I was born and raised here in The Bronx and you can't mention "The Bronx" with out mentioning City Island.
@MikeFienco3 жыл бұрын
facts
@TruthSeeker4343 жыл бұрын
I love the seafood at City Island...
@judithwoop28633 жыл бұрын
My wedding reception was at the Lido in City Island 1964.
@samh79823 жыл бұрын
city island and chocha beach(orchard beach)
@jashanestone3 жыл бұрын
Words right out of my mouth. They even made a movie named City Island.. 💪🏾🗽
@damselinadress20694 жыл бұрын
Before relocating to NYC. I had only heard negative things about The Bronx. I have come to explore it more and have found that The Bronx has some really beautiful neighborhoods. It ranges from city to suburban to rural. Pelham Bay Park is beautiful and expansive. Don't rely on stereotypes.
@hereisayana82073 жыл бұрын
So true
@smackingshir1s3 жыл бұрын
What negative things
@missayawk3 жыл бұрын
The Bronx is the BEST borough hands down!!!!!!
@patatebanine42783 жыл бұрын
Sorry but backthem Bronx was a fucking warzone or hellzone.
@smackingshir1s3 жыл бұрын
@@patatebanine4278 well it isn't now come visit
@user-it7ls4tb7f Жыл бұрын
I came from Palermo, Sicily at the age of 14 in 1969 with my family. I grew up on 187th Street and Arthur Avenue. I loved The Bronx and the Neighborhood. Growing up on Arthur Avenue was an experience that I will never forget. Married and have three kids and 2 beautiful grandchildren. I live an hour away and still go and Visit THE BRONX!!
@jasminerivera73863 жыл бұрын
I am a proud Bronx wannabe native for about 30 years though I was born and raised in Brooklyn, moved after my divorce. I loved the Bronx's diversity, it's foods, the beautiful landscape of each neighborhood, it's abundance of breathtaking parks with bird watching, canoing, great hiking and biking trails, antiquated churches and walkable bridges, many highways taking you in every direction. Before the pandemic you had free trollies you can ride, or get tours to Woodlawn cemetery where Celia, jazz musicians and famous people are resting. My favorite is walking under the number 6 train along Westchester Ave where you find the coolest art murals on buildings, garage doors walls restaurants. I am quick to defend any nay sayers when putting down the Bronx. I am proud to say I live in the Bronx. . I
@anayriiio10 ай бұрын
i getchu bro, i grew up in brooklyn moving around flatbush, brownville, bensonhurst, bedstuy, ill forever have love for brooklyn moved to fordham when i was 19 had a couple friends over there that helped me n shit but i was good bc living in brooklyn we had family in the bronx and was there a lot so i been around it and knew the vibes moved into a apartment out in fordham was in fordham for 2 years or sum moved to gunhill which is where im at rn and it may not be the safest but im used to that and ive learned to work around it all i can say is im proud if where i grew up and where im at no matter what
@mort.909 ай бұрын
I've never been, but your comment inspires me to visit. Would you be interested in showing me around?
@BrentWilkins77774 жыл бұрын
As a Bronx native, I've always considered Riverdale to be the Beverly Hills of The Bronx.
@carlosvega47044 жыл бұрын
Is the other way around....
@stephenryder19954 жыл бұрын
It sure is...
@RemagDeadLee4 жыл бұрын
Deadass bro, my grandmother live up there
@TheToxicMegacolon4 жыл бұрын
They got a lot of Jews there too
@Amiyah11054 жыл бұрын
I was born there so I know the place
@gaspalito4 жыл бұрын
The Bronx had the first theme park before Disney on the east side it was called freedom land. Co-op city was built at the site after the park closed
@victorialevy77974 жыл бұрын
Gaspalito R Damn I did not know that and I been going to the movie theater at co-op city for years 😂
@lsachs074 жыл бұрын
TO be acurate co-op city was build in what was the parking lot of Freedomland..
@gaspalito4 жыл бұрын
Larry Sachs your correct the actual park was located where the Co op city power plant and the Bartow mall the rest of the 208 acres was parking. On opening day the parking lot was full and had to close the exit of the New England Highway causing a of traffic yams for miles.
@vinny57ish4 жыл бұрын
Buongiorno. I was born there in the old Bronx hospital in between the mid 50's and late 50's. I have to say though i have been away for decades but as a friend here say's who is also from the city area is. You can take the kid out of the city? But you can never take the city out of the kid Capisce? Lol. I would love to get back and re visit the Bronx. I want to also if possible once i retire is to move either back to the Bronx ? Or move to Salem Mass where i also lived but back in the early 80's. I miss the cultures, wonderful Italian foods Marone ! The foods itself ??? Absolutely second to none. Anyway nice to hear your reflection on a piece of history i was unaware of or ??? Forgot about over the years. Grazie mille. Ciao.
@BarryNYC-284 жыл бұрын
This information is fantastic. I'm from the Bronx and I didn't know this.
@J0r-El2 жыл бұрын
The Bronx Wherever I go, I carry the pride of my borough. Even when there's days when I get irritated with noise, traffic, and crime, I still have a mindset where I have a responsibility to represent where I come from. Some people like to look down on it. I like proving them wrong with success, and that I'm not a product of my environment perse, but neighborly and goal oriented. No matter where I go, it's a place that gives you courage, confidence and life lessons. It's hard to explain.
@seanoleary1979 Жыл бұрын
I feel the same way... most peopkle around the country either never heard of it, or could care less - until you took a friend there like one I made from North Carolina.... he talked about it to his friends and family for weeeks!!!
@J0r-El Жыл бұрын
@seanoleary1979 Emphasized "For weeks"
@Ladytee2282 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in The Bronx and it has been a teaching ground and a place where many lessons are learned and you grow and set goals for yourself and I wouldn't trade living in The Bronx for anything because it's my foundation, where my family has been
@njlauren4 жыл бұрын
Some other neat facts: The Grand Concourse was patterned after the Champs Elysee in Paris,it is why it is so wide. The apartment buildings on it were luxury housing in the pre war period, lot of those buildings had marble interiors, sunken living rooms and floor to ceiling windows. When my dad was growing up in the Bronx (he would be 98 if he was alive today) they used to call it Jewish fifth Ave, a lot of well off Jewish folks had high end apartments there,co ops and rental, bc before WWII Jews were not allowed to live in buildings on Park or 5th Avenue due to discrimination. Before the second world war the Bronx still had farms (what is called west farms square today was farms),used to be farms along gun hill road. The northeast part of the Bronx was relatively unbuilt up.until after WWII What is now Bronx Community college was once the uptown campus of NYU,actually was its main campus. It included a school of engineering that developed a lot of key technology for the military in WWII. NYU sold it to the city in the early 70s when they were forced by a financial crisis to consolidate downtown. Ironically,the engineering school merged w Brooklyn Poly, and around 10 yrs ago NYU took over Poly. Back in the day NYU was a div 1 basketball powerhouse.That campus had like 80,000 students.unlike today NYU back.then was aimed at helping students from working class backgrounds to go to college, it wasn't the overpriced pseudo ivy it pretends to be today. The Marble Hill section of the Bronx,which is across the Henry Hudson parkway from Riverdale, was once part of Manhattan. At one point they rerouted the Harlem river and most of the neighborhood ended up.in the Bronx. The Bronx was once part of Westchester county,then was together with Manhattan Until 1898 until it became a borough of greater NY The old TV show 'car 54 where are you' was filmed and set in the South Bronx ( I am sure you can stream it). It was filmed in the streets in the area and also there was a tv studio called Biograph studios where the interior scenes were shot,I think it was 161st street. Looking at it it is sad to realize that within 10 years the whole South Bronx would become the symbol of urban decay. Louis Tiffany, the famous stained glass artisan,had a studio in the Bronx where a lot of his works were created The trees along the Bronx River in the Botanical Garden is one of only 2 old growth forests left in NYC ( the other one is along the Henry Hudson parkway at the top of Manhattan. The Bronx was one of the largest manufacturing hubs in the world Hunts point was home to everything from iron foundries to a mint that.made coins for foreign countries as well as wire makers,furniture,customized steel, furniture. The rail yards and dicks there were busy 24 hours a day. Port Morris in the deep south Bronx was like that as well. General Colin Powell was a Bronx guy,graduated from Morris High ,(same school my mom graduated from in the early 40s and a great uncle graduated from as part of it's first graduating class in 1900
@MrAlohaguys4 жыл бұрын
My Dad was on the NYPD as a patrolman and they would call it the GAZA STRIP.. This was back in the 50s and 60s, but it was a nice area.
@Operationalexcellence2634 жыл бұрын
Njlauren much thanks for the retrospective
@marywallace72644 жыл бұрын
But no elevators & 5 flight walk-ups. OMG
@njlauren4 жыл бұрын
The kind of buildings I was talking about had elevators, the more modest buildings off the concourse didn't in a lot of cases.
@marywallace72644 жыл бұрын
@@njlauren Hi, My friends lived on The Concourse, in a great & large apartment, but it didn't have an elevator. Marble stairs were lovely, but they were on the top floor (5th). This was in the early 60s. I was young & didn't mind too much then, Wouldn't make it now! Didn't know about the Jewish history of the area. Thanks for that info.
@nexstory4 жыл бұрын
I grew up in NY during the 1940s and 50's when The Bronx was "The Bronx". For those who grew up during that same time period, you already know what I mean. You just had to be there to live it because trying to describe it would be generationally impossible. It was the center of the universe, or at least it felt that way. With Yankee Stadium, The Bronx Zoo, Jerome Avenue, The Grand Concourse, Fordham Road, Van Courtland Park, Orchid Beach The New York Botanical Gardens and more, The Bronx was a whole continent all to its own. Back then, us kids ruled the streets, the parks, the sidewalks, and the schoolyards, with our mothers all housekeeping at home and our fathers out working five days a week from 9 to 5. Stickball, slug, johnny on the pony, ring o' levio, skully and more, were among the many games and sports we played. Could you today imagine dozens of kids ages four and five playing out on the sidewalks and riding their tricycles up and down completely safe and unsupervised! Each age group from kindergarten up through high school each had their own turf and pecking order of popular and popular friends. Everyone wanted to be a major league baseball player, a scientist, teacher or rock n' roll star. The Bronx back then always scored in the 99 percentile on the SAT's. As teenagers, we would sometimes venture out into the other boroughs, but The Bronx was always our home. Anyway, fondest memories of a world we thought would last forever until the day that it was... gone!
@naturalbornskrilla38434 жыл бұрын
Much Respect.
@nexstory4 жыл бұрын
@@naturalbornskrilla3843 Thanks, in this strangest moment in time, your words just hit the heart and tears are rolling down my eyes. Who, ever thought back then that we would be dealing with all this crazy shirt today?
@derickwilliams86604 жыл бұрын
@@naturalbornskrilla3843 SIR IT WAS STILL THAT WAY IN THE 60'S AND EARLY 70'S!!!😉😉😉 MAN WHAT WENT WRONG...😒😒😒
@naturalbornskrilla38434 жыл бұрын
My Father is of your generation. He also feels the same. I wish I could have experienced that America
@washingtonrodriguezs61014 жыл бұрын
I grew up on Walton and 167. In the late 60s and 70s. It was as you described. THE Bronx.! PS 114 on Jerome. Nice times to remember.
@alvarodelateja7719 Жыл бұрын
I lived in Cayuga Avenue in the Riverdale area of "The Bronx" for more than three (3) years. What you failed to mention , no criticism is why it is called The Bronx. Here is why: Back in the 1600 hundres there was a family that emigrated from Holland to the borough we are talking about. Needless to say it was a very wealthy family, and he decided the purchase the entire county of The Bronx, since land was extremely cheap. The name of the gentleman who purchased it was Jonas Bronck. So when the rellatives and friends went to visit them they would say : Let's go visit the Broncks, from one generation to another it became The Bronx. Hope you share it with your followers. P.S. I lived for over 40 years in New-York city and Nassau county. I really Love New-York. Alvaro
@rhonda6791 Жыл бұрын
Born and lived in the Bronx until I was 13, a great fun childhood. Thank you for telling us how we came to be called The Bronx, I never knew that.
@newmove7068 Жыл бұрын
Thank you💗🙏🏾
@ShaneM4209 ай бұрын
THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge. I'm going to look it up.
@katsujinkin603 жыл бұрын
I was born in the Old Lincoln Hospital at Bruckner and Southern Boulevards 68 years ago. It was built in 1868 as a retirement home for ex-slaves. I grew up with the elevated train right outside my window. It was a real conversation stopper. I went to P.S. 50, J.H.S. 98, and Bronx Science. The Bronx in the 50's was a very diverse place to grow up. There were all kinds of people, and for the most part, we all got along very well. It broke my heart to see what happened to it in the 1970's. It is now experiencing a renaissance!
@Witchofthewoods.4 жыл бұрын
I thing I never think about when thinking of "The Bronx" is Jennifer Lopez 🙄 There's so much more to that place than one person.
@halwag4 жыл бұрын
She is a pop singer, and heroine for all the PuertoRicans who migrated there in the 50-60s. Still cant figure out what talent she has, other than a cool culo.
@jameshowell61604 жыл бұрын
I LIKED THIS VIDEO . BUT ONE CORRECTION I HAVE TO MAKE IS THAT THE MUSIC KNOWN AS "MAMBO" ALSO KNOWN AS( "AFRO CUBAN JAZZ ") FIRST BLEW UP IN HARLEM ,BROUGHT HERE BY (FRANKIE MACHITO GRILLO) (CHANO POZO) AND (MARIO BOUZA) THE NAME SALSA WAS FIRST GIVEN TO THE MUSIC IN THE LATE 60S BY YOUNG "( NEWYORICANS)". BUT THE OLDER BORIQUA'S WOULD STILL MOSTLY CALL IT MAMBO. AND SECONDLY, EVEN THOUGH I LIKE THE VIDEO., HOW DID YOU FORGET TO MENTION (CITY ISLAND)????😦😦😦😦😦
@edwinjimenez38024 жыл бұрын
@@jameshowell6160 YOU ARE TOTALLY CORRECT SIR EXCELLENT COMMENT THE ORIGEN OF SALSA IS MAMBO FROM CUBA CUBA AND PUERTO RICO ARE LIKE COUSINS
@j.brown704 жыл бұрын
Shirley Jackson Jennifer Lopez is American. Puerto Rico is an unincorporated American territory (colony) obtained from Spain in the Spanish-American war in 1898. All Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
@edwinjimenez38024 жыл бұрын
@@j.brown70 Thank you Ms Brown God Bless You
@miguelmercedes22094 жыл бұрын
The Kingsbridge Armory, also known as the Eighth Regiment Armory, built-in 1910 is located in The Bronx and is possibly the largest armory in the world.
@monicano60614 жыл бұрын
Lol I live near it
4 жыл бұрын
Is that on the 2?
@monicano60614 жыл бұрын
@ no, it's on the 4 train
4 жыл бұрын
@@monicano6061 actually I meant the 4 train, you can see it from the platform correct?
@monicano60614 жыл бұрын
@ yes
@happyexpat73994 жыл бұрын
Thank you for showing everyone that the Bronx has its own history and has changed, a lot, since the 70’s. I had a gr8 apartment, huge with sunken living room and total Art Deco motifs, for a fraction of what it would cost elsewhere and now with the ferry service from the new Fulton Fish Market to Manhattan’s East Side, it’s a delightful commute. Every subway goes up to the Bronx, practically. It’s not a new cultural hub, like Brooklyn, but it’s quiet and affordable and simple to get to....especially using the D and 4 trains..both express, into Manhattan’s west and east sides. No more Fort Apache.
@mikevallen9994 жыл бұрын
The highly intellectual BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE is famous for many of its esteemed graduates and high standards of education .
@katsujinkin603 жыл бұрын
I went to Bronx Science from 1967 to 1970. It was the best and worst thing that ever happened to me. Those were very chaotic years!
@williammontague54863 жыл бұрын
My dad graduated from Bronx Science (we shorten the name)..
@Nickygino3 жыл бұрын
YES! No doubt about that! DeWitt Clinton H.S. Another BRONX public H.S. with its share of many, many, notable and famous graduates............
@theronin3 жыл бұрын
My younger brother went to Dewitt Clinton, he now works at the white house.
@adiposerex51503 жыл бұрын
Its not it’s.
@jam-rockrider94794 жыл бұрын
The Bronx also has The Bronx River, the only pure fresh body of water in NYC. I volunteer to keep it clean twice a month Edit: Damn, all these responses lmao. Keep in mind people I never said the river was clean enough to take your kids for some summer fun. It’s NYC, of course there’s disgusting things in the water which is why I help to remove things from time to time. Regardless it’s still the only *naturally fresh* body of water in the city.
@j.brown704 жыл бұрын
Nice! When my brother played pony league baseball back in the 70s they had games at the ballfields Bronx Park East near I believe Allerton Ave (or was it Pelham Parkway? 🤷🏽♀️😊), I used to go exploring down by the BX river. It was a beautiful natural spot to hang out in as a child. I also remember seeing fish in the river once when hanging by the river but near the park up by E232nd st. in the early 80s. I was happily surprised because I had thought the river was too dirty for fish to live there. But glad to know it’s being tended to.
@terryraxamorg.43804 жыл бұрын
Man I'm from Hoe ave n Freeman. That is a lie b. That's a disgusting dirty ass river. That bs water front they build on Whitlock is dirty. The soil is contaminated.
@terryraxamorg.43804 жыл бұрын
@@j.brown70 That's Pelham Park.
@j.brown704 жыл бұрын
Terry RaXaMor G. Yes and Thanks for the reminder! That’s what I thought but couldn’t be sure. (My brother’s team’s name was Pel Park.) He also played at Allerton ball field but I think I mostly recall the one off Webster Ave not too far from the Metro North stop area, or the general vicinity (Botanical Gardens I think) - It was a long time ago. (As an aside, and I’m not sure if I’m the “b” in your previous comment about something being a “lie”, - and if I am wrong about that and what I’m thinking you’re referring to, then my bad and please do disregard - but, I did occasionally see fish in the Bx River. I was surprised b/c I also thought the water was too dirty. And at the risk of making this long response even longer, ☺️ I found a 2019 Washington Post article about the Bx River and despite its history of being polluted/toxic (it’s a bit cleaner now compared to what it was), small fish do live in the waters. (And as it turns out, snapping turtles!). I found the article here www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/snapping-turtles-help-scientists-figure-out-how-clean-the-bronx-river-is/2019/08/13/33896b56-9db2-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html
@terryraxamorg.43804 жыл бұрын
@@j.brown70 I grew up over that way and a few of my friends got really sick messing with that river. I go sit at the water front sometimes and the garbage that's in that water and how dirty and dark that water is. And the term "b" is a slang the way a lot of us uptown say after a sentence. It's a habit not disrespect.
@benv3114 жыл бұрын
It's called "DA Bronx "
@oskarsrode21674 жыл бұрын
Da Broanx
@danmcdermott74804 жыл бұрын
Leely Moonstar well that’s just not fair to say
@jondstewart4 жыл бұрын
Leely Moonstar it’s because not being able to read or write and having a 50 word vocabulary is the norm there.
@danmcdermott74804 жыл бұрын
Jon Stewart i couldn’t imagine being as ignorant as you
@jondstewart4 жыл бұрын
Dan McDermott yes I’m being stereotypical. It’s not like Detroit, I should know better. But for Manhattan just a few miles south it’s a totally different and impersonal world. Fast, all over the place like an ant bed, and have neighbors of yours next to your 400 square foot apartment and never know them or care to do so.
@haydeetorres36023 жыл бұрын
City Island was not mentioned, you can get the best seafood there. The Bronx Zoo, one of the largest zoos in the world... also the botanical gardens which are just stunningly beautiful.
@johnfarina61552 жыл бұрын
Spent a lot of summer days on City Island in the '50's. The water, the food and the women were all spectacular. Thanks for the memories Maureen.
@nycgoodfriend4 жыл бұрын
City Island in the Bronx has some of the best seafood in all of New York City.
@billsharp98394 жыл бұрын
I am from Jersey and couldn’t agree more. Worth the trip to get the best seafood in the area.
@laditeetee17034 жыл бұрын
I remember eating at “Sammy’s” in City Island.
@shanikywilliams61704 жыл бұрын
The Bronx is new york
@rogerlewis13614 жыл бұрын
I live in Jersey City and we go to city island all the time for seafood, especially in the summer time.... in fact it closer distance wise to go to city island than to go to the shore ( but not always a better option time wise)
@ronduenyc764 жыл бұрын
you damn right city island has some of the best seafood restaurant.........
@beasaroze55964 жыл бұрын
You mean Da Bronx. 😏 I never knew Riverdale was so pretty.
@ms.fortune29574 жыл бұрын
She was RIGHT. "THE BRONX"💣
@georgeowens25394 жыл бұрын
Remember that Fieldstone is a super wealthy enclave in Riverdale
@JosafatConcepcion4 жыл бұрын
They mean El Bronx
@lsachs074 жыл бұрын
Try going to Wave Hill. It is in The Bronx. in RIverdale. I have done photo work there. It overlooks The Hudson river and THe NJ Palisades. The downside parking is not good.
@stephenhusak60984 жыл бұрын
@@ms.fortune2957 If the FDNY calls it Da Bronx on the radio then its Da Bronx
@AngelRivera-wp9bg2 жыл бұрын
Lived there before moving to California. There are beautiful sections that rival any borough or city. Missed NYC but the expense was unobtainable for me and I am a doctor lol She left out the Concourse one of the most beautiful Boulevards model after the one in Paris. The apartments with sunken living rooms were unique.
@patsystepp81142 жыл бұрын
My wife is from there she say alot of people in New York are on housing? How you get on that there?
@kyritz19054 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget that the silent version of Frankenstein from 1910 was filmed in the Bronx
@americogalindez91294 жыл бұрын
You forgot about city island
@garrysessoms24944 жыл бұрын
I just go there to eat Sammy's Shrimp Box you heard...Lol
@deansolistino4 жыл бұрын
Garry Sessoms johnnies better tho fAm
@garrysessoms24944 жыл бұрын
@@deansolistino im not up on dat one ??
@deansolistino4 жыл бұрын
Garry Sessoms lol right across the way from Sammie’s. When you go to city island Sammy’s is last restaurant on right- johnnies is last on left.🍤🍤🍤
@Kamoraalyssa_4 жыл бұрын
Garry Sessoms them crab legs tho🤤
@juneindabx4 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in “THE BRONX” I appreciate this vid!!
@anointedbyjesus77664 жыл бұрын
Do you like it
@m.shh.38314 жыл бұрын
@@anointedbyjesus7766 it's alright . Don't give ya hopes up boo ppl crazy out here but than again ppl crazy everywhere so 🤷 just gotta try it out for yourself
@anointedbyjesus77664 жыл бұрын
@@m.shh.3831 yeah thats very true and thank you for the encouragement need it
@m.shh.38314 жыл бұрын
@@anointedbyjesus7766 no problem girl it's good to vacation here but to live here it's hard I always said when I'm done with college I'm moving away 🤣 but once u in the city it's like you don't wanna leave
@anointedbyjesus77664 жыл бұрын
@@m.shh.3831 lol wowww thats honest its very expensive there 😭 what's the hardest part
@user-rf3if7fz6q Жыл бұрын
We lost 80% of our buildings in the South Bronx. It was crazy!! My mom came home one night and the landlord literally told her.. the building is finished!! He left!! The building was massive and absolutely beautiful. They don’t build apartments with space like that anymore. The whole block literally died overnight. Even in those hard times we were able to be happy!! We did create a strong sense of community and friendship with our family, friends and neighbors. They always tried to help one another. I still have wonderful memories of those times.
@ereceeme Жыл бұрын
Had family that lived there. Walked through it on my way to st peter s catholic school
@movader3 жыл бұрын
As a Bronx native, my funniest memory was travelling through western Europe where for some reason most of the locals we drank or ate with thought we must be so tough to live where Bonfire of the Vanities is set. Kept asking if I had stabbed or shot anyone, or had I suffered these assaults. had great laughs watching their faces when I would teach them the true beauty of The Bronx. ie. Landmarks like Dykeman House, the VanCortlandt manor house. and more 17th to 18th century historic locals. Love Da Bronx Through and Through!!!!
@sugexxx11794 жыл бұрын
Borough The Bronx gets its name from the family that owned it - Bronks. When people were going to visit the family on their farm ( their farm was the entire Bronx) , they’d say ‘I’m going to the Bronks’ that’s why we say ‘The Bronx’
@JoseMorales-lw5nt4 жыл бұрын
Actually, our borough gets the article THE Bronx due to Jonas Bronc originally settling his farm and house along the main river. Today, we know it as The Bronx River! Since the borough is named for this Dutch settler, and he chose the convenience of building along a river, the later settlers bestowed this region with the same title. All rivers are referred to by the article 'the'. The Mississippi, the Colorado, the Hudson, and thus The Bronx!
@hazztv63174 жыл бұрын
Wow, you learn something new everyday and I’m a newyorker
@juliarceyax42124 жыл бұрын
Actually its "jonas broncks" they renamed the borough the Bronx its was more easy to spell and brandable
@frips10004 жыл бұрын
@@JoseMorales-lw5nt he was actually swedish!
@JoseMorales-lw5nt4 жыл бұрын
@@frips1000 I never knew that! Thanks for the info 😉
@albertbryant58814 жыл бұрын
As a native, I have to say I learned a lot I didn't know for my 34 years
@lsachs074 жыл бұрын
I am orignally from THe Bronx, KIngsbridge. Went to PS 86. One place that was not mentioned is Wave Hill in RIverdale. It overlooks the Hudson RIver and the NJ Palisades.
@itsmenotyou55074 жыл бұрын
Same 👍💯
@evanwolf66184 жыл бұрын
@@lsachs07 Yeah ? What year did you graduate ?
@juanzingarello4005 Жыл бұрын
I lived in Riverdale. Specifically Spuyten Duyvil which is considered a sub-neighborhood of Riverdale. And I remember asking the board president of my coop "is it Riverdale or the Bronx?" And he said to me "Depends. If you are buying a place here its The Bronx. If you are selling it, its Riverdale."
@robauerbach7709 Жыл бұрын
Another hidden secret is the old subway tunnel that runs under the neighborhood called Highbridge. When I was very young my mom took me on the 2 car train called the Shuttle. It ran from 161st Yankee Stadium under our neighborhood and popped out the other side where it crossed a bridge over the Harlem river and terminated at the site of the old Polo Grounds (Giants). The bridge is gone now but the tunnel is still there waiting to scare kids with it's pitched black insides. They probably tore out the tracks now but we we first ventured inside there were these metal boxes that were placed between the rails and if you didn't carry a good flashlight you would wined up tripping over them which produced skinned legs and knees. We loved playing in it as kids and it had hidden rooms and different levels. If you look hard you can find the entrances and rail fans have visited long after we were gone.
@gandalfnf Жыл бұрын
the shuttle actually started at 167th street
@ericayala73874 жыл бұрын
I knew I wasn't BUGGING when I said why Pelham Bay feel dumb big!
@cjbaerastafa54214 жыл бұрын
Eric Ayala ayooooo u gay
@9rsprrrwhathappened2thatbo324 жыл бұрын
#WH2TB2013 What happened to the boy that stabbed afrika bambaataa in his apartment?
@rinthecatdumpling4 жыл бұрын
I live in the bronx so I had to click on it xD
@deuceswild63504 жыл бұрын
Rin The Cat Dumpling factz
@carmenf98024 жыл бұрын
Born in the south bx,so I had to click😎
@shaboogieorr48064 жыл бұрын
Facts i live on Fordham
@ManiHazel4 жыл бұрын
Uptown 😎
@Kingdomsrose4 жыл бұрын
Same
@jamesfaber6959 Жыл бұрын
As a resident of southeastern Michigan I have met and call friend several people born and raised in The Bronx. They and their respective families relocated to my area many years ago. They are without doubt some of the nicest people I've ever met ! Also worth mentioning is 'their Bronx accent' which they've retained, lo these many years in Michigan. Thank God!
@martinmaloney18904 ай бұрын
Wonder if you were Obrien family from Tinton ave
@jamesfaber69594 ай бұрын
The Franz Family were from the Bronx. Mr. Franz's mother and grandmother would visit their son in Detroit during the summer. They took the New York Central. Mr. Franz was a WW2 USN vet and just missed the bombing at Pearl Harbor as his ship had left a day earlier and was out to sea. Taps were played at his funeral after Mass by the local veterans association.
@donjeep19372 жыл бұрын
The Grand Concourse was built after WW1 to honor the troops and to duplicate the boulevards of Paris. At the entrance to Pelam Bay park their was also a large memorial to soldiers of WW1. Today it is filled with graffiti. My great grandfather was assistant postmaster, and my grandfather designed some of the Botanical Gardens. Where the new fish market is now, that was called Hunts Point, now mostly populated by Puerto Ricans. Where Tremont avenue intersects with Bruckner blvd was the end of the electric TROLLEY line that transected the whole Bronx from East to West. Then like they did in many cities across the country, GM payed off the politicians to replace the clean electric trolleys with smelly polluting buses. You could walk from Yankee stadium across the Harlem rives bridge to watch the Giants play in the POLO GROUNDS. Today, a minority, crime infested public housing project, City Island not far from Orchard beach has some of the best seafood restaurants in NYC. and a ferry at its far end takes unclaimed bodies to a whole island dedicated to be a potter field. For years the MAJOR DEGAN EXPRESSWAY went unfinished due to lack of funds.It was supposed to link in to MANHATTAN. It ended in mid air just behind old Yankee stadium. I use to love roller skating there as there was zero traffic and a good surface. Many private beaches lined LONG ISLAND SOUND in Throggs Neck. You paid 25 cents and could enjoy them all day long.
@Gackts6654 жыл бұрын
Stan Lee was raised in The Bronx just to let yall know😏💪☝️
@eddieotero27264 жыл бұрын
That I didn't know...
@sillysami884 жыл бұрын
Thomas Simmons he was at clinton?! wowww
@lordhumor65414 жыл бұрын
Gackts665 GOALS
@munachowdhury50554 жыл бұрын
AYEEEEEEEE
@shqiptariidukagjinit56504 жыл бұрын
Gackts665 I’m proud to be from the Bronx
@jesussalvador84954 жыл бұрын
Another mention is that Celia Cruz is buried here
@Satinmermaid1254 жыл бұрын
She’s not buried
@Katwoman43184 жыл бұрын
Woodlawn Cemetery
@yensimartinez20274 жыл бұрын
Also, Tito Puente at the woodlawn cenmentery.
@jesussalvador84954 жыл бұрын
Vanessa Yates when I was a kid I loved her music even as an adult now her music is still wonderful
@GABRIELADAWSON4 жыл бұрын
jesus salvador AZUCA
@stevenlitvintchouk3131 Жыл бұрын
I was raised in the Bronx till I went off to college. My family and I lived just west of Jerome Avenue, and we used to take the Jerome Avenue IRT to go everywhere in NY. I'll always have a special place in my heart for the Bronx.
@gregoryvelazquez49284 жыл бұрын
The Bronx is the best NYC borough. We have the best pizza, Chinese food, Puerto Rican food, seafood and Italian pastries, not just in Little Italy, but also on Allerton Ave. It also has the original home of the famous author of horror stories, Edgar Allen Poe on Kingsbridge Rd off of the Grand Concourse and Valentine Ave. Home of Rap, Salsa, The Bronx Bombers- "Yankees", hand ball, stick ball, off the point and ringolevio!!
@cbenjamin75824 жыл бұрын
I remember when the residents & business owners of Little Italy were totally against McDonald's coming into the neighborhood. I definitely understood their concern. I truly enjoy going to eat at the various restaurants during the spring\summer. There is something so cool about having a meal seated at a sidewalk table with a loved one at a family owned restaurant in a neighborhood filled with so much history. I love my borough.
@destafarigoode20414 жыл бұрын
I don’t think of J low first when I think about the Bronx.
@internetsummoner4 жыл бұрын
maciverandy1 lol !
@charlsa90114 жыл бұрын
Big pun
@Evemeister124 жыл бұрын
I think of j lo every second of the day
@cherylwilliams6674 жыл бұрын
Edward Martinez J Lo is Bitch
@andrejohnson77374 жыл бұрын
I think of Fat joe or the terror squad
@DyslexicSolMusic3 жыл бұрын
The Bronx is also home to the best (and most underrated) non-rock music genre, freestyle dance music. That's where TKA, George Lamond, coro, Cynthia, Judy Torres, Noel, Stevie B, Johnny O, and all the other freestyle dance music greats started.
@joelopes35203 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Woodlawn cemetery, near where i grew up in the North Bronx, overlooking the Bronx River. Founding during the Civil War, many famous people buried there, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Celia Cruz, Herman Melville, the Woolworth family, Bat Masterson and Irving Berlin
@izdagrimeyone5 жыл бұрын
Little Italy is what non Bronx people call New Albania.
@nickyboombots19465 жыл бұрын
with all the italian store?...... right
@izdagrimeyone5 жыл бұрын
@@nickyboombots1946 They are Albanians running the Italian stores
@abcdef-kx2qt4 жыл бұрын
@@nickyboombots1946 > CLOWN !!!
@jesussalvador84954 жыл бұрын
Not entirely there are like 4 shops owned by Albanians if you aren’t from the neighborhood please don’t talk
@WookHarlem4 жыл бұрын
I lived on 183rd and 3rd the albanians have taken over as far as. Being the supers most of those resturant owners in author ave live further north cause everything surrounding author ave is wild as fuck 180th and belmont to crotona in 2019 is all CR1PS and patrias all the kings and bloods are on webster the bronx is beautiful and so are the familys its the heroin addicts and 💉 drugs that give the bronx and east harlem the highest rates of h.i.v. as a former addict drugs kill destroy familys neiebhorhoods and citys we need a drug free with the exception of weed bourough 149th and third is the most disgusting place on earth
@1000mizz4 жыл бұрын
40 dislikes from Riverdale lol
@albertthepeacock80204 жыл бұрын
Half of those are from people in Manhattan,BK,SI,and Queens
@eddieotero27264 жыл бұрын
Lmaooooo
@Ralphie_Boy4 жыл бұрын
😝
@RocknRoll13ZH4 жыл бұрын
Dead 😹😹😹
@beyonceatiklu88234 жыл бұрын
1000mizz i-
@davidsantalucia38913 жыл бұрын
THE BRONX IS ALSO THE HOME OF "FREESTYLE" MUSIC !!!!!$$$$
@americanazheck Жыл бұрын
I too was born in Lebanon hospital 1960. I spent many days visiting my nanny on 231st street. we would all cram into her apartment and eat incredible kosher food that she made. Down the block on the grand concourse was the best food ever. As time went in, the neighborhood deteriorated and fell apart. That's what I missed the most.
@ixamxmsright4 жыл бұрын
It’s called “The Bronx” because it was where a family named “Broncks”owned huge farm and most all the land ,when visiting them people would say ,” We are going to visit THE BRONCKS ’” the. ...”THE” was Kept as it’s official name .
@ashs.41044 жыл бұрын
Now that's an interesting factoid that I never knew 💯😯. Thanks for sharing the knowledge 🙂
@stacyannchaffatt61984 жыл бұрын
The Broncks
@mrc24324 жыл бұрын
I just put basically the same thing!! Learned it in 6th grade and never forgot! :)
@LRRPEXILE4 жыл бұрын
Yes, when Jonas Bronck one of the first European settlers arrived and bought acres of land.
@LRRPEXILE4 жыл бұрын
@@ashs.4104 The Bronx was called (Rananchqua) by the native Siwanoy.
@five8finest8184 жыл бұрын
Who else noticed the fly at 3:38
@PakNewYorkVlogs4 жыл бұрын
me me.me
@ositosencion23514 жыл бұрын
Five8 finest when the fish 🐟 is fresh
@aarionmickles99954 жыл бұрын
Yup!
@playboymaxim4 жыл бұрын
Unavoidable at a fish market like that
@naj-blvdbighansome12874 жыл бұрын
Thought it was on my screen at first.
@BxBabyDoll3 ай бұрын
As a Bronx resident, born and raised I approve this❤ We need a part 2. There's so much more to love!
@HabCable4 жыл бұрын
nobody thinks about JLO when speaking of the bronx.
@sir.fuentes76424 жыл бұрын
You forgot: The Grand Concourse. Bronx High School of Science (Bronx Science). Fordham University.
@baronperez82004 жыл бұрын
Sir. Fuentes lol what about the grand concourse?
@sir.fuentes76424 жыл бұрын
baron perez the laugh's on you. You don't know the history of the boulevard or know anything about architecture. www.lehman.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/arch/buildings/GrandConcourse.html hnn.us/article/120374
@subanistewart37134 жыл бұрын
172 grand concourse
@eddiesaninocencio66354 жыл бұрын
Yankee Stadium?
@eddiesaninocencio66354 жыл бұрын
Didn't mention Hunts Point.
@lalitafaroli5 жыл бұрын
Please do City Island, Co-op City and more in depth Van Cortlandt Park.
@jonlenihan47984 жыл бұрын
I was always fascinated by the Van Cortlandt family cemetery, as a child. It's in the first line of hills, Northeast of the playing fields. Is there still a pony ride around a track, for small children, at the stables? Is there ice skating on the lake?
@essess57414 жыл бұрын
Good 1. Co-op was an amusement park oh and Soundview was a military base. There are so many great historial facts.
@chicbxbecerril69853 жыл бұрын
When you from the Bronx you act like you know every street every corner every bodega 😂we like a small community I love Da Bronx❤️ Born and raised
@lincolnparc88972 жыл бұрын
I love your voice... it's soothing and uplifting! 😊
@jlindo17004 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣people with your fancy house in Riverdale your still part The Bronx!
@jlindo17004 жыл бұрын
Mira Pimen Hernan 😊
@unagi46224 жыл бұрын
they try to distance themselves because theyre white capitalists
@unagi46224 жыл бұрын
Mira Pimen Hernan People of or dominantly descendant of european ethnicities & are socially recognized as such. Portuguese- and Italian-American are white.
@unagi46224 жыл бұрын
Mira Pimen Hernan first of all thats not even the point i was making and I said nothing about “skin color”, im talking about whiteness as a social construct that binds Euro americans together, regardless. i never said mixed people cant exist lmfao. plus I have an African American mother and a Black Puerto-Rican & Irish father, so again, tf u mean lol. and wdym the mentality comes literally historically from racism and classism. i’m from Boston Secor projects by Dyre Ave on the 5 so ik wtf im talking about. its the truth but an ugly one and if u feel emotional abt it, why acknowledge it and be on the right side of history, and carry on.
@unagi46224 жыл бұрын
Mira Pimen Hernan we all may be part of the system but there are oppressors and oppressed
@smalltalk.productions99774 жыл бұрын
2:01 white house in Riverdale is where Lou Gehrig lived when he played for the New York Yankees!
@chilidavis98944 жыл бұрын
Shirley Jackson stfu
@rubenmahgerefteh56883 жыл бұрын
The white hall
@evanwolf66183 жыл бұрын
@Charles J. South East corner of Independence Avenue and 252nd Street . 🦅
@artportraits Жыл бұрын
Woodlawn Cemetery is also a huge green patch... nearly 400 wooded acres with tons of Art, Architecture and History!
@walte1532 жыл бұрын
Born at Parkchester Hospital... lived in a fifth floor tenement apartment off Tremont Avenue area a number of years. In the '60s I bought loads of records at the Ritz record store on Tremont just west of Southern Blvd. The deteriorating neighborhood drove them out.
@BarryNYC-284 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. As a Bronx native (and current resident) I greatly appreciate it. Good stuff.
@stlev994 жыл бұрын
Proud to have been born in the Bronx and to have spent a lot of my childhood there at my gramdparents' place. Nothing but good memories
@pleasurepartytennine86774 жыл бұрын
NEVER KNEW THE FULTON FISH MARKET MOVED .I JUST THOUGHT IT CLOSED DOWN. THANK YOU FOR THIS INFORMATION
@oneidagarcia47323 жыл бұрын
Btw, there's a reason why it's referred to and named "The Bronx".
@jasonruth41622 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this information it's very important great video 📹👍
@SpeakMusic254 жыл бұрын
You didn't mention the waterfall near 180 st ?
@MrMarkie_B4 жыл бұрын
Rob where exactly. I need to experience this
@jayglocks5764 жыл бұрын
180th street, close to west farms square
@jayglocks5764 жыл бұрын
Forgot the street lol
@GodlyETV4 жыл бұрын
It’s west farms square and e180 it’s the Bronx river park I live up the block
@Anigurl14 жыл бұрын
PS that wakanda forever symbol resembles the Bronx salute
@elohesteewon8034 жыл бұрын
Birthplace of Mr. Polo himself: Ralph (Lifshitz) Lauren
@gregod8064 жыл бұрын
I might have changed it too, must have come in for some serious ball breaking.
@josephkanowitz68755 ай бұрын
ב''ה, top ten Jewish cowboys
@user-ju7es7ou5n3 жыл бұрын
i’m from kingsbridge in the bronx born and raised and very proud of where i came from!!! it fuels me more knowing we was born to lose!! 💯🔝🙏🏻💪🏻🥶🙌🇵🇷
@zyrosqrd25523 жыл бұрын
My father thought people who lived "Up the Hill" in 10471 were morons who had to pay an extra fare to take a bus to get to the 1 train to get into the City. Kingsbridge is "one-fare", short walk to Broadway. He had common sense (but was a cheap-ass SOB, may he RIP). Damn, I miss The F'ing Bronx
@dennistaylor63423 жыл бұрын
I also grew up in the boogie down Bronx! I love my city! I remember my parents taking me to Freedom Land. Back in the early 60’s. I watched the birth of hip hop. My dad worked in the Hunts Point Market. Soundview, big park was the spot. Webster Ave houses, Trinity Ave. Houses.
@jessicam03454 жыл бұрын
Born in Manhattan but The Bronx raised me 🖤 loud and proud 👏🏽
@MRB11994 жыл бұрын
Well the bronx did a good job !!!! Miss jessica
@jessicam03454 жыл бұрын
R BEAUMONTII - Oh absolutely. I get a little upset when people try to play my city with “Oh it’s very very bad.” Luckily I came out okay and never had an issue. I mind my business and never fucked with the streets. I still have amazing friends from there very few because I didn’t need much, most have moved out to other states. The Bronx New Generations of music artist has been rising from Cardi B to rapper ABoogie, others have gotten into politics like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others are aspiring to be actors/actress.
@MRB11994 жыл бұрын
@@jessicam0345 for the most part u and i are on the same boat u sound like you hella chill and have a good head on your shoulders...you made ya folks proud....glad ur from my town
@whocares44204 жыл бұрын
Jessica Cortez don't give a f*** about the Bronx so stop that s***
@karinabautista30924 жыл бұрын
One correction, Salsa is actually a “musical melting pot” created by many different Latin American communities in New York (Puertorriqueños, cubanos, panameños, colombianos, venezolanos, etc.). Cuba’s contribution to Salsa came via Guaracha. Other groups contributed different elements. The name Salsa, actually came from a Venezuelan show called “La hora de la salsa” where people like Willie Colon, Ruben Blade, Celia Cruz, Oscar Leon, would perform.
@haydeetorres36023 жыл бұрын
No one dances Salsa like Puertoricans.
@lisaingravera54154 жыл бұрын
LOL, I always make sure to say I'm from the Bronx, until someone says, "what part" then I say Riverdale! Let 'em know! Ya tu sabe!
@davidlawson53034 жыл бұрын
Once I saw 0:19 I thought you were going to mention Maritime College.. but I guess not. Anyways it’s the oldest maritime academy in the United States. Founded in 1874 but it wasn’t until 1938 when the college found its permanent campus at Fort Schuyler, underneath the Throgg’s Neck bridge. A great school and a unique Bronx institution.
@neiltony95574 жыл бұрын
What fascinated me was the DOLLAR SAVINGS BANK BUILDING on the Grand Concourse by Fordham Road with the large clock at the top of it. There was just something historical about that building whenever I saw it.
@droneview83514 жыл бұрын
I remember it. Grew up in the 60s at Kingsbridge & Sedgwick, right across the street from the VA hospital. Also remember Edgar Alan Poe house and the armory.
@roadtrip29434 жыл бұрын
Wasn't it named dime savings bank before decades of dollar debasement
@Janet_scribbles4 жыл бұрын
Was a few blocks from where I grew up. It was a significant part of my little world.
@Run49744 жыл бұрын
Jamaican born, bronx raised. I enjoy my childhood growing up in the Bronx, taught me a lot about life
@lcaceci432 жыл бұрын
Like what? which were the best buildings to graffiti?
@GrootmanSipho2 жыл бұрын
@@lcaceci43 So doing graffiti on a building is learning about life to you? New York is full of intellectuals, you can walk down the street and come across five percenters teaching and spreading knowledge to random strangers, which is not something you see in other cities but is very common in New York. Also, it being so multicultural means you're exposed to more perspectives and how others view and interact with the world.
@cecegiles72862 жыл бұрын
@@lcaceci43 why don't you let him explain
@frecheewhite431 Жыл бұрын
I was born there in 1954 but grew up in Miami, Florida, This segment was very informative and I enjoyed it, thank you
@angeloreyes62024 жыл бұрын
I love da ❤️💕 Bronx especially during 50's n 60's.🙂🙃😍
@KhaoticTano4 жыл бұрын
They always label us the cest pool.. giving you that oh you from The Bronx tone and face..yes I am and The Bronx is poppin!!
@natmonti51954 жыл бұрын
Of course bronz is beautiful its just some people dont know how to acr
@jaypayne9574 жыл бұрын
Bronx is a cesspool.
@Beckala674 жыл бұрын
Actually, I grew up in Brooklyn and went to Bronx Science and most everyone looked at me like I was infectious when I said I was from Brooklyn.
@moeglizzy62774 жыл бұрын
Beckala67 facts we hate Brooklyn here
@moeglizzy62774 жыл бұрын
Jacobs monroe just like household
@amourflower98934 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video everyones always whats to show the negative side of da bronx.
@Personalization_IA4 жыл бұрын
Amour Flower Bro y is the commentator coming st and everyone especially with the old white lady voice
@shavonnerichardson23174 жыл бұрын
Amour Flower always shows the negative. This was so positive and I’m happy they did this.
@daedaetinez64063 жыл бұрын
This video was awesome 🤩. I’m very Proud to say I’m from The Bronx. I do miss her.
@Hisloyalservantslistenlove613c Жыл бұрын
Excellent information, thank you
@shrtstufusa14 жыл бұрын
No.12 it has some of the coolest museums like Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, Bartow-Pell, and Van Cortlandt House! 😉
@salvatoremileto694 жыл бұрын
Never mentioned who the Bronx was named after Jonas Bronck from England.
@shrtstufusa14 жыл бұрын
@@salvatoremileto69 it wasn't a bad list, but could have mentioned a more unique list
@ixamxmsright4 жыл бұрын
Actually it’s Edgar Allen Poe’s birth home that is still there!
@shrtstufusa14 жыл бұрын
@@ixamxmsright lol nope it is his death home. I used to work with them including the other houses listed :). He lived there for a short time with his wife and mother in law. They moved there from Manhattan because of her illness and also his cheating ways.
All Roads lead to & from Da Bronx😎. Thank you for the video🤗
@eddyobas38824 жыл бұрын
Katwoman I wish I could love this comment, and not just like it!!! God bless
@bronxkies4 жыл бұрын
True, which is why I love my borough!
@Mohamed-yp9fv3 жыл бұрын
In 1983 I visited the Bronx and saw the amazing difference between the South Bronx, resembling a country at war, and North Bronx. I just cycled 2 miles to leave Lagos and find myself in Versailles! For a true expresso café, I also used to cycle to Little Italy which was not gentrified as i guess it is today.
@edwinheredia4305 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful interview love it
@beverlyrhett35155 жыл бұрын
Poe Cottage deserves a mention, as does the fact that the idea for the creation of the character, Batman happened while Bob Kane sat on a bench in The Bronx!
@dsimon338714 жыл бұрын
GREAT ONES!!!!! Beverly Poe got around lol.
@waltervelez8624 жыл бұрын
Depression place lie to homeless
@shavonnerichardson23174 жыл бұрын
I was always around there.
@auradjinns4 жыл бұрын
True, but don’t forget author Bill Finger was Batman’s co-creator! Kane took sole credit for decades and only since 2016 has Finger gotten credit-42 years after his death.
@aussielady44 жыл бұрын
Hello everyone from Australia 🐨🐾🐾
@JenniferRivers8884 жыл бұрын
POINT. BLANK. PERIODT BORN AND RAISED IN “DA” BRONX 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 I AM A PROUD BRONX NATIVE 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
@Maiky7520004 жыл бұрын
OKURRRRTTT
@chukamaca4 жыл бұрын
Dumb bitches out here yelling “periodt” again 🥴
@BX2CT4 жыл бұрын
FACTS!!
@astarrcarr004 жыл бұрын
🗣 PERIOD
@MyNoob3004 жыл бұрын
Heyyyyyy boooooo
@lalaland63194 жыл бұрын
I too have memories of living in the Bronx. I was a teenager in the ‘70’s, living in a neighborhood adjacent to Little Italy/Arthur Avenue; however I was also a brown-skinned Puerto Rican and it was a no-no to walk through ‘their’ neighborhood. We would try nonetheless because it was a shortcut to Fordham Road-the shopping mecca of the Bronx-but it was a risky gamble inviting either a beat down (if you were a male) or sexual assault (if you were a female). We were young and thought we would live forever....lol! As a young adult I worked in an office on Fordham Road and was able to experience the delights of Little Italy/Arthur Avenue...but only in the company of my White colleagues....who mostly hailed from upstate suburban enclaves, and were delighted with this ‘charming, ethnic’ neighborhood...I made sure never to leave the side of my human ‘passports.’ I’m trying to understand why I’m nostalgic at this racism-tinged memory.......
@emiliorebenga4433 жыл бұрын
Lol....racism tinged memory. I think "we" all have them bro
@dsparks1493 жыл бұрын
Lala Land I remember that ☹️
@lalaland63193 жыл бұрын
PEACH SANGRIA....disagree...that conversation is long overdue! No question that racism is not limited to a ‘black/white dichotomy...we’ve all heard about the ‘high color’ (lighter skin color) preference...and the whole ‘pelo malo’ idea...within Latin/Black communities. Current events just highlight all of this. As a SF fan reminded of a story by Ursula LeGuin...’The Lathe of Heaven’... in a distant future Earth was overcome by racial, civil war and the unifying event to end this war was an invasion by aliens (horrible summary, I know, lol)...just saying. Stay safe.....
@jamawilliams15773 жыл бұрын
Prolly because you Lived and thrived in spite of it
@mewmeehan3 жыл бұрын
Lala Land: Yeah, Arthur Avenue was no joke. Funny thing, though, about racial attacks in the Bronx is that they happened in all neighborhoods to whoever was the "outsider". I was a teenager in the 70's, too. I lived on Walton Avenue between Fordham Road and 184th Street from 1958-1978, (my father died in '78 and my siblings & I moved to Alphabet City). I had to fight my ass off because I was White when walking south to hang out with friends on Valentine Avenue & 182nd Street. And yeah, we got the sexual assault, too. True story: One day walking from 184th to 182nd, 3 other teenaged girls (one Black, 2 Puerto Rican) started shit with me because I was White. It was in front of the old Ascot movie theater on the Concourse. My friend and I were looking at the movie posters and I got the typical "What you looking at ? You got something to say to me?" LOL !!! My friend was not a fighter, so she went into the movie lobby. So I had to defend myself against THREE girls determined to prove themselves. The first girl pushed up against me, so I smashed her head into the theater's glass covering of the movie poster. Then the other 2 jumped on me. I didn't beat them, but held my own. The theater manager came out and yelled that he called the cops. The bitches ran away. He saw the whole thing and didn't care about the broken glass. He just told us to leave fast. The great thing about the Bronx is its diversity. But I spent my youth fighting because I'm White. The racism went BOTH WAYS. As an adult, my Black and Latin friends and I talked about it a lot. One beautiful Bronx Puerto Rican girlfriend told me: "Yeah, I used to think White girls were [w]ussies, until one beat the shit out of me." Seems it all depended on which neighborhood one ventured into. But my Bronx background gave me a great foundation for bartending on 14th Street & Avenue C, before gentrification. Down there the problem wasn't racism -- people were much cooler about race. The problem then was crack addicts of all races. Now, I live in the Bronx again (Norwood - Montefiore Hospital area) and get along with people of many ethnicities. There are GREAT people of all races -- and people who don't understand that are missing-out on a lot of BEAUTY and FUN ! I understand your nostalgia. The Bronx is truly a weird and wonderful place if you like people.
@aquarianage3953 Жыл бұрын
Great job! Keep up the good work.👍
@rollingthunder72584 жыл бұрын
THE BEST PIZZA EVER ARE THE ITALIAN PIZZAS IN "DA BRONX" WHEN I LIVED THERE, A BIG SLICE OF PIZZA WITH DOUBLE CHEESE WAS ONLY .35 CENTS AND THEY WERE DELICIOUS, TASTY YUMMY AND WITH A LOT OF MEAT. 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕
@dalesaylors92514 жыл бұрын
Rosa Colon musta been a while back 🍕🍕🍕
@seokmaetthew4 жыл бұрын
I LIVE IN DA BRONX AND I AGREE
@philipariel4 жыл бұрын
$2.75-$3.00 now, but still the best.
@dknuckles87164 жыл бұрын
What century was this?
@seokmaetthew4 жыл бұрын
@@dknuckles8716 Hopefully the 20's
@confidential7774 жыл бұрын
Fact:Bronx has the best pizza out of every other borough 😴
@mystic7splace4 жыл бұрын
The Half Moon Pizzeria (now called the Full Moon for some reason) on the corner of E. 187th St and Arthur Ave. Coal fired brick oven pizza. I can still taste it to this day.
@jesserodriguez81974 жыл бұрын
O yea... me personally i like Napolis the best... just a stones throw away from Bronx Zoo
@chicbxbecerril69854 жыл бұрын
BronxMadeJay YESSSSSSSS👀
@vegaroman14 жыл бұрын
This is very true!
@jimm33704 жыл бұрын
Fer shur
@dukagjini66103 жыл бұрын
When I’m in The Bronx I feel Home who ever says that the Bronx is bad they are lying to you
@nicolewigfall60352 жыл бұрын
❤❤❤ Love, love, loved this video, thank you!
@woodfern9094 жыл бұрын
First time my wife and I went to NY was 2011. We enjoyed Arthur Ave way more than Mulberry. Cheers from LA
@SOFIIBX4 жыл бұрын
Little Italy .. barrio Italiano
@bdiaz35464 жыл бұрын
Stay in LA!
@SOFIIBX4 жыл бұрын
@Louis Reyna yes.. but that's how we know it as barrino Italiano
@SOFIIBX4 жыл бұрын
@Louis Reyna I understand however there are still alot of Italian restaurants there.. my favorite spot is Ann and Tony's that's a Italian family restaurant and has been there for years. If you want Italian food we go to "barrio Italiano". Additionally I take my kids there for the fair every summer St. Anthony.
@igorsanchez4084 жыл бұрын
Ay, vato- what's wrong with E.LA? Best food ever. Check it out Homie..
@duckyschulz37894 жыл бұрын
I am from Riverdale and proudly claim my Bronx roots...however am told by people from other areas that I am from "the fake Bronx". You can't have it both ways people.
@colemanstarr54044 жыл бұрын
Seems like they changed the definition of Riverdale since i was a kid. Used to be far west of Bronx, the ritzy area, while part just west of B'way was part of Kingsbridge. Least that's how i remember it. Now they call everything west of Broadway Riverdale. Not all of it wealthy.
@duckyschulz37894 жыл бұрын
@@ArabKatib actually I am a devout Catholic. And your post has been reported due to its Antisemetic nature. I dont care who people are, they deserve respect. Even you
@ArabKatib4 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about? :^U
@duckyschulz37894 жыл бұрын
@@ArabKatib nice try. Screen shot and sent to KZbin.
@duckyschulz37894 жыл бұрын
@@ArabKatib and it's in in my notification history too.
@raymondjelich1852 жыл бұрын
Thanks, ALL NYC, for a fascinating documentary on the place in which I was born and raised! Thanks, also, for explaining that when speaking the name of that borough the definite article is always to be used. Here is a little more information on that: The Bronx was named after a settler to the colony of New Netherland named Jonas Bronck. Bronck set up his homestead in what is now the Mott Haven section. The county was named after him. Finally, while I cannot prove this, I believe that the way that the name of the borough acquired the indefinite article in front of it in spoken language is that people who were visiting Bronck probably said that they were going to the Bronck's (which later came to be spelled with an "x" at the end) similar to the way that we today may say that we are going to the Smith's or to the Rivera's. That's just my hypothesis.
@mckenziepictures7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this. It brought back many memories of being born and raised in The Bronx. Definitely the most underrated borough. And that Riverdale comment was outstanding!
@chinablack97904 жыл бұрын
The Bronx used to be called 'The Borough of Colleges', because most of the colleges in New York City was there. 'Big Up', to the 'X'!!!!
@hackattack78114 жыл бұрын
Thanks for saying Riverdale is the bronx. Riverdale needs to man up and be proud they live in the Bronx.
@keelydavis1653 жыл бұрын
Thank you. It says it on their driver's license and when they have to do jury duty, they know.
@leonarddavidborchers49162 жыл бұрын
Geeee, I wonder why they think like that. Maybe because it's safer?
@hackattack78112 жыл бұрын
@@leonarddavidborchers4916 because they're insecure. They should be proud to say theyre from the bronx.
@davidwadsworth89822 жыл бұрын
Manhattan College is in the Bronx, in Riverdale. Safer school than Fordham. Better than Iona and Saint Johns.
@shawnhall97922 жыл бұрын
@@davidwadsworth8982 yet more kids go to Fordham university in The Bronx
@jashanestone3 жыл бұрын
How beautiful it is to be a real New Yorker. Born and raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn 💪🏾💯
@simonduncan83272 жыл бұрын
Well that video has certainly educated me ! I thought the Bronx was a really built up neighbourhood a concrete jungle ! It’s very spacious and it looks a good place to live 🇬🇧🇺🇸