Yea I hate this and all the so-called documentaries about the south bromx because I am 45 I was there. I am a 5th generation New Yorker. I remember the decay. I remember at the time looking at all we had rather what we didnt. Our lives were less than anyone else we laughed played we joked we married we had children we elderly we had the things the suburbs had in terms of love and more in terms of community, If we owned the lands we lived on we could have shown how its was done. Dont hate my home
In the Bronx, nothing changed for a solid 20 years. Neighborhoods remained desperately poor and frighteningly dangerous. Only recently did signs of hope and renewal begin to pop up.
@KillaBeesOnDaSwarm Cotton Comes To Harlem, The Landlord, Godspell, The Hot Rock, Black Caesar, Hell Up In Harlem, Gordon's War, Shaft's Big Score, Willie Dynamite, The Education Of Sonny Carson, Aaron Loves Angela, Times Square, Fort Apache The Bronx, Wolfen, Cruising, Brother From Another Planet, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Claudine, Death Wish
That is why I left the War Zone. Parts of Philadelphia are not much better but pale in comparison to what the Politicians of New York let happen to a Great Place.
I've lived in nyc for the past 7 years specifically in the Bronx near Lehman College and have traveled to many areas in the Bronx. What I fail to understand is there is so much footage about the blight of the Bronx back in the day but wasn't alot of NYC broke. And where are the images of the great places in the Bronx...the parks the other side. All of the Bronx was not like that, and I know it happened but sadly it seems all that people think of it, oddly esp. I find native NYers! great foota
Check out the teaser trailer to the new show coming out called "UPTOWN" about Washington Heights in the 80's. You want the real truth? Well now you will get your chance to see it all. Type in Uptown Teaser in the search box. Also visit uptownseries(dot)com
Could anybody give me names of movies that take place in NY in the 60's, 70's or 80's? (except Taxi Driver, Taking of Pelham, Warriors, across 110th, needle park). Thanks!
@KillaBeesOnDaSwarm Marathon Man, French Connection (the best), 7-Ups, The Apartment, Rollover, various Woody Allen films, Midnight Cowboy, Shaft, Superfly, Harold and Tonto, The Anderson Tapes to name a few...
Some early Pacino ones are good. Dog Day Afternoon, set in Brooklyn. Serpico, in Bronx and at the very end in Williamsburg Brooklyn, and Coney Island. French Connection was partly based in New York. There are plenty
Some people's reasoning in these comment boxes are really troublesome. For someone to wish crime were higher so "rich people" wouldn't mess with the place means that one is either a criminal or someone for whom the reality of having a gun pointed to your head in a robbery or having a relative shot is so strange that is only something from the movies. Crime and decay are disgraces, glad NYC got rid of both (mostly).
my dad came from mexico, he witness the ruins of the bronx, walking to 3rd ave, (Around 161 st all the way to the HUB) or the ruins in walton ave or the graffiti trains passed by the 4 train (4 line) , but the people where peaceful, there where good and humble according how my dad told me.i was born in the late 80s and believe me is a pride to be born in the bronx, where there's history.
@nvhieu97 not just the bronx the whole city was fun i used to go there every summer from puerto rico and i loved it.. maybe i was too young to see the bad side but i loved it.... coney island, queens, spanish harlem i was all over NYC and taking the train was the best.. i was 7-11 but hey my father was the one dealing with the other stuff i didnt give a fuck or better yet didnt notice
lol. I just came back from seeing the bronx, brooklyn and harlem. Nothing like what movies and video games portray. Toronto canada is just as dirty if not dirtier.
It looked like a war zone. I can attest to these images because as a 14 year old kid I grew up in the Bronx and explored these areas with my friends. we called it adventure land because there was so much to discover in such a vast amount of buildings that were abandoned. At the time I didn't understand why all of this ended up this way.
YONKERS! WOW! You live "right next to the BX" - which of course means you live the streets in a hellish run-down wasteland of crack-ravaged urban decay, yes? Your parents' choice of town has earned you the respect of every GTA-wanking teenage suburbanite who doesn't understand the first thing about NYC.
FFS even I know that places like Westchester and New Rochelle are "right next to the BX" (even tho I'm from somewhere nice next to somewhere shitty in London you've never heard of)
idk what you meant by that comment but i like it here and is not how you describe it, sure its bad in some places but is all about location location location
Before crack the drug epidemic was heroin. Reached its height in the early 70s. Ever seen the movie "The French Connection"? That gives a Hollywoodish but accessible idea of what was going down around then.
Also another contemporary (and much more gritty) movie about NYC's early 70s heroin epidemic was "Panic in Needle Park" - the park in real life being Tompkins Square in the Lower East Side's Alphabet City area. The male lead was an unknown youngster called Al Pacino.
@krakenwave Don't forget 1972's "Across 110th Street", starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Koto, Anthony Franciosa, and Tony Vargas. Theme song by written and recorded by Bobby Womack.
Never seen that movie but I know the song well. I remember when it came out back in the early 70s (me still in infants school). And when it closed out the final scene in "Jackie Brown" I sat in that cinema and cried buckets all through the credits. Partly because it was so moving - a song that seemed to sum up the terrible struggle and stress she;d gone through, partly cos I knew I'd just seen a great film and partly just because. Some songs just do that to you.
I was born in the 80's so i caught the ass end of thr utter-poverty that the 70's left most of Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx, i remember the blocks of burnt out buildings some neighborhoods in the bronx were completely desolate up until the 90's while I'm glad from the improvements,i still miss the grittiness of life uptown in those days, when it was scary to go north of central pk,
My Ma first in the Pelham Parkway projects then moved to Ollenville Ave off Allerton Ave my dad lived on 174st off University ave and then Moved to Co-op city when he was 14
listen you fuckers. you screwheads. heres a man who wont take it anymore...who would not let..listen you fuckers. you screwheads. heres a man who would not take it anymore. a man who stood up to the scum. the cunts. the dogs. the filth. the shit. here is someone who stood up...here is....
I lived in the Bronx during those years. The graffitti and deterioration was heart breaking, still, many kids with hardworking parents managed to make it ok and even have some fun. I have fond memories of riding the #2 train to Simpson St. where my mom did most of her shopping. All of our family friends and relatives lived in very clean and nicely decorated apartments or town homes. I'm very happy that my Bronx has made a very nice comeback in most of the formerly blighted areas. - Peace.
LMFAO! Yes the height of flaming prowess, and sophistication is when a whiny little butthurt faggot resorts to the tried and tested tactic of altering a username ...check it!!---"Psoodwhiner" OMFG!! That's got to be the gayest, most wittless attempt at flaming I've ever seen. But then again, you're British and yes having a history of bad genes, bad teeth, bad weather and a gay accent has to have had a major influence on your ability to hold your own in online battles. You sad little man....
@psydwaindah So your response to retarded people is to act retarded yourself? Interesting technique. And why would I be mad? Would you be mad if, in a discussion about New York, someone responded to you by saying you lived in an insignificant country which has contributed virtually zero to the world in terms of culture, science, the humanities etc? Of course not.
I was just interested to why you think stereotypes are a good substitution for a coherent point
dude you do nothing to dispel the negative stereotypes of brit! In fact you perpetuatye them. Let's add pedantic little faggot to the list, K? BTW before you go on with your crowing about the achievements of your country remember you're just some guy who was born there and had nothing to do with anything that others may have done to make the place great, so stop riding on the success of others you smarmy little git. That fact that you'd even go there is indication of your inadequacy
........stereotype do you think your reinforcing about people from NZ? Because, so far I have to assume that you're all small minded, pseudointellectuals, with chips on your shoulders.
dude you do nothing to dispel the negative stereotypes of brits! In fact you perpetuate them. Let's add pedantic little faggot to the list, K? BTW before you go on with your crowing about the achievements of your country remember you're just some guy who was born there and had nothing to do with anything that others may have done to make the place great, so stop riding on the success of others you smarmy little git. That fact that you'd even go there is indication of your inadequacy
@psydwaindah - What a telling little rant. Firstly, if you re-read my comment, I was talking hypothetically. You asked me if I was mad. I replied by saying
"No, WOULD you be mad if someone responded to you by blah blah blah......Of course not".
The fact that you were clearly mad (as you responded with insults), is hysterical irony on your behalf - albeit unintentional. You were giving negative generalisations about the collective identity of the British. However, its only when..........
LOL it may come as a surprise to you that I can dispense insults as casually as if I were ordering a pizza. It doesn't take a head of steam to respond to idiocy, just a few taps on a keyboard. Clearly you're trying too hard to showcase your high powered intellect while being entirely oblivious to the fact that I'm simply laughing at you squirm in angst as you desperately try to score e-points in an argument that had nothng to do with you, yet you just had to poke yout beak into..tsk
@psydwaindah - "LOL" - try not talking like an excited 15 year old girl if you can. Oh, so now your claiming you're above all this "scoring e-points", and that you're merely laughing at us that respond to your inane comments. The fact that this thread is littered with your comments fighting your little ebattles is testament to the fact that you are in fact a youtube professor and internet warrior rolled into one. Please stop embarrassing yourself
You're the one who keeps responding dear. I'm just not that interested in pissing into the wind with an obvious cretin whose desperation to get in the last word is palpable, laughable and a tad comical. I'll quit "embarrassing" myself right after I've tired of embarrassing you....or practicing cerebral Aikido with you, as you lunge, over reach and I merely give you a tap you as you fly past with wild haymakers and face plant in the very same shit you pluck your inane arguments from
Finally - I didn't "poke my beak into" anything. If I was poking my beak into you initial spat I would of said you were a typical class tourist who probably never had to deal with proper inner city depravity in your life, and who whimsically romanticises about it from the safety of your middle class suburb. No, I merely asked you why you resorted to stereotypes. This is a free speech website though, so I really don't need your fucking permission to leave a comment. Also, you could of ignored me
MrSyrett 3 minutes ago "could have"....ahem...people who use "could of" obviously have a tentative grasp on the grammar of the very language they're so desperately tryng to sound agile in hint hint..you...hint.... ...ironically the very language you are supposed to be a native speaker of...yes I just owned you there, hard! LOL
@psydwaindah - Seriously? And you have the audacity to call others pedantic? You're really reaching when the best comeback you can come up with is picking up one grammatical error in a hastily written comment, and then proclaiming "I owned you hard", despite the awful syntax of the very comment in which you claim to "own" me. Look, my inept friend. You're a middle aged man who uses the terms "owned", "LOL", and "faggot". I hardly think you're in any position to comment on the English of others.
@psydwaindah - Also, do you realise how ridiculous you sound when you chastise others as being "desperate to get the last word in", and say things like "you're the one who keeps replying", and then go on to write two further comments? You basically haven't responded directly to anything ive said - just made pathetic claims about how easily you can dispense insults (as long as the insults are of a third grade I guess - "faggot"), and highlight yourself as intellectually bankrupt hypocrite.
@psydwaindah By the way, just to throw your badly constructed sentence back at
you -
"overreach"....ahem...people who use "over reach" obviously have a tentative grasp on the grammar of the very language they're so desperately tryng to sound agile in
Ohhh damn. I'd say I "owned you hard" - but I couldn't really give a shit about your grammatical errors. Plus I don't really want to behave like a middle-aged man desperately trying to sound young by using internet slang.
Look at the wee bitch grasping....middle aged man, middle class suburbia? You really care about this shit, don't you? Now go back to your role playing games on your X-box and dream of being someone with a life beyond the confines of your little Coronation Street hovel.....drink some piss weak tea and eat soggy chips or something iono...do whatever it is you whiny fucks do when you need to lick your wounds. Mission accomplished...hahahaha I've got you all riled up
@MrSyrett LOL I see you've been and read my profile info and like the dim witted little twat you are, you believe everything you read...LOL again at you. Yep I'm from NZ and I'm 45 coz it says so right there on my profile, yeah??.....wow, you're ability to dig beneath the surface is astounding..almost as good as your flaming skills ahahahah....., ahem...imitation is the best form of flattery jsyk...kekekeke. Oh hey BTW, how bout you thump out another novel explaining just how little you care?
.........I point out the positive generalisations of the UK, and the negative ones of your nation, you pathetically revert back to focusing on the individual, rather than the nation they are from. Maybe you should of asked the other guy what his accent and teeth were like, instead of assuming they were "bad and gay" based on your moronic generalisations.
Also, saying I do nothing to dispel the negative generalisations of Brits is just laughable. Would they be the generalisations you......
.......have already listed about teeth and accents? Well forgive me if I don't lead to try and defend my accent and oral hygiene, but I seriously couldn't give a flying fuck what you think you know about me in those areas, as you've already proved yourself to be a Grade A imbecile. I also love you ripped on the other guy for his "flaming prowess" by altering your username, when the best your sophomoric, reactionary brain can come up with is "faggot". Well done. Just out of interest, what.......
excuse me?? You're the one making three posts to my every one because you're so intent on pixelating your mouth froth and depositing dollops of pure shit on my monitor every five minutes that you just can't stop those dainty little fingers of yours from taptaptappity tapping out your hysteria. BTW I'm not really giving negative generalizatgions about the collective identity of a nation, I'm narrowing it down to just you now...you whiny, pastey little, gnarly toothed fuck :)
@psydwaindah - Just when I thought a person couldn't make themselves look a bigger moron, bingo.
"You're the one making three posts to my every one"
"how bout you thump out another novel explaining just how little you care"
And then you reply with THREE long winded rants, full of yet more third rate insults and piss poor stereotypes - hilarious. Oh, and you're not fooling anyone playing the "I'm only trying to wind you riled up" card. You tried your best to sound intelligent and........
@MrSyrett Seriously man you're really quite hysterical.. (deep breaths) I'm simply amazed at what a complete and utter fucking man toddler you've progressively become during our little joust. The tear streaked rage in your posts is amusing in a creepy sort of way though. I bet you're the type of dude that would actually resort to IRL stalking if someone slighted your delicate sensibilities....got your little psydwaindah voodoo doll out yet? LMFAO!! How many pins are you jabbing in it's face??
.......and make a (admittedly pointless) argument, but only succeeded in geting your arse handed to you (again) and in making yourself look a complete imbecile.
The fact you are now claiming you LIED on your channel page (that's right - a page which is anonymous anyway as you use a unintelligible pseudonym), is testament to that. I'm guessing you're not lying anyway, as you reacted so defensively when I put forward the suggestion that you lived in an insignificant country.
45 year old Kiwi or not, I couldn't give a shit. There's no hiding your intelligence level i.e. that of a diseased baboon. Enjoy the last word, you dumb fuck.
Oh, by the way, Its "pasty". "Pastey" isn't a word. Another "fail" as you might say. But seriously, tip for the future - If you are going to try and look intelligent by highlighting grammar errors of others, make sure you've mastered elementary school spelling yourself. You tend to lay yourself open to looking a bit of a prick otherwise
it wasnt untill the republicans came in to town to take this sh!t hole and make it look like a place you wanna live.crime down 68% work up 43% thanx george,thanx rudy!
Back in those days there were many neighborhoods in The Bronx where landlords wouldn't rent to my Mom's part of the family because my stepfather was black, so we got a place on Ward Avenue. But it's like Tupac Shakur said in Rhyme & Reason...no one was living in an area like that because they wanted to be there.
This is when liberals ran NYC, when blacks where enslaved to social programs so liberals could control their votes like puppets and what people like Obama and Pelosi want to do to the entire country.
It's funny... I know those streets... I grew up in a different era so a lot of those old lots full of garbage were fenced off or made into new housing... But it was still like that in the 90's and I was old enough to have been there. Shit is different now but the Bronx still ain't nice... My community still looks like hell and half my block is burned down and boarded up.
@TheVisionary84 ANYBODY who grew up in this and made it out, IS A HERO TO ME. Grew up in NYC until we moved to Maryland but I had family navigating in all this man. Bronx is the realest borough for real. I still love the BRONX. I feel the spirit of survival up there and it just gels with me. Grandma owned a rooming house on 997 Union Ave in late 60's early 70's until they torched it down. It was so many addicts and junkies in there, she had to walk away from it.
You never see the East Bronx in those days though. Because it was like its own small town and safe as could be no news and political BS there. Today is crap compared to then,don't believe all this BS.
Make no mistake..WE live in a Police State and terrorism is the excuse to take away our freedoms. Sad. And now that there has been a real threat to NYC (trying to blow up 42nd st) there will never be the Freedom people had in the 70's. Guiliani cleaned up the crime and pulled off the graffiti covered red bird trains and removed the sleaze (on the front) of 42nd St..and took away our freedom. Never let THEM fool you.....
Yyyyooooo!!! I was raised in the South Bronx from 1994 til today, I can't believe how it looks back then, but in my childhood i see a few abandoned buildings and crimes, but now I'm proud to see how the South Bronx is improving, I see few whites moving to the Bronx, at least it doesn't look like a zombie city like in this video, no more fires, few crimes that might end.
The South bronx was only ONE of the desolate places in NY in the 70s;..I would like to see some rare footage of BROOKLYN--bed Stuy, beownsviille, East NY, Bushwick--all these neighborhoods were 70% BURNED OUT. Took YEARS to rebuild..where is the film or photos? City probably embarassed ..has them locked away
@ar4216 I Do undersrand your point .Even though it was phsyically ugly...there's no mistake on that, there was HOPE and FREEDOm. SInce 9/1 this citry is on lockdown and Hope has been replaced by fear and the rich have made the poor justyHAPPy to have a roof over their head no matter wher it is. So I DO understand why you might have liked it better in the 70's.
Damn, that's kinda deep but you're right. And in the 70s people didn't seem as uptight as they are now. Like you said, everyone is living in fear. Fear of child molesters, fear of terrorists...it's not like there wasn't that stuff back then but kids were allowed to be kids. Things started changing in the 80s. They changed the drinking laws, they started making people wear seat belts...I mean some laws are okay but there seems to be a shift of more and more power to the state
@ar4216 I feel the same way, it isn't easy to explain but probably because in the midst of all that despair they were more alive than anyone, that is all they had to hold onto! Laughing, dancing, being real people. And, they were tough because they had to deal.
@STBNY It was Death Wish 3. (Death Wish 2 took place in Los Angeles..it was a super violent movie...always edited on TV) I grew up only a few blocks away from where they shot Death Wish 3 (East New York). I see no video of this area..train yards, burned out buildings, empty vacant lots and Pre War buildings from hell. Charles Bronson purposely set the movie there (he was FROM Brooklyn) to show the city how it had forgotten its poor and lower income .
@DavelovesRealMusic hahaha of course he did.. im sure you saw that youtube video that showed the total of enemies he shot. its funny too. i always wanted vigilante to be legalized.. because i believe that someone can do a whole lot better than the cops.
but man there were some real SAD scenes of those bronson films. ive seen all of deathwish films in one day!! there was a deathwish marathon on the AMC channel.
@STBNY Only Death Wish 1 , 2, 3 are watchable. Of you made if through IV and V you have my congratulations. Don't forget to look out for Laurence Fishburn in DW 2 playing the hood with the crazy sunglasses who gets shot through the boom box. Hysterical. DW 2 is actually funny in a sick sort of way. No one makes 'vigilante" movies anymore. Maybe that's what crazy mel Gibson should shoot..I think his career is done. he might as well shoot Death Wish 6. I WOULD beleive he could kill. lol
@DavelovesRealMusic Vigilante movies we see now a days involves super heroes. Yes his career is done. He's not doing anymore films because hes resting in peace lol. seriously though, he passed away. in movies like deathwish, I kinda laugh at the way they get shot. It's like the west meets Brooklyn. Bronson did better work in Brooklyn than robocop did in Detroit hahahaha.
@STBNY That is because "HOLLYWOOD" is BLIND to REALITY. There are no more movies about real neighborhoods, real people, and real consequences. You are right, it is all "super heroes" comic books or Matrix like Clones. I beleive showing the reality of harlem ,Detroit, brooklyn, Philly etc might spark an actual EMOTION out of people. They don't want that. They want yout 12.00 and for teens to stay in fantasy land. SAD is right.
@DavelovesRealMusic Teens today (not all but MANY) are in fantasy land. one of my friends are stuck into the movie 'Twilight' and shes not seeing reality around her. shes very spoiled too. shes only 16 and recently had a baby with her bf who is also a good friend, is starting to open his eyes and realizing how expensive the baby will eventually be. shes like in those love & fantasy type of crap. she doesnt understand the meaning of poor. reality will wake her up with a slap of expenses soon
@DavelovesRealMusic No school bus needed for that field trip. We live in The Bronx. so eventually, she will be facing problems. In The Bronx, we have a massive amount of teenage parents but the youngest mother I've heard from a nurse was 9. The Bronx Baby Boom is up and that boosts our tax expenses, leading our money to their pockets as food stamps. that shows that the city is still losing money and continue using our money for the residents who DONT want to work. they just eat sleep and party.
@STBNY talk about what YOU know...all those so called teen mos now work for a check...the ones who don't are either so sick or jacked up they can't push broom...the city makes them work pregnant, the ones who are are cashing in are the illegal immigrants, who have children in this country, collect benefits and have a working non-tax-paying spouse. now before you think i'm picking on hispanics, ghanians and nigerians are big on this practice as well.
@DavelovesRealMusic you think these girls don't see, that just goes to show the narrow-sightedness not only in you but the rest of society...it is because they see others openly engaging in risky behavior, that they feel as though they must follow...look at the youth today, they all follow the same drummer...the 1970's we were all about trying to be different from the next guy, today's kid just wants to be down...it's the same whether in the hood or the burbs, take snooky for instance
@sidewinder169 YOU take Snookie...she is not intelligent. She is a poor example to promote. I don't blame her. She is still 'growing up" it is the media who know full well what they are broadcasting and the producers who have decided that intelligent people make for boring television so lets put 6 people in a house who barely finished high school. if these are role models society in the USA is doomed.
@STBNY it isn't a crime to be poor not everyone can be rich not everyone who gets an education is guaranteed the perfect job with good pay which is itself the fantasy there are phd's which are underemployed and unemployed we don't live in a perfect world especially when folks like you are more concerned with whining about your taxes then to see the richest nation on the globe react out to some of it's less fortunate citizens
@sidewinder169 if i said that its a crime to be poor, then throw me in jail because im poor too, genuis. im living on 169 and fox, neighbor. dont come offending me who worked hard for a check and get money taken away by those who DONT want to work and direspects us on the street like we are nobody. its fucked up bro. I understand those who try to live well but cant seem to find a job or are injured and needs money to eat. i didnt say all teen moms are lazy. you didnt read all my comments
@STBNY indeed i am you neighbor and i meant no offense, i simply mean that we are all victims, victims b/c we are subjected to these types of condition at birth. i didn't hear a thing about all those who exploit these people at every turn and pay no tax at all...you know the bush tax cuts...they weren't for you, working man, you must pay...you be better off burning your money, but it's not the fault of the disenfranchised...the rich get richer...the poor no matter how hard you work get poorer.
@STBNY : All we need to do is look at our language straight-on and understand it. What is a "vigilante"? Someone who remains vigilant and protective. The government doesn't like that, and isn't that just too bad. We voted people into office who created this squalor.
i love it! it had more funk packed in per square centimeter than any other place on earth. A visual artists heaven!!! It's a pity they didn't preserve a large chunk of that for it sheer haunting derelict beauty
@skymunro - lol. dude why you keep fronting? you're just too young to have firsthand knowledge of the Bronx in this video. that's the 2nd video where I've seen you claim the South Bronx of the 70s and early 80s. so I click your profile, expecting to see some oldskool cat in his 40s.. and it says you are only 28! =)
you were only just born in 1983, so how can you act like you were around in the 70s and early 80s? shit you were just a gleam in your dad's eye when Wildstyle was filmed
@artstar19 Exactly. People keep talking about how the Bronx is the birthplace of hip hop, but 10 out f 10, these people (not even from this area) woulnd't ever dream of being down there before hip hop. I KNOW the media is responsible for delivering 'hop hop'' to the unknowing masses
@psydwaindah Yeah, like you'd live there LOL Visual artist's heaven, give me and the public a break [eyes rolling] That community was left in devestation and destroyed lives.
@Khultan go fuck yourself !! Perhaps being too busy playing the illeterate asshole has taxed your ability to understand context you fuckin troglodite! Next time try a little less being the offspring of your mother and her cousin and a little more shutting the fuck up about things you don't comprehend!
@psydwaindah Wow, temper, temper, there Psy, whatever or whomever you admire, music wise, artists, certainly is not being reflected through in YOU. You, basically, have not enlightened anyone, let alone myself. Such hostility. You're mind fucked. That's a real shame.
@Khultan yeah whatever asshole....idiocy isn't something I care to suffer; especially from someone who right off the bat misinterprets a comment and goes out of his way to make an utter ass of himself with this "hey lookit me! I'm the real deal!" bullshit....And who the fuck said anything about wanting to enlighten anyone? I'm talking aesthetics and you're plodding along behind me yap yap yapping about sociology, so like I said before-go fuck youself dipshit :)
Clearly you've never had to live anywhere like this, never known anyone who has. For you, squalor is just an aesthetic thrill to be glimpsed from the El or celebrated in a glossy art book by some Haring-ripoff from a $1m loft for whom poverty is GAP jeans not Evisu. Gushing over this tragic situation to the extent you think its a pity it wasn't preserved - presumably just so that pretentious suburban wankers can enjoy your "visual artists heaven!!!"
what part of the bronx did fat tony have his social club in?
crackernumber2 3 days ago
@crackernumber2
His club wasn't in The Bronx, it was in Harlem.
orneryguy 8 hours ago
Yea I hate this and all the so-called documentaries about the south bromx because I am 45 I was there. I am a 5th generation New Yorker. I remember the decay. I remember at the time looking at all we had rather what we didnt. Our lives were less than anyone else we laughed played we joked we married we had children we elderly we had the things the suburbs had in terms of love and more in terms of community, If we owned the lands we lived on we could have shown how its was done. Dont hate my home
justwatchingliffe 1 week ago
BRONX STYLE. FOX STREET.
nsidious02 2 weeks ago
In the Bronx, nothing changed for a solid 20 years. Neighborhoods remained desperately poor and frighteningly dangerous. Only recently did signs of hope and renewal begin to pop up.
NYerintransit 1 month ago
I lived in the Bronx but not this part! Coop City Pelham Bay area 100% much nicer!
chronicman06 1 month ago
@KillaBeesOnDaSwarm Cotton Comes To Harlem, The Landlord, Godspell, The Hot Rock, Black Caesar, Hell Up In Harlem, Gordon's War, Shaft's Big Score, Willie Dynamite, The Education Of Sonny Carson, Aaron Loves Angela, Times Square, Fort Apache The Bronx, Wolfen, Cruising, Brother From Another Planet, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Claudine, Death Wish
bxdale83 1 month ago
I don't care about the bronx except my area that I was born & raised in SOUTH BRONX BIOTCH <3
BxForeverInMyHeart 2 months ago
@BxForeverInMyHeart the south bronx was worst and why are you watch this then? huh?
123cutiepiebutterfly 1 month ago
@123cutiepiebutterfly Good, u mad because u not from the south bronx and I ain't repping yo hood?? figures.
BxForeverInMyHeart 1 month ago
@BxForeverInMyHeart ... -____-
123cutiepiebutterfly 1 month ago
@BxForeverInMyHeart btw i am in the south bronx
123cutiepiebutterfly 1 month ago
@123cutiepiebutterfly Fucking liar u tryna play me.
BxForeverInMyHeart 1 month ago
@BxForeverInMyHeart nvm id think i am
123cutiepiebutterfly 1 month ago
That is why I left the War Zone. Parts of Philadelphia are not much better but pale in comparison to what the Politicians of New York let happen to a Great Place.
2setufree 2 months ago
this is the real bronx
genefury75 3 months ago
Never forgot what it was like and Will always be a Bronx girl.
purrfect820 4 months ago
i grew up in this shit . guys its real as it gets .
718LIGHTUP 4 months ago
great footage....and I love love love the Bronx!
StudioGreenPenguin 4 months ago
I've lived in nyc for the past 7 years specifically in the Bronx near Lehman College and have traveled to many areas in the Bronx. What I fail to understand is there is so much footage about the blight of the Bronx back in the day but wasn't alot of NYC broke. And where are the images of the great places in the Bronx...the parks the other side. All of the Bronx was not like that, and I know it happened but sadly it seems all that people think of it, oddly esp. I find native NYers! great foota
StudioGreenPenguin 4 months ago 2
que paso ahi???
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40belowceo 5 months ago
Tyson
judopathoftruth 7 months ago
Could anybody give me names of movies that take place in NY in the 60's, 70's or 80's? (except Taxi Driver, Taking of Pelham, Warriors, across 110th, needle park). Thanks!
KillaBeesOnDaSwarm 7 months ago
@KillaBeesOnDaSwarm Marathon Man, French Connection (the best), 7-Ups, The Apartment, Rollover, various Woody Allen films, Midnight Cowboy, Shaft, Superfly, Harold and Tonto, The Anderson Tapes to name a few...
dam2630 6 months ago
@KillaBeesOnDaSwarm
Dog Day Afternoon.
custardaghost 6 months ago
@KillaBeesOnDaSwarm
Some early Pacino ones are good. Dog Day Afternoon, set in Brooklyn. Serpico, in Bronx and at the very end in Williamsburg Brooklyn, and Coney Island. French Connection was partly based in New York. There are plenty
FlyingPig1902 6 months ago
@KillaBeesOnDaSwarm Night of the jugler 1980.
67tr876 6 months ago
Some people's reasoning in these comment boxes are really troublesome. For someone to wish crime were higher so "rich people" wouldn't mess with the place means that one is either a criminal or someone for whom the reality of having a gun pointed to your head in a robbery or having a relative shot is so strange that is only something from the movies. Crime and decay are disgraces, glad NYC got rid of both (mostly).
lotwyo 7 months ago
@lotwyo when did nyc get rid of crime?
poopmcscoopface 5 months ago
smack the steel
nyamininthamanor 8 months ago
Im happy I was born 2001 I did not wanted to see that shit in my life time. now everythong is clean for me. hahahaha
masterlee123 8 months ago
1970's? It never looked like this in my hood.... Ur film is dated 2002
KCCAT5 8 months ago
my dad came from mexico, he witness the ruins of the bronx, walking to 3rd ave, (Around 161 st all the way to the HUB) or the ruins in walton ave or the graffiti trains passed by the 4 train (4 line) , but the people where peaceful, there where good and humble according how my dad told me.i was born in the late 80s and believe me is a pride to be born in the bronx, where there's history.
FernyBass007 9 months ago
wow it makes me proud born in the bron written by 1990s baby!!
FernyBass007 9 months ago
Any clips of the mean streets of Riverdale?
lmferg 10 months ago
Bronx is mad fun stfu LOL
nvhieu97 10 months ago
@nvhieu97 not just the bronx the whole city was fun i used to go there every summer from puerto rico and i loved it.. maybe i was too young to see the bad side but i loved it.... coney island, queens, spanish harlem i was all over NYC and taking the train was the best.. i was 7-11 but hey my father was the one dealing with the other stuff i didnt give a fuck or better yet didnt notice
puertorricane 8 months ago
warriors, come out and play
CommunieNetwork 10 months ago
Thanks for posting...
68NYC 10 months ago
lol. I just came back from seeing the bronx, brooklyn and harlem. Nothing like what movies and video games portray. Toronto canada is just as dirty if not dirtier.
kzalldaz 11 months ago
@kzalldaz that's because, like you said, you just came back. the bronx now doesn't look like it did in 1975, obviously.
flipadiddle 4 months ago
It looked like a war zone. I can attest to these images because as a 14 year old kid I grew up in the Bronx and explored these areas with my friends. we called it adventure land because there was so much to discover in such a vast amount of buildings that were abandoned. At the time I didn't understand why all of this ended up this way.
hotfuzz199 11 months ago
@footagefilm I really like the song playing here. Do you know what it is? Great video. Also, what is the original video that this clip is from?
aesoprockinin 11 months ago
im from yonkers right next to the BX
urielx17 11 months ago
@urielx17
YONKERS! WOW! You live "right next to the BX" - which of course means you live the streets in a hellish run-down wasteland of crack-ravaged urban decay, yes? Your parents' choice of town has earned you the respect of every GTA-wanking teenage suburbanite who doesn't understand the first thing about NYC.
FFS even I know that places like Westchester and New Rochelle are "right next to the BX" (even tho I'm from somewhere nice next to somewhere shitty in London you've never heard of)
krakenwave 10 months ago
@krakenwave
idk what you meant by that comment but i like it here and is not how you describe it, sure its bad in some places but is all about location location location
urielx17 10 months ago
Paterson, N.J. looks exactly like this today.
charlessavarese 11 months ago
@charlessavarese So does anywhere in Detroit!
ufuckfacesonofabitch 8 months ago
Seen them trains?
EbClectic 11 months ago
Boogie down Bronx!
ufuckfacesonofabitch 11 months ago
from what film was this clip taken? i would like to watch the whole thing.
ironmikekiddynomite 11 months ago
Many areas of the Bronx were clearly desolate and rundown even way back in 70's, before crack era!
719kai719 1 year ago
@719kai719
Before crack the drug epidemic was heroin. Reached its height in the early 70s. Ever seen the movie "The French Connection"? That gives a Hollywoodish but accessible idea of what was going down around then.
krakenwave 11 months ago
Respond to this video...
Also another contemporary (and much more gritty) movie about NYC's early 70s heroin epidemic was "Panic in Needle Park" - the park in real life being Tompkins Square in the Lower East Side's Alphabet City area. The male lead was an unknown youngster called Al Pacino.
krakenwave 11 months ago
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krakenwave 11 months ago
@krakenwave thanks I'll look into that movie!
719kai719 11 months ago
@krakenwave Don't forget 1972's "Across 110th Street", starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Koto, Anthony Franciosa, and Tony Vargas. Theme song by written and recorded by Bobby Womack.
charlessavarese 11 months ago
@charlessavarese
Never seen that movie but I know the song well. I remember when it came out back in the early 70s (me still in infants school). And when it closed out the final scene in "Jackie Brown" I sat in that cinema and cried buckets all through the credits. Partly because it was so moving - a song that seemed to sum up the terrible struggle and stress she;d gone through, partly cos I knew I'd just seen a great film and partly just because. Some songs just do that to you.
krakenwave 11 months ago
where did you get this footage? is it from a t.v. documentary?........
todtubetod 1 year ago
I can never get over how ghetto america is, I always saw clean stuff for years until I went online. Some of it stil looks like WW2
zomgtehrei 1 year ago
it does not need money it needs job, business.
CanadaguyRudey 1 year ago
Check out my FACEBOOK group: "I Survived the South Bronx in the '70s & '80s"!
LortheBlair 1 year ago
what documentary is this clip taken from?
artstar19 1 year ago
germany looked worse after the 2nd world war.
but they managed to build it up again.
those blacks are just to stupid and they even blame others for not helping them lol
voittajac 1 year ago
@voittajac Germany got millions of dollars from the american government. The people of the Bronx certainly didn't.
mooneepondskid 1 year ago
@mooneepondskid: So true, man. So true. =(
MiracleMile90 11 months ago
@voittajac ur sad
MishaPilsudski 1 year ago
@voittajac even if i ignore the racism of your comment, it's still stupid, because the bronx is much better now. so it was built up again, dumbass.
flipadiddle 4 months ago
while you watching this, listen to this.
/watch?v=wU14t0jGsdU&feature=player_embedded#!
someonewithballs 1 year ago
I was born in the 80's so i caught the ass end of thr utter-poverty that the 70's left most of Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx, i remember the blocks of burnt out buildings some neighborhoods in the bronx were completely desolate up until the 90's while I'm glad from the improvements,i still miss the grittiness of life uptown in those days, when it was scary to go north of central pk,
Actionjackson10550 1 year ago
My Ma first in the Pelham Parkway projects then moved to Ollenville Ave off Allerton Ave my dad lived on 174st off University ave and then Moved to Co-op city when he was 14
Wehategod 1 year ago
its no fuckin different! still the same!
TheNightster2008 1 year ago
listen you fuckers. you screwheads. heres a man who wont take it anymore...who would not let..listen you fuckers. you screwheads. heres a man who would not take it anymore. a man who stood up to the scum. the cunts. the dogs. the filth. the shit. here is someone who stood up...here is....
rightfredsdead 1 year ago
I lived in the Bronx during those years. The graffitti and deterioration was heart breaking, still, many kids with hardworking parents managed to make it ok and even have some fun. I have fond memories of riding the #2 train to Simpson St. where my mom did most of her shopping. All of our family friends and relatives lived in very clean and nicely decorated apartments or town homes. I'm very happy that my Bronx has made a very nice comeback in most of the formerly blighted areas. - Peace.
ACLTony 1 year ago
LMFAO! Yes the height of flaming prowess, and sophistication is when a whiny little butthurt faggot resorts to the tried and tested tactic of altering a username ...check it!!---"Psoodwhiner" OMFG!! That's got to be the gayest, most wittless attempt at flaming I've ever seen. But then again, you're British and yes having a history of bad genes, bad teeth, bad weather and a gay accent has to have had a major influence on your ability to hold your own in online battles. You sad little man....
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@psydwaindah ""You're British......bad teeth, gay accent" - What's with the retarded stereotypes?
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@MrSyrett thestereotype is as proportionately retarded as the asshle it was aimed at.
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@MrSyrett
the stereotype is as proportionately retarded as the asshole it was originally aimed at....you mad bro? LOL
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@psydwaindah So your response to retarded people is to act retarded yourself? Interesting technique. And why would I be mad? Would you be mad if, in a discussion about New York, someone responded to you by saying you lived in an insignificant country which has contributed virtually zero to the world in terms of culture, science, the humanities etc? Of course not.
I was just interested to why you think stereotypes are a good substitution for a coherent point
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@MrSyrett
dude you do nothing to dispel the negative stereotypes of brit! In fact you perpetuatye them. Let's add pedantic little faggot to the list, K? BTW before you go on with your crowing about the achievements of your country remember you're just some guy who was born there and had nothing to do with anything that others may have done to make the place great, so stop riding on the success of others you smarmy little git. That fact that you'd even go there is indication of your inadequacy
psydwaindah 1 year ago
........stereotype do you think your reinforcing about people from NZ? Because, so far I have to assume that you're all small minded, pseudointellectuals, with chips on your shoulders.
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@MrSyrett
dude you do nothing to dispel the negative stereotypes of brits! In fact you perpetuate them. Let's add pedantic little faggot to the list, K? BTW before you go on with your crowing about the achievements of your country remember you're just some guy who was born there and had nothing to do with anything that others may have done to make the place great, so stop riding on the success of others you smarmy little git. That fact that you'd even go there is indication of your inadequacy
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@psydwaindah - What a telling little rant. Firstly, if you re-read my comment, I was talking hypothetically. You asked me if I was mad. I replied by saying
"No, WOULD you be mad if someone responded to you by blah blah blah......Of course not".
The fact that you were clearly mad (as you responded with insults), is hysterical irony on your behalf - albeit unintentional. You were giving negative generalisations about the collective identity of the British. However, its only when..........
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@MrSyrett
LOL it may come as a surprise to you that I can dispense insults as casually as if I were ordering a pizza. It doesn't take a head of steam to respond to idiocy, just a few taps on a keyboard. Clearly you're trying too hard to showcase your high powered intellect while being entirely oblivious to the fact that I'm simply laughing at you squirm in angst as you desperately try to score e-points in an argument that had nothng to do with you, yet you just had to poke yout beak into..tsk
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@psydwaindah - "LOL" - try not talking like an excited 15 year old girl if you can. Oh, so now your claiming you're above all this "scoring e-points", and that you're merely laughing at us that respond to your inane comments. The fact that this thread is littered with your comments fighting your little ebattles is testament to the fact that you are in fact a youtube professor and internet warrior rolled into one. Please stop embarrassing yourself
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@MrSyrett
You're the one who keeps responding dear. I'm just not that interested in pissing into the wind with an obvious cretin whose desperation to get in the last word is palpable, laughable and a tad comical. I'll quit "embarrassing" myself right after I've tired of embarrassing you....or practicing cerebral Aikido with you, as you lunge, over reach and I merely give you a tap you as you fly past with wild haymakers and face plant in the very same shit you pluck your inane arguments from
psydwaindah 1 year ago
Finally - I didn't "poke my beak into" anything. If I was poking my beak into you initial spat I would of said you were a typical class tourist who probably never had to deal with proper inner city depravity in your life, and who whimsically romanticises about it from the safety of your middle class suburb. No, I merely asked you why you resorted to stereotypes. This is a free speech website though, so I really don't need your fucking permission to leave a comment. Also, you could of ignored me
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@MrSyrett "Also, you could of ignored me"
MrSyrett 3 minutes ago "could have"....ahem...people who use "could of" obviously have a tentative grasp on the grammar of the very language they're so desperately tryng to sound agile in hint hint..you...hint.... ...ironically the very language you are supposed to be a native speaker of...yes I just owned you there, hard! LOL
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@psydwaindah - Seriously? And you have the audacity to call others pedantic? You're really reaching when the best comeback you can come up with is picking up one grammatical error in a hastily written comment, and then proclaiming "I owned you hard", despite the awful syntax of the very comment in which you claim to "own" me. Look, my inept friend. You're a middle aged man who uses the terms "owned", "LOL", and "faggot". I hardly think you're in any position to comment on the English of others.
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@psydwaindah - Also, do you realise how ridiculous you sound when you chastise others as being "desperate to get the last word in", and say things like "you're the one who keeps replying", and then go on to write two further comments? You basically haven't responded directly to anything ive said - just made pathetic claims about how easily you can dispense insults (as long as the insults are of a third grade I guess - "faggot"), and highlight yourself as intellectually bankrupt hypocrite.
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@psydwaindah By the way, just to throw your badly constructed sentence back at
you -
"overreach"....ahem...people who use "over reach" obviously have a tentative grasp on the grammar of the very language they're so desperately tryng to sound agile in
Ohhh damn. I'd say I "owned you hard" - but I couldn't really give a shit about your grammatical errors. Plus I don't really want to behave like a middle-aged man desperately trying to sound young by using internet slang.
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@MrSyrett
Cool story bro LOL
Look at the wee bitch grasping....middle aged man, middle class suburbia? You really care about this shit, don't you? Now go back to your role playing games on your X-box and dream of being someone with a life beyond the confines of your little Coronation Street hovel.....drink some piss weak tea and eat soggy chips or something iono...do whatever it is you whiny fucks do when you need to lick your wounds. Mission accomplished...hahahaha I've got you all riled up
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@MrSyrett LOL I see you've been and read my profile info and like the dim witted little twat you are, you believe everything you read...LOL again at you. Yep I'm from NZ and I'm 45 coz it says so right there on my profile, yeah??.....wow, you're ability to dig beneath the surface is astounding..almost as good as your flaming skills ahahahah....., ahem...imitation is the best form of flattery jsyk...kekekeke. Oh hey BTW, how bout you thump out another novel explaining just how little you care?
psydwaindah 1 year ago
.........I point out the positive generalisations of the UK, and the negative ones of your nation, you pathetically revert back to focusing on the individual, rather than the nation they are from. Maybe you should of asked the other guy what his accent and teeth were like, instead of assuming they were "bad and gay" based on your moronic generalisations.
Also, saying I do nothing to dispel the negative generalisations of Brits is just laughable. Would they be the generalisations you......
MrSyrett 1 year ago
.......have already listed about teeth and accents? Well forgive me if I don't lead to try and defend my accent and oral hygiene, but I seriously couldn't give a flying fuck what you think you know about me in those areas, as you've already proved yourself to be a Grade A imbecile. I also love you ripped on the other guy for his "flaming prowess" by altering your username, when the best your sophomoric, reactionary brain can come up with is "faggot". Well done. Just out of interest, what.......
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@psydwaindah
excuse me?? You're the one making three posts to my every one because you're so intent on pixelating your mouth froth and depositing dollops of pure shit on my monitor every five minutes that you just can't stop those dainty little fingers of yours from taptaptappity tapping out your hysteria. BTW I'm not really giving negative generalizatgions about the collective identity of a nation, I'm narrowing it down to just you now...you whiny, pastey little, gnarly toothed fuck :)
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@psydwaindah - Just when I thought a person couldn't make themselves look a bigger moron, bingo.
"You're the one making three posts to my every one"
"how bout you thump out another novel explaining just how little you care"
And then you reply with THREE long winded rants, full of yet more third rate insults and piss poor stereotypes - hilarious. Oh, and you're not fooling anyone playing the "I'm only trying to wind you riled up" card. You tried your best to sound intelligent and........
MrSyrett 1 year ago
@MrSyrett Seriously man you're really quite hysterical.. (deep breaths) I'm simply amazed at what a complete and utter fucking man toddler you've progressively become during our little joust. The tear streaked rage in your posts is amusing in a creepy sort of way though. I bet you're the type of dude that would actually resort to IRL stalking if someone slighted your delicate sensibilities....got your little psydwaindah voodoo doll out yet? LMFAO!! How many pins are you jabbing in it's face??
psydwaindah 1 year ago
.......and make a (admittedly pointless) argument, but only succeeded in geting your arse handed to you (again) and in making yourself look a complete imbecile.
The fact you are now claiming you LIED on your channel page (that's right - a page which is anonymous anyway as you use a unintelligible pseudonym), is testament to that. I'm guessing you're not lying anyway, as you reacted so defensively when I put forward the suggestion that you lived in an insignificant country.
MrSyrett 1 year ago
45 year old Kiwi or not, I couldn't give a shit. There's no hiding your intelligence level i.e. that of a diseased baboon. Enjoy the last word, you dumb fuck.
Oh, by the way, Its "pasty". "Pastey" isn't a word. Another "fail" as you might say. But seriously, tip for the future - If you are going to try and look intelligent by highlighting grammar errors of others, make sure you've mastered elementary school spelling yourself. You tend to lay yourself open to looking a bit of a prick otherwise
MrSyrett 1 year ago
Why all houses look like after war`?
groupiefromhell 1 year ago
@groupiefromhell Do your research.
Khultan 1 year ago
the background in the clip whats the title of the song?
delasony 1 year ago
it wasnt untill the republicans came in to town to take this sh!t hole and make it look like a place you wanna live.crime down 68% work up 43% thanx george,thanx rudy!
inmylife10465 1 year ago
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look's like warsaw after the II World War
jazdapolska 1 year ago
Ugly has never been so beautiful....
Julian24151 1 year ago
Your dreams were your ticket out...Welcome back!
SFConifer 1 year ago
whats the background song in the end?
delasony 1 year ago
Back in those days there were many neighborhoods in The Bronx where landlords wouldn't rent to my Mom's part of the family because my stepfather was black, so we got a place on Ward Avenue. But it's like Tupac Shakur said in Rhyme & Reason...no one was living in an area like that because they wanted to be there.
RainbowZen999 1 year ago
wow large chunk of the Bronx was raggedy and torn up! Very sad but that's classic of that era!
719kai719 1 year ago
when was this
MrSubwayTrainMan 1 year ago
This is when liberals ran NYC, when blacks where enslaved to social programs so liberals could control their votes like puppets and what people like Obama and Pelosi want to do to the entire country.
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sidewinder169 1 year ago
Good or bad, this is the NYC I grew up with and it always will have a place in my heart.
77montana77 1 year ago
@77montana77
Hope you dont mind me asking but how does the modern day South Bronx compare to back then?
tricke101 1 year ago
i wish i could have seen this in person
nakabar 1 year ago
george plimpton....hell yeah
Putaspellonyou 1 year ago
Who
buzzclick500 1 year ago
hey what's worst? the Tenderloin in San Francisco or The south Bronx?
KimberleyyelrebmiK 1 year ago
@KimberleyyelrebmiK
How u gonna compare gay ass san fransisco to the south bronx? lol
DYaHurD 1 year ago
@DYaHurD : Kudos. ;]
buzzclick500 1 year ago
My home.
BronxPuertoRican1960 1 year ago
It's funny... I know those streets... I grew up in a different era so a lot of those old lots full of garbage were fenced off or made into new housing... But it was still like that in the 90's and I was old enough to have been there. Shit is different now but the Bronx still ain't nice... My community still looks like hell and half my block is burned down and boarded up.
TheVisionary84 1 year ago
@TheVisionary84 ANYBODY who grew up in this and made it out, IS A HERO TO ME. Grew up in NYC until we moved to Maryland but I had family navigating in all this man. Bronx is the realest borough for real. I still love the BRONX. I feel the spirit of survival up there and it just gels with me. Grandma owned a rooming house on 997 Union Ave in late 60's early 70's until they torched it down. It was so many addicts and junkies in there, she had to walk away from it.
palmares77 1 year ago
The Bronx... my home!
MarineForceAlpha 1 year ago
Love the bronx
imtheonethewho 1 year ago
Wait, sorry. How is this 1970s, if there's a huge 2002 thing at the top left corner of the video?
cchang604 1 year ago
Still a shit hole.
You never see the East Bronx in those days though. Because it was like its own small town and safe as could be no news and political BS there. Today is crap compared to then,don't believe all this BS.
afvc1980 1 year ago
It wasn't so bad back then as people blow it up to be I grew up back then and I remember the streets weren't that messed up...
70sman4ever 1 year ago
Make no mistake..WE live in a Police State and terrorism is the excuse to take away our freedoms. Sad. And now that there has been a real threat to NYC (trying to blow up 42nd st) there will never be the Freedom people had in the 70's. Guiliani cleaned up the crime and pulled off the graffiti covered red bird trains and removed the sleaze (on the front) of 42nd St..and took away our freedom. Never let THEM fool you.....
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
It sort of reminds me of Detroit today.
quatlen 1 year ago
Yyyyooooo!!! I was raised in the South Bronx from 1994 til today, I can't believe how it looks back then, but in my childhood i see a few abandoned buildings and crimes, but now I'm proud to see how the South Bronx is improving, I see few whites moving to the Bronx, at least it doesn't look like a zombie city like in this video, no more fires, few crimes that might end.
Doomhammer15 1 year ago
looks like Jerome Ave
philosopher1976 1 year ago
new york had edge back then, what happened?
Love4SK 1 year ago
@Love4SK Disney / Giuliani / 9/11(The CIA) That's what happened.
Yeah New York used to be great, I was born & raised there in the 70's, 80's and 90's then I headed west.
(cue the hill billy guitar music)
ThereisNoGoingHome 1 year ago
What the hell happened to this area?
LordoftheKaty 1 year ago
@LordoftheKaty niggers
JoeWunsch 1 year ago
The South bronx was only ONE of the desolate places in NY in the 70s;..I would like to see some rare footage of BROOKLYN--bed Stuy, beownsviille, East NY, Bushwick--all these neighborhoods were 70% BURNED OUT. Took YEARS to rebuild..where is the film or photos? City probably embarassed ..has them locked away
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
@DavelovesRealMusic
I would have loved to live in NY back in the 70s. I know there was a lot of crime but the people seem so much more alive. Tough to explain.
ar4216 1 year ago
@ar4216 I Do undersrand your point .Even though it was phsyically ugly...there's no mistake on that, there was HOPE and FREEDOm. SInce 9/1 this citry is on lockdown and Hope has been replaced by fear and the rich have made the poor justyHAPPy to have a roof over their head no matter wher it is. So I DO understand why you might have liked it better in the 70's.
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
@DavelovesRealMusic
Damn, that's kinda deep but you're right. And in the 70s people didn't seem as uptight as they are now. Like you said, everyone is living in fear. Fear of child molesters, fear of terrorists...it's not like there wasn't that stuff back then but kids were allowed to be kids. Things started changing in the 80s. They changed the drinking laws, they started making people wear seat belts...I mean some laws are okay but there seems to be a shift of more and more power to the state
ar4216 1 year ago
@ar4216 I feel the same way, it isn't easy to explain but probably because in the midst of all that despair they were more alive than anyone, that is all they had to hold onto! Laughing, dancing, being real people. And, they were tough because they had to deal.
funkyladybean 1 year ago
@DavelovesRealMusic watch the movie deathwish with charles bronson.. i think its part 1, 2 or 3 that took place in brooklyn when it was bad
STBNY 1 year ago
@STBNY It was Death Wish 3. (Death Wish 2 took place in Los Angeles..it was a super violent movie...always edited on TV) I grew up only a few blocks away from where they shot Death Wish 3 (East New York). I see no video of this area..train yards, burned out buildings, empty vacant lots and Pre War buildings from hell. Charles Bronson purposely set the movie there (he was FROM Brooklyn) to show the city how it had forgotten its poor and lower income .
bronson had BALLS lol
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
@DavelovesRealMusic hahaha of course he did.. im sure you saw that youtube video that showed the total of enemies he shot. its funny too. i always wanted vigilante to be legalized.. because i believe that someone can do a whole lot better than the cops.
but man there were some real SAD scenes of those bronson films. ive seen all of deathwish films in one day!! there was a deathwish marathon on the AMC channel.
STBNY 1 year ago
@STBNY Only Death Wish 1 , 2, 3 are watchable. Of you made if through IV and V you have my congratulations. Don't forget to look out for Laurence Fishburn in DW 2 playing the hood with the crazy sunglasses who gets shot through the boom box. Hysterical. DW 2 is actually funny in a sick sort of way. No one makes 'vigilante" movies anymore. Maybe that's what crazy mel Gibson should shoot..I think his career is done. he might as well shoot Death Wish 6. I WOULD beleive he could kill. lol
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
@DavelovesRealMusic Vigilante movies we see now a days involves super heroes. Yes his career is done. He's not doing anymore films because hes resting in peace lol. seriously though, he passed away. in movies like deathwish, I kinda laugh at the way they get shot. It's like the west meets Brooklyn. Bronson did better work in Brooklyn than robocop did in Detroit hahahaha.
STBNY 1 year ago
@STBNY That is because "HOLLYWOOD" is BLIND to REALITY. There are no more movies about real neighborhoods, real people, and real consequences. You are right, it is all "super heroes" comic books or Matrix like Clones. I beleive showing the reality of harlem ,Detroit, brooklyn, Philly etc might spark an actual EMOTION out of people. They don't want that. They want yout 12.00 and for teens to stay in fantasy land. SAD is right.
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
@DavelovesRealMusic Teens today (not all but MANY) are in fantasy land. one of my friends are stuck into the movie 'Twilight' and shes not seeing reality around her. shes very spoiled too. shes only 16 and recently had a baby with her bf who is also a good friend, is starting to open his eyes and realizing how expensive the baby will eventually be. shes like in those love & fantasy type of crap. she doesnt understand the meaning of poor. reality will wake her up with a slap of expenses soon
STBNY 1 year ago
@STBNY It is a cultural problem now in the USA.
I would suggerst Middle School and high School
have mandatory courses for teens explaining to thrm
WHY you should not have a baby in your early teens.
Perhaps a FIELD TRIP to see how hard it is to live'
in public housing or a single room apt with a baby.
I think SEEING shows a lot more than sitting in a class
and not really listening.
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
@DavelovesRealMusic No school bus needed for that field trip. We live in The Bronx. so eventually, she will be facing problems. In The Bronx, we have a massive amount of teenage parents but the youngest mother I've heard from a nurse was 9. The Bronx Baby Boom is up and that boosts our tax expenses, leading our money to their pockets as food stamps. that shows that the city is still losing money and continue using our money for the residents who DONT want to work. they just eat sleep and party.
STBNY 1 year ago
@STBNY talk about what YOU know...all those so called teen mos now work for a check...the ones who don't are either so sick or jacked up they can't push broom...the city makes them work pregnant, the ones who are are cashing in are the illegal immigrants, who have children in this country, collect benefits and have a working non-tax-paying spouse. now before you think i'm picking on hispanics, ghanians and nigerians are big on this practice as well.
sidewinder169 1 year ago
@DavelovesRealMusic you think these girls don't see, that just goes to show the narrow-sightedness not only in you but the rest of society...it is because they see others openly engaging in risky behavior, that they feel as though they must follow...look at the youth today, they all follow the same drummer...the 1970's we were all about trying to be different from the next guy, today's kid just wants to be down...it's the same whether in the hood or the burbs, take snooky for instance
sidewinder169 1 year ago
@sidewinder169 YOU take Snookie...she is not intelligent. She is a poor example to promote. I don't blame her. She is still 'growing up" it is the media who know full well what they are broadcasting and the producers who have decided that intelligent people make for boring television so lets put 6 people in a house who barely finished high school. if these are role models society in the USA is doomed.
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
@STBNY it isn't a crime to be poor not everyone can be rich not everyone who gets an education is guaranteed the perfect job with good pay which is itself the fantasy there are phd's which are underemployed and unemployed we don't live in a perfect world especially when folks like you are more concerned with whining about your taxes then to see the richest nation on the globe react out to some of it's less fortunate citizens
sidewinder169 1 year ago
@sidewinder169 if i said that its a crime to be poor, then throw me in jail because im poor too, genuis. im living on 169 and fox, neighbor. dont come offending me who worked hard for a check and get money taken away by those who DONT want to work and direspects us on the street like we are nobody. its fucked up bro. I understand those who try to live well but cant seem to find a job or are injured and needs money to eat. i didnt say all teen moms are lazy. you didnt read all my comments
STBNY 1 year ago
@STBNY indeed i am you neighbor and i meant no offense, i simply mean that we are all victims, victims b/c we are subjected to these types of condition at birth. i didn't hear a thing about all those who exploit these people at every turn and pay no tax at all...you know the bush tax cuts...they weren't for you, working man, you must pay...you be better off burning your money, but it's not the fault of the disenfranchised...the rich get richer...the poor no matter how hard you work get poorer.
sidewinder169 1 year ago
@STBNY : All we need to do is look at our language straight-on and understand it. What is a "vigilante"? Someone who remains vigilant and protective. The government doesn't like that, and isn't that just too bad. We voted people into office who created this squalor.
buzzclick500 1 year ago 2
the south bronx till this day is still kinda shitty, alot of puerto ricans there now days.
NYBANGER100 1 year ago
Can anyone tell what old documentary this footage is lifted from? Would have been great to be able to watch the entire film/TV program.
Drasuten 1 year ago
Man u hard to hard as hell to live in the bronx back then...No pussies allowed.
silky1700 1 year ago 4
i love it! it had more funk packed in per square centimeter than any other place on earth. A visual artists heaven!!! It's a pity they didn't preserve a large chunk of that for it sheer haunting derelict beauty
psydwaindah 1 year ago 6
@psydwaindah "Haunting Derelict Beauty" Fuckin awesome!
ThereisNoGoingHome 1 year ago
@psydwaindah Tell that to the people that lived there back then.
artstar19 1 year ago 2
@artstar19 tell me what??
skymunro 1 year ago
@skymunro - lol. dude why you keep fronting? you're just too young to have firsthand knowledge of the Bronx in this video. that's the 2nd video where I've seen you claim the South Bronx of the 70s and early 80s. so I click your profile, expecting to see some oldskool cat in his 40s.. and it says you are only 28! =)
you were only just born in 1983, so how can you act like you were around in the 70s and early 80s? shit you were just a gleam in your dad's eye when Wildstyle was filmed
originalrecoil 10 months ago 9
@artstar19 Exactly. People keep talking about how the Bronx is the birthplace of hip hop, but 10 out f 10, these people (not even from this area) woulnd't ever dream of being down there before hip hop. I KNOW the media is responsible for delivering 'hop hop'' to the unknowing masses
Khultan 1 year ago
@psydwaindah Yeah, like you'd live there LOL Visual artist's heaven, give me and the public a break [eyes rolling] That community was left in devestation and destroyed lives.
Khultan 1 year ago 3
@Khultan go fuck yourself !! Perhaps being too busy playing the illeterate asshole has taxed your ability to understand context you fuckin troglodite! Next time try a little less being the offspring of your mother and her cousin and a little more shutting the fuck up about things you don't comprehend!
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@psydwaindah Wow, temper, temper, there Psy, whatever or whomever you admire, music wise, artists, certainly is not being reflected through in YOU. You, basically, have not enlightened anyone, let alone myself. Such hostility. You're mind fucked. That's a real shame.
Khultan 1 year ago
@Khultan yeah whatever asshole....idiocy isn't something I care to suffer; especially from someone who right off the bat misinterprets a comment and goes out of his way to make an utter ass of himself with this "hey lookit me! I'm the real deal!" bullshit....And who the fuck said anything about wanting to enlighten anyone? I'm talking aesthetics and you're plodding along behind me yap yap yapping about sociology, so like I said before-go fuck youself dipshit :)
psydwaindah 1 year ago
@psydwaindah
Clearly you've never had to live anywhere like this, never known anyone who has. For you, squalor is just an aesthetic thrill to be glimpsed from the El or celebrated in a glossy art book by some Haring-ripoff from a $1m loft for whom poverty is GAP jeans not Evisu. Gushing over this tragic situation to the extent you think its a pity it wasn't preserved - presumably just so that pretentious suburban wankers can enjoy your "visual artists heaven!!!"
You are a fucking disgrace.
custardaghost 1 year ago 27