As a recovering addict, it's hard to hear people say "they started with weed and moved on to harder drugs". The medical system generates more addicts than weed ever did. I was put on to opiates by my doctor, as was every addict I knew and know.
@@Etaoinshrdlu69 Not everyone reacts the same to potential addictive substances. You are lucky to be one of those not affected by it. The amount was not the issue for me. Percocet is only 5mg and it gets you hooked quite easily. Everyone is different
I’m from Philadelphia. I left it in 1983. Seeing what it’s become today breaks my heart and terrifies me. It amazes me how the residential neighborhoods, including where I grew up in North Philly, have totally deteriorated. But this is what happens when the citizens can’t find decent employment. If you make no money, you have no way to maintain or improve. And the introduction of drugs into neighborhoods like this (a political history all it’s own) accelerated it’s decline. Breaks my heart.
The police do arrest you but don't put addicts in jail. I got arrested on kensington just last year. Because of that, I now have 18 months off of fent. Thank you Philly Police. You saved my life... at least for now.
You are a rare person as the general rule is that incarceration leads to more incarceration it's called recidivism. Incarceration is not necessarily going to result in a person abstaining from drug use.Usually creates more problems eg person now has a criminal record.
The "High Line" you walked was originally one of the inbound viaducts to the old Reading Terminal. In an effort to consolidate all commuter rail lines, SEPTA constructed a tunnel that goes under the area near where you were in the video and provides 4 tracks into Jefferson Station (formerly Market East/Reading Terminal), Suburban Station and 30th Street Station. All lines now have the capability of connecting to each other as a result and none need to terminate in Center City. Reading Terminal was rendered obsolete, but the market continues to operate beneath it. The original Reading Terminal was later converted into the Pennsylvania Convention Center, with the head house and train shed being focal points in the design.The old tracks rejoin the new near Temple University station.
Re: Mt. Vernon Cemetery, the abandoned one you walked through, I found that the absentee owner, a lawyer, was tracked down, control was wrested from him and "a group of Philadelphia preservationists, cultural leaders, and volunteers" have helped to "legally name the Philadelphia Community Development Coalition as conservator to do large-scale landscaping and repairs until a long-term steward can take charge." (The Inquirer, Sept 2021) so we'll see how that goes. Good video!
As poorly as these grounds have been kept majority of my 41 years in existence. I always just assumed the owner of the cemetery was dead. Shame on him for owning the property and not respecting the dead by keeping a place for loved ones to visit.
Lamont, thank you for feeding the kitties! You have the kindest heart ❤️! For anyone else who actually lives there, please continue to do so! God bless!
I am a recovering alcoholic myself. Had a few "slips" aka relapses over the years. It's very scary. I hope these people get the help they need. And as always, nice to see Lamont.
I hope the western world, adapts. Eg ends prohibition and introduces venues that responsibly sell regulated recreational drugs (denying their sale to underage children).Prohibition creates demand and generates criminalization.if legalised Norms would develop around recreational use and abuse just as they have around alcohole. I have watched drug use increase exponentially since the 1980s.PROHIBITION has failed as has neoliberalism. Go back to social democracy and decriminalize recreational drugs.Make them cheaper and cleaner and use the tax made from their sales to build housing and provide therapeutic resources Think outside of the box.
Lived in Philadelphia till I was 13. My parents pulled us out of there. I could never be so grateful for really went downhill fast. Kensington used to be a very wealthy area and now it’s sad to say how bad it turned out.
@@yvonneplant9434 that’s what gets the most UA-cam views. Viewers want to see the worst neighborhoods in America regardless of better communities in the general area.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all the time. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl and other nasty drugs available on the streets
Aww Lamont is always giving food to animals. Love that you 2 are together again in a video. That viaduct was beautiful....had to have made for great photos.
Dang, had no idea the FDR skatepark was located under an overpass in Philly. It was a pretty iconic location featured in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game series.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all the time. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl and other nasty drugs available on the streets
I totally agree with you! People want to act like the United States is such a Primadona country , well it's not ! People want to talk about people in other countries , when really they need to look in their own backyard !
the high line you walked, to answer your question of why they closed that in 1984, that used to carry the main Reading lines into Center City. In 1984 SEPTA opened the center city connection and rerouted trains into that (that’s what’s now Jefferson, Suburban and 30th St Stations). The goal was to make service more efficient by connected up the Reading and Pennsylvania lines via the new tunnel.
As a Pennsylvanian who has lived and worked in about out of the Philly area for almost 20 years, every block has a bad house or spot and every block has a good house and spot and the gentrification is real/happening everywhere. The fact rhe Divine Lorraine is back up and operating still blows my mind. Anything is possible in Philly
Gentrification doesn’t equal good automatically…and this isn’t even true. My Airy, Fairmount, Spruce Hill, and many other areas are very pleasant without the presence of illicit activity.
It's so sad to see the LIVING and the DEAD are forgotten about in the Kensington Philadelphia area. The cemetery you showed is in deplorable condition! I was homeless for several years on Kensington Ave. It took EVERY LAST BREATH in ME to get out of the situation and OFF THOSE STREETS! Thanks for covering this and in such an educated, respectful manner!
Big congrats and EXCELLENT WORK on taking your lives back!!! You should be very proud of that. Always remember you deserve every good thing that sobriety gets you! 🤍🕊🤍
I thank God for delivering me from addiction and living in the streets. Recovery may seem impossible but it's actually only a decision away. I can relate to the loneliness and the never ending, vicious cycle. The cold and desolation. The desire for a real friend and to be able to relate with integrity, a chance at making a new life. If you can get a shot at a rehab, go for it; anything is better than playing Russian roulette in an apathetic environment of concrete and zombies.
I worked in Baltimore for six years. And, just like here, the saddest thing about riding around and looking at the abandoned and dilapidated homes and neighborhoods, was that you could imagine how they were in fifties, or whenever. And, kids would be playing, and families living there who knew each other. And, people weren't standing on the corners selling drugs, or passed out in the alleys. I don't know how a city ever comes back when it goes down this far. I'm no sure its even possible.
It's not. The damage is done in Kensington. Even a legit business who sells cars or goods is completely fueling and feeding off the despair of the Fenty and tranq era. The national guard needs to intervene and also storm capitol hill and discard the "leaders" allowing these things to get this bad.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 From the nightmare and horrible heartbreaking despair I'm seeing on the videos,I have to agree .I honestly can't imagine anything short of that will work ‼️I'm sure we're only seeing+ hearing the tip of the iceberg,to boot‼️ I was absolutely floored when I first saw these It's just unfathomable that the city or state ,not only"l allowed it to get to this level but doesn't seems to be sliding farther + farther down Even if my family had lived there since the beginning of time, I'd have to move out of there ,even if I had to just drive off + stay in my car temp ! I feel deeply for every single person in that horrible trap of narcotics In sure very few if them ever dreamt they d be in these types of positions.Its also heartbreaking that this is the City Of Brotherly Love and the city Elton John refers to of course, in Philadelphia freedom So sadly ironicd that this is anything BUT freedom .Very obviously a horrible "trap". If anyone REALLY wants out of that horror #1,I'd get out of the area asap. Ido fully understand , it's ezuer says than done ,as they need to be close to be ok the next day etc. I'm sure that obv .very strong hold almost kills any incentive. Sorry for the long spiel ,; just meant to say I agree w yr comment 👍🙂‼️🌜✨🌛☮️ peace to everyone
@@Diana-gf9tk never apologize for a long reply. I hate when people mock someone for typing a paragraph as a reply LOL. It's almost like revealing how stupid they are saying they can't or won't read. I live an hour from Philly and have been trying to help extract people stuck in that hell on earth. I talk to a girl regularly who had her leg amputated last year due to a horrible infection from shooting that new street dope. It's NOT heroin it's much much worse. I shot heroin a lot on and off in my 20s then got clean in my 30s and stayed clean. The stuff they're selling on the street today is much worse than the heroin i used to buy in that same area. Today it's fentynal mixed with xylazine (an animal tranquilizer NOT meant for humans). Dealers don't care. They get people to the point where they desperately need more just to feel normal and be able to function. Most of these people on the streets are literally zombies and don't WANT help. I think it should not be up to them at this point. I think some form of martial law needs to be applied where they can be forced into an evaluation, and then into treatment. Vacant buildings can easily be turned into modest rehabs and sober living housing for them. A room with lots of bunk beds, and a shared bathroom. It's a good environment for them to first and foremost DETOX off that hellish garbage they're addicted to (with the help of a nurse practitioner and doctor who checks on them daily) as well as meds, and shelter, food, etc. After a few weeks of that, they will have clarity they cannot possibly get living on the street in that hellish cycle of addiction. Then after they're detoxed they can start to figure out what they want to do, and maybe reestablish contact with family or friends, etc. Then go from there. As for the street dealers pushing this poison, they should be placed in some form of prison which strips them of any type of bail or bond for at least 90 days. This would mean that a dealer making thousands a day off this suffering, can't simply bail out and get back to it. They'll have to sit for at least 3 months which is a lot of time to think and also lose the spot they had before for dealing. I have lots of other ideas I'm trying to pass along and work with, but unfortunately our city officials don't care. Out of sight out of mind.
Starts in the neighborhood. Your block, your street. Get to know neighbors, meet, pick up trash regularly, neighborhood watch, proper lighting, take care of your home/property/yard and whatnot. Everybody does that, everything is good.
I was born and raised in Philly. 1958 till I left in 2000. I can't believe you drove all over where the movie ROCKY was filmed and you didn't even mention it. You could have done an entire segment on that alone. Nice video. Sad to see it that way now. I remember it very differently.
The whole city doesn't look like this, only certain neighborhoods. South Philly is quite livable and Center City (downtown) is beautiful. A ton of history, museums, art, restaurants and things to do and see. Definitely worth a visit...
@@positively_broad_st3780 Thank you! Much of it does not look like this. And of course he doesn't explain why there are abandoned bldgs: manufactoring left and went to cheaper labor where there are no unions. So F him and these videos.
@@positively_broad_st3780 Most of West Philly especially around Penn and Drexel. Spring Garden, Fairmount, N. Liberties, Manayunk, Chestnut Hill, the Overbrooks, Wynnfield.
So, I take it this is indeed going to be a series - great stuff! I'm glad you caught Philly on a sunny day. The overcast/rainy stereotypical view on such places is getting old.
I aways watch Lamont at Large and he said to come over here to check your video out. I even subscribed and shared this on Twitter and Gettr. Thank you.
Absolutely loved the old steel factory where you met up with, Journey with Jay, it's so sad to see those buildings, cuz at one time they were brand spanking new, had people in them working and now they're long forgotten 😪
And so goes America 🇺🇸 we need to start manufacturing again when I was a kid everything was made here then slowly moved from country to country until now it ended up in China and our big textile industry wound up in Central and South America. It us so sad to see our country and our people in such sad shape we need to start making things it is good for everyone our people could get off dope a lot easier
@@ronaldhall9701 you are absolutely correct, I was born and raised in Northeastern PA, my Grampop and Dad worked in one of the many Steel Factories, we Moved to CA after my Dad got his welding certification, best move ever. Shortly thereafter the Steel plants started moving to Japan because the factories here in the US 🇺🇸 could buy the Steel at a lower cost, absolutely ridiculous cause all that happened was a tremendous loss of jobs, the garment industry moved to the South and than the frigging greedy business owners moved to China , Taiwan, Vietnam etc because the labor was cheap. Sad part is the prices did not reflect any savings therefore we ended up with a major problem here in the states, low paying jobs, high cost of goods, vehicles astronomically priced and so on. Sorry I made this a novel, I just get sick when I see what should be a great country going to 💩 ! Take care , Blessings to you and your family 🤗
@@monsterglo you are 100percent right. The pain of watching this great nation die by it's own hands is too much pain to walk around with I hope we can pull ourselves up out of this ditch we should not be in. Politics suck we get the wrong people and expect them to do right I am not into it but see that I better be or we are done for that being said I fear Trump is our only hope in 2024 have a happy and safe merry Christmas sir
@@ronaldhall9701 wishing you a Christmas and New Year overflowing with Blessings in all sizes 🙏 😇 doesn't bother what people call me as long as they don't call me late for supper, 😂 my name is Gloria my Daddy called me Monsterglo, I loved that nickname 😄 😊
As someone who lives in PA and only and hour or so away from Phili and my mom goes into Phili for work I was totally expecting to see her car somewhere in the vid
These places are such sad sights. And I would also add that as dire as the current situation is in Kensington, LA's Skid Row (which now extends into Venice Beach) looks even worse.
I hate to say it but when you lived there it was white. I have never, ever seen a town stay nice or get better once the African Americans m oved in in. Sorry, but true. Just stating the facts as I have witnessed them in almost 70 years. Liberals and African Americans do not care about their neighborhoods. they do not know how to live cleanly or civily. I am not being racist, just observant. Prove me wrong. I would welcome it. I would love to know I am wrong. I wish I were wrong. But I am not. And I am too old to not say it. People are so scared to do or say the truth. That is not helping anything. Lets encourage some more homelessness, or free needles, or turn out the veterans from Mental Hospitals, or any number of the drivers for this condition. I do not care what statistics say. They are bull. I witnessed a lifetime of this pattern. PROVE ME WRONG. PLEASE.
Good to see you guys doing this story as a joint venture, there is safety in numbers. I hope you both stay safe and both continue to put out great stories for us computer chair tourists.
I lived in Philly for 17 years, loved it. The biggest crime I had happen to me at my home in North West Philly, my friends car was stolen, and my 2 lion ornaments were taken while my wife and I were at church. My motorcycle was almost taken but the would be robber left me a note and said he could have stolen it and it should be hidden from sight. Hard to hide things in Philly. Great time, great city. But you have to keep up on pride. My neighbors fence was graffitied one night and about 4- 5 days later I asked my neighbor if he was going to take it off his fence. He said, "why should I do that, there just going to do it again." I asked for his permission to take it off and he let me. 15 years later, nothing. I also picked up the trash once a week on my block. No one else helped out. But it stayed clean.
That's awesome man. The city needs more people that thinks like that. It's like when someone said there's no money for improvements and the selling of drugs is tell these people pay their bills it's how most of the people in that City area survive financially selling drugs all the way to being the lookout boy ... it is a job in any area like that of any City in any of the states across this country.
@@filomenaantonelli6985 basta guardare una mappa... Napoli si trova nello stesso parallelo di new York quindi molti degli stati uniti stanno sotto di noi e hanno più caldo (più si scende e più il sole picchia) ti assicuro che pure gente che viaggia non facendosi mai domande queste cose non le sa e sono disinteressati proprio quanto te
I'm from the area and Philly has some extremely rough parts. Temple is nasty outside of the patrolled areas. It's a city where you can go a few blocks and be in a bad spot. The police have sort of come to terms with the drug markets since the gangs pretty much self police. Center city is pretty nice and the historic districts are really cool and have a ton of history. 95% of the city if totally fine. It's that small percent that's rough and it's not necessarily the drug areas.
@@ANDYYANKEE I live in a VERY Republican area of Pennsylvania, it it crawling with meth heads, alcoholics, and heroin addicts. Do your research on addiction, government intervention and the prison industry. Go back to when crack was introduced and then made illegal, read actual history, not the bloated Bill O'Reilly version or Fox's take. Shit, find out the reason they took cocaine out of Coke. You didn't have to make this political, but you did. It's amazing what happens when people become both sheep and snowflake...the same insults they hurl at others.
"needle park" has a real name and is the home to the biggest library in the neighborhood. The only reason clean needles are distributed is to reduce the rate of infection, the junkies are gonna use.
That's insane 😳 I'm so glad I'm so far from there . Thank you Lamont for feeding the 😸 kitties.some of it really beautiful though Thank you for sharing 😊
Grew up in Philly at 22nd and Lehigh Ave. Know as Swampoodle back then. I Lived in Philly from 1952 till 2015, I saw all those neighborhoods go down hill, moved to the Burbs in 2015. Don't miss it at all.
I like all the bay windows in that town. That cemetery was really nice. Looked like alot of rich people were buried there. Beautiful tall headstones. I wish someone would take a weed eater to it so people could see the rest. The cemeteries in England were so pretty grown over but this one was almost buried under the vines. Thanks great video
My dad owns a family business down in Kensington. I haven’t been there in months but I recognized a lot of places from here. Brings back memories for me.
As I was born and raised in Philly, I know every inch of it by heart, and after 70 yrs, I hate to say it but when I lived there it was white. We had to eave Penn Pines, Highland Park, Upper Darby, Drexill Hill, and on and on... I have never, ever seen a town stay nice or get better once the African Americans m oved in in. Sorry, but true. Just stating the facts as I have witnessed them in almost 70 years. Liberals and African Americans do not care about their neighborhoods. they do not know how to live cleanly or civily. I am not being racist, just observant. Prove me wrong. I would welcome it. I would love to know I am wrong. I wish I were wrong. But I am not. And I am too old to not say it. People are so scared to do or say the truth. That is not helping anything. Lets encourage some more homelessness, or free needles, or turn out the veterans from Mental Hospitals, or any number of the drivers for this condition. I do not care what statistics say. They are bull. I witnessed a lifetime of this pattern. PROVE ME WRONG. PLEASE. as born and raised in Philly....hung out in Kensington in 60's..
Would have loved to explore with you while you were in the area! Your channel inspired me to start making my own videos, it’s a fun way to document my travels. Philly can definitely be rough 😬 but has so much history and awesome natural features that make up for that I guess 😅
@Miles Doyle John 3:16. Thank you for sharing with me you seem like someone who has lived through and felt a great deal and care very much I hope you are finding what ever it is you're looking for in life!
My bf & I are going on 3 years clean. I am from Reading and my bf is from Allentown. We moved to Philadelphia and had nothing at all. We stayed in rooms in North Philly. You can get clean anywhere if you really want to. We had to leave behind everything we knew for awhile. We rebuilt our lives in the hoods of Philly during a pandemic. Now we are out of Philly and doing good. Philly needs help it's supposed to be the city of brotherly love.
Im surprised those abandoned places hasnt been gutted for the scrap metal. God bless the people there and hopefully one day they get the help and care they need 🙏 p.s you're a wonderful person Lamont for helping and feeding the furbabies, may God bless you my friend 😃
In Philly you have to form a tight pact with your neighbors. If someone breaks into your car/house and I catch them you never talk to the cops until we talk first. Just stick to the story we made up. Never change anything and I mean not one word. The junkies clear out everything they can get a nickel for. That's why you never say you're going on vacation on social media. Everyone knows atleast one junkie and that person knows every junkie. I don't know how it is in other cities or even other parts of Philly but in my neighborhood we all legally carry. If a neighbor catches someone stealing we kick the shit out of them up until they're about to get knocked out. We want them to remember our block and to tell the other junkballs where not to steal. So far so good. We have the lowest amount of crime in the entire city since the 70s. If they junkies don't get the message and try to steal again there is a safe house that is only used for two things. A place to be safe from anything or a place to take thieves and torture them for a couple days. Sounds terrible I know but violence is the only thing junkies and politicians understand.
@Miles Doyle dude you need serious help. Pray all you want but to keep writing Bible verses is straight up weird. Try saving some 🐈 for the rest of us there slayer
Your brave for walking through there. Not everyone is so staying out of the way. You couldn't get away with walking through a street with a nice camera like that down in old Baltimore city. And I love Maryland but it's dangerous.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all the time. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl and other nasty drugs available on the streets
@@sarbantz And they'll never do that because money money money. Same reason Cocaine and Meth got popular. And being I have family members that got addicted to that shit and thank God stopped before they OD trust me this is going to get worse
@@halleyangel1706 i think also it is gonna get worse. Fentanyl is getting replaced by nitazenes chemicals that are 40 times stronger than fentanyl, and as it happens overdose deaths and street homelessness will just skyrocket.
@Kno Believe me I'm well aware. Reason my family always checks up on me family members that were addicts. But they're either completely off drugs or do Pot once on a while which they grow so okay.
@@halleyangel1706 good luck to all of you. This world is very dangerous place. That's what i realized since fentanyl addiction pandemic took over our streets.
Repent to Jesus Christ ““Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV U
Americans excuse 30 million drug dealing street gang members, on an individual basis by justifying dealing drugs as "they're just trying to provide for their families, can't blame them". Meanwhile a majority of American youths are being pumped full of drugs and into sex at very young ages.
Democrats at their best. This is just a sample of what’s to come. These scenes are damm near every American city, keep voting for democrats America and those strung out zombies will be your kids,friends and family.
Thanks for sharing Chris great to see you two together again. It’s sad that so many city’s are going to ruin but it’s interesting that you bring them to light. 👊👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
I really love Philadelphia; I lived and worked doing a lot of outreach for healthcare in Kensington in 2009/2010. I landed in Fishtown but it always breaks my heart to see Kensington like this. I will never forget the time I spent on H street, and people in that community who made me feel safe then, and still meet me when I come down to this day.
Awesome video! I will add something that you didn't touch on: for many people- you guys werent but for some it's easy to say "well I had a hard life and never did drugs why are they?" and to look at all of the people on those streets with judgment. But the reality is that every person in places like Kensington is an individual who has a story and had dreams. Usually mental health issues (usually undiagnosed), other traumas, and just generally living a life through those shattered dreams takes them a step further down the slide one unplanned step at a time. Not a single one of them said "I want to go be a homeless druggie on the streets." None of those people want to be there. But we have a system that pushes people down if they don't fit in, doesn't support them with their mental or physical health enough, and places like Kensington is the result.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all the time. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl and other nasty drugs available on the streets
Hi Lamont love your Channel , it’s so sad to see all this people in drugs. Lamont thank you for feeding the cats, they did look they were hungry. Thank you and your friend.
So glad to see you and Lamont together in Philly. So sad to see what was once a vibrant city so low with drugs and homelessness 😢 Thank you for taking us along
@5:45 is so true. Was raised right on 4th & Girard and walked every street up that way. Me and my friends would escape the hell and drama at night by walking a couple blocks up to fishtown to hang out there it was the best vibes ever.
Kudos for such an awesome video ! it's really sad , I was born and raised in Pennsylvania as a kid I remember going to Philly and even back then Mom and Dad were talking about areas that we didn't dare drive into and I don't even want to say how long ago that was lol
What would help to understand the decay would be to add photos from the past. The tram as it was and now is. The cemetery then and now, I am sure your subscribers would love to research the old photos.
Oh man, that's my city. I can show you quite a few abandoned areas. Quite a few interesting things as well. The Boy In The Box. Abandoned Rail Tunnels..Bunkers...everything. I've been exploring the city for YEARS. Laurel Hill Cemetery is a really beautiful place as well, love that place. My profile picture was taken there, actually.
yoooo bro any chance you know the addresses of the abandoned places?? been trying to explore all over philly and have only found 3-4 spots there hard to find
As a person who lives on the other side of the lake from Philly. I kinda knew it was like this. Whenever I go over the bridge I’m always scared for my life. I do like the aesthetic of old Philly so you guys being brave enough to show the rougher parts of Philly have sheer guts. The little gems like the old alley, and the cemetery are cool places to visit. It sucks you have to get through rough parts just to see them.
I was born and raised in North Philly, and I'll tell you, though it wasn't the best place to live, it wasn't as bad as it is now. I mean, it was a lot safer back when I was growing up in the 90s - early 2000s. It's the drugs. Drugs seriously changed my city for the ultimate worst. I'm glad I moved out if there when I see 17.
It doesn’t matter what you do to try to clean and revive an area, if the same kind of people are still there(homeless, drug addicts, etc), it will always just go back to how it was.
@@randalhuffman8827 exactly... but crime can be cleaned up in a community that respects law and order. A deterrent of jail for shootin' up or being high on the streets used to be the way the things went, when they dropped that, criminals and junkies just took advantage of it
@@hesedken yes, you are absolutely right. It is just that the folks in dem ran cities push for the opposite. Giving criminals more freedom and rights than law abiding folks. I remember a time when your reply was how things were. You felt safe almost everywhere you went. Sigh..... Yester year, brother.
@@hesedkenall “law and order” does is create forever criminals. You gotta make it possible for people to climb out of the hole, that means good rehab programs not unscientific religious bullshit, good paying jobs, and affordable housing
On 16th Street between Tucker and Lehigh there is a casket that sits on a street parking spot. It was placed there by a community organizer as a reminder of where you could end up if you're all about that street life...
I went to Philly for the rocky locations, back in 2009 yep it's rough there. And I'm from the uk, ppl told me to be very very careful and I was but I didn't get any bother I just kept myself to myself
Yeah, rough maybe, however criminals go to posh place to get the better stuff and burglarize, assault folks there too! 500 kids a year in USA never return home when they get hit by cars in collisions. I grew up in what folks considered was a high crime area in Philly, never had a problem with kids within a mile from my row house in North Philly. However, when i went to my GF home in South Philly, I had to defend myself on other kids turf. This was in 1961-62, before drugs and lots of guns were around. Nowadays, widespread use of additive drugs, mental illness, homelessness things are dangerous in neighborhoods. Poverty surely is a fertile environment for this to continue. Locking folks up because they are poor, addicted, don't act like "us" can be a solution...a very costly one to society.
Great video and look at my beloved home town. It actually illustrates how the Libs have destroyed Philly during the last 50 years. Great insight about the Barrymore family. Philly is full of American history. The birthplace of the Nation! Go Birds!!!
the libs… right. Remind me who fought for redlining that made these neighborhoods poor. Remind me who was “tough on crime” with the purpose of creating a cycle of crime for free slave labor in prison. Remind me who used the CIA to start the crack epidemic that made these places even poorer. Remind me who gets millions in donations from the Sacklers who created the opioid crisis? Ffs remind we who destroyed the unions so that working class people couldn’t afford homes etc.
I spent the first 20 years of my life in South Philadelphia. Working class, lower income but a safe, clean neighborhood where people took pride in taking care of what little they had. Neighbors sweeping in front of their houses, not tolerating any criminal behavior and helping one another if needed. Once the WWII generation began to die off and the following generation moved out to the suburbs, the neighborhoods began to go downhill fast (pre-gentrification). Even back then, Kensington had the rep of being a horrible place, but nothing remotely resembling the open-air drug den it has become. What a mess. The 'decriminalization of crime' in the city in general has only hastened the decline. Glad I left Philly in the 90's and have never looked back. The retailers (large and small) can only absorb so much shoplifting before they decide to close up shop and move elsewhere. This will result in thousands of job losses and an even more dystopian future for a once nice city. Criminals no longer have anything to fear. Law abiding citizens will continue to abandon this place (and other urban hellholes) in droves further eroding the tax base. Tough to pay for all the democrats' utopian fantasies with no taxpayers to fund them.
Thank you for stating the obvious about the Democrat-run cities. I live near Philly and we’re the ones that have to pay, not those in charge that aren’t held accountable for anything.
Alfred's Alley is beautiful. It looks a lot like many little streets in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Leiden, Gouda, Den Bosch, Amersfoort and other historic inner cities in the Netherlands
That was a awesome video. I really enjoy watching you guys together. I have been to Philadelphia twice. It is a interesting city. The city of brotherly love was pretty angry. Everyone had dents on the corners of their cars. Took the odd wrong turn I wanted to get out of that area fast. You guys are brave
As a recovering addict, it's hard to hear people say "they started with weed and moved on to harder drugs". The medical system generates more addicts than weed ever did. I was put on to opiates by my doctor, as was every addict I knew and know.
fer sure. sold out docs pushing pharma "pain management" a lonnnng time. literally started with the rockefeller$ and the AMA.
@@Etaoinshrdlu69 Not everyone reacts the same to potential addictive substances. You are lucky to be one of those not affected by it. The amount was not the issue for me. Percocet is only 5mg and it gets you hooked quite easily. Everyone is different
It's a myth that marijuana is a gateway drug. Sadly, a lot of people believe this myth.
Weed is actually good for you, that's why your told it's bad....
If weed was bad for you, it would be cheap and legal. Kinda like alcohol.
I’m from Philadelphia. I left it in 1983. Seeing what it’s become today breaks my heart and terrifies me. It amazes me how the residential neighborhoods, including where I grew up in North Philly, have totally deteriorated. But this is what happens when the citizens can’t find decent employment. If you make no money, you have no way to maintain or improve. And the introduction of drugs into neighborhoods like this (a political history all it’s own) accelerated it’s decline. Breaks my heart.
Archangel Michael Help !
Please this is just a few small blocks of the city. Philadelphia is alive and thriving
Haha, give me a break. Every city has its bad parts. I'm sure one could find undesirable areas not too far from wherever you are.
The police do arrest you but don't put addicts in jail. I got arrested on kensington just last year. Because of that, I now have 18 months off of fent. Thank you Philly Police. You saved my life... at least for now.
Just want to say well done and I hope you don’t ever get to that stage where you want to go back.
You are a rare person as the general rule is that incarceration leads to more incarceration it's called recidivism. Incarceration is not necessarily going to result in a person abstaining from drug use.Usually creates more problems eg person now has a criminal record.
Congrats on 18 months sober! Keep up the hard fight one day at a time!
I hope that was your rock bottom; mine was way lower than that...
Good luck, and God bless
I hope you are still clean. Stay strong.
The "High Line" you walked was originally one of the inbound viaducts to the old Reading Terminal. In an effort to consolidate all commuter rail lines, SEPTA constructed a tunnel that goes under the area near where you were in the video and provides 4 tracks into Jefferson Station (formerly Market East/Reading Terminal), Suburban Station and 30th Street Station. All lines now have the capability of connecting to each other as a result and none need to terminate in Center City. Reading Terminal was rendered obsolete, but the market continues to operate beneath it. The original Reading Terminal was later converted into the Pennsylvania Convention Center, with the head house and train shed being focal points in the design.The old tracks rejoin the new near Temple University station.
Re: Mt. Vernon Cemetery, the abandoned one you walked through, I found that the absentee owner, a lawyer, was tracked down, control was wrested from him and "a group of Philadelphia preservationists, cultural leaders, and volunteers" have helped to "legally name the Philadelphia Community Development Coalition as conservator to do large-scale landscaping and repairs until a long-term steward can take charge." (The Inquirer, Sept 2021) so we'll see how that goes. Good video!
As poorly as these grounds have been kept majority of my 41 years in existence. I always just assumed the owner of the cemetery was dead. Shame on him for owning the property and not respecting the dead by keeping a place for loved ones to visit.
@@BadAzzDime Agree!
Lamont, thank you for feeding the kitties! You have the kindest heart ❤️! For anyone else who actually lives there, please continue to do so! God bless!
I just love Lamont! ❤
People don't realize that these feral cats are helping control any rat problem in the area.
@@JohnSmith-ct5jd They're more productive than most people!
@@DarkLady13 Yeah. Especially in that neighborhood.
if only those cats could talk.
Oh Lamont and Chris thank you feeding those kitties. I love a man who loves cats. 😻😻😽😽
Me to , Lamont loves animals which tells me he is a kind hearted man 💖
What About Homeless Vets???? Screw Cats!!!!
@@mikeohara1055
Trap, spay/neuter, return. 👍
@@JohnShinn6078 YES! I take care of 3 colonies and this is the absolute best way to manage the feral cat population.
You can tell a great deal about the character of someone by how they treat animals. Thank you for mentioning something I had thought while watching.
I am a recovering alcoholic myself. Had a few "slips" aka relapses over the years. It's very scary. I hope these people get the help they need. And as always, nice to see Lamont.
I hope the western world, adapts. Eg ends prohibition and introduces venues that responsibly sell regulated recreational drugs (denying their sale to underage children).Prohibition creates demand and generates criminalization.if legalised Norms would develop around recreational use and abuse just as they have around alcohole. I have watched drug use increase exponentially since the 1980s.PROHIBITION has failed as has neoliberalism. Go back to social democracy and decriminalize recreational drugs.Make them cheaper and cleaner and use the tax made from their sales to build housing and provide therapeutic resources Think outside of the box.
@milesdoyle
Thank you.I read this a couple of days ago.I read it again today. Copied it and sent it to my friend.
Thanks for sharing your personal information with strangers, duh!
Look at Archangels for help to be free of drugs of all kinds.
Avoid sugar
Take minerals to curb cravings
Lived in Philadelphia till I was 13. My parents pulled us out of there. I could never be so grateful for really went downhill fast. Kensington used to be a very wealthy area and now it’s sad to say how bad it turned out.
He is deliberately not showing anything positive which there is a lot of.
maybe in the 1870's it was
@@yvonneplant9434 that’s what gets the most UA-cam views. Viewers want to see the worst neighborhoods in America regardless of better communities in the general area.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all the time. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl and other nasty drugs available on the streets
@@sarbantz Saddens my heart also, makes you wonder doesn’t really have to be this way?
Aww Lamont is always giving food to animals. Love that you 2 are together again in a video. That viaduct was beautiful....had to have made for great photos.
It’s risky to venture on it. Just warnin’
Dang, had no idea the FDR skatepark was located under an overpass in Philly. It was a pretty iconic location featured in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game series.
Love Park was featured in tony hawk 2 I think.
I'm glad you finally came to my city Love your channel keep doing your thing
I love it when y'all team up👍 I just love u both. Thanks for taking us along👊
I live in Gastonia NC. The homeless seem to be growing in numbers. Thanks for the video. And for feeding the cats.
It's growing in SC also.
“Thanks for feeding the cats while treating the people like they aren’t human.”
-so many white women in the comments
So glad you aren't alone going through there! I get a little concerned about you and some of the risks you take.
You're not kidding, I feel sorry for anyone who messes with Chris!!
Lamont has Chris' back that's for sure and vice versa
@@birdflipper He Better be Packing A .44 If That's What You Mean, Because If He's Not, He's Toast!!!
Don’t be concerned. He’ll be dead within a year.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all the time. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl and other nasty drugs available on the streets
WoW! Definitely a learning experience. Always enjoy when you and Lamont do videos together! Thank you!
It blows me away how many people are clueless about the homeless problem in this country.
The masters want everyone homeless or dead.
It's heartbreaking.
I totally agree with you! People want to act like the United States is such a Primadona country , well it's not ! People want to talk about people in other countries , when really they need to look in their own backyard !
@@monsterglo The problem is those chosen few who control all countries.
@@monsterglo "They" decide what your allowed to say and who your supposed to hate.
the high line you walked, to answer your question of why they closed that in 1984, that used to carry the main Reading lines into Center City. In 1984 SEPTA opened the center city connection and rerouted trains into that (that’s what’s now Jefferson, Suburban and 30th St Stations). The goal was to make service more efficient by connected up the Reading and Pennsylvania lines via the new tunnel.
As a Pennsylvanian who has lived and worked in about out of the Philly area for almost 20 years, every block has a bad house or spot and every block has a good house and spot and the gentrification is real/happening everywhere. The fact rhe Divine Lorraine is back up and operating still blows my mind. Anything is possible in Philly
Just saying God Bless Philadelphia
Help
Gentrification doesn’t equal good automatically…and this isn’t even true. My Airy, Fairmount, Spruce Hill, and many other areas are very pleasant without the presence of illicit activity.
And to think I was raised in this area in the late 60s and early 70s some great memories here. Sad!
You two are so awesome, hello to the both of you, I love it when y'all make videos together.
It's so sad to see the LIVING and the DEAD are forgotten about in the Kensington Philadelphia area. The cemetery you showed is in deplorable condition! I was homeless for several years on Kensington Ave. It took EVERY LAST BREATH in ME to get out of the situation and OFF THOSE STREETS! Thanks for covering this and in such an educated, respectful manner!
I can definitely relate girl . I've thankfully been out of Kensington for 19 years
Big congrats and EXCELLENT WORK on taking your lives back!!! You should be very proud of that. Always remember you deserve every good thing that sobriety gets you! 🤍🕊🤍
I thank God for delivering me from addiction and living in the streets. Recovery may seem impossible but it's actually only a decision away. I can relate to the loneliness and the never ending, vicious cycle. The cold and desolation. The desire for a real friend and to be able to relate with integrity, a chance at making a new life. If you can get a shot at a rehab, go for it; anything is better than playing Russian roulette in an apathetic environment of concrete and zombies.
Good for you April. I can’t imagine the horrors you have gone through in your life. I’ve seen several of these videos. It’s so sad
They keep voting Democrat...Resesrch dem ran cities, they all look the same
Saw you feed the strays and I subscribed. Speaks volumes of the kind of human beings you guys are.
Thank you 🙏
I worked in Baltimore for six years. And, just like here, the saddest thing about riding around and looking at the abandoned and dilapidated homes and neighborhoods, was that you could imagine how they were in fifties, or whenever. And, kids would be playing, and families living there who knew each other. And, people weren't standing on the corners selling drugs, or passed out in the alleys. I don't know how a city ever comes back when it goes down this far. I'm no sure its even possible.
It's not. The damage is done in Kensington. Even a legit business who sells cars or goods is completely fueling and feeding off the despair of the Fenty and tranq era. The national guard needs to intervene and also storm capitol hill and discard the "leaders" allowing these things to get this bad.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 From the nightmare and horrible heartbreaking despair I'm seeing on the videos,I have to agree .I honestly can't imagine anything short of that will work ‼️I'm sure we're only seeing+ hearing the tip of the iceberg,to boot‼️
I was absolutely floored when I first saw these
It's just unfathomable that the city or state ,not only"l allowed it to get to this level but doesn't seems to be sliding farther + farther down
Even if my family had lived there since the beginning of time, I'd have to move out of there ,even if I had to just drive off + stay in my car temp !
I feel deeply for every single person in that horrible trap of narcotics In sure very few if them ever dreamt they d be in these types of positions.Its also heartbreaking that this is the City Of Brotherly Love and the city Elton John refers to of course, in Philadelphia freedom So sadly ironicd that this is anything BUT freedom .Very obviously a horrible "trap". If anyone REALLY wants out of that horror #1,I'd get out of the area asap. Ido fully understand , it's ezuer says than done ,as they need to be close to be ok the next day etc. I'm sure that obv .very strong hold almost kills any incentive. Sorry for the long spiel ,; just meant to say I agree w yr comment 👍🙂‼️🌜✨🌛☮️ peace to everyone
@@Diana-gf9tk never apologize for a long reply. I hate when people mock someone for typing a paragraph as a reply LOL. It's almost like revealing how stupid they are saying they can't or won't read. I live an hour from Philly and have been trying to help extract people stuck in that hell on earth. I talk to a girl regularly who had her leg amputated last year due to a horrible infection from shooting that new street dope. It's NOT heroin it's much much worse. I shot heroin a lot on and off in my 20s then got clean in my 30s and stayed clean. The stuff they're selling on the street today is much worse than the heroin i used to buy in that same area. Today it's fentynal mixed with xylazine (an animal tranquilizer NOT meant for humans). Dealers don't care. They get people to the point where they desperately need more just to feel normal and be able to function. Most of these people on the streets are literally zombies and don't WANT help. I think it should not be up to them at this point. I think some form of martial law needs to be applied where they can be forced into an evaluation, and then into treatment. Vacant buildings can easily be turned into modest rehabs and sober living housing for them. A room with lots of bunk beds, and a shared bathroom. It's a good environment for them to first and foremost DETOX off that hellish garbage they're addicted to (with the help of a nurse practitioner and doctor who checks on them daily) as well as meds, and shelter, food, etc. After a few weeks of that, they will have clarity they cannot possibly get living on the street in that hellish cycle of addiction. Then after they're detoxed they can start to figure out what they want to do, and maybe reestablish contact with family or friends, etc. Then go from there. As for the street dealers pushing this poison, they should be placed in some form of prison which strips them of any type of bail or bond for at least 90 days. This would mean that a dealer making thousands a day off this suffering, can't simply bail out and get back to it. They'll have to sit for at least 3 months which is a lot of time to think and also lose the spot they had before for dealing. I have lots of other ideas I'm trying to pass along and work with, but unfortunately our city officials don't care. Out of sight out of mind.
Every citi was ruinded by demorats.
Starts in the neighborhood. Your block, your street. Get to know neighbors, meet, pick up trash regularly, neighborhood watch, proper lighting, take care of your home/property/yard and whatnot. Everybody does that, everything is good.
I was born and raised in Philly. 1958 till I left in 2000. I can't believe you drove all over where the movie ROCKY was filmed and you didn't even mention it. You could have done an entire segment on that alone. Nice video. Sad to see it that way now. I remember it very differently.
It's still nice, they didn't show the good parts.
Rocky sucks
I wondered why no “Rocky” too, it’s right there.
Of course he didn't mention it. This is not about showing anything positive.
@@laine3633 He won't. This is just a poverty porn video.
So glad you fed those kitties!😺😺😺 God bless you
Lamont is always feeding the animals. Cats, squirrels, whatever is around. Love when they collab!
Finaly a honest vid with alot of information.
Greetzzz from The Netherlands.
Philadelphia looks like it could be a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Thanks for touring us around. May God bless you.
The whole city doesn't look like this, only certain neighborhoods. South Philly is quite livable and Center City (downtown) is beautiful. A ton of history, museums, art, restaurants and things to do and see. Definitely worth a visit...
Reminds me of the 80’s Robocop movies. Dystopian Future.
@@positively_broad_st3780 Thank you! Much of it does not look like this. And of course he doesn't explain why there are abandoned bldgs: manufactoring left and went to cheaper labor where there are no unions.
So F him and these videos.
@@positively_broad_st3780 Most of West Philly especially around Penn and Drexel. Spring Garden, Fairmount, N. Liberties, Manayunk, Chestnut Hill, the Overbrooks, Wynnfield.
@@Eli_skips No. This ahole is doing this deliberately. He doesn't care about any of this really.
Thanks for a great video, love Lamont feeding the cats, its a good man who cares about & looks after animals in distress ♡
So, I take it this is indeed going to be a series - great stuff!
I'm glad you caught Philly on a sunny day. The overcast/rainy stereotypical view on such places is getting old.
I aways watch Lamont at Large and he said to come over here to check your video out. I even subscribed and shared this on Twitter and Gettr. Thank you.
Absolutely loved the old steel factory where you met up with, Journey with Jay, it's so sad to see those buildings, cuz at one time they were brand spanking new, had people in them working and now they're long forgotten 😪
And so goes America 🇺🇸 we need to start manufacturing again when I was a kid everything was made here then slowly moved from country to country until now it ended up in China and our big textile industry wound up in Central and South America. It us so sad to see our country and our people in such sad shape we need to start making things it is good for everyone our people could get off dope a lot easier
@@ronaldhall9701 you are absolutely correct, I was born and raised in Northeastern PA, my Grampop and Dad worked in one of the many Steel Factories, we Moved to CA after my Dad got his welding certification, best move ever. Shortly thereafter the Steel plants started moving to Japan because the factories here in the US 🇺🇸 could buy the Steel at a lower cost, absolutely ridiculous cause all that happened was a tremendous loss of jobs, the garment industry moved to the South and than the frigging greedy business owners moved to China , Taiwan, Vietnam etc because the labor was cheap. Sad part is the prices did not reflect any savings therefore we ended up with a major problem here in the states, low paying jobs, high cost of goods, vehicles astronomically priced and so on. Sorry I made this a novel, I just get sick when I see what should be a great country going to 💩 ! Take care , Blessings to you and your family 🤗
@@monsterglo you are 100percent right. The pain of watching this great nation die by it's own hands is too much pain to walk around with I hope we can pull ourselves up out of this ditch we should not be in. Politics suck we get the wrong people and expect them to do right I am not into it but see that I better be or we are done for that being said I fear Trump is our only hope in 2024 have a happy and safe merry Christmas sir
Sorry I mean mam. Please forgive me
@@ronaldhall9701 wishing you a Christmas and New Year overflowing with Blessings in all sizes 🙏 😇 doesn't bother what people call me as long as they don't call me late for supper, 😂 my name is Gloria my Daddy called me Monsterglo, I loved that nickname 😄 😊
As someone who lives in PA and only and hour or so away from Phili and my mom goes into Phili for work I was totally expecting to see her car somewhere in the vid
These places are such sad sights. And I would also add that as dire as the current situation is in Kensington, LA's Skid Row (which now extends into Venice Beach) looks even worse.
No it’s you absolutely are blind …this looks a lot worse and a lot more open and dense
No deterrent for crime=lawlessness=chaos
I hate to say it but when you lived there it was white. I have never, ever seen a town stay nice or get better once the African Americans m oved in in. Sorry, but true. Just stating the facts as I have witnessed them in almost 70 years. Liberals and African Americans do not care about their neighborhoods. they do not know how to live cleanly or civily. I am not being racist, just observant. Prove me wrong. I would welcome it. I would love to know I am wrong. I wish I were wrong. But I am not. And I am too old to not say it. People are so scared to do or say the truth. That is not helping anything. Lets encourage some more homelessness, or free needles, or turn out the veterans from Mental Hospitals, or any number of the drivers for this condition. I do not care what statistics say. They are bull. I witnessed a lifetime of this pattern. PROVE ME WRONG. PLEASE.
You could take some fine still pictures in that old cemetery. Great video guys, thanks.
David
Good to see you guys doing this story as a joint venture, there is safety in numbers. I hope you both stay safe and both continue to put out great stories for us computer chair tourists.
I lived in Philly for 17 years, loved it. The biggest crime I had happen to me at my home in North West Philly, my friends car was stolen, and my 2 lion ornaments were taken while my wife and I were at church. My motorcycle was almost taken but the would be robber left me a note and said he could have stolen it and it should be hidden from sight. Hard to hide things in Philly. Great time, great city. But you have to keep up on pride. My neighbors fence was graffitied one night and about 4- 5 days later I asked my neighbor if he was going to take it off his fence. He said, "why should I do that, there just going to do it again." I asked for his permission to take it off and he let me. 15 years later, nothing. I also picked up the trash once a week on my block. No one else helped out. But it stayed clean.
Natan Pierce Bel racconto.! Beh, che dire: ladro gentiluomo (la motorcycle) Saluti dalla piccola e tranquilla soleggiata Italia
That's awesome man. The city needs more people that thinks like that. It's like when someone said there's no money for improvements and the selling of drugs is tell these people pay their bills it's how most of the people in that City area survive financially selling drugs all the way to being the lookout boy ... it is a job in any area like that of any City in any of the states across this country.
@@filomenaantonelli6985tanto tranquilla no. E pure meno soleggiata della maggior parte degli stati uniti
@@lilli9822. Non sono mai stata negli Stati Uniti,quindi non lo so...ma se lo dice : lei, c'è da crederci. Saluti.
@@filomenaantonelli6985 basta guardare una mappa... Napoli si trova nello stesso parallelo di new York quindi molti degli stati uniti stanno sotto di noi e hanno più caldo (più si scende e più il sole picchia) ti assicuro che pure gente che viaggia non facendosi mai domande queste cose non le sa e sono disinteressati proprio quanto te
I'm from the area and Philly has some extremely rough parts. Temple is nasty outside of the patrolled areas. It's a city where you can go a few blocks and be in a bad spot. The police have sort of come to terms with the drug markets since the gangs pretty much self police. Center city is pretty nice and the historic districts are really cool and have a ton of history. 95% of the city if totally fine. It's that small percent that's rough and it's not necessarily the drug areas.
Came here looking for this comment. It's not a Philly thing, it's everywhere.
@@laine3633 Yes, Every Democrat City!!!
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@@ANDYYANKEE I live in a VERY Republican area of Pennsylvania, it it crawling with meth heads, alcoholics, and heroin addicts. Do your research on addiction, government intervention and the prison industry. Go back to when crack was introduced and then made illegal, read actual history, not the bloated Bill O'Reilly version or Fox's take. Shit, find out the reason they took cocaine out of Coke. You didn't have to make this political, but you did. It's amazing what happens when people become both sheep and snowflake...the same insults they hurl at others.
Hey now be nice, fetterman is going to do a great job up there.. @@ANDYYANKEE
Making it worse. 😆
Lionel Barrymore👍🏼. ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. He graduated from The Episcopal Academy in Marion
Love the collabs with you and Lamont!
"needle park" has a real name and is the home to the biggest library in the neighborhood. The only reason clean needles are distributed is to reduce the rate of infection, the junkies are gonna use.
👋Thank You For The Tour🐈🐱🐈🐱❤🐾And Feeding The Stray Cats🙏😥Stay Safe Guys😐
Fascinating.....brilliant! Beautiful cemetery. I loved that you fed the cats. What an amazing city, for many of the wrong reasons!
That's insane 😳 I'm so glad I'm so far from there . Thank you Lamont for feeding the 😸 kitties.some of it really beautiful though Thank you for sharing 😊
Grew up in Philly at 22nd and Lehigh Ave. Know as Swampoodle back then. I Lived in Philly from 1952 till 2015, I saw all those neighborhoods go down hill, moved to the Burbs in 2015. Don't miss it at all.
I like all the bay windows in that town. That cemetery was really nice. Looked like alot of rich people were buried there. Beautiful tall headstones. I wish someone would take a weed eater to it so people could see the rest. The cemeteries in England were so pretty grown over but this one was almost buried under the vines. Thanks great video
My dad owns a family business down in Kensington. I haven’t been there in months but I recognized a lot of places from here. Brings back memories for me.
I live in the Frankford section of Philadelphia. 30 years Kensington was not like it is now. I grew up in Northeast Philadelphia. It's so sad.
Capitalism caused it. Factory owners wanted profits so they moved where they could get more profits...which was not Philly anymore.
As I was born and raised in Philly, I know every inch of it by heart, and after 70 yrs, I hate to say it but when I lived there it was white. We had to eave Penn Pines, Highland Park, Upper Darby, Drexill Hill, and on and on... I have never, ever seen a town stay nice or get better once the African Americans m oved in in. Sorry, but true. Just stating the facts as I have witnessed them in almost 70 years. Liberals and African Americans do not care about their neighborhoods. they do not know how to live cleanly or civily. I am not being racist, just observant. Prove me wrong. I would welcome it. I would love to know I am wrong. I wish I were wrong. But I am not. And I am too old to not say it. People are so scared to do or say the truth. That is not helping anything. Lets encourage some more homelessness, or free needles, or turn out the veterans from Mental Hospitals, or any number of the drivers for this condition. I do not care what statistics say. They are bull. I witnessed a lifetime of this pattern. PROVE ME WRONG. PLEASE.
as born and raised in Philly....hung out in Kensington in 60's..
Thank you for feeding the stray cats 🖤🖤
Would have loved to explore with you while you were in the area! Your channel inspired me to start making my own videos, it’s a fun way to document my travels. Philly can definitely be rough 😬 but has so much history and awesome natural features that make up for that I guess 😅
See, this pos video punk never shows that.
Some nice things just please be careful it's more dangerous now then it use to be and people don't think twice!! Safe travels
@Miles Doyle John 3:16. Thank you for sharing with me you seem like someone who has lived through and felt a great deal and care very much I hope you are finding what ever it is you're looking for in life!
My bf & I are going on 3 years clean. I am from Reading and my bf is from Allentown. We moved to Philadelphia and had nothing at all. We stayed in rooms in North Philly. You can get clean anywhere if you really want to. We had to leave behind everything we knew for awhile. We rebuilt our lives in the hoods of Philly during a pandemic. Now we are out of Philly and doing good. Philly needs help it's supposed to be the city of brotherly love.
Happy for you! Stay strong! All the best to both of you ❤
Im surprised those abandoned places hasnt been gutted for the scrap metal. God bless the people there and hopefully one day they get the help and care they need 🙏 p.s you're a wonderful person Lamont for helping and feeding the furbabies, may God bless you my friend 😃
Most of them are
In Philly you have to form a tight pact with your neighbors. If someone breaks into your car/house and I catch them you never talk to the cops until we talk first. Just stick to the story we made up. Never change anything and I mean not one word.
The junkies clear out everything they can get a nickel for. That's why you never say you're going on vacation on social media. Everyone knows atleast one junkie and that person knows every junkie. I don't know how it is in other cities or even other parts of Philly but in my neighborhood we all legally carry. If a neighbor catches someone stealing we kick the shit out of them up until they're about to get knocked out. We want them to remember our block and to tell the other junkballs where not to steal. So far so good. We have the lowest amount of crime in the entire city since the 70s. If they junkies don't get the message and try to steal again there is a safe house that is only used for two things. A place to be safe from anything or a place to take thieves and torture them for a couple days. Sounds terrible I know but violence is the only thing junkies and politicians understand.
@Miles Doyle Bible verses really?
@Miles Doyle dude you need serious help. Pray all you want but to keep writing Bible verses is straight up weird. Try saving some 🐈 for the rest of us there slayer
Scrap places can’t take railroad parts legally.
Really well produced and articulate presentation. Well done and thanks
It's always fun when you and Lamont get together. Keep up the good work!!! What up Lamont
Your brave for walking through there. Not everyone is so staying out of the way. You couldn't get away with walking through a street with a nice camera like that down in old Baltimore city. And I love Maryland but it's dangerous.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all the time. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl and other nasty drugs available on the streets
@@sarbantz And they'll never do that because money money money. Same reason Cocaine and Meth got popular.
And being I have family members that got addicted to that shit and thank God stopped before they OD trust me this is going to get worse
@@halleyangel1706 i think also it is gonna get worse. Fentanyl is getting replaced by nitazenes chemicals that are 40 times stronger than fentanyl, and as it happens overdose deaths and street homelessness will just skyrocket.
@Kno Believe me I'm well aware. Reason my family always checks up on me family members that were addicts.
But they're either completely off drugs or do Pot once on a while which they grow so okay.
@@halleyangel1706 good luck to all of you. This world is very dangerous place. That's what i realized since fentanyl addiction pandemic took over our streets.
Aww thank you for feeding the cute kitties! 🫶🏼😻😻😻🫶🏼
It’s unbelievable what we as a society have allowed to happen to this country…so sad.
Repent to Jesus Christ ““Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV
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Yes there is a lot of awful,ugly, and embarrassing parts of this city. However not all of it is like what is shown.
Americans excuse 30 million drug dealing street gang members, on an individual basis by justifying dealing drugs as "they're just trying to provide for their families, can't blame them". Meanwhile a majority of American youths are being pumped full of drugs and into sex at very young ages.
Democrats at their best. This is just a sample of what’s to come. These scenes are damm near every American city, keep voting for democrats America and those strung out zombies will be your kids,friends and family.
@@WilliamJeffersonClinton1993 ditto
Thanks for sharing Chris great to see you two together again. It’s sad that so many city’s are going to ruin but it’s interesting that you bring them to light. 👊👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
I really love Philadelphia; I lived and worked doing a lot of outreach for healthcare in Kensington in 2009/2010. I landed in Fishtown but it always breaks my heart to see Kensington like this. I will never forget the time I spent on H street, and people in that community who made me feel safe then, and still meet me when I come down to this day.
Very interesting video. I’m a Lamont viewer crossing over and subscribing.
Awesome video! I will add something that you didn't touch on: for many people- you guys werent but for some it's easy to say "well I had a hard life and never did drugs why are they?" and to look at all of the people on those streets with judgment.
But the reality is that every person in places like Kensington is an individual who has a story and had dreams. Usually mental health issues (usually undiagnosed), other traumas, and just generally living a life through those shattered dreams takes them a step further down the slide one unplanned step at a time. Not a single one of them said "I want to go be a homeless druggie on the streets." None of those people want to be there. But we have a system that pushes people down if they don't fit in, doesn't support them with their mental or physical health enough, and places like Kensington is the result.
Agree. We have a serious lack of mental health support in this country. No safety nets for homelessness either.
Yet they still vote Democrat!!!!! Imbeciles!!!!!
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all the time. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl and other nasty drugs available on the streets
With nurses & doctors leaving the industry it will only get worse :(
Great 👍 comment❣️
Great video Mobile Instinct. Thank you for sharing it with us. This had to be hard for you.
Damn I’d never walk through there with a expensive camera without at least 2 full mags lmfao
Amen, and,, Go BILLS!
Hi Lamont love your Channel , it’s so sad to see all this people in drugs. Lamont thank you for feeding the cats, they did look they were hungry. Thank you and your friend.
I want to rescue those cats and give them a loving forever home 😔
So glad to see you and Lamont together in Philly. So sad to see what was once a vibrant city so low with drugs and homelessness 😢 Thank you for taking us along
The city still is vibrant. I’m in center city and many of the surrounding neighborhoods all the time.
OMG those poor cats broke my heart. Take them home!! Thank you for feeding them.
Thanks for taking care of the cats Jay
Damn I'm in Allentown I definitely would've drove out just to meet these two legends.
I lived in Allentown for about 15 years.
Same here.. I'm in KOP & thankful & blessed to have gotten outta Kensington 19 yrs ago. Next time you guys are around let us know bc u missed alot
@5:45 is so true. Was raised right on 4th & Girard and walked every street up that way. Me and my friends would escape the hell and drama at night by walking a couple blocks up to fishtown to hang out there it was the best vibes ever.
Kudos for such an awesome video ! it's really sad , I was born and raised in Pennsylvania as a kid I remember going to Philly and even back then Mom and Dad were talking about areas that we didn't dare drive into and I don't even want to say how long ago that was lol
Very interesting..too bad about that cemetery that's terrible. I really enjoyed your video..and thanks for feeding those poor kitties.
What would help to understand the decay would be to add photos from the past. The tram as it was and now is. The cemetery then and now, I am sure your subscribers would love to research the old photos.
FOUND YOUR CHANNEL THROUGH LAMONT....MY HERO
The problem with theft is that or ends up costing everyone else more.
Brutal reality. Thanks.
Oh man, that's my city. I can show you quite a few abandoned areas. Quite a few interesting things as well. The Boy In The Box. Abandoned Rail Tunnels..Bunkers...everything. I've been exploring the city for YEARS. Laurel Hill Cemetery is a really beautiful place as well, love that place. My profile picture was taken there, actually.
News the other day they have an idea about The Boy in the Box family's identity.
yoooo bro any chance you know the addresses of the abandoned places?? been trying to explore all over philly and have only found 3-4 spots there hard to find
Awesome video I'm from england love watching these sort on videos kensington one amazing place
As a person who lives on the other side of the lake from Philly. I kinda knew it was like this. Whenever I go over the bridge I’m always scared for my life. I do like the aesthetic of old Philly so you guys being brave enough to show the rougher parts of Philly have sheer guts. The little gems like the old alley, and the cemetery are cool places to visit. It sucks you have to get through rough parts just to see them.
BUT! - you DO still go over that bridge , ,RIGHT!?!?
You can get mugged in Beverly Hills where there is real wealth easy!
@@doneown503 only to go through Philly to go to north pa where relatives live. Lol. I never go into the city
Reminds me of "The Last of Us" post apocalyptic video game. Now they've made a series about it.
I was born and raised in North Philly, and I'll tell you, though it wasn't the best place to live, it wasn't as bad as it is now. I mean, it was a lot safer back when I was growing up in the 90s - early 2000s. It's the drugs. Drugs seriously changed my city for the ultimate worst. I'm glad I moved out if there when I see 17.
Gotta leave the country
When I use to live in Allentown. I use to be so scared to visit Philadelphia and I see nothing has changed it is still frightful .
It doesn’t matter what you do to try to clean and revive an area, if the same kind of people are still there(homeless, drug addicts, etc), it will always just go back to how it was.
democrat leaders....
@@randalhuffman8827 exactly... but crime can be cleaned up in a community that respects law and order. A deterrent of jail for shootin' up or being high on the streets used to be the way the things went, when they dropped that, criminals and junkies just took advantage of it
@@hesedken yes, you are absolutely right. It is just that the folks in dem ran cities push for the opposite. Giving criminals more freedom and rights than law abiding folks. I remember a time when your reply was how things were. You felt safe almost everywhere you went. Sigh..... Yester year, brother.
@@hesedken you mean like when the police firebombed a city block in the 80s? Didn’t seem to help.
@@hesedkenall “law and order” does is create forever criminals. You gotta make it possible for people to climb out of the hole, that means good rehab programs not unscientific religious bullshit, good paying jobs, and affordable housing
Those kitties were hungry. Thank y'all for feeding them
the neglected graveyard....why would anyone care about the dead, when they do not care about the living??
You've got a point there.
@16:05 on the left is the 1800 block of Tusculum St, where Rocky Balboa had his first house. I worked as a trash man during the 90's in that section.
On 16th Street between Tucker and Lehigh there is a casket that sits on a street parking spot. It was placed there by a community organizer as a reminder of where you could end up if you're all about that street life...
When life becomes hopeless, people give in to despair. All that is left is a death wish.
@@darlenegriffith6186 Exactly!
Glad you all went together Be Safe 😉 Awesome collab
Thank you Chris 💙🙏🏻and Lamont! Very sad but an introspective view of most major cities.
Please take care and stay safe🙏🏻💙
I love that Lamont is doing a video with you!
I went to Philly for the rocky locations, back in 2009 yep it's rough there. And I'm from the uk, ppl told me to be very very careful and I was but I didn't get any bother I just kept myself to myself
Yeah, rough maybe, however criminals go to posh place to get the better stuff and burglarize, assault folks there too! 500 kids a year in USA never return home when they get hit by cars in collisions. I grew up in what folks considered was a high crime area in Philly, never had a problem with kids within a mile from my row house in North Philly. However, when i went to my GF home in South Philly, I had to defend myself on other kids turf. This was in 1961-62, before drugs and lots of guns were around. Nowadays, widespread use of additive drugs, mental illness, homelessness things are dangerous in neighborhoods. Poverty surely is a fertile environment for this to continue. Locking folks up because they are poor, addicted, don't act like "us" can be a solution...a very costly one to society.
2009 wasn't so bad. It's going back to how it was in 1989 tho
Some of us are well traveled and really appreciate this stuff, always learning, thank you.
Great video and look at my beloved home town. It actually illustrates how the Libs have destroyed Philly during the last 50 years. Great insight about the Barrymore family. Philly is full of American history. The birthplace of the Nation! Go Birds!!!
the libs… right. Remind me who fought for redlining that made these neighborhoods poor. Remind me who was “tough on crime” with the purpose of creating a cycle of crime for free slave labor in prison. Remind me who used the CIA to start the crack epidemic that made these places even poorer. Remind me who gets millions in donations from the Sacklers who created the opioid crisis? Ffs remind we who destroyed the unions so that working class people couldn’t afford homes etc.
I’ve been picking up litter on a 2 mile walk for 15 years now!! Not in PA but, it’s not hard to do!
I spent the first 20 years of my life in South Philadelphia. Working class, lower income but a safe, clean neighborhood where people took pride in taking care of what little they had. Neighbors sweeping in front of their houses, not tolerating any criminal behavior and helping one another if needed. Once the WWII generation began to die off and the following generation moved out to the suburbs, the neighborhoods began to go downhill fast (pre-gentrification). Even back then, Kensington had the rep of being a horrible place, but nothing remotely resembling the open-air drug den it has become. What a mess. The 'decriminalization of crime' in the city in general has only hastened the decline. Glad I left Philly in the 90's and have never looked back. The retailers (large and small) can only absorb so much shoplifting before they decide to close up shop and move elsewhere. This will result in thousands of job losses and an even more dystopian future for a once nice city. Criminals no longer have anything to fear. Law abiding citizens will continue to abandon this place (and other urban hellholes) in droves further eroding the tax base. Tough to pay for all the democrats' utopian fantasies with no taxpayers to fund them.
So very true!
Thank you for stating the obvious about the Democrat-run cities. I live near Philly and we’re the ones that have to pay, not those in charge that aren’t held accountable for anything.
If you only watch one news channel you only parrot what you are told. It doesn’t make you sound smart, it just makes you less informed.
Alfred's Alley is beautiful. It looks a lot like many little streets in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Leiden, Gouda, Den Bosch, Amersfoort and other historic inner cities in the Netherlands
The entire country is rapidly turning into a set for the series ' The Walking Dead'
That was a awesome video. I really enjoy watching you guys together. I have been to Philadelphia twice. It is a interesting city. The city of brotherly love was pretty angry. Everyone had dents on the corners of their cars. Took the odd wrong turn I wanted to get out of that area fast. You guys are brave
2 years clean love this video and glad yall fed them cats out there thats awesome
Just as you were saying around 3:30, petty crime being ignored, riding ATVs on public streets is illegal yet there it is
It's wonderful to hear the voice of my friend Lamont,