I remember our family being in one of these fires when we lived in the Bronx. We lost everything and where homeless. We had to live in an hotel for a while. Years ago.. I thank God He took care of us. I thank God for parents who worked hard to give us what we need. My grandparents owned restaurants. I will never forget the Bronx.
I was born in 1977 in the South Bronx, I recognize some of those areas. It was really a third world looking environment but we made it work. Great stuff
That apartment building where the old woman lives alone in the abandoned building and Davidson avenue is still standing and occupied today. That is actually one of the nicer blocks of apartment buildings to live in currently in the Bronx. Looking at the decay and ruins in this video there's no way you would think almost fifty years later it would still be there, but it is and the neighborhood is thriving
My grandparents lived in that part of the Bronx and my parents grew up there. My grandparents on my Dad's side of the family lived in a typical 6 story brick apartment house and I also lived in that apartment for the first 4-5 years of my life. On my Mom's side my Grandpa owned a very old large wood frame private house (farmhouse) that dated way back to when that section of the Bronx still had farm land. Both of my grandparents /parents houses are long gone and the neighborhood looks completely different from the way it did back in the 1970s. Still, on trips I have taken down there in recent times I ml surprised when I see a few of the old buildings that are still standing after all these years. It's amazing that a few of the buildings still stand after all these long years.
@@D33Lux When people understand a situation and want to communicate that they usually are. Nowadays we got endless muckracking and sensationalism where understanding and empathy should instead be.
I lived in this at that time. Here's something that happened to me as a ten year old sitting in our apt watching TV with my family. We heard someone walking in the apt above us which we knew was not rented yet. We quickly forgot about it as we adsorbed ourselves in the TV show playing on the TV. Then we noticed a slight trickle of water drip coming from the ceiling from the edge where ceiling meets the wall in the living room. That was soon followed by a bunch of other little trickles on from the edge where ceiling meets the wall too - spreading more apart from each other. Then it turned into full streams of water coming down the wall and then a huge chunk of the ceiling fell down on us. Why ??? Those people we previously heard walking above us - they were junkies / drug addicts who broke into steal all the bronze and copper piping to sell it so the could pool enough money together to pay for their next heroin shots. (the brothers would call it "heir-RON"). Almost everyone in the neighborhood was a heroin addict - they were the real walking dead - long before the TV series came out.
Like the cop in the video said, "if it wasn't for the ready availability of alcohol and heroin there would be big trouble". Which is basically true. If the people weren't self-sedated on booze and dope they would have been out rioting over better living conditions and the politicians might have actually had to have done something to improve the overall quality o[ peoples lives.
Yeah, once an apartment was known to be vacant everything in the apartment would go. Sinks, tube, plumbing, radiators, pipes,bathtub, you name it. If it could be removed it was removed.
@@WitchidWitchid it isn't like politicians were out on the street recruiting dealers to get people hooked... people got themselves hooked. No one forced them. I love when people make excuses for their own choices. No one makes someone drop out of school or start getting high with friends or start having unprotected sex and on and on and on... these are choices. Choices I will never understand why ANYONE would ever make- especially when they have so little as it is in their life to begin with. It is easy to be romanced by the inspirational stories of the high school dropout single mom who goes back to school one day but here is an idea-- don't f*#%& yourself and back yourself into a corner for life from the start!!! Don't make poor choices without consideration of the consequences. Don't worry about peer pressure. The resources are all there. it isn't like you can't get an education if you want one and rise above your circumstances and make something of your life and it does not even have to be much! I just feel like human beings tend to live in their own little boxes without any interest in embracing other ways of living outside of what they know.
20:07 That little girl was predicting facial recognition software. "It has a special lock on it, and it will open just for me. See that little door knob there, it can see."
My heart breaks for Mrs. Sullivan. Judging by her age in this video she's surely passed on by now. The poor old lady couldn't retire in peace and tranquility. It's heartbreaking.
Reminds me of my grandma and it makes me so sad. I think it was the kids that were watching the interview. Once she said all her windows were broken one of the kids says let’s go to my house then they leave. Those apartments are awful.
The little girl in the commercial at 20min was WAY ahead of her time, we have that now and then some. Side note...the fact that you leave the commercials in does SO much to create a full rounded context of the time, I enjoy that almost as much as the news pieces...
It was a wild idea but creeped me out hard in the context of the video. Like what if your sister is trying to wake you up because of a fire but can’t because of the crazy lock!
5:52 This old police “Tony Bouza” borough ex-commander has such a keen and self-aware understanding of his community and what the country’s urban centers are... and this is 40-50 years ago! It’s not as bad in the Bronx as it once was, and some key progress has been since the ‘70s. Still, there is much work to be done in this country to combat disparity and provide opportunities for people to lift themselves. (edited to correct Tony Bouza’s name... there was a 1976 NYT article written about his “maverick” community leadership in the Bronx)
There's a recent documentary that goes into great depth about this and has deep interviews with those who lived through this. The documentary is called "Decade of Fire" I highly recommend it.
I was born in 1977 half black and half Puerto Rican I remember New York when it was like this our hoods looked like it got hit with missles I kant believe I made it outta of dat
Its called white flight.These buildings were here for white immigrants but not for us black and brown people. Landlords paid arsonists to burn them down and they move on with the insurance $$$. American racism at its finest. I made it out of there too. Stay up my brothers !!! 🇵🇷🇱🇾🇯🇲
Residents in the hood may have been/may be poor and buildings old and neglected, etc. But no one forces people who live in a poor neighborhood to throw their garbage on the street, vandalize property, bust shit up, live in dirty unkempt conditions. Cleanser is like $1 in 2024, it was just as cheap then. There's no excuse to destroy your own neighborhood and blame others/make excuses for why you live like an feral human. Not exactly a politically correct welcome point of view but it's the truth. My sister having lived in the city and been a public school teacher we always questioned this. Being poor isn't an excuse for living like a slob.
Damn I remember leaving the South Bronx in 76 and my dad always drove by the old neigborhood cause he used to still go to the meat market in Southern Boulevard shit use to look like Beirut back in the day all that rubble!!
The only reason Detroit arson rage seems like a walk in the park is that Detroit does not have the tenement buildings that dominated the south bronx during the 70s or what FDNY called the war years if Detroit was to have the same type of buildings like the south bronx or any other buildings thru out NYC I'm sure Detroit arson rage would be equally as bad as the south bronx.
@@04u2cY I have seen a picture of Detroit apartments and houses in an area that made it looked like a war zone. It supposedly being rebuild last time I heard.
There was also bureaucratic snafus and antiquated laws keeping rents so low that no one could afford to correctly maintain a building . There was rampant inflation and union strikes from the sanitation services .
I thought that she mentioned that she was there for 38/39 years (1938-1977) but if she had been in New York City from before World War Two to at least 1977 she must have been a teenager when she left Ireland to go to the US. It's hard to guess her age because people looked older than today, but I'd guess that she was in her mid 60's to early 70's. Another thing is that she had probably spent most of her life in New York, yet she still had a strong Irish accent.
It is so sad & also depressing, you just don't know what lies further down and how you will wind up! I always feel so sad for the elderly, like the lady living alone with 3 dogs, this just makes me want to cry! That was in 1977, so she is resting in Gods arms right now!!!
@@armidabravo6297 there’s a reason why they focused on those sad stories of the elderly women. Pulling the heart-strings pulls good ratings. The news has always been like this but the difference is back then they actually tried their hardest to balance the bad with the good, the sad with the hopeful
I was raised in the South Bronx in the 60's and I wouldn't change it for Disney, my childhood filled with precious memories which I will never forget, pure love, joy & laughter!!!
A couple important things I noticed watching this, how well people expressed themselves talking to the reporter. No profanity or F bombs every other word. Also the time betw commercials! If we get 4-5 min of program now w/o a commercial we're lucky.
Way I figure, that's because there was some semblance of a social contract between people. What was taking place here right before our eyes was a breaking down of this. I mean kids literally threatening to burn down buildings. The whole structure of society unraveling. So where are we now? I think a lot of people worked hard to fix this, but also just many of these communities are either unrecognizable today or people are merely holding on by threads. I would say any sense of community has been long dead in large parts of NYC. Immigrants have maybe maintained this, but this is debatable. I mean community like you know everybody on your block and who owns all the businesses. Gentrification has worked to paper over or displace this decay, but it is still very present in our culture. This is the reality of deindustrialization that the corporate classes wish to paper over.
@@evanstinson7745 Evan it's likely only going to continue. I'm truly worried for this Country. No matter who the next President is, so many problems that began decades ago are now on the verge of boiling over.
My family had a beautiful apartment in the early 70s on Bryant Avenue. All of sudden the landlord came to my mom and said the building is done!!! That’s it!! The landlord left before us!!! We moved a block up to Vyse Avenue. Quickly saw Bryant Avenue turn into a ghost town. Fires were so normal. We eventually moved again
Born and raised in the Bronx. Proud to be from here it gave me strength and character but I couldnt imagine growing old there or raising my own family there. Def left NYC
My heart goes out to the good folk of the Bronx who had to suffer at the hands of the corrupt landlords, tenants, politicians, police, insurance companies plus their crime driven neighbours who combined led to the destruction of what was once a hard working, proud community built on civic pride and a population who for the most part looked out for each other. Poverty is no excuse, there are huge areas today of Mumbai and Delhi where the poverty, lack of sewage systems running water and single room shack housing make the Bronx of the late 70s/80s look desirable, yet all kids attend school, clean and tidy every day and continually achieve high grades, crime is minimal and mental health issues are negligible. What is it with so called western civilised society that when things get tough so many people stop caring about each other and activley start preying on the weak and vulnerable in their midst, all the time forgetting that they are someone else's prey in the food chain. The "I'm all right Jack" attitude is the recipe for humanities downfall.
I was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The neighborhood next to Brownsville to the east (which is East New York, Brooklyn) also look like this and were burned down in the 1970's & 1980's. Brownsville itself had (and still do) too many housing projects for it to happen like this.
Poor Mrs Sullivan. What a shame bullying Irish old Lady. Irish have hard history. They were slaves, there was famine. Com' on. I hope those horrible kids got Karma.
I grew up in this, it was very sad and hard to see away out. Luckily change came and it's not the best but it's better than way back then. Thank God, I moved out best decision ever made.
I remember moving to the Parkchester area of the Bronx From Bushwick, Brooklyn when I was 6 years old because it was a great neighborhood. I remember riding on the 36 bus with my through these burned down neighborhoods and thinking “what kind of people live in this neighborhood”. Little did I know… “My kind of people”. And it was not the people burning down the Bronx. It was the landlords to collect insurance money. The kids were paid by the landlords to burn down the buildings
I like that scene on the roof of that building where the neighborhood kids are helping out the fireman on the roof helping to relieve the heavy backpressure of the firehose. IMy granddfather lived in that neighborhood from the 1920s into the 1970s. As rough as the area was there were a lot of good kids in that hood. I was pretty much the only white kid in the neighborhood yet none of the neighborhood kids ever showed any predjudices against me. They used to hang around and talk to me and we all got along very well.
@@J0EYbagaDONUTS It's very possible. The neighborhood was falling apart, people had little money, the kids roamed the streets, it was boring, there were all these vacant buildings nobody seemed to care about, some kids set fires in order to generate excitement and thrills. I am not excusing such behavior. It was an unfortunate and very misguided reality.
@@LonnellRichYes, landlords would often pay drugs addicts to go in and set fire to their buildings. Desperate and in need of drug money they would take their chances and do the arson. Other times kids would start fires for quick "thrills".
The interesting part is that the building where the old lady was squatting is apparently still there as well as the buildings across the street. It’s just amazing to see that some of these buildings are still here 45 years later.
Really?!? I was hurt to find that 1944 Davidson Ave. burned to the ground in 1975. My mom sent me to Queens in 1974 to start in a new school; she and my siblings followed a year later before the fire. There's a school build in that area.
I’ve watch this documentary many months ago on this channel because if you were living in the Bronx back in the 70s, orison was a nasty habit back then because there was a race of ours in far as being sit in these dilapidated apartments which the residents were still living in back in the 1970s and I remembered at 5636, this woman was very angry because she had to evacuate her apartment because someone in the next unit beside hers or above hers was empty around that time and it had nothing but trash and somebody who lived in their last set fire to it which caused us inferno and had everybody evacuating this is why this woman was so angry when he interviewed her in the 70s.
omg i feel so bad for mrs Sullivan. Thank god her cat was ok. Man I would take her in my house if I could so she could feel safe and move out of that hell hole
I remember this fire...although i was in jersey, i could hear my grandpa saying (he was a truck driver in nyc...teamster😁) i just wanna make my deliveries😂
Born there and grew up there during those times. After the fires those buildings in The Bronx remained desolate or just piles of rubble FOR DECADES! Democrat upon Democrat came to office with great promises but nothing changed. Kudos to The Honorable Edward I. Koch, (a Democrat and patriot), for trying his best while in office, the NYC political machine was too strong for him to complete his work. It took Rudolph Giuliani in 1994 to finally help the borough I loved. The Bronx still feels the affects of the 1970's.
@@monica012077 You need to read up on redlining. It was a process begun in the 1930s by the federal government during FDR's administration. The federal government required banks to redline in giving mortgages. FDR was a Democrat.
@12:50 I completely understand why that lady wouldn't make a complaint 😔 law enforcement tends 2 write it off as "not snitching" being a generational learned behavior cause it's not cool or culture thing to fit in when it's ABSOLUTELY NOT It's a survival tactic for all parties involved victims , witnesses or alleged criminals.....you're trying not to become a target and at the same time not to make the other person a target ( knowing that they did what they did out of desperation due to their environment or etc...) You never know unless it's happening to you...😬
...have become too trendy & too pricey for most of us. So ppl are being ushered to the bx tempted by tiny trend-setting buildings & reasonable rents given by lottery. I'm so glad my children haven't seen empty lots & abandoned buildings. God Bless u all
It was the coming together of the people to form hip hop that was the major factor leading to improvement of the Bronx, and not only the Bronx, but the entire 5 boroughs were boosted by Hip Hop.
My parents had friends that died in the Bronx from a burning building One of the kids survived and his hands were all burned up !! He had scars All up his arms !! He stayed with us one summer because his Mom had died in the fire !! This kid was kind of evil I remember him being very spoiled and selfish and always wanted to get his way!! He was a real brat !!! Me and my brothers tried to feel sorry for him because we knew what had happened to him that winter !! He said they escaped the fire threw the fire escape but it was locked up and they busted it open!!! And escaped through the roof . ...1976 the Bronx NYC
1977! This documentary was right before the infamous blackout. Jeez, what a terrible year for nyc. I was 11 months old, born in south bx (Gerald ave). 1980 we moved up to what was then almost the suburbs of the bronx Gun hill
This channel is like... 🤔 “My Whole Childhood Channel” As a PG County and D.C. kid of the ‘70s whose parents moved from Brooklyn, I just love it. I think it is absolutely criminal that you only got less than 2000 subscribers right now. Never forget that your time and efforts make a lot of people really happy and entertained, and for some people, even more than that because we always learning or remembering something.
Hezakya Newz & Films - TH-cam enriches itself in a nation where we have a Constitutionally protected guaranteed civil right to free speech (and was started by an immigrant from a country with no free speech) and is a *platform* where other creators provide the very content that enriches them... yet they will aggressively censor and discriminate against their creators if *any* superficial “controversy” occurs. It’s sick. Some holier-than-thou asshole employee in California can decide to censor you for nothing beyond disliking you or disagreeing with your content. These hypocrites feel that they are god’s gift to the world because they can control and shape what people see and think. TH-cam are thieves, censors, cowards, and bullies. But good on you for staying around and keeping your presence. Keep your seat at the table and don’t let them bully you into leaving or being quiet. Show them that they can’t erase you, no matter what. Good for you.
Mrs. Sullivan's dilemma was heartbreaking and horrifying. It reminded me of my grandparents, who lived on Boston Road near Crotona Park. It was once a great neighborhood and they raised 3 sons there -- my father and my 2 uncles. Al Pacino grew up around there too, on Bryant. When I was a little boy I used to ride the 2 train up there from Manhattan to spend weekends getting spoiled rotten by my grandma. The 'hood started going south around the early 70s and after my grandpa got robbed in the elevator of their building for the 3rd time, they moved up to the Marble Hill projects at 225 and B'way. The same s**t started happening there too so they wound up in Co-op City, where they lived out their lives.
At the end, when Bill Moyers is summarizing how the Bronx got the way it was then, he says "The Secretary of State travels to the Middle East and Russia, the UN Ambassador to Africa, yet no one of stature travels here..." And so it remains the same today, with more homeless people in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, ect., ect. than in all the slums in Brazil and Mexico. America's forgotten citizens still wait.
Rhetorical question. How is it that Chief Bouza never rose to be the Commissioner of the NYPD ? I know the answer, but I'm just struck by just how much he has over the empty suits that have held that position since 1976.
@@monica012077no you just have to worry about some slimeball burning you out in the middle of the night. And water is really a problem in California despite what the media has to say. Every state and city has problems but look at the arson statistics and California is way down on the list.
The landlords were burning down their own buildings for insurance. there were whites and blacks mix in the Bronx back in the 50s and 60s. the whites were move out to the upper Bronx by the city, the vacant apartments were fill by blacks already on welfare, the lanlords were setting fire to their own building with people still in them, the same landlords came back the second time and bought the same building from the city for $1 dollar or more with the promised to rebuild, instead they put insurance and burn it down again collecting twice for the same building. the stories are horrible. and all was cause by greedy white developers and landlords.
Patrick Henry no He’s right. Whites. The Jews took over parts of Brooklyn. Whites are in upper Bronx, safely tucked away from the Latinos in South Bronx. I’m not a native, but I’ve lived here in NY for a good minute.
I came to the South Bronx (Im white) in 1985. I was 15. It was 8 years after this was filmed. Being white living in the S.Bronx was almost unheard of then. It was rough. A lot of fights, Ive been robbed, jumped (you name it) and a whole lot of stares and survival stories for days. Nothing had changed yet. Was exactly the same as this film. It was a struggle but Im here today by the grace of something and I still live in the South Bronx not far from Hunts Point. Landscape/buildings look much better now. New ones being built daily everywhere. Drugs, poverty, homelessness are the major problems you see here when you walk down the street now. I guess not much has changed after all (now that I think about it). Just prettier and better clothing n "stuff" updated. The old buildings that werent destroyed are fixed back up. Rent here is between 1300 and up for a studio, 1500 and up for a one bedroom and 1700 and up for a 2 bedroom and so on. You are lucky if you even find them that low. We have a housing shortage now due to overpopulation. When this film was made NYC was bad. Period. Today as pretty as it looks its betTER but still bad. So yea, not much has changed. Fix one problem another arises. 'It makes me wonder'.. Now that Led Zeppelin (see how I fit that in there?😊) and the rest of the old 70s rock bands are coming back in style and new groups like Greta Van Fleet are bringing back 70s rock vibes, I wonder if New York is going to go back to being as it was in the 70s. It feels that way. It really does. An average of 100,000 people a year are fleeing New York (census). White flight is still happening as it just happened in the Bronx between 2007 and 2015 according to the census again. Inflation has lines at the dollar stores a 20 minute wait. So many appeals in housing court that theyre now asking people to file in the city. People are getting robbed left n right. Police have a severe shortage of officers and I cant even remember the last time I saw a cop car patrolling but I see an ambulance every 5 to 10 minutes (literally). Something I dont just wonder about but now seriously worry about. Is old New York really that old? (Carry Bradshaw moment) lol Good luck to all. xo
I personally know someone who quit paying their rent and when the landlord evicted them after 3 months of not paying they caught the apartment on fire 2 days before they were supposed to be gone and the two apartment building was a total loss
Hopefully those people who did that to that old lady, are burning in Hell now for their sins. Those ignorant news people did not make her situation any better. Interviewing her in front of the possible criminals who destroyed her apartment. Smdh
Near the end, Bill Moyers says, "with capital, jobs and enough time, they might create from these ruins good neighborhoods to live and grow in. After all, they have nowhere to go. Their lives are at stake." Unfortunately, nothing noteworthy would happen until the late 1990s.
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"if it wasn't for the availability of alcohol we would all be in trouble" let that sink in
Now this was a documentary, problem and solution with no lies and bs , straight raw truth ....I find it very intriguing and 40 years later this area was reconstructed and the good overcame the evil
@Hezakya Newz & Films do you have the Ronald Reagan visits south Bronx video for download link? It had a really dope soundtrack. The one where they're yelling at him and he tries to run game. Or if you could tip to the name of the song? The first one on the drive in to the bx in the beginning..
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I remember our family being in one of these fires when we lived in the Bronx. We lost everything and where homeless. We had to live in an hotel for a while. Years ago.. I thank God He took care of us. I thank God for parents who worked hard to give us what we need. My grandparents owned restaurants. I will never forget the Bronx.
You forgot to thank the people who pay taxes.
Who? Hrt grandparents and parents? They worked.
@@7sonero7only the little people pay taxes
@@7sonero7What about taxing the crap, outta the wealthy, which needs to be done???
@@7sonero7 My parent's worked hard and pay taxes. My mom went to school and got a degree. So I thank God. I pay taxes as an American!
I was born in 1977 in the South Bronx, I recognize some of those areas. It was really a third world looking environment but we made it work. Great stuff
That apartment building where the old woman lives alone in the abandoned building and Davidson avenue is still standing and occupied today. That is actually one of the nicer blocks of apartment buildings to live in currently in the Bronx. Looking at the decay and ruins in this video there's no way you would think almost fifty years later it would still be there, but it is and the neighborhood is thriving
It would be nice to know what happen to her and what ever became of them kids in front of her building
@@bronxtours4193She’s more than likely dead by now.She gotta be at least in her mid 60s while this video was being made.
My grandparents lived in that part of the Bronx and my parents grew up there. My grandparents on my Dad's side of the family lived in a typical 6 story brick apartment house and I also lived in that apartment for the first 4-5 years of my life. On my Mom's side my Grandpa owned a very old large wood frame private house (farmhouse) that dated way back to when that section of the Bronx still had farm land. Both of my grandparents /parents houses are long gone and the neighborhood looks completely different from the way it did back in the 1970s. Still, on trips I have taken down there in recent times I ml surprised when I see a few of the old buildings that are still standing after all these years. It's amazing that a few of the buildings still stand after all these long years.
That police officer at the beginning was (and still is) years ahead of his time.
My thought exactly!
Exactly
And it cost him his job
The sweat&equity folks at the end too! Putting early solar panels on the roof and the whole program was beautiful
tru he is 50 years ahead
Wow, this cop spoke the truth
Chief Anthony V. Bouza.
I noticed most people spoke intelligently.
@@D33Lux When people understand a situation and want to communicate that they usually are. Nowadays we got endless muckracking and sensationalism where understanding and empathy should instead be.
Cop and truth is an oxymoron.
That poor old lady was living in hell, heart breaking.
Amazing Video! Every Bratty Kid should watch this to know how good they have it..
I lived in this at that time. Here's something that happened to me as a ten year old sitting in our apt watching TV with my family. We heard someone walking in the apt above us which we knew was not rented yet. We quickly forgot about it as we adsorbed ourselves in the TV show playing on the TV. Then we noticed a slight trickle of water drip coming from the ceiling from the edge where ceiling meets the wall in the living room. That was soon followed by a bunch of other little trickles on from the edge where ceiling meets the wall too - spreading more apart from each other. Then it turned into full streams of water coming down the wall and then a huge chunk of the ceiling fell down on us. Why ??? Those people we previously heard walking above us - they were junkies / drug addicts who broke into steal all the bronze and copper piping to sell it so the could pool enough money together to pay for their next heroin shots. (the brothers would call it "heir-RON"). Almost everyone in the neighborhood was a heroin addict - they were the real walking dead - long before the TV series came out.
So sad smh.
Brother's?? What are you, a lowlife RepubliCON (racists) or something???
Like the cop in the video said, "if it wasn't for the ready availability of alcohol and heroin there would be big trouble". Which is basically true. If the people weren't self-sedated on booze and dope they would have been out rioting over better living conditions and the politicians might have actually had to have done something to improve the overall quality o[ peoples lives.
Yeah, once an apartment was known to be vacant everything in the apartment would go. Sinks, tube, plumbing, radiators, pipes,bathtub, you name it. If it could be removed it was removed.
@@WitchidWitchid it isn't like politicians were out on the street recruiting dealers to get people hooked... people got themselves hooked. No one forced them. I love when people make excuses for their own choices. No one makes someone drop out of school or start getting high with friends or start having unprotected sex and on and on and on... these are choices. Choices I will never understand why ANYONE would ever make- especially when they have so little as it is in their life to begin with. It is easy to be romanced by the inspirational stories of the high school dropout single mom who goes back to school one day but here is an idea-- don't f*#%& yourself and back yourself into a corner for life from the start!!! Don't make poor choices without consideration of the consequences. Don't worry about peer pressure. The resources are all there. it isn't like you can't get an education if you want one and rise above your circumstances and make something of your life and it does not even have to be much! I just feel like human beings tend to live in their own little boxes without any interest in embracing other ways of living outside of what they know.
20:07 That little girl was predicting facial recognition software.
"It has a special lock on it, and it will open just for me. See that little door knob there, it can see."
My heart breaks for Mrs. Sullivan. Judging by her age in this video she's surely passed on by now. The poor old lady couldn't retire in peace and tranquility. It's heartbreaking.
Reminds me of my grandma and it makes me so sad. I think it was the kids that were watching the interview. Once she said all her windows were broken one of the kids says let’s go to my house then they leave. Those apartments are awful.
Mayor Wagner got his revenge on them by not doing a thing except letting it continue to burn while reducing municipal services in the S. Bronx.
Yea~ bless her heart~ that one hit me~ :(
The little girl in the commercial at 20min was WAY ahead of her time, we have that now and then some. Side note...the fact that you leave the commercials in does SO much to create a full rounded context of the time, I enjoy that almost as much as the news pieces...
It was a wild idea but creeped me out hard in the context of the video. Like what if your sister is trying to wake you up because of a fire but can’t because of the crazy lock!
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@@AshleySpeaks09 I love madonna lol
She was very smart and cute!
5:52 This old police “Tony Bouza” borough ex-commander has such a keen and self-aware understanding of his community and what the country’s urban centers are... and this is 40-50 years ago! It’s not as bad in the Bronx as it once was, and some key progress has been since the ‘70s. Still, there is much work to be done in this country to combat disparity and provide opportunities for people to lift themselves.
(edited to correct Tony Bouza’s name... there was a 1976 NYT article written about his “maverick” community leadership in the Bronx)
There's a recent documentary that goes into great depth about this and has deep interviews with those who lived through this. The documentary is called "Decade of Fire" I highly recommend it.
Thanks. I will be sure to check it out.
I was born in 1977 half black and half Puerto Rican I remember New York when it was like this our hoods looked like it got hit with missles I kant believe I made it outta of dat
I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jamaican two homie
Only the strong survive.
BX STAND UP!!!
Its called white flight.These buildings were here for white immigrants but not for us black and brown people. Landlords paid arsonists to burn them down and they move on with the insurance $$$. American racism at its finest. I made it out of there too. Stay up my brothers !!! 🇵🇷🇱🇾🇯🇲
I'm half russian and half german. And we do shout at satan the devil.
Residents in the hood may have been/may be poor and buildings old and neglected, etc. But no one forces people who live in a poor neighborhood to throw their garbage on the street, vandalize property, bust shit up, live in dirty unkempt conditions. Cleanser is like $1 in 2024, it was just as cheap then. There's no excuse to destroy your own neighborhood and blame others/make excuses for why you live like an feral human. Not exactly a politically correct welcome point of view but it's the truth. My sister having lived in the city and been a public school teacher we always questioned this. Being poor isn't an excuse for living like a slob.
Damn I remember leaving the South Bronx in 76 and my dad always drove by the old neigborhood cause he used to still go to the meat market in Southern Boulevard shit use to look like Beirut back in the day all that rubble!!
The Bronx in the 70's makes Detroit look like Beverly Hills.
Joe Martin Both Detroit and the Bronx were equally bad. Both urban locales were in serious decline.
Look at the demographic makeup
@@paleo704 what’s your point?
The only reason Detroit arson rage seems like a walk in the park is that Detroit does not have the tenement buildings that dominated the south bronx during the 70s or what FDNY called the war years if Detroit was to have the same type of buildings like the south bronx or any other buildings thru out NYC I'm sure Detroit arson rage would be equally as bad as the south bronx.
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I have seen a picture of Detroit apartments and houses in an area that made it looked like a war zone. It supposedly being rebuild last time I heard.
My god I can't believe this happened in the 70's those poor people have to live in fear there house would get bernt down can't trust the Land Lord's
There was also bureaucratic snafus and antiquated laws keeping rents so low that no one could afford to correctly maintain a building . There was rampant inflation and union strikes from the sanitation services .
Poor Mrs Sullivan worked at the plaza as a supervisor since 1926. The stories she must have had.
I thought that she mentioned that she was there for 38/39 years (1938-1977) but if she had been in New York City from before World War Two to at least 1977 she must have been a teenager when she left Ireland to go to the US.
It's hard to guess her age because people looked older than today, but I'd guess that she was in her mid 60's to early 70's. Another thing is that she had probably spent most of her life in New York, yet she still had a strong Irish accent.
It is so sad & also depressing, you just don't know what lies further down and how you will wind up! I always feel so sad for the elderly, like the lady living alone with 3 dogs, this just makes me want to cry! That was in 1977, so she is resting in Gods arms right now!!!
@@armidabravo6297 there’s a reason why they focused on those sad stories of the elderly women. Pulling the heart-strings pulls good ratings. The news has always been like this but the difference is back then they actually tried their hardest to balance the bad with the good, the sad with the hopeful
Huge numbers of Irish lived in the Bronx. They fled when the area turned sour.
She retired in ‘72
I was raised in the South Bronx in the 60's and I wouldn't change it for Disney, my childhood filled with precious memories which I will never forget, pure love, joy & laughter!!!
And FIRE 🔥
@@Eric-sn4qzH ola When the fires came I had already moved to my beautiful Island. Stay safe.
Same!
What were the 70s like?
@@TheBizzinissto me, it was fun and free.
A couple important things I noticed watching this, how well people expressed themselves talking to the reporter. No profanity or F bombs every other word. Also the time betw commercials! If we get 4-5 min of program now w/o a commercial we're lucky.
Way I figure, that's because there was some semblance of a social contract between people. What was taking place here right before our eyes was a breaking down of this. I mean kids literally threatening to burn down buildings. The whole structure of society unraveling. So where are we now? I think a lot of people worked hard to fix this, but also just many of these communities are either unrecognizable today or people are merely holding on by threads. I would say any sense of community has been long dead in large parts of NYC. Immigrants have maybe maintained this, but this is debatable. I mean community like you know everybody on your block and who owns all the businesses. Gentrification has worked to paper over or displace this decay, but it is still very present in our culture. This is the reality of deindustrialization that the corporate classes wish to paper over.
@@evanstinson7745 Evan it's likely only going to continue. I'm truly worried for this Country. No matter who the next President is, so many problems that began decades ago are now on the verge of boiling over.
I mean it was on television, I probably wouldnt swear on tv either
My family had a beautiful apartment in the early 70s on Bryant Avenue. All of sudden the landlord came to my mom and said the building is done!!! That’s it!! The landlord left before us!!! We moved a block up to Vyse Avenue. Quickly saw Bryant Avenue turn into a ghost town. Fires were so normal. We eventually moved again
Cool
I have family who from new York
@@lordshadow2x295 are they on welfare too
Was it really as bad as they portrayed it?
Those Jewish landlords who owned the buildings intentionally burned them down for insurance purposes and money.
That's Father Flynn at the end!!! He led mass at St. Martin of Tours when I was a kid! What a surprise!! I was just thinking about him!
Born and raised in the Bronx. Proud to be from here it gave me strength and character but I couldnt imagine growing old there or raising my own family there. Def left NYC
My heart goes out to the good folk of the Bronx who had to suffer at the hands of the corrupt landlords, tenants, politicians, police, insurance companies plus their crime driven neighbours who combined led to the destruction of what was once a hard working, proud community built on civic pride and a population who for the most part looked out for each other. Poverty is no excuse, there are huge areas today of Mumbai and Delhi where the poverty, lack of sewage systems running water and single room shack housing make the Bronx of the late 70s/80s look desirable, yet all kids attend school, clean and tidy every day and continually achieve high grades, crime is minimal and mental health issues are negligible. What is it with so called western civilised society that when things get tough so many people stop caring about each other and activley start preying on the weak and vulnerable in their midst, all the time forgetting that they are someone else's prey in the food chain. The "I'm all right Jack" attitude is the recipe for humanities downfall.
Excellent and interesting comment, thank you. I never thought about it this way, but it rings true.
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We made it and now we are successful! We were not all hopeless we know Jesus was and is our Rock!
I was living in the LES during this time, I was only 6 but I remember parts of the LES looking just like this...
Lower east side of Manhattan nimrod
It was similar
I was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The neighborhood next to Brownsville to the east (which is East New York, Brooklyn) also look like this and were burned down in the 1970's & 1980's. Brownsville itself had (and still do) too many housing projects for it to happen like this.
@@amazing50000 Bushwick was just like the SBX at this time too
@@stephenheath8465 Yes, Bushwick too.
My God that cop foresaw the future... What a visionary
Poor Mrs Sullivan. What a shame bullying Irish old Lady. Irish have hard history. They were slaves, there was famine. Com' on. I hope those horrible kids got Karma.
7:35:00 DAMN… this cop was talking about Machines taking jobs from people in 1977!🤦🏽♂️
I grew up in this, it was very sad and hard to see away out. Luckily change came and it's not the best but it's better than way back then. Thank God, I moved out best decision ever made.
Mimi Esca y'all still live here and still a s******* crackheads everywhere
@@whocares4420 I know I still visit. Hopefully it will get better. God Bless.
I graduated from PS 81 in the Bronx in 1977. Thank you for remembering my people Hez.
Wow, that police officer spoke so well
Poor mrs Sullivan she was targeted cause shes vulnerable and white
If you want to learn more about this time in the Bronx check out Decade of Fire and Man Alive: The Bronx is Burning.
I remember moving to the Parkchester area of the Bronx From Bushwick, Brooklyn when I was 6 years old because it was a great neighborhood. I remember riding on the 36 bus with my through these burned down neighborhoods and thinking “what kind of people live in this neighborhood”. Little did I know… “My kind of people”. And it was not the people burning down the Bronx. It was the landlords to collect insurance money. The kids were paid by the landlords to burn down the buildings
I like that scene on the roof of that building where the neighborhood kids are helping out the fireman on the roof helping to relieve the heavy backpressure of the firehose. IMy granddfather lived in that neighborhood from the 1920s into the 1970s. As rough as the area was there were a lot of good kids in that hood. I was pretty much the only white kid in the neighborhood yet none of the neighborhood kids ever showed any predjudices against me. They used to hang around and talk to me and we all got along very well.
The sad thing is I bet some of the children that were so called helping were the ones that start fires .
@@J0EYbagaDONUTSthry actually got paid by landlords to set those fires
@@J0EYbagaDONUTS It's very possible. The neighborhood was falling apart, people had little money, the kids roamed the streets, it was boring, there were all these vacant buildings nobody seemed to care about, some kids set fires in order to generate excitement and thrills. I am not excusing such behavior. It was an unfortunate and very misguided reality.
@@LonnellRichYes, landlords would often pay drugs addicts to go in and set fire to their buildings. Desperate and in need of drug money they would take their chances and do the arson. Other times kids would start fires for quick "thrills".
@@WitchidWitchid I have been bored many times in my life but have never thought of starting a fire just for thrills & excitement .
The interesting part is that the building where the old lady was squatting is apparently still there as well as the buildings across the street. It’s just amazing to see that some of these buildings are still here 45 years later.
That lady at that time im guessing was in her 60s so she most be 100 something if still alive
Really?!? I was hurt to find that 1944 Davidson Ave. burned to the ground in 1975. My mom sent me to Queens in 1974 to start in a new school; she and my siblings followed a year later before the fire. There's a school build in that area.
@@jaycebronx2608I doubt if she's still alive.
She started working at the hotel from 1926-1972
.. I'd guess she was born in 1908.... bringing her age around 69
A cultural Phoenix rose from those fires and ashes, it's known as Hip Hop. 😎👍
Well that got burned down too
I’ve watch this documentary many months ago on this channel because if you were living in the Bronx back in the 70s, orison was a nasty habit back then because there was a race of ours in far as being sit in these dilapidated apartments which the residents were still living in back in the 1970s and I remembered at 5636, this woman was very angry because she had to evacuate her apartment because someone in the next unit beside hers or above hers was empty around that time and it had nothing but trash and somebody who lived in their last set fire to it which caused us inferno and had everybody evacuating this is why this woman was so angry when he interviewed her in the 70s.
I cannot figure out if its the 70s that I miss or if its my youth I want back .
Poor lady at 30:50 she knows it was that kid then he stares her down to intimidate her. Disgusting.
The one was wearing boxing gloves too.
Those lovely gentlemen probably didn’t make it to see their 21st birthday. A tragic loss no doubt.
Typical of their kind.
@@theotherwayofstopping4717 what kind?
The Bronx was super scary and way more dangerous back then.
In the bronx, people burn down buildings for the money
It was the landlords!!
@@serene1275 no it was young thugs Who lit the buildings on fire
@@scavenger9579
There's an article that said it was always the landlords to get insurance money. Thugs get paid.
@savenger9579 the landlords paid them
omg i feel so bad for mrs Sullivan. Thank god her cat was ok. Man I would take her in my house if I could so she could feel safe and move out of that hell hole
Lying
I remember when you uploaded this on your old channel! Keep up the good work.
I wonder if those cops came back and wrecked those kids bullying miss sullivan when the cameras were gone
Wouldn't you just love to be waiting in that apartment for them?
I remember this fire...although i was in jersey, i could hear my grandpa saying (he was a truck driver in nyc...teamster😁) i just wanna make my deliveries😂
Hahaha
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Born there and grew up there during those times. After the fires those buildings in The Bronx remained desolate or just piles of rubble FOR DECADES! Democrat upon Democrat came to office with great promises but nothing changed. Kudos to The Honorable Edward I. Koch, (a Democrat and patriot), for trying his best while in office, the NYC political machine was too strong for him to complete his work. It took Rudolph Giuliani in 1994 to finally help the borough I loved. The Bronx still feels the affects of the 1970's.
Politics is the devil's country club. 👌💯
@@StrongnBeautiful Politics attracts sociopaths!
It was the Republicans who redlined the Bronx and started its decline. It's rebirth started way before Guiliani.
@@monica012077 You need to read up on redlining. It was a process begun in the 1930s by the federal government during FDR's administration. The federal government required banks to redline in giving mortgages. FDR was a Democrat.
@@Anaximander9 50 years later it was Ronald Reagan who ruined the Bronx and pretty much every poor neighborhood.
I used to live in the Bronx , was born there in little Italy
Man, I grew up in the very next era after the "X" was burning. Thanks for this detailed moment in time.
BX STAND UP!!!
The next era was the crack era
@12:50 I completely understand why that lady wouldn't make a complaint 😔 law enforcement tends 2 write it off as "not snitching" being a generational learned behavior cause it's not cool or culture thing to fit in when it's ABSOLUTELY NOT
It's a survival tactic for all parties involved victims , witnesses or alleged criminals.....you're trying not to become a target and at the same time not to make the other person a target ( knowing that they did what they did out of desperation due to their environment or etc...)
You never know unless it's happening to you...😬
So many of the adults in this video are either very elderly or passed away.
If adults 30 to 60 plus 46 years = 76 to 106.
Love live the memory of Mrs. Sullivan and her cat!
I love these videos about 1970's NYC. They are very interesting and show the ability of humans to adapt to adverse condictions.
Thank God our Boro no longer looks like a barren wasteland. Gentrification has helped sprout up affordable housing everywhere! Harlem & Brooklyn
...have become too trendy & too pricey for most of us. So ppl are being ushered to the bx tempted by tiny trend-setting buildings & reasonable rents given by lottery. I'm so glad my children haven't seen empty lots & abandoned buildings. God Bless u all
Oops tiny "apartments". No one in the Bronx has a dining room unless ur building was built in the 1800's and hasn't been gutted.
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There are dining rooms in some apartments in the Bronx. Not all Brooklyn and Manhattan apartments have dining rooms too.
It was the coming together of the people to form hip hop that was the major factor leading to improvement of the Bronx, and not only the Bronx, but the entire 5 boroughs were boosted by Hip Hop.
Look how deep of a thinker this Officer was. Like today he was also a victim of buracracy. Too bad.
30,000 burnt in bronx alone!! There's not even 30,000 houses in England put together.
My parents had friends that died in the Bronx from a burning building One of the kids survived and his hands were all burned up !! He had scars All up his arms !! He stayed with us one summer because his Mom had died in the fire !! This kid was kind of evil I remember him being very spoiled and selfish and always wanted to get his way!! He was a real brat !!! Me and my brothers tried to feel sorry for him because we knew what had happened to him that winter !! He said they escaped the fire threw the fire escape but it was locked up and they busted it open!!! And escaped through the roof . ...1976 the Bronx NYC
1977! This documentary was right before the infamous blackout. Jeez, what a terrible year for nyc. I was 11 months old, born in south bx (Gerald ave). 1980 we moved up to what was then almost the suburbs of the bronx
Gun hill
And this is the reason we should have stopped this type of behavior decades ago. The offspring of these thugs are worse
I agree with you.
Poor old Ireland white lady Ms. Sullivan. This is sooo freaking sad this Doc really touched my heart.
How did all these arsonists get away with starting these fires? Unreal
CSI level shit didn't exist back then
They were paid to do it by greedy landlords
Everyone was overwhelmed with crime you couldn't keep up with it
Because no one cared. The police couldn't handle the number of calls... There were rapes, murders, and robberies happening simultaneously.
It's called, WICKEDNESS in HIGH places!
That's hardcore treating the Elderly that way!
The word starts with an "N."
This officer definetly was wakened, and had an education.
This channel is like... 🤔 “My Whole Childhood Channel” As a PG County and D.C. kid of the ‘70s whose parents moved from Brooklyn, I just love it. I think it is absolutely criminal that you only got less than 2000 subscribers right now. Never forget that your time and efforts make a lot of people really happy and entertained, and for some people, even more than that because we always learning or remembering something.
i had over 100k subs until TH-cam took my main channel down
Hezakya Newz & Films - TH-cam enriches itself in a nation where we have a Constitutionally protected guaranteed civil right to free speech (and was started by an immigrant from a country with no free speech) and is a *platform* where other creators provide the very content that enriches them... yet they will aggressively censor and discriminate against their creators if *any* superficial “controversy” occurs. It’s sick.
Some holier-than-thou asshole employee in California can decide to censor you for nothing beyond disliking you or disagreeing with your content. These hypocrites feel that they are god’s gift to the world because they can control and shape what people see and think.
TH-cam are thieves, censors, cowards, and bullies. But good on you for staying around and keeping your presence. Keep your seat at the table and don’t let them bully you into leaving or being quiet. Show them that they can’t erase you, no matter what. Good for you.
Mrs. Sullivan's dilemma was heartbreaking and horrifying. It reminded me of my grandparents, who lived on Boston Road near Crotona Park. It was once a great neighborhood and they raised 3 sons there -- my father and my 2 uncles. Al Pacino grew up around there too, on Bryant. When I was a little boy I used to ride the 2 train up there from Manhattan to spend weekends getting spoiled rotten by my grandma. The 'hood started going south around the early 70s and after my grandpa got robbed in the elevator of their building for the 3rd time, they moved up to the Marble Hill projects at 225 and B'way. The same s**t started happening there too so they wound up in Co-op City, where they lived out their lives.
Boy, NY was such a mess in 1977 - between this hell & Son of Sam- TG I lived in MD at the time!
At the end, when Bill Moyers is summarizing how the Bronx got the way it was then, he says "The Secretary of State travels to the Middle East and Russia, the UN Ambassador to Africa, yet no one of stature travels here..." And so it remains the same today, with more homeless people in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, ect., ect. than in all the slums in Brazil and Mexico. America's forgotten citizens still wait.
this cop is right in 2021 amazing
First the firebugs, then the midnight plumbers come do cleanup...my Grandma Millie was from Fox st, South Bronx, born 1925.
Supreme Mathematics @ 26:50. She's right next door to Shamiq from 212, God...
She's freaking beautiful
Peace !
Aaaaaaah, you peeped the Earths math on the wall too.
That Spanish mom wasn’t playing !!
Rhetorical question.
How is it that Chief Bouza never rose to be the Commissioner of the NYPD ?
I know the answer, but I'm just struck by just how much he has over the empty suits that have held that position since 1976.
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I was living in Brooklyn during that time, but I remember seeing this on the news.
I lived in the Bronx from 1973 to 1979. Even as a child I remember it all.
Being a native Californian I don't like high rise buildings. I couldn't live in New York City.
Don't have to worry about earthquakes and wildfires, and there's plenty of water.
@@monica012077no you just have to worry about some slimeball burning you out in the middle of the night. And water is really a problem in California despite what the media has to say. Every state and city has problems but look at the arson statistics and California is way down on the list.
The landlords were burning down their own buildings for insurance. there were whites and blacks mix in the Bronx back in the 50s and 60s. the whites were move out to the upper Bronx by the city, the vacant apartments were fill by blacks already on welfare, the lanlords were setting fire to their own building with people still in them, the same landlords came back the second time and bought the same building from the city for $1 dollar or more with the promised to rebuild, instead they put insurance and burn it down again collecting twice for the same building. the stories are horrible. and all was cause by greedy white developers and landlords.
"White" I think you mean Jewish pal, its New York! White people dont own any buildings 🤣 dont blame your jew landlord on whites
Patrick Henry no He’s right. Whites. The Jews took over parts of Brooklyn. Whites are in upper Bronx, safely tucked away from the Latinos in South Bronx. I’m not a native, but I’ve lived here in NY for a good minute.
Its hilarious that it's never black people who at fault for anything. Unbelievable.
bobby G this is true though so accept it and move on
@@patrickhenry6695 FIRST OF ALL..JEWS are ABSOLUTELY..WHITE!
I grew up on Simpson st. 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
I feel like moving to the Bronx when I grew up but forgot the Bronx I'm moving to queens
LOVE the kids assisting the FDNY in fighting the fires😃
That's like oooold school bucket-brigade, all hands on deck stuff! 💪
8:50
Eaton was not playing with advertising on this program they tryna get that $$$
"Shake hands with danger!"
9:00 They have the neighborhood kids to help them hold the hose on a highwise to fight a fire...
Even today people in the bronx do things like that.
This was a great documentary 👏. I live in Toronto. Man ny is soo big. So much going on. The good the bad it never stops life goes on.
Nice comment.👍
The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup
I came to the South Bronx (Im white) in 1985. I was 15. It was 8 years after this was filmed. Being white living in the S.Bronx was almost unheard of then. It was rough. A lot of fights, Ive been robbed, jumped (you name it) and a whole lot of stares and survival stories for days. Nothing had changed yet. Was exactly the same as this film. It was a struggle but Im here today by the grace of something and I still live in the South Bronx not far from Hunts Point. Landscape/buildings look much better now. New ones being built daily everywhere. Drugs, poverty, homelessness are the major problems you see here when you walk down the street now. I guess not much has changed after all (now that I think about it). Just prettier and better clothing n "stuff" updated. The old buildings that werent destroyed are fixed back up. Rent here is between 1300 and up for a studio, 1500 and up for a one bedroom and 1700 and up for a 2 bedroom and so on. You are lucky if you even find them that low. We have a housing shortage now due to overpopulation. When this film was made NYC was bad. Period. Today as pretty as it looks its betTER but still bad. So yea, not much has changed. Fix one problem another arises.
'It makes me wonder'.. Now that Led Zeppelin (see how I fit that in there?😊) and the rest of the old 70s rock bands are coming back in style and new groups like Greta Van Fleet are bringing back 70s rock vibes, I wonder if New York is going to go back to being as it was in the 70s. It feels that way. It really does. An average of 100,000 people a year are fleeing New York (census). White flight is still happening as it just happened in the Bronx between 2007 and 2015 according to the census again. Inflation has lines at the dollar stores a 20 minute wait. So many appeals in housing court that theyre now asking people to file in the city. People are getting robbed left n right. Police have a severe shortage of officers and I cant even remember the last time I saw a cop car patrolling but I see an ambulance every 5 to 10 minutes (literally). Something I dont just wonder about but now seriously worry about.
Is old New York really that old? (Carry Bradshaw moment) lol
Good luck to all. xo
I personally know someone who quit paying their rent and when the landlord evicted them after 3 months of not paying they caught the apartment on fire 2 days before they were supposed to be gone and the two apartment building was a total loss
God bless ya Mrs Sullivan, had been living there since 1939, can still hear a slight Irish accent there.
Years ago, it was, white flight, she probably, just stayed.
NYC you make there make it you anywhere
Shout out to the comments
Brook Ave
that's what's up I grew up in 146 and Brook right next to St Mary's Park remember Third Avenue was like this
@@whocares4420 Jackson Ave
Morris ave !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What year. I ran all through there
Nice ride too
Those landlords should rot in hell
As should the people there who destroyed that once beautiful, crime=free neighborhood because of laziness and drugs.
I was born the summer of 77 in Jersey! Great video!! 💯💯🤘😎
Hopefully those people who did that to that old lady, are burning in Hell now for their sins. Those ignorant news people did not make her situation any better. Interviewing her in front of the possible criminals who destroyed her apartment. Smdh
Near the end, Bill Moyers says, "with capital, jobs and enough time, they might create from these ruins good neighborhoods to live and grow in. After all, they have nowhere to go. Their lives are at stake."
Unfortunately, nothing noteworthy would happen until the late 1990s.
"if it wasn't for the availability of alcohol we would all be in trouble" let that sink in
Now this was a documentary, problem and solution with no lies and bs , straight raw truth ....I find it very intriguing and 40 years later this area was reconstructed and the good overcame the evil
They don’t call it the Broken Down Bronx for Nothing!😢
@Hezakya Newz & Films do you have the Ronald Reagan visits south Bronx video for download link? It had a really dope soundtrack. The one where they're yelling at him and he tries to run game. Or if you could tip to the name of the song? The first one on the drive in to the bx in the beginning..
I'll reupload it
Borough Captain Tony dam you nailed it sir!
5:45 brilliant cop
City management to blame. How many city officials resigned over this?
My dad died in a club in one of those fires