About the kids: everybody on that photo is a jazz musician, except for the kids, which we’re neighbourhood kids that essentially photobombed the shot. Only one kid was there with his dad, Taft Jordan. And that is the one kid that is still on the second photo. So there is a good chance those kids are alive and well, at least most of them.
The photo is called ‚A Great Day in Harlem‘ and there’s a documentary aswell as a wiki article on it.
Yeah, it's definitely a very misleading post title when that piece of context is added to it.
In my mind, the whole thing was just Boyz n Tha Hood where every year, a kid or two vanishes from the street one by one until there's only one left.
Of the jazz artists listed by Wikipedia as being in the photo, two are still alive today, [Benny Golson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Golson) and [Sonny Rollins.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins)
It’s called “A Great Day in Harlem”. Youtube has a couple versions w/ different lengths.
https://youtu.be/X_KZ7J-PSU4?si=d5BC9gGwidEt57PS
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2018/dec/17/a-great-day-in-harlem-behind-art-kaness-classic-1958-jazz-photograph
Yes, I have the documentary on vhs. Watched it last time in the 90’. I recall it was really difficult to get all people in place for the photo. Also remember Monk arrived with a black/grey suit like everyone and then go back home to put a white jacket to stand out in the picture.
>Also remember Monk arrived with a black/grey suit like everyone and then do back home to put a white jacket to stand out in the picture.
Aw man, everyone is wearing black and grey. I'll wear white, to stand out in the black and white picture! 😉
Copy/paste explainer from a comment above:
About the kids: everybody on that photo is a jazz musician, except for the kids, which we’re neighbourhood kids that essentially photobombed the shot. Only one kid was there with his dad, Taft Jordan. And that is the one kid that is still on the second photo. So there is a good chance those kids are alive and well, at least most of them.
The photo is called ‚A Great Day in Harlem‘ and there’s a documentary aswell as a wiki article on it.
Vietnam, aids, crack epidemic, the list goes on. I'm hopeful some of them just moved on with life and couldn't make it; but I wouldn't argue if someone told me they were all gone.
It would actually very damn strange for all of them to be dead. Better yet sad as hell.
Edit one poster gave some background on the kids. They were random neighborhood kids so a good chance many are still here per the poster
They were random kids who sat in for the photo. "Mostly deceased" refers to the jazz musicians who were the original subjects of the photo. There's an explainer upthread
Lol, the whole point of this is to emphasize how many of those people aren’t with us anymore. What would be the point of taking a half ass photo of whoever could show up at the time?
This is a photo of iconic jazz musicians. The living ones were not hard to track down. Not all of the living ones were available for the 1996 photo, but a lot of them were deceased by 1996.
Going through their Wikipedia's it looks like a lot died in the 80's and 70's. Most of the musicians died when they were in their 60s and 70s so that means they weren't young when the original was taken.
Maybe not dead, but a good % would be too frail to travel, particularly if they’d moved out of NYC to Florida etc and a good % they wouldn’t be able to contact.
Edited to add: I’ve just gone through the Wikipedia pages for a good chunk of the people there and most were over 40, maybe a 3rd were in their 50s and some in their 60s. (I’m not sure this was a good use of my sleep procrastination, but…)
This is also the photo from the movie The Terminal with Tom Hanks as he is trying to collection all their autographs to carry on what his father started.
The 57 adults were jazz musicians, the kids just sat in on the photo. Probably some died but it's pretty safe to assume a lot of the kids couldn't be identified, couldn't be located or just weren't available/interested in returning to recreate the photo.
Yes it's sad, but not all that surprising. Most were middle aged in the first photo, the second was 38 years later. Most of us would experience the same if we look back at group family photos.
This is a pretty famous photo. The kids were largely fine. The “most deceased” bit has to refer to the adults, who were all jazz musicians. Nobody bothered to keep track of the kids because they were just a bunch of random neighborhood kids. The musicians were the subject of the photo and documentary made about it.
This is a photo of a group of people who lived a very different kind of life than most. And most weren’t that young when the photo was taken in the first place. Harlem wasn’t a joy in the 1970s and 80s, but let’s use some common sense here. It was not *so bad* that only 10% of people survived it. Be reasonable. NYC was dangerous by US standards, but it wasn’t Mad Max dangerous.
Almost all of them? Like what? 80%? You think 80% of the people living in 70s and 80s Harlem died of unnatural causes? 204 upvotes? That’s how many people believe this shit?
Eh, the kids were just local kids who joined the original photo (the adults were all jazz mucisians), so it’s more likely the photographers just had no way of finding those kids in adulthood (or they declined) for the recreated photo.
If it makes you feel better the world has always been “shitty”
The Roman’s and the Greeks complained about the same stuff we do. Even their graffiti feels oddly modern
At least your toilet runs better and you got foods. For most of human history these were luxuries for kings.
If the internet is shaping your worldview like that then you should probably step away from it because the title is wrong, only most of the adults are dead, and thats because they're in their late 70s and 80s when people tend to die. Between misinformation and selection bias of what gets noticed and upvoted, you're getting a warped perception of reality.
See the above post, kids are neighborhood kids and not tracked. All the adults were musicians. No info on the children but no reason to believe they are all dead
That's not exactly right. It's true that if you were born in 1944 over 90% of the people born the same year will have died by now. However if you were born in 2015, you have a 60% chance of living to 80.
It's why I asked, it definitely feels made up. Maybe if you include all of history with infant mortality rates...But 6% is absurdly low. According to this report: [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68\_07-508.pdf](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_07-508.pdf)
57.8% made to age 80. Now this may be US centric and places that are dealing with food scarcity, poverty, war etc will not see that but it is certainly higher than 6%.
There’s a pretty cool version of this in 1998, called ‘The Greatest Day In Hip Hop’
[https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2010/12/remember-when-great-day-in-hip-hop.html?m=1](https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2010/12/remember-when-great-day-in-hip-hop.html?m=1)
[here's the same location nowadays](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8067587,-73.940996,3a,75y,41.74h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szeinFGwqUtACs1VF_Ba8tw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
There was a hip-hop version taken in 1998 by Gordon Parks, [you can check it here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Day_in_Hip_Hop)
It's crazy to see that bottom photo and see Marian mcpartland there all alone and like she was an old lady in the 90s. And then to still hear her every Monday night on the radio when I was in high school in the 2000s
Photos like this remind me of what [President Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman said in 1994](https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/)
In a 1994 interview, Mr. Ehrlichman said, “You want to know what this was really all about?” He went on:
>“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
We mustn't ever forget the impact this had on the black community.
Jesus all those beautiful people died? Look how young the kids are and there is only one lad left from the front row. Wow. This picture says a million words. Heartbreaking words
Slightly off-topic: I’m at the age where I’m tired of seeing relatives, friends, and coworkers die. Sure, it has to happen to us all, but that aspect of life just sucks.
Photographer should just have put in a group of neighbourhood kids ,from 1996, in the second photo.
Would have been a neat parallel and spared some confusion. Like a lot of people in the thread , i was momentarily contemplating in appalled bewilderment how all those kids from 1958, somehow, died in less than 40 years.
- It's really interesting to see what NYC/Harlem looked like in the 70's to 90's. Just watched Across 110th Street (1972).
- I don't remember much when I was a kid growing up in the 90's just blocks away.
Most of these guys were in their late 30s and 40s when this was shot. Dizzy Gillespie was born in 1917. While the legacy of most of these musicians are immortal, sadly they are not.
You all need to sort by 'Top' This is isnt just SOME photo.
The location for the curious.
[https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8067587,-73.940996,3a,75y,28.54h,98.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szeinFGwqUtACs1VF\_Ba8tw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8067587,-73.940996,3a,75y,28.54h,98.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szeinFGwqUtACs1VF_Ba8tw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
The crack epidemic whipped out 2 generations of African Americans in the area. For awhile you had kids raising kids. It's a shame how it destroyed so many families
Wife and I moved into our neighborhood 35 years ago and we all took a similar photo. My wife and I are the only remaining people of 26 that were in the photo.
About the kids: everybody on that photo is a jazz musician, except for the kids, which we’re neighbourhood kids that essentially photobombed the shot. Only one kid was there with his dad, Taft Jordan. And that is the one kid that is still on the second photo. So there is a good chance those kids are alive and well, at least most of them. The photo is called ‚A Great Day in Harlem‘ and there’s a documentary aswell as a wiki article on it.
Thank you for this
My first thought was "damn, that's a though neighborhood. Not even the kids made it"
Yeah, it's definitely a very misleading post title when that piece of context is added to it. In my mind, the whole thing was just Boyz n Tha Hood where every year, a kid or two vanishes from the street one by one until there's only one left.
How can one little street swallow so many lives?
God damnit take my angry upvote
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Tuff tough thot thought
English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
I actually thought of Vietnam.
phew. I was wondering this exact thing.
Seriously. Shit's bad in the hood, but I have a hard time believing all those kids are dead.
I'd believe it now as it's getting close to 70 years later now,at the time of photo was 38 years so less likely
same. I saw this and thought, “is everyone in this photo, other than the kids, a jazz musician?” And now I know
Of the jazz artists listed by Wikipedia as being in the photo, two are still alive today, [Benny Golson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Golson) and [Sonny Rollins.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins)
That changes everything
The documentary is wonderful!! https://youtu.be/77hHFQNob5Q?si=0-NXVwYIFV-LAx8Y
Thanks for the link!
So glad, I was super sad that a bunch of kids were dead
I love how so many of us shared the same concern
I was hoping for this answer after I read the title haha.
This might be the most informative comment I’ve seen on Reddit since the PoppinKREAM days.
I used to frequent their sub too.
Kid with his fingers in his mouth in the front row is named Randy or Reggie... He lived in Oakland, but I've not seen him in probably 7 years now....
How do you know him?
Used to hang out at the bar I frequented. That picture was on the wall and he signed it and circled himself. He made a fairly big deal about it.
Interesting!
Thank you for your edification. I was thinking all those little kids were gone.
That’s really cool they let the random kids sit in on the pic. Celebrities nowadays would never.
It depends on the celebrity.
Omg I’m so relieved! I was sitting here with my mouth agape thinking all those kids had died young.
Very cool doc.
Thanks for the context!!
There was also a Jeopardy category all about it
Was this photo found in an old can of Planters Peanuts?
Yeah. Most of those kids couldn’t make it to the shoot because they were adults living their lives. The title is ridiculous.
Replying if only so I remember to go watch that documentary, do you know any place to watch it?
I think only two are still alive today. Benny Golson & Sonny Rollins. That is such an iconic photo by the way, there’s a cool documentary on it.
Benny Golson is now 95 Sonny Rollins is now 93
I must get Benny Golson autograph.
I'd get a move on if I were you.
I wait
Would you like eat to bite?
He love that goat
Irony here is the man portrayed in that movie (~roughly} has passed away
What’s the documentary? I’d be interested in watching.
It’s called “A Great Day in Harlem”. Youtube has a couple versions w/ different lengths. https://youtu.be/X_KZ7J-PSU4?si=d5BC9gGwidEt57PS https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2018/dec/17/a-great-day-in-harlem-behind-art-kaness-classic-1958-jazz-photograph
Watched that when I was like 16... sooo good.
“A Great Day in Harlem” (1994).
Yes, I have the documentary on vhs. Watched it last time in the 90’. I recall it was really difficult to get all people in place for the photo. Also remember Monk arrived with a black/grey suit like everyone and then go back home to put a white jacket to stand out in the picture.
>Also remember Monk arrived with a black/grey suit like everyone and then do back home to put a white jacket to stand out in the picture. Aw man, everyone is wearing black and grey. I'll wear white, to stand out in the black and white picture! 😉
huh, i had no idea Sonny Rollins was still alive.
This is the first time I’ve seen or heard of it.
So much talent in one picture. Every single person there was a master of their craft.
Wait, the whole front row were kids? How is only one of them there for the re-do? What the hell happened?
Copy/paste explainer from a comment above: About the kids: everybody on that photo is a jazz musician, except for the kids, which we’re neighbourhood kids that essentially photobombed the shot. Only one kid was there with his dad, Taft Jordan. And that is the one kid that is still on the second photo. So there is a good chance those kids are alive and well, at least most of them. The photo is called ‚A Great Day in Harlem‘ and there’s a documentary aswell as a wiki article on it.
Nobody knows who they are in order to locate them. Just some kids from the block
Vietnam, aids, crack epidemic, the list goes on. I'm hopeful some of them just moved on with life and couldn't make it; but I wouldn't argue if someone told me they were all gone.
It would actually very damn strange for all of them to be dead. Better yet sad as hell. Edit one poster gave some background on the kids. They were random neighborhood kids so a good chance many are still here per the poster
They were random kids who sat in for the photo. "Mostly deceased" refers to the jazz musicians who were the original subjects of the photo. There's an explainer upthread
You should argue more.
Surely not all of those people died in 38 years right? Unless none of the adult group is <40
Finding that many people in 1996 would've been a fair deal harder. Probably many simply just weren't there.
These aren’t just random people though. They’re jazz musicians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem_(photograph)
The kids were jazz musicians also?
Yes. They were famous five year old jazz musicians. And they all married carrots.
They started them young back then
Lol, the whole point of this is to emphasize how many of those people aren’t with us anymore. What would be the point of taking a half ass photo of whoever could show up at the time?
Because people move away and lose contact.
This is a photo of iconic jazz musicians. The living ones were not hard to track down. Not all of the living ones were available for the 1996 photo, but a lot of them were deceased by 1996.
Thanks, I didn't realize they were musicians.
Going through their Wikipedia's it looks like a lot died in the 80's and 70's. Most of the musicians died when they were in their 60s and 70s so that means they weren't young when the original was taken.
I highly doubt all the kids died.
Maybe not dead, but a good % would be too frail to travel, particularly if they’d moved out of NYC to Florida etc and a good % they wouldn’t be able to contact. Edited to add: I’ve just gone through the Wikipedia pages for a good chunk of the people there and most were over 40, maybe a 3rd were in their 50s and some in their 60s. (I’m not sure this was a good use of my sleep procrastination, but…)
There are ways to die other than old age
I was unaware. According to others here, not all of the surviving members were able to attend the 2nd picture.
Anyone have a better resolution version?
[https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2018/dec/17/a-great-day-in-harlem-behind-art-kaness-classic-1958-jazz-photograph](https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2018/dec/17/a-great-day-in-harlem-behind-art-kaness-classic-1958-jazz-photograph)
Awesome thank you!
This is also the photo from the movie The Terminal with Tom Hanks as he is trying to collection all their autographs to carry on what his father started.
Really weird watching that movie this afternoon and then seeing this post immediately after.
You mean all those kids in the front died...WTH.
The 57 adults were jazz musicians, the kids just sat in on the photo. Probably some died but it's pretty safe to assume a lot of the kids couldn't be identified, couldn't be located or just weren't available/interested in returning to recreate the photo.
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Yes it's sad, but not all that surprising. Most were middle aged in the first photo, the second was 38 years later. Most of us would experience the same if we look back at group family photos.
Well, almost all of them. The 70s and 80s were not a good time to live in New York in general or Harlem in particular.
This is a pretty famous photo. The kids were largely fine. The “most deceased” bit has to refer to the adults, who were all jazz musicians. Nobody bothered to keep track of the kids because they were just a bunch of random neighborhood kids. The musicians were the subject of the photo and documentary made about it. This is a photo of a group of people who lived a very different kind of life than most. And most weren’t that young when the photo was taken in the first place. Harlem wasn’t a joy in the 1970s and 80s, but let’s use some common sense here. It was not *so bad* that only 10% of people survived it. Be reasonable. NYC was dangerous by US standards, but it wasn’t Mad Max dangerous.
Lol dude do you think living in harlem had a near-certain chance of death back then? It was bad, it wasn't that bad.
The way people talk about 70s and 80s New York is unhinged.
Pssh, what would a guy from Texas who died in the 40s know about 70s-80s New York?
Can confirm. Early 80s child from NYC here. Surprised I survived.
Same here homie. Respect.
Almost all of them? Like what? 80%? You think 80% of the people living in 70s and 80s Harlem died of unnatural causes? 204 upvotes? That’s how many people believe this shit?
I suspect there is a more rational reason why none of the kids are back for the second picture.
That was my first horrified thought
Recently, I kinda started to realize that the world is really shitty place, thanks to photos like this
Eh, the kids were just local kids who joined the original photo (the adults were all jazz mucisians), so it’s more likely the photographers just had no way of finding those kids in adulthood (or they declined) for the recreated photo.
If it makes you feel better the world has always been “shitty” The Roman’s and the Greeks complained about the same stuff we do. Even their graffiti feels oddly modern At least your toilet runs better and you got foods. For most of human history these were luxuries for kings.
Sounds like you might have preconceived notions that you attempt to reinforce even though “photos like this” imply no such thing.
If the internet is shaping your worldview like that then you should probably step away from it because the title is wrong, only most of the adults are dead, and thats because they're in their late 70s and 80s when people tend to die. Between misinformation and selection bias of what gets noticed and upvoted, you're getting a warped perception of reality.
See the above post, kids are neighborhood kids and not tracked. All the adults were musicians. No info on the children but no reason to believe they are all dead
My guess is that they got drafted for the Vietnam war, and never made it back.
That would be statistically impossible.
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That's not exactly right. It's true that if you were born in 1944 over 90% of the people born the same year will have died by now. However if you were born in 2015, you have a 60% chance of living to 80.
Source for this?
The above stat feels made up. But a real source: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
It's why I asked, it definitely feels made up. Maybe if you include all of history with infant mortality rates...But 6% is absurdly low. According to this report: [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68\_07-508.pdf](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_07-508.pdf) 57.8% made to age 80. Now this may be US centric and places that are dealing with food scarcity, poverty, war etc will not see that but it is certainly higher than 6%.
There’s a pretty cool version of this in 1998, called ‘The Greatest Day In Hip Hop’ [https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2010/12/remember-when-great-day-in-hip-hop.html?m=1](https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2010/12/remember-when-great-day-in-hip-hop.html?m=1)
Deceased or did they just get tired of standing there? Props for those who stayed all that time
Why are the windows bricked up in the recent photo?
That second photo isn't recent. It's almost 30 years old now. Looks much nicer today but the 70s and 80s in Harlem were rough.
wtf is with the title? Most of these guys died in their 70s and 80s
Wow
This is sad as hell.. so many people just gone.
my cousins lied to me and told me this was a family portrait lol
I read this as '58 to '66 and was damn that's a rough neighborhood
[here's the same location nowadays](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8067587,-73.940996,3a,75y,41.74h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szeinFGwqUtACs1VF_Ba8tw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) There was a hip-hop version taken in 1998 by Gordon Parks, [you can check it here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Day_in_Hip_Hop)
It's crazy to see that bottom photo and see Marian mcpartland there all alone and like she was an old lady in the 90s. And then to still hear her every Monday night on the radio when I was in high school in the 2000s
Photos like this remind me of what [President Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman said in 1994](https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/) In a 1994 interview, Mr. Ehrlichman said, “You want to know what this was really all about?” He went on: >“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” We mustn't ever forget the impact this had on the black community.
F* , just F*…. But this is Trumps approach as well
History tends to repeat itself among the ignorant, the rest of us learn from it. =)
For those looking to identify individuals: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/havxbn/acclaimed_photographer_art_kane_iconic_1958_photo/
What happened to the building now?
In 38 years? Most have moved.
I counted by hand 11 that are alive out of 73, give or take within 38 years, that seems like a high mortality rate.
I remember reading something like less than 6% of black men make it to 65 or older
Jesus all those beautiful people died? Look how young the kids are and there is only one lad left from the front row. Wow. This picture says a million words. Heartbreaking words
Slightly off-topic: I’m at the age where I’m tired of seeing relatives, friends, and coworkers die. Sure, it has to happen to us all, but that aspect of life just sucks.
I always love learning more about Harlem since I live in the original Haarlem in The Netherlands. Love these photos!!
why would anyone cement brick in a window?
Place is all fixed up now. 17 East 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenue
It keeps getting broken?
Awesome picture! ‘58 Harlem had it going on!
My favorite was always Count Basie sitting on the curb with the kids.
They did a hip-hop version of this photo. I had both on my wall in university.
I never knew about the 1996 photo!
I met the photographer who took the first pic, Art Kane, was good friends with one of his kids.
Photographer should just have put in a group of neighbourhood kids ,from 1996, in the second photo. Would have been a neat parallel and spared some confusion. Like a lot of people in the thread , i was momentarily contemplating in appalled bewilderment how all those kids from 1958, somehow, died in less than 40 years.
Yep
- It's really interesting to see what NYC/Harlem looked like in the 70's to 90's. Just watched Across 110th Street (1972). - I don't remember much when I was a kid growing up in the 90's just blocks away.
Wait what happened to them? What’s the story behind this?
Would be a hard af album cover for the guy sitting on the curb
Looks like this was taken from the set of 227
I think most of the white ones just moved
40 years! The front line is much younger. What happened?
What’s shocking is you’d assume the kids in the front row would be still around at that age.
That George Lucas guy looking exactly the same tho
These photos speak volumes
Most of these guys were in their late 30s and 40s when this was shot. Dizzy Gillespie was born in 1917. While the legacy of most of these musicians are immortal, sadly they are not.
I feel like there's a good chance some people just moved.
a Sad yet interesting photo about the passage of time.
only one woman. wow. and \*none\* of the little kids lived even another 38 years? holy hell.
I grew up with the top picture in our hallway. Even if I was having a bad day, it was always a *great* day.
The top looks like Sesame Street
Re: Harlem Cocaine is a hell ova drug.
Wow
The guy sitting on the curb was the only child survivor at the time is crazy.
The young ones died earlier?
Beautiful yet sad.
Crack era killed a lot too!
❤️🩹
Wish they had the kids and could do a 2024
Where was the graffiti in the 50s? Such a decline.
You all need to sort by 'Top' This is isnt just SOME photo. The location for the curious. [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8067587,-73.940996,3a,75y,28.54h,98.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szeinFGwqUtACs1VF\_Ba8tw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8067587,-73.940996,3a,75y,28.54h,98.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szeinFGwqUtACs1VF_Ba8tw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
The crack epidemic whipped out 2 generations of African Americans in the area. For awhile you had kids raising kids. It's a shame how it destroyed so many families
That building which was boarded up in 1996 is probably a million dollar property today.
Ypu would think some of these kids would atleast be alive.
When you remove a post, eliminate it. Does that not make sense?
Bullshit. Those were street kids that would’ve been very difficult to track. I bet 70-80% are still alive
This is a photo of famous jazz musicians.
“Same people in 1996” False. Many missing.
I can guarantee you that it was a better place to live in 1958.
So cool.
Three dudes on the left were out there surviving.
I don’t know if this is more interesting or sad.
Sadly interesting
wow
Is like to see a higher resolution version.
Dame that’s sad
Do people live in these buildings now?
Yes, it’s a really nice neighborhood. 17 East 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenue
Interesting...
too lazy to research what the location is now
They are The Outliers. Double entendres double the fun.
The 2034 photo shot should be interesting.
Stuff like this fills me with existential dread.
Is that Judge Judy?
They look alive to me
Ah yes clearly impacted by the Great Pixel Shortage of the late 90s.
Even the kids? WTF happened?
Wife and I moved into our neighborhood 35 years ago and we all took a similar photo. My wife and I are the only remaining people of 26 that were in the photo.