I'm a 91 baby, so i don’t remember too much of the 90s, but man the 2000s in NYC were amazing. The summer vibe in NYC back in the day was just unexplainable, you just had to be there.
It also says the infrastructure of that country is not developing. China looks like some future country in the year 2065 and the US still looks like this. I don't know what went wrong in this country but this is completely unacceptable. Middle Eastern countries look like something out our most elaborate and expansive human imagination and American cities look stuck in some 80s and 90s New York Undercover look.
I was born in '70 and grew up in the Bronx until the late 90's when I left. I haven't been back in over 20 years but it's so nice to see that it hasn't succumbed to the 21st century homogenized blandness that's become almost every American city today. I hope the Bronx continues to keep it's unique character and soul. Seeing this video makes me wistful for my younger years and all the wonderful memories I spent growing up there.
I remember being an 18 yo kid from Canada driving my Chevy Chevette to NYC in the mid-80s, going over the George Washington Bridge, hitting The Bronx, and saying to myself "What the hell have I gotten myself into??". Scary place back then. I also got my car stolen, which is a whole other story.
I was just in Mott Haven and Charlotte Gardens afew days ago. In the Bronx, you will notice many new buildings with a few very old looking buildings dotted around. Thats because so many buildings burnt down in the 70s and 80s that almost the entire borough had to be rebuilt, with the newer buildings being built in former vacant lots, and the older buildings you rarely see were the few ones they were lucky enough not to get burnt. Very dark time in NYC's history
I read that in the end, around 97% of the buildings there were burnt, demolished, or burnt and then demolished. A lot were insurance jobs. Rather than bring the old buildings up to scratch and get people back in them, they'd just raze them. It makes me wonder if, with a bit of investment, all those big multi-story buildings might've been an asset for the area into the 80s and 90s, a bit like the areas to the south.
Love this makes me homesick I love the Bronx I’ve been all of the places on this video thank you can you do 170 street Washington ave especially the projects and third ave in that area I’d love to see it my neighborhood 🙏🏽👍🏽😍❤️
Literally all of these videos are shot on Washington and Webster Projects, the place I call home...check it out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XDgna_IGXL0.htmlsi=0nJk0gaK4PKxfyLK
List of videos all shot on Washington and 170, do u recognize it? Hope it feeds that nostalgia for u 🙏🏼 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aZgtbr7mw5c.htmlsi=KuArx8cZgtWPpljs ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9qKuBbs8ur8.htmlsi=deCjyXGp23jiZk9z ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XDgna_IGXL0.htmlsi=0nJk0gaK4PKxfyLK
Real life. Vibrant. Glad to see normal places still exists in NY. Far away from the disgrace of copy-paste gentrification with barista coffeeshops, quinoa muffins, Apple stores, vegan restaurants and bycicle lanes.
"barista coffeeshops, Apple stores, vegan restaurants and bycicle lanes." doesn't mean gentrification. What makes this place better to live than neighborhoods with all thoes things? Who the hell wants to live in a neighborhood that the community doesn't take care of and doesn't care about? The estate of the bronx is sad and has always been sad since the burning days. This is dystopian af.
What’s wrong with y’all neighborhoods being cleaned up?😂 only black people get mad when they get new places to chill at. Only black people would prefer the trash and ghetto over a nice looking neighborhood. And I can see if you were talking about the cost of living being inflated due to gentrification but you didn’t even think of that. You called this video vibrant and normal?
@@katon4525 This. Imagine thinking that the capital improvements that businesses put into ones neighborhood are bad. The same that complain about that also complain about the crime and piles of trash in their neighborhoods, too. They can’t win for losing.
Because the developers know their yuppie clientele are to scared to come up here, if it weren’t for that you’d see “luxury rentals” popping up overnight charging 5k for a studio…
chicago is the only other place in the world that resembles this ....big bulky buildings just clustered together....i personally love it....the buildings give it an authentic big city feel
ARE YOU KIDDING? The 70's was a time of rampant arson, frequent muggings, shootings, stabbings, gang activity, murders every day, armed robberies in broad daylight, abandonment, out-of-control drug abuse, and all other sorts of hellish conditions that made decent people afraid to leave their dead-bolted apartments most hours of the day. The toll in human suffering was NOTHING like today's calmer conditions. Granted, the South Bronx is STILL POOR, but it is orders of magnitude cleaner and safer in general in the last 25 years (despite a COVID-era crime wave) than it ever was in the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's and a good deal of the 1990's. I was around back then. I saw the owner of a bodega on the corner of 152 St & Courtland Ave get his head blown off by a gun-toting thug who didn't like his coffee. I saw an elderly man bashed over the head and his face slashed with a machete when he refused to hand over his wallet to a member of the Savage Nomads street gang. I've witnessed violence on hot summer nights in dank, boiling apartments, roaches crawl down the throats of toddlers, rats jumping out dresser drawers and attacking and biting babies and the elderly bed-ridden, I could go on....
@@tiff5891there was more crime back then but the difference now is the youth is involved more. The youth was the main ones outside back in the day. So now it just looks dead. Most cities tbh. I grew up in East Tremont and Staten Island and both just look so dead all the time. Noone outside
@@Tuelz... so sad, I grew up in the Cross Bronx/Parkchester area & I remember everyone was outside, there used to be block parties every summer. Miss those days. Crimes were bad, but what a time to live as a kid in the 90s-early 2000s
@@tiff5891 fr ...i remember right off Webster my uncle block Clay Av also had the block parties. Glow sticks and everyone just eating having fun. Cnt do that now cus the 13 year olds have beef and would lite it up. At least back in the days the beefs was between 20-40 year olds so they wouldnt do nothing where theres kids at they would handle it another time. Kids dnt care and just wanna get getback anyway
This is not unique to the Bronx - many parts of BK and Queens look like this. This is really just normal NYC landscape outside of Midtown and Lower Manhattan. People need to branch out more when they come visit NYC
The walk signs which back then said "DON"T WALK" on the top in red and "WALK" on the bottom back during part or all of the (19)90s instead of images these days.
The Bronx is a beautiful place, especially the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road..It’s getting very expensive as well, when I live there from 2000-2004 my rent for a huge Studio, I mean my place was big with 2 big closets the rent was $550.00 dollars, and that was all the way back then, can you imagine Now..
@@JayWerx I hope and pray you are right … but the New York City that I was drawn to and lived in beginning in the 90’s (I lived in all boroughs except S.I. over the course of 24 years) is an alien place and culture now
WRONG! It is NOT NY State that's like this. It's NYC that is like this, and this is the Bronx, borough of NYC. The state is soooooooo different than the city.
The neighborhood you went through, East Tremont, has never been considered one of the safer areas of the Bronx. A lot of the area you went through was adjacent to the Cross Bronx Expressway. When Robert Moses built that highway, it cut right through the heart of the Bronx. Many neighborhoods were never the same after it was built.
имеем не ценим, потерявши плачем...что вам, что нам 30 лет рассказывали и показывали, что где-то, но не дома точно, люди живут как люди. все для них, манна и благодать. правда подробности при этом как то упоминать не стали. а мы и не спрашивали. господам нужно верить на слово.
@@maxxrumm4277 Не надо обобщать, говорите за себя. Уж не знаю, кого Вы 30 лет считали "господами" и кому верили, вам виднее. Для меня же, кодло дорвавшееся до власти в моей стране в 91-м, сплошь негодяи, подлецы и воры, но никак не господа - с какой бы стати мне им верить.
I don't like the vibe I got from this video. New York is really dirty outside of Manhattan never got the hype about that city. Its honestly dirtier than Philadelphia with more people and rats everywhere.
Yeah just a bunch of people stacked on top of each other and rat infested. But the food and culture is the only thing I like about NYC other than that I couldn't wait to get back down south 😅
Whats the deal with all the scaffolding? The projects i used to live in, has had scaffolding going on 18 years now. They haven't fixed or repaired anything. On the contrary, It just looks worse as time goes by. Are they knocking them down? Used to be the projects were the decent looking housing standing among all the burnt out and abandoned buildings, now its the other way around. Sad
GOOD EVENING CHERLIE. -OUT OF CURIOSITY, IF YOU WATCHED A FILM ABOUT AMERICAN CITIES FROM THE 20s ONwards, WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO RECORD THE SAME STREETS AND LOCATIONS AS THE VIDEO? -I ALSO FOLLOW THE NASS AND VINTAGE STORYES CHANNELS WHICH ONLY SHOW OLD AND RESTORED VIDEOS FROM VARIOUS CITIES. AND SINCE I CAN'T TRAVEL AT ALL, I WONDER WHAT THEY WOULD BE LIKE TODAY.
@chination1796 I know you’re trolling, but in case you’re not…Cardi B, Ice Spice, Lil Tjay, A-Boogie, Kai Cenat, Fat Joe, Kerry Washington, NY Yankees & many more come form The Bronx! 🤣🤣🤣
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