@avidvid Although this doesn't have much to do per se with Canarsie, I noticed you went to go eat at the kings plaza diner during this nostalgia trip. I am sad to inform you it has since closed down. Some of the awesome hangouts/businesses are no longer open or even exist anymore. I like you, grew up on the flatlands streets and have many fond memories of Avenue L. Canarsie has changed in its neighbors and culture, which is neither good nor bad, but we will always have our memories of our child
Thank you for this wonderful footage of My Old Canarsie! I lived on E 89th street and Ave L.. The Blocks were all related one way or another, wonderful Block parties everyone cooked Italian food.. Stick Ball.. Hand Ball, Jump rope with only 2 people.. I moved away in the 70's went back a few times for My Grandmother ( God Bless her Heart =( ) Recently went back 5 yrs ago.. Nearly broke my heart!!.. Canarsie movie theater was our place to be.. This video made me smile Cry too. Thank you .
@avidvid yea just nostalgia tell that to all the familys and relatives who got there love ones killed over there LOL(you even got them 70s footages in there) i just finished reading MURDER MACHINE and that book tells me that canarsie was gangsters paradise back in the 70s(chop shops, drugs,loansharks and mafia wannabees a deadly mix) but hey there are worst places LOL!!
@avidvid but alot of guys out the roy demeo crew was raised in canarsie and that neighborhood raised a bunch of tough gansters like Chris Rosenburg Joey and Patty Testa,Anthony Senter and Hendry Borrelli you knew any of these guys groing up??
Nice Work its not like it use to be...As a kid me and my family would walk to the movies. .. Then get some pizza...Now when I go there I don't get out of the car....sad but true...
Damn I grew up on that same street, flatlands 4.. I lived across the st from his house for 10 years...1990-2000.. for anyone from that st... I miss u guys
I grew up in Canarsie, on 102 and Flatlands. I went to Holy Family primary school on Rockaway Parkway. When I saw the church in the video I knew immediately that it was Holy Family. And when I saw Canarsie Pier, oh wow, did you bring back memories for me. Fabulous. Thanks for posting. I lived in Canarsie from Birth to 1980 when I moved to Bensonhurst after getting married.
hey,know what, when i used to go to canarsie at age 4 or 5, ya took an old wooden trolley car (with a coal stove) from the bmt to the pier; before the end of the subway line an old man in a shed manually controlled the crossing gates over one of the streets. new york changes constantly, for good or bad, but it's always vibrant, that's what i miss. i grew up in the projects on the lower east side, and now all the "yuppies" have taken it over...that's life, move on and love it.
There will never be a place with no crime, yet i been living out here for years and its a safe neighborhood to be in ( hope im not jinxing me and my family/friends )
Canarsie went from white to black ,Hmmm ? I wonder how that happen ?Better yet why did it happen ?Don't tell 99.9% of white got tire of Canarsie and left for higher property taxes.
@da0nlyj I grew up there in the mid 90's. It was somewhat during the time of the drastic change. It seemed like back when I was a kid, it was much more well kept than it is now. I must say that I was glad to have gotten the hell out of there.
Your white people better move back to Canarsie I know them property taxes in Long Island and New Jersey is kicking your butt.Black people wont bother you.they will bother there own before you.lol By the way if white people can move to Harlem and Bed Stuy your white people can move back to good old Canarsie.
Nice video, I am looking for videos of USA neighborhood, Canarsie looks different but still looks like a good place to leave boys and girls playing outside, people buying groceries, business, cars.
BTW I am really sad I found out others neighborhoods and cities in a really bad shape. I never though that such a place could exist in United States, I saw some worst places than in my country. Again thanks for the video
looking at canarsie now gets me sick to my stomach you could thank the decline of canarsie to the real estate agents like filmore who wanted to make money
Thanks for the video,I grew up in Canarsie (80the St,and Ave M),learned how to fish off the Canarsie Pier around 1963,been hooked since..................Canarise is different now...............but I still have my memories...................Ill take them to my grave.........
never been anywhere near new york but everytime i see a mcdonalds i wonder if its the one where the guardian angels started that was in canarsie right
Hey Rich we have a Canarsie site on Facebook and we are getting a real kick out of this I just posted some footage from 1969 join us in remembering Canarsie on facebook !
( Don't be afraid to go to Breukelen Projects - PS 279 and John Wilson JHS next time..LOL) I love the way you started the video entering from the Belt Parkway and Rockaway Ave and ended it on the same way.
Rich, You did a GREAT job! You bought back a lot of memories... you captured most of the hangout spots missed and landmarks that made Canarsie what it was back in the 70's,80's and early 90's... Canarsie HS - Rockaway Pkwy - Royal Video - Grabstein's Deli - Flatlands Avenue - Canarsie Pier - The Church - Kings Plaza..LOL You got it all. It's a wonder you didn't capture the " L " boys hanging out..LOL.
Thanks for posting this ! I grew upin canarsie in the 70's... graduated in 80 from chs what a blast from the past !!!! I lived in brookline projects. I hung out at the pier alot and alot of the other places in this vid. Louie Torres......
Canarsie, even back in the day, was not always a wonderful place. The mob lived there as well, and there was more than a little white trash. But there were also a large number of classmates of mine who have made quite a mark for themselves (in a positive way).
For better or worse, it was home. Thanks for the look back.
Thanks for the vid. I also grew up on Flatlands 4th st 1963 - 1985. As for all these comments, get over it, neighborhoods change for better and for worse. Look at Brooklyn now... BTW, I live near SF, but I my parents live in Mill Basin, so I get back for a slice at Armondos!
Lovely video -- made me nostalgic, and I was just in Canarsie two weeks ago, getting a haircut. I grew up in Canarsie & lived there 'til 2002. All the racist comments here are quite disheartening, tho' not suprising. The neighborhood changed, neighborhoods do that. I think one of the worst things to happen to the area was the proliferation of mortgages with 3-6% down payments. Many houses went into foreclosure, and the real estate agents benefited. This affected homeowners of ALL races.
Just for the record, when I made this film a little over a year ago, it was for pure nostalgia, I had not been back in about 20 yrs. It was never my intent to infer any racial overtones into it. I guess a lot of people take different things out of it.
I grew up in canarsie back in the 80's and the only blacks that were ever there back then were the ones that went to the schools, p.s 276, south shore h.s. im by no means racist. I had my fair share of black friends there, but I have to agree with alot of the ppl here when they say how the black ppl destroyed canarsie. ill bet my life on the fact that that low life (wanna-be REV) Al sharpton would "NEVER" live with his so called ppl in canarsie now. and now he and the rest of the world know why
@JustinLodes How was Canarsie " destroyed " Its still a great neighborhood. It still looks nice outside, the people here take care of their area and the blocks are clean.
Canarsie was a decent neighborhood in the 1980's and even better before. These lowlife blacks totally destroyed these area, and I remember when Rev. Al Sharpton defended these lowlifes. THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. White people need to take a stand against liberalism !!!!!!!!
Bayview is the reason you have Crime - It is a breeding ground for filth - The only good thing that Came out of Bayview is the Guy who Started STARBUCKS - Hey World Thank Bayview for that Damn Good Coffee!!!!
I'm sorry to say low class Black American's and west indians mess up Canarsie.From that Canarsie is more dirty,noisy and has more crime and gang fights. Thank the black family's who don't control there kid's and teach them respect each other and there hood.
The vintage Footage was great !!! I like the way you put it all together. As for all those that are discussing why white people left Canarsie-When you were getting robbed, Mugged or Harassed by a new classless generation with parents that didn't care what their children were doing. That is why people left canarsie. I would rather have black people as Neighbors over white trash any day. It was the parenting that went wrong with Canarsie. Bayview is a pure example of Why Canarsie is the way it is.
Bull shit there was no bad blacks stupid enough to go a mug or harass white people in there own neighborhoods.Bayview houses got nothing to do with it was just white racism that's all.
Thanks for the 70's footage and the musical background. It captures the mood well about returning to Canarsie. I grew up 102 and seaview, 274, 211, CHS75 and moved in 85. Difficult to put into words what growing up during that time, in the little pocket of the world called Canarsie was all about but a good place to start life's journey. Thanks for the video.
One thing for sure, there are different generations of Canarsiens on here and of different races too. Not ONE thumbs up to anyone on this channel so far, typical of Canarsiens though LOL, yea b4 you ask, yea I'm one of em.
Canarsie high school is now closed. It had ceased being a center of education a while ago. What NYC had closed was essentially a training and proving grounds for prison. And it seemed to succeed at such function.
Lived in Canarsie from 1979-1990.. 102nd between AVE J and FLatlands, then moved to Florida. For all the racist and ignorant people on this thread, remember, Indians were the first in Canarsie. So don't think it just belongs to you. It will belong to anyone who chooses to be there. get over it.
I hate to say a some foreign blacks just don't know how to keep neighborhood clean.They move in and don't clean in front of there house.They only want to play loud music and brag about they owning a house and driving a BMW car.They are no better than the America blacks when they get here.I guess some white people are right about some of my black people don't like a nice neighborhood.
you dont have any self pride to say such a thing. I am Jamaican and I grew up in Canarsie. Some people kept they're yard clean and some people did'nt. Not many trees grow in Brooklyn so we never had grass just weeds. It's my home and if you dont like it then go live with your white people Uncle Tom.
Pride dont have anything to do with it.You got some Negros who want a desent place to live and appreciate America than you got those loud mouth loud music so call negros that dont respect where they live after making money here.They are the one's that dont have any pride and self respect where they live.If you dont like here go back to your sanded beaches.
By the way I remember when Carnarsie was clean and all yards had grass not weeds.Now you see garbage in front of houses and on the side walk.I remember whenpeople grew grape vines and vegetables in there yard.I try to grow that again two Jamaicans kids pull them out from the dirt.And they was my neighbour kids.When I told them about they got mad on me telling them.
I remember a time when Kenny's was directly across the street from the Canarsie movie theater. It's good to see that Grabsteins and Remsen Pharmacy were in the video.
even if all the blacks moved out, they still wouldnt come back. They are all over the states now, mainly in NJ where they got their huge ass homes on huge ass properties and livin large.
And paying very high property taxes.And high mortgages to go with it.If so many whites never move out they would've there house paid up by now.But they move because of blacks people.
Alot of people don't understand how things work sometimes. As people become more affluent, they naturally will gravitate towards more affluent areas. As immigrants die and their offspring become more educated and RICH they will leave. Yes a good portion left Canarsie because of black people, but that is not the only reason. Canarsie could not accomodate the growth and expansion that people were looking for , nor did it cater to their new lifestyles. This is the bottom line, so to speak.
Yea people grow and go in different directions.But when blacks started moving in Carnarsie all the sudden white people became more educated and RICH real quick and move out of there to more affluent "whiter" neighbourhoods.
Then you never knew the overall situation in which Canarsie was in at the time. The last 10 years that Canarsie was predom white, those graduating from college and those graduating high school GOING to college were it , they were the ones starting leaving like crazy WELL before the advent of blacks in numbers, finding different lives in better places. There was NO sizable NEWER generation to replace it because they picked up roots and left so old mom and dad either died off or left later on.
Look at least 99.9 % left Carnarsie .Everybody was thinking the same thing ?Specally when they saw a black family move in the neighbourhood .Then they started putting up those for sale signs back to back.
There were white familes moving out of Canarsie in *1984*, alot of them, I was one of those..........and thats also when there was none of what you were saying, goin on, your theory that most of whites just picked up and left because of blacks holds no water. Some did, alot didn't, they were already on their way out, like i described in my last post.
Most of those were old people who had nothing left in Canarsie and there is also of the recently publicized incident that there were under the table dealings for real estate companies to sell ONLY to black families. They were getting kickbacks for doing so from certain organizations. Look it up online.
Most of those were old people who had nothing left in Canarsie and there is also of the recently publicized incident that there were under the table dealings for real estate companies to sell ONLY to black families. They were getting kickbacks for doing so from certain organizations. Look it up online.
wow im glad you made this video i didnt kno that church was that old dang 3:56 and mcdonalds lol and my high skool lol did you bin on thefoot ball team?..my friend live next door thats my hang out spot 2 lol.. i love this video
Whats that first song? Great video. Brought back a lot of memories. For everybody else just keep in mind Canarsie has gone through changes evers since the Indians lived there. Its going to change again. Its how life goes.
this is a great video its nice how you had the video in present time then the video in the 70's are what ever year it was its was very nice ....................i live in canarise!!!
I remember in the 70's the Italians boys use to call us nigger if they saw us riding our bike to Carnasie pier. I remember I was walking through 82 street and flatland Avenue a old white lady told me you dont live around here get out here before I call the police.I remember when I went to South Shore the white students stay in of the flatland Ave. entrance side of South Shore.The Blacks and Spanish stay around the football field area.
Why did so many white people leave Carnasie.Why ? I will tell you why because black people started to move in the neighborhood. White people didn't want to live next to a nigger as thay say.
Thank you so much for that! I was born there in 73 and I still have family that live there. The old footage is a treasure because you see the old and compare it to the dump it is now. My Grandfather built alot of the houses there including the one I grew up in. Once again thank you!
Good to see piece of my neighborhood's history.... Life looked really easy back then.. Everything is getting harder and harder... I lived on E96 and AVE L and now I live on Flatlands 3rd street, around the block from the guy who made this...
That was amazing! It really brought back memories...I use to live around the corner from this guy on 104th street. I may even know him! Loved the old footage! Thank you
it was a good video here i went back to canarise in 1994for a visit i was shocked to see what i saw it was dangerous i was scared it s a shame to see what happenes to neighberhoods like canarise flatbush brownsville all one time the best places to live my nane is miles i used to live in brooklyn in mill basin now i live in upstate ny we are forced tolive hear because of the greedy real estate agents in brooklyn who sold those houses for money its a shame
bunch of typical new york assholes, im just asking a simple question and you guys get all pissy. its not like i think canarise and flatlands was all gangsters and crime. i just read a book on demeo and am intrested in the area and what the people were like and what they thought of those guys
Grew up in Canarsie, left in 85. Really hurts to see the derelict Grabsteins deli. I used to walk there as a kid with my buddy to get a knish or a hot dog, one of the best deli's in NYC hands down. Same with the Ave-L Theater, I remember saturday matinee's for a $1.50 *double feature* and then a slice at Joes on 92st. for .50 cents. Those were the days.......
I grew up in Canarsie and left in 85, almost 24 years to the day too (6/21/85) . 82st and Ave M. The derelict Grabsteins deli really hurts. I used to walk there as a kid with my buddy to get a knish and then go to LH-Martins right across the street, which of course closed about a year before i left. Same deal with the Ave-L theater. Saturday matinee's for a $1.50...DOUBLE FEATURE and a slice @ Joes afterwards for .50cents. Those were the days... Ps115, Buildersee, South Shore H.S.
It wasn't really in Canarsie, it was way down flatlands right before flatbush avenue. Anyway, I don't think we need to even KNOW about that and I honestly don't even care about it. It's trash.
I left Canarsie in 1993. Brings back great memories of my days in Canarsie. I really like the way you mixed old with new video. Great job. Thanks so much for posting this video.
Canaries is better now you can get crack heroin coke and weed all on the same street corner
skima20 3 weeks ago
@avidvid Although this doesn't have much to do per se with Canarsie, I noticed you went to go eat at the kings plaza diner during this nostalgia trip. I am sad to inform you it has since closed down. Some of the awesome hangouts/businesses are no longer open or even exist anymore. I like you, grew up on the flatlands streets and have many fond memories of Avenue L. Canarsie has changed in its neighbors and culture, which is neither good nor bad, but we will always have our memories of our child
photogirllie 3 weeks ago
Thank you for this wonderful footage of My Old Canarsie! I lived on E 89th street and Ave L.. The Blocks were all related one way or another, wonderful Block parties everyone cooked Italian food.. Stick Ball.. Hand Ball, Jump rope with only 2 people.. I moved away in the 70's went back a few times for My Grandmother ( God Bless her Heart =( ) Recently went back 5 yrs ago.. Nearly broke my heart!!.. Canarsie movie theater was our place to be.. This video made me smile Cry too. Thank you .
Hunnybunny59 1 month ago
I lived at 98th and Foster Ave....Moved out in the mid 70's ...video took me back... THANKS
quadcab666 2 months ago
I used to live on E. 102 st and Ave M..
bboybm3 2 months ago
@avidvid yea just nostalgia tell that to all the familys and relatives who got there love ones killed over there LOL(you even got them 70s footages in there) i just finished reading MURDER MACHINE and that book tells me that canarsie was gangsters paradise back in the 70s(chop shops, drugs,loansharks and mafia wannabees a deadly mix) but hey there are worst places LOL!!
serveandcollectable 3 months ago
@avidvid but alot of guys out the roy demeo crew was raised in canarsie and that neighborhood raised a bunch of tough gansters like Chris Rosenburg Joey and Patty Testa,Anthony Senter and Hendry Borrelli you knew any of these guys groing up??
serveandcollectable 4 months ago
i grew up on flatlands 4th graduated in 70 when did u..
SarahWild12 4 months ago
Nice Work its not like it use to be...As a kid me and my family would walk to the movies. .. Then get some pizza...Now when I go there I don't get out of the car....sad but true...
coheefish1 8 months ago
u don't get out of the car because u was a punk then and u are a punk now
that's why u don't get out of the car
onemanp1 4 months ago
Damn I grew up on that same street, flatlands 4.. I lived across the st from his house for 10 years...1990-2000.. for anyone from that st... I miss u guys
SuperGmahal 8 months ago
I grew up in Canarsie, on 102 and Flatlands. I went to Holy Family primary school on Rockaway Parkway. When I saw the church in the video I knew immediately that it was Holy Family. And when I saw Canarsie Pier, oh wow, did you bring back memories for me. Fabulous. Thanks for posting. I lived in Canarsie from Birth to 1980 when I moved to Bensonhurst after getting married.
MelodyLubart123 9 months ago
WOW THIS IS WHERE ROY DEMEO AND HIS CREW KILLED ABOUT 200 PEOPLE!!!
AT THE GEMINI LOUNGE!!!
serveandcollectable 10 months ago
@serveandcollectable The Gemini Lounge was in Flatlands.
ufuckfacesonofabitch 5 months ago
WOW THIS IS WHERE ROY DEMEO AND HIS CREW KILLED ABOUT 200 PEOPLE!!!
AT THE GEMINI LOUNGE!!!
serveandcollectable 10 months ago
hey,know what, when i used to go to canarsie at age 4 or 5, ya took an old wooden trolley car (with a coal stove) from the bmt to the pier; before the end of the subway line an old man in a shed manually controlled the crossing gates over one of the streets. new york changes constantly, for good or bad, but it's always vibrant, that's what i miss. i grew up in the projects on the lower east side, and now all the "yuppies" have taken it over...that's life, move on and love it.
eswillie 10 months ago
My hometown, Canarsie stand up baby
Bossrah 11 months ago
There will never be a place with no crime, yet i been living out here for years and its a safe neighborhood to be in ( hope im not jinxing me and my family/friends )
BlackOwnedDollars 11 months ago
Canarsie went from white to black ,Hmmm ? I wonder how that happen ?Better yet why did it happen ?Don't tell 99.9% of white got tire of Canarsie and left for higher property taxes.
PREZ150 11 months ago
I would give anything,even give a few years of my life to go back to my childhood days in Canrsie!!
lansing66 11 months ago
3:45.... hes on rockaway parkway
MrBrooklyn095 11 months ago
canarsie all day, thaz ma home town too...
MrBrooklyn095 11 months ago
We used to leave in Canarsie. We went back recently and its so different now.
da0nlyj 1 year ago
@da0nlyj I grew up there in the mid 90's. It was somewhat during the time of the drastic change. It seemed like back when I was a kid, it was much more well kept than it is now. I must say that I was glad to have gotten the hell out of there.
xThemalemodelsx 11 months ago
Your white people better move back to Canarsie I know them property taxes in Long Island and New Jersey is kicking your butt.Black people wont bother you.they will bother there own before you.lol By the way if white people can move to Harlem and Bed Stuy your white people can move back to good old Canarsie.
PREZ150 1 year ago
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Nice video, I am looking for videos of USA neighborhood, Canarsie looks different but still looks like a good place to leave boys and girls playing outside, people buying groceries, business, cars.
BTW I am really sad I found out others neighborhoods and cities in a really bad shape. I never though that such a place could exist in United States, I saw some worst places than in my country. Again thanks for the video
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sunpc 1 year ago
Thanks for the video great memories grabsteins deli one of my favorites I lived near Canarsie pier Bayview projects always remember fond memories
MsMoviestar1 1 year ago
looking at canarsie now gets me sick to my stomach you could thank the decline of canarsie to the real estate agents like filmore who wanted to make money
MrMiles716 1 year ago
Thanks for the video,I grew up in Canarsie (80the St,and Ave M),learned how to fish off the Canarsie Pier around 1963,been hooked since..................Canarise is different now...............but I still have my memories...................Ill take them to my grave.........
NiteLiter 1 year ago
thanks for this nostalgic video. i'm from seaview avenue, 1970s until the 1990s.
gaydanzig 1 year ago
carnarsie brooklyn my home arch diner,the l train,soth shore high school,
YungMafiaFam 1 year ago
oh sorry guardian angels where dudes who worked at a bronx mcdonalds but the founder was from canarsie
DrQuinton 1 year ago
never been anywhere near new york but everytime i see a mcdonalds i wonder if its the one where the guardian angels started that was in canarsie right
DrQuinton 1 year ago
Very nice footage, i really enjoyed this. depressed me a bit but nevertheless great.
WeedVulva 1 year ago
@WeedVulva I felt the same way,maybe because the fact is that those days are gone forever,but we are special to have experienced it!
lansing66 11 months ago
Hey Rich we have a Canarsie site on Facebook and we are getting a real kick out of this I just posted some footage from 1969 join us in remembering Canarsie on facebook !
houndog97 1 year ago
Very nice. Thank you for putting this together so well. Great music. A couple of tears.
It transported me if for only a few minutes back to the only Canarsie I knew. Thank you.
Kosnitzky 1 year ago
( Don't be afraid to go to Breukelen Projects - PS 279 and John Wilson JHS next time..LOL) I love the way you started the video entering from the Belt Parkway and Rockaway Ave and ended it on the same way.
CALLMEPETE123 1 year ago
@CALLMEPETE123 Rockaway Parkway , my home too :)
EIGHTIESmusicguy 1 year ago
Rich, You did a GREAT job! You bought back a lot of memories... you captured most of the hangout spots missed and landmarks that made Canarsie what it was back in the 70's,80's and early 90's... Canarsie HS - Rockaway Pkwy - Royal Video - Grabstein's Deli - Flatlands Avenue - Canarsie Pier - The Church - Kings Plaza..LOL You got it all. It's a wonder you didn't capture the " L " boys hanging out..LOL.
CALLMEPETE123 1 year ago
I grew up on Williams Ave across P.S 260, It was really nice then. Thanks so much.
iw2bhappy 1 year ago
What is the name of the first song being played?
KidFashion21 1 year ago
I lived in Canarsie 15 years from birth until Feb. of this year. I miss home.
XXXSpartan118XXX 1 year ago
I'm from North Carolina, but I lived in Canarsie from 2006-2010. In Bayview. 2045. I miss it alot. ty for the video
lalsr1988 1 year ago
i live on 105th an flatlands this is crazy to find this been here 29 yrs love this video
dying2live718 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this ! I grew upin canarsie in the 70's... graduated in 80 from chs what a blast from the past !!!! I lived in brookline projects. I hung out at the pier alot and alot of the other places in this vid. Louie Torres......
schoolgirlscaptain 1 year ago
Canarsie, even back in the day, was not always a wonderful place. The mob lived there as well, and there was more than a little white trash. But there were also a large number of classmates of mine who have made quite a mark for themselves (in a positive way).
For better or worse, it was home. Thanks for the look back.
KidValhalla 1 year ago
Thanks for the vid. I also grew up on Flatlands 4th st 1963 - 1985. As for all these comments, get over it, neighborhoods change for better and for worse. Look at Brooklyn now... BTW, I live near SF, but I my parents live in Mill Basin, so I get back for a slice at Armondos!
PilotBob2008 1 year ago
ii live in canarsie between k and l by the waulbouns
Jbreezy11234 1 year ago
Lovely video -- made me nostalgic, and I was just in Canarsie two weeks ago, getting a haircut. I grew up in Canarsie & lived there 'til 2002. All the racist comments here are quite disheartening, tho' not suprising. The neighborhood changed, neighborhoods do that. I think one of the worst things to happen to the area was the proliferation of mortgages with 3-6% down payments. Many houses went into foreclosure, and the real estate agents benefited. This affected homeowners of ALL races.
raylotekka 1 year ago
just watched it again thank you so much .if anyone needs another great video check out the last day of the brook. punch in brook sun and swim club
clipperhouse 1 year ago
Nice vid. good job. I bet there's a ton of older Super 8 film of the area!
It would be great to see more!
DaveKanyan 2 years ago
Just for the record, when I made this film a little over a year ago, it was for pure nostalgia, I had not been back in about 20 yrs. It was never my intent to infer any racial overtones into it. I guess a lot of people take different things out of it.
avidvid 2 years ago 2
I grew up in canarsie back in the 80's and the only blacks that were ever there back then were the ones that went to the schools, p.s 276, south shore h.s. im by no means racist. I had my fair share of black friends there, but I have to agree with alot of the ppl here when they say how the black ppl destroyed canarsie. ill bet my life on the fact that that low life (wanna-be REV) Al sharpton would "NEVER" live with his so called ppl in canarsie now. and now he and the rest of the world know why
JustinLodes 2 years ago
@JustinLodes How was Canarsie " destroyed " Its still a great neighborhood. It still looks nice outside, the people here take care of their area and the blocks are clean.
BlackOwnedDollars 6 months ago
Canarsie was a decent neighborhood in the 1980's and even better before. These lowlife blacks totally destroyed these area, and I remember when Rev. Al Sharpton defended these lowlifes. THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. White people need to take a stand against liberalism !!!!!!!!
brooklynsicily 2 years ago
@brooklynsicily shut the fuck up!
mddarch2 1 year ago
Canarsie went from a White racist neighborhood to a high crime Black neighborhood.
PREZ150 2 years ago
Bayview is the reason you have Crime - It is a breeding ground for filth - The only good thing that Came out of Bayview is the Guy who Started STARBUCKS - Hey World Thank Bayview for that Damn Good Coffee!!!!
TUNAFISH133 2 years ago
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Bayview is not the reason you have Crime it's the low class people in Carnarsie who want to make trouble and have no respect for nobody
PREZ150 2 years ago
I'm sorry to say low class Black American's and west indians mess up Canarsie.From that Canarsie is more dirty,noisy and has more crime and gang fights. Thank the black family's who don't control there kid's and teach them respect each other and there hood.
PREZ150 2 years ago
I spent many dayz in Canarsie on E 104th street & flatlands. I built my basketball game up at 211 basketball court behind the school.
scientifik22 2 years ago
The vintage Footage was great !!! I like the way you put it all together. As for all those that are discussing why white people left Canarsie-When you were getting robbed, Mugged or Harassed by a new classless generation with parents that didn't care what their children were doing. That is why people left canarsie. I would rather have black people as Neighbors over white trash any day. It was the parenting that went wrong with Canarsie. Bayview is a pure example of Why Canarsie is the way it is.
TUNAFISH133 2 years ago
Bull shit there was no bad blacks stupid enough to go a mug or harass white people in there own neighborhoods.Bayview houses got nothing to do with it was just white racism that's all.
PREZ150 2 years ago
Thanks for the 70's footage and the musical background. It captures the mood well about returning to Canarsie. I grew up 102 and seaview, 274, 211, CHS75 and moved in 85. Difficult to put into words what growing up during that time, in the little pocket of the world called Canarsie was all about but a good place to start life's journey. Thanks for the video.
muse1114 2 years ago
my grandmama live in canarsie straight west indians on her block
jabari27 2 years ago
One thing for sure, there are different generations of Canarsiens on here and of different races too. Not ONE thumbs up to anyone on this channel so far, typical of Canarsiens though LOL, yea b4 you ask, yea I'm one of em.
EIGHTIESmusicguy 2 years ago
I grew up in Canarsie, left in the 80's. One thing I never did like about Canarsie was all the damn waterbugs......
EIGHTIESmusicguy 2 years ago
exit 13 all DAY 1120 east 89st ave L all fuckin day i miss all my niggaz
jeery2007 2 years ago
Thank you for the flash back! I've been in Columbia SC for ten years! I haven't had a chance to go back but I used to live on 58th and Glenwood!
Ja3k001020 2 years ago
thanks for this vid i live in canarsie now and 2 see the differences from now and then real cool...
NarsieBoysMusic 2 years ago
thanks for taking me back to the old hood.....it is a bittersweet film to watch and I am glad for having seen it.....keep up the nice work...
isettagal 2 years ago
hey thats ma hood lol
jblaz323 2 years ago
Canarsie high school is now closed. It had ceased being a center of education a while ago. What NYC had closed was essentially a training and proving grounds for prison. And it seemed to succeed at such function.
Mitch
mitchblack 2 years ago
dammmmn 17+ years where u live now
ebonyw20 2 years ago
Bravo. Well done. Thanks for including my picture of Grabstiens!
KidNepro 2 years ago
Still live in Canarsie. BROOKLYN ALL DAY
TrueDiligence 2 years ago
Lived in Canarsie from 1979-1990.. 102nd between AVE J and FLatlands, then moved to Florida. For all the racist and ignorant people on this thread, remember, Indians were the first in Canarsie. So don't think it just belongs to you. It will belong to anyone who chooses to be there. get over it.
edwich23 2 years ago
Thats right John Wayne
PREZ150 2 years ago
I hate to say a some foreign blacks just don't know how to keep neighborhood clean.They move in and don't clean in front of there house.They only want to play loud music and brag about they owning a house and driving a BMW car.They are no better than the America blacks when they get here.I guess some white people are right about some of my black people don't like a nice neighborhood.
PREZ150 2 years ago
you dont have any self pride to say such a thing. I am Jamaican and I grew up in Canarsie. Some people kept they're yard clean and some people did'nt. Not many trees grow in Brooklyn so we never had grass just weeds. It's my home and if you dont like it then go live with your white people Uncle Tom.
chazkm 2 years ago
Pride dont have anything to do with it.You got some Negros who want a desent place to live and appreciate America than you got those loud mouth loud music so call negros that dont respect where they live after making money here.They are the one's that dont have any pride and self respect where they live.If you dont like here go back to your sanded beaches.
PREZ150 2 years ago
By the way I remember when Carnarsie was clean and all yards had grass not weeds.Now you see garbage in front of houses and on the side walk.I remember whenpeople grew grape vines and vegetables in there yard.I try to grow that again two Jamaicans kids pull them out from the dirt.And they was my neighbour kids.When I told them about they got mad on me telling them.
PREZ150 2 years ago
I remember a time when Kenny's was directly across the street from the Canarsie movie theater. It's good to see that Grabsteins and Remsen Pharmacy were in the video.
Yep ... times have changed.
Ginbail 2 years ago
white people are moving back to canarsie !
brando11236 2 years ago
They are never coming back unless all the blacks move out.
PREZ150 2 years ago
even if all the blacks moved out, they still wouldnt come back. They are all over the states now, mainly in NJ where they got their huge ass homes on huge ass properties and livin large.
EIGHTIESmusicguy 2 years ago
And paying very high property taxes.And high mortgages to go with it.If so many whites never move out they would've there house paid up by now.But they move because of blacks people.
PREZ150 2 years ago
Alot of people don't understand how things work sometimes. As people become more affluent, they naturally will gravitate towards more affluent areas. As immigrants die and their offspring become more educated and RICH they will leave. Yes a good portion left Canarsie because of black people, but that is not the only reason. Canarsie could not accomodate the growth and expansion that people were looking for , nor did it cater to their new lifestyles. This is the bottom line, so to speak.
EIGHTIESmusicguy 2 years ago
Yea people grow and go in different directions.But when blacks started moving in Carnarsie all the sudden white people became more educated and RICH real quick and move out of there to more affluent "whiter" neighbourhoods.
PREZ150 2 years ago
Then you never knew the overall situation in which Canarsie was in at the time. The last 10 years that Canarsie was predom white, those graduating from college and those graduating high school GOING to college were it , they were the ones starting leaving like crazy WELL before the advent of blacks in numbers, finding different lives in better places. There was NO sizable NEWER generation to replace it because they picked up roots and left so old mom and dad either died off or left later on.
EIGHTIESmusicguy 2 years ago
Look at least 99.9 % left Carnarsie .Everybody was thinking the same thing ?Specally when they saw a black family move in the neighbourhood .Then they started putting up those for sale signs back to back.
PREZ150 2 years ago
There were white familes moving out of Canarsie in *1984*, alot of them, I was one of those..........and thats also when there was none of what you were saying, goin on, your theory that most of whites just picked up and left because of blacks holds no water. Some did, alot didn't, they were already on their way out, like i described in my last post.
EIGHTIESmusicguy 2 years ago
Keep lieing to you self EIGHTIESmusicguy .
PREZ150 2 years ago
Most of those were old people who had nothing left in Canarsie and there is also of the recently publicized incident that there were under the table dealings for real estate companies to sell ONLY to black families. They were getting kickbacks for doing so from certain organizations. Look it up online.
EIGHTIESmusicguy 2 years ago
Yea they was selling to blacks because so many white was moving out.
PREZ150 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Most of those were old people who had nothing left in Canarsie and there is also of the recently publicized incident that there were under the table dealings for real estate companies to sell ONLY to black families. They were getting kickbacks for doing so from certain organizations. Look it up online.
EIGHTIESmusicguy 2 years ago
BTW, that pm was funny and of course had nothing to do with what I am talking about anyway, but go figure.
EIGHTIESmusicguy 2 years ago
@EIGHTIESmusicguy my brother mover to florida and were black and he got a fat ass house and is living it large!!!
mddarch2 1 year ago
@mddarch2 That's good news man really, but it aint gonna happen like that in Canarsie.
EIGHTIESmusicguy 1 year ago
wow im glad you made this video i didnt kno that church was that old dang 3:56 and mcdonalds lol and my high skool lol did you bin on thefoot ball team?..my friend live next door thats my hang out spot 2 lol.. i love this video
ramone2k7 2 years ago
Whats that first song? Great video. Brought back a lot of memories. For everybody else just keep in mind Canarsie has gone through changes evers since the Indians lived there. Its going to change again. Its how life goes.
scottyboy39 2 years ago
this is a great video its nice how you had the video in present time then the video in the 70's are what ever year it was its was very nice ....................i live in canarise!!!
Arola100 2 years ago
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nerdy007 2 years ago
Negro please
PREZ150 2 years ago
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nerdy007 2 years ago
Suburb ! What Carnasie are you talking about ?
PREZ150 2 years ago
i live on that same exact block today
hahaha3382 2 years ago
I live in the paerdegats
alique087 2 years ago
I remember in the 70's the Italians boys use to call us nigger if they saw us riding our bike to Carnasie pier. I remember I was walking through 82 street and flatland Avenue a old white lady told me you dont live around here get out here before I call the police.I remember when I went to South Shore the white students stay in of the flatland Ave. entrance side of South Shore.The Blacks and Spanish stay around the football field area.
PREZ150 2 years ago
Why did so many white people leave Carnasie.Why ? I will tell you why because black people started to move in the neighborhood. White people didn't want to live next to a nigger as thay say.
PREZ150 2 years ago
Its being Canarsie is the slums now.
BeanieRobert2001 2 years ago
Thank you low class coconuts.
PREZ150 2 years ago
Thank you so much for that! I was born there in 73 and I still have family that live there. The old footage is a treasure because you see the old and compare it to the dump it is now. My Grandfather built alot of the houses there including the one I grew up in. Once again thank you!
keltic185 2 years ago
I bet u move out to.
PREZ150 2 years ago
i miss the 80s all dayyyyy
alexia1princess 2 years ago
Good to see piece of my neighborhood's history.... Life looked really easy back then.. Everything is getting harder and harder... I lived on E96 and AVE L and now I live on Flatlands 3rd street, around the block from the guy who made this...
CornerCuttin718 2 years ago
this video touched my heart...thats the area were i last saw my bestfriend before he was murdered :/
gsta66 2 years ago
That was amazing! It really brought back memories...I use to live around the corner from this guy on 104th street. I may even know him! Loved the old footage! Thank you
viperone61 2 years ago
it was a good video here i went back to canarise in 1994for a visit i was shocked to see what i saw it was dangerous i was scared it s a shame to see what happenes to neighberhoods like canarise flatbush brownsville all one time the best places to live my nane is miles i used to live in brooklyn in mill basin now i live in upstate ny we are forced tolive hear because of the greedy real estate agents in brooklyn who sold those houses for money its a shame
MrMiles716 2 years ago
My goodness, what a video, I lived on 87th and Farragut for 30 years, those 70's pics are just fantastic, thanks so much for posting this.
CanarsieBrooklyn 2 years ago
The old footage from the 70's was the best.
Many thanks
ToonandBBfan 2 years ago
bunch of typical new york assholes, im just asking a simple question and you guys get all pissy. its not like i think canarise and flatlands was all gangsters and crime. i just read a book on demeo and am intrested in the area and what the people were like and what they thought of those guys
cracker6910 2 years ago
Grew up in Canarsie, left in 85. Really hurts to see the derelict Grabsteins deli. I used to walk there as a kid with my buddy to get a knish or a hot dog, one of the best deli's in NYC hands down. Same with the Ave-L Theater, I remember saturday matinee's for a $1.50 *double feature* and then a slice at Joes on 92st. for .50 cents. Those were the days.......
PS 115, Bildersee , South Shore.....class of 82
DavidGilmourRox 2 years ago
I grew up in Canarsie and left in 85, almost 24 years to the day too (6/21/85) . 82st and Ave M. The derelict Grabsteins deli really hurts. I used to walk there as a kid with my buddy to get a knish and then go to LH-Martins right across the street, which of course closed about a year before i left. Same deal with the Ave-L theater. Saturday matinee's for a $1.50...DOUBLE FEATURE and a slice @ Joes afterwards for .50cents. Those were the days... Ps115, Buildersee, South Shore H.S.
Peace
DavidGilmourRox 2 years ago
seriously? roy fuckin demeo? gimme a break bro. if you gotta ask, then don't ask.
faithdefenderjmc 2 years ago
why whats the problem? hes just some dead wiseguy im curious. fuck sorry for askin
cracker6910 2 years ago
what part of canarsie did that wiseguy roy demeo have his bar in, the gemini i think?
cracker6910 2 years ago
It wasn't really in Canarsie, it was way down flatlands right before flatbush avenue. Anyway, I don't think we need to even KNOW about that and I honestly don't even care about it. It's trash.
DavidGilmourRox 2 years ago
Nice to see that Pier again... Was there in 2004. 11236
tunerman21 2 years ago
103rd & J 279 ,211, chs1975
left in 1984 --- thanks for the ride
NY2CT84 2 years ago
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LisaM796 2 years ago
I grew up in Canarsie in the 80's and I miss it a lot. It's nice to know other people feel the same way as I do. Great job!
LisaM796 2 years ago
I used to live on Flatlands 10th St. and my dad used to take me to the pier a lot. Thanks for the vid. =)
Maire613 2 years ago
thank you for this video, the old canarsie pier, grabsteins, the movie theater,avenue L. great memories for me
nymike65 2 years ago
Nice job.....I have been out of Canarsie for 20 years but I can never get the Canarsie out of me...Thanks
GratefulEll 3 years ago
I left Canarsie in 1993. Brings back great memories of my days in Canarsie. I really like the way you mixed old with new video. Great job. Thanks so much for posting this video.
riknarf 3 years ago