man, I really needed to see this. I haven't been back home since 2003. too many memories!
@bronxdrilllives
2 жыл бұрын
word they js built tha court up recently ma boii in the back of 575
@ThatGuyPaiGaming
2 жыл бұрын
@@bronxdrilllives my old building was 530 olmstead ave. I was in 5B for 10 years. It's crazy because people talk crazy about the PJ'S but my best memories are there. I went to Stevo too 😎
@demman4701
2 жыл бұрын
@@ThatGuyPaiGaming word to the guys I lived there from 05 to 17 made childhood fr nearly died there taught me some lesson I wouldn’t have learnt in the burbs
@demman4701
2 жыл бұрын
@@ThatGuyPaiGaming pai you wasn’t outside fr let’s not lie
@ThatGuyPaiGaming
2 жыл бұрын
I was there from 89 to 99. I was most definitely outside. Living there was never easy. I definitely seen alot.
@Jamusictv
Жыл бұрын
I was born in 2275 in 1980., the last building at 3:42. Brings back memories.
@ParaTroop82
Жыл бұрын
This long story is my youth, please do not think I am acting in any derogatory fashion. I miss the old ways. It is not a political or racial rant...I'm just flooded with memories. We Moved in there in the Early 60's! till 1973. I Saw a big change come over the place. When we moved in 2280 Randall ave 3J, kids could not play on the grass! Your parents would get a warning and then a fine! Maintenance men actually mopped and waxed and cleaned, and mowed lawns. Those terraces used to be open for us, kids would play and mom's would gossip on them. There were Housing Police, each City Project had a Housing Police Office and The Police actually patrolled the buildings and roofs! Really They Did! and the cops knew everyone so no one felt afraid. We also had The Secret Police. Yup!! it was composed of Mothers, you would do something outside of 535... or over by St John Vianney, and when you got home... SLAP!!! Momma Knew! We swam down in Westchester Creek, by The Dock at The Cott Soda Warehouse! Or snuck into Castle Hill Swim Club! (who could afford that?) From Havemeyer Ave, Between Randall & Lacombe down to the creek there was nothing, just lots, a young boy's paradise! We built forts and tree houses, fished, and swam. I never longed for someone to play with, my building was 12 stories high, filled with kids! We were never indoors unless sick. Who remembers The Lot filled with Tanks, and trucks from WWII, the lot was between the Sanitation Department and The Huge red and white antennas? What a place to play and the tanks had actual bullet holes! Oh and one more...Who Remembers the Dynamite Shack at Randall and Zerega? Yes actual Dynamite!! We all played together, one of my best friends was an African American kid named Wayne, he lived just out side the projects and another PR kid from my building, his mom used to take us down to Canal Street on a Sunday morning so we could by cheap priced designer clothes from the Jewish Owned Shops down there. She would put a razor in her fingers and put a small slice into the inside liner of the leather jacket you liked. (mine was a lime green waist length Jacket, My Father hated it, said I looked like a 10th Ave pimp...lol) Yeah I was THAT kid, we all were. Anyway, she would haggle the price, that's how you shopped down there, and get a good price then when she got to the register, she would "notice the tear inside"!! and say out loud so every one could hear, "Oh No Mister, we no pay that price! Mira, esta rota!" and get a little more chopped off the price...then we'd go to another store and do the same for another one of the kids! lol She didnt have to do this, take six or seven kids on the bus and train on a Sunday morning, to save a little money for clothing for all our parents. But she was a good woman who came here from PR with her husband. All our parents came here, from somewhere else to live a better life. Almost all of our parents were oppressed and dirt poor in their home lands so came here, and would never look down on another immigrant!! ****'s parents, from Italy, *****'s parents from Jamaica, *****'s from Ireland, **** From Poland, etc etc...A PR mom taught my mother how to make perfect rice!! ****'s mother taught her how to make lasagna.... Like I said, we were all one, all in it together in the struggle to make a good life. We all listened to the same music, Motown, rock, and I was exposed and danced to the sound of Cungas in the basket ball courts by 2280! Had my first Kiss in the stair case between the 4th and 5th floors!! lol What Happened? Well Heroin came, that started it. Then for some odd reason, people labeled us. And The labels could not associate with each other. Friends became, Colored People, or Honkies (remember that one?), The Italians who were originally called Spics because of "I no Spic English" were now honkies, and my PR friends became spics. it changed us. All the love of the 60s and early 70s was gone. "Colored People" became a terrible phrase, and rightly so! Yet Today, 2022, whole groups of people are lumped into a category called, wait for it...wait for it... People Of Color. Crazy isn't it. How I wish we could all go back. How I wish so many could know what it was like, playing tag with kids of all nationalities, never knowing we were different. Again People, This is not a political or racial rant...just a nostalgic look at the past and wondering what went wrong.....Peace And Love
@Jamusictv
Жыл бұрын
Its awesome how you describe your era. Because I grew up in 2275 and 2140, born in 1980. By then crack and heroin took over the projects. My mom and pops where both addicted to drugs and I watched them both die by 1990, I was only ten. Our childhood, Jessica Guzman, who was only ten years old, was raped and killed by this crazy serial killer. It was a time of trauma and poverty in the 80's. So when I hear how nice Castle Hill use to be in the 60's and 70s, I always wonder what happened? I think drugs really was the beginning of the end for our community.
@jakedesimine1782
Жыл бұрын
Hocus 45th is from here
@williehubbard3315
2 жыл бұрын
yes sir mrs. remy ma real name reminiscie martin born and raised in the south bronx in the castle hill houses.
@bxdale83
2 жыл бұрын
*Southeast Bronx
@TheBronxHippie
2 жыл бұрын
I planted 5000 flowers all over castle hill keep your eyes out for them this spring
@williehubbard3315
2 жыл бұрын
this is the housing projects that remy ma grew up in for real from the terror squad yes sir no cap she's from these projects.
@gipsyperez6792
2 жыл бұрын
🥰
@albertoortiz9777
2 жыл бұрын
580 my building
@p.s.lovely1810
2 жыл бұрын
Auh men The hookie parties in the early 90s Stevenson HS
@Honestly_Sisi
2 жыл бұрын
This is an extremely normal neighborhood
@whg5ptyyy159
2 жыл бұрын
S.M.M
@Honestly_Sisi
2 жыл бұрын
@@whg5ptyyy159 what does SMM mean?
@whg5ptyyy159
2 жыл бұрын
@@Honestly_Sisi sex Money murder. That’s the local gang that lives there. I know bc I live here and there’s shootings all the time.
@JP-dw1fp
6 күн бұрын
Yea, that's the problem.
@williehubbard3315
2 жыл бұрын
the first lady of the terror squad no cap this is the housing projects that raised her reminiscie "remy" "ma" martin born and raised in the south bronx all day long i like remy ma she my fantasy wife she is so pretty for real if she was my wife i'd give her love.
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