I think Rick has a good understanding of people and what they go through. I would say he's had his own life battles and been through some shit to. U guys are great thanks and be careful 😀
Most of those buildings were late 1800s to early 1900s. Notice that they do not have any place to park a car because they were built well before most people had cars and either worked close enough to walk to work or took public transit of some sort. That is also why the area is not amenable to redevelopment. That is actually East Cleveland that has been plagued with corruption, drugs, poverty and crime since the 1960s.
Glock30Fan no dude it is Cleveland city proper which is just as destitute, decrepit, and depressing as East Cleveland, Euclid, and the other old inner ring suburbs. Face harsh reality, the Cleveland-Akron Metropolitan Area is going to keep hemorrhaging population and business to other more competitive, progressive locales. Akron is already a third tier city due to its decline and Cleveland is literally a second tier city that is declining to the point of eventually becoming a third tier city. If it has at least 300,000 in central city population in the 2020 census, I will be surprised. Get ready for Columbus to have the largest metropolitan area in Ohio. Columbus is already the state's largest city and the state's economic, cultural, political, educational, and transportation hub. Cleveland is a shrinking has been. It has lost the last vestige of its oil industry when BPAmoco which was once Sohio, moved its corporate headquarters out of Cleveland to Houston.
Robert Preskop don’t get me wrong. I am not in a state of denial. Cleveland itself has wide areas that are war zones and zombie neighborhoods. And for much the same reason that E Cleveland is almost entirely in this state of condition. Just E Cleveland has been that way for longer and worse. Until about the early 60s, E Cleveland was a middle class area. You can’t blame race riots on why E Cleveland is not the unlike Falujah. They went that way earlier and faster. Cleveland took a bit longer. And you can point to some areas of Cleveland that are still okay (West Park due to heavy residency of city police and firefighters) and some that have had some amount of revitalization (Ohio City and parts of Tremont). E Cleveland on the other hand is almost entirely a lost cause. Only hope is if Case Western buys it up and brings in the bulldozers.
Glock30Fan How about Euclid, that suburb has been very bad for sometime now. I used to travel and spent some time in Cleveland and I found it to be dead and depressing. The downtown was like a massive morgue except on workdays from 8:30 AM to 5 PM. I found Cleveland to be hostile and dangerous and saw a lot of crazy shit go down. I am never visiting that city ever again. The same for Toledo, another hostile, dangerous, destitute city.
I live in the Cleveland Proper and pay taxes into the city, Cleveland and East Cleveland are completely different and dived in every way possible.. the area that I live in is NOT suburb and very urban and we have a very competitive housing market within the city..some homes up near 500k
These buildings look like they were built in the 1900s-1920s, there are still constructed of load bearing brick and have flat roofs, anything after the 1920s would have been made out of cement blocks. Also you can really notice the only thing that ages a masonry constructed brick building is any wood in the building, and the walls are still fine and the floors and roofs could easily be replaced and the buildings would be fine.
East Cleveland has been so badly strapped for resources, that they begged the city of Cleveland for a merger, and Cleveland refused. It's really a long drawn-out tragedy.
Some of those older buildings could possibly date from the 1920s. I used to manage two buildings in Cleveland Heights (they're still standing and being lived in) and became familiar with the type of architecture. It makes me sick to see places falling into ruin like this.
There's a list of buildings in East Cleveland that have priority of being torn down first. Unfortunately Chapman is the last street on the list. It makes sense though. Residents don't usually drive down the streets of Elderwood to get to work or school. It's an eyesore, but it's the most expensive eyesore to demolish. The city is slowly making progress on demolishing the buildings in the more populated areas though. Money is just so tight in the city.
MamaCarola1 most if not all those buildings would easily last several centuries if they were kept in good repair and sealed from the elements. They would greatly outstand and outlast any of those suburban shopping malls and McMansions.
Such a shame to see such stately, regal old buildings in such a horrible shape, these buildings have stood for decades, brought down by property owners being too cheap to do regular maintenance and repairs to keep these buildings in shape. 😢😞
Thanks for the great video. I love watching all your videos. . To see things we dont usually see or are aware of these places. Please keep up the awesome job and say hello to Rick as well.
Matthew Baran yeah but Cleveland along with its somewhat smaller counterpart at the mouth of the Maumee, Toledo are both getting worse than Detroit. Both Cleveland and Toledo are going to be tough nuts to crack when it comes to urban revitalization.
I have lived in Cleveland for 11years. So much going to waste! Sad 😞 It's going on everywhere! Really no stopping it! I live with reality! Enjoy your video 😊 Thanks.
Crime is really bad in East Cleveland. I went to Cleveland State, and one of my projects was to document all the poverty throughout the city. It’s a sad sight...
If your still in Cleveland, you ought to go to 9513 Kennedy Street. My great grandparents lived there. A lot of that street has abandoned homes. Neighborhood used to be mainly Hungarian and other Eastern European families.
Audrey Harlow that is not false shit that is the truth. Most of Cleveland itself is a decaying slum. Take off your rose colored sunglasses Clevelander, your city is through!
Cleveland has come a long way, the downtown is beautiful. The west side is also undergoing revitalization. Sadly, the east side has been left to rot in a lot of places.
They should allow homeless people to do a clean up...provide some building supplies etc...And assign groups to each building who can then live there...
Three words come to mind: Really Big Bondfire. Seriously, take that giant dumpster on the street, take everything that will burn right down to the wooden studs, beams and joists and throw them in along some lit matches. Clear out the neighborhood.
Dan, if you look at this on Google maps it says Chapman Ave. and you can barely see the buildings through the trees and bushes. Looks like they've cleaned up a lot since the then.
Good lord! I've never seen Rick look clean. I woulf guess that the older buildings you thought were built in the 40s were actually built from 1900 - 1920s and the flat boxy ones across the street were 50s, post WWII anyway. Not much construction going on in 40s, hence housing shortage following war.
Th Google street view is from 2014 and looks very different with all the trees intact. One of those buildings in the background @ 8:50 (175 Chapman Ave) sold for $170,00 in 2002. Built 1920. Best stat:: 81 registered Sex Offenders within mile.
If this was in Seattle, there's be 12,500 homeless people bumbling in & out of the buildings, drug needles, broken beer bottles, & the buildings would be covered in berry bushes & ivy.
Do we know why these buildings were abandoned? In my town a builder bought an old public housing structure and made them into luxury apartments and they’re beautiful now!
Hey Dan I really love all of your work, and I am starting also with some video stuff soon. I am going to record the homeless.But anyhow, I would really love it if you could visit Minnesota. We not only have Dirty Motels all over(, I have stayed in a few having been homeless myself for ten years in my past)but also several dead malls. And lot of things to record if you know where to look,in winter not as good lot of cold and snow,but fall and summer perfect exploration days. WHen and if I can ever afford a real camera,not just my iPhone, you may start seeing my other channel with some stuff,but I watch ALL your stuff all the time. I also completely and always understood about Trapped and Terrified an artist can make one faked video for entertainment reasons,and still have everything else they do be totally real,and people need to kind of understand that fact. I would really like to meet you and show you the places here.
otterlover95 Neither of the two nuclear plants are remotely close to East Cleveland. Davis-Besse, which has had an embarrassingly long history of environmental mishaps, is over on the other end of the state, west of Sandusky.
Nathan Obral no dude that is the City of Cleveland, not neighboring East Cleveland. Nice try in trying to deflect the grave problems of what used to be Ohio's largest city.
Rick was very calm of course he was just drinking water, maybe that was why. I hate these live streams, you can’t even see what they are doing the quality is crap; I guess the point is to talk to them. BUT I love Dan BeLL’s channel.....
Katie Scarlett I have been watching some videos about Youngstown and it looks like your home city is turning the corner for the better. Heres hoping that Youngstown can successfully revitalize itself and attract more creative and entrepreneurial people. Lets just hope that the worst is behind it and the its future is more promising. I think that Youngstown will be much easier to revitalize than either Cleveland or Toledo.
![[UA] NAVI проти G2 Esports | Blast Premier Fall Final](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QWlIm4FGESQ/mqdefault.jpg)
I think Rick has a good understanding of people and what they go through. I would say he's had his own life battles and been through some shit to. U guys are great thanks and be careful 😀
mark ski Well said, I agree!
Thanks 😀
And in some of the richest states too. Even NY state, especially in rural decay.
Agreed bro so true
Yeah he seems very caring, lifes tough, I'm sure hes had his battles. He's a good guy you can tell.
Wow! Seeing these buildings like this is so sad. They look like they use to be really nice.
Most of those buildings were late 1800s to early 1900s. Notice that they do not have any place to park a car because they were built well before most people had cars and either worked close enough to walk to work or took public transit of some sort. That is also why the area is not amenable to redevelopment. That is actually East Cleveland that has been plagued with corruption, drugs, poverty and crime since the 1960s.
Glock30Fan no dude it is Cleveland city proper which is just as destitute, decrepit, and depressing as East Cleveland, Euclid, and the other old inner ring suburbs. Face harsh reality, the Cleveland-Akron Metropolitan Area is going to keep hemorrhaging population and business to other more competitive, progressive locales. Akron is already a third tier city due to its decline and Cleveland is literally a second tier city that is declining to the point of eventually becoming a third tier city. If it has at least 300,000 in central city population in the 2020 census, I will be surprised. Get ready for Columbus to have the largest metropolitan area in Ohio. Columbus is already the state's largest city and the state's economic, cultural, political, educational, and transportation hub. Cleveland is a shrinking has been. It has lost the last vestige of its oil industry when BPAmoco which was once Sohio, moved its corporate headquarters out of Cleveland to Houston.
Robert Preskop don’t get me wrong. I am not in a state of denial. Cleveland itself has wide areas that are war zones and zombie neighborhoods. And for much the same reason that E Cleveland is almost entirely in this state of condition. Just E Cleveland has been that way for longer and worse. Until about the early 60s, E Cleveland was a middle class area. You can’t blame race riots on why E Cleveland is not the unlike Falujah. They went that way earlier and faster. Cleveland took a bit longer. And you can point to some areas of Cleveland that are still okay (West Park due to heavy residency of city police and firefighters) and some that have had some amount of revitalization (Ohio City and parts of Tremont). E Cleveland on the other hand is almost entirely a lost cause. Only hope is if Case Western buys it up and brings in the bulldozers.
Glock30Fan How about Euclid, that suburb has been very bad for sometime now. I used to travel and spent some time in Cleveland and I found it to be dead and depressing. The downtown was like a massive morgue except on workdays from 8:30 AM to 5 PM. I found Cleveland to be hostile and dangerous and saw a lot of crazy shit go down. I am never visiting that city ever again. The same for Toledo, another hostile, dangerous, destitute city.
I live in the Cleveland Proper and pay taxes into the city, Cleveland and East Cleveland are completely different and dived in every way possible.. the area that I live in is NOT suburb and very urban and we have a very competitive housing market within the city..some homes up near 500k
Two things I don't like about live streams: the video quality sucks and I can't hear Rick. ;(
Speeding Atheist I made the same observation in my comment about the quality it is crap
Same I miss the old good quality exploring
"This is just depressing as shit".. You'll find that in many places here in Ohio! Lol but there are also a lot of places that are beautiful too.
These buildings look like they were built in the 1900s-1920s, there are still constructed of load bearing brick and have flat roofs, anything after the 1920s would have been made out of cement blocks. Also you can really notice the only thing that ages a masonry constructed brick building is any wood in the building, and the walls are still fine and the floors and roofs could easily be replaced and the buildings would be fine.
East Cleveland has been so badly strapped for resources, that they begged the city of Cleveland for a merger, and Cleveland refused. It's really a long drawn-out tragedy.
Nathan Obral Cleveland is even worse than East Cleveland.
Those look like they could be some really nice apartments if they were totally redone
This is technically East Cleveland which is it's own municipality. Urbex Dane also has some good videos in this neighborhood.
also its avenue and not street.
This isnt just East Cleveland, it is also most of the City of Cleveland as well.
I thought the same love urbanex Dane's videos and when I saw this I thought of his videos.
Hey this place looks familiar.
Some of those older buildings could possibly date from the 1920s. I used to manage two buildings in Cleveland Heights (they're still standing and being lived in) and became familiar with the type of architecture. It makes me sick to see places falling into ruin like this.
It feels like it's been forever since an abandoned building vid on either channel.
Eric Gilbert , I know! I missed them so much. I am grateful for this one.
There's a list of buildings in East Cleveland that have priority of being torn down first. Unfortunately Chapman is the last street on the list. It makes sense though. Residents don't usually drive down the streets of Elderwood to get to work or school. It's an eyesore, but it's the most expensive eyesore to demolish. The city is slowly making progress on demolishing the buildings in the more populated areas though. Money is just so tight in the city.
YAY Dan the Man is back with abandoned buildings!!! Been missing them!
I immediately thought of Batteries not Included too!
It's good to see that you are urban exploring again be careful.
I wish I could hear Rick. He needs a mic. I just read that the apartment buildings are pre WW2. Love you Dan😘 Yall be careful on the road.
So depressing 2 see a whole street just abandoned. Most of those buildings must have been amazing in their day
MamaCarola1 most if not all those buildings would easily last several centuries if they were kept in good repair and sealed from the elements. They would greatly outstand and outlast any of those suburban shopping malls and McMansions.
I love watching yall explore
I miss these abandoned places videos! Good to see one back.
Such a shame to see such stately, regal old buildings in such a horrible shape, these buildings have stood for decades, brought down by property owners being too cheap to do regular maintenance and repairs to keep these buildings in shape. 😢😞
Wow that is crazy seeing all these buildings like that.
Dan, nice batteries not included reference. That movie is so underrated and awesome.
Love your videos!! Always interesting and the back stories behind them.
Thanks for the great video. I love watching all your videos. . To see things we dont usually see or are aware of these places. Please keep up the awesome job and say hello to Rick as well.
People from Cleveland are like "at least we're not Detroit" 😂😁
Matthew Baran yeah but Cleveland along with its somewhat smaller counterpart at the mouth of the Maumee, Toledo are both getting worse than Detroit. Both Cleveland and Toledo are going to be tough nuts to crack when it comes to urban revitalization.
worse than detroit
That’s because Michigan is our sworn enemy. #ohiostateforever
estherdestiny 😂😂😂 thanks for the morning laugh
LOL, You're right. Euclid born, from a family of West Cleveland land owners.
I have lived in Cleveland for 11years. So much going to waste! Sad 😞 It's going on everywhere! Really no stopping it! I live with reality! Enjoy your video 😊 Thanks.
Great vid Dan. More please.
Reminds me heavily of the south Bronx in the 1970s. I was there.
Crime is really bad in East Cleveland. I went to Cleveland State, and one of my projects was to document all the poverty throughout the city. It’s a sad sight...
Reminds me of some of the streets In the south Bronx when I was growing up In the 70s and 80s.
Hi Dan, glad you're doing abandoned places again. 💙👍
grew up seeing this place fall down brick by brick
🙀🔪 You could almost expect Jason or Michael Myers to jump out at you from a quiet corner! Freaky shit Dan!
Looks like it was filmed w/ a potato.
Dan your videos are always amazing. Love it.
I live in Cleveland but the nice areas. This is so scary I go pass here to work
Hello from the UK ....I love you guys 👊👊
If your still in Cleveland, you ought to go to 9513 Kennedy Street. My great grandparents lived there. A lot of that street has abandoned homes. Neighborhood used to be mainly Hungarian and other Eastern European families.
I lived 3 streets away next to the school, damn! What happened?
Love your channel(s) !!
SAD 😢😢.
Simon Petrus DISGUSTING!
It's sad to see places like that and how the city does nothing about it
Wow. So sad. Interesting, but sad.
Oh snap! I live in Cleveland!
Swag. Galore I am very sorry to hear that.
Awesome your in my hometown!
East Cleveland is in trouble. Serious government failure. All of Cleveland is not like this
Audrey Harlow the overwhelming majority of Cleveland is like that.
Robert Preskop It is not. Don’t spread false shit
Audrey Harlow that is not false shit that is the truth. Most of Cleveland itself is a decaying slum. Take off your rose colored sunglasses Clevelander, your city is through!
Robert Preskop omg troll. Go away
lmao the lag glitching at the end made rick look very scary
This is where the Cleveland Browns players lived before they moved to Baltimore in the 90's. Been empty ever since.
Cleveland has come a long way, the downtown is beautiful. The west side is also undergoing revitalization. Sadly, the east side has been left to rot in a lot of places.
The serial killer's home was there, but was demolished in 2011.
UrbexNY well that is good news!
According to the Cleveland Papers, these apartments were built right after WW2.
Your work is fascinating Dan.
You should hook up with Urbex Dane! He's done really great videos in Cleveland.
Me and my best friend just missed you guys lol we are from Painesville
Man, I knew Ohio had some rough spots, but this is Detroit level rough.
Warhead Urban Exploration Cleveland is way worse than Detroit and is probably worse than Flint.
"All the little chicks with their crimson lips say, 'Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!'"
Bolling Holt yeah they are living in a fantasyland. Cleveland sucks! Cleveland is through!
Robert Preskop this is East Cleveland not Cleveland
3:47 was freshly abandoned in 2009
They should allow homeless people to do a clean up...provide some building supplies etc...And assign groups to each building who can then live there...
cant get enough of SERRA.....he has the jolly italian uncle mafia persona
Watching this makes me sad!
Place looks pretty apocalyptic...kinda like from the Terminator...but at night...✌🏻️
Cleveland Clinic will be buying this area up in the not too distant future.
It is nice to see Rick not full of beer like on ADR.
Love the 360p resolution. Otherwise, another good video!
Dan, I grew up in balt. Love your videos.
jc
oh, I left and moved to wv.......I recommend it highly...
Three words come to mind: Really Big Bondfire. Seriously, take that giant dumpster on the street, take everything that will burn right down to the wooden studs, beams and joists and throw them in along some lit matches. Clear out the neighborhood.
Sorry I was late. I loved the buildings and yet they made me cry.
I’ve missed your abandoned videos. Thank you
This is so sad to me. Be careful yinz guys.
WTF, the shit never fails to surprise me
In case you didn’t look it up yet Dan/Rick, the Cleveland Strangler en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sowell
I can't believe they're in Cleveland! I wish I had known.
A couple of decent lake-effect snowstorms probably took out those roofs leaving the structure to rot from the inside
The city should tear it down and start over! That's horrible!
That moss covering the entire front of that building!
Dan, if you look at this on Google maps it says Chapman Ave. and you can barely see the buildings through the trees and bushes. Looks like they've cleaned up a lot since the then.
What a nightmare! It is saddening, to see. Enjoyed the explore, though. 👍
Good lord! I've never seen Rick look clean. I woulf guess that the older buildings you thought were built in the 40s were actually built from 1900 - 1920s and the flat boxy ones across the street were 50s, post WWII anyway. Not much construction going on in 40s, hence housing shortage following war.
Th Google street view is from 2014 and looks very different with all the trees intact. One of those buildings in the background @ 8:50 (175 Chapman Ave) sold for $170,00 in 2002. Built 1920. Best stat:: 81 registered Sex Offenders within mile.
If this was in Seattle, there's be 12,500 homeless people bumbling in & out of the buildings, drug needles, broken beer bottles, & the buildings would be covered in berry bushes & ivy.
oh wow they cut all the trees down..that block was full of street lined trees
It's sad the city just lets it go like this. I guess at least the groundhogs have a home.
Interesting to look at this street in Google street view, November 2007 that modern apartment building appears to still be in use.
Do we know why these buildings were abandoned? In my town a builder bought an old public housing structure and made them into luxury apartments and they’re beautiful now!
Hey Dan I really love all of your work, and I am starting also with some video stuff soon. I am going to record the homeless.But anyhow, I would really love it if you could visit Minnesota. We not only have Dirty Motels all over(, I have stayed in a few having been homeless myself for ten years in my past)but also several dead malls. And lot of things to record if you know where to look,in winter not as good lot of cold and snow,but fall and summer perfect exploration days. WHen and if I can ever afford a real camera,not just my iPhone, you may start seeing my other channel with some stuff,but I watch ALL your stuff all the time. I also completely and always understood about Trapped and Terrified an artist can make one faked video for entertainment reasons,and still have everything else they do be totally real,and people need to kind of understand that fact. I would really like to meet you and show you the places here.
Why has this section of a city been abandoned???
barbara whittall crime, poverty,unemployment you name it
This is *East Cleveland* not Cleveland. It's a separate city.
otterlover95 Neither of the two nuclear plants are remotely close to East Cleveland. Davis-Besse, which has had an embarrassingly long history of environmental mishaps, is over on the other end of the state, west of Sandusky.
Nathan Obral no dude that is the City of Cleveland, not neighboring East Cleveland. Nice try in trying to deflect the grave problems of what used to be Ohio's largest city.
It’s a suburb of Cleveland. Not actually under Cleveland’s control. They filed for bankruptcy a while back and soon Cleveland will have full control.
I hear "Hey, Berry!" at 1:23.
love your videos
That’s even worse than some of those areas he’s shown in Baltimore.
Amazing place! I don't understand why there isn't graffiti everywhere-Is it too far away from populated area?
Did you take any VHS tapes to check out?
Cool ruins! Yeah too bad he did it live this would be a great place to see
Wish I could have made it to the meetup. I live in Cleveland, but sadly had to work.
Wow...😲
Where have all the people gone?
Companies closing there doors causes a lot of homelessness.
Geez, first Detroit, Baltimore, Gary, and Flint; now Cleveland.
UrbexNY he needs to visit Toledo, that city is just as bad as Cleveland.
Is it really? Another one bites the dust. We have Utica, here in NY; it's like a mini Detroit.
UrbexNY there is another bad one in New York, Niagara Falls or should I say "Gary Indiana On The Falls".
Robert Preskop Haha, you got that right.
UrbexNY also Binghamton and Rochester are very bad!
My home town there no place like home
Rick was very calm of course he was just drinking water, maybe that was why. I hate these live streams, you can’t even see what they are doing the quality is crap; I guess the point is to talk to them. BUT I love Dan BeLL’s channel.....
You should come to Niagara Falls NY a lot of urban decay and abandonment.
This place reminds me of the tuberculosis hospital in Lima, OH.
Katie Scarlett otherwise how is Lima faring out these days?
Robert Preskop Don’t know, I’m from Youngstown. Made the trip with some friends one day to check out the hospital maybe 10 years ago?
Katie Scarlett I have been watching some videos about Youngstown and it looks like your home city is turning the corner for the better. Heres hoping that Youngstown can successfully revitalize itself and attract more creative and entrepreneurial people. Lets just hope that the worst is behind it and the its future is more promising. I think that Youngstown will be much easier to revitalize than either Cleveland or Toledo.