They really werent solid as a rock. They just looked more ornate. Old facades still fall off these buildings every year and sometimes kill or injure people. Many are still standing. But many had to be replaced because there was no more room in the city so they needed to build higher.
It was called "Mullett's Monstrosity". Apparently was demolished for being too ugly. Was built in the style of the second French Empire. Funny enough its now considered one of that architects best works.
@RebelWithoutaPause I'm just nitpicking I admit, but how can you even put "greco romano" and "neo-gothic" just next to each other as if it was "one" thing. First, most of the architecture you're refering to as "greco roman" after the Renaissance, and especially in the 19th century, just had a greco-roman "style" but had technically not much to do with the greco roman architecture, which was incomparably less advanced. As for the neo-gothic architecture, it's the complete opposite of anything roman, it was a revival from the gothic architecture which appeared in the middle age in France. It was named "gothic" centuries later, during the renaissance, to belittle it as the product of barbarians (=the goths, even if they had nothing to do with it), as opposed to the roman fashion back then. In a nutshell, nothing roman about it. Sorry about the uselessly long post.
Gt grandfather owned a saloon at 453 Washington St in the 1870s. It was a block and a half from the north river (Hudson). The building was razed in the early 1890s and re-dedicated in 1892. You can see that date on top of the building. What remains of the past are the horse hitches that are still there in front of an existing restaurant.
You dont know me but I am writing to you from 1895 in my NY City Apartment. I hope you all are enjoying my wonderful city and this invention called the Video. ...
Love the old Timey piano music! I used to play that type of music on a piano in a turn of the century attraction near where I went to college. I used to put thumbtacks on the hammers to get that tinny sound.
Anyone know what the structure that looks like a radio antenna in on the left of the frame at 2:02 ? Note, it can't be a radio antenna since commercial radio use didn't occur until 1900.
I just received information that the structure was most likely a large lightning rod placed where it was to both protect St. Paul's Chapel as well as the immediate surrounding area.
I remember these days, I went with my grandmother and parents through the streets, we had no phones or TV and we had to play out the street, I remember when I saw a car for the first time, me as a kid was really impressed.. Oh good old days how much I miss them.
It sounded like some old drunk playing the piano. Everything and everyone seemed so civilized back then. Forward 120 years and you'll find that society's actually regressed. London, where I'm from, has the same problem as NYC.
My Grandpa was born in 1883 and Grandma is 1887 in Buffalo. Grandpa went house to house teaching piano and from age 13 on Grandma sewed dresses (no form just measured). When mom was 4 years old (now 98 and doing well), the doctor said to go out west for her health and so they came to California. They never really understood the laxness of later generations. When you're younger, you think of these time as ancient/long ago -- but when you get older you realize ---not so long ago.
Thanks would love to go back in a time machine to that era! Used to live, work and go to a university and art school in Manhattan in the late 1960s and 70s. Lived in an old brownstone built in the late 1800s on the upper East side and my husband a real New Yorker was born in Manhattan and his family used to live on the lower east side before moving to Yonkers in the 1930s. I remember some of these iconic scenes. I have some great photo books on Manhattan in the 19th century by Dover Publications! I ♥New York despite the grime and the crime! lol
I was born in 1983, my Gt grandfather was born in 1891 and he died in 1988(97 years old) and when i was a child he always told me about how italy(i'm italian) was different in 1890s' and 1900s'. No car, hard life, all people with good clothes even for go to supermarket. P.S.= sorry for bad english i'm from Rome (Italy)
I'd love to visit those days. I'll be sure to bring medication, vintage money, and dress up appropriately for the era. Regarding technology like smartphones or TV, I can temporarily get along without them.
GregoryTheGr8ster No stress? Really? Life was extremely stressful, back then. It was just a different type of stress. Yeah, let's go back to the days of Jim Crow, poor science, and when people with mental illnesses were tortured in asylums.
A good photo book is New York Sunshine and Shadow by Roger Whitehouse. Earliest photo is from 1853 and goes to 1915. Most are from the Museum of the City of New York and you could access photos at their website or the NY Public Library, National Archives. In 1980, I stayed with artist friends on Mulberry while working at the Bronx VA. That area is too expensive now & photos of hand carts at a wholesale grocer on Mott St are all that are left. That building a blank wall on Mott. My grandfather stayed with an uncle on lower Mulberry when he came in 1905 but my foster mother's family arrived in 1880 and lived in Italian Harlem.
Little did they know ... in less than a hundred years ... Friends would begin ... Good video. I never thought that anywhere in the 1890s could look like this.
So crazy that people were still going on the Oregon trail and fighting Indians…yellow fever and the elements to get to California not long before these photos
Amazing how they built all these buildings .With no more than horse and cart and mainly unskilled workers .Most people couldn't even read or write back then .Makes me wonder just how much history is made up.
Sigh. READ SOME HISTORY. They had a *heck* of a lot more going for them than horse carts. How do you think they made railroads and ocean liners? There were steel mills and steam-driven heavy equipment like cranes and tractors. There’s tons of sources where you can find photos and descriptions of construction techniques. Maybe engineers and workers back then didn’t have computers but they weren’t primitive shack-builders either.
Man, this is one of the weirdest time periods in history, to me...I mean, they're still in the XIX century, though some pictures look like they were taken in the 1970s, only with horses and carriages! This is the time span where skyscrapers and old-fashioned XIX century clothes coexisted. These pictures really look like someone used a time machine to mix up two completely different time periods, and I love it!
It was a time of transition. The world was on the cusp of what we think of as “modern”. Cars were just on the horizon, electric lines were being run, the airplane was only a few years in the future, and so on. It’s not surprising there’d be a contrast as older tech and fashions were being replaced by the world we know. Look up what the 1950s were like - there was still a lot of stuff left from the 1930s and 40s, but you can also see today’s world starting to take shape. Fascinating stuff.
@@Dovah689 Suuure. No evidence, no photos, no corroborated accounts ... how does it explain *anything* except the lure of 19th century Russian fables?.
No words, just speechless, I think we all should watch this kind of pics and videos, we will remember the death and God fear, so we will spend our lives in good deeds
It was called "Mullett's Monstrosity". Apparently was demolished for being too ugly. Was built in the style of the second French Empire. Funny enough its now considered one of that architects best works.
I was incredibly sadden to know this awesome looking was demolished. I guess they thought the original NY Penn Station was "ugly" and look what we got.
Actually a more modern Post Office was built right above the train tracks on 33rd and eighth. At the time moving mail by train was the new and fastest way. Shame about the wonderful bldg. though. At least it was replaced by a nice park and not an ugly, no character, modern bldg.
Still better than New Delhi, even before century. Thanks American Love you from India. We are struggling here with stray dog's. Living our life under threat.
I wouldn't have minded if all world cities would have kept the old architecture. Now every big city looks like any other, with glass and steel super skyscrapers, like it belongs in a science fiction outer space film (a "space opera"). New York City looked so much more human back then. And that post office - Wow! I wouldn't have minded living in the NYC of that time. Of course, I'm not forgetting that public sanitation wasn't that good and the poor had it very rough!. The period music made this video so nice! What's the name of the piece?
At 1:30 the video displays Tony Pastor's Theater. Tony Pastor's biography is certainly worth reading in Wikipedia. What confuses me, though, is what appears to be light bulbs on the letters in the sign. Anyone have any ideas as to what, instead, those "light bulbs" are or are they among the first working light bulbs used in the world?
Light bulbs were available in the late 1800s. Some cities went all-out to electrify - e.g. Scranton PA, then a fairly major city, boasted about being 100% electrified by 1888.
I think that picture of "Mulberry Bend, Park" (2:48) is mis-labeled. This was the center of the infamous "Five Points," and should be surrounded by tenements, and flooded with people and pushcarts. Besides, Mulberry Bend Park wasn't even created until 1897!!
Agreed. I know that neighborhood extremely well, having worked there for many years. That is most certainly not the future site of what is now Columbus Park.
The photo identified as West End, on the Upper West Side, is almost certainly what was then called "The Boulevard," what we now call Broadway. The center mall area exists today, although it has been narrowed over the years to allow room for additional cars.. Incidentally, notice the streetcar on the far left, possibly horse drawn, another clue to the identity of this street.
Looking at that one street cart loaded down with newspapers. At one time, I believe New York York City had at least half a dozen daily newspapers. What magazines and newspapers survive today are mostly online.
They would have added that to the Video for posting, just to accompany it. There wasn't any sound with Movies before about 1929 or so. It may be music from that timeframe but not part of the original footage.
Вы что не понимаете, что это не они всё строили, даже стёкол на окнах нет. Это невозможно построить на лошадях с телегами, без кранов такие высотки. Ну люди или слепые или тупые что ли. Мозги включите
@@ФаридаЧумарина Если бы ВЫ использовали свой мозг, вы бы знали, что XIX век не был временем пещерных людей. У них определенно ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНО была огромная строительная техника, такая как краны, экскаваторы и шкивы. Машины приводились в движение большими паровыми двигателями. Да, у строителей не было компьютеров, но они всё равно МНОГО понимали в технологиях проектирования и строительства. Любой, кто говорит обратное, дезинформирован или пытается ввести вас в заблуждение.
![[60 fps] A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s / Un voyage à travers Paris, 1890](/img/n.gif)
My great grandma May was born on November 21st, 1897 in NYC. She lived until November 22nd, 1997. Just one day of her 100th birthday.
Heidi Graney longevity. Bless her ❤
May she rest well mate.
Heidi Graney my great grandmother lived until she was 102. She was born around that date also.
she saw so much change in her lifetime in the city. i cant imagine what that would be like
I'm 32 overweight and smoke cigarettes I will never make it to such an age unless I dont make some changes
I have watched this quite a few times over the years. It seems to draw me back.
That was lovely. In going thru old boxes from my parent's attic I found family albums from then, and even earlier. The buildings were beautiful.
New York architecture was so beautiful back then. So sad that so much of it has disappeared.
Why
@@malcolmcanning548 just because??
@@janeyd5280 Just because what??? Explain or don't leave stupid lazy responses.
That post office had to be destroyed. It's too obvious that we did not build it in the 1890's with horse and wagons.
Destruction of evidence
I wish I could go inside pictures. I always like to see pictures of old times like these. everything looked so simple. so beautiful
That would be awesome to go into a picture. Old or new. Great idea.
Wow good idea
Me too
Oh, me too. My grandfather was born in New York in 1885, what a treat it would be to walk into one of those pictures and come across a 10- or 12-year-old, who happened to be him.
@@AdaKizi248 I'm sure you'd recognize him instantly and he might wonder why you look like his family members. He might think you're his uncle or something
Bless their hearts. Everyone in this video played, worked and was raised with great family values, and now they’re all in Heaven ❤️❤️❤️
Some of them are probably in hell, I’m pretty sure not all of them were good people.
Al Capone was born here, he’s in the hottest pits of hell
@@darkyboode3239yep there were a lot of pick pockets back then
من قال انهم فى الجنة … ان الدين عند الله الإسلام
Wonderful piano music!!!
These videos are really cool. Makes me feel like im actually there watching a simpler time pass before me. Very nostalgic, thank you for your excellent work!
It's amazing what our ancestors had to go through; just think, we are all here because there resilience.. absolutely amazing. Today we are spoiled 😊
Beautiful photos of old
New York.
My great grand ma was born in 1896. She died in 1977 at the age of 81 when I was 6. I still remember her vividly.
My great grandfather was born in 1899. He died 2 months after I was born at 88 years old in 1987 because 3 guys mugged him coming out of a casino and he died about a week later of his injuries. He was a real small man who never weighed over 120 pounds his entire life from what I've heard. He was still in amazing health though and probably would have lived to 100 or better if it wasn't for those punks.
This is why I like to watch old westerns, the beautiful scenery in the movies, the simplicity of it just calms your soul
Well said and I agree
Love NY so much! I was there from 1999∼2003 had a lot memories there.
Fantastic Video of beautiful people and city...Hi from italy
I have been painting streets scenes of Buffalo and NY after one of my favorite painters, Childe Hassam (1859-1939) and these photos include some great reference photos. My great grandfather (1845-1927) was a lumbar inspector in Buffalo --I have a nice cedar chest he made about 1905. My mom (1918 - ) will be 100 in November. Her father (1882-1970) went door to door in Buffalo teaching piano. At first I thought the clomp clomp of carriages was charming but then I read how the manure really piled up and how many horse were lost each year, especially in winter, from falls and accidents (thousands/yr).
Besides the smell and the mess, The manure contributed to many diseases.
fantastica. niste foto rare. cit de tare as vrea sa vad aceasta cu ochii mei. salut din moldova
Love to see these old pictures of NY.
I once asked my grandma, born around 1920s, on how they lived such "boring" life. I was a child and asked that coz i knew there was no tv, phones, cars etc back then. She said "though we did not have all those we still knew people who lived far from her home. People had time to visit family and friends. Children had time to play and there were lots of open land to play. People got together and shared their stories which not only passed their time but also helped people de stress if it was something bad. So she was a happy young woman.The one thing she like liked about the later years was that medical advancement helped cure diseases which used to be fatal.
@Ken Lompart When I got bored as a kid in the 1940's /50's. I learned to keep my mouth shut. If I complained to my mother ,that I was bored, she would say ,''Aren't you the lucky one'', See that tin of polish ? or, ''that bag of spuds over there, and that peeler''
Time for you to go back to school and study history. The car was invented in 1886 by Karl Benz and the phone was invented in 1849 by an Italian, but it was Alexander Graham Bell who won the first patent for the phone in 1876.
@@MrDaiseymay Well the poor still have to be content that way... But if you are saying there weren't any kids around to play man you sure must be on an isolated island
Thanks for sharing that. Yes, it is hard to miss what you've never had. Except for me, because I miss flying cars. Indeed, it is true I've never had them, but I know these wonderful passenger drones are right around the corner! It is just a matter of patience to be able to watch happily all our roadways turn back into meadows🌾
Yet "kids" are indeed still a relatively modern invention it seems.
Salute to brilliant visionary who took such photos.
Those were the days.No pollution,no traffic jams,no hectic and no tension.
Heart diseases, strokes,cancer ,diabetes to name a few are the byeproducts of today's artificial hectic life in pollution .Salute once again from Indians.
Crazy to know that my great grandpa was born during this era
It's like you gave me a wonderful gift. Thank you.
Absolutely love the architecture, all of today’s technology yet nothing compares. Rather live back then, then in todays world.
There is some effort to stop using so much glass in high rises.
I get the attraction. But living then was not romantic at all. These photos guve a very false sense of how hard life was this far in the past.
No phones. No electricity. No easy transportation. No washing machines. On and on.
You are alive now, in the 21st century because this is the time you are meant to be alive.
@@yvonneplant9434 You are silly. All of it you notised were at that time. Were phones. Were electric maschines, elevators for example, were railways ( about century allready ), were automobiles. And many others. Automatic telephone exchange, cinema, sound recording. Americans, do you know your own history at least ? Or you intrest are only money, glamour, instagram ? Be well
It's funny looking at those people. You wonder what sort of lives they led. They would have had to face World War 1 in about 20 years time, the Russian Revolution etc etc. Little did they know. Just as we today know very little about what will happen in 20 years from now.
oh, I see what you mean, yeah---hilarious
they wouldnt face the russian revolution because this is new york city dumbass
What about great Depression of 1929
World War 1, the Great depression, no alcohol, the beginning of electricity, and many more obstacles to hurdle.
@@peace_cat76absolutely love your comment...thankyou
Great photos of the past. Glad that you have labeled them.
That architecture was fantastic. ---SNIP--- yeah my past self had some stupid ideas about modern architecture so I deleted the idiotic tirade against modernism that used to constitute the rest of this comment.
buildings will be much more advanced by the 22nd century than currently.
but was it structurally sound?
The details are so excellent
@@zachmcewen4048 It depends for what. Generally speaking, that's true, but if humanity disappeared tomorrow, what do you think would collapse first? all the modern buildings. Old stone architecture will stand for a lot of centuries even without human presence, while modern architecture need constant care (and eventually destruction in most cases).
Another thing: the old architecture is a testimony a civilisation, a culture. Modern architecture is just that worldwide stuff that doesn't have this kind of meaning anymore.
I tell you what why don't you go back to that time and live for a couple months ! Fire hazard buildings. - walk-ups- no hot water- one toilet per building and no ! Electricity- no heat ! - no welfare no food stamps no unemployment no social security = you wouldn't last a week !
Amazing photos. How I wished cameras were invented much earlier cuz I would love to see how New York looked like during the 1600s when it was called New Amsterdam.
It's 17th century..and you don't say 1600s..you say 1601s.
New York started in the year, 1524.
That architecture was fantastic. I'm so glad much of it is preserved today, but it sickens me to think that during the mid-20th century people actually thought they weren't worth keeping, or that a glass box would be better. (Edited to remove some overly harsh comments about modern architecture that I made when I was less experienced in architecture. I actually love a ton of modern architecture, I just hate when a developer builds some cheap crap for maximum profit where there used to be a historic building.)
Amen!
Modern buildings have structural strength and performance. Architecture back then doesn't have structural framing meaning that buildings are not flexible. The invention of steel framing enables builders to builder taller, flexible structure. Plus its lightweight and and bear wind resistance
If I was talking about modern structural technology, I would have said that. I am talking purely about aesthetics.
I wish we know the real age of these buildings.
Our history books are ridiculous.
@@c.benmansour3546 We do. I've been studying architecture history at the university level for a few years. Most of these buildings were built in the 3 decades after the Civil War, while some of the smaller wooden buildings date to the early 1800s or the 1700s. I guarantee the historical societies and landmarks commissions in the region have their dates of construction archived.
Wow, all the buildings were solid as a rock! I wouldn't be surprised if most of them are still standing today (unless they were deliberately subject to the wrecking ball). Wish the Post Office was still around for all of us to admire today.
They really werent solid as a rock. They just looked more ornate. Old facades still fall off these buildings every year and sometimes kill or injure people. Many are still standing. But many had to be replaced because there was no more room in the city so they needed to build higher.
The demolition of that NY post office building was a crime!!
Hellen Laespriell I thought the same thing. What a beautiful building.
It was called "Mullett's Monstrosity". Apparently was demolished for being too ugly. Was built in the style of the second French Empire. Funny enough its now considered one of that architects best works.
Yes agreed!!
Hellen Laespriell ...the building was a hazard..
@RebelWithoutaPause I'm just nitpicking I admit, but how can you even put "greco romano" and "neo-gothic" just next to each other as if it was "one" thing. First, most of the architecture you're refering to as "greco roman" after the Renaissance, and especially in the 19th century, just had a greco-roman "style" but had technically not much to do with the greco roman architecture, which was incomparably less advanced. As for the neo-gothic architecture, it's the complete opposite of anything roman, it was a revival from the gothic architecture which appeared in the middle age in France. It was named "gothic" centuries later, during the renaissance, to belittle it as the product of barbarians (=the goths, even if they had nothing to do with it), as opposed to the roman fashion back then. In a nutshell, nothing roman about it.
Sorry about the uselessly long post.
Only 90s kids will remember this #1890skid
Lol
Lmao good one!
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Manuel Colon Soto most certainly not
The glorious majesty of 1890s New York - look at the Post Office in 1892.
Gt grandfather owned a saloon at 453 Washington St in the 1870s. It was a block and a half from the north river (Hudson). The building was razed in the early 1890s and re-dedicated in 1892. You can see that date on top of the building. What remains of the past are the horse hitches that are still there in front of an existing restaurant.
Hooi👍
Ted Mosby, is that you?
I Google earthed the address. What is that building now? Looks neat
Gd
Bob Hazel thanks for your story. I makes it more real to hear it.xx
Thank you for this video!!
They sure had grand architecture back then.
You dont know me but I am writing to you from 1895 in my NY City Apartment. I hope you all are enjoying my wonderful city and this invention called the Video. ...
Love the old Timey piano music! I used to play that type of music on a piano in a turn of the century attraction near where I went to college. I used to put thumbtacks on the hammers to get that tinny sound.
WOW SUCH BEAUTIFUL MUSIC...... HOW DOES ANYONE IGNORE THIS...... IT BEAUTIFUL.
Anyone know what the structure that looks like a radio antenna in on the left of the frame at 2:02 ? Note, it can't be a radio antenna since commercial radio use didn't occur until 1900.
i thought the same
Atmospheric electricity capture.
I just received information that the structure was most likely a large lightning rod placed where it was to both protect St. Paul's Chapel as well as the immediate surrounding area.
@@claudiahansen4938 Yup, otherwise known as a "lightning rod".
@@lazurm Or LIGHTNING rod. "lightening" is VERY different 😃😁
Classic collection, awesome collection, peoples are awesome
Great New York. The best city in the world.
I remember these days, I went with my grandmother and parents through the streets, we had no phones or TV and we had to play out the street, I remember when I saw a car for the first time, me as a kid was really impressed.. Oh good old days how much I miss them.
It sounded like some old drunk playing the piano. Everything and everyone seemed so civilized back then. Forward 120 years and you'll find that society's actually regressed. London, where I'm from, has the same problem as NYC.
People werent any more or less civilized back then. You still had crime, still had debauchery. People don't change.
Splendida come sempre , complimenti x il video e colonna sonora
New York, bonita desde antigamente, parece São Paulo antigo.
New York sempre New York.
So beautiful! I would have loved to live in NYC at that time 😘😘
@Josh Traffanstedt well that’s your opinion
My Grandpa was born in 1883 and Grandma is 1887 in Buffalo. Grandpa went house to house teaching piano and from age 13 on Grandma sewed dresses (no form just measured). When mom was 4 years old (now 98 and doing well), the doctor said to go out west for her health and so they came to California. They never really understood the laxness of later generations. When you're younger, you think of these time as ancient/long ago -- but when you get older you realize ---not so long ago.
Mark Landes you were born in 1928?
@@UnknownPerson-ve3uv his mother would’ve birthed him at like 10 I don’t think so even tho it’s possible
by the time i would get older then they are long ago/ancient
I didn't know that they had motorised trucks in 1897. Eye opener !!
מרגש/גם הסרטון וגם הליווי המוסיקלי. פשוט הנאה צרופה. תודה!
Thanks would love to go back in a time machine to that era! Used to live, work and go to a university and art school in Manhattan in the late 1960s and 70s. Lived in an old brownstone built in the late 1800s on the upper East side and my husband a real New Yorker was born in Manhattan and his family used to live on the lower east side before moving to Yonkers in the 1930s. I remember some of these iconic scenes. I have some great photo books on Manhattan in the 19th century by Dover Publications! I ♥New York despite the grime and the crime! lol
Wonderful pic , really love to see old building in real
I was born in 1983, my Gt grandfather was born in 1891 and he died in 1988(97 years old) and when i was a child he always told me about how italy(i'm italian) was different in 1890s' and 1900s'. No car, hard life, all people with good clothes even for go to supermarket.
P.S.= sorry for bad english i'm from Rome (Italy)
Incredible, thanks for posting.
Life was so much simpler back then. There was almost no stress. Why can't we go back to those days?
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On second thought, maybe you are right!
GregoryTheGr8ster amen
I'd love to visit those days. I'll be sure to bring medication, vintage money, and dress up appropriately for the era. Regarding technology like smartphones or TV, I can temporarily get along without them.
If we get rid of all of our technology we can be there again DELETE ALL YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA
GregoryTheGr8ster
No stress? Really? Life was extremely stressful, back then. It was just a different type of stress. Yeah, let's go back to the days of Jim Crow, poor science, and when people with mental illnesses were tortured in asylums.
A good photo book is New York Sunshine and Shadow by Roger Whitehouse. Earliest photo is from 1853 and goes to 1915. Most are from the Museum of the City of New York and you could access photos at their website or the NY Public Library, National Archives.
In 1980, I stayed with artist friends on Mulberry while working at the Bronx VA. That area is too expensive now & photos of hand carts at a wholesale grocer on Mott St are all that are left. That building a blank wall on Mott.
My grandfather stayed with an uncle on lower Mulberry when he came in 1905 but my foster mother's family arrived in 1880 and lived in Italian Harlem.
I love that book!
Great memories ❣️♥️❤️❤️😍❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️
The only problem with this video is that it ended after 3 min 38 seconds...I wish there was more!!!
I wish I was living in those days, I like the ragtime music and how women dressed in those days.
Beautiful city , peoples , and arhitecture love from Russia guys .
My grandmother was born in 1885 and died 1967 at 82. lived her whole life in Queens, NY
Little did they know ... in less than a hundred years ... Friends would begin ...
Good video. I never thought that anywhere in the 1890s could look like this.
In 1890 America is already developed..that is the reason today America is top in all segments and ruler in world..
ok and who asked
@@wydneonn2247 who cares?
@@wydneonn2247 loser! hater!
@@corywiedenbeck1562 Loser!! hater!!
2:35 it should be a crime to demolish beautiful old buildings like that.
They didn’t care because they didn’t build it.
TODAY WE ARE WORSE.. THEY LIVED BETTER THAN US... MUCH BETTER LIFE BACK THEM.. I WISH I WOULD HAD LIVED BACK THEN
belle vidéo cool la musique
So crazy that people were still going on the Oregon trail and fighting Indians…yellow fever and the elements to get to California not long before these photos
Amazing how they built all these buildings .With no more than horse and cart and mainly unskilled workers .Most people couldn't even read or write back then .Makes me wonder just how much history is made up.
Sigh. READ SOME HISTORY. They had a *heck* of a lot more going for them than horse carts. How do you think they made railroads and ocean liners? There were steel mills and steam-driven heavy equipment like cranes and tractors.
There’s tons of sources where you can find photos and descriptions of construction techniques. Maybe engineers and workers back then didn’t have computers but they weren’t primitive shack-builders either.
Man, this is one of the weirdest time periods in history, to me...I mean, they're still in the XIX century, though some pictures look like they were taken in the 1970s, only with horses and carriages! This is the time span where skyscrapers and old-fashioned XIX century clothes coexisted. These pictures really look like someone used a time machine to mix up two completely different time periods, and I love it!
Look up tartaria it explains everything
It was a time of transition. The world was on the cusp of what we think of as “modern”. Cars were just on the horizon, electric lines were being run, the airplane was only a few years in the future, and so on.
It’s not surprising there’d be a contrast as older tech and fashions were being replaced by the world we know. Look up what the 1950s were like - there was still a lot of stuff left from the 1930s and 40s, but you can also see today’s world starting to take shape.
Fascinating stuff.
@@Dovah689 Suuure. No evidence, no photos, no corroborated accounts ... how does it explain *anything* except the lure of 19th century Russian fables?.
No words, just speechless, I think we all should watch this kind of pics and videos, we will remember the death and God fear, so we will spend our lives in good deeds
Thanks so much for this videos what a wonder Thank you........
Can you please give me the name of that piano piece? Thanks in advance.
Great pictures 👍👍👍😀😀😀
Wow,that post office is incredible.why did they demolish it?
It was called "Mullett's Monstrosity". Apparently was demolished for being too ugly. Was built in the style of the second French Empire. Funny enough its now considered one of that architects best works.
I was incredibly sadden to know this awesome looking was demolished.
I guess they thought the original NY Penn Station was "ugly" and look what we got.
Actually a more modern Post Office was built right above the train tracks on 33rd and eighth. At the time moving mail by train was the new and fastest way. Shame about the wonderful bldg. though. At least it was replaced by a nice park and not an ugly, no character, modern bldg.
bankruptcy
@Hunter D built in the early 70's, finished in 72/73.
My grandparents were born in the 1890s.
I like traveling to the past
I'm an ex-New Yorker. Enjoyed this very much.
The electricity age in Nyc wow so beautiful
The 1940s to these people would be astonishing
TV, radio, air travel would have been mind-blowing to them.
Still better than New Delhi, even before century. Thanks American Love you from India. We are struggling here with stray dog's. Living our life under threat.
Pictures of New York City in the 1890's, along with captions, somehow pissed off at least 452 people. This is why the aliens have stopped visiting.
No traffic jam 👍👍👍
Nice picture
:54 The New York Palace!!! I love that hotel.
Very nice interesting ,,,,,
I wouldn't have minded if all world cities would have kept the old architecture. Now every big city looks like any other, with glass and steel super skyscrapers, like it belongs in a science fiction outer space film (a "space opera"). New York City looked so much more human back then. And that post office - Wow! I wouldn't have minded living in the NYC of that time. Of course, I'm not forgetting that public sanitation wasn't that good and the poor had it very rough!. The period music made this video so nice! What's the name of the piece?
SO beautiful
At 1:30 the video displays Tony Pastor's Theater. Tony Pastor's biography is certainly worth reading in Wikipedia. What confuses me, though, is what appears to be light bulbs on the letters in the sign. Anyone have any ideas as to what, instead, those "light bulbs" are or are they among the first working light bulbs used in the world?
Light bulbs were available in the late 1800s. Some cities went all-out to electrify - e.g. Scranton PA, then a fairly major city, boasted about being 100% electrified by 1888.
@@Poisson4147 Interesting. Thanks.
Imagine if all of these photos were taken in 1080p, pretty much everything will look just like today.
I think that picture of "Mulberry Bend, Park" (2:48) is mis-labeled. This was the center of the infamous "Five Points," and should be surrounded by tenements, and flooded with people and pushcarts. Besides, Mulberry Bend Park wasn't even created until 1897!!
Agreed. I know that neighborhood extremely well, having worked there for many years. That is most certainly not the future site of what is now Columbus Park.
1890s NY even looked modern and orderly than most of today’s capital cities of the world. 120 years later!
The photo identified as West End, on the Upper West Side, is almost certainly what was then called "The Boulevard," what we now call Broadway. The center mall area exists today, although it has been narrowed over the years to allow room for additional cars.. Incidentally, notice the streetcar on the far left, possibly horse drawn, another clue to the identity of this street.
Looking at that one street cart loaded down with newspapers. At one time, I believe New York York City had at least half a dozen daily newspapers. What magazines and newspapers survive today are mostly online.
My grandpa's grandpa 43 years old in this time 😀
Clean air and way less noisy.
Peaceful times.
Richard Head it’s no better today
Visit the places where the Ellis island immigrants lived, they did the jobs Americans did not want to do
The air was not cleaner. And it sure as hell wasn't peaceful.
videoviewmaker: What name is the piano music ? We are unable to locate the name and composer. Thank you.
Thriller the remix by Michael Jackson!😁
They would have added that to the Video for posting, just to accompany it. There wasn't any sound with Movies before about 1929 or so. It may be music from that timeframe but not part of the original footage.
Would be interesting to see a similar presentation of Boston.
"The Villard Houses"[0:56] (555 Madison Avenue) still remain. They were saved from demolition, and are used for special events.
Who is issuing these demolitions? They’re behaving like isis destroying things like that
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And the music is perfect for this video.
I like the merry go round that says ( A most delightful sensation).
M'mmmm all the throbbing eh girls?
1890s to 1930s truly was the height of Civilization
Thi is my story
More like 1816 to 1913
Вы что не понимаете, что это не они всё строили, даже стёкол на окнах нет. Это невозможно построить на лошадях с телегами, без кранов такие высотки. Ну люди или слепые или тупые что ли. Мозги включите
1889-1960 for me
@@ФаридаЧумарина Если бы ВЫ использовали свой мозг, вы бы знали, что XIX век не был временем пещерных людей. У них определенно ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНО была огромная строительная техника, такая как краны, экскаваторы и шкивы. Машины приводились в движение большими паровыми двигателями.
Да, у строителей не было компьютеров, но они всё равно МНОГО понимали в технологиях проектирования и строительства. Любой, кто говорит обратное, дезинформирован или пытается ввести вас в заблуждение.
How times have changed in 120 years. Planes, rockets, the internet, not sure if life was simpler or harder. Maybe a bit of both.