New York in 1986; does anyone miss it?

I lived in NYC back then before it changed. Times Square was cheesy and tacky and I loved it that way. You could play video games, go to a porn theater and get a great slice of pizza. Now it's all cute shops and chain theaters.

I was born and raised in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and lived just 2 blocks from Cammareri's bakery which was a real bakery by the way. The guy who yells to Ronnie that he has a phone call actually worked there at the time. I remember when filming was taking place. The crew and actor trailers were all over Henry St. But to get to the topic, yes I miss that era of Brooklyn dearly. It had already changed quite a bit by that time as compared to when I was a kid (I was 19 in 1987). It was already yuppie heaven but many of the old timers were still around. Today, no one from that era is left having been run out by ridiculously hi rents. It was a great neighborhood to have grown up in. Years later, my wife and I moved to Bklyn Heights and lived several blocks from the Castorini house there at 19 Cranberry St. So the movie holds a special place in our hearts and reminds me of a wonderful time and place during my youth.

That's a real shame. I also visited Amsterdam around that time and loved it there. Nothing is special anymore.

This entire thread makes me appreciate where I live so much more! It is still real, even though there are parts of it which have become more yuppified.

I am not a Frankenstein. I'm a Fronkensteen.

Got news for you..The film was made in Canada. Was one of the first NY films that was not filmed in NY, with a few exterior shots, because it became too expensive to Film in NY.

You know, your not just talking about New York, for the same could be said in any of the Downtown Major metropolitan, for suburban sprawl tiled in the last fifteen to twenty years, which breed new life into the downtown areas.

I respect your position, for I feel the same, yet opposed to bankruptcy,(which NY was in the 1970's) and abandonment, things are far better today.

And there are yuppies in the film, the couple who use the father as their plumber, and he explains the pipes need to be replaced. The term "yuppie" is from the 80s, and the 2 actors look specifically like the original look for them. (A slightly old-fashioned way of tailoring and dressing.)

The term "yuppies" did indeed come from the 80s and grew from the abbreviation for "young urban professionals".

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Yes, yuppie is a term from the 80s but I disagree with the rest of your statement.
Slackers are people that just work at basic jobs and as little as they can and hipsters are well known for preferring "old" things to newer models. If it were up to the slackers and hipsters the old New York would still be there. It's definitely the yuppies that have ruined it.

Try 1970s....Dirty, smelly, scary, advertising signs that had smoke coming out of them....How I miss it!

Try American foreign policy.

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The same thing is happened in Hollywood and NoHo (part of north hollywood). Completely "revitalized". Who knows where all this money suddenly came from