I remember that big building at 0:07 was an Alexander's back in the early 80's. I would play hooky from junior high and take the bus there and spend the day popping in and out of all the stores. I haven't been there in over 35 years but seeing this takes me right back to 1983.
I'm from Brooklyn and I use to hang out in the bronx right around this area in the 1980s. That very same side of Poe Park on the Grand Concourse had benches exactly where that black gate is. The benches ran all the way up the Concourse facing the grand Concourse when I use to go there and I tell you it was so much fun hanging out there in the 1980s. All up and down the Grand Concourse on those benches were filled with people on friday and Saturday nights dressed in 80s fashionable clothing. And someone always had a boom box with some great music playing. It literally felt like an outdoor club. The very first time a friend brought me to Poe Park in the 1980s I was hooked. The atmosphere was so cool and I met so many people that throughout the 1980's I spent my teenage years more in the Bronx than I did in Brooklyn. People would literally hangout on those benches till day break every friday and Saturday night. It's sad to see all those benches gone and replaced with an ugly black fence. In the 1980's all my friends during those years lived in the bronx up and down the Grand Concourse from tremont all the way to 207th street. I had so much fun those years hanging in Poe Park and crashing at different friends apartments. It's sad to say many have passed away but there memories continue to live on in my mind. I tell you one thing the bronx has many huge apartments and not only huge but nice old apartments with sunken living rooms and parkay floors. Many don't know but the Grand Concourse was the Park ave of the bronx many years ago. With beautiful well kept art deco lobby's. There are many picture books of the bronx from the 1930s, 40s showing how the bronx once was. I still live in Brooklyn which has been so gentrified it's ridiculous but it's my home. The bronx will always have a special place in my heart for all the good times I had and great friends I made which I'm still in contact with a some.
I live in Manhattan and looking to a Bronx move and raise a family. Overall cost of living is lower in the Bronx I hear. I'd rather remain in my boro but it'd be a bit much on the budget for family expenses. Will be neighborhood hunting soon.
Very sad to see the majority of New York has become a ghetto of urban decay. Crowded, poverty, real struggle, hunger, gangs, drugs, robberies, murders, sub-standard housing, people purposely being killed in the subways, rats, roaches, etc! The safer & cleaner areas are affordable only by those who have the financial means. I left New York years ago when I joined the U.S. Army, & I am never going back! My entire family has moved out of New York too!
Grew up on Decatur, it looks like he passed by Poe park. My mother worked at Alexandra during the 60s and 70s. My fathers bar was the Harry Hub on Fordham.
I remember that big building at 0:07 was an Alexander's back in the early 80's. I would play hooky from junior high and take the bus there and spend the day popping in and out of all the stores. I haven't been there in over 35 years but seeing this takes me right back to 1983.
I'm 61 years old born raised and lived in the bronx most of my life now living in manhattan for work.BOOGIE DOWN FOR LIFE.
I'm from Brooklyn and I use to hang out in the bronx right around this area in the 1980s. That very same side of Poe Park on the Grand Concourse had benches exactly where that black gate is. The benches ran all the way up the Concourse facing the grand Concourse when I use to go there and I tell you it was so much fun hanging out there in the 1980s. All up and down the Grand Concourse on those benches were filled with people on friday and Saturday nights dressed in 80s fashionable clothing. And someone always had a boom box with some great music playing. It literally felt like an outdoor club. The very first time a friend brought me to Poe Park in the 1980s I was hooked. The atmosphere was so cool and I met so many people that throughout the 1980's I spent my teenage years more in the Bronx than I did in Brooklyn. People would literally hangout on those benches till day break every friday and Saturday night. It's sad to see all those benches gone and replaced with an ugly black fence. In the 1980's all my friends during those years lived in the bronx up and down the Grand Concourse from tremont all the way to 207th street. I had so much fun those years hanging in Poe Park and crashing at different friends apartments. It's sad to say many have passed away but there memories continue to live on in my mind. I tell you one thing the bronx has many huge apartments and not only huge but nice old apartments with sunken living rooms and parkay floors. Many don't know but the Grand Concourse was the Park ave of the bronx many years ago. With beautiful well kept art deco lobby's. There are many picture books of the bronx from the 1930s, 40s showing how the bronx once was. I still live in Brooklyn which has been so gentrified it's ridiculous but it's my home. The bronx will always have a special place in my heart for all the good times I had and great friends I made which I'm still in contact with a some.
Used to go to fordham a lot as a teen. Took the BX1 or BX2 along the concourse from Moshulu.
I love this video amazing we should do Bronx video every day 👍👍😁😁😁👍👍👍😁😁😁
Great video. I love the Bronx and haven’t even been there. RIP Big Punisher he put that borough on the map
Bronx bombers all day on these blocks. Home of Remy Ma as well and a host of others. Love my city. But I’m glad I live upstate!! Bronx is rough!!
No he did not the creators did
I live in Manhattan and looking to a Bronx move and raise a family. Overall cost of living is lower in the Bronx I hear. I'd rather remain in my boro but it'd be a bit much on the budget for family expenses. Will be neighborhood hunting soon.
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Very sad to see the majority of New York has become a ghetto of urban decay. Crowded, poverty, real struggle, hunger, gangs, drugs, robberies, murders, sub-standard housing,
people purposely being killed in the subways, rats, roaches, etc! The safer & cleaner areas are affordable only by those who have the financial means. I left New York years ago when I joined the U.S. Army, & I am never going back! My entire family has moved out of New York too!
The murder rate in NYC is far lower than it was from the mid 1960s to the early 2000s.
Didn't PC Richard's, used to be Alexander's?
Yes it was
Yeah I remember Alexander's....I'm a hippy from the 60s
It also used to be Caldor
Omg so different I am from the Alexander's and Woolworth days,,,looks so dirty ,,watch the movie the wanderers and that was the Fordham I knew
My best pl for shopping n food so 👍 miss it
Grew up on Decatur, it looks like he passed by Poe park. My mother worked at Alexandra during the 60s and 70s. My fathers bar was the Harry Hub on Fordham.
Decatur is kinda Gangsta.
Always was....lol@@Asiatic57
Did anyone see Jenny from the block?
I got my middle name from the Alexander sign
So cool, thank you!!
You can still hear that cat on the motorcycle 3 states away...
I liked how you bypassed Briggs! Is it too dangerous for you?😳
lmaooooo
Briggs is ASS....Soft block.
Well it is for typing emojis smh
I use to shop in Alexander"s with my mother and sister for Easter in the 50's! I don't think it's around anymore!
No, PC Richards Is there now
If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
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@ 5:10 Former residence of Edgar Allen Poe
Где белые люди? Они вообще остались в США?
Thanks for the video, this does not look like the Grand Concourse of my day. Still miss my home however.
They should outlaw chewing gum
Our hands slip and yes lil Kim 🐝👑
unbelievable
Purely “economic” factors
شكرن لك كثير على الاهتمام يوم سعيد
This area has Really Slipped🤔
At Burnside and Grand Concourse in the winter, I froze my a** off waiting for the bus!!!
Lol.. I'm from burnside
@@kwabenaanane9614 am I wrong?
I was born in an apartment on the last block in the video.
10:09 WTF ??
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stanced the fck out
🌎🌍🌏 no
Matatan.ᕙ[･･]ᕗ. Ribirin HS.ᕙ[･･]ᕗ. RD
Bronx NY, gangster,