Action Kid thank you for setting the record straight regarding the origin of the geographical name, Jamaica. Many people - even many New Yorkers and Queens residents - mistakenly believe that it came from the Caribbean population living there. Thank you for straightening that out
For those who are from Queens. You can see that Jamaica Avenue is being gentrified. The new high rise buildings on Archer, the new Burlington and H&M there. Jamaica center or to us natives "THE AVE " is no longer the mom and pop, hustle man, let's make a deal shopping area as it was in the days of old. They're making it to look like Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. Five more years it will look like Willimsburg. I'm just saying.
Maybe he can save up $400 to see a thearpist so he can deal with being afraid of walking around a dangerous neighborhood. I mean everyone knows that it is abnormal to be scared of wonderful dangerous neighborhoods. Baby steps first try the Hamptons then work for yourself up to neighborhoods like the south Bronx.
I and I am LOL with you. Donald from here too. Me from Rockaway also in Jamaica. The Island Jamaica named after NY. The oldest Synegouge Western hemisphere in Jamaica.
@@dbanga5 Jamaica Township is the greater part of Queens County. It includes Rego Park, Woodhaven, JFK Airport, Howard Beach, Broad Channel and the Rockaways. What you see on this video is Downtown Jamaica or Jamaica Village. In NYS villages are within townships.
What a wonderful walkthrough. I live in the Bronx and never get to Queens. I love seeing NYC even though I live here. I felt like we were walking together. Who would give this a thumbs down. I say 👍
This right here is my home. Jamaica Ave where I used to go for clothes, school uniform, hanging out with friends at the movies, got my first chain at the Collesium. Nothing like Southside Jamaica Queens
I walked on Hillside Avenue about two years ago. Lots of Indo-Guyanese. Did see a lot of Central Americans on Jamaica Avenue. Times sure have changed. I miss that beef patty spot on Hillside next to the bus stop.
@@cecegiles7753 ... my people are there. ..I catch the bus or dollar van to go home from there after i get off train and other working class Black people trying to survive the concrete jungle "we" did not create ourselves.
Kid, I am always amazed by your poise and patience during your walks through the city. Additionally, your camerawork and narration provides a good description of the surroundings and landmarks! Thanks for your quality and informative videos! 🏛
The opposite for me. My social security check comes from Jamaica. NYC is fascinating in that the villages inside townships inside boroughs inside the city jurisdiction have maintained their geopolitical identities for over 300 years.
R.I.P the Payless store on Jamaica Ave 162st. My mom worked there for years and many people were definitely disappointed to see it go. I really love these videos of walk tours, it makes me appreciate the home town of where I live alot more ❤️.
If somebody asked me to show them a successful video on TH-cam, I would not hesitate for a second to show them this masterwork of highest and purest perfection success levels. Thank you once again, ActionKid, my dearest of friends!
I want to thank you for this tour of Jamaica. I grew up in Jamaica from about 1950 to 1965. I built snow forts in front of the Jamaica Criminal Court House. I sat on the two cannon (no longer there) in front of the Rufus King Mansion. Thanks again.
That’s my train stop and my area of Queens I live in a house right on 144! Oh and the people sitting on the stairs are drunks we’ve known them for years
Wow this was cool to see. I grew up in Jamaica on 118 Rd and New York Blvd. I will be attending a high school reunion this year and I got a little nostalgic and started looking for pics or video of the old neighborhood. Thanks for sharing.
I'm from the island Jamaica. I visited Jamaica, Queens in May 2018. The Social Security building (the orange building) was under construction when I was there, the finished product turned out beautiful.. Will sure be visiting the area again 😊
They are many shitty places to live but this area isn't that dangerous, hardly actually...what I will agree to is that people litter and have no respect for themselves, then again not all people. Please don't shit on my town it's come a long way.
Thanks for the memories man...I used to lived on Jamaica avenue and 117 street. Lived in that area for 28 years so I know it well. I live now in Florida for the last 20 years. Once again thanks for a walk thru memory lane.
Orlando so you live behind the 102 precinct. Remember triangle hofbrau restaurant? Gebhardts bakery? Jahns soda fountain? True value? I was there in the late 80's.🙂
you just passed my old house at 53:09 where the quality carpet place is, that was my building, and you passed an important landmark the Afrikan Poetry theater at 52:49 alot of famous poets and authors has passed through those doors. its so quiet around there now, it use to be popping. Ive seen jamaica ave change so much over the years, i pretty much remember what each store use to be on the ave, thanks for the tour, i shot my music video there a year ago. i use to catch that Q31 to bayside HS, rufus Park use to have a canon in front of that house. Gertz plaza mall is gone, Jam master Jay studio from Run dmc was on merrick Blvd, i remember when roti express first opened their doors, Mays on 169th before it became wertheimers and before whatever it is now. good memories
Here in the Netherlands is a town vallen, Zutphen. And i think that the name Sutphin is a origine Dutch place of the Dutch in New Netherlands. 😀 A great video again Action Kid.
Love the walks in the big cities,but these smaller towns are the heart of the state.Mom and Pop shops and the neighborhoods show me the true NY way of life.They aren't shiny and clean,but they have history and spirit.Thanks again for another lovely walk,ActionKid.Take care.
Thank you for another great video. I very much enjoy listening to you, as you walk the different places, in New York. I live on Mds. Eastern Shore, and enjoy enjoy New York, through your videos.
This area has a lot of character to it, which is what I like about this area and other areas like it in New York City. Great video of an interesting and character-filled offbeat area; I love how you can buy transit tickets from a ticket machine *_on the street_* in New York, a thing that I wish we had here in Toronto.
This is awesome. It's like being there. Never been though. But I love the just-a-regular-day aspect. You get to see everything you need and know some facts and hints too. Great job. Love from Denmark 😊👍
Left NY over 50 years ago. Thoroughly enjoyed this Doesn't look like the Jamaica Ave I knew. I noticed he walked by the Tabernacle church. Wish he had looked up because that was probably the old Valencia Theater I used to go to. It was a beautiful building designed by an architect who designed only 7 of these. I went to one in Kalamazoo, MI and it was so much like the Valencia but now used for concerts. Thanks for the memories!
Yayy! You're in my hood. It was my birthday this day and I was in Aruba. You should've got on the E train and got off Jamaica Center. I love where I live! There's no place like it 💜
Mr. Thank you so much for this video. I use to live on 175th Street back in the 70's. There use to be a Regency Place where the new public school is. They use to perform weddings there. And we use to use the side wall of the Regency to play handball.
Wow! Thank you ActionKid for the walk down memory lane. Even though Jamaica & Suphtin have changed so much. I left Jamaica, Queens in 1989, haven't been back even for a visit.(not that I didn't want to)I was totally lost where you started off. When you got to Kings Park I started remembering certain places. That was long walk. I use to walk that walk many times. Not now though. Well thanks again for sharing...✌🏽
Kid my wife and I we went to nyc back in April and you was filming a live video in front of the St. Patrick Cathedral and you ask my wife to said something to the girl you was talking to. You was wearing a tiger mask lol. I have been a follower for a long time. Good job
I used to walk every day from the last stop of the J train on Jamaica Ave all the way up the hill to Thomas A. Edison High School on 168 St and Grand Central Pky in Jamaica, Queens
I grew up on 179place. I was hoping you pass my old crib. Between 89th & hillside. I use to walk them same streets as a teenager (back in 1990s) brought back maaaad memories. Thanks dude
The single family homes on Jamaica Av. & 179 St are over 100 yrs old. It was predominately Guyanese community. You can tell by the ornamental iron work fences. Further up 179 St around 88 Ave & across Hillside Ave (Jamaica Estates Was yuppie Ville. If you ever get a chance stop into the Queens historical society. You might run into some old timers who would love to relieve the history of the various parts of Queens with you.
I love that less than 30 seconds after reading a sign saying that the King Manor museum was built in 1750 you then said you didn't know how old the building was 😅
Omg I live in Charlotte nc and u seen u passed by my old home 149-13 omg this video brought me back to 1994 when I was a kid the sound of the ice cream still there the Italian icream too omg jamaica has changed alot the park where my mom used to take us omg 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺💙💙💙💙🗽🗽🗽🗽
This is my old area back in the mid to late 80s. We lived at Main St. & Union Tpke. which you can see on the map at the start in the upper left corner, just to the right of where it shows the Kew Motor Inn, technically the Kew Garden Hills neighborhood. I went to Hillcrest HS. It was crazy back then, but also a lot of good memories. The hustle was real!
Lived there long ago..Shimer Jr High..John Adam's....he just passed Grace Episcopal Church on Jamaica Ave near Parsons...that's a historic church over 200 plus years old. On the north side of street... good to see the area..so much has changed ...since 2002 even...👍
ActionKid shows the best of NY. Some places , such as Jamaica, are every day NYorkers, living and working, making their way in life as they raise their families!
Wow you took me back!! I haven’t been in Jamaica ave since I was a kid and I wished you’d walk down 160th street so I can see where I used to live!! That would be awesome but I enjoyed your video and I’ll keep watching!!! 👍🏾🙏🏾
Thanks for your amazing Vidoes! Excellent Quality !! My hometown , Jamaica. Been there over 19 years. The place has transformed and its very busy with retail shops etc. There is also a Farmers Market on Fridays. You did a lot of walking...Be careful and God bless You. In between the Avenue there are lots of churches and schools now and so much More !!
Lived here during my high school and college years. The Q6 bus was the worst. Most of the time I walked home from the train station. When the bus did show up it was jam packed. Sometimes I even had my ghettoblaster with me. Had 3 different ones. My mother worried everytime I left the house with it but I always came back in one piece with all my stuff.
Hello, Action Kid , you should do a walk through, Kew Gardens. There are a lot of cleaner neighborhoods, and transportation hubs too. I used to live in Jamaica Queens. It was nice to see Jamaica Queens, Pre- Pandemic Era. Keep it up Action Kid.
Hi, thanks for spotlighting Jamaica! I realize this video is a few years old, I wish you would have done research ahead of time. Then you might’ve realized all of the actual Landmarks you passed. The Chase, the clock, even the Snipes (clothing store) are all landmarked. The Tabernacle of Prayer For All People was once the Loews Valencia. One of the five Loew’s Wonder Theaters. Then again, you walked showing the present and I’m thinking of Jamaica in the past
Rashan Sankofa LoL really I’ve hearing that people are too rude and everyone looks sad so much noise and stuffs but thanks bro for letting me know i think it’s cool to visit but not live or stay there
@Rashan Sankofa you troll a Google search told me that you think I was held captive? No we chose to live in New York stop making it seem like it's a hell hole you make not like it but maybe the next Average Joe or Jane may love it. I don't think you should have to insult someone over it
Those avenues remind me some avenues in the city where I live, Santiago Chile. Such as Gran avenida av., San Diego av., full of stores, banks, markets everywhere. 👍
Thanks for this - really interesting. I usually associate this area with stress and confusion after arriving at and surviving the JFK immigration process and the AirTrain and the further stress of locating the E Train. Maybe I should take some time to just chill in Jamaica.
I think you did an excellent job in showing the area, On the corner of Stpthin & Jamaica Ave Family Ct, is also criminal Ct. for kids. City probation office used to be on the side of the street you were walking.& legal Aid wa around the corner from the courts (144 St, & 89 Ave) Yes you're right St. Albans is across town.
to small town never been anywhere me, i felt scared for you. i know you are a native new Yorker and know your city but this was the serious side. you are brave to show us everyside of the city. i thank you and will keep you in my prayers ak.
he knows he was safe but i did not. having never been there i can only go by what news and movies and people say about the city. he still deserves credit for his work.
Interesting video. I visited New York last year. Had to exit the Jamaica station because my credit card didn’t work at the subway. After a long flight and the very long waiting times at jfk, the Jamaica area is a bit overwhelming.
Caminhada pelas ruas e avenidas do Queens em New York dos EUA, muito bom, por deixar conhecer um pouco da vida e da história de alguns americanos, DEUS abençoe a América, obrigado meu nobre brother pelo o seu vídeo.
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Timestamps
3:00 - Exiting the Sutphin Boulevard (F) Subway Station
4:30 - Sutphin Boulevard & 88th Avenue
6:10 - Sutphin Boulevard & 89th Avenue
7:40 - Sutphin Boulevard & 90th Avenue
9:15 - Sutphin Boulevard & Jamaica Avenue
10:15 - Sutphin Boulevard & 91st Avenue
11:05 - Sutphin Boulevard & Archer Avenue (Interesting Horn Action)
14:28 - Sutphin Boulevard & 94th Avenue
18:55 - Someone says hello
19:20 - Jamaica Avenue & Sutphin Boulevard
20:28 - Jamaica Avenue & 148th Street
22:00 - Jamaica Avenue & 149th Street
23:15 - Jamaica Avenue & 150th Street
24:25 - King Manor Museum and Park
27:30 - Jamaica Avenue & 153rd Street
30:22 - Jamaica Avenue & Parson Boulevard
31:50 - Jamaica Avenue & 160th Street
33:20 - Jamaica Avenue & Union Hall Street
35:15 - Jamaica Avenue & Guy R Brewer Boulevard
36:32 - Another person says hello
38:00 - Jamaica Avenue & 165th Street
39:40 - Jamaica Avenue & Merrick Boulevard
41:50 - Jamaica Avenue & 168th Street
43:58 - Jamaica Avenue & 169th Street
45:15 - Jamaica Avenue & 170th Street
46:30 - Jamaica Avenue & 171st Street
48:00 - Jamaica Avenue & 172nd Street
48:53 - "Yeah, yeah yeah!"
49:10 - Jamaica Avenue & 173rd Street
50:16 - Jamaica Avenue & 175th Street (Wait!)
52:36 - Jamaica Avenue & 176th Street
53:30 - Jamaica Avenue & 178th Street
54:30 - 179th Street & Jamaica Avenue
58:05 - 179th Street & 90th Avenue
ActionKid The Resort World Casino is a Malaysian owned company. Socialist Singapore has one.
If you ever get a chance visit Long Island , it's nice ! Bklyn downtown too....🙌
Action Kid thank you for setting the record straight regarding the origin of the geographical name, Jamaica. Many people - even many New Yorkers and Queens residents - mistakenly believe that it came from the Caribbean population living there. Thank you for straightening that out
Tnx the school at 58:05 was my elementary school lore fo memories and coming back to me.
instablaster.
Who from queens watching this🤘🏾
Yahmina Sarae I miss Queens!! I gotta go back
Yahmina Sarae my 🛑❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
176th Jamaica Ave
Me
YYERRRRRRR FAR ROCKAWAYYY
For those who are from Queens. You can see that Jamaica Avenue is being gentrified. The new high rise buildings on Archer, the new Burlington and H&M there. Jamaica center or to us natives "THE AVE " is no longer the mom and pop, hustle man, let's make a deal shopping area as it was in the days of old. They're making it to look like Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. Five more years it will look like Willimsburg. I'm just saying.
That is so true, you just see them building hotels and luxury condos all over Jamaica.
I mean of it makes the neighborhood look better why not lol🤷🏿♂️
So as you see Starbucks..it's over
good its ghetto as fuck over there
Forreal.
as someone who doesn't leave his house due to anxiety this was very relaxing to watch
@Joey Esquivel you need money to get real help. sometimes its hard to afford.
TheJimmyStruther same
Same man, i avoid and watch videos like these to "get out" :/ haha..
Maybe he can save up $400 to see a thearpist so he can deal with being afraid of walking around a dangerous neighborhood. I mean everyone knows that it is abnormal to be scared of wonderful dangerous neighborhoods. Baby steps first try the Hamptons then work for yourself up to neighborhoods like the south Bronx.
yafeelme stevens no offense but therapists do nothing but rob you of money. They never help
I haven't been to NYC yet and even USA.This is why I love the existance of such walk-through videos.
ウイルスのために日本に行けないですけど、東京の散歩のビデオを見たばかりです。だからこういうビデオがあることが大好きです！
東京とニューヨークの異なるポイントを考えられるためにも大好きです
As a white person, it's always funny when I say, "I grew up in Jamaica." Wait, what? - Then I say, "Jamaica, Queens, New York City!"
I say the same thing about my uncle when i tell people my uncle name is michael jackson
I and I am LOL with you.
Donald from here too.
Me from Rockaway also in Jamaica. The Island Jamaica named after NY.
The oldest Synegouge Western hemisphere in Jamaica.
@@PennilessPolitics when the hell was Rockaway considered apart of Jamaica?
@@dbanga5 Jamaica Township is the greater part of Queens County. It includes Rego Park, Woodhaven, JFK Airport, Howard Beach, Broad Channel and the Rockaways.
What you see on this video is Downtown Jamaica or Jamaica Village.
In NYS villages are within townships.
@@PennilessPolitics Can you tell me where I could find this information? I'm from Far Rockaway and never heard or known about this.
What a wonderful walkthrough. I live in the Bronx and never get to Queens. I love seeing NYC even though I live here. I felt like we were walking together. Who would give this a thumbs down. I say 👍
Truth, I live in Brooklyn and I never go to Queens. Feel like I've been there now. Lol
How do you not explore your own city
This right here is my home. Jamaica Ave where I used to go for clothes, school uniform, hanging out with friends at the movies, got my first chain at the Collesium. Nothing like Southside Jamaica Queens
Is the Collesium still open
Yes, the Coliseum is still open, but it doesn't have the number of stores that it once had. It feels deserted.
People from Jamaica live in Laurelton, Rosedale Queens and Elmont Long Island. Jamaica Queens has a large Indo Guyanese community & Central Americans.
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Rochdale Village
ong we all moved to elmont
I walked on Hillside Avenue about two years ago. Lots of Indo-Guyanese. Did see a lot of Central Americans on Jamaica Avenue. Times sure have changed. I miss that beef patty spot on Hillside next to the bus stop.
Trinidadian and Guyanese your right
I hate when the turning cars do not use the turn signal. We cannot read their mind.
Yankees1996ful I say this everyday. Like damn I’m not psychic
This is common thing in queens and I can’t stand it
He didn’t go to Jamaica and Archer cause you will see the Real Rachetness ...
Word😅
cee mann what's there
@@cecegiles7753 ... my people are there. ..I catch the bus or dollar van to go home from there after i get off train and other working class Black people trying to survive the concrete jungle "we" did not create ourselves.
lol so true.
Sour sour sour
Kid, I am always amazed by your poise and patience during your walks through the city.
Additionally, your camerawork and narration provides a good description of the surroundings and landmarks!
Thanks for your quality and informative videos! 🏛
You’re welcome 😉
I do my daily workouts watching and listening to you. You have been my virtual workout friend for some time now LOL. Thank you for all that you do.
I work out to these walks also, kind of therapeutic.
I do the same thing on the treadmill, I speed it up 2X! My own VR, I don't live in New York City anymore.
I also do my daily work out with these wonderful vids (͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) 💕 😛 💋 ❥¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪♫ ღ ☆* ♡ ℒℴѵℯ 💕 (͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
I as well
The opposite for me. My social security check comes from Jamaica. NYC is fascinating in that the villages inside townships inside boroughs inside the city jurisdiction have maintained their geopolitical identities for over 300 years.
That "pizza store" you walked past just happens to be the BEST pizza in all of Queens possible all of NYC! Lol
It is the best! Margherita Pizza
Margaritas
yeah that place has some good pizza!
@Kaliss they are 1 and 2
You crazies we all know it’s Gabbys
GREAT walk. I'm constantly amazed at the breadth of your knowledge of these areas. Great narration and information. Thanks so much -Henry
R.I.P the Payless store on Jamaica Ave 162st. My mom worked there for years and many people were definitely disappointed to see it go. I really love these videos of walk tours, it makes me appreciate the home town of where I live alot more ❤️.
If somebody asked me to show them a successful video on TH-cam, I would not hesitate for a second to show them this masterwork of highest and purest perfection success levels. Thank you once again, ActionKid, my dearest of friends!
You’re welcome! I’m glad you think so 😊
used to live there but moved back to sweden. love to walk the streets with you. many memories..... exelent work!
I want to thank you for this tour of Jamaica. I grew up in Jamaica from about 1950 to 1965. I built snow forts in front of the Jamaica Criminal Court House. I sat on the two cannon (no longer there) in front of the Rufus King Mansion. Thanks again.
That’s my train stop and my area of Queens I live in a house right on 144! Oh and the people sitting on the stairs are drunks we’ve known them for years
They still there!! Lol they used to ask me for money I don't give em shit!😂
Now I'm very familiar with this walk. My family still at 148 and hillside ave. Thanks for the video. I ❤ Jamaican beef patty😁
Wow this was cool to see. I grew up in Jamaica on 118 Rd and New York Blvd. I will be attending a high school reunion this year and I got a little nostalgic and started looking for pics or video of the old neighborhood. Thanks for sharing.
Jamaica is transforming , a lot of investments and a lot of big constructions
I'm from the island Jamaica. I visited Jamaica, Queens in May 2018. The Social Security building (the orange building) was under construction when I was there, the finished product turned out beautiful.. Will sure be visiting the area again 😊
Jamaica ave last stop on E train Archer Ave still has good bargins at the mom and pop stores for clothing,food, electronics etc. .
My hometown - have not been there in a VERY long time. Now I'm homesick. Thanks for sharing this.
No reason to behomesick for such a uncilvilized and nasty place
If you ever get home sick just watch a horror movie and you will relieve your past.
@@xxholix truer words have been spoken. The place showed be washed away with all the filth and sent to the landfills.
They are many shitty places to live but this area isn't that dangerous, hardly actually...what I will agree to is that people litter and have no respect for themselves, then again not all people. Please don't shit on my town it's come a long way.
@@AlejandroSantiago-kn6dg I was verbally threaten here with violence. I just came to get some things processed. Then was confronted by a thug.
I grew up there, things have changed so much, so many new businesses in the place of old ones I remember
I lived in Jamaica from 15-21yrs old. Moved from Manhattan. I'm 54 now and yeah. Alot has changed.
Thanks for the memories man...I used to lived on Jamaica avenue and 117 street. Lived in that area for 28 years so I know it well. I live now in Florida for the last 20 years. Once again thanks for a walk thru memory lane.
i live on 171 st
Orlando so you live behind the 102 precinct. Remember triangle hofbrau restaurant? Gebhardts bakery? Jahns soda fountain? True value? I was there in the late 80's.🙂
you just passed my old house at 53:09 where the quality carpet place is, that was my building, and you passed an important landmark the Afrikan Poetry theater at 52:49 alot of famous poets and authors has passed through those doors. its so quiet around there now, it use to be popping. Ive seen jamaica ave change so much over the years, i pretty much remember what each store use to be on the ave, thanks for the tour, i shot my music video there a year ago. i use to catch that Q31 to bayside HS, rufus Park use to have a canon in front of that house. Gertz plaza mall is gone, Jam master Jay studio from Run dmc was on merrick Blvd, i remember when roti express first opened their doors, Mays on 169th before it became wertheimers and before whatever it is now. good memories
Wow so cool! Thanks for sharing your memories
I love you're queens vids it's a walk through my childhood
OMG! THANKS SOOOOOOO MUCH . I HAVE NOT BEEN IN JAMAICA IN YEARS & EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. GOD BLESS YOU
Here in the Netherlands is a town vallen, Zutphen. And i think that the name Sutphin is a origine Dutch place of the Dutch in New Netherlands. 😀 A great video again Action Kid.
NY was once New Amsterdam right? so could be..
If there were as many places to eat in my town as there are in any random NY hood, I would never walk into a chain restaurant.
Excellent video and always makes me immensely proud to be a New Yorker
Enjoyed your walk around Jamaica,Queens. Nice sunny day. People going about their daily business. City full of energy!
Man, your videos are simply great. Keep doing this for us all.
Great in-depth tour. Nice to take a trip down memory lane. l get to see how Jamaica Queens looks, after all these years. Thxs for sharing.
Love your videos. So clear, and since I visit NYC about every 6 months, they are quite helpful. You've gained a subscriber.
Thanks for subscribing!
Love the walks in the big cities,but these smaller towns are the heart of the state.Mom and Pop shops and the neighborhoods show me the true NY way of life.They aren't shiny and clean,but they have history and spirit.Thanks again for another lovely walk,ActionKid.Take care.
Goin to NYC for the first time next month ❤️can't wait to see the greatest City on earth thanks for all the Awesome videos 👏👍
Thank you for another great video. I very much enjoy listening to you, as you walk the different places, in New York. I live on Mds. Eastern Shore, and enjoy enjoy New York, through your videos.
This area has a lot of character to it, which is what I like about this area and other areas like it in New York City. Great video of an interesting and character-filled offbeat area; I love how you can buy transit tickets from a ticket machine *_on the street_* in New York, a thing that I wish we had here in Toronto.
Oh wow man! you came through my hood! lol i live here
Cool 😎
Thank you for taking the time to do this video and then share it.
Great research. Talking about history as you walk. Well done!!
Thanks!
Thanks so much for another relaxing and interesting walk I cant get enough of you Action Kid :)
This is awesome. It's like being there. Never been though. But I love the just-a-regular-day aspect. You get to see everything you need and know some facts and hints too. Great job. Love from Denmark 😊👍
Left NY over 50 years ago. Thoroughly enjoyed this Doesn't look like the Jamaica Ave I knew. I noticed he walked by the Tabernacle church. Wish he had looked up because that was probably the old Valencia Theater I used to go to. It was a beautiful building designed by an architect who designed only 7 of these. I went to one in Kalamazoo, MI and it was so much like the Valencia but now used for concerts. Thanks for the memories!
You’re welcome! Thanks for enjoying the video!
Yayy! You're in my hood. It was my birthday this day and I was in Aruba. You should've got on the E train and got off Jamaica Center. I love where I live! There's no place like it 💜
Mr. Thank you so much for this video. I use to live on 175th Street back in the 70's.
There use to be a Regency Place where the new public school is. They use to perform weddings there. And we use to use the side wall of the Regency to play handball.
Wow! Thank you ActionKid for the walk down memory lane. Even though Jamaica & Suphtin have changed so much. I left Jamaica, Queens in 1989, haven't been back even for a visit.(not that I didn't want to)I was totally lost where you started off. When you got to Kings Park I started remembering certain places. That was long walk. I use to walk that walk many times. Not now though. Well thanks again for sharing...✌🏽
Kid my wife and I we went to nyc back in April and you was filming a live video in front of the St. Patrick Cathedral and you ask my wife to said something to the girl you was talking to. You was wearing a tiger mask lol. I have been a follower for a long time. Good job
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this was such a pleasure to watch, super clear filming and great informative commentary, I hit the SUBSCRIBE button in a big hurry!🙂
Your vids are so relaxing 😍😊😁. Love it
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I used to walk every day from the last stop of the J train on Jamaica Ave all the way up the hill to Thomas A. Edison High School on 168 St and Grand Central Pky in Jamaica, Queens
The last stop of J is at 121st Jam. Ave correct? That's a long walk.
My old hood! Everything is right there from the post office to the shopping stores. Everything but parking
I grew up on 179place. I was hoping you pass my old crib. Between 89th & hillside. I use to walk them same streets as a teenager (back in 1990s) brought back maaaad memories. Thanks dude
The single family homes on Jamaica Av. & 179 St are over 100 yrs old. It was predominately Guyanese community. You can tell by the ornamental iron work fences. Further up 179 St around 88 Ave & across Hillside Ave (Jamaica Estates Was yuppie Ville.
If you ever get a chance stop into the Queens historical society. You might run into some old timers who would love to relieve the history of the various parts of Queens with you.
Hey Actionkid...you did that...you reped my hood well..thanks..gave good history..and stayed current too❤❤❤
Glad to visit Jamaica 😎
It Looks like Jamaica Queens is also going through Gentrification as well .
I love that less than 30 seconds after reading a sign saying that the King Manor museum was built in 1750 you then said you didn't know how old the building was 😅
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I use to get off at this subway when I lived in Queens to get home brings back memories
I moved from college point to Jamaica so this video was nice to watch to see the parts I haven’t been to.
I'm glad it helped you!
Omg I live in Charlotte nc and u seen u passed by my old home 149-13 omg this video brought me back to 1994 when I was a kid the sound of the ice cream still there the Italian icream too omg jamaica has changed alot the park where my mom used to take us omg 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺💙💙💙💙🗽🗽🗽🗽
I just noticed your views! Wow you're getting EASY money! I'm about th o go for a walk! Ppl love just looking at NYC! LOL! Wow!
I used to go Jamaica Ave to shop.. bring back memories..
Allways visit Jamaica ave when I visit from Canada. Love the vibe.
When have a lot similarities a lot Caribbean and different ethic backgrounds y’all like our cuzins London as well
This is my old area back in the mid to late 80s. We lived at Main St. & Union Tpke. which you can see on the map at the start in the upper left corner, just to the right of where it shows the Kew Motor Inn, technically the Kew Garden Hills neighborhood. I went to Hillcrest HS. It was crazy back then, but also a lot of good memories. The hustle was real!
Lived there long ago..Shimer Jr High..John Adam's....he just passed Grace Episcopal Church on Jamaica Ave near Parsons...that's a historic church over 200 plus years old. On the north side of street... good to see the area..so much has changed ...since 2002 even...👍
I really like your videos! I hope to visit New York soon!! Greetings from Greece!!!
Excellent video for the weekend, thanks ActionKid!
ActionKid shows the best of NY. Some places , such as Jamaica, are every day NYorkers, living and working, making their way in life as they raise their families!
LOL!!
You must live on billionaires row ? LOL !!
Wow you took me back!! I haven’t been in Jamaica ave since I was a kid and I wished you’d walk down 160th street so I can see where I used to live!! That would be awesome but I enjoyed your video and I’ll keep watching!!! 👍🏾🙏🏾
Thank you very much!
Action kid, your content is amazing! I'm a new subscriber 👍
Action Kid, you are sooo knowledgeable! Thank you for sharing!
Wow that was a postcard from home I used to live in the area when I was a kid I even attended P.S. 95 I am 63 and live in KY thanks for the memories
Thanks for your amazing Vidoes! Excellent Quality !! My hometown , Jamaica. Been there over 19 years. The place has transformed and its very busy with retail shops etc. There is also a Farmers Market on Fridays. You did a lot of walking...Be careful and God bless You. In between the Avenue there are lots of churches and schools now and so much More !!
Lived here during my high school and college years. The Q6 bus was the worst. Most of the time I walked home from the train station. When the bus did show up it was jam packed. Sometimes I even had my ghettoblaster with me. Had 3 different ones. My mother worried everytime I left the house with it but I always came back in one piece with all my stuff.
LOL "Native New Yorkers eating New York City street food" Love your narrated walks.
Hello, Action Kid , you should do a walk through,
Kew Gardens. There are a lot of cleaner neighborhoods, and transportation hubs too. I used to live in Jamaica Queens. It was nice to see Jamaica Queens, Pre- Pandemic Era. Keep it up Action Kid.
Thanks for being such an expository character ActionKid🤗👍great job!
Hi, thanks for spotlighting Jamaica! I realize this video is a few years old, I wish you would have done research ahead of time. Then you might’ve realized all of the actual Landmarks you passed. The Chase, the clock, even the Snipes (clothing store) are all landmarked. The Tabernacle of Prayer For All People was once the Loews Valencia. One of the five Loew’s Wonder Theaters.
Then again, you walked showing the present and I’m thinking of Jamaica in the past
Would love to live in New York one day it’s going to be a dream come true
Rashan Sankofa LoL really I’ve hearing that people are too rude and everyone looks sad so much noise and stuffs but thanks bro for letting me know i think it’s cool to visit but not live or stay there
That may be true but for me growing up here is something that cant be replaced
@Rashan Sankofa Now whar does that mean again?😐
@Rashan Sankofa you troll a Google search told me that you think I was held captive? No we chose to live in New York stop making it seem like it's a hell hole you make not like it but maybe the next Average Joe or Jane may love it. I don't think you should have to insult someone over it
Try Long Island and buy a house ! Rent is too expensive nowadays and for no space 😉
I used to live in Jamaica, queens. 168th and hillside ave
176th jamaica ave
@Richard Head yea, 😂. Have you been to Jackson heights, 74th st? It's like india
@@diecastfly9002 cool! I miss going to the fish market in sutphin blvd. They had fresh sea food there.
Same 176th
Those avenues remind me some avenues in the city where I live, Santiago Chile. Such as Gran avenida av., San Diego av., full of stores, banks, markets everywhere. 👍
Thanks for this - really interesting. I usually associate this area with stress and confusion after arriving at and surviving the JFK immigration process and the AirTrain and the further stress of locating the E Train. Maybe I should take some time to just chill in Jamaica.
Hi ActionKid and by the way, the guy who gave you the finger needs to get a life. There was no need for that. Anyway, enjoyed the video, AK!
this vid is corny
Very interesting. I would have liked to walk some more of the neighborhood. I love those houses. Thanks actionkid
10:25 and on for awhile!!! Aaaaahhhhh, the Sounds of NYC!!! Thank You, AK!!👋🙂
Jamaica great video, AK. Thanks! 🐿️
I think you did an excellent job in showing the area, On the corner of Stpthin & Jamaica Ave Family Ct, is also criminal Ct. for kids. City probation office used to be on the side of the street you were walking.& legal Aid wa around the corner from the courts (144 St, & 89 Ave) Yes you're right St. Albans is across town.
Thank you!
Hi very informative video lots of love from Canada.
Great video. I’m home sick. This helped a lot!
Great video bro im from queens i go around these places everyday
to small town never been anywhere me, i felt scared for you. i know you are a native new Yorker and know your city but this was the serious side. you are brave to show us everyside of the city. i thank you and will keep you in my prayers ak.
Thank you very much
Plz u sound like you think his life is in danger like really.we are not a third or fourth world country. Sheesh
i have never been to new York so everything and everyone amazes me. but i will do what no one there seems to do. i will say excuse me please.
@@ginnymullins2477 .
It's Kool YUTUBE
Kensington phillidelphia
It will blow ur mind
he knows he was safe but i did not. having never been there i can only go by what news and movies and people say about the city. he still deserves credit for his work.
Lived in Jamaica queens most of my life and didn’t know allat history 😂😭😭😂
Now you know!
Se mira tranquilo el barrio
Interesting video. I visited New York last year. Had to exit the Jamaica station because my credit card didn’t work at the subway. After a long flight and the very long waiting times at jfk, the Jamaica area is a bit overwhelming.
Caminhada pelas ruas e avenidas do Queens em New York dos EUA, muito bom, por deixar conhecer um pouco da vida e da história de alguns americanos, DEUS abençoe a América, obrigado meu nobre brother pelo o seu vídeo.
New York City has the Best Transit System.
In America, yes.