Pictures of NYC in the 80's

ksteezy said:
Da Bronx back then >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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ummm you sure you wanna go back to da 80's bronx?
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i hear Baltimore and Detroit look like da way NY used to look now.
 
I was told the late 70s, before hiphop took hold, urban fashion was mainly denim/leather + combat boots, deviating from the rock crowd.
Steel toe boots were a staple, Timberland steel toes were very popular and when they released non steel toe boots that looked like steel toes, it's been a wrap since.
 
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ThunderChunk69 said:
I was told the late 70s, before hiphop took hold, urban fashion was mainly denim/leather + combat boots, deviating from the rock crowd.
Steel toe boots were a staple, Timberland steel toes were very popular and when they released non steel toe boots that looked like steel toes, it's been a wrap since.
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i can see that happening, da prevailing culture before hiphop was rock music and motorcycle gangs...

and you also have to factor in da fact that sports apparel almost didn't exist back then. sporting goods stores looked like those vintage

gun shops that sold fishing poles and baseball mitts.
 
much respect to OP. Best thread on this forum just off the first page. Its beautiful in its ugliness if that makes sense. Love my city. 
 
Yeah warriors came out in 79.

Damn that girl in the second pic is probably someone's grandmother now. Id still smash though.

I remember my mom telling me about those guardian angel dudes would be on the trains in the late 70's early 80's
 
I remember the bronx in the 80's like this, nyc for that, trust there's was nothing nice bout these days. Cool to look at now for its nostalgia but those days were ****** as hell.

Only thing I liked was the breakin and the graffiti. The gangs , drugs and overall filth is not missed. Cops had zero control in them days ..
 
People were caking off of selling crack...my moms lived through it and she tells me...I felt the aftermath very early 90's walking to school and seeing crack bottles EVERYWHERE...wasn't cool but I don't regret being exposed to these things, as a kid it was fun to play in junkyards, abandoned buildings, etc...being able to open up a hydrant in the summer, ride a sled down the side of a mountain of debris/rubbles once it was covered in snow....you could find one of these hood mountains in a lot of hoods in the BX, same places I visit now and see buildings and houses built on...as a kid it was fun....the violent aspect of it didn't affect our generation all that much....we had to deal with the violence of the 90's more so...which from my opinion revolved more around gangs as opposed to drugs...
 
Lulz, its a cole world.

No lie, wouldve love to live in NYC in the 80s & La in the 90s.

Feel like coppin an adidas fit.
 
it was rough but it was dope. ny was destroyed as far as graffiti. It was everywhere. Nothing nowadays comes close except Detroit where the cops have no control

It was nothing to get robbed and stripped down to your boxers in broad daylight.

The Bronx was off limits unless you lived there. Any fam or friends had to meet you in manhattan or take the train to your borough if you didn't live in manhattan...or you met at the train station and didn't go up the stairs.

That clown Diego or whatever from the coat thread talking about queens is soft but it was nothing to hear gunshots everyday like clockwork and walk by nickel, dime bags, syringes and crack viles on the street.

Nothing to see ****** get robbed in broad daylight. Nothing to see bums laid out, fiends strung out, etc.

Seen chases through the street, shootouts, etc. F is son talking about????

NY isn't even NY anymore when you think about how life was in those pics. We had nothing yet we had everything. We were poor as far as money but rich in culture.
 
Man, NYC was soooooooooo grimy back then. You can see it through movies filmed in NYC back then.
 
Being being born in 1981 and being dragged everywhere by my brother who's 17 years my senior since I was 4-5 everyday.... This is how it looked and felt...

It was too grimey... Living in Flatbush I fell in with graffiti taken the trains which were robbery death trap...

No one from that era can say they never got robbed... And if they did they never walked the streets or took the train..

Ninjahood dimelo mi nig... Talk to them
 
I'm glad I'm not from that era though. The negative def outweighs the positive. I'm not about that life. Born and raised in the Bx, and I can vaguely remember graffiti on trains (perhaps my memory is bugging though) in the early 90s. My parents got to NYC in the mid 80s. I wonder if that's why I was very sheltered at a young age.

Pics are cool to look at though.
 
Your memory is foggy. Graffiti wasn't on the trains in the 90's. The last year where they looked like that was 1989.

And you missed out on a lot. IMO the pos outweighs the negative. There's something about having nothing which makes you appreciate stuff more.

And the music, fashion, food, etc was better IMO. Hell tv was better in some ways and movies.
 
PoLo Sport NYC said:
Being being born in 1981 and being dragged everywhere by my brother who's 17 years my senior since I was 4-5 everyday.... This is how it looked and felt...

It was too grimey... Living in Flatbush I fell in with graffiti taken the trains which were robbery death trap...

No one from that era can say they never got robbed... And if they did they never walked the streets or took the train..

Ninjahood dimelo mi nig... Talk to them
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yo ya tu sabe, you was finding dead babies in coolers around da parks i was living at, we had a "open air drug market" in washington heights in da 80's and early 90's

im talking about da way you buy lil trinkets from a time square corner store like a tourist, you had cats coming uptown from all over da city getting kilos of coke,

stick up kids raiding and blasting apt stash houses in broad day light, cops getting shot and murdered and it just being page 6 newspaper fodder, dead corpses

rolled up into carpets and abandoned in empty lots filled with syringe needles, crack pipes, condoms, and old mattresses. da city had hoods with completely stripped

down shells that used to be cars, arsons gutting buildings all over da bronx, rats all over...prostitution was BIG, no Craigslist or da internet yet so all da peepshows

and XXX shops were ALL OVER time square open 24/7 .FULLY automatic weapons were still legal up until 1987 so you had a TON of cats still getting sprayed down

with bullets like da mobster films...there was a year where washington heights beat brooklyn for having da HIGHEST murder rate in da entire city.

Central park was SCARY, hell all da parks were basically death traps as soon as da sun went down,

    my mom was shook to death having me chilling around my block so when i was small she would take me to her tire and rim shop business in Harlem on 145

and Amsterdam and just give me a bunch of quarters so i could stay in da next door laundromat playing street fighter II, this is like 1991..there was still more than

a few cats getting bread in harlem in that time, they would sell gold plated BBS wheels to da dealers. crazy times, i got fond memories, and it made me a strong

individual, and sometimes i wouldn't mind hopping in a time machine for a day or 2 to relive it, but i ain't lie...da quality of life in 2013 is alot better, da most beef

i see these days is 2 cats trying to out swag someone else on instagram
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