I lived in the the Bronx . this video does not look anything like the Bronx which was beautiful clean and had high end stores Alexander's. AS Beck shoes stores one of many.we didn't have to shop in Manhattan because Fordham road had it all. From. What I see in this video looks like the slums people selling things off of tables on the sidewalks ,looks like a flea market uncovered food being sold in this pandemic , is a health hazard . no wonder the Bronx is rated worst Borough in New York City . Blame the Mayor who allows it, and the people who cause the filth. Makes me want to cry. Where is AOC she so concerned about her district.She's all talk. She don't care one cent about people in the once Beautiful Bronx.
I lived in the Bronx during the 1960s and early 1970s. Neighborhoods north of Fordham Road was still mostly Irish, Italian, and Jewish back then. I frequently watched many movies at the RKO Fordham and The Valentine. There was a snack stand called Gorman's across the street. I frequently shopped for clothes and stuff at Alexander's Dept. Store. I also ate lunch and shopped at Woolworth's. And I spent many a Saturday afternoon during my grade school years perusing thru records at Cousin's Record Shop near Webster Avenue. There was a Jan's restaurant and a Steak and Brew there as well but never visited. I purchased my first computer system, the Commodore Vic-20, at Crazy Eddie's. Well, if you remember these places you be about as old (or young) as I am. HaHa
Yes i remember all of them places......Gormans was the spot at Fordham rd and valentine ave.... Loved the grilled hot dogs and fountains sodas...Woolworths was my place for malted shakes.......Maybe you renember Robbins the sporting goods store also.....The best!
Great Video. The video starts at University Ave. I wish you had started just one block west on Andrews Ave which is the street where my family used to live. Another reason is that you missed one of the most magnificent churches in the Bronx which is St. Nicholas of Tolentine. The buildings that you see just as the video starts have been there for years. I have studied old family photos of the area and have taken notes. I would like to point out that if you look to the left, just before you get to the Jerome Ave station that you can still see the words Lowes for the old Lowes Grand Theatre that was there. Great video.
It's funny that you should mention Andrews Avenue because my wife and I stayed with one of my wife's relatives in an apartment at the southern end of Andrews Avenue near Burnside Avenue station on subway line 4 on our one and only visit to New York way back in 1986. And we walked along Fordham Road from the line 4 subway station exactly as in this video. I am English and live in London and my now sadly deceased wife was Jamaican.
@@Queensburyheights This is a place that will always bring fond memories to me. Glad that you got to visit NYC and in particular The Bronx. Like other big cities there is so much to see and experience. Sorry to hear about your wife. Hope Andrews Avenue is a good memory for you as well.
@@user-sn7yj7me4q Yes, visiting New York was quite an experience. Unfortunately I have never been able to get back there but my wife and I visited Boston, where my wife had relatives, in 1995. After retirement from London we moved to the locality on the south coast of Jamaica where my wife was born. That was at the end of 2006 but very sadly only two years later at the end of 2008 my wife passed away prematurely and I returned to London where I have remained ever since.
The storefronts have changed but the buildings haven't and that's how I was able to figure out what was what. You started at St Nicholas of Tolentine and I wonder if it has changed. I remember shopping at G&G for clothes on Fordham across from The Valentine. Shout out to my fellow residents (past and present) of the Bronx.
No talk just showing the are👌 Heading up there tomorrow got a couple store and I'm going to from the mini video tour, and you dam right I'm not leaving without my 2 boxes of pizza. Great video!!
Chulada de vídeo, me remonta a al 2003 cuando llegue a los Estados Unidos, con mi querida esposa... En nuestro día libre íbamos a comer algunas veces a u restaurante poblano que estaba en Jerome st. Y caminábamos de regreso hasta la plaza Fordham... son bonitos recuerdos... Mu hijo mayor nació en el Sant Barnabas hospital y ya pronto va a ir para allá... Gracias por el video...
NICE UPLOAD!!!.....Right at the start if you would've backed up past the Church to the next street you would've been in front of Sublime's an after hours club ii used to frequent back in the early '80s...There was times I stumbled out of there at 11am in the bright Sun and getting the first cab i saw to get home fast to the Dark Coffin....GOOD Memories!!!...GREAT COKE!!!!
Been living in Mount Vernon for a few years now but... Don't think I don't go still visit the road. . Fordham is the PLACE TO BE . ! The sights.. the smell..the food.. THE PEOPLE ...! it's all there baby... it's all in there . !
Entra entra entra tattoos tattoos - never gets old...yes I know this stomping ground and this walk. Been in the BX now 16 years. I am the Bedford Park area. Great video. Ah, but wish you could have ended with a nice 360 at Fordham Plaza. Either way love it, and that also there is no voiceover just the real sounds of life happening and the people.
@@NYCVideoTours Intersection of Webster Ave and Fordham Road is very complex, requires total focus! BTW, there used to be a used book store at Decatur Ave near Webster. Lots of good finds there, good memories!! Thanks😎
9:11 and 17:11 Excellent video, man. Good focus too. And by focus I also mean that at this point I would have gotten distracted and bumped into something LOL
Lots of fresh fruit and veggies, wish some of these folks could travel out of there to the wide open parts of the US to see the mountains, rushing rivers and huge lakes.
This used to be a nice area back in the day! But now, it is just ghetto! So glad I left New York back in the late 1970's. Not a safe place to raise your children, or family! 🙄
SO SAD HOW FORDHAM ROAD IS TODAY , EARLY 80S N 70S WAS BIGGEST SHOPPING AREA , WE ALL WENT THERE, THEN MID 80S DRUGS RUINED ,CRIME, ETC , SO ALL WENT TO YONKERS , CROSS COUNTY MALL, Galleria, ETC.
They recieved their stimulus checks lmao! No but seriously nice video, I grew up in the South Bronx, where I fell in love but my love was not able to love me back, because I was gay and he was straight. I still miss him.
SOS. 😢New York. The transport infrastructure disaster. To love the motherland, to teach geometry. The infrastructure project "The bee honeycomb model of the conglomerates" solves the problem. 😇Alexander Stukan.
