Documental / Decade of Fire (Activar subtítulos en español) 

Impressive and inspiring. This must be taught in schools all over the world. Hands down to the people standing there for their community.

Peace and thanks TO all the people of DA #BX for surviving and overcoming all of this AND bringing HIP HOP CULTURE to ALL OF US.....#SALUTE

I was born in NYC in 1977 grew up in the Bronx seen the aftermath of all this destruction growing up burnt down buildings rubble everywhere but I point the fires weren't so common was the damage have been done so grateful they fixed up everything one thing they didn't fix was the crime rate and the jobs and now we got the pandemic which has caused chaos throughout the city in some sense I still got family in the rocks I moved away because I wanted a better life for my family it wasn't easy to do it and I'm far from any better than I would have been down there financially I'll let that much but at least I don't have to worry about the same things anymore but I just feel sorry and I wish things would change for the people that are still in my hometown my heart is always in the Bronx I don't care what anyone says and I wish they would get better opportunities to the people my hometown jobs living

My dad moved here to NYC in 1968, when my grandmother bought a brownstone in Brooklyn. Years later they sold it for under 100k when the community started to go and in 2018 it was renovated and sold again for 4 million.

I was born in 1987. The fires were long gone. The Bronx was cooked. I spent my childhood watching it be rebuilt. The backdrop was often brand new pretty homes across the street from a bombed out wasteland. I'd say from 2000 forward, the rebuilding of the Bronx was accelerated. Now in 2022, you can't tell that it ever burned. The Bronx still has it's fair share of problems like crime and gentrification. This is a part of who I am. ❤️❤️❤️

These days are coming back.

Exactly the same still happens in Rio in the 1960; in the city of São Paolo slums, favelas have been beurned naturally since forever. Gentrification… shame on you!

I was so grateful to see this real schooling from a tremendous people once again you are a great example and winners from a system that was against us but over came a horror bless everyone those that are not here and that are still here 🙏

Hi, the documentary definitely captivated me. I would really like to show it to my close ones but they don't understand english so I please beg you to upload the spanish subs for this. Thanks !

Yeah I can a. U.S. army would make a palace out of them rundown tenements. Platoon move in specials.

amazing amazing amazing piece of truth ma'am. kudos to you. this is as entertaining and informative as anything i've ever seen. thank you so much for this.

"El cielo de los blancos es el infierno de los demás" Me temo que sí.

During this period the south Bronx was not the only neighborhood that burned neighborhoods such as the lower east side Harlem in Manhattan bushwick Williamsburg bed-stuey and east New York and Brownsville and Flatbush and crown heights and park sloap in Brooklyn Jackson heights and Corona and Astoria and south Jamaica and Saint Albans in Queens all burned during this period it became known as the war years in the fdny

The must reads on the South Bronx during that period: "The Assassination Of New York" by Robert Fitch; "The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City--and Determined the Future of Cities" by Joe Flood "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert Caro; "South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City" by Jill Jonnes and "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs

Wow, as a New Yorker born closer to the 90s this is a very special, unique and amazing documentary MANY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW OF INCLUDING MYSELF. I knew some of it but not the details and the way it actually started. This is a special documentary and I will share with my friends. Thank you for this, your hard work and spreading this part of history that likes to be kept hush hush is appreciated!! ❤🙏🏻❤

Awesome Documentary She's Heaven's on earth Awesome Woman 😊👌

Esau (EDOM) did this and still does wickedness all over the earth. His judgment and that of his descendants is JUST. OBADIAH 1 JOEL 3 JEREMIAH 50 JEREMIAH 51 REVELATION 18 ISAIAH 47

This documentary is top notch to the max. Decade of Fire is the best documentary I've seen in a very long time.

Caramba , a nova York dos anos 70 , parece o brasil dos anos 80!!!

When Trump said make America great again I don’t know what he meant by that statement. This movie doesn’t show greatness of America but does show strength of the community.

8:59 and 56:10 is my uncle Robbie💗☺️

I grew up in the South Bronx, not very far from here. Right up a few blocks from the Longwood Ave area. Union, Tinton and Trinity Aves. were my old stomping grounds back in the 1960s and 70s. The building of the Cross Bronx Expressway created separation and gentrification. The landlords, not having any money and wanting to cut their loses, burned down a lot of those buildings, for the insurance money. They would hire gang members like the Savage Skulls and Nomads, The Roman Kings, The Deadly Bachelors and The Spades from the neighborhoods, for a just few bucks, to light up those buildings all the way from Prospect to Washington Ave and everywhere in between. Slumlords, who didn't care, didn't want to maintain the buildings anymore. No heat, No hot water, No heart. We were surrounded by the burnt out and abandoned buildings. Through it all we all were still together, we still looked out for each other. As crazy as it may sound, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Funny, everybody knew each other. I wasn't afraid of walking in the neighborhood at night. Even after the Blackout of '77 I guess I was immune to it. That is until.... The AIDS and Crack epidemic took over. That to me was worse than the vandalized, burnt out, abandoned buildings and The Gangs that were all around. Crack started eating out and spitting out our people and AIDS finished the job by killing them. I can't tell you how many friends I lost due to that, I almost lost myself. I finally made it out and left the South Bronx, in the late 90s. Looking at this Documentary, brings it all back. Although I didn't realize it at the time, looking at it from the outside now, I don't know how I managed to survive it. I guess it's true what they say: What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger and in the South Bronx, only the strong survive.

I really hate to be that guy on the commentary that tries not to be arrogant I'm trying not to be arrogant ignorant or disrespectful to any other cultures and creeds because we in the poor Irish poor Italian and poor Jewish bracket we exist and in peace and try to hold our peace together and a lot of our communities I know mine new Bedford ma. Bristol county is predominantly a Portuguese community very loving people very passionate people and it's all really for the children you know we keep our peace we try to keep the safety in our community and we don't call cops anymore I don't know one person in the past five years since I've lived here that calls the cops we try to hold our problems and handle our problems without calling whitey that's what we all call them now if anybody can understand that truth we know the real whitey and who's the problem in the sitting in Washington it's gotten to a point I see with my perspective of the history of this country the ruling European with the Roman mind seems to be the problem and all relatives in anyone that does the devil's bidding if you will that's the problem and the only world problem is a matter of fact and I just want to also side with the woman in this documentary it's happening all over the country I've seen it happen all of the up and down the East Coast it's happening in South Boston in the predominantly Black and Hispanic area of mattapan square they're trying to gentrify it for their people and it's against all colors cultures and creeds that are not with who's in power and who shares that economic and eugenic power and if you don't know what eugenic means please research it it's gotten much worse since the 1980s speaking in terms of the objectives and the ambitions and goals in the supreme authority they tried using it with the fires in the Bronx they tried using crack in the '80s they tried weaponizing HIV and AIDS which is biomedical warfare and they're going and resorting back to biomedical warfare in my perspective again this is my perspective again to try to kill off entire cultures and ethnicities of people I see it everyday and I just want to also wish and hope and pray that everybody is in good health and trying to maintain that health and try to keep some sort of wealth in their family and in their home and we got to fight this war because the next war I truly believe with all other religious I'm sorry not religious let me correct myself conscious leaders of the day and conscious teachers of the day this will be going to be final and that war is going to be brutal also I want all of my brothers and sisters and communities like mine to please look at the silent explosives research and development program in the department of defense it began in 2015 and look at the sicknesses that they've used to test them out then call me a conspiracist you know be safe out there brothers and sisters it's a whole new ball game now we got to learn how to play the game because they're cheating peace and stay safe.

Remember this like it was yesterday. “Nobody was coming to help.” Nobody in government, that is. People used to come to the BX for slum tourism. With all due respect, “slumming” is a New York tradition. After the Civil War, various agencies began giving visitors tours of the Five Points, the Irish slum in lower Manhattan. The practice was done in Victorian London as well. Lesson which we must not forget; WE ARE THE SOLUTION.

The backdrop of my life in the Bronx. I grew up at 772 Dawson Street, between Longwood Ave and E.156th Street. This documentary hit home... literally!!

Brutal capitalism all over the world will not break the human spirit although its efforts. Thank you for an important doco🙏🏻

At 35:40 that was my neighborhood that I grease up in I lived at 1015 legget ave I came here from South America in 1980 was 5 years old at the time ps 62 was mi first school I went across from the school was the neighborhood bodega was named Luis grocery I think and the counter guy was this guy nicknamed shorty great people. That building across from the school I saw it when it was put on fired that whole block was burned abandoned buildings across from there there was a little park that was my park I used to run around in it was not well maintained but it was my childhood park is not there no more they made a building on it 😢. The building we lived it thankfully survived but landlord was cheap for a few years we didn’t have heat in winter had to wear coats and sleep like that too . Now it’s all different at the time it was a mostly Puerto Rican neighborhood my peoples great people that helped us and the friends I had as a kid . I lived there from 80 to 88 then we moved out from there . Great memories though

I remember this vividly as growing up in the bronx I used play with all the lose brick's on the grounds.

Thank you my people for giving a example to the world 🌎🙏❤

as a kid I remember seeing entire blocks of ruble and roaming through hollow tenements scattered thinking " what happened here " now I know, thank you

I so admire the people who survived and are still fighting for what is right its always been about MONEY in America

I'm from 183 rd I remember thinking that the previous generation must have been in a serious war for The Bronx to look like this

Yes its about race in this country always has been 😔but its also about class too....and "the meek shall inherent the earth"...

Youngsters across the nation right now should see this. Many of them are the problem with enforcing the stereotype.

I love this whole story of the rebuilding of the South Bronx. I wondered how the miracle happened when I drove through again in 1999, I moved to SoCal in 1991. All the gutted building that were so prevalent on the Cross Bronx Expressway were inhabited again, and this tells the story of that. Thank you for this and hearing it from the people who lived through it, they are the true story.

The filming of the 1961 West Side Story movie - the neighborhoods seen in it were not stage sets. They were real and were targeted for the "urban renewal program" and from their rubble arose Lincoln Center.

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Just an updated funny story on the "Music Wars" ... Several years back, I put together several Digital Compact Disc (CD) music compilations of the genres called Latin Boogaloo/Bugalu, Shing-a-ling, Latin Soul that was very popular in the 1960's. This style of music was purely NYC Latin Ghetto home grown - mostly made by Puerto Ricans and Cubans and even some Jewish people who got in on the act later. To be clear, these style of music is unrelated to the Boogaloo street dance from Oakland, California and the electric Boogaloo, a style of dance which developed decades later under the influence of funk music and hip-hop dance. This style of music was a collision of Latin Salsa with African American R&B & Soul and even the talking over the music thing from some white American garage rock bands. Some were straight out singing from the beginning - either singing in Spanish or in English or switching back and forth between the two. Or the song rhythm pattern would start and there would be guys or gals talking to each other over the music in a goofing around "call and response" pattern and then after a few minutes they all would dive into the singing and chorus parts. Ex. Talker 1 "Aye Bobby, you still going out with that chick I saw you with the other day bro? Talker 2: "Nahh man, had to drop her, she had baaaaadddd, breath!!" Within the Latin community there was internal class warfare going on regarding this new invading music at the time . The hardcore salsa had a more elegant/ formal "high class" style to it. That crowd considered this type of music as "ghetto street trash" music and didn't want to be associated with them. This trope never ends between generations - regardless of ethnicity or music style. You'll have the same thing pop up with this Boogaloo crowd "Yo man, this used to be our "Latin Sound" and then that Hip-Hop crap came in and pushed it out" If you're interested, check out this YT Trailer "We Like It Like That | Trailer | America ReFramed" Anyway, I had made these compilation CDs and I gave a copy to a Jewish co-worker to check out at home. A week goes by and I run into the guy again and ask "Hey, what did you think about the CDs?" He says in a happy light "I liked the music - but my wife really likes the music! She's dancing around the house all the time to it" We talked some more and departed from each other. Another week later, I run into this guy again and start talking. This time he brings the topic up of the CDs in a kind of depressed and defeated way "Yo man, those f@cking CDs are me driving crazy. That's all she plays now and can't get her to stop!" So, he wanted to get back hearing his rock music and I unwitting created a "Music War" in his place. I made myself very scarce after that.

2:07 What a handsome guy ♥♥♥

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This was fascinating, not sure why any Puerto Ricans would want to leave Puerto Rico for the urban shit that New York was back then, I'd rather be poor in a tropical Paradise than ever live in New York City

Keep fighting.

I will never forget the blackout of '77. We lived in the West Farms houses and literally barricaded our apartment door out of fear. The blackout lasted a day or two if I recall. Every now and then, you could hear people yelling in the stairwell and that was frightening.

Excelente aporte! Buen documental. Big Up!

I grew up in the Bronx during this time, but I am Irish. My parents weren't part of the white flight, we stayed, and I had a negative opinion of the white people who left. I thought it was just racism, I thought that all of my life. This documentary shows that people of every color would have left if they could, and I have a new perspective of the white flight. I am back in the Bronx now after living elsewhere, and I walk around my neighborhood astounded that it survived the 70s, and now I know who to thank.

This is great

The road must be kissed so your path be blessed forever

No funcionan los subtitulos en español !

Authentic history of a people who created a avenue of struggle and winning awesome my people of true culture and spirit bless 🙌🙏❤ tremendous information and service of change 🙏

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I knew that area well. My Grandparents and my parents came from the South Bronx. On my Mom's side my Grandpa came to the South Bronx in the 1920s and he bought a home there. I was born in 1957 and I spent a lot of time at my Grandpa's house. I remember the decade of the 1970s and all the fires. Everytime I came down to visit my Grandfather there would be several more buildings burnt down. The fires actually started in the 1960s but the whole conflagration reached it;s peak in the 1970s.

Hey that's my original video thank you for the re-upload my channel was terminated were you familiar with my content?

Una pena que solo esté en inglés. Sería muy bueno hacer una traducción al español. 👍🏼

Desapareció la droga de jewyork,cual es el nuevo bronx

Cómo activo los subs en español?

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Not motivated to create a volunteer fire department? Where is the community unity within this culture?