Lifelong NYC resident here and trust me when I tell you, people living in these 'hoods in 1974 or 1984 would consider 2024 a futuristic paradise by comparison l.
@kevin7151Ай бұрын
Likewise, born 1960 and lived here all my life. Seen so much bad stuff back in the 70s and 80s. Things are tough today, but NYC was essentially a sh*thole 40/50 years ago. Amazing that it actually recovered the way it has.
@dwayneneal3342Ай бұрын
Yeah I don't buy that
@user-cn2ql8pf1bАй бұрын
Its true. Crime was also far worse@@dwayneneal3342
@kevin7151Ай бұрын
@@dwayneneal3342 trust me it was really tough times. Had my car broken into multiple times each year. Happened all the time to my friends too. Good buddy of mine in the Bronx had his apartment broken into twice in 6 weeks. They actually took the urn with his fathers ashes and trashed everything else they didnt steal. A great deal of violent crime too. Look up the murder rates during that time. I also remember the blackout in July of 1977. A great deal of looting when on. Some parts of the city, like in Bushwick on Broadway took over 25 years to start to recover. Am sure there are videos of all of this on YT too. Stay well.
@frogsterjonesiii6482Ай бұрын
Hard to believe there was a place that was worse than Detroit is in the 2000's.
@kingsittystudios2400Ай бұрын
i was here, in NYC, in the 1970's, 80's and today, its a totally different place.
@ErgensUit198729 күн бұрын
If it was for you. What time would you rather be in at the moment? And how was it different compared to nowadays. Can you name some examples? Sidenote: I have never visited USA, would love to go to for the nature etc.
@tommeadows-ie2xb9 күн бұрын
@@ErgensUit1987 Harlem and Bronx are not very different than they were in the 70s. Harlem is till mostly welfare, drugs and middle aged men just sitting around smoking weed all day. Bronx has nicer areas but is also the #1 worst county for health in New York State. Both are poor and dangerous. Brooklyn is terrible too but Manhattan below 100th St is nice.
@sven8888 күн бұрын
That's true. Very odd how fast it changed too.
@teezee1000Ай бұрын
As someone who was born and spent a lot of my youth in the BX, I remember a lot of those abandoned buildings, I remember my family had a high rise in a white building (clinton tower) and the BX was always on fire. I later found out a lot of those fires were intentional, building owners trying to get insurance $$$ was rampant.
@pepelefrog11213 күн бұрын
"BX" as "Latinx"?
@wolfslumbers91Ай бұрын
I didn't know CharlieBo313 had the ability to time travel.
@Sehlan-jw2cmАй бұрын
Fr though.
@lucky-one4569Ай бұрын
Ahora lo sabes, Bobby
@stevenfetzer491128 күн бұрын
Fart??@@Sehlan-jw2cm
@taraerskine395427 күн бұрын
CharlieBo
@dissidentfairy426413 күн бұрын
Lol I was thinking the same thing:-) I just watched Time Changer and loved it.
@icybear111315 күн бұрын
Its nice to see charliebo go back in time and share this with us
@godbluffvdggАй бұрын
I used to make deliveries from philly to nyc in the late 70's 2-3 times a week on foot, ... I never imagined it would be turned around...Going there used to make me happy to get back to PHILLY... :)... I was on google street maps recently; It's night and day...Very clean for a giant city!
@BoricuaLouieVАй бұрын
Now Philly is the dump lol
@godbluffvdggАй бұрын
@@BoricuaLouieV HOW DARE YOU!
@MikeConrad-oj6se29 күн бұрын
That's a long way to make deliveries on foot, man
@godbluffvdgg29 күн бұрын
@@MikeConrad-oj6se : )...You!!!! :)...But, damn that would be a hoof!
@mephistosprincipium16 күн бұрын
that’s a two day walk (for one direction) lol
@MrHorse-by3mpАй бұрын
100% solid gold footage, Charlie. I think it's important for people to remember that what happened in the South Bronx wasn't merely neglect but coordinated arson and insurance fraud perpetrated by the buildings' owners. Hardly anyone was ever prosecuted let alone convicted for this wholesale destruction.
@StreetLethalRacingАй бұрын
Absolute bullshit. If the people respected the area, didn’t commit crime, and were on a more human level, then property values wouldn’t drop, and landlords wouldn’t have resorted to such tactics to get their money back. Ask yourself how the area was before this during the 40’s and 50’s before Jacob Javitz ruined this city in the 60’s? It was paradise.
@adambowles3804Ай бұрын
@@StreetLethalRacing Bullshit! You're saying if the animals there acted as humans...?? We need to get to the reason behind why these places looked like a war zone 40 to 50 years ago. It's not all the fault of the residents. Far from it.
@user-uo7fw5bo1oАй бұрын
@@StreetLethalRacing Bull hockey pucks! Robert Moses started the downward spiral with all his freeways criss-crossing The Bronx and the housing projects and urban renewal schemes.
@Moodboard3920 сағат бұрын
@@user-uo7fw5bo1o i heard that one
@HubjeepАй бұрын
0:33 I heard that Mercedes-Benz 300 diesel before I saw it! May still be running today!
@ronen16028 күн бұрын
Great compilation!! Thank you for creating this video.
@DJLordShangoАй бұрын
Yhea that New York was terrible. I remember visiting Brooklyn in the 80’s coming from canada . The energy was unmatched but. NY was really scary and extremely dangerous .
@Piggy-Oink-OinkАй бұрын
it's extremely dangerous once again.
@ecup1384Ай бұрын
@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Back then it was 2200 Kills in a year Dangerous. Now Just 350. Thats a difference
@Piggy-Oink-OinkАй бұрын
@@ecup1384 We didnt have subway pushers then..and a lot of those murders were 'gang related" it wasnt random attacks like today. But 2200 is a lot of death.
@de5163Ай бұрын
@@Piggy-Oink-Oinkif we are talking statistics 1970s NYC way wayyyy more dangerous than current NYC. I think the difference now would probably be more mentally ill ppl sleeping in the streets.
@brendanmcmahon2744Ай бұрын
@@Piggy-Oink-Oinkthere were more subway murders back then. You have no idea what you are talking about.
@reptilegod1490Ай бұрын
this is so interesting! It would be great to get some interviews from people who have lived on those times
@ennawwАй бұрын
Looks like a war zone - buildings in rubble/ruins. Love seeing the old cars.
@Marvel-RogueАй бұрын
Oh God, the Boogie Down Bronx was the worst of the worst 😫 total waste landscape ever
@rocksofoffence.righteousam242224 күн бұрын
That, and parts of Uptown
@NikkiLynn158829 күн бұрын
You have the best videos ever!! Love them.
@CharlieBo31329 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@psilva2565Ай бұрын
Charlie as a kid in the back seat of family car taking video, on a trip to NYC.
@steviboyyАй бұрын
broken glass everywhere.....
@kravin7411 күн бұрын
People pissing on the stairs , you know they just don't care
@JOESSECRETGARDEN85Ай бұрын
Yo im from the D to good to see your almost at 1million subscribers keep pushing you will be there soon
@GardenerEarthGuyАй бұрын
This is the NY I always remember growing up.
@BusDriversLifeАй бұрын
No Cell Phones only Beepers back then!
@teezee1000Ай бұрын
Not even beepers, those came in the 90s
@logan532611 күн бұрын
@@teezee1000…word up homeboy! 👌🏿
@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls7 күн бұрын
The public pay were like the cell phones back then. Some locations had lines just to use the pay phone. If you were to have a long conversation, you'd need a hella quarters
@JoshdyisdifhАй бұрын
This is what parts of Philadelphia looks like today.
@Cosmo4357-mj1tw29 күн бұрын
Kensington avenue.
@garyrigby2128 күн бұрын
and Baltimore
@xwhitexstarxx28 күн бұрын
Which parts?
@Slim90012 күн бұрын
@@xwhitexstarxxKensington
@erroljr.748024 күн бұрын
Wow nobody with phones in their hands! 😂😂😂
@bio-plasmictoad5311Ай бұрын
Must of been a hell of a playground for kids. I'd imagine quite a few kids and even adults got into bad accidents exploring the rotting buildings.
@jaygamilwatson852922 күн бұрын
Excellent video
@dissidentfairy426413 күн бұрын
Wow! This is some amazing footage. It almost looks like an apocalypse at times.
@brookingsbeachcomber29 күн бұрын
NY in the 70's looks like Detroit today...
@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls7 күн бұрын
And I'd like to think that NYC and Detroit should have the top economies in America
@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls7 күн бұрын
At least NYC didn't go bankrupt like Detroit did
@brookingsbeachcomber7 күн бұрын
@@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls they did at one time before the democrats took over everything
@rauldiaz7309Ай бұрын
From Illinois! About 7 years or so ago I took a road trip to NYC and of course had to hit The Bronx. The clip of the school house/lot with the kids is from a video posted on YT many years ago. I made it a point to find the school and I did - P.S. 61, I believe. Big difference in how the whole neighborhood looks now compared to the old bad days of The Bronx! Crotona Park is right behind the school.
@Alfriv10928 күн бұрын
Leningrad looked better after the siege
@rocksofoffence.righteousam242224 күн бұрын
If you've survived in NYC from 1970 thru 2000, you're truly special!!! My Hat tilts to you
@Moodboard3920 сағат бұрын
not all district were bad
@antwangordon691827 күн бұрын
0:22 bro beeper went off 😂. I remember those days, in the mid nineties I had one.
@AVG-ub5sj9 күн бұрын
Imagine how many unsolved crimes/ murder/ kidnappings took place back them…sad 😢
@Coffee240Ай бұрын
❤ very good video ❤ it reminds me a city, that's a prison. I visit there, and NYC, drove through all of it. When I got back on I94 , i promised I would never be back. Sad.
@DieselDF1628 күн бұрын
I still feel the sadness in the air. It's triggering me, it always seems like it's too hard to live in America. Very sad.
@infinitesimotel16 күн бұрын
What's more triggering is all these blacks unduly soaking up living space and those lovely cars.
@Moodboard3920 сағат бұрын
such a great city in ruins, thanks to imcompetant leaders...
@JohnnyT002Ай бұрын
At the 0:45 mark you see an old abandoned school building. It's location is 220 West 148th Street. When you look at it now on Google maps you'll see that it's not abandoned now. It's the PS 90 Condominiums.
@shevn_fut5453Ай бұрын
😮 Damn Charlie, you're good with vidz, didn't know you conjure up the last Millennium, the Cadillacs were the newest vehicles on the street , thanks for the past visits
@MikeConrad-oj6se29 күн бұрын
Back then homies drove Cadillacs, now they drive BMWs and Benzes.
@garyrigby2128 күн бұрын
Proper old NYC the way i remember it and loved it
@BkKellz14 күн бұрын
This is late 80s 87-89 to early 90s Jeep Cherokee didn't come out until 87 or 88
@dissidentfairy426413 күн бұрын
It may not be perfect but it's definitely changed for the better.
@yankeesandgiants1886Ай бұрын
In the late 60's- early 70's went to a few Yankee and NY footballl Giant games with my Dad and you had to park in these sketchy lots and leave the keys. Scary place. Driving through the South Bronx on a hot day with no A/C my Dad would say "Roll'em up." Times Square smelled like sex and piss. The city is so much better now.
@lifeisagambletvАй бұрын
I played in these abandoned buildings during the bronx is burning Era and then visit my grandmother in East new york cypress p's where they were shooting off the roof
@SharonBookАй бұрын
This was what Washington DC looked like in the 70s.
@xisotopex25 күн бұрын
this is great but a video retracing the route in the car would be gold.
@nicebluejayАй бұрын
70's nyc was rough, nyc is a paradise today compared to then -- pretty unbelievable actually.
@lostmind5063Ай бұрын
Old time New York is soo interesting and fun to watch. I wish I was alive back in this time era.
@jbissainthe4 күн бұрын
No way, back then it was miserable! Today, New York is much safer and a whole lot cleaner. It’s absolutely beautiful now.
@Moodboard3920 сағат бұрын
need a bit narrative, to plain
@AKawalski29 күн бұрын
Awesome comparison video mr. Transformed but still ‘challenging’ and ‘tricky.’ Thank you
@David_SlavikАй бұрын
What kind of city is this? Is this Johannesburg South Africa? 🤔
@Prone-Ski_BXАй бұрын
It's incredible that Hip Hop came out of the South Bronx.
@user-uo7fw5bo1oАй бұрын
I was living in a suburb of Boston in the 1970s when the arson plague was at its height. Brick buildings would literally crumble from the flames! Baltimore, Philly, Canden, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, and other cities today have nothing on what happened to the South Bronx, Harlem, and parts of Brooklyn in the 1970s! "Ladies and gentlemen, The Bronx is burning."
@RUD-LION-KMarc-TributeАй бұрын
Incroyable je suis de France 🇫🇷 et je me dis que j’ai eu de la chance 😱 mon dieu les gens vivait la 🥵 J’essaye de trouver des documentaires avec le New York de l’époque quand elle était prospère, cette ville mais j’ai du mal en France. un jour quand j’étais plus jeune, j’ai regardé le film Warriors et ça se passait là-bas sur ces images incroyables
@edwinpillay140918 күн бұрын
Came to NYC in 1979 from South Africa and still ❤ this city today.. it's still NYC to me no matter the era.
@TheOldTapeArchiveАй бұрын
The place did a 180 from the 70's & 80's, but has regressed a lot in the last 8 years. The unremoved graffiti and gang tags all over (which ain't street art) is always a dead giveaway that a city has gone into the sh*tter.
@Heather-lg4gq14 күн бұрын
Street art is forced, commissioned crap.
@somedutchguy9184Ай бұрын
Charles Bronson fixed that.
@erniegutierrez228826 күн бұрын
Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message" playin in my head while I watch this video. "Like"
@IMGWindham26 күн бұрын
Broken glass everywhere 🎶🎵🎶 u
@tony--jamesАй бұрын
It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under !! Grandmaster Flash
@azdrifter3968Ай бұрын
Re-upload? I know I've seen this.
@taramahoney241228 күн бұрын
Wow the difference is night and day. That was back in the time where everyone would throw trash out their car windows. The bldg look so old and outdated. New York looked like a junk yard.
@nostalgiaof98Ай бұрын
What movies were filmed in the Bronx in this era, Superfly?
@stephenheath846529 күн бұрын
Fort Apache and Wild Style
@ghostbison1Ай бұрын
Whoa ❤
@jennalee118 күн бұрын
I remember driving through there in 1989 and thinking I was in a war zone. It was like another planet. All the crumbling buildings. I had just come back from the army in Germany, where I'd seen old bombed out WWII buildings in better shape.
@bgabriel2828 күн бұрын
The old footage shows the effects of deindustrialization and job loss, coupled with policies like redlining that starved inner city areas of capital. One form of redlining meant that certain areas were designated "slum" by the US government, and banks wouldn't issue mortgages for properties in those areas. Most of these were areas with large black or brown populations. Meanwhile, freeway construction and the GI bill which allowed service members to get mortgages on favorable terms for new construction but not existing properties also spurred white flight from inner city areas to the suburbs. Since building owners couldn't get money to fix places up or properly maintain them, by the late 1960's many started resorting to arson to collect the insurance money. The phenomenon continued through the 1970's, when Howard Cosell famously remarked on it during a World Series broadcast. It's how large sections of the South Bronx ended up looking like Berlin at the end of WW2. So sad and wasteful.
@jeandefrance6969Ай бұрын
Sad reality for an American place
@derim006Ай бұрын
AMerican dream right there ..... nothing better then a house build it and live in small communities like Amish people or like in old times but American Dream go live in prison cells called cities lots of buildings and small apartments to pay them up until you die .... brainwashing is good working great and no one try to change a thing for himself or everyone to make change and to leave this paganic money system but everyone love to live like this poor etc ....
@xwhitexstarxx28 күн бұрын
Where was located 1:15 ?
@robertgrazianoАй бұрын
I've seen New York when it was good,bad,and ugly. Now it is beautiful and I Love New York always!
@kingtubbyleeperry29 күн бұрын
It looks even worse than described in grandmaster flash song: It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under Broken glass everywhere People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care I can't take the smell, can't take the noise Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice Rats in the front room, roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat I tried to get away but I couldn't get far Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car
@86Argonaut17 күн бұрын
Neighborhoods reflect the values of the people that live there.
@infinitesimotel16 күн бұрын
White man create, black just take.
@craigpetties1476Ай бұрын
The 80s 💎💎
@garneauweld1100Ай бұрын
I think the city is getting better. I remember the late 60s and it was a complete dumpster fire. I think bad things peaked in the early seventies and it's only been getting better from there. I used to live in the city, now I do not as well as the state.
@RP-vy8st18 сағат бұрын
Can anyone explain why the city looks so destroyed? What happened here and why are the buildings all broken down and abandoned?
@Muhammad80008Ай бұрын
Like my hood in Czechia is called Bronx, last year there was triple murder in next to my flat
@TMendocinoАй бұрын
Thank for teaching the whiny Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Y who pretend the Cities were better back in the day. At 60, I remember both Los Angeles and San Francisco with neighborhoods like this....the Tenderloin, South of Market, Skid Row, Cabrini Green in Chicago. This is what Cities were like.
@Heather-lg4gq14 күн бұрын
The abandoned rotting buildings made it better. Don't you get it?
@TMendocino14 күн бұрын
@@Heather-lg4gq They weren't even born, yet the yearn for the days when LA and SF were so much better. NOPE
@Heather-lg4gq14 күн бұрын
@@TMendocino I wasn't using sarcasm. The idea of old cars surrounded by unboarded vacant properties everywhere with no fences is my idea of a good time. in 2024 Most cities won't let a property sit for more than a year before they take it down. and while it waits to be taken down there's boards, fences, cameras, and security. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a total idiot. I know it wasn't like a fantasy movie back then, But I'd have more crap to keep myself occupied with.
@TMendocino14 күн бұрын
@@Heather-lg4gq It was a dangerous mess. There is no romanticizing the 1970's and 1980's
@Heather-lg4gq12 күн бұрын
@@TMendocino the thought of me being able to defend myself against my tormentors, without fear of cameras everywhere and being able to find a woman who doesn't care about instagram or having $50,000,000, then hop in a dodge diplomat and go explore an abandoned building is all I need to romanticize it. If it was a terrible time for you, I'm sorry, I really am, but its a terrible time for me NOW, and I might have been able to save myself before it was too late had I been born 30-50 years earlier. Chicken pox, AIDS, I'd take all of it just to be happy for even 1 day 😊
@zroy9263Ай бұрын
This is the NYC that I was born and raised in! I was living in Flatbush, Brooklyn during these days, and even though it wasn't nearly as bad as the boogie down south Bronx, it was still mean on those streets of Brooklyn! Lots of ILL shit was going down!
@TylerChristoherАй бұрын
The graffiti got better didn't it
@raidensnake9471016Ай бұрын
That's a damn loud heavy breathing!
@seanberry1969Ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@curtg7396Ай бұрын
Looks like it was filmed in 1986
@alxjetson815728 күн бұрын
still a dump
@bxdaleclie-te1nj3 күн бұрын
That’s Freeman intervale Simpson BX early 80s
@user-wm8no6kz6s28 күн бұрын
This is the Bronx not Manhattan!
@hotbx1197 күн бұрын
It was mostly Manhattan.
@BoricuaLouieVАй бұрын
Imagine night time
@josephvelez768029 күн бұрын
excuse me, but what in the fuck. I live in Chicago but been to Harvey as well a few times as I used to manage properties over there. I thought there was terrible but this looks like...a 2x warzone. That 8 ball + corruption really hit that city hard.
@bubblesdelight29 күн бұрын
Wow, this was bad the Government made sure people live in poverty,mean while their wallets are getting thicker. Dirty sh*ts get rich off poverty, it truly looked like a 3rd world Country. An eye opener for me, love Aotearoa New Zealand.❤❤❤❤❤
@VixinafulАй бұрын
So it really did look like a bomb went off. What man has done for these parts of NYC is incredible. Im deeply impressed by the good in mans hearts.
@kutyna4nogi141Ай бұрын
the only common thing that hasn't changed in 50 years is the crap on the streets. Garbage and waste everywhere. I guess everyone throws their garbage out the window there.
@joeleone2228Ай бұрын
Everywhere lol Whatever you say Karen....
@kutyna4nogi141Ай бұрын
@@joeleone2228 yes, clown, everywhere
@MultiFloyde29 күн бұрын
Looks like 3rd would slums !
@azdrifter3968Ай бұрын
They said back then that they were doing what they were doing in those neighborhoods because they were a product of their environment. They became as grimy as the blight they were living in. They said, "If they fixed up our neighborhoods and made our areas a better place to live, we wouldn't be doing all this drug dealing and gang stuff." So. The city listened, and fixed up the areas and made them the better place to live that they are today. But still, they just sell drugs and do gang stuff. Maybe it wasn't the environment that was the problem after all. Maybe the people had a lot to do with it. 🤔
@infinitesimotel16 күн бұрын
The people had everything to do with it. 3rd world people 3rd world place.
@Randy_Richmond4 күн бұрын
@azdrifter3968 Just say you're racist and stop trying to pretend you're anything other than that. In the 1970s, manufacturing jobs CLOSED DOWN, the lifeline of NYC, unemployment was incredibly high. Redlining....you know....institutional racism.... prevented investment in those neighborhoods. Urban renewal plans never followed through and left the city with VACANT LOTS. Today.....jobs are paying CRUMBS compared to how much it takes to live comfortable. Real estate prices has gone sky-high, along with the buying power of the dollar continuing to decline. Now, you can't even work 2 jobs and make ends meet, but you wonder why neighborhoods still appear HOPELESS. Stop pretending these neighborhoods get the same resources and investment as areas populated with "PRIVILEGED" people. Like I said...... just admit you're a racist and stop trying to engineer narratives to reinforce your ignorance.
@kevinoreilly417229 күн бұрын
The 70's were really bad. The Bronx was the worst.
@jahlilbrown302Ай бұрын
This giving Philly vibes today
@robertajoanna973Ай бұрын
😮 parecia zona de guerra
@jubernardi23Ай бұрын
O que é isso, senhor?! 😂😂🤡🤡 Oh lugarzinho complicado e 🗑️!☠️☠️💣💣 Vamos comparar com SP, manas?🥰
@jubernardi23Ай бұрын
@@priscae.😂😂
@robynlea695029 күн бұрын
Lo que era.
@edholohanАй бұрын
I'll bet the rents were cheap.
@joemoore8054Ай бұрын
You sure this wasn't recorded last week??
@joshthegreatest1198Ай бұрын
Where was Big L during this era?
@lildirt793Ай бұрын
139 Lennox I belive ?
@RicklessSanchez3 күн бұрын
Funny in fact Where's watchmen?
@ParagneisАй бұрын
MURICAH!!!
@peterbarrett5496Ай бұрын
Geeesus why is there so much trash. The hippies finally got something right
@Moodboard3920 сағат бұрын
NYC going to the 70s again
@kakarot4star29 күн бұрын
Kids nowadays think they grew up in the hood HaHa please. This was the same way in Baltimore in the 80's and 90's when i grew up , no police cameras no phones so many drug dealers and fiends it looked like a block party
@AVG-ub5sj9 күн бұрын
The homeless nowadays would of loved it back them, some probably did 😢
@markhayden1Ай бұрын
I don't see any attempt at a comparison here.
@aaronbradwell989Ай бұрын
It looks like the Gaza Strip.
@MikeConrad-oj6se29 күн бұрын
Except They could get food and water
@jonathanfalvo2414Ай бұрын
A lot of the Bronx and Harlem was basically third world in the 70s and 80s