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@CityNerd6 ай бұрын
This is SO good. Bravo, seriously
@tedsteiner6 ай бұрын
As a native Angeleno, these vids just make me sad
@segregation_by_design32836 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@franciscoacevedo30365 ай бұрын
@@segregation_by_design3283@citynerd there's also Seneca village in NYC which was segregated out of existence
@darcy_15 ай бұрын
@CityNerd If you haven’t already I recommend you suggest this video through a community post (or whatever it’s called) on your channel
@angellacanfora5 ай бұрын
My family has been based in the South Bay of LA since the 50s. Living in my grandparents old house here in Torrance for the last decade, it became obvious to me that the freeway creates a boundary line. It sickens me to learn this was done purposely. It’s going to take a while for me to fully digest this. Every Angeleno needs to see this vid!
@mariusfacktor35976 ай бұрын
Urban freeways are still segregation walls to this day. It's never too late to remove them.
@TheHonestPeanut5 ай бұрын
Yeah but that would make the world better in every possible way and we can't have that.
@teslashark5 ай бұрын
Philadelphia, one freeway destroys both black and chinese districts as a bulk deal
@TheHonestPeanut5 ай бұрын
@@teslashark Boston's big dig too. Black, Italian, Irish, Polish, etc. Just acres and acres of working class neighborhoods demolished and the city split.
@ScarceCastle25 ай бұрын
Caveat: don't tear them down to then strengthen other walls. The I-45 realignment project in Houston will tear down an urban freeway separating Downtown from the now-gentrifiying west and southwest, but will demolish another block of the poorer east side, resulting in a highway box 2-3 blocks wide.
@teslashark5 ай бұрын
@@ScarceCastle2 Oh yeah, sometimes hostile parks are put on ghettos instead of replacing housing
@nathang46826 ай бұрын
Makes me nauseous. Thanks for the video. Black people in this country have just been screwed over and over and over again from every direction, and then get blamed for being poor.
@billyodamit87095 ай бұрын
Stop crying and get over it, everybody suffers.
@micosstar5 ай бұрын
i agree with you, @@billyodamit8709 , but in a different way; how i frame it is this: we should work on to fix injustice, not wallow in grief over it. - mico
@qolspony5 ай бұрын
Now it is the migrants. They would get what is owed to blacks.
@JamilLynch5 ай бұрын
@@billyodamit8709Some more than others, you soulless ghoul.
@estherepps69145 ай бұрын
nobody SUFFERED more than BLACK AMERICAs@@billyodamit8709
@ma112215 ай бұрын
The before and after pan is really compelling
@itsdachief6 ай бұрын
This video needs to be played in every high school class in Southern California. Excellent job!
@robthetraveler10995 ай бұрын
Oh, but that would be "woke indoctrination" (read: facts the white right doesn't like). 😒🙄
@thiccum26685 ай бұрын
You could just take out the “in southern california” right there
@itsdachief5 ай бұрын
@@thiccum2668 This kind of stuff is even more impactful if it tells a story about somewhere you think of as your home nowadays. Makes you think deeply about your surroundings instead of simply accepting it. I'm sure most cities in the US could make a great video like this one about one of their neighborhoods
@thiccum26685 ай бұрын
@@itsdachief for real
@TonyRogers-gp1fl5 ай бұрын
Good thing it isn't. The author/creator cites no original sources and engages in classic circular reasoning.
@lopezkriss6 ай бұрын
There is a great story about how South Philly residents successfully stopped the creation of a highway along South St. through the neighborhood in the 70s. Alas, the Vine St. Expressway, which opened in 1991, bifurcated the Chinatown neighborhood.
@teslashark5 ай бұрын
Lived there for a while, right next to the park that's on the bridge. Wrecking both chinese and black neighborhoods at the compo price of one highway!
@UzumakiNaruto_2 ай бұрын
So if this expressway divided the Chinese community, did they get angry and decide to turn their area into a violent, crime ridden neighborhood? Or did they adapt and make lemonade out of lemons?
@lej_explains6 ай бұрын
had no idea that usc was behind the final blow in trampling over sugar hill’s community - great vid!
@TonyRogers-gp1fl5 ай бұрын
Spoiler alert, USC had no role in the design or building of the 10.
@stevenf59025 ай бұрын
@@TonyRogers-gp1flNope, they just funneled their power and money into making it easier to happen! 🤡
@eltiochusma2 ай бұрын
@@TonyRogers-gp1fl USC has NO INFLUENCE on the city and its development. You heard it here first all y'all!!!
@bluesummers50516 ай бұрын
I lived in LA for 2 years and had never heard of Sugar Hill 😮
@airdailyx5 ай бұрын
it’s officially called West Adams. Sugar Hill is gone.
@victorparker3085 ай бұрын
2 years isn't very long in a huge place like L.A.
@bluesummers50515 ай бұрын
@@victorparker308 It is when you’re homeless :D
@victorparker3085 ай бұрын
@@bluesummers5051 then it probably seemed like forever
@xandervk23716 ай бұрын
The same thing that happened to South Bronx, with the same result.
@luisduran85495 ай бұрын
Which freeway split the neighborhood?
@xandervk23715 ай бұрын
@@luisduran8549 Cross-Bronx Expressway.
@RipCityBassWorks6 ай бұрын
We need a wider movement to remove urban freeways and reconnect neighborhoods. This would also help with the housing crisis as it would open up thousands of acres for affordable housing development.
@kevinorgain5 ай бұрын
Only if that housing give priority to Black residents. Otherwise it's just to give white folks trendy neighborhoods to live in...
@Ilikefire27925 ай бұрын
The fact that they built it as a half sunken freeway too makes me puke the most, cause at least with an elevated freeway, it would've been still possible to keep the original road networks or at least easily rebuild them with development bellow them, to at least insure the neighborhood would remain somewhat connected together rather than create a unpassible "car filled moat".
@jamesparson5 ай бұрын
95% of urban movement is done by private vehicles. How do you propose addressing that?
@TheHonestPeanut5 ай бұрын
@@jamesparson there are literally endless possibilities. Bikes, busses, trains, ride shares, taxis, subsidized taxi's, horses, rickshaws. The most obvious is right under your nose. Also it's closer to 73%.
@bonne_vie5 ай бұрын
Yes its additionally depressing how the area around the freeway lost homes given the housing shortage.
@patymac13365 ай бұрын
That bird's eye view from 4:00 onwards is so damning. Just an ugly scar cutting through the city. Fantastic work here, my hometown of Charlotte is no stranger to such freeway projects and the ramifications for our communities have been dire
@user-zr9hu3tf1y6 ай бұрын
Man, I grew up around this area. Thanks for educating me a bit on my city. And thanks CityNerd for the recommedation
@micosstar5 ай бұрын
CityNerd recommended this vid. Nice! - mico
@ianhorvath57915 ай бұрын
It's kind of unbelievable, in a really bleak way, to realize that every major city in the US has at least one, if not many stories pretty similar to this
@Aden_III5 ай бұрын
It’s even more unbelievable when the majority of whites will blame blacks for their own downfall instead of acknowledging that no group can stand against the US government
@yosoysd56635 ай бұрын
Make believe tales are entertaining for all children, that's why they have one for every city.
@Aden_III5 ай бұрын
@@yosoysd5663 I know a troll when I see one
@WhathehadasSole2 ай бұрын
@@yosoysd5663 make believe? Isn’t THIS video proof
@tonywalters72986 ай бұрын
Also seems a lot more homes and businesses were destroyed for parking lots
@bonne_vie5 ай бұрын
Yes very depressing
@claudermiller5 ай бұрын
Same here in Cincinnati. They completely demolished the West End, causing black owned grocery stores, banks, barber shops, theaters, funeral homes etc. etc to close. It broke the community up, separated friends, families, congregations and organizations. Then, after they completely devastated the black community they had the gall to say "look at those people and their broken communities. Why can't they be like us?" White, European, Colonialist mentality.
@claudermiller5 ай бұрын
@@yosoysd5663 I'm discussing facts. You're simply telling everyone your prejudices. Go find some neo-nazi thread and join it.
@UzumakiNaruto_2 ай бұрын
So what stopped black people from moving their businesses to other parts of their neighborhood and rebuilding and reopening? That's what people do all the time when they have to move whether it be because of government infrastructure projects or because of rising rent/lease prices that they can no longer afford and so they move and reopen elsewhere.
@claudermiller2 ай бұрын
@UzumakiNaruto_ oh my, I didn't realize it would have been so simple. But since you're obviously such a simple person, I'm not going to waste my time explaining such a complicated concept to you.
@UzumakiNaruto_2 ай бұрын
@@claudermiller Sometimes it REALLY IS that simple. Someone just mentioned elsewhere in this comment section that one of Philadelphia's Chinese communities was partially torn down to build the Vine Street Expressway through their neighborhood back in the 1960s. Did the Chinese community there end up turning their area into a poor and dangerous place to go to? Or did they adapt and build a thriving community that tourists still travel and visit to this day? So if the Chinese people there could adapt to their community being partially torn down, why can't other people do the same?
@Dhi_Bee6 ай бұрын
1:28 Wow, US racism knows no bounds, especially pre civil rights. Even the verbiage“Hebrew, Negro, colored, & Mongolian race” sounds very pseudoscience phrenology categorization from WWII ‘knot-seas’.
@mfaizsyahmi6 ай бұрын
Fun fact, the naughtsies take a lot of their ideas on race and the supposed superiority of one over the other from America.
@sauceman54986 ай бұрын
Yep, even “caucasian” is a pseudoscience. There’s no “caucasian” race.
@SCHMALLZZZ5 ай бұрын
Meh, negro just means black and Asian isn't as descriptive as Mongolian when discussing east Asians. Because Indians, Turks, Persian and Israelis all fall under the broad term of Asian.
@mzbkNYC6 ай бұрын
Brilliant video-- thanks for doing this important work to raise awareness. Absurd and shameful that in 2024 Nikki Haley has the audacity to claim that America "‘has never been a racist country" and sadly, she is far from being the only politician to present such a false narrative. Love how this project states the simple, ugly facts of institutionalized racism though real estate practices and "urban renewal," devoid of emotion or political bias. America has a lot of healing, reconciliation and reflection to do.
@bigdaddy36212 ай бұрын
Kamala Harris said the same thing.
@bikenraider996 ай бұрын
TxDOT just did this to the Clayton Homes area to expand I59 in Houston
@cf1885today5 ай бұрын
lies
@czarinalewis53308 күн бұрын
Correction: It's either I-69 or US 59, not I-59.
@AK-ih3hx6 ай бұрын
Your maps are already amazing, now the background as well! I love it
@brokentabs62256 ай бұрын
Great videos - you should do Mill Creek Valley in St. Louis next
@rowbehr85 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing. You thought me so much today in this mini short video. I always enjoy looking at old footage of Los Angeles and hearing stories that most of Los Angeles have attempted to forget. Thank you again.
@airdailyx5 ай бұрын
i was just driving through there last weekend google routed me through those neighborhoods because of traffic and I tend to forget just how beautiful the houses that are still remaining are.
@majora025Ай бұрын
Great coverage! The city needs to acknowledge this history
@buriedintime5 ай бұрын
the automobile has been a disaster for the united states.
@Alexrocksdude_6 ай бұрын
Great video thank you for documenting this!
@tommihommi15 ай бұрын
let's not forget the destructive effect of the freeway noise on quality of life in the neighborhood
@GalladeTheWarrior5 ай бұрын
Oh man and this was before engine noise regulations
@CubeApril5 ай бұрын
Great video, would love to see the same thing but covering the Rondo neighborhood in Saint Paul, MN.
@bunblue5 ай бұрын
oh im soooo glad to have found youre also doing KZfaq content. thank you for covering my hometown LA so fantastically. -a long time instagram follower
@user-cl6yx3mt8o5 ай бұрын
So much political narrative revolves around erasure of racist history and that the phrase ‘systemic racism’ doesn’t exist in America this proves that it’s so interwound in our legal system and still exists in a lot of communities today. This was extremely enlightening and dare I say (in a complimentary way) WOKE!
@ddhurry41685 ай бұрын
How to destroy generational wealth for pennies on the dollar
@motherboomer15 күн бұрын
Thank you! Keep educating people in this country that bans education.
@APaleDot5 ай бұрын
Man, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" really was a non-fiction movie.
@dmmartin63896 ай бұрын
This was brought up in the Lessons in Chemistry series wasn’t it? Also a request for the demolition of the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte NC
@brigidanow6 ай бұрын
The main characters in Apple TV’s Lessons in Chemistry live in Sugar Hill and the show covers this subject. I’m from LA and didn’t know about Sugar Hill.
@ehoops316 ай бұрын
I’m looking forward to more LA content! I’m glad I found your channel.
@Thedaleb15 ай бұрын
Than you for posting I knew nothing of this before I watched
@brickman4095 ай бұрын
Wow, you know I often hear people say that the freeways destroyed and displaced communities but I never really understood what that truly meant until I saw it visualized in this video. Especially the sequence at 3:54 really puts it into perspective.
@rdnylj5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing this vital piece of history.
@adriennekennedy71722 ай бұрын
Wonderful information!!!!
@PineCreekCoins5 ай бұрын
What a great video! SubsCribed!
@darcy_15 ай бұрын
Amazing video!
@StLouis-yu9iz6 ай бұрын
You should make a video on Mill Creek Valley here in StL sometime soon. Similar situation unfortunately
@Albacore8772 ай бұрын
Outstanding content!
@pieceofshitzu25 ай бұрын
You should do Birmingham, Alabama. Im sure it's an easy video- but as someone who lived there, u can STILL see the effects on the city
@ZinozadАй бұрын
I learned about this from a NotJustBikes video. I had never really thought about segregation by design, it's just a powerful tool. Thanks for providing educative content.
@vikmavrilabs.52543 ай бұрын
I have lived in the Western and Adam’s area my whole life!! This was a great video to learn about the past history of my good old hood
@mjg2395 ай бұрын
I NEVER knew this. Thanks for sharing this story. Please share more stories like this about Black Los Angeles. It's fascinating. Along with the tragedy that was the erasure of Black-owned Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach (also seized by imminent domain), I also read about a neighborhood in Venice called Dogtown that was set aside for Black residents by the land developer of "Venice of America" Abbott Kenny (along the street where Abbot Kenny Boulevard is today) would be great to hear about that story too. Thanks!
@shlubbers17786 ай бұрын
So heart wrenching that my home city has such an awful history that most people don’t even know about
@doodoohed5 ай бұрын
Could you do a vid about the highways in east LA?
@anniewilkes6011Ай бұрын
Thank you❤️
@EPMTUNES5 ай бұрын
great video
@E11NetworkNow5 ай бұрын
You gotta do a video on the East LA interchange, the busiest interchange in the world, and how it made life for the Mexican Americans in the neighborhood difficult.
@joaquinarellano10235 ай бұрын
6:55 does anyone know where he got this map?
@OJGamingYT5 ай бұрын
Can't wait for you to do a video on Portland's i5, that one is really bad!
@Purchaser.5 ай бұрын
They should finish the 710 freeway too. Also the 105. Would make less traffic.
@D_Cali_Life5 ай бұрын
We had a 1890 Victorian Home in Bunker Hill Downtown Los Angeles. Unfortunately our ranch was illegal destroyed by the Orsini Apartment Developer in 2003-2004. When it’s in the best interest for the city, they take what they want by eminent domain. No matter the race , corruption will win .
@jpg37026 ай бұрын
Wonderful video. Can you do a video on the Essex freeway in Essex County, New Jersey cutting through East Orange and other black communities?
@StillAnotherStudent5 ай бұрын
Just made a video touching on another neighborhood the 10 destroyed and briefly glanced at Sugar Hill! Great to see other channels touching on the destruction LA's freeways caused and the racisim rooted in!
@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes5 ай бұрын
Bro u need a check??
@StillAnotherStudent5 ай бұрын
@@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes ?
@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes5 ай бұрын
@@StillAnotherStudent a KZfaq channel creator check?
@StillAnotherStudent5 ай бұрын
@@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes nah
@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes5 ай бұрын
@@StillAnotherStudent ok lol
@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes5 ай бұрын
Hopefully the future will result in many large lanes and freeways getting reclaimed for bikes, tramways, light rail, and pedestrian use. This would repair SOME of the racialized development over the years, though not all, and it will help everyone by making greener more accessible cities. This is what I hope we can start being focused on now.
@OwenRULESSS6 ай бұрын
That conclusion sentence was powerful
@hdfjg5 ай бұрын
videos like this make me more enlighten but its a bitter sweet moment at the end. you realize this still goes on. in every city you see who gets catered to the most. sadly us who are"poor" or live bad areas have so much going on just trying to live, we forget to stick up for ourselves by using the LAW. something wealthy ppl always throw in your face.
@MrLukealbanese5 ай бұрын
Jesus this is awful. Good video but just wow 😢
@lemontadams3029Ай бұрын
I studied Urban Planning it is an overlooked discipline that has the potential to enhance life or destroy
@SuperMike19555 ай бұрын
Here in Lansing, Michigan a highway called I-496 was built in the early 1960’s and finished by 1970 or so. It was built through what was a predominantly black neighborhood. 600 houses were destroyed. I only found out about this recently from a video of the history published by a local station.
@taylorallen10265 ай бұрын
Crazy that the effects of this can still be felt today. Happy black history month.
@thatpersonsmusic5 ай бұрын
These videos are so well made but so painful to watch. We destroyed so many great neighborhoods, not to mention the immense impact on the resident’s lives
@davidnorene55946 ай бұрын
Was this an "infrastructure" project?
@stuvius5 ай бұрын
That complete annihilation from the freeway construction was heartbreaking to watch. I understand people were and are furious
@Crypto_Circus5 ай бұрын
These freeways all need to be capped
@leechjim80235 ай бұрын
Was the first ever rap group Sugar Hill Gang named after this?
@califdad45 ай бұрын
I looked up Hattie McDaniels house and its now across the street from the freeway, it's a nice big house
@Robert-eg2oy5 ай бұрын
The exact same thing happened here in Portland, Oregon.
@rondrake3720Ай бұрын
They moved in, they moved out and then they moved in and they moved out. Nothing is permanent in life not even life itself
@abc123fhdi5 ай бұрын
what about the 105 fwy in 1993 cut through the hood as well.
@BionicTapeworm5 ай бұрын
Amazing video. Thank you for teaching the internet about this censored history.
@epicsseven76862 ай бұрын
This happened in Detroit's Black neighborhood called, 'Black Bottom.' Boxer, Joe Louis lived there, before the lodge freeway destroyed the neighborhood
@runnerfromjupiter3 ай бұрын
L.A.’s history is amazing 🤩
@robertolambert31555 ай бұрын
This is so sad 😢
@pray4ray6665 ай бұрын
Thank you for illuminating the dark history of my city, LA, one of the most racist and divisive cities ever developed.
@jeovaniee6 ай бұрын
West Oakland and Cypress Freeway next!
@randalalansmith98835 ай бұрын
The most suprising thing about this story, is how clear the arial photos were in 1945.
@iliveforyahawah3 ай бұрын
Funny, I grew up there, and my family still there. Crazy, I never knew this.
@fluuufffffy15143 ай бұрын
I wish i could turn the captions off... Am i missing something? Sadly distracting from an excellent video
@hko20065 ай бұрын
came from Nimesh in Los Angeles
@Horsefingerandthetaintwrights5 ай бұрын
Dont forget the Japanese Americans and Caucasians that suffered from imminent domain crimes. We all bleed red. The government sucks the same when you are targeted. Power to the people.
@CRIMEONTHELACOBB2 ай бұрын
Yeah but look at why did target close down in sf? …
@theeggreat45 ай бұрын
Imagine how much wealth could have been provided by those homes.
@nofurtherwest34745 ай бұрын
A shocking and visceral documentary. However, it was impossible for no one to "lose out". The freeways had to be built. Perhaps the biggest fault was that the city didn't plan for those freeways ahead enough. If you look at the freeways, they are pretty much straight shots from downtown. The 10 and 110 in particular. Can't get much straighter. Every city has freeways.
@drewt52175 ай бұрын
Wow
@SocratesHog5 ай бұрын
As a Korean, from outer perspective, that's really fxxxed up.
@paulsuprono72255 ай бұрын
Same happened in NE Denver for construction of Stapleton International Airport . . . all blacks whom had homes of planned North/South runway were involuntarily moved . . . thru Eminant Domain ! 😖 🇺🇸 💀
@SABBSubmit5 ай бұрын
WOW
@sondrajean9552 ай бұрын
Chavez Ravine - Dodger Stadium
@dcreed055 ай бұрын
Vote YES on Healthy Streets LA
@nicolai88205 ай бұрын
Ok big brain idea here, if you have two 4 Lane Roads running relativly parallel in the city, couldnt you turn them into one way roads and "improve" the signals in favor of that road, this way you have a 8 Lane defacto freeway that doesnt destroy the entire neighbourhodd.
@bigdaddy36212 ай бұрын
And people act like racism was only in the South.
@kryptism5 ай бұрын
Orlando is no different! Still going on today!😮
@sirbones5 ай бұрын
this is just disgusting. i hope someday, we can start removing some of these highways in socal.
@Justin_Murphy5 ай бұрын
Sugar hill in harlem in Manhattan NY is the real sugar hill
@hellooutthere89562 ай бұрын
Tht is so d*mn sh*tty to do that to those ppl just because they were blk. Won't talk abt wht all that implies but you can't wonder abt the crime now can you? It won't chg until amends have been made. Karma demands it.