In the 1980s a South Carolina-migrant named Nelson Sullivan recorded over 1900 hours of footage of NYC streetlife. He videotaped every kind of New Yorker in every type of location. After he died of a heart attack in 1989, at the age of 41, his friends catalogued these videotapes into the 5ninthavenue project which now has its own channel on YouTube.
The videos are very raw, slice-of-life moments in time captured for eternity. They are unvarnished, unsentimental, totally fascinating "you-are-there" recordings that trigger both nostalgia and wonder about a city both familiar and long-gone.
These two recordings are from 1987 on the subway and the last video Nelson made in July 1989 but you should check out the rest if you want to see more of NYC as it once was.
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