A Glimpse of New York 1910 in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I used a new colorization technique, restored and applied face restoration, and created a sound design for this video of New York in 1910. The footage offers a vibrant tour of the city, featuring landmarks like Times Square, Grant's Tomb, Central Park, and Luna Park. Visitors can be seen taking sight-seeing cars, feeding pigeons, and enjoying the park's rides, capturing the charm and energy of the era.

0:08 Looking south at 1 Times Square
1:13 Looking southwest from 60th Street towards the Plaza Hotel
1:24 Looking south from 26th Street & Madison Avenue towards 23rd.
1:52 Panning across the south border of Central Park and then towards Columbus Circle
2:26 Looking east from William and Wall Streets towards Trinity Church on Broadway
2:51 Looking north from around 21 Mott St
3:40 Looking south from Fifth Ave towards the Flatiron Building on 23rd
4:13 Looking northeast towards the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge El train station at Park Row
4:59 Back at the Plaza Hotel, looking at the Central Park S entrance
5:11 Looking north at Grant’s Tomb at W 122nd St
5:22 Looking north towards the Luna Park entrance which was approximately at 1003 Surf Ave in Coney Island.
6:02 Various attractions at Luna Park, including the Shoot-the-Chute waterslide, the Tickler and the Main Lagoon

Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
✔face restoration

Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.

B&W Video Source: Edison Manufacturing Company
B&W Video Source: The Museum of Modern art MoMa

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[NASS_]

Which city in the world would you like to live in the 1920s???

[fobxxl]

My dad came to New York from Italy in 1906 when he was just 3. What a rare glimpse to see it as it was when he was a child. Thanks !

[gluecement]

0:08 Looking south at 1 Times Square
1:13 Looking southwest from 60th Street towards the Plaza Hotel
1:24 Looking south from 26th Street & Madison Avenue towards 23rd.
1:52 Panning across the south border of Central Park and then towards Columbus Circle
2:26 Looking east from William and Wall Streets towards Trinity Church on Broadway
2:51 Looking north from around 21 Mott St
3:40 Looking south from Fifth Ave towards the Flatiron Building on 23rd
4:13 Looking northeast towards the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge El train station at Park Row
4:59 Back at the Plaza Hotel, looking at the Central Park S entrance
5:11 Looking north at Grant’s Tomb at W 122nd St
5:22 Looking north towards the Luna Park entrance which was approximately at 1003 Surf Ave in Coney Island.
6:02 Various attractions at Luna Park, including the Shoot-the-Chute waterslide, the Tickler and the Main Lagoon

[Debbie]

How special is that. Seeing someone from 1910 waving to us in 2025. 🇨🇦😀

[keystoneskiguy]

Love the guy with the hat turned up in the front who keeps showing up. Very flamboyant. Must be an actor for the movie. The lady as well.

[Wyattinous]

I find the minor detail of how the videographer pans up toward the skyscrapers very cool. The equipment he's using isn't small, and him carefully adjusting the camera causes those little jerking movements as he tries to capture the full scale of the architecture.

Seeing the amusement rides is something else, I never knew those even existed around this time.

[celticmoon]

My grandparents all of them were born in 1910. It lovely to see whzt the world looked like then.❤

[sonnycorleone]

Nass, Wow! another great upload. My Italian American Grandmother (1892-1982) lived in New Jersey but went to New York a lot. These scenes would have looked familiar to her in her youth! She remembers organ grinders with their monkey's collecting money from people. She also remembers quite a bit of horse manure on the streets and the deafening sound of clanking from the streetcars! Men would tip their hat to a lady passing by and the ladies would smile and nod their head back to him. She went to Coney Island Amusement Park pretty often and said she once had a horse-burger she did not like. Which was amusing. She remembers people would dress their Sunday best when going to silent movies also! Thanks for the blast into the past.

[joecerniglia]

Thanks for an interesting window into history.

[valeriefouchey]

🙋 Priceless; an excellent restoration. Thank you! 🎞️🎥

[gasaholic]

Even then, the sightseeing busses were on the prowl, loll! With all of them in this reel, I wonder if this was some sort of promotional movie for them, shown in theaters?

Thanks so much for this. You always do a great job. A real time machine!

[janeoxley]

This is amazing footage to watch in 2025.

[tobystamps]

As a horseman I probably noticed something that most wouldn’t. In this and other films from the time, I’ve observed that there seemed to have been a lot more white horses than we see today. Interesting.

[camstone]

From what I’ve read this was one of the last years that horse drawn carriages were used. Also 2 years before Titanic. Great video.

[draff]

The three walk-away’s I get from this era is that it was hot, guys sweated like pigs in their suits and there is no effective way to clean-up after horses. Aside from that another wonderful segment of time. Looks like this might have been a film promoting sightseeing, the man and the lady, I would like to know the plot and their ending. The amusement rides were inventive. A few years earlier Times Square looked like a rural street. Radio wasn’t even a thing to speak of in 1910. The next twenty years in New York would be amazing. The Hippodrome was five years old then. The Times Building (No. 1 Times Square) looks incredible. Great restoration, thank you, NASS.

[jeffb.]

Wonderful, amazing! The sound design really brings this film to life.

Amazing video what fascinates me is the mix of horse drawn vehicles along side the motor car 😮

[Russ]

What I enjoyed most was the fascination that everyone had for the camera! 💕

[tomfaz]

It’s amazing how much weight one horse can pull.

[foetwenny]

According to Wikipedia, there are only 10 people known to still be living who were alive when this was filmed. Could be more or less of course, but its wild to think about.