as a young teen, my friends and we were always chased out of Parkchester, later in life I lived there so did my mom. I moved out about 30 years ago. This video brought back such good memories, thank you.
Thank you for posting! I grew up in that neighborhood and it is nice to see it. After Helmsley bought it from Met Life, they did not keep it up and the neighborhood declined. Now it looks like it has rebounded well.
That's how you know people ain't from the Bronx lol people callin these buildings projects when they are condos 😂 none of the buildings look like it especially inside the buildings the statues on them are beautiful as well . i hung out a lot in parkchester
Parkchester is Not the hood.Grew up there from early 1970s thru the 90s. Parkchester Was built in 1940 as racially segregated housing complex.My parents were some of the first African-Americans to move there in the early 1970s.It was a beautiful place aesthetically.It was never the"hood" when I lived there.Its not the projects it's a middle-class apartment complex.I don't know what it's like now but Parkchester to me was far from the "hood".It was a safe,nice area when I grew up there with some nice people.
I can only for by My experience.When I lived there it was a beautiful place to live .At that time they were very strict as to what tenants could do. That's why it stayed so nice.When you refer to a place as The hood you ghettoize it and feed into racist stereotypes about certain communities.Because my parents moved there when their were very few people of color( they would stare at us when we first moved there)as a child it didn't effect me because I. also grew in in rural upstate New York.I was taught if you live somewhere nice keep it that way.
@@jmfia2391 Parkchester is not the “Hood” never has been. I’ve lived here twice. Back in 1998-2006, and now with my from 2021. There’s nobody selling drugs in front of the buildings, benches or stairways. Elevators note stairways aren’t full of piss and feces. The place is still a very decent well maintained middle class neighborhood.
@@tyrabaker1632 Don’t listen to this person above. I’ve lived here twice. Back in the late 90’s to the early 2000’s. And I just moved back with my wife last summer in July. It’s still a well maintained middle class neighborhood.
Construction on Parkchester began in 1938 in South Condos The property was owned by the Archdiocese of NY which had an orphanage for boys in South Condos then they purchased other land started constructing North If you look at statues on corners of buildings u will see children predominantly boys & gargoyles other than that the modern day maintenance sucks , heat season in South sucks , ‼️
Actually Parkchester was owned & developed by the Metropolitan Life insurance company, originally as affordable apartments for their employees. (Benefits of being an old fogey, I remember it and my grandparents lived there.) Met Life also built Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, which are twins for Parkchester. 23rd to 14th .street, First Ave to the River. I lived in S. town.
The ghetto how? None of the buildings have urine or feces in the elevators or stairways. Elevators work 95% of the time. There aren’t drug dealers selling in front of buildings or on benches. You don’t see people hanging out all over the place smoking weed or rolling dice. Not to say that crime never happens in Parkchester, but it’s very, very rare. Now if you can give me you explanation of what make it ghetto I’d love to hear. Because everything which I mentioned are staples of a ghetto/hood neighborhood.
He wrote Parkchester APARTMENTS for a reason…..although it looks similar to the projects its not. Its what the projects could’ve been had they been well maintained but Parkchester has a different history bc it was never NYCHA owned…..shit black people werent allowed to live there til 1968…..
You know whats so so sad, is those tired looking dull projects, they ruin everything in every boro why dont they tear them down and build better looking ones
@@TheDonna1959 if you think parkchester is ghetto then Harlem is beautiful lol cuz I be in parkchester and it maybe a lil hood but I wouldn't call it ghetto cuz nun ever happens there
@@TheDonna1959 I'm sure you found no hole that's better everyplace is in ruins well glad your gone New York city is and will always be greatest wether you there are not it dont need you cause you were never a new.yorker in the first place so good riddens to you.
