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- Documentary about the changing urban backdrop of New York City. Join your host Jerry Rio as he takes you on a nostalgic tour as he explores the disappearing icons of this metropolis and find out what New Yorkers think about unchecked development and the corporate homogenization that has altered and destroyed much of the uniqueness of the New York City landscape
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I miss the pre-2000 NYC...so much life & energy back then it was always exciting ...now its very disneyfied & dull, like the soul has been rip right out...thank you for Limelight, Tunnel, Cafe Con Leche, Octagon, Palladium, Twilo, Shelter, Loft, Paradise Garage, Roxy the Dj's, Producers and the many others that made my Nightlife, & great memories
I worked in New York during the 90's and I agree, the nightlife was incredible, !
It's like that because Giuliani wanted only the wealthy to live in NYC
@@andycole366 I'm 43 and grew up in the nyc metro. Spent my teens, 20s and 30s in NYC and it changed 180degrees. It's corporatized now.
Yes, the extinction of distinction to tame the robustness of a people seems to be the agenda. The uniformity of communism as a mindset is being socialized upon the populace.
I'm French and lived on the Upper West Side for 20 years in the 80s 'til after 9/11. I saw the nabe get gentrified over time, some of my favorite landmarks, old watering holes with wood paneling, banks with authentic 19th Cent. fixtures including mosaic floors, revolving doors, beveled glass panes and mirrors etc. and mom and pop stores, esplly bookstores (Endicott on Columbus) etc. and chinese-cuban restaurants that were cheap and good. And the excellent Thalia Theater where I spend many Sunday afternoons watching double features for $5. RIP to all this.
2020 here. The Gap on 35th street herald square is closed. Neiman Marcus, J Crew, Brook brothers are bankrupt and the cycle of life has come full circle where even the national chain retailers are closing. They wouldn't have seen it coming but the era of eCommerce has put all brick and mortar retailers on life support.
There was less entertainment back then. A typical consumer in 1995 would have been entertained walking around the garment district, the Macy's on herald square, chambers, etc. With so much competition for our time I think it was inevitable that changes to NYC would happen.
Whenever I miss the old ny.. I take a walk through the port authority bus terminal area.. and instantly travel back in time.
haha i dont agree. the old times square was gritty but had character. the port authority is just straight up ghetto, homeless and creeps.
I love it! Those "homeless creeps" showed me around The City! like true gentlemen 😇🥰😍
That's because rich Wall Street yuppies with their brat families moved into the Village and bought the apartments that used to be rentals. Now they call it "luxury housing". The art, the music, the little shops, the gay locals, the affordable rentals, etc which were great parts of the Village are sadly gone. Manhattan is looking more like "family city" every year and with Bloomberg banning everything he deems inappropriate the city is no longer unique. I'm glad I lived there from 1987 to 1997.
these monsters are a blight upon American culture.
@whocares anymore well nothing lasts forever and the old new york may come back, as far as i know companies and investors will soon be moving out of nyc, many people have left already. if corona continues it will bring rents etc down
I miss the New York of the 1980s!
Lol my dad used to complain about yuppies moving into NYC back in 95. I was little so had no idea what a yuppie was or why he was complaining. I asked him but can't remember his answer but now as an adult I understand. I miss the old Ny. the little shops my dad would take me to in the village are now all coffee shops and boutiques. All the little trendy shops I loved as a kid and preteen are gone :(
NYC always changes. Everybody has their favorite Era of NYC. I didn't start hanging out in the city until the early 90s. Indie rock shows at places like Brownies, CBGB's, The Grand, Westbeth Theater, and later on, DJ sets at places like Wetlands, Centro-Fly, and the Cooler, and art and music nights run by organizations such as Soundlab (they did a multilevel event in Andy Warhol's "factory" in 1997). There was still plenty of culture in NYC, you just had to know where to find it. I feel like I look back at the 90's to early 2000s like some people look back at the 80s.
In the mid 90s there was no more culture in NYC. Back in the 60s 70s and 80s one didnt have to "FIND IT" to see the culture. It was all over. If you have to "FIND" the culture then clearly it has turned into shit...end of story
I lived on the upper west side near Columbia from 1979 to 1986 or so, then went to Chicago. In the early 90s I saw a article describing how many Starbucks outlets they hoped to have in Manhattan ultimately and all the little locksmith shops and hardware stores and little dinners that would get swallowed up that I have frequented flashed through my mind in an instant. Came back in 89 and stayed until 94 the change had turned the corner as so many wonderful shops were gone: Anybody remember Astor Place Books? -- Now a Starbucks! . . . Was back for a week a year ago. A playground of the rich now. But still magical nevertheless.
Excellent!! The documentation of these old store fronts and neighborhoods is more than nostalgia. It is a sociological document of the city´s descent into the growth of mall culture that crushes the vitality of NYC´s unique ambience and soul. Though, it is sadly the nature of a traditionally long standing trading post that favors profit over character and diversity (culture.) As one aside, Chinatown is one example that seems to work against this trend. Ownership and continuity are a few reasons. The ápple´falls not far from the tree...
Great documentary...and even more has been destroyed since this was made in 1995. Giuliani started the downfall of Manhattan and Bloomberg has further ruined it many, many more times over. Bloomberg is all about his developer buddies and nothing about preservation. I moved here in 1987 and there was still an original Automat on 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue, the original 1959 Howard Johnson's on Broadway, Rocky Lee's Chucho Bianco (where Sinatra ate dinner sometimes in the 1970s). All sadly gone.
Haha, he mentions Tower Records as a problem; we don't even have that anymore!
god this is hilairous right!! uuugh
I miss tower records
Was there really a Tower Records on E86th street like that guy seemed to suggest?
Only a native would know that! 😊
... And thats '95 when things were starting to change for the worse. Tha mid to late 80z were a whole nother world. There was once a time when mom & pop stores existed. & things were made in America. Its a real shame the way thingz have turned. guy at 7:49 on point. Great doc. Much respect Mr Jerry Rio. ... RS70
the 90s was the last great era of nyc culture and arts. now it's just a playground for wealthy elites.
Its crazy to see New Yorkers seeing the city change and now we can see the results of all that change. The soul is gone its all one big tourist trap now.
I grew up in NYC in the 60s, 70s and 80s before I moved out. While we talk about how much has changed since the 80s, I remember my grandmother at that time telling me that the city had changed a lot since her day. She said it was a magical town in the 20s through 40s except for the depression period, which she managed to do okay during. Whether it was cleaner and safer is up for debate, it's never been a truly safe town, but all the fancy buildings and monuments of the early city were new and the subway, too. People were more uniformly dressed then and most people conformed to an agreed upon social norm. Today, it's anything goes.
Watching in 2019
Thank you to the random TH-cam recommended videos.
2020 here yo!
So weird, two places you filmed, one-the 6 train stop near St. Marks...it was right before the closed store turned into a Starbucks, Lol, was the stop I got off the subway, on my days off.
The guy talking about 86th St near Papaya King was right near where I worked and I walked that way in the morning in the summer of 95. I lived several blocks up.
I don't live in NYC but I liked change to a degree. The way NYC is now, I lose my bearings when I visit, it looks so different.
I left Manhattan in '93 so this video looks exactly as I imagine New York to be, even if it no longer is.
At 2:54 ...Hawaii Kai, wow, that is where I had my 18th birthday party. What memories! Dancing...fancy umbrella drinks...gee (sigh)
Memories galore!!! Thank you so much for posting....
8:00 He's on 86th street and 3rd avenue. If he thought it had changed a lot in 1995, You should see it now! Barely recognizable.
@8bobthebuilder
My fellow Australian makes a valid point. I'm surprised that there aren't many regulations in New York to protect old buildings from demolition. Perhaps someone should start a movement to protect New York's heritage structures, much like they did in Sydney.
They have a Landmarks Commission. Many beautiful buildings bite the dust anyway. Irreplaceable buildings that could never be built again with modern methods.
The crap, of course, stays. Postwar trash, commie blocks, all safe & sound.
Make peace with this before moving to New York
This is a very educational video. you have done an awesome job with this video and teaching those who don't know of what was there before it vanished.
GREAT VIDEO....
I LOVE AND MISS "CLASSIC: NYC!!!
Thank you for letting me know- I love this!
Thanks for uploading. Great watch!
Awesome Documentary thanks
Amazing video. I had an eye for things as well. I tool the door pulls from the closed nedicks on times square which were two big hotdogs. I had my eye on the glass door of the Hawaii kai which had a sign on it $7.00 cover with 2 drink minimum great video
I'm glad you chatted with the sort of hippy guy, he was interesting and sited some good examples.
The White Bread lover really surprised me. I tell myself he was being sarcastic just so I don't hate him. He could be dead now anyway, who knows?
You would think a city like NY wouldn't have such an antiquated idea of Urban Renewal. Buildings don't need to be demolished and recreated. Some change is good, can;t be the same forever.
VOTE MONEYBAGS BLOOMBERG OUT, NYC!!
Great vid. Thanks for sharing. I hate corporate greed.
Good vid. Thanks for sending it to me!
My first waiter and then bartender job was at that Tony Roma's at about 3:00. I was 19, fresh from Arkansas. Loved Times Square then.
Thanks THYRDEYE. Yes, one with appreciation for the vanishing paint on buildings from decades ago tell amazing stories if everyone wasn't rushing around. The real tragedies was the architectural 9/11 of razing Penn Station, The Astor Hotel Claridge and the old Times Building. The guy is correct in that The Bowery lay decrepid for decades but in the past ten years it's being destroyed with Yuppiedom like the sleezy theatres w/beautiful old marquees with the old bulbs!
This is great i was 5 years old and liveing in NYC so i know a lot of this. thank you
Wow this is everything i want and more!
Very fun watch
Does anyone remembers THE BLARNEY STONE RESTAURANT AND BAR?
Yes!
Wished I had a chance to see the late 80s to 90s NY
Thanks for sending this my way.
is there a part 2??
Thanks for posting this.
And now the chains are going out of business too
Fuck 'em. They'll be fine.
Doug bananaboy
Payback.
Aye! After running the mom-and-pop stores out of town, they thought they had it made because they were the only kids in town. They became too big for their britches, and then they became careless. And then came the Web, and from there came eBay, Amazon and Rakuten. Now a whole slew of big retail chains are about to bite the big one. It's only a matter of time before Walmart joins them. They're not in NYC because we _still_ value our retail diversity too much to _ever_ allow that corporate termite swarm to get so much as even a _toehold_ in this city and nuke a lot of independent stores from city streets. Walmart would kill city retail much faster than the virus.
Even the bronx lost it's originality
100% ghetto now
Let's not get too nostalgic. One of the reasons a lot of "landmarks" disappear is that they are either of no use, or they're too old.
Tower Records, for instance, closed because nobody was buying CD's anymore. Buildings had to be torn down because they were old and collapsing. Clubs like CBGB's, Coney Island High, and Wetlands, closed because the managers screwed up.
Dam , what a buzzkill u are
Loved the edge and soul that NYC had -- kept out the boring people
We used have a lot of retail along Broadway, Main, and State Streets in downtown Salt Lake back in the day, but then the shopping malls and big box retailers like Wal-Mart came along and these unique small mom and pop stores disappeared.
i remember eating at munson's diner! it was near the westside hwy! what a dump
@SatchmoSings Oh, by the way, a little research goes a long way: 01/06/11 "Though overall album sales dropped 13 percent in 2010, sales of vinyl increased by 14 percent over the previous year, with around 2.8 million units sold. This is a new record for vinyl sales since 1991, when the format had all but disappeared in the wake of the CD boom, according to a report released yesterday by Nielsen SoundScan."
posted cool to hear.
ah the hot dog stand on 42nd street...i remember it so well!
The old Horn and Hardart Automats and Schraft's are long gone. There was even an old beautiful Post Office by Broadway and Park Row by City Hall and The "TWEED" Courthouse that was torn down in the 1920's or 1930's. So much was destroyed with a growing NYC due to the car during the reign of Robert Moses during Mayor Impelletieri and Wagner. Can you envision the old 3rd, 6th Avenue Elevated rail sheds if they weren't torn down in the early-mid 50's?
Even in Astor Place there are the old green subway entrance sheds that are as beautiful as the old traffic towers that adorned the intersections from eighty years ago. Another tragedy are the old hotels long gone like the original Commodore, Belmont, Manhattan, Ambassador, Broadway Central, the original Waldoef Astoria where the Empire State Building now stands. Thanfully, The Muni Building, 90 West Street, Cities Service, GE, Lincoln, Newsweek, 40 Wall Sreet, Paramount in Times Square(CON'T)
Thanks so much. Awesome food for thought. Can't impede "progress" we are often told (whatever that might be of course) but will it be worth while for people (tourists) travelling there if as you suggest it is becoming just another hugeWalmart or whatever? Can't be good for the local economy in that respect surely? I know from other videos that some old ale houses are still there however. Is Macey's Dept store still there or is that now a Walmart or just plain gone?
They've ruined it with those tacky, kitschy Disneyfied overkill of the area. I actually prefer the old peeling paint canopy after canopy porn theatres of the 1970's and eighties. Nothing but junk shops selling magnets, keychains, stuffed animals and tee shirts. No feel at all for the real New York which one must walk the streets and see the treasures of the world's best outdoor theatre.
@Luckilius Now Herr Bloomberg is doing the same thing to Coney Island. Decades old businesses are being driven en masse from the boardwalk. Summer 2012 will see an overpriced Eurotrash Foodcourt in place of Gregory and Paul's, Ruby's, et. al.
In Times Square there was a permanent sign for "Midori Melon liqueur". I never saw it in bars nor did I ever hear anyone ordering it. It's the mystery cocktail ingredient.
I was a bartender near that sign. Tons of drinks are made with Midori.
***** Oh well, you know better. I'm not a sophisticated cocktail drinker but I would appreciate if you could name a few cocktails that use it.
The Midori Melonball (2 oz. Midori, 1oz. Vodka, 3 oz. OJ and some small freshly scooped melonballs ) was the popular one at the Japanese place I worked at in NYC.
My born in 26/2/1995😃
Thanks to THYRDEYE for sharing this video. Very interesting. I'm also trying to decide on whether or not the guy at 9:00 was being sarcastic or not.
@Luckilius i'm from los angeles and it's also been gentrified,banksters rolled in bought out old buildings and turned;em into condos.coffee shops, doggy shampoo shops,yuppies with flipflop walking chihuahua's everywhere.
@OSTARAEB4 The Tweed Courthouse is still very much standing; the NYC Dept. of Education is headquarted in it.
I can still envision the old 3rd Ave. El along with all the horrible tenements, most of which have all been mercifully torn down.
Bridgeport Connecticut has plenty of this.. Old vintage hotels/schools etc were converted to homes
The editor has abused the effects box :) The interviews with the handheld mic prove that a soundman with a mic on a fishing pole makes cleaner image.
Times change. The same thing happened to London. There’s no going back. No one’s gonna let you smoke a cigarette in a bar or in the lobby of a hotel. Those days are long gone.
Some great old footage and narration here, also some great interviewees too! But you can't please all of the people all of the time, not even some of the time! Nostalgia eh - it's not what it used to be, is it?
This piece would have played well on one of my old employer's showcases, Rainbow Media's Metro TV.
Classic
Coincidentally I was living in New York in 1995 I spent almost two years over there and I remember that Papaya sign,was it on 86th? I'm not sure. I was a delivery guy from Domino's the one on 86 and 3rd. it was the best time of my life! every day was exciting and every delivery a mystery. as they say,too bad it's becoming just like any other city with so many chains. Greetings to Jim. at Kaufman's (Army navy store on 42nd street) :)
is papyas still around? I used to go to one all the time with my dad in the early to mid 90s that was around the corner from his apartment. I was just a kid so don't remember the exact street but he lived in an apartment projects called Amsterdam across from the Hudson River. I haven't been to NYC since 2010. it changed so much :(
Ląţïñã Băŕbïə yeah it’s still there
Kaufman’s is still live and kicking !!
Yes, still there, 86th and 3rd
@TigerRocket Really? There's a "demand' for old-fashioned records? Where?
It's CDs that are disappearing in favor of mp3 downloads.
U.S. Court House in Foley Sq; Chanin, Delmonico and Ritz Tower, Crown Building, New York Central, even 500 Fifth, McGraw Hill, Chrysler, Met Life and Con Edison buildings were saved and are the real beauties in architectural design compared to the boxy towers along Sixth Avenue. Anyone's take on the BOA Tower? Singer Building yet another loss in the mid sixties along with the old Savoy Hotel where the GM Plaza is today by Berdorf-Goodman store. As for the modern 42nd Street from 6th to 8th Ave?
Great array of landmark buildings you cited. Some of them defy any excuse for being torn down. Like Ernest Flaggs, tremendous Singer Buiding, and the adjoining tower which stood right next to it. The Singer came down in 1968, and was among the tallest structures(Morrison Hotel in Chicago)to be demolished before the destruction of the Twin Towers. The Singer with its unique cupola crown, is missed. The GM building is not a worthy successor to what once stood there; The Savoy Plaza Hotel. The hotel complimented the other building still standing, and help give an added spatial enclosure that made sense. But the crown for losses still goes to Penn Station. People who never saw the original station don't realize how much larger and grander it was then Grand Central Terminal. Since its demolition, that area, and the city itself has not fully recovered from this ragged tear in its fabric.
that's so f'in sad !!!
@SatchmoSings Nor am I posing an either/or scenario. I'm simply pointing out that there are qualities to be had with some things that are just not obtainable in any other way. Still to this day there are sound professionals who will tell of things analog that digital will not mimic. 35MM Film has a unique quality not obtainable any other way. Both are unique in there own right. I think marketing has a lot more to do with the "better than" argument than some actual facts warrant.
@SatchmoSings The music industry thought Cd's were it. 12 years later they found lucrative demand for "old fashioned" records, and resuscitated the format. Every "changing of the times" always has examples of throwing out the proverbial baby with the bath water. NYC is absolutely no different. Except for the myopic views that what is past is never as good or always better. NY could stand to lose some of its newly acquired "urban" shallowness and forget pleasing everyone.
it amazes me that the mob never put a hit out on Guilliani because the mob ruled Times Square.
Amazingly some of them have an aversion to being in jail.
Believe it or not, there was once a time when the average working person could afford to rent an apartment in New York. Now it is so overpriced as well as bland and dull. Hipsters? They are hicks to me.
Let's not forget that the "gritty, real" Times Square was pretty much bankrupt. What we have now may be "sterile," but it's a functioning area. (And I miss Nathan's)
What the video where it has Music throughout the video of 1970s New York !?!?
With songs like Native New Yorker and Broadway by Frank Sinatra !?
RIP to walk/don't walk signs and parking meters...
The only thing that is constant is change.
Now all the chain stores and shopping malls are going out of business!
So I don't have to go all the way to Vegas
Hipsters do have money why do you think you see all these out of place stores in places like bushwick and jackson heights i went to bushwick and seen a starbucks never thought id see that saw a gap off roosevelt avenue where do you think the community is going to make money if they cant in theyre own neighborhood
Luis Munoz How about Williamsburg and Bedford Av!
@SatchmoSings I think you missed the point. It is an arbitrary example of the thought that all new things are beyond reproach because they're new. To address your specific, to this day, ask any club D-Jay what is used when entertaining a venue. There ARE D-Jays, they DO use records. Digital downloading has nothing to do with the environment I site. Despite the changes in "film" NOTHING beats a 40 foot wide screen in a theater. Nothing. An epic across 50 inches by comparison? Yeah. Right.
oh god, to live in a time where tower records was the most evil big box chain in town.....its not long before macy's becomes a wal mart!
This sh*t got really weird towards the end 😐🥴🥴😐🤣
It got forreal real
Times Square is still a Little Rundown even in the 1990s WTF
1337 views, I agree.:)
Philadelphia too castor aaave is ''gone''
12:25
12:33
When you leave New York; you go nowhere
and this was long before bloomberg/sadik-khan
@SatchmoSings You may also wish to rethink this kind of insulting palaver. Despite what you may believe, insults are not the same as a well reasoned argument or respectful disagreement.
So sad what happened to nyc, it's gone... a ghost now. The people are gone who made nyc, nyc and everything else.
i know that they had to get rid of crime witch is allways good but there is nothing left of the old nyc i was born in 80 and form upstate so i never got to see it are there books about it? like pictures of the gritty 5 like old lower eastside brooklyn bronk queens? anybody
@THYRDEYE I find your response pretty hateful; sort of like blaming Henry Ford for the disappearance of those all those charming horses, all of whom were living things with real individual personalities in exchange for exhaust belching steel.
Since the advent of the internet and personal computing devices, television watching has declined; are you now also going to get on your high-horse over this?
my favirite was in the 80s when the 90s hit the city went to shit!
A lot of what many obviously left-wing pinheads/luddites lament is simply a change of the times; movie theatres would be a good exmaple.
haha playland cut school many times to go play games there
Me too
12:56 is Donald Trump?
Not.
8:32 Is this guy trolling?
Berg Bergberg Yes.
What a scumbag!
9:00 Mr. White bread boomer....ok, boomer.
So they guy who hates the "old New York" is eating a hotdog bought at a landmarks store.what a hypocritacal arse.The people like him need to go.I miss the blarney stones with the steam tables and mugs of beer,the dive bars and the blind guy in the newsstand.Great video