90s new york

You know who the "I have no legs" guy is, and probably gave him some money at some point. You know there used to be WAY more ads for phone sex.

You know that most graffiti was not, in fact, extraordinarily artistic wall pieces. You know the city used to be pretty grimy like, medium grimy. DKNY sweaters. You know you had one.

You know that the blizzard of was the real deal. You know about the nightmare that was Magnolia Bakery and despaired. You know what paying a cab driver through that little partition in the bulletproof glass was like. You know allllll about rollerblading. You know what big-ass pants are all about 'cause you wore 'em. Damn those pants were so big. You know that the plethora of branded stores is a little weird.

You remember when the Knicks were good. And when the Yankees were bad. And when the Jets were even more comically bad than they are now. You really know what gentrification means.

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Take a trip down memory lane to the city that once was. French photographer Gregoire Alessandrini shot these images between and , and his pictures show a time back when Brooklyn was just another forgotten borough, Soho was an up-and-coming area and the Lower East Side was cluttered with dives and a bohemian squatter population, rather than luxury condos and wellness centers.

In an alleged answer to a call for jihad, Rashid Baz, a cab driver and Lebanese-born immigrant, set out to kill Jews. Towing a Glock nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol and a nine-millimeter Cobray machine gun, Baz trailed a white van filled with rabbinical seminary students for around two miles.

As it travelled over the Brooklyn Bridge, he fired into the van repeatedly with both guns, killing year-old Aaron Halberstam and wounding three others. The case was cracked when Amir Abudaif, an auto-mechanic, reported the incident to police. Baz was convicted of one count of murder and hailed as a hero by some Muslim inmates. The Justice Department classified the murder as a terrorist act in Mistaken for a serial rapist and followed by police, Amadou Diallo was shot and killed in a hail-storm of bullets fired by four New York City plain-clothed officers.

Unarmed, Diallo was thought to be reaching for a gun by the officers, who shot a combined total of 41 shots, 19 of which hit their mark. During the incident, an officer involved in the shooting tripped and fell, leading his colleagues to believe he had been shot by Diallo, who was reaching for his wallet. Diallo died at the scene. His tragic death prompted a review of police training policy. The officers involved in the shooting were tried in Albany and acquitted on all charges by a mixed-race jury.

Corey Whelan is a freelance writer in New York. Her work can be found at Examiner. CBS2 Videos.