Yes no shelters back then and welfare was worse jimmy carter promised so much what he did thinking it a better choice foodstamps came in and thats when welfare was born in larger amounts they use to give my moms neighbor 18 bucks a month that went up to depending on rents 115 a hundred was a lot and look what was done can you believe it sounds like a master to keep certain ppl tied to to that embarrassing money
I remember it well. I was in PS 30 in 1982. It’s hard to describe what the Bronx looked like back then. It’s better in video. We would play in the abandon buildings.
I can tell u all that area was southern BOULEVARD 166 t0 wilkins about 6 to 8 city blocks u cant see the train however there are more pics and videos hunt for
@@kingleo8048 :I grew up there. I left in ‘92 when I went to the Army. My parents live in the North Bronx, my Brother in Long Island. Today I reside in Pelham Bay. I have a brother who teaches in Smith High School( the name might have changed). I do my taxes in the area still. My uncle had a bodega on 138 in the ‘80s. I still know people there. My wife has family in the Mitchell projects( not to far from the precinct).
Crooked landlords would pay junkies to burn down the buildings for insurance reasons with tenants in them. Sick and disturbing how they got away with doing that.
The Bronx, (like East Harlem and the Lower East Side of Manhattan) had a LOT of literal tenements. That's a specific type of construction, not just "old crappy apartments." There were Pre-Law, Old-Law, and New Law tenements. Few were built after 1920. The South Bronx actually had the "nicer" New-Law buildings, put up between 1900-1910. There were a few Victorian and row houses, like on Doctor's Row. There was an Elevated Train that went from Manhattan to Third Avenue in the South Bronx. It fell into disuse, and was demolished back in 1973. The original population was European, Irish, Italians and a lot of Jewish immigrants. The Subway lines came back in 1906, and this touched off a construction boom. I think most of the cheap tenements came around this time. Solid construction elevator buildings were thrown up from the 1920s-1940s further North in the Borough. They suffered from Guilt by Association, and also fell into disrepair later on. The freeways, especially the Cross Bronx, displaced a lot of people, and let to many of the Housing Projects. Rent Control was Great for the Elderly, landlords then had no incentives, and perhaps could not afford to make repairs and upgrades. From the late 1950s to early 1960s, a lot of the original ethnic groups moved out, to further Upstate, Long Island, or to suburbs in Connecticut and New Jersey. There is commuter rail connecting all those places to Manhattan, where many New Yorkers work. Poor African Americans, and recent immigrants from Puerto Rico, became the majority. A Jewish family on Charlotte Street (Ground Zero of the devastation-which presidents Carter and Reagan both visited) had white families who were killing rats with their shoes, by the Early Sixties. Slobs were leaving garbage in the halls, and problems quickly followed. West Harlem also boomed when the subway came in, but realtors over-speculated, and the rents had to be lowered. As early as the 1920s, Poor African Americans from other sections of Manhattan were moving in. East Harlem had blocks of tenements back in the 1880s, after the 1883 Elevated Train was built. Conditions were initially better than on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It eventually became Puerto Rican.
The crime rate was not low in fact the murder rate was triple what it is today and the heroine use was heavy this is before crack took over. I grew up in this and to be honest not all sections of the bronx looked like this. I remember them rebuilding the area of my hood in 84 around university ave. When I moved to east 166 in the south bronx there was pockets. These sections they always show are around simpson ave intervale ave around the Fort Apache area don’t represent the entire south bronx during those times.
U memory is fogged crime got worse those ppl were moved to projects and the concourse land lords paid to burn them i know my Jewish landlord burned down 4 conected buildings he was so cheephe lit the fires him self and got caught i wonder his fate and no inheritance for family he did it for nothing
I lived in the Fordham Road section of The Bronx, across the bridge that divides Manhattan, (207th street) and The Bronx, between 1982-93, and never got to see what I'm watching in this video. From time to time we would walk up Fordham to do some shopping but most of our business we would conduct in Manhattan. Kid's school, our jobs, family members, the supermarket was right across the bridge so I spent very little time in The Bronx. Very sad watching this stuff.
I was in this area 4 years ago. Went past the school at 01:13. The school is in good shape, everything around it has changed. New housing and buildings. Love The Bronx!
I was born here in 1961, 1511 Boston Road. The corner to the left of the building was Charlotte Street. What you see was part of my play ground along with Crotona Park. Went to P.S. 61 K-6 and Herman Rider 98 from 7-9 (you can see the top of the gothic style building in the video) I was there when it all started burning (or should i say when it was burned and striped of copper ("not necessarily in that order") WoW!
I remember this era of NY. I lived in BK off of knickerbocker ave and flushing. Shit was zombie land. What’s crazy is that it was normal for us kids to just be playing in abandoned buildings and on the rubble without a care…
The War on Drugs caused a Dramatic increase in Crime, starting in the 1960s (Heroin Addiction) and things got worse in the 1980s (the Crack epidemic.) The lack of clean needles also caused a Lot of AIDS, and Viral Hepatitis.
This devastation was in parts of the South Bx .People get the idea that this occurred in the entire boro not true.The rest of the bx was a normal family community.
In the public imagination, we think of the tenements of the South Bronx. But-the Bronx also has a LOT of housing projects. That's one reason it hasn't come all the way back, and, also why Brownsville, Brooklyn remains such a Disaster.
This activated my smell brain. Trash, urine, mold growing on burnt wood, stagnation, unwashed socks, body odor, wood smoke, car exhaust, burned pretzels, sickly sweet cannabis, with an overlay of childhood excitement at being outdoors, even in the SBx.
Yep. Some I.D. Robbins guy in the 80s thought building small was the answer (same happened to parts of Brownsville/ENY), but I'm sure they'll get bought out soon... wrong place for that this ain't Long Island...
On the other hand I guess they figured building towers again would recreate the problem... it was a crisis in the 70's so the brain probably figures if this didn't work (clearly LOOK AROUND) go the hard opposite. Honestly they should've been left as lots......
I'm a Suburban Detroiter. Detroit is quite different. It's a city of mostly single family homes, and exploded in population from 1910-1930...entirely because of the automobile industry. But, it's the Mother of All Rustbelt cities. Automation and outsourcing destroyed most of those jobs, and, after WW 2, freeways and VHA loans opened up the suburbs. The '67 riot accelerated White Flight even more. Also, Detroit-being the "Motor City" has NO mass transit, save for an antiquated bus system, and a few miles of light rail in the Downtown area.
This condition was more about unscrupulous landlords collecting on insurance claims as the majority of these areas of the Bronx burned down... give a poor dope fiend enough for his next fix to burn down a slum/tenement, and the landlord gets PAID [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]
President Reagan and Mayor Koch worked together to build it into the family neighborhood it is today Here is some of the details twitter.com/paul__mangione/status/1380258385543753728?s=21
I don't about Reagan fixin The Bronx? Community organizers and locals did that. Last time Reagan was in The Bronx he was yelling at people from behind a wall of Secret Service. " Go back to Hollywood"
You can do a street view on Google maps and see how entirely different this area is now. That Public School 61 is still there but is now surrounded by mostly single family homes and trees. Even saw some grass 😳 lol...
I think the scenery and the architecture is very unique. It gives the borough some character The tall abandoned building with no windows surely provide a lot of fresh air and it’s something that all cities should implement in their own neighborhooods.
Neighbourhoods should have tall abandoned burnt out buildings? It wasnt like this because they wanted good air flow, it was because everything was destroyed from fire
There is a 1972 US documentary about the police in New York City I'm pretty sure it is about the South Bronx and Charlotte Street police station because the police officers were calling their station 'Fort Apache' back in the early 70's. Charlotte Street was still full of buildings at the time. There is a British documentary about the NYC Fire Department in the South Bronx also from the early 70's and various other similar TH-cam videos available.
@@PaulMangione the British TV documentary is called 'man alive' tv series and it's on TH-cam. The episode is called 'The Bronx is Burning' made in 1972.
Very strange landscape for America; no signs, no advertising, no retail... Just a lot of abandoned buildings and the remains of destroyed buildings. I can understand why Carter disliked the fact that it was part of America. Does anyone know the history of how it came to be that way? Or can recommend some reading to me?
Here's a 1967 report on Harlem. There was a Youth Program set in place to inspect and report on the dire living conditions. Cracked ceilings, rats, and holes in the floor and walls. They organized and tried to hold landlords and the city accountable to no avail. Housing literally fell apart. Section 8 was not happening. No hot water, no response from the city. It got to the point where landlords would burn or destroy buildings themselves to try and collect money. Add heroin and crack and unemployment to that and this is what you get th-cam.com/video/_7CqvbBa03c/w-d-xo.html
I remember going to the district 12 office on Tremont ave where my mother worked as assistant district 12 superentent! With EDITH GAINS THE superentendent!
Crime rates went up and a bunch of well off people left. The landlords started losing money on the buildings and they burned them down so they could collect the insurance money.
So this running down of communities is deliberate 😡 left to rot , move out the original tenants and some developer comes in with a regeneration plan to save the day ! making a pile of cash at the same time $$$$ . The new places are expensive making sure very few can afford to return 👎🏻👎🏻 displacement of people by design 🤬
Yes now im really happy that ppl are talking u know who was able to do this they knew then and nothing was done ppl knew everything but a lot of ppl were threatened if they said anything can you believe that these are rumors to me i was a kid then and heard the stories after i got married
I know it sucks that happened but damn whoever bought the land out and flipped it made a killing. I wonder if Detroit can turn around and if it can, should we be the developers there?
Check out “urban renewal” in Newburgh, N.Y. They took out the entire downtown district saying so they could build it back better. They took it down. Never built it back though. All businesses and people living there were misplaced. It’s one of the worse cities in the state now. More dangerous than anywhere in NYC
Were there still some people that lived there?. And it was their legal address and residence. I can only imagine how some homeless people and families lived there too. If they were lucky they had at least a sink that had running water and if there were real lucky some of the power may have been on in some of the receptacles and light sockets. That area was national disgrace of our social infrastructure and safety net. Today it's still pretty bad but it is very much in the forefront of our society.
Should've left them as lots seeing as the New York of today would've recreated the 4-6 story buildings in their place... instead we got SUBURBAN single-family homes......... in the Bronx...
HEY!! Well I started to get offended but that does look pretty bad. They would pick the worst part of the BRONX and make it seem like it wasn't only a small section of it that was like that. No wonder we had such a bad reputation. My area was beautiful.
@@skaijohni3938 because you mentioned a beautiful area…. And unless it was riverdale that’s the only other place that came to mind …. And define “by city island”…. I am very familiar with the different neighborhoods in the bx
@@tjlovesrachel If you don't know where City Island is.. Or where the Bronx is across a bridge from New Rochelle and Westchester. You don't know the BRONX. Have you ever heard of Orchard Beach? I could see it from my building.
here is a thought on why there was trash. it keeps the poor from buying the property as they cant afford to clean it up. value goes down and donald trumps dad makes a boat load of cash
as a truck driver I was in the Bronx three or four times a month in the 70's , without any pictures of Hunt's Point Market , you ain't seen the Bronx, deadliest place in the City.
Born and raised in Da Bronx....The abandoned lots and buildings were our playground back then...Remember it like yesterday!
@ jackmasterjb,Word bro. 3rd ave n Fordham Rd.
When the 3rd building in your neighborhood burned down, it was time to move, rather than wait & compete for shortage of available affordable apts!
Am from Scotland UK 🇬🇧,,I loved that film the warriors
@@Joe-pb3bm It’s impossible for people to move when they are impoverished. You make it sound like they had a choice.
What happened? what was it like before?
Urban neglect and decay, tragic thing is people were still living there.
Yes no shelters back then and welfare was worse jimmy carter promised so much what he did thinking it a better choice foodstamps came in and thats when welfare was born in larger amounts they use to give my moms neighbor 18 bucks a month that went up to depending on rents 115 a hundred was a lot and look what was done can you believe it sounds like a master to keep certain ppl tied to to that embarrassing money
I remember it well. I was in PS 30 in 1982. It’s hard to describe what the Bronx looked like back then. It’s better in video. We would play in the abandon buildings.
It looked like korea after the war thats what my Dad said he had been to korea he was a merchant marine
I can tell u all that area was southern BOULEVARD 166 t0 wilkins about 6 to 8 city blocks u cant see the train however there are more pics and videos hunt for
The school in pic i believe was PS 51 JACKSON AND CAULDWEL AVE 159 AND 160 ST.😥
You’re from the mott haven section
@@kingleo8048 :I grew up there. I left in ‘92 when I went to the Army. My parents live in the North Bronx, my Brother in Long Island. Today I reside in Pelham Bay. I have a brother who teaches in Smith High School( the name might have changed). I do my taxes in the area still. My uncle had a bodega on 138 in the ‘80s. I still know people there. My wife has family in the Mitchell projects( not to far from the precinct).
Crooked landlords would pay junkies to burn down the buildings for insurance reasons with tenants in them. Sick and disturbing how they got away with doing that.
In response to ridiculous rent control laws.
@@jaybloomfield5082 yea killing innocent people good apparently
The Bronx, (like East Harlem and the Lower East Side of Manhattan) had a LOT of literal tenements. That's a specific type of construction, not just "old crappy apartments." There were Pre-Law, Old-Law, and New Law tenements. Few were built after 1920. The South Bronx actually had the "nicer" New-Law buildings, put up between 1900-1910. There were a few Victorian and row houses, like on Doctor's Row. There was an Elevated Train that went from Manhattan to Third Avenue in the South Bronx. It fell into disuse, and was demolished back in 1973.
The original population was European, Irish, Italians and a lot of Jewish immigrants. The Subway lines came back in 1906, and this touched off a construction boom. I think most of the cheap tenements came around this time. Solid construction elevator buildings were thrown up from the 1920s-1940s further North in the Borough. They suffered from Guilt by Association, and also fell into disrepair later on. The freeways, especially the Cross Bronx, displaced a lot of people, and let to many of the Housing Projects. Rent Control was Great for the Elderly, landlords then had no incentives, and perhaps could not afford to make repairs and upgrades.
From the late 1950s to early 1960s, a lot of the original ethnic groups moved out, to further Upstate, Long Island, or to suburbs in Connecticut and New Jersey. There is commuter rail connecting all those places to Manhattan, where many New Yorkers work. Poor African Americans, and recent immigrants from Puerto Rico, became the majority. A Jewish family on Charlotte Street (Ground Zero of the devastation-which presidents Carter and Reagan both visited) had white families who were killing rats with their shoes, by the Early Sixties. Slobs were leaving garbage in the halls, and problems quickly followed.
West Harlem also boomed when the subway came in, but realtors over-speculated, and the rents had to be lowered. As early as the 1920s, Poor African Americans from other sections of Manhattan were moving in.
East Harlem had blocks of tenements back in the 1880s, after the 1883 Elevated Train was built. Conditions were initially better than on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It eventually became Puerto Rican.
This was like watching a charliebo throw back.
Right lol, we know that dude’s capable of time travel
I remember this well. The crime rate was very low around this time because everyone was dead.
The crime rate was not low in fact the murder rate was triple what it is today and the heroine use was heavy this is before crack took over. I grew up in this and to be honest not all sections of the bronx looked like this. I remember them rebuilding the area of my hood in 84 around university ave. When I moved to east 166 in the south bronx there was pockets. These sections they always show are around simpson ave intervale ave around the Fort Apache area don’t represent the entire south bronx during those times.
good one! 🤣
U memory is fogged crime got worse those ppl were moved to projects and the concourse land lords paid to burn them i know my Jewish landlord burned down 4 conected buildings he was so cheephe lit the fires him self and got caught i wonder his fate and no inheritance for family he did it for nothing
Thanks for the information, I will be going to NYC soon. But I heard they don't like tourists.
@@stevep4574 nah we just dont like terrorists. 😁 other than that we just naturally bitchy. 🤣🤣🤣
I lived in the Fordham Road section of The Bronx, across the bridge that divides Manhattan, (207th street) and The Bronx, between 1982-93, and never got to see what I'm watching in this video. From time to time we would walk up Fordham to do some shopping but most of our business we would conduct in Manhattan. Kid's school, our jobs, family members, the supermarket was right across the bridge so I spent very little time in The Bronx. Very sad watching this stuff.
I was in this area 4 years ago. Went past the school at 01:13. The school is in good shape, everything around it has changed. New housing and buildings. Love The Bronx!
Now it's too expensive to live there. It went from one extreme to the next . There is no middle ground.
I was born here in 1961, 1511 Boston Road. The corner to the left of the building was Charlotte Street. What you see was part of my play ground along with Crotona Park. Went to P.S. 61 K-6 and Herman Rider 98 from 7-9 (you can see the top of the gothic style building in the video) I was there when it all started burning (or should i say when it was burned and striped of copper ("not necessarily in that order") WoW!
I remember this era of NY. I lived in BK off of knickerbocker ave and flushing. Shit was zombie land. What’s crazy is that it was normal for us kids to just be playing in abandoned buildings and on the rubble without a care…
you were the kid that threw the brick off the roof and hit my friend in the head
The War on Drugs caused a Dramatic increase in Crime, starting in the 1960s (Heroin Addiction) and things got worse in the 1980s (the Crack epidemic.) The lack of clean needles also caused a Lot of AIDS, and Viral Hepatitis.
I remember watching this video at the theater in 1983 thinking to myself I know Im going to enjoy this again years later..and I was right.
It's nice to see live footage, no music etc. Real life. Crazy...
This devastation was in parts of the South Bx .People get the idea that this occurred in the entire boro not true.The rest of the bx was a normal family community.
Ehhhhh….. don’t give it that much credit
Yes, I’ll be sure to discuss that with the folks who live in Throggs neck as well as Riverdale
@@yell0wberry ...and Pelham Parkway and Pelham Bay....
This is true I lived in the Bronx also saw this but didn’t live near these areas
In the public imagination, we think of the tenements of the South Bronx. But-the Bronx also has a LOT of housing projects. That's one reason it hasn't come all the way back, and, also why Brownsville, Brooklyn remains such a Disaster.
This activated my smell brain. Trash, urine, mold growing on burnt wood, stagnation, unwashed socks, body odor, wood smoke, car exhaust, burned pretzels, sickly sweet cannabis, with an overlay of childhood excitement at being outdoors, even in the SBx.
Born & raised in Washington Heights. Looked over the Hudson river all the time @ this eye sore in the Bronx. Terrible
How the hell you look over the Hudson from Washington Heights and see the Bronx?
Lying ass!
There's suburban style housing there now. People have lawns even, which is nice for the people that live there, but density was lost.
More detail: twitter.com/paul__mangione/status/1380258385543753728
Yup… single fam raised ranches
Yep. Some I.D. Robbins guy in the 80s thought building small was the answer (same happened to parts of Brownsville/ENY), but I'm sure they'll get bought out soon... wrong place for that this ain't Long Island...
On the other hand I guess they figured building towers again would recreate the problem... it was a crisis in the 70's so the brain probably figures if this didn't work (clearly LOOK AROUND) go the hard opposite. Honestly they should've been left as lots......
Some of this lasted into the 90’s. The smell of fire still brings me back to the 80’s in the BX
Es como mirar detroit en la actualidad me imagino como se vería tal como es ahora el Bronx con sus tiendas y edificios remodelados
You’ve obviously not been to Detroit 🤫
I'm a Suburban Detroiter. Detroit is quite different. It's a city of mostly single family homes, and exploded in population from 1910-1930...entirely because of the automobile industry. But, it's the Mother of All Rustbelt cities. Automation and outsourcing destroyed most of those jobs, and, after WW 2, freeways and VHA loans opened up the suburbs. The '67 riot accelerated White Flight even more.
Also, Detroit-being the "Motor City" has NO mass transit, save for an antiquated bus system, and a few miles of light rail in the Downtown area.
Hard to believe that this is what it looked like in the 80’s
Now it’s again fashionable to live there.
Jimmy Carter vist to Charlotte Street in Crotona Park East/East Morrisiana (5/10/1977).
Went thru that every day to go ball at the Boys & girls Club on Hoe Ave. Crazy
Correct u and i are the only ones that remember the real deal
Boys & Girls Club is still there
I remember Hoe Avenue.
No.
It's not 🚫 in Hunts Point.
LOL 😆
Crazy how the schoolyard kids sounded like seagulls😆
Wow, it's amazing what the neighborhood looks like today!
Why don't you have footage at the end of what this looks like now?
Just gonna google maps for that. This is an historical piece
It would be interesting to see what it looks like now, almost 40 years later.
"I'm the King of My Castle don't give me no hassle!"
I grew up in that same area. And somehow it didn't seem this bad. I was wrong how'd my mother do it . Wow 😳
Where you living now ...hope your doing well sir.
Thank you... I was watching a similar video and saw this on the right side :).
"There's no place like home toto - no place like home."
Went to Christmas dinner from Massachusetts and our car was on 4 cinder blocks within 1 hour. Thanks for conveniently placing the blocks under our car
Another old movie about past New York worth checking out is Fort Apache The Bronx.
It looks like Glasgow Scotland,,in the 1960 to 1980s ,, but New York and Glasgow have changed for the better
And this was 3 years before the crack epidemic in 1985
During that time It was free base coke
This condition was more about unscrupulous landlords collecting on insurance claims as the majority of these areas of the Bronx burned down... give a poor dope fiend enough for his next fix to burn down a slum/tenement, and the landlord gets PAID [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]
I can see where the inspiration for "Escape From New York" came from!
Just checked on Google map, fortunately Charlotte street is completely revitalized today.
President Reagan and Mayor Koch worked together to build it into the family neighborhood it is today
Here is some of the details
twitter.com/paul__mangione/status/1380258385543753728?s=21
I don't about Reagan fixin The Bronx? Community organizers and locals did that. Last time Reagan was in The Bronx he was yelling at people from behind a wall of Secret Service. " Go back to Hollywood"
I remember this the Bronx has come a long way since then
You can do a street view on Google maps and see how entirely different this area is now. That Public School 61 is still there but is now surrounded by mostly single family homes and trees. Even saw some grass 😳 lol...
Surprisingly suburban-looking for being within the 5 boroughs.
I think the scenery and the architecture is very unique. It gives the borough some character The tall abandoned building with no windows surely provide a lot of fresh air and it’s something that all cities should implement in their own neighborhooods.
You sound like a real estate agent, if listed the tall abandoned building would be called a handyman special.
Neighbourhoods should have tall abandoned burnt out buildings? It wasnt like this because they wanted good air flow, it was because everything was destroyed from fire
@@imadeyoureadthis1500 Whoosh.
Looks like Hartford, CT 2003.
Haha, so true!
Ahhh, not that bad.....just a lil dirty
Everyone and thier mother was in on it after the frist few landlords got insurance money rich money is the root of all evil
How is the Bronx now?
There is a 1972 US documentary about the police in New York City I'm pretty sure it is about the South Bronx and Charlotte Street police station because the police officers were calling their station 'Fort Apache' back in the early 70's.
Charlotte Street was still full of buildings at the time. There is a British documentary about the NYC Fire Department in the South Bronx also from the early 70's and various other similar TH-cam videos available.
Read the book - Report from Engine Co. 82 by Dennis Smith - gives a detailed account of FDNY Bronx 1970-1971
@@PaulMangione I think Dennis Smith is actually in the British documentary about the FDNY. It's from around 1970-73(?)
@@PaulMangione the British TV documentary is called 'man alive' tv series and it's on TH-cam. The episode is called 'The Bronx is Burning' made in 1972.
@@simonyip5978 Yes, Dennis Smith is one of the many firefighters interviewed in Man Alive "The Bronx Is Burning".
I would love to see what these streets look like today.
twitter.com/paul__mangione/status/1380258385543753728?s=21
Much better. I grew up in this area. And my family still lives here. Go there every other week.
It seems 0:30 Germany after the aerial bombardment in WWII
Do we still have clear blue skies like that today?
Very strange landscape for America; no signs, no advertising, no retail... Just a lot of abandoned buildings and the remains of destroyed buildings. I can understand why Carter disliked the fact that it was part of America.
Does anyone know the history of how it came to be that way? Or can recommend some reading to me?
Here's a 1967 report on Harlem. There was a Youth Program set in place to inspect and report on the dire living conditions. Cracked ceilings, rats, and holes in the floor and walls. They organized and tried to hold landlords and the city accountable to no avail. Housing literally fell apart. Section 8 was not happening. No hot water, no response from the city. It got to the point where landlords would burn or destroy buildings themselves to try and collect money. Add heroin and crack and unemployment to that and this is what you get th-cam.com/video/_7CqvbBa03c/w-d-xo.html
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Someone needs to do a video of what the same area looks like today I’m sure it’s a lot nicer. Also I think the car he passes needs a break job 😂
I remember going to the district 12 office on Tremont ave where my mother worked as assistant district 12 superentent! With EDITH GAINS THE superentendent!
Omg what happened to that place ? it looks like a war zone ! that's America ??
Crime rates went up and a bunch of well off people left. The landlords started losing money on the buildings and they burned them down so they could collect the insurance money.
Looks pretty good compared to Seattle and LA
This mesmerizes me to the core
Google street view was in its infancy.
Looks like a nuclear bomb hit
Charlotte st is unrecognizable today compared to this
Garbage companies must've been on strike at the time
Right off Boston rd !!
Just like Berlin 1945.
Christ Almighty, did the Bronx import the entire state's garbage?
They have a street named after my city that's dope
Looking like a great site for a DOLLAR GENERAL.
2:04 audible rat fight 😁
Nope, it's the car.
That's everywhere in America now
So this running down of communities is deliberate 😡 left to rot , move out the original tenants and some developer comes in with a regeneration plan to save the day ! making a pile of cash at the same time $$$$ . The new places are expensive making sure very few can afford to return 👎🏻👎🏻 displacement of people by design 🤬
Check out the documentary Decade of Fire.
Yes now im really happy that ppl are talking u know who was able to do this they knew then and nothing was done ppl knew everything but a lot of ppl were threatened if they said anything can you believe that these are rumors to me i was a kid then and heard the stories after i got married
I know it sucks that happened but damn whoever bought the land out and flipped it made a killing. I wonder if Detroit can turn around and if it can, should we be the developers there?
@@danieljones1784 they were being sold for $1
Check out “urban renewal” in Newburgh, N.Y. They took out the entire downtown district saying so they could build it back better. They took it down. Never built it back though. All businesses and people living there were misplaced. It’s one of the worse cities in the state now. More dangerous than anywhere in NYC
Wow! Unbelievable what the corrupt politicians do to a community. All built up in 2024. God Bless Da Bronx.
Which American city holds the title today?
Very charming place.
God said this area needed a Kay flock
Were there still some people that lived there?. And it was their legal address and residence. I can only imagine how some homeless people and families lived there too. If they were lucky they had at least a sink that had running water and if there were real lucky some of the power may have been on in some of the receptacles and light sockets. That area was national disgrace of our social infrastructure and safety net. Today it's still pretty bad but it is very much in the forefront of our society.
Should've left them as lots seeing as the New York of today would've recreated the 4-6 story buildings in their place... instead we got SUBURBAN single-family homes......... in the Bronx...
Greatest country in the world
Looks like Portland today
ONE OF GRANDMAS MANSIONS
Now that's dehumanized back then . I wouldn't let a dog live there. Of course these days , New York neighborhoods where rebuilt.😊💯🧡
Oh shit that school ps 61 is still here because it's next to us by a few blocks
It's now named after Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller.
That is the school on Boston road along the 21 bus before crotons parkwy
Bro this shit was a warzone!! I grew up in the hood but this idk lol
HEY!! Well I started to get offended but that does look pretty bad. They would pick the worst part of the BRONX and make it seem like it wasn't only a small section of it that was like that. No wonder we had such a bad reputation. My area was beautiful.
Where were you throggs neck?
@@tjlovesrachel What made you say that?? Noooo Over by City Island. With boats and views and bridges and parks. Smartie!
@@skaijohni3938 because you mentioned a beautiful area…. And unless it was riverdale that’s the only other place that came to mind …. And define “by city island”…. I am very familiar with the different neighborhoods in the bx
@@tjlovesrachel If you don't know where City Island is.. Or where the Bronx is across a bridge from New Rochelle and Westchester. You don't know the BRONX. Have you ever heard of Orchard Beach? I could see it from my building.
@@skaijohni3938 nobody said I didn’t know where city island is …. I know the bridge your talking about….and I know orchard beach
Looks like
Memphis Tennessee in 2022
Wait. Stop....i just saw a free TV....
Reagan went there in 1980, look up his speech!
I remember all of this in da X raw dangerous asf respectfully though💯
The results of *"White flight," disrespect for your surroundings.
I remember growing up here, and the worst part of it all was most of the people. Because not many of them gave a fu¢k about anything, nothing!
Thanks for the comment - going to listen to some Dio now.
When humans have no hope they don’t care about their lives much.
Why this buildings was crushed ?
'Only In America'!
Boogie down Bronx rip Scott la rock
AMERICAN DREAM BEATIFUL🇪🇦🇪🇦
Could have faded that text after about 5 seconds
New York New York big city of dreams ,night mares.
Время молодости детства тайсона и в таких примерно местах
Present day america
here is a thought on why there was trash. it keeps the poor from buying the property as they cant afford to clean it up. value goes down and donald trumps dad makes a boat load of cash
Like Lebanon
as a truck driver I was in the Bronx three or four times a month in the 70's , without any pictures of Hunt's Point Market , you ain't seen the Bronx, deadliest place in the City.
Looks like some third world country, not the U.S. ( Damn.)
The BX
No 1 lived to thr
Harsh
Obama doing it now and biden doing the work
White flight.