Lifelong NYC resident here and trust me when I tell you, people living in these 'hoods in 1974 or 1984 would consider 2024 a futuristic paradise by comparison l.
Likewise, born 1960 and lived here all my life. Seen so much bad stuff back in the 70s and 80s. Things are tough today, but NYC was essentially a sh*thole 40/50 years ago. Amazing that it actually recovered the way it has.
@@dwayneneal3342 trust me it was really tough times. Had my car broken into multiple times each year. Happened all the time to my friends too. Good buddy of mine in the Bronx had his apartment broken into twice in 6 weeks. They actually took the urn with his fathers ashes and trashed everything else they didnt steal. A great deal of violent crime too. Look up the murder rates during that time. I also remember the blackout in July of 1977. A great deal of looting when on. Some parts of the city, like in Bushwick on Broadway took over 25 years to start to recover. Am sure there are videos of all of this on YT too. Stay well.
If it was for you. What time would you rather be in at the moment? And how was it different compared to nowadays. Can you name some examples? Sidenote: I have never visited USA, would love to go to for the nature etc.
@@ErgensUit1987 Harlem and Bronx are not very different than they were in the 70s. Harlem is till mostly welfare, drugs and middle aged men just sitting around smoking weed all day. Bronx has nicer areas but is also the #1 worst county for health in New York State. Both are poor and dangerous. Brooklyn is terrible too but Manhattan below 100th St is nice.
This was the Nyc I remember as a kid in the 70s & as a teen in the 80s. It's crazy how much it's changed. Sometimes I think of friends & family who passed away back then, and wonder what they would have thought about what this city has become & what life is like today. Thanks for this video man, brought back many memories.
I was reading an article about Sesame Street not long ago and the whole show was created to try and give the kids that lived in those ghettos a hope in heII. Hits harder actually seeing how those neighborhoods were. Thanks for the video.
As someone who was born and spent a lot of my youth in the BX, I remember a lot of those abandoned buildings, I remember my family had a high rise in a white building (clinton tower) and the BX was always on fire. I later found out a lot of those fires were intentional, building owners trying to get insurance $$$ was rampant.
Wow, this was bad the Government made sure people live in poverty,mean while their wallets are getting thicker. Dirty sh*ts get rich off poverty, it truly looked like a 3rd world Country. An eye opener for me, love Aotearoa New Zealand.❤❤❤❤❤
The public pay were like the cell phones back then. Some locations had lines just to use the pay phone. If you were to have a long conversation, you'd need a hella quarters
I grew up in Brownsville. The roughest, most destitute area in NYC at that time. Heroin needles everywhere. It looked like Beirut at that time. I lived on a block with homes that were spared, but the surrounding area was scary. This is why we are built like no other. We survived. I now live in the suburbs of Georgia. Manicured lawns, beautiful homes, minimal crime if any. I know what it’s like to live on both sides of the spectrum.
Hi I worked in Brownsville for two years as a repairman from 2017-2018. At the time I'd hear it considered one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods in Brooklyn. It probably was, but I can say I never felt in danger walking around there in the day time. It was lower income for sure than other areas of the city but I didn't feel like there was a sense of hopelessness. A lot of people I met living there seemed to be doing the best with what they had. I could sense though it was still a place where you needed street smarts to get by
@RRW-c6x I don't know that era firsthand but that was the feeling I had. I didn't witness any crimes or even see anything really horrifying in two years. I was surprised by how well some of the residents in NYCHA fixed up their apartments. I saw things like people installing new vinyl flooring themselves and other indications that they are looking to improve on what they have. No burned out buildings from what I saw. I felt more at ease there then in some parts of Long Island or New Jersey where I also worked. There's a decent shopping district in Pitkin. Nothing fancy in Brownsville, no trendy restaurants from what I could see. I heard about kids still getting killed but it seemed this was happening less and less as the last century is in the rear view. Nothing like what this video shows or what you described. I'm also in suburban Georgia now with a lot of other new yorkers!
my family is from Beirut and I went there right after the war ended in 1990 to visit and yes you’re right these shots of L’s school nyc looks exactly like Beirut did after the war good. observation
Yhea that New York was terrible. I remember visiting Brooklyn in the 80’s coming from canada . The energy was unmatched but. NY was really scary and extremely dangerous .
@@ecup1384 We didnt have subway pushers then..and a lot of those murders were 'gang related" it wasnt random attacks like today. But 2200 is a lot of death.
@@Piggy-Oink-Oinkif we are talking statistics 1970s NYC way wayyyy more dangerous than current NYC. I think the difference now would probably be more mentally ill ppl sleeping in the streets.
I used to make deliveries from philly to nyc in the late 70's 2-3 times a week on foot, ... I never imagined it would be turned around...Going there used to make me happy to get back to PHILLY... :)... I was on google street maps recently; It's night and day...Very clean for a giant city!
In the late 60's- early 70's went to a few Yankee and NY footballl Giant games with my Dad and you had to park in these sketchy lots and leave the keys. Scary place. Driving through the South Bronx on a hot day with no A/C my Dad would say "Roll'em up." Times Square smelled like sex and piss. The city is so much better now.
100% solid gold footage, Charlie. I think it's important for people to remember that what happened in the South Bronx wasn't merely neglect but coordinated arson and insurance fraud perpetrated by the buildings' owners. Hardly anyone was ever prosecuted let alone convicted for this wholesale destruction.
Absolute bullshit. If the people respected the area, didn’t commit crime, and were on a more human level, then property values wouldn’t drop, and landlords wouldn’t have resorted to such tactics to get their money back. Ask yourself how the area was before this during the 40’s and 50’s before Jacob Javitz ruined this city in the 60’s? It was paradise.
@@StreetLethalRacing Bullshit! You're saying if the animals there acted as humans...?? We need to get to the reason behind why these places looked like a war zone 40 to 50 years ago. It's not all the fault of the residents. Far from it.
@@StreetLethalRacing Bull hockey pucks! Robert Moses started the downward spiral with all his freeways criss-crossing The Bronx and the housing projects and urban renewal schemes.
From Illinois! About 7 years or so ago I took a road trip to NYC and of course had to hit The Bronx. The clip of the school house/lot with the kids is from a video posted on YT many years ago. I made it a point to find the school and I did - P.S. 61, I believe. Big difference in how the whole neighborhood looks now compared to the old bad days of The Bronx! Crotona Park is right behind the school.
I was stationed on Staten Island in the Military for 6 months in 1971. I took the SI Ferry to Manhattan and went walking around the city. While at a corner stop crossing a car went by and a person on the front seat was shooting up with a needle in his Arm. I never forgot that. I was like wtf?
At the 0:45 mark you see an old abandoned school building. It's location is 220 West 148th Street. When you look at it now on Google maps you'll see that it's not abandoned now. It's the PS 90 Condominiums.
❤ very good video ❤ it reminds me a city, that's a prison. I visit there, and NYC, drove through all of it. When I got back on I94 , i promised I would never be back. Sad.
Wow the difference is night and day. That was back in the time where everyone would throw trash out their car windows. The bldg look so old and outdated. New York looked like a junk yard.
What would be great is a split screen side by side video of the South BX in the early 80s compared to the South BX in 2024 .... I saw a video of California like that!😊 🇬🇧👍🏾
En el 2016 madge dijo que sufrio bastante cuando se fue de michigan y se fue a nueva York cuando tenia 18 años, Dijo que se metio a vivir en un apartamento demasiado deteriodado y ahi la paso muy mal, y puede ser verdad lo que ella dice ya que nueva York era peligrosa y desornedada a finales de los 70 y principios de los 80 yo a ella si le creo, pobrecita
They said back then that they were doing what they were doing in those neighborhoods because they were a product of their environment. They became as grimy as the blight they were living in. They said, "If they fixed up our neighborhoods and made our areas a better place to live, we wouldn't be doing all this drug dealing and gang stuff." So. The city listened, and fixed up the areas and made them the better place to live that they are today. But still, they just sell drugs and do gang stuff. Maybe it wasn't the environment that was the problem after all. Maybe the people had a lot to do with it. 🤔
Let's discount the massive drop of crime from the mid 90's to now I guess. 2200 murders at peak to 400 today, and that's during a relatively bad time in recent history. These areas are still poor but in a city that's considered one of if not the most expensive to live in it happens. Some stay, some move to other parts of the city, some move away entirely. Still dirty but ain't the hell on earth it used to be.
Incroyable je suis de France 🇫🇷 et je me dis que j’ai eu de la chance 😱 mon dieu les gens vivait la 🥵 J’essaye de trouver des documentaires avec le New York de l’époque quand elle était prospère, cette ville mais j’ai du mal en France. un jour quand j’étais plus jeune, j’ai regardé le film Warriors et ça se passait là-bas sur ces images incroyables
Thank for teaching the whiny Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Y who pretend the Cities were better back in the day. At 60, I remember both Los Angeles and San Francisco with neighborhoods like this....the Tenderloin, South of Market, Skid Row, Cabrini Green in Chicago. This is what Cities were like.
@@TMendocino I wasn't using sarcasm. The idea of old cars surrounded by unboarded vacant properties everywhere with no fences is my idea of a good time. in 2024 Most cities won't let a property sit for more than a year before they take it down. and while it waits to be taken down there's boards, fences, cameras, and security. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a total idiot. I know it wasn't like a fantasy movie back then, But I'd have more crap to keep myself occupied with.
@@TMendocino the thought of me being able to defend myself against my tormentors, without fear of cameras everywhere and being able to find a woman who doesn't care about instagram or having $50,000,000, then hop in a dodge diplomat and go explore an abandoned building is all I need to romanticize it. If it was a terrible time for you, I'm sorry, I really am, but its a terrible time for me NOW, and I might have been able to save myself before it was too late had I been born 30-50 years earlier. Chicken pox, AIDS, I'd take all of it just to be happy for even 1 day 😊
AMerican dream right there ..... nothing better then a house build it and live in small communities like Amish people or like in old times but American Dream go live in prison cells called cities lots of buildings and small apartments to pay them up until you die .... brainwashing is good working great and no one try to change a thing for himself or everyone to make change and to leave this paganic money system but everyone love to live like this poor etc ....
I played in these abandoned buildings during the bronx is burning Era and then visit my grandmother in East new york cypress p's where they were shooting off the roof
@@lifeisagambletv I'm just going to have to troop to go see where big Brodie's stomping grounds be...ever since Barclays Center open BK ain't look the same since... GENTRIFICATION like a virus spreading rapidly😂😂
The old footage shows the effects of deindustrialization and job loss, coupled with policies like redlining that starved inner city areas of capital. One form of redlining meant that certain areas were designated "slum" by the US government, and banks wouldn't issue mortgages for properties in those areas. Most of these were areas with large black or brown populations. Meanwhile, freeway construction and the GI bill which allowed service members to get mortgages on favorable terms for new construction but not existing properties also spurred white flight from inner city areas to the suburbs. Since building owners couldn't get money to fix places up or properly maintain them, by the late 1960's many started resorting to arson to collect the insurance money. The phenomenon continued through the 1970's, when Howard Cosell famously remarked on it during a World Series broadcast. It's how large sections of the South Bronx ended up looking like Berlin at the end of WW2. So sad and wasteful.
It looks even worse than described in grandmaster flash song: It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under Broken glass everywhere People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care I can't take the smell, can't take the noise Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice Rats in the front room, roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat I tried to get away but I couldn't get far Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car
The place did a 180 from the 70's & 80's, but has regressed a lot in the last 8 years. The unremoved graffiti and gang tags all over (which ain't street art) is always a dead giveaway that a city has gone into the sh*tter.
This is the NYC that I was born and raised in! I was living in Flatbush, Brooklyn during these days, and even though it wasn't nearly as bad as the boogie down south Bronx, it was still mean on those streets of Brooklyn! Lots of ILL shit was going down!
Yeah it was funky,,,,,,and only the tough survived....but you could have a roof over yout head, affordable rent and raise a family of five on a minimum wage job...AND THE THREE KIDS GO TO CITY COLLEGE FOR FREE
I prefer the old 70s and 80s having lived through it. The people there just had a better vibe, look at how beautiful the kids laugher was at PS 61. Walking around the streets, you could talk to people now everybody’s just stuck on the phone and you can feel them being angry.
What is the story behind the abandoned burned out apartment buildings and all the rubble?? What happened to them all ?? Where did everyone go that was living in them ? And when were they being lived in - in the 50's and 60's ? When were they ever actually nice places to live how far back would you have to go ?
Back in late Victorian & Edwardian times, it was posh place, Harlem too, with servants below & owners went into the front. Then these people went too suburbia & these homes eventually turned into migrants & black ghettos.
This has to be after the blackout! I can’t imagine how bad it will be next time. It’s going to just keep happening until we can figure out something better. Idk what that something would be, but it seems like a cycle of destruction we’re in.
Lifelong NYC resident here and trust me when I tell you, people living in these 'hoods in 1974 or 1984 would consider 2024 a futuristic paradise by comparison l.
Likewise, born 1960 and lived here all my life. Seen so much bad stuff back in the 70s and 80s. Things are tough today, but NYC was essentially a sh*thole 40/50 years ago. Amazing that it actually recovered the way it has.
Yeah I don't buy that
Its true. Crime was also far worse@@dwayneneal3342
@@dwayneneal3342 trust me it was really tough times. Had my car broken into multiple times each year. Happened all the time to my friends too. Good buddy of mine in the Bronx had his apartment broken into twice in 6 weeks. They actually took the urn with his fathers ashes and trashed everything else they didnt steal. A great deal of violent crime too. Look up the murder rates during that time. I also remember the blackout in July of 1977. A great deal of looting when on. Some parts of the city, like in Bushwick on Broadway took over 25 years to start to recover. Am sure there are videos of all of this on YT too. Stay well.
Hard to believe there was a place that was worse than Detroit is in the 2000's.
Leningrad looked better after the siege
Neighborhoods reflect the values of the people that live there.
White man create, black just take.
Old time New York is soo interesting and fun to watch. I wish I was alive back in this time era.
No way, back then it was miserable! Today, New York is much safer and a whole lot cleaner. It’s absolutely beautiful now.
need a bit narrative, to plain
@@jbissainthe the abandoned buildings made it besutiful
I could just imagine sammy the bull at his peak in those times
A lot of the Bronx and Harlem was basically third world in the 70s and 80s
Geeesus why is there so much trash. The hippies finally got something right
Like. More. Year 1970. South. Bklyn. Happy. Year 70
i was here, in NYC, in the 1970's, 80's and today, its a totally different place.
If it was for you. What time would you rather be in at the moment? And how was it different compared to nowadays. Can you name some examples?
Sidenote: I have never visited USA, would love to go to for the nature etc.
@@ErgensUit1987 Harlem and Bronx are not very different than they were in the 70s. Harlem is till mostly welfare, drugs and middle aged men just sitting around smoking weed all day. Bronx has nicer areas but is also the #1 worst county for health in New York State. Both are poor and dangerous. Brooklyn is terrible too but Manhattan below 100th St is nice.
That's true. Very odd how fast it changed too.
@@tommeadows-ie2xbyou don't know what the hell you are talking about cause if you did you would know GENTRIFICATION has taken over Brooklyn big time
@@tommeadows-ie2xbSo 100% Democrat voters huh?
I didn't know CharlieBo313 had the ability to time travel.
Fr though.
Ahora lo sabes, Bobby
Fart??@@Sehlan-jw2cm
CharlieBo
Lol I was thinking the same thing:-) I just watched Time Changer and loved it.
0:33 I heard that Mercedes-Benz 300 diesel before I saw it! May still be running today!
You definitely deserve more recognition for this!
This was the Nyc I remember as a kid in the 70s & as a teen in the 80s. It's crazy how much it's changed.
Sometimes I think of friends & family who passed away back then, and wonder what they would have thought about what this city has become & what life is like today.
Thanks for this video man, brought back many memories.
Neanderthal!
@@deanrane1961 as a 1980s born, in some ways it's more better/convenient. But just keep the traditional/multi-cullturul values in place as well
Looks like a war zone - buildings in rubble/ruins. Love seeing the old cars.
I was reading an article about Sesame Street not long ago and the whole show was created to try and give the kids that lived in those ghettos a hope in heII. Hits harder actually seeing how those neighborhoods were. Thanks for the video.
Well said.
Neanderthal!
And it's funny, when the americans keep talking about third world countries ,like it's something very far from them !!?
This is what happens when people from third world countries come here. This shithole is a very thin slice of America.
Wow nobody with phones in their hands! 😂😂😂
Good times!
Nice.
Oh God, the Boogie Down Bronx was the worst of the worst 😫 total waste landscape ever
That, and parts of Uptown
Brownsville and east new york wasn’t any different downtown Brooklyn looked like a bomb dropped
@@upsidedownkingdom2757I grew up as a kid in Brooklyn can I have to wholeheartedly agree with you. Brooklyn was a fucking dump in the early nineties.
As someone who was born and spent a lot of my youth in the BX, I remember a lot of those abandoned buildings, I remember my family had a high rise in a white building (clinton tower) and the BX was always on fire. I later found out a lot of those fires were intentional, building owners trying to get insurance $$$ was rampant.
"BX" as "Latinx"?
@@pepelefrog1121 No, BX means the Bronx.
@@LobotomizeCommies10 oh, I thought it was some sort of liberal socialist woke bullshit like "latinx".
@@pepelefrog1121 Nah, you can’t be a weak, communist vagenis in the hood. The streets will eat you up and you will never survive.
Neanderthal!
Wow, this was bad the Government made sure people live in poverty,mean while their wallets are getting thicker. Dirty sh*ts get rich off poverty, it truly looked like a 3rd world Country. An eye opener for me, love Aotearoa New Zealand.❤❤❤❤❤
Charlie as a kid in the back seat of family car taking video, on a trip to NYC.
broken glass everywhere.....
People pissing on the stairs , you know they just don't care
Don't push me cuz I'm close to the edge we're trying not to lose our heads
@@MOLICIOUS69it's like a jungle sometimes and makes me wonder, how I keep from going under.
@@TheAlmightyExlennium 😂👏🏿👏🏿
No Cell Phones only Beepers back then!
Not even beepers, those came in the 90s
@@teezee1000…word up homeboy! 👌🏿
The public pay were like the cell phones back then. Some locations had lines just to use the pay phone. If you were to have a long conversation, you'd need a hella quarters
@@teezee1000exactly
@@spontaneouz1000-sr6lsyup😂omg you just took me 🔙 with that
I grew up in Brownsville. The roughest, most destitute area in NYC at that time. Heroin needles everywhere. It looked like Beirut at that time. I lived on a block with homes that were spared, but the surrounding area was scary. This is why we are built like no other. We survived. I now live in the suburbs of Georgia. Manicured lawns, beautiful homes, minimal crime if any. I know what it’s like to live on both sides of the spectrum.
Hi I worked in Brownsville for two years as a repairman from 2017-2018. At the time I'd hear it considered one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods in Brooklyn. It probably was, but I can say I never felt in danger walking around there in the day time. It was lower income for sure than other areas of the city but I didn't feel like there was a sense of hopelessness. A lot of people I met living there seemed to be doing the best with what they had. I could sense though it was still a place where you needed street smarts to get by
@@cityshadeswoodworkin
I’m talking late 60s, 70s. 2018, apples and oranges I promise you.
@RRW-c6x I don't know that era firsthand but that was the feeling I had. I didn't witness any crimes or even see anything really horrifying in two years. I was surprised by how well some of the residents in NYCHA fixed up their apartments. I saw things like people installing new vinyl flooring themselves and other indications that they are looking to improve on what they have. No burned out buildings from what I saw. I felt more at ease there then in some parts of Long Island or New Jersey where I also worked. There's a decent shopping district in Pitkin. Nothing fancy in Brownsville, no trendy restaurants from what I could see. I heard about kids still getting killed but it seemed this was happening less and less as the last century is in the rear view. Nothing like what this video shows or what you described. I'm also in suburban Georgia now with a lot of other new yorkers!
my family is from Beirut and I went there right after the war ended in 1990 to visit and yes you’re right these shots of L’s school nyc looks exactly like Beirut did after the war good. observation
@@cityshadeswoodworkin
I’m glad you personally didn’t experience anything bad. Thousands of inner city kids did.
Must of been a hell of a playground for kids. I'd imagine quite a few kids and even adults got into bad accidents exploring the rotting buildings.
Yhea that New York was terrible. I remember visiting Brooklyn in the 80’s coming from canada .
The energy was unmatched but. NY was really scary and extremely dangerous .
it's extremely dangerous once again.
@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Back then it was 2200 Kills in a year Dangerous. Now Just 350. Thats a difference
@@ecup1384 We didnt have subway pushers then..and a lot of those murders were 'gang related" it wasnt random attacks like today. But 2200 is a lot of death.
@@Piggy-Oink-Oinkif we are talking statistics 1970s NYC way wayyyy more dangerous than current NYC. I think the difference now would probably be more mentally ill ppl sleeping in the streets.
@@Piggy-Oink-Oinkthere were more subway murders back then. You have no idea what you are talking about.
I used to make deliveries from philly to nyc in the late 70's 2-3 times a week on foot, ... I never imagined it would be turned around...Going there used to make me happy to get back to PHILLY... :)... I was on google street maps recently; It's night and day...Very clean for a giant city!
Now Philly is the dump lol
@@BoricuaLouieV HOW DARE YOU!
That's a long way to make deliveries on foot, man
@@MikeConrad-oj6se : )...You!!!! :)...But, damn that would be a hoof!
that’s a two day walk (for one direction) lol
Its nice to see charliebo go back in time and share this with us
Neanderthal!
NY in the 70's looks like Detroit today...
And I'd like to think that NYC and Detroit should have the top economies in America
At least NYC didn't go bankrupt like Detroit did
@@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls they did at one time before the democrats took over everything
@@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls NYC went bankrupt during Mayor Abe Beam. He was after Lindsey.
That’s only some of the parts of the city everywhere in Detroit does not look like this video clip lol
Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message" playin in my head while I watch this video. "Like"
Broken glass everywhere 🎶🎵🎶 u
In the late 60's- early 70's went to a few Yankee and NY footballl Giant games with my Dad and you had to park in these sketchy lots and leave the keys. Scary place. Driving through the South Bronx on a hot day with no A/C my Dad would say "Roll'em up." Times Square smelled like sex and piss. The city is so much better now.
This is what parts of Philadelphia looks like today.
Kensington avenue.
and Baltimore
Which parts?
@@xwhitexstarxxKensington
100% solid gold footage, Charlie. I think it's important for people to remember that what happened in the South Bronx wasn't merely neglect but coordinated arson and insurance fraud perpetrated by the buildings' owners. Hardly anyone was ever prosecuted let alone convicted for this wholesale destruction.
Absolute bullshit. If the people respected the area, didn’t commit crime, and were on a more human level, then property values wouldn’t drop, and landlords wouldn’t have resorted to such tactics to get their money back. Ask yourself how the area was before this during the 40’s and 50’s before Jacob Javitz ruined this city in the 60’s? It was paradise.
@@StreetLethalRacing Bullshit! You're saying if the animals there acted as humans...?? We need to get to the reason behind why these places looked like a war zone 40 to 50 years ago. It's not all the fault of the residents. Far from it.
@@StreetLethalRacing Bull hockey pucks! Robert Moses started the downward spiral with all his freeways criss-crossing The Bronx and the housing projects and urban renewal schemes.
@@EdwardM-t8p i heard that one
History. Read. Fool.
From Illinois! About 7 years or so ago I took a road trip to NYC and of course had to hit The Bronx. The clip of the school house/lot with the kids is from a video posted on YT many years ago. I made it a point to find the school and I did - P.S. 61, I believe. Big difference in how the whole neighborhood looks now compared to the old bad days of The Bronx! Crotona Park is right behind the school.
I still feel the sadness in the air. It's triggering me, it always seems like it's too hard to live in America. Very sad.
What's more triggering is all these blacks unduly soaking up living space and those lovely cars.
such a great city in ruins, thanks to imcompetant leaders...
This is the NY I always remember growing up.
I was stationed on Staten Island in the Military for 6 months in 1971. I took the SI Ferry to Manhattan and went walking around the city. While at a corner stop crossing a car went by and a person on the front seat was shooting up with a needle in his Arm. I never forgot that. I was like wtf?
Was a great time to be a mobster, pimp, or drug dealer.
This was what Washington DC looked like in the 70s.
Omg yes Hanover square.... chocolate City was no MFn joke...now it's the young gangs
still a dump
At the 0:45 mark you see an old abandoned school building. It's location is 220 West 148th Street. When you look at it now on Google maps you'll see that it's not abandoned now. It's the PS 90 Condominiums.
Imagine night time
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❤ very good video ❤ it reminds me a city, that's a prison. I visit there, and NYC, drove through all of it. When I got back on I94 , i promised I would never be back. Sad.
Thank you very much. My father, his sister and mother left New York City looking for a better life. He passed away from gun violence. God Bless!
After 30yrs, she went up.
Wife of 30 yrs. Passed on not too long ago.
Wife of 30 yrs. passed.
Still looks like a dump
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under !! Grandmaster Flash
this is so interesting! It would be great to get some interviews from people who have lived on those times
Wow NYC looked like the barrios in South America… this doesn’t even look like America
Charles Bronson fixed that.
It's incredible that Hip Hop came out of the South Bronx.
Wow the difference is night and day. That was back in the time where everyone would throw trash out their car windows. The bldg look so old and outdated. New York looked like a junk yard.
What kind of city is this? Is this Johannesburg South Africa? 🤔
Johannesburg was a good city in the 70s clean and relatively safe.
Not so much now
Looks like Philadelphia and Baltimore... CURRENT TIMES 💩
That's weird! I wonder why someone would park such nice caddis in such a bad neighborhood?😅dopeman! Dopeman!
Imagine how many unsolved crimes/ murder/ kidnappings took place back them…sad 😢
What would be great is a split screen side by side video of the South BX in the early 80s compared to the South BX in 2024 .... I saw a video of California like that!😊 🇬🇧👍🏾
It looks like the Gaza Strip.
Except They could get food and water
The graffiti got better didn't it
En el 2016 madge dijo que sufrio bastante cuando se fue de michigan y se fue a nueva York cuando tenia 18 años, Dijo que se metio a vivir en un apartamento demasiado deteriodado y ahi la paso muy mal, y puede ser verdad lo que ella dice ya que nueva York era peligrosa y desornedada a finales de los 70 y principios de los 80 yo a ella si le creo, pobrecita
They said back then that they were doing what they were doing in those neighborhoods because they were a product of their environment. They became as grimy as the blight they were living in. They said, "If they fixed up our neighborhoods and made our areas a better place to live, we wouldn't be doing all this drug dealing and gang stuff." So. The city listened, and fixed up the areas and made them the better place to live that they are today. But still, they just sell drugs and do gang stuff. Maybe it wasn't the environment that was the problem after all. Maybe the people had a lot to do with it. 🤔
The people had everything to do with it. 3rd world people 3rd world place.
Let's discount the massive drop of crime from the mid 90's to now I guess. 2200 murders at peak to 400 today, and that's during a relatively bad time in recent history. These areas are still poor but in a city that's considered one of if not the most expensive to live in it happens. Some stay, some move to other parts of the city, some move away entirely. Still dirty but ain't the hell on earth it used to be.
Yes it was far worst back then until Giuliani became mayor and solved the crime issue . But now we're headed back to the 80's with these Democrats
Wow! This is some amazing footage. It almost looks like an apocalypse at times.
Even Fallout didn't look this bad.
@@brodriguez11000 True.
Incroyable je suis de France 🇫🇷 et je me dis que j’ai eu de la chance 😱 mon dieu les gens vivait la 🥵 J’essaye de trouver des documentaires avec le New York de l’époque quand elle était prospère, cette ville mais j’ai du mal en France. un jour quand j’étais plus jeune, j’ai regardé le film Warriors et ça se passait là-bas sur ces images incroyables
To all the killas and the 100 dollar billas
Thank for teaching the whiny Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Y who pretend the Cities were better back in the day. At 60, I remember both Los Angeles and San Francisco with neighborhoods like this....the Tenderloin, South of Market, Skid Row, Cabrini Green in Chicago. This is what Cities were like.
The abandoned rotting buildings made it better. Don't you get it?
@@Heather-lg4gq They weren't even born, yet the yearn for the days when LA and SF were so much better. NOPE
@@TMendocino I wasn't using sarcasm. The idea of old cars surrounded by unboarded vacant properties everywhere with no fences is my idea of a good time. in 2024 Most cities won't let a property sit for more than a year before they take it down. and while it waits to be taken down there's boards, fences, cameras, and security.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a total idiot. I know it wasn't like a fantasy movie back then, But I'd have more crap to keep myself occupied with.
@@Heather-lg4gq It was a dangerous mess. There is no romanticizing the 1970's and 1980's
@@TMendocino the thought of me being able to defend myself against my tormentors, without fear of cameras everywhere and being able to find a woman who doesn't care about instagram or having $50,000,000, then hop in a dodge diplomat and go explore an abandoned building is all I need to romanticize it. If it was a terrible time for you, I'm sorry, I really am, but its a terrible time for me NOW, and I might have been able to save myself before it was too late had I been born 30-50 years earlier. Chicken pox, AIDS, I'd take all of it just to be happy for even 1 day 😊
Sad reality for an American place
AMerican dream right there ..... nothing better then a house build it and live in small communities like Amish people or like in old times but American Dream go live in prison cells called cities lots of buildings and small apartments to pay them up until you die .... brainwashing is good working great and no one try to change a thing for himself or everyone to make change and to leave this paganic money system but everyone love to live like this poor etc ....
I played in these abandoned buildings during the bronx is burning Era and then visit my grandmother in East new york cypress p's where they were shooting off the roof
You must be from Brooklyn
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This is late 80s 87-89 to early 90s Jeep Cherokee didn't come out until 87 or 88
Proper old NYC the way i remember it and loved it
The old footage shows the effects of deindustrialization and job loss, coupled with policies like redlining that starved inner city areas of capital. One form of redlining meant that certain areas were designated "slum" by the US government, and banks wouldn't issue mortgages for properties in those areas. Most of these were areas with large black or brown populations. Meanwhile, freeway construction and the GI bill which allowed service members to get mortgages on favorable terms for new construction but not existing properties also spurred white flight from inner city areas to the suburbs. Since building owners couldn't get money to fix places up or properly maintain them, by the late 1960's many started resorting to arson to collect the insurance money. The phenomenon continued through the 1970's, when Howard Cosell famously remarked on it during a World Series broadcast. It's how large sections of the South Bronx ended up looking like Berlin at the end of WW2. So sad and wasteful.
If you've survived in NYC from 1970 thru 2000, you're truly special!!! My Hat tilts to you
not all district were bad
@@Moodboard39 I can agree
It looks even worse than described in grandmaster flash song:
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
Broken glass everywhere
People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away but I couldn't get far
Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car
My playgrounds was the abandoned buildings. Please tag if that was u to.
This is the Bronx not Manhattan!
It was mostly Manhattan.
It may not be perfect but it's definitely changed for the better.
Looks like 3rd would slums !
The place did a 180 from the 70's & 80's, but has regressed a lot in the last 8 years. The unremoved graffiti and gang tags all over (which ain't street art) is always a dead giveaway that a city has gone into the sh*tter.
Street art is forced, commissioned crap.
Isn't street art
Says who
A lot? It got a little worse post pandemic but a lot is a stretch.
70's nyc was rough, nyc is a paradise today compared to then -- pretty unbelievable actually.
No phone booths or dew rags today - Republicans were in charge in the 70s and 80 s Nixon Rockefeller-reagan 80s
Is that girl wearing a Newcastle United football shirt...@ 17.22 Toon army 😮👍
Those guys had some nice luxury cars
Excellent video
This is the NYC that I was born and raised in! I was living in Flatbush, Brooklyn during these days, and even though it wasn't nearly as bad as the boogie down south Bronx, it was still mean on those streets of Brooklyn! Lots of ILL shit was going down!
Yeah it was funky,,,,,,and only the tough survived....but you could have a roof over yout head, affordable rent and raise a family of five on a minimum wage job...AND THE THREE KIDS GO TO CITY COLLEGE FOR FREE
Bronx was always like a 3rd world country compared to rest of the nyc.
I prefer the old 70s and 80s having lived through it. The people there just had a better vibe, look at how beautiful the kids laugher was at PS 61. Walking around the streets, you could talk to people now everybody’s just stuck on the phone and you can feel them being angry.
What is the story behind the abandoned burned out apartment buildings and all the rubble?? What happened to them all ?? Where did everyone go that was living in them ? And when were they being lived in - in the 50's and 60's ? When were they ever actually nice places to live how far back would you have to go ?
Living those days makes me apreciate what I have now, that was part of my life I will never forgett,regardless what some people say, I love N Y.
The 70's were really bad. The Bronx was the worst.
Like my hood in Czechia is called Bronx, last year there was triple murder in next to my flat
Back in late Victorian & Edwardian times, it was posh place, Harlem too, with servants below & owners went into the front. Then these people went too suburbia & these homes eventually turned into migrants & black ghettos.
Where was Big L during this era?
139 Lennox I belive ?
This has to be after the blackout! I can’t imagine how bad it will be next time. It’s going to just keep happening until we can figure out something better. Idk what that something would be, but it seems like a cycle of destruction we’re in.
That is crazy man. Imagine being a little kid growing up in that?? Wow, can’t believe the state let it get that bad. Look at the garbage everywhere.
NYC going to the 70s again
Looks like it was filmed in 1986
Everything will return to the “70s ..everything . Today as we know it,will be the past.
You know why the city got like this right?? Same reason everywhere!! The uncivilized
even the Rats were tougher in those days
Sad to say that looks like Gaza! Unbelievable if it weren’t documented here.