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Why is so hard to find 90s/early 2000s videos of New York like this?

I thought people used to always use camcorders and shyt back then
Lol not really. People just didn't have them like that back then. My pop had one of those big arse RCA camcorders with the flip screen that he copped for like 800 and only brought it out for special events. Phone cameras changed everything

I use to buy disposable cameras whenever I planned on taking pics back then. I got a digital in early 2003 but only used it for certain events. I didn't walk around with it in my pocket or anything
 

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Lol not really. People just didn't have them like that back then. Phone cameras changed everything

I use to buy disposable cameras whenever I planned on taking pics back then. I got a digital in early 2003 but only used it for special events. I didn't walk around with it in my pocket or anything

I thought people used to record a lot of random shyt back when camcorders became widespread. That's why those America's Funniest home videos shows used to blur out the dates, since all the submissions were from the 90s
 

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A lot of people say 9/11 was the end of the 90s and I think I agree. Cell phones and internet really blew up in the following years, and Windows XP came out that year. Among other changes.



Prospect Heights was the hood back then?

Hell yea it was UnderHill was nicknamed MurderHill Ave.

Also I visibly remember Vanderbilt Ave being sketchy when I was a kid driving through to go to Cumberland Hospital in Forte Greene.
 

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My favorite one especially with the song playing.

Bed Stuy 100% Black it seems or just about

Yeah, it seems almost all black except for a few Asian or Latino looking people. You can still walk around East Flatbush and see nothing but black people, that must be one of the blackest neighborhoods in the city.
 

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I thought people used to record a lot of random shyt back when camcorders became widespread. That's why those America's Funniest home videos shows used to blur out the dates, since all the submissions were from the 90s
Ha...man those cams were big as hell and expensive plus they attract the wrong attention.

It's common today for everyone to have 1000 dollar phones...but back then no one really had anything that valuable on them like that.
 

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Damn, I thought that neighborhood was gentrified for a long time

It was. It def gentrified before Crown Heights but It wasn’t worse than Crown Heights. It’s much nicer to be exact but in the 1990s a lot of areas had more than usual crime.

Plus Prospect Heights is surrounded by Clinton Hill and CrownHeights so there was a layover of crime in there also.

Just like St Albans in Queens has to deal with the layover of crime from South Jamaica.
 

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Ha...man those cams were big as hell and expensive plus they attract the wrong attention.

It's common today for everyone to have 1000 dollar phones...but back then no one really had anything that valuable on them like that.

Yea and like my dad said you didn’t want to have anything valuable on back the. Anyway.

He lived on Rutland and East 94th :myman:
 

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June 16, 2005 – 15-year-old Phoenix Garrett is shot to death by 13-year-old L'mani Delima for allegedly selling bootleg Dipset Crew CDs
What the fukk:mjlol: Shot over something that stupid
I'd be full of so much adrenaline and rage that I 'd try to chase her down and kill her before I bleed out
 
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