I was born and raised in the Bronx and that's how it was back in the days. When I was a kid it didn't look trashy that was the norm for us even the abandoned buildings and the brick dirty Lots was our playground. Stacking up old mattresses and jumping from a high place onto the mattress was fun for us growing up. Finding an empty can of beans scraping it on the floor open up the other end to use on the Johnny pump, lots of memories wow. Handball was very popular in the Bronx when I was growing up, I'm 46 years old and still have my handball skills. Lol thanks to the Bronx!
@@StopJerkingOff another thing you probably did grow up in a trashy neighborhood. The whole Bronx was in trashy and the 70s he became trashy in the 80s when crack was introduced to the Bronx. My neighborhoods were 180th and Creston Avenue and 183rd ryer Avenue these were good neighborhoods at one time. So talk what you know and know what you talk. 🙂
hugolafhugolaf That shithole is the birth of a whole GENERATION, so stop tryna put that place down, especially if u won’t go there & say it to someone’s face. 😆 And everywhere u go on earth have good & bad areas.
Gee money A lot of salty people in these comments because their parents moved them away from the Bronx before they could be a part of the greatness. Crazy how these people are 40-60 years old with spiteful, jealousy-filled hearts. The Bronx wasn’t made for everybody but everybody had a choice to make the best of it.
@Lisa Terranova we just missed being neighbors.... lived at 1545 Vyse from '82 to '98.... I may have a picture of your house from the 80s? we may know a few of the same people.... I wound up teaching at PS 50 around the corner from you.... saludos, Bill
@Lisa Terranova hi Lisa.... thanks for getting back to me.... a few things.... I may remember the wooden house standing detached near the corner with 172 and four connected rowhouses across the street... they are still there, as far as I know... going back to the corner near the house you knew was a red and white house and if you continued around the corner onto 172 there was/is a little bodega in a 3 story building, then you hit "The Mildred", a five story apartment building you entered on Vyse. That building was vacant for many years, but fortunately kept sealed and never sustained bad fire damage. It was renovated in the mid 90s if memory serves.... I taught in the 90s at PS 50, the school you mention, it was a bilingual science program. Best to reach me at williammorse42@gmail.com as I am not on social media and only got an answering machine after I missed a job interview. take care, Lisa, stay healthy and sane. Bill
My dad grew up in the Italian side of the Bronx then moved to Harlem in his teens and he said although sometimes it was dangerous with monsters, it was the best time of his life and wish we experienced the fun he had.
Yea i grew up in those days ..i just remember being outside and playing with my friends we knew nothing else so I guess we assumed everyone lived like this ..
I remember playing in those lots full of rubble when I was a kid. The garbage everywhere. Back then you needed to be smart or you ended up on a milk carton.
Yeah, I definitely remember the Bronx back in the days,60s,70s,80s to present. I could imagine the people that never lived in that era would call it a dump and yes, it was a dump but I lived it and as a kid I enjoyed it and truly so, I mean I grew up in the Bronx and I'm still here and love it and always will! thanks for sharing.
@Omar J store owners and landlords burned down their own buildings to collect the insurance money but mainstream media will have you believe the people tore it up
One time I left Yankee Stadium and took a wrong turn and promptly got lost. Next thing I know I was in one of those burned out neighborhoods where there was just a huge pile of rubble where dozens of houses used to be. In the middle of it was a lone cop. I went up to him for help. First words out of his mouth, "Wrong turn, huh?" He told me how to get back to the Deegan Expressway and he also told me that if anyone started coming up to me at a red light to simply run it. No cop was gonna give me a ticket!
That sounds about right. This must have been many years ago and the cop was at that location because of wrong turns lol. Can I ask how you came to see this video?
I found it funny that the picture of the White Castle also had a sign for Ex Lax in the window next door. Anyone who has eaten White Castle knows the irony!
Thanks for bringing me back home... The White Castle in front of my school ‘Thomas C. Giordanno’ definitely brought back a lot of memories... so did the ‘Dollar Savings Bank’ at Grand Concourse.
Your welcome and thank you for the update and I will be there tomorrow at work tomorrow and I can get it to pay for the update I will be there for iytyuitrtand don't have the other y yo I type it up and it shows that I have a car to get to pay the full amount of yourself I you smoke too much crack for your family and friends
There's so much history in our beautiful borough. People just have to choose to educate themselves the information is all there. One just has to seek it the Bronx is a beautiful place that I and we call home.
They should have kept as many of the old tenements up as possible.They are beautifully built.Like the old redbrick Victorian terraced houses in parts of Manchester UK are.
It would have been more visually interesting if there were more photos of how the Bronx looked before the burned out buildings and empty lots. Obviously that's a part of the history of the Bronx, but what did it look like before the expressways, housing projects and parkways were built? Also labeling the photos and posting the year would help. A LOT.
Bronx Park used to have houses along the Bronx River. My friend’s great grandfather was a German immigrant and had a house there in the early 1900s He showed me an old photo from 1910 when his grandfather was a kid living there.
White Castle was located on the corner of Fordham Rd. And lorillard place that is p.s. 45 behind it and the lower windows were the machine shop class Mr Charlie Dill was the teacher I attended from 1950 to 1953 .
@Vincent Mileto Every once in a while in the Sunday daily news White Castle would offer a coupon and with it you could get 10 yes 10 White Castle hamburgers for a quarter .They were much smaller in size than now.
John Garfield learned his acting skills at ps45 and in the 30's he went back to visit the school and his drama teacher. My dad was about 12 and was chosen to escort him around the school. He later received a letter from Garfield. I often went to that White Castles and the burgers were 12 cents. Across the street was a Ford dealership, the next block going toward Webster had an Army and Navy store, a veterinarian, across from there you could see some of the Fordham U campus, then you hit the el. Across from there was the Sears and Roebuck AND the most interesting places in the 50's and 60's were 2 motorcycle stores. One was the now sought after BSA and next to it a Triumph dealership. There was also a pet shop, a hot dog stand and then the bus terminal which were just outside aisles where buses lined up and drivers switched. I had an interesting life growing up there ( Arthur ave)
I have lived in the south bronx most of my life and still lives here.I have never had a problem, got married have my children they all have a good education can't complain,love the bronx
Thanks... I was showing my kids your video. I like the pictures of the old “Ls”... I remember walking up to the old elevated trains on 149th street and 3rd ave. I remember the old trolly tracks on Brook ave. I used to play in the open pumps in the summer. My sons think I’m crazy... or just old.
HecksVision : lol... last summer there was an open hydrant on the way to my sons TKD classes... we all would drink from the hydrant. Every time my sons pass the same area... they are looking to see if it’s open. I’m thirsty just a thinking about it.
Born & raised there too. Moved quite a bit throughout Throggs Neck, Silver Beach, Castle Hill projects...lol. Moved away after 30 years of great memories😊
A nice trip down memory lane, I lived in the Bronx from 1956-1994 and worked there up until 2011 near the Old Lincoln Hospital on Southern Blvd. I seen it all, from the days of Doo-Wops to the emerging of Hip-Hop. They left out 'Freedomland' that was where Co-op city stands today. If the rents had not gotten so crazy, I might have still lived there. Tracy Towers, near my alma mater DeWitt Clinton HS, called me but by that time I was already settled in on the Palisades in Northern NJ.
"Freedomland" lived short, some like four years. Living in the Bronx we had many other alternatives while they were still around. We used to visit "Adventurer's Inn" in Flushing, "Palisades Park" in NJ and "Rye Playland" in Rye, NY. "Coney Island" was another spot we visited although not so often.
How beautiful true Bronx is in its bones at the turn of the 20th Century. As solid a foundation in its architecture, much of which still exists, as are the people who have lived a lifetime there and continue to live there. All the people.
These pictures brought back a lot of memories. I recognized many of the places. I was originally from Manhattan, Upper West Side, Riverside Drive to be exact. After College I was hired at The Bronx Criminal Court on 3rd Ave. before the new court house was built. Funny, as much as I criticized The Bronx, I moved there to be close to work. After five years on Sheridan Ave. & W. 161 St. I moved to the Riverdale Section of The Bronx. Lived there 30 years. Now I live in Brunswick, N.Y. in Albany. I must point out that The Bronx was burnt out by the Landlords, who hired people to burn the buildings. They would get more money from the Insurance Companies, then if they sold them. People blamed the residents, but it wasn't so. Nevertheless, I grew to love The Bronx. City Island, Throggs Neck, Parkchester, Riverdale, Pelham Bay, it's all beautiful. Better than crowded Manhattan.
Mary Jane Cornielle how coincidental i just left the Prospect and Intervale areas to come back up to Rensselaer County (Brunswick and Schodack) just got back today! Have a second place up here its beautiful and way more space but miss home already! Was great to get back down and see my old stomping grounds.
I was 8 years old when my mother Moved to the bronx in1966 i when to ps66 school in Longfellow ave i think it was Longfellow ave..we Use to live in 1071 home st a block away from Westchester Ave. A few years later we moved to 1084 the building in front..1084 still standing but 1071 is been gone for years. I got married in the bronx. My 3 kids were born in the bronx...im in Mississippi right now is a long story..but I have family still living in the bronx. Sisters brothers nephew niece's Ext.ext. is been 32 long years that I don't visit the bronx..I want to go And walk the neighborhoods that i ones walk and play with my friends whe i was a kid. I'm to be 62 in July 16 I love the bronx beautiful memories. The bronx zoo the botanica garden 😍 The parks like croton park were I play basketball from little ligue to AA baseball later softball morison ave Park. St Mary Park. Orchard Beach. 156 st and st Ann's there use to be a huge park .pelham Bay park. St vew park..waaaaaahhhoooo.
You will be running back to old miss in 2 days lol. All the parks you named are ok for a visit but stay out of st Mary unless you are looking to buy drugs. In general crime has blown up all around the city and the bronx even more.
Joe Ricci- I was hoping that someone could spot themselves or someone they knew. I glad you did. I spent part of my childhood in the Bronx but my family moved out when things started to get bad.
@@guillermone1 understandable about families moving when the area changes.... people were encouraged to do that.... move to more space in the suburbs or Coop City..... and who gets left behind? those that can't afford to leave.... drugs, fatherless homes, corrupt public officials and a building stock that was exhausted and needed major investment, welfare paid relocations, arson for insurance and the '77 blackout looting were the perfect storm..... I lived in the aftermath there from 80 to 98..... many good people in smaller homes and a small number of stubborn against the flow landlords kept some block alive... like mine on the 1500 block of Vyse...
@@williammorse8330 -You missed all the fun, came in right after the Bronx began to experience a renaissance. Our family left before the peak of the curve, when it was more profitable for landlords to burn down their buildings to get insurance money than to collect rents. Although, I lived in Mott Haven section of the Bronx, specifically on Cauldwell Ave, don't recall if the area became blighted. But I do know there was a rise in crime rates which was the main motivation for us to leave. Coincidentally, I lived on the 5th floor walk-up, tenement apartment building, right across from Saint Mary's Public housing. My childhood friend and neighbor at the time lived with his family on my floor at the corner apartment on the opposite end of the hallway. He was the former NY state Senator Pedro Espada Jr. who was convicted of stealing money from his "non-profit." Well perhaps my association with him may not be something to brag about, but I do remember Pedro as a really good kid, never a trouble maker, who always stayed home after school, doing homework, and studying hard, hitting those books, while everyone else was out doing mischief or playing stick ball on the streets. He really had a tough life growing up, both of his parents passed away while he was still young. First his father and later his mom who I believed died of throat cancer. After going through all that, too bad he ended up a disgraced public figure, who served time in prison. I'm mostly retired now, living in South florida and I haven't been back to the South Bronx in well over 40+ years. I would like to one day return and check out the old neighborhood just to reminisce and see how it has changed. I might even try to track down Pedro to see how he is doing these days. My elderly mom still has pictures of us together with images of smiling faces sitting next to our corresponding siblings. Anyway, its just a thought and some of the memories I wanted to share.
@@guillermone1 thanks, Guillermo.... I do remember getting Pedro's legislative updates in the mail, thanks for the bio on his growing up....... do try and look him up.... you will forever wonder and regret a bit not doing it.... he may have even moved, like you, to South Florida. The Navy stationed me at Homestead and I worked at Card Sound Road on the way to Key Largo.... my similar story involves Mickey Diaz, who like me, was rehabbing 1549 Vyse, while I was doing the same with 1545.... Mickey was the local School Committee chair and an activist in District 12... he helped keep PS 50 open across the street from us.... like other Bronx districts, 12 had issues, changed Supers like shirts, and was convicted of some form of racketeering and spend 6 months at Rikers Island.... he may have operated just outside the law, but he was the fall guy.... anyway, I wound up teaching for a time at PS 50 and that was my intro to the profession..... some great people and children.... others with tremendous challenges.... there is more, let me know if you want to stay in touch...... my time there was from '80 to '98. and yes, I was too late for the gangs(the Vyse Avenue Javelins) and burnings, etc... helter skelter.... Howard Cosell: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning."
Amazing! Some few landmarks are still present and recognizable and sometimes addresses are visible. Besides the obvious Kings Bridge (3:24), Yankee Stadium(0:11 & 3:16) and the Bronx civil court (6:18), Dollar savings bank still today at 2526 Grand concourse (3:43); East 149th & 3rd Avenue ( 5:44) the subway apparently went underground; Westchester & Trinity Avenue (1:04); 582 morris Avenue (3:01);Somewhere on Tinton Avenue maybe 386 (6:21 ). Thanks for sharing.
Appears to be E Kingsbridge rd. and Jerome ave. at (4:12) modern day Morton williams. At 0:05 is 315 E kingsbridge rd near Fordham rd between the years 1920 and 1950. At 0:41 Fox st. and Intervale ave. At 2:09 Gerrard Ave. and 161 st. At 4:00 Westchester Ave. and Prospect Ave. At 4:20 Bruckner Blvd. near Lafayette Ave.
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone i couldnt agree more. I lived right on 163rd and Fox where the school is and houses across the street.I ended moving because someone decided to rent the house next door to a drug addict family.I felt no longer safe not even with the detective station next block.It was such a great street with working families.
Da Bronx Home st. Fox st. Hoe ave, Simpson st. Southern Blvd. Elder av, Grand concourse, Pelham Parkway, Knox Place, Ryer ave, Gunhill rd, River ave, Findlay ave, all the places I lived in the Da Bronx👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 fun fun fun
I recognize the The Armory on Kingsbridge, Grand Concourse & Fordham , South Bx by the Mitchell Houses , and the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway .
How come we rarely see pictures of the North Bronx where we had mostly private homes and few apartment houses? It's always the South Bronx it seems. Wakefield, Woodlawn, Mosholu Parkway, Riverdale, etc.
So much went on in the South Bronx over a short time span while the rest of the Bronx was calm and normal even to this day. I planned on doing driving videos of parts of the Bronx but have not got around to do it.
Media don't like to put nice things on view always the South Bronx that's what people think of when they hear the Bronx. In the thirties when you said you were moving to the Bronx it was considered moving up. I wonder how many people know that president John Fitzgerald Kennedy family lived in Riverdale the Bronx. In 1950 I lived near a 20 Acre Farm in the Bronx. Then there is Parkchester with. Beautiful fountains it was once upon a time because if you go there now you can't walk after 5 at night. Whose fault is it the Riff Raff that moved in &. Turned it into the ghetto they came from. Your . You are photo sitting.. when I tell people I lived 15 minutes away from the beach (orchard beach) ,. I they can't believe it.
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone ..when I was younger our apt over looked the xbronx. The elder family members use to tell me they remembered when there was no xbx. ..as a kidz I found this phenomenon ..I used to think how could there not be a road there 😁
I know there were a lot of bombed out looking areas, especially in the south Bronx, but I grew up on 180th Street near Southern Blvd in the 1950's and early 1960's. The apartment buildings were old but were still in decent condition.. We had stores along 180th street and Tremont Ave. was the neighborhood street to shop. For more shopping and entertainment (movie theaters, restaurants) we have Grand Concourse and Fordham Rd. In that area we had Alexander's department Store and many different types of shops up and down Fordham Road as well as along the Grand Concourse. Jahns ice cream parlar and restaurant, Krum Chocolatier was a place to go out with friends. This is the Bronx I remember in my formative years. Show some of this also.
926 east 180th street grandparents walk up grandpa used to take me to the Bronx zoo on the boat and to the reptile house every kid needs to go to that zoo when I was in the lion 🏠1 smelled funny years later I had cats and remembered the smell
Very good description of the area , grew up 187th street and Beaumont Ave ,1939 left in 1961. Used to go to 180th St. on a regular basis Was a pigeon flyer and Sams Pet shop was located there. Sold pigeons and pigeon feed. Great memories.
Very nice and interesting. And some very beautiful Old London style Row Houses at 6:20. Now is anyone familiar with FDNY Engine 82 and Truck 31? I believe the Engine House is on Intervale Avenue. Thank you for this great video. Good luck and God Bless.
At 1:55 construction for the Cross Bronx Expressway. At 2:17 old diner by the Unionport Rd. train tracks overpass bridge. I f not mistaken the diner was still there in the 60's.
i was born in the Bronx 1944 and i remember street cars and some other things but my best memory is when we moved to long island when i was 6 never to return ha ha ha
I definitely remember the bronx between 80s and even early 90s a lot of burn old building and many desolated areas. The Bronx its not the same anymore, more vibrant now.
From the classroom window of p.s. 74 now grace dodge high school in 1948- 1949 I watched the Dollar Savings Bank being built ,when I saw a flag waving from the top of the building I asked the teacher about it,and she told me it was customary to place a flag on new construction when the top was reached.
The south Bronx is a dumping ground for drug programs. It's supposed to be spread out in the city but on some streets there are several. Some of these people would have no reason to be in the Bronx if they were not going to these programs.
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone we need some type of help quality of life in the bx is zero...i was on that north bound 2 train and a junky with 4 exposed needles in his pocket almost got violent its crazy super dumping ground its sad
In a previous coverage of The Bronx no mention of the family for whom it is named.They were the Bronx.Also missing is mention of Edgar Allen Poe's home.Nevertheless,it was enlightening to read its praises.B.Villa
The 70s era of the Bronx I remember had some good areas in it but was on a decline as much of or? A few boroughs of the city was. Graffiti on the sides of the elevated trains or subway trains ... I was born in the Bronx in the late 50s and was there until the mid 60s but also traveled back in the early and mid 70s and spent a few summers there. We lived in the Fordham area as well as the Pelham Parkway area. My dad's side of the family back in the city has a beer and soda distributorship in the Bronx. My late grandparents moved from the Bronx when I was born out to Yonkers. My late Grandfather help establish the Empire distributor association. He also was good friends with the old voice of the N.Y. Yankees Mel Allen. Things or business has changed over the years im sure... But im also willing to say ? There are still a limited list of things there in the city home to the Bronx Bombers ? The Bronx Zoo and Fordham University and perhaps a few good wise guy..... Uh Oops! I mean nice guy Pizzeria business's . in close ? I wish that several of the old retail great businesses were still there like some of the nice men's clothing store's ? As I also hope that someone or a small group of investors would place some real money into the Bronx and clean up the areas that need it and above all ? That the city's people work collectively in reducing the crazy and senseless crimes? And strive for building a nice pearl in the city there and that everyone learns to work , play and live a nice secure life for decades to come.
BX Baby.Had the amazing opportunity to live on 169 Gerard ave and E 214 street white plains road area.I must add that technology has changed a lot of things.Some kids will never know what real adventure is like.
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I’ve lived in The Bronx almost all my life but would’ve really appreciated if you could tag each pic with DATE & LOCATION! Thanks!!!
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Born, raised and still here in the Bronx. Lots of memories!!! Thanks!
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I was born and raised in the Bronx and that's how it was back in the days. When I was a kid it didn't look trashy that was the norm for us even the abandoned buildings and the brick dirty Lots was our playground. Stacking up old mattresses and jumping from a high place onto the mattress was fun for us growing up. Finding an empty can of beans scraping it on the floor open up the other end to use on the Johnny pump, lots of memories wow. Handball was very popular in the Bronx when I was growing up, I'm 46 years old and still have my handball skills. Lol thanks to the Bronx!
God Is Good u better had been born before the 60s cuz I grew up there in the 70s and it was way trashier than it is today.
@@StopJerkingOff I was born in 1973 my neighborhood didn't look trashy but they're working but there was neighborhoods that did.
@@juan6047 I was born in 1973 that makes me 48
@@juan6047 dude I'm 48 and if I sound young thank you for the compliment.
@@StopJerkingOff another thing you probably did grow up in a trashy neighborhood. The whole Bronx was in trashy and the 70s he became trashy in the 80s when crack was introduced to the Bronx. My neighborhoods were 180th and Creston Avenue and 183rd ryer Avenue these were good neighborhoods at one time. So talk what you know and know what you talk. 🙂
Would of been nice if each photo was tagged with the actual location.
With the year
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@@hugolafhugolaf smd
@@SeymourKitty if ya make a video of that people might pay
The first night of my life in 1951 I slept in my grandparent's apartment on Fox Street. Can't believe you show a picture of that street sign.
0:56 that white castle is still there on Fordham rd
You are correct. I thought they put a TD Bank there but that is down the block. The one one the Bruckner was rebuilt also.
Yes and So is the Tremont Diner 😊
No matter where u go on the face of this earth, when you hear
the BRONX u know there’s a feeling of tough love in the air!! I love the BX!!!
@2 WheelsForever Not a shit hole anymore. The most progressive borough in the city right now!
There's a feeling of a shithole too.
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That shithole is the birth of a whole GENERATION, so stop tryna put that place down, especially if u won’t go there & say it to someone’s face. 😆
And everywhere u go on earth have good & bad areas.
I've been to every borough except for Staten Island.
Gee money A lot of salty people in these comments because their parents moved them away from the Bronx before they could be a part of the greatness. Crazy how these people are 40-60 years old with spiteful, jealousy-filled hearts. The Bronx wasn’t made for everybody but everybody had a choice to make the best of it.
As bad as it was the kids were all smiles and having fun.
@Lisa Terranova we just missed being neighbors.... lived at 1545 Vyse from '82 to '98.... I may have a picture
of your house from the 80s? we may know a few of the same people.... I wound up teaching at PS 50 around
the corner from you.... saludos, Bill
@Lisa Terranova hi Lisa.... thanks for getting back to me.... a few things.... I may remember the wooden
house standing detached near the corner with 172 and four connected rowhouses across the street...
they are still there, as far as I know... going back to the corner near the house you knew was a red and
white house and if you continued around the corner onto 172 there was/is a little bodega in a 3 story building, then you hit
"The Mildred", a five story apartment building you entered on Vyse. That building was vacant for many
years, but fortunately kept sealed and never sustained bad fire damage. It was renovated in the mid 90s
if memory serves.... I taught in the 90s at PS 50, the school you mention, it was a bilingual science program.
Best to reach me at williammorse42@gmail.com as I am not on social media and only got an answering
machine after I missed a job interview. take care, Lisa, stay healthy and sane.
Bill
My dad grew up in the Italian side of the Bronx then moved to Harlem in his teens and he said although sometimes it was dangerous with monsters, it was the best time of his life and wish we experienced the fun he had.
Gene.... were you ever part of O.A.R. working with Spofford juveniles in 1980? Bill
Yea i grew up in those days ..i just remember being outside and playing with my friends we knew nothing else so I guess we assumed everyone lived like this ..
If you visit NYC & didn’t come to the Bronx, then u haven’t been to NY.
Avoid that place like plague.
Avoid that shit like a plague.
Elkin Hernandez
Avoid what?
Yea.. so you can rob us? Fuck outta here 🐵
@@Gelta3333 that's because ya'll a bunch of bitches, stay in lower Manhattan
I remember playing in those lots full of rubble when I was a kid. The garbage everywhere. Back then you needed to be smart or you ended up on a milk carton.
I remember packs of stray dogs always around
You know what I always wondered is what in the heck are those old 8 or 10 story buildings like what were they?? old factories???
Yeah, I definitely remember the Bronx back in the days,60s,70s,80s to present. I could imagine
the people that never lived in that era would call it a dump and yes, it was a dump but I lived it and as a kid I enjoyed it and truly so, I mean I grew up in the Bronx and I'm still here and love it and always will! thanks for sharing.
@Omar J store owners and landlords burned down their own buildings to collect the insurance money but mainstream media will have you believe the people tore it up
You're right. ..its a dump
@Omar J Crime was out of control and people just packed up and left. Blocks were left with abanded businesses and apartments.
Holy crap.... At 2:00 that's the cross bronx express way being built...that school on the left still stands... And most of those buildings.
The big ditch that pretty much destroyed Property value at that time
The Boogie Down Bronx...My hometown .....Grew up here in the 70s 80s and 90s...Always special times for me....No place like it!
No one is wearing skinny Jean's
None at all!!
One time I left Yankee Stadium and took a wrong turn and promptly got lost. Next thing I know I was in one of those burned out neighborhoods where there was just a huge pile of rubble where dozens of houses used to be. In the middle of it was a lone cop. I went up to him for help. First words out of his mouth, "Wrong turn, huh?" He told me how to get back to the Deegan Expressway and he also told me that if anyone started coming up to me at a red light to simply run it. No cop was gonna give me a ticket!
That sounds about right. This must have been many years ago and the cop was at that location because of wrong turns lol. Can I ask how you came to see this video?
I found it funny that the picture of the White Castle also had a sign for Ex Lax in the window next door. Anyone who has eaten White Castle knows the irony!
So true. Never eat it before a road trip that is for sure lol
I ate White Castle recently and I think they changed something, it doesn't have that effect on me like it did when I was younger.
Love white castle, those delicious hamburgers
great Scott Joplin Rag time music, nice choice.
TH-cam library. It's a nice tune.
Bronx, n.y. was a beautiful place to live at one time it may be done but not forgotten 😊
Haa.
Thanks for bringing me back home... The White Castle in front of my school ‘Thomas C. Giordanno’ definitely brought back a lot of memories... so did the ‘Dollar Savings Bank’ at Grand Concourse.
It's cool looking back on history.
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone want to be with you for the update
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone you can handle the other day and I was your age
You can handle it and it was cool
Your welcome and thank you for the update and I will be there tomorrow at work tomorrow and I can get it to pay for the update I will be there for iytyuitrtand don't have the other y yo I type it up and it shows that I have a car to get to pay the full amount of yourself I you smoke too much crack for your family and friends
Too bad they aren't labeled with the locations.
th-cam.com/video/tO_2xzNXIDM/w-d-xo.html This one has some locations and dates
There's so much history in our beautiful borough. People just have to choose to educate themselves the information is all there. One just has to seek it the Bronx is a beautiful place that I and we call home.
They should have kept as many of the old tenements up as possible.They are beautifully built.Like the old redbrick Victorian terraced houses in parts of Manchester UK are.
It would have been more visually interesting if there were more photos of how the Bronx looked before the burned out buildings and empty lots. Obviously that's a part of the history of the Bronx, but what did it look like before the expressways, housing projects and parkways were built? Also labeling the photos and posting the year would help. A LOT.
Yeah cuz I've never seen any pictures of what those buildings look like before they were all screwed up and look like a war zone 😟
Much like the parts of the bronx that weren’t blighted and burned look today
It’s not overly deep lol
Before the development, it was all Dutch farmland.
Bronx Park used to have houses along the Bronx River. My friend’s great grandfather was a German immigrant and had a house there in the early 1900s He showed me an old photo from 1910 when his grandfather was a kid living there.
White Castle was located on the corner of Fordham Rd. And lorillard place that is p.s. 45 behind it and the lower windows were the machine shop class Mr Charlie Dill was the teacher I attended from 1950 to 1953 .
and that white castle is still there
Yep
@Vincent Mileto Every once in a while in the Sunday daily news White Castle would offer a coupon and with it you could get 10 yes 10 White Castle hamburgers for a quarter .They were much smaller in size than now.
right next to ps 254 and Roosevelt
John Garfield learned his acting skills at ps45 and in the 30's he went back to visit the school and his drama teacher. My dad was about 12 and was chosen to escort him around the school. He later received a letter from Garfield. I often went to that White Castles and the burgers were 12 cents. Across the street was a Ford dealership, the next block going toward Webster had an Army and Navy store, a veterinarian, across from there you could see some of the Fordham U campus, then you hit the el. Across from there was the Sears and Roebuck AND the most interesting places in the 50's and 60's were 2 motorcycle stores. One was the now sought after BSA and next to it a Triumph dealership. There was also a pet shop, a hot dog stand and then the bus terminal which were just outside aisles where buses lined up and drivers switched.
I had an interesting life growing up there ( Arthur ave)
I have lived in the south bronx most of my life and still lives here.I have never had a problem, got married have my children they all have a good education can't complain,love the bronx
Thanks... I was showing my kids your video. I like the pictures of the old “Ls”... I remember walking up to the old elevated trains on 149th street and 3rd ave. I remember the old trolly tracks on Brook ave. I used to play in the open pumps in the summer. My sons think I’m crazy... or just old.
Glad you enjoyed it. The best water I ever had was from a Bronx open hydrant lol
HecksVision : lol... last summer there was an open hydrant on the way to my sons TKD classes... we all would drink from the hydrant. Every time my sons pass the same area... they are looking to see if it’s open. I’m thirsty just a thinking about it.
Bronx born & raised❤😁
Good morning Ms.P. born in Manhattan, but came home to "the bronx,for raising!
@@estherwhite3119 😁👍
Born & raised there too. Moved quite a bit throughout Throggs Neck, Silver Beach, Castle Hill projects...lol. Moved away after 30 years of great memories😊
Hey baby! 😍😘
Jose Hernandez Jose! You tawkin ta me?
A nice trip down memory lane, I lived in the Bronx from 1956-1994 and worked there up until 2011 near the Old Lincoln Hospital on Southern Blvd. I seen it all, from the days of Doo-Wops to the emerging of Hip-Hop. They left out 'Freedomland' that was where Co-op city stands today. If the rents had not gotten so crazy, I might have still lived there. Tracy Towers, near my alma mater DeWitt Clinton HS, called me but by that time I was already settled in on the Palisades in Northern NJ.
I lived from 8 to 30 on university Avenue and had Tracy towers as a view in the distance. Even went to
That high school for one summer.
"Freedomland" lived short, some like four years. Living in the Bronx we had many other alternatives while they were still around. We used to visit "Adventurer's Inn" in Flushing, "Palisades Park" in NJ and "Rye Playland" in Rye, NY. "Coney Island" was another spot we visited although not so often.
I also went to Clinton h.s 92 to 94 cause I got thrown out of James Monroe h.s , long trip cause I’m from 174th vyse avenue by southern boulevard
I LOVE MY BOOGIE DOWN HOME💕....I wouldn't change a thing. Made me the amazing woman I AM today🏆💕
We've come a LONG way!
Indeed! Home of the bravest!
How beautiful true Bronx is in its bones at the turn of the 20th Century. As solid a foundation in its architecture, much of which still exists, as are the people who have lived a lifetime there and continue to live there. All the people.
That first piece of music is the "Entertainer" a big ragtime hit and a personal favorite. This one gets a like on the music alone.
I feel it worked well with the feel of the photos. thanks
These pictures brought back a lot of memories. I recognized many of the places. I was originally from Manhattan, Upper West Side, Riverside Drive to be exact. After College I was hired at The Bronx Criminal Court on 3rd Ave. before the new court house was built. Funny, as much as I criticized The Bronx, I moved there to be close to work. After five years on Sheridan Ave. & W. 161 St. I moved to the Riverdale Section of The Bronx. Lived there 30 years. Now I live in Brunswick, N.Y. in Albany. I must point out that The Bronx was burnt out by the Landlords, who hired people to burn the buildings. They would get more money from the Insurance Companies, then if they sold them. People blamed the residents, but it wasn't so. Nevertheless, I grew to love The Bronx. City Island, Throggs Neck, Parkchester, Riverdale, Pelham Bay, it's all beautiful. Better than crowded Manhattan.
I just got back from Albany this weekend. I was at central park playing in a tennis tournament.
HecksVision - Awesome! Did you win?
HecksVision cool😎
I won 2 matches and lost 2. The team came in 4th place. Great weather.
Mary Jane Cornielle how coincidental i just left the Prospect and Intervale areas to come back up to Rensselaer County (Brunswick and Schodack) just got back today! Have a second place up here its beautiful and way more space but miss home already! Was great to get back down and see my old stomping grounds.
I was 8 years old when my mother
Moved to the bronx in1966 i when to ps66 school in Longfellow ave i think it was Longfellow ave..we
Use to live in 1071 home st a block away from Westchester Ave. A few years later we moved to 1084 the building in front..1084 still standing but 1071 is been gone for years. I got married in the bronx. My 3 kids were born in the bronx...im in Mississippi right now is a long story..but I have family still living in the bronx.
Sisters brothers nephew niece's
Ext.ext. is been 32 long years that I don't visit the bronx..I want to go
And walk the neighborhoods that i ones walk and play with my friends whe i was a kid.
I'm to be 62 in July 16 I love the bronx beautiful memories. The bronx zoo the botanica garden 😍
The parks like croton park were I play basketball from little ligue to AA baseball later softball morison ave Park. St Mary Park. Orchard Beach. 156 st and st Ann's there use to be a huge park .pelham Bay park. St vew park..waaaaaahhhoooo.
You will be running back to old miss in 2 days lol. All the parks you named are ok for a visit but stay out of st Mary unless you are looking to buy drugs. In general crime has blown up all around the city and the bronx even more.
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone crime in the Bronx was worst 36 years ago
This brought back so many memories. Love it.. the biggest noticeable transformation I saw occurred between 1988-1994.
Thanks for watching!
That's me @ 4:59 showing the Peace Sign...GOOD TIMES!!!
Might of found it from Google images. Was that the Bronx or the west side highway? What's the story of that photo
Joe Ricci- I was hoping that someone could spot themselves or someone they knew. I glad you did. I spent part of my childhood in the Bronx but my family moved out when things started to get bad.
@@guillermone1 understandable about families moving when the area changes.... people were encouraged to
do that.... move to more space in the suburbs or Coop City..... and who gets left behind? those that can't afford to leave.... drugs, fatherless homes, corrupt public officials and a building stock that was exhausted
and needed major investment, welfare paid relocations, arson for insurance and the '77 blackout looting
were the perfect storm.....
I lived in the aftermath there from 80 to 98..... many good people in smaller homes and a small number of
stubborn against the flow landlords kept some block alive... like mine on the 1500 block of Vyse...
@@williammorse8330 -You missed all the fun, came in right after the Bronx began to experience a renaissance. Our family left before the peak of the curve, when it was more profitable for landlords to burn down their buildings to get insurance money than to collect rents. Although, I lived in Mott Haven section of the Bronx, specifically on Cauldwell Ave, don't recall if the area became blighted. But I do know there was a rise in crime rates which was the main motivation for us to leave.
Coincidentally, I lived on the 5th floor walk-up, tenement apartment building, right across from Saint Mary's Public housing. My childhood friend and neighbor at the time lived with his family on my floor at the corner apartment on the opposite end of the hallway. He was the former NY state Senator Pedro Espada Jr. who was convicted of stealing money from his "non-profit."
Well perhaps my association with him may not be something to brag about, but I do remember Pedro as a really good kid, never a trouble maker, who always stayed home after school, doing homework, and studying hard, hitting those books, while everyone else was out doing mischief or playing stick ball on the streets. He really had a tough life growing up, both of his parents passed away while he was still young. First his father and later his mom who I believed died of throat cancer. After going through all that, too bad he ended up a disgraced public figure, who served time in prison.
I'm mostly retired now, living in South florida and I haven't been back to the South Bronx in well over 40+ years. I would like to one day return and check out the old neighborhood just to reminisce and see how it has changed. I might even try to track down Pedro to see how he is doing these days. My elderly mom still has pictures of us together with images of smiling faces sitting next to our corresponding siblings. Anyway, its just a thought and some of the memories I wanted to share.
@@guillermone1 thanks, Guillermo.... I do remember getting Pedro's legislative updates in the mail, thanks for the bio on his growing up....... do try and look him up.... you will forever wonder and regret a bit not doing
it.... he may have even moved, like you, to South Florida. The Navy stationed me at Homestead and I worked
at Card Sound Road on the way to Key Largo....
my similar story involves Mickey Diaz, who like me, was rehabbing 1549 Vyse, while I was doing the same with 1545.... Mickey was the local School Committee chair and an activist in District 12... he helped keep
PS 50 open across the street from us.... like other Bronx districts, 12 had issues, changed Supers like shirts,
and was convicted of some form of racketeering and spend 6 months at Rikers Island.... he may have operated just outside the law, but he was the fall guy.... anyway, I wound up teaching for a time at PS 50 and
that was my intro to the profession..... some great people and children.... others with tremendous challenges.... there is more, let me know if you want to stay in touch...... my time there was from '80 to '98.
and yes, I was too late for the gangs(the Vyse Avenue Javelins) and burnings, etc... helter skelter....
Howard Cosell: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning."
Amazing! Some few landmarks are still present and recognizable and sometimes addresses are visible. Besides the obvious Kings Bridge (3:24), Yankee Stadium(0:11 & 3:16) and the Bronx civil court (6:18), Dollar savings bank still today at 2526 Grand concourse (3:43); East 149th & 3rd Avenue ( 5:44) the subway apparently went underground; Westchester & Trinity Avenue (1:04); 582 morris Avenue (3:01);Somewhere on Tinton Avenue maybe 386 (6:21 ). Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for this detailed comment. I will pin this to the top so others can see!
That's the Armory on kingsbridge ave. and Jerome at 3:24.
Yankee Stadium still exists, but in a different form
Love all these photos. Thank you
Appears to be E Kingsbridge rd. and Jerome ave. at (4:12) modern day Morton williams.
At 0:05 is 315 E kingsbridge rd near Fordham rd between the years 1920 and 1950.
At 0:41 Fox st. and Intervale ave.
At 2:09 Gerrard Ave. and 161 st.
At 4:00 Westchester Ave. and Prospect Ave.
At 4:20 Bruckner Blvd. near Lafayette Ave.
Go look at Fox st. and Intervale Ave today..tidy proud homes with no hint of the urban decay seen here.
Yes, but they are flooding the area with shelters and drug programs. I plan on doing a drive around video soon.
HecksVision oh, cool😎
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone i couldnt agree more. I lived right on 163rd and Fox where the school is and houses across the street.I ended moving because someone decided to rent the house next door to a drug addict family.I felt no longer safe not even with the detective station next block.It was such a great street with working families.
I can recognize a lot of these locations, I have driven through them and I even remember the old green MTA buses.
That house at 0:30 reminds me of the house in the movie titled _Batteries Not Included._
it might be in that movie..i was also thinking of the movie beat street...lol
me too thats what i thought when i 1st saw it
Great video idea.
Remarkable. Great film.
Da Bronx Home st. Fox st. Hoe ave, Simpson st. Southern Blvd. Elder av, Grand concourse, Pelham Parkway, Knox Place, Ryer ave, Gunhill rd, River ave, Findlay ave, all the places I lived in the Da Bronx👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 fun fun fun
That is a ton of moves lol
HecksVision Grew up the BX with my Dad who moved a lot, haha, and my grandma. Had a few ex wives , girlfriends, fiancé. 😂😂😂😂
Great memories for me thanks for this
Thanks for watching
Great job on this video.
Thanks!
I went to that school behind White Castle!
That’s PS 45 right off Fordham Rd. Both are still there today.
I went to night summer school at Theodore Roosevelt High School for one summer. It was sad with the wooden desk still in use.
Wow! Thanks so much for this!
You're very welcome!
Amazing video, thank you
Glad you liked it!
It's amazing to think that we're walking around in so much history. Thanks for sharing!
I recognize the The Armory on Kingsbridge, Grand Concourse &
Fordham , South Bx by the Mitchell Houses , and the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway .
I went to the school next to the armory as a kid.
HecksVision I’m a Harlemnite , but I attended Lehman College and lived in the BX for a few years.
How come we rarely see pictures of the North Bronx where we had mostly private homes and few apartment houses? It's always the South Bronx it seems. Wakefield, Woodlawn, Mosholu Parkway, Riverdale, etc.
So much went on in the South Bronx over a short time span while the rest of the Bronx was calm and normal even to this day. I planned on doing driving videos of parts of the Bronx but have not got around to do it.
Media don't like to put nice things on view always the South Bronx that's what people think of when they hear the Bronx. In the thirties when you said you were moving to the Bronx it was considered moving up. I wonder how many people know that president John Fitzgerald Kennedy family lived in Riverdale the Bronx. In 1950 I lived near a 20 Acre Farm in the Bronx. Then there is Parkchester with. Beautiful fountains it was once upon a time because if you go there now you can't walk after 5 at night. Whose fault is it the Riff Raff that moved in &. Turned it into the ghetto they came from. Your . You are photo sitting.. when I tell people I lived 15 minutes away from the beach (orchard beach) ,. I they can't believe it.
@@jeanpalumbo3411 Also a world famous Music Genre was birth in those Streets,so everything north of the ''Fire Line'' Fordham Road was normal
Michael is your dad's name Joe Damiano?
@@jeanpalumbo3411 No, my father was Frank.
Yes indeed and what memories were those
The tenement buildings look similar to what many British cities looked like.
i’m from kingsbridge in the bronx born and raised and very proud of where i came from!!! it fuels me more knowing we was born to lose!! 💯🔝🙏🏻💪🏻🥶🙌🇵🇷
That is where I grew up also at the end of University ave Lehman college area.
Love the music!
Wow Amazing ...and to see the xbronx. And bruckner in its construction phases wow
Yes it's pretty cool
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone ..when I was younger our apt over looked the xbronx. The elder family members use to tell me they remembered when there was no xbx. ..as a kidz I found this phenomenon ..I used to think how could there not be a road there 😁
Great video. I worked in the Bronx for 35 years. Too bad its ganged up!
Nice to see and hear normal people 👍
Thanks for watching
Hey does it occur to who is responsible for these wonderful thoughtful pictures to put the date and location please
I know there were a lot of bombed out looking areas, especially in the south Bronx, but I grew up on 180th Street near Southern Blvd in the 1950's and early 1960's. The apartment buildings were old but were still in decent condition.. We had stores along 180th street and Tremont Ave. was the neighborhood street to shop. For more shopping and entertainment (movie theaters, restaurants) we have Grand Concourse and Fordham Rd. In that area we had Alexander's department Store and many different types of shops up and down Fordham Road as well as along the Grand Concourse. Jahns ice cream parlar and restaurant, Krum Chocolatier was a place to go out with friends. This is the Bronx I remember in my formative years. Show some of this also.
926 east 180th street grandparents walk up grandpa used to take me to the Bronx zoo on the boat and to the reptile house every kid needs to go to that zoo when I was in the lion 🏠1 smelled funny years later I had cats and remembered the smell
Very good description of the area , grew up 187th street and Beaumont Ave ,1939 left in 1961. Used to go to 180th St. on a regular basis Was a pigeon flyer and Sams Pet shop was located there. Sold pigeons and pigeon feed. Great memories.
~ 3:38 is grand concourse & fordhan rd .... ~ 2:52 is at the bottom of 3rd Ave ...
Very nice and interesting. And some very beautiful Old London style Row Houses at 6:20. Now is anyone familiar with FDNY Engine 82 and Truck 31? I believe the Engine House is on Intervale Avenue. Thank you for this great video. Good luck and God Bless.
The firehouse is still there by Home street.
Glad to call this place home
My home for many years
Wonderful pictures 😍
Amo história parabéns
I miss the Bronx of the 1980s
Great stuff, being a former resident
Thanks for watching
At 1:55 construction for the Cross Bronx Expressway. At 2:17 old diner by the Unionport Rd. train tracks overpass bridge. I f not mistaken the diner was still there in the 60's.
I love the Bronx.
i was born in the Bronx 1944 and i remember street cars and some other things but my best memory is when we moved to long island when i was 6 never to return ha ha ha
Would be great to have captions denoting the locations/era.
That Earl movie theatre I believe is a sports bar now
My old neighborhood Kingsbridge at 3:25
I used to live on the end of University Ave
That's where I was born..The Bronx
Morris Park to be exact..
I definitely remember the bronx between 80s and even early 90s a lot of burn old building and many desolated areas. The Bronx its not the same anymore, more vibrant now.
From the classroom window of p.s. 74 now grace dodge high school in 1948- 1949 I watched the Dollar Savings Bank being built ,when I saw a flag waving from the top of the building I asked the teacher about it,and she told me it was customary to place a flag on new construction when the top was reached.
Great
got me subded!!!!would love to see east newyork or BK in the same frame
Thanks for watching. I will try and get some more content out
Oh ( YES ) I remember these days really good my god ! !
Savage Skulls
LOVE THE BRONX HATE THE ADDICTS 😬😬😬😬😬😬
The south Bronx is a dumping ground for drug programs. It's supposed to be spread out in the city but on some streets there are several. Some of these people would have no reason to be in the Bronx if they were not going to these programs.
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone we need some type of help quality of life in the bx is zero...i was on that north bound 2 train and a junky with 4 exposed needles in his pocket almost got violent its crazy super dumping ground its sad
In a previous coverage of The Bronx no mention of the family for whom it is named.They were the Bronx.Also missing is mention of Edgar Allen Poe's home.Nevertheless,it was enlightening to read its praises.B.Villa
Wow ...185 and Park Ave..4294 wow bro
thanks for watching
3:27 YOOOOOOOOO I live around here
Thanks
I have a spiritual connection with the bronx
Love it..
Thanks
I remember this song ...The ENTERTAINER
If you like that song then you need to see this guy play in on guitar. th-cam.com/video/RCGGG9piAGY/w-d-xo.html
I am a proud Bronxite!
Thanks for watching
Times changing my Man
The 70s era of the Bronx I remember had some good areas in it but was on a decline as much of or? A few boroughs of the city was. Graffiti on the sides of the elevated trains or subway trains ... I was born in the Bronx in the late 50s and was there until the mid 60s but also traveled back in the early and mid 70s and spent a few summers there. We lived in the Fordham area as well as the Pelham Parkway area. My dad's side of the family back in the city has a beer and soda distributorship in the Bronx. My late grandparents moved from the Bronx when I was born out to Yonkers. My late Grandfather help establish the Empire distributor association. He also was good friends with the old voice of the N.Y. Yankees Mel Allen. Things or business has changed over the years im sure... But im also willing to say ? There are still a limited list of things there in the city home to the Bronx Bombers ? The Bronx Zoo and Fordham University and perhaps a few good wise guy..... Uh Oops! I mean nice guy Pizzeria business's . in close ? I wish that several of the old retail great businesses were still there like some of the nice men's clothing store's ? As I also hope that someone or a small group of investors would place some real money into the Bronx and clean up the areas that need it and above all ? That the city's people work collectively in reducing the crazy and senseless crimes? And strive for building a nice pearl in the city there and that everyone learns to work , play and live a nice secure life for decades to come.
Home...
West Tremont 176st Harrison Ave... 4 Train Line. The Bronx ❤
Please tell me the name of the 2nd piece of piano music used in this film. Thanks!
Honky Tonkin by Doug Maxwell
Hunts point bronx!! There will never be another place like it!! 80s 90s
I remember the drag car days at the point.
IF YOU NOTICED...THERE WAS AS MANY CARS ON THE ROAD AS TODAY.....NOW EVERYONE HAS A CAR.......
They still building new buildings and taking away more parking. Its a mess
Would have loved some info on each picture, name of buildings/dates etc
I will always love the Bronx. Pelham Parkway baby.
*Know it well. Thanks for watching!*
Damn show the North Bronx people who don't know will think the whole Bronx looks like the South Bronx
True. I was thinking of doing some driving videos and some walking videos of the parks.
@@ProjectsandReviewsZone Yes, sir.
Patterson houses was stomping ground Born in Lincoln hospital miss the good ol days.
1:19
Somethings never change
Whats the music title
First song is the entertainer 2nd Song is: Honky Tonkin by Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions
HecksVision thank you! Great vid btw. I wish I had more time during my ny vacation last year I would have been to the bronx
BX Baby.Had the amazing opportunity to live on 169 Gerard ave and E 214 street white plains road area.I must add that technology has changed a lot of things.Some kids will never know what real adventure is like.
These kids don't even want to go outside lol. It's sad.
nice
Kameo Theater??? Wow!!!!!😮😮😮