The BRONX Historic Streets Of 1900 to 1980s 

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I’ve lived in The Bronx almost all my life but would’ve really appreciated if you could tag each pic with DATE & LOCATION! Thanks!!!

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@@queenr5959 Thanks for the support!

You are correct. I thought they put a TD Bank there but that is down the block. The one one the Bruckner was rebuilt also.

Yes and So is the Tremont Diner 😊

I remember packs of stray dogs always around

You know what I always wondered is what in the heck are those old 8 or 10 story buildings like what were they?? old factories???

With the year R.I.P Stacks💙

Facts.

«would have».

@@hugolafhugolaf smd

@@SeymourKitty if ya make a video of that people might pay

Avoid that place like plague.

Avoid that shit like a plague.

Elkin Hernandez Avoid what?

Yea.. so you can rob us? Fuck outta here 🐵

@@Gelta3333 that's because ya'll a bunch of bitches, stay in lower Manhattan

None at all!!

@Lisa Terranova we just missed being neighbors.... lived at 1545 Vyse from '82 to '98.... I may have a picture of your house from the 80s? we may know a few of the same people.... I wound up teaching at PS 50 around the corner from you.... saludos, Bill

@Lisa Terranova hi Lisa.... thanks for getting back to me.... a few things.... I may remember the wooden house standing detached near the corner with 172 and four connected rowhouses across the street... they are still there, as far as I know... going back to the corner near the house you knew was a red and white house and if you continued around the corner onto 172 there was/is a little bodega in a 3 story building, then you hit "The Mildred", a five story apartment building you entered on Vyse. That building was vacant for many years, but fortunately kept sealed and never sustained bad fire damage. It was renovated in the mid 90s if memory serves.... I taught in the 90s at PS 50, the school you mention, it was a bilingual science program. Best to reach me at williammorse42@gmail.com as I am not on social media and only got an answering machine after I missed a job interview. take care, Lisa, stay healthy and sane. Bill

My dad grew up in the Italian side of the Bronx then moved to Harlem in his teens and he said although sometimes it was dangerous with monsters, it was the best time of his life and wish we experienced the fun he had.

Gene.... were you ever part of O.A.R. working with Spofford juveniles in 1980? Bill

Yea i grew up in those days ..i just remember being outside and playing with my friends we knew nothing else so I guess we assumed everyone lived like this ..

God Is Good u better had been born before the 60s cuz I grew up there in the 70s and it was way trashier than it is today.

@@StopJerkingOff I was born in 1973 my neighborhood didn't look trashy but they're working but there was neighborhoods that did.

@@juan6047 I was born in 1973 that makes me 48

@@juan6047 dude I'm 48 and if I sound young thank you for the compliment.

@@StopJerkingOff another thing you probably did grow up in a trashy neighborhood. The whole Bronx was in trashy and the 70s he became trashy in the 80s when crack was introduced to the Bronx. My neighborhoods were 180th and Creston Avenue and 183rd ryer Avenue these were good neighborhoods at one time. So talk what you know and know what you talk. 🙂

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tO_2xzNXIDM.html This one has some locations and dates

So true. Never eat it before a road trip that is for sure lol

I ate White Castle recently and I think they changed something, it doesn't have that effect on me like it did when I was younger.

Love white castle, those delicious hamburgers

The big ditch that pretty much destroyed Property value at that time

and that white castle is still there

Yep

@Vincent Mileto Every once in a while in the Sunday daily news White Castle would offer a coupon and with it you could get 10 yes 10 White Castle hamburgers for a quarter .They were much smaller in size than now.

right next to ps 254 and Roosevelt

John Garfield learned his acting skills at ps45 and in the 30's he went back to visit the school and his drama teacher. My dad was about 12 and was chosen to escort him around the school. He later received a letter from Garfield. I often went to that White Castles and the burgers were 12 cents. Across the street was a Ford dealership, the next block going toward Webster had an Army and Navy store, a veterinarian, across from there you could see some of the Fordham U campus, then you hit the el. Across from there was the Sears and Roebuck AND the most interesting places in the 50's and 60's were 2 motorcycle stores. One was the now sought after BSA and next to it a Triumph dealership. There was also a pet shop, a hot dog stand and then the bus terminal which were just outside aisles where buses lined up and drivers switched. I had an interesting life growing up there ( Arthur ave)

@2 WheelsForever Not a shit hole anymore. The most progressive borough in the city right now!

There's a feeling of a shithole too.

hugolafhugolaf That shithole is the birth of a whole GENERATION, so stop tryna put that place down, especially if u won’t go there & say it to someone’s face. 😆 And everywhere u go on earth have good & bad areas.

I've been to every borough except for Staten Island.

Gee money A lot of salty people in these comments because their parents moved them away from the Bronx before they could be a part of the greatness. Crazy how these people are 40-60 years old with spiteful, jealousy-filled hearts. The Bronx wasn’t made for everybody but everybody had a choice to make the best of it.

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Good morning Ms.P. born in Manhattan, but came home to "the bronx,for raising!

@@estherwhite3119 😁👍

Born & raised there too. Moved quite a bit throughout Throggs Neck, Silver Beach, Castle Hill projects...lol. Moved away after 30 years of great memories😊

Hey baby! 😍😘

Jose Hernandez Jose! You tawkin ta me?

Indeed! Home of the bravest!

That sounds about right. This must have been many years ago and the cop was at that location because of wrong turns lol. Can I ask how you came to see this video?

Yeah cuz I've never seen any pictures of what those buildings look like before they were all screwed up and look like a war zone 😟

Much like the parts of the bronx that weren’t blighted and burned look today

It’s not overly deep lol

Before the development, it was all Dutch farmland.

Bronx Park used to have houses along the Bronx River. My friend’s great grandfather was a German immigrant and had a house there in the early 1900s He showed me an old photo from 1910 when his grandfather was a kid living there.

Yes, but they are flooding the area with shelters and drug programs. I plan on doing a drive around video soon.

HecksVision oh, cool😎

@@ProjectsandReviewsZone i couldnt agree more. I lived right on 163rd and Fox where the school is and houses across the street.I ended moving because someone decided to rent the house next door to a drug addict family.I felt no longer safe not even with the detective station next block.It was such a great street with working families.

They should have kept as many of the old tenements up as possible.They are beautifully built.Like the old redbrick Victorian terraced houses in parts of Manchester UK are.

I lived from 8 to 30 on university Avenue and had Tracy towers as a view in the distance. Even went to That high school for one summer.

"Freedomland" lived short, some like four years. Living in the Bronx we had many other alternatives while they were still around. We used to visit "Adventurer's Inn" in Flushing, "Palisades Park" in NJ and "Rye Playland" in Rye, NY. "Coney Island" was another spot we visited although not so often.

I also went to Clinton h.s 92 to 94 cause I got thrown out of James Monroe h.s , long trip cause I’m from 174th vyse avenue by southern boulevard

So much went on in the South Bronx over a short time span while the rest of the Bronx was calm and normal even to this day. I planned on doing driving videos of parts of the Bronx but have not got around to do it.

Media don't like to put nice things on view always the South Bronx that's what people think of when they hear the Bronx. In the thirties when you said you were moving to the Bronx it was considered moving up. I wonder how many people know that president John Fitzgerald Kennedy family lived in Riverdale the Bronx. In 1950 I lived near a 20 Acre Farm in the Bronx. Then there is Parkchester with. Beautiful fountains it was once upon a time because if you go there now you can't walk after 5 at night. Whose fault is it the Riff Raff that moved in &. Turned it into the ghetto they came from. Your . You are photo sitting.. when I tell people I lived 15 minutes away from the beach (orchard beach) ,. I they can't believe it.

@@jeanpalumbo3411 Also a world famous Music Genre was birth in those Streets,so everything north of the ''Fire Line'' Fordham Road was normal

Michael is your dad's name Joe Damiano?

@@jeanpalumbo3411 No, my father was Frank.

Me to Babalu

I just got back from Albany this weekend. I was at central park playing in a tennis tournament.

HecksVision - Awesome! Did you win?

HecksVision cool😎

I won 2 matches and lost 2. The team came in 4th place. Great weather.

Mary Jane Cornielle how coincidental i just left the Prospect and Intervale areas to come back up to Rensselaer County (Brunswick and Schodack) just got back today! Have a second place up here its beautiful and way more space but miss home already! Was great to get back down and see my old stomping grounds.

The south Bronx is a dumping ground for drug programs. It's supposed to be spread out in the city but on some streets there are several. Some of these people would have no reason to be in the Bronx if they were not going to these programs.

@@ProjectsandReviewsZone we need some type of help quality of life in the bx is zero...i was on that north bound 2 train and a junky with 4 exposed needles in his pocket almost got violent its crazy super dumping ground its sad

In a previous coverage of The Bronx no mention of the family for whom it is named.They were the Bronx.Also missing is mention of Edgar Allen Poe's home.Nevertheless,it was enlightening to read its praises.B.Villa

@Omar J store owners and landlords burned down their own buildings to collect the insurance money but mainstream media will have you believe the people tore it up

You're right. ..its a dump

@Omar J Crime was out of control and people just packed up and left. Blocks were left with abanded businesses and apartments.

it might be in that movie..i was also thinking of the movie beat street...lol

me too thats what i thought when i 1st saw it

True. I was thinking of doing some driving videos and some walking videos of the parks.

@@ProjectsandReviewsZone Yes, sir.

Morris Park to be exact..

Haa.

Might of found it from Google images. Was that the Bronx or the west side highway? What's the story of that photo

Joe Ricci- I was hoping that someone could spot themselves or someone they knew. I glad you did. I spent part of my childhood in the Bronx but my family moved out when things started to get bad.

@@guillermone1 understandable about families moving when the area changes.... people were encouraged to do that.... move to more space in the suburbs or Coop City..... and who gets left behind? those that can't afford to leave.... drugs, fatherless homes, corrupt public officials and a building stock that was exhausted and needed major investment, welfare paid relocations, arson for insurance and the '77 blackout looting were the perfect storm..... I lived in the aftermath there from 80 to 98..... many good people in smaller homes and a small number of stubborn against the flow landlords kept some block alive... like mine on the 1500 block of Vyse...

@@williammorse8330 -You missed all the fun, came in right after the Bronx began to experience a renaissance. Our family left before the peak of the curve, when it was more profitable for landlords to burn down their buildings to get insurance money than to collect rents. Although, I lived in Mott Haven section of the Bronx, specifically on Cauldwell Ave, don't recall if the area became blighted. But I do know there was a rise in crime rates which was the main motivation for us to leave. Coincidentally, I lived on the 5th floor walk-up, tenement apartment building, right across from Saint Mary's Public housing. My childhood friend and neighbor at the time lived with his family on my floor at the corner apartment on the opposite end of the hallway. He was the former NY state Senator Pedro Espada Jr. who was convicted of stealing money from his "non-profit." Well perhaps my association with him may not be something to brag about, but I do remember Pedro as a really good kid, never a trouble maker, who always stayed home after school, doing homework, and studying hard, hitting those books, while everyone else was out doing mischief or playing stick ball on the streets. He really had a tough life growing up, both of his parents passed away while he was still young. First his father and later his mom who I believed died of throat cancer. After going through all that, too bad he ended up a disgraced public figure, who served time in prison. I'm mostly retired now, living in South florida and I haven't been back to the South Bronx in well over 40+ years. I would like to one day return and check out the old neighborhood just to reminisce and see how it has changed. I might even try to track down Pedro to see how he is doing these days. My elderly mom still has pictures of us together with images of smiling faces sitting next to our corresponding siblings. Anyway, its just a thought and some of the memories I wanted to share.

@@guillermone1 thanks, Guillermo.... I do remember getting Pedro's legislative updates in the mail, thanks for the bio on his growing up....... do try and look him up.... you will forever wonder and regret a bit not doing it.... he may have even moved, like you, to South Florida. The Navy stationed me at Homestead and I worked at Card Sound Road on the way to Key Largo.... my similar story involves Mickey Diaz, who like me, was rehabbing 1549 Vyse, while I was doing the same with 1545.... Mickey was the local School Committee chair and an activist in District 12... he helped keep PS 50 open across the street from us.... like other Bronx districts, 12 had issues, changed Supers like shirts, and was convicted of some form of racketeering and spend 6 months at Rikers Island.... he may have operated just outside the law, but he was the fall guy.... anyway, I wound up teaching for a time at PS 50 and that was my intro to the profession..... some great people and children.... others with tremendous challenges.... there is more, let me know if you want to stay in touch...... my time there was from '80 to '98. and yes, I was too late for the gangs(the Vyse Avenue Javelins) and burnings, etc... helter skelter.... Howard Cosell: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning."

They still building new buildings and taking away more parking. Its a mess

It's cool looking back on history.

@@ProjectsandReviewsZone want to be with you for the update

@@ProjectsandReviewsZone you can handle the other day and I was your age

You can handle it and it was cool

Your welcome and thank you for the update and I will be there tomorrow at work tomorrow and I can get it to pay for the update I will be there for iytyuitrtand don't have the other y yo I type it up and it shows that I have a car to get to pay the full amount of yourself I you smoke too much crack for your family and friends

You will be running back to old miss in 2 days lol. All the parks you named are ok for a visit but stay out of st Mary unless you are looking to buy drugs. In general crime has blown up all around the city and the bronx even more.

@@ProjectsandReviewsZone crime in the Bronx was worst 36 years ago

Thank you so much for this detailed comment. I will pin this to the top so others can see!

That's the Armory on kingsbridge ave. and Jerome at 3:24.

Yankee Stadium still exists, but in a different form

Love all these photos. Thank you

Appears to be E Kingsbridge rd. and Jerome ave. at (4:12) modern day Morton williams. At 0:05 is 315 E kingsbridge rd near Fordham rd between the years 1920 and 1950. At 0:41 Fox st. and Intervale ave. At 2:09 Gerrard Ave. and 161 st. At 4:00 Westchester Ave. and Prospect Ave. At 4:20 Bruckner Blvd. near Lafayette Ave.

RU-vid library. It's a nice tune.

I went to the school next to the armory as a kid.

HecksVision I’m a Harlemnite , but I attended Lehman College and lived in the BX for a few years.

926 east 180th street grandparents walk up grandpa used to take me to the Bronx zoo on the boat and to the reptile house every kid needs to go to that zoo when I was in the lion 🏠1 smelled funny years later I had cats and remembered the smell

Very good description of the area , grew up 187th street and Beaumont Ave ,1939 left in 1961. Used to go to 180th St. on a regular basis Was a pigeon flyer and Sams Pet shop was located there. Sold pigeons and pigeon feed. Great memories.

God knows what went on

Glad you enjoyed it. The best water I ever had was from a Bronx open hydrant lol

HecksVision : lol... last summer there was an open hydrant on the way to my sons TKD classes... we all would drink from the hydrant. Every time my sons pass the same area... they are looking to see if it’s open. I’m thirsty just a thinking about it.

I used to live on the end of University Ave

It was probably inspired by this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3ym5n-ZZWUs.html A real slow drag - scott joplin

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The park avenue of the Bronx back in the day.

I went to night summer school at Theodore Roosevelt High School for one summer. It was sad with the wooden desk still in use.

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Honky Tonkin by Doug Maxwell

Someone in the comments said it was a movie set built for the movie Wolfen. I find it crazy to build that for just a few shots in the movie when most of the Bronx was messed up already lol. nycinfilm.com/2019/10/31/wolfen-1981/

So says the one group that is destroying the planet because the Sun hates them!

The owners burn it down to collect insurance

nope early before another group move in, the place was already destroy, by whom you may say, the italians, irish, polish, jews who own must of the bronx, so try to learn a little history, and you will see the truth, i am from charlotte st, thats between boston post rd , milford st, and a cross from crotona park. of course nobody wants the real thuth?

@@michaelmend8959 hey Michael.... you probably know the Dover Theater.... I lived on Vyse between 172 and 173 during the 80s and 90s...... a very mixed bag..... our block had Jews at one time, then people from PR and other islands came in and the whites left....getting back to the Dover.... remember seeing "Escape from New York" on the screen... slashed, broken seats, smokey, lots of weed going up..... the place is now a Pentacostal Church I believe..... left the Bronx in '98...... many good memories, good people on the 1500 block.... and beyond.... I miss them and some of the places.... like Orchard Beach..... the Puerto Rican Riviera...

Yeah, they've all but destroyed my home town too, and people still come up with the same lames excuses and projections. Stay safe Sir.

It survived without them..we are in better times today!

Luke Yacono and the Irish and I’ll tell you what had a big affect on loved Bronx and That’s Co op city

@@tainok Apologies, I'm afraid I must call you a liar.

@@mikemacaluso1130 i dont give a hell of damn if you call me a liar!There was nothing but corruption when the italians lived there, took care of nothing .Left it in shambles for other minorities to come and clean it up.

@@tainok The way your putting it is very biased.

That is a ton of moves lol

HecksVision Grew up the BX with my Dad who moved a lot, haha, and my grandma. Had a few ex wives , girlfriends, fiancé. 😂😂😂😂

Europe got plenty of history!!

HecksVision but US get all the attention now, or have been for 100 years

it should be 90% bronx I been told

@1889-1904. John A. Morris died in 1895 with a lot of debt because of a crooked lottery scheme in Louisiana. See the wiki.

My home for many years

The Grand Concourse was the 5th Avenue of the Bronx back in the day.

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Looks more like the cross Bronx

HecksVision I think so too

It is the cross bronx

Cross Bronx Rosedale exit on left