NYC 1989 : Manhattan - New York City
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2017
- Big Apple - New York City - Summer 1989:
Central Park, Dakota Building, 5th avenue, Tiffany & Co., Trump Tower,
Macy's, Radio City Music Hall, Empire State Building, World Trade Center, Rockefeller Center, Circle Line, Crysler Building, Waldorf Astoria, Ratner's, Guggenheim, Hal of Science, US Open in Flushing Meadows.
Kamera + Schnitt: Karl Ringena
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I remember being so annoyed with tourists and their video cameras, now I’m elated they captured video so we can now view old NYC on you tube thank you, who knew?
You are welcome, thanks!
I had the exact same thought. This is fantastic footage. I wonder what kept you from zooming in on the twin towers ?
Everybody who wasn’t a dick knew. Who knew not being a dick is actually a good thing.
Even more ironic is that however annoying tourists and their cameras might have been - that pales in comparison to the dangerous distraction everyone gets from their own smartphones. And I’m also reminded how headphones only became a mainstream thing in the late 80s.
@@MJKmedia Man, we used to think wearing headphones was dorky and wondered why everyone wasnt using earphones when they were available....they seemes super slick to me as a kid, like something out of a James Bond movie lol To think of what we put our ears through between that and living in the big city...
I drove a City Bus in Manhattan throughout the 80's and 90's. I knew these streets like the back of my hand. I can smell them and feel them.I love NYC. Great video.
Thank You so much for telling me your feelings concerning my video NYC`89. It was my first time in NYC and I loved it !!! Specially for You my video about a NYC busdriver in 1996 😏 studio.th-cam.com/users/videoT0TlkdTA_vU/edit?o=U
Was it an RTS, Flxible or Fishbowl
same here except not a bus driver but a phone company installer.
I miss these days sooooooo much. Being 22 in 89 and enjoying everything NYC had to offer is something that I’m sorry the newer generation can’t really experience in these cornball times.
Cuenta algo más... :)
I was 27 but yeah. Gods, Manhattan was the most amazing place in the world back then, such shit now.😢
😅😅exactly the same as me 2 bro😢😢
Kids can't experience anything because everything is dead, there's no subcultures left, all there is is a bunch of kids confused about their own identities because they've got too much time to think about themselves
I was 14 when I asked my dad, Would you like to go to America with me? This was 30 years ago. NY in 1989. It was my fondest memory of him. Thanks for the upload.
A deli, check cashing store, shopping plaza, Adler Shoes, Herman's, A Gym, Father & Sons Shoes, Thom McAn, Popeyes, Hardy's, Audio & Photo Store, Tad's, Clothing Store, Gift Shop, Peep Show, abandoned stores, all on one block. I love you 1980's always and forever.
1989 felt like the "Bastard Child" of the 80's. You had Central Park 5, Yusef Hawkins shooting in Bensonhurst, Pete Rose lifetime ban from Baseball & the Earthquake during the World Series. Everybody was talking about the 1990s.
Music that year was Queen, Alice Cooper, Motley Crue, The B-52's, Howard Jones, Prince, Madonna, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Tina Turner, Phil Collins, Roxette, Neil Young, The Cult, Paula Abdul, Great White and Bobby Brown.
And queen Janet
@@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona Ah yes, Miss You Much. Black Cat was good too.
Rip. Tina Turner
@@hectorlopez1069 :(
Before Times Square was turned into Disneyland.
I was almost 6 months old. Lol 1989 was a great year! I was born! God is good!
I went to new York city in April 1989. 35 years later I have wonderful memories of my trip. I still Love NY. A great and vibrant city. And yes I live in Chicago. I love both big cities.😊
I look at these videos and I see life. I see people being people. I see humanity. At one point in this video there is a woman eating a huge slice of cheesecake and a coffee and the bill was under $8. Imagine that today. The coffee alone would be $8. The times have changed. The people have changed. We rely so much on the tiny screens in our pockets that we forget there's a whole world around us. 1989 might not have been a great or amazing year but looking back now from 2018, it was pretty simple and that's what I miss.
You must live there 🙂 Where I live, you can get that for $1.50
Agree with the people are changing part working as a cashier back in the 90s was different but fun. now and days people record these workers for crazy things don’t get me wrong some employees are wrong sometimes but nowadays people are getting carried away by payback and putting the video up on you tube thinking that’s going to make them angry.
So you watch this telepathically?
That $1-8.00 in 1989 is $10-16.68 in today's dollars, so that was pretty expensive. And considering that NYC's murder rate in 1989 was 1200+ killed, i'd say people have changed for the better. Better people be glued to their tiny screens today than killing each other over crack which was going on at that time.
shera1815 tinny screens to control the masses
Not even one cellphone zombie around. 👍
Hhmm maybe technology wasn’t what it is today?? I don’t know just a thought
@@DrzPapi126 not a very good thought
The Death Twitch not a very good response, are you having a bad day?? Toughen up kid
Ok boomer
@@inferno7997 WOW SUCH AN INTRUIGING ARGUMENT
The Chevy Caprice taxis, James Bond and Die hard on at the Cinema, and the electronic store with VCRs and walkmans wow!! Thanks for this!
Paul90 memories. And the electronics store window displays were always the coolest
Jason Tighe I was born in 1990, I do remember VCRS and walkmans though!
that store had beepers in the window as well....they were the in thing then.
@@jabez571 ✌️
You had to buy a VCR to watch movies. There was no Netflix and internet.
I liked that era of Manhattan. Miss how it was then.
I spent the summer of 1988. in NYC at my uncles. I was 15 years young and came from Eastern Europe, not all the way east, lol. It was hot, scorching summer... the one thing I missed was that I had wished to swim in the ocean, but that couldn't be possible because that summer the ocean was polluted with some algae, it was so foamy. Long Island was soooo empty; not a single person was on the beach when I was there, but everyone was in Central Park; it was so crowded and great with all kinds of things happening and people chilling! I was so sad when I suddenly had to go back to Europe. It was one memorable summer. NYC is the best city in the world! Thanks for the video! Cheers!
Always nice to hear Germans talk. My mum is German. Brings back many happy memories of going the Bavaria in the 80's
I was only 4 at this time, but I'll never forget the guys selling light up Yoyos and batteries on the subway.
It seems like only a few years ago instead of nearly 30.
ZnenTitan I can’t believe how time flies.
What the fuck you on about dude
@El Bidajo It does look like clips from mid-to-late 2000s TH-cam
@@CannibaLouiST 2050-2090?
@@jamesmcinnis208 Well, you know, like mid-to-late 2010s or 2020s.
I worked at 43rd & 8th Avenue everyday. Loved NYC when it was gritty and dangerous.
I was 15 living on the jersey shore then. Life was filled with possibilities. Now im 46 , i wear a mask and life has no possibilities.
I'm 45 and I feel the same way as you. Wish we could turn back time.
Summer of 89 I had just turned six but I remember NYC during that time! Great memories and great footage:)
That same area in Central Park today on a day like that would be packed with hundreds of tourists, couples posing for wedding photos, musicians, and other people selling gimmicks, horse carriages and everything. Incredible how things have changed.
I remember NYC that summer in 1989. I was 10 and i was just starting my 1st YMCA camp in Manhattan. I learned more about the city with that experience & I loved it. I saw Batman the day it came out and got the Batman Soundtrack by Prince not long after that too. The white & blue city buses you see in this video continued to dominate the NYC streets until this past May. Just seeing NYC like that again makes me so happy & I long to go back there just for a moment. Thank goodness for this video so i can relive some great memories. Thanks for sharing!
lucky you 1989 to you is what 2013 is too me. Hopefully time machines exist in the future
I was 10 too, visiting New York and New Jersey from Chicago with my family, and Batman the movie and the soundtrack were the shit! Rocking the classic black t shirt and the cassette tape in the Walkman...😁👌
@@coolkid7377Yeah so '99 was to us what now is for you...😖 What a shame...
@@GayActorMichaelDouglas23 what would you say was your favorite year
2:52 grandma slips on something 😂😂
No cell phones, social media or Rona virus...wasn’t life great and we just didn’t know it
We take things for granted till we loose them.
Rona , loose , ? Ha ha
rona virus? lol...they were still getting over the AIDS epidemic
No internet too
I visited NYC for the first time 34 years ago tonight, november 9th, 1989. The Berlin Wall was coming down and I saw the news at the Times Square screen. Great video, brought me great memories.
I've been in love with New York ever since I was a kid. The sheer ambition of it all. Diversity...fast and immense. I am 26 now, living in Atlanta, GA. I was in Chicago before this and Cleveland before chitown. I am so incredibly grateful for this footage because this is the NY I want to live in but, as the comments and reality say, this NY is long gone and gone for good. I am quarantined, drinking some beer, and enjoying this awesome view of pre-cellphone life. Thanks a million. WASH YOUR HANDS, PEOPLE...ESPECIALLY NY'ers!!
Thank you for this very personal and impressive comment!
I was in NYC for the first time in 1989 and found the city overwhelming!
It was my first Video8 camera with which I took these pictures.
All good wishes in these terrible corona times from Berlin in Germany!
Jared Honus Ankron This is my NY. I was 26 and had been in the City for two years going to dance auditions, working a part time job...that type of thing. It was amazing. It was the best of times... House music and all the clubs ...and it was the worst of times...the crack epidemic, the Aids epidemic, racial unrest and the homeless boom. But it shaped me and made me who I am today and that will never change. I'll be a New Yorker no matter where I live. So yeah you're right you would've wanted to be there. But home is where you make it. You seek out the interesting people and places and make your mark.
@Kahinur Nessa I want to see these nostalgia nutters spend one day in 80s NYC 😂. Probably beg to come back to the present after being robbed by a crackhead on the subway
@@magedalameddine1231 Did you live in NYC during the 80s?
@@Nosfratau Hello my name is Tameria Diane Jones and I am loving the fact that you are viewing old New York. It's a pity that I never had a chance to go to New York in the 80s I went to New York in 2009 and I wish that I could you of been lucky to see how the old New York was. Also pray for me and my mother's belongings that we have lost when we were living at our old apartment from the Donna's apartments in downtown Los Angeles, CA 90007 or where ever that stuff is.
NYC in the '80s. I remember going to Bodegas and buying large cans of Foster's then going to Bryant Park and scoring some weed. There was a vibe to the city that just isn't present today. 42nd Street looks more like Disney Land today. There was a smell to the city too, a sweet burnt smell that is hard to describe but I have never smelt it anywhere else.
I understand and agree with everything you said as a NYCer from that time.
Is it me who recently had a kind of obsessive frustration at not having lived in NYC in the 80's / 90's or having had the opportunity to live in NYC? knowing that we cannot go back in those years and that the nyc of his years there completely changed the cars the clothes the habits of the people of his years I find it almost sad in a way and the networks have destroyed this human relationship
Howard Jones and Rick Astley both upcoming shows at Radio City 7:30 and I was in my early 20s working righ around the corner in Rockefeller Center. Seems like just yesterday and a lifetime ago at the same time.
love it and enjoyed the film thank you for posting.
Couple of weeks after the passing of the great Nelson Sullivan, Rest In Peace!
Everyone is wearing comfortable clothing and classy.
I lived in New York City for about 5 years starting in 1989. I used to walk all over Manhattan whenever I found the time, so I miss all the city that your video shows very much. Especially the Macy's neighborhood where I spent my first year (1989) and the area around Rockefeller Center where my office was located, where I walked every day. Thanks for the great video! I will subscribe to your channel so that I can enjoy your other videos as well.
Thank You so much 👋🙂
@@karlringena1883 You're welcome.
I walked by Macy's Department store in Herald Square With my 2 aunts and 3 cousin and my mother in 1966 when we heard Downtown by Petula Clark playing on a loudspeaker outside the store. I remember it was brand new and very popular. I am a baby boomer who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era.
What you see is true small business. These were middle class Americans and then the Rent increased and big companies came in.
Thank you for uploading. I was in NYC when you were visting. I remenber well as just yesterday.
Things are Great in the 80's Manhattan
But as of now, everything has changed.
The early 1980s was the worst
1989 1990 1991
Highest homicide rates in NYC
Great? I remember graffiti everywhere and drug dealers in the park. Squeegee guys were the worse too
Tawanna Brawley, Howard Beach, Wildin' in Central Park, Thomkins Square Riot....
The city was dangerous back then.
Howard beach was racist..tawanna brawley was looking the media 4 money purposes..trying to cry "RAPE"..i was only 7 and remember that shit
No it was,gwntifted more
@@mocancer8485 No you don't you don't remember shit
as long as judeo christianity persists in America there will always be strife..... Atheists For America
@bobinsuffolk
It had major undercurrents on life in The City, Al Sharpton was on the local news every night- Nike track suit, gold chains, and Don King hair...
Crazy to think this footage is 33 years old now.
NYC was NYC..this year i seen Halloween 5 while listening to Michael Jackson, New Kids on the block, paula abdul, tecno techronic
MO Cancer wonderfull timmes.and great music
In 1989 I was a freshman in high school. We’re did the time go..
Where did you’re hair go,Jose?
Hammer Time! thats where it went.
when I see this kinda videos I feel nostalgia and I wonder what time and space are ... travel to the past exists only in this way ... and the future that exists is today
Was another hot summer, not as bad as '88 but it was hot. Was a 17 year old lifeguard on long island that summer.
Thanks for the videos and wonderful memories.
I have to admit I held my breath when the plane flew by. I guess I will always think of that day when I see a plane flying close to a skyscraper.
20:54 is the original toll booth for the Queens Midtown Tunnel where drivers can use tokens or pay cash with money. This was back when there were no EZ-Pass. Every bridges and tunnels had toll booths back then. And now, we have cashless tolls where drivers are going to pass without paying for it. I remember dropping the tokens when we drove into the Battery Tunnel (aka Hugh Carey Tunnel) and the Triborough Bridge (aka RFK Bridge).
The Black Mobster Limo pay Cash 😁
I still have a couple of tokens in my collection! Those were the days…
Nice recording, brings me back to my childhood.
Nice to see Midtown again. Thanks for capturing.
Year I was born.
And crazy enough, this video was posted EXACTLY on my 28th birthday.
Thanks for taking me back to my old stomping grounds 🤘
This is the period where me and my father used to go to Manhattan a few times a year. We used to take the D train from either the Grand Concourse or Fordham Road to Manhattan, usually getting off at 42nd Street and Grand Central (which was still be renovated and restored at the time). We often spent our time at Times Square, going to the movies and hanging out at the Playland Arcade. Sometimes, though, we hung around on places like Central Park, the Museum of Natural History, the Hayden Planetarium and some of the public libraries. I have so much nostalgia for that period. After it got cleaned and the old Times Square was gone, it wasn't the same anymore and nowhere as fun as it used to be. Watching videos like this provide a nice flashback to those times. Thanks a lot for this.
4:58 How I miss Tad’s Steaks and Pizza Hut. Childhood Memories.
I wish I was in my teens late 70s and in my 20s in 80s that would of been soo cool
I visited NYC that summer. Last time I was there actually. I was 10.I remember watching the Tim Burton Batman movie at a theatre there as well.
That's so nostalgic in a good way. ❤
When you put 25 cents to use the payphone.
How times have changed so much in the past 30+ years. So glad to have spent my childhood years in the late 80s and 90s first in lower Manhattan and then in Brooklyn. I would relive it again if I could.
Thank for posting
I was born in 1989 in Chicago. Now in 2020 I'm living in NYC for 13 years, since 2007. I wish I experience NYC in the 1990s instead of the 2000s.
Born in the city AIR JORDAN built especially that year
you don't see fireflies in the city anymore...
1989 NY : people take pictures with a camera
2022 NY : people take pictures with a iPhone
This is great footage. I think I prefer this NY to the current era as it looks so much safer.
I love this New York.
And that was before the 1994 crime bill where Clinton invented the term super predator” and shit got even worse. I’m not even from nyc but it ain’t hard to tell
If you're using your phone to comment that nobody in this video was stuck in their phones you're a pretentious fool.
In some decades there will be nostalgia for this era. In the 80s there was nostalgia for a time before TVs were in every living room. In the 70s there was nostalgia for the innocence of the 1950s. You aren't saying anything deep. It's the same for every era. Someone is out there slowly shaking their head wishing it was 30 years prior.
Cool, want a cookie?
@@benjaminmonroy8622 is it unnecessarily defensive chip?
Thank you. Every Decade has its flaws, but people look at the good things only.
I was 16 back then. I remember Newsday. That was when we had Tetris, Nintendo.
Nintendo came out in 85'
@@oochiewally2783 1987..ATARI came out in 1986..I had BOTH so i cant lie
You still look 16..black dont crack baby💐
@@mocancer8485 how old are.you
@@oochiewally2783 39
Thanks a lot you tube I visited NY without flying there.
awesome footage
Dankeschön thank you!.
You are welcome!
7:32 Radio City hosting Howard Jones & Rick Astley. lol
I went there on April 271989. It was a wonderful experience. The streets was bustling.
. I toured the top of the Empire State building. I felt like a tall giant overlooking New York. I still love New York.
Look how empty the streets are. Amazing! Traffic is insane today
Traffic was just as insane then. Trust me. I lived it.
man i remember summer of 89 it was HOT FOR FIVE DAYS IN NEW YORK i was in queens last year of high school
I was living in Brooklyn at the time. Sadly, the event I remember most about the summer of '89 is the Yusef Hawkins murder in Bensonhurst. The late '80s and early '90s were some rough times in NYC.
@@geraldfarr8279 Yup..Spike Lee had his memoriam on the ending or beginning credits of DO THE RIGHT THING
i had moved in 86 to queens village i was 21 then, lucky im still here in 2020
Allot.of.murders too
Everything was just better then. Movies, stores,fashion,Concorde travel .
Homelessness, AIDS epidemic, the infamous Central Park Jogger case where a woman was raped and beaten near death that happened just weeks before this video was recorded. So much better!
OneLoveRSR I think the OP was referring to the pop culture of that era. Not the state of the world itself. And all the things you listed still going on nowadays with the exception that now we have better medication for Aids patients.
No HIV drugs that worked...
5:38. I got my first phone under New York Telephone. Than it became Nynex.
Miss my NY😢
I went to the U.S.A in 1989 first time from Korea.
I have watched a bunch of these NYC videos, and this is the best so far for me because it includes Queens. The old Long Island Railroad Diesel Locomotive was awesome. The toll booths at the Midtown Tunnel , Citibank Building in Long Island city, driving under the el on Roosevelt Ave, was all amazing to see again. I was hoping to catch a glimpse of Shea, but oh well. That is the closest we can get to a time machine.
I have a lot of Queens in the 90s
No internet at that time. No Ubers too.
Wow! Just watched this 7/21/18/. Nearly 29 years to the day. Where did the time go? And what has happened to the world?
you were sleeping
Nothing
2020: _That's cute_
@@harrymonk6 Things are way worse than they were in 1989 man.
@@RapidCycling07 maybe last year
57 years. Awesome footage But things chance to worst Sad but true. Thnx for upload bless you
Surprised you were able to get into the now-demolished Grandstand at Flushing Meadows (along with old Louis Armstrong Stadium the old Singer Bowl).
I was 14 back then. While technology is more advanced besides the lack of cell phones things are not much different from today.
0:12 looks relaxing 😊
18:40 The twins 💗
People who died that year: Ted Bundy (good riddance!!!), Lucy, Sloth from The Goonies, Looney Tunes voice Mel Blanc, Laurence Olivier, Salvador Dali, Irving Berlin, the voice of Mr. Magoo Jim Backus, Emperor Hirohito and Rebecca Schaeffer.
It also would've been the 100th birthday of Hitler (BIH), Charlie Chaplin, Oz director Victor Fleming, Franklin Pangborn, Warner Baxter, Otto Frank and George S. Kaufman.
Sou apaixonado pelos carros antigos dos anos 80.
I'm thinking of the movie King Of New York with Christopher Walken, Lawrence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes, and David Caruso. The movie came out in 1990 but was produced in early to mid 1989
Watching this reminds me so much of that movie. It shows how New York was before it became kid friendly and all that other shit.
Ah yes. and all the electronics shops. Dam I miss this stuff.
The electronic shops from the 80s. Love it.
Gernan videographers 🙂 Honestly, THAT´S the NYC I would have loved to experience. When Keith Haring was still alive and working, and normal people could afford living in the city.
I visiting December of 89 and I didn't go back til the soul of the city was dead in 2005.
Tower Records still existed.
COOL
@5:30 common payphones forever relegated to history, whose wire connections have been replaced by monolith fiber-optic internet kiosks.
The year BATMAN came out with Michael Keaton, jack Nicholson
Great film
Bobby Brown was famous at that time
Hell yeah he was.
Ghostbusters 2
The city has a drunk/stoned/fatigued hungover sleepwalking feel in this vid. Foreboding and slightly menacing. It's how I remember that era. It isn't the same now and it wasn't the same at any other time. No cellphones though.
"Foreboding and slightly menacing" sounds more like the lower East side at the time.
Amazing how the Twin Towers dominated the skyline
This is Gold
Very nice
12:15 Man, 42nd Street between Broadway & 6th Ave looked so different compared to today.
The 2 cheese cakes and 2 coffees would be like $20+ today.
Not one email was sent that day. Thank you.
I'm not so sure about that.
LuxeXx ? Of course it was!🤔
Johnny Rio they didn't have email in the 80s did u live in that time? I was born in 1966 it was well. Into the 90s before most people had cell phones.
Yes I did. The first actual email was officially sent in 1971 and by 1989 when this video is from, plenty of emails were sent within corporate America and beyond. Maybe read up on some history.
I don't doubt you , corporate America is different . in the world I lived in then I knew no one that emailed., no one had computers in there homes till the late 90s early 00s. it wasn't the norm back then .now everything is emailing, texting. I don't know how old you are ? I guess I lived in a different world than you. but all the adults I knew in 1989 didn't have cellphones and didn't know emailing , it takes a long time for the general public to accept new things.