grew up on 190th right next to PS189 in the 70s. great to see it in this video! PS189 was my school and I loved going to St. Nick Ave for so many things... Missing Buster Brown shoes, and the Subway Station at 191st st with the pizza place on one corner of the entrance and an ice cream place on the other corner... and the old newsstand a little more inside
Love the video! I too grew up in Washington Heights! Lived on 192nd street Between St. Nicholas Ave & Audubon Ave (down the block from GWHS) and later a block away on Wadsworth Ave (near the corner of 192nd street). My parents both grew up in Washington Heights as well (my Mom in the same building I grew up in, and my Dad on Fairview Ave). I lived in Washington Heights from 1963 to 1978-79. We moved to the Bronx from Washington Heights. I went to PS-189, JHS-143, and George Washington High School (I played football at GWHS). Stayed at GWHS even when I lived in the Bronx. I love that neighborhood, great memories!
What years did you play for GDubs football 🏈 team? I played from ‘85 to ‘88. I’m sure we know a lot of the same people who played on the football 🏈 teams. RIP to Coach Walsh 🙏🏾
I was raised in the 60's on Laurel Hill Terrace at 181st Street and Amsterdam Ave. I had a great time growing up there. I walked everywhere in the Heights. Went to PS 132, 189 and GW High School. Played in a band called the "Corvairs". Thanks so much for a great memory!
I'm originally from Scotland and spent 3 months in Washington Heights, touring New York. I have to say that the place had such an amazing affect on me. Watching your videos brings me back so many beautiful memories. I think, as I guess I still have a tourist status there, that people really miss out by not visiting these places in Manhattan. I fell in love with the place, the George Washington Bridge, Le Cheile (bar/restaurant). I think it might be around west 181st street. Across the river, going to Fort Lee gives you the most beautiful view of Manhattan. Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for reminding me lucky I was to live in Washington Heights. I could, and shall, replay this video a hundred million times.
Wonderful video. I started out on Post Avenue in Inwood in the 1940's, moved to a co-op - 99 Hillside about 1960 and then 4395 Broadway (187th St.) in 1968; then to 143 Bennett Ave. and 160 Bennett. After that to NJ. Fort Tryon was my park. Hung out there often with my friends and then my son.
Thanks for the 2-video driving tour of Washington Heights. I was born and, like yourself, raised there from the mid 70's to the early 90's and have many fond memories of the place. Take care, Limo Guy
Hey John, I also grew up there. First 173rd bet aud. and amst. Then 191st and Wadsworth Terr.. 1966-76. Also PS 189 then jhs 143. Born in 62. Prob ran into you many moons ago. But you are being nice, was a little rough at the time. But a lot of good people came from there.
This is great! On August 15, 1950, I was born at Wadsworth hospital, which was located, I believe, on 188th Street and Wadsworth Ave. I lived on W.152nd street, between Amsterdam Ave. and Broadway, until 1959, when my mother and I moved a block south to W. 151st Street, between the same two blocks. I went to P.S. 46, which was on W.156th Street, until it was gutted by fire in 1958. In 1959, we returned to the newly built P.S. 28, The Wright Brothers School, on W. 155th, where this guy made the left. I also attended Edward W. Stitt JHS on W.164th street and Edgecombe Ave. until October, '63, when we moved to Jersey City. Memories!
Hello everyone, I grew up on 193 rd st and Audubon Ave and lived at 564 Audubon from the early 70's until 1984. Does anyone who may have lived there during that period remember playing Kick the Can on the GW High School property during the afternoons? Some friends named Manny and his brother Julio , Edwin, Edgar and the twins Tony and Gus lived on the corner of 193rd and Audubon. Quite a long shot but you never know who you may find here. God Bless and Happy New Year to all !! - Gus
I'm not from NYC, although I did live there for a brief stint a little more than several years ago. This is very informative. It took me back to my childhood where my uncle or grandpa taking me on a driving tour of their old stomping grounds. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for this video. I've never been north of 125th St. and had no idea what Washington Heights looked like. It's so flat and there were few people on the street. You are the perfect tour guide.
great vid thanks for sharing, I grew up on 184th between St. Nick and Audubon and my mother grew up on 184th between Audubon and Amsterdam. My great grandfather had a TV repair shop on Audubon between !83 and 184.
Thanks a lot for making this video, really helped buff up my Manhattan knowledge. I agree about the amateur feel being very helpful. It made me feel more like I was actually in the limo, listening to your tour. Thanks, again
> send another message and we'll stay in touch. I saw part-two first before seeing this video, and I tell you I seriously enjoyed them both and thanks to you, seriously homesick now. The ex and I didn't want to raise our son in NYC, so we moved to Florida. It was the sacrifice that all parents should make for their kids. Now he's a University graduate and a pilot, so he's done really well which makes it worth the move. Now it's time to return. Back in 1979, I worked for Dav-El on W.78th St.Cya!
My mom was born in Washington Heights in 1915, She was German-Hungarian/English Jewish. Her neighbors were mostly other Jews, Irish, Greeks, & Italians. She told my brothers & I that everyone was very nice and everyone looked out for everyone's kids and all the families fed each other at different times and ergo knew everyone's troubles and personal business:) Her family eventually left to go live in the usual areas....Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, and eventually small town Southern USA, pretty much the same attitudes with different accents. LOL God Bless America.
loved your Washington Heights videos....I grew up on Delancey St. baruch projects....to this day I still cant get over the fact that my parents moved.....LES will always be home.....any way you can make a video of the projects and the East River would love to see it......
Hello everybody my friend you do excellent job I love it you really know the neighborhood congratulations all right thank , By the way I live here Washington heights for 38 years and I love it I usually go all around the city everyday and I have a scooter so I go all around the city every day is it I love it definitely
Great video, loved the commentary. Im from New Brunswick, Canada (just north of Maine across the border) and my friend had a family member that lived on W168th street, between Amsterdam and Audubon. We stayed there a couple of times when we visited, and the Heights feel like "my place" in NYC........also a HUGE Yankee fan!!
Hello Limoguy, Thank you for this , we grew up in the same neighborhood and went to the same school, I wonder if we were classmates , I saw the building I grew up in, I played at the park across the street from the grammar school.
Yes Mark, I've admired your improvising skills at the organ. I bet we would make a great team doing videos about New York and it's churches and organs. I've wanted to do this for a long time and am now inspired to do so. Let's talk. John
I love your video. I'm from Spain and i was living there for two years, in front of 191st A train. Was amazing and i knew my actual girldfriend that was living at 181st near Yeshiva Unvt. Thank you so much for your video :)
My wife, child, and I lived on Hillside Ave. five minute walk to Fort Tryon Park. From about 1968 through 1975. Mostly older Jewish residents in our building many from the camps with the tatoos on their lower arms. My son went to the nearby PS. We left the city and country. I returned for a short time to the USA in the mid 80's and drove through the old neighborhood. Much, much changed.
14:42 we attended the same HS. I didn't know it was just 1 school back then, interesting. But yeah, now it's divided into 3 or 4, I don't remember well. Also, I agree with some of these comments. Lol neighborhoods get noisy during the Summer, but hey living here all my life I got used to it.
>got my attention when you mentioned a Casavant organ in that Catholic church. What I noticed most was how CLEAN the city has become everywhere. I miss all aspects of living in NYC: Food, Women, Architecture, Subway and most of all the culture. I moved out of NYC in 1987 and now that my kid is grown and independent and I'm now divorced, I want to come back. For many years, I was the summer substitute organist at Intercession. I loved how that Towncar soaked up any imperfections in the road, not>
I enjoyed this video, thanks for posting. I was last up there a month and a half before this video, in late July 2013. I'm originally from 175th/B'way, diagonally across the intersection from Rev. Ike's church/United Palace. In my channel I've got a few videos I shot of the Heights during that last visit.
Limoguy, thank you so much for doing this!! I've longed to see Washington Heights and your tour is as close as I will get for a while. May I request a couple of locations to include in your next video? 550 157th street Fiorello La Guardia high school of performing arts. I realy enjoyed seeing Ft. Tyron park. You might have figured out that I am trying to see locations relative to Freddie Prinze Sr.
man now the heights i gotta say is one of the boroughs in uptown manhattan and i love uptown manhattan but man the heights is where im from i live in the bronx but the heights man it was my childhood like when i was little had so many friends that some were my homies and like dyckman area is kinda nice and around the heights not that you need to know everybody but like me and my mom knew people and my sister had good neighbors in the building i grew up at man good friends that lived in my building man i never lived in brooklyn or queens but washington heights is nice and in 181 some people be selling stuff in the street like clothes
Second time I'm watching this video. Lots of vital information left out in the commentary including, but not limited to, 'Snake Hill' aka/Ft. George Hill that connects to Inwood from Washington Heights at Dyckman Street.
+Al D'Antonio You are right, but I can't talk that fast. In fact, If I were to video this all over, my commentary would be different every time. Thanks for the comments, you must have grown up there too!
+Carol Crowley: MAYOR DAVID DINKINS LIVED 512 WEST158TH STREET BTWN AMST/BWY, ALSO DUKE ELLINGTON RESIDED AT THE CORNER OF157TH SAINT NICHOLAS AVE: THERE IS A PLAQUE DEDICATED TO HIS MEMORY. DUKE ELLINGTON WORKED AT THE COTTON CLUB IN HARLEM AND WOULD RIDE THE A TRAIN HOME TO SUGAR HILL. HIS DAILY COMMUTE INSPIRED HIM TO COMPOSE "TAKE THE A TRAIN"
The neighborhood of my other half's parents ane my other home to me and my lady. I'll be working the 1 line tomorrow which is my favorite local line so it's gonna be trip down memory lane. And Presbyterian Hospital in this neighborhood was where I was born.
You spelled his name right and I remember him clear as day. Very strict, especially with bad kids, but funny to watch him call them "stoops". I left I.S. 143 IN 1994
I'm having difficulty understanding your comment. Did you mean "I hate when when people judge us. Get your facts straight"? If so, who's judging who, and about what? I am very interested to know. Thanks for your comment. Best, John
>jarring the camera at all. Until I retired in 2009, I spent 20 years in the Limousine business here in Florida as a owner/operator for four years using a long-wheelbase Mercedes S-Class for my sedan until the commercial insurance ran me out of the business as it got to $3,900 per year to insure that one car. I was there to play the Riverside organ in February 2012, and I drove up last summer but didn't play any organs. Sorry for being so long winded, I can rattle on like a NYC cab driver lol >>
For some reason, you're familiar to me. Have we communicated? I believe that you sent a private message to me regarding my organ videos here. I so enjoyed this video which I think is terrific! You've really made me homesick as I grew up on Amsterdam/133rd St. I was married at Riverside Church and I'm still a member since 1983. Ralph Adams-Cram, architect of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine is buried IN the Church of the Intercession, and he designed Intercession as well. You really>>
I'm thinking of having my daughter rent up there 180th & Broadway, 180th & Ft. Wash., would you let your 18 year old daughter Live there? What about Riverside and 144th? I'm asking because you really know the neighborhood! 😊
Like the video but the narrator needs memory byte rehabilitation. To suggest that the Washington Heights nabe was mostly Spanish, Jewish, Italian in the 1970's in incorrect, and derelict in not mentioning the many Greek families that still lived in this nabe during the 1970's; I don't remember a significant percentage of this nabe being 'Italian' after Yeshiva U. decimated Amsterdam Avenue for expansion purposes?
@@virginiadance9140 Growing up the majority of the neighborhood was Greek don't forget this 2 Greek church is also an Armenian Church let's not forget about the German section of Washington Heights also and of course the Jewish area wow what a beautiful neighborhood used to be and it still is but just has a few issues Life Changes
Amazing bro u grew up where im growing up now, check my profile out things have really changed. I would love to link up and catch up and some stuff one day maybe do a interview since u camara man. We could really make history if we work together which the Heights is losing out on alot now.
I lived on 157 and River Side Drive, on the Heights you see a drug dealer on every corner of the street. There are a few nice restaurants to eat and the rent is cheaper then East Village. After relocating to Manhattan from a small town in East Tennessee was quite a change. It took me 2 years to get used to the Heights, however every now and then I have to get away from the city and rest, connect my soul to the Nature and the Appalachians Nature:) Nice Video. I also lived on 172 and Audubon Avenue, that was rougher then 157th. Now it's overcrowded by drunk Dominicans'. Once you pass 125th Street and up, you feel like you aren't in living in the United States due to the fact that all you hear is this confusing hard to learn Spanish, which is Dominican Spanish
Great video! I grew up on 191st and Wadsworth from 1966- 1982. Good memories.
grew up on 190th right next to PS189 in the 70s. great to see it in this video! PS189 was my school and I loved going to St. Nick Ave for so many things... Missing Buster Brown shoes, and the Subway Station at 191st st with the pizza place on one corner of the entrance and an ice cream place on the other corner... and the old newsstand a little more inside
Love the video! I too grew up in Washington Heights! Lived on 192nd street Between St. Nicholas Ave & Audubon Ave (down the block from GWHS) and later a block away on Wadsworth Ave (near the corner of 192nd street). My parents both grew up in Washington Heights as well (my Mom in the same building I grew up in, and my Dad on Fairview Ave). I lived in Washington Heights from 1963 to 1978-79. We moved to the Bronx from Washington Heights. I went to PS-189, JHS-143, and George Washington High School (I played football at GWHS). Stayed at GWHS even when I lived in the Bronx. I love that neighborhood, great memories!
Almost like me. Cool
I lived at 564 Audubon Ave across from GWHS and went to JHS 143 as well ! Moved to the Bronx in 1984.
What years did you play for GDubs football 🏈 team? I played from ‘85 to ‘88. I’m sure we know a lot of the same people who played on the football 🏈 teams. RIP to Coach Walsh 🙏🏾
I was raised in the 60's on Laurel Hill Terrace at 181st Street and Amsterdam Ave. I had a great time growing up there. I walked everywhere in the Heights. Went to PS 132, 189 and GW High School. Played in a band called the "Corvairs". Thanks so much for a great memory!
lived on 181st and Ft Washington in the 80s. Thank you for this video!
I'm originally from Scotland and spent 3 months in Washington Heights, touring New York. I have to say that the place had such an amazing affect on me. Watching your videos brings me back so many beautiful memories. I think, as I guess I still have a tourist status there, that people really miss out by not visiting these places in Manhattan.
I fell in love with the place, the George Washington Bridge, Le Cheile (bar/restaurant). I think it might be around west 181st street. Across the river, going to Fort Lee gives you the most beautiful view of Manhattan.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for reminding me lucky I was to live in Washington Heights. I could, and shall, replay this video a hundred million times.
Wonderful video. I started out on Post Avenue in Inwood in the 1940's, moved to a co-op - 99 Hillside about 1960 and then 4395 Broadway (187th St.) in 1968; then to 143 Bennett Ave. and 160 Bennett. After that to NJ. Fort Tryon was my park. Hung out there often with my friends and then my son.
Thanks for the 2-video driving tour of Washington Heights. I was born and, like yourself, raised there from the mid 70's to the early 90's and have many fond memories of the place. Take care, Limo Guy
Hey John, I also grew up there. First 173rd bet aud. and amst. Then 191st and Wadsworth Terr.. 1966-76. Also PS 189 then jhs 143. Born in 62. Prob ran into you many moons ago. But you are being nice, was a little rough at the time. But a lot of good people came from there.
This is a real nice section of Manhattan and it reminds me of Astoria Queens where I was born and raised until I was eight years old. Love this video!
This is great! On August 15, 1950, I was born at Wadsworth hospital, which was located, I believe, on 188th Street and Wadsworth Ave. I lived on W.152nd street, between Amsterdam Ave. and Broadway, until 1959, when my mother and I moved a block south to W. 151st Street, between the same two blocks. I went to P.S. 46, which was on W.156th Street, until it was gutted by fire in 1958. In 1959, we returned to the newly built P.S. 28, The Wright Brothers School, on W. 155th, where this guy made the left. I also attended Edward W. Stitt JHS on W.164th street and Edgecombe Ave. until October, '63, when we moved to Jersey City. Memories!
Hello everyone, I grew up on 193 rd st and Audubon Ave and lived at 564 Audubon from the early 70's until 1984. Does anyone who may have lived there during that period remember playing Kick the Can on the GW High School property during the afternoons? Some friends named Manny and his brother Julio , Edwin, Edgar and the twins Tony and Gus lived on the corner of 193rd and Audubon. Quite a long shot but you never know who you may find here. God Bless and Happy New Year to all !! - Gus
Man I love manhattan and the heights
Loved this video!! Grew up myself on 164th and Broadway and went to George Washinton HS in the 1980's Nice memory trip Thanks for posting!
I'm not from NYC, although I did live there for a brief stint a little more than several years ago. This is very informative. It took me back to my childhood where my uncle or grandpa taking me on a driving tour of their old stomping grounds. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for this video. I've never been north of 125th St. and had no idea what Washington Heights looked like. It's so flat and there were few people on the street. You are the perfect tour guide.
great vid thanks for sharing, I grew up on 184th between St. Nick and Audubon and my mother grew up on 184th between Audubon and Amsterdam. My great grandfather had a TV repair shop on Audubon between !83 and 184.
My old "hood".
Thanks for posting your video.
Thanks a lot for making this video, really helped buff up my Manhattan knowledge. I agree about the amateur feel being very helpful. It made me feel more like I was actually in the limo, listening to your tour. Thanks, again
> send another message and we'll stay in touch. I saw part-two first before seeing this video, and I tell you I seriously enjoyed them both and thanks to you, seriously homesick now. The ex and I didn't want to raise our son in NYC, so we moved to Florida. It was the sacrifice that all parents should make for their kids. Now he's a University graduate and a pilot, so he's done really well which makes it worth the move. Now it's time to return. Back in 1979, I worked for Dav-El on W.78th St.Cya!
You passed my building! And where I had my Brownie Girl Scout meetings. And my school! Thank you!
fantastic tour!
I totally dig regular slice of life driving through cities videos. Well done.
Lots of memories 15 Wadsworth Ave …. you drove right by it...
thanks John, this was cool--i grew up on 160th and 161st, between Broadway and Amsterdam--we went to St. Rose on St. Nick
My mom was born in Washington Heights in 1915, She was German-Hungarian/English Jewish. Her neighbors were mostly other Jews, Irish, Greeks, & Italians. She told my brothers & I that everyone was very nice and everyone looked out for everyone's kids and all the families fed each other at different times and ergo knew everyone's troubles and personal business:) Her family eventually left to go live in the usual areas....Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, and eventually small town Southern USA, pretty much the same attitudes with different accents. LOL
God Bless America.
This style of video is great. I feel like I am in the care with you. Also, this is around the my area. I live to the north in Inwood.
loved your Washington Heights videos....I grew up on Delancey St. baruch projects....to this day I still cant get over the fact that my parents moved.....LES will always be home.....any way you can make a video of the projects and the East River would love to see it......
Hello everybody my friend you do excellent job I love it you really know the neighborhood congratulations all right thank ,
By the way I live here Washington heights for 38 years and I love it I usually go all around the city everyday and I have a scooter so I go all around the city every day is it I love it definitely
Thank you for your kind comment. Where do you live in the heights?
@@moller11199 Yeees
Great video, loved the commentary. Im from New Brunswick, Canada (just north of Maine across the border) and my friend had a family member that lived on W168th street, between Amsterdam and Audubon. We stayed there a couple of times when we visited, and the Heights feel like "my place" in NYC........also a HUGE Yankee fan!!
I’m booked in a hotel here for my 50th birthday next year!! Can’t wait!!
Hello Limoguy, Thank you for this , we grew up in the same neighborhood and went to the same school, I wonder if we were classmates , I saw the building I grew up in, I played at the park across the street from the grammar school.
Great video and super entertaining and informative commentary. I am from WH and I thoroughly enjoyed your tour. Part 2 was also great.
Thank Q so much very good info history driveway bless you fella ..
Yes Mark, I've admired your improvising skills at the organ. I bet we would make a great team doing videos about New York and it's churches and organs. I've wanted to do this for a long time and am now inspired to do so. Let's talk.
John
My neighborhood 💖 187 Amsterdam all day! PS 189 & the park 😩
I love the video....great memories : )
Thank you sooooo much for this video !
I love your video. I'm from Spain and i was living there for two years, in front of 191st A train. Was amazing and i knew my actual girldfriend that was living at 181st near Yeshiva Unvt. Thank you so much for your video :)
My wife, child, and I lived on Hillside Ave. five minute walk to Fort Tryon Park. From about 1968 through 1975. Mostly older Jewish residents in our building many from the camps with the tatoos on their lower arms. My son went to the nearby PS. We left the city and country. I returned for a short time to the USA in the mid 80's and drove through the old neighborhood. Much, much changed.
Washington Heights is one giant ashtray!
I am so sorry to hear that. Perhaps you're better off now! Best, JJM
I went to PS 189 in the early 70s. I may know you :-) I grew up in 90 Laurel Hill Terrace. You probably remember Palisades Amusement Park
I also went to 189. Mr. Goodman was principal.
I went to ps 189 from 72-78
pretty interesting video, ive always wanted to visit but i keep to midtown when im in the city.
14:42 we attended the same HS. I didn't know it was just 1 school back then, interesting. But yeah, now it's divided into 3 or 4, I don't remember well. Also, I agree with some of these comments. Lol neighborhoods get noisy during the Summer, but hey living here all my life I got used to it.
>got my attention when you mentioned a Casavant organ in that Catholic church. What I noticed most was how CLEAN the city has become everywhere. I miss all aspects of living in NYC: Food, Women, Architecture, Subway and most of all the culture. I moved out of NYC in 1987 and now that my kid is grown and independent and I'm now divorced, I want to come back. For many years, I was the summer substitute organist at Intercession. I loved how that Towncar soaked up any imperfections in the road, not>
Man I'm from 193 fort george that was my block my hood I went to ps 189 in the 2000s
Thanks for doing this, John.
Great video.
Thank you. I plan to post more videos driving around New York City.
I enjoyed this video, thanks for posting. I was last up there a month and a half before this video, in late July 2013. I'm originally from 175th/B'way, diagonally across the intersection from Rev. Ike's church/United Palace. In my channel I've got a few videos I shot of the Heights during that last visit.
We were close by. I lived in 175th st between Audubon & Amsterdam Aves.
im dominican so shout out to the heights
Great stuff! Thanks for the videos
Thanks... Washington Heights is a very special place.
Limoguy, thank you so much for doing this!! I've longed to see Washington Heights and your tour is as close as I will get for a while. May I request a couple of locations to include in your next video?
550 157th street
Fiorello La Guardia high school of performing arts.
I realy enjoyed seeing Ft. Tyron park. You might have figured out that I am trying to see locations relative to Freddie Prinze Sr.
OK, I will try to make another Washington Heights video this Spring.
John the LIMOGUY I am looking forward to it.
MIRIAM WRIGHT: ARE YOU SAYING THERE USED TO BE A HIGH ON 157TH STREET BETWEEN AMSTERDAM AND BROADWAY?
man now the heights i gotta say is one of the boroughs in uptown manhattan and i love uptown manhattan but man the heights is where im from i live in the bronx but the heights man it was my childhood like when i was little had so many friends that some were my homies and like dyckman area is kinda nice and around the heights not that you need to know everybody but like me and my mom knew people and my sister had good neighbors in the building i grew up at man good friends that lived in my building man i never lived in brooklyn or queens but washington heights is nice and in 181 some people be selling stuff in the street like clothes
I also grew up on 184th street between Audubon and Amsterdam 515
Growing up in Washington Heights Episode 1 The real look of Washington Heights. Check out the tour
I use to live around Washington Heights until I moved last year.
Second time I'm watching this video. Lots of vital information left out in the commentary including, but not limited to, 'Snake Hill' aka/Ft. George Hill that connects to Inwood from Washington Heights at Dyckman Street.
+Al D'Antonio You are right, but I can't talk that fast. In fact, If I were to video this all over, my commentary would be different every time. Thanks for the comments, you must have grown up there too!
Yes, my nabe although I live in Greenwich Village with my wife since '68. I'm a Heights-Inwood-Harlem kid.
+The Limoguy Channel: MAY I ASK WHY DIDN'T STOP BY GEORGE WASHINGTON'S HEAD QUARTERS
(JUMEL MANSION)
+Carol Crowley: MAYOR DAVID DINKINS LIVED 512 WEST158TH STREET BTWN AMST/BWY, ALSO DUKE ELLINGTON RESIDED AT THE CORNER OF157TH SAINT NICHOLAS AVE: THERE IS A PLAQUE DEDICATED TO HIS MEMORY. DUKE ELLINGTON WORKED AT THE COTTON CLUB IN HARLEM AND WOULD RIDE THE A TRAIN HOME TO SUGAR HILL. HIS DAILY COMMUTE INSPIRED HIM TO COMPOSE "TAKE THE A TRAIN"
The neighborhood of my other half's parents ane my other home to me and my lady. I'll be working the 1 line tomorrow which is my favorite local line so it's gonna be trip down memory lane. And Presbyterian Hospital in this neighborhood was where I was born.
S/O to all my Dominicans in Wash Heights 🙌🏿
393 Audobon Ave. , home. PS 189.
Opps, sorry.
klk con klk manito
Beautiful place
I worked summer job with my aunt at the church my second job ever I was 13. A.R.C senior center 1989/90
Anybody go to JHS 143 ??? Does anyone remember Mr. Erlich the English teacher? Not sure if I spelled his name right. Thanks..
yep!! He had a mean reputation but was probably just strict.
I went to 189, then to 143 70s
Gus you went to 189? Saint Spyridon church?
You spelled his name right and I remember him clear as day. Very strict, especially with bad kids, but funny to watch him call them "stoops". I left I.S. 143 IN 1994
Virginia Dance9 yes I did!
oh wow my old neighborhood the heights
I hate when people judge us os get your. Facts straight
I'm having difficulty understanding your comment. Did you mean "I hate when when people judge us. Get your facts straight"? If so, who's judging who, and about what? I am very interested to know. Thanks for your comment.
Best, John
Washington heights starts like from dyckman all the way to 168st
172-173rd Audubon ave..Where was you during the black out of 1977?
In front of my building 515 west 175th st between Audubon Ave & Amsterdam Ave
I was living in New Jersey at that time. I do remember the black out of 1965 though.
>jarring the camera at all. Until I retired in 2009, I spent 20 years in the Limousine business here in Florida as a owner/operator for four years using a long-wheelbase Mercedes S-Class for my sedan until the commercial insurance ran me out of the business as it got to $3,900 per year to insure that one car. I was there to play the Riverside organ in February 2012, and I drove up last summer but didn't play any organs. Sorry for being so long winded, I can rattle on like a NYC cab driver lol >>
For some reason, you're familiar to me. Have we communicated? I believe that you sent a private message to me regarding my organ videos here. I so enjoyed this video which I think is terrific! You've really made me homesick as I grew up on Amsterdam/133rd St. I was married at Riverside Church and I'm still a member since 1983. Ralph Adams-Cram, architect of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine is buried IN the Church of the Intercession, and he designed Intercession as well. You really>>
Where are the clubs, and massage joints and strip joints?
They started having some massage parlors but they dont have strip clubs in washington heights that's only like in queens and in downtown manhattan
Man now is kinda expensive to live in washington heights
Why do so many people smoke in Washington Heights?
People smoke everywhere
Thanks!!!
Limo guy grew up off 184th at? So you know/knew Victor184 and TA....
Graffiti taggers ... the worst slime.
I'm thinking of having my daughter rent up there 180th & Broadway, 180th & Ft. Wash., would you let your 18 year old daughter Live there? What about Riverside and 144th? I'm asking because you really know the neighborhood! 😊
Thanks John, I'll private message you, and again, great, great video thanks for sharing!
Nice.
My father grew up at 189th
I'm Dominican
Man my homies in 193
Like the video but the narrator needs memory byte rehabilitation. To suggest that the Washington Heights nabe was mostly Spanish, Jewish, Italian in the 1970's in incorrect, and derelict in not mentioning the many Greek families that still lived in this nabe during the 1970's; I don't remember a significant percentage of this nabe being 'Italian' after Yeshiva U. decimated Amsterdam Avenue for expansion purposes?
Well said
Lots of Greeks too Saint Spyridon church
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Growing up the majority of the neighborhood was Greek don't forget this 2 Greek church is also an Armenian Church let's not forget about the German section of Washington Heights also and of course the Jewish area wow what a beautiful neighborhood used to be and it still is but just has a few issues
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yooo i grew up on 520 west 184th st
Yuck!!! I looked into moving into Washington Heights but all the apartments reeked of cigarette smoke. How can you stand living there?
I wonder if you would find anywhere tolerable. Good luck!
Amazing bro u grew up where im growing up now, check my profile out things have really changed. I would love to link up and catch up and some stuff one day maybe do a interview since u camara man. We could really make history if we work together which the Heights is losing out on alot now.
I lived on 157 and River Side Drive, on the Heights you see a drug dealer on every corner of the street. There are a few nice restaurants to eat and the rent is cheaper then East Village. After relocating to Manhattan from a small town in East Tennessee was quite a change. It took me 2 years to get used to the Heights, however every now and then I have to get away from the city and rest, connect my soul to the Nature and the Appalachians Nature:) Nice Video. I also lived on 172 and Audubon Avenue, that was rougher then 157th. Now it's overcrowded by drunk Dominicans'. Once you pass 125th Street and up, you feel like you aren't in living in the United States due to the fact that all you hear is this confusing hard to learn Spanish, which is Dominican Spanish
my mom lived on 189
I love my city NY to the death
I dont know but 155st that's like still harlem
Perhaps, but the most northern boundaries to be sure.
your video inspired me to make my own video. Check it out I just posted it....I subbed to your channel as well...
Your driving is atrocious stated to drive at 168th Street then you cut off a bus trying to pull out.
Perhaps you should concentrate on your spelling, grammar and syntax.
looks like a slum...
Well, perhaps Ken. You should stay away.