Last time around we traveled to the Upper West Side circa the early 1980s, now let's check out the city in motion in the 1960s. Travel back in time to how New York looked around half a century ago—the footage below shows everything from landmarks, to that plane crash over Park Slope, to bohemian Greenwich Village, to the World's Fair. You'll also get some candid footage of Marilyn Monroe in Manhattan. Did we mention a lion emerges from the subway in one of these clips? As one narrator declares: Nothing is humdrum in the city!
Previously:
- Here's how 1962 New Yorkers thought we'd be living in 2012
- New York City in July 1960
- Everyone hated suburbia
- Robert Redford in 1960s NYC
- The resident who refused to sell her home to Macy's in 1960
- 1966 NYC in photos
- That thing that happened in Bed Stuy in 1966
- RIP Penn Station
- Hello skateboarding
- The Doors played Fillmore East
- The Rolling Stones played in Queens
- The fashions of 1962 and 1969
- the Killer Smog.
- And who can forget the great penguin caper of 1965?!
