New York City 1950s in color, Third Ave El [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

in which city in the world do you want to live in 1950s???

My mom was born in 1946 . May she rest in peace. I always told my dad that era of 1940 s and 1950 where the best people respect each other and always dress well . To see my home town of New York in the 1950s is beautiful. Thank you .

Remarkable footage! I was born in 1950, Brooklyn, NY and I clearly remember riding with my mother on the elevated subway, looking at the streets below, the lofts, the traffic with cars built like tanks. The U.S. was still experiencing post war prosperity, wealth wasn't ostentatious, blue collar rode the same subways, ate at the same places, shopped at the same stores as white collar professionals. No billionaires, there just didn't seem to be much of a divide between the social classes. Kids of all types hung out together, air conditioning wasn't that prevalent. The streets teemed with people, open windows, music played from transistor radios. Sinatra, Dion And The Belmonts, the Everly Brothers, The Platters, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Elvis, Bobby Darin... Men still wore hats, many wore suits, women dressed as seen in this film. Adults dressed like an adult, kids dressed like a kid, except on Sunday's when kids dressed like an adult. The Blue Laws meant that retail stores were closed on Sunday's, at least in Brooklyn. There was a standard, a uniformity, a formality but... Between the cracks there was a burgeoning subculture, the Birth of the Cool, the Beat movement, the Civil Rights movement, so many interesting characters. Mad magazine, Playboy, Ban the Bomb, Sputnik, the Cuban Revolution, the Cold War. Great science fiction movies, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day The Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, Invaders From Mars... Alaska and Hawaii became states, nuns wore habits, a slice of pizza was .10 cents....

I rode the 3rd Ave El, with my mom from 3rd Ave and 149th St to Fordham Rd in the Bronx.. it was our shopping trip.. sometimes it was just for sightseeing all the way to the end of the line.. Gunhill Rd..It was scary, but fun.. scratchy wicker seats..Everyone was polite, well dressed and patient.. I was 8yrs old.. the trains were dark, but very cleaned inside.. I think my last ride was in 1967.. Thank you for sharing.. Great Memories.👏🥰👏

I was born in 1955 so it's interesting to see what the world looked like then. It's amazing how fast the world changed between then and the 60's and 70's. Dramatic changes all in a short time.

the shot @ 6:33 has such a film noir look to it, I love it! Man I love the aesthetics of the 50s. The hats & clothes and cars. So cool to see this.

I have to say one of the best things about your work is your use of sound - People don't realize how difficult it is to find the correct sounds, but also how to use them properly, fading to the front or rear, or balancing to the left or right. It's hard to remember that these videos had no sound originally - Really well done.

Love the hats and fashion style of the 50s . Like being in a time machine back to the past .

Back when things were designed to last and people still polished their shoes.

THIS FOOTAGE IS PURE GOLD. Refreshing to see people quietly reading their newspapers on the subway.If you compare it to today the way people dressed there was more societal respect. Even the subway car seats were cushioned. Nobody blaring radios or panhandling.

Life was much simpler, the vast majority of people were much more sensible and decent then-this can even be seen in they way they dressed and carried themselves. Thanks for uploading this video!

The Bronx leg of the 3rd Ave El was the last to be dismantled. I rode it daily from Gun Hill Road to Fordham Road going to summer school at Roosevelt High School. My Mom once took me on a ride all the way to South Ferry as a child. Thanks for your efforts here!

One thing I always notice from watching these videos is how clean the roads and footpaths look without any sign of rubbish being thrown around

I can still remember vividly being two years old in 1955, in a stroller and going to the shops under the EL Train with my aunt on White Plains Road in The Bronx.

I was born in 62, but by, 65, i still remember the city i was born, and raised in (Waterloo, Ia) looking similar to this, the clothes, cars, the cleanliness of the streets, signs, neon signs, and the way people looked, and carried themselves, with such pride.

If my father was alive still this would bring a tear to his eye. I remember him telling me all about the 3rd Ave EL. He was born in 1952, and he said his earliest memory was taking this El line with his mother my grandmother. A lot of people were heartbroken when this was demolished. It’s just fascinating to see that this is how people dressed.

Scary, but I was two years old when this film was made. Alive and experiencing this world. To this day, I remember the cars including the Dodge my parents had. And I remember my father taking me on those very dark green subways dating back to the 20s and 30s for the very first time with the lacquered wicker seats, the dangling strap handles from the ceiling to help balance if standing, ceiling fans (there was no A/C in those days in subway cars), the intense squealing sound of the metal wheels on the tracks overlaid accurately in this film, and the rows of naked bulbs on each side of a subway car that would flicker as the train went across seams of the third rail. This elevated line -- the Third Avenue El -- was removed from Manhattan in May 1955. Obviously, no more than a month or so after this film was made if it is also from 1955. And any older person shown in the film would have been born in the last two decades of the 19th Century as my grandparents were in the 1890s, or at most at the very turn of the 20th Century.

Probably one of the best places and times to be born. If you were born intelligent when this video was taken, you probably lived a very very good life.

As a native New Yorker, the sound effects you used for the on-train shots broke the immersion for me. Those are the sounds of the newer modern subway cars!

The closest we will ever come to time travel. Thank you for posting this.