*I love the old-style "two light" traffic lights (no yellow light) in some of the intersections at the beginning of the footage, just after the bridge.*
1:21 where it's all boarded up they were putting up 26 Federal Plaza, the US Gov't. building for NYC. The whole stretch of Broadway from about Chambers Street (Modell's) to East 8th (just before Grace Church) was pretty low rent at that time. Mostly the lower end of the garment trade: sweatshops & jobbers & wholesale places. Plus some printing shops, machine shops, small businesses of that type. Purely commercial. My father was a printer by trade and worked in a shop on White Street. It stayed that way pretty much up to the late 80's & early 90's, then became hip, gentrified & very expensive. The "A. Fleisig Paper Boxes" sign with the clock at 2:02 was there for the longest time afterwards, even after that business moved out. Don't know if it's still there. edit: Check out the 1959 Plymouth Fury turning the corner around 3:24 at the Strand Book Store!!!
obviously in the summer - the big sanitation strike was over early February and all was pretty much cleaned up a month later - 1968 was probably the downturn of NYC - sanitation strike / teacher strike / first year of graffiti / church attendance dropped / whiteflight and big budget problems
Remember seeing an illustrated book on New York 1968. Mostly photographs, the book was a snapshot of the city before the worst elements overtook it. The streets were still relatively clean. There was one shot of a subway car. And people were decently dressed and no trace of graffiti. Only to think within a few years that would no longer be the case.
If this is summer 1968, it was actually before the teacher's strike, because that was in Fall of that year. I remember it very well, because I was in the second grade that year and got to enjoy that happy event. Two months with no school! Hooray!
Cross the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan. Continue west through City Hall Park to Broadway. Turn north and follow Broadway all the way to Herald Square. Continue north on 6th Avenue to Central Park. Right after entering park, turn east, curving around the lake back to north, and end at Bethesda Fountain.
Maybe that's all they had at the time Better this than nothing? I've taken pictures a second or two apart in a 35mm to create such an effect when I was younger and didn't have access to a video camera I'm damn sure glad I did now otherwise I would have anything at all of big moments in my life
Times have improved. Less traffic in NYC now as people are taking more public transport. More farmers markets so more healthy options. In the 1960s it was all supermarkets and bodegas selling additives. It must have been a nightmare then!
![A Glimpse of New York 1910 in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yFm9wSdePmY/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank you so much. The sights bring back so many fond memories. Manhattan was a different world back then. GOD bless you for posting a slow version!!
I was 13 living in NYC what a glorious time
Nice walk through Union Square. Great to see the Strand bookstore @3:25 , also spotted Andy Warhol’s studio across from the park.
*I love the old-style "two light" traffic lights (no yellow light) in some of the intersections at the beginning of the footage, just after the bridge.*
That part of SOHO is nothing but art galleries or super high end shops now.
1:21 where it's all boarded up they were putting up 26 Federal Plaza, the US Gov't. building for NYC. The whole stretch of Broadway from about Chambers Street (Modell's) to East 8th (just before Grace Church) was pretty low rent at that time. Mostly the lower end of the garment trade: sweatshops & jobbers & wholesale places. Plus some printing shops, machine shops, small businesses of that type. Purely commercial. My father was a printer by trade and worked in a shop on White Street. It stayed that way pretty much up to the late 80's & early 90's, then became hip, gentrified & very expensive. The "A. Fleisig Paper Boxes" sign with the clock at 2:02 was there for the longest time afterwards, even after that business moved out. Don't know if it's still there.
edit: Check out the 1959 Plymouth Fury turning the corner around 3:24 at the Strand Book Store!!!
Modell's been in that same location until they went bankrupt in 2020.
There is a chance in 365 that I was born on the day this footage was taken...
Judging by the scarcity of people it looks like this video was made before noon on a weekend day.
obviously in the summer - the big sanitation strike was over early February and all was pretty much cleaned up a month later - 1968 was probably the downturn of NYC - sanitation strike / teacher strike / first year of graffiti / church attendance dropped / whiteflight and big budget problems
Remember seeing an illustrated book on New York 1968. Mostly photographs, the book was a snapshot of the city before the worst elements overtook it. The streets were still relatively clean. There was one shot of a subway car. And people were decently dressed and no trace of graffiti. Only to think within a few years that would no longer be the case.
If this is summer 1968, it was actually before the teacher's strike, because that was in Fall of that year. I remember it very well, because I was in the second grade that year and got to enjoy that happy event. Two months with no school! Hooray!
In the lates 1970s I worked in the Municipal building, shown in first minute of this video.
Look what has happened to this once-great city!
🖐🤣 this is what drinking too much coffee from those blue Greek to go cups did to you! 🤣🤣😳
Cross the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan.
Continue west through City Hall Park to Broadway.
Turn north and follow Broadway all the way to Herald Square.
Continue north on 6th Avenue to Central Park.
Right after entering park, turn east, curving around the lake back to north, and end at Bethesda Fountain.
I wonder if any of the people in this video were thinking about 2017.
come on now, we had better equipment than that.!!
Maybe that's all they had at the time
Better this than nothing?
I've taken pictures a second or two apart in a 35mm to create such an effect when I was younger and didn't have access to a video camera
I'm damn sure glad I did now otherwise I would have anything at all of big moments in my life
Times have improved. Less traffic in NYC now as people are taking more public transport. More farmers markets so more healthy options. In the 1960s it was all supermarkets and bodegas selling additives. It must have been a nightmare then!