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.
@kevin7151
20 күн 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.
@dwayneneal3342
20 күн бұрын
Yeah I don't buy that
@user-cn2ql8pf1b
20 күн бұрын
Its true. Crime was also far worse@@dwayneneal3342
@kevin7151
20 күн 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.
@frogsterjonesiii6482
20 күн бұрын
Hard to believe there was a place that was worse than Detroit is in the 2000's.
@vitalqua320
21 күн бұрын
You definitely deserve more recognition for this!
@kingsittystudios2400
21 күн бұрын
i was here, in NYC, in the 1970's, 80's and today, its a totally different place.
@ErgensUit1987
18 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.
@teezee1000
21 күн 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.
@godbluffvdgg
21 күн 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!
@BoricuaLouieV
19 күн бұрын
Now Philly is the dump lol
@godbluffvdgg
19 күн бұрын
@@BoricuaLouieV HOW DARE YOU!
@MikeConrad-oj6se
18 күн бұрын
That's a long way to make deliveries on foot, man
@godbluffvdgg
18 күн бұрын
@@MikeConrad-oj6se : )...You!!!! :)...But, damn that would be a hoof!
@mephistosprincipium
5 күн бұрын
that’s a two day walk (for one direction) lol
@wolfslumbers91
21 күн бұрын
I didn't know CharlieBo313 had the ability to time travel.
@Sehlan-jw2cm
21 күн бұрын
Fr though.
@lucky-one4569
21 күн бұрын
Ahora lo sabes, Bobby
@stevenfetzer4911
17 күн бұрын
Fart??@@Sehlan-jw2cm
@taraerskine3954
17 күн бұрын
CharlieBo
@dissidentfairy4264
2 күн бұрын
Lol I was thinking the same thing:-) I just watched Time Changer and loved it.
@reptilegod1490
19 күн бұрын
this is so interesting! It would be great to get some interviews from people who have lived on those times
@AKawalski
18 күн бұрын
Awesome comparison video mr. Transformed but still ‘challenging’ and ‘tricky.’ Thank you
@ronen160
17 күн бұрын
Great compilation!! Thank you for creating this video.
@DJLordShango
21 күн 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-Oink
21 күн бұрын
it's extremely dangerous once again.
@ecup1384
21 күн бұрын
@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Back then it was 2200 Kills in a year Dangerous. Now Just 350. Thats a difference
@Piggy-Oink-Oink
21 күн 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.
@de5163
20 күн 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.
@brendanmcmahon2744
20 күн бұрын
@@Piggy-Oink-Oinkthere were more subway murders back then. You have no idea what you are talking about.
@MrHorse-by3mp
21 күн 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.
@StreetLethalRacing
20 күн 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.
@adambowles3804
19 күн 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-uo7fw5bo1o
19 күн 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.
@icybear1113
4 күн бұрын
Its nice to see charliebo go back in time and share this with us
@Hubjeep
20 күн бұрын
0:33 I heard that Mercedes-Benz 300 diesel before I saw it! May still be running today!
@ennaww
20 күн бұрын
Looks like a war zone - buildings in rubble/ruins. Love seeing the old cars.
@NikkiLynn1588
19 күн бұрын
You have the best videos ever!! Love them.
@CharlieBo313
18 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@JOESSECRETGARDEN85
19 күн бұрын
Yo im from the D to good to see your almost at 1million subscribers keep pushing you will be there soon
@Marvel-Rogue
21 күн бұрын
Oh God, the Boogie Down Bronx was the worst of the worst 😫 total waste landscape ever
@rocksofoffence.righteousam2422
13 күн бұрын
That, and parts of Uptown
@GardenerEarthGuy
21 күн бұрын
This is the NY I always remember growing up.
@steviboyy
20 күн бұрын
broken glass everywhere.....
@kravin74
18 сағат бұрын
People pissing on the stairs , you know they just don't care
@psilva2565
21 күн бұрын
Charlie as a kid in the back seat of family car taking video, on a trip to NYC.
@BusDriversLife
21 күн бұрын
No Cell Phones only Beepers back then!
@teezee1000
21 күн бұрын
Not even beepers, those came in the 90s
@logan5326
12 сағат бұрын
@@teezee1000…word up homeboy! 👌🏿
@jaygamilwatson8529
12 күн бұрын
Excellent video
@dissidentfairy4264
2 күн бұрын
Wow! This is some amazing footage. It almost looks like an apocalypse at times.
@bio-plasmictoad5311
20 күн 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.
@brookingsbeachcomber
19 күн бұрын
NY in the 70's looks like Detroit today...
@shevn_fut5453
21 күн 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-oj6se
18 күн бұрын
Back then homies drove Cadillacs, now they drive BMWs and Benzes.
@Coffee240
19 күн 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.
@rauldiaz7309
20 күн 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.
@rocksofoffence.righteousam2422
13 күн бұрын
If you've survived in NYC from 1970 thru 2000, you're truly special!!! My Hat tilts to you
@Joshdyisdifh
20 күн бұрын
This is what parts of Philadelphia looks like today.
@Cosmo4357-mj1tw
18 күн бұрын
Kensington avenue.
@garyrigby21
18 күн бұрын
and Baltimore
@xwhitexstarxx
18 күн бұрын
Which parts?
@Slim900
2 күн бұрын
@@xwhitexstarxxKensington
@xisotopex
15 күн бұрын
this is great but a video retracing the route in the car would be gold.
@lifeisagambletv
21 күн 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
@lostmind5063
19 күн бұрын
Old time New York is soo interesting and fun to watch. I wish I was alive back in this time era.
@JohnnyT002
19 күн 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.
@erroljr.7480
14 күн бұрын
Wow nobody with phones in their hands! 😂😂😂
@antwangordon6918
17 күн бұрын
0:22 bro beeper went off 😂. I remember those days, in the mid nineties I had one.
@DieselDF16
17 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.
@infinitesimotel
6 күн бұрын
What's more triggering is all these blacks unduly soaking up living space and those lovely cars.
@garyrigby21
18 күн бұрын
Proper old NYC the way i remember it and loved it
@Alfriv109
18 күн бұрын
Leningrad looked better after the siege
@SharonBook
19 күн бұрын
This was what Washington DC looked like in the 70s.
@nicebluejay
21 күн бұрын
70's nyc was rough, nyc is a paradise today compared to then -- pretty unbelievable actually.
@user-wm8no6kz6s
18 күн бұрын
This is the Bronx not Manhattan!
@bgabriel28
17 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.
@edwinpillay1409
7 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.
@yankeesandgiants1886
21 күн 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.
@erniegutierrez2288
16 күн бұрын
Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message" playin in my head while I watch this video. "Like"
@IMGWindham
15 күн бұрын
Broken glass everywhere 🎶🎵🎶 u
@Prone-Ski_BX
19 күн бұрын
It's incredible that Hip Hop came out of the South Bronx.
@taramahoney2412
17 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.
@RUD-LION-KMarc-Tribute
19 күн 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
@azdrifter3968
19 күн бұрын
Re-upload? I know I've seen this.
@user-uo7fw5bo1o
19 күн 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."
@tony--james
19 күн бұрын
It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under !! Grandmaster Flash
@David_Slavik
20 күн бұрын
What kind of city is this? Is this Johannesburg South Africa? 🤔
@dissidentfairy4264
2 күн бұрын
It may not be perfect but it's definitely changed for the better.
@somedutchguy9184
19 күн бұрын
Charles Bronson fixed that.
@curtg7396
20 күн бұрын
Looks like it was filmed in 1986
@TheOldTapeArchive
21 күн 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-lg4gq
4 күн бұрын
Street art is forced, commissioned crap.
@robertgraziano
19 күн бұрын
I've seen New York when it was good,bad,and ugly. Now it is beautiful and I Love New York always!
@BkKellz
3 күн бұрын
This is late 80s 87-89 to early 90s Jeep Cherokee didn't come out until 87 or 88
@garneauweld1100
19 күн 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.
@zroy9263
19 күн 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!
@Muhammad80008
19 күн бұрын
Like my hood in Czechia is called Bronx, last year there was triple murder in next to my flat
@bubblesdelight
18 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.❤❤❤❤❤
@raidensnake9471016
20 күн бұрын
That's a damn loud heavy breathing!
@86Argonaut
6 күн бұрын
Neighborhoods reflect the values of the people that live there.
@infinitesimotel
6 күн бұрын
White man create, black just take.
@azdrifter3968
19 күн 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. 🤔
@infinitesimotel
6 күн бұрын
The people had everything to do with it. 3rd world people 3rd world place.
@ghostbison1
20 күн бұрын
Whoa ❤
@nostalgiaof98
20 күн бұрын
What movies were filmed in the Bronx in this era, Superfly?
@stephenheath8465
19 күн бұрын
Fort Apache and Wild Style
@marblox9300
19 күн бұрын
I don't get what is wrong with this BEFORE picture.??? It is a perfectly normal black neighborhood.
@joshthegreatest1198
21 күн бұрын
Where was Big L during this era?
@lildirt793
20 күн бұрын
139 Lennox I belive ?
@TMendocino
20 күн 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-lg4gq
4 күн бұрын
The abandoned rotting buildings made it better. Don't you get it?
@TMendocino
3 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-lg4gq
3 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.
@TMendocino
3 күн бұрын
@@Heather-lg4gq It was a dangerous mess. There is no romanticizing the 1970's and 1980's
@Heather-lg4gq
2 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 😊
@kingtubbyleeperry
18 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
@BoricuaLouieV
19 күн бұрын
Imagine night time
@jeandefrance6969
21 күн бұрын
Sad reality for an American place
@derim006
20 күн 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 ....
@craigpetties1476
20 күн бұрын
The 80s 💎💎
@kevinoreilly4172
19 күн бұрын
The 70's were really bad. The Bronx was the worst.
@jennalee1
7 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.
@josephvelez7680
18 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.
@edholohan
19 күн бұрын
I'll bet the rents were cheap.
@jahlilbrown302
19 күн бұрын
This giving Philly vibes today
@ctadam12
20 күн бұрын
Looks like Philadelphia and Baltimore... CURRENT TIMES 💩
@peterbarrett5496
20 күн бұрын
Geeesus why is there so much trash. The hippies finally got something right
@Vixinaful
19 күн 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.
@xwhitexstarxx
18 күн бұрын
Where was located 1:15 ?
@Ice0slayer
19 күн бұрын
Feels like the only thing that got better are the cars and video cameras
@joemoore8054
20 күн бұрын
You sure this wasn't recorded last week??
@MultiFloyde
19 күн бұрын
Looks like 3rd would slums !
@markhayden1
19 күн бұрын
I don't see any attempt at a comparison here.
@totsmini3105
20 күн бұрын
🏅BRILLIANT-footage💫 Charlie-boy!!
@jonathanfalvo2414
19 күн бұрын
A lot of the Bronx and Harlem was basically third world in the 70s and 80s
@TylerChristoher
19 күн бұрын
The graffiti got better didn't it
@kakarot4star
19 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
@soldolcemelo7059
20 күн бұрын
Porquecestaba todo quemado harlen???
@robertajoanna973
20 күн бұрын
😮 parecia zona de guerra
@jubernardi23
19 күн бұрын
O que é isso, senhor?! 😂😂🤡🤡 Oh lugarzinho complicado e 🗑️!☠️☠️💣💣 Vamos comparar com SP, manas?🥰
@jubernardi23
19 күн бұрын
@@priscae.😂😂
@robynlea6950
19 күн бұрын
Lo que era.
@aaronbradwell989
19 күн бұрын
It looks like the Gaza Strip.
@MikeConrad-oj6se
18 күн бұрын
Except They could get food and water
@Paragneis
20 күн бұрын
MURICAH!!!
@garyrigby21
18 күн бұрын
even the Rats were tougher in those days
@stanleypierre5042
20 күн бұрын
So Charlie been doing this shit
@brycec.4156
19 күн бұрын
The neighborhood today seems sharper with details that are easier to see. That’s the biggest difference.
@kutyna4nogi141
21 күн 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.
Пікірлер: 215