Fighting gang culture on New York’s streets | Vigilante | Full Film

Frustrated with the increasing rate of crime in 1970s New York, Curtis Sliwa and his fast-food restaurant colleagues decided to take citizen safety into their own hands - forming ‘The Guardian Angels’. Embraced by counter-culture and shunned by authorities, the group of 13 unarmed young men were quickly propelled to fame and their numbers grew into the thousands. 37-years on, the movement’s leader, Sliwa, opens up his dramatic story of life, death and risk while patrolling the dangerous subways and grim streets of the Bronx and beyond.
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[@sharptroy6798]

From a true OG. I’m from 140th St Cypress Ave. I’m 55 yrs. Old Curtis is official. I remember when the guardian angels, who started in the Bronx, were riding the NYC subways doing their thing and protecting the public. Glad to know he survived to tell his story. Much respect.

[@joebudi5136]

NYc has gone back to the 70's. It's going backwards. 80's bensonhurst/bourough park here.

[@jaminova_1969]

What I remember, being a child in the 70's in NYC is that people, mostly the grandma's, grandpa's, aunts and uncles felt safer walking down the street or riding the subway when they saw the Guardian Angels. I got to meet Curtis around 40 Duecy, near the store where I worked once or twice and just said hello and maybe shot the breeze a little. Back then, you could have a conversation with NY-er's on the street, no big deal.

[@yesic7196]

​@@joebudi5136so is the west coast

[@niraku321]

And the difference now is the people don't support fighting crime. Back then the cops were against them and the people were for it - now it's the opposite.

[@rogerwilkie8555]

Underrated documentary

[@joego9519]

Beyond underated this doc was the truth

[@lahaza6515]

The people who put this together deserve MAJOR PROPS. The amount of early video footage and photos is a feat they mastered.

[@eightpoint58]

The elite wanted the caos, and when the angels were forced to protect their communities, the cops who were not doing the job were sent out to destroy the angels.

[@user-ws5il3vt4q]

I met Curtis Sliwa in Austin,Tx in 1987 he was starting a Guardian Angels chapter there...He was neither friendly or unfriendly..The Dude has cojones to take on a task the NYPD should have been doing..For making the streets safe he is hero..

[@teresadivilbiss8936]

I'm a 55 year old woman from Kansas. The 1st time I saw Curtis Sliwa, i was home sick from school, I was 11 and my mom had Donahue on the t.v. I've been a fan every since then. ❤

[@handsomeX]

Yup. He was a frequent guest on the Geraldo Rivera Show too.

[@MikeToledo-fq5hc]

Same here, In Chicago. I always had a line for NY. I probably saw that Donohue episode too. When I first heard of Curtis and his Guardian Angels I was hooked also. Great video.

[@MikeToledo-fq5hc]

Same here, In Chicago. I always had a line for NY. I probably saw that Donohue episode too. When I first heard of Curtis and his Guardian Angels I was hooked also. Great video.

[@jeremybrackett877]

Same here. I saw him on same show me and my mom watched it

[@KJ-xc6qs]

I've been following Curtis for over 30 years with great admiration. I hope he runs again for Mayor of NYC and wins this time. He's a true leader and hero. We need more like him.

[@Shawnx-jb7sv]

Mr. Sliwa was why I joined the Vancouver, B.C., chapter, and a major factor in my doing volunteer policing and catching and preventing numerous criminals and crimes!

[@dreadnaughttactical]

I remember back in the 80's.. some of the guys in the Toronto chapter used to walk up and down Yonge st and Queen st acting like a gang.. thinking they were some tough asses.. always claiming to know martial arts.. but I can clearly recall quite a few of them getting into street fights and getting their asses kicked. I also heard a bunch of them got jumped in Christie Pitts one night by guys with baseball bats and hockey sticks.. and a few Guardian Angels ended up in the hospital. Sometimes these guys would get on the TTC subway and walk up and down through all of the subway cars acting like the police.. mean muggin' and and eye-balling people.

[@aftermath66699]

Oh Yeah You guys did a grest job on the downtown eastside and chinatown

[@joshuaDstarks]

Silwa is a goon

[@danhall9197]

A true New York legend.

[@aqualix7642]

My brother was an Angel for over 15 years ☝🏿

[@ericpanissidi6761]

Man, he makes me proud to be an American. We used to be tough.

[@scottwolf6213]

Dont care what noone says the era when angels made a name.....there was nothin to gain n he did what he did..love n respect this dude

[@hatednyc]

Curtis is the REAL MAYOR of NYC.

[@mrxd7953]

new york is heading right back to the 70/80's

[@illmerica322]

Yup! That democratic political party is fucking ruining our once beautiful cities

[@aefbNone]

whats that? the fentanyl ? in the BB&Q areas? ganglands? please elaborate and als contact authotitys or the angels (see top of this page)!

[@Vcor9090]

Oh please....it will never be like that again.

[@mrgetitright13]

"Most cabbies were tending goats outside of Jordan a week earlier"...LOL!

[@user-rl5im3px3k]

My uncle was A Guardian Angel... Boy the stories he told me. The ironic part is my entire family is from Richwood, New Jersey like Curtis's Wife

[@J0EYbagaDONUTS]

Curtis has made NYC a better place to live his entire adult life . I never thought of the Guardian Angels as a vigilante group , I viewed them as a group of young men and women trying to make a difference in the NY crime scene , trying to make NY a safer place to live and visit for all to enjoy . I think he's done some great work and to this day is still out there having the backs of everyday New Yorkers .

[@paulyricca3881]

🚬👴🏿🥃 ARE U THE DEAD END KIDS AND WEAR IS JIMMY CAGNEY AT?

[@cleopatra1633]

Indeed, the democrat policies have to go. The mayor doesn't have the back of anyone in NYC, he is a disgrace.

[@misterslats]

I've ALWAYS liked this guy. Talk about a dude that leads by example. The first time I ever visited New York was 1977 and it was SCARY AS SHIT. There were streets I begged my dad not to stop at the stop signs on because of all the hoods, hessians, and bums standing around on the corners. I had never seen a rogues gallery like that. And nevermind riding the subway - it was pure fear after dark. So when I saw that earliest news coverage on the Angels and that they were crime patrols without weapons I thought it was the craziest idea ever and that it would never last. That was 45+ years ago and this guy is still walking the walk. In 2006 he started an Angels crew in my current hometown of Calgary, Canada but unfortunately they couldn't grow the ranks and it didn't last. If Curtis was shocked by the open air drug markets and drug use THEN he should see it now 17 years later. It's 20X as bad. I remember Curtis doing a walkabout with local news crews behind city hall and in the span of like a minute taking a crackpipe from a chick and a knife off some skid. It's hard to not like Curtis Sliwa: he's a legend and a great New Yorker. PS: I prefer the gnarly NYC of '77 to the PG Disney resort it is today. Too much of it's character has been neutered.

[@notsogreen]

Calgary and the rest of Canada are turning very gnarly...enjoy the gnarly from your side of the CAN/ USA border.

[@J.DeLaPoer]

The "PG" (read: leftist/woke) version of NYC is just as bad today; and that ideology is just as destructive to the city and bad for the people, simply in different ways. The State wants all citizens disarmed, docile and compliant... Meanwhile they literally import illegal alien criminals by the busload daily, take care of them with our taxes, try their damnedest to evade SCOTUS rulings on 2A/CCW, have made self defense de facto illegal, coddle the criminal element with no bail policies and activist DA's who refuse to charge criminals... You name it. The city certainly _looks_ nice and cleaner than the grimy old days of the '70s-'80s-'90s, but actual stats might be a big surprise to anyone who thinks its actually safer. All politicians care about is maintaining the facade; the _appearance_ (illusion) of safety, and anyone who defends themselves or criticizes the insanity of blue/sanctuary cities is vilified as an evil bigot racist phobe etc etc. I mean can understand the government and police hating vigilantism; it exposes the myth they push that they're the only ones with the power, authority and ability to use force; and that people are incapable or unjustified in defending themselves. The State, after all, exists only to perpetuate itself not for the benefit of the People -- that's politics 101. But for regular people to be against vigilantism just boggles my mind. You can be a victim if you wish. No thanks. As far as I'm concerned Goetz is a hero, and self defense is a basic human right.

[@Gizzmo112]

What a storyteller! Hope he becomes the new major of NYC. What a hero. The world needs more of these kind of guys.

[@perrottarober]

The fact he hasn't won in a landslide is insane. The guys given his entire life to trying to change that city up to and including literally putting his life on the line. The guys taken it upon himself to clean up the city. Did drugs busts with no guns no backup. Just went in and cleaned it up. Who wouldn't vote for the guy? I'd love to hear why? They'll keep voting in incompetent morons who bury the city deeper and deeper in drugs, homelessness, and crime. Sad.

[@johnnybiggunz1141]

I agree. Watching this documentary just made me like him more .

[@jaystackz3425]

Yeah hope he becomes the new major too ... hopefully you can attend school so you can learn to spell mayor

[@Gizzmo112]

@@jaystackz3425I bet you couldnt say hallo in my language even if you studied for 10 years

[@SpiritGirlSF]

Even tho he ended his father's life?

[@teenac718]

So glad I watched this. Brave Man, real men!! I remember my uncles were from the lower east side, Sicilians. They told me stories about the Guardian Angles when I was younger. They said you saved the city. Thank you. May they Rest in Peace.

[@SpiritGirlSF]

Yeah, real brave ending his father's life. Without even having made a deal with Pops beforehand, they had plenty of time to make one.

[@scottsaul]

The Gaurdian ANGLES ? Did they have a gang called the 90 degrees that ran with them?😂

[@career5690]

He is Polish and Italian.

[@career5690]

@@SpiritGirlSF Excuse me what happened?

[@Hz-yl7du]

I think he is half Croatian half Italian

[@youtuberx199]

In 1982, i was so excited to move to NYC from another country! Although crimes occurred, i loved NYC every second in my life.

[@paulyricca3881]

🚬👴🏿🥃. U DRUNK

[@ziggystardug]

Did you feel like the Guardian Angels made a difference to the crime in the city? Did they make you feel safer?

[@d.c-jr8015]

I wish Detroit had the Angels. Maybe my city would actually comeback. I'm sorry it's not going to under the control of the elected officials because they are mostly criminal themselves. If NEW YORK can do it then there is absolutely nothing keeping Detroit from being reborn with the help if the Angels. The problem in Detroit is that if you are not of color you are looked at as a person trying to to black property. HANZ FINANCIAL tried to buy vacant land all over the city to plant urban gardens. He was spending millions of his own money to do so. Not to own the land but to take disgusting decay and turn it into something that Detroitors could be proud of. The outcome was once citizens and city hall got it into their racist minds that this white millionaire was only trying g to do this as a monopoly money grab to take land from black owners and buy as much as he could afford so eventually he was the majority. This poor man was lucky to earn his money at a young age and growing up in Detroit hearted to see it beautiful again. Urban gardens were thought of as an idea to help the hunger crisis in the city. Detroit isn't like most other cities. The ghetto isn't like L.A, Chicago, New York or any other major cities. It's hundreds of vacant lots were home once stood. Now it's like the land I'd taken it back.Godbless you Curtis Sliwa 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@career5690]

@@ziggystardugGreat questions to ask.

[@philipmendisco6656]

Man, I could listen to Curtis talk and tell stories for HOURS. What a fantastic personality

[@tomstone6843]

America needs a movement like the Guardian Angels in America again.

[@thomaslennonmcclung8049]

I live in Scotland we need more men like him more than ever

[@scottyelder8351]

Indeed we do !

[@DMWBN3]

I’m a southerner, mums Glaswegian, I remember the GA’s on the news at 10 in England when I was a kid.

[@olikane530]

Always wondered what happened to the guardian angels esp because of their usefulness 😊

[@MetalManiac-ex5nu]

Absolute great human being- can’t stand that NYC didn’t elect him for mayor.

[@KingMarc203]

His energy is perfect then the story is just as amazing. I randomly ran into this while smoking, perfect story to get stuck to! 😂 adding to favorite documentary playlist

[@blaakdeath8663]

Once in a lifetime story

[@noyfbna]

NYC needs to vote for this guy. A life time of service to them and still going.

[@CindyBobe7]

Loved it! Thanks to curtis and his crew I felt safe when I was younger living in Hell’s Kitchen. They kept our streets and subways safe. I’m so grateful for the Guardian Angels and that’s why it’s an honor to be part of them. Join us and make a difference in the world🙏 Godbless us all🙏

[@sergioo.guzman9647]

This guy is member of the KKK HE HAS TIES WITH THE BIKE GANG THE MONGUOLS

[@sergioo.guzman9647]

He also has a sex with a minor charged

[@howlinwulf]

Is that the dude who was in the Jan 6th debacle whatever,wasn't an insurrection that's for sure the feds were inviting people in how can it be an insurrection

[@jasonlaporta8485]

😊

[@Sleazball_]

Curtis Sliwa my man took actions into his own hands when the police couldn't do it

[@The_Ballo]

*wouldn't

[@akbarlebowitz8151]

Problem with Police is they are part of the Government. #GovernmentSucksAtDoingStuff

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻 SOOO HOWS YO MOTHER DOIN?

[@howlinwulf]

I sure would love to see a decade like the 80s again. Id rather have that than what we have today!!!

[@rahsunallah2825]

Just go to the Bronx for a few weeks 😂😂😂

[@AliceBowie]

80s and 90s NY was sleazy, dangerous, and fun. Then Giuliani cracked down, and it was safe, but wasn't as fun. Now it's dangerous but no fun. Hopefully they can make it fun and safe, but it'll be tough.

[@cleopatra1633]

The city will never be safe if the Democrat policies aren't stopped. They made it a hell hole for sure.@@AliceBowie

[@beauzer36]

​@@cleopatra1633Defunding police and no cash bail is looney toons.

[@cleopatra1633]

Indeed, Dems are doing this deliberately just for the votes and to bring chaos and fear. Its just disgusting. They have to go.@@beauzer36

[@captainroastabotch5300]

I thought he would & still might make New York's Greatest Mayor Ever

[@Vcor9090]

Yess!!

[@therealpinkyskull]

He’s definitely a great talker, sometimes you feel like he’s BSing/exaggerating but it’s well documented and his accomplishments can’t be denied, like him or not he’s the real deal and has done a great service to all. This guy has balls like coconuts standing up to the mob. I remember seeing guardian angels here in California in the 80’s when I was a kid, It was cool to hear his story I had no idea how it all started until now.

[@andrewjames9996]

He has that old school typical 'New Yawker' vibe. It is Brash, straight talking and loud. It can either put outsiders off or they see it as cool. I am not going to bring politics in to it but Trump has it also even before he was a TV star. The sitcom Honeymooners is more a documentary of how New Yorkers act and speak. If they got something to say they will say it, and to your face. Long Islanders are more reserved and say things in private to bad mouth someone like the Brits.

[@lukim2744]

Everytime I've seen a "guardian angel" in NYC they were getting wrecked 😂😂😂

[@SpiritGirlSF]

He ended his fathers life! Who admits such a thing? Damn dude.

[@andrewp1075]

BSing.....of course he is, he's a Yank....even worse he's a New York Yank....bull$hitting is all they know.

[@gavinbrando8255]

He also wrote racist graffiti and tried to blame it on black people....that's also a documented fact. The instinct you had that he's a bs type of guy were spot on.

[@wizerdjuice9589]

The man the legend.

[@juliemorris9082]

The Man, The Myth, The Legend

[@hudeotainoboriken5528]

Curtis, Thank you for your documentary. You change, are exposed, and move the political democratic Realm. I am from Chicago, age: 63. I will network with you, Curtis. I have been Chicago since 1963. We still have that spirit

[@niccoarcadia4179]

I don't think anyone would understand NYC in the 70s, especially the late 70s. You had to be there.

[@waynecarrol3415]

I’m so glad I watched this ? Where is Lisa today? Curtis you should run for US President ! Of come to Australia I’d vote for ya ❤

[@bryanjohnson5803]

Way to go Curtis. Such a real person in a world of fakes. His inspiration, achievements, and the positive impacts of the GA since its founding, without question, had a signifiant positive impact on not just NY, but hundreds of cities across the US and world. I joined he Atlanta GA chapter my senior year of highschool, 1987-1988. Instead of playing sports or getting into trouble on weekends, it was my extracurricular activity that year to patrol the city's metro trains and housing projects in the weekends all throughout the night stopping drug deals and chasing down purse snatchers. There were a few of us from the suburbs, but most were inner city guys that believed in doing right and protecting their community. I loved every minute hanging out, sparring, and stopping crime with my brothers. On the flip side, my parents were worried sick when I was with them. But probably helped prepare them for when I was in front line combat in Iraq with the Army a few years later.

[@7uplife67]

Salute to Mr. Sliwa, Lisa and all the Guardian Angels. You will always be a pillar of NYC! Thank you for your service! And sacrifice!

[@lisagreene8295]

We need this guy in Ohio. I feel like if we would organize against this immigration problem, and the drug epidemic the Ohioans would fight together for resolve. We are all disgusted about it. And it's a known fact around my town that there are MS-13 gang members here and bring in drugs and God knows what.

[@johnnybiggunz1141]

Curtis, is a true New Yorker!! He loves this city. I don't know if you could find a guy in Ohio, with bigger balls lol. Yet alone anymore in the US.

[@MygenteTV]

you dont get it, times change, he wont be able to do that now

[@covidkid1482]

Hope they make the movie.

[@Fistfury42]

Man these days it's guns only.. this stuff would be impossible today.

[@user-jl9xw2hq7x]

I hope that you will still run for Mayor of NYC. You would have made a great military leader. You have my vote. Veteran US Navy.

[@HermannTheGreat]

New York returning to this now, so tragic, they get what they vote for though, the grime and garbage. Bet they are begging and praying for a Guiliani and Silwa again.

[@medhtebrahim3276]

Giuliani was connected to the mafia he was scum also. Had family in the mob. Was not no angel

[@theplanet7187]

I'd vote Sliwa over Fooliani every day of the week

[@giqwaju3691]

Nah. You overestimate the brains of the woke mob.

[@cleopatra1633]

Indeed, if they keep voting for democrat policies it will only get worse.

[@PhysiqueFuel]

Dude is great storyteller.

[@SpiritGirlSF]

Emphasis on story.

[@silasbenz9224]

​ @SpiritGirlSF Looks like everyone is ignoring you and it's safe to assume this has been the case your entire life. I'm going to do my good deed for the day and acknowledge your existence. I hope you and your father can make amends before it's too late.

[@paulyricca3881]

😩🚬💦😆💦 OLDE GUY TALKIN OLD SCHOOL SLANG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 💦😩💦 WUT IS HE TALKIN BOUT ? LETS SEE HIM GO AGAINST THE WOO AND CHO TRAP GANGS 💦😩💦🚬💦😆💦HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@paulyricca3881]

@@SpiritGirlSFCURTIS CATS 🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

[@paulyricca3881]

@@silasbenz9224CURTIS CATS 🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

[@J.DeLaPoer]

I remember NYC in this era... Harlem was terrible, the Bronx looked like a bombed out war zone, and everyone carried 007 knives (including myself) for protection. Bad times... And yet I'd argue in many ways, a hell of a lot better than our current leftist politicians/society doing just as much to destroy the city; simply by different methods. By the way, _Geotz was a hero._ Period. I mean I can understand the police and politicians being against vigilantism: They are the State, and the State always wants a monopoly on force; it must justify its existence and justify its own powers necessarily by taking that away from the people, even if it renders them fundamentally unsafe. They need to maintain that mythology of being superior, somehow justified where the People are not, somehow needed as if a person is incapable/unjustified in self defense. It's BS. The State exists to perpetuate itself, not for the betterment or protection of the people. Politics 101. I'll never understand this mentality of average people being against vigilantism though. When seconds count, police are minutes way. Disarming the people and expecting them to roll over and take it when assailed by criminals just boggles my mind, but nowadays (especially in blue cities) it seems someone who protects themselves from being attacked is vilified more than the criminal; and average, upstanding citizens with no records get in more legal trouble for clear-cut defensive weapon use than the criminal with a lengthy record who attacked them.

[@quiricomazarin476]

Welcome to satanic DEMONocracy. Catholic Holy Military Orders..coming back.

[@frankn.7883]

I was living in the Bronx during those times. Gangs were everywhere and the most dangerous. To the citizens traveling in our communities they traveled our streets together in the hundreds. To encounter them was a death sentence

[@fahrenheitadjuster7309]

Curtis always had balls of steel. Ny'ers messed up voting for Adams instead of Curtis. You know ...

[@khurshmian6156]

Great doc. New found respect to the Gardian Angels and Curtis Sliva.

[@SuperStrik9]

Respect to Curtis Sliwa and The Guardian Angels for trying to make communities safer places. 👍

[@johndoeferson1746]

My city is definitely dying. Fentanyl, homelessness, gangs, etc. This is the mirror image today.

[@cleopatra1633]

You can thank the Democrat policies for that.

[@commiekillahjay2525]

Paul Castallano got whacked in 1985...not early 90s. Hey!!! I Grew up in Canarsi too in the early 90s when it started to get bad. Now Canarsi is little Haiti. 😂😂 Great Doc!!!

[@mockbattles]

I was in NYC in 1988 when I was 14. It was dirty smelly and rundown. A world away from the country of New Zealand where I came from. I’ll never forget the stench of stale urine on the stairs leading up to the Brooklyn Bridge. I still remember the guy with the stuffed duffel bag offering to sell me the kitchen sink if I followed him down and alley off Times Square. And many other things. My father said then that Auckland would be like this in the future. He was right.

[@lillithstolenscriblznbitz]

Very insightful, very emotional, I could relate it to so many aspects of how hard everyone worked to survive. I feel like woman are going backwards now in certain neighborhoods after so many struggles. When war comes along and housing struggles I can see and feel the impact of your heart. Maybe if we do close borders to all sad but maybe we can learn to work on the core, idk. Thank You immensely for your video 👏❤

[@markwarne5049]

I didn't know new york was so messed up,they need to make a movie about this guy and the Angels.

[@borisaoco4442]

Wish we had thousands of The Guardian Angels and Bernhard Goetzs!!!

[@user-dk3up2nl1m]

....why is this not a Netflix series??? Id loveee to see this as an on-going series of how dangerous NY was! That subway gunman story was straight out of Joker!...insane! Respect to Silwa!

[@Sour12003]

Legend has it this is dejavu for the crime wave in New York now. Guardian Angels are needed.

[@cleopatra1633]

The Democrats and their policies have to go. Stop pandering to criminals.The mayor is an absolute disgrace.

[@anthonymusto3537]

Paul Castellano was shot outside sparks in 1985

[@joebudi5136]

They showed that in the very beginning pictures in the intro.

[@newzcutter]

Yep. The company I work for has its yearly summer luncheon at sparks.

[@Bigtimecharliepotatoes]

There use to be a computer game called the guardian angels about the subways. Bet he never got any royalties from it 😂

[@michaeltuffin5002]

Good

[@adrianrodriguez9569]

The man is a legend should have been Mayor of New York

[@tminusnyc2915]

If you're from the streets of NYC from the OG 80s and 90s... Whether you liked the GA or not... Sliwa is a NYC LEGEND. That's a fact. Much respect.

[@perrottarober]

What a fuckin legend.

[@johnnybiggunz1141]

True.

[@2kull]

I grew up on Dayton Street in Newark and remember when Franky Melvin got shot, he taught martial arts in one of the project buildings, crazy times back then in the Bricks.

[@tommyholiday9880]

Great Documentary!

[@timstort8223]

They have to make a movie about this guy and the movement he started

[@rabby77777]

yes defo

[@ladychatterley9879]

Very nice story, Mr. Curtis. I remember as a teenager being glad to see a guardian angle on the subway late at night. Im 62 years old. Thank you on and all for your service.❤ Brooklyn

[@blackknight5339]

Who brought the drugs into the black and Latino communities? It wasn't the people living in those communities themselves that brought the drugs in. 🤐🤫

[@anthonybate2662]

A true American hero. Right there. God bless Curtis and the Angels A truly amazing story..

[@fredstockgate5029]

IT WAS TIME WELL SPENT... I think you'll enjoy it and the Nostalgia.

[@-GRAVESITE-]

This was a great watch. Very well done.

[@ralphmancini6486]

We definitely need more vigilantes in New York City. Get rid of the shit that’s there.

[@arktos298]

Thank you.

[@RyanTheDrummond]

GREAT WORK, Journeyman!! Loved watching this. Riveted the whole time. 👍🏻🤜🏻🤛🏻👍🏻

[@angelealaahnaann4589]

They are still active and yes love this

[@david69869]

One copper has something to hide, keeps having this vid removed....keep uploading AB!

[@timstort8223]

This dude is legit

[@user-om6tw2wt4r]

I know that this man , is a great champion I did ride the train and feel safe around the Guardians Angels 😇 thank you Curtis for your help , keeping the city safe 🙂 . God Bless you and your family Amen .

[@IMSOHIGH619]

Soooo Glad I found this channel I love this episode I subscribed rn respect from San Diego California

[@divineshabazz2103]

Love what this Man did. My brother was a Guardian Angel. Curtis is a real peoples champ. Im very inspired by this story. NYC needs something like this right now more than ever. Big Salute to you Curtis. A Man amongst Men.

[@leolyon2373]

I have listened to Curtis for decades on the radio, and I even voted for him, when he ran for Mayor of N Y C. Lots of respect for a very respectful man who loves New York City just a bit little more than I do.

[@eddenoy321]

Reminds me of "The Deuce" with James Franco. I can remember that the City's subways were not a very pleasant place. And the graffiti really did covered every inch of the cars , both inside and out. Glad to have never lived there.

[@leahflower9924]

My dad worked in New York City in the '70s but he won't tell me any stories lol I guess he wants to forget

[@eddenoy321]

@@leahflower9924 Depends mostly on what he did, but whenever I had to go there everything had such a hustle feel to it. I do know some of the outer boroughs had areas that were a bit more mellow.

[@MetalGearTenno]

Salute to a true hero and a real man of the people. Love and respect from Scotland. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@SatchPersaud-sm1gc]

People don't understand what it was growing up during that time, i remember the guardian angels they really tried to make a difference, I remember when Chris was on Morton downy show, the city is starting to get as bad as it was in the early 80s, the cops don't have the backing of the city, wonder who will pick up the mantle, chris should run for mayor again

[@edwardjohnson5331]

Very, very good 👍 video. And oh yeah, GOD BLESS Curtis and the Angeles.

[@nkley1]

WE NEED THIS NOW ! New Yorker all my life, and now it breaks my heart that New York City, after it cleaned up and came out on top, is once again giving us that feeling of having to look over our shoulder just walking down the street. The only reason I wanna look over my shoulder is to see a GA. Never thought this would happen again; history destined to repeat itself . Seems like the entire country is back to the Wild Wild West. Outta control.

[@Morcaiden]

Excellent documentary!

[@sTraYa249]

WARRIORS COME OUT TO PLAYAAAY...... This is so nostalgic. Take me back❤

[@nickjames3934]

Thank you for your video. Very interesting

[@wacobob56dad]

He would have made a good Mayor. Different to say the least.

[@illmerica322]

Is that Lisa Evers from the news?! I love her holee I did not know she was such a knockout in her youth mamamia!!

[@billieanderson503]

Never even heard of this guy and can’t say I heard of the angels. I’m so glad they exist and pray they come back stronger in these modern days 😢

[@Gr8fulnomad]

That was captivating from beginning to end. 👏🏼

[@paulreuben7343]

Much Respect to this man

[@jaminova_1969]

Curtis and Lisa are both amazing! I just have to wonder the Guardian Angels met so much resistance from the police and politicians. Really makes you wonder because, they ain't robin, they ain't stealing or selling kids drugs. all they are trying to do is to make the streets safer! My mother was a volunteer at Covenant House and would take me with her to try to help some of the runaway teens.

[@ulyssesgrant2782]

I've lost all respect for Curtis Sliwa and his Guardian Angels.

[@davidreidy5750]

I used to feel so safe every time we rode the subways with Guardian Angels in em.Wanted to be one too,cause I was always getting into street fights like all the friggin time.🗽♥️

[@BizarroLanigirod]

I miss the old NYC

[@hankdusommeil1065]

Wow!

[@donnypsycho]

I remember seeing The Guardian Angels in Chicago in the 80’s - not sure if they were associated with Curtis, but they were definitely there