That is my block! Most my cousins live there! Moved out in December 2019 to Maryland! Thanks for taking me back home @Actionkid Big up E233 & White Plains Rd
@@ActionKid my uncle lived on barnes ave wwhenever i bisited e233 was the stop i got off at ansLked around to barnes a e 2 eight turns 3 gates and i wS at his house i too now live in marland brandywine on a farm her interesting Rea of md in wine countrye wasvthinking maybe wine making could be a nice chage from being st a keyboard
I grew up up in this area back in the 1980s!....It was a cool time then. I would hang out with all my friends at night until the sun came up!.... What a wonderful time it was!
Enjoyed this walk on the "Avenue" as we called White Plains Road back in the '50s and 60's. Our El stop was 219th St. My brother-in-law's bakery, Nereid Bakery, on White Plains and 238th is long gone. Thank you.
That's the main road ..the back streets Richardson, Matilda, carpenter ect have beautiful homes ..its a really nice neighborhood, but you wouldn't be able to tell from this walk through.
This is my old neighborhood. I used to live on grace ave. Had friends that live on 242nd. And I used to Go to Sousa 142. In the 80s. Thanks for the flash back!!
Wow ActionKid, you’ve done alot of great videos of many places that you go to and always keep up the good work, in fact I used walk around the entire Wakefield such as White Plains Road, Baychester av & other streets,Wakefield is always been my favorite neighborhood, my father does small work in houses at 241 street and white plains rd & 234 street as a handy man.
I appreciate this. I wish you had walked in towards 225th st and back to 241st st. The energy is further south in this neighborhood. Good tour. Thanks.
Nice work! Like a some of the other commenters, I was born and raised in the Bronx - grew up in this very neighborhood in the 1950's (yikes!) at the corner of 236th Street and Carpenter Avenue. Had you turned left at 236th Street, Carpenter Avenue is three blocks down the hill from White Plains Road, just above Bronx Boulevard. As you said in your opening comments, in those days, it was Italian (us), Irish and Jewish. I loved it - it was a cool place to be a kid. I think it's great that it's now a Caribbean neighborhood, with all the diversity that makes New York such a great place. As someone else mentioned, White Plains Road isn't Wakefield at its best - there are nicer, tree-lined neighborhoods a few blocks away, but to be honest - it wasn't exactly Fifth Avenue in the olds days either. It was the place where you shopped or made your way home when you got off the El - which at the time was called the Lexington Avenue line. I got a kick out of listening to you describe each business you passed, since I can name what almost every one of those was back in the day. The biggest "missing link" was the Wakefield movie theatre which you would have seen on the east side of White Plains at 235th Street. It was a big deal to us but would look crazy small today. Once a week they would give away free dishes (bonkers, I know) and they even had live acts now and then with some pretty big names. Anyway, keep up the good work and stay safe - long live the Bronx!
The movie palace is where I saw “Mary Poppins” in September of 1964. In the late sixties, the cinema became a boxing gym. I went back only once since my Aunt moved out to Yonkers in 1983ish.
Thank You for the great video, moved out of the Wakefield section in 2004, lived across the street from the train yard, 239th and Byron Ave, and born in Mount Vernon, grrrrreat video
My old neighborhood you are walking through the commercial strip of the neighborhood. If you want to see houses you can walk east from whiteplains rd to mundy lane or you can walk down carpenter ave which is also a through way road
Every saturday early in the morning I used to walk around that area and Mount Vernon. It looks better between Bronxwood and Barnes. Now you made me think of going back there to have those again. Keep it up!
Easiest way to determine boarders from NYC are streetlights and traffic signals. Whether its Westchester or Nassau County in long Island for example the lights change
Rather dingy-looking neighborhood. Garbage everywhere. Still, it is really interesting to see all the neighborhoods in NYC. I love what you do, ActionKid! Thank you.
He only walked up the main street of whiteplains road which is the commercial district. Had he walked west or east of whiteplains road, you would've saw nothing but streets lined with well manicured homes.
LOL. Comments like this always crack me up because it makes me realize that people have no idea what NY looks like outside of Time Square. This is what all of NY looks like outside of the tourist attractions. As an ex New Yorker who grew up in this neighborhood in the 80s and 90s I couldn't get over how much cleaner it looks now. Lol.
You should walk Boston Rd (not far from here) and check out the Bay Plaza Mall while you're at it. The Baychester stop on the 5 train will take you right to Boston Rd - just make a left when you get out :) 👍
Woodlawn, across the Bronx River from Wakefield remains an Irish neighborhood. You ought to walk Woodlawn; main street is Katonah Avenue. You ought to go into Woodlawn Cemetery. Historic burials, ornate mausoleums, guided and self-guided tours (maps provided).
Actionkid you should do video of Woodlawn cemetery .entrance is on 233rd street and Jerome ave.very picturesque .take the metro north to 233rd st from grand central it across the street.
Lived in the Wakefield section 20 years ,this video didn’t do it justice ,white plains rd is all commercial, there are beautiful homes on all the side streets. Good decent hard working people live there.
This is the neighborhood of my youth, lived on Gunther Avenue off East 233rd Street. He's right, in the 60's and 70's it was all blue collar Irish and Italians. My family left in 1973, by the time the 70's ended the neighborhood had completely turned over. Good memories of my early youth here.
Yep, this is where I was born and raised, I was born in 73 and we lived a few blocks from Pepino‘s Pizza. Two blocks down with Mount Vernon and that’s where all the trouble always came from and our neighborhood and right over the 241 St. bridge was yonkers. We did not move because my grandmother and grandfather own the house and my mom did not want to leave them and for some crazy reason they did not want to move so we were basically the last time in the neighborhood. We moved after my grandmother and grandfather died a year apart From each other, my grandmother died in 92 and my grandfather died in 93 so we moved and sold the house in 94 but it was already a disaster way before we moved. I’m not gonna say I didn’t enjoy the action in the Bronx I also worked at a deli/number spot on Pittman Avenue From the early 90s to about 96 or 97 and that was a load of fun. I didn’t move so far now I am in Scarsdale New York and it’s crazy to think I’m probably less than 15 or 20 minutes away but it feels like I’m on another planet over here, an example in the Bronx for 4 July. Everyone was outside barbecuing fireworks where I am now. Everyone has a really nice house but nobody is around. No one does barbecues. I am the only house in the mood. I’ve been barbecue shooting fireworks off. yes, I still shoot them off. And if you bought fireworks around Pinos in the 90s at least the 75% chance you bought them for me. I had the warehouse behind the store on White Plains Rd. and we sold fireworks all the way until mayor Rudolph Giuliani made it way more complicated to do so. I don’t go to the old neighborhood often but I did use my quest three VR glasses there’s an app called the wanderer and you literally put in an address and it takes you right there so I walked by basically exactly what action kid did, but in VR and men I didn’t think neighborhoods could get even more ran down, but man they even opened up a dope clinic a few blocks away from 241. But I love watching this video because this is my childhood for the first 20 years of my life. Those were my stomping grounds. And I know this video was old and I did see this video a few years ago when it was made but I actually went looking forward again just because I wanted to see it. Brings back so many memories.
That's not a true depiction of Wakefield. He's just walking white plains road. There are side street with nicely kept one and two story residential homes. He ended his video at mount Vernon which is Westchester County new York state. When he got to 238 if he'd gone left he'd be at another Westchester county neighborhood of Yonkers. And by the way. Did he ask people to stay away? Usually between 233rd street and 238/neried Ave, it's usually a bustling busy area.
I grew up on 232st off of White Plains Road.. Left there 50 years ago. It looks the same except for different stores and most of the people were either Italian, Jewish or Irish Americans. I have nothing against the people who live there now. I'm just pointing out the difference.
There was a scene in the first "Godfather" movie, filmed in a restaurant in the 3500 block of White Plains Road, above Gun Hill Road. Someone got shot.The loud noise of the White Plains Road elevated can be heard through the scene. On White Plains Road, pedestrians used to stop conversing, sometimes covering their ears, waiting for the el to pass.
I was on the train heading home from school 1971 when they filmed that scene at Louis Restaurant. I might have been on the exact train when Michael corleone fired the shots that killed McClusky and the turk?
@@tonyedward6909 I remember seeing the cameras and lights, outside the restaurant. The restaurant was on the west side of WP Road. Awful location for a business. The el tracks swerved over the sidewalk at that point; noisy, dark, dirty, little foot traffic. The next storefront to the north was Vavolizza Travel; big plate glass window. A school friend worked at Vavolizza Travel. She spend filming day, jumping up and down in the window, trying to get into the picture.
I lived right off WPR at 666 East 233 St. - WPR was always the commercial strip for the neighborhood..to get a cleared picture of the neighborhood the side streets off WPR would be of interest.
Interesting b/c it is the northernmost outlying community, probably not for any other reason. Still, serves as a good DOCUMENTARY of NYC, which is the primary purpose (or at least one purpose) for your channel. Thanks as always.
I had a bunch of friends who worked at the Cityline Pharmacy in the 90s. Also I knew the guys who owned Peppino‘s pizzeria and funny thing. Is they just open up another one not far for me on Tuckahoe Road and it’s called the world famous Peppino’s pizzeria, and JOHN and Carmine from Peppino‘s is at that Peppinos, I remember going to Peppino’s at 1 o’clock in the morning, I missed those days because everything in Scarsdale is closed by 10 o’clock. But anyway back to Celine Pharmacy, one of my best friends work there and another two or three friends of mine work there in the early 90s..
One way u can tell that u r in Westchester County is the difference in street signs. The signs r smaller in Westchester County and larger as u approach the city.
I'd love to visit nyc some day and it would be easier to see more of the "unknown" but still beautiful areas with locals if there is like a chat group for that or even here i'd love to meet some locals here who would hang out with a foreigner 😅
It’s very interesting to see the price of groceries from one year ago. I live in Texas which is cheaper than NY. I had to go back and see when this video was made because the prices were so low. Inflation is real!
It’s so weird looking at this. This is my neighborhood. It’s much nicer once you leave White Plains Road and go to the side streets. We are very close to Mount Vernon and Yonkers.
When you got off the train you should have walked west to Woodlawn Cemetery and gone into the cemetary. A lot of famous people rest there. It would have been more interesting.
@@Buttabrown Too many to list all. Duke Ellington, Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz & husband, Pedro Knight of Cuba; George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Miles Davis, W.C. Handy, F.W. Woolworth, etc., etc., etc.. You need to Google the list. Too many to list.
Oddly enough 241st Street is not the highest street number in The Bronx by a longshot. It’s 263rd Street in Riverdale . But according to the Subway map on my wall Wakefield is absolutely the northernmost section. Btw that might be a good walk for a future video: Take the 1 to the end at 242nd Street and walk 242nd along Manhattan College and up the Henry Hudson Plwy/Riverdale Avenue to College Of Mt. St. Vincent
I do miss The Northeast Bronx. I used to live in the Northeast Bronx when I was teenager to a young adult 👨 but, I moved to Hertford North Carolina 😢. I didn’t like country life. I moved to Philadelphia Pennsylvania but, I live in Darby Pennsylvania. I used to go to Trinity Baptist Church ⛪️ in The Bronx New York and later Glad Tidings Church ⛪️ in the Northeast Bronx. I will pray to God one ☝️ day when I am financially strong I want to return to The Bronx New York or Queens 👸 a strong man. I love Jamaican rice 🍚 and beans 🫘 with spare ribs.
I was raised by Jerome-went to St.Margret Mary School by Grand Concourse-I loved the Bronx in the 70’s!! You should do a walkthrough by Jerome/Weeks area-JUST BRING YOUE GUNS AND BULLET PROOF VEST!!! Laugh out loud!
At 22 minutes and five seconds you pass by Penfield Street and you actually say you’re passing Penfield Street. That is the block I was born and raised on. It’s only two blocks long and at the other end you literally one block away from Mount Vernon but that right there is where I was born in 1973 and we did not move until 1994 when both my grandmother and grandfather passed away we were officially the last Italian person in the neighborhood. What’s funny is in the early 80s there were a few Italians left on my block, but by 1990 they were all gone that deli that you were passing by at the 22 minute mark was called Sammy‘s and that is where we hung out. Pepinos was another hang out with John and Carmine and now they opened up a Pepino on Tucker Road in Yonkers The café right next-door to Peppino’s not even sure if it’s still there anymore was 24 hours and we would always stop in there at 4 o’clock in the morning after a night at Sue rendezvous. I have to say once we move away I stayed hanging around the neighborhood until about the year 2002. I haven’t been by since, I only live maybe 15 minute car ride away but it feels like I’m on a different planet. Anyway, love watching a video of my old neighborhood.
The Action Kid showing us all the diversity of New York # 9:52 The only thing most of us know of Guyana 🇬🇾 is that it is the country Jim Jones convinced 1,000 followers to drink his kool-aid in. Seems like a safe working class community. Nice 🚶.
Strange to see electricity wires still on poles like in underdeveloped countries & that for a city like New York. . Still looking ecstatic in a way. Old style.
Bravo. Were I able, I'd do the same focusing on older businesses and houses, in Houston TX (eg Montrose, Heights, Riverside Terrace, etc ...), that are quickly disappearing because of commercial development and new homes. Then, upload it onto an online museum page.
