It’s human nature to be nostalgic about the past and the “good times”, but then you see videos like this and you’re snapped back into the reality that the past was not necessarily better than the present.
It depends from the "when" and from "where", there are some beautifull Times in the past in the right Place and there Is also shit in other times in other places
I’d LOVE to go back to this time. A time with only 5 or 6 channels that were not owned by big corporations . Where smoking wasn’t a crime . You had a record in your hand or a cassette . You had a pay phone . And no computer controlling the world. You did things by hand. Yes !! I want to go back... just a few. I in Jesus Sacred heart . I want to go back !!
@ Rosa LOL !! Iam STILL blessed by the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Thanks for the heads up my friend . Gotta look sometimes at the blessings of now ! Amen !
When my dad told me he lived in abandoned buildings, this is not what I imagined. To know that my parents were raised here makes me appreciate what I have now, Which is way more than they would’ve imagined at the time. It’s also crazy to see how the Bronx and other cities in New York have changed and have been built up. I actually learnt today that my family moved to the Bronx from Puerto Rico in the mid 1900s. And the area shown in this video is where predominantly Puerto Rican’s and Black people lived. The government basically abandoned these communities. I’m grateful that my parents were able to become successful and provide a good life for me and my siblings.
my dad grew up in this rubble pit too. lived in the building at 2:38 middle of the screen. we are very lucky man. couldn't imagine being where he was as a kid, so happy he made it out. Also his parents moved to Puerto Rico in the 1990s too lol
When my unit first rolled into Baghdad back in 2003, I remember telling my colleagues that it looked like the Bronx when I was a kid. I grew up in the Bronx in the 80s. My colleagues thought I was exaggerating. They were right, Baghdad didn't look this bad.
@@seensaw7339 that's democrats and their socialism for you. Subsidizing bums and making it hard to kick them out for not paying up with their bullshit laws
This was back then, the Bronx is not like this anymore. Come visit the Bronx sometimes.,we have beautiful hospitals, schools, new street lights, new sidewalks, new apartment buildings, lots of businesses, retail stores, new restaurant, renovated apartment buildings, renovated parks, police officers and street surveillance camera just about everywhere. It's safe here guys, visit our new Yankee stadium, bay plaza mall, city island, the Bronx zoo. These are all touristic areas.
Reggie Rodriguez The FUCK it's SAFE! The Bronx STILL SUCKS!! Definitely not at all like shown in this video, but come on. It's still a shitty GHETTO!! Only place in the world that the Bronx is better than is Newark NJ!
In this particular area, that's not true. There are still many abandoned lots in the area surrounding Charlotte Street, which President Carter famously paid to rehabilitate. The houses in that area are like an oasis surrounded by apartment buildings, empty lots, and perpetual unemployment.
+Derek Davidson- You are right. I know someone who lives in an an apt building by Crotona park that was renovated this year and the rent is only $330 a month for a two bedroom apt. I didn't even know rent like that existed anymore. I don't know of the $500,000 apts.
+brass nucks I used to work in a building in Soho. 2 million dollar condos. Tyra Banks and John Mayer lived there. The closest to the South Bronx you could find half million dollar condos I think would be the new ones that have gone up in recent years in Harlem. But Harlem has been undergoing changes that realtors have been trying to push on "SoBro" for years, without any real success. So the rents can stay as low as $330 because not even the hippie artists that start the gentrifying are ready to think of moving into that neighborhood.
+Tamarau A In the long run I think you are right. Eventually there's gonna be a tipping point and even these poor neighborhoods in the Bronx are going to change. There's one thing that I wonder about though that is a potential problem for total gentrification: public housing, AKA the projects. There's plenty of private buildings that can change, and empty lots where new buildings can spring up. But the public housing for low income residents: what's the end game there? I don't know if that was an issue in Williamsburg for example, but I know it's there in Harlem. You have these very wealthy residents living right next to the projects. You know that there's going to be pressure building from those new residents to get rid of the poorer residents in the projects. Anyone who thinks they won't try at some point is very naive. If they'll make "poor doors" for low income residents in the same building, they will definitely try to move eliminate entire buildings of poor people.
I don't miss the good old days this was horrible to look at .I used to walk to school through these areas. I am so grateful that the Bronx has been rebuilt.
What this video can't convey, what none of the comments can make you imagine, is the SMELL. I grew up across the river, in New Jersey. Me & other foolish teenagers would ride our bikes across the GW Bridge, or take a bus in, for the "adventure". Once in the Bronx, the smells hit you hard. # 1 was the stench of urine, everywhere. No matter what the outside temperature was. On the hot days, next most noticeable was the smell of dogshit. Even when you didn't see either around ! This video would've been alot better without all the watermarks, but it's still very good at showing the desolation. The garbage you see, yep, that smelled horrible too, but somehow not as noticeable as the piss/shit. Alot of spilled cheap beer/booze/cigarette smell too. It was even worse in the 1970s, in every regard.
@Salvete a USA No. All it took was inequality. Bring us to a country as slaves and through us away as paper plates. You treat people worst than mutts and expect them all to be civilized. Yeah good way to push off the true destroyers responsibility to at least provide a fair chance. But I will say it is getting more leveled out these days. In today's world our downfall that's holding us back is ourselves. It's so hard to crack through the mentality of the destroyed people. Our youth are falling on purpose. But artist like jayz, meek mill,Kendrick, jcole, are trying to battle the drug user mentality artist like juice wrld, xxx, lil uzi vert,. Dont forget that fuckboy 69. Dude literally about to sink a million minds with his useless music. I fear the worse is turning back around. We will witness destruction throughout the country once again.
@Salvete a USA these abadoned buildings existed before black people could north in droves the north had factories and manufacturing slaves biggest human trafficking event in the world took place in the usa. One day you'll come to terms with it instead of blaming the victims. The first stage of mourning is shock then anger. ..just saying.
My grandparents bought a 2 1/2 story Duplex in Queens after moving out of Manhattan in 1977 and paid around $62,000. Now it is valued at $1.3M. My parents, my two brothers and I lived in a rent controlled 3 bedroom apartment in Morningside Heights, blocks away from Colombia University and paid $667 a month from 1987 until 2010. My parents divorced in the late 90's and my mom kept it until all us kids moved out and she was illegally evicted in 2010 by Jared Kushner type bully developers who bought the building and began pushing people out illegally. She sued and won $50,000. That apartment now rents for over $5500.00 a month. Renovated of course but still. My mom took the settlement money and moved to Philadelphia and my father could not afford to buy anything until after 9/11 when prices went down. He bought a two bedroom apt in Midtown right by the 59th St bridge. Bought it really cheap in 2002, $185,000 because the lady had lived there 60 years prior with no remodeling. My father put some money into it slowly throughout the years, fixing and changing some things and now it's valued at $895,000.
@@cactaceous you just showing how capitalism is bad and unhuman. You are just prospectors, that use the situation, while others are dying in powerty because of it, or ends homeless. The thing is, you wrote it the way, like it is victory, while, it's complete loss.
This is raw footage from an ABC news story. They did a story on this particular area because it was exceptionally bad. Not all of NYC looked like this in the '80s. People say they miss old NYC because it really was once a city of lower middle-class neighborhoods and a character to match it. Now NYC is just rich and poor, with many of the businesses owned and managed by people who aren't even from NY.
you got that right,as a Teenager growing up in Australia this is what America was portrayed to us throughout the late 70's into the mid 80's..DANGER DANGER DANGER all done thru movies & music,it was spell binding to us over here
@@ursulasmith6402 Not sure how you blame Reagan when most of the worst of this happened in the 70s, especially under the clown, Carter. Besides any of that, there is no excuse for this and for the people there to do this and live like this, none. American blacks even in the Bronx were still wealthier with more opportunity than most of the whites in eastern Europe at the time.
I will never forget it. My family came to the Bronx back in 84 an we lived on 170st on grand concourse. Everywhere was abandoned. I won't forget Grant ave on 169st where the whole block was a mountain of rubbles. I hated it back then but it made me a man. I won't forget it
My name is Johnny. I’m from Montreal, Canada. I remember going to the Bronx, for the very first time, in 1982. In those days, I was only 14 years of age and in fact, my sister and i came to visit the city of New York during the weekend, in order to commemorate the second anniversary of the passing of John Lennon, next to the Dakota House, near Central Park in Manhattan. Since we didn’t have so much money back then, during those days, we both had decided to spend the weekend at the Salvation Army in the Bronx. If my memory serves me right, the location itself was situated, on Jackson Avenue, or Prospect Avenue. In my recollection, i could still remember seeing those runned down buildings, that were half demolished and those devastating dark alleys, where some people were hanging out. I was so mesmerized by the look of that subway, that was coming up in the air. For a long minute there, i thought it looked more like a Roller Coaster ride with all the graffitis on it. It was terrifying! What a real culture shock, i had. Lol! Thank you!
To those that aren't from here, especially at that time, it might look like an unlivable place. But for those of us FORTUNATE enough to grow up here, it's HOME. We learned lessons that CANNOT be taught in a classroom, or any other place in the world for that matter and became better people for it. Exploring those abandoned buildings, sometimes finding bodies, rock fights in the rubble, sponge ball, handball, street football, skellies in the middle of the street, fire hydrants on blast during the summer heat waves, until the street lights came on and we knew it was time to start heading up. Ma dukes would be out looking for you in a few and would have absolutely no issues with whipping your ass all the way home for making her come out during the novela. We played, fought with the hands, made up, and played again the next day as if nothing happened. We didn't shoot each other over a lost fight. It's Da Bronx that I grew up in, and wouldn't trade that childhood experience for anything in the world. Strong Bronx love, always.
It looks horrible now but somehow as a kid it didn’t bother me lol. I used to have mad fun all over the Bronx. No bills, no worries. Now I live in Connecticut in a much nicer area and I am always stressed out lol
This is fascinating. I really love the unique atmosphere coming from New York in the 70s and early 80s, gritty and bleak. When I was a kid in the 80s we used to say (in french) "C'est le Bronx" to describe a situation where things got terribly wrong. Now I understand why !
Damn things sure have changed. RIP to all of those that didnt make it out. The addiction , crime , poverty . The struggle was real. I grew up at 1860 grand concourse
The planners of the Bronx had high hopes, the Grand Concourse was meant to be even better than Park Avenue; they would correct every mistake made with Manhattan. They had great expectations...
Lived in the Bronx all my life! Moved upstate a few years ago. 1978-2010. I was living in the south Bronx morrisania section. I remember the abandoned buildings and playing in the bricks and stuff. This was not the entire Bronx only certain parts. And it wasn't only the south Bronx! I also lived on university Ave by the Bronx job corps! There was several abandoned buildings there too! I watched them rebuild too! Growing up there made me what I am today! I'm not ashamed! It's life some have and some don't.
Terrance Mitchell Facts ! & heard you I was born & raised here & I grew up on Harrison 176st on west Tremont... Block right under university ... This area was a rough place haha especially when I was growing up ... seen a lot of homicides, & dead bodies in abandon buildings smh
That attitude is why we call the generation that grew up in WWI; came of age in great depression ;fought WWII then built the nation to what it became "The greatest generation". One only has to see the slums of past to appreciate so little now existing.
@@MelodyLovesMusic It's pretty grim, but human beings adapt and survive, and kids don't notice it as much as adults. Tbh, it looks more rundown and dangerous than some war zones and third world cities. Some English cities looked like that, years after the war, but not on such a large scale, and not as dangerous either. But if you grow up in rundown backstreets like this, it does affect you.
Damn that's when New York was New York, looks like berlin after ww2, I remember we lived out there for like 3 months and we use to rush to get home before dark, at night it was gunshots and people screaming and cops never came
@Almighty God George Soros #420 #GetRekd hmm.. that's funny stating that this kinda looks like Detroit now in days.. Detroit, land of the far left and unions, just like NYC..crazy how the most devastated areas are ran by democratic governers, mayor's etc.. show me a "alt right Western whitey" city that has ever looked like this.. the funny thing is that the services provided to this place (police, ambulance, fire, and the infrastructure like roads, schools, and electrical/telephone wire) most african countries dream of this still to this day.. this neighborhood was handed to the residents used but in good shape, they trashed it, now the great restorer of gentrification comes along and fixes it all new, only for one day for it to be destoryed again.. you need to learn a lot because you sound stupid with your catch phrases like "alt right".. #GetRekd
I'm from Glasgow Scotland, we in 70s, 80s,used to have this type problem too. Thankfully, most of it's gone now, just as it is now, I hope, in the Bronx.I would love to visit New York more than any other city. I feel we have so much in common in Glasgow. I think that all the different cultures you have there is amazing. All the very best to you all.
hey, thanks for uploading these film pans... summer of 82, I had started working on 1545 Vyse Avenue, a 2 story rowhouse built about 1909 a few years after the el was built along Southern Blvd.... started work on the outside cuz I had to take a job away for the 9 months starting in September and figured with neighbors watching (homeowners were all that was left) and nothing yet inside, the place was secure. Patched the roof for leaks, started the long process of rebuilding the masonry on the parapet, cleaning and priming the cornice which featured false beams and grape wreaths, and taking down the rotten wood addition in back.... got rid of stuff by putting it in the abandoned city owned house next door, water came from the hydrant and a pipe wrench. Anyone remember Bud "ponies"? good people on that block, eventually I even started teaching at PS 50 across the street. Would love to hear from anyone, especially a local, from the area.... Bill
Broken glass everywhere, People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care. I can't take the smell, can't take the noise, Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice. Rats in the front room, roaches in the back, Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat. I tried to get away but I couldn't get far, 'Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car. Don't - push - me - ‘cause - I'm - close- to - the - edge, I'm tryin’ - not - to - lose - my - head. Haha Huh huh hah! It's like a jungle sometimes, It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under.
Wayne Galindo I was born and raised there. I'm 51 years old now. At 17 in 1984 I joined the Army and I put my 20 years in. Best thing I ever did. The Army took me out and kept me out!
Abram Rivera I was a language typist for my medical unit in Germany and Spain. Learning those languages came easy to me and I was lucky to work in hospitals typing up supply orders for us in Berlin, Stuttgart, and Madrid. Nothing is perfect but I'll say the Army does take care of its own. I retired at 37 as a Lieutenant. Received full pension and retirement package. I want you to enlist and try it for a time so at least you'll have the CREDIBILITY of a military background, something that says you were there. You can sign on for 6 years, 4 years, or as little as 2 years. All veterans say the same thing: I don't know if I'd do it again but I'm not sorry I did it!
I've been to Philly recently, and it does remind me of the Bronx a little bit. I was in the South Central Philly area and I did get Bronx vibes from it.
These images should be shown more frequently too the generations of young folks today so that they can appreciate what they have now . because this kind of thing can repeat itself at a larger scale.. A true reminder of what America thinks about poor minority residents...in the inner city.
Soak it in. This is what Robert Moses did. This was a clean, safe working class neighborhood before that racist classist rerouted all the traffic away & destroyed all the local business. To give you an idea of what this used to be, The Honeymooners was set here. Almost forgot, Robert Moses is why Brooklyn doesn’t have the Dodgers anymore.
@D Maxson You mean a true reminder that jobs left the inner city and nobody couldn't pay for shit. Landlords as a last resort to dig themselves out of poverty had purposefully burned down these buildings for insurance money. That's how bad it was. Trickle down economics is a sham.
When i saw footage of the bronx in a documentary on tv in the early eighties, i was both shocked and kinda fell in love with the culture of break dance and bands like Rock Steady Crew.. first graffiti artists were being looked up to by European kids in the mid 80s.
It is amazing to think that all those buildings were at one time brand new. It would be interesting to see pictures of what they had once looked like in the late 19th, early 20th century.
+CaptainCrape I prefer the look and style of 19th century buildings. They seem to have more character and be less bland. Many of these buildings have deteriorated and you get used to seeing them in this decrepit condition but if you lived 100 + years ago these buildings would appear fresh and gleaming new and the contrast would be fascinating.
A few years later during the crack epidemic came the invention of the Benzi box. If you didn't have one, most likely you'd eventually come out and see that someone helped themselves to your car radio. For those of you who don't know, the benzi box was a removable car radio that you took with you when you left your car.
Imagine, through all of this came HIP HOP (the most popular music ever), which gave many who lived in conditions like this an opportunity and a better life for themselves and their families...
This is where I grew up. We did not know any better and thought the world was just this way. On a lighter side, those empty lots filled with debris and those abandoned buildings were the best playground we ever had. Breaking windows in abandoned buildings using the broken bricks all around the lot was just plain fun.
charles j No. I had a hard time identifying where exactly this was because the Bronx no longer looks like this. When I saw PS 61 realized where it was. This area is a bit further up than Intervale Ave. This is on a street called Crotona Park East.
nisbt Rodriguez Thanks for identifying the area as it had me puzzled. It has changed quite a bit. The Crotona area is near the 174th st. station and is a bit of walk north from the Intervale station area (about 1 and 1/2 miles, I think).
Yeah man, they were fun. The structure of those buildings and the fire escapes we played on were compromised by the fire though. I'm glad me and my friends never got seriously injured.
Growing up in the Bronx during this time I always remember the packs of stray dogs running around. The dogs that used to belong to the families that were kicked out of these buildings before being burned down.
@@fnihp30 I remember taking the train into Chicago in the 80's and going through the Austin neighborhood reminded me of this, but more buildings were standing, just abandoned though.
damn what with all this hate for the bronx, it does not even look bad at all, of corse its based on your neightborhood. Makes ne wonder wether any of the people talking smack about it have really ever been there.
Musashi Yao. According to google, the Bronx is not listed in the top 100 most dangerous city. The Bronx population is at 1.5 million people. Please I would implore you to visit the Bronx. I guarantee that absolutely nothing won't happen to you. Unless you begin to act like a dickhead, but that's anywhere. This isn't the 1980's anymore. Central Park is dangerous at night and that's in manhattan. A woman was attacked at Central Park last week. The Bronx was burnt by white land lords in the 1979's and 80's it wasn't burnt by blacks or Hispanics.
This is exactly how it was those lots used to have matress in them and kids would just bounce On them and the abandoned bldgs always had drug addicts and homeless ppl it was just like the movies I remember these days
Fun Fact: The landlords of apartments had legal permission to burn down their buildings whenever they wanted, therefore people had to move and they had no choice whether to stay or not; which is why there's a bunch of debris.
They did not have legal right to burn down the building... they did it to claim insurance because they were too torn up to sell. They'd pay junkies to do it or kids, or whoever would be willing. It's all well documented.
Lydia Hernandez You can easily look up 70s bronx which was 10x worse than 80s era bronx. President Jimmy Carter and president Reagan both went to the bronx in their respective times... both eras have the same background of rubble, kids playing in building, and grandmaster flash said "broken glass everywhere, people pissing on the stairs know they just dont care, cant take the smell, cant take the noise, got no money to move out, guess I got no choice, rats in the front room, roaches in the back, junkies in the alleyway with a baseball bat, I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far, because a man with a tow truck repossessed my car." That's why hip hop is held in high esteem to old heads... it spoke the truth not many American knew about, or cared about, unless seen with their own eyes.
Things were most definitely worse back then. The murder rate was much higher, and just look at this video. People always talk about how bad it is or how bad things have gotten, but we actually have it much better in most ways (maybe not all ways, depending on the place and time period) than people did in the past.
@TangLung LUNG it's not meaningless it's a song about the ghettos of new york and it's pretty fitting considering what video its posted under. 74 people have like this comment. So I'll ask again how's it meaningless?
The vacant buildings seen at 5:38 are on Fulton Ave., and the buildings are the ones which were often seen to travelers on Cross Bronx Expressway, which later had wood panels in the windows with drawings of flower pots and curtains (the Cross Bronx is all that traffic in the distance). What is less known is that row of buildings, consisting of about six or eight buildings, actually burned down THREE TIMES during the notorious "War Years" (circa 1968-1977). They burned down, were rebuilt, occupied, and burned down again, etc. At the time of their first "burning," those buildings were about 60 years old, if not younger. An attack by a military enemy could not have done worse damage to a city.
Jhon Krasnovskiy I am aware that there are people who live like this that’s why I’m saying thank god that those of us who are privileged enough to not have to don’t
@Jhon Krasnovskiy thats true, but this city was plagued by disease, drugs and violence. some cities or in other countries can be poor but not live like animals
Funny during the filming you can hear one of the residents speaking to the cameraman. With his Jamaican accent telling the cameraman that all the way from Burnside and 174th. To 176th streets nothing but vacant lots and crumbling buildings.
I have lived in the Bronx from. 1982 to2012 I remembered how horrifying it was back then, but people still looked out for their neighbors.I use to hate the stigmatism people had of the Bronx.you tell someone back then you live in the Bronx and the reply was sometimes with annoying comments but all and all I love the Bronx and the boogie down is back in a beautiful and better way , God bless the Bronx. 🙏🌟💪✌🙌
It's like year zero in the South Bronx, wow... incredible footage. Truly, the only way was up! At 9:00 the filmmaker is walking along Charlotte st. The red PS 61 building is still standing after all these years and now faces a leafy, very suburban and nice neighborhood of single family houses, each worth around $500 000 today. It's called Charlotte Gardens and they began building it in 1983 so only a year after this footage was shot, believe it or not. Such an amazing transformation! How I would love to walk there myself... and visit the Bronx in general! Thanks for uploading! =)
***** Yes, gentrification. The real estate whores pushed out the poor and made for upper middle class. They took advantage of a poor decaying area and cashed in.
***** I actually find this more real and human to look at than gentrification, overpriced real estate and the yuppie scum who live their in their Mercedes, BMWs and Audis.
Music For The People What are you talking about! Charlotte Gardens has nothing to do with gentrification, it was built for working-class people who already resided in the nearby neighborhoods or other low-income areas in NYC, and the houses were heavily subsidized so the house buyers only had to take a mortgage of around $45 000 for their homes. The city government and the local grass root neighborhood organizations all worked together to make the transformation possible. The original residents were all Puerto ricans and blacks, and many of the original residents still reside in the area. It's not an upper-class neighborhood by any means, lol. Educate yourself on the matter before you comment, thank you.
Music For The People Stop making yourself sound like an angry idiot. My reading comprehension is perfectly fine (even in English, which is my third language) but the problem is, you at no point in your reply to me clarified that you were talking about something else in terms of gentrification while I was specifically talking about Charlotte Gardens and The South Bronx in general. As for the the working class people who in your words "lucked out"... Very few believed the ranch houses would ever be able to even stay intact in the area, considering how the neighborhood looked like when they were moved there over the course of several years, pre-built from Pennsylvania. But these urban pioneers took the chance in a dangerous area with horrible reputation, poor service and infrastructure, and did the best they could while settling in and eventually helped make the neighborhood as stable as it is today. I tip my hat instead of begrudging them their currently quite valuable real-estate property.
***** Yeah right. What the fuck do you know other than what you read in a book?! You know nothing. Keep reading your history books on the Bronx with your delusional view. You can stop the self righteous & condescending bullshit. I am a native New Yorker and don't need a history lesson from someone who has never even been there. I worked and walked the streets of the South Bronx such as Westchester Ave, Prospect Ave, Willis Ave, Hunt's Point, 161ST area and much more after this time when everything was so-called much better and I saw no improvement...plenty of crime, drugs, poverty. So don't preach your stupid shit to me lady from another country. I will tell YOU about America and the Bronx
Grew up in the Bronx 1951. Moved out 1975 to NJ two yrs later moved to Central Florida. Visited a few times and was stunt at this place where I went to school graduated Dodge H S. Got married 1961. It was starting to change. I love the Bronx grew up there.
This is the Bronx that I remember as a Puerto Rican kid this definitely brings back good memories and bad memories but mostly good back then the Bronx really looked like a war zone now it's beautiful what a freaking difference the Bronx is today.
I remember walking through all these dead blocks...even survived the 77 black out. South Bronx was desolate and I'm still here. Supreme Wales Crew, Young Bachelors.
My grandmother lived in the Bronx, for many years. It's where she raised her children. I remember visiting her. We went through some of these areas. Sad to say the least.
As bad as it looked back then I felt safer than I would now in the Bronx. I miss it will forever be my home. The 80’s was the best time growing up in the Bronx home sweet home❤️
I remember when most of the buildings were still standing, before they were all torn down. They were side by side, decayed, burnt out, windowless and vacant. The whole neighborhood. They looked like rows of decayed teeth in a homeless addicts mouth. It was very sad because I also remember when it was a neighborhood teeming with activity and those buildings cradled life, and hopes and dreams and holidays spent laughing with family and friends. One by one they were torched; sometimes in the middle of the night, and everybody would have to flee. Building by building would gradually become vacant as the tenants moved out due to fires and lack of services and no repairs by an unscrupulous landlord who only came by for the rent but wouldn't put any heat in the building or fix the holes in the floors. Within a year, the whole block would be a ghost town.
@@ireneuszpyc6684 honey I don't know where you were in the 60's and 70's, but I remember well how neighborhoods became vacant ghost lands. In the majority of cases, it was the corruption of the City and the Landlords at the expense of the people. Do some background research then tell me what you think. The Landlords burned the South Bronx to the ground strictly for profit. Even the Firefighters whose job it was to put out the same buildings over and over again knew that much!
I visited My Mother in 1982, when we drove into the City I remember seeing a white VW rabbit broken down. It was still there in 1988 , same place completely stripped and burned out.....weird! Those building needed to be torn down, they where the ones with the weird ass bathtub, in the kitchen
Not to be insensitive to the lived realities of people here but just aesthetically, ruins and desolation can be so bleakly beautiful. I guess you could say it's like a desert within an urban environment.
Wow, just wow. That's in an American city during modern times. Unbelievable. My dad grew up in the North Bronx and his family left for the suburbs at the first opportunity. I can only imagine what people living in the South Bronx must've gone through on a regular basis.
