New York 1965-95 pics

[TJ]

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544

Simply awesome pics - a very deep insight into a city's dirty dark side.

We often hear ghetto and think of your boy bangs or 50 cent. This is much realer.

[RGVFAST]

was in new york earlier this year and they have cleaned up the city 100 fold over the pics in that link.

think 9/11 brought the city together as a community and they started to actually give a damn about each other

[TJ]

Funnily 1995 is just about when the city got real tough on crime - zero tolerance policies

There is a couple of threads about how much improved harlem is these days that illl link too.

[Wrexter]

Heres a good before and after thread on harlem comparing 1988 to 2008

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=149448

[mehow2g]

They are turning ghetto places like Harlem into million dollar apartment's because rich people want to move closer to the city...

Problem is its kicking all the poor and middle class people out of their homes and flats because they can no longer afford it because now Harlem is a rich area.

Looks nice but.

[SR20WA]

Was there about 6 weeks ago, Still a hole. Going to go back in about 10 weeks time to give it another shot.

[DCEVO]

A real thread about a very real situation

In our lives we will never witness such acts or live in such a hostile place

I thank my lucky stars that we live in Australia

[Joe]

Another day another struggle

[MISS 13B]

Wow, those photos are amazing.
"Ghetto" doesn't even begin to describe it.
Such a stark contrast to the glamorous NY we're used to seeing.

[SEXUAL TYRANNOSAURUS]

Agreed with the above.

I always wanted to visit the states, in-particular NY. it'd be a massive culture shock compared to living in Aus!

[ecent]

Fucking fascinating, thanks for the share.

[stumps.]

Thanks for posting that up TJ interesting stuff

[sam5709]

makes me really appreciate how lucky i am to live in a place like Perth, Australia.

[Adr3naL1N]

photos are pretty old now, dont say too much compared to it now.

was there last year, went and explored a fair bit of the 5 boroughs, still alot of crime n gangs of course, but the amount they have clamped down andi mproved things since these times is huge, the government has spent alot of money over the last decade cleaning the street up, spending money on law enforcement etc. NYC's crime rate has dropped alot since

when i was there in july there was soo many cops everywhere, every corner, driving or walking the streets they were everywhere, 9/11/terrorism etc is probably another reason its been stepped up, on wall st and other hotspots you have a heap of armoured cops, look more like swat members with big automatic rifles on them patrolling around. Majority of new york is quite clean, did see some aread in queens/brooklyn that did look abit shabby but nothing like these pics. but like i said i didnt quite see every where nor not really wanna look for this stuff

[ben351]

hands down the best link youve posted tj ... interesting read

[Joe]

photos are pretty old now, dont say too much compared to it now.

was there last year, went and explored a fair bit of the 5 boroughs, still alot of crime n gangs of course, but the amount they have clamped down andi mproved things since these times is huge, the government has spent alot of money over the last decade cleaning the street up, spending money on law enforcement etc. NYC's crime rate has dropped alot since

when i was there in july there was soo many cops everywhere, every corner, driving or walking the streets they were everywhere, 9/11/terrorism etc is probably another reason its been stepped up, on wall st and other hotspots you have a heap of armoured cops, look more like swat members with big automatic rifles on them patrolling around. Majority of new york is quite clean, did see some aread in queens/brooklyn that did look abit shabby but nothing like these pics. but like i said i didnt quite see every where nor not really wanna look for this stuff

Thats nothing.. when I was there last year, I watched Notorious in a cinema full of black people in Broadway.. and then I bought some nigga's mix tape on the corner.

[stormtrooper]

wow, just fucking wow. Read the comments and shit the photographer has added to some of the photos. That shit really makes you stop and think. So grateful to be living in this country, even if we do have a shithouse corrupt political system.

[Adr3naL1N]

i didnt say it was anything, what im saying is it aint wat is was back in the day....po po clamped down a shitload

[[RX2]]

top link, gives us a good insight of how it was back in the day - not just through movies

[adrenalin]

Very very cool

[Adr3naL1N]

and then I bought some nigga's mix tape on the corner.

I also bought some niggas mixtape out the front of the NBA store, got mobbed as i walked out, wouldnt leave me alone so i just bought it! thought it would be shit but was actually decent, ended up leaving it in the hotel room cd player by accident but :(

[MISS 13B]

I think this is fitting to the subject.
It's up there amongst my favourite tracks.
The photos in the 1st link certainly give a great sense of realism to it.

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[TJ]

Thats nothing.. when I was there last year, I watched Notorious in a cinema full of black people in Broadway.. and then I bought some nigga's mix tape on the corner.

No one would have messed with you, they woulda thought you were thead of one of the brows.

I mean boroughs.

[Tre-Cool]

it would be interesting to see something similar done of Detroit (motown), but i reakon it would be in reverse.

[Scaf]

Wow, very interesting read.

[Joe]

No one would have messed with you, they woulda thought you were thead of one of the brows.

I mean boroughs.

I told them I was Percy the Penguin, TJ's mate.. they gave me a free mix tape.

[TJ]

I'm guessing it wasn't a mix on how to be funny

[brynj]

Amazing photos, great find.

[Joe]

I'm guessing it wasn't a mix on how to be funny

It was, maybe you should listen to it as well.. multiple times over.

[pigger23]

if you think these photo's are crazy then ill throw up some from a magazine i collect. baby's sleeping next to thousands of dollars worth of crack yadda yadda

[pigger23]

so yeah these pretty much made me reconsider the life i live
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s149/beno024/IMG_0380.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s149/beno024/IMG_0386.jpg
^^in the pot to the right is the babys bottle....
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s149/beno024/IMG_0387.jpg
"giving my son a gansta haircut"
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s149/beno024/IMG_0388.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s149/beno024/IMG_0389.jpg
on the left is a gang ritual that every new member has to go through..