I Drove Through The Worst Parts Of Boston. This Is What I Saw.
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- Man parts of south Boston are ROUGH!
For this episode of dashboard tours, I took i93 south from New Hampshire into the Boston area. I wanted to visit the worst area of Boston I could find. It wasn’t hard - the internet was full of information about two distinct parts of south Boston that are notorious for crime and blight and poverty - Mattapan and Roxbury. So that’s where I would go. It was a glorious sunny late winter day on Monday, March 22, 2021 at noon.
We’re going to begin on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan and drive around that area for a while and then take Blue Hill back up into Roxbury and see what it’s like up there. Here’s the exact route I’ll take. If you’re from Massachusetts, you’ve heard of these areas, but you might not have seen them yet.
I didn’t find these areas overly dangerous during the day, but it’s clear that at night, they can be really rough. Home prices in these parts of town are high - close to $450k. Many are older, multi unit row homes in disrepair. Much of the area along the main thoroughfare are sketch and traversed by people who look like they should be at work, but probably don’t have jobs.
Here’s the rest of south Boston’s worst areas.
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6:34 A Greek pizza place! Man, I miss those grease (yes, I meant grease) pies.
The worst area in Boston is around Mass Ave and Melnea Cass with everyone sleeping in tents trash and piss everywhere
It's also called Methadone Mile
I seen in the news just today, the authorities are conducting a raid, I think today at 7 this morning. They'd planned to do it in August I think, but the good old enabling leftist ACLU & their destructive agenda sent threats to the police dept and mayor, they will sue if a clean-up is attempted. These encampments & openly drug abusing tent cities are INHUMANE and CRUEL, NOT CIVILIZED and HARMING those they claim they're protecting their "rights", they are hells and most of them aren't in their right mind. Of course an addict is going to "choose" their drugs and if that means plopping down a tent in the road, so be it because they're not in control anymore. For all of society and themselves, they should be forced help. This affects us all, not just the person, but everyone. Tax payers, neighbors, emergency resources, children, community members, local businesses, health & hygiene, safety, so it's NOT JUST THEIR RIGHTS TO CHOICE, we all pay for it in one way or another. Who the hell chooses this when they're thinking straight and NOT addicted to substances!?! NO ONE!!! Same goes for untreated mental illness, others shouldn't have to suffer due to the ill's choice not to deal with themselves. An there are plenty of those types in public housing authorities. Such places should have more transitional options, and that is what should be encouraged and promoted. Not "You're mentally ill so just rot in your illness here forever driving everybody crazy along with you and never improving you're health or circumstances" and that seems to be the Mass Mantra!!! I was raised between Van Nuys California and Chicopee Massachusetts, and as a dual citizen i must emphasize this: DO NOT ALLOW BOSTON TO BECOME ANOTHER SKID ROW OR TENDERLOIN!!!!! That liberal hippy denial garbage is creating inhumane lunacy & disgust, hells essentially.
TRASH UP TO YOUR KNEES 😶😶😶
@@melissahouse3488 You can't FORCE someone to get clean. As a former addict (11 months clean) you aren't ready until you're ready. But they could have vans taking people to facilities, making reserving a detox bed and getting there so much easier.. ☕
Taking tent city down as we speak on the methadone mile. Near BCH
I live in this so called "worst part of Boston." This dude is Cap! I've literally walked from Mattapan to Grove Hall, its NOT the worst parts of Boston. Now, MASS AVE(meth mile) and the SOUTH END!? OMG!
That's what my girl said. She no longer lives in Boston, but she said those areas are much worse.
So i see
This observer drove right pass that area likely because it's the South End he'd have to admit but what is to be expected from an outsider looking in especially if you're looking in an are where blacks are the majority.
Idk south boston is quite nice don’t u think 🤔
Mass Ave is way worse
Don’t call this South Boston because that’s a completely separate section. Call it Southern Boston or just Roxbury and Mattapan.
That's definitely Mattapan. And we love where we live. Why come through and criticize? Jealous much?!
@@shanduselah2483 No I'm definitely not jealous 😂
Exactly. Somebody didn't really do their homework. For the most part, Boston's "worst parts" in this video looked orderly, with many nice houses and relatively little trash on the streets. Definitely no comparison between these neighborhoods and others you've shown in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, for example. But more to the point, why are you such a bottom dweller? We should call you the Municipal Sniper. Just because you get more viewers when you do videos about the worst "ghettos" (the word you used in other videos) in various cities, doesn't mean you should stoop to that. I don't think you're doing anybody any favors, including yourself, with this video series.
Geographically it is south of the city center just like west Roxbury is really west of west center
There's no such thing as a southern Boston
Nick, just because there are black people there doesn't make it ghetto! Those folks looked perfectly friendly and respectable.
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"Call my neighborhood a ghetto because it houses minorities" - Tales from the Dark Side, Ice Cube
I totally agree. Negative stereotype's drives the insanity that we see on the news and read about everyday. It's also further divided our country by the ignorance of those who perpetrate it.
The Crime rate is what makes it a “ghetto”. Roxbury is the highest crime suburb of Boston.
Well, what you’re not understanding is that Roxbury and mattapan are t two most dangerous parts of Boston and are absolutely considered to be the ghetto. There’s also a lot of white people living in these hoods but don’t be confused, it’s really high crime rate in these neighborhoods he’s driving through
What a joke lol. I’ve lived in Boston my whole life and this dude makes a video driving down “the worst parts of boston”. Maybe in the 70s and 80s but not anymore. He should have drove to mass Ave and showed the ugliest and crime infested area that no one shows.
The 90s Boston was a warzone with gangs.I grew up in it.
Hi any idea how safe will greenwich street to live on?
Factttssss mass ave is straight up terrible
@@gmfbinc.5231 Yeah, and where they're all camping out homeless is mostly south Bostonians. Maybe he should've drove over there.
I agree with you !
This looks like it's clean and kept up. Hats off to the people of Boston.
It's crazy because in the 90s it used to be the complete opposite this area.
Though these days its far from "The worst parts of Boston"
At night it gets scary, a lot of crime!
Coming from a Canadian, this neighborhood looks really nice. Some of our ghettos are worse than this lol
Where in Canada?
@@noahg5779 Downtown Eastside Vancouver, Barton Street in Hamilton, and Jane & Finch in Toronto are worse than in the video
@@EvaristeWK That’s true Jane, and Finch are really bad. Hamilton has some rough areas. Don’t know about Vancouver. Don’t forget about Winnipeg. And just outside of Canada Detroit.
You think it’s about looks lol
@@EvaristeWK also Montreal lol
Dude that’s the worst side of Boston ? that looks like Chicago’s nicest neighbors. No lie
Chicago's nicest? FOH!
Have you even been to Chicago?
@@frightfright3843 I live in Chicago, that looks like wicker park. Lol
Yeah but it ain’t as nice as chicagos best neighborhoods
Go thru the area he was at around the 13:30 mark..( Humboldt Ave ) go thru there at the wrong time thinking everything is sweet if you want to
The "worst" neighboorhoods in Boston look far better than those in most other cities. I live in New York City, and while I feel like the toughest neigboors in NYC are better than most places in the country, Boston definitely wins in all categories.
Totally, I agree with you @Terrence Gillon
Oh good ol' New York City. Where if traffic doesn't kill you some homicidal maniac will. Remember when Jason Voorhes terrorized NY? Oh wait, that was a movie. Got any other of a dozen crazy killing maniacs that are real and have been in the news?
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Lmao east New York, Brownsville, south Bronx???
Yeah man I grew up in Boston and it's changed drastically. It's MUCH safer than when I was growing up
Are you serious? At least know what you are talking about before you do one of these.
South Boston is a separate part of Boston, it’s own neighborhood. Mattapan and Roxbury are nowhere near South Boston.
That's what I said lol
Thank You! 😒
Chill bro
Yeah this was annoying me the whole video
@@Mphillig He had a bad upload, just like im sure you have bad days at work. Everything is gonna be ok Melissa.
There may be neglected homes in Boston but not entire neighborhoods. Property values are too high in Boston for there to be true slum sections.
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@Sarah G there are many a parts of mattapan roxbury and dorchester that have high crime areas but even in most of these sections theres not alot of burnt out houses, graffiti vacant lots etc etc
Yup, and as result crime isn’t as a bad as other cities.
Exactly. Boston used to be dangerous. Not anymore
When I see clean streets, walkways, building façades, not that old and well maintained cars, almost no people wandering around, I wouldn’t say it’s a dangerous neighborhood. Are you sure you’re not biased?
hahahaha
It’s not bias. Go look up the crime statistics. Roxbury is the highest crime suburb of Boston.
It’s really dangerous to live there.
@@THEBIGLIE20 I live here. Only reason it looks so nice is because the city has been renovating a lot of properties in these areas now, turning a lot of the triple deckers “deckahs” houses you see into condos & up selling. This area ALWAYS was considered & used to be known for “low income/section 8”
Now, A LOT OF PEOPLE who were born & raised here have been bought out of their homes over the last 5-10 years & forced to move out to make way for the “higher income” and/or “richer” people to move in. Only way they could sell to those kind of “market” people is by finally cleaning up the urban parts of Boston.
Don’t get it twisted though. On the outside looking in, especially while just driving through these areas during the early day time, they look nice & clean. Let me see you get out of ur car & WALK these same streets later on in the evening & night time hours…HUGE DIFFERENCE
@@crazylegs1324 Roxbury is NOT a suburb of Boston. It’s a neighborhood of Boston 6 miles from the center of the city
You said that mattapan and roxbury are part of south boston (southie). This is untrue. South boston is it's own neighborhood within boston. Mattapan and roxbury are their neighborhoods within boston. Just to be clear. You should do a bit more research
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Facts
Fr & they not even close to eachother 🤣
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Hi Kyle how is greenwich street to live in, I will be joining NEU as a international student in fall
I moved up to just outside of Boston from Baltimore and it feels like Mayberry here. It's such a nice, clean, safe city comparably.
Baltimore? No wonder. There is no worse place than Baltimore.
Baltimore has really gotten bad . Used to be some areas unsafe but whole place is criminal haven now
@@BrogeKilrain True. It used to be safe to avoid Baltimore City by going around it on the Beltway but now you don't dare exit the Beltway even if it's just to gas up.
I'm from the City of Champions, Brockton, 15 miles south of Boston
@@northernlight777 How is the Champion City. Would you say its safe?
I don't get it.
This is supposed to be the worst part of Boston?
All the houses seem to be in good repair, most of the cars on the street look to be fairly new, there is hardly any garbage on the streets, and the few visible people seem to be going about normal lives.
I don't see any muggers, grapists or shoot outs.
So how is this the worst part of Boston?
Please explain?
Because Boston is just not really that run down in general, there are other parts of Mass that are pretty bad tho like Fall River and Springfield
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Nick Johnson is putting out so much content he's spread thin. He doesn't know Boston, says right up front he got material off the internet to inform his tour. This route is quite a bit like one or two of CharlieBo313's Boston tours, without the side trips into public housing projects. Nick is on Hosmer and Woolson Streets in Mattapan, just like CharlieBo, and later makes a left off Blue Hill Avenue in Grove Hall just as CharlieBo did a year ago. Learning from Charlie's one-way street mistake, Nick continues across Elm Hill Ave into Ruthven Street, where he eventually gets stuck behind a garbage truck. Someone like Nick taking a quick look at the map would conclude this must be South Boston since it's south of the city center but, of course, anyone who knows Boston knows that Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury are not South Boston. Blue Hill Ave has as much claim on "worst part" as any place in Boston; it's been rough there since the neighborhood turned over in the 50s and 60s. But since nothing looks very rough and Nick, unlike Charliebo, doesn't have the skills or the cred to really explore the neighborhoods and talk to people, we don't learn much from his reheated leftovers.
Black people live in Roxbury so this guy considers it “ghetto”
I’m born & raised from these parts & still reside to this day. The city has started to renovate & “clean up” the city only within the last 5-8 years (give or take, depending on which areas as well) It was WAY MORE worse when I was growing up & all the way up until I turned 27 about a few years ago, then there started to be a lot of “turn around”’so to speak.
However, even though these areas he is driving through right now appear to be “clean”, it’s still considered to be a bad area/neighborhood due to all the gang activity & shootings that still take place here day or night (a 14 year old was just killed yesterday during a daytime shooting), robberies/break in’s, prostitution all up & down Blue Hill Avenue, & drug dealing/using.
If you’re REALLY from here…u already know what’s up
A bunch of nearly immaculate vehicles and beautiful construction. Menacing.
It is scary, if you hear how people there speak.
@@777jones dude please. I worked on a ship in New Bedford. I think i know how they speak. There's been a lot of drugs sure but they get what they get. A lot of scared people all about. Whatever.
There are new high rises going up
Clearly you never been in these parts of Boston.
@@seanhickey7881 You're correct. I like your last name though. My cousin with that last name owned a Harley bike shop.
I've been on Blue Hill Ave many times, it was much worse in the 80s.
Try the Grits and Shrimp at Brothers on Blue Hill Avenue
Cocaine destroyed most inner cities neighborhoods during the eighties.
Born and raised in Boston and there are no bad parts! Every city has there issues ours is the price of living. The materials the houses are built in are old colonial and are super expensive. The banks make it harder for our grandparents to refinance or get assistance for repair before the developers come it and strip us from our neighborhood. I love Boston!
Hey Shaniquekwa...we are heading out to Boston on Thursday with the kids (12, 13 & 15) and we are looking for recommendations on where to visit/eat/hike etc. Any thoughts as a Bostonian? 😃
I understand that people are incredulous, but these are the toughest neighborhoods in Boston currently. Specifically along Geneva Ave.
However, this is partially because the city of Boston is actually a pretty small area. There are nearby neighborhoods and cities that are comparably dangerous, but are not Boston.
Furthermore, Boston is not particularly dangerous in general when compared to cities like Philadelphia, where I lived for 5 years in college. In reality, the most dangerous places in all of Boston are nowhere near this neighborhood.
The truly dangerous places in Boston are the pedestrian street from Park Street station to Downtown Crossing after dark, State Street after 2am on nice nights, and the border area of Chinatown and tufts medical center after businesses close.
I'll be moving to one of the good parts of the metro area soon, I'm so excited. Boston is fucking awesome. Sorry Boston is wicked awesome!
It you move to a town just north of Somerville you have to call it by it's rightful name . Meffa or Mefid. Never Medford.
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@@rbspider kid is called Meffa! 😂 the greatest city on the north shore kid!
@@rbspider lol
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Hey Nick! Those aren't 'row homes,' they are called 'THREE DECKAHS.' Lol
TRIPLE DECKAS! 😊
@@Ariadne76-k3d Correct!!!
Lmao yes triple deckahs..boston life
Triple Deckahs!
Expected a whole lot worse. The regular decent parts of inner-city Chicago make Boston's hood look like Mayberry. That's a pretty decent "ghetto". 😃
Go to Franklin field at night or any of these places at night it gets active, he didnt show the worst places in this but It is pretty in the summer and spring
I lived in Chicago too....way worse
Apparently the guy who uploaded this video didn’t go to the real ghettos in Boston. This isn’t even south Boston.
He is in Boston not the "ghetto". He didn't go to the neighborhoods/ streets with gangs.
All of Boston is so expensive that you will have a Harvard graduate living next door to a gang member. GENTRIFICATION IS REAL IN BOSTON.
@@jacquir8331 Boston isn’t that expensive compared to LA, San Francisco, NYC especially Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. LA for example, do you think Boston is more expensive housing than Hollywood Hills or Bel-Air? The point I’m trying to make is that all these other cities I mentioned have Ghettos and they are even more expensive to live in. So, Boston obviously also has ghettos as well but this dude who uploaded the video just refused to post a video where he goes to the dangerous neighborhoods in Boston for some reason.
You definitely should have asked some people who are from Boston before you did this but whatever. The areas you were in are fine actually. You needed to be in certain parts of Dorchester and Chelsea as well as Mass Ave by Boston Medical Center aka Methadone Mile. Either way...at least you tried but it's definitely not correct information.
Absolute Facts ..lol im from Boston..Dorchester to b exact live in quincy now and ya this is wayyy off lmao take lil trip to the mileeeeee😳😳😳😳😳💩👀
Mass and Cass is certainly the worst but you would be hard pressed to find a boarded up house or vacant lot in Chelsea.
Chelsea isn't Boston. It is a separate city.
Rocksbury and murderpan are some of th worst minus th gentrifying
he's a raicst, anywhere there's blacks or browns he says its ghetto and dangerous
So Nick let me get this straight. You can tell if someone should be at work by looking at them?
Your agenda here is quite obvious. Go back to New Hampshire dude.
Yeah that comment was outrageous. To say the average home price is over 400k then imply no one has jobs is ludicrous.
What's funny is most those areas if he woulda turned the camera he woulda got what he was looking for, but since he didn't have a clue he got nothing. Like when he went past Humbolt at the end to jam himself behind the garbage truck...that was all the Humbolt Raiders area 25 years ago. Woulda been karma for what he's trying to portray
Dude, you said you were driving through the WORST parts of Boston. Were you tripping? Looks pretty good to me.
🤣🤣🤣 he’s not really going to them and trust me as calm as it looks there’s shootings that happen where he’s driving
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He saying that because he's driving in the urban areas lol
Drives pass my house like huh did you not see all the walking to the zoo and some more made he should’ve taken the right on Washington street and shot down Geneva but then even Geneva getting their upgrade
These are the worst areas. I grew up I these parts, shootings all the time. It’s just that Boston’s inner city is far nicer-looking and less violent than almost anywhere else in America. Not the worst place in the states to be impoverished.
That first street full of three story houses looked really nice. The rest of the video was fairly nice too. Did you put the wrong title on this video?
Apartments
At this point, rents have been so high that there's no need to skip renovations and repairs. Many of the poor have been squeezed out due to the extremely high rents. Areas do change. 20 years ago, people would tell you to ABSOLUTELY do not go there.
Nick, you took a nice ride up Blue Hill Avenue, and as such I enjoyed it greatly. Your title doesn’t fit the video.
Triple deckahs
Correction, Mattapan, Roxbury and most of Dorchester is not South Boston. Also, most people who live in this area are good hardworking families like the rest of Boston. It is culturally rich in diversity and has so much historical value that if you do not live here you wouldn't know. Get out of the car and talk with people, go into the places of business and/or historical building before you label a video as the worst parts of Boston. I get what you are doing, but every area in Massachusetts have its less than desirable areas or people; however, you are correct in challenging political leadership to invest more in these areas - and many of our people do, but these neighborhoods often get left behind because of who lives there and are the least to get the attention it deserves.
Most people are hard working people there. But that doesn’t change the fact that you can still get mugged or shot at there. Those neighborhoods have shootings every other day. Especially North Dorchester.
Absolutely. I live a couple of cities away, and I love this part of Boston. Real, down to earth folks, that work hard, many of them are educated in the trades and academics, nice people give the last dollar in their wallet to you or food that you need if you need it. That’s how we roll here.
Lmfaoo this is my whole neighborhood drive these roads everyday. I love my city
Me too. Live my city! Love dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan all of it. People are just ifnorant and scared. Lol He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth clearly. If it’s so bad why so many white people trying to move to these neighborhoods? Smh
Is that Woodrow and irma st????of blue hill???
Roxbury and Mattapan not worse. City has torn down most of the projects and built town houses for students of the universities and white people moving back into the city. I wonder where the low income and poor went. Rents in the so called worse parts are $1,500 to $2,500 a month for 1 to 2 bedrooms. The average working class families can no longer afford to live in Boston. So where is the worst parts?
@@dorothydennis7337 No idea, but I'm renting in Hyannis for $600/mo and could never afford Boston.
@@nicoleoconnell3695 Woodrow projects? The ham 🍺
Next time you visit these places, you should take someone who is from there instead of speculating on what you only know via the internet
as someone from Boston i agree, and if he really wanted to get into the "bad parts" of mass he should have gone into Lynn.
I lived in Boston for 2+ years (wife was in Medical School at the time) and I have lived up and down the East Coast. Boston is BY far the CLEANIEST city I have ever been to and lived. The worst projects would be the suburbs compared to projects in Bmore/DC/Philly. The only thing I disliked about Boston was the amount of hate each neighborhood had for each other. I knew guys who could NOT go certain places JUST because of where they lived and that reason alone.
I plan of leaving for South Carolina tired of the weather
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DC looks nicer than Boston
@@MyMyManMelo_ Hell NO Georgetown the ONLY decent part of DC
@@kenkenny6196 nooooo. all of dc looks nice inluding ward 7/8
Ok #1: it’s just BOSTON. The only area we call “SOUTH BOSTON” is actual SOUTH BOSTON aka “SOUTHIE” (which is what it is known as to people who are actually from here.
#2 I was born & raised in this area & still live in this area today. Us real locals call these parts the hood & Roxbury is also referred to as “DaBury” & Mattapan is referred to as “Murdapan”
those old Victorian homes are beautiful!
Maybe if they painted them all the same color . I really don't like them.
Homes are beautiful - but why so big? Look like for a family of 20 members. And, the heating bill.
@@btbees1 The homes are three family , 1 family per floor . In the old days some were one family but that usually included the grand parents on one floor , son and wife and family on another floor . I guess it may have been the only way to purchase a house. I lived in a two family with father inlaw below me . I lived in another one that was an old sea captains home , nice hardwood floors . big windows. They must have been tough to keep warm
@@rbspider Thank you for the interesting explanation.
Those are actually 3 to 6 family homes.
I know this area well. I used to live in the next town. Is it urban? Yes. So what? Is it densely populated? Yes. So what? Do minorities live there? Yes. So what? Is it vibrant? Yes. Absolutely. How many vacant storefronts did you see? Any? Construction is going on...there are no "slums" in Boston. Yes, some areas are more desirable than others. There are no real estate bargains here. Any bargain will get snapped up like a dollar bill on a sidewalk. The Mass Ave and Melena Cass Boulevard area (a good ride from this neighborhood) needs to be "fixed" but there are drug issues in every major city.
Went to college in Somerville. Most of the neighborhoods outside of Boston look like this. Crammed like a sardine can. These homes go for 1.5 million now.
Tufts?
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That’s why I’m moving i currently live in Somerville, and I don’t know why is spelling.
the prices here are crazy!!
@@Technoirz same I live in Somerville. Want to move to Chicago though. I know it’s worse but want to experience it for at least a year
Nick, I live in Boston. Mattapan and Roxbury are not South Boston.
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Lolol!!! Being from Boston this is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and VERY FICTITIOUS.
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So true
Mattapan and Roxbury are not South Boston. South Boston is its own entity Nick. Don't get it twisted.
Moved to Boston in the early 90’s from West Philadelphia, folks in Boston have no idea what a ghetto looks like. Boston is small geographically and with a housing shortage, real estate state is expensive. Very few abandoned houses and vacant lots, they are just worth too much to be underutilized.
I am from Boston. I was in West Philly three years ago. Holy crap. There is no comparison.
No folks in Boston don’t care about the ghettos in other cities. It’s always outsiders comparing themselves to us and honestly it’s weird and annoying.
Maybe your right i moved from that area in the video to indian school in phoenix, az
@Sarah G I’m in Roxbury staying at an Airbnb and I’m from Philadelphia. They say this is the hood like stay away from Dudley or Nubian square I think it’s called now? I drove down methadone mile someone else said Mission Hill? So I went there and I not once knew for sure if I was “in the hood” when your in Philly there’s no denying it. You will feel that your in the hood just by looking around you the scenery changes that fast. Prostitution, drugs, guns are all common in Philly and literally even the “better” neighborhoods are ghetto. Philly is a shit hole Boston is literally pristine compared to it. Also Baltimore is a shit hole west Baltimore is the only place I’ve driven thru that made me feel uncomfortable like I couldn’t get out the car
Baltimore no joke I'm from Philly I been to LA nyc dc Baltimore Pittsburgh detriot Chicago Columbus Ohio Nashville TN Atlanta Vegas Seattle San fran Portland lynn Massachusetts Boston Springfield Albany Rochester Newark NJ Patterson NJ jonhnstown Pennsylvania chester Pennsylvania Wilmington del Camden NJ Oakland CA Atlantic city Hartford New haven Bridgeport Waterbury con
Hello get your facts straight
* Roxbury you cannot buy a home there for under $1 million. Dudley is an area you want to stay clear of.
* Dorchester - where The on Bowdoin St. Cape Verdians shoot at each other for target practice is dangerous day and night. Never go to that area.
* Mattapan has streets like Wildwood, Woolson and Norfolk were you still have gangs.
If you are not in a gang not caught up you will not have any problems living in these areas you pointed out.
@1:05 you say "people who look like they should be at work!" Who are you to assume? Why because these are people of color? These areas that you mention are full of hard working, honest, and loving families.
Boston is a great city full of wonderful people please do not generalize it.
Well fkn said and factssss i used to live on corner of bowdoin and only and it can b crazyyy and Dudley ya 4 get abt it this 🎥 is wayyyy offfff
Great comment.
Dudley sq is not soo bad tho right?
Don't forget H block land of shooting
Yes! When I was younger I had a boyfriend who was affiliated w/ a cv gang over there around bowdoin/hamilton/draper st. We all used to hang out at Ronan Park. A lot of crazy times being over there. To make it worse, I lived over by Uphams corner, which is where there rivals stayed. Not to long after we broke up, I went w/ a friend of mine to a house party on Humphreys St w/ a friend of mine who’s kids father was from Wendover st (she swore I would be fine that she already told him ahead of time I was coming & informed him of our break up that happened recently)
Everything was fine the first 30 minutes & I started to relax after having a few drinks & smoking a blunt w/ my friend. I went into the kitchen to grab us a couple of beers from the fridge & next thing I know I went from opening the fridge door to grabbing us a couple of beers, to down on the floor, half my body outside of the backdoor on the porch in snow, to my lower half still being on the kitchen floor. Looking up, there were about 4 guys standing over me w/ guns pointing at me, being screamed at if I was there to try & get information so I could run back to tell him. I started balling & saying over & over again that we broke up. It felt like hours I had guns pointing at me, even though it was probably only 3 minutes, but once I was let up I grabbed my stuff & left! Didn’t even bother looking to find my friend or anything just took off. One of the scariest times of my life.
Not to mention the CV gangs were crazy. Most times they were shooting at their own cousins, but just because they belonged to rival gangs, it didn’t matter. It was killed or be killed
That's pretty much how city housing looks like, and you see even the boarded up one is under renovation. People around here tend to like our wooden triple deckers and row houses. Area like this have been gentrified all around the Boston area.
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Are they public housing or privately owned?
@@scottdonaldson1973 - most are privately owned. There are subsidized housing sprinkled throughout Beantown and project in every town/city of Massachusetts
Born & raised, used to be worse in 80's and 90s.
You get so much wrong here that it's hard to take you seriously.
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idk how anyone can take his videos seriously when he literally judges strangers in the beginning insinuating they don't work because they're outside. he makes content for people who hate cities and minorities
Still waiting for the episode where Nick calls someone from Boston and ends up getting a construction worker from Southie on the phone 😂
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Hi Nick, thanks for the video. Although I moved away over 30 years ago, there were a lot worse areas that I can remember. Maybe they've improved. The absolute worse thing is owning a car and having to park on the street during the winter. Shovel your car out in the morning and shovel a spot to park at night. And the people that put furniture in their spot trying to save it when they came home!
Those are when the fights break out! Move that damn table!!
@@NickJohnson Aint no fights breaking out. You are one of those white boys who are afraid of their own shadow.
@@NickJohnsonhouses anywhere near Boston are still 400k plus and that’s on the cheaper side
You know what I noticed there wasn't a bunch of trash flying down the street. You go down any Street in an urban area like that you're going to see trash and you just did to see it here. Shows the people there have pride in their neighborhood.
Boston is very clean city believe me the City of Boston have a good Cleaning and recycling system on place.
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I'm originally from Mattapan and honestly this brought me back. My childhood was pretty safe surprisingly. I think a lot of these cities are disporportiantly black and due to "Red line" zoning a lot of blacks were barred from living in certain areas. Also a lot of drugs were introduced to these cities during Reagan's "War on Drugs". I can go on and on lol. I now live in Oregon waaay on the other side of the US but I'd like to visit again someday.
I did the reverse. Pdx now...... wow
You drove by my friends triple decker house..and he was offered 2 plus million $ for it...trust me there is NOTHING in that entire area under 600k
Did you drive through “Methadone Mile” at all?
I doubt it. He needs to go down "METHMILE"
I'm pretty sure he didn't want to catch airborne HIV.
The methadone mile is a fairly new addition to Boston. They had to close the biggest area shelter due to an unsafe bridge, this started camping on the street. I hate seeing this in my otherwise clean and safe city. Hate it!
@@seanhickey7881 airborne HIV dead 💀🤣🤣🤣
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I am laughing! At 14:04 is where I live on the right. These houses go for 1 million unrenovated! I am from the North Shore and I was scared and it's perfectly fine. Believe it or not the streets and sidewalks a super clean - except for trash day.
This looks not so rough. I’d like to see this route on a weekend night, but I’d worry about Nick’s safety. Only TH-camr who can handle the rough stuff at night is Charliebo313 lol but yeah….
Well just by looking at the cars around the town I know what is reliable to buy Toyota, Honda or Nissan.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mass has the highest concentration of Japanese cars of all states.
These areas have historically been underserved by public transit (on purpose). The residents adapted, and now have methods of transportation that's more reliable (Japanese cars)
my father grew up in Mattapan before it really took a nosedive in the 70s. Like you mentioned the day these neighborhoods aren’t so bad to traverse through but the activity definitely picks up at night. Much of it seems to be culture/gang related, a pretty diverse mix in a poor, dense area. Great video as always!
Interesting!
Exactly..
Not true.. Mattapan/Milton area is pretty nice
@@dwaigntyndal Milton is really nice ..mainly white and middle and upper middle class..then you cross over one street and mattapan(section of boston) looks okay on the n th e outsdie of most homes but still alot of poverty and crime ..alot better than the 80's early 90's crack cocaine war zone it used to be
mattapan was a thriving jewish community until "white flight" of the 60's 70's ..then it became middle class/ poor black and latino, but its coming up , slowly
Boston is a beautiful place. I've lived here for over 12 years now. Originally from Columbia, South Carolina. Now you want to see ghetto look at Columbia S.C
there are far more killings here in oklahoma city than boston and that is why i want to vacation there sometime.
MANY COMMENTS THAT I’ VE READ SAY THAT IT’S NOT SO BAD. IN LOOKING AT IT, IT DOESN’T LOOK AS BAD AS SOME OTHER PLACES. I’M A NATIVE BOSTONIAN. THAT LONG STRETCH OF ROAD HE’S DRIVING THROUGH IS BLUE HILL AVE. AND TAKES YOU THROUGH GROVE HALL, WHERE I LIVE. THE VIOLENCE IN AND AROUND THESEE AREAS, THROUGH THE YEARS, HAS BEEN AWFUL..ESPECIALLY IN MATTAPAN. IN MY AREA, THERE IS A LOT OF DRUGS AND PROSTITUTION, EVEN THOUGH, RECENTLY, I’VE SEEN LESS OF IT, BECAUSE, WE RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN SPEAKING UP ABOUT IT. RIGHT NOW, MASS AND CASS i.e, “METHADONE MILE” IS A BIG CONCERN. EVERY DAY IT IS LOOKING MORE LIKE THE STREETS OF CALIFORNIA. IT IS DISGUSTING!!! WHEN HE DROVE UP THROUGH GEORGIA ST., I SAID OH-OH. THIS LEADS INTO THE GANG AFFILIATED AREAS, LEADING TO HUMBOLT AVE. A STREET THAT HAS BEEN NOTORIOUS FOR MURDER. IT LEADS YOU DEEPER INTO ROXBURY..
Sure
It’s become quite clear that Nick has an agenda. Judging from the comment section of this video, it didn’t work because there are far too many people calling him out on his ridiculous, conservative bullshit nonsense about all cities & all liberal states. Even his commentary in his “Interesting Maps” videos is just “off.” He’s gotta throw his little digs.
Anyway, I’m glad the people of the comment section here are calling out his propaganda. The best neighborhood? No, but definitely not the worse.
Gary, Indiana would kill for their worst areas to look this nice. I can also tell you the total number of times I saw anyone pressure washing a house in Gary. That would be zero. Pretty sure a lot of the houses would just fall apart if you tried to pressure wash them.
I agree
I can say same thing about my hometown (Small City like) Muskegon, Michigan will kill for theirs as well
If you take a drive through Newark, NJ, I can tell you where the really rough areas are. They look nothing like this.
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The first video you showed you said it was in South Boston. It's not! That is in Mattapan. Get your facts straight before you start naming bad parts of a city.
Looked okay, compared to the vast stretches of vacant lots and decaying properties in places like Detroit or St. Louis.
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The city changed alot in 30 years though, and they still have visions of the "old" Boston. Like they tore all the overhead trains down in the 80's and then turned all the projects in condo's basically. Looks totally different to be honest, and with gentrification most the same people are just not living there anymore.
Boston is a nice city, but it's expensive and some areas have homelessness. Crime is challenging to reduce in Boston. Education is good in there (Harvard and others in the Boston metro area).
South Boston is its own neighborhood and while it is "tough" it is still set in culture and by no means violent...Mattapan (Murdapan) has the most gang violence and stab murders but Dorchester has the most shootings, Roxbury is one of the poorer areas but crime is not a huge issue, same with JP its no different than any other city neighborhood...the South End and Downtown Crossing have become regrettably dirtier and more violent
South Boston isn’t tough bro
South Boston doesn’t look so bad especially when you consider the winters are hard there too. You’ve taken us through much worse looking areas. The businesses are open and cars heading to destinations.
Not South Boston! 🤔
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Nick didn’t come close to South Boston. You can literally eat off the streets there and then go for a swim at the beach
Next time you decide to explore Boston. Check out the Heath St projects in Jamaica Plain. Then you'll see a poverty stricken not so nice section of Boston.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 don't do that. Or mission hill
Both areas are being gentrified
@Sarah G Tell that to my buddy that was shot in the leg. Then asked for the money. In the Heath St projects in Jamaica plain. Literally next door to Mission Hill.
@@stephenflowers8516 heath street is not as bad as it used to be ..neither is mission hill i go to a bar all the time near in mission hill..if youre not from health street projects than yeah it can be dangerous and theres till some warring gangs but now nearly as bad as 80's ,90's ...mission hills been gentrified alot of students live there
@@medleykeisha1728 mission hill is multi million dollar homes, Wentworth, Northeast students and millions with six figure jobs.
You are thinking 30 years ago.
This guy went online and searched "where do black people live in Boston?" and then made this video lol. Because as someone who live in the city at the time you made this video and still to this day the worst part of Boston is in the south end and Mass ave.. there is literally a tent city there with white people on Meth, it literally nick name methadone mile. There was an article recently of all the money being spent on OT by the police because of this area.
But sure Mattapan and Roxbury are the issue.
Wow! Compare these to the ‘bad’ areas of Philly or Baltimore!! No comparison.
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I grew up in Fields Corner in the 50's and 60's. You should have done your homework. Roxbury has had sketchy areas for a long time but you did not drive through them. Mass Ave. Shawmut Ave. Very dangerous at night. Blue Hill Ave and Norfolk St were pretty sketchy in the 70's but it's improved quite a bit since then. Most of those triple deckahs cost in the area of a million bucks so as you can see, people there take pride of ownership. The houses all look freshly painted. No trash on the street. No drugged out sketchy people staggering around. Looks like it was the dead of winter when you went though. And BTW, Southie is a whole different neighborhood and you were quite some ways from there. I live in Portland Oregon now and PDX is waaaaaay more dangerous than Boston.
thins looks like a nice place to live. modern looking, large and spacious, clean streets. and im from friendly oz. be an honour to grow up in such an aesthetic.
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I am living in Jamaica Plain and I also know Roxbury, definitely they are not bad neighborhoods if you compare with what I saw in NYC, specially Jamaica Plain is not dangerous at all I have never seen any police officers anyway
As an Indian who has never visited the US, I don't see anything unusual, the houses in the neighborhood you've shown are well maintained, have good cars, decent roads, no signs of crime.....a mile apart compared to Detroit.
Lol, I also moved recently to Boston from Ethiopia. These videos are so biased it gave me a very wrong idea of Roxbury before I moved here for graduate school.
You can't be serious with this video. I'm 43 and have lived between Dorchester and Roxbury my whole life. Mass Ave by meth mile is definitely the worse part of the city.
Lol. I lived 10 miles north of Boston for 15-ish years and commuted into Southie for work for a while and I thought it was a run-down place. After watching videos of Nick driving through the worst parts of other big cities, I see now that Boston and NH are NOT that bad!
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Nick's video is pretty accurate....Compared to most areas of Boston, the locations he showed are among the worst. Bt if you live in Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, St Louis, Chicago, etc, you would think the worst areas of Boston are better than your city. Also, most people who live in NH, VT or ME think that most of the crime in New England is all in MA.
Hoods don’t usually have homes that cost $450K and up.
Every city is skyrocketing in property value. These homes were bought for cheap decades ago
Boston is ridiculously over priced... colleges hospitals technology employers 🤷🏾♀️
That’s not always true
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Not sure what driving through Mattapan and Roxbury in the middle of winter demonstrates other than Boston is a mixed bag socioeconomically when it comes to the people that live here, while the value of the housing stock remains high. Jamaica Plain went through this in the 1970s, and many older homes were picked up for a song and renovated/restored into valuable, landscaped properties today. These areas remain underserved when it comes to being connected to the T, resulting in a lot of intensive renovations and new apartment/condo construction within the city while these areas were designed for and remain commuter areas with cars required to get around. For being as crime-plagued as you described it, there were plenty of new model cars and renovated houses along the routes you took, with the only tired-looking properties being ones that have been there a long time.
I think you missed your mark-like your videos but this one a miss. Dorchester should have made your #1. While Mataram is known as “murderpan” and Roxbury has it’s challenges, all butt up to very rich towns. They are 100% fine during the day. I’ve worked in them for 14 years never had 1 issue never saw anything of concern. To your point, they have much different reputation when the sun goes down. But keep on making vids!
As someone who lives in Boston and Somerville, I’ve never been to Mattapan, but Dorchester and Roxbury are really not bad. The worst part of Boston I’ve been to is Mass Ave and Melnea Cass. Methadone mile. But even there, keep walking, don’t flash expensive stuff, and don’t have your face buried in your smartphone, you’ll be fine.
I’ve been to Boston and it’s a lot cleaner than New York City.
Way cleaner than NYC.
sure but dats like sayin its cleaner then the inside o my toiletbowl during my worst case o foodpoisoning...
This area used to be a lot worse. You couldn’t go 100ft without finding some spent cartridge cases in the gutter. I don’t think there was a building that didn’t have a few bullet holes in it. I’m truly shocked by how nice it looks now. As others have said newmarket square is probably the worst part of Boston today. It’s overrun with junkies but not a war zone like this area used to be.
Having lived in Boston now longer than anywhere else, I just wished it was more laid back and less uptight. It's a great intellectual center. And as you can see from its "slum" areas it still comes out ahead of many other cities. Maybe the new immigrants will add a bit more warmth and rhythm to the place.
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I completely agree on both counts. It was the uptightness that drove me to leave, as a fourth-generation Bostonian, for California. I do love Boston's intellectual diversity, culture, and beauty, but not enough to return to the rigid ideals of New England.
I was born in Mattapan (74 years ago). When I have taken walks around the area of my birthplace more recently, I see still beautiful homes. Yes, Blue Hill Avenue has gone down from its thriving years a century ago, but, well, things change. But, on your video, you present the frightful sight of (Oh the humanity!) clean streets lined with perfectly decent looking triple decker homes. Roxbury is also not the hell hole you seem to think it is. And, you don't even know enough about the area to realize that Mattapan and Roxbury are in no way "parts of South Boston," which is a completely different section of the city.
I think that having 4 full seasons with a formidable winter helps keep the streets clean and the bums and homeless on their toes. Compare this to LA or San Francisco.
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Lol you seen methadone mile
Then it is definitely the people that are atrocious because none of those neighborhoods are bad or in disrepair, Boston seems to be comparable to Minneapolis
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Also when I lived in Boston I met people from Cape Verdia LOTS of them. I have never ever heard of that country before living in Boston and I live in the NY/NJ area for years NOW and have yet to meet one Cape Verdian (do they live in MA exclusively)???
Mostly Boston and Brockton
Cape Verdeans live heavily in New England region. They in Boston, Brockton, New Bedford. There's a lot in RI - Pawtucket & Providence, also CT like Norwich & Waterbury.
That's because they were one of those smaller sects of people taken from their home countries and implanted there... Very much why you see just a small population of Cape Verdeans/West Indians in those specific areas most of which rather most of whom actually have been there longer than most of the other Bostonians who claim to have original roots...
SO TRUE. WE DO HAVE A LOT OF CAPE VERDIANS HERE…LOL
Mattapan and Roxbury ARE NOT parts of South Boston.
This honestly isn't even that bad. There's some areas around where I live that are probably worse.
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You just lost a lot of credibility with a lot of people.
First... South Boston is it's own area. Mattapan and Roxbury are NOT anywhere near South Boston. South Boston is also known as Southie.
A lot of the footage you show is actually DORCHESTER, which runs between Roxbury and Mattapan. Again, NOT South Boston. (And not Roxbury and not Mattapan.)
Sorry Nick, you got this one completely wrong.
Now I wonder what info on your other videos is totally incorrect... like this video is.
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Staying in an air bnb in Roxbury right now. Been trying to find the hood. Went down methadone mile 😂😂 Kensington is worse by a mile that’s all I have to say about that. Boston got some rougher looking areas but despite all tht it’s literally one of the nicest cities I’ve ever been to I love it and I’ll always come back
Y’all don’t know what a ghetto is up here.. I’m from Florida. This looked no different than East Boston to me.
There is nothing wrong with this neighborhood. Get a life.
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The menacing places are the Boston Housing Authority Section 8 developments like Franklin Field, Bromley Heath, Whittier Apts. and Alice Taylor too name a few. I was a fire alarm technician with Signet Electronics. I would have to go into most of these developments late at night when I was on-call for fire alarm resets (mainlyfalse alarms). It's a whole different world once it gets dark.
Grove hall codman square ect
You mention franklin field, yeah, that a bad one…
@@karengoodman1678, I responded to a fire alarm reset by Boston Fire Dept around 1am at Franklin Field on Westview St. No sooner had I started driving down Westview St. gunfire broke out in the field right next door. I took off out of there and called 911 and waited down on Ames Way until cops arrived and secured the area. I was a little edgy of going in there that late at night but it was my job. This happened roughly 10 years ago. I'm retired now and don't miss it.
south end Cathedral projects by/on Melina Cass BLVD, down mass ave to the Exxon/Shell/McDonalds is very rough
@Brian , I was a fire alarm technician (now retired) and had several of the BHA developments as accounts, and that included Cathedral Housing as well. It was bad back in the 2000's. I can only imagine how much worse it is now. I wouldn't want to have to work in those places nowadays.
Worst part of Boston have really nice houses... I mean look at those houses at 1:11 those gotta be like over 4,000 sq feet!! Lol I wish I had a house like that.
These are all 3-family homes, and many poor families must double-up to make the high Boston rents.
None of this is true to understand Boston politics is to understand none of this is true. I lived in all of these areas and more and never ever had an issue
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This is not the worst parts of Boston.. 🤦♂️
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Far from the worst part of Boston, seen much worse as a kid
your video is a pretty good argument that Boston as you show it is in just fine. Have you been to Detroit ? The neighborhoods you show, Mattapan and Roxbury, look very good to me.
My Dad was Born on Blue Hill Ave..at Home...Not in a Hospital...1936......And Graduated from Roxbury High...I was Born in Dorchester Massachusetts...1964..But 3 months after I was Born.. Moved to Quincy Massachusetts..... Just south of Boston... But as a local..Truck Driver.... spent many days on Blue Hill Ave..and all over The city of Boston...
Quincy is paradise compared to Boot Hill Avenue.
So, from a Bostonian..... South Boston is actually called South Boston.... Mattapan and Roxbury are not part of Southie.... though they may be on the South side of Boston.
This is not South Boston. That’s a completely different part of town. You are in Mattapan, Dorchester and Roxbury.