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Those projects are a city within a city. Make it here, you can make it anywhere.

My family moved from the Alfred E. Smith Projects in Nov 1959 to the Castle Hill Projects. We lived at 2120 Randall Ave apt 12F. They were still building additional units then. My sister and I went to PS138, we were the first Black Americans to attend that school. Besides the single family homes, everything was open. Remember the walks my dad took us on Sunday to see the water and the White Stone Bridge. Also remember walking by the all white Castle Hill Beach Club. As more units open up for tenants, then more blacks moved in. One of my best friends lived in the King David homes across from the projects. Another best buddy by the name of Wilbur Young went on to play Professional Football ( San Diego and Kansas City) We went to St. Andrews Church when it was built. Did most of our shopping at the stores off Castle Hill Ave in the housing complex. The public library was to the left side of the supermarket and below the store. The laundry was off Randall Ave behind the smaller stores. Unless it was raining or dark, my dad would walk to Westchester Ave to catch the EL. We would catch movies at the RKO Castle Hill or Lowes in Parkchester. I'm 69 years old,retired military and police officer living in Virginia and still think about my roots.

Don't let the exterior fool you. Might look decent from the outside, but more than half of these NYC projects is filled with mold, roaches, rats, asbestos, garbage, urine, and etc. There are some projects that are nice on the inside, but they are few and far inbetween.

I will always be a New Yorker at heart! Born in Manhattan. Raised in Manhattan & the Bronx. But, I had to leave...the pj's, fighting in public schools, graffiti, gangs, drugs, etc. The struggle is real!

Bet it has a completely different vibe at night...

The city that never sleep, make it here you make it anywhere, concrete jungle, the big Apple, the Empire State, New York State of mind!!! New York is king of America

Cleaned up a bunch from the 70's and 80's when it looked like something from The Terminator movie.

The worst ignorance is Willfull. Why would you want your neighborhood to be disparaged for Ghetto/Street cred? What kind of pride is instilled in you knowing you're from an area where the poverty rate is high and the social welfare is low? We should want our places of residence to be in good shape. We should want our streets clean. While we're here entertaining ourselves and comparing our worst communities, other communities are thriving and people in power are hoping we stay where we are so that others can move into and claim our neighborhoods while pushing us out under our noses. We have to want the best for ourselves. We have to shed our low life mentality and adapt a fresh, healthier more noble state of being. Black and Brown people, fuck the bullshit. Fuck the gangster shit. Fuck the ignorant shit. Let's start wanting to be happy and healthy. Let's clean up our communities. Let's start humbling ourselves and coming together so we can create healthy environments for our children. Let's start demanding better education. Let's start encouraging ourselves to innovate and bring our children into the future. Let's start being more patient in terms of success and want more for the next generation. If not us, them. Let's lay the foundation for the next to come. We have to sacrifice, if we want change. This is our world. Let's make the best happen.

What a tour of my old neighborhood! The public housing complex at the beginning of the "tour" is where I was raised from the early 1950s. That was Bronxdale Houses, renamed Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses. It was nice seeing the neighborhood of my formative years. It still comes back to me in dreams!! The Western Beef Supermarket on Leland Avenue on the right was a Pathmark supermarket back then, the first supermarket at that location. You went down to Bruckner Expressway, which I saw being constructed in the mid-1960s. My interest in heavy construction was shaped by that experience. You turned right on the access road along the expressway, then turned right onto Beach Avenue, crossing Watson Avenue. You passed my elementary school, Blessed Sacrament School and Church. Sadly, the archdiocese could not afford to keep the school portion open, and it closed. Both Sonia Sotomayor and I graduated the same year from Blessed Sacrament School; I still have my graduation yearbook from 1968. After passing the church, then turning left onto Gleason Avenue and turning right on Commonwealth Avenue, right on Westchester Avenue under the "el" (#6 train) to St. Lawrence Avenue. At the corner of Westchester Av and St. Lawrence Av, there used to be a candy store where the pharmacy is now. Across the street was a little bakery. My older sister had friends who lived in the houses on the left. At Gleason Avenue, on the corner of St. Lawrence Av on the left was another candy store, "Lucy's". I had to go there as a child every morning to buy the Daily News and on Sunday, the Sunday News. Back then I believe the dailys cost ten cents and the Sunday edition cost 25 cents (or was it 50 cents? Can't remember!). Thanks for posting the first part of the video of my old neighborhood. The second part of the video is Castle Hill Houses.

Its not where you live its how you live

I'm from NYC and this is really not ghetto at all.... you should have drove to East NY brooklyn. Now that's ghetto af!

The graffiti in New York is one of a kind. Very unique. Unlike other states with graffiti, New York has the best

I am really enjoying your videos. I went to school in the Bronx back in the 1990s, and it was so much worse then than it is now. I still would not want to be walking around in this area alone after dark though!

This be my new ASMR

New York is the only place were you don't see abandoned houses, Not one

Them ny pjs be like they own city

I love New York city

Wow this is my old hood, born and raised in Soundview, Castle Hill and Parkchester. Thanks for the video.

Love your videos man-I hope to visit the US one day but I doubt I’d ever go and see places like this, love your work!

Don't be offended Charlie but I like you don't narrate but let these videos speak for themselves. In comparison to many other places around the country, the Bronx is nothing like it was back in the 90's and even back in the 80's.

Your videos are hypnotic! Great work.

Funny how the Castle Hill housing projects in Australia is so much more peaceful and safer, nothing really happens

I like your work and would love to know what's the toughest place you been and what's your favorite city?

the hipsters cannot afford Williamsburg Brooklyn anymore so now they are moving into The Bronx

I grew up here ! Thanks for the vid, I left when I was 15 it's been so long I kind of forgot how the area looks like!

You didn’t even really show ‘Castle Hill” projects. Instead, you spent time circling up and around Bruckner Blvd, Rosedale and Watson Avenues. That’s NOT where Castle Hill is!! I hope people will not be fooled by folks who never really lived in our projects/neighborhood, but want to have something important to say. Get it right!!

Thanks for the ride along. I've often wondered about some of the places you've driven through. Now, I know. It's really not that different. I mean, they all look simular.

It's usually the 2, 5, and 6 line uptown that looks deserted. I went to apply for a job that's by the 2 line and man there was no sign of life or something that makes me want to live in that area. Glad I live near Yankee Stadium lol

I lived on 2120 Randall Ave Castle Hill Apts in 1972. I dreaded the place; I hated it with all my heart! The f&%*n elevators never worked and I had to climb 9 floors!

New York look Sweet compared to New Orleans

I live around that area now. Two guys just got shot in the head a couple blocks from my house. It was on the news. Sad shit is still not getting better..

I moved out of the east bronx 39 years ago to ca. Best thing my family ever did. I had a friend that lived in those projects..cell block 9 i call it. I do miss mr. frosty though!

1:23 that looks like Toronto. Only difference is Toronto doesn't have tall brick project towers. It has tall glass condos

It was nice finding this video, felt like I was taking a ride thru the old neighborhood and seeing the building I grew up in. My family moved out of the projects in the early 80's.

Bronx was and is the most dangerous borough in New York. Beated Brooklyn in 1980 something.

Enjoyed your trip back to my old hood. Lived in 2160 Seward, and 2175 Lacomb Ave. for my formative years. After this, everything in my life was easy street. Went out to West Coast and never looked back.

Did you do Newark, Avon Ave ? lol

Took me down Memory lane, teenage years in the early 90’s -00’s hard times but most memorable times shared. 2245 -75 Randall ave (2B-side) was ready realist!! Moved out at 19 haven’t looked back

Oh god...you drove right by one of my old apartments in Soundview. P.S. That's not all hood compared to other places in BX

Title should be Castle Hill and Bronxdale projects Hood...I grew up in Bronxdale....this video is bringing back so many memories

did you see mott haven projects in the south bronx.. around millbrooks and forest projects, those are the most dangerous area.. lots of gang raids..

Compared to some other locales, Charlie, this doesn't look as bad in comparison. The local economy, although not infused with Wall Street cash is still able to support a stable population - thus avoiding the widespread abandonment of houses (I didn't see a single boarded-up home). And looks like there is enough tax revenue to support both a routine trash pick up as well as clearing illegal dumps. By all accounts this appears to be a solid, lower class working neighborhood.

The First half of the video is Soundview 2:24 is Sotomayor Pjs aka Brookdale Pjs

I had a dream last night I was on the rooftop of some Bronx rooftop in the 1980s. Some light skinned dude with aviator glasses I think. His hair was like a half afro but not combed so poofy in different spots. Maybe finger length. Not short but not a lot of hair either. He had that 80s handlebar moustache and a tight ass polo shirt was bad b queing for the whole hood on the rooftop. Talking about "yea I own my own house here in the towers and I own a house in LA." The top of the building had an access door surrounded by a chain link fence. Shit was vivid. Then some crazy dude screaming to himself walked by and they rushed all the kids into the building. Then cops were questioning someone, they had them 1980s moustaches and tight ass light blue NYPD uniforms with the t shirt underneath no vests. Big ass square boxy walkie talkies. My dream was lit... lmao

6:59 Castle Hill Pjs 2nd Biggest in The Bronx 14 Buildings 2,025 Apartments 5,170 Residents

Grimy, wish I could see more..Good video the bronx got a lot of hoods..U should get a 4k camera all that bread you getting Charlie B..

this reminds me of Just-Ice Going Way Back video

I see White Plains Rd, Leland Houses (gray and green high rises), Bruckner Blvd Expwy, Bronxdale Projects (7 floor apts), Castle Hill Ave. I heard the Mister Softee Ice Cream Truck and saw it too!!! Memories from my hood in the Boogie Down. Thanks.

Got to love the ice cream truck

Be careful out there Charlie. ✌🏾💯

Great video of my neighborhood. My home Bronxdale Projects 2:00 - 3:08. You should've filmed Bronx River, Monroe, and Soundview Projects

Yo charliebo!!! Your everywhere bro! need to get down to dade county

This is how a video should be done. Let the sights and sounds of the city speak for themselves and don't inject your favorite music to intrude into the video.

Krs-one & Just-ice brought me here in 1986 working at Fresh records.

Very good your videos Charlie 😛

Evelyn Lozada from Basketball Wives is from Castle Hill Projects too. I grew up in Soundview Projects not far away.

I think this is where J Lo is from

Not the same since the FEDS hit that hood!

What is with all the ice cream trucks in these videos? The middle of winter, the middle of night, it seems to be a 24/7 operation in these cities.

I remember walking to go grocery shopping in that supermarket across from CH projects with my grandmother in the late 70s and 80s There used to be a McCorrys 5&10 store there also. I remember a another grocery store that became a toy store then burned down one morning. It's where the church next to the gas station is now.

Sound view represent, don't let the daytime chill fool you, those streets got creeps on em at night

Charlie showed Bronxdale & Castle Hill Projects in this video. Fun Fact: Bronxdale is home to Drag-on (Ruff Ryders) amongst others and Castle Hill is home to Remy Ma (Terror Squad) Torch (MMG) & Asap Twelvy (Asap Mob) amongst others.

Watching this traveling footage remind's me of street of la/ streets of NYC video game.

You showed atol of Bronx Dale, and St. Lawrence, the sound view section

I remember East New York during the crack epidemic, it makes castle hill look like paradise in this video.

What a big difference from the documentaries from the '70s and '80s in which is the Bronks is showed like Berlin in May 1945. A lot of documentaries of the overworked firemen in the Bronks in those years. Now looks different and much much better.

4:14 Could it be? Yes.🍦 4:55 Those bags are everywhere!

I used to live in 575 Casper Hill and Randall Avenue I miss that place I was raised over there since 1976 does it matter where I go I always say I'm from Castle Hill project....

Grew up there in the 70's ,6th grade thru high school. 535 havemeyer , It was great then. It got crazy in the 80's

MOTT HAVEN IN THE HOUSE!!

It's funny how some high rise apartment complexes/blocks of flats are either considered to be very dangerous and awful places to live or even just visit, whereas some high rise apartments and tower blocks are classed as very desirable homes and in high demand. I suppose that it is the type of people who live in them, as well as the location and the quality of the design and the maintenance etc that make all of the difference. For example, living in a well designed and well maintained 30 floor block overlooking the Hudson or the East River or the Statue of Liberty in New York City, occupied by well off people in their 40's and 50's would be completely different to a 30 floor block in the Projects a run down semi industrial, that is occupied by violent, anti social, aggressive gang members and poverty stricken people, and where the building hasn't been refurbished or regularly cleaned for years.

Public housing PROJECTS in NYC and all across the country are for the most part cesspools of crime and filth. Private development on the other hand was just great. Right on the edge of Castle Hill is the PARKCHESTER community housing built by Equitable Insurance company in the forties. This was well planned and laid out, unlike the high rise concept used in public housing. As a kid who lived in Throggs Neck where my dad used to hunt muscat and rabbits. I used to travel the "Pelam Bay" train to Castle Hill for pigeons and to go to an RKO theater that showed a lot of cartoons. I live in a condo now on an upper floor overlooking the city of Cebu. Much like NY of yesteryear. Strange, but in all probability more people speak English then those in present day NYC. But I do like these videos where I can tour all the places I lived in NYC so many years ago. Like the narrated ones the best.

*smh they need to send upgraded buses to the Bronx that bus in the video looked mad old from many years ago 😭😭*

Yeah Castle Hill was home lived there for 4 decades. I go back to when that boost Mobile store on Castle Hill in that shopping center was a pizzeria, Fine Fare was the Associated, and Rite Aid was the 5 and 10 or Mccory's. The gift shop was the H&Y Stationary.

I live on this area but on the good side But plz everyone don’t disrespect where I was raised at it was here 😔

9:45 Castle Hill Shopping Center. Food market specials plastered all over the storefront and then next door Rite Aid displays a very plain exterior.

actually looks like a normal neighborhood in South America

True story though, dude was on the Bruckner and took the crazy long way! Should have drove through Sound View Projects, and he took you everywhere but Castle Hill Projects until the end! "Come on Man"! Hehehekekee, no4real 🙏🏾✌🏾!

Those hoods in Jersey make the ones in Newyork look like a fantasy island 🌴

Growing up in the 90s living in the Bronx we was always told not to step foot in hoods like Brownsville east Newyork and bedstuy back then

The Bronx is not the way it used to be in the 70's. It has become prime real estate.

My childhooddd, especially in tha first few scenes

Apart from the older infrastructure it looks like Europe a bit. Maybe in 10 or 15 years we'll have also hoods.

This is off the chain bro..

Who gave this fool directions? Stay on Westchester to castle hill and go straight down

castle hill starts at 5:53... this is exactly where the the two young men's lives were taken last week. And a woman who's being considered an innocent bystander. Unfortunate.

Fully expected that ice cream truck song to be sugarhill keems song

Nice job visiting to the Bronx but it's bad to see the neighborhood like this man

Is this place dangerous at night? i think nothing is worse than Miami- Opa locka at night....

This video is just about right👌🏿

my mans suspension is still in 07

Nothing on the Ducky Boys of the Bronx, man they went through some bread & everything just got stuck on the bill

Drivin around lookin for areas to gentrify in the Bronx smh

the whole tri- state is getting rebuilt. And one of the guys helping build up the city. Big big bucks to b made

I lived there in the 1980's. It looks a lot worst now then back then. Garbage all on the islands in Randall Ave. People use to hang out in front of the deli and there use to be a Chinese restaurant next to it. Looked at my 1st skin magazine in the candy store there. Rite aid was McCorys and the supermarket was Associated. Check cashier is also an old staple. Diner was an after hour night club.

Up until 5:53 is my neighborhood! I’ve walked pass and driven through every single neighborhood my whole life. 3:40 is the elementary school I went to.

Does anyone do house refurbishes in ny , construction company like I’m not paying the mafia shit so nothing gets done

Looks like a fun place to live, always something going on I bet.