NYC in the 90s(pics)

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

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...

This is how I feel about london these days.

I dropped someone off at Gloucester rd station the other day, I looked across the road and the first 3 shops I see all in a row was Starbucks, Burger King, KFC, I thought to myself "wtf is london about that?", the whole workd us just turning in the same fukking place.

We've lost alot of character the world over in the last 20 years, it was refreshing not to see a chain when I was in Cuba.

 

[the next guy]

These threads are made all the time, and they never get old...

 

[Londilon]

cuz people shoot in black and white

I'm aware of that, however the black and white doesn't give me that true 90's feel. It is a certain way the colors came out in photo's in the 90's that is different from any other decade.

 

[TheGetDown4321]

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.......

L.A. > NY

 

[Michael's Black Son]

L.A. > NY

okay, bytch

 

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

If you talking the 90's NU YAWRK how yall forgetting

 

[Atlrocafella]

I used to spends most summers in Brooklyn in the 90's with my aunt. I consider it a second home. Not a worry in the world at the time, these days I go up there a few times a year and it's still crazy how it's becoming a Place for the rich now.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

 

[DrX]

90s>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[ORDER_66]

 

[UserNameless]

What the fukk happened to New Yawk City?!




















Y'all niccas truly had something special.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

What the fukk happened to New Yawk City?!



Y'all niccas truly had something special.

I know breh. Harlem gone, Brooklyn gone, LES gone, Spanish Harlem is little Tijuana now, the Heights is reggaeton zombieville and being gentrified.

soon motherfukkas are gonna have to take field trips to the Bronx to see what old NY used to look/be like.

 

[UserNameless]

I know breh. Harlem gone, Brooklyn gone, LES gone, Spanish Harlem is little Tijuana now, the Heights is reggaeton zombieville and being gentrified.

soon motherfukkas are gonna have to take field trips to the Bronx to see what old NY used to look/be like.

Generally speaking, it seems as if BX is the last, concentrated remnant of Old New York.

How'd BX remain relatively unscathed?

 

[ORDER_66]

Generally speaking, it seems as if BX is the last, concentrated remnant of Old New York.

How'd BX remain relatively unscathed?

Cause aint no one wants to live in the bx.... these white developers scared of shyt up there

 

[UserNameless]

Cause aint no one wants to live in the bx.... these white developers scared of shyt up there

For history's sake, I hope BX doesn't get its character stripped by developers.