New York City Lower East Side, Alphabet City......1980s
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- Lower East Side, Alphabet City......1980s
Credit to Philip Pocock (an amazing photograpger)
Music- Hey Hey (DF's Attention Dub) - Dennis Ferrer
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![NYC Walk [4K] : Lower East Side and Alphabet City](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/iny09b1w3zo/mqdefault.jpg)
It was bananas out there in 80s, but people definitely looked out for one another!!!
RIP to those dead and gone. And keep pushing for those still out and about.
LES Ave D to the world!!!!! 🌎🌎🌎 Peace!!!!!!!
RIP original Lower East Side
The real LES. Gone but never forgotten.
I agree
Back in the days of the real LES(70s-80s) the residents would always have fun listening to real music on the streets every summer whether if it was Salsa, Rap, Disco, House, Freestyle, Merengue, etc coming out of a car stereo, boombox, or at a jam/block party despite the problems that were happening
Nothing Beats The Lower East Side ...The Bowery...👍🗽🇺🇸
So much music was heard all through NY streets back then
That:s right, Man i miss those days so much
Why would you miss crime? Good riddens!!!
There should be a musuem in NYC, for people to visit, to see all of the videos and pictures from "Old NY", because this time should never be forgotten
No some things need to stay in the passe, stuck in memories. They gentrified it and now it is what it is. They got what they want.
@@eh2688 but there can still be a museum ... Like all others
@@hereisayana8207 no, not everything needs to be in a museum. I have no clue why so many people dick ride down town manhattan. What I experienced and have seen im my life time needs to die in memories. instead if a "museum" they should have protected and safeguarded the soul of the neighborhood. Once a place for immigrants is now a a rich mandsplayground where people spend big $$ to live where squatters and junkies slept for free. If you want to look at pictures contact clayton www.vice.com/en_us/article/yvw9w7/clayton-patterson-photographed-the-best-of-the-lower-east-side
@@eh2688 : Well "They" do always seem to get what 'they' want. Usually.
And I agree with you that there certainly are things best kept as memories.
I mean, character can be lost but gentrification is almost always severe improvement. NEVER have I understood people making serious complaints about their neighborhoods being cleaned up and safer!!?#?:_÷/×%×=????
@@shaneculkin7124 it gets gentrified and the people who made it legendary get moved out for soulless culture vultures. You must be in a position of privilege and shelter. Who said it wasn't "safe" lmfao that's how I know you're part of the problem. You cant understand what you were never part of
This is when each neighborhood had it's on personality.
Original LES. I will never forget you. Rest in peace.
This is the LES Hipsters wouldn't be able to survive
A lot of our people didn't survive. These transplants from Oregon, Washington, Colorado woulda been swallowed up. They woulda never even tried to live around my way back in the late 70's and 80's, even into the late 90's. Peace.
@@jjcnyc6313 Hipsters and Yuppies also would've never made it during the early and mid 70's as well
@@jjcnyc6313 Speak on it brother
Cry babies! They are whiners
There were transplants in the 70s and 80s. They survived.
People nowadays (especially younger people) don’t understand what a neighborhood means. These pictures make people wish they could go back in time and take the subway to check out the LES of the 80’s. The reality is that back then you didn’t go to the LES if you weren’t from there unless you had a death wish. It wasn’t fucking Disney World.
What would happen if a stranger was going there back then ?
Integ. Dawah..... Nothing, it’s all exaggerated bullshit
I was a Brooklyn, and later a Staten Island, kid in this era. What you say is mostly true, but I remember venturing with my friends to Tompkins Square Park circa '87 or '88, but not deep into Alphabet City, not Avenue D no way (although my punk rock cousin lived around there in the early 1980s). We'd ride the ferry and walk and/or skateboard over to Alphabet City, passing through the Civic Center, Chinatown , etc. There was somewhat of an air of menace and adventure, but we didn't go looking for trouble and we didn't find any, and we got home before nightfall.
By the mid-1990s, the gentrification was well underway, and I suppose I had a very small part in it, working at a real estate agency for ab out 6 months. I was just doing reception and stuff, but I remember we had a landlord we worked with who had buildings around East 9th avd Avenue A (even then , circa 1994/95, this had become a safe area, but it still had a bad rep). We just advertised it as "East Village 1BR" and potential tenants would call and ask "Where in the East Village?," I'd say "Avenue A and East 9th" and they'd say "Alphabet City?! No way!" and hang up.
I used to pass this neighborhood on the bus going to Astor place or city hall. I used to take the 103 bus from Spanish Harlem to go downtown; used to get off from work early then!🤫
Hey bishop. It’s Bam. Old dancer from the Lower East 1980s. Great footage.
That tune was an absolute banger, thanks
Great music selection/track! Goes well with the visuals
titally wrong music...
I remember walking all over these streets with my grandmother. We left in 1973 for Brooklyn , then in 1980 out to Pennsyltucky ... I saw things in those streets a kid should never see
Steve's Mixed Bag I seen stuff I shouldn’t have seen at home.
I’ve seen things I didn’t see
What did u see In the street s?
What did you see in those street s?
This is where and when I found myself, wonderful time and place
Living in Georgia now but I was born and raised NYC I so enjoy videos of old NYC. Awesome memories ❤️❤️
This brings back so many memories of alphabet city in the early 80’s when I was a child visiting family in the area ( i do miss traveling down there and seeing family friends and places of haven( some remain some are long gone) but overall alphabet city (les) is home to me!
all the memories of my childhood. i used to walk up and down these streets with my grandma and mom in the 80s. we'd walk to 14th street and they'd take me to Jojo's to buy stickers and books. then we'd go to 34th street and have lunch at woolworth's after grandma did her shopping. funny thing is.. looking back it's pretty wild. but back then, this was all completely normal and i never thought twice about it. there were just certain things that we knew not to touch or do and that was that.
facebook.com/groups/234063750053/
This is my Facebook Page, Well over 5,000 photos with dates and info about the L.E.S. Enjoy
@@bishopknight7156 awesome! just joined!
Jo-Jo's!
LMAOOO...."Lunch at Woolworths", yes yes yesss!!! My Auntie Doris (RIP) would take me with her on her errands and somehow we would always wind up having lunch at Woolworth's on Westchester Ave in The Bx, then walk to the donut shop on Westchester and Morrison and get a Dozen mixed donuts to take home. The 80's....truly some damn good memories! 😊
@BishopKnight I'm not even from the LES, I'm from The Bronx, but I ain't gonna lie, watching this vid got me sitting here a little teary eyed and cheesing from ear to ear. When the pics of the "Skellzies Board and the pic of the pack of stray dogs roaming around popped up, I started, LMAO!! Outsiders could never fully understand. Yes, of course many of us were poor, many of us struggled, however everybody knew each other and their Families, we looked our for one another. As kids we respected ALL ELDERS and could go to them for any and everything. We may not have had the best materialistic things but we mad due and more importantly we LIVED LIFE!!!! Thank you for making this video!!! Respect! 🙌🙏
I LOVE MY NEW YORK BACK ON THOSE DAYS
WOW, I actually feel safe being in NYC during the 1980’s.
Those paintings were incredible!
This is awesome footage - Thank you!
When the slums were our playground. I was most alive.
The energy on the streets was incredible. We were afraid to sleep because we thought we might miss something
Truth... Miss the nitty-gritty individual personality of the late 70's/80's Nyc.. Still love ny but its so generic now. LES and up and down that island 2wice in a day.. sometimes.... Lol.. 🤦♀️🤦♀️. Back when I had a certain habit to maintain..🤦♀️😬😪🤢🤯😎😎 Miss it but couldn't ever do it again. Nothing could come close... Especially anything in today's so called world, let alone life. Sewer & urine smell and all... Crazy sounding yup but you had to have been there to know. ✌🏼💯 👍
My wife and I grew up on 4th street Ave. D. I’m 60 today so the 80s was my era! Crazy memories I gotta say!
I miss the whole NYC vibe in the 80's especially LES ! Save the robots on Ave B was a blast !
Rip 💔 all the ones passed!
My dad lived in LES from 1980 to the early 90s. He was a bouncer. He even worked with Vin Diesel in the clubs at one point
TUNNEL Nightclub everytime i tried to get in spot in the mid 90's fight broke out and they shut it down
They love this neighborhood on NYPD Blue, which I'm currently binge-watching. They mention it quite often!🤫
Nice video ... would you consider putting the word "New York 1980's" in the title, so that the video can receive more views.... because a number of people are searching on CZcams now, for this title... to see the old dayz
Done
Bishop Knight Thank you :)
Need more. Love the music you selected for this clip
I grew up in Campos Plaza on 12th st between B and C I miss these days!
I used to hang out at haven plaza. 12th & C back in late 80s early 90s
I remember Campos. I used to hang out at my best friends house, Eileen. She lived on the second floor facing the circle. I knew Davila and all those guys
I'm a born and raised Nyer and see so many changes. It seems the city is reverting back to the good ole days. its roots :) Now we need the mega night clubs back :) All the greedy landlords are pushing out the corp chains ,greed gets us nowhere
Some of the best music in the history of the world came out of the lower east side. I went there in 2010 from Florida. Gentrification was full blast. Blondie, talking heads, Ramones, cromags, agnostic front, sick of it all, youth of today, fuck......i would give anything to be there.
wow totally different landscape now in 2018
man i wish i could experience old nyc at least once
Where Madonna moved to in 1978 with $35 in her pocket. Don't underestimate these streets.
Well, now even if you want to underestimate you can't, few can afford to live there now :/
Shes a yuppie lol
Fuck madonna she a fake poser
@@oochiewally2783 fuck you
@@oochiewally2783 Madonna is the artist that made the Lower East Side great.
Amazing colours
I played in those abandoned buildings,my playground, shout out to Thomas Selby.
Old NewYorkcity.I remember those days.I'm from Spanish Harlem El Barrio.Memories I live in Atlanta.I will always be a Native NuYorican.Weepa miss those days.
From 101st & 1st Ave
you should do another one these big cuzzo show the world how long and precise you been rocking
I moved to NYC in may of 1983 from France, Jesus did I spent time between D and A , Tompkins square and so on. I did live on Stanton st below Houston. I remember summer 84 down on LES all the boomboxes and MJ singing Billy Jean.....
I remember Pride Site. I lived across the street from there. It was a building for people that got off drugs. It was like a rehab center.
I lived on 3rd street between ave. A&B 1980 ( .357 & Checkmate) it was a war zone but we were proud of our hood!
My dad lived in between Avenue C and D in 1980
"Bullet" 3rd and D
General and E.T. 3rd bet C&D and Laundromat on 7th
@@captainsensible5402 Stingray on 6th and D almost in the river. lol
3rd btwn C&D was wild back in the 1980s.
This is dope! Thanks! Viva LES!
Nice video
I'm not sentimental but man how I miss the LES. The very best to all.
If you remember Manny from Ave.A, well he's in a Senior citizens home now. Pray for him
New subscriber..🙌🏾🙌🏾
An environment where outsiders might think residents must have acted like animals but the opposite was true.
That is so true. Raised on Avenue D till my 18th birthday. It was an extraordinary journey. Wouldn't change a thing. Nothing compares.
15 Clinton Street. 1970's to 1990's. JHS 56, Seward Park HS. I left. Some JHS friends still living in LES in 2023.
We up! Rockwell Tns💯 you had to live thru it to understand😁
Nice place...,. Cro mags
It was my home for 8 years. Great days. Miss you Ave C Loisaida
Just spent my first time in NY last week. Loved the LES it was my favorite neighborhood in Manhattan. Has a hint of an LA vibe where I am from
@@socallawrence I always felt like real NYC is between 23rd and Canal Street. Specially LES, Alphabet City gave me the old school, proportioned in human size neighborhood feeling. Good times
@49..the original Graffiti Church building... who is the kid posing ?
The good old days..the Village Voice..walkups..
Basquiat and Haring up there!!
Richard Hambleton too
@@PaulBauco and Michael Roman among others! Who did the mural seen at 10:31? I remember it so well!!
The famous junkies
@9:24 Our neighbors..next to the new Graffiti Church !
I miss the NuyoRican Poet's Cafe, 3rd and B if I remember correctly. And of course A7!
👍🏼👍🏼
There was a neutral energy in those days, you could take it on a positive or negative direction. Peace and Success to All
intense
Deep
Best times
I'm a product of LES . Now all the hipsters walk down Ave D with no worries. Back in the day white people wouldn't walk past Ave B lmao
Avenue B : you Brave
Avenue C : you Crazy
Avenue D : you Dead
Integ. Dawah lol
There were loads of white folks living in the LES back in the 70s & 80s. Infact they were white folks living in the projects. Fuck outta here with your racist bullshit.
@@jamiewilliams685 exactly les was mixed as hell. There were alot of whites back then that live in projects who joined black and Hispanic gang and drug crews back in the day
@@j-starzdee1735 @UCu6xKLfXK8fDJzn3vX_dK4A exactly! my mom lived on avenue d all of her childhood and early adulthood. i was raised there and it was mixed as hell. yeah there was a puerto rican presence but in our building there were plenty of white and black folks as well. hell, my mom and grandma were asian and her dad italian and everyone knew them. the thing is.. if you were raised there you knew what not to do, what streets not to walk at certain times, etc. someone who has never been there back then would be an easy target since they wouldn't know anything about the neighborhood. but that wasn't exclusive to LES- the same went for the west side, times square, etc.
For me the records shop was the best thing and Les for me
For anyone that watched this video, there is a girl with a fake gun to her head. Thats Ana Delgado. I went to school with her. I remember her. She was so pretty. Had the cutest little shape. She used to hang out with Rosa Cancel. Im talking about JHS. Does anybody on here know her?
Love LES
Wow, totally tubular
The bad old good old days. Born, raised, still living and surviving in the greatest hood in the world - LES.
Hey everyone. I’m actually working on a documentary from the dance group General Electric from the Lower East Side. Bishop it would be great to include song of your footage. The Lower East Side needs to be recognized for its contribution to art and dance. That’s the reason why in doing it.
Did Bishop ever reply?
@@ramonaesteves6569 he did not.
@@peterarizmendi4995 that’s surprising try again!
when new york was new york
Anybody know where @15:24 is at ?Thanx for any info....
Dalancey
My hood
What's the name of soundtrack playing?
Music- Hey Hey (DF's Attention Dub) - Dennis Ferrer
Someday after when the COVID-19 problem is over, one of the true remaining LES natives should create a block party somewhere in the Alphabet City area so Hipsters and Yuppies can can have a taste of what real NYC street culture is all about
Exactly
Everyone fought so hard to leave and now which they could back. 😂😂😂. Why ? Miss your friends? The food ? Family/ Friends? Miss being young ? The music ?
it was soooo full of human style and zest.... anyone remember the gas smell in some streets-was that cleaned up before the 8o's. flexable stove piping..... deep upholstered filth and freedom and nowness.
real new york
I remember it well.. had to hurt a couple people in my day.
Maybe use a soft 80s tune as background music ? This is nerve wrecking and watching with no sound is not much fun. Thanx for sharing tho, some really nice pics !!
Soap Box Preacher absolutely sucks!!
@@bishopknight7156 'White Stuff' by Fashion ?? Better ?
@7:24 - I wonder if the dude with the artificial legs was a Vietnam vet ?
MY OLD HOOD AVE D
will it ever go back to this when new york was real not fake
TBone2000man: Hell NO!!!!
Never say never..remember that nothing is guaranteed
@@fuzzyduck1989 fuck yes the late 21st century.
Revolt would have to ocurr
Never!!! The genuine creative people and artists that made the LES what it was are all gone. You just can’t invite people and try to duplicate it, it was born by fate. It will never ever happen again
As soon as they shut down the Laundromat on 7th and B that neighborhood went downhill
Yo who remembers M,F.Y
Yes they did like family, my god what happened?
What percentage is Starbucks now?
VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE
How "beautiful" the reagan times...
manteca!!
TONY TAINO pass it around.
It was powerful back then, straight from Afghan
I grew up in alphabet city my father a munkle had a shop on house the street between Avenue a and Avenue B all them projects were all puerto ricans you couldn't throw a party or when there without somebody getting shot now is been gentrified you have white people actually living in those projects I have nothing against that but I'm just saying that times in those neighborhoods was no joke
Theres always been white folks living the projects in the LES especially back in the 80s. Get a clue and stop your bullshit racism.
any one remember brownie`s
WHAT 22 PISTOL IN THE WASTE AND THAT HAT PLENTY OF PACKS B.S POOL TABLE AND BUD WEISER NIPS .....PERDICO..
William Meyer no doubt
humphrey & hoover
Became a punk/rock club a little later.
@10:24 Is that you, Amy ??
Amy Morrison. She lived on 11th.
To hell with gentrification
Good place to cop back in the day
That photograph is not alphabet city.
My stomping grounds 1985-1997.
Gentrification completely ruined the LES.
Zero grit zero culture left.
It’s filled with Soulless hipsters now.
Spent my first time in NY last week. The LES was my favorite neighborhood in Manhattan. Very lively! Had a hint of an LA vibe where I am from. “Soulless hipsters” ??. Nah man
Wish I could just jump inside the pictures, I hate this fake modern gentrified bs
When people were actually tough. When people weren't offended. When cell phones & technology couldn't swallow our souls. When there was only 2 genders. When you took responsibility for your actions. When being a victim was looked down upon. When things were raw & real. When everyone liked Trump. A better time. Kind of makes me want to die now. This world sucks.
I don't what neighborhood you lived in, but there was ALWAYS gay people in LES, no one here with a brain, heart or soul ever 'looked down' on victims of any thing, and NO ONE here in the LES EVER liked tRump.
@@PandoraNYC1 I think you are missing his point.
Modern day Babylon and Sodom/Gomorrah.