NYC in the 90s(pics)

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

it's gone

Now we're left with a bunch of pissy kids from Iowisconsintucky on mommy and daddy's dime doing their best attempts at Michael Alig era club kid impressions.

 

[Peak]

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[Sunalmighty]

I remember visiting my brother in Flatbush. I have family out there. We were riding through Brooklyn and listening to OB4CL and I swear it sounded like a different album

 

[supanegro]

yo breh I aint gon lie... I teared up lookin at those pics. I miss those days my adolescence, my mom still being around....damn shyt hit me hard or maybe its the liquor. nah cant blame it on the booz this time. thanks @chooseone1

 

[ZackMorris]

I need to leave this thread. I can't take it anymore :tooemo:

I miss my old NY

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

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

Yea exactly. Bad pic selection

 

[WaveMolecules]

Great pics

 

[Kobes Two Jerseys]

 

[Miggs]

All Star Cafe,those are some bad bad memories right there...

 

[SnugglesDaBear]

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.......

fam this post nearly brought a tear to my eye. I think it was @NYC Rebel said it, this is what it looks like when a city sells out. Harlem in those days was magical to me.

 

[christinasade]

can anybody tell me the background for this mural i mean i know someone....and young boy died....but does anybody know anymore information?

 

[Max Goonberg]

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.......

feeling some type of way about this post



nikkas used to eat so good off that funpass before bloomberg starting wildin with the mta prices.

yapping nigggas for they student metros.

shyt used to be fun for no reason.

blood nikkas makin it hot at the mcdonalds on the ave

truancy looking for nikkas
$10 had you right for the whole day and 15 if u wit a bytch

 

[AnotherRoute]

No lie I felt a lump in my throat watching these pics. I couldn't wait to get older to run around this city. By the time I was an adult it was gone man it was gone.

 

[nomoreneveragain]

Papaya used to have 25/50 cent hot dogs

Felt like the shyt with 5 bucks in my Pocket



I remember driving past Steinway St in Queens, last time I was in NY and noticing how different it is. I think that McDonalds and the Modells are the only stores still standing.

 

[UpAndComing]

Too bad all of those pictures are of only Midtown and Lower Manhattan

Tourists always make me chuckle