Episode 5 / A Nuthouse in Little Italy (short film)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The Last Days of Little Italy: An Original Documentary Series.
Little Italy, a historic haven for immigrant families from the old country, was once threatened by an ever-expanding Chinatown. But now the fatal blow is being delivered by the gentrifiers. Corporations, yuppies, and chain stores all moved in. How did Little Italy transform itself from a working class neighborhood of tenement buildings to the third most expensive zip code in the United States?
Part funny, part sad, the series explores the impact gentrification is having on Little Italy's long-term residents. The striking imagery captures the neighborhood before it is completely erased by sterile trendy stores and upper middle class sameness.
Will New York City lose another cultural touchstone to the forces of greed?
A Nolita Films Production
Written and Directed by Paul Stone
Produced by Claudia Montano
Cinematography & Editing by Paul Stone
Shot in New York City, Rome, Amalfi Coast & Puglia, Italy.
#newyork #littleitaly #nyc #vinny
So glad I found this series.... have watched all of them thus far. Hits home a bit for me. Im not from NY or anything, but can feel what all these people are saying. This is very similar to our small town where I grew up. Town of 3500 people. Everyone knew everyone. Everyone helped each other, were patrons of each others shops. Kids all over town, always playing up and down the streets. Time goes on, commercial America took over. All the shops are gone, all the kids/friends/families' moved out of the area because there are no financial opportunities. Now this town is a blip on the map. A tourist weekend destination for rich NY/NJ people who wanna get away from the hustle and bustle of the big city for a few days. Now, the town has maybe 500-600 full time residents. No one knows each other. No one cares to know each other... sad.
I send you a big Hello! God Bless you!🙏🙏🙏🗽🗽🗽
This breaks my heart.
the music in background is haunting and beautiful
@@svetodamjanovic141 thanks!
Please keep these coming, Nobody tells the story of LIttle italy
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Legendary neighborhood, was really the heart and raw definition of New York City, hardworking people with great values built this neighborhood, thanks for this. ❤️
the old man is right. the yunnies came in and destroyed the area. many are rich loser trust fund kids from the midwest. the area is unrecognizable. everything has been gentrified and a tourist cesspool. terrible of what these greedy landlords have done to the lower working class.
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Thank you so much for this series. I'm 65. Lived on the Upper West Side as a young child. Moved away. Maintained my NYC connections until a few years ago. Same reasons. People died. People moved. I'm from the age where I am lucky enough to have memories and experiences from 'the old days', but young enough to be able to adapt and thrive in the modern world. RIP NYC.
@@freeman436 thanks for the support!
Absolutely spot on, and it's a global phenomenon. Sadly, just do what you gotta do for you and yours.
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Noooo I wanted to tell Vinnie it's not the same here either, rip
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God bless his soul
Omg what I would do for a block of torrone. Has to be the edge with the paper ♥️
Haha. Totally
R.I.P.
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real nice work - congrats to all. How is his audio so clean? Almost sounds like a studio record. Is it that AI app?
Thanks for watching! My editing software has some great tools to tweak and clean the audio.
@@PaulStoneFilms some street noise adds character - maybe next time keep a bit in there
@@dingdongrocket I usually do but we had too much background noise to deal with. That corner is as busy as Times Sq these days. I'm kinda digging the isolation of the audio.
Thanks for these videos there great, I'm from London England, I'm a Londoner,threw and threw, and it's exactly the same over here now, things have changed, beyond recognition, and things have changed for the worse, exactly like the Man IN this video is saying, there was a time, when London was a great city, a great city, now it's completely gone, the heart and the soul has been ripped out of it
@@maxwellanderson8173 so sorry to hear that Max! It’s a damn shame.
Can't say hello if you're staring at your phone 25 hours a day.
Amen!
I love the way you film people telling their stories. Thanks.
@@salvatoreala9352 Thanks Sal!
@@PaulStoneFilms Thank you and buona fortuna! I
I feel the pain. Every time I go to stock up on all of the delicacies, I say to myself, "My God, what has happened??". The neighborhoods are now hangouts, no one working. Crime is rampant. This is the new America. The producers...and the people that take and take and take. My grandparents are rolling over in their graves. Neighborhoods with beautifully maintained houses and fig trees in the backyards are now just dilapidated pieces of garbage. The new immigrants are not even a shadow of the originals who broke their ASSES to educate themselves, work hard and raise a family. Most all of the original Italians left and went on to better lives in the suburbs of North Jersey or Long Island. Can you blame them??? Sad, sad, sad. The Italians BUILT that city, literally. When they controlled the neighborhoods, NONE of these bums would stand a freaking chance.
@@anthonyandreula3978 sad truth
This one moved me. He reminded me of my grandfather from the Bronx. A real guy!
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Bronx Breed, in Da House. I miss the Bronx I grew up in.🗽😢💋💯👍
The young generation don’t say hello because their parents didn’t teach your manners!
Wow man! Such a sad but beautiful video.
Appreciate this ❤
Handsome southern Italian man. Salute to keeping our culture alive.🇮🇹🙌🏽🇺🇸
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Rip Vinny.peanut 🇮🇹🇮🇹💪💪
Really miss Vinny on the corner.
So many years going to see Vinny and buying so much torrone he was a great man.
It's heartbreaking to look around one day and realize you're a stranger in your own neighborhood. I have personally felt this. I tried my best to hold on and keep things stable in my own neighborhood, but there was just too many of the wrong kinds of people moving in. And most of the old inhabitants died or left. Sadly, these younger generations were not taught the value of close community, respect, or anything else that keeps the fabric of society together. Everything is "me, me, me." Rest in peace, Vinny. Godspeed.
Thank you. Good series. Good film.
Thanks!
RIP Vinny. He is a pure Soul.
RIP Vinnie Peanuts!! One of the real ones!
It’s sad how things have changed in NYC and most states. I remember everyone knew each other. Everyone always greeted each other. Now no one knows how to be polite let alone know how to speak.
It’s been a universal shift most prevalent in big cities. Definitely a sad trend!
I will also say this segment really made me have to bring out the tissues to wipe my eyes. In our Chicago "Little Italy" which hasn't existed since the mid 1960s, we had a peanut man just like Vinnie who also sold torrone, the wonderful Itaian biscotti etc. And yes, everyone was friendly in our urban community which was just half a mile from downtown Chicago; we knew everybody up and down several blocks and people talked, sat outside on summer evenings on their stoops or on folding chairs on the sidewalks; there was virtually no crime because in the 1950s hardly anybody had air conditioning units in their windows; so everyone sat outside on summer nights, we kids could play until 11pm because our parents and everyone else was still outside, enjoying peanuts bought from our "Vinnie", talking, drinking, laughing and enjoying the camaraderie of fellowship. Vinnie was right: no one talks today and for us of Vinnie's generation, it's difficult because Italians and most Italian Americans I've known love to be together, hang out, share meals, gossip etc. I miss those years to. May Vinnie rest in peace and perpetual light shine upon him.
@@sgiovangelo47 The series will cheer up soon and we’ll have some laughs!
The old days are gone.Its very sad.
If he was that unhappy and missed the Italians and the culture and the freindly neighbours and the traditions then a flight from NYC to southern italy is only a few hundred bucks. Italians don't emigrate to the US anymore but everything he misses is easily found back in the motherland..
He missed Italian-Americans and the old neighborhood. Primarily his family and friends who passed.
I know a lot of Italian Americans who said the exact same thing as him and they went to Italy, found what they missed, felt at home again and moved to spend their retirement years in Italy. If this guy is only 2nd gen then he'd still understand Italian too. If he were 5th/6th generation then maybe not but the things he's talking about are all back home and he likely still has relatives there too
You can't replicate New York so no he won't find what he's looking for in Italy.
Nice response, you cold hearted bachagaloop
@@bull419 exactly East coast urban Italian Americans specifically NYC Italians where a different breed. There was a gritty urban feel to them and they all looked out for eachother in a city full of other ethnicities..in Italy it's not the same if your a Italian "American" outsider & obviously being a New Yorker is a very unique thing in & of its self...RIP to the old days..John Gotti said "they're gonna miss us when where gone" in a way he was right.
It's disgusting. Your so right
I grew up in ozone park queens I’m 51 there’s no one left that I grew up with almost all Italian gone
All the neighbourhoods have changed.
we lost our cultures when we lived amongst other cultures. that goes for everyone
Achh RIP vinny, really like these little Italy pieces they're informative with depth and soul, I'm in Glasgow in Scotland an it's the same here it's completely unrecognisable and it's only gonna get worse as of today labour have just gotten in so it's all down the tubes the natives didn't get a say it was thrust upon us, so so. Sad heartbreaking.
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Salud, My Friend , I send you a big hug. I truly understand your frustration. I used to live in Pelham Bay, Bronx NY, in a "Pre-War" building. Slowly, the elderly passed on and a new younger, professional tenants moved in. No MANNERS!!! They don't even look at you. Nevermind, say Good morning, Our parents taught us to say hello to everyone. You went in the store, you said hello, good morning, whatever! If not, a slap on the shoulder; HEY, WHERE'S YOUR MANNERS!!!! I MISS THOSE DAYS TOO MY FRIEND. God's Blessings to you. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🗽🗽🗽🗽🥰😢😍😲
@@rosacortes5074 so true.
Let’s take back Little Italy 🇮🇹 ❤
RIP, Vinny Peanuts 🥜 😢
I really love the nostalgic vibes in your videos
@@J1gtbfanpage Thanks!
Thats so sad
Man this shits sad. Even for me in Rochester. All our small Italian businesses are closing 1 by 1. We have 1 OG Italian restaurant within the city left. The neighborhood it’s in is now horrible/full of crime and they’re only open for lunch from 11-2 that’s it. But even Rochester I wish I got to experience the neighborhood back in the mid 1900s. I miss all my old relatives who carried that culture and kept it alive
The same situation with all neighborhoods, time marches on.
They won't be happy until every city is a soulless theme park!
Always fantastic! Thanks for the video!!
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Imagine how the Lenape Indians felt when they first met Europeans in the 1500 and 1600s. New York has always been about displacement, that is the story of the world.
What is the soundtrack used for these short films?
@@knoname7778 original composition. Thanks for watching!
@@PaulStoneFilms It really compliments the feel of the film & it's beautiful. Great job
I really appreciate these videos. Thank you. Your series illustrates the change perfectly, as unfortunate as it is. Italians build America and Canada in the early 1900s. Now we’re forgotten.
damn
Your landlord would probably pay you $100,000 to move out. That's a lot of nut sales.
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can't stand the sight of the soft folks moved into different neighborhoods in NYC...weak
Cirelli?? Is that the same cirelli family that John Gotti used their apartment to discuss business and was caught on tape doing so
@@MichaelBlain7990 thanks for watching. It’s not the same family. 👍🏼
@@PaulStoneFilms didn’t think it was when I found out the govt named a street after him lol.. they would never do that for a guy tied to John Gotti.. Mrs Cirelli was the widow of longtime Gambino soldier Mike Cirelli and they lived above the Ravenite so when I first heard this guy was a Cirelli and from Little Italy i automatically assumed they were kin..
This guy is a wierdo
So are you. You can't even spell weirdo. That's weird you weirdo
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It's like this in my little town i grew up in too. True America is dying. Westport Mass