North Bronx Tour
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- In 1993 dad had a reunion with his childhood friends from the Bronx. We made this video back then. Now, twenty years later, it seems this video is also nostalgic!
If anyone recognizes any names or sites (these memories are from the 1940's) we'd love to hear from you.
I was born and raised in the Arthur Ave section of the Bronx , In May of 1958 I went to an engagement party and met my Beautiful Wife , Johanna I asked her where she live and she said 274 east 194 th. Street And Briggs Ave . We married in 1961. Still together.
WOW! Guy making this video is from a by gone era. Italians, Irish and Jews ran da Bronx. Had some old friends of who graduated from TAFT in 57. One earned his wings and the other still has a pulse if I'm not mistaken...
University Ave and Fordham Rd??!! I am so home sick right now !! Love the narrated info as you go. I remember when a slice of pizza was a quarter and I mean big slices with cheese so good you'd damn near choke on it if you ate it to fast without chewing it..LOL......!! Wow..love this...........thank you a thousand times....
Yes, the two pizza places in our neighborhood sold a 25cent pizza and 10 cent coke. Good time. And you could walk the area in complete safety! Try that now--oh no you can't, it would mean that the Liberals were wrong. Sheesh, wake up! Socialism never works.
I grew up on Bedford Park and the Grand Concourse 1987-2005 with so I was only 6 when this video came out but this is how the Bronx looked in all of my earliest memories. My window looked out onto the Bedford Park underpass and the old red Grace Lutheran School building (the school I attended K-8, then Bronx Science '05). I remember that underpass having a whole bunch of graffiti and then I guess they cleaned it up and made repairs around this time, and also the mentioned construction on the Bedford Park train yards went on for what seemed like forever in the early 90s. Also remember 1993 was the last year of Dinkins before Giuliani and was the last year that July 4th on Bedford Park was truly LIT, where you would see dozens and dozens of people on every block setting off fireworks. The Delicatessen on Bedford Park right by the bakery was a go-to (as was the bakery and the Donut shop), That Caldor on Fordham opened a few months after this video in October '93 and was closed by May '97. A bunch of different businesses have been in that lot on Bedford Park and Webster Ave but the Auto Auction in the vid was classic. The Villa underpass looked bad then. Oval Park was the go-to playground of my childhood into my teen years in the mid-2000s...the park was pretty gritty back in the early 90s but it was still dope -- so many things to do and the sprinkler would always be live in the summertime.
Great video, thank you.
Damn we lived the same life. I'm from Fordham and Decatur. 1987-2005 as well. I left home at 17. This video brought back so many memories.
I lived on Sedgwick Ave. back in the late 50's early 60's and went to Tolentine as a kid. Good memories!
This documentary is GREAT!! It's shot from the heart by someone from the neighborhood.
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Tour the Bronx
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This video means so much for so many!!! He tells the truth of what once was!!! BRONX FOREVER!!! WE MISS YOU TOMMY BURNS!!!
Lived 30 years of my life between 161 and Fordham. Oh Jesus what a great video. Best years and best memories. I miss old Bronx so much. Thank you for sharing. ❤️❤️
30 yrs later and this is a masterpiece ❤
Man yall have no idea how I miss a good ol bodega! I miss my city...#BronxNative there's No place like NYC.
Take this recent tour of the bronx
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Back in 93 there were still Irish people on Mosholu Parkway. There were at least two bars on each block. Fun place to hang out and get drunk.
I remember my mom taking me to the Chariot Diner with the green awning right off Bainbridge at 204th St.
Peter Hess the bar is still there Moshulu Parkway, Marshall
The Lantern (194th & Decatur Ave) was where I drank in the late '70's. It's now a laundromat ---how we have fallen.
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Best documentary ever God bless you...memories dont leave like people do...johnny Bristol song....LOVE THE BRONX
15:37 WHOAAAA! My building from 1992-about2003 apt 6D how random lol i was about 8months old when this video was shot.. Probably upstairs drinking milk lol Wow
Rich Young facts was my building too part of the martinez family
My memories was going to Lowes movie theater in Fordham rd and Grand Concourse. Going to Woolworths with My mom at times with My siblings. Alexander's, Fava, Payless to name a few. Fun Times in the 80's.
I live right next to oval park and I attend ms.80 in the 7th grade. Oval is a fantastic park and it’s great making memories to look back on my 14 year old self when I’m in my 50s
This was a beautiful historical look back at the neighborhoods in the North by Northwest Bronx. I came from the #2 train side on White Plains Avenue. I grew up on Allerton Avenue in the 70's and left from 2160 Holland Ave between Pelham Pkwy & Lydig Ave in '07. Like someone mentioned, that neighborhood changed dramatically and I heard it's really not that good of an area these day's. At the time your Dad made this video, the Bronx was about to be cleaned up along with the rest of the City of New York under Giuliani. That was when I moved to Pelham. When Giuls was gone, the city slowly but gradually started to trend back to the same criminal base. I haven't lived in NYC since '09.
That's North Central Bronx. Northwest Bronx would be Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Spuyten Duevil, and Van Cortland.
but nyc remained safe after giuliani under bloomberg. its only now that its really getting worse
remember, just as many people hate Giuliani for what he did to NYC.. He literally stripped the soul from that city and it has never come back.
This is my old neighborhood for one year in the early 1990s. I attended PS 246 on the Grand Concourse and East Kingsbridge Road before moving to Crotona Park/East Tremont. I also attended Walton High School for my junior and senior years. And I attended Monroe College. Those were great times. I wish I could turn back the hands of time. Everything has changed drastically.
Lived at 5 Minerva from 1980-2006. I was 16 when this was shot and chances are those are some old friends playing skelly in the street.
Thank you for uploading this.
THE BRONX TOUCHED THE WORLD !!!
The Villa Feast, we called it. Brings back memories.
Thank you so much for this video I loved in the Bronx and went to St.Margret Mary Catholic school on Tremont a few blocks before Jerome...I learned so much....
19:42 Madden's Pub ☘💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
2871 Grand concourse I believe is my grandfather Francis (Frank) Doherty raised my dad Dan ,and his brothers Frank, Donald along with their sister Florence. I could be mistaken but that building looks like the one he pointed out to me when i was just a kid.
Doesn't get too much better than this
Omg this is so nostalgic. I remember the awnings in some stores like yesterday. Wow. Thank you for video. Great content.
To everyone here missing Bronx: it's not the Bronx you're missing, its your youth
*Thanks for the home movies, walked those very streets many of times, lived off of 198th. & Briggs, fine memories!*
I was on 198 between marion and pond pl and i was also in 18 E 199th st in wells court
@@Rich-yn6eo 2836 Briggs ave. early 80's for about an over a year, 198th. back then, about four real Irish bars My Place Pizza Citi bank corner of Valentine ave. The diner, very good memories!
@@Ralphie_Boy right i love that pizza place great pizza i was there from 2003 till about 2016. 332 E 198th st
Snuck it in right at the end! Let's go get a malted!! Last one I had was in a newspaper stand underneath the 2 train white plains rd & Pelham Pkwy. Probably like 1991. I miss those days!
Those days were the best; especially the times without cell phones
I was a rookie police officer in 52 pct when this was filmed. Steady foot post in St. James Park. Would hear gun shots every night whether in the park by the basketball courts, or from the roof top of Creston Avenue. Was a real busy pct. during this period. Alexander’s on Fordham rd. Changed to Caldor, and remember this first day they opened I received a call that Caldor was holding a shopflifter. When I showed up the store Security had around 17 people locked up in a cage that they put shopflifters in. I don’t think Caldor knew what they were getting into.
OMG P.S 46.... This video was my whole childhood. 1987-2005 ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for the tour. You covered most of my haunting grounds as a kid in the 50s and 60s when we were considered competent to travel by bus on our own. My zia lived in the apartments you mentioned on grand concourse and my grand parents lived at 3001 briggs ave where I spent many summers and weekends with them learning what being primo was about.
I miss the 90s, running outside playing tag and playing in the pump with water guns and water balloons or using empty bottles..the good old days when people weren’t glued to their phones and interacted with each other..
Sounds like today
Thank you so much for this video. I was only 7 years in 1993 and this video brought so many memories of how Fordham Rd looked back when I was a kid
Facts man I remember being 6 at this time and going to the blockbuster in Fordham
Peace
Lived 187 and Bainbridge all through the 90s, loved it.
God bless you dear Bronx, may you rise again
I lived on Tremont ave. Miss the Bronx.
188th & Valentine...DAMN I miss that Pugsley's Pizza!!!!
I lived at 3154 grand concourse at 205th s until i was 8 yrs old , than 3001 valentine ave at 201 st.
now at east 237th st off katonah ave for 16 years.
thanks for da tour of da bronx.
I live in grand concourse it’s a warzone here
Don Antonio really? Its not just like the drive by shooting that a man was killed while he was with his daughter.? And the murder of a worker in the store. Plus the other violence around thats just to name a few, I can go on. I guess its disneyland here. I must be mistaken. My apologies
Don Antonio this is all within the concourse area I just talked about and for you to say some bs like that you’re obviously not from here. Ypu probably live in the uws or chelsea.
Thank you for this video. I'm from the neighborhood near where you use to live. Grand Concourse and E. 202nd Street. Across from St. Nieri's Church. The building supers kids use to go to the school. I miss the old neighborhood and while I'm not far away from it in NJ, still miss living there. My parents use to own the hardware store on Bedford Park Blvd between Decanter and Webster AVes.
@Thelegend899 That's my Mom. Her & my Dad were always good with the neighborhood.
@Thelegend899 That's great to hear. Please let your friend know at 2920 Decatur Ave. We lost Dad on August 1st 2019 due to Parkinson's it was very hard to see him suffer like that.
I have to show my mother this, she’s been here since the early 90s!
I grew up in Morris Heights, then University Heights, and the experience was like no other. Once a Bronxite, always a Bronxite. Remember Robert Hall? It was right next to the Dollar Savings Bank. When you decided to film this excellent documentary, I was living on University Avenue between Fordham and 183rd Street. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Dime Savings Bank? Naah! That was the Dollar Savings Bank. How about the Poe Cozy Nook? It was across the Concourse from Robert Hall.
Nope. It was a tavern/lounge; very quiet, subdued; it was a great place for someone who was chipping.
I haven't any idea what you are referring to; moreover, Dollar Savings Bank merged with the Dry Dock Savings Bank to become the Dollar Dry Dock Bank in February 10, 1983. This, in turn, was purchased by the Emigrant Savings Bank in 1992.
"Chipping" is an old Bronxism for someone, married who had a girl friend.
I have never heard the term. When did that come into use?
What wonderful memories of the area I grew up in. I was born in Fordham Hospital 1952 and lived in a private house owned by my grandparents on Villa Avenue till 1967. The SPN Church bought our home with the intention of building either a Convent or Rectory. Sadly it sat empty since 1967 with no buildings. MY greatest memory is of the Feasts they had, in June for St. Anthony, and in August St. Assunte. These were sponsored by SPN Church. Who could forget those Zeppolas, Sausage Peppers and Onions,or the Clams, even had a Bandstand for the local bands and the girls who could sing. Will never forget Michele Mangi singing Soldier Boy! There were rides and games to play or stands to buy those hats with the big feather in them, or those stupid monkey's on a stick that every kid wanted.
After a 30+ year absence from here, I ventured down from the Catskill Mountains where I settled, to my old homestead. Once I got to Mosholu and heard the Jerome Ave trains, a sense of calm and peace came over me and I knew I was home again!. I will never forget that feeling. The neighborhood was the same, just that the trees were larger, the culture different,less buildings, but the most upsetting was the bars on the windows, or the iron gates to the entrance of the Deambra building. When I grew up here, there was no need for them. We had our own security as the grandparents sat on the stoops or the mom's hanging out the windows guarding the neighborhood. You can be rest assured, that if you did something wrong your parents knew all about it before you got home for supper. In those days mom's didn't work and stayed home with the kids. We were out of the house early in the morning, home for supper and back out till dark... none of this finger exercises.
We had a large family 1/2 Italian 1/2 Irish, and shopped on Mosholu and Fordham Rd. We also shopped at Mike the Butchers on 204th heading towards the Concourse for all our meats,and the E&W on the Concourse and 204th. On 200 and Bedford Park was our Drug store, Luncheonette, Deli and of course Webbers/ Hecklers Bakery. There was even a card store a dry cleaners, another candy store and so many other little shops.
On Villa was Baciano's, a little mom and pop store for the best Italian Bakery and at the very North end was Cero's Italian Restaurant where the best pizza was made. In between who could forget Andy's candy store where we would buy loose cigarettes for 2 cents each and play the juke box all night long or "The Club" right next to Mocchio's. I could go on and on, but just want to thank you for the memories! This truly has been an awakening!
Yes, I had the same feeling when I went back to my old 'nabe north of Mosh pky. I left after seeing how horrible it had become. Now the Bronx is America's poorest congressional district. It was not that way when we were young, was it? I hope you like living in the "Irish Alps" :-)
Excellent tour of the Bronx. Lots of neighborhoods I used to go through. Great footage with great memories. I live in Manhattan but half of my life was living in the Bronx! Thank you for this video!
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Cops would take our mop sticks, so we could not play stick ball. I don't know how it was such a crime.
Damn there was no cell phones 🤦🏿♂️
Thank you for posting this video, it brought back memories. I was in Dewitt Clinton H.S. when they filmed this and graduated in '94
2986 Marion ave early 80s best memories best block ❤️
Wow, you have an amazing memory!!! Thank you for taking us back 👍🏼👍🏼
21:49 can see Concourse Tower. I grew up there. 12 story building where most were 5 story walk ups, if you had a 6th floor it would have had an elevator. Villa Ave used to put on "The Feast of St Anthony" once a year. I think it was around 68,or 69 when they put the 2 islands on Concourse Ave. Prior it was just one very wide road. Back then it was fairly safe. We would ride our bikes to Yankee Stadium to see Roger Maris, Joe Peppitone and Mickey Mantle play. Got my smarts by going to ...PS8, PS80, Kennedy, Lehman..and I lived to tell about it.
I went to that school as a child, Kindergarten to third grade ( @9:08 P.S. 46/district 10). Many, many, many fights. I remember they stole my navy blue/orange inner quilt snorkel coat (Alexander's store brand) when I put it down to play around the yard during recess. I had to walk home without a coat in the cold. Fortunately my mom understood they were thieves in that area so I was not punished. I really liked that coat. I still feel the pain I felt the moment I realized one of the children stole my coat.
There is a chance that this gentlemen is no longer around. Even though he was referring to the video, it was poignant moment when he said that this is the last time you will see me. I want to thank him for the trip down memory lane. I grew up across the street from the St. James Park right behind Alexanders next to the small Alexander's parking lot. That was such a vibrant busy area back in the late 70's early 80's. I am pretty sure I was one of the first Puertoricans to play for the Father Duffy Squires - an old Irish basketball team run by catholic priest. My final words go out to the 44 people that gave this video a thumbs down (and clearly this proves beyond a doubt that I am truly from the Bronx) - F/U and the horse you rode in on!
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27:42 My old neighborhood. They revamped that park big time. The pool was closed for good a few years later after this video, then it was torn down completely.
That area you see kids playing in isn't a pool, it's the sprinklers that would get clogged up that would make it into a type of pool that you see lol.
I lived right across the street from this park, went to PS56 - PS80
I never realized how crappy the areas looked until now. They've changed so much... some are still shit but for the majority, it looks a lot better now.
Thank you very much for this footage : )
Im from England. Really interesting to see this footage some real nice buildings and looks like a good vibrant place.
Yeah if you like noise
My Neighborhood from 1976... Lived on 195th Claflin ave. Harris field, St. James, The archway, The armory, Kingsbridge, P Park, FORDHAM Tolentine etc. I LOVE IT ALL... God Bless
I missed the old Fordham memories 🌹🦋🌷🌸💖
thanks for posting this very well put together video. grew up around 204th and Rochambeau Ave in the 80s and early 90s
Did you know Dr. Rosenthal?
no. where was his practice?
A red brick, 2 storey house - 3161 Rochambeau
that mustve been closer to 205th. I was up a little further past 208th.
I loved it. So many places I never thought I'd see again. thank you for sharing this.
This is where i started, and where I came back. Thanks much
The good ole days, back when real life was in 360p!
Wonderful.Fordham and the G Concourse used to go there with Parents once a week to shop late forties. Graduated PS-68 1953.
Wow, that must have been awesome! Too bad it is so dangerous and dirty.
Loved this...Went to St. Brendand and hung out at the Oval all this time..Lived on Decatur for 16 yrs..
I remember when the North Bronx was so safe, you never needed to worry about being robbed or killed!!!!
You are 100% right Hilltop. Was an awesome place. Keep loving the Bronx. It might yet move in the right direction! Gentrify!!!!
The North Bronx is safer than it has ever been
Thanks for the memories, to this day.
When Puerto Rican’s and Jamaicans were taking over lol
Ghetto Reef deadass 😭
Racist
& Dominicans
Good thing we PRs found better areas throughout USA to call home other than just the Bronx
And still are 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
I have lived in this neighborhood for the past 7 years on Mosholu and Hull. I love it here and I am always researching the history of the area. It’s so great to see and hear what it was like so many years before I moved here. Thank you!
Sleeze Sister VooDoo I live on that same block, on 204th corner
Watching this in 2019 - I was 3 at the time of this video. Lived on 170th Grand Concourse
I lived in that area for 11 years, from 2007-2018. That bakery on Bedford Park Blvd. is still there. So is Bon Bini on Fordham Rd. & Grand Concourse. The Dime Bank is now Emmigrant Savings Bank. Calder was AJ Wright, & it's now a Marshals. The schools are still there. The other businesses have come & gone, but the neighborhood remains the same as depicted in this video.
Wow! Excellent video. Great stories and memories for me. I'm not an old timer but man did this video take me back to my childhood.
I'm watching hoping that I see my 6 year old self! Lolol
I was born in this neighborhood, still here. This video gives me so much great nostalgia. Thank you!
Thank u for sharing an amazing video!!
The gentleman who created this video you hit a homerun, let me change that you had a grand slam this is home for me for the past 36 years. My wife works at Saint Philip Neri even now I went to Junior High School 80 I graduated from Dewitt Clinton my daughter even went to school for several years at St Ann's on Bainbridge. Which closed down.
One big surprise was the baseball field by the 52nd Precinct you said Lou Gehrig played there that's a revelation to me. I remember the Rhythm Factory I was too young to get in. I remember the phone company on Fordham Road now is the public library the Sears building. And around the corner was Carvel Ice Cream just went out of business about a year ago. I will never forget the delicious vanilla ice cream at beefsteak Charlie's. That of course is in the 80s but thank you for shedding light in the 40s 50s and 60s and 70s as I said sir great job great video.
Wish you got the apartments where you took the pictures of Frankie Frisch Field. First 9 years there. Played Potsie on the sidewalk behind you. Played punch ball, King Queen Jack too. Remember the el train on Webster Ave. Walked every morning under it to school At PS8. Was in the 50s. Live in AZ now. Great seeing this.
Amazing video!! I was just over in that area a few months ago. My friend lived on 204th St and also on 193rd and went to Clinton so I took her through her old neighborhood. We now live in the Philadelphia area. I have my Google maps open on my laptop and I am following the location of each place. Thanks for posting this great video. I just sent it to my dad who also went to Clinton and then Lehman.
Take me home please I miss it I ache to walk up and down Fordham rd again
You made my day my brother, you have to do a rebot 2019-2020 please....
Gun hill and Decatur ave. I graduated from 80. Many years ago.
I was born in 95 in north central hospital this is all my neighborhood man from gunhill the 2 line projects to van cortlandt all the way down to 183rd n university ...everywhere Norwood n all...cool to see the 90s of the places I still see today.
bro i live there this such a sick find thanks for saving this footage 🙏 🙏
My first job as a teen was at Alexander's on Fordham Rd
thank u for sharing good video i grew up in the area in the 80's/90's
I remember villa ave and the villa feast as a kid
awwww damn memories... I remember only a little bit because my family left the Bronx when I was 5 years old but damn I doooooo remember that Oval Park and how disgusting and pissy that tunnel stunk lol to walk in the park lol. And I remember that church I use to walk by that church a lot with my mom
Lovely video, music, narrative!! Thx for the history lesson. Priceless over things already gone!! 👍👍
Thanks for a terrific tour of my old neighborhood!
I love the old cars. They don't make 'em like that any more. (I'm still driving one).
Great memories - grew up around these parts 197st Valentine ave - back in 1977 ...
Angel Arcelay DAWM NIGGA U OLD
How was it back then?
I use to live here 4:44 in ‘89. Back then, It was decent compared to other parts of the Bronx (and that’s saying something for real). My pops use to work at Lehman, not far from here.
Good historical record, thanks.
Very heartfelt journey. Thanks for taking us along.
Thanks. Great video - very comprehensive
Used to ride the BX 1 bus from Broadway and W 231st St down the Concourse to Yankee Stadium when I was 12 back in 1970. 40 cents bus round trip, $1.50 upper reserved ticket. 25 cent hot dog. Often a double header. Bobby Murcer was my favorite player.
U could have tooken the D train
Tolentine had the best dances and does any one remember the kitchen sink at Jahns?
After the dance we would go there before walking our girls home then hang out at the poe bandstand
I lived on W kingsbridge rd from 1977-1993 . my family shopped at Alexander s on Fordham & the concourse for my school clothes also VIM Dr Jays Modells. I miss the Bronx
Modells Davega. Used to get baseballs there.
Thank you . It was a great video, Nice to preserve those memories -:)))
This is a nice video....Not a "great video"
I once lived in Arthur Ave. I remember all there place with love.
Omg Alexandra's I remember that store every Sunday me and the family used to go there there was also one on 149th street and third which I used to walk by all the time but we always went to the one on fordham
This video is incorrect. The neighborhoods focused on in this video were below the No Bronx and predominantly Irish. The No Bronx is from Allerton Ave to 241st Street, bordering on Westchester County, a tree lined neighborhood of private houses and many different ethnic groups.
Beautiful video
I used to go to that school notorious and dangerous Fordham road still looks The same
Wow i remember that area and Alexanders. 8:20 Alexanders survived for several years... selling their real estate. I was in the area when the Happyland fire took place.
I remember driving by happyland the following day. Sad
Ty for the memories ❤
We played football on moshulo pkwy. Good ol days
Bring back so much mememories
I miss the old Bronx. I miss the old days period. AND I’M ONLY 33 YEARS OLD!!! LOL
No Covid-19 back there.
Damn it looked better back then
This was great, would love to hear more stories!