I remember Main St. through J.C. (and Binghamton) back in the '60s... it was vastly different than this. Though I wonder if many of the comments made would have been a bit more on the upbeat had you made this same drive-through on a bright sunny summer day? Great video. As Bob Hope used to sing, "Thanks... for the memories."
Not very representative of the town. This is the old industrial part that is being renovated by Binghamton University and various developers of new living spaces.The streets are pretty bad, but that's what Upstate winters do. They'll be patched soon.
The Empire State really does a fabulously f-cked up job at screwing anything outside of NYC, Westchester County, and Long Island. Upstate NY (most of what I've seen) is pretty sad, depressing, rundown, and just overall miserable. But regardless, you'll still find some GREAT people up there holding their own.
I was driving over some railroad tracks the other day and it was just beating the hell out of my trucks suspension. Then I looked around and realized oh I'm just driving on any random street in Binghamton Endwell Vestal Endicott.
They probably have. But when no one cares. They can't do much about it. I grew up in Binghamton in the 80s. So much better. Then than now Even our mall sucks. Due to the fact that is a poor town.
When you care things get done. When u don't things don't get done two of my friends owned music stores in Binghamton and one in ENDICOTT years back. They lasted one year. On the dot. Either taxes got em or The poor people on the block didn't have much to spend That's what this area is all about. The clientele is horrible around here. Due to the fact that no one can own a business unless u invest money into it and have the right people come to your door. Im.ready to high tale out of here in the next ten years if it dont get better . Hear my cry Mr. Congress men. This city it's either DO OR NOT DO
@notedmend you're a liar because we have had the same music stores for a very long time and none of them shut down they just moved. this area isn't even that bad he just showed the garbage parts that's all he did, you guys literally believe anything you see on the internet.
@@liquidtooth327 agreed, been living in jc for a few months, i live in a nice part with great neighbors. no complaints yet. the mall is slowly being revived. the arcade is pretty neat.
They rebuilt that big white building at 1 minute mark as NICE apartments. I live right down the road and wouldn't consider this area "hood", at least not anymore.
Good video but sadly it just shows the gray, run down depressing environment that’s JC and much of the Triple Cities. I left 18 years ago and never regretted it.
Chose to show the same few blocks of the worst part of JC .. definitely not a good indicator of what the rest of the village looks like ... Yah that area has seen better days .. like a lot of small industrial towns years after industry has left ... But there are more "cleaner" neighborhoods than those shown in the video...
This sucks back in the 80s when I was growing up in Binghamton is wasvgreat. What a shame this city has. It's like no one cares about this city. Mostly due the fact that the clientele in this community . It's low income.
The other side of JC wasn’t shown because it (the North side) is a lot nicer. I believe that this video was intended to show the worst possible areas of JC. It does give the impression that JC is a run-down town and anyone who is not from this area would believe it.
And I don't understand where everybody's pride is I grew up I was born in Johnson City in 1949 and it was the prettiest city and when I left there I wanted to go back cuz it was so nice the people were nice it was just a nice town and it was clean people would go out and sweep their sidewalks and keep their streets clean I don't know what happened and it isn't the flood because it didn't want the whole time I was there we didn't have any floods but even if we did we wouldn't have let it sit and go like that I'd like to know what all the city people are doing around there you know I live in a big city and they do not let this this these towns here look like that I'm in Atlanta I'm in a suburb of Atlanta and we wouldn't let it go like that there'll be people here picking stuff up coming by trash trucks where is the people in Johnson City don't tell me they can't afford it because I know damn well they can and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in their yards and help people in the and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make their and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make their people in the town to make their and the people that live there can afford to. I don't understand why people would want to live that way it only takes a second to go out washing windows sweep porch or are the stairs everybody looked out for people there. The other thing is is how many towns do you know or villages or big cities have these great parks that the man that built that town did Johnson's put in their cities to make them special for their families to put the pharmacies and the clinics for the people who work for them for their families and their children I don't understand but I know you guys have a damn good thing and you blow it now I'd like to see somebody get out there and get it all together cuz I was if I was up there boy I need shaking some trees and wanting to know what the hell everybody's doing and I don't think it would hurt anybody to step up and do something I love that place you talk about the old and cut down some place well it didn't used to be old back in the day it was beautiful I can't imagine any cut Johnson breaking the windows seems to me like it'd be a bunch of kids breaking all those windows and people doing things they aren't supposed to what about going and complaining to the police department going into a City Hall everybody needs to do their for sure and it's past time and if I could get up there I'd be up there I'd be raising hell and I think there's people that agree with me there's too many good people in that town how many times on your way to school did one of the ladies next door come out and give you some homemade donuts eat on the way to school or
Sometimes the local minor politicans and such, will let a former nice neighborhood, with good buildings with good bones, become dilapidated so the property values go way down. Then they buy it up for cheap, and get government grants ( that don't cost them anything compared to what they'll get). Put in some affordable housing, and gentrify the rest to it's former glory and make a ton of money.
@@jeffrobodine239 No problem Chief! When individuals like yourself bring up important matters like gentrification, it shows me someone who is alert and care. If I can help such person then cool!
Allen st in Johnson city used to be really nice till people didn't care about the neighborhood. Now it's trashed and looks miserable to people going by. I used to live on allen street. Some of the neighbors were really losses who have low income. That don't care and get into arguments every night. So that's the kind of people we're dealing with in this area. Becuz it's a small town Smallest in 🗽 by the way. U don't have much positive energy coming from here.
@@r.pres.4121 It was so sad for me to watch this video. I waa born in Endicott Hospital and grew up in Binghamton. My father was a teacher in Broome county at the beginning of his long teaching career. I went through grade school there, My Uncle waa employed at the IBM and my Aunt waa a realtor..my mother started her nursing career there at the nursing college across from Brozettes Pizza restaurant ...now I don't even recognize this place. It was such a good place to grow up in during the "60s ..I have many fond childhood memories. This really makes me sad =((
@@deborahjones6066... Me too, Deborah... I remember Brozettes' pizza and buying an entire rectangular pie for only 0.75 cents! That was in the mid to late '60s. I remember Main St. through both Binghamton and J.C. (I went to Binghamton Central). I remember the Strand and Riviera theaters on Chenango St. and how ornate the Riviera was. I lived near the Arch that separates Bing from J.C. and would walk the entire distance to BCHS and back, every day. And do the same walk to the two theaters on Chenango St. on weekends. I remember a movie at the Jarvis Theater near Jarvis & Main being only 35 cents. I remember the theaters having a double feature and being able to stay all day if I wanted to. You didn't have to leave when the movie was over, you could stay all day and watch it over and over if you wanted to. And why not, just so you got home in time for dinner, right? Memories... pressed between the pages of my mind.
Do you have any videos of the area before the bombs fell?
What a shame! I grew up in Broome County in the 60's and 70's. It was a great place.
I remember Main St. through J.C. (and Binghamton) back in the '60s... it was vastly different than this. Though I wonder if many of the comments made would have been a bit more on the upbeat had you made this same drive-through on a bright sunny summer day?
Great video. As Bob Hope used to sing, "Thanks... for the memories."
Not very representative of the town. This is the old industrial part that is being renovated by Binghamton University and various developers of new living spaces.The streets are pretty bad, but that's what Upstate winters do. They'll be patched soon.
This is what 70 years of no investment and lousy municipal management look like.
IBM left in the 80's
The Empire State really does a fabulously f-cked up job at screwing anything outside of NYC, Westchester County, and Long Island. Upstate NY (most of what I've seen) is pretty sad, depressing, rundown, and just overall miserable. But regardless, you'll still find some GREAT people up there holding their own.
It gets starkly worse when you hit the PA border.
the town sure knows how to neglect the streets , some of those old homes are really nice, was probably a nice place to grow up in the past
I was driving over some railroad tracks the other day and it was just beating the hell out of my trucks suspension. Then I looked around and realized oh I'm just driving on any random street in
Binghamton
Endwell
Vestal
Endicott.
Sad what this town looks like now. Why hasn’t the community complained to their congressmen.
They got no money, no jobs, no income tax, not much to sell, no sales tax
They probably have. But when no one cares. They can't do much about it. I grew up in Binghamton in the 80s. So much better. Then than now
Even our mall sucks. Due to the fact that is a poor town.
When you care things get done.
When u don't things don't get done two of my friends owned music stores in Binghamton and one in ENDICOTT years back. They lasted one year. On the dot. Either taxes got em or
The poor people on the block didn't have much to spend
That's what this area is all about. The clientele is horrible around here. Due to the fact that no one can own a business unless u invest money into it and have the right people come to your door.
Im.ready to high tale out of here in the next ten years if it dont get better . Hear my cry Mr. Congress men. This city it's either DO OR NOT DO
@notedmend you're a liar because we have had the same music stores for a very long time and none of them shut down they just moved. this area isn't even that bad he just showed the garbage parts that's all he did, you guys literally believe anything you see on the internet.
@@liquidtooth327 agreed, been living in jc for a few months, i live in a nice part with great neighbors. no complaints yet. the mall is slowly being revived. the arcade is pretty neat.
Sad to see how run down Broome county has become. Left over 25 years ago and watching these brings back memories.
Great video! 👍
You must like the Red Robin Diner. You showed it about four times but coming at it from different angles.
They rebuilt that big white building at 1 minute mark as NICE apartments. I live right down the road and wouldn't consider this area "hood", at least not anymore.
Good video but sadly it just shows the gray, run down depressing environment that’s JC and much of the Triple Cities. I left 18 years ago and never regretted it.
Lots of New England influence with all those two- and three-deckers
Johnson City is just another older northern city that has lost all its industry and is now struggling to survive.
Chose to show the same few blocks of the worst part of JC .. definitely not a good indicator of what the rest of the village looks like ... Yah that area has seen better days .. like a lot of small industrial towns years after industry has left ... But there are more "cleaner" neighborhoods than those shown in the video...
This sucks back in the 80s when I was growing up in Binghamton is wasvgreat. What a shame this city has. It's like no one cares about this city. Mostly due the fact that the clientele in this community . It's low income.
U didn't even show the other side of j.c. you went around the same area 4 different times
It got dark out maybe next time
The other side of JC wasn’t shown because it (the North side) is a lot nicer. I believe that this video was intended to show the worst possible areas of JC. It does give the impression that JC is a run-down town and anyone who is not from this area would believe it.
I didn't see Little Vietnam in this video (corner of Baker and Main). Granted, it's now a parking lot.
This is the area u can buy a house for less than 100k, the other side near the college is above $400k
Where is the hood? I just see a small blighted(poor) town in the woods. Same goes for Binghamton. Looks rural.
not sure you know what rural means
@@tylerjames819 It's clearly an unpopulated hicktown with a bunch of woods around. Couldn't even fill a stadium with all of the residents.
Is Wegmans still there on Harry L. Drive?
Still there, they just enlarged it a few months ago.
@Lafly84 Great Store. I miss shopping there.
I grew up the Johnson City and
And I don't understand where everybody's pride is I grew up I was born in Johnson City in 1949 and it was the prettiest city and when I left there I wanted to go back cuz it was so nice the people were nice it was just a nice town and it was clean people would go out and sweep their sidewalks and keep their streets clean I don't know what happened and it isn't the flood because it didn't want the whole time I was there we didn't have any floods but even if we did we wouldn't have let it sit and go like that I'd like to know what all the city people are doing around there you know I live in a big city and they do not let this this these towns here look like that I'm in Atlanta I'm in a suburb of Atlanta and we wouldn't let it go like that there'll be people here picking stuff up coming by trash trucks where is the people in Johnson City don't tell me they can't afford it because I know damn well they can and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in their yards and help people in the and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make their and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make and the people that live there can afford to go out and pick up their yards and help people in the town to make their people in the town to make their and the people that live there can afford to. I don't understand why people would want to live that way it only takes a second to go out washing windows sweep porch or are the stairs everybody looked out for people there. The other thing is is how many towns do you know or villages or big cities have these great parks that the man that built that town did Johnson's put in their cities to make them special for their families to put the pharmacies and the clinics for the people who work for them for their families and their children I don't understand but I know you guys have a damn good thing and you blow it now I'd like to see somebody get out there and get it all together cuz I was if I was up there boy I need shaking some trees and wanting to know what the hell everybody's doing and I don't think it would hurt anybody to step up and do something I love that place you talk about the old and cut down some place well it didn't used to be old back in the day it was beautiful I can't imagine any cut Johnson breaking the windows seems to me like it'd be a bunch of kids breaking all those windows and people doing things they aren't supposed to what about going and complaining to the police department going into a City Hall everybody needs to do their for sure and it's past time and if I could get up there I'd be up there I'd be raising hell and I think there's people that agree with me there's too many good people in that town how many times on your way to school did one of the ladies next door come out and give you some homemade donuts eat
on the way to school or
All these Ghetto or Hood videos have 1 thing in common..... Over 100 year old homes with no upkeep....and old industrial buildings.
Sometimes the local minor politicans and such, will let a former nice neighborhood, with good buildings with good bones, become dilapidated so the property values go way down. Then they buy it up for cheap, and get government grants ( that don't cost them anything compared to what they'll get). Put in some affordable housing, and gentrify the rest to it's former glory and make a ton of money.
Like George Carlin said "it's a big club, and you ain't in it
Check out The Boondocks episode "The Itis". The episode touch base on what you've said!
@@user-tj7oi8qc2o thanks for the tip
@@jeffrobodine239 No problem Chief! When individuals like yourself bring up important matters like gentrification, it shows me someone who is alert and care. If I can help such person then cool!
Looks like you have an agenda to make your point. Are there any other neighborhoods? Or is that all there is?
Yeah this was legit the worst part of the area and it's a lot nicer now generally
Our roads ARE consistently fucked though
E-J Corp was founded there and a big slice of the population used to make shoes.
Not any more ... which is typical for NYS.
Where is this Johnson city. Looks like Amsterdam ny
Just about 10.in north of the PA border. Next to Binghamton.
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@@Jdoom13 Binghamton. Got it. I know where that is. Thanx
@@Jdoom13 makes sense I was thinking to myself this looks a awful like northern Pa
Allen st in Johnson city used to be really nice till people didn't care about the neighborhood. Now it's trashed and looks miserable to people going by. I used to live on allen street. Some of the neighbors were really losses who have low income. That don't care and get into arguments every night. So that's the kind of people we're dealing with in this area.
Becuz it's a small town
Smallest in 🗽 by the way. U don't have much positive energy coming from here.
Focus on street signs please
What the heck happened to Johnson City??? Omg
It lost all of its industry and tax base.
@@r.pres.4121 It was so sad for me to watch this video. I waa born in Endicott Hospital and grew up in Binghamton. My father was a teacher in Broome county at the beginning of his long teaching career. I went through grade school there, My Uncle waa employed at the IBM and my Aunt waa a realtor..my mother started her nursing career there at the nursing college across from Brozettes Pizza restaurant ...now I don't even recognize this place. It was such a good place to grow up in during the "60s ..I have many fond childhood memories. This really makes me sad =((
@@deborahjones6066... Me too, Deborah... I remember Brozettes' pizza and buying an entire rectangular pie for only 0.75 cents! That was in the mid to late '60s.
I remember Main St. through both Binghamton and J.C. (I went to Binghamton Central). I remember the Strand and Riviera theaters on Chenango St. and how ornate the Riviera was.
I lived near the Arch that separates Bing from J.C. and would walk the entire distance to BCHS and back, every day. And do the same walk to the two theaters on Chenango St. on weekends.
I remember a movie at the Jarvis Theater near Jarvis & Main being only 35 cents.
I remember the theaters having a double feature and being able to stay all day if I wanted to. You didn't have to leave when the movie was over, you could stay all day and watch it over and over if you wanted to. And why not, just so you got home in time for dinner, right?
Memories... pressed between the pages of my mind.
I live here these are not hoods nothing even happens like that around here
This place is nasty. But it's home.
Hey, if you want to show some Afghanistan size potholes I'd be happy to text you the location. Or roads I wouldn't let my dog drive down.
I see them all the time
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White flight and democrat mayors and council.
Corporation flight
All comments cap smd jc for life 48
Get shanked in Johnson city