Street View Photos Taken in All Five Boroughs During the 1980s (New York: how much, houses)

[elnina]

Programmer Brandon Liu and researcher Jeremy Lechtzin have created 80s.NYC, a really wonderful online collection of photos that show what all five boroughs of New York City looked like during the 1980s.

The photos were taken as part of a bureaucratic process to ensure taxes were assessed properly. Liu and Lechtzin organized these photos into an easily readable map that’s fun to explore.

Explore over 100,000 street segments and 800,000 building photos.

Click near a highlighted segment to see the street, or select a featured story from the menu above.

80s.NYC - street view of 1980s New York

[LOVEROFNYC]

This is so cool. It is so cool to see the the change. Thanks for sharing!

[Airborneguy]

Thank you, this is cool. I found the house I grew up in. Based on the pic (and one of my best friend’s a few houses down) it was probably taken prior to us moving there in 1986.

[BugsyPal]

Really sad thing about SI is seeing how much effing development has happened on the Island since 1970's and 1980's.

[camaro69]

Would have been really cool if I was in the pics.