I've visited several times, tried some of their eateries, bar hopped, etc. There are hoods in every city that one should or would normally want to avoid. In Albany's case however, their inhabitants more than make up for it. Very friendly & welcoming people up in the Capital City.
Love the channel, charliebo! Everytime I hear about a hood city/area that I dont know nothing about in a show, movie, or book etc it usually peeps my interest and I know all I gotta do to see what the area looks like is type it in on youtube and charliebo video gonna pop right up and show me what im curious about. Idk why I have such an infatuation with different hoods and the drug culture that goes on there, im sure being a drug addict from Baltimore has something to do with that. Well was a drug addict I been clean for awhile. Having one of the largest open air drug markets in the US makes me wonder if this shit is going on in other cities like it is here, just with different culture.
I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. and cobblestone streets were prevalent, especially where the street car tracks ran, since horses in the 1800's used to pull the cars and the cobblestones gave their horseshoe shod hooves something to grip... Also, asphalt wasn't widely available.... Riding on a smooth street was a treat ! Eventually, buses replaced the street cars and the cobblestones and steel rail tracks were paved over with asphalt...
There a projects in albany called capitol green or the towers INTERESTING FACT: its illegal for some strange reason to film or takes pictures of it, been here for over a decade crime happen in and around the building, BUT ITS NEVER MENTIONED OR SHOWN ON ANY LOCAL NEWS! I personally watch the at that time superintendent walk across the street and stop some young guys shooting a cheap music video because the building was in the shot
Are used to work there turning apartments when it was called central towers. Not a bad building at all the units have amazing views but it used to be a bad crowd in there . Lots of the residents were on public assistance and had people living with them illegally . When it was my turn for on Oncall people would often call complaining they were locked out . I would show up and ask them for ID if they had no ID the door wasn’t getting unlocked. If they had ID and I checked it against the tenant manifest and their name wasn’t on it they weren’t getting in . They would get pissy and call me racist but I didn’t GAF , you ain’t gettin in . If they said something stupid like “I’ve been living here for a year “I just say OK make sure you have your name put on the tenants list. Then I would turn the tenant in for violating their lease because I don’t like welfare scammers
@@travisrhodes1068is this the building on central avenue near Bleacher stadium/ Swimburn Park? As a kid I remember when back in the 70's shortly after it was built some dude took a swan dive head first from the top floor. There was no head on the dude just the rest of his body and a huge puddle of blood. A dog came out of the crowd and went up to the body and started to eat parts of the guys brain. Two cops and the coroner chased the dog down the street as the dog had parts of the guy's brain hanging out of his mouth. It was both extremely gross and piss your pants funny at the same time.
We're moving from the St. Louis/East St. Louis area to Albany and wanted to see what their hood area is like and baaaaby this is so nice and clean compared to STL
The neighborhood always been a little rough around the edges. I mostly grew up at 294 1st St. a few doors down from Lex . When I was in my early teens I’d walk up to Jimmy Connors on second and Jud . He would pay me 3-4 dollars to stock his cooler and front products on the shelf sweep or mop the floor clean up around the outside of the store. Then I would walk up to M&H on Quail and first . They would either pay me a $5 dollars to do the same or offer me a nice deli sandwich bag of chips and a soda , I usually took the three dollars because next stop was Jimmy’s crosstown on Ontario Street between Sherman and elk. I will get a rare roast beef sandwich in a Prinzos bakery hard roll and a bottle of CokeCola or 4 big juicjugs from there . That’s where I learned that mixing horseradish with Russian dressing made the sandwich taste absolutely amazing . These days all 3 of those spots are ganged up and people get shot every summer there . Each of those spots are owned by foreigners and I don’t think any local kids have the same opportunity to hustle up a pocket full of money the same way I did in the early 80s , especially a white kid like I was . Remember $15 went further back then. On snow days I could make $25-30, not bad at all for those days . Not to long after those days Jimmy used to sell me 40s when I was only 16years old . My girlfriend really like that and how I always had some money . Loose Newport 100s were not a thing in Albany back then but at .70 a pack no1 cared .
I grew up in those neighborhoods - Elk Street just below Lake Avenue, and my aunt's place on Second Street below Judson. They were different places back in the 1950s.
Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Deuteronomy 28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Deuteronomy 28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
@@sean668 Whites move out = White flight. Whites move in = Gentrification. Whites stick together = racist. Whites try to help = white saviour. Whites mind their own business = silence is violence and on and on and on and on and on
Come on, show the street signs. I lived in some of those neighborhoods when I was just starting out in my minimum wage jobs back in the ‘80-90’s. I was mugged walking on Clinton ave one night on my way home from work. Had my house broke into & my new stereo system taken. That was on 2 nd Str between quail & Ontario. Neither crime was solved of course. My first home I bought. It has gotten worse since I left. A friend told me not to be a snob, & to buy there like she did on first street. I shouldn’t have let her middle class guilt get to me. I grew up on welfare in these neighborhoods in Troy. I’m so glad to be out of them once & for all. I don’t owe anybody anything. Buy where you want. You work hard to be in a nice neighborhood, go for it. It’s depressing in those places, I worked hard to be happy. I have a nice house on a decent street in a small town out west.
I lived in Albany from 1991 to 2005 Avenue A off Second & Frisbee Ave our street was quiet being a dead end but go west on Second Ave you run into South Pearl St not a great area
Albany , Troy , Utica , Rochester and buffalo got the most ratchet , busted hoods ever . Like Detroit poor and busted . Wal mart clothes , yards full of trash . It’s dangerous because these have nothing .
I’m from the roc Ik Rochester buffalo syracuse it gets spooky in certain areas and it all looks similar I’m assuming upstate start to look different once u hit Albany cuz this shit look like Baltimore or some shit lol
Albany definitely has its dangerous neighborhoods and only abt 3 was shown here an technically the places that are or was dangerous is cause everyone is literally dead or in jail
Albany definitely has its dangerous neighborhoods and only abt 3 was shown here an technically the places that are or was dangerous is dead cause everyone is literally dead or in jail but he didn’t cover most of them
How are you contributing to change? This looks like someone capitalizing off other people’s struggles with no intention to give free wisdom. You casually drove past those young men playing dice, all it takes is a second to say something and my point is the fact that you’re just riding around recording black communities trying to monetize yourself and the community isn’t seeing any change. If theres a black man behind that camera the title needs to be How can we change the most dangerous hoods in Albany ny.
I guess they’re kind of like the federal government who has billions for wars, and billions to give other countries but our bridges are falling down and some of our schools don’t heat.
Mist Dangerous Hoods in mu hometown...downtown has wild areas but these only two wild areas in the city well there's a third now Pinehills Student area
Albany has gotten pretty dangerous my guy. I use to think the same thing. Literally where I use to work a guy got shot down broad daylight. 13 shots fired into his car from a guy chasing his car on foot.
It funny but also ironic there like a bully slapping a young kid around in beginning haha, but albany so lagite that that never happen because an actual man come up and be like wtf you doing smack that kid up, that stuff doesnt happen. Like some down state shit not albany shit.
Like literally 12 different dudes come up shut that bully down in Albany no dumb ass shit like that happens, Albany actually one of the smartest places in the world, Cuomo got his law degree in Albany in the 70s, id always go back Albany check up on my city if some stupid shit going on, not no Detroit or Brooklyn.
Charlie did you go to Schenectady ,NY Yet ? It’s 20 minutes away from Albany NY ..
Albany's landscape reminds me of Philly, Harrisburg, Chester & Camden all rolled up into one
Good call! Our state capitals in this part of the country are absolutely God-awful. Albany, Trenton, Harrisburg.
@@MrHorse-by3mp Și totuși ,nu va-ți pus întrebarea ,de ce?
Yooooo lol I said the same thing I’m from Harrisburg looks exactly like it
@@MrHorse-by3mp3 of the worst capital in us
The hoods in the north east look alot alike. I thinks its the row houses
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I remember going to Albany back in 2006,There was a club called "Sneaky Pete" on central avenue,Lot's of good times as well
I've visited several times, tried some of their eateries, bar hopped, etc. There are hoods in every city that one should or would normally want to avoid. In Albany's case however, their inhabitants more than make up for it. Very friendly & welcoming people up in the Capital City.
This is our State Capital? Maaaaaaaan these politicians should be ashamed of themselves.
It used to be a beautiful city.
Exactly
Love the channel, charliebo! Everytime I hear about a hood city/area that I dont know nothing about in a show, movie, or book etc it usually peeps my interest and I know all I gotta do to see what the area looks like is type it in on youtube and charliebo video gonna pop right up and show me what im curious about. Idk why I have such an infatuation with different hoods and the drug culture that goes on there, im sure being a drug addict from Baltimore has something to do with that. Well was a drug addict I been clean for awhile. Having one of the largest open air drug markets in the US makes me wonder if this shit is going on in other cities like it is here, just with different culture.
Whats with all the new cars
Looks like a warehouse district including the homes look like warehouses
Do binghamton NY next
please dont....
Did you find anywhere selling steamed hams?
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These homes are actually beautiful with so much potential.
There is beautiful architecture in some of the most crime ridden sections of Albany. The Pastures and Arbor Hill particularly
Yeah, they were once beautiful. Until certain people moved in and destroyed them.
Albany look more ghetto than NYC.
Look boring if anything
Detroit level ratchet
Steamed hams.
It's an Albany expression.
0:47 Bruh slapped son cheeks. 🤦🏾♂️🙏🏾
AYOOO
LMAOOOO
Is this recent?
Rough driving on that cobblestone road towards the end of your video.
I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. and cobblestone streets were prevalent, especially where the street car tracks ran, since horses in the 1800's used to pull the cars and the cobblestones gave their horseshoe shod hooves something to grip...
Also, asphalt wasn't widely available....
Riding on a smooth street was a treat !
Eventually, buses replaced the street cars and the cobblestones and steel rail tracks were paved over with asphalt...
How much work went into building that so long ago.
@@dalemcnamee2427McKeesport PA is also like this with the cobblestone streets
I didn't even get to that part of the video yet & just know it's Orange Street 😂😂
Its just lark st
There a projects in albany called capitol green or the towers
INTERESTING FACT: its illegal for some strange reason to film or takes pictures
of it, been here for over a decade crime happen in and around the building,
BUT ITS NEVER MENTIONED OR SHOWN ON ANY LOCAL NEWS!
I personally watch the at that time superintendent walk across the street and
stop some young guys shooting a cheap music video because the building was in the shot
Are used to work there turning apartments when it was called central towers. Not a bad building at all the units have amazing views but it used to be a bad crowd in there . Lots of the residents were on public assistance and had people living with them illegally . When it was my turn for on Oncall people would often call complaining they were locked out . I would show up and ask them for ID if they had no ID the door wasn’t getting unlocked. If they had ID and I checked it against the tenant manifest and their name wasn’t on it they weren’t getting in . They would get pissy and call me racist but I didn’t GAF , you ain’t gettin in . If they said something stupid like “I’ve been living here for a year “I just say OK make sure you have your name put on the tenants list. Then I would turn the tenant in for violating their lease because I don’t like welfare scammers
@@travisrhodes1068is this the building on central avenue near Bleacher stadium/ Swimburn Park? As a kid I remember when back in the 70's shortly after it was built some dude took a swan dive head first from the top floor. There was no head on the dude just the rest of his body and a huge puddle of blood. A dog came out of the crowd and went up to the body and started to eat parts of the guys brain. Two cops and the coroner chased the dog down the street as the dog had parts of the guy's brain hanging out of his mouth. It was both extremely gross and piss your pants funny at the same time.
Hit up Troy NY right across the Hudson Charlie!!
Saratoga Springs here but love Troy👍
Hometown!
Troylets in da house....its OUTTA control!!!
@@Kevin-zz9nc I’ve gotten soft at my old age and moved to Colonie.
I live in Troy, yeah it looks like a warzone....
Do Compton next
We're moving from the St. Louis/East St. Louis area to Albany and wanted to see what their hood area is like and baaaaby this is so nice and clean compared to STL
The neighborhood always been a little rough around the edges. I mostly grew up at 294 1st St. a few doors down from Lex . When I was in my early teens I’d walk up to Jimmy Connors on second and Jud . He would pay me 3-4 dollars to stock his cooler and front products on the shelf sweep or mop the floor clean up around the outside of the store. Then I would walk up to M&H on Quail and first . They would either pay me a $5 dollars to do the same or offer me a nice deli sandwich bag of chips and a soda , I usually took the three dollars because next stop was Jimmy’s crosstown on Ontario Street between Sherman and elk. I will get a rare roast beef sandwich in a Prinzos bakery hard roll and a bottle of CokeCola or 4 big juicjugs from there . That’s where I learned that mixing horseradish with Russian dressing made the sandwich taste absolutely amazing . These days all 3 of those spots are ganged up and people get shot every summer there . Each of those spots are owned by foreigners and I don’t think any local kids have the same opportunity to hustle up a pocket full of money the same way I did in the early 80s , especially a white kid like I was . Remember $15 went further back then. On snow days I could make $25-30, not bad at all for those days . Not to long after those days Jimmy used to sell me 40s when I was only 16years old . My girlfriend really like that and how I always had some money . Loose Newport 100s were not a thing in Albany back then but at .70 a pack no1 cared .
Albany is among the most hardcore of the Democrat Plantations.
Overall, not as bad as might be thought. Thanks!
DONT MISSED THE RAPTURE.
TURN TO LORD JESUS CHRIST NOW AND REPENT FOR ALL YOUR SINS AND STOP SINNING! SO THAT THE LORD JESUS WILL SAVE YOU.
New York State is really similar in some parts, this looks like a bigger version of Newburgh in a way
Pretty clean and neat. I love these old homes, and these for the most part were upkept.
Forget the Almafi Coast or the Pacific Coast Highway, this place should be everyone’s travel destination!!
It looks like a Rochester-Boston-Det hybrid with a lil PA thrown in
How you not gonna hit up the Southend my guy
Not bad compared to some..
I grew up in those neighborhoods - Elk Street just below Lake Avenue, and my aunt's place on Second Street below Judson. They were different places back in the 1950s.
Judson and 2nd was a hellscape in the 90s.
So they only put in speed humps and signs that warn of a condemned house. Spent a lot of growing up on those streets.
Whats the common denominator of all these hoods i wonder
Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Deuteronomy 28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Deuteronomy 28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Being passed over for investments for nearly a century because of their demographic reports
@@sean668 Whites move out = White flight. Whites move in = Gentrification. Whites stick together = racist. Whites try to help = white saviour. Whites mind their own business = silence is violence
and on and on and on and on and on
Redline areas.
Well, if we mention the common denominator, we will get canceled by the woke police
Come on, show the street signs. I lived in some of those neighborhoods when I was just starting out in my minimum wage jobs back in the ‘80-90’s. I was mugged walking on Clinton ave one night on my way home from work. Had my house broke into & my new stereo system taken. That was on 2 nd Str between quail & Ontario. Neither crime was solved of course. My first home I bought. It has gotten worse since I left. A friend told me not to be a snob, & to buy there like she did on first street. I shouldn’t have let her middle class guilt get to me. I grew up on welfare in these neighborhoods in Troy. I’m so glad to be out of them once & for all. I don’t owe anybody anything. Buy where you want. You work hard to be in a nice neighborhood, go for it. It’s depressing in those places, I worked hard to be happy. I have a nice house on a decent street in a small town out west.
Albany. The first EVER capital of the USA, the capital of New York State, yet its so.. dreadful.
Definitely need a car
Living up there
If you don't have car, there is public transportation all over the city. JS.
Saratoga Springs is in the house. Love Albany
im in toga too
Looks good with good potential as college area
My wife went to Excelsior College, which is located near Albany...She received her BSN degree in 2013...
@@dalemcnamee2427 yep looks good area in nature to be rehabilitated
It was Once a beautiful City no more how just rundown time Changes Everything 😢
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
These people probably shoot each other over a mean word no mental strength
I lived in Albany from 1991 to 2005 Avenue A off Second & Frisbee Ave our street was quiet being a dead end but go west on Second Ave you run into South Pearl St not a great area
My home city, I know all these streets, we're averaging about 1 shooting per day.. never been this bad
The store he showed 1st isn’t really the hood
Lots of Brothers in Albany
More of the others.
Is LCN in Albany?
Old dreary rectangle shaped buildings and homes. Much less trash and litter compared to other places you've covered. So little green space.
Row houses. An east coast staple.
Crews beefing.That needs to stop.We need unity in the community.Now more than ever as of today.
Albany , Troy , Utica , Rochester and buffalo got the most ratchet , busted hoods ever . Like Detroit poor and busted . Wal mart clothes , yards full of trash . It’s dangerous because these have nothing .
wow those gorgeous buildings. Does anyone know who lived there in the 1930's
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@@RazPerignon ya looked that up, thanku
Politicians
I’m from the roc Ik Rochester buffalo syracuse it gets spooky in certain areas and it all looks similar I’m assuming upstate start to look different once u hit Albany cuz this shit look like Baltimore or some shit lol
He literally only showed ya half of the city 🤦🏾♂️
lived 5mins away in MenandsNy in 90s ,what a time
Looks depressing AF
Patterns persist
Как хорошо, что я не в этом месте. Жуть какая. Это город заброшенный? Кто эти люди, которые ходят без дела? Это какой то зомбиленд
it doesnt look that bad
Westhill and the south end is where everything goes down 90% of the time
I wonder if these locals here are worried about peoples preferred 'pronouns' 😂
Albany definitely has its dangerous neighborhoods and only abt 3 was shown here an technically the places that are or was dangerous is cause everyone is literally dead or in jail
Albany definitely has its dangerous neighborhoods and only abt 3 was shown here an technically the places that are or was dangerous is dead cause everyone is literally dead or in jail but he didn’t cover most of them
Waiting for the Russians and their comments 😂
IKR? Always snotty.
How are you contributing to change? This looks like someone capitalizing off other people’s struggles with no intention to give free wisdom. You casually drove past those young men playing dice, all it takes is a second to say something and my point is the fact that you’re just riding around recording black communities trying to monetize yourself and the community isn’t seeing any change. If theres a black man behind that camera the title needs to be How can we change the most dangerous hoods in Albany ny.
This rough ghetto area is utopia compared to Niagara Falls, Rochester, Binghamton, and Utica.
This area is just as violent or worse. It isn't a utopia
You need to identify the streets that you are on.
Go to Syracuse again
Always lots of nice cars parked on the streets. They have money for that.
I guess they’re kind of like the federal government who has billions for wars, and billions to give other countries but our bridges are falling down and some of our schools don’t heat.
I noticed the same thing cars the neighborhood people can’t afford
ive been to albany and the people were very friendly and nice
not dangerous at all
Depends on your location an where your at.
Albany is definitely dangerous. Where were you at?
@@RobertL.Pappas-zl5pf yeah I guess ive only been to the good parts of albany
10:16 the most annoying ppl alive
Wow. Even in Brazil people don't behavior like that and I mean the worst neighborhood
Really? I thought you sloppy drunks woo-hoo’ing all night and dance off beat won that prize
Mist Dangerous Hoods in mu hometown...downtown has wild areas but these only two wild areas in the city well there's a third now Pinehills Student area
Looks Great
There are some cute places there.
Saying Albany has “dangerous neighborhoods” is laughable. Albany is where you go to get away from that kind of stuff.
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Idk the crime rate pretty high for there gangster
Albany has gotten pretty dangerous my guy. I use to think the same thing. Literally where I use to work a guy got shot down broad daylight. 13 shots fired into his car from a guy chasing his car on foot.
u gotta be kidding me lol
20 murders last year.
Delivered cigarettes and candy for a while to all of these areas. Good people
Nice old homes. They just need some yuppie hipsters to move to the city & renovate them
Luckily the buffer zone (Adirondack mountains) keep the pm’s out my neighborhood 😂
I’m sorry, what?
Why do so many big cities run by democrats look like this. visit Oakland, Los Angeles and San Francisco some time. Tey make this place look good.
This place looks like Beverly Hills compared to the Republican run dirt poor rural towns.
我很庆幸生长在中国这么安全的国家
Buy here pay here repo cars
It funny but also ironic there like a bully slapping a young kid around in beginning haha, but albany so lagite that that never happen because an actual man come up and be like wtf you doing smack that kid up, that stuff doesnt happen. Like some down state shit not albany shit.
Like literally 12 different dudes come up shut that bully down in Albany no dumb ass shit like that happens, Albany actually one of the smartest places in the world, Cuomo got his law degree in Albany in the 70s, id always go back Albany check up on my city if some stupid shit going on, not no Detroit or Brooklyn.
What a beautifully vibrant community
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY WAS A GREAT EDUCATION THE HOMES ARE EXPENSIVE NOT TOO BAD COMPARED TO MOST CITIES
This is not a dangerous part of new York let's be real now..😂
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Look it up bro 😎
Come thru and walk these streets at night and then get back to me
Democrat run cities
Republicans run some of the poorest cities in America and they do it with Democrat tax surplus.