1989 SPECIAL REPORT: "THE OTHER CONNECTICUT"
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2024
- "With its gleaming corporate towers, prestigious real estate and the highest per capita income in the nation, Connecticut has developed the reputation as a magnet for the affluent. "Despite these impressive financial statistics, Connecticut is also the home of three of the poorest cities in the nation. Low income housing projects often juggle for space with luxurious office towers. Lack of affordable housing combined with a high cost of living perpetuate a vicious cycle of crime, drug activity, fear and despair. Another, more frightening by product is the fact that the infant mortality rate has increased dramatically to 1 in 100 and as high as 1 in 26 in some urban communities. "THE OTHER CONNECTICUT brings these nameless faces into focus.
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Biggest problem in the hood is teens having children.it paralyzes them but & then govt throws money at them.id rather be broke in motel alone then 17 with kid under state aid...paralyzed.not,no jobs not white man not violence paralyzed but by teen pregnancy
EVERY TIME I watch these videos from back then, I find it so interesting that people from the hood back then were so well spoken and they spoke like an educated individual.
Because overall people were better educated and read more, Jobs used to train, now people want to sit on tic toc.
Folks in the hood for the most part still carried themselves with dignity & understood that education was their way out. Today, not so much.
That's because the social conditioning, disenfranchisement, and substance abuse hadn't taken full effect yet, after slavery black communities thrived then came integration and putting our trust in the wrong people to have our best interest in mind. That's where the problems commenced!
I will never understand the ones that are proud to be rachet. Growing up in the hood in the 90s the goal was to one day get out, today they don’t want to better themselves, it’s like it’s cool to be ghetto and rachet. The self-respect is gone, people do things now with no shame and that’s not just hood folks, that’s everywhere
It's crazy MFS think we don't know how to talk 🥴 lol people in the hood smart as hell
I used to live there, in charter oak terrace I seen people murdered, beat down, cops beating the hell out of people, crack heads, dope heads getting high in the playground. I went to Prince Tech got my degree bought a cutlass supreme for 500 packed my shit and drove down to Orlando Fl where do didn’t know a soul. Praying to God the whole trip with only 800 in my pocket. In 2 weeks we got a job and an apartment in a nice neighborhood. I did all this shit while it n a wheelchair from being shot by n ATL. MF I I can do it YOU can do it especially in f you got 2 working legs. But you have to have the right mindset to make moves like that to God be the glory
CVP💯
The problems existed and still exist in place of the state where women, usually young minorities, chose to have babies before getting married and establishing a career. The complete opposite into the affluent towns where the pattern is the complete different.
I’m a 80s baby Born & raised in Bridgeport Ct, currently in New Haven CT
Currently in meriden
Not from CT but also and 80s baby spent a good amount of my teen years On Stratford Ave and Wilmot …I actually miss it I’m from the south and the culture and unity amongst the people there was different than what I was used to… it was a great place to be
@@DikJonze lol that’s wild, i grew up on Stratford ave #EastEnd that’s wussup
From the BX late 80s baby, best friend moved to BPT in her early 20s to attend college and quickly moved back. Which absolutely says a lot😳💯💯💯💯💯🤣🤣🤣
I'm late 80s 88
I used to live here, I know this area like the back of my hand, left in 87 to ATL Ill never go back but I learned how to survive through education, motivation and the strength of God
God bless you, sir.
I was raised on Lenox St. and Albany Ave for my early years. When I explain CT to someone who’s never been here, they assume it’s just ESPN, UConn, and prestigious schools-not knowing these identical millionaires' houses are only a mile from the hood.
Or across the street like Park Avenue on Fairfield/Bridgeport line🙄
860 Hartford
@@yuntrailwilliams9739203 - the real deal CT!
@@yuntrailwilliams9739isn't there alot of 🇯🇲there
EVERY STATE has its hoods and ghettos. Connecticut is no different. I love seeing the sides that they never wanted you to see. I don't know why they stopped doing these type of documentaries anymore.
I moved from Camden, NJ to the East End of Bridgeport,CT. in the early 90's THINKING I would find a better quality of life.. I WAS SADLY MISTAKEN. (If you know you know.) 😳
You dummy you moved to one hood to the next. How did you think you would find a better quality of life.❤
I used to live in Springfield & we ended up going to a basketball tournament in Bridgeport like 90''. We drove about an hour & change to the court which i don't know how a tournament would be played on this site. Looked like a war zone. There were a group of like six 10-13 year olds who wouldn't leave the court so that the tournament could start. They were threatening a large number of adults with extreme violence if they tried to get the tournament going😅😅. A group of adults had to go to a pay phone to call the cops which ended up knowing the kids by name for being trouble makers. One of the cops asked one of the kids "didn't you get out of juvie like 3 weeks ago? You're going to end up back there" where the kid, whose about 11-12 responds "everybody in there is scared of me anyway so i know they don't want me back there." Basically calling the cops bluff. Yeah Bridgeport was different.
@@DB-115 Smh... I had to go to the Court House to pay some tickets and they had a shooting RIGHT on the steps in FRONT of the cops! 😩 They definitely do things a different way in Bpt.
I’m Born and raised on East end, Stratford ave
@@Tyweezy84 I lived on Wilmot.
Connecticut - Where the rich plunder the poor even more so than many other states.
Great video! What up CT!
I thought that was Tiffany Haddish 😳 from the Thumbnail
Reminds Me of Natalie Nunn.. "Monster Brides".. if her eyes were green
😂😂😂
Same
I was strolling the comments thinking “I know somebody else see Tiffany Haddish!” 😂
I definitely thought it was a Tiffany Haddish too
Much of Connecticut is just an extension of metro NYC to me! It's really not any different than Long Island or Westchester.
1989, the year I graduated High School..lol
Born and Raised In West Haven Connecticut. Tbh, things here were much better years ago. It's disappointing. Thank You for sharing
Do you still like the city
@roselynholloway7863 I like My Town, but unfortunately, a lot of crime has been and is still migrating towards us. New Haven, which is next door to me, the crime rate is 93.7% higher than any city in the world...Sux
@@Emnotreal123 ok
@@Emnotreal123West Haven is gettn bad.. I lived in West Haven for 10 yrs but moved back to Bridgeport 3 yrs ago.. I've been seeing West Haven alot on the News lately unfortunately
@zerozero6265 Yup, it's true. I was gonna say I'm lucky because I'm near the beach, and then what happened this past week? New Haven brought crime to the West Haven beach. Now they have a curfew! 🙄The world's gone mad since "C19", IMO
The soundtrack got vintage Jay-Z
Born and raised on the North End of Bridgeport, Ct.
I'm from Connecticut. Thanks for posting this💯
Born In Bridgeport Ct. Shout To New Haven. Peace ✌🏿 Connecticut.
Peace
Lived in CT(Manchester) in the mid 80s...came from LA...it was a whole different level of savage in Hartford...saw my hommie get mugged amd stripped....going to a Roxanne show and saw guns pulled for records etc...smh....
Clanchester 😂
I live in the clan rn
@@ItsNoGTA it’s a lot better now it’s way less activity
I was born in New Haven and raised in Eastern NC, so I'm very familar with Connecticut. Most blacks there have roots from SC, NC, and some from VA. Random people from other states think it's full of rich Yte people but people from the Carolinas, New York, Massachuetts, etc know cities such as Waterbury, Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport are filled with poverty, crime, drugs, despair, single mother homes, etc. Waterbury is almost third world.
We dont care about MA in the 203, and where did you get the idea that come from the Carolinas and VA?
@@Thebrothaisback The Great Migration of the 50's, 60's, and 70's and Hartford, New Britain cares about MA. Maybe not Bridgeport and New Haven.
Yeah I’m random people you speak of….Mid 90’s I drove up to Connecticut to hang with my family in college. Coming from Jersey, I always thought ish was all sweet in Connecticut. I found out real fast Connecticut got hoods too.
Funny, I thought most of the blacks in Connecticut of Jamaican origin.
@@Number1DriversSeat Some have Jamaican, Dominican, and Puerto Rican origins but most trace their roots from the South.
REST EASY ODB 🕊️🌹🙏🏾
Similar to New Jersey, We both Blackballed and overshadowed by NYC and seen as outskirts or suburbs
80's ,90's was extremely wild in CT. Bridgeport was the murder capitol at of America.
Stowe Village still exist or it is gentrified??
Still is
@@sinceresoul9732rebuilt homes
@@RocketmanRockyMatrix Lies from the pit of Hell! Bridgeport never was the murder capital of anything. They average about 25 murders a year when NYC has 500 Chicago and New Orleans way more. Not everyone is ignorant like you!
I think it's true that a majority of folks think states like Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine, etc.... don't have an underclass sector of society well known in bigger cities and states.
You're absolutely right, being from Providence, Rhode Island (specifically South Providence). The first thing people say is that Black people live there. And when I explain some of the experiences and challenges that I and my family have faced, they often think I'm making it up. It's unfortunate that Rhode Island is seen as a Utopia by many, because the sad reality is that wherever there is a black population or population of color, there always seems to be enough space for a ghetto full of violence, drugs, death, penitentiary, disease, and early demise.
Vermont and maine are safe compared to these inner cities
Well when people like you keep thinking that CT is somehow grouped with thise states, no wonder people think CT is a certain way and not hard core in some areas.
CT is more like NJ - rich with poor and violent cities and in metro NYC. CT also founded NJ. Most of CT has no relation to VT, MA, RI or especially ME! They are away from the main events in the northeast, not CT.
@@Thebrothaisback Nj has more character than ct, people r proud of nj more, theres more to do in nj, its similar but also different
@@SpiritualOutLaw we dont care about, nor do we view ourselves as this new england. We dont care about Boston and we hate their sports teams. This is the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area - at least in the 203. Plus, there is no such place as Bridgeport country, so stop your BS. Like some of us cant pick up on it.
You just wanted to write to jock us to try to bring us down to your low level by calling us new England. NE is your thing, not ours. We are in the main spots in the northeast and you guys are in the land of the lame trying to attach yourselves to this tri-state. Stick to Boston, you are not wanted here.
When he said that the resources are, we just need to apply them. This touched my soul. Ive heard and ssen with my own eyes that if the resources worked, people running the programs will lose their jobs.
What stands out to me is how the whole backdrop is black people in poverty then cut to a Hispanic man helping a Hispanic woman get a decent job move out of the projects and most importantly get off welfare AMAZING
Every video piece is propaganda and when it comes to blaks, they love to make sure to remind you that they did it to themselves, not the evil whyte man who does it in reality
My first thought is...BUT man, they were together, outside as a community. Today we sit at our phones and think we are connected :/
From Hartford, to Bridgeport to Waterbury to new haven to Greenwich...
I was born in Hartford and I thought where I lived was rough but this is unreal. Wow!
Back then was way worse than now. Look at the stats. Crime was higher you see those projects dirty run the duck down if they still up ill bet you they don't look like that anymore. Youngsters now a days are fucking lazy expect everything handed to them. They have it easy better now then i did back then i can promise you that.
"Real ninjas lick shots.. peace Connecticut."
Love the video brother 💯 love your choice of music and intros also
“….if someone who criticizes them were put in the exact same situation, they probably would end their life, or start doing drugs…” 😢
Shyhem was only 10 years old on that song in the opening
I just looked it up. This song is 94.
I would love to see an update on those featured. This is a flash back to a different time and not to much different than what’s going on in neighborhoods like this across the country.
BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT
I also came to the comments to say I'm from Connecticut. Even now people don't realize Connecticut has poor places, and sketchy places too. Just to be clear not every poor place is sketchy though.
❤️the intro rap🔥
This is 1989 Special Report but the song dropped in 94😂
😂💯
Interesting documentary.
Unfortunately, not much has changed in 2024. Despite earning $80,000 a year in North Carolina, I am still struggling to pay my bills.
New Haven born and raised... The 80's were OFF THE HOOK!!!! ESPECIALLY when the Jamaicans came trying to strong arm all the drug spots!!!
But they didn't talk about New Haven in this they only mentioned Hartford and Bridgeport which is crazy because New Haven has more history than both and we had the biggest drug dealers come out of New Haven.
Wow, I saw my friend in this video ❤
To Date.. ( $15.69 ).. Mininum Wage An Hour Connecticut..
I often wonder what happened to these ppl? Like, is any of them still alive, and if so how are they? How are the kids? And how old are they now? And so on
Shyheim, BDK, Scoob, ODB, Jay-Z
Old Jay-Z
BDK, ODB, and PE in one video? Hell yeah.
Anyway, my mom's family lives around New Haven. I was scared AF to go into half of the city as a kid back in the 80s and 90s. The city has changed since then. Most of the projects have been torn down and replaced.
Ever since they knocked those projects down hartford havent the same. Crime skyrocketed
I'm from Hartford Connecticut
Waterbury born n raised
The dirty water
This channel rocks the tunes rock .
New Haven in the late 80s and early 90s was crazy!!!!
facts!! super duper facts!!!
I wonder how this lady is doing now ?
i was saying the same shit! wish someone who knew her saw this and updated us.
"Times was rough and tough like leather..."
CT???? i swore on everything thwre was barely any hoods in CT! 😱 see thats why i subscribed. always something new ro learn here❤️🙌
The reality is every single state has a few hoods. lol even Maine and Alaska.
1989 I graduated "Hartford" WEAVER HIGH!!! Born and raised Bowles Park projects. I later lived Magnolia St ALBANY AVENUE both families mother & father side. My aunt lived in the Ville around 1982 on Hampton st. So me and her son same age was 2 peas in a pot covering every square ft of "Hartford" as youngsters.
The Ville was always wild I remember back in 1987 I just started driving good but a work in progress. I drove down Hampton st those dudes had the whole street blocked off with old furniture, appliances, dressers, tires, garage cans etc.. and dudes on both sides with bricks, blinkies and said you better back that up if you don't want to get "BRICKED" I wasn't good at backing up but that DAY I became a pro artist ha ha!!
Ville Beefing with those Sigorney st dudes back then but I didn't ride through there in a good min after that. My ex ended up moving on kensington st 1993 for a hot second still wild but it's our history. Stowe villiage CENTER we used to play bumper pool and pocket net pool with dudes from there my age so that respect followed into the streets later years.
I'm a hartford dude as teens on Albany avenue area it was alright able to roam place to place Keney park, fox rec, vines st rec, Sigourney park, deloco park to play basketball. I used to love to DO FLIP'S started off on mattresses all over the hood. Then that big church at Albany ave and Vine st corner was my spot flipping out front for a few years until they put that iron black fence up to keep us out. Displaying the tumbling skills people at the stop lights cheering us on "Hey you right there do something I go light it up for em. Good ol days. kept me out of trouble for a little while.
We then moved it to TIMBO and Eddie lee back yard playing Basketball on mid Magnolia st "EVERYBODY" used to be back there Marcus & Mark, Rondell Chamb, Joe, Burt, cookie pierce, Ron lee, Vinnie, Drake, lil shawn, jock, marty, Zack, Lamont, G-man,jay-jay, wayne, clarence, fitchie, Gike, Del, Kent, Chris Mapp, Tommy , reggie smith, Skate, pookie, Tyrone countryman, ray-ray, marvin, many many more. A wonderful experience of that era in Hartford!!!
I moved away in 1998 for 14 years down South, came back 2012-2016 in Hartford. left again came back to eastern CT 2020 to current. It was alot crime going on in Htfd having to fall back having kids to worry about living with me this last time so hopefully by summer I can go visit more having a bunch of fam still there and hit up my favorite food spots. I was thinking about a training center teach trades and education courses for the community like at the old Vine st school getting with others to try to help future generations breaking current street cycles getting a career changing the mold for the kids!
I lived on The East End part of Bridgeport CT
All These Politicians do is TALK TALK TALK. And Dont do SH".
Any where along the train line is messed up.
Same today!!!
That old jayZ
I'm live in CT
Salaam my brotha ✊🏾
Life long Connecticut resident.
Same here.
same
Doesn't seem like much has changed
To date Connecticut ( $15.69 ) Minimum Wage..
Yale Hospital is paying people $15.75 to start. Yes, that YALE.
People who live in or near CT know it’s not all the rich.
People dont realize that in the 90s and 2000s, Hartford and New Haven were both in the top 20 for murders per capita in the United States. I grew up in New Britain and remembered seeing a student get gunned down in a drive-by in front of my high school. Connecticut was and is still one of the wildest states.
Hartford and new haven have nothing in common and new haven is in a separate region from Hartford and does not deal with northern areas
@Thebrothaisback I grew up in Connecticut. I know Hartford and New Haven were separate areas that didn't deal with each other. Both cities were extremely violent in the 90s. They were up there with Long Beach CA as far as murder rate per capita.
The projects across the entire USA were a different level of crazy in the 80's and 90's. Got so bad they had to tear them all down after that era.
Today is way less violent but way more irrational.
7:10 is she saying "...bro..."😂❤
She was a baddie back in the day!! lol
860 business
Stowe Village… aka The Ville, Home Sweet Home!
still grimy like it was?
@@KennBel torn down and rebuilt to homeownership duplexes
🙏🏾✌🏾💯
Stayed in rice heights and mlk projects shit was definitely real
Is this 2024 with the housing crisis?!?!
25:24 i love her
The other Connecticut... Hartford.
Heartbeat,Bpt,New Haven, Waterbury
Merriden
New London
There are 2 CT?
Not literally. But Connecticut is mainly known for its rich folks. Most of the country doesn't know the reality of Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, etc.
@@GeeEm1313facts
@@GeeEm1313are you from ct
If you want to call it that. Fairfield county is known as the 'Gold Coast' of CT...that's where the money is. It's closer to NY. Bridgeport is down there but they don't count! Come further up to the northern part of the state and it gets trashy.
Yep. The NYC are part and the other part thats confused.
Im so glad I survived being born in 89
Did they gentrify Stowe Village or it still exist ???
Stowe Village was torn down and replaced with duplexes.
@@jenjimac4612 you from there ?
It just goes to show just how stupid and racist all that was. It really was a form of census to see how we would respond to the social economic religious nutritional programs they ran on us. The nerve of them telling our parents how to grow and then enforcing it on us my mother is dead because of them I HATE THEM ALL AND That's WORD TO EVERYTHING!.
You have every right to feel this way. Sadly, this is common here in SF, CA and across the nation.
Sounds like you didn't learn a thing from it and are keeping racism alive, being the very thing you claim to hate.
I wonder what yhese areas are like now 😢 woe to America 🇺🇸
Demolished stowe village and rebuild .
Is that Tiffany Hadish
yall asking dumb questions, tiffany loud af, ratchet, and has her LA accent! this lady cool calm & new england accent
WOO I thought this was Tiffany haddish but the beauty mark is not on her face , god do make us into strangers twins around the world 🌍 that's damn spot on look of Tiff
New Britian
Hartford always catered to Spanish ppl
People sleep on CT but what you think? We just sit over here right next to NYC and NOT take on its character🤔🙄🤡😂 OK!! I tell you what! Back in these times if you steppes up in Ville in Stamford! Marina, Father Panik or the Greens (Even now here!) in Bridgeport, Church st South in New Haven, The hill in Waterbury! Or Belleview Square or Stowe Village in Hartford thinking somethink was sweet you DEFINITELY was taking a chance on leaving in a bag! I dont care Where you was from! Seen it happen to people from NYC! BOSTON! NEWARK! wherever! Ran off! Run down! Or both! CT stand up! This absolutely is not "New England"! Or some rich suburban cul de sac type state! Some places are! Some places real nice!, But in Waterbury, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven or Hartford its was straight high rise projects! Drug dealing! Around the clock violence and criminality just like in the Bronx or Brooklyn! Like Raekwon said "Real niggas lick shots peace Connecticit!!
Truth told
I was brought up in the crack/aids and drive bye era and it was horrible..... not saying that it's not around anymore I'm just saying late 80s early 90s and anyone who was raised in that time Era knows what I mean!!! I've seen family's being ripped apart by drugs being brought up on the welfare system 😕 😢some strong people come outta this I just know women are some strong individuals
bk to bridgeport bridgeport to bk ct is cool mind ya biz you should be ok . the east side is probably the roughest part to me . i use to walk from the metro north to park ave sometime in the early mornings . walking by the abandon at&t building and i95 overpass was definity something spooky but shit walking brownsville at that is evensppokier . i see alot of comparsion about ct as far as is it with nyc or new england area . in bpt i see alot of the bx have moved in .i would say anything up to new haven has a heavy nyc influence . its no diiferent than long island to me . same shit different regions . good bad dirt bikes shootings spanish black portugese indians good looking women .they onky thing i will say the rich and poor be divided by streets like fairfield rich bpt underclass . summer time everybody outside . i like the balance .
forget the 95 merrit pkway for the win
Tiffany Haddish😄💗
not her and doesn’t even look like her lol
I ain’t gonna lie I thought Connecticut was just all rich white people. I am still convinced Delaware has no black peoples that is why Biden moved there. I never ran across any of our people that said “I’m born and raised in Delaware” 😅
Tiffany haddish is a trip
203 STAND UP WHADDUP
I’m convinced. Rap culture destroyed the black community.
I thought that too but it is a little more complicated than that. It was not the artists in fact I thought it was the reason too but when I started doing in depth research I found that the record execs started to encourage negative lyrics and behavior. In fact there was a large criminal element that was crafted to brainwash the minds of young black people in order to keep them engaging in criminal behavior. So yes it was the rap culture but it was done at the hands of the media.
That Gangsta Rap bs destroyed the community.
No you dummy poor black women having kids destroyed the community.
It's always yt flks talking .
@@LonnellRichwe need to say Country and Pop Music Destroyed the White Community.
No better place than Connecticut beautiful state, the hoods in Hartford CT has the best restaurants Hispanic cuisine, Jamaican food, African food etc the only place where you can truly thrive trough an extent amount of hard work and discipline