This Is The Closest We've Gotten To A Real-Life Cyberpunk City

[Conz]

i feel jipped that i basically just missed all of this.

 

[x2y]

I remember those times as a kid. It's great in retrospect but not living through. There was a point when NYC was averaging over 2000 murders a year. I lost 5 friends from that shyt. The south Bronx used to look like a bombed out third world country. Robberies everywhere, harlem was a giant crack spot and you couldnt have a car that wasnt broke into. So much creativity came from that era, no doubt, but nikkas was damn near about to burn the whole city down.

Yea pretty much I lived on 159th and Audubon back then. I remember going into the candy stores and they would sell crack right there behind bullet proof glass.
And not just broken into cars, but also cars burned to a crisp sitting on cynder blocks and abandoned buildings filled with crack heads (the whole building block in front my of mine). I used to see that all the time.

It's crazy how I thought all the sh!t was normal.

 

[RJY33]

Love any movie (especially Warriors and After Hours) filmed there at that time. One of a kind atmosphere. Great pics in this thread. Was really a different time back then. First time I went probably 20 yrs ago I remember it being like another world to me

 

[humble Hermit]

Dope ass pictures. Thought Spinoza took em

 

[Anti-Anime]

Charles Hamilton's father.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

great pics, I'm going to have to dap the thread starter

 

[MidniteJay]

My moms told me about that shyt when I got old enough. She came from Haiti in the late 70s and settled in New York

She got mugged at knife point and gun point several times. Once (knife) when she was pregnant with me and twice (gun/knife) when she was pregnant with my younger brother.

Pops got mugged when he was trying to meet up with my moms at the hospital when she was giving labor to my brother too

I'm like why didn't yall nikkas move

Then I remember they came from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

 

[GetInTheTruck]

my era the realest era

 

[Black Magisterialness]

My moms told me about that shyt when I got old enough. She came from Haiti in the late 70s and settled in New York

She got mugged at knife point and gun point several times. Once (knife) when she was pregnant with me and twice (gun/knife) when she was pregnant with my younger brother.

Pops got mugged when he was trying to meet up with my moms at the hospital when she was giving labor to my brother too

I'm like why didn't yall nikkas move

Then I remember they came from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

shyt was like a vacation for them breh...

 

[Danie84]

This my big brother Era.

I was born in 84, and can remember when Franklyn Ave. was like a war zone and the Shuttle train smelled like urine and had graffitti all over the walls.