I was raised in this city. It has its problems as many places do. Good ppl are still there. Go McKeesport Tigers! Huge families here. The Cashes ,Brays, Stinson, Murphys and more. All good ppl who are known to stick together. You mess with 1 you gotta deal with the entire families. It's community❤
The Cashes, as in WNBA Hall of Famer Swin Cash. This is the town I moved away from. I now live in the DC area (the DMV). I was raised in a small Western Pa. town about an hour northeast. There are a couple of decent churches that preach God's Word but I could never quite understand how this city descended into this kind of decay. The cities of Duquesne and Braddock are also old steel mill towns but the rot seems worse in "McKILLport."
At the end of WWII, the city probably had 60,000 residents. The 1950 census reported 52,00 residents; the 1960 census, about 42,000; the 1970 census, 37,000. The last I heard, the city had a population of 16,000. After WWII, a lot of people moved to "the suburbs" -- White Oak, Elizabeth Township, etc. When shopping started popping in the 1950s and 60s -- Olympia, Great Valley, Norwiin, a lot of people stopped shopping in McKeesport. Then de-industrialization struck western Pennsylvania. While McKeesport has decent bus service, it no longer has a train to Pittsburgh. It is difficult to get to the newly developed commercial and business areas in Allegheny County. I speak as one who lived 60 of my 65 years in McKeesport.
Keep these coming, I wish you could talk to some of the people in these other cities like you do in Baltimore. Would really love to hear some different perspectives of how they really living out there.
That's definitely one in Pgh fam,look we got a WHOLE lot more hoods.. Duquesne close by,The Hill,Hwood, Hazelwood,lib. you got the North side South side East side West side. Good vlog cuzzo💪🏼
I’m not from there but live there a good bit of my adult years. I’m cracking up because it’s all true I moved out of McKeeport in 2019 but it was definitely popping back in the day when I was a teenager.
Just recently visited Pittsburgh over the 4th of July weekend and all of the hills & bridges were crazy. The view of downtown coming from the Pitt tunnel is incredible, we stayed in Homestead down by the Waterfront was really nice!
Heartbreaking to see this 💔 😢 also not far from McKeesport myself got dang it had no idea people have told me it is bad but your video has put a whole new level of bad & violent crimes good reason to not go around there stop the defunding of police but the mills along with property taxes loss of jobs really put a hurt piece on what I understand used to be a really nice city to live in thank you brother for enlightening me holy shit wow all thats left to say have a good one keep those videos coming and yeah a follow up video would be cool talk to the people in public trust no one in private I wouldn't or I'm carrying just to be safe
Ah home sweet home, only gotten worse since I left. Many of the buildings in this video were only abandoned in the last 15 years or so. Never knew how bad I had it growing up until I visited old friends there later on.
You summed it up when asking who's getting mail back there! 😂 I've been there a few times, it looks a little more disheveled since I was there last, in 2019.
me personally i feel like you shouldn’t judge off of what you see around you , people also got family and friends that live here as well and they’re all connected , in mckeesport everybody is friends and family , everybody is connected in some type of way , there’s also different hoods not just the one you seen so before you come somewhere know something more about it then a “ dangerous city “ mckeesport is a place where some people call home but it’s just a different generation now so it’s way different than it was before .
It was BUSY 50yrs ago. Lots of shopping and decent homes. Steel mills closed, good-paying jobs disappeared, so did people looking to support families. Loss of tax dollars and people spending money at local businesses, and they closed (loss of tax $$$). Many who are there are on welfare or social security. The city is broke- can't afford to fix roads or tear down those houses. The empty lots used to have houses and families. People look for other ways to make money- illegal stuff. Larger cities may have cycles of neighborhoods rising and falling, others just kind of implode and don't come back. You have to question spending billions of tax dollars in other countries when this exists at home.
I briefly worked in the Port and met some beautiful people there , I delivered mail and got so much love and respect there, I’d love to see them turn it around for the great people of McKeesport .
I'm born and raised in McKeesport city it was never good either way 😂it just gets worse by the years but I'm a stick beside the port #412 respect to you for being comfortable enough to walk thru
Born & raised in NY and lived in Pittsburgh.....That "Crack" on the fried fish is some kind of spice that tastes like sour cream & onion that they put on their fried seafood....
Well it's still hard to believe my ex home town has fallen to this level of rubble. Seen this coming when all the Mills closed down but it's not only McKeesport but the entire Mon Valley. All the Mill towns look this way because there's no money and the people moved away.
Downtown is bad, Christy Park is where most of the businnes are and in White Oak. African Americans have moved to White Oak. Renziehausen Park is awesome. They have the "Rose Garden" there , a big dog park, multiple baseball fields, a big outside amphitheater, with live music every Sunday night, a splash pool that the kids love.
McKeesport was once a wealthy second class city with huge steel mill and industrial businesses powering the economy. As late as 20+ years ago there were still some businesses and decent looking homes in the city. 😢
Was born there, many generations of my family lived in East McKeesport, I get nostalgic looking at the brick houses and the front porches perched on their hills, there’ll always be something real special about this area. ❤
I didn't see it it in this video. But then again coming from the streets of Brooklyn in the 80s and early 90s. I doubt id know what bad is in this day and time. Also trenton NJ looks 100 times worst. Good video though. Thanks for the upload.
Im a Pittsburgh native for many years. I know McKeesport very well. I had friends and family there. One of my good friends was a big time drug dealer in the area. One night i spent the night at his place in McKeesport. A couple of weeks after that, some dudes broke into his place to rob him of drugs and cash. He got shot with a 12-guage shotgun and surprisingly survived. I never spent the night in McKeesport ever again. This was 12 years ago. The chances of you being murdered there are very high. It definitely has to be one of the murder capitals in America IMO. There are women there. Most are f-d up on drugs and a lot are prostitutes. It doesn't take long to find a prostitute or drugs there. It's really sad when you see the little kids out on the streets playing. That's a crazy way to live life for real. Pittsburgh has a lot of rough neighborhoods. You weren't too far from Homewood, Wilkinsburg, Braddock, Rankin, Duquesne, and Clairton. All of those spots can easily have their own video made about them. All of them are also high in drugs, murder, and prostitution.
I was raised in McKeesport and went to church and school there. Walmart wanted to build a store on the big millsite, but the city built a marina instead - go figure that one out. All those abandoned, wrecked houses used all be beautiful, people got old, people died. There is Harrison Village, which was for black families and Crawford Villiage was for white families Segregation existed and stopped when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. If you are leaving tomorrow looking for Black women, you can find them at all the bus stops along Lysle Blvd, or at the Welfare office. I'm on food stamps, too. I'm 72 and I'm old
@@kathleebpacacha465 I always think about that when I'm driving through neighborhoods about how beautiful they must have been. I'm 37 years old. For my entire life I've only known those neighborhoods to be run down, bad and dangerous. You can really tell that at one time it was beautiful. It's such a shame what happened over the years. I sometimes look through my grandmother's or great grandmother's photo collection and it's so weird seeing how the people dressed and carried themselves back in the '50s and '40s. Everyone dressed like they had a million bucks even if they were only dirt poor in reality. There was a level of self respect and community that has sadly disappeared over the decades.
I def like how you don’t be censoring your experience and keep it real. I am from Pa currently in Bridgeville Pa. I lived in McKeesport and many other towns that just walking to the gas station was a major health hazard. The next time you wanna see some shit around Pa hit me up and I’ll give you some places that you won’t believe that’s real. On some real shit thanks for risking yourself to try and give people an opportunity to see and learn about various places
There’s other parts of McKeesport that is very nice and also very Big you still didn’t go to the high school Renzie park the library and grand view Whiteoak etc…
I'm down the way from there right now on the couch you right don't go down there lol and there's another spot that stinks just like it in the downtown store fronts
I used to walk around knocking on people's doors at like 9pm in this hood, I was selling verizon fios. Most of the people here are hella friendly for real. Everybody just down bad, the gangs are what you gotta worry about
You went to the worst parts, that's not fair their are some nice neighborhoods there. It's an old milltown, has great history, it was booming back in the day. This is what happens when your government sells you out. It's a damn shame! 😥
The bad neighborhoods are more prevalent here the nice neighborhoods make up like 9% of the city. So yeah this place is decrepit and depressing and showing the very few beautiful neighborhoods would make little difference in terms of the towns overall image.
