1967 THROWBACK: "NYC BLACKS & PUERTO RICANS ATTACK HIPPIES FOR GENTRIFYING LOWER EAST SIDE"(PART I)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- It has been over 50 years since 1967’s “Summer of Love” when young people from around the world flocked to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district and to other urban neighborhoods, including New York’s East Village, to trip out at psychedelic dance parties, sleep in city parks, and live and do whatever they pleased. While the hippie subculture was already flourishing prior to the Summer of Love, by mid 1967, hippies and their music, style, and communal way of life had caught the attention of the mainstream media and as a result, reached a critical mass of young people who were now eager to ditch their suburban homes to “turn on, tune in, and drop out.”
Reactions to the Summer of Love in New York were predictably mixed. An estimated 50,000 young people descended on the city to join the movement, but many New Yorkers, including longstanding residents, police officers, and politicians, had little interest in spending the Summer of Love soaking up the good vibes. In the end, the city’s Summer of Love saw as much conflict and violence as peace and love, and debates about rental prices, real estate values, and the gentrification of the Lower East Side were all part of the conflict.
The quality of this is so good, it makes the time setting appear more recent like 1990s than fifty-four years ago.
That does not look like the 90's
@@lelecoleman8472 You would expect something from this era to look grainier. But ignore the damn cars and some of the hairstyles and clothing on some folks and you see what I mean. Geesh. I said the QUALITY makes it look that way, not everything else in the thing. I know some things in it still appear 1960s, but some of those interviewed by the way they talk and even their styles don't scream it. Those moments plus the quality make this come off much later than the 1960s, which is where I was getting at.
@@devontehuntley6274 lol. My bad
I lived on the lower east side during that time. I will tell you that there was resentment because many of these guys would trip out on acid, did not wash themselves, and would do the free love in the street in front of kids. I saw this myself. On the other hand many of them were kool too. There was a arts and craft shop on 6th street between Ave B and C where JHS 71 was. I knew many of these neighborhood people in this film. I went to school across from Tompkins square park when it happened.
Stop generalizing
@@drwalka10Shut up, hippie.
In the 60,n 70's anyone speaks Spanish was called Puertorrican.
Or Mexican
@@kyoakland In NY Spanish= PR, CA= Mex, FL=Cuban
@@blessedgirly7402 thars more like it lol. I can't see Mexicans in NY lol
@@QuetzalcoatlMexica yall sound stupid plenty of mexicans in new york and new jersey
@@Pj_sonic they weren't there in the 70s, 80s..... that was the Real NY
The way the game of gentrification is played is you either get the money to live there or get forced out.
@Cian MacGana
Lol
Hippies were broke, this isn't gentrification
@@tomservo5007 hate to break it to you, not all of them were.
Or you chase the gentrifiers out
@@AlexCab_49 yeah, but then the cops come and knock your head in
Back when New York was New York….just a big tourist trap now
Always been a tourist destination. Its still an amazing city tbh
Nick Horn not like it is now…do you live here?
I live there and it's a liberal hell hole.
Jay Santiago yep…I live in Bed stuy and it’s even getting bad out here
@@NYisconstipated Are you serious? NYC has always been a tourist spot. And it was just as bad in The late 60s and 70s and 80s. I was born in NY, My family has been here for over 72 years. And I've seen it look like a hell hole where you think you're in another planet. Then you have the spots that always stood nice. Like, parts of flatbush where Barclay center is, All that there looked awful back then, Now it's Gentrified like crazy. With new buildings, etc
You guys got the best old school video's, haven't found a channel that can even compete
Used to live down there. Unrecognizable for long time now. Miss the old NYC. Miss the discount stores on 14th street. Sad.
I miss those stores, too. I lived in Astoria when it was still affordable and used to do my Christmas shopping on 14 St. You never knew what unusual things you’d find in the stores. They were all different, not like today’s chains that have the same stuff whether you’re in New York, Kansas City, or L.A. They even SMELL the same!
Remember Mays on 14 street
People thought it would be just black neighborhoods. You should be ashamed for laughing about it before.
Right funny how you would be so welcomed back
I am New Yorican born and bred and I agree with the hippie commenting on our neighborhoods. Many family and friends from those time periods are long dead and buried. Gangs, drugs and a general negative mindset did us in. Given that, there are profound social elements I miss from that general time period (60s to 90s) that are forever gone.
My favourite youtuber channel. Always lived NYC ever since I was a little kid. Something about it just appeals to me. I'm from a small town in England and think you should have lot more subscribers
On Facebook, like the page. " the real NY 70s/80s
HOW ABOUT POSTING HARD WORKING MIDDLE CLASS PUERTO RICANS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS BACK THEN !
What makes these not hard working people?
Kicking hippies asses ain’t a easy job
Dumb white supremacist comment
There's never been such thing
@@NYvandal I call bullshit on that claim! I'm Puerto Rican and I have been a Ironworker for 20 years , My father was in the military for 30 years, my mother has been a nurse for 25+ years , My sister owns a dispatch company for hotshot drivers my brother is a rig welder! I CAN GO AND ON, you continue push your stereotypical b.s though!
Most if not all NYC is now gentrified. They've got these new buildings that look like a luxury hotel by 138th not too far from the bridge.
Not so much the Bronx
And thats a good thing
@@tonytucker6145 i was raised in spanish harlem in the 80s. Nothing good came out that culture but Drugs alcohol and friends family lost. Am glad is cleaned up. F* culture it did nothing
@@edzzz5043 Drugs & Alcohol were PLANTED by the ELITES so the Yuppies can move right on in.
@@younginsane90 the Bronx still doesn't have the same flavor as before, it's more transplants there instead of blacks and Puerto Ricans
Can we get a Larry Davis and Jehri Curl Gang video? You be putting these jawn together perfect as hell
Today’s “hippie “ puts up a “BLM” and “ Biden/Harris” sign in their front yard or bumper stickers.
And trump hires immigrants illegal immigrants and legal while Americans collect welfare
@@estebancruz2248
What?
@@estebancruz2248 what the hell does Trump have to do with this video? You are an idiot...grow up.
Yep, lol. Only now, they're called hipsters. Swingin' hat, Gomer.
@@mandogarcia7905 im trying to bring awareness to the hypocritical stand point trump and his followers are. I support democratic movements but since you name calling. Look in the mirror and say that you should've been intelligent enough to ask to about the comment
I Love this video. I was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in The South Bronx. I Miss the 80's and 90's. Now Our Hood is Gentrified.
South Bronx still sucks tho .
Your hood was a crime filled dump
I am also Puerto Rican but a afro Latino because my great grandmother had a good aunt if black in her and my grandfather on my dad's side was also darker skin and afro latino
@@JoelTorres-yx3hm Hola Nene🇵🇷
@@ginadoll00901 hola how are you doing?
Damn Dr King was still alive
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME
This video is showing the lower east side/east village of NYC and yes the hippies did win. Puerto Rican’s and blacks only have Avenue D which is the projects now.
Facts I use to work for fedex as a driver you right ave a ave b ave c are is white now. Ave d is the project were black and Hispanics and they are moving Chinese people in them now.
@@lonniejolly5882 right and I bet Chinese that were not even born in this country..
@Kush Kush you guys got the same problems I’ve been to LA many times.
@Kush Kush your mother did not think so
The alphabet people have West village. It's not the same anywhere but some parts of Brooklyn(Canarsie Brownsville East NY and parts of Bushwic)
They should have kept up the good fight!
By beating innocent people?
@@Toyos-yk3ri “innocent”
@@UptownAlleyFashion See that's funny you think it's okay to beat up people going into a neighborhood that you assume shouldn't be there but if it's flip-flopped and some black people were in Mississippi at that time and they were in all white town and got fucked up you would think it was the worst thing in the world have their moms on TV and have the whole nation crying over them. How do you sleep at not being a hypocrite? It's okay for blacks and Latinos to beat up white people for trying to move in their neighborhood or even just being in their neighborhood but again if the shoe was on the other foot you would call it a hate crime say it was racist and the worst thing you could ever put up with "look at what the whites have done to us". Yes you more on those people were innocent, they were just trying to live a passive life and they thought they could do it with blacks and Latinos if they wanted to not be segregated and you think they deserve to be beat but you wouldn't want to be beat yourself for being in the wrong neighborhood.
When you see fancy coffee shops, couples in flip flops walking their adopted or fancy French bulldogs with a cup of coffe, see them jogging through the projects, beware! Your neighborhood has been gentrified! Tall doorman rentals & Karen's!!
Lol, standard uniform, Birkenstocks.
@@kingofthecatnap6246 and BLM Rainbow 🌈 in their windows is another dead give away!
I was raised in Philly and see it happening. Fresh Grocers and organic stuff popping up. Perplexes me when "folks" claim no one wants to live around Blacks.
I hope the residents aren't harmed.
Hide yo kids! Hide yo wives!
And what bothers me the most is that they come into these places and they ignore the people that were already living there for years, they create their own little bubbles or "self segregate" or they barely leave their homes. Like, why the hell would you move into a minority neighborhood if you know you're gonna feel uncomfortable? Just stay in your spot or get used to your new environment!
Wow! Cannot believe you have film of Junior's Cave on 10th St. and Avenue A, across from Tompkins Square Park, from back in the Day! I lived on 11th between A&B during this time. It was good to see the old Boys Club building as well.
My old neighborhood ( 9th st btw C & D) from 63 to 68. I still dream about it & miss it.
Thank you so much for these fantastic videos.
MOST EDUCATIONAL CHANNEL IN THESE YT SKREETS!
Hippies were not gentrifiers. They did not drive up rental prices by moving into a neighborhood and they were not calling the cops on black guys hanging out in the park. Unlike gentrifiers, hippies did not think they were better than anyone.
You are wrong.
@@armme3510 no you're wrong
Barry Soetoro's real Father was Frank Marshall Davis.
However you look at it they were displacing people and it continues today with "hipsters".
True but it worked both ways. The minorities didn't call the cops about the smell of marijuana coming from their Hippie neighbors' apartment or any of the other activities they were involved in. This is what attracted Hippies. They would have trouble in conservative working class Catholic neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn.
Love these videos, like you stumbled across a time capsule with NYC written on it
I read where some areas of NYC in those days still had greasers who despised the hippies
Yes, in 1967 they were still around, especially in lower income areas.
Basically turned into the punks
Bushwick Brooklyn turned into the village it was a family oriented neighborhood now all these rainbows 🌈 showing up!
Facts the neighborhood is pretty much unrecognizable from what it was 10+ yrs ago
The whole city turned into East Village thanks De Blasio
Damn Brooklyn 😔🗽 #eastnewyork Born & raised.
They tryna do queens like this too in the Mexican and Hispanic neighborhoods
@@cityboinyc We're starting to see more and more "non-traditional" residents in ENY.
I see "Hezakya Newz" I click! Always has vintage classic material...
How can hippies gentrify a neighborhood if they don't have any money ? False title
Dude with literal colonizer hat on talking about "They think we're gonna take over their neighborhood and kick them out". Then look what happened
If a black guy tried to move into a rural all white town, and got his ass beat, you people would be crying about this shit and it would be all over the news. Puerto Ricans took over a bunch of east PA and you people are crying over the opposite shit being done to you? Remember that when the blacks and Puerto Ricans moved in, the neighborhood wasn't theirs either.
FR!
Sometimes I understand why people get aggravated when suburbanites move in to their urban neighborhoods, and expect the big city to be just as welcoming as their hometown.
I dont get it at all ... I think it's a mix of being misguided and lack of education
These videos are classic!!!
Saw your channel for the first time today. I love it!!!!!! All I can do is subscribe today. Hope to donate in the future. Your content is amazing. Grew up in a tenement in east Harlem. THANK YOU💖💯
Yep, this is the place.
Sawed in half
Even in the 90’s it still felt like the 1980’s
at least 1990-93 still felt like the 1980s
@@robroy6374Facts
NYC began changing to me around 1995. But even then, in the last car of the trains you would still see people smoking and drinking, lol.
@@SunFromBrooklyn73 "NYC began changing to me around 1995."
Giuliani is the reason.
Damn 1967, this battle has been going on a lot longer than I thought. Me and my best friend in high school used to rip on the noticeably gentrifying neighborhood, from tompkins sq park to ave c and d, delancy, pitt, rivington etc but it was hipsters for us not hippies. The guy at the end sounds harmless but that's how it starts
Archie Bunker said the same thing, only about minorities moving in. Jefferson too when it came to Hispanics.
I hate to think that that prejudicial thinking is universal
Boomp: I get the nature part but we have reason to overcome our urges and tendencies.
In fact, the law makes it illegal to act according to our nature in many cases.
Can’t we be a bit better?
How can someone comment here that being bigoted is our nature and thus I guess alright?; and line up elsewhere and complain that they are being mistreated due to color or ethnicity?
Can’t the mistreaters just say, hey, it’s human nature-don’t blame me; go home? Lol
Boomp: your comment was tip top.
He was actually passive aggressive. He said, “ We just want to live with them. Then, “We can live anywhere we want to live.”
Gentrification is the wrong word to use. Hippies didn't have the kind of money necessary to gentrify a neighborhood. Gentrification is the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by *_wealthier_* people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.
Oooh the cops letting criminals go... they r doing that now in 2023.
The cops told the hippie girl "what do you expect us to do?"💀😮💨
These intros*🔥🔥
Indeed proper good music.
Wait a minute, wait a minute. These dudes can barely speak English. They got SOME NERVE. Puerto Ricans were doing the same sh*t, when they immigrated from Puerto Rico....to the Bronx and East Harlem (in the late 50's and 1960's). Later, it was a surge of Dominicans into Washington Heights ( late 1980's and 1990s). BOTH of the aforementioned groups had the audacity to be hostile towards the Black American residents who lived in Harlem for DECADES.
The 1960's and 70's police apathy with crime is equivalent to DeBlasio's 2013---2021 NYC. Decades of a failing city....ironically only revived in the mid-1990's via Rudy Giuliani.
Puerto Ricans didn't immigrated. They are American citizens, part of the United States even back then.
Boricuas🇵🇷🇺🇸are not immigrants🤣
haha "immigrated" FOH
@@Brainbaskit They actually did, numbnuts. Anyone who knows history....and the documentaries....and the movies behind it (including "West Side Story" ) knows this BASIC information. The 1950's is not 2023, moron. Damn.
I can't believe you posted an inaccurate reply to my 1 year-old comment. Puerto Ricans were IMMIGRANTS. Many of whom did not speak ENGLISH. Dumb ass.😑. You're too dumb, for me. So, *TO YOU AND FUTURE RESPONDERS: I WILL NOT READ YOUR REPLIES*
immigrated? they just MOVED you clown
lol Save that energy for Bloomberg & the real gentrifiers today ;P
Right
Loll late 90’s and 2000’s + then it was gentrified with non New Yorkers
Greatest channel on youtube
I wish i could of been a teen in this time period.
What the film and its title suggest are one of two things: either we as a nation can’t learn from that time, or we never understood it to begin with.
Short memories, there’s nothing new under the sun.
Government Agent Hippies.
I'm PR n damm Proud
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Gentrification is even worse now
Exact same thing that's happening to Puerto Rico rn
Proof that white hippies and white hipsters have something in common
It funny how history repeats itself
Beatniks
Hippies
Yuppies
Hipsters
All the same just different names.
@@RandomUA-cam123 explain your position
@@RandomUA-cam123 correct but both of them displaced minorities when moving in predominantly black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods. In my old neighborhood a group of hippies moved in next door and stayed for a good while.
Eric: no disrespect, most of blacks and Puerto Ricans came up in the late 1940s and the 1950s. They displaced people too.
They wanted better and moved to big cities. God Bless them.
I’m not a fan at all of hippies, but they had no beef with blacks and Hispanics. And they were not in any way gentrifiers. Lol.
I give them credit for seeing race less so than many others.
So I guess many don’t want to see different-looking people hit the scene in their neighborhood.
Good to know but a shame.
Actually a lot of men remind me of women nowadays
Are you kidding? gentrification? there was so many abandoned buildings used for shooting galleries in the mid-70s.
Plenty of low rent to go around.
That’s bull that was my era as a musician living in the village isolated cases you can put together a montage of bull nostalgic videos a lace it your way and this generation would fall for all that crap You want to create anarchy the devil is alive
Well said👍🏽😎
As someone who has a real estate license I feel A LOT of people don't know what the real issue with gentrification is. It isn't that young white people just move into a traditionally non-white neighborhood. It's the observance of the demand afterward....this would bring the prices higher purely due to demand in an area with finite vacancies (although whiteness I feel can be a culprit to the prices going up even more, but not a definitive factor, one such case is Chinatown and Flushing, where crime is relatively low). We shouldn't blame the young people moving there, but the market being unregulated to protect the old residents from rising rent and taxes. Otherwise, you're basically fighting to keep society segregated, which is a step backwards.
Facts. I was born and raised in Chelsea, NYC in 1969 and I had amazing childhood friends that were white.
Good old days ❤
All those neighbourhood's were Irish, Italian n Jewish at one point I'm sure they felt the same way when the Puerto Ricans first moved in.
The Catholics held down what they could. Jews were in the background and considered a separate group on their own then. Blacks were always in lower Manhattan since they were the ones building wall street. Corporate "hippies" were bait to raise rents and they still are. Single, confused, and ready to spend money they create all sorts of issues for neighborhoods inhabited by large families. Before, when birth control was considered a THREAT TO THE FAMILY LIFE OF THE POOR they (the poor collectively) felt seriously threatened by sexual license and the sterility and corporate predations that comes along with it.
5 points neighborhood
They didn’t do a good enough job. The lower east side is completely dead.
Ah the classic NYPD response to asking for help: "what do you expect us to do?"
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE VOLUNTEERS
😂
Back when the word, "Negroes" wasn't offensive.
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Howard Beach and Ozone Park, Queens. Todt Hill, Staten Island. In New York, you need The Mob to protect you from the Criminals.
In many ways .. it terrible what happened to Williamsburg..
Great vid,,
Puerto Ricans are awesome
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I sense sarcasm lol but we sure were awesome in the Korean War, Vietnam war.
@@BoricuaNyc💪🗽🚇
Puerto Ricans are the BEST latinos....everyone else should be deported aside from Mexicans
Main export from island
AIDS and poverty ❤
They were fucking up the neighborhood and in the end they took the neighborhood from the old citizens and said " we know nothing Señor why you no live here no more. Adios!"
Life is a repetitive cycle,just like months,days,and dates that repeat themselves.the only thing that changes is the year.
Where do I donate? So much clutter on a UA-cam page, it gets lost in the shuffle.
Cash app or PayPal
I was 7 years old in 1967.
You must be "tolerant"...But they won't.
hipsters & pilgrims taking over Brooklyn I hate my people get priced out
But I must admit neighborhood looks amazing architecturally
They have you destructing your hood now.
@whatinthefuck shitniggadawg The colonizers who are moving into the neighborhoods and chasing us out. Whether it is manipulating us, by using us.
@whatinthefuck shitniggadawg the White leftists use Black people playing with our emotions to destroy our own communities we reside in.
@@RocketmanRockyMatrix What neighborhood is that?
@@azul8811 look at the George Floyd protests last summer that turned into rioting. The opportunists start destructing the buildings and properties where most Black people live at, using the mob mentality.
See, the middle class and suburban yts say racist things and have arrogant attitudes, that is something this video doesn't include to give it more context! YT arrogance gets them in trouble.
Most Hippies were not too discrimatory
Long hair matters ;)
A year later the prs ain't acid and scribbled on.trains
So the Puerto Ricans and African Americans defeated gentrification in the 60s but now they seem to stand no chance against this wave of gentrification.
Displacement has been a long term issue got worse starting in the late 1980s
starting in the late 1990s
Shit I shouldn't laugh but imagine if all the woke white kids moved into the hood today?
It's still happening to a certain extent. Gentrification has never stopped.
It's happening in Pittsburgh. Blacks are being forced out if certain sections of the city.
ox o' connor
Can you explain "woke" to me it seems the worst of the worst in this country keep coming up with these terms that are so cowardly and stupid like "critical race theory" I believe the correct term is history but crybabies need something to cry over so what's "woke"?!
@@bernardm.3205 just more attempts at keeping us divided and in groups, untrusting of each other.
Ideally I would like for my child to be able to deconstruct any bit of racist undertones in society, but at the same time he's just a child still. The fact that they completely disregard this points me toward the ulterior motives behind critical race theory.
When I was a child, I remember being friends with whoever was kind toward me and that was it. In school I always had multi ethnic friends, but never thought twice about it and really feel silly to even have to say something to that effect. But this is what happens when we're forced to talk about it all the time. Its unnatural, soulless, and mostly meaningless.
Critical race theory sounds more like a class for a person who's company is making them undergo "Racial Sensitivity Training," because they don't know how to treat others with respect in the work place.
@@bernardm.3205 I can’t keep up with all these terms either. “ Woke” “The Deep State.”
Things were better and worse back then
GOOD STUFF
🙋🏻♂️ hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
History just repeats because no one knows the real history
Some were Beatniks, snap snap.
"Plymouth Rock syndrome"
Same t hing happening in Bushwick and Bed Stuy as we speak
Somethings never change
When I was a kid my aunt lived off delancey street. Wow the shops down there were great, I remmembet a sporting good store that had Wilt chamberlains sneaker in the frint window,it was a giant sneaker. But also the culture and art were great. Now it is just cafes, and private buildings.
1967, year l was born !!
Same here!
This is what we have to do to keep rent low tho
They’re still at it only now they’re old!
Same oh same oh!!!!!....it's played out!!!!!
Wonder how much rent was back then in nyc
Cheap
Hippies were the first liberals
They weren’t-not by a long stretch.
You could more accurately call them Progressives. Progressivism started in this Country at least by the mid-1800s around the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Radicals probably fit many of them, and Marx in the 1840s was an early radical.
See they got all the info from newspapers
Also from TV and radio. Talk radio was on only a few stations then. I remember Long John Nebel and his wife Jones on 710 AM WOR Radio, NYC.
What?? That’s awesome
The True Hebrews who were scattered among the nations:
*Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the LORD!*
-The House of Israel-
The Tribe of Simeon = Dominicans
The Tribe of Zebulun = Guatemalans to Panamanians
The Tribe of Ephraim = Puerto Ricans
The Tribe of Manasseh = Cubans
The Tribe of Gad = North American Indians
The Tribe of Reuben = Sem Indians/Abor Australians
The Tribe of Naphtali = Hawaiian/Pac Islanders
The Tribe of Asher = South and Central Americans
The Tribe of Issachar = Mexicans
-The House of Judah-
The Tribe of Judah = African Americans
The Tribe of Benjamin = Jamaicans
The Tribe of Levi = Haitians
*Deuteronomy 28*
🇵🇷❤🇵🇷✊🏾✊✊🏽
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 all nations are in the western hemisphere??🤣🤣
Sad shit..im a hippie but i will fight like a mfka!!! I stay ready!!!!!
The news was always liars, I grew up with hippies and it was not like that
Like what?
@@clemfarley7257 where we attack them
Right. I had white friends in the worst Jersey City projects, and the people respected them.
You give respect and you struggle just like everyone else.
@@clemfarley7257 they are always trying to make us look bad
At that year m hsd to sent me to Puerto rico i was 6 , abused by the he parents very cruel, at 1974 i end up outta my own will at Lowell Massachusetts. These days looks worst rhan the 60s widhi aldo remembered. Grt outta my site nyc and give me my share or blow up with hypersonics wosh i dreamed in 1990s
I a perfect world where groups of people can live together without one thinking the other trying to push them out.
Not when one group makes 10x more. What part don't you get? They move in, market rents goes up 5x. We don't want to live with them!
Its not "thinking" , it actually does push people out.
😂like TODAY, the "HIPSTERS" want to move to my boro. ❌❌❌🖕