To answer the number of angry comments: FYI everyone in Buffalo - This video was a part of a series on rundown rust belt towns, which your city qualifies as. This was not a 'Buffalo is great let's see why' video, nor was it an 'Everything about Buffalo' documentary. There are plenty of those on the web already. So don't be so upset. Your city has come challenges, like most American cities. And it has some bad surrounding communities.
So theres a number of reasons this Video is complete Bullshit . You drive a stretch of land less than a one mile and portray the entire area like it's so rundown. I love the Ghetto comments, Too bad that area is predominantly Polish and Irish. It's quite funny how canadians act like Toronto doesnt have rundown areas.
I think the real question here is why would a person make a video like this about any city. Why showcase what you believe to be negative? Why spend your time degrading anything? This negativity seems so pointless to me. Some of the buildings shown are actually people's homes. I can't imagine how I'd feel had I seen my house in this pointless video. There is just no reason to showcase anything so negatively. I have lived in and around Buffalo my entire life, and though it isn't perfect I am completely in love with it. This may make me bias, so I am not going to even bother to tell you about how wonderful its architecture, culture, natural beauty, industry or its people are. The point I'd like to make is why bother searching out what you see as terrible? What is the purpose other than to cause pain. You are not even criticizing in any constructive way. This is not productive and is more a testament to the creator's character than ti the worth of any city in the "series of rust belt towns".
Clevelander here. We love our neighbors in Buffalo. It’s a hard working city where everything is earned. No glam. No national attention. But she is full of history culture and character. Us “rust belt” people are a different breed. Pride in what we have. Buffalo is an amazing hidden gem. Lots to do and see. Much love to my Buffalo people ✌️
How high are you? Because the main attractions of Buffalo are basically the zoo, the sports teams and one of them is a joke, and everything in Niagara County. And Ive lived here for 10 years and trust me, once you did everything, you get pretty bored of it quickly.
6:52 actually the houses were leveled because it was cheaper for the city to destroy them than to try and repair them and they were unsalvageable due to being so old. At one point there were 10,000 abandoned homes in buffalo. I worked at city hall as an intern when they began the undertaking to reduce the number from 10,000 back in 2007-2009
The video admits that Buffalo's population dropped from nearly 600,000 to 250,000 (in 2020). That's a lot of empty houses that will never be filled no matter how well someone fixes them up. There simply is no one to move into them. A city that once housed 600,000 now only needs less than half of that. There are many, many empty houses that have no hope of ever being restored. Demolition is the only option. Many areas are bare as a prairie. Look at Buffalo on Google maps satellite view. The vacant lots stand out like missing teeth.
I came to Buffalo as a college student and fell in love with the city. I've seen one blizzard, maybe two in the decades I've lived here. There are real snowstorms that dump more snow than the blizzards did, but they're very unusual as well. The primary thing Buffalo is known for is the friendliness and genuine helpfulness of its citizens. There's a saying that you can't go anywhere here without bumping into someone you know, and the cities here are twice the size of the ones in the New England state where I grew up. We just get to know one another. This area is also one of the best places to raise a family, Yes there are bad places here just as there are anywhere, but the good far outways the bad any day of the week.
Living in buffalo myself I live in a high income area but honestly iv never felt scared in any of these areas I’ll take driving or being in Buffalo’s worst areas over Detroit’s or Baltimore’s any day!
Ummmm yeah. But put it mor in terms like Little Rock or Dayton. Ya know....other insignificant little shitholes. Can’t jump up in stature with super ghettos like bodymore and Detroit...
The eastside is rough, I grew up just off east delavan. But I learned along time ago, dont look for trouble and mind your own business and you'll be fine. I live in williamsville now which is a different world even if it is just a few minutes away from the area in the video. Still got lots of good friends on the eastside, still lots of good people there.
Susan Matz I’ve lived on the east side of buffalo all my life. Right in the heart of the East. He is taking this in 2020. 5+ years ago looked a lot worse. There have been a lot more home owners buying, new buildings being made, and lots of cleanup. The streets are still bumpy as S*** but the city is definitely getting better
@@KJG_official I think the fact that the city has been really good about demolishing the abandoned buildings makes the east side look a lot less Detroit-ey
@@MaxHarrison and me being born and raised in the City of Buffalo I like they demolish abandon houses. Now the kids have fields to play in, we played in the street.
Donna M. Nowak right!!!!!! He was probably doing 80 in the fast lane on the Thruway too, riding bumpers like they all do...they think miles and kilometers are the same
@@NickJohnson What's funny is my Grandpa tells me about these people that he knows back in Michigan make Chicago sound like it's the worst city in America by saying Detroit is not as bad as Chicago
how convenient - you forgot to drive by all of the shopping center parking lots & film the Canadians literally throwing packaging, styrofoam, and entire cardboard boxes on to the ground in order to not pay duties and taxes at the border.
Everytime I'm at the Galleria I literally see canadians littering there packages in parking lot befor they cross the border to go home.omg seriously I live in depew and never am I afraid of going into the city .you respect it
asyntheticsound you forgot about them throwing there old clothes/shoes in the parking lot just to put as many layers of new clothes on as possible. And also the women pissing on the dressing room floors when it’s real busy during Black Friday (true story)
It's nicer than the areas around the upper Westside, which still has gentrifiers moving in in droves. I saw a house for sale on Parkdale for $300K. 😂 That's a lot of money to pay to have stray bullets flying in your front window.
Its really not. The East side has a great community of people that have actually been trying to improve the area, they've just been left behind by the government of the city for years. It may have some run-down buildings and litter on the ground, but when you look at other 'hoods' in Detroit or Philly, Buffalo's hood looks like an upscale neighborhood in comparison.
No its not and i ride my bile through the eastside all summer the past two years and haven't been bothered once.most ppl r polite and keep to themselves
The people that live in this area are extremely loyal to each other and are very welcoming however you need to get on their good side or else your life will be hell
Buffalo, NY also has some nice and historic areas. The city is deep in rich history but like most aging regions in the Northeast USA has seen a decline in population and business commerce. You should note that the downtown and waterfront areas have seen a resurgence with development of new businesses and people are moving back to the city which is a trend happening in the states. I know you mentioned having chicken wings at Gabriel’s Gate Restaurant, Buffalo is one of the best foodie towns in America with not only its well known chicken wings but roast beef on kimmelweck roll, buffalo pizza, various ethnic restaurants serving Polish, German and Italian dishes. The Buffalo area loves their hometown sports teams like the Bills and Sabre’s. The Summer’s in Buffalo are the best time to visit the shores of Lake Erie and Niagara River. There are much more nicer areas and neighborhoods to see and visit than what this video showed.
that would be because of the taxes and the idiots that line their pockets with govt. money. People get out because it is part of the state of New York.No one with any common sense wants to live here. First chance and we are all out. We have deep ties to NYC and it is draining the whole state. And I am a former downstater.
What is the point or purpose for the rust belt video tour? Just wondering, maybe to help us come together. I grew up on the west side of the city and have fond memories of my very modest but pleasant neighborhood. It is currently experiencing a resurgence. Home values are up like I’ve never seen. My children now live in Buffalo because it is full of culture, great places to dine and enjoy like Deleware Park, Albright Knox art museum and our beautiful waterfront. It is truly the city of good neighbors as they say, people are friendly.
Nick Johnson yeah, come on over. I'll tour you through our beautiful city just to dispute the bullshit in this video. And also because buffalo is the city of good neighbors.
I love how most of the comments on this come to Buffalo's defense. It is a great city with widely varied architecture and tremendous people. You could never be truly "stranded" in Buffalo as the natives will come to your rescue. I know, it happened to me. A middle aged white woman locked out of her car, (phone and purse inside the locked car) in a rough neighborhood. I asked a man for help and half the block came together to help me. It was amazing!
And that's just Buffalo! I remember years ago being stuck, yes, in a winter storm🤣 after getting off work. And my car would not move and it was freezing! But what I saw next, didn't really amaze me as a proud Buffalonian. There were young and old, white, Black, Hispanic people, pushing people's cars out of the ditches they found themselves in. It happened to me again in another part of Buffalo and again! they helped me and I was able to get home to my daughter. Buffalo is not perfect, but it's not bad either, we had a mayor that's willing to put his attention on ALL of Buffalo, instead of just "certain," neighborhood's, this city can be a great city once again.
I had to call the police to jump start my car in Dallas 😕 That was after asking people for about 4 hours. I miss friendly people. They don't exist here in Texas. I want to move up there. You used to break down here and 4 or 5 people would stop.
MeatballYaro2 I’m from buffalo the only part of buffalo that doesn’t look like this is north buffalo and downtown. East west and south side of buffalo look like this. I’m not talking about the suburbs like Amherst Cheektowaga williamsville I’m talking Buffalo
Didn’t even focus the least bit on all the great designs architecturally and the actual layout of the city with all the streets stemming from the circle outside city hall. That’s one small part of buffalo
This dude is a certified clown who is clearly trying to paint a picture that isnt true. Idk if he thinks talking like a robot is gonna help his bs but it aint workin
Yeah, this didn't even scratch the surface... Buffalo is a crumbling city. And their trying to fix it by importing Somali-migrants (Yeah, that will work! Bahahahhaaaaa)
Mellow Harris That’s what I’m saying Also so Only police 👮♀️ can give them the Authorities and Protection to feel that they can Ride around like this if they saying it’s the most dangerous 😂
My wife an I went to Niagara Falls 4 years ago and were so impressed we went back again last year , We found a 2 lane road that was south of Buffalo that went to Erie and both thought it was the most scenic road either one of us had ever seen , We plan on going back to see more of this beautiful part of the country , Much love from Colorado
Glad you enjoyed it...you're always welcome!! Great food, beautiful scenery. I myself visited the rocky mountains..I literally had goosebumps.. the gold mining town at the top of the mountain is perfectly preserved..I felt like the delorean hit 88mph. Much love from WNY
Route 5 is a quiet road that runs along the lake. Route US20 a few miles over which runs parallel runs through small town Main Streets every few miles.
I saw my house and you know what yes I live in the hood yes my city is poor and a slum but WE OUT HERE GRINDING AND TRYING WE DONT GOT IT LIKE EVERYONE THE HELL ELSE. But I can’t be mad at you for making true observations but this kinda hurt my feelings cuz everyone a lot of people veiw us buffalo folks as the bottom.
I'm from England, and I came for a vacation to Buffalo last April. My friend and I had the best time, we met lots of lovely people, ate great food, went to some cool bars, loved the architecture and the history. You are very lucky to live in Buffalo - we still talk about how much we liked it!
@@NickJohnson "yOuRe cUtE, dOnT bE sO aNgRy" Look here boys and girls, we've got ourselves a human who only sees women as things that need to be cute in order to be respected. Ngl I'm not surprised, he did say he likes trump lmfao
As a local, feel free to make more videos! Make us look as dumpy as possible. Maybe it will help keep the creep of housing prices skyrocketing from getting worse. Investors are making it impossible to live in this historically working class region. I'm regularly seeing $2k+ rents in areas that were $600 just 3 years ago
I came from purto rico And since day 1 ive ealked thru those areas and eorked and have never had a issue ever anywhere in the east side .if your not looking for trouble trouble wont come gor you
I’m a delivery driver and am often in the east side. All you have to do is show the locals respect and they will respect you. Buffalo is nowhere near a “dangerous” city.
You can pretty much swap out Rochester for Buffalo. They look about the same. BTW Nick, if you're feeling really adventurous, come to those hoods when the summer heat gets above 85.
I moved from The Bronx to Buffalo 9 years ago. I live in the canalside and when I first got here it was the walking dead. Since I been here they built a bunch of new buildings, restaurants and museums all right across the street from me and every day in the summer there are thousands of people down here. Buffalo is a tough city and not for everyone. This dude in the video would not make it out here because he is not the type of man to command respect. A man who carries himself with and demands respect will do just fine out here. This dude is obviously weak. He's not built for any city in NYS. Buffalo, Rochester, NYC, Syracuse, Albany, Troy, Utica, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers, Long Island and even New Jersey and Connecticut
I live in the Las Vegas suburbs now, but just recently moved from Buffalo, NY where I was born and raised. I must say, someone who’s not from Buffalo, driving around putting down poor neighborhoods bothers me. There aren’t too many cities where you wont find poor and disadvantaged people. Including Las Vegas! This makes me feel like you’re putting down something and someplace you don’t even understand. You’re truly on the outside looking in.
I understand it. Buffalo is garbage. The policies these same people have voted for has done this. You do know they voted for a unabashed commie to be the mayor. It's sad.
I’m Canadian but lived in northeastern Ohio for about five years. Whenever we would come back to Canada, we would cross into Fort Erie from Buffalo. I would definitely say that Buffalo has gotten a bit better over the years, but the city is still pretty bad
@@johnratican3824 I’m not putting down New York State because it’s one of my favourite states. Buffalo is not the greatest city because most of it is either run down or abandoned. I recently visited Buffalo and was pretty impressed with the revamp of the downtown area. Buffalo isn’t the worst city but it also isn’t the greatest.
I walked through Buffalo when I was in my early teen's (1981), freak'n love Buffalo, different houses, great people too. Always nice thoughts about this place.
@@mikehawke2172 because it’s a great place to live. He showed only the bad part of Buffalo.. 85% of the city is way more beautiful then what he showed.
@@karenhackney9920 i was raised on the westside near Buff State, but later moved to Tonawanda, the trains were still running crossing, Sheridan, Belmont, Brighton Rd....I lived on Pilgrim Rd, for awhile, worked at the Blvd. Mall for much of the mid80s', till 95...then i moved for the palm trees and sunshine !
I love my community in Buffalo. You picked the one spot we all know of. It's a rough spot due to many many local issues. That said take the 33 to the 90s hit the suburbs and you'll be loving it. West Seneca Orchard Park Lancaster Elma East Aurora the list goes on and on. One or two bad roads in a whole 3 mile block is kinda dumb. You go to Elma and scope out Moog.
spare me people Buffalo New York is a great City people here care for one another it's relatively clean compared to other dumps all over this country Buffalo is a great town
everything that person said about expecting trouble on the east side was completely false. trouble does not seek you out on the east side of buffalo. ever. even if you’re not from the area.
Bela Bela, True. I try to tell people from my job that all the time.."Ohhh, I took the wrong exit and wound up on THE EASTSIDE! I was terrified" I tell them nobody is going to bother you unless you did something personally to somebody. Just like everywhere else. Don't start nuthin', won't be nuthin'.
The first 1:10 seconds was so biased I already see where this is going. Why didn’t you show the Falls on the American side?? You can get a similar view.
I was born in Buffalo, lived in Buffalo until I was 6 then moved back to Buffalo July of 2019 and I honestly can say EVERY city has its flaws and I'm proud to say I'm from Buffalo 😁
When I was a kid, used to drive through these hoods with my mom to go into Buffalo. She had claustrophobia and would drive with the windows open and doors unlocked. I told her to close the windows & lock the doors cause it was a bad neighborhood. She told me I was crazy. Nothing bad ever happened.
@@alexkrug8307 haha i went to his concert last night in Boston...he had the "Montana Ave" sign in his video on stage, so here i am, down this rabbit hole lol
I saw a lot of older homes, which doesn’t constitute a bad neighborhood. Some of the older homes are absolutely gorgeous inside. Any older neighborhood would look bad on a grey winter day.
You went through what I call the urban prairie of Buffalo. The bad parts are the Fruit Belt(streets named after fruit), Kenfield-Langfield(two massive housing projects that are right next to each other), Schiller Park(my neighborhood, home to new immigrants and...gangs), University District & University Heights(the latter is a crime den despite being next to North Buffalo), and an unofficial, unnamed neighborhood that is at the intersection of several official neighborhoods near Buffalo State College(Bird Ave is the "hottest" place in this area). Never ask White people where the crime is in Buffalo because they rarely have to leave their neighborhoods for any reason. Black, Latino, and other ethnicities usually have to shop and work elsewhere because of the lack of businesses and food deserts so we get a broader view of the area. A lot of the poor areas in Buffalo are relatively peaceful because they only have value to the residents. Buffalo is very resistant to change and this video is a good show of what our lack of progress means. Most of us live in very old housing and our neighborhoods are missing many amenities that make them walkable. I hope that the people seeing this understand that many of the people living in Buffalo want it to improve but development isn't in our hands. Suburban residents and people from further afield are holding onto Buffalo's assets, waiting for some sort of shift so they can sell to the highest bidder. Also, it's worth noting that Buffalo has a metric ton of absentee slum lords, from places like San Francisco or even Middle Eastern states. It takes a long time to get derelict properties away from people who don't take care of them and so we're still in a kind of stasis here. When the new hospitals were being built downtown there was a prediction that the real estate market would explode and it did...in the areas near said hospitals. Why improve the whole city when traffic is only picking up in a small area?
I've been living in Buffalo for 5 years now (Masten Park, East Side near VA Hospital, West Side near Buff State, and now Lovejoy; don't asked why I've moved so much in so little time), and I'd say you're right, the white people from the suburbs really don't know what it's like here. Honestly, I have no intention to return to the suburbs. Part of it might be because I like seeing the improvements around here on a seemingly daily basis. I feel like the way the city government is running the show, it's almost like they're willing to go piece by piece, or neighborhood by neighborhood in this case. I just wish they'd go faster.
I’m pretty open minded to constructive criticism and hearing what others outside our city have to say, but to get my ear you’ve got to offer a fair and reasonable assessment . The entire theme is shot in poor taste, sloppily edited and narrated with a dismissive, uneducated tone. It’s a lazy, amateur assessment and deserves none of our time, other than to realize we do have work to do in other parts of our city. He fails to mention all the progress (since he’s ignorant and probably doesn’t really know). Nor does he shoot any people, choosing to be a loner driving in a car by himself like a loser with a smartphone thinking he’s the next Ken Burns. #Thanksnothanks
@@watsonxox7145 just stop putting them on every damn corner, and ppl would start respecting them, just put a yield sign where ever possible. no one is stopping at every intersection if you can clearly see there is no one on the cross street..
Yeah. Both my parents are from Buffalo (Broadway-Filmore/Lovejoy) and it's pretty realistic to how it feels there. Def not actually the worst neighborhood imo. It's rough, and people left to escape economic collapse. Some great and unique people there, tho.
I’ll add something else. I’ve lived in other cities, San Francisco and Washington DC. I moved from those cities because of the cost of living. I love Buffalo NY. People who live here are some of the hardest working, down to earth people you will ever meet. Also, I own three beautiful houses
Blizzard's definitely dont shut the city down often .... it takes alot more than that also you hardly went through the actual real hood...you need to hit streets off East Ferry...streets off Bailey ave....streets off East Delevan ave between main all the way down to the Cheektowaga line. I can go on and on...theres blocks off of those strips that are legit hood
I agree. I’m from Buffalo. I had to laugh when I heard that one about the blizzards. Yeah, areas you mentioned are as worst as they get in Buffalo. Dated a girl who’s father was shot and killed off of Bailey back in the 90s. But when compared to hoods in bigger cities they’re nothing. I’m glad I live here. People look out for each other.
⚠️ PLEASE READ ⚠️ There's a lot of comments blaming Nick for the recent Buffalo supermarket shooting. Ignore them. They have the mental reasoning capacity of an *infant*. There are THOUSANDS of videos on TH-cam just like this, from different people walking/driving around various cities around the world. None of them should be blamed for someone deciding to comit crimes by watching videos like this. Moreover, there's Google Street View. Should Google be blamed also if a suspect used their services to commit crime? Think before you type.
Confirms that streets with trees looks and feel better. If you live here... Call 311 and ask the city to plant a FREE tree in front of your house. Plant some hope.
If you and people love it so much, why does it look like a 3rd world country. btw, I'm from there, so you don't need to school me, just in case you thought you were going to.
FACTS! friendliest town whites, blacks, Hispanics helping each other out when stuck from ice, or car not movable everyone stops traffic for each other, helps one another
I think it is fair to say, while the city has boasted quite a turnaround the last decade, there are a number of areas being left behind in that "rennaissance". Some are also being highly gentrified--which is often a mixed bag of good and bad (usually bad, if you're the poorer folk who just got priced out of your former neighborhood). A " rebirth" for mostly upscale middle-class white folks isn't precisely an awesome deal for everybody else, until we all figure out how many dimes we can make off their living in our neighborhoods.
Quite frankly, this tour showed relatively decent real estate reasonably well maintained. There were some abandonment but not overwhelming in nature. There were cars parked at homes and along the streets. Note the absence of graffiti, burned out houses and garbage piled up on street corners. In short, it seems livable and viable. Compare this to videos of rides through Detroit and Gary if you want to see a decayed, dying city.
In skimming through your channel and older videos, I see a lot of stereotyping. Tours of what makes cities great and what made them rise and fall would be good.
this video was obnoxious. i am from buffalo and i hate it sometimes. but the focus of the video was just ignorance. the use of the words ghetto, hood, and urban were cringe coming from that voice as well 🤦
I am with you I live in Buffalo NY also and my husband works in the east side it's not bad at all he said someone on every street corner where I didn't see anyone lol show the nice historical parts know like the cemetery where James brown is baried.... Dude your a ass hole
Buffalo, “a Drinking town with a sports problem! “ I live in WNY, great people overall, fantastic food, great hardworking and sports loving city. Keep,going WNY, rebuilding and separating ourselves from the downstate ny b.s.
I moved here a few years ago and fell in love with the warmth of the people...Buffalo is a very strong and embracing place to live, and I met some of the nicest people ever. Thanks for welcoming me Buffalo!!! Hugs!
What he does not know we are totally the city of good neighbors .we all help each other when we need it .if your black white purple blue or yellow .hood or not hood .
the funny thing is to me is that he didn't drive through every Hood or every worst part in buffalo. I know every hood that he just drove through. but it's even worse on the west side he just drove through the east side he practically drove to My Hood.
@Battle Wizzard worst how majority of murders are on eastside and u named like 2 blocks. Langfield,bailey'east delevan fillmore,jefferson. Genessee fruitbelt central park etc. Westside has bad parts but the fact is most of the killin and major crimes are on eastside ask any cop and i lived on both sides
@Battle Wizzard Also its important to add the demographic the Eastside is predominately Black some Latinos. South Buffalo has two sides a poor White run down area with Irish, Polish etc etc. The Poor West side was predominately Latino but with the immigration flood you now have Africans, Arabs, Indians who moved in with the poor folks lol.
Even with all the neighborhood being ran down dwndaway the people in those neighborhoods are great! The food here is great but we always happy to see haters that means your thinking of us when we prolly not thinkin of you💕
".... I think it actually lightly flurries here just about every day due to the lake effect. blizzards regularly shut the city down completely." Demonstrably false on both accounts.
Nick you should’ve driven down these streets with your MAGA hat and gotten down to say hi to some of the locals. You missed so many opportunities to reach out and touch someone.
As you drove on Goodyear between genesee and Walden I once live their during my childhood my God the street was filled with homes and families it was a mixture of all races in the early 80's until the crack era
Honestly, I use to do door to door sales in these areas since it was subsidy based funding for HVAC equipment and you were generally good unless you were disrespectful or too pushy. However we always called it when the sun went down because the night crew had other products to push and we didn't want to step on any toes 😂
I'm from Rochester but have lived in the Buffalo area for 20 of my 62 years and I have met the nicest people that are live long friends in Buffalo. Rochester has a lot of bad areas in the city too. All cities do but Buffalo has done so much to improve their city. I'm proud to live in Buffalo. I love the Buffalo Bills, the Sabres, Niagara Falls being close by and Canada. Go Buffalo!
My grandparents lived a few blocks off of Genesee- a dead- end called Frederick Place, ran off of Kehr. After they died, the house was shared by all the children, and eventually burned down, in the 1970's, I recall. I grew up in every hood all around Buffalo- Kenmore, Eastside, a few blocks from Allentown, out in the 'burbs, I still have cousins living all over Buffalo.
I moved back here after living in Albany for 24 years....Albany has ZERO compared to Buffalo if it wasn't for ALL the state workers and teachers....Albany would be nothing....plus they DON'T have the beautiful shores of Lake Erie(they have the Hudson River🤮🤮🤮)...All's I can say is "It's great to be home"😊😊😊 so this guy can say all he wants about this awesome area....it doesn't matter...real Western New Yorkers will always stand proud for this great city👍👍👍
Dream on! NYC pays more taxes to the state than it EVER gets back! Buffalo would have to pay 100% income tax rates for it to break even! You don’t even have city income taxes!
more taxes come from buffalo than the 11 million idiots in NYC? people paying $2500 a month for shoebox studio apartment? where a pack of cigarettes is $16? I could go on...buffalo is awesome though. for real
You are wrong. Buffalo looks better than albany. At least you guys have lake erie and that river at Delaware park. I'm from nyc. We are a bigger city and we are taxed three ways: local, state, and federal. If anything, nyc taxpayers carry the whole state. We are almost 9 million, you are maybe 1 million (city itself, not suburbs nearby). There's no way that your 1 million tax payers are carrying all services for 9 million downstate. Our local tax is for NYC services, which you guys upstate don't have to pay. The rest of the state only pays state and federal.
I lived in the perry now live in Brooklyn ...stuff always gonna be rough when politicians refuse to fund rebuilding on the east side but make sure all else is Financed ...all u showing is Deliberate neglect
@Eliza Kamińska all of east side does not look like that, in the last 10 years the city has been making big improvement with tearing down abandoned and destroyed property and it is misleading as buffalo is broken up in to many districts, Riverside is considered buffalo but is 25 mins from Lovejoy which is also buffalo.
Walden by the Mall? There are two malls on Walden : The Thruway Mall and the Walden Galleria. Neither one is in Buffalo. Both are in neighboring Cheektowaga. This article is about Buffalo, not Cheektowaga.
Delevan and bailey are roads, not even a section or neighborhood. I visited buffalo last week, looked for delevan and bailey, to learn that you were referring to a section of the road. Roads?! Charming city, but why do people pride themselves on being from a "bad" neighborhood especially black and brown 😡 The neighborhoods were beautiful. Buffalo needs gentrification in those "hoods" who don't take pride in their surroundings
I grew up in the suburbs and left in 1983. I knew that I wouldn’t be back. I made my way to California. I’ve visited my relatives nearly every year. The waterfront area has really come back. The worst neighborhoods back then was Chippewa and Pearl street, which is nice now. They are converting old factories to nice apartments.
I grew up in Buffalo, and left for California (praise God) when I was 18. I remember these areas very differently. I saw these streets on Google Earth about 10 years ago, and I cried, literally! So sad! My memories are totally different! Great job showing what it really is!
I lived on Goodyear Ave in the late 70s and it looked nothing like the Goodyear I just seen. That's when the area starting to change. But I never thought it would end up like that. The neighborhoods have been through war. Not just crack and closing of Bethlehem Steel and other jobs going over seas, but an all out attack on working families & human decency. But out of all that, crack was the worst. It hit this world hard and left its mark.
Nick Johnson, Your videos are very sobering to watch. I live in Edmonton, Alberta and complain about it sometimes and then I watch Your videos and realise I have it soo good up here !
Wish he did more about the "good" of buffalo, sure it has some rough spots, but it's not like all of buffalo is a war zone. We, unlike other places, have more heart than any big city in the states. You want the best wings, good beer, laughs, and people who stare a blizzard in the eye like its nothing ? Come to buffalo, its starting to turn around.
Yo i live in buffalo all u show is the stereo type of a certain part the city. buffalo is a beautiful city and with kind people in all the areas u should give us more credit
Well, maybe, but I've been through some pretty poor and dangerous towns in Louisiana, Mississippi and Birmingham Alabama looks every bit as bad as Buffalo...maybe worse. Nashville, Tulsa, East L.A. St. Louis, Kansas City, Wichita, and Oklahoma City to name just a few (non-rusty towns.)
To answer the number of angry comments: FYI everyone in Buffalo - This video was a part of a series on rundown rust belt towns, which your city qualifies as. This was not a 'Buffalo is great let's see why' video, nor was it an 'Everything about Buffalo' documentary. There are plenty of those on the web already. So don't be so upset. Your city has come challenges, like most American cities. And it has some bad surrounding communities.
So theres a number of reasons this Video is complete Bullshit
. You drive a stretch of land less than a one mile and portray the entire area like it's so rundown. I love the Ghetto comments, Too bad that area is predominantly Polish and Irish. It's quite funny how canadians act like Toronto doesnt have rundown areas.
Nick this is insult to my city where I was born & raise
Nick Johnson really lmao buddy do some research first before making statements 😂😂😂
Mike Brown I’ve lived here for about 7 years and this was insulting to say the least. I agree with you completely
I think the real question here is why would a person make a video like this about any city. Why showcase what you believe to be negative? Why spend your time degrading anything? This negativity seems so pointless to me. Some of the buildings shown are actually people's homes. I can't imagine how I'd feel had I seen my house in this pointless video. There is just no reason to showcase anything so negatively. I have lived in and around Buffalo my entire life, and though it isn't perfect I am completely in love with it. This may make me bias, so I am not going to even bother to tell you about how wonderful its architecture, culture, natural beauty, industry or its people are. The point I'd like to make is why bother searching out what you see as terrible? What is the purpose other than to cause pain. You are not even criticizing in any constructive way. This is not productive and is more a testament to the creator's character than ti the worth of any city in the "series of rust belt towns".
Blizzards do not shut the city down regularly. That's an absurd comment to make.
The last blizzard was in 85.....so
Awsome Spatorico yall are wrong 2015 was one of the worst
BuffaloChat remember 2015? Nope?
@@bfloguy716 snowvember 2014
LMAO. We pray for snow days off from work and rarely get them. Be real.
Who's else is from Buffalo NY that is watching this?
a lot of people.
Meeeeee !!
12: 58 on the right is my church
Me
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Clevelander here. We love our neighbors in Buffalo. It’s a hard working city where everything is earned. No glam. No national attention. But she is full of history culture and character. Us “rust belt” people are a different breed. Pride in what we have. Buffalo is an amazing hidden gem. Lots to do and see. Much love to my Buffalo people ✌️
How high are you? Because the main attractions of Buffalo are basically the zoo, the sports teams and one of them is a joke, and everything in Niagara County. And Ive lived here for 10 years and trust me, once you did everything, you get pretty bored of it quickly.
Whoop whoop..est for life
Grim reaper plays with himself too much to have an opinion
Shout out to cleveland, our neighbors across the water
I’m Glad to live in buffalo
6:52 actually the houses were leveled because it was cheaper for the city to destroy them than to try and repair them and they were unsalvageable due to being so old. At one point there were 10,000 abandoned homes in buffalo. I worked at city hall as an intern when they began the undertaking to reduce the number from 10,000 back in 2007-2009
The video admits that Buffalo's population dropped from nearly 600,000 to 250,000 (in 2020). That's a lot of empty houses that will never be filled no matter how well someone fixes them up. There simply is no one to move into them. A city that once housed 600,000 now only needs less than half of that. There are many, many empty houses that have no hope of ever being restored. Demolition is the only option. Many areas are bare as a prairie. Look at Buffalo on Google maps satellite view. The vacant lots stand out like missing teeth.
Takes a pretty serious blizzard for most things to close in buffalo
AND HE SAID ALMOST DAILY! SMDH!
The city might shut down for a few days once every 5 years due to a blizzard. The Southtowns get crippled by blizzards more often.
Especially schools
this year 2019-1020 very mild winter very little snow seeing grass
Can concur. There needs to be driving bans and emergency level weather for people to not travel/go to work, and some still do anyway. Doesn't deter us
The most dangerous parts of this video was your complete disregard for stop signs
Could’ve hurt someone
I noticed that too. Unless he was crossing a major street, he wasn't stopping. Sometimes didn't even stop for major streets either.
He also drove down a one way 🤦♂️
Not once did he stop a a stop sign. Like seriously you can hurt someone doing that. Where’s the cops when you need them right?
@@stevefisher7002 Who's he gonna hurt? No one is gonna be walking through those street during winter time...
"Blizzards run regularly through this city"
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
This guy is absolutely clueless.
The Awakening Tribe yooo like blizzards fr we ain’t have one in forever
Jay mixson bruh, I wish, but the snow day calculator be wack cuz Buffalo’s bipolar 😞
right!
last time the city was “shut down” was snowvember, and even that most people were still okay
this year Buffalo has had verylittle snow and the city is on the upswing many nice parts
I came to Buffalo as a college student and fell in love with the city. I've seen one blizzard, maybe two in the decades I've lived here. There are real snowstorms that dump more snow than the blizzards did, but they're very unusual as well. The primary thing Buffalo is known for is the friendliness and genuine helpfulness of its citizens. There's a saying that you can't go anywhere here without bumping into someone you know, and the cities here are twice the size of the ones in the New England state where I grew up. We just get to know one another. This area is also one of the best places to raise a family, Yes there are bad places here just as there are anywhere, but the good far outways the bad any day of the week.
Living in buffalo myself I live in a high income area but honestly iv never felt scared in any of these areas I’ll take driving or being in Buffalo’s worst areas over Detroit’s or Baltimore’s any day!
Ummmm yeah. But put it mor in terms like Little Rock or Dayton. Ya know....other insignificant little shitholes. Can’t jump up in stature with super ghettos like bodymore and Detroit...
@@longdistanrunner1480 Dayton is way more dangerous and ugly looking than 🦬.
@1% Evan Ł won’t even respond to your message seeing as your recent history on your page shows your just a troll
It look's like Detroit
The eastside is rough, I grew up just off east delavan. But I learned along time ago, dont look for trouble and mind your own business and you'll be fine. I live in williamsville now which is a different world even if it is just a few minutes away from the area in the video. Still got lots of good friends on the eastside, still lots of good people there.
I wish all the worst parts of every city in the USA looked this good.
I know!
Susan Matz I’ve lived on the east side of buffalo all my life. Right in the heart of the East. He is taking this in 2020. 5+ years ago looked a lot worse. There have been a lot more home owners buying, new buildings being made, and lots of cleanup. The streets are still bumpy as S*** but the city is definitely getting better
@@KJG_official I think the fact that the city has been really good about demolishing the abandoned buildings makes the east side look a lot less Detroit-ey
@@MaxHarrison and me being born and raised in the City of Buffalo I like they demolish abandon houses. Now the kids have fields to play in, we played in the street.
@New Yorkers huh? You're saying the cities you mention look better everywhere than what is in this video? I don't believe it.
Families live in these areas, many raising kids. Stop signs mean stop not roll through at what looks like 5-15 mph.
Thank you!!!
If no nobody is in the cross walk and it’s to go then it doesn’t matter
Canadian driver. The worst kind in America 😆
Shut it
Donna M. Nowak right!!!!!! He was probably doing 80 in the fast lane on the Thruway too, riding bumpers like they all do...they think miles and kilometers are the same
I'm a Canadian that used to visit Western NY, before the pandemic and I love it! The people are so friendly 😊
Don’t drive it. Walk it at night for a few days. That’s the friendly gauge.
@@arielsea9087 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Looks like a typical Canadian town to me👌
Visit me 🤤🤤🤤
People from New York friendly? Huh?
As a lifelong born and raised Buffalonian, all I have to say is... at least we're not Detroit.
Thats Cleveland's slogan
Do you love Buffalo? I did when I lived there. If people do not love their city, it declines.
@@NickJohnson
We can share
@@NickJohnson
What's funny is my Grandpa tells me about these people that he knows back in Michigan make Chicago sound like it's the worst city in America by saying Detroit is not as bad as Chicago
@@NickJohnson
And I'm thinking to myself are these people sick to their heads
Buffalo has been getting slowly better over the years. Niagara Falls is way scarier than Buffalo to me.
HABITZ yea it is
HABITZ if that’s what u wanna think
@@HABITZ been living in this city long enough to tell you that it's definitely been improving.
Niagara falls is not worst then buffalo never was
Said no one, ever.
how convenient - you forgot to drive by all of the shopping center parking lots & film the Canadians literally throwing packaging, styrofoam, and entire cardboard boxes on to the ground in order to not pay duties and taxes at the border.
How true this is .
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Everytime I'm at the Galleria I literally see canadians littering there packages in parking lot befor they cross the border to go home.omg seriously I live in depew and never am I afraid of going into the city .you respect it
And the bitches leave their trash piling up at the Galleria Mall parking lot.
asyntheticsound you forgot about them throwing there old clothes/shoes in the parking lot just to put as many layers of new clothes on as possible. And also the women pissing on the dressing room floors when it’s real busy during Black Friday (true story)
Anyone else here from inside edition?
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No
I’ve met some extremely nice people living over there. It’s honestly not that bad of a neighborhood compared to others.
It's nicer than the areas around the upper Westside, which still has gentrifiers moving in in droves. I saw a house for sale on Parkdale for $300K. 😂 That's a lot of money to pay to have stray bullets flying in your front window.
Its really not. The East side has a great community of people that have actually been trying to improve the area, they've just been left behind by the government of the city for years. It may have some run-down buildings and litter on the ground, but when you look at other 'hoods' in Detroit or Philly, Buffalo's hood looks like an upscale neighborhood in comparison.
No its not and i ride my bile through the eastside all summer the past two years and haven't been bothered once.most ppl r polite and keep to themselves
The people that live in this area are extremely loyal to each other and are very welcoming however you need to get on their good side or else your life will be hell
THANK YOU 🙌🏻
Buffalo, NY also has some nice and historic areas. The city is deep in rich history but like most aging regions in the Northeast USA has seen a decline in population and business commerce. You should note that the downtown and waterfront areas have seen a resurgence with development of new businesses and people are moving back to the city which is a trend happening in the states. I know you mentioned having chicken wings at Gabriel’s Gate Restaurant, Buffalo is one of the best foodie towns in America with not only its well known chicken wings but roast beef on kimmelweck roll, buffalo pizza, various ethnic restaurants serving Polish, German and Italian dishes. The Buffalo area loves their hometown sports teams like the Bills and Sabre’s. The Summer’s in Buffalo are the best time to visit the shores of Lake Erie and Niagara River. There are much more nicer areas and neighborhoods to see and visit than what this video showed.
I know but this was a rust belt tour video
@@NickJohnson Rust belt CITY! not neighborhood
that would be because of the taxes and the idiots that line their pockets with govt. money. People get out because it is part of the state of New York.No one with any common sense wants to live here. First chance and we are all out. We have deep ties to NYC and it is draining the whole state. And I am a former downstater.
@@NickJohnson So you leave things out to make it look worse than it is? Ok, that doesn't sound wrong at all.
What is the point or purpose for the rust belt video tour? Just wondering, maybe to help us come together. I grew up on the west side of the city and have fond memories of my very modest but pleasant neighborhood. It is currently experiencing a resurgence. Home values are up like I’ve never seen. My children now live in Buffalo because it is full of culture, great places to dine and enjoy like Deleware Park, Albright Knox art museum and our beautiful waterfront. It is truly the city of good neighbors as they say, people are friendly.
ok cool, now do a video of the awesome, beautiful homes and areas of our city... there are so many!
In buffalo you mean? Okay how's about next time I'm in town I do just that and you can show me around
Truly, are many historical neighborhoods are gems! And it's true that we're the city of good neighbors. Friendliest city I have ever experienced.
Nick Johnson yeah, come on over. I'll tour you through our beautiful city just to dispute the bullshit in this video. And also because buffalo is the city of good neighbors.
@@mollyharrington6366 He wont take you up on that, dude's a clown with 0 knowledge of the city.
I agree there are some nice parts of buffalo he didnt even show
I love how most of the comments on this come to Buffalo's defense. It is a great city with widely varied architecture and tremendous people. You could never be truly "stranded" in Buffalo as the natives will come to your rescue. I know, it happened to me. A middle aged white woman locked out of her car, (phone and purse inside the locked car) in a rough neighborhood. I asked a man for help and half the block came together to help me. It was amazing!
And that's just Buffalo! I remember years ago being stuck, yes, in a winter storm🤣 after getting off work. And my car would not move and it was freezing! But what I saw next, didn't really amaze me as a proud Buffalonian. There were young and old, white, Black, Hispanic people, pushing people's cars out of the ditches they found themselves in. It happened to me again in another part of Buffalo and again! they helped me and I was able to get home to my daughter. Buffalo is not perfect, but it's not bad either, we had a mayor that's willing to put his attention on ALL of Buffalo, instead of just "certain," neighborhood's, this city can be a great city once again.
I had to call the police to jump start my car in Dallas 😕 That was after asking people for about 4 hours. I miss friendly people. They don't exist here in Texas. I want to move up there. You used to break down here and 4 or 5 people would stop.
People realize that he is driving through the HOODS of Buffalo right? Every city has parts that resemble this lol
Tyler Hoch whole cities look like that in wv !
The whole city looks like this. The parts that are in the video are the worst of it
@@Regularguy716 no it does not!!! Wtf?!?
@@Regularguy716 it definitely doesn't, my guy
MeatballYaro2 I’m from buffalo the only part of buffalo that doesn’t look like this is north buffalo and downtown. East west and south side of buffalo look like this. I’m not talking about the suburbs like Amherst Cheektowaga williamsville I’m talking Buffalo
In the interest of safety, please come to a complete stop at stop signs and stop lights.
He was too scared😂😂😂😂
STOP does not mean State Trooper Out Pissing!!!
He's on the east side. It's more safe to roll through.
@@mikemikey8033 Lmao no. It isn't.
Fr. Straight up disrespectful
Didn’t even focus the least bit on all the great designs architecturally and the actual layout of the city with all the streets stemming from the circle outside city hall. That’s one small part of buffalo
Left out all the parkways Bidwell Lincoln. Delaware ave etcetera
This dude is a certified clown who is clearly trying to paint a picture that isnt true. Idk if he thinks talking like a robot is gonna help his bs but it aint workin
The title of the video wasn’t nice parts of buffalo.
I see the city of Buffalo as just being “old”, that’s all, but I do believe they are a proud, blue collar city.....stay proud Buffalo ✊🏾✊🏾
Talking proud. Keep talking
I live right outside buffalo so I recognized Niagra falls and some of the buffalo streets👍
@@trjb1767 Lol the old Bills song from the 70's.
It’s a dump! Stop bs cause u live there
"Buffalo, we're talking Proud". Remember that slogan folks?
Didnt even scratch the East Side. Fruit Belt, Riverside, Central Park (Now gone), Fillmore, East Utica, East Delevan i could go on.
That's what I'm saying and I grew up on delavan
Yeah, this didn't even scratch the surface... Buffalo is a crumbling city. And their trying to fix it by importing Somali-migrants (Yeah, that will work! Bahahahhaaaaa)
Or the west side
Be careful to not run over the needles in riverside
Right... Cold Springs here....
For part of this video it look like dude drove down a one way street the wrong way... and Im from buffalo and know exactly where he was driving.
I did.
was it Lopere street cuz i swore he went the wrong way down lopere
And the dude didn't stop at stop signs!
Mellow Harris That’s what I’m saying Also so Only police 👮♀️ can give them the Authorities and Protection to feel that they can Ride around like this if they saying it’s the most dangerous 😂
Right.... I was like yo..where is this cat going...just cruising.. running stop signs ...wrong way streets..
Just so you know there are 3 bridges in the buffalo area to get between buffalo and Canada :)
Lol
You mean “ There are 3 bridges in the Buffalo area to escape to Canada”.
@play can you read properly?
I have lived in Buffalo my whole life and still is.. I am 15 years old and I am proud to say I love where I live
same, it has character to it tbh
right
Hell right brother. The queen city is home. Proud to be from Buffalo.
@@716knocko2 i’m a girl but yuppp
You should move.
My wife an I went to Niagara Falls 4 years ago and were so impressed we went back again last year , We found a 2 lane road that was south of Buffalo that went to Erie and both thought it was the most scenic road either one of us had ever seen , We plan on going back to see more of this beautiful part of the country , Much love from Colorado
Glad you enjoyed it...you're always welcome!!
Great food, beautiful scenery.
I myself visited the rocky mountains..I literally had goosebumps.. the gold mining town at the top of the mountain is perfectly preserved..I felt like the delorean hit 88mph.
Much love from WNY
That sound like highway 5 it looks really nice.
Route 5 is a quiet road that runs along the lake. Route US20 a few miles over which runs parallel runs through small town Main Streets every few miles.
It would be crazy if he ran out of gas on E. Delavan lmao
Gerell Fowler 🤣
How can you even think like this 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😆😆
😭🤣😭😭😭
No
Or Langfield
To me it looks like a typical older town in a working-class area that's what it looks like it doesn't look like it's in Ruins
Part of that is because of buildings having been torn down over last 20 years, as well as billions of dollars sent here by the governor.
its bad
Im from buffalo born and raised...just not from an area hes showing ....and it is in ruins
@@devinleandra3373 ok
U didn't see the boarded up houses that just stand there empty
“Here is the ghetto part” me just thinking it’s my home
yup
What a dumb video this is, like definition of an internet troll. Yuck!
Fr bro i feel disrespected they way he spoke
I saw my house and you know what yes I live in the hood yes my city is poor and a slum but WE OUT HERE GRINDING AND TRYING WE DONT GOT IT LIKE EVERYONE THE HELL ELSE. But I can’t be mad at you for making true observations but this kinda hurt my feelings cuz everyone a lot of people veiw us buffalo folks as the bottom.
We work just as hard as any other city but have to do it during a 6 month winter
Right and this video is just adding insult to injury
Buffalo isnt a dump. Parts may be bad but we are not a dump
I'm from England, and I came for a vacation to Buffalo last April. My friend and I had the best time, we met lots of lovely people, ate great food, went to some cool bars, loved the architecture and the history. You are very lucky to live in Buffalo - we still talk about how much we liked it!
Yess I live in buffalo and this guy filming just does not understand this
Niagara Falls NY is my home thanks for calling it a dump only we’re aloud to talk about our city like that 👊🏽
You're gonna punch me or is that a fist bump? You're cute - don't be so angry 😉
Nick Johnson well thank u but next time you better put me in the video in your trip to the falls .. I bet a lot more people will come visit tee hee 😜😘
The falls is horrible I’m like “wtf” whenever I cross the bridge - a Buffalonian
@@NickJohnson "yOuRe cUtE, dOnT bE sO aNgRy"
Look here boys and girls, we've got ourselves a human who only sees women as things that need to be cute in order to be respected. Ngl I'm not surprised, he did say he likes trump lmfao
🗣Oh no don’t talk about us buffalo ny we litttttttyyyyyyyy bitchhhhhessssssss!!!!! 716 STAND TF UP LOL !!!
Facts!!
Hell yeah
Alexis Griff right he is coming for us for what all Canada is good for is syrup
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Is it ok to come to buffalo alone for few days?
As a local, feel free to make more videos! Make us look as dumpy as possible. Maybe it will help keep the creep of housing prices skyrocketing from getting worse. Investors are making it impossible to live in this historically working class region. I'm regularly seeing $2k+ rents in areas that were $600 just 3 years ago
I work in these areas and go into homes, I would say I rarely have issues! And I love my city!
Good!
But it's not ok for most. It's not about just YOU.
I came from purto rico
And since day 1 ive ealked thru those areas and eorked and have never had a issue ever anywhere in the east side .if your not looking for trouble trouble wont come gor you
Because it's been busted for so long even the vagrants have moved on
I haven't been to Buffalo since I was a kid. Tell me....where are good places to go in Buffalo?
I’m a delivery driver and am often in the east side. All you have to do is show the locals respect and they will respect you. Buffalo is nowhere near a “dangerous” city.
Exactly what I was thinking !
Unfortunately, it is one of the most dangerous in the country. Look it up. I live there.
Buffalo is the most dangerous city in NY. We live here so it’s just normal for us but we have the highest crime rate in NY as of 2020
They need more trees
Exactly Steve!
You can pretty much swap out Rochester for Buffalo. They look about the same.
BTW Nick, if you're feeling really adventurous, come to those hoods when the summer heat gets above 85.
Yeah go to William and Smith when it's 85! Aaaaand.....watch the traffic go by cause that's not the hood dude lol
Send him over to doat
Go to North Clinton in Rochester if you wanna see the hood. Lol
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I moved from The Bronx to Buffalo 9 years ago. I live in the canalside and when I first got here it was the walking dead. Since I been here they built a bunch of new buildings, restaurants and museums all right across the street from me and every day in the summer there are thousands of people down here. Buffalo is a tough city and not for everyone. This dude in the video would not make it out here because he is not the type of man to command respect. A man who carries himself with and demands respect will do just fine out here. This dude is obviously weak. He's not built for any city in NYS. Buffalo, Rochester, NYC, Syracuse, Albany, Troy, Utica, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers, Long Island and even New Jersey and Connecticut
It doesn't look all that bad, I think the worst part of living there is the harsh winters
@@raymondkolbinski3033 you must've never been to buffalo 🤣
The most dangerous areas in Buffalo happen to have the best food btw
AMEN!!!! PFEW!!! LOVE MY EAST SIDE WINGS!!!! MMMMM. YOU MADE ME HUNGRY LOL
That goes with any city because of the cheaper rent
Big Truth ! One Pie Pizza Co , so good it brought a tear to my eye
That's often the case for most cities.
Big facts 💪🏿
as someone who’s done work in buffalo ghettos, it’s truly the city of neighbors
Me 2. Everyday contract work. Always busy there. Never problem
True dat .
I live in the Las Vegas suburbs now, but just recently moved from Buffalo, NY where I was born and raised. I must say, someone who’s not from Buffalo, driving around putting down poor neighborhoods bothers me. There aren’t too many cities where you wont find poor and disadvantaged people. Including Las Vegas! This makes me feel like you’re putting down something and someplace you don’t even understand. You’re truly on the outside looking in.
I understand it. Buffalo is garbage. The policies these same people have voted for has done this. You do know they voted for a unabashed commie to be the mayor. It's sad.
I’m Canadian but lived in northeastern Ohio for about five years. Whenever we would come back to Canada, we would cross into Fort Erie from Buffalo. I would definitely say that Buffalo has gotten a bit better over the years, but the city is still pretty bad
Dude, your city is a dump. Deal with it! In this I agree with Nick Johnson. Hey, I got mad at him too. He put down my entire state! Geeze!
@@Stupidscape That's a polite Canadian for you! LOL. Peace.
@@johnratican3824 I’m not putting down New York State because it’s one of my favourite states. Buffalo is not the greatest city because most of it is either run down or abandoned. I recently visited Buffalo and was pretty impressed with the revamp of the downtown area. Buffalo isn’t the worst city but it also isn’t the greatest.
I walked through Buffalo when I was in my early teen's (1981), freak'n love Buffalo, different houses, great people too. Always nice thoughts about this place.
bro if he would’ve saw claire it would’ve been hilarious 😂😂😂😂
Yoooo I'd die 😭😭
😂😂😂
You silly for this 😂
I wish I could post pictures 😂
Word 😂
Just for the record: After spending 38 years in Arizona, Colorado and Texas, I retired last year back to Buffalo. No regrets.
Why lmao
@@mikehawke2172 because it’s a great place to live. He showed only the bad part of Buffalo.. 85% of the city is way more beautiful then what he showed.
Because there's no place like home
Home is a feeling not a place 😎
The politics destroy Buffalo & NYS
Thank you now I feel excited to move to Buffalo and leave Texas for good.
I lived in Buffalo in the late 70's/early 80's. Ted's hotdogs was my favorite place to go eat!
Hi Karen, I still live in Western NY
on Sheridan Drive ?
@@greg33770 Yes! It was close to where we used to live!
@@karenhackney9920 i was raised on the westside near Buff State, but later moved to Tonawanda, the trains were still running crossing, Sheridan, Belmont, Brighton Rd....I lived on Pilgrim Rd, for awhile, worked at the Blvd. Mall for much of the mid80s', till 95...then i moved for the palm trees and sunshine !
Ted's does have the best hot dogs!
I love my community in Buffalo. You picked the one spot we all know of. It's a rough spot due to many many local issues. That said take the 33 to the 90s hit the suburbs and you'll be loving it. West Seneca Orchard Park Lancaster Elma East Aurora the list goes on and on. One or two bad roads in a whole 3 mile block is kinda dumb. You go to Elma and scope out Moog.
spare me people Buffalo New York is a great City people here care for one another it's relatively clean compared to other dumps all over this country Buffalo is a great town
I live in the South towns and couldn't agree more. I love going to Buffalo for the waterfront and other activities.
I grew up in South buffalo by Mercy off Abbott Rd. Amazing area to grow up in/ raise a family.
everything that person said about expecting trouble on the east side was completely false. trouble does not seek you out on the east side of buffalo. ever. even if you’re not from the area.
Facts
Bela Bela, True. I try to tell people from my job that all the time.."Ohhh, I took the wrong exit and wound up on THE EASTSIDE! I was terrified" I tell them nobody is going to bother you unless you did something personally to somebody. Just like everywhere else. Don't start nuthin', won't be nuthin'.
Facts
True, if you're looking for trouble it'll definitely find you
Yeah he must be confused wit the falls
The first 1:10 seconds was so biased I already see where this is going. Why didn’t you show the Falls on the American side?? You can get a similar view.
@@NickJohnson lol, it's a better view from the Canadian side because you are looking at the American Falls....couldn't you figure that out?
Buddy it’s literally a better view from the Canadian side, the American sides viewing platform is farther down from the falls
I was born in Buffalo, lived in Buffalo until I was 6 then moved back to Buffalo July of 2019 and I honestly can say EVERY city has its flaws and I'm proud to say I'm from Buffalo 😁
Butch u broke
@@evoazx2660 he is not broke just because he lived in buffalo
Facts
@@evoazx2660 you probably broke too so shut up
@@TCORV whose butch?
I know this isn't a, "best of," video, but this definitely misrepresents Buffalo. It really is a beautiful city.
I just wanna know who told you gabriels has the best wings because thats wrong lol
For real.. That's down in Allentown.. take a left on Main St and Frank and Teresa's Anchor Bar is right there...
Boi Gary facts
The best wings is suppose to be the Achor Bar on Main St.
Boi Gary FOR REAL CHECK OUT DUFFS WAY BETTER THAN ANCHOR BAR
like clearly his information is wrong so this whole video isn't credible
It’s so weird seeing streets I pass by everyday on TH-cam lmao whaaattt
frl lol
True
BUFFALO MADE ME 💪🏽
Kente Bell facts
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Syracuse power right here!💪💪💪
Long live buffalo, Syracuse and rochester
Facts 💯💯 Buffalo born and raised. Comstock Avenue. Burgard Bulldogs alum.
Them Griselda boys, Wes, Con, and Benny were all raised on these eastside Buffalo streets.
When I was a kid, used to drive through these hoods with my mom to go into Buffalo. She had claustrophobia and would drive with the windows open and doors unlocked. I told her to close the windows & lock the doors cause it was a bad neighborhood. She told me I was crazy. Nothing bad ever happened.
Claire once lived in my apt bldg
Literally the only reason I’m watching this is cause i wanna see the butcher
@@alexkrug8307 haha i went to his concert last night in Boston...he had the "Montana Ave" sign in his video on stage, so here i am, down this rabbit hole lol
I saw a lot of older homes, which doesn’t constitute a bad neighborhood. Some of the older homes are absolutely gorgeous inside. Any older neighborhood would look bad on a grey winter day.
Exactly
Nah trust me I have family in buff and ppp get shot in these areas this Vid is accurate
I agree Pittsburgh looks very similar to Buffalo. Older homes and gray skies.
You went through what I call the urban prairie of Buffalo. The bad parts are the Fruit Belt(streets named after fruit), Kenfield-Langfield(two massive housing projects that are right next to each other), Schiller Park(my neighborhood, home to new immigrants and...gangs), University District & University Heights(the latter is a crime den despite being next to North Buffalo), and an unofficial, unnamed neighborhood that is at the intersection of several official neighborhoods near Buffalo State College(Bird Ave is the "hottest" place in this area). Never ask White people where the crime is in Buffalo because they rarely have to leave their neighborhoods for any reason. Black, Latino, and other ethnicities usually have to shop and work elsewhere because of the lack of businesses and food deserts so we get a broader view of the area. A lot of the poor areas in Buffalo are relatively peaceful because they only have value to the residents. Buffalo is very resistant to change and this video is a good show of what our lack of progress means. Most of us live in very old housing and our neighborhoods are missing many amenities that make them walkable. I hope that the people seeing this understand that many of the people living in Buffalo want it to improve but development isn't in our hands. Suburban residents and people from further afield are holding onto Buffalo's assets, waiting for some sort of shift so they can sell to the highest bidder. Also, it's worth noting that Buffalo has a metric ton of absentee slum lords, from places like San Francisco or even Middle Eastern states. It takes a long time to get derelict properties away from people who don't take care of them and so we're still in a kind of stasis here. When the new hospitals were being built downtown there was a prediction that the real estate market would explode and it did...in the areas near said hospitals. Why improve the whole city when traffic is only picking up in a small area?
Wow YOU need to do a video!!!
I've been living in Buffalo for 5 years now (Masten Park, East Side near VA Hospital, West Side near Buff State, and now Lovejoy; don't asked why I've moved so much in so little time), and I'd say you're right, the white people from the suburbs really don't know what it's like here. Honestly, I have no intention to return to the suburbs. Part of it might be because I like seeing the improvements around here on a seemingly daily basis. I feel like the way the city government is running the show, it's almost like they're willing to go piece by piece, or neighborhood by neighborhood in this case. I just wish they'd go faster.
BitsyTheNinja oh shoot. Didn’t even realize he didn’t go through langfield😧😧
So true my Home town
I’m pretty open minded to constructive criticism and hearing what others outside our city have to say, but to get my ear you’ve got to offer a fair and reasonable assessment . The entire theme is shot in poor taste, sloppily edited and narrated with a dismissive, uneducated tone. It’s a lazy, amateur assessment and deserves none of our time, other than to realize we do have work to do in other parts of our city. He fails to mention all the progress (since he’s ignorant and probably doesn’t really know). Nor does he shoot any people, choosing to be a loner driving in a car by himself like a loser with a smartphone thinking he’s the next Ken Burns. #Thanksnothanks
Do you know what “STOP” signs are? You shouldn’t be driving in the US!
Revoke that license neow!!!!
Oh man, that was all I was thinking throughout the video.
@@KelleytinaVW please no one even the police in buffalo and surrounding towns stop for stop signs
CageKicker I have many friends from the south towns who would beg to differ lmao
@@watsonxox7145 just stop putting them on every damn corner, and ppl would start respecting them, just put a yield sign where ever possible. no one is stopping at every intersection if you can clearly see there is no one on the cross street..
Y’all mad because he is telling the truth I live here and I’ll say it’s a dump compared to all the other cities run down and old but it’s home
Yeah. Both my parents are from Buffalo (Broadway-Filmore/Lovejoy) and it's pretty realistic to how it feels there. Def not actually the worst neighborhood imo. It's rough, and people left to escape economic collapse. Some great and unique people there, tho.
I’ll add something else. I’ve lived in other cities, San Francisco and Washington DC. I moved from those cities because of the cost of living.
I love Buffalo NY. People who live here are some of the hardest working, down to earth people you will ever meet. Also, I own three beautiful houses
Good! I said buffalo was a cool place this video just showed the worst part
I’m deadddddd “oh we found the hood” 💀💀
Blizzard's definitely dont shut the city down often .... it takes alot more than that also you hardly went through the actual real hood...you need to hit streets off East Ferry...streets off Bailey ave....streets off East Delevan ave between main all the way down to the Cheektowaga line. I can go on and on...theres blocks off of those strips that are legit hood
I agree. I’m from Buffalo. I had to laugh when I heard that one about the blizzards. Yeah, areas you mentioned are as worst as they get in Buffalo. Dated a girl who’s father was shot and killed off of Bailey back in the 90s. But when compared to hoods in bigger cities they’re nothing. I’m glad I live here. People look out for each other.
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There's a lot of comments blaming Nick for the recent Buffalo supermarket shooting.
Ignore them. They have the mental reasoning capacity of an *infant*.
There are THOUSANDS of videos on TH-cam just like this, from different people walking/driving around various cities around the world.
None of them should be blamed for someone deciding to comit crimes by watching videos like this.
Moreover, there's Google Street View.
Should Google be blamed also if a suspect used their services to commit crime?
Think before you type.
Confirms that streets with trees looks and feel better. If you live here... Call 311 and ask the city to plant a FREE tree in front of your house. Plant some hope.
Have to water the saplings though. Most people let them dry up and dry. Even downtown Buffalo, where I work, the newly planted trees aren’t watered.
Whether You Hate Our City,Or Dislike It,It's Our Home and WE LOVE IT.
Whether it's broken down or not.
This Brah can kiss our Asses
Now RUN TELL THAT
Exactly!!
If you and people love it so much, why does it look like a 3rd world country. btw, I'm from there, so you don't need to school me, just in case you thought you were going to.
Best people I've met in the us. And I've been all the way to the southern tier. Lol jk
@@CwBDaveis.716 visit getzville it nicer
Buffalo is evolving and improving. Friendliest Town. Hard Working Citizens. Dedicated Sports Fans. Great Food.
FACTS! friendliest town whites, blacks, Hispanics helping each other out when stuck from ice, or car not movable everyone stops traffic for each other, helps one another
!!! Yes
Very friendly! I can attest to that.
Before the pandemic a blossoming music and arts scene as well
I think it is fair to say, while the city has boasted quite a turnaround the last decade, there are a number of areas being left behind in that "rennaissance". Some are also being highly gentrified--which is often a mixed bag of good and bad (usually bad, if you're the poorer folk who just got priced out of your former neighborhood). A " rebirth" for mostly upscale middle-class white folks isn't precisely an awesome deal for everybody else, until we all figure out how many dimes we can make off their living in our neighborhoods.
Quite frankly, this tour showed relatively decent real estate reasonably well maintained. There were some abandonment but not overwhelming in nature. There were cars parked at homes and along the streets. Note the absence of graffiti, burned out houses and garbage piled up on street corners. In short, it seems livable and viable. Compare this to videos of rides through Detroit and Gary if you want to see a decayed, dying city.
Oh I've seen both and filmed them
Gary is a fricking war zone.
Make the same trip during the summer when its 90 degrees out about 7PM.
Too hot for homeboy🤣
In skimming through your channel and older videos, I see a lot of stereotyping. Tours of what makes cities great and what made them rise and fall would be good.
agree, dont want to support this guy
I’ll go to war for buffalo don’t come at my city ok 😂
i didn't say it was bad did you even watch it?
STFU
this video was obnoxious. i am from buffalo and i hate it sometimes. but the focus of the video was just ignorance. the use of the words ghetto, hood, and urban were cringe coming from that voice as well 🤦
Right... That's home... Stomping ground.
I am with you I live in Buffalo NY also and my husband works in the east side it's not bad at all he said someone on every street corner where I didn't see anyone lol show the nice historical parts know like the cemetery where James brown is baried.... Dude your a ass hole
Buffalo, “a Drinking town with a sports problem! “ I live in WNY, great people overall, fantastic food, great hardworking and sports loving city. Keep,going WNY, rebuilding and separating ourselves from the downstate ny b.s.
The sports teams are a depressing mess in themselves. Everyone know the Bills in the 90s and the Sabres are... well they exist.
Why were you driving in the wrong direction down a one way street starting at 4:30 into the video?
Lopere street????
Right i was like dude is going down a 1 way!!!!
Maybe he didn't know it was one-way? Lmao
Interesting looking houses. The ones with the 2nd floor porches look like they would have been quite nice at one point.
They were and in the other parts of Buffalo that are nice they still are and other very pretty architecture too😊
Buffalo is one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.! There was much redlining that occurred in the 1900s as recently as the 60s
It was also the murder capital of the world in 2015...
JORDAN PHOTO WORKS I think Chicago has been #1 for a while.
Really. It used to be
It crazy because the east and west side are by segregated by the I90 expressway.
True I agree Buffalo is segregated and very racists too on both sides Whites are racists as well as Blacks, Italians, Polish and etc.
I moved here a few years ago and fell in love with the warmth of the people...Buffalo is a very strong and embracing place to live, and I met some of the nicest people ever. Thanks for welcoming me Buffalo!!! Hugs!
Love it
Born and raised i love my city b-lo!!!!!
What he does not know we are totally the city of good neighbors .we all help each other when we need it .if your black white purple blue or yellow .hood or not hood .
Yesssss
Should have been there a few years ago, the time one side of Buffalo got like 7 feet of snow, and the other side got practically nothing.
I was in Rochester that day trying to get to Toronto and all the roads were closed. I believe it was Nov 2014
@@NickJohnson We lucked out here in Jamestown, only a couple feet of snow from that storm.
Called: Snowvember
I remember that!
the funny thing is to me is that he didn't drive through every Hood or every worst part in buffalo. I know every hood that he just drove through. but it's even worse on the west side he just drove through the east side he practically drove to My Hood.
@Battle Wizzard worst how everybidy kno most of the murders are on eastside
@Battle Wizzard worst how majority of murders are on eastside and u named like 2 blocks. Langfield,bailey'east delevan fillmore,jefferson. Genessee fruitbelt central park etc. Westside has bad parts but the fact is most of the killin and major crimes are on eastside ask any cop and i lived on both sides
Eastside as a whole is bad 10th street boys wasnt no joke but to say far worse is in accurate eastside is more ruthless
I stay right off of Broadway and Jefferson so I agree 💯
@Battle Wizzard Also its important to add the demographic the Eastside is predominately Black some Latinos. South Buffalo has two sides a poor White run down area with Irish, Polish etc etc. The Poor West side was predominately Latino but with the immigration flood you now have Africans, Arabs, Indians who moved in with the poor folks lol.
I like how this guy just rolls through all the stop signs.
Even with all the neighborhood being ran down dwndaway the people in those neighborhoods are great! The food here is great but we always happy to see haters that means your thinking of us when we prolly not thinkin of you💕
An that's on period!!!
Lol!
".... I think it actually lightly flurries here just about every day due to the lake effect. blizzards regularly shut the city down completely." Demonstrably false on both accounts.
its not true. BUT the rest was.
Nick Johnson it’s actually been a mild winter so far
We barley got any snow this winter bruh like damnnnn
Upstate NY is always prepared for blizzards.
Nick you should’ve driven down these streets with your MAGA hat and gotten down to say hi to some of the locals. You missed so many opportunities to reach out and touch someone.
I don't really care to do that. Maybe if I was alone but I had a driver who wouldn't feel comfortable doing that
As you drove on Goodyear between genesee and Walden I once live their during my childhood my God the street was filled with homes and families it was a mixture of all races in the early 80's until the crack era
Honestly, I use to do door to door sales in these areas since it was subsidy based funding for HVAC equipment and you were generally good unless you were disrespectful or too pushy. However we always called it when the sun went down because the night crew had other products to push and we didn't want to step on any toes 😂
I'm from Rochester but have lived in the Buffalo area for 20 of my 62 years and I have met the nicest people that are live long friends in Buffalo. Rochester has a lot of bad areas in the city too. All cities do but Buffalo has done so much to improve their city. I'm proud to live in Buffalo. I love the Buffalo Bills, the Sabres, Niagara Falls being close by and Canada. Go Buffalo!
yay diane! if you watched the whole video i DID say several times i liked it there.
Lol he passed my grandmas house 💀
Mine also and aunt
Davonte T 😂
He passed mine too lol and my sister baby daddies mama house 🤦🏽♀️
My grandparents lived a few blocks off of Genesee- a dead- end called Frederick Place, ran off of Kehr. After they died, the house was shared by all the children, and eventually burned down, in the 1970's, I recall. I grew up in every hood all around Buffalo- Kenmore, Eastside, a few blocks from Allentown, out in the 'burbs, I still have cousins living all over Buffalo.
@@andyginterblues2961 allentown like pa?
You didn’t show the pretty side of Buffalo, half of it is beautiful
Way more than half is beautiful.
Facts
Title
Actually north us nice Amherst clearance Kenmore cheektowaga depew Lancaster all the towns that are up north is the nice area
@@rubenlorenzojr579 ha ha yeah i live in north tonawanda which is literally just north of buffalo
Go to NYC and Albany and thank our officials and Cuomo.... we pay taxes to keep NYC moving.
John Diramio yep 😢
I moved back here after living in Albany for 24 years....Albany has ZERO compared to Buffalo if it wasn't for ALL the state workers and teachers....Albany would be nothing....plus they DON'T have the beautiful shores of Lake Erie(they have the Hudson River🤮🤮🤮)...All's I can say is "It's great to be home"😊😊😊 so this guy can say all he wants about this awesome area....it doesn't matter...real Western New Yorkers will always stand proud for this great city👍👍👍
Dream on! NYC pays more taxes to the state than it EVER gets back! Buffalo would have to pay 100% income tax rates for it to break even! You don’t even have city income taxes!
more taxes come from buffalo than the 11 million idiots in NYC? people paying $2500 a month for shoebox studio apartment? where a pack of cigarettes is $16? I could go on...buffalo is awesome though. for real
You are wrong. Buffalo looks better than albany. At least you guys have lake erie and that river at Delaware park. I'm from nyc. We are a bigger city and we are taxed three ways: local, state, and federal. If anything, nyc taxpayers carry the whole state. We are almost 9 million, you are maybe 1 million (city itself, not suburbs nearby). There's no way that your 1 million tax payers are carrying all services for 9 million downstate. Our local tax is for NYC services, which you guys upstate don't have to pay. The rest of the state only pays state and federal.
This video is completely misleading, I've lived in buffalo my whole life.
I lived in the perry now live in Brooklyn ...stuff always gonna be rough when politicians refuse to fund rebuilding on the east side but make sure all else is
Financed ...all u showing is
Deliberate neglect
How is that misleading? Isn't east side like that? I drive through east side all the time. He didn't say this all Buffalo
@Eliza Kamińska all of east side does not look like that, in the last 10 years the city has been making big improvement with tearing down abandoned and destroyed property and it is misleading as buffalo is broken up in to many districts, Riverside is considered buffalo but is 25 mins from Lovejoy which is also buffalo.
I didnt see Delevan, Bailey, downtown city hall, walden by the mall, Kensington, or main st... ill add canal side aswell.
That's cause he kept driving in circles smh lol
¿Kevo Swavo? exactly
Walden by the Mall? There are two malls on Walden : The Thruway Mall and the Walden Galleria. Neither one is in Buffalo. Both are in neighboring Cheektowaga. This article is about Buffalo, not Cheektowaga.
Delevan and bailey are roads, not even a section or neighborhood. I visited buffalo last week, looked for delevan and bailey, to learn that you were referring to a section of the road. Roads?! Charming city, but why do people pride themselves on being from a "bad" neighborhood especially black and brown 😡 The neighborhoods were beautiful. Buffalo needs gentrification in those "hoods" who don't take pride in their surroundings
Those are my stomping grounds. Comstock Avenue born and raised. Delivered at Sisters Hospital.
I grew up in the suburbs and left in 1983. I knew that I wouldn’t be back. I made my way to California. I’ve visited my relatives nearly every year. The waterfront area has really come back. The worst neighborhoods back then was Chippewa and Pearl street, which is nice now. They are converting old factories to nice apartments.
I just moved to Florida from exactly one of the locations you recorded this video makes me never wanna turn back
Florida was too hot in the summer for me. I ended up moving back to Buffalo. But I do hate the winters here. They suck.
Traitor
He don't know the city to know where to look. should have brought someone that's lived here their whole life
I grew up in Buffalo, and left for California (praise God) when I was 18. I remember these areas very differently. I saw these streets on Google Earth about 10 years ago, and I cried, literally! So sad! My memories are totally different! Great job showing what it really is!
I lived on Goodyear Ave in the late 70s and it looked nothing like the Goodyear I just seen. That's when the area starting to change. But I never thought it would end up like that. The neighborhoods have been through war. Not just crack and closing of Bethlehem Steel and other jobs going over seas, but an all out attack on working families & human decency. But out of all that, crack was the worst. It hit this world hard and left its mark.
@@science7713 I agree, Goodyear, Genesee, Walden was a great neighborhood in the 70's!
Nick Johnson, Your videos are very sobering to watch.
I live in Edmonton, Alberta and complain about it sometimes and then I watch Your videos and realise I have it soo good up here !
Wish he did more about the "good" of buffalo, sure it has some rough spots, but it's not like all of buffalo is a war zone. We, unlike other places, have more heart than any big city in the states. You want the best wings, good beer, laughs, and people who stare a blizzard in the eye like its nothing ? Come to buffalo, its starting to turn around.
Exactly!
Yo i live in buffalo all u show is the stereo type of a certain part the city. buffalo is a beautiful city and with kind people in all the areas u should give us more credit
This video is like almost slander
@@jaywhite1875 for real
It’s kinda Plain ngl there better places
Gphil Tv exactly
The video title literally says "the WORST PARTS". Dude 🤦♂️
This can happen to any community that loses its industrial and commercial base. The RUST BELT has plenty of them.
Every city has parts that look like this lol.. like he is driving through the ghettos of Buffalo
Well, maybe, but I've been through some pretty poor and dangerous towns in Louisiana, Mississippi and Birmingham Alabama looks every bit as bad as Buffalo...maybe worse. Nashville, Tulsa, East L.A. St. Louis, Kansas City, Wichita, and Oklahoma City to name just a few (non-rusty towns.)
Andrew Ledet absolutely !!
Companies shouldn't be allowed to desert a city and pay zero consequences.