BOSTON HOODS DORCHESTER

[@denzelreid4834]

It kinda reminds me of South Jamaica Hollis in Queens.

[@imsarcasticandaliar2664]

I live in Dorchester in a bad area as someone who's a lot different then others and there have been times I've almost died and I thank God I'm still here.

[@bishan2281]

Love boston old building... full of history...

[@vnonkwinn6233]

Not exactly the best history

[@Justice098]

My hometown . I would be living there but it gets so cold in the winter you don’t even want to come outside

[@hairyasstruman2257]

I'm from North Carolina, but I work for Citizen's Bank customer care. I deal with subprime accounts, so I got a lot of calls from Dorchester. I've never been to New England, but I got a lot of calls from nasty people who overdrew their checking and got hit with overdraft fees (sometimes multiple charges). A lot of entitled, hateful people in Dorchester, so I had to see what it looked like for myself

[@Boston_Police_isagang]

@@hairyasstruman2257 that’s cuz they fighting for their money. You expect people to hand over you money for bullshit fees and have a smile?

[@PJBovio]

THE ULTIMATE TOUR!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆How I ENJOYED that!! It's wonderful to see that Dorchester hasn't lost its authenticity, its REAL-NESS. Were those the Franklin Hill Apartments at the start of the video? It's so refreshing to see neighborhoods that aren't bombarded with the new antiseptic architecture that looks as though it were made of Legos! 😝😝😂 I wager Dorchester, like other sections of Boston, has been under the gun if gentrification, but at least it doesn't LOOK it, and I hope it never does. Genuineness gives me a good feeling of solidarity, of being grounded. Here in St. Paul, a lot of Lego-type housing highrises and developments are being erected amidst the historical landscapes, and I find it distasteful - kinda like adding chili pepper to malted milk, if you know what I mean!! 😂😂😂😂

[@raysmith1026]

0:23 those are Franklin Field apartments.

[@brucevidito4923]

I've been in and through every building and apartment in Franklin Field as I was a fire alarm technician that maintained, tested and inspected the fire alarm systems for quite a few Boston Housing Developments. Daytime is fine. Nighttime, exercise extreme caution, specifically after 11pm. The only reason I had to be in there late at night was for an emergency reset of the fire alarm system. I remember the streets well. Westview St., Ames St. and Stratton St. Plus the smaller roads like Ames Way. For the most part it was very well maintained.

[@keeppunchin2302]

No rats mice or roaches? What was the craziest thing you saw? Lotta people getting high in the hallways?

[@brucevidito4923]

@@keeppunchin2302 , The craziest thing I actually saw was some homeless dude pissing in a stairwell at Cathedral Housing Development. Some developments were worse than others but all had rats and cockroaches. The biggest problem I had at Franklin Field was people tearing out the horn-strobes in the hallways. This is a life safety feature to warn residents of potential fire. Apparently they didn't like them so they destroyed them. There was a big courtyard in the middle that I could walk through during the day, but I was warned by their maintenance department to never go through there at night because of gangs and drugs. At the time I had several of the Boston Housing Authority locations ie Orient Heights (in East Boston), West Broadway and Old Colony (in South Boston). Cathedral Housing (in the South End). Whittier Apartments and Alice Taylor Housing (in Roxbury). South Street Housing (in Jamaica Plain); and Franklin Field (in Dorchester). The worst was Bromley - Heath Development in Roxbury and thankfully that wasn't one of my accounts. It was the most dangerous. Too many stories to list.

[@keeppunchin2302]

@@brucevidito4923 wow so you know the game..yea the projects are wild..cathedral is so tall you can see it from the southeast expressway

[@keeppunchin2302]

@@brucevidito4923 I’ve never been in an actual apartment but I’ve been in old harbors hallway, old colonies hallway, and Bunker hills project hallway when I lived in Charlestown. There all pretty much the same loud and you get people coming in to get high and warm in the winter. People shit and piss in some of them. Yea Deffinetely nothing for the faint of heart. I actually live in public housing up on the north shore but the developments here are much nicer kept even though there old. No crime either

[@brucevidito4923]

@@keeppunchin2302 , My biggest problem at Old Colony was drug users because at that development there were magnetic doors that when the fire alarms activated those doors would drop power and the doors would open. Junkies would bust out the magnets so they could access the roof in order to shoot up. Hypodermic needles were all over the place. I constantly needed to be aware of used needles. But at Cathedral Housing I used to watch drug deals go down. I'm glad you live in a better environment.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

I can tell from all the new and renovated buildings from the 1980s and 90s that these areas (Roxbury & Dorchester) were severely blighted and had a serious crime problem in the 1970s and early 80s. I grew up on the South Shore in the 70s and I knew they were bad but I had no idea of the extent of the blight back then

[@FwcromeX]

I'm a whiteboy living in Dorchester around that area I've been jumped my friends have been shot for hanging w me but I've been out here for 12 years in that hood and I'm starting to think I'ma die there

[@mistersudz102]

Jesus, move out of the area if it’s that bad. Also why are people getting shot for hanging out with you?

[@FwcromeX]

Money is hard I'm doing much better now and a lot of ppl hate white kids in that area but also everyone hates each other and it's sad

[@geraldthayer2604]

WOW, the video opened with the scene from Franklin Field Housing Projects, I lived there in the early 70's!

[@OldBiker54]

I lived there late 60s ,,they tore down all the 3 deckers on Bernard,Iola,WEstville Street to build the Lee school,,,we moved to ames st ,,

[@geraldthayer6127]

@@OldBiker54 I watch the Lee school as it was being built. I'll never forget those rats hiding under the bubbled ground asphalt coming out at night.

[@OldBiker54]

@@geraldthayer6127 I lived on Bernard had to move to projects,,worked at the gas station on corner talbot and bernard Davis Tire & Battery

[@johnhickey3484]

Some of my favorite home care patients live in those projects ❤

[@annedebthune3084]

Wild turkey in the hood, a New England tradition 😂 lived in a triple decker off of Washington st JP in the late 70. Nostalgic trip now I can see with my older eyes it looks similar to many hoods I’ve called home since!

[@ronaldtorres9395]

Have not seen these back streets in 40 years cool

[@brucevidito4923]

You all see when he turned onto Washington St. that there was a wild turkey walking on the sidewalk ? Very strange ! Turkeys in the hood. Lol !

[@nicholasmcdonoough5922]

Big grassy area!

[@Mr.R2D2]

Nbs, you’ll drive by a couple of turkeys in the hood every once in while 😂 Only in dorchester

[@Mister-Coach-K]

Very common in dorchester

[@slysupersam1355]

And the all Boston tbh idk why

[@mindfulnessme5493]

The guy was like a cat in heat with the fire hydrant 6:36. 😂 Can someone tell me what type of music that is? I like it.... The one the fire hydrant guy is dancing to.

[@amlandcarellc3164]

Cape Verde

[@hankscorpion]

that guy looked like bubbles from the wire

[@tonycorleone3140]

@@amlandcarellc3164 I’m Cape Verdean, that was Spanish music

[@tonycorleone3140]

I take it back I let it play for a few more seconds that was CV music 😭😭😭

[@tonycorleone3140]

@@hankscorpion nigga said bubbles 😭😭😭😭😭

[@robertwnorrisii9143]

Beautiful 02125 day. Perfect walking weather.

[@vnonkwinn6233]

If you see dudes hanging around the driver's side of a parked car frontin' like they talking, chances are they Dealing.

[@seancroft7939]

I used to get bootleg toys from The bargain center as a kid. Fake ass transformers.. Dudley Street. I used to shop at the fruit basket supermarket on the corner... You got monadnock Street.. Bird Street.. head up Columbia road one way and you're in Blue Hill... Go to other way and you get to Andrew square. I used to bank groceries from 6:00 to midnight.. at Star market in Brookline. I would take like the last bus from Andrew station until to upham's corner.. get home in about 1:30 a.m.. I became this creature of the night sort of.. lost any light turns to alcohol crack.. exposed to drugs from a relative just.. don't even know how I survived.. I was never a criminal I just worked and had a drug problem. Drugs violence alcoholism. Poverty.. my house had no water sometimes... Sewage backing up from the basement.

[@DspaZZfrmdaf]

If your interested another place with a lot of hoods is Utica New York

[@jasonthomas5531]

UTICA IS A SMALL DIRTY CITY...I BEEN THERE B4

[@seancroft7939]

I was born and raised on Virginia Street.. 48 Virginia that house belongs to some other family now. 20 years I live there.. I had a tough childhood getting jumped a lot I went to the William e Russell School. Single mom on welfare no dad... A gang called the Falcons shattered all the windows of my house once. Lots of good people.. I Knew some good kids growing up. Came home from a friend's once in my home was boarded up.. it's surreal to look at this.

[@LisaWright-ri2ki]

Rip Mrs. Scott she was my 2nd grade teacher at the William E Russell 40 years ago.

[@seancroft7939]

Oh my God she was my second grade teacher at the William e Russell 😀​@@LisaWright-ri2ki

[@Hurk617]

I know at times it may get rough, but DAMN I miss Beantown. Born and raised there but now I’m stuck I country-ass wanna-B hard North Carolina!!!! Yo, someone please help!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@amlandcarellc3164]

used to be Roxbury

[@UtubeStreetsShorts]

Scandalous

[@southdublinog4517]

Old colony PJs kinda look similiar to some here in Dublin "Hardwicke street flats"

[@maggienorris6379]

Beautiful Day in Boston

[@cliftonspann1522]

I grew up here born 1975 left in 1987 didnt see no problems 02124 dont miss the cold lol

[@BarryBlockZay617]

Shoulda came down my Block. Barry St

[@W5UND]

always be sliding on that block fam

[@Slim900]

NOB free fredo lol

[@kangarojack3814]

Free HSM!! RIP DUCE BANGA!!

[@imrustey8641]

Nigga drove right past my crib

[@Boston_Police_isagang]

Which one? And how much money you got over there?

[@NoName718.]

Why is there a turkey just casually walking in a populated area like that? LOL. Last place I saw Turkeys walking around like that was North mf Dakota lol which made more sense.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

The pandemic, less cars on the road.

[@slysupersam1355]

We got a ton here in Boston lol idk why

[@NoName718.]

@@slysupersam1355 Nobody eats them?

[@slysupersam1355]

They were having their moment be4 thanksgiving lmao

[@vnonkwinn6233]

Everything looks the same, deserted and erie too.

[@chrizplayzgamez]

You passed my house

[@kxrma6092]

lol u passed my house

[@Jayson2cool]

This is where I live 😂

[@flashion66]

looks like new york

[@tommymikekenneyas-t-mikekenney]

Dot boys

[@jasonvoorhees310]

Any drug dealing ever caught on that camera.??? How about other more serious crimes.????

[@neighborhoodguy]

Nothing to crazy plenty of drug dealing few fights 👍

[@SHOPTALKTV999.9]

@@neighborhoodguy any footage of 2 white guys fighting and one was bloody

[@SHOPTALKTV999.9]

@@dayumgoon 😂 hell yea

[@rileyfleming8689]

fr

[@richrichie378]

Looks sketchy

[@trevmaguire4558]

It's really not that bad 🤣

[@BarryBlockZay617]

Depends on what hood you're in like most places

[@keeppunchin2302]

H block is the worst

[@slayerj77k31]

Yea we have a problem in America alright.

[@vnonkwinn6233]

NO NARRATION OR MUSIC, BORING.

[@KRITORISS]

But Healey and Wu said they were nice people and just misunderstood.......

[@jayjason423]

"unity through diversity" I do not see much die-versity in the neighborhood. More like overpopulated and overcrowded areas that result from too many subsidies. I cannot imagine what it must like in the schools with the area being bused in. No wonder so many are fleeing to MO.