NYC in the 90s(pics)

[SnugglesDaBear]

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

 

[Beng Beng]

5* thread and

 

[Tommy Fits]

So thankful I got to experience NYC while it was still NYC. And it wasn't just Manhattan each boro had it's own distinct neighborhoods and flavors. And while a lot of these neighborhoods are still there, they are disappearing slowly but surely. When people ask why you love the city, it's one of those things you just had to live an experience to truly understand why it's loved. Ask an older person that lived and experienced the 70's in NYC. Place was a shythole but a lot of people that lived it will wax poetic about it, and then they'll throw the usual I guess it's nice crime is down though lol.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

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.

Castro finna kick that bucket tho...

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

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

thats kind of a shytty statement though considering how poor that area is...

 

[Liquid]

the kids today have no culture. That's all I have to say here

 

[Liquid]

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

nobody is scared of the Bronx anymore, it's just the fact that all that is up there is the zoo and Yankee stadium.

Brooklyn and Manhattan seen to be battling to see who can attract the most hipsters by 2020

 

[Heafcliffe]

This. Right here is.....is just.....
Life was then.

 

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

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.......

Damn breh u hit my heart

 

[the cool]

i think new york today is the best its ever been

 

[ORDER_66]

i think new york today is the best its ever been

 

[ISO]

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

Real talk I'm copping a Helly Hansen coat this winter, I'm bringing that shyt back

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.

Chill bro, I be out here it ain't that bad

 

[ORDER_66]

It is that bad look what someone put on my facebook live from brooklyn...

 

[Trip]

 

[PIFF101]

Real talk, I just saw Helly Hanson, half moon cuts, timberland beef and broccoli's and mad landmarks in NYC.
Remember you use to hop the train with no fukks. No metrocards just the passes. Recognize that NYC was the birth of Hip Hop. Shoutouts to all the true heads who contributed to this thread..