Street Scene B-roll of Brooklyn's Bedford Ave and Fulton St, Early 1990s
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- "Brooklyn; Bedford & Fulton," New York Hotline, ca. 1990
Tape #658
WNYC Collection, 1936 - 1981
NYC Department of Records, Municipal Archives, New York City
I showed this footage to my grandmother and she cried. She she said her last good memories of NYC were before 9/11. We all moved to Florida in the 2010s
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Bk isn't the same. Mad gentrified
that was the real NY city I felt in love very years ago. Nostalgia
I miss this NYC. I visited Harlem in 1998, a week in the summer, I was 21 years old from London and went to the Empire State Building and tried to not sound nervous when I asked one of the female attendants out on a date that night.
It’s 27 years later and I’ve been a permanent resident of NYC since 2011. This is home but having been here a awhile, it’s all too easy to forget what this city used to feel like in a different time where even 2 square blocks felt like a huge distance to cross after midnight when you’ve been out having fun with friends.
We got stopped by the cops daily, sometimes multiple times because in 1998 the 3 white dudes in Harlem are there to buy drugs of course.
I’ll never forget the look on one cops face in the patrol car one of the days they stopped us and their comical reactions when we spoke in our London accents and told them we were fine and just on holiday for the week staying with a friend.
I miss those days I really do. I miss when chatting to strangers in a bar felt like a true new connection. The art or connection is being lost through our ever persistent connection to things that don’t even feel real. I guess I must be getting old as the more I look back the more I am nostalgic for that past VS what we have in this present, but things meant so much more and things took much longer. I wish we could easily recapture what that feeling was today.
Damn Rockstar really should make a GTA in NYC from the 80's-90's with updated Graphics.
(Ye I know Liberty City and GTA3)
Good idea 💯
Gta 3 and gta liberty city stories
@@Nostalgic-J it would be dope if they did a remasterized version tho. With the graphics we have today, how dope would that be!
Lol thats literally GTA 3 and Liberty City Stories
@@bleachno9 no it’s not. U would have been better off saying GTA 4. But the graphics still are dated.
Now that’s the Brooklyn I remember. ❤️
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Damn you sexy 😍🤤😗
@@wetstinkysocks490 she is
I used to walk down these street with my parents every other weekend to visit my grandma.
This is making me cry.
Awwwww poor baby hunting you real tight I got you
With things so different than they were then I can't help but wonder where all these people in these places are today and how different THEIR lives are.
actually there's no reason to believe their lives have to be so different today. many of these people likely still live in the neighborhood. they are just significantly older. NYC neighborhoods do go through changes and we do tend to notice the obvious changes, but so many residents still end up living in them for decades and decades with little actual change to their routine
Man it was lively before internet & gentrification. Now just a shell of itself but I'm grateful I grew up in Brooklyn at it's peak. I left in 2000. It was beautiful, still is but it had the vybez back then. Everyone was on the same page and everybody knew what time it was
Coley Thomas yea bro real shit I moved in 99 still always went back alot up until 2005 shits a moment in history
I lived in a shelter around the corner
You should have been around in 1955 when Brooklyn had more industries and Dodger Stadium.
the 90s were picturesque new york is just a place that makes you strong you bond with the people forever i left in 2000
@@Embassy97 facts.. I'm grateful for the strength and realness I gained from growing up there but a lot of my homies that never left got overdosed on it
This is the Brooklyn New York I miss 😢
Me too
I miss those days I grow up around the corner from Fulton and Bedford. I remember strolling up and down the streets as a teenager with my girls at the time. Bs restaurant was great. It also had its own commercial. I’m still in the neighborhood. Pretty buildings yes. But there’s no more community. I want the old Bed-Stuy back. You will never understand if u weren’t there. 😢
I was on Bedford and Lafayette in the 80s and 90s. I know what you mean. It was a different vibe and it felt it was ours. Went back recently and dont recognize it anymore.
I love watching the video of notorious BIG freestyle rapping against primo on the streets of Brooklyn back in 1991, aside from the fact he was one of the greatest ever the overall vibe and ambiance of the area and its people just looks amazing.
@kevinerosa that's where I lived by. It's DEFINITELY not the same anymore
I remember my very first time in Brooklyn... Sept 1996, I was 17 years old. Best time ever. Went back many times after that. I loved Brooklyn
what’d you do while over there
This is Before THEY came🙄I'm from the Bronx and my cousins lived in Brooklyn in Flatbush. I was 6 years old then and it was amazing even with crime drugs we had beautiful community culture, food LOVE. I was in Brooklyn every weekend. The gentrification ruined our neighbourhoods. THEY ruin everything. THEY have brought more drug addicts overdosing on the streets homeless encampments and a lack of community than the crack wars of the 90's. Look at Kensington PA and compare that to the Brooklyn of the 90's. There's no comparison. Our people have a sense of culture and community even in trying conditions. THEY have NOTHING but their obsession 🤚🏻. Big ups to the Brooklyn and the NYC of my childhood 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽🇨🇺🇵🇷🇭🇹🇯🇲🇹🇹🇧🇧🇳🇬🇬🇭🇸🇳🇲🇱🇧🇫💪🏿🇺🇸
I was buying weed in the early 90’s. Lol
Yeah except for Jamaican gangs etc
@@yankees29 Like I said is wasn't FENTANYL addicts overdosing on the streets like what 🖐🏻bring💯
Biggie would have been around them streets at that time frame, crazy!
I worked with a girl from Bed Stuy in the late 90's, I asked her if she liked Biggie. She was like "Hell naw fuck Biggie, my sistas friend got robbed by Biggie." 😂😂
@@Slickmickyoyo97 Right about that time young Mike Tyson was out n about robbing and mugging his victims daily!
And many others
Who cares
Smh
Grown ass men still obsessed with biggie smalls.
Who cares he walked those streets?! Get a life why don't some of yaw.
I know Im watching this on my phone but man Id love to go back to this time when we had no phones and everything was so much more real.
SRP Designs how is nothing not real anymore?
Facts
😢 I Want to go back 80s 90s that time world so cool no technology better everbody happy technology bring evils all country 😢
thats the neighborhood i grew up in. Shit just ain't the same anymore
Of course it’s not but change is good my friend
@@georgei546 Change is inevitable but it's not always good
@@Southpaw128 well change is not good when the rents go up
@@Southpaw128 or bad
Or when gentrification is involved
2:04 that French roll hairstyle screams 1992. Sometimes we would even put little pearls or beads in it 🤣😂
Yesssss
Yes I miss those styles!!! And the gold beads with Bobby pins on them
The Brooklyn New York that I miss,The real BK before it was stripped away ❤️
Damn I feel old. Thanks for the content. BKLYN will always be HOME!
Same! I reside in Canada now but Brooklyn is forever my home. I tell everyone out in Canada this. Don’t get it twisted I live here with you guys but I’m not one of you guys I’m a Brooklynite for life! East Flatbush baby!!!! Da grimey 90z
My childhood was 90s Brooklyn, it’s the only Brooklyn I wanna know.
Mine too!
I lived a few blocks from this footage.Brings back so much memories.
Man I grew up in nostrand avenue and Fulton st I miss Brooklyn I live in London and Yemen n Somalia and socotra island travel back and forth! Life is too short . Socotra island is one of the most beautiful island in the world.
Have u seen biggie ?
Imagine when those brownstones apartment houses were new and there were only horse drawn streetcars and omni buses pulled by horses. Imagine also the elevated train lines that had steam locomotives on the Fulton St. Myrtle Ave, Broadway, 5th Ave, and Lexington Ave els. The houses had gas lights and every block had 3 gas streetlights for night.
And the times were just beautifully and blissfully Racist 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
lolll@@obscuremusictabs5927
@@obscuremusictabs5927You mean blacks in Africa wasn’t singing Kumbaya while selling their own into slavery?
Who bought them? Evil people who wanted to own humans!!!!
@@bevygaines who sold them? What’s worse ? Enslaving another race or selling your own race to be enslaved?
"Brooklyn these days is just so....GENTRIFIED. I want to go back to when it wasn't...."
*portal to this opens up*
"My, my name's....Addison....."
I saw two people I know lol
I can’t be the only one who looks up the locations posted with address on the buildings to see what they currently look like in 2021.
You don't see anyone on a phone everyone with their head up as it should be i wish it was always like that
No Internet so everybody is on the streets
there was television and other things to do too
True I miss that part when everyone was outside and hoes walking around
Great video quality! Thank you! Missing BedSty ❤
Nice, I had family who lived near that intersection back when this was filmed. The, then horrific, Franklin ave shuttle is nearby as well, I was maybe 10 years old, memories.
3:40 man with the bootleg polo is chillin.
I remember those were everywhere around 92-93. Every corner you heard "polo, polo"
I herd they use to rob the trucks for mad polo 👕 an sell em for the L.O
I remember I had to knock son out before back in ‘92
If only some of these people knew they were immortalized in this video
What do u mean
@@marcopackie4100most of if not all of the people in this video probably don't know they are in it. and they will forever be partially immortal as long as this video is viewable to the public. Which they are also unaware of by not knowing about the video. 😅
I get it crazy is its true
Looks like an intro to a movie
Oh man I miss those days im from SC first time there was 89 I was going every summer I'm 40now big ups to BK
Saw Otis Redding in the old Brevoort theater. Don't forget also the Bango and Regent theaters also.
This is awesome I use to go to that dental and medical center .. my Mom just turned 79 on 9/23 .. bringing back so many memories.. I Love BedStuy .. Fr Fr ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
That’s my bday and grandma lived around the corner since 95, untill I took it over 2006 when she passed
@@Ghostfacekillah718 May she Rest in Peace
Happy belated birthday 🎂 🎊!!!
I went to college with a guy named Duval.. they called him du be real..short light skinned guy.. anybody from bedsty know him?
I would love to see a then and now version of this segment...
Nice. Not a single person staring down at a phone.
everybody hatttessssssssssss chris
thats what bring me here
@@kxng_military_2604 me too that's crazy
chiefs KC lmaao me 2
Yesirr u knw the vibe
wish we could have a "where are they now" ....
Waterlilly 1 most Blacks in that Generation still live in Brooklyn
jamel eason Many of the people were approaching middle age. I would say a fair share of them are no longer with us. The younger folks probably left Flatbush or NYC all together years after. Shit. I think everybody I knew who lived in Flatbush were all gone by the mid 2000s. Brooklyn was not a pleasant place to live.
inquisitive871 I lived in pink Houses East N.Y. from 89 to 92 I been back since it aint been the same
now its all mid-western hipsters
@jamel eason The "A-Team Era"? Is it noticeably safer now?
I lived a block away on spencer, my friend still has my old apartment. Neighborhood has changed alot now
At 3:25 dude had him a nice lil swigg lol
Shout out to the camera man for traveling back in time to capture these moments
Back when people could *read* Walk/Don't Walk signs and didn't need pictures to tell them what to do.
These were the best time in New York . Always was rough but still a great place to be😊 good days
I love seeing older footage 😊
Beautiful video. But it makes me wonder if vids like this were made to study communities around USA to help with gentrification.. I’m sure it was. Aside from that, it was a great vid. Nostalgic
It's like my left ear is there.
at the 10 minute mark you can hear the call to prayer
Lan Astaslem typical brainwashed sheep
Lan Astaslem stfu
3:10 lady in the red jacket seemed to be frightened of the crackhead like guy on the bike 🤣
real deal Funny enough, he was probably a crack dealer.
She was looking for the bus
🤣
Hay Now which crackhead 😂😂😂
yea, she was tryna catch that bus. You can see the bus right behind the truck.
I am crying. OMG! MY hood. So nostalgic.
Peace god, whats today’s mathematics?
@@realitycheck1092todays math is Knowledge cipher all being born to knowledge 10/10/23
That restaurant was owned by my uncle Bs
Beautiful. Curious to know what the source format is and what you used to capture it with...
This is a nice video of how life was… Now everybody just watches life and simulates life on the Internet.
Like we are right now
Sad
@@jimmydean9602lol
One thing I remember about the 90s was the noise. The gentrifiers wouldn't have put their foot in this territory back then.
Everybody watching on their smart phone and commenting from their smart phone about how much they hate smart phones and how they miss a time when there were no smart phones 🤣🤣😂
You don’t get it. I understand stupid people struggle to comprehend things. Try a bit harder.
😂😂😂 me right now
🤦😂
Man this camara guy went crazy recording signs.
I LOVED IT BACK THAN...NOW THE CULTURE Rip😢
Now Brooklyn is full of hipsters them peoples should of stayed in Manhattan
I loved her for 5 years in the early 2000s
Notice how much thinner people were, and no ones looking down at a bloody phone too.
I was wondering if biggie lil Kim or Maino would pop out N one these lol
The cameraman deserves a medal for bravery.
what year is this? it does not look like 1990. if anything maybe 1993-94
Damn just from watching the video, u feel how dangerous the streets where back then.
Miss these days
I was one of those lil kids on the street.
my left ear was enjoying the video
Wow nobody on cell phones wasting time the good old days
3:24 must have been a hard day
Life was so natural and real- technology ruined everything
Not really.
@@AtheistMorax really
Bruno cretin
Kal El dumb kids think they know
I spend most of my life on my phone, it’s unnatural and I feel disconnected from reality
fine quality. thanks.
Great nostalgic footage: Manny Hanny Bank, B's Restuarant , oh my memories
It’s crazy bc there places in the Bronx that look the exact same ! The apartments the projects all the same kinda weird
10:54 wow the Adhan is playing.. amazing, wonder if they still do that there?
They were in 2016 still (I lived close by on Nostrand Ave; )
I then left NYC for Detroit which in a way reminds me of oldskool Brooklyn, that spirit❣️
✨👋😺
It used to drive me crazy! I lived on Bergen and Brooklyn ave, it would echo into my apartment every so often
I belonged to the armory at 1322 Bedford Av. Right down the street. The Swedish hospital was across the street. Is the
Pig and Chick restraint still there?
Wow. So different now
Best era no phones or internet
looks like Peckham, circa 2018 :P
before gentrification wow
0.53 triga the gambler and then @ 1.53 about to call his brother smooth da hustla but remembers he just spent his last in sea world on some fried fish.... damn!
bombcaryah oh shit word 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Damn it's real like that? I knew by how he was dressed he was bout it.
Nobody was on a phone then. Tape it today and you'd see ppl running into each other.
I wasn’t born in the early 1990s when New York became different from here. 😀
Yeah I definitely remember this area back in the days I used to go to that seafood restaurant
Love the azan in the background.
Dude in the bike was a lookout for the police lmaoo 😂 camera man almost got kidnapped
The Brooklyn I remember. When the mafia ran shit and the change from the hustlers and gangsters being wiser, older guys to ruthless teenagers who’d kill anyone of em.
I was One of those teenagers by any means I had to survived the time nah mean
Trying to see if Jayz was in the corner like he claimed. FAR
Wow. No smart phones and stupid girls taking selfies
@Lan Astaslem at least it is a multicultural place where no one gets discriminated cause of race, shit hole or not, definitely better than racist apartheid country Israel
Much like the smart phone you're more than likely commenting from?
That Part feel good here just walking
@@zombiegoddess1524 😴
Wow, some of these people are still alive,, some has passed on by now,, like my mom and dad,,, I was hoping to see them,,, we lived in the area,, always went this way to pay bills,,, I wish these days would come back🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
The area is so much different now. It looks very suburbanized now with lots of pale faces. The Slave Theatre was demolished by a corrupted developer who went to jail for illegally taking properties in that area. I wish there were more footage of the backstreets and neighborhoods in BedStuy (especially near Restoration Plaza). I'm curious what that part of the area used to look like.
its still the hood
“lots of pale faces” sounds pretty racist of you
Lots of chocolate faces with nappy hair
@@yankees29pale face are uglier
Back then,the generations were visible, now I can't tell who's Who 🤷🏾♂️
I remember when the Slave Theatre was still there, and there were organized protestors there when it was being shut. According to the Papers, they were selling pot out of there (recently legalized in New York!). My neighbourhood for 10 years. I have to say it doesn't look much different, businesses come and go. It was very gritty in this footage but it's just as gritty and run down now. I used to wake up to the islamic prayer calls. What's really changed are the cars.
I use to like in Bedford Park always the train went by
11:30 hearin that new jack swing
Notice who wasn't there...but is everywhere now...
facts pale as hell
@@sliding_by8607 😂😂😂
my left ear enjoyed this
This is similar to my Jackson Heights 1991 video.
I miss the 80s
Hi, I'm shooting a 1990's scene for my short film. Can I use this video as background footage?
Wow hearing the adhan in the background on Bedford & Fulton masjid Al taqwah aww man appreciate this video I was born in 1987 so watching this is dope ‼️🎯🔥 OLD BROOKLYN DARK TINTS CUTY BUSES 🚌
GREEN GARBAGE 🗑️ DUMPSTERS 2 SIT ON 😂😂
@ 11:22 you can see the grocery stire Biggie was rap battling near.
No, that's not the same one. A lot of bodegas had that same or similar awning in that time.
what year was this