Who Burned the Bronx? PBS Film “Decade of Fire” Investigates 1970s Fires That Displaced Thousands 

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You're still wasting your time watching TV? 🤣. TV is almost dead. It's just that cable TV forces people to watch those stations.

What? I just watch stuff online

corruption. Still in these neighbourhoods landlord treat ppl bad to get them to leave with no services

Funny that seems to be the headlines that arent being addressed today..the temperature hasnt changed much

You are so right

Yep.... the names tell a story

who did it?

Birds We are being poisoned and burned alive The crooks in Government owned by the landlords. Just like a certain Malignant narcissist Orange Cheato. Anyone can be displaced is correct No matter the education or work, they will steal it. We are now seeing the rendering of a declining society By RICH PEOPLE WHO TAXES that we pay for them WE PAY. THEY’VE POISONED OUR WATERS WITH INDUSTRIAL COMPOUNDS AND GASED OUR BEAUTIFUL PLANET. For fun and profit. 💀THEY HAVE CAUSED VIOLENCE and death AGAINST THE PEOPLE. AND the putridificating stench is unbearable APPEARS THE CORRUPTION 👉🏽 RUNS ALL THE WAY TO THE Roberts’ SUPREME COURT, WHICH HAS THEIR OWN PARTICULAR WAY OF REDLINING 🔥☠️🔥🏡And it’s called Gerrymandering🏡🔥☠️🔥 And it started with the “Displacement” and MURDER of MILLIONS OF ABORIGINAL WHOSE LANDS ARE BEING POISONED BY CANADIAN OIL. AND THE FUCKING KANNUCKS, OUR PALS JUST DUMPED THEIR CRAP ON AMERICAN SOIL. ‼️🔥‼️and re-elected the fucker that did it to us‼️🔥‼️ IN OTHER TIMES THIS WOULD BE CALLED AN INVASION‼️🔥💀🔥 But it’s not and America’s citizens and their cities rot away. Welcome to troglodyte purgatory No buying a stairway to Heaven AND Emoluments have replaced Indulgence The banks and insurance companies got their bailout, for Breaking the law AND are doing so again Genocide‼️ RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT AND are blaming Aboriginals and “immigrants” that have be here for at least 20,000 years

Where do i look up the names?

sorry for your loss brother. head up.

@@SebViveros Thank you. God bless!

@@DavisTheName444 one love my g. onwards and upwards. one person at a time we shall prosper.

@@SebViveros Yes

So sorry for your loss 😢 Thank God he made it out of the Bronx!

And even the propaganda geared towards the USSR is BS. Only under Stalin did you have massive famines and the mass executions you see so commonly represented in American propaganda. An overwhelming number of Russians want to return to the USSR. Roof over your head, food, free education and healthcare. Virtually zero organized crime.

@@AgrippaMaxentius that's not remotely true. Gulags and unbelieveable repression on free speech and work camps existed after STALIN

Andrew Hoyle I mentioned mass famines and mass executions. Not incarceration, but I’ll bite. If you’re referencing the gulag system post Stalin, many people had their sentences commuted or reduced after Stalin’s death, and the death penalty was outlawed.

@@AgrippaMaxentius well the death penalty is abolished instead u get worked to death in labor camps. And I dont think 0 organized crime, and having a roof over your head at the expense of free elections, freedom or speech are things to want.

@@andrewhoyle1521 Man, you are so misinformed. Gulags were introduced not long ago after communist revolution of 1917 in Russia creating Soviet Union. School up. BTW, another lefties after Lenin and Stalin followed the suit:Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot. They all shared this leftist dream- to create a new man, a new wonderful equal world. This murderous ideology cost lives of around 100 milions people in the 20th century. .

Jackson ave was the train station was burn

Damn, your story breaks my heart 😔 No child should ever have to live like that. I'm happy to hear you're living in CT now. I hope your life is much better 😘

@@gennaro7486 It was by Claremont Pkwy and 3rd Ave in the Bronx.

No bullshit I grew up on Jackson ave near 3rd ave and my uncles would tell me stories about how the way they used to get through those tough time back in 76 was to throw block parties and next thing you know someone started to spit bars on the mic and then fires would break out whomp whomp parties over. I swear this story alway made me question if America should just rename itself and start all over because too much has been done and It needs a refresher. @@gennaro7486

DEAD END FOOL !!!!

Yes the same here! I'm from Harlem and you will see a burnt down building and maybe a whole block with rubble. However, when I'd traveled on the train and seen the Bronx - I was shocked with mouth wide open! Bronx and New Wark, New Jersey! SMH!

What is life like in the bronx now?

@@stevenarmstrong3799 crime is still bad but the bronx is much more better as it was back then

@@stevenarmstrong3799 Guys I know with the FDNY say there is currently a good share of fire duty in the Bronx. Nothing like was years ago, but it’s an active Borough. If you check murder statistics, and other crime statistics, you’ll notice that the Bronx leads in that category as well. I haven’t viewed the full video, but I wonder if they mention WHO boobie-trapped many of those buildings, who took out the scrap metal, and who was squatting in them. I wonder if they mention who pulled the countless false alarms, who threw projectiles at the responding firefighters and who vandalized the firefighters personal vehicles.

Anarchy comes to mind...

'Magic Spell' ? Could you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by that please. I would describe it more like a BAD SPELL or the american dream gone AWOL. A source of fasination for us Europeans perhaps for its so alien to us hence our interest but there is and was no magic spell in my humble opinion. Just degradation , neglect , decay and extreme poverty and hopelesnes.

wow.

Unknown to most people is that some landlords were able to buy a building that had already burned and then collect the insurance. Most of the landlords, I been told, were Hebrew.

@@crisisbliss2462 told by who?? blaming it all on the Jews again??!!

@@4465Vman Blaming?!? Where did I blame. I was told this by a guy named Carlos. I found it amazing that someone could collect insurance on a property that burned down before they were the owner. Back in the 80's there were plenty of building that fit the burned out status and I would have loved to buy one myself. I wanted to know how this was done. I 'm going to ask an insurance agent is this or was this ever possible. Can you imagine buying a dilapidated building and then getting the money -free of charge- to fix it up. BTW - What I didn't included in my original comment was that Carlos said they bought the building, collected the insurance, pocketed the money and then abandon the property. He told me this back in the mid 1980's. How often did it happen, if it happened at all, I don't know - but given the history of apartment building ownership in NYC, if this actually was going on the person looking to buy an apartment building in those neighborhoods were more likely than not, to be hebrew. That's not a criticism of jews. if any thing it would be a criticism on the black and spanish people who lived in those neighborhoods for not owning the buildings. Now, if you want to talk about it, we can keep the conversation going. So, do I blame the ability to collect insurance money on burned out property that you didn't own when it burned on Jews, No. If its a loophole then it's the insurance companies loss and the buyers gain. If it incentives someone to burn down a building especially where there are people living in it, someone need to be blamed. - the people who paid someone to burn it down, the person who burned it down, and the insurance company(s) who participate in the scheme (there may have been some insurance agent getting a kickback from the insurance money).

@@crisisbliss2462 Thanks for your thoughts ...thankfully they rebuilt the Bronx ..it took along time and investors and good leaders of all ethnicities and backgrounds ! but big big problem now in the understaffed Rikers Island...They cleaned up NYC but there was a price ...like the situation at Rikers Island now.

People with names and last names did it, and packed the money.

they dont mention the traps locals made for the fire fighters such as cutting holes in the floor and cover with cardboard or filling balloons with gasoline huh? wonder why fireman stop coming?

@@vn6870 Sources ?

@@Bleek17Six It’s featured in testimony in the BBC’s 1972 documentary “Man Alive: The bronx is burning.” Let’s face it, there was a lot of dysfunction in these neighborhoods.

and corruption!!!

it wasnt "rent control" it was 250 k heroin addicts , massive unemployment in the cities so people just couldnt pay their rent, their utilities etc etc

We live during interesting times... The word anarchy comes to mind

it’s interesting this is rarely discussed, or at least not on a massive scale. part of me thinks it’s because it’s a tactic some landlords still use today 🤔

Landlords and city officials trying to keep all this, under the rug

This is what I was thinking. Definitely stinks of social engineering and big money.

exactly!!! paid arsonists!!

I thought it was the owners paying arsonists to burn them down for the insurance money because property values plummeted.

Take a wild guess as to who NYC's biggest realtor was in the 1970s....

I don't understand what you are saying, what do the Unions have to do with this? Why are you even mentioning them? How is that relevant?

So you're a guy in his late 40s who pretends to be a lame comic book character and is a Nazi POS? Wow, just when I think you can't get more pathetic....

Honest question: if you're in your late 40s, why do you act like you're a 15 year old loser living in his parents basement?

@@thanoswasright999 Uh huh.

@@shosugino6716 I love how you said you would ignore me but are so insecure you can't. ;)

@@thanoswasright999 Bot go and cry

True - but most of the ghetto parts of Brooklyn have gentrified BIG time. Just look at Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Sunset Park. The only areas of Brooklyn that are still ghetto are Brownsville, East Flatbush and East New York (other than Cypress Hills)..

@@scooterahlers9666the gentrification is slowly happening in those areas.

same folks that burned maui to the ground

This same area is revitalize and a 3 bedroom in the south bronx is about 3,000. Lots of contruction of luxury towers

Yup, that’s what people are saying. I think they were losing money, that’s why. Owning real estate is a good way of making money if your renters actually pay up.

@@avpthegreat But what I dont get is why for almost 20 years it was left that way. Why so many blocks and so many neighborhoods were left in ruins for so long without anyone else offering to build anything else in thier place.

@@jediknight38 because it became a war zone of gangs, nobody wanted to live there due to the lack of working placements

Because of the rampant crime and gang violence along with the huge amount of money needed to clean up the filth and garbage.

this is true for sure

who, blacks or whites?

Did the democrat burn it??

Agreed on both counts. I wonder if the documentary featured here interviews firefighters and ranking officers who worked in the Bronx during the 1970s?

Im sure if one was to walk through that part of the Bronx during after hours as a white man and perhaps well dressed one would have been jumped on and relieved of ones wallet watch and the shoes and coat even the umbrella if one had one .

Can you help me with this information from your personal point? Where there living more gang members than normal citizens in the Bronx in 70's?

@@JuanMartinez-ek7cy I dont understand your question, you're asking whether there more gang members than citizens? There were alot of gangs back then yes but not sure if they outnumbered citizens, but it was bad

@@cd.cd.cd.cd-cd yes, sorry for my English, were there*. Thanks

Yes, great memories. I moved to Fox and Longwood from Westchester and Kelly in 1976. Went to IS 116 and Monroe HS. Fun times...wish I was back even with all the burnt buildings.

correct

"Red Lining" was a term that referred to banks specifying geographic areas that they would refuse to provide mortgages to or to finance renovations and improvements. They were typically minority neighborhoods. This doomed them to neglect and decay.

Use to love playing in those abandoned buildings, never knew what you would fine.

Bro can you help we with this information? Where there more gang members o normal citizens living in the Bronx around the 70's?

@@JuanMartinez-ek7cy there are probably more gang members today than back in the day. It's not like it was painted in the movie The Warriors.

@@IvanDiazpalbatey thks, I thought it was

@@JuanMartinez-ek7cy Not at all. I arrived in the South Bronx from the Dominican Republic in 1966 and started Elementary school in the early 70s. Each neighborhood had its gangs but they protected the areas. As a matter of fact, they used a lot of the abandoned tenements as "Club Houses" but never bothered anyone that lived around them. As I remember it it was lots of fun...block parties, music, the fire hydrant at full blast, etc. Now, the 80s were scary. A totally different world.

The Happy land fire?

And today there is a resurgence

Give me the name of even ONE active duty NYC firefighter during the 1970s that had to go on food stamps. Just one name AND the unit he was assigned to. Remember, we’re not talking about the 1,600 guys that got laid off on July 1, 1975 due to the City’s fiscal crisis, we are talking about active duty firefighters being on food stamps. Fair enough? I look forward to your reply.

clearly indians are not creative enough to come up with hip hop.

@@cindyqueen7228 shows how ignorant you are .. when we see hiphop allover india today in various languages - however not invented within the country - as for bieng creative, hiphop was another outcome of mass culture. Very cool then and done with now ... just as the society which produced It is...

@@AudioPervert1 hip hop came from the genius of black and brown ppl in the South Bronx in this time period idiot. Indians clearly lack that creativity.😎

cindy, black and brown people culturally appropriated him hop from Debra Harry aka Blondie.

@@colonelangus8247 Wha? LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO😂😂😂 Thanks for the laugh, colonel

And the fact that those neighborhoods... then... were considered white (despite being ethnically Jewish, Italian, Irish) and in the 1970s the neighborhood had become Black and Hispanic majority doesn't show you the difference? This is NOT rocket science. This was racism, bigotry, greed at work!! Your comment shows the denial of racism in NYC.

Because those people got far more opportunities and investment from the local, state, and federal government as well as the private sector.

did you skip the part about redlining?

The property owners burned down the buildings for insurance.

That should tell you what high violent crimes do to neighborhoods, businesses move to safer neighborhoods so they don't continuously get robbed or their employees assaulted/robbed/killed, then people that lived there move to safer neighborhoods, no business in their right mind would stay or build in high violent crime area's, when they move they take their taxes with them so less funds goes into those communities. Get rid of all the violent crimes and businesses would be happy to be apart of the community. This happens in every major city across America, and they ALL have one thing in common. 😏

Same here most of Brooklyn was burning but not at the rate of the South Bronx. I used to go to The Bronx River Projects community center for the block parties back in 80-81 that's what made me become a DJ then I kinda faded into my projects in Brownsville when I saw DJs around my hood which halted me from going to the Bronx

The fires were started by the owners so they can collect the insurance money and bail out.

Ok, a owner walked away from a Bronx building he owned. What do that have to do with Red Lining a whole block? And what do that have to do with owners building down the buildings to most likely collect insurance? Just sell the building, even if you do not get a lot of money from it.

You're talking shit. It's well documented the caucazoid landlords and I-tell-a-lie-ian mob villains started those fires to line their pockets. YOU ARE A LIAR. But history refutes your propaganda.

Alert 🚨 EXCEPT…16th Street and A WHOLE LOT of the Mission is still SACRY AF. …since the early 1980s.

I grew up on 138th Brooke Ave. Went to Burger Jr High.

live close. I have a slamlord too. ill watch the documentary

I’m 2 years late but the documentary is on RU-vid

It was filmed in Harlem

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The Whites fled because of the crime.

Lets us not forget the new york black out and the son of sam killing people in all 5 boroughs

Interesting how crack wasn't a problem in these communities until after Reagan visited, after the fires. It's already well known that the gov shipped drugs into miniority communities. You think poor people were enterprising across borders to get coca leaves?

Yeah man. The entire city of New York was a mess.

Mostly the gangs that were being paid by the greedy Landlords for the insurance money. It was just the Bronx. It was happening all over the city. Not to mention Harlem and Washington Heights. My childhood neighborhood.

Who made $ off this shit.

ZIOMAFIA SATANISTS TERRORIST

Ken Rose, in fact, Cambridge University owns more real estate in Manhattan than any other single entity. A huge portion of the university's endowment consists of New York City real estate.

I know about that. I think those people died from a outer space threat.

yup

Grenfel had The Bronx effect…actually.

Most Arson is very hard to prove, most jackasses involved with burning of The Bronx & Harlem did not go to prison.

@@MemoGrafix That's hard to believe for me. The citizens knew that arsonists burned their homes down. They must have been aware of it. Must have founded self defence forces. And private "inspectors" who check everyone who goes in and out.

@@MemoGrafix But I like your profile picture, very beautiful. Like a butterfly 🦋

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