I miss this.
Imagine as a 11yo europoor going for the first time in this city with steam, suits people and skyscrapers everywhere, people yelling at each others in traffic. The giants tvs are spilling bullshit h24.
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No 9/11, no internet to spoil you from the trip, just your imagination. Thanks you burgersbros.
damn i need to visit New York sometime.
>that 30 year old boomer who miss the world trade centers
I miss those days too... I remember back in the 80s I lived across the river in NJ. Every on my drive to work I could see those towers.
Watch it, Jens.
>>>/reddit/
Wow look at all those people not hunched over
Very cool pic.
one the best thing was to visit the USS Intrepid.....a fucking spaceship on the deck.
EEY I'M WALKIN 'ERE
i visited nyc about a year after 9/11 and it was tacky as fuck loads of weird gyppos everywhere
When did NYC peaked ?
The 80's ? Sex shops and dirty nightclubs everywhere.
Original WTC was aesthetic as fuck despite the fact that's it's literally just 2 Cuboids.
New WTC looks like a generic chink glass tower that you see dime a dozen in East Asia.
Original WTC was so fucking cool that literally every TV Show or Movie set in NYC before 9/11 needed an obligatory panorama shot of it.
I only miss 9/11
Hope we get another one soon
There's nothing better than fresh mutt tears morning
Seeing pics of New York make me miss it. I moved from there to Pennsylvania in the 90s.
Probably the mid-80s until 2001. People seem to forget that Manhattan its self-was a total shithole throughout the 70s-80s. Some portions of the city looked like a literal war zone.
>I remember back in the 80s I lived
Woah. How do you feel posting around here?
Honestly, I believe they should've rebuilt the Twins, even families of the victims wanted them to be rebuilt too.
I've been on Jow Forums since 2008 so it's normal for me at this point.
90s was the best new york
giulanni cleaned it up but also ruined it a little bit
70's NYC must have been something to witness... Inside the safety of a cab.
Trump called the freedom towers disgusting (look it up on youtube lol), it's true that there were something very unique to the twins.
A friend told me that it was like Dysneland now.
Late 90's. Before 9/11, and also before it became such a tourist destination, but still after the city got cleaned up of its crime problem.
your friend probably just visited times square
theres still a lot of new york thats real and gritty.
Hmmm, it peaked in crime in the 80's and 90's no? It is much safer now. Or what do you mean by peaked.
nostalgic video
cute. CUTE
man they all look so laid back and cute. it is like a different planted compared to today. these days these kids with the camera would be kicked out of the store or the manager could get into some serious legal trouble for breaking like 10 different laws.
also
>smoking in the store
lmao.
Nowhere is there a store in the video?
everyone was so chill what the fuck
Kjeh, I mislooked and thought you quoted this
yeah that's alright but i loved the look on that dude
In the early 80s when I was a kid I used to play hooky in school and take a bus into the city. I remember walking around times square. There were always a bunch of hookers, adult video shops, and drug dealers all around. Fun times
Here's a good article about that
>businessinsider.com
>New WTC looks like a generic chink glass tower that you see dime a dozen in East Asia
At least the new tower looks even the slightest bit unique. The original Twin Towers were soulless, nearly-featureless blocks of garbage that had next to nothing besides their height alone to make them stand out among all of the city's other soulless, featureless skyscrapers built since the fifties. The new tower, even if it is just another example of the same uninspired, unoriginal, meaningless glass-box bullshit that we've seen so unfathomably many times since the fifties, at the very least has a unique form that makes it look more identifiable and less like a sky-scraping commieblock.
I wish skyscrapers in the US were still designed in both traditional styles (Neoclassical, Renaissance palazzo, and the American Federal style) and in modernistic styles that actually represent ideals besides "our culture is inclusive so here's an internationally-distributed glass box :))))" and feature a lot of stylish ornamentation (Sullivanesque, Prairie, Art Deco, and to an extent, Art Nouveau). It's not like heavy embellishment isn't compatible with modernistic, functional forms or anything (Sullivanesque proves this perfectly), so why are skylines in the current century still receiving so many meaningless, interchangeable shitboxes? The modernists have had their fun. It's time to start building structure that people actually fucking care about again. Other than that, I also hope I live to see the day when new urbanism takes over this soulless, dismal nation and transforms it into a place where I'm allowed to walk to the fucking grocery store. youtube.com
lmao holy shit. that's grim. this is a good answer to the overreacting soyboys and the media commenting on the current situation in this country.
It was horrible. For a few years I tried to avoid Manhattan all together
>xinhua news agency
>having to avoid manhattan
kek. what about bronx or even queens then.
this is so weird to watch
In reality I avoided the whole city for a few years, maybe between 80-81 something like that. Once I was 16 in 82 I felt comfortable going into it.