Old pics of nyc are crazy

[Crakface]

Dirty ass city.

 

[King Theo]

 

[Mr. Pink]

That's some French Connection shyt right there...

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Dont see how people could look at these dirty ass pics and think that NYC back then is better than it is now

 

[Remote]

So I watched this just now.

Really interesting glimpse into what life in the BX was like back then.
According to wikipedia, it was filmed in 1979 and released on VHS in 1985.

I have some some older co-workers that grew up in the Bx during that time and I'll probably ask them to watch so they can compare that with their experience.

It was a bit weird seeing some nazi paraphernalia in a documentary with mostly puerto rican and black gang members though.

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

So I watched this just now.

Really interesting glimpse into what life in the BX was like back then.
According to wikipedia, it was filmed in 1979 and released on VHS in 1985.

I have some some older co-workers that grew up in the Bx during that time and I'll probably ask them to watch so they can compare that with their experience.

It was a bit weird seeing some nazi paraphernalia in a documentary with mostly puerto rican and black gang members though.

That young nikka talkin bout he uses dynamite

 

[Remote]

That young nikka talkin bout he uses dynamite

He went from 45s to grenades to bazookas to dynamite, LOL

 

[gho3st]

BAck in the 70s-80s a lot of CAC landlords would set their own buildings on fire on purpose in an attempt to abandon them (fire can't destroy a building), get the insurance money and not deal with the responsibility anymore. When more and more minorities moved into these areas that became the "hood" a lot of these areas got turnt the fukk up and by then, white flight was in full effect and those people who used to live there fled to the suburbs.

The building owners didn't want to maintain buildings in the hood and would even hire local goons from the hood to torch the building. This shyt used to happen ALL the time to the point where you might see 3-4 buildings on fire in different areas at the same damn time. Hundreds of buildings got burned down. And since you can't just burn down a brick building, the ones that were salvageable attracted squatters, bums, drug addicts, who just walked right up in there and set up shop.

The buildings that were really fukked up after the fires would get demolished by the city and there would just be open lots where the building stood. shyt, I grew up across the street from open lot where a building was. They finally put some little houses there but I'd guess that the lot had been open for around 20 years or so, which is crazy.

Never understood white flight....What will they do when there aint no more places to escape to?

 

[Remote]

Never understood white flight....What will they do when there aint no more places to escape to?

Drive people out by raising housing costs.

 

[Azul]

South Bronx
North Bronx (with pockets of ratchet)

Still applies today

 

[FlyRy]

Dirty ass city.

co-sign.. this is why i love chicago..it's such a CLEAN city

 

[dennis roadman]

big cities, at least on the east coast, in the 80s were

i have a book about DC in the 80s called Pump Me Up. i was showing my friends from 3rd world countries and they kept asking if the pics were from a movie set

 

[Disciple of the Projects]

This thread is made every fukking year.

 

[ThaRealness]

You can see the same type of shyt in NY today... the difference is its just hipsters trying to recreate the quirks and idiosyncrasies of vintage NYC... not nearly as authentic

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Never understood white flight....What will they do when there aint no more places to escape to?

White flight is over man. It's a result of blacks/Hispanics (mostly) moving into the urban areas and (real talk) is deeply rooted in racism. You have a black family move into a white area and the people who already love there feel like the value of everything is gonna plummet and there's gonna be all kinds of crime and fukkery to go along with it.

The odd thing about it is that people have immigrated to this country for a better life for a couple of centuries (especially in the east). But when it's immigration from European countries (Italy, Greece, Jews from Europe) the it's all good because they want to upgrade life for their families. But when you have poor black from the south and folks from Latin/South America/Caribbean doing it, then a red flag is raised and it's like the whole neighborhood is gonna go to shyt.

White flight is just a term for racist bullshyt and they fled to the suburbs while the areas they left behind had some serious drop off. Adding to the drop off was the fact that the minorities moving in we're poor as fukk and some were ratchet. It's a bad combination of variables.

Now, in many parts of NY we're experiencing this "reversal" in white flight, and you have folks from the middle of nowhere America gentrifying the fukk out of the "urban" parts. Suddenly the "hood" isn't the hood anymore and the black/brown folks are being pushed to shytty areas or leaving the city altogether because rents are artificially high/inflated (so-called "market rate") and the people coming in are willing to pay whatever just to be in the city.

There's ln housing shortages in NY. If you showed up to an apartment in the hood with $10gz in cash, you'll will get to rent that apartment THAT DAY. if you show up with $1.5 million in cash to buy a lux apartment in the city/Brooklyn, you will get the crib THAT DAY. These realtors will make it seem like housing is scarce because people want to get in on the cheaper prices (who wouldn't) so it's like they are creating an artificial bidding war over vacancies they don't realize exist.