Cincinnati, Ohio | What Happened Here? 

Imagine what all those little stores fronts must have had available back in the '60s

This is really in the U. S.A.. I am speechless.. They need to take care of home first before they send money abroad.

Yes, some of Cincinnati has been abandoned. But it is still a thriving city with a rich culture.

I'm 57 and was born in Cincinnati. Lived in Price Hill until my 40s. We used to spend a lot of time downtown. It had the big name department stores and Fountain Square. I have a lot of great memories of Cincinnati.

Omg... I'm originally from Cincinnati. From 77-99. I'm from 219 hearne ave avondale. Ran all over the streets of the zoo, coryville, Clifton, Ludlow, the old hospital complex. Walking underneath the ground from the zoo to u.c. campus. All over north and south avondale. 150 and 36 Kraft in the bricks.. winton terrace. Journey through the woods of winton place finlator gardens and top ridge, the guild and the recreation center saved a brother. North college hill, Northgate, and college hill, forest park, English woods, otr, north side, walnut hill, Evanston Norwood elm place, downtown... there wasn't very many places I wasn't in. Back then just east torwards lunkin airport and western hills was bad. But seeing you only ride through the project was bad. Downtown otr broke my heart. They are getting it together slowly. Block by block... hate to see the gentrification though. Its enough segregation here... overall good job taking me back to a lot of hoods I once stepped through back in the yesteryears....

Im from here, I live here currently. I love Cincinnati with all my heart. This place will always be my home. Let's go Bengals, who dey !!!

i just love the buildings, even if they are abandoned and run down. You can see so much charm still in them. Please do more videos of Cincinnati.

Seriously, this is absolutely no different than any other part of the Rust Belt. New housing, revitalization of old factories. Priced anywhere from $1,200-$1,700/month. It’s horrible and the decay is running full force.

Many of the larger cities in Ohio look like this. It is so sad. I am 57 and have lived in Ohio all my life. I live in a small town so riddled with drugs and crime that it is no longer safe to go out after dark

What happened? The exact same things that happened to every single big and medium sized city in the countrey. This doesn't require an advance degree in nuclear physics!

I've lived in Cincy since 2001 and have seen SO much change in those 22 years. Most areas are much nicer. But like any city, there are neighborhoods and areas that struggle and always have. It's a catch 22, as far as tearing things down and/or "revitalizing" areas. That's being done all over, but unfortunately- as others have mentioned- that also means an increase in rent. For residences and businesses alike. What was once affordable becomes unattainable and lower income folks are pushed out. Finding a balance is hard. I'm very proud of how far this place has come, though. I used to live in Memphis and Arkansas. I'd pick Cincy over either one, any day!!

Cincinnati is kind of strange in that the bad areas are usually in pockets around the city because the hills can break up neighborhoods. In flatter cities there is usually one really large bad area that stands out. Over-the-Rhine is were there is a lot of investment activity just blocks from downtown but be careful, one block in the wrong direction can land you in trouble.

In the first 3 minutes, that's Vine Street at where Hollywood had shot a movie "Traffic" with Michael Douglas.

about 3 of those clips, you was riding through low income housing projects my guy. Stanley Rowe, Moosewood, Millville, Winton Terrace, Dutch Colony. There is no hope for them, but some of the other ones were neighborhoods. The city can't contain the crime, so they are mainly starting the gentrification from downtown and working their way up. Moving the urban people further to the outskirts of where they are revitalization at. Its a process but alot has changed since they filmed the movie "In Too Deep" in 99 downtown.

Cincinnati is also known for its beauty , for example we have Italianate architecture our downtown area is walking friendly and the magnificent Netherland hotel...

Thank you so much Hoods N Hollers for uploading this great video, I appreciate it!

Great video and new sub for sure. Cincinnati obviously has some hard spots just like any larger city. In general though I've seen major improvements over the years. Thanks for sharing 👍

I'm from Columbus Ohio. Economically its better. But Cincinnati is a much more culture rich place to live by no comparison. You'll actually live a better life and happiness in Cincinnati

Did you tell them ahead of time you were coming? It's so clean! It's really weird seeing all the nice cars. Awesome work 💕✌️💕

I have lived in cities all over the U.S. (and the world) we came back to Cincinnati because it is really quite nice. Like most cities, in the 1950''s through the 1970's, whites fled to the suburbs and abandoned the inner city and these areas fell into decay. In the video, I recognized were Lower Price Hill, Lower Liberty and Upper Vine. These are still blighted areas that have high crime rates and urban decay. If you had continued the viseo a little farther down Vine Street, you would have seen a swarm of scaffolding outside buildings that are being renovated. A bit farther and you would have seen a vibrant restaurant and entertainment district. Areas like Northside, Norwood, and Clifton which once were blighted, but have since seen major renovation projects, and are now in demand as trendy places to live. Of course, when renovation occurs low income residents get displaced but the city has recently budgeted millions recently for new, low income housing. Change doesn't happen overnight but overall, the transformation that has occurred over the last ten years has been nothing short of phenomenal.

I'm from Cincinnati and still live in the projects of it and I see this everyday

This is so sad....when I watch videos like these and think of the people who invested their hearts and souls into these homes and businesses, it's truly heartbreaking.

Cincinnati used to look worse bout 20 yrs ago

9:23 YESSSSS I love this old church I was hoping to see it in this video. I used to drive by it on my way to work and it’s so eerie I love it

Interesting !! But look at all the nice cars !??😮

I lived in Cincy years ago. Some parts are getting better, others not so much. Large parts of OTR look totally different today as compared to 2009 or so. There are a lot of good new things happening in Cincinnati. But there are areas of the city that have been ignored for decades and are still struggling mightily.

Cincinnati use to be so alive I'ma try to put life back into the city

It is so sad to see the cities of my State Ohio going to ruins. I'm 56 years old and grew up going from Cincinnati to Cleveland to totally different cities back then. So sad.

Every major city has these areas, nothing unusual here

I don't know what's sadder...the blocks and blocks of blighted storefronts or the abandoned church with its windows broken.

I live here in cincinnati and as a native i can say my city looks better inn the summer I don't know why but winter give it a Gothom look

There’s no such thing as a bad neighborhood… only bad neighbors

I love swerving around making videos. You got some cool stuff to check out. Keep up the great video's. 😃

I'm 60 & I remember my mama and I going downtown to Pogues, Shilitos, Newberry. So much has changed. Now they're moving the working class poor out from downtown for the upper working class.

I want to see more of that epic factory at the very end

I never knew this many old buildings existed in Cincy ...so cool

I think Downtown Cincinnati and much of the city in between 71 and 75 is fairly safe. They've even done good work trying to clean up the crime in Over-The-Rhine. However, you get west of I-75, or follow U.S. 50 West, and it gets rough real quick. I'd pretty much not recommend going west of I-75 unless you are a student at Mount St. Joseph and can stay on that campus entirely. Parts of Covington and Newport are a little rough, but generally speaking, the Kentucky side is safer especially as you go up the hill on 71/75 or 471 and head into Alexandria, Fort Thomas, Cold Spring, Crestview Hills, Erlanger, and Florence. The west side of Cincinnati just hasn't had the same attention to infrastructure that the Downtown and East Cincinnati sections have had.

Nothing endures like old light up Pepsi signs.

That church looks like it was gorgeous at one time. Such a shame...Beautiful architecture...

This is so much lighter than Detroit and Cleveland I say kudos to CinnOh

Born & raised in Cincinnati!! 🤑💪🏼 love Cincinnati wit everything in me! But there are more abandoned houses & buildings than there are places for ppl to live! It used to be worse than it is now believe it or not! Before they started trying to build it up for the rich ppl , they tore down my house I grew up in & built a house for the rich 🤦‍♂️ I will always love the Cincinnati no matter what 💪🏼🤷‍♂️ 513 forever 🤑

nice sharing.. like you selection.. keep up the great work 👍

@Hoods N Hollers, when was this filmed? Fairly recently by the looks of it.

I went to Cincinnati University about 4 years ago. I took bus to downtown alone vine street, it looked like this.

I may end up taking a job in Cincy a year from now. If anybody reads this, could you please tell me where is it safe to live if I have to work around the VA Hospital / UC Medical Center areas?? Is living downtown better and just busing it?

What I found interesting was, no matter what condition the buildings were in, a lot of the the cars parked along the roads seemed to be newer with many of them luxury vehicles.

Cincinnati has been on the rise for a while. In a few years these neighborhoods will be completely different

Cincinnati chili

If this is Over-the-Rhine, this has to be more than a year ago.

2 hours from me I'm just north of Dayton Ohio. I love these videos

Love Cincinnati Ohio 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I didn't realize how hilly Cincinnati is. If that lot at 02:00 is still available, I'd like to buy it for sure. 🙄

That old church! How sad that they just let it go.

Omg me and my sisters use to catch the bus to fountain square all the time, it use to be so much fun. With a little work from the mayor , city council who everrrrrr and the people it can be rebuilt, and with some hard work and Love 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾just my opinion

Ive been gutting alot of buildings downtown for years. its coming back around slowly

I am French and I have never been to the USA. I always imagined that Cincinnati was a charming and pleasant city...but what I see on the video shows me that reality is far from what I imagined... there must be more attractive neighborhoods anyway

Have you ever been run up on while driving through a ‘hood or holler? Seems dangerous. I continue to be amazed at the nice, new vehicles that line the streets of these abandoned, run-down areas: they seem so out of place. I counted only four cars in this video that were older or in bad shape.

I remember watching WKRP in Cincinnati as a child and thinking that it was a pretty good sized city. I guess it was at one point. You should try Cleveland next.

I use to live there when I was a teen with my two little brothers and mom. I like Cincinnati Ohio better than Columbus Lol

Wow! Speechless! ☹️

I was raised there, just imagine all those boarded up places, 'not' boarded up...that was Cinci in the 1970s...

4:30. WINTON TERRACE

My Grandparents lived in one of those old row houses on Colerain Ave, near the bottom of the hill

I was hoping you'd visit Cincy! Rough area.

So sad I've lived in ohio all my life and rember when Cincinnati was the best run city in the country

Wow I can't believe how bad it is there!

I’ve been to this neighborhood! It is being slowly repaired which is good!

What was the big abandoned factory at the end.

My hometown. Moved out in 2013 to beautiful Colorado. Spent time in juvenile a few times, memories... Lived behind Withrow HS as a kid. I used to bike all over town but there were certain areas I wouldn't go into. Even on some major roads you felt like your life could end at any time just minding your own business. Crime was just getting too high in Cincinnati and it was always raining lol.

Why do they just hang around like this at 3:49 and 7:12 and 9:48 ? I don't get it.

Well dang. And kinda dangerous leaving those burnt out houses like that

Hello from Dayton. Which exits off 75 lead to these areas?

I live about an hour north of Cincinnati & this is sad to see. What area of Cincy is this?

It never ceases to amaze me how many dilapidated properties there are in the U.S. and how they are allowed to stand. Tear them down!!

Man those places get crazy you are very brave bro awesome camera too

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Right outside of downtown Cincy - Vine Street and surrounding area is where this is at. Towards the end of the video, is closer to the “over the rhine” area which surprisingly isn’t too far from UC. Those areas have been in decline since the early 2000’s. Now it’s just a hollow shell. The nicer areas of Cincy are the suburbs.

Surprisingly downtown Cincinnati looks good now. It used to be 100x worse. The west side is horrible.

Moosewood was pretty bad to live in half of the time, but I lived in the subsection of bowling green ct. and it was a pretty bad neighborhood as well

I've been in the northern suburbs of Cincinnati since 2006. We certainly don't have reason to venture into some of these areas, but places like Millvale, English Woods and South Fairmount have had their issues for many years. Walnut Hills also has a bad reputation, though the more southern borders of that area have seen some investment in recent years. Parts of OTR have been revamped, but there are still many bad pockets there. I'm not sure if you also included some Avondale footage, but that neighborhood has been synonymous with crime for years. My wife and I looked at a few houses in South Fairmount to renovate, as we do house flipping on the side. One was a beautiful, sturdy house from the 1920s or so. Probably nicer than most of the houses we have worked on, but we would likely have broken even if we tried to flip it due to lower resale value. We didn't want to rent it out for years, so we passed. Definitely a lot of beautiful, older homes with potential in some of these neighborhoods, but you'd need to clean up entire blocks at a time.

Yeah Cincinnati is just as ghetto as Cleveland.

Reminds me of the Hill District section of Pittsburgh (where I grew up). Both Cincinnati and Pittsburgh are hilly cities with twists and turns everywhere when you are driving around.

I think I seen those houses when going to Rockin Roosters a long time ago. Probs my all time fave game store, even if it is a little too small for my liking.

considering how expensive housing is in most of the US this might be a good thing for people looking to own their own home regardless of the neighborhood. I would buy a home that needed work if the price was right. aka cheap. cant get a small home for 100k or under in most urban areas.

Real Trenches 🤘🏾🤘🏾

I’m also from Cincinnati & currently live here. Although the downtown area along vine etc has been undergoing vast renovations over the past 5 years or so, there is much work to do. It’s also a “double edged sword” considering the majority of investors have driven the rent prices up just over the past year by 39%, the HIGHEST percentage increase in the nation in 2021-22. This fact only helps to compile an already astronomical wage gap. The rich get richer, while the poor get poorer.

I'm surprised u weren't scared going through Winton terrace

2000 vs 2024 Cincinnati is WAY nicer especially OTR area, I recently just visited for the first time since the early 2000s & was in shock of how nice & newly painted everything was in addition to the new MLS stadium Cincinnati is a nice place to be.

Looks like Camden, NJ.

I did a tour this past summer and some local companies have invested in some areas and revitalized those points. I was with people that were born and raised in Cincinnati and they said the changes that have been made were huge. Still a long way to go but at least a start. Also, the guide mentioned some issues and it is not one reason and it did not all happen at once. Some issues go back to after WWII.

I'm a Brit in the UK. How can there be cities like this in the richest country the world has ever known.

The first part of the video looked like Fairmount...and Vine past Liberty up to Clifton is pretty rundown

How depressing! My daughter went to UC she was there from '10-'15 but, I have no clue, where your at here. There were shady areas back then but nothin like this, I mean not blocks and blocks and blocks all shut down and boarded up. The only problem she ever had, was her car got stolen 3 times in 2 weeks! Cincinnati is a neat town, some really pretty parks and the most gorgeous night skyline in the state (imo!) A lot of historic things to see but if I'd seen this before she went there, I'm not real sure that's where she would have went! Sure enjoy your ride alongs but please, don't do it at the expense of your own safety!

Look at old downtown area. The earlier 20'- 50' architecture are so detailed and built strong. now turning in to blight . The city should be into redeveloped to modern business and housing.

I live just outside of Cincy, sometimes I go to church at Old Saint Mary's. You gotta be ultra aware of your surroundings, it's not a safe place.

I knew a few people who said that they liked Cincinnati. One lady said that the place is filled with antiques. I can't say why the place is deteriorating so fast.

Winton terrace, Fairmount. I've lived in all these communities at some point

" - So, what are we going to do with all of these abandoned properties ?" " O, we're going to develop them into retail and lofts." " But, you said that five years ago, and nothing has gotten done." " O, we're still in the planning stage, trying to coordinate talks with community leaders and businesses." " We're still trying to get a clearer picture of the entire scope of such a project."

Grew up in east end ohio. On Eastern avenue. Rough place man…. Glad I got out when I did

Don't you ever worry that your vehicle will stop working at some point and who knows what will happen?