1977 SOUTH BRONX: "THE FIRE NEXT DOOR"

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In this award-winning documentary, Bill Moyers takes a breathtaking look at the arson and crime that nearly destroyed the Bronx in the 1970s.

[@aproverbshome173]

I remember our family being in one of these fires when we lived in the Bronx. We lost everything and where homeless. We had to live in an hotel for a while. Years ago.. I thank God He took care of us. I thank God for parents who worked hard to give us what we need. My grandparents owned restaurants. I will never forget the Bronx.

[@7sonero7]

You forgot to thank the people who pay taxes.

[@sf3280]

Who? Hrt grandparents and parents? They worked.

[@Jozeha]

@@7sonero7only the little people pay taxes

[@rogerrendzak8055]

​@@7sonero7What about taxing the crap, outta the wealthy, which needs to be done???

[@aproverbshome173]

@@7sonero7 My parent's worked hard and pay taxes. My mom went to school and got a degree. So I thank God. I pay taxes as an American!

[@toneill3818]

That police officer at the beginning was (and still is) years ahead of his time.

[@gbdelaire]

My thought exactly!

[@sostdm617]

Exactly

[@WilliamBati]

And it cost him his job

[@kevindube7096]

The sweat&equity folks at the end too! Putting early solar panels on the roof and the whole program was beautiful

[@pedrorivera1127]

tru he is 50 years ahead

[@marcortiz4855]

Wow, this cop spoke the truth

[@MrSlamCAC]

Chief Anthony V. Bouza.

[@broaderrange5870]

This is the smartest, most articulate cop in American history lol

[@D33Lux]

I noticed most people spoke intelligently.

[@Sablus]

@@D33Lux When people understand a situation and want to communicate that they usually are. Nowadays we got endless muckracking and sensationalism where understanding and empathy should instead be.

[@Hiii_Power_Cuban]

Cop and truth is an oxymoron.

[@cd.cd.cd.cd-cd]

I was born in 1977 in the South Bronx, I recognize some of those areas. It was really a third world looking environment but we made it work. Great stuff

[@petiepab123]

The little girl in the commercial at 20min was WAY ahead of her time, we have that now and then some. Side note...the fact that you leave the commercials in does SO much to create a full rounded context of the time, I enjoy that almost as much as the news pieces...

[@OverpoweredByMonk]

It was a wild idea but creeped me out hard in the context of the video. Like what if your sister is trying to wake you up because of a fire but can’t because of the crazy lock!

[@AshleySpeaks09]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@michaelpabon6312]

@@AshleySpeaks09 I love madonna lol

[@michellesanders9619]

She was very smart and cute!

[@djbuck4948]

That apartment building where the old woman lives alone in the abandoned building and Davidson avenue is still standing and occupied today. That is actually one of the nicer blocks of apartment buildings to live in currently in the Bronx. Looking at the decay and ruins in this video there's no way you would think almost fifty years later it would still be there, but it is and the neighborhood is thriving

[@bronxtours4193]

It would be nice to know what happen to her and what ever became of them kids in front of her building

[@umarbentley4953]

@@bronxtours4193She’s more than likely dead by now.She gotta be at least in her mid 60s while this video was being made.

[@WitchidWitchid]

My grandparents lived in that part of the Bronx and my parents grew up there. My grandparents on my Dad's side of the family lived in a typical 6 story brick apartment house and I also lived in that apartment for the first 4-5 years of my life. On my Mom's side my Grandpa owned a very old large wood frame private house (farmhouse) that dated way back to when that section of the Bronx still had farm land. Both of my grandparents /parents houses are long gone and the neighborhood looks completely different from the way it did back in the 1970s. Still, on trips I have taken down there in recent times I ml surprised when I see a few of the old buildings that are still standing after all these years. It's amazing that a few of the buildings still stand after all these long years.

[@Mantikal]

I lived in this at that time. Here's something that happened to me as a ten year old sitting in our apt watching TV with my family. We heard someone walking in the apt above us which we knew was not rented yet. We quickly forgot about it as we adsorbed ourselves in the TV show playing on the TV. Then we noticed a slight trickle of water drip coming from the ceiling from the edge where ceiling meets the wall in the living room. That was soon followed by a bunch of other little trickles on from the edge where ceiling meets the wall too - spreading more apart from each other. Then it turned into full streams of water coming down the wall and then a huge chunk of the ceiling fell down on us. Why ??? Those people we previously heard walking above us - they were junkies / drug addicts who broke into steal all the bronze and copper piping to sell it so the could pool enough money together to pay for their next heroin shots. (the brothers would call it "heir-RON"). Almost everyone in the neighborhood was a heroin addict - they were the real walking dead - long before the TV series came out.

[@AshleySpeaks09]

So sad smh.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Brother's?? What are you, a lowlife RepubliCON (racists) or something???

[@WitchidWitchid]

Like the cop in the video said, "if it wasn't for the ready availability of alcohol and heroin there would be big trouble". Which is basically true. If the people weren't self-sedated on booze and dope they would have been out rioting over better living conditions and the politicians might have actually had to have done something to improve the overall quality o[ peoples lives.

[@WitchidWitchid]

Yeah, once an apartment was known to be vacant everything in the apartment would go. Sinks, tube, plumbing, radiators, pipes,bathtub, you name it. If it could be removed it was removed.

[@lkylaurenkay]

Amazing Video! Every Bratty Kid should watch this to know how good they have it..

[@armidabravo6297]

I was raised in the South Bronx in the 60's and I wouldn't change it for Disney, my childhood filled with precious memories which I will never forget, pure love, joy & laughter!!!

[@Eric-sn4qz]

And FIRE 🔥

[@armidabravo6297]

@@Eric-sn4qzH ola When the fires came I had already moved to my beautiful Island. Stay safe.

[@aproverbshome173]

Same!

[@TheBizziniss]

What were the 70s like?

[@jusliving7977]

My heart breaks for Mrs. Sullivan. Judging by her age in this video she's surely passed on by now. The poor old lady couldn't retire in peace and tranquility. It's heartbreaking.

[@ebeneezerscrooge2942]

Reminds me of my grandma and it makes me so sad. I think it was the kids that were watching the interview. Once she said all her windows were broken one of the kids says let’s go to my house then they leave. Those apartments are awful.

[@michellesanders9619]

Mayor Wagner got his revenge on them by not doing a thing except letting it continue to burn while reducing municipal services in the S. Bronx.

[@reinamatheny9972]

Yea~ bless her heart~ that one hit me~ :(

[@D33Lux]

20:07 That little girl was predicting facial recognition software. "It has a special lock on it, and it will open just for me. See that little door knob there, it can see."

[@joemartin1253]

The Bronx in the 70's makes Detroit look like Beverly Hills.

[@r.pres.4121]

Joe Martin Both Detroit and the Bronx were equally bad. Both urban locales were in serious decline.

[@paleo704]

Look at the demographic makeup

[@kevindube7096]

@@paleo704 what’s your point?

[@04u2cY]

The only reason Detroit arson rage seems like a walk in the park is that Detroit does not have the tenement buildings that dominated the south bronx during the 70s or what FDNY called the war years if Detroit was to have the same type of buildings like the south bronx or any other buildings thru out NYC I'm sure Detroit arson rage would be equally as bad as the south bronx.

[@serene1275]

@@04u2cY I have seen a picture of Detroit apartments and houses in an area that made it looked like a war zone. It supposedly being rebuild last time I heard.

[@daoldnewyork7639]

I was born in 1977 half black and half Puerto Rican I remember New York when it was like this our hoods looked like it got hit with missles I kant believe I made it outta of dat

[@lordshadow2x295]

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jamaican two homie

[@LordBlackNephew]

Only the strong survive. BX STAND UP!!!

[@felixgonzalez5882]

Its called white flight.These buildings were here for white immigrants but not for us black and brown people. Landlords paid arsonists to burn them down and they move on with the insurance $$$. American racism at its finest. I made it out of there too. Stay up my brothers !!! 🇵🇷🇱🇾🇯🇲

[@georgecoons6872]

I'm half russian and half german. And we do shout at satan the devil.

[@wizcoolc1]

That poor old lady was living in hell, heart breaking.

[@City2x]

There's a recent documentary that goes into great depth about this and has deep interviews with those who lived through this. The documentary is called "Decade of Fire" I highly recommend it.

[@josron6088]

Thanks. I will be sure to check it out.

[@Peter-733]

Poor mrs Sullivan she was targeted cause shes vulnerable and white

[@quadrefriday4919]

My god I can't believe this happened in the 70's those poor people have to live in fear there house would get bernt down can't trust the Land Lord's

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

There was also bureaucratic snafus and antiquated laws keeping rents so low that no one could afford to correctly maintain a building . There was rampant inflation and union strikes from the sanitation services .

[@bignell07]

Damn I remember leaving the South Bronx in 76 and my dad always drove by the old neigborhood cause he used to still go to the meat market in Southern Boulevard shit use to look like Beirut back in the day all that rubble!!

[@b3j8]

A couple important things I noticed watching this, how well people expressed themselves talking to the reporter. No profanity or F bombs every other word. Also the time betw commercials! If we get 4-5 min of program now w/o a commercial we're lucky.

[@evanstinson7745]

Way I figure, that's because there was some semblance of a social contract between people. What was taking place here right before our eyes was a breaking down of this. I mean kids literally threatening to burn down buildings. The whole structure of society unraveling. So where are we now? I think a lot of people worked hard to fix this, but also just many of these communities are either unrecognizable today or people are merely holding on by threads. I would say any sense of community has been long dead in large parts of NYC. Immigrants have maybe maintained this, but this is debatable. I mean community like you know everybody on your block and who owns all the businesses. Gentrification has worked to paper over or displace this decay, but it is still very present in our culture. This is the reality of deindustrialization that the corporate classes wish to paper over.

[@b3j8]

@@evanstinson7745 Evan it's likely only going to continue. I'm truly worried for this Country. No matter who the next President is, so many problems that began decades ago are now on the verge of boiling over.

[@17thcentury_girl]

I mean it was on television, I probably wouldnt swear on tv either

[@ariesmichaelfalcon9305]

My family had a beautiful apartment in the early 70s on Bryant Avenue. All of sudden the landlord came to my mom and said the building is done!!! That’s it!! The landlord left before us!!! We moved a block up to Vyse Avenue. Quickly saw Bryant Avenue turn into a ghost town. Fires were so normal. We eventually moved again

[@lordshadow2x295]

Cool

[@lordshadow2x295]

I have family who from new York

[@tsaffran]

@@lordshadow2x295 are they on welfare too

[@jafredboatwright4246]

Was it really as bad as they portrayed it?

[@Kelli-sf9wy]

Those Jewish landlords who owned the buildings intentionally burned them down for insurance purposes and money.

[@WitchyWagonReal]

5:52 This old police “Tony Bouza” borough ex-commander has such a keen and self-aware understanding of his community and what the country’s urban centers are... and this is 40-50 years ago! It’s not as bad in the Bronx as it once was, and some key progress has been since the ‘70s. Still, there is much work to be done in this country to combat disparity and provide opportunities for people to lift themselves. (edited to correct Tony Bouza’s name... there was a 1976 NYT article written about his “maverick” community leadership in the Bronx)

[@garycooper9207]

Poor Mrs Sullivan. What a shame bullying Irish old Lady. Irish have hard history. They were slaves, there was famine. Com' on. I hope those horrible kids got Karma.

[@everglad3s]

In the bronx, people burn down buildings for the money

[@serene1275]

It was the landlords!!

[@scavenger9579]

​@@serene1275 no it was young thugs Who lit the buildings on fire

[@serene1275]

@@scavenger9579 There's an article that said it was always the landlords to get insurance money. Thugs get paid.

[@LonnellRich]

​@savenger9579 the landlords paid them

[@Brend.0]

Poor Mrs Sullivan worked at the plaza as a supervisor since 1926. The stories she must have had.

[@simonyip5978]

I thought that she mentioned that she was there for 38/39 years (1938-1977) but if she had been in New York City from before World War Two to at least 1977 she must have been a teenager when she left Ireland to go to the US. It's hard to guess her age because people looked older than today, but I'd guess that she was in her mid 60's to early 70's. Another thing is that she had probably spent most of her life in New York, yet she still had a strong Irish accent.

[@armidabravo6297]

It is so sad & also depressing, you just don't know what lies further down and how you will wind up! I always feel so sad for the elderly, like the lady living alone with 3 dogs, this just makes me want to cry! That was in 1977, so she is resting in Gods arms right now!!!

[@kevindube7096]

@@armidabravo6297 there’s a reason why they focused on those sad stories of the elderly women. Pulling the heart-strings pulls good ratings. The news has always been like this but the difference is back then they actually tried their hardest to balance the bad with the good, the sad with the hopeful

[@damianmcdonagh7908]

Huge numbers of Irish lived in the Bronx. They fled when the area turned sour.

[@newzcutter]

She retired in ‘72

[@karmas4172]

My God that cop foresaw the future... What a visionary

[@explosivejohnny]

That's Father Flynn at the end!!! He led mass at St. Martin of Tours when I was a kid! What a surprise!! I was just thinking about him!

[@guillermoalto4803]

There are a lot of Liberal and Commie sentiments in this documentary and the narrator seems to direct the documentary in a mostly victim narrative. While it was admirable what they did cooperatively at that one building, I think the most telling segment was when old Mrs. Sullivan was lamenting her plight to the camera man and saying she was moving and those two creepy little bastards were smiling mischievously in the background and one told the other to come with him and then at that time she got robbed one last time. Poverty is only part of the reason people were stealing. You don’t burglarize apartments because you’re hungry. Of anything, you’d get food stamps, go to a soup kitchen or a food pantry…if you were truly hungry, you’d pilfer from a food stand or a supermarket (many of them do this as a matter of course, anyway). The real reason you rob old ladies and break into their apartments is because you’re a hateful scumbag or a junkie.

[@meximick]

"Liberal and Commie". You have a narrow, biased agenda yourself. Bill Moyers is an award winning journalist en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Moyers

[@Rio-iy1cx]

7:35:00 DAMN… this cop was talking about Machines taking jobs from people in 1977!🤦🏽‍♂️

[@MaiMai-ys4yg]

Born and raised in the Bronx. Proud to be from here it gave me strength and character but I couldnt imagine growing old there or raising my own family there. Def left NYC

[@nicolebee3273]

Poor lady at 30:50 she knows it was that kid then he stares her down to intimidate her. Disgusting.

[@DanEBoyd]

The one was wearing boxing gloves too.

[@julieann4616]

Those lovely gentlemen probably didn’t make it to see their 21st birthday. A tragic loss no doubt.

[@theotherwayofstopping4717]

Typical of their kind.

[@cece5088]

@@theotherwayofstopping4717 what kind?

[@greggonzalez859]

I graduated from PS 81 in the Bronx in 1977. Thank you for remembering my people Hez.

[@TheDaisyfayharper]

If you want to learn more about this time in the Bronx check out Decade of Fire and Man Alive: The Bronx is Burning.

[@EA-xp7hm]

Wow, that police officer spoke so well

[@peterrod5239]

The landlords were burning down their own buildings for insurance. there were whites and blacks mix in the Bronx back in the 50s and 60s. the whites were move out to the upper Bronx by the city, the vacant apartments were fill by blacks already on welfare, the lanlords were setting fire to their own building with people still in them, the same landlords came back the second time and bought the same building from the city for $1 dollar or more with the promised to rebuild, instead they put insurance and burn it down again collecting twice for the same building. the stories are horrible. and all was cause by greedy white developers and landlords.

[@patrickhenry6695]

"White" I think you mean Jewish pal, its New York! White people dont own any buildings 🤣 dont blame your jew landlord on whites

[@Whattaurieloves]

Patrick Henry no He’s right. Whites. The Jews took over parts of Brooklyn. Whites are in upper Bronx, safely tucked away from the Latinos in South Bronx. I’m not a native, but I’ve lived here in NY for a good minute.

[@bobbyg433]

Its hilarious that it's never black people who at fault for anything. Unbelievable.

[@marticus1642]

bobby G this is true though so accept it and move on

[@StrongnBeautiful]

@@patrickhenry6695 FIRST OF ALL..JEWS are ABSOLUTELY..WHITE!

[@mimimim]

I grew up in this, it was very sad and hard to see away out. Luckily change came and it's not the best but it's better than way back then. Thank God, I moved out best decision ever made.

[@whocares4420]

Mimi Esca y'all still live here and still a s******* crackheads everywhere

[@mimimim]

@@whocares4420 I know I still visit. Hopefully it will get better. God Bless.

[@NegronJL1]

Chief Bouza, who recently passed, expressed the same issues we are facing today. 8:06

[@fred5nyc]

I was living in the LES during this time, I was only 6 but I remember parts of the LES looking just like this...

[@TM-jt3dd]

Lower east side of Manhattan nimrod

[@yankees29]

It was similar

[@amazing50000]

I was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The neighborhood next to Brownsville to the east (which is East New York, Brooklyn) also look like this and were burned down in the 1970's & 1980's. Brownsville itself had (and still do) too many housing projects for it to happen like this.

[@stephenheath8465]

@@amazing50000 Bushwick was just like the SBX at this time too

[@amazing50000]

@@stephenheath8465 Yes, Bushwick too.

[@thuggoe]

I wonder if those cops came back and wrecked those kids bullying miss sullivan when the cameras were gone

[@DanEBoyd]

Wouldn't you just love to be waiting in that apartment for them?

[@lachuchiunique8562]

Poor old Ireland white lady Ms. Sullivan. This is sooo freaking sad this Doc really touched my heart.

[@TheLukaszencja]

omg i feel so bad for mrs Sullivan. Thank god her cat was ok. Man I would take her in my house if I could so she could feel safe and move out of that hell hole

[@robertcarli5803]

Lying

[@RicTic66]

My heart goes out to the good folk of the Bronx who had to suffer at the hands of the corrupt landlords, tenants, politicians, police, insurance companies plus their crime driven neighbours who combined led to the destruction of what was once a hard working, proud community built on civic pride and a population who for the most part looked out for each other. Poverty is no excuse, there are huge areas today of Mumbai and Delhi where the poverty, lack of sewage systems running water and single room shack housing make the Bronx of the late 70s/80s look desirable, yet all kids attend school, clean and tidy every day and continually achieve high grades, crime is minimal and mental health issues are negligible. What is it with so called western civilised society that when things get tough so many people stop caring about each other and activley start preying on the weak and vulnerable in their midst, all the time forgetting that they are someone else's prey in the food chain. The "I'm all right Jack" attitude is the recipe for humanities downfall.

[@hankgoresich6836]

Excellent and interesting comment, thank you. I never thought about it this way, but it rings true.

[@AshleySpeaks09]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@aproverbshome173]

We made it and now we are successful! We were not all hopeless we know Jesus was and is our Rock!

[@barryand601]

I remember when you uploaded this on your old channel! Keep up the good work.

[@jusliving7977]

Look how deep of a thinker this Officer was. Like today he was also a victim of buracracy. Too bad.

[@johnlynch42069]

The interesting part is that the building where the old lady was squatting is apparently still there as well as the buildings across the street. It’s just amazing to see that some of these buildings are still here 45 years later.

[@jaycebronx2608]

That lady at that time im guessing was in her 60s so she most be 100 something if still alive

[@darlenebattle2713]

Really?!? I was hurt to find that 1944 Davidson Ave. burned to the ground in 1975. My mom sent me to Queens in 1974 to start in a new school; she and my siblings followed a year later before the fire. There's a school build in that area.

[@umarbentley4953]

​@@jaycebronx2608I doubt if she's still alive.

[@junglebrother8923]

She started working at the hotel from 1926-1972 .. I'd guess she was born in 1908.... bringing her age around 69

[@WitchidWitchid]

I like that scene on the roof of that building where the neighborhood kids are helping out the fireman on the roof helping to relieve the heavy backpressure of the firehose. IMy granddfather lived in that neighborhood from the 1920s into the 1970s. As rough as the area was there were a lot of good kids in that hood. I was pretty much the only white kid in the neighborhood yet none of the neighborhood kids ever showed any predjudices against me. They used to hang around and talk to me and we all got along very well.

[@J0EYbagaDONUTS]

The sad thing is I bet some of the children that were so called helping were the ones that start fires .

[@LonnellRich]

​@@J0EYbagaDONUTSthry actually got paid by landlords to set those fires

[@WitchidWitchid]

@@J0EYbagaDONUTS It's very possible. The neighborhood was falling apart, people had little money, the kids roamed the streets, it was boring, there were all these vacant buildings nobody seemed to care about, some kids set fires in order to generate excitement and thrills. I am not excusing such behavior. It was an unfortunate and very misguided reality.

[@WitchidWitchid]

@@LonnellRichYes, landlords would often pay drugs addicts to go in and set fire to their buildings. Desperate and in need of drug money they would take their chances and do the arson. Other times kids would start fires for quick "thrills".

[@J0EYbagaDONUTS]

@@WitchidWitchid I have been bored many times in my life but have never thought of starting a fire just for thrills & excitement .

[@jusliving7977]

So many of the adults in this video are either very elderly or passed away.

[@toshiojohnston3732]

If adults 30 to 60 plus 46 years = 76 to 106.

[@susie1370]

I used to live in the Bronx , was born there in little Italy

[@IAmMrQ]

A cultural Phoenix rose from those fires and ashes, it's known as Hip Hop. 😎👍

[@karmas4172]

Well that got burned down too

[@LordBlackNephew]

Man, I grew up in the very next era after the "X" was burning. Thanks for this detailed moment in time. BX STAND UP!!!

[@vladimirputinforUSA]

The next era was the crack era

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

I cannot figure out if its the 70s that I miss or if its my youth I want back .

[@Biscuit1973]

I’ve watch this documentary many months ago on this channel because if you were living in the Bronx back in the 70s, orison was a nasty habit back then because there was a race of ours in far as being sit in these dilapidated apartments which the residents were still living in back in the 1970s and I remembered at 5636, this woman was very angry because she had to evacuate her apartment because someone in the next unit beside hers or above hers was empty around that time and it had nothing but trash and somebody who lived in their last set fire to it which caused us inferno and had everybody evacuating this is why this woman was so angry when he interviewed her in the 70s.

[@RozyRoPink150]

I remember moving to the Parkchester area of the Bronx From Bushwick, Brooklyn when I was 6 years old because it was a great neighborhood. I remember riding on the 36 bus with my through these burned down neighborhoods and thinking “what kind of people live in this neighborhood”. Little did I know… “My kind of people”. And it was not the people burning down the Bronx. It was the landlords to collect insurance money. The kids were paid by the landlords to burn down the buildings

[@El_Cofresi]

Born there and grew up there during those times. After the fires those buildings in The Bronx remained desolate or just piles of rubble FOR DECADES! Democrat upon Democrat came to office with great promises but nothing changed. Kudos to The Honorable Edward I. Koch, (a Democrat and patriot), for trying his best while in office, the NYC political machine was too strong for him to complete his work. It took Rudolph Giuliani in 1994 to finally help the borough I loved. The Bronx still feels the affects of the 1970's.

[@StrongnBeautiful]

Politics is the devil's country club. 👌💯

[@DanEBoyd]

@@StrongnBeautiful Politics attracts sociopaths!

[@monica012077]

It was the Republicans who redlined the Bronx and started its decline. It's rebirth started way before Guiliani.

[@Anaximander9]

@@monica012077 You need to read up on redlining. It was a process begun in the 1930s by the federal government during FDR's administration. The federal government required banks to redline in giving mortgages. FDR was a Democrat.

[@monica012077]

@@Anaximander9 50 years later it was Ronald Reagan who ruined the Bronx and pretty much every poor neighborhood.

[@user-el3iw6rz3m]

Thank God our Boro no longer looks like a barren wasteland. Gentrification has helped sprout up affordable housing everywhere! Harlem & Brooklyn

[@user-el3iw6rz3m]

...have become too trendy & too pricey for most of us. So ppl are being ushered to the bx tempted by tiny trend-setting buildings & reasonable rents given by lottery. I'm so glad my children haven't seen empty lots & abandoned buildings. God Bless u all

[@user-el3iw6rz3m]

Oops tiny "apartments". No one in the Bronx has a dining room unless ur building was built in the 1800's and hasn't been gutted.

[@serene1275]

@@user-el3iw6rz3m There are dining rooms in some apartments in the Bronx. Not all Brooklyn and Manhattan apartments have dining rooms too.

[@gravyguns]

It was the coming together of the people to form hip hop that was the major factor leading to improvement of the Bronx, and not only the Bronx, but the entire 5 boroughs were boosted by Hip Hop.

[@deniselyman5147]

How did all these arsonists get away with starting these fires? Unreal

[@dab0331]

CSI level shit didn't exist back then

[@Zlervo]

They were paid to do it by greedy landlords

[@oochiewally2783]

Everyone was overwhelmed with crime you couldn't keep up with it

[@jmfia2391]

Because no one cared. The police couldn't handle the number of calls... There were rapes, murders, and robberies happening simultaneously.

[@StrongnBeautiful]

It's called, WICKEDNESS in HIGH places!

[@alchemistamineh3261]

@12:50 I completely understand why that lady wouldn't make a complaint 😔 law enforcement tends 2 write it off as "not snitching" being a generational learned behavior cause it's not cool or culture thing to fit in when it's ABSOLUTELY NOT It's a survival tactic for all parties involved victims , witnesses or alleged criminals.....you're trying not to become a target and at the same time not to make the other person a target ( knowing that they did what they did out of desperation due to their environment or etc...) You never know unless it's happening to you...😬

[@mikeatv]

this cop is right in 2021 amazing

[@trixiedelight9874]

I remember this fire...although i was in jersey, i could hear my grandpa saying (he was a truck driver in nyc...teamster😁) i just wanna make my deliveries😂

[@deniselyman5147]

Hahaha

[@krystingrant6292]

🤣💯

[@jimmyrodasmolestina979]

My parents had friends that died in the Bronx from a burning building One of the kids survived and his hands were all burned up !! He had scars All up his arms !! He stayed with us one summer because his Mom had died in the fire !! This kid was kind of evil I remember him being very spoiled and selfish and always wanted to get his way!! He was a real brat !!! Me and my brothers tried to feel sorry for him because we knew what had happened to him that winter !! He said they escaped the fire threw the fire escape but it was locked up and they busted it open!!! And escaped through the roof . ...1976 the Bronx NYC

[@BassGods]

Hopefully those people who did that to that old lady, are burning in Hell now for their sins. Those ignorant news people did not make her situation any better. Interviewing her in front of the possible criminals who destroyed her apartment. Smdh

[@WitchyWagonReal]

This channel is like... 🤔 “My Whole Childhood Channel” As a PG County and D.C. kid of the ‘70s whose parents moved from Brooklyn, I just love it. I think it is absolutely criminal that you only got less than 2000 subscribers right now. Never forget that your time and efforts make a lot of people really happy and entertained, and for some people, even more than that because we always learning or remembering something.

[@HezakyaNewz]

i had over 100k subs until KZbin took my main channel down

[@WitchyWagonReal]

Hezakya Newz & Films - KZbin enriches itself in a nation where we have a Constitutionally protected guaranteed civil right to free speech (and was started by an immigrant from a country with no free speech) and is a *platform* where other creators provide the very content that enriches them... yet they will aggressively censor and discriminate against their creators if *any* superficial “controversy” occurs. It’s sick. Some holier-than-thou asshole employee in California can decide to censor you for nothing beyond disliking you or disagreeing with your content. These hypocrites feel that they are god’s gift to the world because they can control and shape what people see and think. KZbin are thieves, censors, cowards, and bullies. But good on you for staying around and keeping your presence. Keep your seat at the table and don’t let them bully you into leaving or being quiet. Show them that they can’t erase you, no matter what. Good for you.

[@mike.x456]

This officer definetly was wakened, and had an education.

[@RANDYJR72]

I lived in the Bronx from 1973 to 1979. Even as a child I remember it all.

[@RichardG0linsky]

Wow that was then this is now

[@rededwards3479]

That's hardcore treating the Elderly that way!

[@michellesanders9619]

The word starts with an "N."

[@A10Jedi]

And this is the reason we should have stopped this type of behavior decades ago. The offspring of these thugs are worse

[@Utubin]

I agree with you.

[@J0EYbagaDONUTS]

It seems like NYC is always in crisis one way or another . As a kid I always remembered the Bronx as being a hell hole . Now with the open border policies that Biden has in place a quarter of a million people are now homeless in NYC . with no end insight . I hope NY doesn't go backwards to the way it was in the 70's

[@bronxtours4193]

That Spanish mom wasn’t playing !!

[@serotoninsyndrome]

Supreme Mathematics @ 26:50. She's right next door to Shamiq from 212, God...

[@krystingrant6292]

She's freaking beautiful

[@GodsFavorite2122]

Peace !

[@MrSlamCAC]

Aaaaaaah, you peeped the Earths math on the wall too.

[@vladimirputinforUSA]

The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup

[@jchow5966]

The Bronx was super scary and way more dangerous back then.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Love live the memory of Mrs. Sullivan and her cat!

[@josephhoman8602]

9:00 They have the neighborhood kids to help them hold the hose on a highwise to fight a fire...

[@orangecat5036]

Even today people in the bronx do things like that.

[@mustertherohirrim7315]

30,000 burnt in bronx alone!! There's not even 30,000 houses in England put together.

[@stateofmind4341]

NYC you make there make it you anywhere Shout out to the comments Brook Ave

[@whocares4420]

that's what's up I grew up in 146 and Brook right next to St Mary's Park remember Third Avenue was like this

[@stateofmind4341]

@@whocares4420 Jackson Ave

[@yourfavoritegirlnyc9579]

Morris ave !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@stateofmind4341]

What year. I ran all through there

[@stateofmind4341]

Nice ride too

[@melbamartinez2183]

Those landlords should rot in hell

[@michellesanders9619]

As should the people there who destroyed that once beautiful, crime=free neighborhood because of laziness and drugs.

[@barrysmith5830]

I love these videos about 1970's NYC. They are very interesting and show the ability of humans to adapt to adverse condictions.

[@uhchief5123]

I grew up on Simpson st. 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

[@soniasg8639]

Being a native Californian I don't like high rise buildings. I couldn't live in New York City.

[@monica012077]

Don't have to worry about earthquakes and wildfires, and there's plenty of water.

[@derrickguffey4775]

​@@monica012077no you just have to worry about some slimeball burning you out in the middle of the night. And water is really a problem in California despite what the media has to say. Every state and city has problems but look at the arson statistics and California is way down on the list.

[@DaHolyGoat1]

Eaton was not playing with advertising on this program they tryna get that $$$

[@DanEBoyd]

"Shake hands with danger!"

[@seyronabbott6001]

LOVE the kids assisting the FDNY in fighting the fires😃 That's like oooold school bucket-brigade, all hands on deck stuff! 💪 8:50

[@TupDigital]

First the firebugs, then the midnight plumbers come do cleanup...my Grandma Millie was from Fox st, South Bronx, born 1925.

[@mike.x456]

Years ago, it was, white flight, she probably, just stayed.

[@MrSlamCAC]

Rhetorical question. How is it that Chief Bouza never rose to be the Commissioner of the NYPD ? I know the answer, but I'm just struck by just how much he has over the empty suits that have held that position since 1976.

[@newzcutter]

👍

[@george_carlos]

5:45 brilliant cop

[@Rockstarstatus420]

I was born the summer of 77 in Jersey! Great video!! 💯💯🤘😎

[@andrewweber2010]

At the end, when Bill Moyers is summarizing how the Bronx got the way it was then, he says "The Secretary of State travels to the Middle East and Russia, the UN Ambassador to Africa, yet no one of stature travels here..." And so it remains the same today, with more homeless people in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, ect., ect. than in all the slums in Brazil and Mexico. America's forgotten citizens still wait.

[@OuchMashups]

Those abandoned buildings were my playground

[@neonnoir9692]

Welfare destroyed entire areas. Humans cannot live that way, you have to work towards something.

[@garyd19851985]

This was a great documentary 👏. I live in Toronto. Man ny is soo big. So much going on. The good the bad it never stops life goes on.

[@orangecat8298]

Nice comment.👍

[@Primordial_Synapse]

Near the end, Bill Moyers says, "with capital, jobs and enough time, they might create from these ruins good neighborhoods to live and grow in. After all, they have nowhere to go. Their lives are at stake." Unfortunately, nothing noteworthy would happen until the late 1990s.

[@rosemaryangela1825]

Boy, NY was such a mess in 1977 - between this hell & Son of Sam- TG I lived in MD at the time!

[@a.garcia7127]

Soul music; Salsa music; disco music; heroin; cocaine; beer; welfare money; gangs; the mafia; Vietnam vets. Father Gigante and father Flynn. The toughest americans hands down... Bronxites. What scares us... will kill you.

[@lordshadow2x295]

I feel like moving to the Bronx when I grew up but forgot the Bronx I'm moving to queens

"if it wasn't for the availability of alcohol we would all be in trouble" let that sink in

[@deeayeveeeyedee3793]

If you ever wondered why “white flight” occurs just look at Mrs Sullivan in this video, preyed upon by the kids in the neighborhood whose parents didn’t care and did nothing to stop them. What did she say? “You know who did this. You know who it is. It used to be nice before THEY moved in.”

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

I was living in Brooklyn during that time, but I remember seeing this on the news.

[@INANYMIN]

The cameras seem better quality back then ,go figure.

[@lightningbolt4451]

Can you explain why?

[@enricodalmau8890]

I lived in the building dimension in the first few minutes of the video 1635 Popham Avenue I lived in apartment 6f I was in a gang first I was in the baby javelins and then I was in the young javelins until 1977. Pancho was the president and his brother Harry was the vice president who was the third division I went to Elementary School 109 which was just on North End of Popham Avenue then I went to Junior High School 82 which was on and still is on University Avenue

[@a.garcia7127]

Thank you for sharing. I'm Bronx native from Saint Ann's Avenue. ✌

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

Man, that cat was pissed XD