I Drove Into New York City's Most Dangerous Neighborhood. This Is What I Saw.
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2022
- Wow! This was NOT what I expected to see. Crazy stuff.
For a long time now, I kept hearing about a neighborhood in Brooklyn called Brownsville. People kept saying - you think the South Bronx is bad - you need to see BROWNSVILLE. It’s roooough. And the data backs it up - Brownsville has been called the most dangerous neighborhood in New York City. It has a bad reputation that goes back a long time.
So of course I had to see it. So I went there. It was a cold and breezy day in NYC the day I arrived - the sun was out, but it was only 38 degrees. We’re gonna take a drive through the worst neighborhood in the city, learn a little bit about the place, and talk to residents who live here.
Ahh Brownsville. The notorious BBK. If you live in the greater New York City area, you’ve heard of how bad this place is. There’s shootings and robberies here all the time. It’s located on the eastern side of Brooklyn, near East New York, about halfway between Manhattan and JFK. 58,000 people live here, packed into a 1 square mile. It’s just about one square mile of housing projects.
It’s been dangerous here for 100 years now. In the late 1920’s, the organized crime group Murder Inc operated out of Brownsville. They were the enforcement arm for the Italian Mafia and the Jewish Mob.
This place used to be called Browns Village. It was marketed to the Jewish community, and then a lot of African Americans moved in in the 1950s because it was affordable. Many of the black families that moved into Brownsville were already poor, and their timing was bad - as soon as they began to arrive, factories began to shut down.
Then the NY Housing Authority built a lot of housing projects here, which brought in a lot more African Americans and Latinos. We’ll see many of the housing projects as we drive along. It’s said Brownsville has the highest concentration of housing projects in the nation. There’s 100 different housing projects here.
When things got dangerous here, the Jewish factory worker families moved out.
As poor families flooded in, crime began to spike here. Soon, by the 1980s, this place was known nationwide as outrageous for crime and poverty. Many of these housing projects had the highest per-capita arrests of any housing developments in the city. Unemployment and welfare plagued the housing developments here, which flamed the spike in crime. The single-mother rate in Brownsville was also twice the national rate.
In the 70s, they tried knocking down a lot of the abandoned tantament style apartments and putting in townhouse style apartment homes. But crime kept going up, as local gangs used the new apartments for their operations.
Today, things are still really bad. Gentrification hasn’t taken hold, since the neighborhood is surrounded on all sides by other high poverty, high crime hoods.
Only half the kids in Brownsville graduate high school. 40% of the population lives in poverty, and 1 in 6 people hasn’t worked in a long time. It’s the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and the 7th poorest in all of New York City, where families bring in about $22,000 a year. That’s why so many live in these housing projects.
It doesn’t help that 40% of the kids born here are to teenage mothers. Nor does it help that the incarceration rate among Brownsville residents is the 2nd highest of all New York City neighborhoods, either. Drug related hospitalizations, obesity, lack of health insurance, mental illness, a lot of businesses closing here. It’s sad and it’s tragic.
Crime wise, it is certainly the most dangerous neighborhood in all of New York City.
Today, this part of Brooklyn is one of the most affordable neighborhoods you can live in New York City. But affordable to New York might not sound affordable to you. A single family home here ranges from $500 to $800,000 and a two-bedroom apartment is about $2k a month.
Overall, while Brownsville continues to struggle, Brooklyn isn’t THAT bad anymore. It’s actually getting gentrified at an alarming rate. There’s all these new big fancy new buildings sprouting up everywhere, and much of the west side of Brooklyn closer to the Brooklyn Bridge is much nicer than what we just saw 316
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I hate to say but it REALLY needs to be said OUT LOUD and its that Democrats actually hurt these communities with their terrible ideas and policies, its now proven track record for DECADES that all these terrible areas are run by Democrats for most part and their LEFT WING policies and ideas... These are simple facts, go to almost EVERY BIG city across the country and you will see that a democrats has run it 95% of the time, and they run these areas for DECADES YES DECADES!!!!....... Its not 5 year or 10 years -- its now 50, 60, years of Democratic control and they are terrible areas ------- I was a volunteer for Bill clinton when i was in school in 1996 against bob dole but fast forward 25 years and im done with democrats, they have terrible ideas, i cant vote for them ever again, they dont even know what bathroom to use.. insane, no thanks
You don't know any thing about what you speak and you most certainly didn't speak with experts on this subject. It isn't that people are disincentivized. People who were purposely undereducated will not get the jobs that pay enough for them to live. If they made a living wage, they would happily leave these government support programs. I have seen it over and over again where friends who grew up in the projects get a good job with the NYCTA making 150K. They leave these programs and even become homeowners in the very same neighborhoods. Please don't speak on the correlation between people being released from Rikers and a rise in crime. again, you sir are not qualified and you made many false equivalents.
I have one question: if the yt neighborhoods are so safe and sound, how do over 50,000 kids a yr manage to get themselves abducted?
I live in East New York, in these type of places including Brownsville, if you mind your business, no one will bother you for the most part, there are always exceptions of course. The crimes you hear about, majority are generally people who are out willingly getting involved in crime, be it drugs, gangs or whatever illegal activities.
Thank you. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading these comments
Yeh these ppl know nothing about the hood ... The East & Bville ain’t that bad
When you need to downplay the violence and criminal activities to "Oh, it's just those guy's over there that are doing it." as those same guy's are increasing their numbers each year creating more illegal activities is the reason why these areas have gotten that way. No one is trying to remove these degenerates.
@@spankbuda5760 - That is a fair point you bring up, but its often just simply the case of people trying to mind their own business. They're not trying to start anything with anyone on the streets, just want to get to where they are going and back home in NYC. :)
@@TheGQBrotha Are these criminals "just minding their business" and only robbing, selling drugs, and have a designated spot where they're doing their shootings/stabbings with each other and not around the working class or innocents? Are these crackheads minding their business when they're breaking into people homes and stealing their goods on the streets in that same area so that they can get the money for dope from those same criminals to get that 5 minute high?
I’m from Manhattan, and I can say that the most dangerous part of NYC is Wall Street.
Can you please tell me about it? I'm moving to NYC next year and I wanna learn more about it
@@javieroliveras344 nyc is very sketchy at night so be careful it’s not all that bad in the morning’s and afternoons depending on where you at queens nyc is a lot more safer then any other borough in new york be yourself be ready to be strong minded and hold your own if you not prepared nyc will eat you alive it’s expensive taxes are crazy but if you working a good job n makin bread you straight
@@theragnarokmachine2251
I meant as in dangerous to the entire world
Juden
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But Wall St can crash the entire world economy.
And the folks there don’t care, as long as they get rich.
Lol
That’s dangerous.
Nice to see Action Kid was interviewed! Thanks so much for inviting him, Nick
All those parked cars -- things couldn't be all that bad.
Ugh.....
What I meant is that if the place were that crime infested, few if any would risk parking a car there.
@@mjnyc8655 Unless, of course, those cars were all stolen from some other neighborhood...
@@LadyLeoASMR most in nyc don’t have cars, nyc is popular and mix everywhere, biggest accomplishment in the city if can afford registration and plates.
@@mjnyc8655 car jackings aren’t that big in ny compared to other big cities there’s 24 hr transportation everywhere you don’t need to steal a car
This looks like a bustling working class neighborhood, not a dangerous slum. Open businesses with plate glass and no bars on the windows, decent looking cars on the street, not a boarded up building in sight.
A real no-go zone, would look like Harlem in the 1990s, vacant boarded up buildings, some with trees growing out of them,. Bums and drug dealers everywhere. The few businesses that are still open, have bars on the windows, some of them operate, behind bullet proof glass. Most open places are government social services. This place does not look that bad really. I wouldn't want to raise my kids there, but a daytime trip doesn't look so dangerous.
I wouldn’t advise a “daytime trip to brownsville”😭😭and there was plenty of boarded up buildings and apartments
las vegas nevada is far better and advanced. cheaper too.
Thank you for another great video. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, but no longer live there. Brownsville has been a “rough” area for a long time. It will take a miracle to change it.
Right I was born and raised in Brownsville and growing up there you have to observe everything cause anything can happen.
@@Sthmohtwenty I always visit home, but I prefer a smaller rural community.
@Speedy speedster plays That area around Sutter Ave is no joke. The sad part is that there are plenty of good, decent hard working people in that area and they’re just trying to survive…🤦🏾♀️
@@Sthmohtwenty That's so dumb!
@@Sthmohtwenty despite the cost of living and the street crime I love NY and this is coming from an introverted man. NY is like home and I was born in the South. It's different the culture and food
I grew up in Brownsville/ENY in my grandparent's house in the late 1980s. They moved to FL and then my mom and I moved to East Flatbush and then we settled in East Flatbush/Canarsie. Brownsville is on the other side of Canarsie and I have never experienced anything negative going into Brownsville or surrounding areas. I now live in PA and watching your video has given me such a wave of nostalgia watching you drive through streets I know all too well. Thank you for this video and this comment was in no way a takeaway from those whose opinions and experiences might be very different from mine.
NYC gets a lot of hate, this being one of the worst areas doesn't even look bad compared to some of the other cities in the us
Brownsville and South Bronx is what people hates the most.
its not about how it looks, its about the crime that occurs. it was way worse back in the day though
I worry for New York. I know it feels like a playground for the rich but the spread of poverty, homelessness, crime (esp petty crime) and drugs are EVERYWHERE now.
Everyone praying for NY downfall is very concerning. It is the economic engine of our country. We need NY to be safe, vibrant, and open for visitors.
It’s not as bad as other cities and each place is iconic or popular, it’s mentaI health there.
@@Micg51 it lost its souI since 9 II
As a person that lives in Brooklyn it isn’t as bad as they say don’t let the media scare you
@@Micg51 who's praying for ny's downfall🤔
Life is too short to live in a dirty housing project in a congested neighborhood. Many of these people can’t afford to move but I wish them luck to move somewhere better with more opportunity and better living conditions
Seems like living out of your car anywhere else would be better!
This is all socially engineered.
@@Gnvdth NY the cops eventually will pick you up before you make it out. Its not like other cities either, not surrounded by alot of land, lots of water thats why there's so many large bridges. I avoid NYC when possible.
Thank you for all you do Nick. Your service is definitely very valuable😇.
Compared to other deprived places I have seen on this and other UA-cam channels. I would say Brownsville looks normal.
Some of those towns in the deep south and the rust belt are really depressing.
True. At least there are job opportunities in the NYC metro area.
Also it is normal
The south ain’t charging an arm and leg to live in squalor so y’all need to stop using us to defend your filthy city.
Brownsville is not normal at all its the belly of the beast.
@@MaineDinero114 Lol Even the narrator nick Johnson saying normal ppl exist out of Brownsville more or less ! Even Mike Tyson got anger issues cuz of Brownsville !
Thanks Nick,another great video!
As bad as this might look, it's NOTHING like East St. Louis, East Cleveland, much of Detroit, or even Camden. BTW......what's up with the eastsides being usually worse than the westsides in many cities? LOL
Looks can be deceiving nyc hasn’t looked ghetto in about 15 years lol
And it’s hard to pick a worse spot with nyc cause there are areas that have different types of crime some areas have more rape and homeless slashing then gang shootings
Not Orlando. In Orlando the west side is muuuuch worse than the east side
True, I've always lived on the east side of cities and they pretty much suck.
Oh Camden is worse than Ukraine! Real talk! Zombies don’t even chase human blood in Camden. 🤣🤣
Brownsville looks a lot nicer than other East coast cities bad parts of town (Philly, Baltimore, DC...). I am sure its still a rough place but there is not a lot of abandon homes, trash lots, and homeless.
Homeless tend to be on subways and nyc looks a lot nicer than it use to look mike Tyson talks about growing up in Brownsville in the 80s and it’s honestly very sad to hear
The housing crisis took a lot of the abandoned buildings away
Nick you read my mind!! I was just going to type you regarding AK's (Action Kid) all morning trek through Brownsville I saw last month but you beat me to it. Great to see both of my favorite podcasters link up! I used to binge watch AK's NYC videos when he was in that city. Now that he moved to Miami not so much anymore.
Yep
I lived in Brownsville for a yr in 2019
.... i hated it. Im from Queens so im use to a certain calmness. Brownsville is bad but you couldnt pay me to live in the Bronx🤷🏾♀️
Which Neighborhood you live in Queens??? I’m from NYC and that Borough (Queens).
My Grandmother lived in Jackson Heights from the 60s-90s.Hello from Raleigh NC.🖐
@@5849_Nearl south side jamaica
You can pay me to live in the Bx, the night life there is underrated. Queens is overpriced.
@@blackcherry6877 in flushing .. kew gardens yea
This was a really good video. It relates a lot of information which we didn’t know. Your guests did a great job of giving the lowdown on how it really is. Their knowledge really helped give an understanding beyond what is in the news.
More valuable insight via subscribers 🙂 who lived in these places.
Good interview, Nick Johnson! 🙂
This is a great video. I can’t wait to watch the next one!
I absolutely love the way this guy talks😸 such a positive inflection on statements that arent so positive. Its like sarcasm without the hostility. Anyways I thinks its very amusing and refreshing. Thank you😊
He sings a sad song with an upbeat tempo
My thoughts exactly
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Thx for another great video Nick hoping to visit 🇺🇸 sometime around labour day weekend but at least your videos give me great insights on what I should expect
Thanks for sharing this 👍🙏
A city can't expect to function effectively if you don't have decent housing for people who earn a low-average wage
I grew-up in Brownsville and East New York (Van Dyke Projects, Howard Houses...) from 1975-1997, then I moved to Harlem. When I go through there now, it's entirely different than when I grew up. Like someone else mentioned, nowadays, if you mind your business, you'll be fine. That wasn't the case when I was there. I also grew-up during the "crack-years" so it was a very different time.
Thanks AK for saying/showing that Brownsville is not as bad as people think. THANK YOU!!!!
The pleasant piano 🎹 to talking about Brownsville is classic, that’s original 👏😆. And come to think of it, if every Brooklynite listened to a Mr. Rogers type of melody when they woke up in the morning, they wouldn't give you that mean grill 😬 as you walked past them, you'll probably get a smile 😀 and a hello 😂🤣🤣
Good and insightful interviews. The way the news discribes the neighborhoods you'd think it was complete squawler and distruction. There's kind and loving folks there and lots of hope. Thank you for sharing this.
I also noticed families that live in housing projects never leave but even worse that it's becoming a generational cycle. Woman gets housing, has daughter, signs up daughter for benefits. Daughter has kids, now they're signed up for benefits. Three generations under benefits. Most of those families either live in the same apartment complex or the same street. I also heard some housing tenants rent their apartments while they live somewhere else in another state or country & when housing sends the letter regarding annual inspection, they travel back to be present for the inspection, like they're living there but aren't. People would joke it's part of hustling, but people that scam the system are the reason many aren't deemed as eligible, especially those who really need it.
It's the same in poor white communities, and it's the delinquent, absent fathers who help contribute to the signing up for benefits issues.
Yes.i started workin part time in grocery store during covid and was stunned bout 90% of business is EBT Snap Program. And ppl who have jobs drive decent cars etc are all getting snap benefits. Gaining the system for many ppl. Obviously i know most people especially with kids qualify but many ppl who just downright scheming to not pay for food.
Thanks to action kid I saw and learnt so much about New York every single burrough.Great content from him.Thanks Nick I do love all your vlogs as well.
As a trucker, I delivered to the Bronx Brewery, and the Chinese Market, I found the people to be very friendly, and helpful, and that was pretty cool. Hunt's Point, was kinda scary, but I got through it okay! All in all I had a nice time delivering to New York in general, and I went there at least six times in the ten years or so, I drove.
How’s trucking going for you? I hear many are parking.
@@hezmydaddyo2722 I don't drive anymore, since my stroke!
@@edwardjackson1418 oh, I’m sorry. Take care of yourself. 🙏
My dad also is kinda a trucker he delivers mail to people he loves his truck idk why lol 😂
@@hezmydaddyo2722 I like the new mayor and I'm homeless I am trying to get to Brooklyn but I hope to come out of homelessness. Not good especially when it gets bitter cold but there is no place on earth like NY. I was born in a really small town and it's nothing like NY.
You do not even know how lucky I was to get out of this neighborhood after accidently renting a room here and not knowing it was a bad area. The police even stopped and asked me and my friends that where helping me move my stuff, If we were lost? Like that was pretty much all it took to set in my panic and get me looking to get the hell out of this part of new york. looking at this video I feel I must have been a bit past this area, not sure cause I only ever tool the subway to get anywhere, but it is the same subway line
How did you find new flat ? Quickly must be quiet a headache
@@shivanshna7618 yes I was already looking for a place to rent a room not really the whole apartment so it was a bit easier.
We’ve seen worst neighborhoods on this channel. Periodically the NYPD and the Feds haul in one of the young trouble making crews, like they did last week in the Bronx.
*Eight words:*
*Go at night, and not in the Winter.*
Plz..winter aint never scared a newyorker lol
@@passionscott4877 *No, that wasn't my point. Violence and crime increases at night, and during the Summer.*
First time I’ve actually seen Action Kid. Have Enjoyed his videos.
EXCELLENT JOB 👍
Mike Tyson was from Brownsville, but did not grow up in a housing project.
Truth. He probably was from BV, but Catskills, NY is where Cus trained him in his career. Upstate NY. Many many miles (maybe 2 hours) from Brownsville, Brooklyn. Mike would've caught a felony had he stayed there regularly at that time/era. BK was definitely a trap then .
I do doordash once in a while in brooklyn and some orders i get offered take me to brownsville. Usually they never tip and order a lot of food, with redundant instructions like saying “walk up to the northleft building, walk down to the building, go in, type xx to be buzzed in,take the elevator to the left straight and go up to floor 19, make a left and go straight to the end, on the corner make a right and go down the hallway,leave the order in the front door” something like that. what shitty area.I delivered once there when i was starting and didnt know better and the moron said he never got the order even though i hand delivered it to him and took a pic of the apt number with the food in the other hand. That building smelled like piss and weed with guys sitting on the stairs drinking. No thanks. Generational poverty can be broken by graduating HS,getting a full time job and not having kids out of wedlock.
Brave fellow. Glad you made it out alive.
Moonshadow: You have posted one of greatest comments I have ever read. There is no doubt you know what you are talking about. Your honesty is commendable and appreciated.
Yea, you'll get that in any "hood". Kinda like asking for instructions to get from Main Street (Small Town) to 9 blocks away. Confusing ASF. Today if still living there, I'd just walk or (irony) take a cab.
Oh dear Lord…. What a nightmare that must’ve been Moonshadow. I can’t even imagine. No way does that work out well for the Door Dash driver if he does that over the long haul. In no time, he’s gonna be accused of not delivering food, he’s gonna end up with next-to-nothing for tips. You’re final sentence is so spot-on and simple. The talking heads on places like CNN can ramble for five hours about the plight of AA’s in this country. In the end, don’t have 6 kids if you know you’re unable to financially support one. Maybe keep it to ONE kid. Think! Be responsible. Be sure the man in the picture is ready to be a father so the kid isn’t fatherless. All of these things are completely under the control of the African American. That is NOT a systemic problem. They start out in a bad spot, no doubt. But that’s all the more reason to act responsibly so you’re not just making it even worse for future generations. Just ignore everything you hear in rap music, get a high school diploma, and try a little bit.
@@loisaustin6200 Exactly in these projects anything could happen.
Awesome Nick your videos get better and better- you are the KING OF TRAVEL INFORMATION AMERICAN CONDITION SCIENCE 10/10 sciencing brah
I grew up in Brooklyn and lived there for 30 years. My father was born in Brownsville, way back in the fifties, but only lived there until he was a toddler and didn't remember much about it. Before he started school, my grandparents moved to Flatlands, and finally to Mill Basin. I grew up in Marine Park and Bay Ridge - attended public school all my life and graduated from a CUNY school. I lived through the eighties and early nineties which was easily the worst block of time to be a NYC resident. There's always been a massive divide between eastern and western Brooklyn. Neighborhoods like East New York, Brownsville, and Bed-Stuy have always been awful. Some places like Canarsie and Crown Heights have gotten marginally better, but generally the changes that most Brooklyn neighborhoods have undergone in my lifetime have been for the worse.
Having been gone for many years, it never ceases to amaze me that people are willing to pay such extortionate rents and to fork over such ludicrous sums of money to buy in New York City. For what? New York City doesn't really offer anything that you can't find in a decent medium sized city or even in a nice small town. Culture? Sure, the best museums in the world are there. In terms of art, music, history, and even food and drink, the variety that you have available to you is staggering. But how many people who live in the five boroughs are going to the Museum of Natural History every weekend? How many are going to the opera regularly or seeing classical music performed for free in a park? How often do they attend a Broadway show? And while it's true that you can find any thing from Armenian food to Brazilian to Yemeni to Zimbabwean, it's not like the average person is traveling all over the city to seek those places out. Outside of Manhattan and the various ethnic enclaves in the other boroughs people mostly go with Chinese or Italian pretty much the same way people do in most other big cities. If you're in Astoria you might go with Greek food and in Richmond Hill there's plenty of Indian, but being able to eat traditional Ethiopian food is probably not the determining factor for whether a place ought to be considered livable or not.
What benefit is there to being a NYC resident? High taxes, and for what? The quality of life is terrible. Crime is on the rise. Most of the best jobs have moved away to the suburbs. There are still great jobs left to be found, but they're mostly for people in finance or people who are in a trade union. The public transportation is overpriced, unreliable, and downright dangerous. Commute times are ridiculous. I'd rather live in Plattsburgh and commute to Buffalo every day than live on Staten Island and have to commute to Queens or to The Bronx. Leaving NYC was the best thing I ever did. You could offer me a five story limestone on the Upper West Side and I still wouldn't go back. I'd sell that thing for the first decent offer I got and buy property someplace else and never work again. Anybody who thinks that he or she can justify dropping $2,500 a month to live in a shoebox with no yard space or a guaranteed parking spot is insane.
But you know what? Places like Brownsville are necessary. They serve a certain niche. Nobody in other parts of the city, the metro area, other parts of the state, or the rest of the country wants those people living next door to them. There's nothing in Brownsville, so nobody has any reason to go there. And even if you wanted to go there, it's not the easiest place to reach by NYC standards. You really have to go out of your way to get there, and that's essentially a good thing. When those buildings went up they were gorgeous. If you could travel back in time and see what that neighborhood looked like immediately after the war you wouldn't believe your eyes. In only a few generations it's been ruined, likely forever. But because we have places like Brownville, there's hope for the rest of the city. If Brownsville were to disappear, those people would have to go live somewhere else, and they can't afford to leave the city, so they'd just have to be relocated to some projects someplace else, and nobody wants to live next to a project, so let them stay there.
Culture. 247 Everything. Diversity Everything. Things I miss about NYC, and Brooklyn.
Shermann comment of the year so far!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I actually think New York offers a lot that the average U.S. city cannot. The main attraction being a truly urban lifestyle similar to what is the norm in Europe. NYers are the only ones who can reasonably live their lives without a car, catch a train any and everywhere, and live within walking distance to any amenity imaginable 24 hours each day, 7 days a week. The rest of America is inherently suburban by design and function.
The problem is the city has been taken over by liberalism, which has led to lawlessness and a lack of affordability. Even worse is that all of the common sense independents and conservatives are running away, which just leaves the place more liberal. People need to stay in New York and vote the Dems out because it’s a one of a kind city and IMO New York State (Upstate) is the most beautiful place on the continent.
New York may not be perfect, but it is a place worth saving!!!
@@redcomic619 How will a change to a Republican city administration help? (I’m following from Australia so need your American perspective).
What would the conservatives do differently? Thanks
Yep. I grew up in The Bronx in the 70's -90's but lived in middle class areas. The what I like to call ""all by design" deterioration I witnessed was appalling. What truly made the Bronx wonderful were the Silent/Great generations that came before the boomer generation. These people cared about family values & true community. Everyone looked out for each other. The piss poor boomer parenting and selfishness destroyed everything. Look at how drastically different the early 60's were from the late 60's. Of course there were exceptions, but overall the boomers lowered standards and raised the bar for crass materialism. So sad.
Despite growing up in Brooklyn I almost have never been to Brownsville, except maybe passing through it on a major street like Linden Blvd. I use to frequent nearby East New York and Cypress Hills though.
i never had a problem with Brownsville I live in Queens NY and visit Brownsville all the time. it's not as bad as you make it seems,
Brownsville is poor and working families. It’s not ritzy or glam, but mostly no one will bother you if you’re not in a gang or a criminal too. I don’t know who thought putting all this housing together was a good idea.
@@JT-cl9np really! Omg 😆
You should interview Here Be Barr he’s from New Jersey but lives in Brooklyn, and he gives a very good description about the boroughs, culture, and food in New York.
Yaass! I forgot about John! Great, no nonsense content ✊🏽
he's from Brooklyn now if you lived there for a long time that is where you from
City sucks. No one cares.
It’s still bad over here but we’ve become more wiser to hiding and settling our beef personally from the authorities.
Its best for everybody......
When UPS and DHL have to deliver stuff with police escorts, you know the neighborhood is fucked
They don’t do that but they keep delivering during daylight hours
Right but that's not a thing that happens
Cap
That never happened
Yes, it does happen in very rough areas. Camden is one.
was not expecting AK to be your star guest, love him from his channel.
He's awesome!
You should interview Louis Rossman if you make another NYC video hes a independent business owner their and makes several videos on the real estate situation there. He also makes a lot of circuit board repair videos because that is his primary job.
I like him! He's awesome!
I know him, as Well.
yeah man let's all become on big happy family.
@@NickJohnson well, are you gonna interview him then ?
Nick, my fiance and I are huge fans, since the beginning! I'm from Bushwick, we were all raised to stay away from this area... Once you cross Broadway Ave towards East, NY... It's called the Dark Side. I moved to Bellingham, WA ten years ago and never looked back!
I've seen delivery people without police escorts.
Yeah to BH Washington.
The most ruthless criminals are located in the Financial District dressed in suits.
it looks much better than where private property owners live, we need full socialism
@@jara1462 or, you could go make something of your life instead of leeching off society.
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@@pauldziejman small business owners and private property owners are the real parasites leeching and stealing labor of workers
Very true.
I love your little songs!
There’s no way out. I came and left nyc and I don’t see how you’d climb out of NYCHA with wages and high rent. That’s why people go south. NYC can only house the rich or the really poor.
This seems to be the way all cities are going. San Francisco, Sydney, London. Very sad.
I lived in the projects NYC rent was like 400$ 500$ 3bedroom
Usually a neighborhood reflects the attitude of the people who live there
This is a very crazy neighborhood. I used to go grocery shopping at Food Bazzar in that neighborhood Brownsville. I took the L train to Livonia Avenue. I also used to go on Pitkin Avenue to shop as well. It was a very long street with a lot of shopping stores.
Nice work on this one, Nick!! :)
Ok Aaron.
@@NickJohnson Cheers, Nick! :)
That Brownsville song! 😁 Nick 👍
Maybe do a video about current prices, food, gas, rent, bills etc.
From this video, Brownsville doesn't exactly look nice, but at least it doesn't look completely trashed and run down either.
Mr. John's video is for entertainment. You have to come to our Magical city in person to understand why we love our City so deeply.
And it's not.
The mappy bit was great in this one!
Interesting to learn about the earning conundrum with lower wage people.....full time V Part time. We have a similar situation here in Australia. really great vid mate....thanks
Yep 🇦🇺
Born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn. There's a reputation and saying,( I'm from Brownsville, never ran never will ). The only place I know, that has beautiful people ....you never want to cross.
WordUP
FYI, at 2:58 you passed by a pharmacy on Livonia Ave. That corner housed the headquarters of the 1920s Murder Inc!
Dang!
My mother was raised in that building in 1920s, murder inc. was down stairs. Bullet holes from them in wall.
It was always a slum.
Thumbs up automatically 👍 have a good weekend everyone
Always :)
Your songs😂 Nick Johnson you are too much!
50% graduation rate is sad :(
it used to be shameful to get assistance. if you are able to work. work. benefits are supposed to be temporary. it's not punishment to stop welfare. it's actually harmful to give people free money. tbh
Receiving benefits has become a way of life, and many feel it's an entitlement.
Amen brother!
@Bruno Betty with the recession it’s gonna be even more. 🤦♂️
@@BrunoBerryhoneybuns1370 well i get your point with that but it’s crazy the billions of dollars this country is sending worldwide . Not everyone is privileged in the country and has a great job. Everything is going up. Inflation etc. Rent prices etc. I do agree with you though about people who can work should work.
If you have a problem with "free money", attack bailouts for predatory banks, trillion dollar rax cuts for the wealthy, and massive subsidies for tech and oil giants.
At one time brownsville was really bad hundreds of abandoned buildings back in the 70s and 80s nothing like it used to be.
Kind of funny seeing this. Last year when I was going to NYC an going through a lot of The Bronx to Brooklyn (inlcuding Broadway Junction), I watched Action Kid's videos on him walking around the city. Just thought of him when I frist stated watching and here you have him on your show. Very cool...
I do tend to talk a lot of trash about downstate but I really do hope the best for these people in these areas. We all deserve much better as Americans
I am originally from Binghamton NY,live in Raleigh NC.
One tiny thing that might help a little bit: just be smart about having kids. Ya know? Don’t have four children if you know darn well you’ll never be able to support them in NYC. There’s s always ignorance at the bottom of any big issue…. There are other matters complicating things as well, but so often a part of a big problem involves people making bad decisions.
Of course u gonna talk trash if u from upstate NY 😂😂😂
Y'all miserable
You're best song by far 🤣
Yeah, I remember when I lived in NYC years ago, Brownsville was pretty scary (especially after dark) back then as well.
I grew up here. My childhood Barber shop "Bus Stop Barber Shop" on Pennsylvania & Wortman was in the first still shot.
Yeah, NYC has become way too gentrification, but crime and property values has sky rocketed. Brownsville and East NY have always been places that I have been warned to stay away from those places in BK for decades.
*gentrified
Never ran never will-Brownsville. Nick’s channel is The Best!!!!. Now we need a video on how no matter how bad a neighborhood in NYC is the homes cost a lot
Lotta New Yawkaz done moved down here to Philly for dat reason bro'haaam
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"Never ran never will Brownsville" is NOT a thing. Yoy mixed uo the expression. Try again! Yall get on youtibe a pretend lol!
@@ogtripplog I have plenty of family in Philly. Original Philly people. Great city! Great people. Y’all get a bad rap too
@@donaldsawyer2618 Word word I do agree. Lifelong Philly bul I do agree. Da ppl here give my city a bad rep n they need ta be flushed outta here
He should have invited a Brownsville native. Ik he invited some people from NY but they are kinda looking from the outside looking in. Yes they did give useful information but you rather want to get an idea from a natives day to day point of view.
Was thinking the same thing. He did a great job in other videos regarding that.
@@mikej6624 it doesn't matter if he's a native if he been there enough times that he will know
It's not always easy to find people in an area to talk
@@NickJohnson that's understandable
This was a great show. Crime went down when "Stop and Frisk" was implemented.
...and vice versa
I'm sure crime would go up if they stop and frisked in rural areas as well... 🙄
Went down when it was ended more than 10 years ago. It was ruled unconstitutional.
Brownsville is not that bad. Flatbush sometimes is worse, especially during the summer time because of gun violence. The truth is the benefit system discourges people from moving up. If you make $22K a year, you have full medical benefit. That plan is even better than many big corporate CEOs have. On top of that, you have housing, food stamp, etc. Once your income is over a certain threshold, you need to pay at least part of that. It eats up a big chunk of your paycheck.
How is there gun violence I thought NYC had strict fun laws
A lot of truth. I had a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, large terrace apartment for 20 years. I always worked, but qualified then for something called a Section 8 Voucher. Instead of 1200 a month, I paid 924 for rent. got 200 a month in EBT Food Stamps, and awesome Medical benefits. I overstand why and how people there become complacent, with no real incentive to move. Now that I've moved to the South, it's HELLA MORE EXPENSIVE! Mortgage, Water Bill Electricity Bill, GAS PRICES, Property tax, Home & Car Insurance, Lawn Care...the list goes on. My monthly expenses in Brooklyn? 1200. Rent, Food, Transportation. Didn't need a car, just hop on a train, bus or hail a cab. All of my utilities were included with the rent. I could leave all the lights on, and every faucet running, leave out of town for a week, and my rent was the same Monthly expenses here in the South? Almost 2k. I make more money now in warehousing (the only effin jobs in a small town) so my skill set had to change. No more office jobs sitting behind a computer here. In any case, I dig your videos, the concept and Brownsville is overrated in terms of being "Bad" but it ain't so bad anymore. You won't get jacked for your coat or sneakers anymore 🙂
@@tonynasaofficial LMAO.
And THIS is exactly why government entitlements should be limited to 3 months without exception with no option to Re apply.
@@MISTERKIC
Some ppl know how to play the system, down south u don't so much Government assistance.
As a New Yorker, this is very accurate. I’m from Long Island, NY.
How’s Wyandach doing ? 😆😆
It’s accurate but you are nowhere near the trenches.
Where though isn't long island big and long ? Lol
@@shivanshna7618 yes and it’s hardly Brooklyn though they have some rotten neighborhoods too.
@@sugar2th173 could be I only know long island from how I met your mother .
Guys like Kenneth (AK), That’s a Shame MaryJane, Urbanist, Tom Delgado…. Are the reason I started watching UA-cam at the start of Covid! I’m hooked for life now✊🏽✊🏽🙏🏼✊🏽✊🏽
Nick we are from NY state I was born in Brooklyn but wasn't raised there.we would be totally lost driving in NY city! Take care you are very brave!
Ok Liz!
It still doesn't look as bad as east st Louis or east Cleveland.
In the middle 60's I used to go to Brownsville to party; they were the best parties in Brooklyn and all on my friends there got out; they went to State University and then moved on. One lady got a PhD one guy got an MBA. One guy is a lawyer but these were the most highly motivated....you can get out if you get on the pipeline...but to my knowledge none ever went back. The State University started the EOP program in 1968 and it gave some a chance at college. City University had the SEEK program. For the average there is no path.
Thanks Nick for another great video!!!
East Ny right next door to Brownsville is pretty bad as well.
Not so much anymore. I'm a vet from there. Still visit 3-4 times a year. Lived there 48. ENY!
Thank you Action Kid for telling the truth Brownsville is not as bad as people will have you believe
Im from the other side of Brooklyn. A few years ago I decided to go to Walmart on Long Island for the first time in my life (we don’t have Walmart in NYC). For some reason, the address/direction on Google took us right to the middle of the projects in Brownsville. Everything was fine until an unsuspecting minivan turned out to be an unmarked cop car, they turned the sirens on and started a high speed chase with another car out of nowhere and we were caught in the middle. Definitely sketchy. Looks fine during the day, but bullets know no face. Avoid if possible.
This comment. The people are underestimating how fast things can go left in Brooklyn
Oh no a speed chase happens everywhere
I witness the same a few days ago. Happen all the time in Brownsville. A lot of cars without tags they don't even respect red lights at night
I appreciate these guys coming on the video and giving their opinion but I highly doubt these guys have really really immersed himself into Brownsville. I work in Brooklyn not to give away my profession but I work all throughout Brooklyn and Brownsville, East New York, and East Flatbush are probably the worst areas I frequent. It’s riddled with gang violence, drug addiction, homelessness, and it’s overall just unsanitary.
@Stranded NYer yeah I know what I said East Flatbush gets down.
Bruh, grew up up and lived in ENY, Linden Blvd ( pick a project) 48 years of my life. Lot of us commenting, lived and worked there. We ain't just commenting. What Moon said was 100...nah, 1000!
@Stranded NYer AND? F you addressin me for?
You should do a video about Arlington, Virgnia? Why is there so many big apartment complex here.
True, I worked and hanged out in Brownsville for a long time!!
Do you drive all over America pretty much nonstop? Thanks again for exploring our huge country and making good social medai connections for serious meaningful discussions. I find housing, employment security, hostile people, crime, and violence to be the issues. That's good to hear that people in Brownsville are trying to make thier lives better by socializing and having community most areas have zero sense of community and safety.
God just imagine that fuel bill 😳
@Ekaterina Kozhevnikova I also like pizza.
He’s such a fruit cake lmao
I think I went there once w my friend in 1990s, my friends Puerto Rican parents lived in a housing project apt there, we didn't stay long. It was a bit scary but no one bothered us. Can't believe you have ACTION KID ON!!! 😊
poor Mappie deserves better
Been working in NYC for 20 years.
Had two developments in the “hood”. East Flatbush, Brooklyn & Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
Act like you belong and you’ll be fine. I’m a white dude and never had any problems.
The people, for the most part, are wonderful and very welcoming.
The neighborhoods on the west side or North Brooklyn are beyond gentrification. Williamsburg, Dumbo, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights and Boreum Hill are basically more expensive than most of Manhattan (good luck find a 1 bedroom under $4500 in dumbo).
Also, COVID has been a huge boom for Brooklyn as people migrated away from Manhattan. Brooklyn really feels pre COVID normal, but Manhattan (especially midtown) seems like it has a bit to go to get back to how it felt before COVID.
Yes Nick totally agree
It’s what called dollar worth piece of ****
$4500 a month for a one bedroom in DUMBO? Are you serious? God, I make $300k a year and a I feel pretty good about that. I’d barely be able to live there! That’s insane.
poor mappy, dont worry bro ! i gotchu, ill call orkan and get rid for those nasty bugs for ya my dude.
Mappy says THANKS!!
@@NickJohnson hehehe :-) always got love for this crazy duo you guys are
I used to go grocery shopping at that Food Bazzar right near the L and 3 train station which was Livonia Avenue and Junius Street
Good Afternoon, Nick Johnson.
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If this was the 1990s, you wouldn't have been able to casually walk around like that and record. times have changed...
Always go in winter...as all the pestilence don't come out of their holes until the temp rises above 75°