I grew up in Niagara Falls in the 60's and 70's. We had great schools, busy shopping areas and a lot of small businesses. There were some tough areas, like anyplace else. The decline began when good paying industrial jobs headed south to low wage states in the late 70's and early 80's. That led to population decline, and a declining tax base. Absentee landlords, and land speculators with no stake in the future of the city and years of disinvestment have taken their tolls. Immature and petty political turf wars helped too. The city was always thought of as a way to make a quick buck, with no planning for the future. And we had a lot of silly, magic bullet boondoggles which never came to anything. The video is unfair because does not show the stable and well kept middle class neighborhoods; so don't totally judge the city based on this clip. The people are great, and very down to Earth. I'll always love it.
Something happened to my city Flint Michigan. I have always loved watching the falls. Flint don't have that. We just go to the top of abandoned buildings n smoke weed.
People are commenting that "you're only showing part of the city", well, that's the point. It's right in the title (hoods). I grew up near Hyde Park/Walnut/Pine Ave area from the 60's-90's and it was 90% very pleasant. It still is! My family and friends still live there and I enjoy visiting. Niagara Falls has declined dramatically over the past 60 years because of terrible and selfish decisions and 48 years ago when the truth came out about the huge amount of toxins in the land. I've been told since I was very young to avoid certain areas of Niagara St, East Falls, Main, and (no brainer) Highland. But there were plenty of safer area to hang out. The thing that makes me the saddest about this video are the beautifully architectured houses. I imagine the first families that occupied them in the early twentieth century. The life that was in them and all the memories it holds.
From the Falls, but settled in Panama City Florida, when I retired from the Navy in 1988. Actually cried while watching this, remember watching an episode of "Route 66"in the block that the Rapids Theater, across from the old Jenss Department Srore and the huge crowd that was outside
a 3 story building across the street is being sold for 40k at the moment. everything is abandoned and cheap there it seems. Do you think there is a future at all in that area?
Thanks for the memories, you should have went up Highland if you wanted to see the old school NF hood. The area around 12th and Niagara has always been ratty since 1980. Nice 2 stories next to a boarded up house for neighbors, same as Love Canal. But, it echoed throughout the whole city like a cancer.
the Canadian side probably had something to do with it, better views more money in tourism also attracts more tourists which makes the city more money. Canada took a lot of business from the US side I would guess which left the city reeling from an economy bust but that's just my guess
@@ConstanceAdams-k5p Thats hilarious. Its Canada's fault the US side of the falls looks like a third world country?. Canada took a lot of business because the Canadian side is safer, cleaner, kinder and overall a lot more fun in the main streets. Lots of places to eat, entertainment, and many great hotels and motels.
I live in the falls a few times,my dad's side of the family is from there. It was run down the last time I went up there in like 2010. 63 street and Niagarafalls Blvd. I loved going up there as a kid to see my brother and grandparents. I had a lot of good memories up there. It was a big change coming from Houston t.x to the falls. I loved it.
there are some good things happening in NF. They removed the Robert Moses freeway, opening up the city to the gorge. Lots of nice trails within a short walk. The city is consistently demolishing the worst abandoned homes that will soon be empty lots. You can buy a house and an adjoining lot and have a sweet place for only $100K. If the city can lure year round industry and jobs, and perhaps encourage retirees to have a Northern home in NF, the city can do much better. New short-term rental zoning is also a plus for property owners. Also, many Canadian's, especially those with dual citizenship, can use their Nexus and quickly get across on the Whirlpool bridge, and may wish to have a much more affordable home in NF than what you can busy across the river.
OMG I grew up there around the 56th street area. Graduated from Trott Vocational High School in '71, left the city in '75 and haven't seen most of it since. What a shock! I barely recognize the place, some commentary would have been nice. My older brother worked and lived there all his life, I don't know how he did it. RIP Bro.
I witnessed the most deplorable conditions at the Gill Creek music night on 7/3 the portable bathrooms the city provides were beyond filthy but that is not the worst thing the floors of the bathrooms were littered with uncapped syringes but the most devastating is directly behind the bathrooms is a children’s playground so to the city government the residents and children deserve better than that stop ruining the city
I grew up on the Eastside, I don't live in niagara falls anymore but I do go back and visit family and friends often,and it pains me to see how the city has went to ruin! Do the mayor and other city officials even see what the city looks like or are they just turning a blind eye and collecting their paycheck!
next to 2nd location on 14th, there was a house that was selling for 20k. His grandpa's 2nd old house has windows shattered, others boarded up, the main entrance was missing windows. He tried to go in, but it was locked. The only guy who would talk to him lives 3 blocks away. His grandpa lived there in 1940's. They moved to 2nd location he says, when gpa was 10 years old. He lived at 13th where property no longer exists from birth to 10 yrs old. His grandpa was the youngest of 9 kids. He said.
The 1st address his grandpa lived in wasn't even there, the whole block on 13th was totally obliterated. Torn down. The empty fields remind me of 2000 in Detroit, especially on west side, and part of north.
It's funny they didn't show the people. There are worse neighborhoods. They become very alive at night. Addicts stumbling around even in subzero temps, trying to get their fix. I was approached by someone dealing coke midday. I was w my car at a stop sign, on the way to the aquarium. On the way home, a 7-9 yr old put long wood planks w nails all over it in the road. I could go on, but you'd have to see it.
I live in Buffalo about 15 mi from Niagara Falls and I go there about 4 or 5 times a year. It's sad to see what happened over the decades to Niagara Falls. The city has been horribly mismanaged. They really need new leaders.
23:25 flashback to walking around the corner seeing that building sneaking a Marlboro on "a walk around the block" at 12 years old. That had plate glass windows in it if I recall but I don't think it was open back then even, some storage place of a closed local store. The sign was up there but dont recall it...so many places like that in the Falls even back in the late 70s
Yes my friend it is very bad and very depressing. Niagara Falls is a blue collar industrial town that literally lost everything to deindustrialization. The tax exempt gambling casino just made things worse.
What nice streets? Almost 80% of that city is a decaying crime infested garbage dump. The area north of Hyde Park along Porter Road used to be beautiful. Now it is plagued with absentee landlords and section 8 renters. DeVeaux isn’t all that great neither it is going downhill as the more affluent residents move up 104 to Lewiston. LaSalle is the only decent well kept area in the Falls but it also has some small pockets of poverty and decay. The suburban Town of Niagara is a mixed bag as well. It has some very beautiful areas but it also contains pockets of poverty and crappy dumpy areas.
The former chief FBI agent in Niagara Falls in the 70s was talking about how much the pull that the mob had over city government. He said that any project the city was paying for some of it was taken off the top, so coming in close to budget was impossible. He said that the city built a phone booth and it came in at about $1,000 higher. A phone booth.
I moved from there 31 years ago, it was a dump then and it's even worse than back in 1991. I see now why my Grandmother adimit about leaving to move to Cleveland, Ohio. A place way worse than NF. It's way crazier out here, and it looks like East Cleveland out there.
What diversity it is mostly impoverished welfare trash. This is also the end result of failed urban renewal, deindustrialization, unrealistic pie in the sky redevelopment dreams, and the final nail in the coffin, a tax exempt gambling casino.
It's a ghost town,if you look up los angeles and a few other hoods it's worse there with all the homelessness, drugs etc.. only the weather is better there not the hoods. I'm glad there's a TH-cam with there hood videos it saves me a trip of finding out myself and where there's no hoods in California it's at least 3,000 a month in rent ya gotta pay, and that's why there's so much homelessness. I think the rent is high in the falls but compared to other states it's not. I don't know how people make it unless they got 4 or 5 people living together and pitching in on rent and bills.
So frgn HAPPY and relieved that I moved out of this...GHETTO/HELL HOLE just a week ago!!! NIAGARA FALLS NY SUCKS! murders murders murders. (oh I forget, that's every ghetto in 'murica) glad to be back in Akwesasne!!!!
It’s crazy how a place with barely 50k people still have murders smh, who hall trying to kill the mailman and construction workers too?! No one is left to beef with haha
Idk about that property taxes are so high there its not worth holding it or even fixing it up as they keep losing population the house will barely sell for anything higher than 140k if that so many dont have good jobs there ro even qualify
What I find astonishing about this and many videos like it, is how no one in America - not one in the town planning departments or city chambers or zoning law offices etc - not one person has noticed that this kind of urban decline seems to be unique to america and is seen nowhere else but there. I’m not talking about a nice area going rough after a riot - we have those in British cities but they’re still over populated and chockablock full of people and buildings. In Britain we have had more industrial decline than america has had so far - the decline of industry and the atomisation of what remained has seen whole towns lose their soul provider of jobs over night - such as the old welsh mining towns where the coal pit was the main job provider - even in wales we don’t have any towns that look like this - some had new tech industries move in - others never recovered - they got poor but they’re stoill there - you just wouldn’t see the amount of abandonment or empty lots that you see in this clip. I think many Americans just assume that britain is such a small country and so we don’t get these kind of wastelands because our population density is so much higher - but that’s actually NOT the reason why. For example - in 2024 London has a population almost identical to New York’s - 8 million - yet the landmass it covers is nearly twice the size - from space London is physically twice as stretched out as New York - surprisingly Londons expanse has more in common with Los Angeles than it’s sister city of New York. So in this instance Londoners are in a rare example of living in twice as much land space city limits as their American cousins - when usually it’s the opposite. The reason you just don’t see and will not see urban decline and abandonment in Britain that resembles the vast empty street after street of abandonment that are typical of Detroit, east Saint Louis, Philadelphia and so on it because of the green belt laws that were introduced after the fir at world war. When America had a terrible depression in the 1930s the British economy recovered quite quickly and strongly after the shock of 1929 and that’s mainly because of a huge housing boom that was a direct response to the homes for heros pledge after the horrors of the First World War. Social change and improvement meant that Cramped tenements of poverty were no longer acceptable and a new code of what was acceptable for human habitation came into laws - hygiene, toilets, more space and outside areas for gardening were now considered to be available for all the classes not just the rich. Whole swaths of countryside around the main British cities were turned from farmland to ever ending urban sprawl and because a lot of the land around our cities are areas of outstanding natural beauty people from all classes of society were concerned about its destruction. And the governments response is why you won’t ever see empty neighbourhoods like this in Britain. The green belt London's Green Belt prevents any further urban sprawl, the perimeters of the city are set and cannot be developed further . This driving the reuse and intensification of previously developed land and brown field sites. Old neglected previously industrial wastelands. So whilst many people in the USA simply moved to new suburbes in the outskirts of a city after the roits of the 59s and 60s the British could only move to a different part of the city if they no longer liked where they were. After the Brixton Riots of the 1979s and early 80s there was a population de line and many store closed but they were minimal by comparison and so those areas recovered eventually because they couldn’t just build bigger better somewhere else - you had ti improve what was there already. What’s realIy sad about this video is all the beautiful Victorian architecture that’s being lost - it reminds me of Victorian splendour of Saint Louis and Detroit that’s been lost - the suburbs nearest the centre of any American city are the oldest pets of the city and so when these places declined so fast because everyone was moving to the bright new suburbs those city blocks of stunning homes were lost - wee houses at DONT build like that any more and it saddens me more because London is presently full of Americans paying a lot of money to come and visits and walk around neighbourhoods of beautiful Victorian lined streets - when you had streets almost identical to ours and they weee abandoned and demolished because it was to easy to just move to a brand new building somewhere else. Now that the post war novelty of new build has worn off and we realise we could just renovate the beautiful old Victorian neighbourhoods and homes - so many have already been lost for ever. That’s also why you have so many dead malls They have been affected by internet shopping - but more than that - at the moment - MOST dead and abandoned malls that I’m aware of in the United States only became struggling and then dead after another brand new mall opened just down the road that’s bigger cooler newer. It’s irresponsible town planning and a waste of money to the cities to allow that in the long run. So i plead to the city and town planners of america - don’t lose what you’ve got left - get a national trust - call it the American national trust - that will look after your buildings of significant importance either culturally or design wise or aesthetically. And get some green belts and stop these very sad videos of needless vandalism and destruction your beautiful architectural heritage. ❤❤❤
@@DspaZZfrmdaf - Stop being a triggered little bitch. Look at a fucking map. Utica is 60 miles south east of the lake Ontario and 325 miles east of Lake Michigan, Syracuse is also two lakes over.... WTF Elm! Seriously, wtf!
@@RP-gi4ch deff is political democrats turn beauty to trash they have lot of nice places and their leadership run it downhill, i travel a lot and seen many republican control tourist locations and the surrounding areas are beautiful with little to no crime!
I know this isn't about your video specifically since you didn't speak. But my thoughts still apply to NF. Since the last time I was there to visit, it seems NF is now Detroit, with everything abandoned, condemned churches still standing. Blown out blocks with houses no longer there! Boarded up whole hoods, people are downright nasty, no one except at end of video even wanted to talk or be filmed. I swear NYC street smarts, where I was born. Five people you talked to or tried to, are in organized crime, and didn't want you up in their business. So they backed the f-ck away from you, you made that lady uncomfortable who quickly got in that car. Now I see why in 2024, NF lives up to the outside world as "the arm pit of NY State" It absolutely stinks! When they put a casino in there, I knew it was the worst. Outside the Turning Stone Casino near Rome NY. Kind of middle of no where. They only put casinos in an area that no one wants to be, except to lose their shirt, supposedly having fun! Also that guy in that shop is on some drug, if he thinks NF ever coming back. If anything I wouldn't be surprised if it dropped below 30,000 by 2030. And all those restaurants also abandoned and locked looking like they are still in business, that's just freaky! The other video guy was trying to find his 91 yo grandpa's old hood, and he was horrified by the two locations their family used to live in! His vid is from Easter of 2024.
Remember that Canada has 10% the population of the US. Urban areas like Niagara Falls are a rarity in Canada. In 1950 the population of NFNY was about 100,000. It is now only 48,000. So, the homes and businesses that were built for 100,000 now only service 48,000, less than half. So, there are going to be a lot of vacancies.
@@RocketmanRockyMatrix the Canadian side probably had something to do with it, better views more money in tourism also attracts more tourists which makes the city more money. Canada took a lot of business from the US side I would guess which left the city reeling from an economy bust but that's just my guess
As someone that lives here with no background info this looks bad but alot of businesses are open and alot of those houses aren’t abandoned there just run down with familys still living inside them but where putting artwork up and putting the town back together
Ahh what does the state expect when the property taxes are through the roof for a place valued less than 140,000 a year someone who pays their taxes has to pay $5,400 in property taxes a year give or take, then pay a lot in gas, then the stupid tolls for crappie roads. Thank a Democrat !
@J H exactly makes no sense! I got over 5 acres in AZ valued more than my land in that area and my property taxes are 5x less than my land in that area and it wont sell, might as well let the state take ownership
I grew up in Niagara Falls in the 60's and 70's. We had great schools, busy shopping areas and a lot of small businesses. There were some tough areas, like anyplace else. The decline began when good paying industrial jobs headed south to low wage states in the late 70's and early 80's. That led to population decline, and a declining tax base. Absentee landlords, and land speculators with no stake in the future of the city and years of disinvestment have taken their tolls. Immature and petty political turf wars helped too. The city was always thought of as a way to make a quick buck, with no planning for the future. And we had a lot of silly, magic bullet boondoggles which never came to anything.
The video is unfair because does not show the stable and well kept middle class neighborhoods; so don't totally judge the city based on this clip. The people are great, and very down to Earth. I'll always love it.
Thank you for this comment ❤
Something happened to my city Flint Michigan. I have always loved watching the falls. Flint don't have that. We just go to the top of abandoned buildings n smoke weed.
It's a shame. It looks like almost all the businesses are closed and most of the houses are abandoned. And you have the Falls right next to you.
Niagara Falls was too dependent on one industry so when the chemicals and abrasives industry started going down hill so did Niagara Falls.
It doesn't help that it's so close to downtown. Clean this place up!
People are commenting that "you're only showing part of the city", well, that's the point. It's right in the title (hoods). I grew up near Hyde Park/Walnut/Pine Ave area from the 60's-90's and it was 90% very pleasant. It still is! My family and friends still live there and I enjoy visiting. Niagara Falls has declined dramatically over the past 60 years because of terrible and selfish decisions and 48 years ago when the truth came out about the huge amount of toxins in the land. I've been told since I was very young to avoid certain areas of Niagara St, East Falls, Main, and (no brainer) Highland. But there were plenty of safer area to hang out. The thing that makes me the saddest about this video are the beautifully architectured houses. I imagine the first families that occupied them in the early twentieth century. The life that was in them and all the memories it holds.
Damn upstate be lookin like a horror flick
From the Falls, but settled in Panama City Florida, when I retired from the Navy in 1988.
Actually cried while watching this, remember watching an episode of "Route 66"in the block that the Rapids Theater, across from the old Jenss Department Srore and the huge crowd that was outside
a 3 story building across the street is being sold for 40k at the moment. everything is abandoned and cheap there it seems. Do you think there is a future at all in that area?
Thanks for the memories, you should have went up Highland if you wanted to see the old school NF hood. The area around 12th and Niagara has always been ratty since 1980. Nice 2 stories next to a boarded up house for neighbors, same as Love Canal. But, it echoed throughout the whole city like a cancer.
wow. You guys make our Canadian side look like paradise. I had no idea its so broken down in the US side.
the Canadian side probably had something to do with it, better views more money in tourism also attracts more tourists which makes the city more money. Canada took a lot of business from the US side I would guess which left the city reeling from an economy bust but that's just my guess
@@ConstanceAdams-k5p Thats hilarious. Its Canada's fault the US side of the falls looks like a third world country?. Canada took a lot of business because the Canadian side is safer, cleaner, kinder and overall a lot more fun in the main streets. Lots of places to eat, entertainment, and many great hotels and motels.
@@undead567 u just repeated what I said lmao I just said the canada side was better and that why no one visits the US side
I work deliveries at night back in the early 90s definitely some crazy nights Highland was off the hook at night too back then 😁
I live in the falls a few times,my dad's side of the family is from there. It was run down the last time I went up there in like 2010. 63 street and Niagarafalls Blvd. I loved going up there as a kid to see my brother and grandparents. I had a lot of good memories up there. It was a big change coming from Houston t.x to the falls. I loved it.
there are some good things happening in NF. They removed the Robert Moses freeway, opening up the city to the gorge. Lots of nice trails within a short walk. The city is consistently demolishing the worst abandoned homes that will soon be empty lots. You can buy a house and an adjoining lot and have a sweet place for only $100K. If the city can lure year round industry and jobs, and perhaps encourage retirees to have a Northern home in NF, the city can do much better. New short-term rental zoning is also a plus for property owners. Also, many Canadian's, especially those with dual citizenship, can use their Nexus and quickly get across on the Whirlpool bridge, and may wish to have a much more affordable home in NF than what you can busy across the river.
OMG I grew up there around the 56th street area. Graduated from Trott Vocational High School in '71, left the city in '75 and haven't seen most of it since. What a shock! I barely recognize the place, some commentary would have been nice. My older brother worked and lived there all his life, I don't know how he did it. RIP Bro.
This is Down Town NF, all the shopping and money is in LaSalle about 5 miles East.
Every city has a hood
LaSalle is the only good stable part of Niagara Falls. The rest of the city is abandoned, contaminated, decayed, and dangerous.
@@r.pres.4121 Deveaux has some really nice areas. Around like Maple Avenue school and stuff
I witnessed the most deplorable conditions at the Gill Creek music night on 7/3 the portable bathrooms the city provides were beyond filthy but that is not the worst thing the floors of the bathrooms were littered with uncapped syringes but the most devastating is directly behind the bathrooms is a children’s playground so to the city government the residents and children deserve better than that stop ruining the city
I grew up on the Eastside, I don't live in niagara falls anymore but I do go back and visit family and friends often,and it pains me to see how the city has went to ruin! Do the mayor and other city officials even see what the city looks like or are they just turning a blind eye and collecting their paycheck!
next to 2nd location on 14th, there was a house that was selling for 20k. His grandpa's 2nd old house has windows shattered, others boarded up, the main entrance was missing windows. He tried to go in, but it was locked. The only guy who would talk to him lives 3 blocks away. His grandpa lived there in 1940's. They moved to 2nd location he says, when gpa was 10 years old. He lived at 13th where property no longer exists from birth to 10 yrs old. His grandpa was the youngest of 9 kids. He said.
The 1st address his grandpa lived in wasn't even there, the whole block on 13th was totally obliterated. Torn down. The empty fields remind me of 2000 in Detroit, especially on west side, and part of north.
They should definitely film a zombie movie here!!
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It's funny they didn't show the people. There are worse neighborhoods. They become very alive at night. Addicts stumbling around even in subzero temps, trying to get their fix.
I was approached by someone dealing coke midday. I was w my car at a stop sign, on the way to the aquarium. On the way home, a 7-9 yr old put long wood planks w nails all over it in the road.
I could go on, but you'd have to see it.
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A city that I grew up in that at one time was so grand and prosperous its a shame what it has been reduced to bad city politics
I live in Buffalo about 15 mi from Niagara Falls and I go there about 4 or 5 times a year. It's sad to see what happened over the decades to Niagara Falls. The city has been horribly mismanaged. They really need new leaders.
23:25 flashback to walking around the corner seeing that building sneaking a Marlboro on "a walk around the block" at 12 years old. That had plate glass windows in it if I recall but I don't think it was open back then even, some storage place of a closed local store. The sign was up there but dont recall it...so many places like that in the Falls even back in the late 70s
Go to the East Side of Buffalo. It's close, and you'll have plenty of areas to film.
Was stationed here years ago. It was always so depressing.
This shit looks like Camden Trenton n Newark New Jersey all in one
crazy because literally 5 mins away across the border Canada is completely different smh
Your video is very well made and eye opening. But, and this is a biggie, too many ad interruptions. Very distracting. Lose the ads and I might return.
This is wild. Had no idea it was like this
Yes my friend it is very bad and very depressing. Niagara Falls is a blue collar industrial town that literally lost everything to deindustrialization. The tax exempt gambling casino just made things worse.
Why don't you show the nice streets. There are some beautiful neighborhoods in Niagara N. Y. I live there I know.
What nice streets? Almost 80% of that city is a decaying crime infested garbage dump. The area north of Hyde Park along Porter Road used to be beautiful. Now it is plagued with absentee landlords and section 8 renters. DeVeaux isn’t all that great neither it is going downhill as the more affluent residents move up 104 to Lewiston. LaSalle is the only decent well kept area in the Falls but it also has some small pockets of poverty and decay. The suburban Town of Niagara is a mixed bag as well. It has some very beautiful areas but it also contains pockets of poverty and crappy dumpy areas.
The former chief FBI agent in Niagara Falls in the 70s was talking about how much the pull that the mob had over city government. He said that any project the city was paying for some of it was taken off the top, so coming in close to budget was impossible. He said that the city built a phone booth and it came in at about $1,000 higher. A phone booth.
At 25:24 I remember being in that Jenss a few times in the early 90's (probably just before they shut it down). What a wasteland.
I moved from there 31 years ago, it was a dump then and it's even worse than back in 1991. I see now why my Grandmother adimit about leaving to move to Cleveland, Ohio. A place way worse than NF. It's way crazier out here, and it looks like East Cleveland out there.
Never had a chance with the leaders in the city -the good ones were drummed out by jealousy and apathy
Dammm I used to stay there recently just moved it just depressing now
Oh he tried asking both his grandpa. and grandma, where the location was, and neither recalled, he found the addresses from grandpa's draft record.
Look at all that wonderful Diversity
What diversity it is mostly impoverished welfare trash. This is also the end result of failed urban renewal, deindustrialization, unrealistic pie in the sky redevelopment dreams, and the final nail in the coffin, a tax exempt gambling casino.
@@r.pres.4121 Listen here you little momofuku
It's a ghost town,if you look up los angeles and a few other hoods it's worse there with all the homelessness, drugs etc.. only the weather is better there not the hoods. I'm glad there's a TH-cam with there hood videos it saves me a trip of finding out myself and where there's no hoods in California it's at least 3,000 a month in rent ya gotta pay, and that's why there's so much homelessness. I think the rent is high in the falls but compared to other states it's not. I don't know how people make it unless they got 4 or 5 people living together and pitching in on rent and bills.
Rent can be very cheap in the Falls. I knew of some $600-$900 places w 3/4 bdrms, natural wood floors.
The area is too rough. Not worth it.
I remember a restaurant called Barney's. 9 cent spaghetti on Tuesday. No meat.
So frgn HAPPY and relieved that I moved out of this...GHETTO/HELL HOLE just a week ago!!! NIAGARA FALLS NY SUCKS! murders murders murders. (oh I forget, that's every ghetto in 'murica) glad to be back in Akwesasne!!!!
It’s crazy how a place with barely 50k people still have murders smh, who hall trying to kill the mailman and construction workers too?! No one is left to beef with haha
That is much of the good ol’ USA 🇺🇸! Murders, shootings everywhere in the cities and the suburbs and even in many small towns and rural areas.
All i see is opportunities
Idk about that property taxes are so high there its not worth holding it or even fixing it up as they keep losing population the house will barely sell for anything higher than 140k if that so many dont have good jobs there ro even qualify
Opportunities yea if u are a bum
There are no opportunities in Niagara Falls. The town is dead and decayed.
What I find astonishing about this and many videos like it, is how no one in America - not one in the town planning departments or city chambers or zoning law offices etc - not one person has noticed that this kind of urban decline seems to be unique to america and is seen nowhere else but there.
I’m not talking about a nice area going rough after a riot - we have those in British cities but they’re still over populated and chockablock full of people and buildings.
In Britain we have had more industrial decline than america has had so far - the decline of industry and the atomisation of what remained has seen whole towns lose their soul provider of jobs over night - such as the old welsh mining towns where the coal pit was the main job provider - even in wales we don’t have any towns that look like this - some had new tech industries move in - others never recovered - they got poor but they’re stoill there - you just wouldn’t see the amount of abandonment or empty lots that you see in this clip.
I think many Americans just assume that britain is such a small country and so we don’t get these kind of wastelands because our population density is so much higher - but that’s actually NOT the reason why.
For example - in 2024 London has a population almost identical to New York’s - 8 million - yet the landmass it covers is nearly twice the size - from space London is physically twice as stretched out as New York - surprisingly Londons expanse has more in common with Los Angeles than it’s sister city of New York.
So in this instance Londoners are in a rare example of living in twice as much land space city limits as their American cousins - when usually it’s the opposite.
The reason you just don’t see and will not see urban decline and abandonment in Britain that resembles the vast empty street after street of abandonment that are typical of Detroit, east Saint Louis, Philadelphia and so on it because of the green belt laws that were introduced after the fir at world war.
When America had a terrible depression in the 1930s the British economy recovered quite quickly and strongly after the shock of 1929 and that’s mainly because of a huge housing boom that was a direct response to the homes for heros pledge after the horrors of the First World War.
Social change and improvement meant that Cramped tenements of poverty were no longer acceptable and a new code of what was acceptable for human habitation came into laws - hygiene, toilets, more space and outside areas for gardening were now considered to be available for all the classes not just the rich.
Whole swaths of countryside around the main British cities were turned from farmland to ever ending urban sprawl and because a lot of the land around our cities are areas of outstanding natural beauty people from all classes of society were concerned about its destruction.
And the governments response is why you won’t ever see empty neighbourhoods like this in Britain.
The green belt
London's Green Belt prevents any further urban sprawl, the perimeters of the city are set and cannot be developed further .
This driving the reuse and intensification of previously developed land and brown field sites. Old neglected previously industrial wastelands.
So whilst many people in the USA simply moved to new suburbes in the outskirts of a city after the roits of the 59s and 60s the British could only move to a different part of the city if they no longer liked where they were.
After the Brixton Riots of the 1979s and early 80s there was a population de line and many store closed but they were minimal by comparison and so those areas recovered eventually because they couldn’t just build bigger better somewhere else - you had ti improve what was there already.
What’s realIy sad about this video is all the beautiful Victorian architecture that’s being lost - it reminds me of Victorian splendour of Saint Louis and Detroit that’s been lost - the suburbs nearest the centre of any American city are the oldest pets of the city and so when these places declined so fast because everyone was moving to the bright new suburbs those city blocks of stunning homes were lost - wee houses at DONT build like that any more and it saddens me more because London is presently full of Americans paying a lot of money to come and visits and walk around neighbourhoods of beautiful Victorian lined streets - when you had streets almost identical to ours and they weee abandoned and demolished because it was to easy to just move to a brand new building somewhere else.
Now that the post war novelty of new build has worn off and we realise we could just renovate the beautiful old Victorian neighbourhoods and homes - so many have already been lost for ever.
That’s also why you have so many dead malls
They have been affected by internet shopping - but more than that - at the moment - MOST dead and abandoned malls that I’m aware of in the United States only became struggling and then dead after another brand new mall opened just down the road that’s bigger cooler newer.
It’s irresponsible town planning and a waste of money to the cities to allow that in the long run.
So i plead to the city and town planners of america - don’t lose what you’ve got left - get a national trust - call it the American national trust - that will look after your buildings of significant importance either culturally or design wise or aesthetically.
And get some green belts and stop these very sad videos of needless vandalism and destruction your beautiful architectural heritage. ❤❤❤
Looks like Detroit
Hmmm, I wonder what the common theme is amongst cities like Niagara Falls and Detroit. Is it political?
@@DspaZZfrmdaf - Buffalo Syracuse Detroit Niagara Falls Gary and Utica are not next to Lake Michigan.
@@DspaZZfrmdaf - Stop being a triggered little bitch. Look at a fucking map. Utica is 60 miles south east of the lake Ontario and 325 miles east of Lake Michigan, Syracuse is also two lakes over.... WTF Elm! Seriously, wtf!
@@DspaZZfrmdaf It’s a fucking insult to list Buffalo with NF and Syracuse. What the fuck, man? Not the same tier at all.
@@RP-gi4ch deff is political democrats turn beauty to trash they have lot of nice places and their leadership run it downhill, i travel a lot and seen many republican control tourist locations and the surrounding areas are beautiful with little to no crime!
Bro u dinet even go on but one side of the city. Lol
dinet - Niagara Falls speak for "didn't"?
Dude most of the city looks like this, abandoned and deteriorated.
You down 10th street my family owned two apartments building on that street back in the day
Oh word? Is your dad Peter Ganci by any chance?
I know this isn't about your video specifically since you didn't speak.
But my thoughts still apply to NF.
Since the last time I was there to visit, it seems NF is now Detroit, with everything abandoned, condemned churches still standing. Blown out blocks with houses no longer there! Boarded up whole hoods, people are downright nasty, no one except at end of video even wanted to talk or be filmed. I swear NYC street smarts, where I was born. Five people you talked to or tried to, are in organized crime, and didn't want you up in their business. So they backed the f-ck away from you, you made that lady uncomfortable who quickly got in that car.
Now I see why in 2024, NF lives up to the outside world as "the arm pit of NY State" It absolutely stinks! When they put a casino in there, I knew it was the worst. Outside the Turning Stone Casino near Rome NY. Kind of middle of no where.
They only put casinos in an area that no one wants to be, except to lose their shirt, supposedly having fun!
Also that guy in that shop is on some drug, if he thinks NF ever coming back. If anything I wouldn't be surprised if it dropped below 30,000 by 2030. And all those restaurants also abandoned and locked looking like they are still in business, that's just freaky!
The other video guy was trying to find his 91 yo grandpa's old hood, and he was horrified by the two locations their family used to live in!
His vid is from Easter of 2024.
Canadian side is alot nicer than the US side in the Niagara Falls area.
Remember that Canada has 10% the population of the US. Urban areas like Niagara Falls are a rarity in Canada. In 1950 the population of NFNY was about 100,000. It is now only 48,000. So, the homes and businesses that were built for 100,000 now only service 48,000, less than half. So, there are going to be a lot of vacancies.
@@michaeljarosz4062 Upstate NY had been forgotten and neglected by the politicians and establishment throughout the years.
@@RocketmanRockyMatrix the Canadian side probably had something to do with it, better views more money in tourism also attracts more tourists which makes the city more money. Canada took a lot of business from the US side I would guess which left the city reeling from an economy bust but that's just my guess
Omg the blue house i s mine
As someone that lives here with no background info this looks bad but alot of businesses are open and alot of those houses aren’t abandoned there just run down with familys still living inside them but where putting artwork up and putting the town back together
Drove by my old house! Lol
Ghostown sheesh
Ahh what does the state expect when the property taxes are through the roof for a place valued less than 140,000 a year someone who pays their taxes has to pay $5,400 in property taxes a year give or take, then pay a lot in gas, then the stupid tolls for crappie roads. Thank a Democrat !
@J H exactly makes no sense! I got over 5 acres in AZ valued more than my land in that area and my property taxes are 5x less than my land in that area and it wont sell, might as well let the state take ownership
Like republicans are any damned better!
Glad I moved away from that mosque
It has gotten so bad since I moved out people just don't care anymore
Ferrell cities.
This is Mayor Robert Restaino's legacy!
P O T E N T I A L S !
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NAFTA destroyed NYS. You vote Democrat you voted for this.
I dont know about that, you should see southern states run by Republicans, it seems its corruption rather than political parties.