Great point

I used to live 2 blocks away from it. I heard the protests for months when they were closing it. Honestly, I love Tom's channel but seeing him walk this streets is a bit of a trip because we all know Buffalo ave isn't exactly safe.

you're 100 years old? 😁

@@Alex-fx5es No it just feels like 100 years. Ha!

So close. I'm East New York Ave and 95th st. By the huge park. NYTimes recently made an article about the tennis courts. Very cool!

St Mary's was converted to a short term care facility

Make a video about it and put it on youtube!

Yeah and he was on Eastern Parkway.🤔

Because he's a gentrifier making money off of this. Why would he renember or acknowledge West Indian parade. Lol

Lincoln Terrace Park too.

Good point.

graduated from brooklyn prep 1965 --- before medgar evers belonged to St Ignatuis same block

Siiiiick. Thanks!

If you do, be sure to mention Robert Moses (I'm almost finished with The Power Broker).

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Indeed yeesss!

I was wondering that as well.

Those aren’t “bodega cats”, unless you are from the neighborhood and can correct me on what bodegas they’re from. Otherwise they’re just stray cats.

In Crown Heights it's Bodega Katz not Cats

Can't believe there's not a band named that...(Bodega Katz). That's just t too cool a name to pass up!

@@deb7518 I just happen to be Jewish AND in a new punk rock band. Thanks!

I remember it as well. I was in middle school and lived off Kingston Ave. Host is right even as a kid I knew there was tension. I did learn Hebrew alphabet and some words from a store owner my dad use to visit on a Kingston Ave on their side . It always felt that the Pkwy was the divided line and I walk through to visit my friends periodically on Empire and Kingston. However, I did go to my friend on St. Marks more often.

I agree I do as well.

Honestly he can skip Brownsville and ENY, there’s nothing to see over there. Flatbush is huge though, so it depends on where he goes.

Oh. I've lived in Ebbets field for years and no one's gotten jumped. Good luck and don't forget to protect your neck hater.

@@KPierce-ej1pb I am a huge fan of Baseball history and have visited the neighborhood where Ebbets was previously located on two locations. Absolutely no issues at alll walking around that neighborhood. Nice, friendly people who live in the Ebbets Aoartments.

No I can't, tell us why?

@n cx after the black child was hit by a car in the motorcade of the rebbe. The ambulance pulled up the people there were very understandably mad and filled with grief, and like some people in such situation and as the following weeks showed, the community and people in that vicinity where ready for violence which I wouldn't say is right but I can't imagine what they were feeling and chances could have been, and that feeling the police acted on by sending the jewish volunteer (haztolo) ambulance away because there was a very high chance of escalation (and there was right after) so for the safety of these paramedics they were told to vacate the premises.

@@mustafa-ky9vs yes, they were upset because of the accident but the police sending the ambulance away was more indicative of the preferential treatment the hiasdic community received which enabled their very unneighborly attitude towards the west indians that lived in the same area. The incident was just the straw that broke the camels back and to the people of the area was not seen as one isolated incident but represented one in many in which the response and treatment was unfair. The accident itself happened because hiasdic driver wasn't abiding by rules that apply to others.

@n cx first and foremost saying "the straw that broke the camels back" sounds like your trying to if not justify but allow the violence that followed which included the brutal murder of an innocent man, who had no connection to the entire incident other than being a jew that lived in that community. Violence is never an option. It is very sad and unfortunate that a child was killed in a motor accident but the fact that the same people who were trying to help and tend to the child involved were told to leave shows on the nature of the people that lived in that area at the time. It's very sad that the child was killed. But there are miles between murder and accidental death. You talk about preferential treatment I'm not sure what your referring to. If you refer to the motorcade just like any famous/important persons they usually get VIP treatment, I'm sure there are many people from the west indie community that lived/lives in CH get VIP for their achievements and accomplishments that brought them to great levels of success. Side point the concept of hatzola (volunteer ambulance) have served both white/black , jew/gentile alike and saved many lives then and now. The upsetting thing is that the people there were so blinded by grief and hate that they chose violence on the very people that were helping them, Which is just very indicative of a lack in controlling one's emotions and actions which I think can be rooted in education, which starts in the home. If you think this may be a racial statement I assure you I've seen this type of behavior and lack of education across the board in every race, religion and culture. It's a small example of a large issue.

@@mustafa-ky9vs im not advocating for violence just pointing out that the riot stemmed from preexisting tensions. I'm pretty sure that no one was happy that an innocent man was killed the same way no one was happy the kid was killed. Whereas the killer of the innocent man paid for his crime, there was no justice for Gavin. This speaks to the preferential treatment i mentioned. Like I said the Haisadic Jews in the area aren't really all that neighborly.

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