⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC : Brownsville, Brooklyn Housing Projects

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 เม.ย. 2019
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    Narrated version: • ⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC (Narr...
    I exit a (3) Subway Train at the Rockaway Avenue Station and venture into Brownsville: historically one of Brooklyn's most dangerous neighborhoods. I walk through Tilden Houses, Brownsville Houses, Sutter Avenue, Mother Gaston Boulevard, and Van Dyke Houses. Traditionally a Jewish neighborhood, Brownsville is also home to former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson.
    From Wikipedia:
    "Brownsville is a residential neighborhood located in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The 1.163-square-mile (3.01 km2) area that comprises Brownsville has 58,300 residents as of the 2010 United States Census. The neighborhood's boundaries are unclear, but it is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bushwick and Cypress Hills to the north; New Lots to the east; Canarsie to the south; and East Flatbush to the west.
    Founded in its current incarnation in 1858, initially a settlement composed of Jewish factory workers, Brownsville underwent a major demographic change in the 1950s that saw an influx of African-American and Latino residents. Since then, it has consistently held one of the highest poverty and crime rates of any neighborhood in New York City."
    Filmed April 30, 2019
    Timestamps
    1:15 - Exiting Rockaway Avenue (3) Subway Station
    2:00 - Livonia Avenue & Rockaway Avenue
    2:45 - Tilden Houses
    7:45 - Brownsville Houses
    11:33 - Sutter Avenue & Osborn Street
    13:25 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Sutter Avenue
    15:43 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Blake Avenue
    17:40 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Dumont Avenue
    19:40 - Linovia Avenue & Mother Gaston Boulevard
    20:05 - Van Dyke Houses
    26:25 - Sutter Avenue & Christopher Avenue
    27:05 - Sutter Avenue & Sackman Street
    28:00 - Sutter Avenue & Powell Street
    29:00 - Sutter Avenue & Junius Street
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ความคิดเห็น • 656

  • @prospect4954
    @prospect4954 5 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    Keep that same energy when you come back for a night tour!!

  • @giovannigommba5938
    @giovannigommba5938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Damm son, you just nearly made me cry, you just once AGAIN took me down MEMORY LANE. i used live on 335 BLAKE AVE, THEN WE MOVED TO 275 BLAKE. BACK IN 1983-84. Basically nothing has CHANGED, even THOUGH it was or still is a rough neighborhood, I LOVE it. Lost my best friend. KEVIN BRANCK, ON THE SIX FLOOR ON OSBORN ST. Two days before he passed me and TROY SMOKE A BLUNT AND DRANK BEER BY THE BASKETBALL COURT. THAT SAME WEEK FRIDAY AROUND MIDNIGHT, GOT SHOT IN THE HEAD BY SOMEONE HE KNEW ON THE SIX FLOOR NAME AN OLDER DUDE NAME SCKILIT. WHILE PLAYING WITH A GUN THAT WAS 1984, HE WAS 16 years old. He and i went to THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL. THE BEST 4 YEAR'S OF MY LIVE.

    • @TenYah144
      @TenYah144 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You sound like you might know my older brother or sister. We lived on Osborn. 268 and went to Jeff and Wingate

    • @angelikaweienberger-peters9230
      @angelikaweienberger-peters9230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So sorry

    • @angelikaweienberger-peters9230
      @angelikaweienberger-peters9230 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      But you have also good memories...it all depends on relationships and community you build. Have a good Life.

    • @j1ah826
      @j1ah826 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thomas Jefferson near Livonia ave? That school is terrible dude

    • @giovannigommba5938
      @giovannigommba5938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@j1ah826 maybe, but I have great memories from the school...... 1981_1985.

  • @Slickmickyoyo97
    @Slickmickyoyo97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Damn, you are a true ballsy NYer! I'll never forget working with a Puerto Rican dude named Julio, he grew up in Bed Stuy in the 80's . He always said "Man, I ain't scared of Brooklyn, I grew up in Bed Stuy I go anywhere in Brooklyn...except Brownsville son, I do not fuck around in Brownsville!"

    • @IvyANguyen
      @IvyANguyen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That was in the 1980s, right? Is Brownsville safer these days, in almost 2020?

    • @Slickmickyoyo97
      @Slickmickyoyo97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Ivy Agnes Nguyen Every neighborhood in NY is safer. But not every neighborhood is safe!

    • @thepizzaelf
      @thepizzaelf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Faux Wanata yea less crime is a disgrace

    • @morganlimes
      @morganlimes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Faux Wanata white people fix everything shut it

    • @strzaaolo2966
      @strzaaolo2966 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      There's no people on the corners or anywhere. Everybody's staying home stuck to the internet. It's 2019.

  • @marvinbenjamin.
    @marvinbenjamin. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Back in 2000 u could never walk through there u would of got robbed at the train station.

  • @coreysmith3320
    @coreysmith3320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Mike Tyson Brought Me Here....

  • @The3DSMaxinator
    @The3DSMaxinator 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Must be mad early in the morning on a weekday after the youth were in school. Aint nobody out there this early.

  • @elenaa3408
    @elenaa3408 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    this types of buildings reminds me of my childhood in Queens (boulevard) near parker towers. Thank you, this sounds of the city with this high buildings relaxes my soul and gives me positive energy to go on !

  • @heartofsteel1972
    @heartofsteel1972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I was born in the Bronx and was brought up hating Brooklyn, for no reason at all ...Until I started working in BK and I started to have a real change of heart and today I can say " I love Brooklyn. For all the right reasons.

    • @raquelfrizzell
      @raquelfrizzell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes! I'm from the bronx and we really didnt fuck with Brooklyn at all lol

    • @martinwadia300
      @martinwadia300 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@raquelfrizzell same for Brooklyn, i saw someome from the south bronx come to brownsville and get murdered, that's how it was back in the days sadly

    • @ShawnGS300
      @ShawnGS300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is it because of “that Brooklyn Bullshit..we on it”. Back in the days, they use to say Brooklyn keeps on taking it.

    • @quanbrooklynkid7776
      @quanbrooklynkid7776 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ShawnGS300 damn

    • @coryd.6333
      @coryd.6333 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@raquelfrizzell everyone hated Brooklyn said we was Grimey Im from Flatbush lol

  • @Unknownether
    @Unknownether 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Brownsville looks like such a nice place, and so peaceful in this video but sadly it's one of the worst places in New York

    • @eliashuertas9471
      @eliashuertas9471 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Not really. It's bad but i feel it got a little calmer even the police in the neighbourhood says it's changing.

    • @fredajames8962
      @fredajames8962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It looks nice on the outside but crazy part about it somebody was prolly getting they head chopped of behind those project walls as he was walking past filiming

    • @bigdeelow1
      @bigdeelow1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That looks like one of the cleanest projects I've ever seen. 😳

    • @freshprinceoflondonss9008
      @freshprinceoflondonss9008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@bigdeelow1 Trash doesn’t kill people in the projects

    • @bigbyrd9803
      @bigbyrd9803 ปีที่แล้ว

      I see people who think they about it but not about it at all. When someone cap on how tough NY is on G life, i do nothing but smh

  • @teshatillman893
    @teshatillman893 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My aunt lives in Brownsville and my grandfather was on New Lotts Ave Rip GrandpaEast New York forever ❤️

  • @jacquelinegangas7728
    @jacquelinegangas7728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Today is the international day of the worker! ... Greetings to all!💝👏

  • @paulowarhol9375
    @paulowarhol9375 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The NYC's projects looks like our projects here in Sao Paulo, Brazil with little differences but what strikes me the most is the quality of the public spaces and sidewalks. Here's it's piles of garbage everywhere,no green areas and broken sidewalks😲

    • @paulowarhol9375
      @paulowarhol9375 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      www.google.com.br/search?q=cidade+tiradentes+sao+paulo+pictures&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjRi46KpPvhAhXBFLkGHXvxB8EQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=cidade+tiradentes+sao+paulo+pictures&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.12...15782.21415..22480...1.0..1.787.3681.0j4j3j1j0j2j1......0....1.........35i39.0u4LUFlt5lI&ei=bxDKXJGYB8Gp5OUP--KfiAw&bih=652&biw=412&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&prmd=inv

    • @Vision-sh2mt
      @Vision-sh2mt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting....

  • @thecrooklynite2129
    @thecrooklynite2129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Your brave for walking trough projects you don’t belong in

    • @heartofsteel1972
      @heartofsteel1972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Chris Barrett ...You have to act like you belong and have a that certain swag and sway your way through any ghetto part of the city. Don't act like a tourist unless you want to look like a visitor.

    • @LaDiiGiggleZ718
      @LaDiiGiggleZ718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If he was Mexican he wouldn't stand a chance. They dont like us

    • @fredajames8962
      @fredajames8962 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LaDiiGiggleZ718 you mean the stupid ass young teenagers cuz that's exactly wat they are they do that to anybody who looks vulnerable and don't look like they belong so is not that they don't like him that's just the code...action the kidd just got lucky cuz it wasn't really nobody outside to fuck with him cuz that go pro camera wouldve def got snatched

    • @Alicia_W413
      @Alicia_W413 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LaDiiGiggleZ718 who is they? Because last I checked the projects were filled with all types of people. Secondly, if you want to say that, the opposite can be true as well.

    • @bigbyrd9803
      @bigbyrd9803 ปีที่แล้ว

      He dont get no points 4 dat i used to walk through Potomac Gardenz all the time

  • @eldo59
    @eldo59 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I keep thinking about movies like Fresh, Crooklyn, Clockers, Brooklyn's Finest.

  • @BLETransitYT
    @BLETransitYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I have family in Brownsville! Such great memories!

    • @ericalyons3834
      @ericalyons3834 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do they like it there

  • @inezsimpkins5019
    @inezsimpkins5019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oh my God this is THE area's where I use too live
    I sure miss my home town
    Been away since 1979 now in FLORIDA and hate it so much. But God blessed me with a BEAUTIFUL Habitat home.

  • @lesterdiamond6190
    @lesterdiamond6190 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    great video, glad nobody ran up on you and stole your camera. thanks for your effort!

  • @uzntyson2
    @uzntyson2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm happy you did this video. People always calling the black and brown community dirty or violent. What you show is how peaceful it can be at time. Thank you! If you ever want to do this at night time. Let me know. I got you bro. Thanks for the vid and keep doing your thing.

  • @xmuta
    @xmuta 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    You are brave to go there. Stay safe.

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you

    • @bino1939
      @bino1939 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      S L he should’ve went in the night time lol

  • @badgerbhoy9534
    @badgerbhoy9534 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I bloody love this channel!!!

  • @chatterboxdebz4504
    @chatterboxdebz4504 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Not gonna lie when I saw the title I freaked a little 😂 I've saw a lot of updates from here but you did another great job..... How did you feel though genuinely walking around

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Thanks! It wasn’t anything too unpleasant walking around. You always have to be aware of your surroundings no matter where you are.

  • @sussybaka5322
    @sussybaka5322 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Holy ... You actually came out of there in one piece!!! You are one crazy/gutsy person. You were crazy enough to go into Brownsville with an expensive go pro camera.

    • @jonn40853
      @jonn40853 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is hood? Looks so peaceful, clean and nice lol this aint nothing close to where i live in deep east Oakland

    • @ablizzy
      @ablizzy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Lol this look like the morning time 🤣whaaa everything changes in brownsville onna weekend hitting night time and people tryna get lit.. i live in brownsville, he wasnt lucky its just always lowkey dead in the morning, at night, try doing this same walk recording lol

    • @slimeball3168
      @slimeball3168 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Raw_Smoking408 go out there around 8 😂 mannnn

    • @allegraanegra455
      @allegraanegra455 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nobody was stealing his go pro🙄 you acting like he walked through the jungle with some lions chasing him. 😂

    • @lyricistanonymous8126
      @lyricistanonymous8126 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jonn40853 This is just one st of projects in the hood, early in the morning before the hawks come out.🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @pauld2810
    @pauld2810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Greetings from Seattle! I've just discovered your channel. You're very entertaining.

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You’re welcome! Check out my other videos as well.

  • @elaineen1
    @elaineen1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of my earliest memories is walking through this apartment my parents were moving into. The paint smelled fresh and it was so clean. My mother told me it was such an improvement from the tenement we were living in the Bronx. It was a new building at the corner of Dumont and Stone. Yes it was Brownsville Houses. Lived there in the 1950's then my parents moved to California. Now I am a grandfather and live in a nice home with a view.
    My message to all is that it does not matter where you are from just keep going and stay clean, study and you will make it. Never blame others for your failures. It doesn't matter if you fall just remember to get yourself up. Google the great folk who were from Brownsville and made it big.

  • @FloridaJay
    @FloridaJay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lots of memories in the library growing up, man you walked right pass my old block where it all stared........

  • @ajcornax11
    @ajcornax11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love the videos, watches them from rural Norway! Specially with the map in the first seconds. Is it possible during the course of the videos to put in the upper corner -for orientation- a little map with a red dot on the place where you are at that moment? F.e. every 5 minutes or when you're take a corner?

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you! I think the written timestamps are good enough, it might be too distracting to overlay a map

    • @UzziHD
      @UzziHD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This ain’t grand theft auto lmao this is Brooklyn

    • @ericalyons3834
      @ericalyons3834 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me to

  • @danrichardson4608
    @danrichardson4608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm from Bville,and this was done real early,if Mother Gaston is empty

  • @ThatBrooklynChick718
    @ThatBrooklynChick718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My Old Hood Brownsville&Seth Low Projects💯...it looks like early morning type shit! Memories Good&Bad! My family still out there. I'm Downtown Bklyn now💕💕

  • @technosmiley
    @technosmiley 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    tyvm for this video. it helped me show my small town wife that the projects are not that bad (during the day of course)

  • @Kaisersozze
    @Kaisersozze 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Wow they even have scaffolding in the middle of a park. NYC, city of scatfolding.

  • @michaeldavis159
    @michaeldavis159 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I used to live out there memories 👍👍👍

    • @itsbenja1318
      @itsbenja1318 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bville the hood the pj its all the same crazy.

    • @jermainegray4311
      @jermainegray4311 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      To many memories

  • @BROTHERARTMUSICArturoJCastro
    @BROTHERARTMUSICArturoJCastro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The old hood I grew up and ran through. My family lived in Tilden, Van, and Brownsville houses. So Many schoolmates and life friends have passed on. But you want to impress, do this doing the hot summer days when everyone’s outside with nothing to do. 👀 Great video and memories though.

  • @green2stayecoswdmarketingn339
    @green2stayecoswdmarketingn339 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks I enjoyed this!

  • @Japan_Silent_Walk
    @Japan_Silent_Walk ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for sharing this. Very raw and real. 🔥👍
    Very different vibes from Tokyo.

  • @jesusgirlkatrina
    @jesusgirlkatrina 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I Really Enjoyed Watching This Video, I Love Everything About New York The Diversity, Food, Shopping, Brooklyn, Queen, Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island!!

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  • @TenYah144
    @TenYah144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    That's my hood. Rockaway avenue is my stop. You walked past my mothers building lol and a school i went to. Thats home to me

    • @bigdeelow1
      @bigdeelow1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's crazy when u see your neighborhood on TH-cam..... I've seen mines a few times, I'm from Southside of Chicago.

    • @jameleason8200
      @jameleason8200 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bigdeelow1 they tour down most of the PJs out there I was there in 02

  • @catherinec9307
    @catherinec9307 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sooo great ! Thank you 🙏🏼 😘

  • @tedted5431
    @tedted5431 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video! Thx! 👍 🗽

  • @guac1967
    @guac1967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i worked with a guy that was a nyc cop for 7 years. he said it was hell he said that he worked the overnight shift around the projects, and it was stressful as hell after 7 years he quit to go drive a bus.

  • @jazmynbrown6820
    @jazmynbrown6820 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Sidewalks look cleaner than the ones here in Los Angeles. We got a nasty looking city!

    • @jermainegray4311
      @jermainegray4311 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Trust me housing must have cleaned it up early other than that it's always nasty out there

    • @bp7792
      @bp7792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You sure do!

    • @bigdeelow1
      @bigdeelow1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gentrification.......🤔

  • @maciejkublik6297
    @maciejkublik6297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hello ActionKid,i really enjoy watchig Your films from NYC,it's almost like to be there:)Some day i'll visit New York;greetings from Warsaw:)

  • @fisheyetaxi6616
    @fisheyetaxi6616 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video again!:)

  • @jamesstmanhattan
    @jamesstmanhattan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    I got jumped and my shit got taken just from my reading the title lol

    • @raineyj560
      @raineyj560 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Smh

    • @jamesstmanhattan
      @jamesstmanhattan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@raineyj560 nfs son

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      @raineyj560 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jamesstmanhattan not a son, all lady

    • @jamesstmanhattan
      @jamesstmanhattan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@raineyj560 my bad sis

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  • @ActionKid
    @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    For those on mobile
    Timestamps
    1:15 - Exiting Rockaway Avenue (3) Subway Station
    2:00 - Livonia Avenue & Rockaway Avenue
    2:45 - Tilden Houses
    7:45 - Brownsville Houses
    11:33 - Sutter Avenue & Osborn Street
    13:25 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Sutter Avenue
    15:43 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Blake Avenue
    17:40 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Dumont Avenue
    19:40 - Linovia Avenue & Mother Gaston Boulevard
    20:05 - Van Dyke Houses
    26:25 - Sutter Avenue & Christopher Avenue
    27:05 - Sutter Avenue & Sackman Street
    28:00 - Sutter Avenue & Powell Street
    29:00 - Sutter Avenue & Junius Street

    • @r68aproductions56
      @r68aproductions56 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice

    • @rebekahalessi3731
      @rebekahalessi3731 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow. You are kinda brilliant. I have always been fascinated with Brownsville. I live in San Francisco, I think it used to be very Jewish, no? It was a beautiful walk we just took. I

    • @bino1939
      @bino1939 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ActionKid you should’ve went through Marcus Garvey

    • @777wisdom7
      @777wisdom7 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nobody is outside must be 6am LOL!, We wanna see the people......

  • @metrorailfan2334
    @metrorailfan2334 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Livonia Avenue** , nice video by the way. Can you do a walk from the L train at Livonia Ave to the 3 At Junius street to show the station connection

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for the correction! I could if I'm ever in the area again.

  • @rajindergupta8482
    @rajindergupta8482 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful blog thanks

  • @kimberlysmith3379
    @kimberlysmith3379 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It looks very nice and clean to me!

    • @martinwadia300
      @martinwadia300 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      this is coming from Kimberly Smith, yeah ight

    • @ericalyons3834
      @ericalyons3834 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@martinwadia300how u know cause I’m from Manhattan it’s dirty out here garbage all over the floor

  • @magnetokwa9700
    @magnetokwa9700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Peace to my hoods! Brooklyn NY, Newark NJ!

  • @weotalks2810
    @weotalks2810 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My Home TOWN, I saw my First OF 7 MURDERS BY THE TIME I WAS 19, But Made life LONG FRIENDS, AND TAUGHT ME CONFIDENCE & TO BE A MAN

  • @nojacket3791
    @nojacket3791 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Grew up on 180 Powel street Seth low projects starting 1974. My cousins were Jehovahs witnesses (Bitting Family) lived in Van Dycke houses. The sidewalks & streets had embedded bottle caps on/in the ground.

  • @eapradius
    @eapradius 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    thanks for these videos! I miss New York!

  • @MrGarra69
    @MrGarra69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    And good u came in the day time late night hours could've been a different tale feel me

  • @1961RetroMIke
    @1961RetroMIke 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Actionkid. As a lover of Baseball and the architecture of old baseball stadiums I am wondering if you have ever done a walking video of where old Ebbet's Field in Brooklyn was
    or the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan? Thanks again for another wonderful video.

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’ve actually never even heard of them before. I’ll have to do some research

    • @1961RetroMIke
      @1961RetroMIke 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Actionkid, many Brooklyn citizens consider the day the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and the day that Ebbets Field was demolished to be the saddest day in the history of Brooklyn.

  • @TheHowToKing
    @TheHowToKing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It seems like nobody notices you recording? How do you have your camera concealed/attached?

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/77t0LKAg13I/w-d-xo.html

  • @KussDamato
    @KussDamato 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    k now go back and do it again in 12 hours.

  • @mikioni
    @mikioni 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video 🙂

  • @michaelrobinson9639
    @michaelrobinson9639 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you so much ! Used to live on the other side at 675 Sackman street at Riverdale/

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're welcome, thank you for sharing your experience

  • @jeanetteroberts4427
    @jeanetteroberts4427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    2:18 is the strip from the movie Brooklyn's Finest. Where Wesley Snipes gets shot and Don Cheadle tries to save him.

  • @krissmgvlogs
    @krissmgvlogs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I bet that place looks a lot better than it did 20 years ago but I still would NEVER want to live there or even walk around there day or night! Its just depressing! And the covered walkways, is that a permanent structure, such an eyesore!

    • @joojoobomb
      @joojoobomb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol yeah cause people stay throwing shit outta windows lol

    • @ericalyons3834
      @ericalyons3834 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joojoobombfacts u ain’t lie they still do it

  • @michaelcevallos8715
    @michaelcevallos8715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Grew up in linden houses on the 4 th floor, so many memories, moved out in 2015, shit was lit growing up in Brownsville, just tuck ya chain in

    • @ericalyons3834
      @ericalyons3834 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So how u like it there

  • @Usernotfounddd748
    @Usernotfounddd748 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    People are simple minded. Yes there are more dangerous neighborhoods in New York City in general BUT overall people who don’t live in New York wouldn’t even understand that New York can be dangerous in general! Even your “nice” looking neighborhoods have crime quite obvious..

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Midtown Manhattan is the most dangerous neighborhood in NYC according to the statistics.

    • @raineyj560
      @raineyj560 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Exactly, the upper class or rich, hide their debt or $$$ problems, they are criminals, they are abusive and they are drug addicts. Makes me so upset that the generalizations are thrown out just because ppl are poor or struggling.

    • @Tonyjones175
      @Tonyjones175 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ActionKid that’s why cops carry assault rifles.on every corner. Just in case there’s a problem.

    • @Slim545
      @Slim545 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ActionKid Na the south bronx is

    • @itachigaga1
      @itachigaga1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Brownsville is the worst and the people who want to stand in front from the buildings all day like they don't have a home is even worst

  • @smon8470
    @smon8470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What kind of cam you use beautiful quality

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I use a GoPro HERO7 Black. My video equipment is listed in the video description.

    • @artemisappollo1491
      @artemisappollo1491 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know,it's good quality> I enjoyed the video, because I have been to New York; but I guess I am sort of accustomed to living dangerously..I am from New Orleans!

  • @Tyler380
    @Tyler380 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    You know you live in a rough neighborhood when you put a Razor Wire fence around the Veggie garden at 21:33

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂

    • @QueensNativeNYC
      @QueensNativeNYC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brownsville in the day actually looks kind of peaceful, it doesn't particularly look that mennacing.. Though God only knows what is going on is some of those projects.. And I would not want to be walking around down there at night

    • @TheHowToKing
      @TheHowToKing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@QueensNativeNYC I was thinking the same. Everybody must be in the house...lol. Looks like it was still semi cold out.

    • @QueensNativeNYC
      @QueensNativeNYC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheHowToKing Yep, just watched it again, in fact the only thing I hear is birds tweeting.. I don't hear gun-shots or gangster language or anything like that.. Though I do hear the sounds of ambulances in the background quite often, you can use your imagination on that, most likely domestic abuse or some poor soul overdosed on something.. Life in the projects is still no cake walk no matter how you look at it..

    • @queensuga1006
      @queensuga1006 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmbo🤣🤣🤣

  • @itsbenja1318
    @itsbenja1318 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    you get off on rockaway train station but evening when there people out it look like recorded in this morning.

  • @thodeohill6339
    @thodeohill6339 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Everybody want it to be all bad but some of the coolest people come from those projects

    • @bigbyrd9803
      @bigbyrd9803 ปีที่แล้ว

      New York is not a hood anymore

    • @ericalyons3834
      @ericalyons3834 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bigbyrd9803what

  • @davidmccandless8265
    @davidmccandless8265 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hi action kid David here a Scot living in London I love your vlog as usual and I have lived in housing schemes as there are named in Glasgow Scotland and most people are law abiding but we do have ass holes and no gooders there to so thank you for sharing it David

    • @davidmccandless8265
      @davidmccandless8265 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Kay fip thank you for the reply and all the best to you David McCandless

  • @williame.pittman7225
    @williame.pittman7225 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Action Kid: Thanks for posting this video. Was this Sunday afternoon or this morning. Bill

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was Tuesday afternoon

    • @williame.pittman7225
      @williame.pittman7225 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ActionKid I wondered. Not too many people out and about.

  • @thedubbman4453
    @thedubbman4453 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Everybody rocking some nice kicks

  • @Jrhynie
    @Jrhynie ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Much nicer than Philly, Baltimore and parts of London. Tidy looking and neat.

  • @kentrock
    @kentrock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You should make a video on Jouvet night

  • @williamrubinstein3442
    @williamrubinstein3442 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    NYC slums always look a lot better than those in Philly, Chicago, Newark, Baltimore etc etc. Fewer burned out ruins, less grafitti, more shops open, less threatening.

  • @MultiNemsi
    @MultiNemsi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The Ville Is the last samurai of BK.. Look at all the gentrification thru the BK. But the Ville stays the same. Always will.. Keep the BK breathing!

    • @MichelleJ79
      @MichelleJ79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MultiNemsi white folks are making their way up there, albeit slowly. I’ve seen some of them get off on Saratoga.

    • @MultiNemsi
      @MultiNemsi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MichelleJ79 Shit sis...They better know where they comin..We ain't about that playplay. Never ran never will

    • @TheRuffs
      @TheRuffs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Michelle the fuck you talking about white folk

    • @martinwadia300
      @martinwadia300 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MichelleJ79 once I see them getting off on rockaway ave, then we'll talk lol

    • @MichelleJ79
      @MichelleJ79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@martinwadia300 I feel you lol. I don’t live in Brownsville but some of my ppl who do have told me they’re starting to see small sprinklings of white folks on certain blocks. The day that Brownsville gentrifies will be the day hell has officially frozen over

  • @beautifulrose6233
    @beautifulrose6233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the way the buildings look, I'm not from NYC so I cant speak on it.

  • @grevilleprince6621
    @grevilleprince6621 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    man just keep doing it action kid

  • @producerman10030
    @producerman10030 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grew up in ENY. You are one brave person.

  • @wandamoore4929
    @wandamoore4929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    The Ville is cool. Just mind your business.

    • @blueriver4484
      @blueriver4484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Exactly! Thank you. Same can be said for anywhere else in NYC or any other city in the US or in the world, for that matter.

    • @thatahkabdul
      @thatahkabdul 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blueriver4484 when in Rome act like the romans

    • @dochoa7457
      @dochoa7457 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      But if u look like a chump or an easy target. Then you are food.

    • @kevm243
      @kevm243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Tupac Shakur The whole NY was a war zone back in the 1990s!! But today it is NOTHING like back then INCLUDING where you lived! 137th & Brook is the 40 Pct and YES back in the 1990s it was a war zone it's Not today! As of today August 30th there have been 6 Murders in the 40 Pct so far this year. There have been a total of 35 people shot so far this year so its NOTHING like it use to be. There have been 273 Robberies there so far this year that comes out to 1 person robbed per day so NO people aren't getting robbed like crazy there anymore

    • @ericalyons3834
      @ericalyons3834 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Facts smh

  • @MrGarra69
    @MrGarra69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I feel you bro on your depiction of Brownsville and I'm born and raised in Brownsville still living in Brownsville 42 years old left and came back trust me trying to leave again and it's a lot better than what it used to be but so true mid 90s early 2000 you have to worry about what color shirt you had on walking through Rockaway Avenue trust me so homeboy just showed you know that the neighbor actually has improved

    • @QueensNativeNYC
      @QueensNativeNYC 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That neigborhhod was like hell in the 90s.. When I was a young guy I used to work for a low budget furniture store near the border of Queens and Brooklyn and I would go into those ghetto areas of Brooklyn often to do furniture deliveries..

  • @tkso.philly-7868
    @tkso.philly-7868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love Brooklyn, where my Family is from.E.N.Y. Cyprus Hill Projects.AndJamaica Queens and to Long Island-

  • @sammyb.randall5006
    @sammyb.randall5006 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good ol memories , i grew up in howard houses in the 1980's , 1990' s very goodchild-hood memories with mychildhood friends .myparents are from brooklyn n.y.

  • @WecanWinJesse
    @WecanWinJesse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This Gato's camera got me thinking he walking like Ernie and Bert through the Projects.

  • @Musicradio77Network
    @Musicradio77Network 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you do the one in Red Hook, Brooklyn?

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’ll consider it!

  • @jamal9601
    @jamal9601 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What day of the week was this and what time of day

  • @terrell1516
    @terrell1516 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m searching for my father in the Brownsville area he don’t know I even exist his name is Kevin he use to go by Water and hung with a guy name Gerard back in the day they close to 50 now. They use to be on Rockaway Parkway around the corner from Pitkin Avenue. If you can help in anyway let me know!

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hopefully someone can help you out!

  • @fukcudave2686
    @fukcudave2686 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonder why some projects have white windows and others brown.? It like that where I am from too

  • @JustinRM20
    @JustinRM20 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 2:00 is where they shot that scene in brooklyn's finest where Caz gets shot right?

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m not familiar with that scene.

    • @teseotorras1315
      @teseotorras1315 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      2:18, yea

  • @philosophyexplained
    @philosophyexplained 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Its crazy how accurate gta is!

  • @LudoLiuExtras
    @LudoLiuExtras 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    ok... i will use my gopro hero 7 and my feiyu to realize the same shot here in Nigeria !
    I feel so interested by yours, maybe people would like to discover Lagos and Nigeria in the same way !
    have a great day !
    cheers from nigeria

    • @ActionKid
      @ActionKid  5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thank you very much! I would be very interested to see the world with similar videos as well.

    • @LoiLoScope
      @LoiLoScope 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Please do not forget to do that.
      *But how can I gat notice when done?*
      Best regards, M.

    • @LudoLiuExtras
      @LudoLiuExtras 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ActionKid ​ i am now doing short cinematic drone videos of the place i am... But Thinking about it, i have the exact same set up as you : hero7 , feiyu 6g pro and zoom h4n and h1n... your videos inspire me a lot... i will give it a try !!!!

    • @LudoLiuExtras
      @LudoLiuExtras 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@LoiLoScope you can already see some drone footage about Lagos and Nigeria on my Channel ! I would recommend you to follow my channel and maybe subscribe :) if you like what you already saw !

    • @raymondhoward9173
      @raymondhoward9173 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Always talk negatively of black areas

  • @MyDOOKIE1
    @MyDOOKIE1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Born and raised in B-ville....LH stand up ! Rockaway and Sutter or as the OGs say (stone Ave) but he didn't even go thru half the hood he walked from 3 train to L train and got up outta there...

  • @jaemoe1701
    @jaemoe1701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you walk through Brownsville tilden projects please go to the Bronx walkthrough Castle Hill, soundview Bronx dale ,Monroe, Bronx River parkchester and hunts point

    • @teseotorras1315
      @teseotorras1315 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Soundview houses and Eastchester houses- can't walk through the front gate w out 2 layers of kevlar

  • @thedude4795
    @thedude4795 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dude! If you look up the first scene in Bullet (1996) these projects look JUST LIKE IT

  • @giovannigommba5938
    @giovannigommba5938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The murder inc. crew were from SARATOGA AVE. The store from where the crew operated still there. The CORNER STORE RIGHT NEXT TO THE TRAIN STATION. Used to be owned by a lady named ROSE. All the mob hits back in the days, came from that store.There is were also PITKIN movie theater was also a famous place back then, I think today it houses a nyc school. If you look around BROWSVILLE has a lot of history.

    • @elaineen1
      @elaineen1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You must remember Stone Ave. I lived on the corner of Dumont and Stone.

  • @dulaptv3667
    @dulaptv3667 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Imagine casually taking a stroll through tilden🤣🤣

  • @bortiz5260
    @bortiz5260 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ny has some nice trees !

  • @oldkidsjonge
    @oldkidsjonge 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The buildings are nice but you can definitely tell why those crammed parks where you can only walk on the path aren't the best place for children to grow up (or I would have wanted to grow up as I can imagine) and play, especially since adolescents and teenagers also chill there. Very nice city though, and it's kind of comes with the city life I guess..?

  • @joelweiner4798
    @joelweiner4798 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Never been there, never will...thanks for the video..now i don't have to visit, for sure.. Keep up the great work.

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i remember seeing the buildings at 5:20, or at least a good interpretation of them, on Grand Theft Auto IV. :-D

    • @majestik7107
      @majestik7107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gta IV my favorite 🥰

  • @EddieTheMessenger
    @EddieTheMessenger 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You got ballz Kid !!!!

  • @BIG-BUDDY63
    @BIG-BUDDY63 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    action kid your one brave individual walking threw these buildings that was very dangerous

  • @bkboi07151983
    @bkboi07151983 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Seems calmer now... Brownsville was like a war zone when I lived there

    • @Slim545
      @Slim545 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      JJ Mack still the same

    • @perrinmontenegro
      @perrinmontenegro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      JJ Mack 😂😂😂 no its not the drug dealers and gangs aren’t up yet it’s too early give it around 3:30 -4pm

    • @bkboi07151983
      @bkboi07151983 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@perrinmontenegro I was thinking that... I lived on Mother Gaston and I never remembered it looking that empty 😂

  • @zendavis3501
    @zendavis3501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Come to my hood in Queensbridge. Love your videos.