I lived in the south Bronx before moving to the area near this lady. The sourh Bronx at that time was not a bad area. I hate to say it but this lady seems to have a little snob and racist in her. I am always proud to tell people that I grew up in the Bronx, it was a great place.
In the 40s & 50s, my mom lived in the Bronx. She lived near Fort Appache when it was safe believe it or not. In the early 70s I remember my dad drove us by her old neighborhood and her apartment buildings were already rubble. She was so sad, because she had good memories as a young teen and in her early 20s.
the people who moved into the bronx in the late 60s and 70s turned it into a dump. noise, crime, thefts. double parked cars blocking the stoops etc etc etc etc,,, a bunch of lowlife morons, prior to that the Bronx was great ..............................................................................
I'm writing for my mom (she doesn't have a RU-vid account): She wanted you to know how much she enjoyed your interview with your grandmother because she grew up in the Bronx also. Your video has cheered her up so much since losing my dad, her husband, from COVID. The interviews of your aunts and uncles was also enjoyed by her. You cheered up her night by watching this. God bless you and be well. Please send my regards to your grandmother, she's a very, very lovely lady. My mother's name is Joanne and she grew up in the Country Club section of the Bronx in the 1960's and 70's.
Do a Google Maps tour of Bronx neighborhoods to day. They look just fine. In Mott Haven, the most crime ridden area, the crimes is almost all confined to inside the large public housing projects. This is missed in talking about the high crime although the NY times did note this,. That neighborhood is being turned into a neighborhood for the wealthy but it has lng been a ll\ow crime area on the non-project working class blocks.
I grew up on 139th St in the Bronx. I never knew that my parents from Ireland started out owning a big house in Garden City and a kind of early gourmet grocery store on Long Island catering to wealthy Wall Streeters. Their bank didn't even fail, and they had a big bank account. Their problem was that everyone bought on account, a gentry kind of thing from England and Ireland. o when the Wall Srtreeters went broke they fed themselves on extended on account buying and eventually my parents went bankrupt and moved to a very cheap, cramped 5 room apartment in Mott Haven. the local "dope parlor" was almost directly across from our building. BUT the culture on the block was exceptional. Refugee Russian classical musicians lived across the alley from us and I grew up listening to live classical music. The adults would put on shows in the middle of the street, singing, dancing, reciting poetry, playing an instrument. A poet from Latin America would read his poems in Spanish and English. We were free range kids and our rooftop sub-culture was daring.. Some kids would hang off the overhanging eaves dangling 5 stories up. The eaves had a flat space about 3 ft wide. We were on a steep hill s so that the eaves dropped down about 4-5 feet from one identical bldg to the next. Some kids would run down those eaves from top of the hill to the bottom, accelerating as they ran and veering off the last eave before going over and falling to the street, On the other hand we went in mixed age groups to the two big NY museums (free and no hassle for a donations then). We knew where everything was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and could have been guides. We also had art class every day and part of it involved getting art postcards from the Met. We would study those paintings and the artists and then visit the museum to see the originals. We also had music in school every day. We had neighborhood wide chalk art competition, the streets filled with incredible copies of the Old Masters and many original pieces of art.I went to Regis HS we studied Latin and Greek. When I was asked what subject most related to my life I said Greek. I was told not to be a wise guy. When I explained the gang life in my neighborhood and the competitive sports leagues run by gangs with betting organized by the adult gangsters and the ritual insult sessions held from stoop to stoop and the formal drinking culture of the gang I played football for (I was not a member and not pressured to be one; being a "good kid" was respected), I played center or guard and as a center was entitled to drink with the gang leaders and observe their rituals. The Knights of Columbus in our parish took in blacks from Harlem so they could join the Bronx Democratic Club because the Manhattan Democratic Club would not let them join.The first borough President of Man hattan was a member of our parish's KC and the Bronx Democratic CLub. At some point ion my grade school the block became about half Puerto RIcan with no great tension between us. Most spoke only Spanish so we did not mix. Some black kids from other blocjks chose to hang our on our block because it was a lot of fun. Many years ago that Spanish poet on our block was interviwed by the NY times around a disute at historic ST. Anne's church over the priest,. He was on the vestry and he lamented that the neighborhood was so great back when it was mixed and not all Puerto Rican. We only moved because the landlord let the bldg deteriorate. ... We moved to a larger nicer apartment in Fordham/Kingsbridge. The story of how that neighborhood went from a stable crime free raciallly integratred neighborhood to a far less integrated neighborhood is another matter and it had nothing to do ewith the IRish-Americans and Jewish-Americans who lived there and did not want to move but felt they had too. ... BTW, my old Mott Haven block was rehabbed in a terrific way for renters and home owners who were working class. The area is now being gentrified andv will soon enough not be working class and the poor will continue yto live in the large public housing projects. A house on my old block recently sod for over a million dollars (spacious, with very nice out dooor space. A lone new apt blfg one blocj=k over on 2138th street if renting very well designed apts for $3K a mont. In a while those apts could go for 4-5bk a month.
@@strengthandbulkMadness Could be. Good to know. I never heard it. No family on my block was from Dublin. And they were not all Irish by any means, though the majority were.
someone bought that piece of shit for 300million?? owwo... though i suppose at least now we have a foundational psychological explanation for why sjws virtue signal....
I grew up in the Bronx in the 60’s and 70’s. We moved to Long Island in 76. But I loved the Bronx always will. Actually lived on Taylor Ave. for many years. I had cousins that lived on Noble. My parents worked hard and had a house built on the Island. Some people seem to look down at there Bronx past. Not me it was a cool place. Still love the Bronx! All my neighbors were hard working people.
My Name is Charlie Rogers and I grow up in the Bronx near the Bronx zoo 2145 Southern Blvd apt 1b Bronx NY me and my brother we were in a band, that was back in 67 the band is no more but I'm still active in singing I been looking and asking people to see if anyone has pictures of my old building I'll gladly accept it please mail it to me Elvis45@hotmail.com a lot of memories in that building my channel listen to my songs lets be friends ru-vid.com today I live in Throg Neck area I listen to your video it was well done.
My family was the Latino element that moved in 😅 .. all I’m going to say is Latino’s and blacks weren’t the people who brought the drugs into the Bronx .. they didn’t have any farms boats or planes. I’m still enjoying hearing about the history. We’re still here btw .. my family lived and lives all over the neighborhood elder, st Lawrence, I lived in Nobel as a child
I grew up on Beach Avenue, in the 60s lived in Rosedale Projects now called Sotomayor Houses. I attended P.S. 47 and would walk past a Blessed Sacrament on the way home. I remember those candy stores, and the German bakery. They had great rolls and black and white cookies. There was also a German deli. One candy store had a soda fountain and we would get chocolate egg creams and fountain cokes. Bout my comic books there, they also had greeting cards and toys. The other candy store was small and just sold candy and newspapers. I think the buy was a bookie. There was a pizza place at St. Lawrence where we would get a slice of pizza. There was a luncheonette called Pete’s where we would get hamburgers and fries. We shopped in Parkchester at Macy’s Woolworths, Lerners. There was a movie theater the Circle where we saw double features that later became an adult theater. We could also walk to the Bronx Zoo. I remember walking to Daitch where my mother would buy farmer cheese and pickled herring. I’m Jewish and we moved out in the early 70s because the neighbor was becoming dangerous. It went from working class families to welfare single mom households very quickly.
I have very fond memories of my life in the Bronx in the 1950's. We lived on Maclay Avenue, just off Tremont Avenue and near Parkchester. We went to St. Raymond's Catholic church and I attended its grammar school from 1954 until 1958 when we moved to the Rockaways.
These are all the races iv heard/seen in new York Italians in the bronx,iv heard there's alot of white people And there's a population of Puerto Ricans too also some blacks
We still live in n/e bronx some of the of the old stores are still there,but white familes that left the area left behind the child that was trouble usually a theif or drug addict and he gets the old apt,Also they under report the increase in crime so whites think its safe.Its hard to leave your elderly parents
Grew up in the "Da Bronx" and had a great time.. loved High school days. Attended Dodge VHS, graduating in 1964. Peggy Marshall, and other celebrities (Pacino) grew up there.
Well actually the drugs were brought in by the beatnik/hippie counterculture which and greatly impacted poor communities, many of which being people of colour.
I grew up in the Wakefield section of the Bronx and went to Catholic school. Some of the public schoolers were on drugs, heroin, pot, downers...speed. But the rich kids fromPelham and Scarsdale always came down to buy drugs. I hated living in the Bronx back then, and couldnt wait to get out,, but now that Im older, I realize there are no communities and people like Bronx people...Everyone just keeps to themselves in all these other cities and states, in this race to nowhere to get their children in the best schools and activities.... but there is no grounding. I had a wonderful loving mom and kids could play outside till all hours with no fear...everyone else’s mom and dad looked out for you....no more. I’ve reconnected with all the kids in our neighborhood, & we had a few reunions...people coming from all over the country...some of us hadn’t seen each other since we were 14 yrs old, but it was like we saw each other yesterday... We hadn’t skipped a beat! Everyone is doing so well in life...we had our reunion at the Catholic grammar school we attended and a few of the nuns came too!
The Bronx was a much safer place in the '40s and '590s that it is today. On Sunday, June 1, 1958, as a new LEGAL immigrant I attended the Polo Grounds, where the League Champions of Ireland, Meath in football and Tipp in hurling, defeated their opposite numbers from New York City.
Sean Curtain Interesting to hear. If you don’t mind asking you this question (you don’t have to answer it) but how was life after you came to the US in the late 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.
What Year are you talking about, just too young to remember the Bronx in the 50's and 60's Cypress Ave 139 Street and I did not see any of what she is talking about.
Definitely.. no other buildings had or have a pool around there.. I grew up on the other side of the cross bronx in the trio buildings across from Noble mansion on 174th St. My girlfriend lived in that building up until 4 years ago. Still a nice place.
Excuse me!!!?? "All white people in The Bronx were White Trash". What does that make you? I'm Bronx Born & Raised and the day someone calls me White Trash to my face would be the last day of their life.
I disagree with that. Maybe in her old neighborhood but not in other parts of the Bronx. The Bronx is a big place with nice areas. People always focus on the bad neighborhoods and the burnt out parts of South Bronx of the 1970s.
The liberals had the South Bronx beautifully rehabbed. It was the corrupt welfare commissioner under Republican Mayor Lindsey who bought up apt buildings and drove out the tenants because he could get hifgher rents by moving in welfare families.
