Smash Boy Report post Posted June 9, 2014 Hard to imagine this was New York not all that long ago.... http://superchief.tv/80-photos-of-old-new-york-1970-1989/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheelsRCool Report post Posted June 9, 2014 LOL at the first comment: "No worries. DiBlassio will have NY looking like this again in no time at all." If anyone wants to see some color pictures of NYC in the 1950s, check out the movie "How to Marry a Millionaire" from 1953. It is on Netflix right now, but it is a color film and it has some beautiful cinematography of NYC circa 1953. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortis Report post Posted June 9, 2014 Very cool photography but many sad images. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abolfaz Report post Posted June 9, 2014 That's the NYC that I grew up in! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destructo Report post Posted June 9, 2014 Looking through all those photos it is eerily similar to Detroit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Report post Posted June 9, 2014 LOL at the first comment: "No worries. DiBlassio will have NY looking like this again in no time at all." It is the doom of men, that they forget. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpegs13 Report post Posted June 9, 2014 That's the NYC that I grew up in! Ditto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin2772 Report post Posted June 9, 2014 Incredible pictures....the comments though, not so much. Cant believe how many people actually believe in socialism.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destructo Report post Posted June 9, 2014 Incredible pictures....the comments though, not so much. Cant believe how many people actually believe in socialism.... They voted for it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Report post Posted June 9, 2014 A lot of fires... saw a comment that landlords just couldn't operate due to rent laws, and arson was rampant. Would be cool to hear stories if anyone has some of living there at that time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastlane Report post Posted June 10, 2014 That's the NYC that I grew up in! Me to and the place I left 37 years ago, now when I complain about SoCal I just think back from where I came. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheelsRCool Report post Posted June 10, 2014 Anyone know what building that is in the picture of the interior of the classical building? Like it looks like how a church might appear post apocalypse or something. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hovik Report post Posted June 10, 2014 Still plenty of shitty sights in NYC, but yeah, judging from those pictures it has come a long way! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smash Boy Report post Posted June 10, 2014 I remember the subways having a completely different feel than they do now, and the city being dirtier and more dangerous (this was the late '80s to early '90s). One thing I do like from these photos are a few of the remnants that are no longer with us (and I'm not just talking about the Towers). Of note there are the pics of the now demolished elevated west side highway (the first pic, the pic with the missing section of roadway overlooking the white truck, and then a pic of another abandoned car on elevated roadway). The elevated subway with the Queens Boulevard street sign was demolished in 1990. Notice how much more appropriate the throwback NY license plates look in these photos than on cars today! Seeing these pictures puts me in the mood for a marathon of Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, French Connection, and Manhattan. Classic films which could only have been made back in the day. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
szabo_martin Report post Posted June 10, 2014 Lots of history in that city.....great shots Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TestShoot Report post Posted June 10, 2014 That's the NYC that I grew up in! ME TOO! Remember when Hell's Kitchen was a place you never went, and Time's Sq you could watch a live sex show, get arrested, released and join the army all within 200ft! My dad came back from Vietnam, took a look around and said "fcuk this" and became a cop when they were horribly corrupt, the black panthers were shooting cops, and the lunatics had control of the asylum. He could have used the fcuking berlin wall to hang all his commendations. I used to go to PBA meetings as a kid and built forts and wondered why some kids never came back. It took years for me to realize a lot of those kids grew up without dads. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilipinoStig Report post Posted June 11, 2014 ME TOO! Remember when Hell's Kitchen was a place you never went, and Time's Sq you could watch a live sex show, get arrested, released and join the army all within 200ft! My dad came back from Vietnam, took a look around and said "fcuk this" and became a cop when they were horribly corrupt, the black panthers were shooting cops, and the lunatics had control of the asylum. He could have used the fcuking berlin wall to hang all his commendations. I used to go to PBA meetings as a kid and built forts and wondered why some kids never came back. It took years for me to realize a lot of those kids grew up without dads. Jesus... Crazy ass photos. Thanks to OP for posting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abolfaz Report post Posted June 11, 2014 I can almost smell those photos. Remember when there was meat in the meat packing district?! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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