We've Traveled Back to 1993 New York City! (Rare HD Footage)

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  • 🔼 We've traveled back in time to 90s New York City! What era of NYC would you travel to and why?
    đŸŽ”Music by Stevie Wonder and Kimiko Itoh.
    Video originally captured from D-Theater HD DVHS Demo Tape by Techmoan: ‱ Remember when HD Movie...
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Komentáƙe • 836

  • @goat2503
    @goat2503 Pƙed 2 lety +674

    I miss the 90s so much, it was the last decade of simplicity, the music was so diverse and actually had some creativity behind it, people appreciated the simple things. I’d give anything to go back

    • @GAMLAPATTE
      @GAMLAPATTE Pƙed 2 lety +6

      I hear ya đŸ„ș

    • @kosakata8632
      @kosakata8632 Pƙed 2 lety +10

      If the US didn't go to war and spend it's money for the people
      NY might be still best city in the world

    • @luornu
      @luornu Pƙed 2 lety +24

      'the last decade of simplicity' what nonsense I was there it was pretty much identical to now. I think back and I really can't see much difference between then and now. Life was just as complicated then as it is now, it hasn't changed.

    • @Adri07813
      @Adri07813 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @Goat.. And on some other side of planet, totally opposite of that... Wars, Destroying and devastation of one culture and diversity, bad propaganda, deaths, NATO bombs faling around, totally ruining moral values. All to make your imperia richer.

    • @hitchslap8254
      @hitchslap8254 Pƙed 2 lety +31

      Born in 1977 so I got most of the benefit of the 90s. You shouldn't look back it was a great decade but you can replicate a lot of the benefits. Meet up with friends and family in real life as much as possible. Limit your time on social media. Know your neighbours better than you do people thousands of miles away. If you're a parent, don't think there's a murderer behind every tree, there isn't so let your kids play out. When you go to bed, leave your phone in another room. I know I'm a hypocrite writing this on social media but we're on this video because we miss the 90s even if we weren't even born. It was definitely the last "simple" decade.

  • @thomasrichardson2402
    @thomasrichardson2402 Pƙed 4 lety +915

    I'd take any day in 1993 over 2020

    • @cocotaveras8975
      @cocotaveras8975 Pƙed 3 lety +44

      If you don’t mind me asking, we’re you alive back then and how was it like living in that time?
      Because I’ve always wondered how the 90s were like because I’m personally never going to know because I was born in 2002.

    • @thomasrichardson2402
      @thomasrichardson2402 Pƙed 3 lety +55

      @@cocotaveras8975 Yes I was alive back then, while I wasn't in NY I did live in a major city. This video reminded me a lot of typical feel of a daily routine at the time.The Early 90s were much different from late 90s, in the same way life in 2011 and 2019 were quite different as well.

    • @Kidanification
      @Kidanification Pƙed 3 lety +45

      @@cocotaveras8975 I grew up in Brooklyn in the 80's and the 90's. The best way to describe it was classic. Golden Era Hip Hop , 80s and 90s NY sports teams , and all kinds of places to visit and have fun.

    • @Maldives2025
      @Maldives2025 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      I think many people would echo your sentiment this year!

    • @Maldives2025
      @Maldives2025 Pƙed 3 lety

      @youtube watcher thanks for whining

  • @spanishball9449
    @spanishball9449 Pƙed 3 lety +267

    I feel like the 90's are somewhere, we cant hear them, we cant touch them, we cant see them, but i feel like the 90's still exist somewhere....

    • @sian2337
      @sian2337 Pƙed 2 lety +16

      In our hearts

    • @paulrussell1207
      @paulrussell1207 Pƙed 2 lety +33

      On a good Saturday morning, before you turn on social media, and you look out your window and you imagine a world where everybody knew the arrow of progress was going forward, it may not be great, but things were always going to get better than before and people looked at one reality and humanity seemed like it might be converging, you get a little wave of optimism, makes you feel like wearing brightly coloured baggy clothes.... and you think "we'll be back there someday"... well, there it is, that's the 90's.

    • @wakeinjunenrico
      @wakeinjunenrico Pƙed 2 lety +5

      In east europe

    • @zoberajaburz8859
      @zoberajaburz8859 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      in communist countries

    • @maciek628
      @maciek628 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@paulrussell1207 Amen.

  • @comecorrect1
    @comecorrect1 Pƙed 4 lety +157

    I miss the 90s so much too bad I can't go back *cries in Nostalgia*

  • @Dank951
    @Dank951 Pƙed 2 lety +265

    I'll never forget living in NYC with my late uncle for several months. I was 13 years old, and it was a time I still think back on a lot. I used to walk through Wall Street and being mesmerized on the daily by the amount of men and women who I thought were millionaires walking by me. I remember skateboarding through Central Park and breaking my arm. I remember my uncle giving me a daily allowance that I splurged on hot dog stands or bodegas. I remember the two bedroom condominium at 99 John street that my uncle owned up to his passing where I had my own room for the first time in my life. Above all, I remember the amount of children and teenagers my age would roam freely around the streets of NYC, specifically the Financial district; we got into trouble, we kept each other out of trouble, and we were like family eating at one another's house and having sleep overs.
    I think the problem with today's era--meaning the early 2010s and current years--is that the world became too connected via technology. The 90s were an individualistic era; younger people moved out of their parents house earlier; we experimented and came to our own conclusions without the influence of the media or today's social media influencers; we experienced life in a stream of conscious manner. That is the triumph of this particular decade--it was all about experience, and someone mentioned in the comments below that this experience was due to the "right balance of technology" being present/accessible.
    I'm not going to condemn the modern world, but if I had a time machine, I would go back to the 90s in a heartbeat; make better choices, explore other paths, but experience it nonetheless.
    For some of you, mainly younger ones, it is just a decade, but for me and people who hold this decade dearly to our hearts, the 90s was an emotion.

    • @sarahadams4712
      @sarahadams4712 Pƙed 2 lety +10

      So well written and perfectly put 👏

    • @beenladen4924
      @beenladen4924 Pƙed rokem +5

      It is because we were young then :D
      And there is nothing wrong wanting to be young again :)

    • @imjustaguy8232
      @imjustaguy8232 Pƙed rokem +2

      @Been Laden no, you are wrong, even the adults were more vibrant back then.

    • @imjustaguy8232
      @imjustaguy8232 Pƙed rokem

      @@beenladen4924 peep comment above^

    • @bathtownship
      @bathtownship Pƙed rokem +3

      I was 16 in 1993, i liked the ear i grew up in being a child of the late 70's, it had many problems but yes life was more simple i guess back then before all this social media was unleashed in the World.

  • @thecrazeecow1682
    @thecrazeecow1682 Pƙed 3 lety +272

    This made me feel nostalgia for a time and place I’ve never touched

    • @kosakata8632
      @kosakata8632 Pƙed 2 lety

      i bet no daily mass shooting at that time

    • @luornu
      @luornu Pƙed 2 lety +3

      don't worry. I was there. The decade was nothing special. The 80s and 70s did have some character. But despite what people in this comment section will tell you, the 90s were much the same as now, just not as many mobile phones (although they were starting to come in then and becoming ubiquitous fast, so it's not the mobile/cell free utopia some people who weren't born or were young children at the time think..)

    • @coldwindblowing
      @coldwindblowing Pƙed 2 lety

      I am Brazilian and I love so much the cities that I have never been.

    • @ci7210
      @ci7210 Pƙed rokem

      @Extra it is when people start being nostalgic for the late 2000's and 2010's. I remember people crapping on everything that was happening at the time. Now it's beloved.

    • @imjustaguy8232
      @imjustaguy8232 Pƙed rokem +2

      @@kosakata8632 and guns were easier to get too. Isn't that crazy??

  • @conpop6924
    @conpop6924 Pƙed 4 lety +73

    1:40 lmao that guy turning around checking that girl out😂

  • @Juniorbk26052
    @Juniorbk26052 Pƙed 3 lety +129

    In 1993 I was a student at New York City technology college in downtown Brooklyn. Damn. Simpler times. No craziness just normal living.

  • @davidmreyes77
    @davidmreyes77 Pƙed 2 lety +14

    I was 15-16 in 1993. Life for me just revolved around going to school, playing Super Nintendo, listening to music, watching WWF and MTV. I had it easy.

    • @krisstopher8259
      @krisstopher8259 Pƙed rokem +3

      everything was super exciting back then. i was a bit younger but we had pretty much the same life even tho i live in sweden lol

  • @loulax9172
    @loulax9172 Pƙed 3 lety +16

    so weird to see the 90s in hd

  • @filzahmahmood515
    @filzahmahmood515 Pƙed 4 lety +49

    Is it just me or did everyone have a healthy head of hair back then

    • @alvreyes28
      @alvreyes28 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      Definitely not the teeth 4:57

    • @professional.commentator
      @professional.commentator Pƙed 2 lety +1

      I think you mean less hair product usage. People were rocking their natural frizzy hair more. Nowadays everyone's hiding their true hair type either by a whole bunch of anti-friz, straightening products (for women), or shaving it down to a few millimeters of hair length (for men).

    • @krisstopher8259
      @krisstopher8259 Pƙed rokem +1

      george costanza was an exception tho lol

    • @Religious_man
      @Religious_man Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci

      @@alvreyes28
      It's kind of hard to gauge what's wrong with her teeth from this angle. She was probably poor.

    • @djtrakakadrunkpoet8598
      @djtrakakadrunkpoet8598 Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci

      Hell yes it’s not just you . The shit was the color it was supposed to be and natural looking and that’s every race . Even to not looking super aged but aging gracefully as there supposed to be

  • @juanitothompsonschweinstei5477

    3:52 Robert de Niro sleeping

    • @Kidanification
      @Kidanification Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Lol

    • @whitneysource
      @whitneysource Pƙed 3 lety +2

      I really think that’s him . Celebrities were able to go Unoticed a lot more back then.

    • @Kidanification
      @Kidanification Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @@whitneysource I hear you , but that is not Robert Deniro. He looked way younger than that in 1993.

    • @whitneysource
      @whitneysource Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@Kidanification your right 😂 😂😂😂😂😂😝

    • @johnaustin2836
      @johnaustin2836 Pƙed 3 lety

      Lmao he look like bob

  • @GAMLAPATTE
    @GAMLAPATTE Pƙed 2 lety +136

    I miss the 80s and 90s so much and I'm sorry for the young people who never experienced the world pre-911. Everything started to change after that.
    But I'm happily surprised to see that there are some young people who are curious about this time. It felt so much warmer, safer, innocent and hopeful ❀

    • @gammler0852
      @gammler0852 Pƙed 2 lety +13

      every romantic side has its negative side. i WouldnÂŽt call historical peaks in crime in the 80s and 90s, especially in NYC as "warmer, safer, innocent".

    • @davidamaral1519
      @davidamaral1519 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@gammler0852 199death

    • @hellfreezer3037
      @hellfreezer3037 Pƙed rokem +9

      @@gammler0852 the 90s were still the best. Ppl were much happier than today, less stressed, more curious, more innocent, and just lived simpler lives. No more Cold War, crime rates were also going down, less segregation and internal conflicts in society, and America was literally living at its peak era for being the world’s strongest economic powerhouse. Society was simply getting better overall. America was truly the world’s superpower back then!

    • @peterberg8417
      @peterberg8417 Pƙed rokem +14

      @@hellfreezer3037 it's not the 90s you miss, it's youth. we all look back at our youth and past with rose colored lenses. A great movie that describes this phenomenon is Midnight in Paris. Watch it if you have not. I used to be like you, pining for the past, but that movie made me get some perspective that the past always seems better because the present is unsatisfying. All we can do is say a prayer of thanks we are alive today and make the most of it. Listen to music, hold your loved ones close, go for a walk, enjoy a meal and try to remember that happiness comes from within :)

    • @user-or6yn8pm3c
      @user-or6yn8pm3c Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci

      America turned into a prison especially after Covid.

  • @rrrailroad6888
    @rrrailroad6888 Pƙed 5 lety +67

    The footage of NYC is from a DVHS (DTheater) demo tape.

    • @E180TEKNO
      @E180TEKNO Pƙed 2 lety

      it's on this video i see the guy with horse tail on the head really he left a comment on this video !

  • @90sforever97
    @90sforever97 Pƙed 4 lety +22

    90s...Best era ever...music movies people ..everything at his peak....everything awesome...wish we lived that sweet 90s again...

    • @comecorrect1
      @comecorrect1 Pƙed 4 lety

      Totally agree, everything was different in a good way.

    • @dimitarmargaritov
      @dimitarmargaritov Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Not everywhere was like that but yeah.

  • @GabiN64
    @GabiN64 Pƙed 3 lety +22

    Was born in '91. The 90s always seemed like a mystical time to me since I barely remember it

  • @JM-ob7mb
    @JM-ob7mb Pƙed 2 lety +83

    I’m about 3 years late to comment on this video, but I enjoyed every bit of it. ‘93 was the year I was born, and though I only spent 6 years in the ‘90s the nostalgia can be overwhelming. Sometimes I wish I could just go back. Thanks for this really neat video.

    • @enriquefloresmolestina4804
      @enriquefloresmolestina4804 Pƙed 2 lety +5

      1985 here, and yes! The 1990s are Just the way I remember them!

    • @danbaltic9678
      @danbaltic9678 Pƙed 2 lety +6

      I am also born in 1993. But could barely remember 90's.

    • @rasmush7833
      @rasmush7833 Pƙed rokem +5

      @kyfaydfsoab If anything we are more 90's cuz we were born there duuuh

  • @nemanjadelevingne4108
    @nemanjadelevingne4108 Pƙed rokem +16

    As someone born in 1991 its amazing to see the city in this way

  • @Maldives2025
    @Maldives2025 Pƙed 5 lety +130

    it feels like SUCH a different time!!

    • @Squicx
      @Squicx Pƙed 5 lety +19

      it's a better time

    • @himanshu7103
      @himanshu7103 Pƙed 4 lety +11

      @@Squicx it was a better time

    • @Squicx
      @Squicx Pƙed 4 lety +7

      @@himanshu7103 yeah it was!

    • @himanshu7103
      @himanshu7103 Pƙed 4 lety +8

      @@Squicx imagine my condtion, i strongly think the fast wireless connection and virtual technology and screens specially are destroying youth , poision their minds with fake vanity and short term fame .
      But
      my profession is developing more faster transmission of data and my highly genius friends making lamest of work easier and easier through technology .
      i am working beyond my ethics ,
      thats why i came to search that video , when life was not virtual

    • @Squicx
      @Squicx Pƙed 4 lety +1

      @@himanshu7103 I mean u do u my guy! I'll have your back when you need it!

  • @Gustave67
    @Gustave67 Pƙed 9 měsĂ­ci +9

    I can't get enough of these NYC videos from the 1990... I passed the bar in 1993...LOL... No iphones... No people just walking like zombies looking into their phones .... beautiful.. I think people actually looked healthier and just better than today! It's that get I have somewhere to get to New Yorker! Social media destroyed the best part of us!

    • @Pluty80
      @Pluty80 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +7

      Big facts social media platforms is a human downfall of simple life

    • @Gustave67
      @Gustave67 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +2

      @@Pluty80 totally agree

    • @jeromerayburn7821
      @jeromerayburn7821 Pƙed měsĂ­cem

      I’m waiting for someone to point out something silly to you like oh your on social media right now lol

    • @Gustave67
      @Gustave67 Pƙed měsĂ­cem

      @@jeromerayburn7821 exactly my point. Thanks for the connection

  • @rishikukreti8876
    @rishikukreti8876 Pƙed 3 lety +48

    Imagine getting friends like in "Friends" in the year 1994

    • @bumbumtras85
      @bumbumtras85 Pƙed rokem +1

      No, thanksđŸ€Ł

    • @krisstopher8259
      @krisstopher8259 Pƙed rokem

      yea or seinfeld. it would've been some fun and funny sh*t for sure. i remember every second of those two shows. they feel like the real new york to me even tho they weren't even shot there lol

  • @joewright3918
    @joewright3918 Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci +4

    Man this was a flashback, best part was not a cellphone in sight just people out and about without distraction

  • @storywritings5971
    @storywritings5971 Pƙed 3 lety +31

    To be honest i feel like I missed one of the greatest time periods, the 90s look amazing, too bad i wasn’t alive back then.

    • @professional.commentator
      @professional.commentator Pƙed 2 lety +4

      Me too! The worst part is I was actually born in the 90s but I was too young to remember any of it. It felt like a fever dream to me.

    • @mizzwanned
      @mizzwanned Pƙed 2 lety

      It was!!

    • @luornu
      @luornu Pƙed 2 lety

      I was alive back then and they seem like much the same as now in my memory. Technology was slightly clunkier, dial up internet was slow and annoying. But really I can't think of any particularly strong differences between then and now. I can't believe there is so much yearning and nostalgia for what I remember as a really boring and characterless time!

    • @professional.commentator
      @professional.commentator Pƙed 2 lety +2

      @@luornu The 90's certainly had its downsides from what I can try to remember. But at the same time, life was so much simpler back then. Hell even the 2000's decade was a whole lot simpler than the 2010's. Once this new era of technology and media started, things got so much more complicated that you sometimes forget life wasn't always like this.

    • @BobSmith-ql7fb
      @BobSmith-ql7fb Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@luornu comments like this actually bring me a lot of comfort, and I feel like any time period is what you make of it! Appreciate you giving an honest perspective

  • @comradeweedity1648
    @comradeweedity1648 Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci +5

    I was born in 93, but remembering what I can of the 90s...it felt so warm compared to today. The world doesn't feel the same.

  • @staffy73
    @staffy73 Pƙed 5 lety +52

    Incredible clarity for a 1993 video I didn’t know the cameras back then were that good

    • @UrbanistExploringCities
      @UrbanistExploringCities  Pƙed 5 lety +23

      I didn't know either until I did some digging and found out that there was HD VHS invented in 1993. it didn't take off, but this footage still survives

    • @debtminer4976
      @debtminer4976 Pƙed 5 lety +2

      Filmscanning can take you further back in time. Try this.
      czcams.com/video/NjDclfAFRB4/video.html

    • @esthergester236
      @esthergester236 Pƙed 3 lety +11

      Yeah we had electricity as well. Will ya stop. It's not the bleeding 1890's !!!! Jesus.

    • @professional.commentator
      @professional.commentator Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@UrbanistExploringCities I'm pretty sure these VHS videos from the 90s were digitally enhanced and upscaled by computer software. I mean we have the technology now to make grainy, black and white footage from the late 1800s into colorful, 4K videos.

    • @user-nl2tc9to7s
      @user-nl2tc9to7s Pƙed rokem +3

      ​@@professional.commentator no, this was actually filmed in HD (although you can find upscaled footage from this era). it didn't really take off until the 2000s, and it was killed pretty quickly by blu-ray and hd-dvd. there's a video in the description which explains the format in more detail if you'd like to know more

  • @sebaspaz0103
    @sebaspaz0103 Pƙed 3 lety +92

    Such a wonderful video. I’m getting so much Home Alone, Sleepless in Seattle vibes lol. Very nostalgic and wonderful times. I miss the 90s tremendously.

  • @sesaolb.6946
    @sesaolb.6946 Pƙed 2 lety +19

    What would I give to have seen the 90s as a young person. The clothes, the hairstyles, the music. Everything is much more casual than today.

    • @MultiSUNFLOWER18
      @MultiSUNFLOWER18 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      I grew up in the 90's and it was a less complicated time than it is now.

    • @professional.commentator
      @professional.commentator Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@MultiSUNFLOWER18 It seems the entirety of the 20th century was less complicated than the 21st century. Hell even the 2000s were not that complicated.

    • @MultiSUNFLOWER18
      @MultiSUNFLOWER18 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@professional.commentator I agree. :)

    • @jennifert3436
      @jennifert3436 Pƙed rokem +2

      Not really, people working in offices had to be totally professional. In the 90s I had to wear a suit every day - with shoulder pads!! Along with pantyhose and heels. People get away now with jeans and sneakers

    • @Religious_man
      @Religious_man Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci

      @@jennifert3436
      BOOM, baby.

  • @revokdaryl1
    @revokdaryl1 Pƙed rokem +14

    The 80's were still alive and well in 1993. Seeing the twin towers in 60fps HD is a game changer! Beautiful footage.

    • @Daveonarave
      @Daveonarave Pƙed 9 měsĂ­ci +1

      True. However 1993 was so nearly what 2001 turned out to be for the twin giants but for the truck being parked in the wrong place. An extremely awful day though eclipsed by events since

    • @John-ct9zs
      @John-ct9zs Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci

      Not really. You had grunge, which took off in 1991. You had gangsta rap, which started in the late 80s and took off in 1991. You had Bill Clinton as President. 1993 did have some left over late 80s aesthetic too it, but it was 90s. Even in 1990, it was not "cool" to talk about the 80s and walk around dressed like the dudes from Miami Vice. People would laugh at you in the early 90s if you were still living in the pop culture of the 80s, even though the 80s tech and aesthetic were around. To me the early 90s were always an "in between" time of the 80s and 90s.

  • @lorie1482
    @lorie1482 Pƙed 2 lety +36

    This was absolutely gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing this with us. It really took me back to somewhere far away.

  • @michaell997
    @michaell997 Pƙed 2 lety +12

    This is so inspiring. Born and raised in New York. Thank you trip down memory lane. It's so easy to forget how things used to be.

  • @drowningblue
    @drowningblue Pƙed 5 lety +227

    Not a cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment. I'll leave now...

    • @oochiewally2783
      @oochiewally2783 Pƙed 5 lety +22

      There were cell phones but it was just to make phone calls no texting or browsing

    • @GDRAFPilot_
      @GDRAFPilot_ Pƙed 5 lety +3

      @oochie wally And it was a bit bulky

    • @CeeStyleDj
      @CeeStyleDj Pƙed 5 lety +2

      One Lady appeared to have had earbud headphones in which was pretty rare. I only knew of the single earphone back then but she had dual stereo earbuds in her ear. Most people had those big bulky old school looking antenna headphones. Nite: cell phone were around then. Rare though.

    • @v3nturer
      @v3nturer Pƙed 4 lety +1

      90s has cellphones lol it already has ericson (idk how to spell it) nokia, motorola, but people doesnt really using it too long. because it just for calling and texting

    • @miparadise4638
      @miparadise4638 Pƙed 4 lety +8

      ‘Living in the moment’, lol talk some more shit dickhead. They all look like they are lost in thought. Not present at all.

  • @salutaldegrandfan6171
    @salutaldegrandfan6171 Pƙed 2 lety +9

    Society changed so much, that's scary bro

  • @pjjunior1402
    @pjjunior1402 Pƙed rokem +3

    looks like heaven on earth. simple life. no phones out. imagine being a social person and living in a place like that without social media. never ending heaven . I smoked a joint and just watched this. makes me so nostalgic.

  • @12hunter100
    @12hunter100 Pƙed 3 lety +17

    And we thought there were to much crime back then. Looking back we had some peaceful times, freedom to travel, walk anywhere together with a crowd of people. We didn't have the uncertainty we have today.

    • @deezymayne22
      @deezymayne22 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      The crime rate was definitely higher in the 90s. Purse snatching was the thing

  • @jobitabraham876
    @jobitabraham876 Pƙed rokem +6

    Wow. I'm so amazed by how a short clip can transcend a feeling. This video is a combination of two of the things I love, the 90's and New York City. Was born in '98 so I don't remember anything from that period but oh to live in those years. Thank you for this video. I was watching your video from Jollibee and to my surprise CZcams brought me here.

  • @stanfluellen2689
    @stanfluellen2689 Pƙed rokem +8

    Thank you for this. I am very nostalgic about the 90s - a special time for me, even though I did not visit NYC until later. Every shot of the Trade Center was a little jarring, but profound. Thank you for these memories.

  • @ronaldrosario7
    @ronaldrosario7 Pƙed 4 lety +14

    I was 9 years old in 1993, although I was a young child I remember the vibe in the City back then very well.

    • @ronaldrosario7
      @ronaldrosario7 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @Francis Lindsey Actually I'm 37, I was born in 1984.

    • @paulrussell1207
      @paulrussell1207 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@ronaldrosario7 How would you describe the difference of it then, from now in a sentence?

    • @ronaldrosario7
      @ronaldrosario7 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@paulrussell1207 I don't understand the question?

  • @akhmadtriyanto412
    @akhmadtriyanto412 Pƙed 4 lety +43

    lol, you are just stealing video from another source

    • @GiveItUpDot
      @GiveItUpDot Pƙed 3 lety +1

      I enjoyed what he did, and yes I've seen the original footage

  • @vincentpeeters1157
    @vincentpeeters1157 Pƙed 2 lety +3

    No smartphones. People just walking, watching the road, clearing their mind, must be heaven

  • @amazinmets8439
    @amazinmets8439 Pƙed 5 lety +12

    It's unreal how Crown Victoria taxi's are STILL seen in NYC to this day. Now THAT'S a reliable car! =D

    • @jasonroberts2249
      @jasonroberts2249 Pƙed 5 lety

      Tie Domi doesn’t hurt that they literally have their own garages open 24/7 to fix and maintain them

    • @jdomenick4528
      @jdomenick4528 Pƙed 4 lety

      Not really some people just by them now days cause uber ruined NYC taxi business

    • @MrPickledede
      @MrPickledede Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@jdomenick4528 you are right my dad owned and drove an NYC taxi and Uber destroyed his net worth after 40 years of hard and dangerous work...he died watching his hard work destroyed I will never forgive NYC for destroying so many lives!
      Thats why I left after 39 years of my live to live far far away from NYC!
      I was born and raised there and I will cherish growing up in the most famous city in the world.

  • @r2rovids569
    @r2rovids569 Pƙed 3 lety +7

    i use to live in the states during the 90s was freakin awesome

  • @Hannahleigh_
    @Hannahleigh_ Pƙed 2 lety +4

    5:07 this is so cute

  • @marcusdisalvio1804
    @marcusdisalvio1804 Pƙed rokem +2

    Makes a grown man cry remember his younger years and watching everything lose its innocence.

  • @kmeddow2002
    @kmeddow2002 Pƙed 4 lety +15

    I miss old NYC I wish I could go back in time

  • @Shan-zv9qh
    @Shan-zv9qh Pƙed rokem +20

    Great to see 1993 again! I lived in Manhattan for a short time then, and again in 1999. 1993 kinda was still very late 80s in cars/fashion/style. I’ve always noticed that with decades, in which the first couple of years of a new decade are very similar to the final year of the previous. Just like 2000 and 2001 were very similar to 1999

  • @coreyroberts311
    @coreyroberts311 Pƙed 2 lety +5

    Living through the 90s as a kid everything was its own treasure box. If you and your friends stumbled upon something cool it was yours to keep for a while. I miss it.

  • @RETROGEMS
    @RETROGEMS Pƙed 4 lety +37

    1990s NYC was kind of my time...I was a little kid who went on trips to my grandparents' back then. I was visiting the city all throughout the decade. There was definitely a different flavor and vibe to the area back then and yeah, gentrification over the years has had a LOT to do with eradicating it.

    • @loki6253
      @loki6253 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Victoria. I am crushed as I always wanted to go to New York City from the day I graduated in 1987. Alas I am afraid the New York I longed for is way too gone, but for now I will live, and love it here on YOU TUBE.

    • @lalrinmawi8210
      @lalrinmawi8210 Pƙed rokem +1

      I love you

    • @Dank951
      @Dank951 Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci +2

      I went back to NYC after 25 years for the first time this past April and I was saddened to see that so much of its appeal and aesthetic did not stand the test of time. It’s definitely different. Those who long to see NYC that was showcased in films like Home Alone 2, Goodfellas and television shows like Living Single, Friends, etc
are going to be disappointed to see that this NYC is a distant and extinct reality. You just had to be there when it was in its prime.

  • @alan15768
    @alan15768 Pƙed 5 lety +11

    Great video id like to see you do a time tripper back to NYC in the mid to late 1960's that would also be very interesting .

  • @gabriele9400
    @gabriele9400 Pƙed rokem +3

    1993 June 28 was a very injurious day for me at Con ed Waterside power house?A big boiler tube fell on me from the 7th floor as I was walking to the office..as a result I was taken to Bellevue hospital and it was overcrowded with sick people with the aids virus as they were in hallways as no rooms were available for them and at about 12:30 I was sent home because their was no room for me to stay overnight?This was a tragedy....I will never forget it?After 3 months I went back to work but as cold weather came I had pain all over and went to the dr to see what was going on?That was it for my career in Con Edison bye!

  • @taylorwaylor8965
    @taylorwaylor8965 Pƙed 3 lety +13

    I went to New York for the first time in 2019 and I loved it! 
but I’m positively sure I would’ve loved 90s NY even more too bad I wasn’t even born til 1999.

    • @Siomn779nil
      @Siomn779nil Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci

      i was born 2005 ...i love 90s and 2000s vibes

  • @sheerterror88
    @sheerterror88 Pƙed rokem +2

    Great footage, I'm feeling super nostalgic right now

  • @michealthomas4331
    @michealthomas4331 Pƙed 2 lety +6

    I really enjoyed this little trip down memory lane! Wouldn't mind doing it again sometime. 😎

  • @gennnl6743
    @gennnl6743 Pƙed 3 lety +54

    The 90s just seemed like a much better era, just the right amount of technology, the best music, movies, and shows, and mainly everyone was actually happy, too bad I wasn’t even alive back then. I’d really like to live in the 90s.

    • @JazDickinson1
      @JazDickinson1 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      I was 6 in 93

    • @luornu
      @luornu Pƙed 2 lety +9

      they weren't anything special. Like a much less interesting greyer version of the late 80s really and as I keep saying not much different to now from my perspective. Really. You aren't missing anything!

    • @DougieYT
      @DougieYT Pƙed 2 lety

      @@luornu I can kinda agree with this, that shot of Manhattan from Brooklyn I believe, looks basically the same as it does 20+ years later/now with the exception of the WTC

    • @amglex
      @amglex Pƙed rokem +1

      crime was higher in the 90s

    • @krisstopher8259
      @krisstopher8259 Pƙed rokem +1

      @@JazDickinson1 i was double your age. the perfect age back then i believe but i can't really compare it to anything. you only get one life

  • @AntiMasonic93
    @AntiMasonic93 Pƙed rokem +4

    Wow, there were a ton of people walking on the sidewalks back then. Now, there aren't as many. I was walking around Central Park the other day, and couldn't believe how empty it was.

  • @doobiesoda3873
    @doobiesoda3873 Pƙed 5 lety +2

    This was cool!😊

  • @josesalas2232
    @josesalas2232 Pƙed 5 lety +18

    1993 the year I was in born in this great city !! Born & raised in Brooklyn

    • @CeeStyleDj
      @CeeStyleDj Pƙed 5 lety +1

      This must be a special thing for you. It's very very rare to see anything in this high quality of video filmed back then. This was near HD shot on a special type of videotape.

    • @omairtech6711
      @omairtech6711 Pƙed 4 lety

      Lucky you!

    • @himanshu7103
      @himanshu7103 Pƙed 4 lety

      i envy you , what you doing now

    • @josesalas2232
      @josesalas2232 Pƙed 4 lety

      CeeStyleDj it is very special to me cause I remember how New York City was before the gentrification happen & how I was growing up when everything was great !!

    • @josesalas2232
      @josesalas2232 Pƙed 4 lety

      HBhatt I work in fedex & it’s great & why the envy !?!

  • @AndreSilva-qm3zv
    @AndreSilva-qm3zv Pƙed 2 lety +3

    1:19 she’s gorgeous

  • @Schnipp08
    @Schnipp08 Pƙed 3 lety +20

    Compared with today the 90's seem like a dream world... like a beautiful dream world which is lost forever and only lives on in our memories. 2020-21 seems like a nightmare compared to this beautiful footage and not just because of that virus, in general!

    • @professional.commentator
      @professional.commentator Pƙed 2 lety +12

      Exactly! Life seemed so simple back then. No social media, no smartphones, ignorance was bliss, freedom in the air, optimistic future. It was so different. Now we're living in a dystopian, hyper-connected, technocratic nightmare.

    • @krisstopher8259
      @krisstopher8259 Pƙed rokem

      @@professional.commentator true. even tho i see tons of great stuff on both fb and youtube (and instagram) it can't compete with the simple 90s. i was enjoying books back then believe it or not, lol

    • @professional.commentator
      @professional.commentator Pƙed rokem +1

      @@krisstopher8259 Yea don't get me wrong. I still love social media for what it is, well was. But anyways it's nice to be able to look up anything you want in a matter of seconds. And same here with the books. I used to love reading books every now and then, but this was in the 2000's. Early 2010's is when I started to heavily slack off on reading books.

  • @Ramire123456
    @Ramire123456 Pƙed 4 lety +8

    It feels so refreshing with no no no smartphones 😆

    • @iant419
      @iant419 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      I used to always carry a book around... THAT'S IT. I'm getting a flip phone.

    • @malcorub
      @malcorub Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci

      You can watch videos from 2013 and still get the same experience.

  • @bajaconectorestijuanasandi8917

    AMAZING VIDEO, GREETING FROM TIJUANA MEXICO.
    JUST STARTED FOLLOWING YOU AND HAVE ENJOYED YOUR VIDEOS SO FAR. THANKS

  • @ultraswank
    @ultraswank Pƙed 5 lety +24

    This is footage from the DTheater DVHS demo tape captured by TechMoan. Credit to where credit is due!

    • @mepnababan
      @mepnababan Pƙed 4 lety

      Do you even read bro?

    • @Knaeckebrotsaege
      @Knaeckebrotsaege Pƙed 4 lety +1

      @@mepnababan He edited the credits in after the fact. Originally there was no mention at all where the footage came from. Super scummy thing to do

    • @E180TEKNO
      @E180TEKNO Pƙed 2 lety

      it's ok dude calm down don't do a nervous poo

  • @goldcanyon340.
    @goldcanyon340. Pƙed 9 měsĂ­ci +1

    truly amazing how i cannot differentiate 30 years worth of HD. i've never seen footage from decades ago that could be confused with footage from today due to the highest level of HD! how do did they do that? it obviously wasn't digital in 1993, but analog video tape.

  • @efbg5184
    @efbg5184 Pƙed 3 lety +23

    Pandemic free wow it’s amazing how it makes me feel looking at all the people so close

  • @EnhancedSimplicity
    @EnhancedSimplicity Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci +1

    I was 11 years old...these videos make me miss my home (Jacob Javitz Center car shows, the 9-5 era & location, grown ups with their Manhattan trench coats my mother was one of these adults heading to their office job in this video).... NY is No Longer, NY anymore... i left the tri-state in 2018!

  • @adamm2837
    @adamm2837 Pƙed 6 lety +44

    How classic is that skyline shot underneath the Brooklyn bridge starting at 6:13?

  • @Userf34567uvvvcxx
    @Userf34567uvvvcxx Pƙed rokem

    Well done video! I felt like i went back in time to a gentler era

  • @mikegrowe9060
    @mikegrowe9060 Pƙed 2 lety +4

    I miss the 90's. It must have been amazing living in NYC back then.

  • @Olivia-W
    @Olivia-W Pƙed 4 lety +7

    Awesome, it's always wierd to see NYC from the 1990s in detail.

    • @UrbanistExploringCities
      @UrbanistExploringCities  Pƙed 4 lety +1

      the source of the video is mentioned in the description. That CZcamsr doesn't own the video either, it's from a demo-tape. Just having good fun making a fictional version of this video, I'm not making any money from this particular video.

    • @Olivia-W
      @Olivia-W Pƙed 4 lety

      @@UrbanistExploringCities Ok, thanks. I'll edit my comment so it doesn't sound so accusing lol. Sorry about that.

  • @geometricart7851
    @geometricart7851 Pƙed rokem +1

    Graduated HS in '93. Dude it's almost been 30 years to the month! I feel old. The internet was just being born.

  • @coffeeosu
    @coffeeosu Pƙed 2 lety +9

    1:15 iconic and classic (: those towers are fucking magnificent, even 20 years later I hate to acknowledge that they’re gone 😱

    • @mrdeathgaming1457
      @mrdeathgaming1457 Pƙed 2 lety

      This is what has been stolen from the people.

    • @JooWen00
      @JooWen00 Pƙed 2 lety +4

      can we just destroy the one world trade center and rebuild the old one with a shiny windows?

    • @E180TEKNO
      @E180TEKNO Pƙed 2 lety

      I curse these children of jihadist bastards who destroyed the emblem of a part of NYC be cursed we will exterminate you until the last clearly

    • @daylightman8459
      @daylightman8459 Pƙed rokem +2

      And less asbestos, that’s for sure. But why do that when we can build ANOTHER One World Trade Center next to the first one?

    • @krisstopher8259
      @krisstopher8259 Pƙed rokem

      @@daylightman8459 not the same thing at all but a bit better with twins instead of one single sad tower

  • @napulex107
    @napulex107 Pƙed 3 lety +3

    Music:
    Stevie Wonder - Living For The City (Instrumental)
    Michael Breker - Autumn In New York

  • @DougieYT
    @DougieYT Pƙed 2 lety +3

    1:13 Damn, that good ass quality makes it look like The original World Trade Center is still standing today😔

    • @mrandrossguy9871
      @mrandrossguy9871 Pƙed 2 lety

      Say you make a 10 Foot Replica a The Original Complex !
      It'll always Live on In Some way If you Want

    • @krisstopher8259
      @krisstopher8259 Pƙed rokem

      @@mrandrossguy9871 i built ONE foot replicas of them using printed night photos of the facades and some styrofoam in the middle. they stand in my retro cinema room together with the 90s godzilla and many other cool items

  • @cindyalmughrabi4192
    @cindyalmughrabi4192 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    It is interesting to watch old recordings, videos and pictures of New York

  • @napulex107
    @napulex107 Pƙed 3 lety +12

    Love NYC and the ‘90s! Such a great footage. Stunning quality.

  • @ChopSkullNYC
    @ChopSkullNYC Pƙed rokem

    Hi! You were recommended to me by Danette and Anthony. I just subscribed. Love this video! Wish it was really possible. 😃

  • @dupesonlyanddrugstores7421
    @dupesonlyanddrugstores7421 Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci +1

    Thank you so much for showing this video brings back lots of memories me and my baggy clothes I was 16 years old and a teen parent those were the best times ever especially traveling to Chinatown in writing the trains and going to the free outdoor concerts dolls don't come around my daughter who was just little now she is 31 years old

  • @gabrie504
    @gabrie504 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    I'm writing a novel set in New York in the 90s. I hope I'll manage to convey the feel and vibe of the city of that time, which for some reason I find very attractive even though I didn't see it with my eyes and all I know about it is through documentaries, footages, stories.. I guess I am idealising it, but I believe that that was the peak of the western civilisation, right before the digital era began. Slower pace, bigger value

    • @mickanvonfootscraymarket5520
      @mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 Pƙed 2 lety

      See if you can reach out to people that lived in NYC in the 90s, im sure they will have incredible stories that will be great inspiration for your novel ✌

  • @CyMisterRogue
    @CyMisterRogue Pƙed rokem +2

    This deserves way more views

  • @o0oStillWeRiseo0o
    @o0oStillWeRiseo0o Pƙed 5 lety +1

    Breathtaking

  • @manolokonosko2868
    @manolokonosko2868 Pƙed rokem +3

    I miss the 1990s. In 1 year I got laid off from a job I hated, lost a GF I wasn't going anywhere with, had to sell my 8 month brand new sports car, and I went on unemployment for 18 months, which led me to go back to college to finish my 4 year degree, and then I started getting laid a lot, to make up for the AIDS ridden 1980s. Of all the decades in my life it's the 1990s I miss the most. Despite the insecurity and dissatisfaction, in a way I was happy. I met interesting people, loved and goodbye'd. Optimism and heartbreaks. I was alive!

  • @emilypriestley5829
    @emilypriestley5829 Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci +1

    Hi there, this is fab! I was wondering if I could borrow a 10 Second clip from this video? - it has the aesthetic I'm going for on my social media for a small business I'm trying to start.

  • @antonio8897
    @antonio8897 Pƙed 3 lety +3

    I went to university in Long Island, but was always in the city on the weekends with friends. It was a really good time.

  • @danielcastro8950
    @danielcastro8950 Pƙed 2 měsĂ­ci

    ah, 1993, the year I moved to NYC for a 4 year stint on Wall Street at Citi. Thank you sooo much for taking me back....loved it!!

  • @Debbbbbbbb
    @Debbbbbbbb Pƙed rokem

    Thanks you are awesome movie maker !!! đŸ‘â™„ïžI would love to visit the 90s again,my favorite time line.

  • @meliandiceey3376
    @meliandiceey3376 Pƙed 3 lety

    Great video

  • @khsimagesdotcom856
    @khsimagesdotcom856 Pƙed rokem +2

    That was the post card version of NYC back in ‘93. The city actually felt a bit crazier than that tho. The streets were lined with people selling cassette tapes, counterfeit Chinese made handbags and whatever else sold. Time Square was raunchy, and it was more affordable to anyone who didn’t mind the crime.
    These were the days when NYC was better know as New Jack City, instead of the Big Apple, it was more closely associated with B.I.G. and along with rats, it was overrun with crack.

  • @terrywilliams3741
    @terrywilliams3741 Pƙed 3 lety +3

    The sky view is everything. What song is that at the end?

  • @ak11472
    @ak11472 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    That was really good improvisation...

  • @shoshi06
    @shoshi06 Pƙed 3 lety +3

    Those really were the days my friend!

  • @DanielLee-sf9ds
    @DanielLee-sf9ds Pƙed 3 lety +4

    1:41 Man looking back: Wow that lady seems to be really beautiful

  • @michellewall6748
    @michellewall6748 Pƙed rokem +1

    Loved loved loved NYC in the 90’s!! Nothing like it
.. not the same today sadly


  • @shahidm.3637
    @shahidm.3637 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    Wait so this video is just an original intro/ending and the entirety of another video on CZcams sandwiched in between? Cool

  • @johnh4132
    @johnh4132 Pƙed 2 lety

    Damn that footage is crisp cool to see for sure wow

  • @Jinaria101
    @Jinaria101 Pƙed 5 lety +4

    Omg Shoulder pads I’ve always wanted to wear them but they’re so outdated that i don’t think I’ll ever see them in stores ever

  • @oooooooliver
    @oooooooliver Pƙed rokem +2

    man i wish first of all that i was from the us, secondly that i was like a teenager in the 90s, love everything about it

  • @scottwooledge6387
    @scottwooledge6387 Pƙed rokem +3

    1993 was the year I moved to NYC. I remember office fashion being very boring, an over correction of the excess of the 80s probably. All beige and tan. NYC was expensive of course but not like today were you seem to encounter fees just to be allowed to breath. And of course there was still a thriving nightlife of dance places and club kids. That is what I miss most. Of course I am too old for dancing til dawn now anyway.

  • @bax2603
    @bax2603 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    was born 93 wanted to see ny in 93 beautiful video loved it

  • @Theresabeltinmyhand
    @Theresabeltinmyhand Pƙed 3 lety +3

    Speaking from experience if you go the other way on the 6 train to the last stop you get some really good pizza.

  • @pablodelarosa-mentesbrilla2346

    Maravilloso! Bro

  • @bricecenter
    @bricecenter Pƙed rokem +3

    You should do a then and now video where you go to the same/similar locations to recreate the shots.