NYC in the 90s(pics)

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[Blessings]

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, 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, 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.......

one of the best posts i have ever read on here and any message board.....nearly teared up

 

[Michael's Black Son]

one of the best posts i have ever read on here and any message board.....nearly teared up

 

[Majestyx]

GOAT 90's city. the vibe so ill. I didnt go to school there, but i spent many summers there. ii'd be geeked as shyt to go see fam in NY

went to visit right before i moved west, went to jamiaca ave shyt was not the same city is still great, but them erasing 5points was like the end of an era

 

[Frump]

You want to see different post pics of NYC in the 70's and 80's it looks like a different country

 

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

Cost & Revs

 

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

GOAT 90's city. the vibe so ill. I didnt go to school there, but i spent many summers there. ii'd be geeked as shyt to go see fam in NY

went to visit right before i moved west, went to jamiaca ave shyt was not the same city is still great, but them erasing 5points was like the end of an era

Seriously....

 

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No ESPO pics?

 

[AntiHero]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

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[AntiHero]

These pictures have convinced me more than enough to start taking my camera every where i go.
You never know what you might see one day.

 

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

Jenny Holzer...

Her work is amazing.

 

[Kingshango]

These pic's weren't even taken that long ago yet so much has changed since then.

Then the realization hit's you that the 90's ended 14 years ago so most of these pictures are 20 years old.

 

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

This thread is awesome BTW...

 

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

These pic's weren't even taken that long ago yet so much has changed since then.

Then the realization hit's you that the 90's ended 14 years ago so most of these pictures are 20 years old.

Seriously...I remember alot of this stuff like it was yesterday...