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CharlieBo313 if I'm going take a trip to NYC what neighborhood is safe for Mexicans? Me and I family wanna go but I'm aware that Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, and alot of other people don't like us. Damn I wish this world wasn't so racist
Don't let the exterior fool you. Might look decent from the outside, but more than half of these NYC projects is filled with mold, roaches, rats, asbestos, garbage, urine, and etc. There are some projects that are nice on the inside, but they are few and far inbetween.
The local authorities and the residents should get together to improve these places (stopping people from pissing in the hallways and alleyways, roach and rat extermination, garbage cleanup, teaching the kids to respect their homes, ridding the houses of asbestos, mould prevention, etc). Even the worst buildings can usually be rejuvenated if the desire is there.
My family moved from the Alfred E. Smith Projects in Nov 1959 to the Castle Hill Projects. We lived at 2120 Randall Ave apt 12F. They were still building additional units then. My sister and I went to PS138, we were the first Black Americans to attend that school. Besides the single family homes, everything was open. Remember the walks my dad took us on Sunday to see the water and the White Stone Bridge. Also remember walking by the all white Castle Hill Beach Club. As more units open up for tenants, then more blacks moved in. One of my best friends lived in the King David homes across from the projects. Another best buddy by the name of Wilbur Young went on to play Professional Football ( San Diego and Kansas City) We went to St. Andrews Church when it was built. Did most of our shopping at the stores off Castle Hill Ave in the housing complex. The public library was to the left side of the supermarket and below the store. The laundry was off Randall Ave behind the smaller stores. Unless it was raining or dark, my dad would walk to Westchester Ave to catch the EL. We would catch movies at the RKO Castle Hill or Lowes in Parkchester. I'm 69 years old,retired military and police officer living in Virginia and still think about my roots.
2125 RANDALL AVE projects ,MY FIRST DAY MOVING INTO THE PROJECTS AT 15 AFTER LIVING IN SOUTH BRONX I GOT INTO 2 FIGHTS ON BASKETBALL COURTS FIST DAY LOL ,AWSOME BALLERS PLAYED THERE ,IM 66 AND REMEMBER MY ROOTS .I LIVE IN FLORIDA NOW
I will always be a New Yorker at heart! Born in Manhattan. Raised in Manhattan & the Bronx. But, I had to leave...the pj's, fighting in public schools, graffiti, gangs, drugs, etc. The struggle is real!
When we moved there in Nov 1959, it was the nicest place to live in the world. But I totally agree with you how it changed for the worst. Very sad indeed.
What a tour of my old neighborhood! The public housing complex at the beginning of the "tour" is where I was raised from the early 1950s. That was Bronxdale Houses, renamed Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses. It was nice seeing the neighborhood of my formative years. It still comes back to me in dreams!! The Western Beef Supermarket on Leland Avenue on the right was a Pathmark supermarket back then, the first supermarket at that location. You went down to Bruckner Expressway, which I saw being constructed in the mid-1960s. My interest in heavy construction was shaped by that experience. You turned right on the access road along the expressway, then turned right onto Beach Avenue, crossing Watson Avenue. You passed my elementary school, Blessed Sacrament School and Church. Sadly, the archdiocese could not afford to keep the school portion open, and it closed. Both Sonia Sotomayor and I graduated the same year from Blessed Sacrament School; I still have my graduation yearbook from 1968. After passing the church, then turning left onto Gleason Avenue and turning right on Commonwealth Avenue, right on Westchester Avenue under the "el" (#6 train) to St. Lawrence Avenue. At the corner of Westchester Av and St. Lawrence Av, there used to be a candy store where the pharmacy is now. Across the street was a little bakery. My older sister had friends who lived in the houses on the left. At Gleason Avenue, on the corner of St. Lawrence Av on the left was another candy store, "Lucy's". I had to go there as a child every morning to buy the Daily News and on Sunday, the Sunday News. Back then I believe the dailys cost ten cents and the Sunday edition cost 25 cents (or was it 50 cents? Can't remember!). Thanks for posting the first part of the video of my old neighborhood. The second part of the video is Castle Hill Houses.
The worst ignorance is Willfull. Why would you want your neighborhood to be disparaged for Ghetto/Street cred? What kind of pride is instilled in you knowing you're from an area where the poverty rate is high and the social welfare is low? We should want our places of residence to be in good shape. We should want our streets clean. While we're here entertaining ourselves and comparing our worst communities, other communities are thriving and people in power are hoping we stay where we are so that others can move into and claim our neighborhoods while pushing us out under our noses. We have to want the best for ourselves. We have to shed our low life mentality and adapt a fresh, healthier more noble state of being. Black and Brown people, fuck the bullshit. Fuck the gangster shit. Fuck the ignorant shit. Let's start wanting to be happy and healthy. Let's clean up our communities. Let's start humbling ourselves and coming together so we can create healthy environments for our children. Let's start demanding better education. Let's start encouraging ourselves to innovate and bring our children into the future. Let's start being more patient in terms of success and want more for the next generation. If not us, them. Let's lay the foundation for the next to come. We have to sacrifice, if we want change. This is our world. Let's make the best happen.
The city that never sleep, make it here you make it anywhere, concrete jungle, the big Apple, the Empire State, New York State of mind!!! New York is king of America
Most of them buildings have. 1000 apartments and 14to 21 floors and I would imagine at least 3 people in each apartments , that's like living in a small City?
Wait was this project in Brooklyn's Finest? I swear I've heard of Castle hill projects before and I've never been to NY. I swear these were in a movie tho
it is like that the police have no jurisdiction inside only the housing police if you run into the projects the police don't have to run after you El Native
@@jashanestone u must be fucking crazy LoL what the fuck are u posting bro of course the nyc police department has jurisdiction in NYC PJs ..they run up in them shits all the time when was the last time u seen a NYC housing officer or a housing police station hub in the PJs.. they stopped that shit in the 90s ..NYC police and the feds have more rights to go into the PJs than they do a private owned building in NYC..u bugging bro post common sense ..
I am really enjoying your videos. I went to school in the Bronx back in the 1990s, and it was so much worse then than it is now. I still would not want to be walking around in this area alone after dark though!
There are abandoned homes here, maybe not as many as in other places, but there are for sure. Many, many businesses have closed down as well due to high rents.
It's usually the 2, 5, and 6 line uptown that looks deserted. I went to apply for a job that's by the 2 line and man there was no sign of life or something that makes me want to live in that area. Glad I live near Yankee Stadium lol
Thanks for the ride along. I've often wondered about some of the places you've driven through. Now, I know. It's really not that different. I mean, they all look simular.
You didn’t even really show ‘Castle Hill” projects. Instead, you spent time circling up and around Bruckner Blvd, Rosedale and Watson Avenues. That’s NOT where Castle Hill is!! I hope people will not be fooled by folks who never really lived in our projects/neighborhood, but want to have something important to say. Get it right!!
I live around that area now. Two guys just got shot in the head a couple blocks from my house. It was on the news. Sad shit is still not getting better..
Don't be offended Charlie but I like you don't narrate but let these videos speak for themselves. In comparison to many other places around the country, the Bronx is nothing like it was back in the 90's and even back in the 80's.
Rembrandt van Rijn yeah so I heard...in a way its better in the 1980 and 1990 s then now cause they swept everyone away and brought in businesses and loses its normal feel to the place
You would be amazed how it was in the sixties when we lived on Randall ave .It was great,no crime.You could walk out night without getting mugged or shot.Any projects in this country now forget it.
It was nice finding this video, felt like I was taking a ride thru the old neighborhood and seeing the building I grew up in. My family moved out of the projects in the early 80's.
Mary is your family Puerto Rican? If so when did they first arrive in NYC? Just curious. I'm just a white boy from way out west in Canada. The place we grew up in was like a paradise compared to The Bronx. Especially the Bronx of the early 80s!
I moved out of the east bronx 39 years ago to ca. Best thing my family ever did. I had a friend that lived in those projects..cell block 9 i call it. I do miss mr. frosty though!
Enjoyed your trip back to my old hood. Lived in 2160 Seward, and 2175 Lacomb Ave. for my formative years. After this, everything in my life was easy street. Went out to West Coast and never looked back.
I used to live in 575 Casper Hill and Randall Avenue I miss that place I was raised over there since 1976 does it matter where I go I always say I'm from Castle Hill project....
I see White Plains Rd, Leland Houses (gray and green high rises), Bruckner Blvd Expwy, Bronxdale Projects (7 floor apts), Castle Hill Ave. I heard the Mister Softee Ice Cream Truck and saw it too!!! Memories from my hood in the Boogie Down. Thanks.
I lived on 2120 Randall Ave Castle Hill Apts in 1972. I dreaded the place; I hated it with all my heart! The f&%*n elevators never worked and I had to climb 9 floors!
Took me down Memory lane, teenage years in the early 90’s -00’s hard times but most memorable times shared. 2245 -75 Randall ave (2B-side) was ready realist!! Moved out at 19 haven’t looked back
Compared to some other locales, Charlie, this doesn't look as bad in comparison. The local economy, although not infused with Wall Street cash is still able to support a stable population - thus avoiding the widespread abandonment of houses (I didn't see a single boarded-up home). And looks like there is enough tax revenue to support both a routine trash pick up as well as clearing illegal dumps. By all accounts this appears to be a solid, lower class working neighborhood.
Doesnt look that bad? Show me a place with that many projects in that little bit of space! I think you think those nice tall buildings look nice.. those are projects, the real deal!
Entire boarded-up building at 1:15 on the left, countless abandoned businesses from 00:00-00:27 and trash all over the projects and street at 2:00-2:05 and 2:22-2:28. That's all in the first two and a half minutes. Also, in an area with this many high-rise residences you are less likely to see massive rows of abandoned houses because the poorer residents are in buildings with multiple different families/couples/renters living there rather than single-occupancy houses.
This is how a video should be done. Let the sights and sounds of the city speak for themselves and don't inject your favorite music to intrude into the video.
I had a dream last night I was on the rooftop of some Bronx rooftop in the 1980s. Some light skinned dude with aviator glasses I think. His hair was like a half afro but not combed so poofy in different spots. Maybe finger length. Not short but not a lot of hair either. He had that 80s handlebar moustache and a tight ass polo shirt was bad b queing for the whole hood on the rooftop. Talking about "yea I own my own house here in the towers and I own a house in LA." The top of the building had an access door surrounded by a chain link fence. Shit was vivid. Then some crazy dude screaming to himself walked by and they rushed all the kids into the building. Then cops were questioning someone, they had them 1980s moustaches and tight ass light blue NYPD uniforms with the t shirt underneath no vests. Big ass square boxy walkie talkies. My dream was lit... lmao
What a big difference from the documentaries from the '70s and '80s in which is the Bronks is showed like Berlin in May 1945. A lot of documentaries of the overworked firemen in the Bronks in those years. Now looks different and much much better.
It's funny how some high rise apartment complexes/blocks of flats are either considered to be very dangerous and awful places to live or even just visit, whereas some high rise apartments and tower blocks are classed as very desirable homes and in high demand. I suppose that it is the type of people who live in them, as well as the location and the quality of the design and the maintenance etc that make all of the difference. For example, living in a well designed and well maintained 30 floor block overlooking the Hudson or the East River or the Statue of Liberty in New York City, occupied by well off people in their 40's and 50's would be completely different to a 30 floor block in the Projects a run down semi industrial, that is occupied by violent, anti social, aggressive gang members and poverty stricken people, and where the building hasn't been refurbished or regularly cleaned for years.
I remember walking to go grocery shopping in that supermarket across from CH projects with my grandmother in the late 70s and 80s There used to be a McCorrys 5&10 store there also. I remember a another grocery store that became a toy store then burned down one morning. It's where the church next to the gas station is now.
Yeah Castle Hill was home lived there for 4 decades. I go back to when that boost Mobile store on Castle Hill in that shopping center was a pizzeria, Fine Fare was the Associated, and Rite Aid was the 5 and 10 or Mccory's. The gift shop was the H&Y Stationary.
I lived there in the 1980's. It looks a lot worst now then back then. Garbage all on the islands in Randall Ave. People use to hang out in front of the deli and there use to be a Chinese restaurant next to it. Looked at my 1st skin magazine in the candy store there. Rite aid was McCorys and the supermarket was Associated. Check cashier is also an old staple. Diner was an after hour night club.
@none of your damn business LOL you sound crazy right opa locka home of the first 48 Detroit hood becuase its dirt poor all the get money niggas moved to chicago no ambition
True story though, dude was on the Bruckner and took the crazy long way! Should have drove through Sound View Projects, and he took you everywhere but Castle Hill Projects until the end! "Come on Man"! Hehehekekee, no4real 🙏🏾✌🏾!
There was a triple homicide in front of the stores at 09:00 this summer in broad daylight. Possibly some of the guys standing there and a women handing out health insurance info.
Charlie showed Bronxdale & Castle Hill Projects in this video. Fun Fact: Bronxdale is home to Drag-on (Ruff Ryders) amongst others and Castle Hill is home to Remy Ma (Terror Squad) Torch (MMG) & Asap Twelvy (Asap Mob) amongst others.
Bx that is a bit incorrect Bx he didn’t show bronxdale it’s self he was under the 6 line then he went over to Monroe project where the western beef was it use to be pathmart Some may call it the Morris- soundview area so they didn’t exactly show where drag is from Bronxdale sits between the cross Bronx expressway and the Sheridan hwy..... I guess the rest of your fun fact is correct....
@@stillnyc7770 You are incorrect! The project near the Western Beef IS BRONXDALE! I'm from there born and raised Soundview Ave in the 1st section. Monroe Projects (not in the video) is on the other side of Bruckner Boulevard on Story Ave between Taylor and Rosedale. You are either unfamiliar with that area or you aren't from the Bronx at all! And nobody calls the area Morris-Soundview (it's "Morrison btw") The area is only known as "Soundview"
castle hill starts at 5:53... this is exactly where the the two young men's lives were taken last week. And a woman who's being considered an innocent bystander. Unfortunate.
Up until 5:53 is my neighborhood! I’ve walked pass and driven through every single neighborhood my whole life. 3:40 is the elementary school I went to.
