NYC in the 90s(pics)

[Blessings]

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.

all great pics....love da last one

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

The 90s NYC

I was trying to find images on google for Nell's, 2iis, The Shadow (for the fat ladies) and Bentley's nightclubs as well as Soul Cafe.

 

[CakeEater]

The 90s NYC

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nikkas use to roll up with that?

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

nikkas use to roll up with that?

LOL… Nah, those were beedies. Niccas used to get a lil buzz off em. Like black n milds but much smaller.

 

[NYC Rebel]

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.......

Amazing..and to think, there's so much more you can add. I miss the energy of 90s NYC. Not like we were trying either. The city was so distinctive and uniquely itself. Now there's a trying too hard element of forced cool by these newbies and worst of all, the city has made all efforts to open the doors to it rather than cultivate what was born out of here.


Dude...I'm sitting here in the French quarter in New Orleans envious that this city has taken all efforts to preserve its culture. No one can come here and force themselVes onto this city...you have to embrace what's already here. But I see NYC and realize I'm from Old York.

 

[NYC Rebel]

nikkas use to roll up with that?

We straight smoked those

 

[Blessings]

every day

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

I would've ran wild in that city

 

[Londilon]

why aren't all the pictures in color? This was the 90s.

 

[NYC Rebel]

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.

That entire strip where Papya was located at was my shyt. The greatest shoe store, Petite Peton, was my joint. Puff, Kim, Foxy and all the stars would low key go there. They would sell these $300 or $400 shoes from all Over the world...Bagatto, O2....mannn. I would buy shyt from there only when they have their buy 1 get 1 free sale and walk out with $600 worth of shoes. Now 90% of those stores there are GONE.

 

[MR. Conclusion]

I had a chance to go back recently. I declined.
I think part of me wants to leave it the way I remembered.
It's so sad what happening to Harlem and BK.

 

[JAY?]

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

What about before the metro card
The school bus pass that changed colors every month
We used to get on the bus and pass them out the window

Meeting bytches off of aol 3.0 with no pics
I used to run wild in the queens ny chat room

shyt was just different. I remember being like 10 and staying out til like 1am and wandering all types of neighborhoods. My lil sister is 10 and I don't like leaving her in the backyard by herself.

Kids would actually play outside.
When's the last time u seen kids playing baseball on the sidewalk or football on the streets or suicide on a handball court.
I don't remember the last time i seen kids chasing each other playing tag or man hunt

 

[Danie84]

Remembers, Empire Skating Ring, and that 1 pizza shop in the middle of Fulton Street

...that Polo Sport Ralph Lauren sign was all a Lo kid rocked

to gentrification and hipsters

 

[Majestyx]

why aren't all the pictures in color? This was the 90s.

cuz people shoot in black and white

 

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

Back in the day:




Bed Stuy, March 2014:

Looks like what's happened to hackney/hoxton/shoreditch in east london.

In ways it's better today, but I just not how I remember it or how it's supposed to be