Viva Loisaida, 1978

9:34..at the very end, you see 6th and Ave B. I lived up there on the 2nd floor with my boyfriend, Dominick Nugent. 1978. What a year that was!

when people actually looked at each other and engaged in impromptu interactions and not glued to their tiny little smart screens, ya dig?

RIP Lower East Side

Christmas time in the 70s were the best ever

I moved to Avenue B and 2nd St. in 1981. Amazing place, beautiful and terrifying. It was pretty much all over by 1996 or so.

Thanks for showing me what my old neighborhood used to look like.

Ms. Yung: Thank you for posting the documentary! I am a modern reflection, projection, of that generation...those that suffered "the slings and arrows" of Loisaida for a better future. I am here because of them! --Ivan Diaz, PhD

I live at 210 Thompson st.i remember these days.i learned alot.

brings back many memories .... thanks for the excellant footage

Then came the Steamroller : Gentrification

This is what makes it hard to leave, we literally rebuilt this neighborhood only to have it be sold to people who would never lift a finger to give anything back. I remember the garden that used to be on 8th between B and C, my mom was in there digging refrigerators out of the earth where peoples homes were burnt to the ground. The community worked hard to turn rubble into gardens and feed the neighborhood and have safe places for children to play and learn about nature. All that work and community, gone, and for what? Drunk shrieking yuppies who take everything and then leave.

I remember it well. I use to hang there on ave D, at my cousin Tommy's apt, smoking weed for days. Not a great thing of course to do for me these days, but those were different times and they were great. I had a blast! But I've grown up since. Thanks for the memories!

Home... My father moved Us Out 1978-79... Not far Lol... Across the River, to Jersey City... Soo many memories...

Man what a place this must have been to live. I go up there now from Philly and am unimpressed with the whole city, compared to the stuff my family tells me they used to get into living up in NYC back in the day

Very valuable footage of the neighborhood.

Thank you for posting this. I used to live on 6th between First Ave and Avenue A in the 80s. It was a great place to live. It was dangerous but that’s what made it what it was. Gentrification destroyed the culture on the LES. Giuliani is to blame for that. Now it’s filled with watered down hipsters and zero culture. It was different times then. I will never forget old New York. I moved out of that neighborhood in 1997-98. I have not been back to visit since 2005 That place is dead to me now

It was great back in the 60's & 70's even though these building which they called slums were all ready falling apart with no help from the landlords, there was a togetherness amongst our peers I didn't even know what it was to be prejudice.

The cultural, artistic, diverse vibe is sadly gone. Check out "Manhattan's East Village-Three Decades of Madness" to relive the 60s-80s.

When we use to say YA DIG ,you gotta miss the days man

I used to live in Loisaida but not for long, what good times i had there will always remain with me. At that time i was hanging with Wayne from Brooklyn.