The exaggeration in video is strong. I grew up in Queens not to far from the airport. That's just a commercial zone with garages that buy cars for auctions are stored. There are lots of vacant lots which are desolate making it a prime place for organized crime to hide dead bodies. Its located in a historically low lying area prone to flooding. Few people live there, so there is not enough property taxes collected to fix it for optimal habitability.
@@miguelmejia4656 Every community has a sketchy industrial neighborhood where cars, for auction or repair, are stored like this but the videographer didnt understand what he was seeing. From his description, I was expecting a chaotic, Four Points scenerio but it was just an industrial lot in an old neighborhood. Ive lived in several similar but far more dangerous places in Boston, Providence\Pawtucket RI and around. Yes, bodies were apparently dumped there but a lot of communities have experienced murders and dumped bodies. Its life experience that helps one recognize what's going on - he seemed shocked by an industrial lot....that's all. I grew up on Cape Cod where murders and body dumps happen. But Ive lived in places where the videographer would be NEVER be able to walk the streets never mind openly film ppl and neighborhoods...hed'd end up dead. This was just a loooong walk to an industrial park. I kept watching bc the neighborhoods with gold trimmed fences reminded me of some Portuguese neighborhoods I've lived in and forgotten about. A little tired but everyone's doing the best they can.
I lived there from 1959-1960 till about 1974. It was way different then it is now. This was the "old Italian"neighborhood, with 2 candy stores an Italian club with bocce court , Mike the jeweler and gun shop(a regular cop hang out) , we played in the street, no traffic, everyone new each other by first names. I great place to grow up Years later there were horse farms there. There was a canal where the twin ovals ball fields are then they filled in the canal to build a shopping center and caused the flooding condition. The narration of the video is not at all accurate. I was down there a few years ago with my friends that grew up there with our own tour. We met a person the lives in my childhood home and spoke with him. We also have a "Down the hole, Ozone Park reunion held in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow once a year.
This is cheap industrial/factory/buisness area. You think they gonna make cheap chairs/table. Cheap car repair in the nice part of manathan 😂 Its not dangerous. Most people there HAVE A JOB OR OWN A BUISNESS You actualy could walk there everydays. No one will hurt you. Cause they busy fixing car. Or doing some factory work 😂
Just to give you some perspective. This area is considered mainly a commercial zone. The cars on the street are auction car that were bought for repairs and resale by body shops which is why they don’t have plates. Commercial Zones are usually like this in NYC. You won’t find many homes in the area but the ones that you do find, the city won’t ever try to go there to make repairs due to the fact that it doesn’t have enough voting residents to make a proper complaint.
Northern Bronx around the Eastchester-Dyre Ave stop at the end of the 5 train is just like that. Nothing really but body shops, gas stations, cheap hotels and fast food
@Pat Bens they tried connecting to the city main train but unsuccessful. Most of the time the only drain thats there is the one from the electric company which isnt attached to a main drain, so once thats filled up everyone is screwed. It wasn't worth the money since the area doesnt bring in alot of tax dollars.
Only thing "sketchy" is this dumb ass walking around asking to get beat up and robbed walk into my neighborhood and we would ask you one ? hard way or easy way give us your chit or we take it and I live in Florida LOL
Same born n raise native new yorker and still in NY.....you are a joke to make NY look bad lying saying its sketchy I'll show you sketchy you wouldn't be able to film freely
I've only been once. I'm in the PNW but when I did visit New York I really enjoyed Queens and The Bronx the Best. Of course I didn't see every inch of them but it looks like he is in a industrial neighborhood where the mechanics and junkyards are and why he is seeing all the cars in various states of repair and all kinds of big rigs and bad roads and, like he even said himself lot's of signs saying "no trespassing" connected to big private lots. Sure there are a few apartments there too. Poor people have to live somewhere. So in case he didn't know, it's not exactly quiet or cleen in these kind of areas but when the majority of the population are those who own the land and it's industrial area then that's what you get. This is not a dangerous place to live but it would be a nice place to bring a body to get rid of it. With all the noise and long stretches where you won't run into anybody who might see you with a body. Ya know. I think somebody needs to take this boy to see The New York he thinks he just saw until then, never call him "Action Kid" again. 😜
SmackItUp-FlipIt-RubItDown looking at the rubbish/trash they throw on the floor I’m going to disagree with you there. No pride in their own neighbourhood doesn’t exactly scream “loving, hard working, law abiding” . Shame really, to have a NYC address and just no care.
@@JulieWallis1963 I mentioned this to some other commenters, but it often times are people outside of the area that do not care, who come here and don’t properly dispose of trash. I have caught and reported sanitation workers who let trash fall back to the ground and can’t be bothered to do a thorough job, construction companies from other areas who dump their debris in open here areas because they don’t want to pay for bulk trash removal, etc. No, it’s not the perfect neighborhood, but this video does not give a full picture of the people who live here. Most are indeed good folks who care about the community and do the best they can.
When walking through a sketchy neighborhood you never carry anything more than a few one dollar bills and that is it. Anything over $5 and you are asking for serious trouble.
@EEETALYANO p How clever. I worked the night shift for four years, and was in Brownsville and Harlem every night. And I lived in Harlem for three years. I grew up in the projects little man.
@@chuckiegravesfield3170 Not true. I lived there from 1959-1960 till about 1974. It was way different then it is now. This was the "old Italian"neighborhood, with 2 candy stores an Italian club with bocce court , Mike the jeweler and gun shop(a regular cop hang out) , we played in the street, no traffic, everyone new each other by first names. I great place to grow up Years later there were horse farms there. There was a canal where the twin ovals ball fields are then they filled in the canal to build a shopping center and caused the flooding condition. The narration of the video is not at all accurate. I was down there a few years ago with my friends that grew up there with our own tour. We met a person the lives in my childhood home and spoke with him. We also have a "Down the hole, Ozone Park reunion held in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow once a year.
I used to work in that area years back, and you’re right, no matter what the state of a community, there are always more good hardworking people than what the news tells you.
Ass Pounder I’d already figured that out by your name,thanks for letting me know but I’m not really into that scene thanks. Enjoy yourself but don’t forget to use protection,AIDS might not be a killer anymore but you still don’t want it do you Cecil?
I worked on the boilers in one of the apartment buildings in this neighborhood, and this is not a sketchy area. I think you need to learn the difference between sketchy and underserved. It's definitely a unique area because of the geography.
For the people that truly don't have a clue(and not from NY): unless its well after 8pm or so on a hot weekend evening, he has nothing to worry about; its like any other hood. Meanwhile, Up in 72nd street on the west side of Manhattan(tourist trap), another woman was slashed yesterday. The "city" is especially more dangerous, especially now, as nyc crime has risen 12% OVERALL within the last 2 months.
I'm not from NY but the time I went to visit the city on the UWS, this guy was getting mugged on near 110 street, not sure if the victim got hurt. Also in 2018 a man got decapitated on that same neighborhood. So, yes...crime can happen anywhere by anyone, rich or poor. I'm from California and I live in a small city which has been compared to Chicago crime rate...thankfully the crime has reduced since shelter in place. Basically, if we want our neighborhoods to improve, residents need to speak out and also participate to make a change...not only hold signs but to make a real difference. Btw, I hope to return to NYC in the near future...I really enjoyed the city, the people and the atmosphere.
You call that sketchy? Usually when you see a bunch of cars without plates, flatbed trucks, and a high metal fence with barbed wire.... that's called a junkyard. I've seen worse junkyards in Hawaii.
@@AnvilMAn603 i personally disagree, i've been to both areas many times, East New York is definitely sketchier then Harlem, however it varies from street to street
@@pamelawoodall5891 no it not. He went to the worst part. First this neighborhood has a big development called gateway with a mall with brands like target JCPenney home depot and bj's . Also starrett City is full of middle income people. This neighborhood doesn't even make the top 10 worst neighborhoods in the city.
During the crack epidemic of the 80s East NY, Brownsville, Buschwick and Bed-sty sections of Brooklyn was a killing field.. It was an everyday occurrence for cops to find dead bodies in the street.. You youngsters never seen the mean streets of Brooklyn..
That part of East New York ain’t so bad. It’s in the eastern part of ENY towards Queens but once you go down linden boulevard towards Flatbush it gets crazier. I live out here in East New York and it is kind of rough most of the shootings you hear about are from here or Brownsville
Before you were born that neighborhood was frightening..During the crack epedemic of the 80s It was an everyday occurrence for police to find dead bodies in the street..You youngsters never seen the real streets of Brooklyn..
You seem like you’ve led a rather coddled existence.. I give you props for getting out of your comfort zone but honestly... this is a standard industrial area of any city
christian revuelta there are puddles, perhaps storm water drainage improvements to be made, however I see no evidence of disconnectedness to a sewerage system. Nuance mate. Nuance.
christian revuelta yes industrial.....as far as the work done there like a supply site for construction materials. Or industrial spaces like warehouses, junk yards etc. Can’t believe he doesn’t know there’s probably a body shop or something of the sort back there seeing as how some of the cars sitting were tagged and some fairly new. The man unloading the audi from the flatbed should’ve been a hint. Smh
As a native New Yorker, there are FAR more sketchy areas in NYC. This area is just commercial and not residential. He wants sketchy? Take a trip to Brownsville, walk around Broadway Junction at night or take a trip to the South Bronx.
You're right. No matter how bad the neighborhood is, most people are good honest people, not criminals. There may also be more criminals in the area, but there are tons of good people who just can't afford to get out.
Yeah exactly. That's why police is and always has been a public service first. The people who get harmed the most by bad criminal justice laws are people like this, and I don't really mean abuse of power even though that exists. Abuse by criminals is far more prevalent.
Fr. I'm from NY too, and I've never seen a video this over exaggerated. Dude is clearly not from here, everything he's saying is in disbelief like it's a third world country.
As an ultra-white guy from upstate (Orange County) it was KIND of sketchy. I used to work there at the NYC transit yard on Sutter for a contractor. I’d have to walk from the Grant Ave station following your path (but straight to the yard). I had to carry a laptop in a backpack everyday coming and going. If I drove I had to park on Eldert close to Sutter. I just walked tall, walked quick, and tried to beat sunset in the winter. I never had a problem. The only time anything happened is once some old guy yelled out “get a tan”! Lol. Had more “incidents” on the A line than on the streets.
I’m glad everyone knows this guy clearly is misinformed and not from around here. It’s a Commercial area and loads of the residential houses are actually quite nice and new. I wondered if I showed this to the people working and living there what would they say.
"Michael Hunter" I recently discovered the area as far as that train station at the beginning. It is the Grant Avenue Train Station. Or it sure looks like it. I found some nice stores at Liberty Avenue nearby. Of course it is a long train ride from Manhattan to there. I have not explored very far around the area but as far as what I have seen, the area is very ghetto very much like the area around 149th Street and 3rd Avenue in the Bronx. The suburban looking homes look nice but there is a very obvious atmosphere of drug culture, and everything that typically goes with such neighborhoods.
It's from his perspective. You can't say he's right or wrong. Well, you can say it, but it doesn't mean you're correct. I'm a life long NYC resident and to me, that looked like a shitty neighborhood. No offense to anyone living there. Just my perspective. See what I mean?
The people who work there would say "I work in a shitty area". The people who live there would say "this is a shitty area". I understand feeling a sense of pride, but don't let it blind you to the reality. That's an ugly neighborhood.
I worked in a hospital around there years ago, there's a lot of junk yards, garages. It's no garden spot but it's not that bad. NJ meadowlands holds a lot more Mafia corpses than could ever be here.
I know this area well. It's lower than the surrounding streets and so is constantly flooding. Been like there forever. Used to be a largely Italian-American area (back in the 1980s). I once visited a friend and had some good homemade meatballs in one of those wood frame houses. I believe this is where Goodfellas was filmed in the early 90's. The childhood scenes where the guys are all hanging out in front of the social club. Further down, you'll find a piece of land that's owned by the Black Cowboys Association. No joke, there are horses, pastures and black cowboys there. Only in Brooklyn, NYC!
"onthemarginofgrace" Of course. And yet in the greatest sense there is a sad reality. How many neighborhoods in the NYC area changed for the better within the past several decades? An 80 year old friend of mine who grew up in NYC told me that the Mosholu area in the Bronx and actually much of the area that the Number 4 Elevated Train rail runs through used to consist of very respectable neighborhoods of working-class people of Jewish and/or Italian ethnicity or culture . That was sometime before the 1970s or even before the 1960s. It eventually turned into a lower class , welfare , high crime neighborhood .
The land that was owned by the black cowboys is in Queens, and it’s now owned by the city. It’s called “Gallop NYC: therapeutic horseback riding” it’s run by the parks department.
I worked in this neighborhood for years for the telephone co. Its super commercial and not very well kept. Lots of automotive activity legal and otherwise! But it is on the upswing with new developments. C'mon son there are sketchier neighborhoods than this!
Do you live in NYC? Us natives never knew anything about this neighborhood until now and we all live in Brooklyn. After a bit of research today, I found out that this area is an old body-dumping ground John Gotti used to use, and probably countless others. Don’t bash the kid. This is probably the single least known area in New York City, and I live less than 2 miles from it and never knew.
I actually had a house there in the 90's. Its in the shadows of Linden Plaza. Try not to disparage other people's neighborhoods just because of how it may look to you on certain day. I have family on autumn ave not far from there. Yes some parts of brooklyn have come up but there are good people who still live there just as any place in the world.
Of course there are nice decent people in all neighborhoods. Red Hook in Brooklyn is filled with crack hookers and drug dealers. I went by there one time when down the corner two dealers were chasing each other and firing Uzis (Israeli machine gun type pistols). Yet all over the place are many cars parked, belonging to the nice working people who live there.
He’s not saying the people are bad. But it is what it is. Your neighborhood looks like a park compared to living in the slums in India. Be thankful he even wanted to do a video of your dump.
Bruh there’s litter everywhere, everything is covered in spray paint, doesn’t have ANY drainage, doesn’t have sidewalks. This is what most would call ghetto.
Yes. If he wanted to go to the border of Queens and Brooklyn, he should have went the opposite direction from the train station. In this video he was only walking deeper into Brooklyn.
This area was never as bad as East New York (by itself) or brownsville. I remember driving out to the Sanitation Dump where Starrett City now occupies and there were two blocks of burned out tenements and fire bombed houses you had to walk through to get to the sanitation dump. The whole area burned in 1977 blackout. Rows of tenements just left burned out. That's where they filmed Death Wish 3 (parts of it) On Hendrix Street, Glenmore Ave, van Siclen, Stanley Ave. FUN place if you like to live dangerously.
I've never heard anyone call this place "The Hole" in my 19 years of living not from me or my elders. Not discrediting anything just sharing my experience.
I used to drive the B13 and B20 bus routes between 1982-2013 and never heard of that term either. As a teen, in the 70"s, i worked where the movie theater is now. It used to be a one story department store called "Times Square Stores". It was a chain. Much like Target is today. Back in the 80's, none of those developments were there yet. The Postal Facility. Gateway Mall and all the surrounding housing. The only thing back by Spring Creek was the landfill across the Belt Parkway. Which was still active back then! The smell of garbage on a hot day was pretty bad. And these giant horse flies that would bite!..........Driving those bus routes were good times for me. I got to know the people in the neighborhood and have pleasant memories. Just a brief history lesson. You sound like a nice young man. I think the guy who posted this was a little misinformed about a few things. But i enjoyed the tour. AND i ate in that McDonald's in the 70's when it was brand new. And yes, i know i'm old.........ha........Peace to you and God bless you!
As a New Yorker who has driven and walked that area regularly , that’s NOT sketchy lmao. I can show you what sketchy REALLY looks like 😂. You wouldn’t even wanna walk around these places with a camera.
My great grandfather built a house down there on Sapphire Street. It was the family home of my grandmother and her 10 siblings. She would tell me stories all the time about growing up "down the hole". It may not be the same as it was but this guy was a tool with his narration.
Macoy do you even know Brooklyn or the Bronx lol.. you sound like you’ve watched too much tv and/or movies. Both boroughs have affluent areas and poor areas, much like all of America.
many nice areas in the bronx.... throgs neck, morris park, country club.... not all of it is dirt and grime coming from someone who has lived there for 20 years.
As an ex truck driver who’s been all over the USA. This is not that bad at all. I find it hard to believe this is the sketchiest NYC has to offer. If it is, be very grateful.
That is true, there are good people in every neighborhood in NYC. Just because a neighborhood is thought of as "bad" does not mean that everyone who lives in the neighborhood is bad. Treating everyone like they are bad only continues the cycle of problems and makes life more difficult when it is really not necessary Be careful when walking through stagnant (or even flowing) water, there are likely many pathogens in there that could make you sick. This goes for all areas of NYC in every neighborhood in every borough of the city. Even the richest of the rich neighborhoods has fetid water!
Illegal immigration causes this, once the borders are secure and Democrats are out every city will be going up. Stop the social programs you don't work you don't get money it's that simple. Deport all the drug addicts and lazy people that rely on the government.
I'm sure it's sketchy if all you're used to is cornfields. I drive through there regularly and the only thing I need to watch out for is the new speed cameras they put up.
If this guy thinks this is sketchy I would’ve loved to seen him walk through the south Bronx in the 70s. Anybody who lived in that and survived it has my respect. This neighborhood looks like half the hoods in philly
I walk through the hole everyday to get to Grant Ave and never knew it was Gotti’s dumping ground. I live in Howard Beach and would walk through The Hole at night to get home (one time at like 1Am when I got out of work really late) (it’s the fastest way). Just be aware of your surroundings, don’t look scared and mind ya business, you’ll be ok. Then again, I am a guy. Wouldn’t recommend If you’re a women and alone , definitely don’t go there alone, take the long way. I literally just walked through it 45 min ago to get to Grant Ave station to go to work. It is getting more complicated to walk around with all the flooding though, lots of jumping over puddles. It really isn’t as bad as people make it out to be. Just don’t be an idiot.
I've been around there many times. It's hardly that sketchy. You only showed a few rundown homes. A worse neighborhood is Jamaica around Guy R. Brewer before you get to Jamaica.
@Lillv772 That area of Guy R Brewer right before York College does seem pretty sketch to me. The area down by Cross-Bay blvd is OK. Never felt unsafe like I do by the projects in Brooklyn or Bronx.
I agree with Janice, he walked by the junkyard, I think it's extra storage for the junkyard...its up to the city to stop that but doesn't look like anyone down there will complain.
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The hole appears to be a dumping ground for anything and ecerything in the NYC. Investing in the under invested could be a priority. At least you've highlighted a persisting problem Action Kid.
Ain't no different from the projects you find in the east side of Nairobi the capital city of Kenya, a third world country in Africa didn't know such places existed in the USA
Looks to me like a scrap , junkyard area , all big cities have them , i seen streets just like that in London , hardly anyone lives there , the streets are all potholes from the heavy trucks , there's always guard dogs . . . . it's just part of the city . . .did you know there's a new Clan website :) . . . . check it out . . clanfraser.org
I lived all over NYC for 27 years. One of the types of people I met more than I care to remember are people like this guy. Typically they were educated aspiring professional transplants who sought "street cred" by "exposing" less desirable areas of the city. What I found annoying were the conversations they had with their peers which were nothing more than using urban plight as bragging rights as cover for glibness. Once I was on a train listening to a young career girl tell her out-of-towner friends she traveled to Harlem and was amazed to discover it had some beautiful brownstones. I was waiting for the point of the story to unfold. Well, I discovered the point unfolded - I traveled to Harlem.
Don't want to ruin your theory but what if he just grew up in the good parts of NYC and lived a very sheltered life, never getting the chance to explore the city. I'm not saying I'm 100% certain that's what his life has been but I know some people who grew up a life like that in New York.
@@professional.commentator totally true I met people who are like that they lived in the nicer area's in nyc and were sheltered and never really explored the city only places they would go to is of course central park and time's square.
This is huge exaggeration lol. Trust me, this isn’t a very “sketchy” neighborhood, it just has vacant lots. I grew up near JFK airport a couple miles out from here, and I used to use the Grant/Pitkin train station daily. Nothing scary or sketchy about this neighborhood at all. It’s also a very commercial area. The area with residential homes are mostly filled with Bengali families and other immigrants/minorities, and they are very nice. I honestly don’t even think there’s much crime in that area.
@@ShadowStarPSN this is coming from a teenager who didn't live through the 80s and 90s violent past of east new york, brownsville, ozone park and lindenwood. people like her shouldn't have an opinion when they don't even have the proper experience..
Miguel mejia he is insinuating that this is a sketchy neighborhood in the PRESENT DAY, not the 80s or 90s. And I can tell you for a fact, as someone who used to go jogging alone along ‘the Hole” at night, I never once was bothered or felt scared. I also grew up near Howard Beach and Wakefield, which were mainly Italian neighborhoods in the 90s, but now so much of the area has changed. Today we see a lot more minorities and West Indians here. You can’t compare today’s neighborhoods with the 80s and 90s. Places that used to have high crime no longer do. These neighborhoods have completely changed since the 80s.
It’s during the day. I’m born and raised in NY and during the day it’s usually fine unless you walk directly into a project and you’re not a resident of said project.
Hernando Cortez they’re different kinds of bad neighborhoods. I wouldn’t walk down skid row because of the homelessness and mental illness. For the most part homeless and mental illness have places they stay that are some what hidden.
Lol there's a beware of dog sign?.... just to let you know in the hood you buy that sign so you don't have to buy a dog. If there was a dog he would let you know to beware way before you see a sign I lived in East ny Brooklyn for 33yr I'm currently upstate now but if you leave ppl alone they won't see you for the most part but that's just my opinion. You got a new subbie in me and my husband today✌🏽
Any neighborhood in NYC that has houses is not sketchy. To be a home owner in NYC is a huge accomplishment regardless of how you got that money. That area was so empty and so quiet, it was actually kinda peaceful. A real sketchy part of town? 125th and lexington, 149th and 3rd, any projects on webster ave, and any block in general between Fordham and Kingsbridge from 180 through 200st. Enjoy. Come at night too.
I grew up on Ave A and 4th 70's to early 80's. Alphabet City was a dump. I never thought people would ever choose to live in that area. It all changed and in the late 80's and after the Tompkins Riots the neighborhood changed and gentrified. I think it is going to go back to the old days and white flight. History repeating.
@@whackamolechamp yep. Offices half will never be used again. Families want out due to the purge shootings daily. 3rd world country. I feel safer in san diego. I was at the lootings riots 3 nights in May or June in Manhattan it was a sad thing to see.
Have you given up on the "narrated" tag in the title? Would be nice to include them, I usually watch the narrated once immediately while scheduling the silent walks for when I need some silent distraction while working.
LIFE LONG BROOKLYN RESIDENT / HOMEOWNER HERE🙋♀️ SIR, you are REACHING.......BUT, I am sure that you knew that when you posted this video. Nice try though.
Um ...I think he's serious man. I believe he is very young and likely quite sheltered. Isn't it exciting to see such innocence, so uninformed and susceptible? He better stick to the dangerous neighborhoods that are safe, like these. These are the adventures of "Action Kid"
Alot of bodies have been found there,it doesn't always make the news, I live tennessee, but now I live in country, the town closest to in chattanooga, and people from new York have moved away from chattanooga and went back to NY, because crime is insane there, my point is just like in Ny not every crime gets reported, but this neighborhood is super dangerous!
@@bigmacdaddy1234 you clearly didn't understand what he said. Sketchy and poverty shouldn't be synonymous. You never know where life will take you, stay humble or get humbled.
"East New York/Brownsville = the murder capitol of NYC." -- Yes, that is true. I know because I grew up there. But as you said "there are good people here" as well ~ I certainly try to be that way. ENY has always been a place where cars that are stolen wind up being abandoned. Read *Tough Jews* by Rich Cohen who said that has been going on since the 1920s. I'm so glad you survived another visit to the ENY area. Imagine what it's like to grow up there like I did. ;)
There must be thousands of people who would pay money to watch action-kid get robbed and beat up. I'D pay money for actionkid to go to the hole at midnight walk around for 1 hour.
Yes, plenty of good people out there as I discovered during a three-year residence in a shelter at Forbell and Conduit, and you're probably aware that these days most of them are Bangladeshi Muslims. When one of them is celebrated the Ramadan ending feast of Eid by giving out little treats to passing strangers, the Good Humor ice cream bar he gave me as I said lease at waiting for my laundry to be done in what appeared to be a former Bank building, no toasted almond bar ever tasted so sweet, though you had to be careful not to get trampled when the men in the neighborhood would rush on their way to prayer at the nearby mosque. And come on, please people pray six times a day how bad can they be,?
That doesn't look too much different from New Orleans East, the Lower 9th Ward, St. Bernard Parish and Chalmette... And one of the benefits of knowing a foreign language is when you are approached by pan handlers
I would never walk around there, but honestly, it looks like less of a dangerous neighborhood and more of just a rundown one. I know at least in my city, some of the areas that look the worst actually arent the most unsafe. At some point, when a neighborhood becomes so abandoned, a lot of the crime moves somewhere else as well.
I've lived in New York City my whole life and have visited every inch of this city I call home. But I have never heard of that area becoming its own neighborhood and being referred to by that name. Also, pro tip; when someone asks you for money, just give them a "no" and keep it moving.
There have been 2 whole documentaries on the area, they call it “The Hole” . It’s not called that cause it’s “ran down”, it’s called that because it’s 30ft below sea level, hence the flooding. It’s also a notorious mafia graveyard. They’ve found at least 3 or 4 major crime dudes in Parking lots.
BUT, I do not think this place is “sketchy”.. we have “sketchier” parts of Charlotte than this. Being asked for money? That happens at least 3 times a day here.. that doesn’t make a place sketchy
The actual “sketchy” area is Pink Houses to the right of the “hole”. They used to call the courtyard the Terror Dome growing up because of all the gun fire between rival drug dealers.
@@tjrtt I was born in New York City. I lived in Elmhurst Queens, (Hampton street), bay ridge brooklyn, 3rd Avenue and 86th street, and Manhattan ( off 57th Street and 9th ave. Elmhurst and bay ridge use to be decent areas. Now they're sh.. holes.
@Jimmy Garza make that the world. Growing up it used to be a war zone. Now 90% of the areas are safe after dark. I even walked through Brownsville the other night and it’s like walking through the safe part of Canarsie.
@@kellynorvell5714 it not it changed a lot since the opening of gateway which people forget is apart of east New York. There been lot of developments fuck it their a nature reservation now near the belt. Also there been little pockets like they changed alantic adding something in the middle to stop Jay walking. Also the open a new school that actually good by gateway too
This guy keeps blaming the city for the bad conditions and that IS true to some extent, but how about the accountability on the residents? Littering knows no class of people. You don’t have to have money to not trash your neighborhood.
You see neighborhoods like this in a lot of industrial cities. Always wondered how and why they got like this. Thanks for taking us where most people would never dare to go. Stay safe.
Jersey: come to Newark/Irvington/Orange or Camden or Trenton or Patterson I’ve been all over Southern CA (LA and San Diego and Palmdale and Beaumont) and I laugh at what they call the “hood”. I was walking on Crenshaw in L.A. and didn’t even feel any type of way. Didn’t even realize it was Crenshaw until I saw the street sign. I guess if you see more than 5 minorities on a block in CA it’s deemed “hood”.
Dude where are you coming from?! I’m from the Bronx, worked all over the Bronx and this is not bad at all. I moved out last year but still love my borough!!
Grew up in Rosedale- a few blocks where Brookville Blvd turned into “Snake Road”. Basically a 1 1/2 lane serpentine shaped road that took you thru the swamp over to Rockaway Blvd. we played all day as kids in those swamps. Sold hub caps, chased feral dogs, lit bottle rockets at the low flying planes sitting at the TACAN towers and found dead hogtied bodies while looking for our pot plants. All at the age of 14. Miss the old days in Queens. Fistfights and drinking by night in the forts we build in the swamps near PS 195.
Dude, I am from a very Rural part of Eastern Kentucky, and I spent 25 years working in the Telecomm Industry. We used to come up there (NYC area) to work all the time. In fact I lived in a Marriott in Midtown for close to 10 months once. This is NOT a "Sketchy" Neighborhood, not even close. Not once did I see you get approached by someone trying to sell you Dope, nor was there anyone standing on the street involved in any kind of nefarious activities at all. That Neighborhood just has a lot of Auto Salvage Lots and that kind of stuff. I saw you walk by a Brand New Black Freightliner Truck, and I promise you if it was that bad there that Guy would not be parking a $150,000.00 Truck on the street there. There are shitloads of places right in the middle of Manhattan that are 1000 tines worse than this. Places where you can get Mugged, Shot and or Stabbed right in broad daylight. Not one person gave you a crossed word during your entire walk thru here. Smh Dude, this is just a Neighborhood where there is a mix of Industrial/Salvage shit mixed with Residential. I saw many homes there that looked pretty nice. Hell some of them had Gates and Fences that cost more than what you probably earn in a year. In the Residential parts I saw plenty of nice Automobiles. This place is just obviously prone to flooding during bad Storms. So what! There are plenty of places that have that issue, especially when you're 35 below sea level, what would you expect? Didn't see 1 single crime being committed, no prostitution, no drugs, nothing. I didn't even see one person that would've caused me senses to go on alert. The people that live and work here I'm sure aren't real happy with your portrayal of their Neighborhood. You Exaggeration is just over the top in describing this place. There are places in Kentucky and West Virginia that are a 100 times more dangerous than this to walk thru. Places where you would be stopped by "Locals" and asked what the hell your business was, and would take your Video Camera away from you at a bare minimum. I spent 25 years on and off working in and around NYC, and had a pretty damn good time. I ran into a couple of people that gave me some problems, but as soon as I pulled my Regulator from the back of my waistband, their attitudes changed to very cordial in a real hurry. Lol Those instances happened in Manhattan (2 of them), and the other was in Jamaica Queens. Also, spending large parts of my career working in that area, I absolutely never heard anyone call that area "The Hole", and I know exactly where this place is, I have drove thru there many times. I would say you could find buried bodies from Mob Hits in damn near any Vacant Lot in the greater 5 Boroughs, as well as New Jersey, that has been vacant since that era (60's, thru the late 90's). I could take you places in the South Side of Chicago during daylight hours that you would be begging me not to stop the Vehicle, and pleading for me to get you the hell outta there. Lmao Next time try to keep it real, or find some Grittier Stuff to show us. ✌ out
Hi. Just wanted to ask what you mean by "Regulator". I assume that you mean a gun, I live in Scotland and not the U.S, it's just a term I've never heard before. Thanks.
Its pretty rundown. But you're right, its because of the flooding. I think the mafia rap gives it a dangerous feel. But yeah, I live in Gainesville Florida and the eastern side of this small city is way more sketchy than this.
3:45 quite interesting that the newer-looking apartments have window a/c...maybe they're old apartments and just a new outer part? Anyway, like most New Yorkers you may not be aware of the rest of the country outside of NYC, but what you walked through is how much of our country looks, both urban and rural. It's just unusual in NYC.
Yes, you are correct. Virtually all towns on America have a "hole." The whole country is run down with abandoned shopping malls, schools, hospitals, industrial parks, etc., as well as residential areas. Very sad for America.
Hey. I was recently shocked when I was using the google earth app. Going to street-view in GE on any small town Main Street, and see huge number of shut down boarded up shops and even homes. Small town USA is in pitiful, critical condition.!
That is a newer construction that went up just a few years ago. They city is building affordable housing on practically every viable empty lot in this neighborhood.
This looks like many typical neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn. Some of these rundown places are getting almost unaffordable to live in. What I see here is opportunity for the future.
I don't live far from there, I don't know what you mean by Sketchiest but that is a working class neighborhood. If you are looking "none tourist" places, go to Belmont ave projects in Brownsville.
The exaggeration in video is strong. I grew up in Queens not to far from the airport. That's just a commercial zone with garages that buy cars for auctions are stored. There are lots of vacant lots which are desolate making it a prime place for organized crime to hide dead bodies. Its located in a historically low lying area prone to flooding. Few people live there, so there is not enough property taxes collected to fix it for optimal habitability.
Sounds like a kid with nominal experience in life...
@@becklaneartist especially when theres a lot of dead bodies involved. DEFINITELY not sketchy..
@@miguelmejia4656 Every community has a sketchy industrial neighborhood where cars, for auction or repair, are stored like this but the videographer didnt understand what he was seeing. From his description, I was expecting a chaotic, Four Points scenerio but it was just an industrial lot in an old neighborhood. Ive lived in several similar but far more dangerous places in Boston, Providence\Pawtucket RI and around. Yes, bodies were apparently dumped there but a lot of communities have experienced murders and dumped bodies. Its life experience that helps one recognize what's going on - he seemed shocked by an industrial lot....that's all. I grew up on Cape Cod where murders and body dumps happen. But Ive lived in places where the videographer would be NEVER be able to walk the streets never mind openly film ppl and neighborhoods...hed'd end up dead. This was just a loooong walk to an industrial park. I kept watching bc the neighborhoods with gold trimmed fences reminded me of some Portuguese neighborhoods I've lived in and forgotten about. A little tired but everyone's doing the best they can.
I lived there from 1959-1960 till about 1974. It was way different then it is now. This was the "old Italian"neighborhood, with 2 candy stores an Italian club with bocce court , Mike the jeweler and gun shop(a regular cop hang out) , we played in the street, no traffic, everyone new each other by first names. I great place to grow up Years later there were horse farms there. There was a canal where the twin ovals ball fields are then they filled in the canal to build a shopping center and caused the flooding condition. The narration of the video is not at all accurate. I was down there a few years ago with my friends that grew up there with our own tour. We met a person the lives in my childhood home and spoke with him. We also have a "Down the hole, Ozone Park reunion held in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow once a year.
This is cheap industrial/factory/buisness area. You think they gonna make cheap chairs/table. Cheap car repair in the nice part of manathan 😂
Its not dangerous. Most people there HAVE A JOB OR OWN A BUISNESS
You actualy could walk there everydays. No one will hurt you. Cause they busy fixing car. Or doing some factory work 😂
Just to give you some perspective. This area is considered mainly a commercial zone. The cars on the street are auction car that were bought for repairs and resale by body shops which is why they don’t have plates. Commercial Zones are usually like this in NYC. You won’t find many homes in the area but the ones that you do find, the city won’t ever try to go there to make repairs due to the fact that it doesn’t have enough voting residents to make a proper complaint.
10:20 starts the residential.
Northern Bronx around the Eastchester-Dyre Ave stop at the end of the 5 train is just like that. Nothing really but body shops, gas stations, cheap hotels and fast food
Great explanation, very interesting
@Aaron Fridays Was just thinking that myself, that area is called Willets Point, it isn't on the city sewer grid nor the highway department.
@Pat Bens they tried connecting to the city main train but unsuccessful. Most of the time the only drain thats there is the one from the electric company which isnt attached to a main drain, so once thats filled up everyone is screwed. It wasn't worth the money since the area doesnt bring in alot of tax dollars.
I have been in public restrooms that are scarier than "the hole".
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
@@jlohmann13 I've been in school washrooms that were scarier
Born and Raised New Yorker and I still waiting to see the “sketchy” part.
Me too lol 😂..
Only thing "sketchy" is this dumb ass walking around asking to get beat up and robbed walk into my neighborhood and we would ask you one ? hard way or easy way give us your chit or we take it and I live in Florida LOL
Same born n raise native new yorker and still in NY.....you are a joke to make NY look bad lying saying its sketchy I'll show you sketchy you wouldn't be able to film freely
I've only been once. I'm in the PNW but when I did visit New York I really enjoyed Queens and The Bronx the Best. Of course I didn't see every inch of them but it looks like he is in a industrial neighborhood where the mechanics and junkyards are and why he is seeing all the cars in various states of repair and all kinds of big rigs and bad roads and, like he even said himself lot's of signs saying "no trespassing" connected to big private lots. Sure there are a few apartments there too. Poor people have to live somewhere. So in case he didn't know, it's not exactly quiet or cleen in these kind of areas but when the majority of the population are those who own the land and it's industrial area then that's what you get. This is not a dangerous place to live but it would be a nice place to bring a body to get rid of it. With all the noise and long stretches where you won't run into anybody who might see you with a body. Ya know. I think somebody needs to take this boy to see The New York he thinks he just saw until then, never call him
"Action Kid" again. 😜
@@redfish9599 The neighborhood really reflects it's residents. Trash, it's not something to be proud of
There’s probably more loving, hard working and law abiding folks in that neighborhood than most of the Upper East Side of Manhattan....
As someone who lives in East NY and has for decades, I can confirm this to be true.
Same here ^^^^
Nah, East New York is jammed packed with horrible people. They ROB ROB ROB over there.
SmackItUp-FlipIt-RubItDown looking at the rubbish/trash they throw on the floor I’m going to disagree with you there. No pride in their own neighbourhood doesn’t exactly scream “loving, hard working, law abiding” . Shame really, to have a NYC address and just no care.
@@JulieWallis1963 I mentioned this to some other commenters, but it often times are people outside of the area that do not care, who come here and don’t properly dispose of trash. I have caught and reported sanitation workers who let trash fall back to the ground and can’t be bothered to do a thorough job, construction companies from other areas who dump their debris in open here areas because they don’t want to pay for bulk trash removal, etc. No, it’s not the perfect neighborhood, but this video does not give a full picture of the people who live here. Most are indeed good folks who care about the community and do the best they can.
Why is the lowest denomination on you a $20 bill when you're going into the "sketchy" neighborhood?
When walking through a sketchy neighborhood you never carry anything more than a few one dollar bills and that is it. Anything over $5 and you are asking for serious trouble.
Your asking for trouble having a $20.00 on you, and thinking he's going to give you any change.
This is NOT that rough a neighborhood. As a retired boiler mechanic, I use to be here at least once a week, and never had any trouble from anyone.
I agree. It was more of a drop for stolen cars and prostitutes. I see a lot more houses in the video then were there before. not dangerous at all.
I mean 99% of hoods aren’t that bad anymore. At least compared to the 90s.
@EEETALYANO p How clever.
I worked the night shift for four years, and was in Brownsville and Harlem every night. And I lived in Harlem for three years. I grew up in the projects little man.
@@davidbarkin8269 explain the dead bodies
@@chuckiegravesfield3170 Not true. I lived there from 1959-1960 till about 1974. It was way different then it is now. This was the "old Italian"neighborhood, with 2 candy stores an Italian club with bocce court , Mike the jeweler and gun shop(a regular cop hang out) , we played in the street, no traffic, everyone new each other by first names. I great place to grow up Years later there were horse farms there. There was a canal where the twin ovals ball fields are then they filled in the canal to build a shopping center and caused the flooding condition. The narration of the video is not at all accurate. I was down there a few years ago with my friends that grew up there with our own tour. We met a person the lives in my childhood home and spoke with him. We also have a "Down the hole, Ozone Park reunion held in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow once a year.
Not that bad overdramatic bro
Exactly
Real shit. Wish he went to my neighborhood
That's exactly my thoughts- but the Gotti burial ground is a lot cringe!
Got us to click!
@@jmeearle8877 You aren't creeped out by the Gotti graveyard? Yikes! Sounds like they've not even excavated the bodies!
I cry laughed when he said "my goodness, what is this place??" about the Linden Motel. LOL..
I used to work in that area years back, and you’re right, no matter what the state of a community, there are always more good hardworking people than what the news tells you.
I recommend visiting certain parts Brownsville around 9-10pm for some real action
Try Van Dyke, Tilden Bville houses...Lol
Dominique Laise only if you hold my hand...I’m clowning,stay up and stay healthy in these weird days beautiful lady.
@@Terracecasualx5 Ha! GAY
Ass Pounder I’d already figured that out by your name,thanks for letting me know but I’m not really into that scene thanks. Enjoy yourself but don’t forget to use protection,AIDS might not be a killer anymore but you still don’t want it do you Cecil?
It’s still a great video I enjoyed watching it 💕
I worked on the boilers in one of the apartment buildings in this neighborhood, and this is not a sketchy area. I think you need to learn the difference between sketchy and underserved. It's definitely a unique area because of the geography.
I didn't get the remark about New Orleans, either.
I watched and kept waiting to see the 'sketchiest' neighborhood. Dude, please. I suggest you never go to the south side of Chicago where I came up.
So is that what U call your wife bush, "south side"?
@@lazarusjackson1792 i know Brooklyn ain't no joke!
@@lazarusjackson1792 born and raised in NYC!
I been in South side Chicago. You are right
Or any neighborhood in the fair city of Detroit!
For the people that truly don't have a clue(and not from NY): unless its well after 8pm or so on a hot weekend evening, he has nothing to worry about; its like any other hood. Meanwhile, Up in 72nd street on the west side of Manhattan(tourist trap), another woman was slashed yesterday. The "city" is especially more dangerous, especially now, as nyc crime has risen 12% OVERALL within the last 2 months.
@Aaron Fridays No. And not caused by your ignorance, either(smh).
@Aaron Fridays lmaO
I'm going to allow you to believe that, as I'm looking for the bridge I left somewhere in my closet to sell you....
I'm not from NY but the time I went to visit the city on the UWS, this guy was getting mugged on near 110 street, not sure if the victim got hurt. Also in 2018 a man got decapitated on that same neighborhood. So, yes...crime can happen anywhere by anyone, rich or poor. I'm from California and I live in a small city which has been compared to Chicago crime rate...thankfully the crime has reduced since shelter in place. Basically, if we want our neighborhoods to improve, residents need to speak out and also participate to make a change...not only hold signs but to make a real difference. Btw, I hope to return to NYC in the near future...I really enjoyed the city, the people and the atmosphere.
A guy got dismembered somewhere in Manhattan, too
Ehh Brownsville takes the cake
You call that sketchy? Usually when you see a bunch of cars without plates, flatbed trucks, and a high metal fence with barbed wire.... that's called a junkyard. I've seen worse junkyards in Hawaii.
I'm still waiting to see the "sketchy" part. 🤣🤣🤣
cause its not nearly as sketchy as places like harlem
@@AnvilMAn603 i personally disagree, i've been to both areas many times, East New York is definitely sketchier then Harlem, however it varies from street to street
@@jaretwood9558 depends on where in brooklyn, id sooner be walking around harlem then red hook for example
@@AnvilMAn603 Im going to edit my comment, i meant Harlem instead of Brooklyn. I find East New York sketchier then Harlem
@@jaretwood9558 and my brain autopiloted harlem anyway lol
A few wrong statements and a lot of exageration, it's not that bad of a neighborhood.
stevie0310 Are you blind?
@@pamelawoodall5891 no it not. He went to the worst part. First this neighborhood has a big development called gateway with a mall with brands like target JCPenney home depot and bj's . Also starrett City is full of middle income people. This neighborhood doesn't even make the top 10 worst neighborhoods in the city.
@@pamelawoodall5891 Are you 4 real?
During the crack epidemic of the 80s East NY, Brownsville, Buschwick and Bed-sty sections of Brooklyn was a killing field.. It was an everyday occurrence for cops to find dead bodies in the street.. You youngsters never seen the mean streets of Brooklyn..
That part of East New York ain’t so bad. It’s in the eastern part of ENY towards Queens but once you go down linden boulevard towards Flatbush it gets crazier. I live out here in East New York and it is kind of rough most of the shootings you hear about are from here or Brownsville
i'd like to see his reaction after taking a walk threw kensington in philadelphia.
The best ghetto in the world 😆😆😆
He's not going to be walking but running threw
apparently he never been 125 harlem after midnight
*through*
Riiiiggggghhhtttt. This man never been anywhere.
I live in nyc and this neighborhood looks fine to me lol
How about your bush, does that look fine??
Stephanie LeVonne u have very low standards
@@alicepopovski6303IKR tell me about it 😒.
Before you were born that neighborhood was frightening..During the crack epedemic of the 80s It was an everyday occurrence for police to find dead bodies in the street..You youngsters never seen the real streets of Brooklyn..
@@QueensNativeNYC people forget bro.
You seem like you’ve led a rather coddled existence.. I give you props for getting out of your comfort zone but honestly... this is a standard industrial area of any city
Yeah, kind of a crap hole but no worse than any other major US city "po side of the tracks"
John Ostlund a standard industrial area... rofl, where have you been mate, are you insane? This is not even connected to the sewerage system...
christian revuelta yes Christian, I’m insane. Yada yada yada
christian revuelta there are puddles, perhaps storm water drainage improvements to be made, however I see no evidence of disconnectedness to a sewerage system. Nuance mate. Nuance.
christian revuelta yes industrial.....as far as the work done there like a supply site for construction materials. Or industrial spaces like warehouses, junk yards etc. Can’t believe he doesn’t know there’s probably a body shop or something of the sort back there seeing as how some of the cars sitting were tagged and some fairly new. The man unloading the audi from the flatbed should’ve been a hint. Smh
As a native New Yorker, there are FAR more sketchy areas in NYC. This area is just commercial and not residential. He wants sketchy? Take a trip to Brownsville, walk around Broadway Junction at night or take a trip to the South Bronx.
You're right. No matter how bad the neighborhood is, most people are good honest people, not criminals. There may also be more criminals in the area, but there are tons of good people who just can't afford to get out.
Good honest people don't live surrounded by trash.
@@williamforsythe5850 There is something unavoidable there
@@williamforsythe5850 crime is the right way to go in a city. But if youre in a village dont do crime. Crime is awesome!
Some criminals are good….Off the clock
Yeah exactly. That's why police is and always has been a public service first. The people who get harmed the most by bad criminal justice laws are people like this, and I don't really mean abuse of power even though that exists. Abuse by criminals is far more prevalent.
Im from NY and I have seen many places like this but they are called junk yards. Not scary..
Fr. I'm from NY too, and I've never seen a video this over exaggerated. Dude is clearly not from here, everything he's saying is in disbelief like it's a third world country.
@Catherine Vidal he said sketchy, not scary. there's a CLEAR difference. open the fucking ears.
@@miguelmejia4656 wow such hostility.
@@RaytheGrayt Really, this is so clearly a commercial junkyard area that happens to have a few people living in it.
@@miguelmejia4656 It's fuckin NY. A lot of spots look sketchy.
As an ultra-white guy from upstate (Orange County) it was KIND of sketchy. I used to work there at the NYC transit yard on Sutter for a contractor. I’d have to walk from the Grant Ave station following your path (but straight to the yard). I had to carry a laptop in a backpack everyday coming and going. If I drove I had to park on Eldert close to Sutter. I just walked tall, walked quick, and tried to beat sunset in the winter. I never had a problem. The only time anything happened is once some old guy yelled out “get a tan”! Lol. Had more “incidents” on the A line than on the streets.
I’m glad everyone knows this guy clearly is misinformed and not from around here. It’s a Commercial area and loads of the residential houses are actually quite nice and new. I wondered if I showed this to the people working and living there what would they say.
Who is crazy enough to buy real estate here? Seems like a poor investment.
"Michael Hunter" I recently discovered the area as far as that train station at the beginning. It is the Grant Avenue Train Station. Or it sure looks like it. I found some nice stores at Liberty Avenue nearby. Of course it is a long train ride from Manhattan to there. I have not explored very far around the area but as far as what I have seen, the area is very ghetto very much like the area around 149th Street and 3rd Avenue in the Bronx. The suburban looking homes look nice but there is a very obvious atmosphere of drug culture, and everything that typically goes with such neighborhoods.
It's from his perspective. You can't say he's right or wrong. Well, you can say it, but it doesn't mean you're correct. I'm a life long NYC resident and to me, that looked like a shitty neighborhood. No offense to anyone living there. Just my perspective. See what I mean?
I don't know what you're looking at homie. Looks like a shithole to me.
The people who work there would say "I work in a shitty area". The people who live there would say "this is a shitty area". I understand feeling a sense of pride, but don't let it blind you to the reality. That's an ugly neighborhood.
Rent is still 3k a month
I live not too far from that area and the rent is still going up
😢
Lol
I don’t doubt it
I worked in a hospital around there years ago, there's a lot of junk yards, garages. It's no garden spot but it's not that bad. NJ meadowlands holds a lot more Mafia corpses than could ever be here.
Yea this seems more like an industrial part of town.
I know this area well. It's lower than the surrounding streets and so is constantly flooding. Been like there forever. Used to be a largely Italian-American area (back in the 1980s). I once visited a friend and had some good homemade meatballs in one of those wood frame houses. I believe this is where Goodfellas was filmed in the early 90's. The childhood scenes where the guys are all hanging out in front of the social club.
Further down, you'll find a piece of land that's owned by the Black Cowboys Association. No joke, there are horses, pastures and black cowboys there. Only in Brooklyn, NYC!
Eu moro no Rio de JANEIRO, 45 minutos da Cidade... tem uma area aqui que também TEM cavalos e vacas.
"onthemarginofgrace" Of course. And yet in the greatest sense there is a sad reality. How many neighborhoods in the NYC area changed for the better within the past several decades? An 80 year old friend of mine who grew up in NYC told me that the Mosholu area in the Bronx and actually much of the area that the Number 4 Elevated Train rail runs through used to consist of very respectable neighborhoods of working-class people of Jewish and/or Italian ethnicity or culture . That was sometime before the 1970s or even before the 1960s. It eventually turned into a lower class , welfare , high crime neighborhood .
I used to drive past that the black cowboys association all the time get back to LI after work. NY is definitely a one off place haha
The land that was owned by the black cowboys is in Queens, and it’s now owned by the city. It’s called “Gallop NYC: therapeutic horseback riding” it’s run by the parks department.
@@eshaw119 you are correct. It's queens and it's across the street from the hole. The cowboys lived there when they had the horses.
I worked in this neighborhood for years for the telephone co. Its super commercial and not very well kept. Lots of automotive activity legal and otherwise! But it is on the upswing with new developments. C'mon son there are sketchier neighborhoods than this!
Wow this kid definitely lived a sheltered life. I’ve seen far worse than this neighborhood.
thank you thats my hood
i was cracking up the whole time..
You want a pat on the back or something?
@@dumplingsboi3906 you wouldnt be able to.. you're too busy eating dumplings
Do you live in NYC? Us natives never knew anything about this neighborhood until now and we all live in Brooklyn. After a bit of research today, I found out that this area is an old body-dumping ground John Gotti used to use, and probably countless others. Don’t bash the kid. This is probably the single least known area in New York City, and I live less than 2 miles from it and never knew.
I actually had a house there in the 90's. Its in the shadows of Linden Plaza. Try not to disparage other people's neighborhoods just because of how it may look to you on certain day. I have family on autumn ave not far from there. Yes some parts of brooklyn have come up but there are good people who still live there just as any place in the world.
Amen
Of course there are nice decent people in all neighborhoods. Red Hook in Brooklyn is filled with crack hookers and drug dealers. I went by there one time when down the corner two dealers were chasing each other and firing Uzis (Israeli machine gun type pistols). Yet all over the place are many cars parked, belonging to the nice working people who live there.
Cry a river
Well said Shawn.Well said
He’s not saying the people are bad. But it is what it is. Your neighborhood looks like a park compared to living in the slums in India. Be thankful he even wanted to do a video of your dump.
I lived here once and I can tell you this man is exaggerating
Im over here dying laughing at this clown. Even the park thats over there is pretty decent compared to other neighborhoods in EAST NEW YORK
It's so sketchy. Look, a beware of dog sign. Oh my, standing water on the street. How frightening!
@Prínxess Saní I’m pretty sure he/she are being sarcastic.
Bruh there’s litter everywhere, everything is covered in spray paint, doesn’t have ANY drainage, doesn’t have sidewalks. This is what most would call ghetto.
Don't care how bad a neighborhood is there's always a McDonalds.
The connection to US civilisations 😂😂
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Lol😂. Used to be White Castle
@@uncleasian8697 That's true! There's still a White Castle in Harlem. I thought they all went out of business
True that!
You were in Brooklyn the moment you stepped out of the train. The train station is in Brooklyn.
Yes. If he wanted to go to the border of Queens and Brooklyn, he should have went the opposite direction from the train station. In this video he was only walking deeper into Brooklyn.
This area was never as bad as East New York (by itself) or brownsville. I remember driving
out to the Sanitation Dump where Starrett City now occupies and there were two blocks of burned out tenements and fire bombed houses you had to walk through to get to the sanitation dump. The whole area burned in 1977 blackout. Rows of tenements just left burned out. That's where they filmed Death Wish 3 (parts of it) On Hendrix Street, Glenmore Ave, van Siclen, Stanley Ave. FUN place if you like to live dangerously.
I've never heard anyone call this place "The Hole" in my 19 years of living not from me or my elders.
Not discrediting anything just sharing my experience.
I used to drive the B13 and B20 bus routes between 1982-2013 and never heard of that term either. As a teen, in the 70"s, i worked where the movie theater is now. It used to be a one story department store called "Times Square Stores". It was a chain. Much like Target is today. Back in the 80's, none of those developments were there yet. The Postal Facility. Gateway Mall and all the surrounding housing. The only thing back by Spring Creek was the landfill across the Belt Parkway. Which was still active back then! The smell of garbage on a hot day was pretty bad. And these giant horse flies that would bite!..........Driving those bus routes were good times for me. I got to know the people in the neighborhood and have pleasant memories. Just a brief history lesson. You sound like a nice young man. I think the guy who posted this was a little misinformed about a few things. But i enjoyed the tour. AND i ate in that McDonald's in the 70's when it was brand new. And yes, i know i'm old.........ha........Peace to you and God bless you!
@@jameslauth544 Lol thanks for the history.
I grew up in East NY so it's nice for me to be to know that.
Google maps shows the area as "the hole"
@@jaretwood9558 Still have never heard a single soul say that
@@justincarrington4157 facts I never heard it as the hole either and I live 10 min from there
As a New Yorker who has driven and walked that area regularly , that’s NOT sketchy lmao. I can show you what sketchy REALLY looks like 😂. You wouldn’t even wanna walk around these places with a camera.
My great grandfather built a house down there on Sapphire Street. It was the family home of my grandmother and her 10 siblings. She would tell me stories all the time about growing up "down the hole". It may not be the same as it was but this guy was a tool with his narration.
Fancy seeing you here! I located the house, and will try to bring my mom for a drive by :)
I’ve lived in NYC all my life and I never heard of The Hole !
Bro he made this shit up
Chile this is made up
@Lora Larose I live in the East and if you feel it's a whole.. that's on you.
Facts
@@sinz8185 yo I bet he's using some lingo from back when the Italians lived in the east some outdated shit
This compared to the Bronx is one of the cleanest neighborhood's ever.
I was thinking this dude apparently never been to the Bronx, the Bronx is in shambles.
Depends on where in the Bronx. Not all of the Bronx is horrible and actually much of it is nice, like Riverdale
Macoy do you even know Brooklyn or the Bronx lol.. you sound like you’ve watched too much tv and/or movies. Both boroughs have affluent areas and poor areas, much like all of America.
many nice areas in the bronx.... throgs neck, morris park, country club.... not all of it is dirt and grime coming from someone who has lived there for 20 years.
There more to the Bronx than then just the south Bronx.
As an ex truck driver who’s been all over the USA. This is not that bad at all. I find it hard to believe this is the sketchiest NYC has to offer. If it is, be very grateful.
*see a beware dog sign* "gotta be on the lookout guys. Anything could happen"
😂🤣😜
Hahahahah this video is hilarious. Must be a rich kid who never left his block.
He picked this area knowing he would not be in danger by the boys in the hood,Actionkid is not stupid.
Is it dangerous to walk in Someone's area in usa??
Why is he there ??
Gentrification.smh
That is true, there are good people in every neighborhood in NYC. Just because a neighborhood is thought of as "bad" does not mean that everyone who lives in the neighborhood is bad. Treating everyone like they are bad only continues the cycle of problems and makes life more difficult when it is really not necessary
Be careful when walking through stagnant (or even flowing) water, there are likely many pathogens in there that could make you sick. This goes for all areas of NYC in every neighborhood in every borough of the city. Even the richest of the rich neighborhoods has fetid water!
Illegal immigration causes this, once the borders are secure and Democrats are out every city will be going up. Stop the social programs you don't work you don't get money it's that simple. Deport all the drug addicts and lazy people that rely on the government.
I'm sure it's sketchy if all you're used to is cornfields. I drive through there regularly and the only thing I need to watch out for is the new speed cameras they put up.
Facto on the cops in the side blocks
That puts it nicely in perspective, sir.
Bless Payne you adaptable thing
Or a hood shooting you in cross fire
Lol
If this guy thinks this is sketchy I would’ve loved to seen him walk through the south Bronx in the 70s. Anybody who lived in that and survived it has my respect. This neighborhood looks like half the hoods in philly
I walk through the hole everyday to get to Grant Ave and never knew it was Gotti’s dumping ground. I live in Howard Beach and would walk through The Hole at night to get home (one time at like 1Am when I got out of work really late) (it’s the fastest way). Just be aware of your surroundings, don’t look scared and mind ya business, you’ll be ok. Then again, I am a guy. Wouldn’t recommend If you’re a women and alone , definitely don’t go there alone, take the long way. I literally just walked through it 45 min ago to get to Grant Ave station to go to work. It is getting more complicated to walk around with all the flooding though, lots of jumping over puddles. It really isn’t as bad as people make it out to be. Just don’t be an idiot.
I've been around there many times. It's hardly that sketchy. You only showed a few rundown homes. A worse neighborhood is Jamaica around Guy R. Brewer before you get to Jamaica.
I live right there guy r is a 5 min walk its crackhead central over there south road guy r brewer-suptin
@Lillv772 That area of Guy R Brewer right before York College does seem pretty sketch to me. The area down by Cross-Bay blvd is OK. Never felt unsafe like I do by the projects in Brooklyn or Bronx.
@@GizmoMaltese queens is a joke. the bronx and brooklyn will eat queens alive.
@@chuckiegravesfield3170 No doubt, with all the criminals you guys have :)
East New York is sketchy.Around New Lots ave.Had a friend that lived there.
He was headed towards the highrises, got shook when dude asked him for $, and he took a hard left.
Lol
Developers don’t want to build in the whole because the lack of infrastructure and construction delays are costly if you come across human remains
I think it’s a junkyard... not abandoned cars.
Junkyards are fenced in. Most cars there are either abandoned or stolen and dumped.
I agree with Janice, he walked by the junkyard, I think it's extra storage for the junkyard...its up to the city to stop that but doesn't look like anyone down there will complain.
@@WillieDuitt1 the street is extra storage or a street?
They're cars bought at dealer/private auctions, these cars are bought dozens at a time and kept there while waiting to get fixed up before sale
@@SlicerVorzakh Interesting. They are lucky if people don't come at night and strip them
For people from third world it's the most luxury neighborhood ever seen 😍
You are a love! 👐💙🙌
@@Shay-nu7id ：）
@Christie in third world put food on table it's already very hard...
Oh, I am for Serbia and ... you are very "smart" but we in Belgrade have freedom, not maskes, not De BlaDEBILIO, not mandatore vacc ... and I was in NYC 10 times, I think ... epic town ... but your philosophy " Just do it" & Time is money is passe.
Time is NOT money ... you see now.
And ... Serbia is corona free place ... good for me .... and I am NOT a SLAVE.
Sorry for my bad american english .. lol 🤣
@@vesnabe8552 I never went to Bulkan,, curious world there😁
If you watch some of his other videos where he shows his face, it becomes abundantly clear why he thinks this is the sketchiest neighborhood in NY lol
I went to check his other videos. Surprisingly he walks through Brownsville. LOL
Lemme guess. He is a white boy. Probably Jewish. Lol
@@Kardaszpm he's asian, the people in Brownsville seemed nice to him.
The hole appears to be a dumping ground for anything and ecerything in the NYC. Investing in the under invested could be a priority. At least you've highlighted a persisting problem Action Kid.
Yeah, I swear I've seen cleaner and better-looking places in poorer countries, so obviously a matter of priorities and importance here!
Ain't no different from the projects you find in the east side of Nairobi the capital city of Kenya, a third world country in Africa didn't know such places existed in the USA
Looks to me like a scrap , junkyard area , all big cities have them , i seen streets just like that in London , hardly anyone lives there , the streets are all potholes from the heavy trucks , there's always guard dogs . . . . it's just part of the city . . .did you know there's a new Clan website :) . . . . check it out . . clanfraser.org
dont insult where poor people live in order to make a buck
Maybe u should go back to Texas
@@eddiew2325 why don't you go back to Texas
@@ceecjjj you first
What he was saying didn't even sound correct, most of that area look commercial a lot of trucks and old cars for insurance claims.
@cc what video did you watch?
He said this is a crazy neighborhood as he walked by a Lexus and houses
Thats exactly what I was thinking!
My old neighborhood. So many good memories..
Where are you at now? ....asking for a friend
Even though this area appears "sketchy" it's actually not that bad compared to some of the other areas of Brooklyn. Like say East New York...
That is East New York tho lol
@@dubreil07 Lmfao facts, we'll most of the footage.
It is ENY by the train station. Once he went across Conduit and hooked a left, he was in Queens. He should have made a right towards the towers.
This is east ny theirs a movie theater right up the block on linden Blvd
This would be considered pretty good in Detroit.
I lived all over NYC for 27 years. One of the types of people I met more than I care to remember are people like this guy. Typically they were educated aspiring professional transplants who sought "street cred" by "exposing" less desirable areas of the city. What I found annoying were the conversations they had with their peers which were nothing more than using urban plight as bragging rights as cover for glibness. Once I was on a train listening to a young career girl tell her out-of-towner friends she traveled to Harlem and was amazed to discover it had some beautiful brownstones. I was waiting for the point of the story to unfold. Well, I discovered the point unfolded - I traveled to Harlem.
Don't want to ruin your theory but what if he just grew up in the good parts of NYC and lived a very sheltered life, never getting the chance to explore the city. I'm not saying I'm 100% certain that's what his life has been but I know some people who grew up a life like that in New York.
@@professional.commentator totally true I met people who are like that they lived in the nicer area's in nyc and were sheltered and never really explored the city only places they would go to is of course central park and time's square.
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@@professional.commentator 97 street and Columbus is nice until you walk 2 blocks down to the projects. Both worlds .
@@luckylove5021 I was thinking more of Brooklyn and Queens.
Go to Flint or Detroit. You will see interesting places.
Looks like Cleveland to me. No biggie.
Or Richmond.
Gary Indiana
East St. Louis, IL . . . what's left of it.
Rhode Island or Springfield ma
This is huge exaggeration lol. Trust me, this isn’t a very “sketchy” neighborhood, it just has vacant lots. I grew up near JFK airport a couple miles out from here, and I used to use the Grant/Pitkin train station daily. Nothing scary or sketchy about this neighborhood at all. It’s also a very commercial area. The area with residential homes are mostly filled with Bengali families and other immigrants/minorities, and they are very nice. I honestly don’t even think there’s much crime in that area.
10:41 maybe you could watch the video first then comment?
@@ShadowStarPSN this is coming from a teenager who didn't live through the 80s and 90s violent past of east new york, brownsville, ozone park and lindenwood. people like her shouldn't have an opinion when they don't even have the proper experience..
Miguel mejia he is insinuating that this is a sketchy neighborhood in the PRESENT DAY, not the 80s or 90s. And I can tell you for a fact, as someone who used to go jogging alone along ‘the Hole” at night, I never once was bothered or felt scared. I also grew up near Howard Beach and Wakefield, which were mainly Italian neighborhoods in the 90s, but now so much of the area has changed. Today we see a lot more minorities and West Indians here. You can’t compare today’s neighborhoods with the 80s and 90s. Places that used to have high crime no longer do. These neighborhoods have completely changed since the 80s.
Sketchy, but he’s walking around filming 😂🤣
That's UA-cam for u . Willing to die bout that shit 🤣
Dude should look up Skid Row Los Angels, and I don’t mean the 80’s hair band.
It’s during the day. I’m born and raised in NY and during the day it’s usually fine unless you walk directly into a project and you’re not a resident of said project.
Hernando Cortez they’re different kinds of bad neighborhoods. I wouldn’t walk down skid row because of the homelessness and mental illness. For the most part homeless and mental illness have places they stay that are some what hidden.
Lol there's a beware of dog sign?.... just to let you know in the hood you buy that sign so you don't have to buy a dog. If there was a dog he would let you know to beware way before you see a sign I lived in East ny Brooklyn for 33yr I'm currently upstate now but if you leave ppl alone they won't see you for the most part but that's just my opinion. You got a new subbie in me and my husband today✌🏽
I'm sorry man but I had to stand up for the hood a little lol my bad I won't tell nobody else🤫😊.
This is not only a thing in your hood. Even in Germany some people have a beware of the dog sign and do not have a dog.
Even if there was no dog, I'd be wary because you never know XD I agree with you, for the most part people are nice if you don't bother them
@@ActionKid agreed lol now that's just common sense all around NYC especially on mass transit.
@Michaelle Mcgill 🤭 well that's right too the point I guess.
Any neighborhood in NYC that has houses is not sketchy. To be a home owner in NYC is a huge accomplishment regardless of how you got that money. That area was so empty and so quiet, it was actually kinda peaceful. A real sketchy part of town? 125th and lexington, 149th and 3rd, any projects on webster ave, and any block in general between Fordham and Kingsbridge from 180 through 200st. Enjoy. Come at night too.
“Buddy” hate to brake the news to you, it’s like that all over.
This used to be east village Manhattan before $$$ poured in. Now, the whole NYC is turning into the hole
Turning into the whole what.??
I grew up on Ave A and 4th 70's to early 80's. Alphabet City was a dump. I never thought people would ever choose to live in that area. It all changed and in the late 80's and after the Tompkins Riots the neighborhood changed and gentrified. I think it is going to go back to the old days and white flight. History repeating.
@@whackamolechamp yep. Offices half will never be used again. Families want out due to the purge shootings daily. 3rd world country. I feel safer in san diego. I was at the lootings riots 3 nights in May or June in Manhattan it was a sad thing to see.
@CEEJAY yep but looting putting those $$ stores out of business lol so there's hope
@@joelincolnlincoln6315 most of my family is still there in NYC I worry about them especially the older ones. Stay safe in San Diego my friend.
4:27 That Hotel is a 1 🌟 joint. Filled with unsavory characters & bedbugs. Stay away !
I used to like watching the Black horseback riders riding through the grassy area between North and South Conduits.
Have you given up on the "narrated" tag in the title? Would be nice to include them, I usually watch the narrated once immediately while scheduling the silent walks for when I need some silent distraction while working.
I never work. Is that why I’m constantly broke?
No, I haven't given up on it. I decided this video would have more of an impact if I didn't include the narrated tag.
Why don't you go quietly walk along their yourself
Wendy Noto why don’t u
LIFE LONG BROOKLYN RESIDENT / HOMEOWNER HERE🙋♀️
SIR, you are REACHING.......BUT, I am sure that you knew that when you posted this video.
Nice try though.
Um ...I think he's serious man. I believe he is very young and likely quite sheltered. Isn't it exciting to see such innocence, so uninformed and susceptible? He better stick to the dangerous neighborhoods that are safe, like these. These are the adventures of "Action Kid"
He is near the right area at the wrong time and obviously, he has not been there before. This was a pointless video and waste of my time.
Alotta bodies been dumped here by the mafia.
Alot of bodies have been found there,it doesn't always make the news, I live tennessee, but now I live in country, the town closest to in chattanooga, and people from new York have moved away from chattanooga and went back to NY, because crime is insane there, my point is just like in Ny not every crime gets reported, but this neighborhood is super dangerous!
I live right down the block. This neighborhood is quiet and not bad at all. Nothing weird!
i'd rename this video...this is far from sketchy and unfairly demonizes poverty.
Um no, it fairly shows what a poor neighborhood looks like. It's called ghetto.
@@bigmacdaddy1234 you clearly didn't understand what he said. Sketchy and poverty shouldn't be synonymous. You never know where life will take you, stay humble or get humbled.
@@Alicia_W413 And you didn't understand what I said.
"jahn hall" poverty is a symptom not the illness.
Why shouldn’t poverty be demonized? It sucks and sucks that anyone has to be in it. It SHOULD be hissed at.
"East New York/Brownsville = the murder capitol of NYC." -- Yes, that is true. I know because I grew up there. But as you said "there are good people here" as well ~ I certainly try to be that way. ENY has always been a place where cars that are stolen wind up being abandoned. Read *Tough Jews* by Rich Cohen who said that has been going on since the 1920s.
I'm so glad you survived another visit to the ENY area. Imagine what it's like to grow up there like I did. ;)
There must be thousands of people who would pay money to watch action-kid get robbed and beat up.
I'D pay money for actionkid to go to the hole at midnight walk around for 1 hour.
Yes, plenty of good people out there as I discovered during a three-year residence in a shelter at Forbell and Conduit, and you're probably aware that these days most of them are Bangladeshi Muslims. When one of them is celebrated the Ramadan ending feast of Eid by giving out little treats to passing strangers, the Good Humor ice cream bar he gave me as I said lease at waiting for my laundry to be done in what appeared to be a former Bank building, no toasted almond bar ever tasted so sweet, though you had to be careful not to get trampled when the men in the neighborhood would rush on their way to prayer at the nearby mosque. And come on, please people pray six times a day how bad can they be,?
@@MrDongodon (Austin Powers gets off the A train at Grand Avenue). "oh Behave baby -- and wear your shagadelic mask"
@@bronxbearbud272
Lol ...right on.....from Bklyn.
I know that the Bronx is also part of murder capital of nyc
That doesn't look too much different from New Orleans East, the Lower 9th Ward, St. Bernard Parish and Chalmette... And one of the benefits of knowing a foreign language is when you are approached by pan handlers
I would never walk around there, but honestly, it looks like less of a dangerous neighborhood and more of just a rundown one. I know at least in my city, some of the areas that look the worst actually arent the most unsafe. At some point, when a neighborhood becomes so abandoned, a lot of the crime moves somewhere else as well.
I've lived in New York City my whole life and have visited every inch of this city I call home. But I have never heard of that area becoming its own neighborhood and being referred to by that name. Also, pro tip; when someone asks you for money, just give them a "no" and keep it moving.
I've also lived in NYC my whole life and I give money to people all the time. Your advice is shitty.
There have been 2 whole documentaries on the area, they call it “The Hole” . It’s not called that cause it’s “ran down”, it’s called that because it’s 30ft below sea level, hence the flooding. It’s also a notorious mafia graveyard. They’ve found at least 3 or 4 major crime dudes in Parking lots.
BUT, I do not think this place is “sketchy”.. we have “sketchier” parts of Charlotte than this. Being asked for money? That happens at least 3 times a day here.. that doesn’t make a place sketchy
@@stephenmatthewappear Lol true, but as a woman, There are ALOT of places, in every city in America, that I wouldn’t walk down at 2:30 AM😛🤣🤣
The actual “sketchy” area is Pink Houses to the right of the “hole”. They used to call the courtyard the Terror Dome growing up because of all the gun fire between rival drug dealers.
New York city has a lot worse neighborhoods than that!!! But I guess he doesn't want to risk his life by walking through them!
nah buddy been everywhere
Have you ever been to New York City? 😂
@@tjrtt I was born in New York City. I lived in Elmhurst Queens, (Hampton street), bay ridge brooklyn, 3rd Avenue and 86th street, and Manhattan ( off 57th Street and 9th ave. Elmhurst and bay ridge use to be decent areas. Now they're sh.. holes.
@Jimmy Garza make that the world. Growing up it used to be a war zone. Now 90% of the areas are safe after dark. I even walked through Brownsville the other night and it’s like walking through the safe part of Canarsie.
My old neighborhood, it's not run down.
This is my old neighborhood and it is run down.
@@kellynorvell5714 Nope
Kelly Norvell i garuntee you arent from New York.
@@stefanochiodi8800 lol
@@kellynorvell5714 it not it changed a lot since the opening of gateway which people forget is apart of east New York. There been lot of developments fuck it their a nature reservation now near the belt. Also there been little pockets like they changed alantic adding something in the middle to stop Jay walking. Also the open a new school that actually good by gateway too
This guy keeps blaming the city for the bad conditions and that IS true to some extent, but how about the accountability on the residents? Littering knows no class of people. You don’t have to have money to not trash your neighborhood.
Ken, don't take a chance on your life visiting dangerous neighborhoods, please be safe......Walt in Miami
A non-NY'er opining on NYC. Miami is scary.
That’s not scary at all dude. It’s a place where they dump and fix cars. Bunch of mechanics and shit like that.
Miami is dangerous padding all the tacky glitz, plzzzzzzz
The Miami-Dade County pigs gang are more THUG than the NYPD pigs.
doesn’t look that bad
Does not smell that bad too.
It's not... this dude is overly dramatic
You see neighborhoods like this in a lot of industrial cities. Always wondered how and why they got like this. Thanks for taking us where most people would never dare to go. Stay safe.
" The Hole " has expanded to include all of NYC now .
Soo now it's " the whole "
Yup 😔
New Yorker: "Bad neighborhood." 😳
Los Angeles Viewer: 🤣🤣🤣
The ignorance of this content creator is astounding. 🤦♂️
he dont know shitt
Lol I kept waiting for the bad parts but they never came.
@@lazarusjackson1792 Dude, who are you even talking to? *Read the comments; no one believes this guy.*
Go back to sleep Lazarus.
@@agpc0529 lol
Jersey: come to Newark/Irvington/Orange or Camden or Trenton or Patterson
I’ve been all over Southern CA (LA and San Diego and Palmdale and Beaumont) and I laugh at what they call the “hood”. I was walking on Crenshaw in L.A. and didn’t even feel any type of way. Didn’t even realize it was Crenshaw until I saw the street sign. I guess if you see more than 5 minorities on a block in CA it’s deemed “hood”.
You may call the hole sketchy, but thankfully you completed your video without altercation, nothing stolen & nothing broken.
I live in East New York and there are actually nice and quiet parts of East New York.
Exactly! Thank you.
Dude where are you coming from?! I’m from the Bronx, worked all over the Bronx and this is not bad at all. I moved out last year but still love my borough!!
Grew up in Rosedale- a few blocks where Brookville Blvd turned into “Snake Road”. Basically a 1 1/2 lane serpentine shaped road that took you thru the swamp over to Rockaway Blvd. we played all day as kids in those swamps. Sold hub caps, chased feral dogs, lit bottle rockets at the low flying planes sitting at the TACAN towers and found dead hogtied bodies while looking for our pot plants. All at the age of 14. Miss the old days in Queens. Fistfights and drinking by night in the forts we build in the swamps near PS 195.
Dude, I am from a very Rural part of Eastern Kentucky, and I spent 25 years working in the Telecomm Industry. We used to come up there (NYC area) to work all the time. In fact I lived in a Marriott in Midtown for close to 10 months once. This is NOT a "Sketchy" Neighborhood, not even close. Not once did I see you get approached by someone trying to sell you Dope, nor was there anyone standing on the street involved in any kind of nefarious activities at all. That Neighborhood just has a lot of Auto Salvage Lots and that kind of stuff. I saw you walk by a Brand New Black Freightliner Truck, and I promise you if it was that bad there that Guy would not be parking a $150,000.00 Truck on the street there. There are shitloads of places right in the middle of Manhattan that are 1000 tines worse than this. Places where you can get Mugged, Shot and or Stabbed right in broad daylight. Not one person gave you a crossed word during your entire walk thru here. Smh
Dude, this is just a Neighborhood where there is a mix of Industrial/Salvage shit mixed with Residential. I saw many homes there that looked pretty nice. Hell some of them had Gates and Fences that cost more than what you probably earn in a year. In the Residential parts I saw plenty of nice Automobiles. This place is just obviously prone to flooding during bad Storms. So what! There are plenty of places that have that issue, especially when you're 35 below sea level, what would you expect? Didn't see 1 single crime being committed, no prostitution, no drugs, nothing. I didn't even see one person that would've caused me senses to go on alert. The people that live and work here I'm sure aren't real happy with your portrayal of their Neighborhood. You Exaggeration is just over the top in describing this place. There are places in Kentucky and West Virginia that are a 100 times more dangerous than this to walk thru. Places where you would be stopped by "Locals" and asked what the hell your business was, and would take your Video Camera away from you at a bare minimum. I spent 25 years on and off working in and around NYC, and had a pretty damn good time. I ran into a couple of people that gave me some problems, but as soon as I pulled my Regulator from the back of my waistband, their attitudes changed to very cordial in a real hurry. Lol
Those instances happened in Manhattan (2 of them), and the other was in Jamaica Queens.
Also, spending large parts of my career working in that area, I absolutely never heard anyone call that area "The Hole", and I know exactly where this place is, I have drove thru there many times.
I would say you could find buried bodies from Mob Hits in damn near any Vacant Lot in the greater 5 Boroughs, as well as New Jersey, that has been vacant since that era (60's, thru the late 90's).
I could take you places in the South Side of Chicago during daylight hours that you would be begging me not to stop the Vehicle, and pleading for me to get you the hell outta there. Lmao
Next time try to keep it real, or find some Grittier Stuff to show us.
✌ out
Hi.
Just wanted to ask what you mean by "Regulator".
I assume that you mean a gun, I live in Scotland and not the U.S, it's just a term I've never heard before.
Thanks.
Its pretty rundown. But you're right, its because of the flooding. I think the mafia rap gives it a dangerous feel. But yeah, I live in Gainesville Florida and the eastern side of this small city is way more sketchy than this.
When is your next book coming out? Are you having a signing?
@@kingbeastie yes a Regulator is an old time term for a Gun
@@PROFESSOR-I.C. In about 6 months, shoot me your address and I'll gladly send you an Autographed Copy 🤣🤣🤣
3:45 quite interesting that the newer-looking apartments have window a/c...maybe they're old apartments and just a new outer part? Anyway, like most New Yorkers you may not be aware of the rest of the country outside of NYC, but what you walked through is how much of our country looks, both urban and rural. It's just unusual in NYC.
Yes, you are correct. Virtually all towns on America have a "hole." The whole country is run down with abandoned shopping malls, schools, hospitals, industrial parks, etc., as well as residential areas. Very sad for America.
@J Ramble : Thanks for mentioning this. I will have a look.
@Aaron Fridays : I agree, this neighborhood in New York doesn't look so bad. But of course it all depends on what you are used to.
Hey. I was recently shocked when I was using the google earth app. Going to street-view in GE on any small town Main Street, and see huge number of shut down boarded up shops and even homes. Small town USA is in pitiful, critical condition.!
That is a newer construction that went up just a few years ago. They city is building affordable housing on practically every viable empty lot in this neighborhood.
This looks like many typical neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn. Some of these rundown places are getting almost unaffordable to live in. What I see here is opportunity for the future.
Actionkid: *Literally goes to any neighborhood*
“OMG stay safe Actionkid omg so dangerous”
He's already been assaulted in the past so it's just well wishes, we don't wanna see him get hurt
Ana Irene Martinez foolish kid
No harm came his way. It's one more area in NYC. Be safe walking out of your door. You never know what's gonna occur once you're outside, or inside.
ActionKid is the kid of action. All he has to do is use his superpowers and make the whole scene an Action Movie. Then take them to jail.
Nandito. OMG, he did stay safe.
Been through this area many times on my way to JFK. Never knew it was considered a sketchy area.
Its not . I've lived there. Its really not as bad as it's being made out to be.
At least not since the 90s.
looks more like an industrial park .
Go to Mother Gaston and New Lots lol or The Pink Houses
It's cleaned up around there now.
Did they let you out without stuntman?
You mean mother Gaston and Dumont/Livonia ??
y'all tryana get homie caught slipping lmaoooo
You know here’s not from nyc 🤣🤣 bro you wanna go to the real hoods lemme know because that’s child’s play what your showing
J. Roman big factual facts lol
Facts.
That area isn’t that bad, man really makes it a “scary thing”
Guy is walking around with a camera and not once did anyone roll up on him and say what's up white boy?
BigBadJerry Rogers probably because he’s not white lol
I don't live far from there, I don't know what you mean by Sketchiest but that is a working class neighborhood. If you are looking "none tourist" places, go to Belmont ave projects in Brownsville.
The Walking Dead director should know about that place
Its good idea but cant film there a commercial area and its constantly flooded it
The story behind Walking Dead was prolly inspired by this area.