NYC in the 90s(pics)

[AntiHero]

I've always had a huge fascination with NYC's history, sad that it's being overrun with hipsters.

 

[AntiHero]

 

[Doctor Wily]

Those pics speak to my soul like you wouldnt believe.

 

[whatthatthangsmelllike]

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[Mikael Blowpiff]

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

No lie, a lot of those places still look the same today. With the exception of Times Square since they don't allow traffic down bway

 

[Remote]

Back in the day:




Bed Stuy, March 2014:

 

[AntiHero]

 

[Remote]

Relevant discussion about NYC...in some ways.

25 years after "Do The Right Thing"...

A great read.

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/02/is_...ter/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Can it be that it was all so simple?

Man...this is bringing a tear to my eye almost...

The last action hero inflatable Arnold pic...

Man...America changed so much...I don't like it now....let alone NYC. It's not the same. The energy isn't there. It feels fake. Like a product...

I'd give anything to go back in time to the 90s...

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

It's funny...growing up...seeing these sights...these places...those shows...listening to the music and watching the TV and the movies it seemed so current and of the time and modern...it's funny and interesting to watch it become old. To see the pictures and remember those things and see it through that vintage lens...as it warps and fades.

This just touches me especially as I hit my 30th birthday next month.

 

[Blessings]

memories.....remember cutting elementary school wondering through da city and downtown brooklyn

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Those pics speak to my soul like you wouldnt believe.

this. growing up in NY during the 90s was the shyt IMO, especially the early-mid 90s. it was a special time, just like the 80s were but in the 90s so much shyt came together at the same time in an official way; music, fashion, sports (MJ era Bulls), technology started to pop, things were still affordable to the masses.....and even tho crack and AIDS ballooned into a huge problem you felt like life was good. Even when the Gulf War happened, the shyt was over so fast that the US was really feeling itself

but NYC, regardless of how much $$ you had, felt like it was YOURS and you could pay $1-1.25 for a token to get on the train and experience shyt like Washington Sq Park, 125th Street, Grants Tomb, grimy ass Times Square, the Heights, Spanish Harlem, Puerto Rican parade before them dudes fukked it up for good, Brooklyn before gentrification, old Yankee Stadium just as the team started whooping everyones ass, MSG when the Knicks looked like contenders, World Trade Center, Columbus Circle, chilling late night in the summer on the block, Rucker/Kingdome/Dyckman for them bball tourneys, NYC high school bball running shyt nationally, track meets at the Armory, Corona Park in Queens, Shea Stadium before they knocked it down, seeing mad movies/TV shows being filmed everywhere, that DMX/Ruff Ryders era that had the whole NY buzzing, record label street teams putting up posters/stickers and giving you cassette tape samplers, Clue/S&S mixtapes, parties at Minisink in Harlem, The Tunnel/Limelight/Carbon/Zanzibar/Demerara/Speed if you were old enough to get in, Staten Island Ferry and chilling out there with bytches in the projects you just met, Polo Grounds/Lincoln projects/Red Hook projects/Taft houses/QB projects/Grant projects being wild as fukk, baggy clothes, getting chicken late night at Caporal in Harlem or soul food at M&G's, middle aged Dominican bytches selling pastellitos in the heights or 181st Street, Coco Helado Delicioso italian ices only costing a quarter or 50 cents, Cablevision finally bringing cable to the hood, the Mister Softee anthem, Flex/Angie/Wendy Williams/Dr. Dre & Ed Lover on the radio, urban labels like Karl Kani/Cross Colours/Phat Farm/Walker Wear/Pelle Pelle/Parasuco/Iceberg, and just feeling invincible even tho it was the Giuliani era and cops were cracking motherfukkas skulls open.....

...some good times back then brehs.......

 

[darius19]

seeing an old pic of the Twin Towers still gets to me

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

I'm gonna comment.....but I need a moment. Those pics are