Ghettos of London (Hackney borough)

[@AudsN]

Gentrification is happening in Hackney now. It's not the same as it used to be.

[@loose7609]

Audrey the London fields vs homerton and stokey vs Manor House beef is still cracking in 2019

[@user-eu6wp6ws7c]

Gang warfare is still very much alive in Hackney, gentrification just masks it better.

[@gwarnc.yk1]

@@loose7609 2020*

[@TheMixCurator]

Its not the same as the 18th Century either, where Hackney was were a lot of French Hublot's went to. Also, the Head of the Bank of England once had a townhouse in Hackney and also had a lot of bankers working in the city 100 years back. Part of life is accepting that nothing is constantly, everything changes and is constantly flowing (like a stream). I mean, Whitechapel was a Polish area 100 years ago, Clerkenwell was Italian, now they're not.

[@SamanthaFontaine]

1:40 FAWCETT ESTATE... 2:29 WICK ROAD... 2:31 WHISTON ROAD... 2:52 Kingsmead Estate... 3:36 FELLOWS COURT... 3:41 HAGGERSTON ESTATE... 4:06 Hindle House...

[@anonymoususer-gq2vh]

2:52 isn't Kingsmead Estate. 2:00 is Kingsmead Estate.

[@redrebel4540]

Lived in a block flats called Shakespeare House in Lyme Grove Hackney between 1980-88, before departing for Essex..Fun times for a little cockney red!

[@grandcalifornia8410]

Well I can tell you that Hackney Council is the worst council in London, they aim to make as much money as possible off backs of their residents - and they are shady af

[@eastnine8995]

Where did u find dat old picture of Kings Cresent Estate? My old ends. Brought back memories seeing my lil row of houses and granny flats lol.. Its all demolished now so no way of feeling the warmth of being home. No lie i miss living there frm '89 - '01

[@missqueenieful]

I used to live there as well in 1993 and 1994 in Sandridge Court one of the 2 highrise blocks

[@tspirit99]

Hackney boys still lurking in the background.... they aren’t gone, just a little more careful. BIG UP!!!!

[@homelessinpeckham1094]

😴

[@paulmccluskey5992]

A great video!! Love the evocative music and all the images of these various estates.. some of them do look quite attractive when you have trees around them - it's the big, unsightly, soulless concrete high rise blocks that make it a living hell for people.. I've lived in London and having seen these estates all over the city, it speaks many volumes when you see images of young children playing in the streets and makes you think that they are completely unaware of the social impact.

[@SamanthaFontaine]

People of HACKNEY >>> No Yuppies or Hippies can change Our Manner >>> Don't Move Out! >>> Make your VOICE Count!! >>> Don't let them WIN >>> We made Hackney 'What it is today!' >>> Build Upon your homes/Invest in Our Community >>> Show those Government people that 'We can still LIVE our Lives in UNITY!!' DJ Soca Sam - Hackney, Eastside, London UK.

[@justincoombes5205]

There are poor and deprived areas in London and the surrounding counties, but there are no ghettos. Thankfully we have a social support system that has been around since 1948, which denys anyone from living real poverty like they do in other parts of the world.

[@destroyedtelephone4124]

Wrong

[@EBSPITSBARZ]

Poverty is not what is implied in this video, its outlining how grime, brutalist, dull the reality of london is

[@slimzy1990]

parrowdice is a perfect tune for this video man! big up

[@stefan2serb]

@flotl most deprived areas of london with a lot of post world war two estates also have the most crime, theres no denying the connection, look how much crime has reduced in stonebridge since they tore down the blocks and built shiny new council houses.

[@NDPbrendan19]

This doesn't look so bad there's alot worse in Toronto, as well as in a bunch of American cities. But I don't think having worse ghettos is something to brag about unlike alot of the people commenting

[@destroyedtelephone4124]

Your Only Saying That Because Your British

[@thornbird6768]

Cool music , these are not the worst estates in London , Heygate and Aylesbury were far worse .

[@broombroomstickempahpahsti4441]

Michelle Rice ayelsbury where?

[@thornbird6768]

Great music 👍🏻👍🏻

[@lornahyde7097]

I used to stay at my late nan and grandads house stamford hill loved thise days 253 from bethnal green miss thoughs days

[@bstedu]

hackney. spent some time there. clean and friendly. no problems. have a 'butchers' at the downtown east side of vancouver. more fun than you can possibly imagine.

[@Sabotaz80xx]

You should do a one for Newham, it's the most 'ghetto' borough- only 30% is classed as white british. And its got loads of tower blocks too, nice and gritty

[@jc_9787]

Yeah

[@epicgimblehd2340]

London in these days early 2000s it just had this very darker and gloomy feeling, modern architecture and nice apartments for the rich has made the areas "more easy on the eye". They use to have no Control, maintenance on the flats never done for years playgrounds covered in spray paint. Definitely was more dangerous back then people would just rob civilians anything no one gave a fuck back then. Some of the states of blocks I use to live in/ visit, piss puddles in the corners rizzla sheets everywhere stinks of weed, some times even smell crack. The sound of 2t gileras everywhere. Londons image has changed alot its not as gritty looking as it use to be.

[@destroyedtelephone4124]

It's was always gritty

[@Sk-rd5ol]

Some parts of south still look grim Milford towers in catford is one of em.

[@yesthen2704]

Piss puddles… nostalgic

[@omzldn6472]

@@Sk-rd5ol man said catty ur local still

[@smashb3766]

@@omzldn6472 go link him g

[@RandomFM24]

‘Welcome to the east place this is where the devil lives’ 😈

[@tflcommentinspector5065]

Deadliest London boroughs in the last 10 years 2005 - 2015 1. Lambeth 96 2. Newham 80 3. Hackney 62 4 = Southwark 60 4 = Ealing 60 6. Croydon 58 7. Lewisham 55 8. Brent 54 9. Enfield 52 10. Haringey 51 11 = Camden 49 11 = Waltham Forest 49 13. Islington 47 14. Tower Hamlets 46 Obviously you need to take population into consideration and types of homicides. Ealing may be joint 4th but no doubt Southwark saw more gang-related homicides, whereas Ealing might have seen a rash of domestic cases.

[@tflcommentinspector5065]

Newham and Southwark have seen the sharpest declines. Lambeth saw the highest in 2008 with 23. Camden saw 21 in 2005. Hackney saw 20 in 2003 (but not included on this list).

[@ghettostewie373]

dmb_E8 Where's Woolwich. Woolwich is always active

[@xThExGrEaTeSTx]

chicago Illinois 700 murders last year.and in last 10 years probably around 3000-4000 deaths.I would love to live in one of those places you named

[@tflcommentinspector5065]

xThEGr3aTeSTx more than 700. Closer to 800.

[@tflcommentinspector5065]

xThEGr3aTeSTx more than 3000-4000 in last 10 years too. A few years of 500+ then last year with 800.

[@hackneykidd]

Hindle house Road man area R.I.P Etem

[@SUPERSILVERH8ORADE]

@YENKCAHHACKNEY nice pictures, do u have any more of clapton park estate when all the tower blocks were up? nd the photo labeled gilpin square estate is clapton park estate gilpin road n

[@b.abackward2496]

Hackney is alright, there are alot of good people of all nationalities there. Its like all of London, the undercurrrent is positive.

[@jackhackett80]

funny thing about England is even if you are well off, you still likely live a stones throw from someone else

[@jessebuck7181]

No litter on the streets. Looks reasonably safe. Still looks much nicer than our US projects; unfortunately.

[@halflife5728]

garbage usually gets stored on Newham street, no matter what try buying a flat in this area, need at least half a million pounds to start looking around.

[@sassycat6487]

Hackney is a really cool place and I didn't find it ghetto. A lot of famous artists live there now because it's the new trendy place.

[@c3realK1ll4h]

Jesse Buck I know bro, but Londoners want to push the agenda that they got it worse, please Londoners check out Cleveland, Baltimore, st.louis, Detroit, flint and many other ghettos of America, even Brooklyn is worse

[@ghost-gs4rw]

@@c3realK1ll4h no london is more dangerous than new york city, i'm not questioning the other ones but just bcz its not in america doesnt meat it aint dangerous

[@c3realK1ll4h]

negan go and check the murder rates, New York City even last year had over double the murder rate, this year it’s over double already

[@michaelcooper1948]

lived on Stamford hill estate when I was 11till I got married in 70 gone to pot now we did not need cameras then everyone was a friend no gangs were not needed we were as I say all friends Eric hall lived in Wicklow too great times for me and my mates shame its a ghetto now, still way the times have gone no wonder

[@g3n-hydra]

1:53 hamlets not Hackney

[@jaybennaugustine4815]

Whats the Music please

[@johannorenillizitmuzik9461]

Klashnekof/Terra Firma.

[@blossie33]

This doesn't give a true impression of Hackney, it's actually a very diverse and creative area with lots of interesting things going on. Yes, it has a downside but it's definitely not a ghetto!

[@jc_9787]

It is a deprived ghetto

[@reebul8768]

Someone said Springfield E5 was the most feared area in hackney apparently.

[@gwarnc.yk1]

Yh it was

[@gwarnc.yk1]

Feds were scared to go dere

[@reebul8768]

@@gwarnc.yk1 Mad, i would have never guessed it. The guy who told me this also said they were the hardest in east. So were these lot more OJ than Barking, Custom House and London Fields?

[@inkstersco]

How many of those people in the towers are employed do you think?

[@dark108x]

No point comparing UK vs US vs other ghettos in the world. In the long run 'ghetto' relates more to your place in society.

[@alleyezonme2982]

Listen hear now I’m from west London and in London it ain’t about what colour u are I grew up on an estate/project housing for Americans and all my friends are mixed I have 80%black 10%white and 10% Asian London ain’t what they portray it on tv I’ve grown up around shootings stabbing my friends doing life in prison or killed I remember playing out at like 10 years old and my mum always telling not to go down the ally’s cos of crackheads and the needles they leave on the floor I even went down there once and see a girl dead on the floor cos she took a overdose back then it’s just normal to see but as I grew up I realised that it wasn’t right for kids to grow up in places like this and then they blame teenagers for the stabbing and killing it don’t make senses in some way I’m glad that they are demolishing these places even tho they are our homes something got to be dun since they demolished my estate it has change abit obviously some crime is still there but it’s a lot more cleaner and abit safe for kids to go out and not have to worry about a crazy crackhead chasing them down the street. I really do hope London gets better for the children to many young kids are expose to things they should have never seen and for the people in the comments saying London isn’t that bad come walk a day in my shoes and it won’t take long for u to get back on that plane back to your nice country.pray for London/uk🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@d3779]

Londons Legacy surely must be developed and needs to be flourishing here.

[@SamanthaFontaine]

HACKNEY has changed over the years...So different with ALL the New Housing created to encourage those Yuppie types >>> Hackney is My Manner for Life, whether I am here or not...born n bred.

[@LongRange245]

Who made this track

[@spitharoo]

My ancestors were from Hackney. I wonder what they would make of it now?

[@blockgang99]

whats the song

[@TheSaltyQueen92]

Ok does anyone know the name of the tower blocks themselves in Trelawney Estate?

[@andysndrs]

What is the name of this song?

[@joshlysergic8726]

+Cornholio Fitzgerald Klashnekoff - Parrowdice

[@Milly-Cakezz]

Top boy brought me here.

[@ps3zocker85]

Me too haha

[@c3realK1ll4h]

Camielle McClelland and where do u hail from my beautiful queen?

[@c3realK1ll4h]

ell mmm shutup u stupid fart

[@c3realK1ll4h]

ell mmm accusing me of being a weirdo just for liking a woman and now you saying nonce, because your one

[@c3realK1ll4h]

ell mmm it’s just a way of saying where u from? Just a phrase, you can’t come out here start calling people weirdo and then u went onto the next thing by calling me a nonce

[@blockgang99]

whats the song?

[@Irishfianna]

can anyone tell me is there much irish in hackney or of irish decent because my family used to live there years ago in the 80s

[@c3realK1ll4h]

Irishfianna nah, it’s blacks, they are the gangsters and Turks on the Haringey sides

[@richyremi1404]

are u mad hackney is worst place in london

[@user-eu6wp6ws7c]

Hackney has officially has topped that table many times for different a reasons. Simple research online will show

[@carlossantaana4154]

What song is this?!

[@demarcos69]

Damn some of those estates look like condos compared to the housing we have here in New york

[@user-eu6wp6ws7c]

Lol bs. New York is the capital city of the richest country in the world.

[@Mahrah2]

i swear i heard a jamacian

[@mig15ebc]

yo, ur housing looks realy nice in london, here in lisbon it looks like their rotting

[@womblowbobble1139]

Almost all of these places have been demolished!

[@richyremi1404]

u think London is soft cuzzy ?

[@TheSaltyQueen92]

I keep telling them this, I'm in the middle of one now. If you say your hoods aren't so bad (a good thing) they take it as a bad thing, like, oh you don't think we're hard?!! Then they call you an American cow and tell you to suck on. Suck on what though lol

[@jimhawkins1014]

where are the people in these photos?? so many green spaces, parks, playgrounds and streets crying out for street football and no one in them...

[@moody4059]

Cath Prisk Nobody wants to hear your privileged white opinion. fuck off

[@joshuagilman8594]

+moody405 'privileged'. Were Europeans 'privileged' during the Barbary coast slave trade when whole coastal villages were raided by Muslims and sold into slavery? Stay classy and ignorant...it makes it easier to control you.

[@moody4059]

People of colour will be controlling you sooner than you think. The show will be on the other foot soon enough, and you will not like what is in store for you

[@joshlysergic8726]

+moody405 You fucking wasteman going on like only people from ethnic minorities live in areas like this you racist mug

[@Amberle38]

Hackney's been done up a LOT in recent years I've lived here most of my life on the same estate, didn't look anything like this when I moved here 22 years ago was pretty grim alright. Now got them building new flats down the other end of my street & seliing them for £3 million to rich arabs & russians lol it's changed that much. Still a lot of very poor folk living here though & plenty of estates you don't want to be walking round at night.

[@231187ioana]

can anyone tell where in london is hackney?moore beautiful than bucharest ghetto

[@SURENITY]

THIS IS NOT GHETTO DRIVING AUDIS BMW MERCEDES AND LIVING IN NICE APARTMENTS IN AMERICA PEOPLE WOULD KILL FOR THIS

[@3NYC3]

+Harry Potter Bredin .. Estates are basically what we call the Projects which basically is still an apartment or flat what you guys call it. You guys Ends are ruff but its nothing compared to the US.. 9/10 people including the cops don't even have guns

[@destroyedtelephone4124]

Average American That Spent On Car: $30K Average In London: $700... Wdym?????

[@georgeaskew2084]

stop at 1:57 HOX GANG GANG

[@miss.g-shun-w]

@Josh Michael I live in Dallas and south Dallas is one of the worst ghettos/low income suburbs in the state. I'm not saying the area in this video isn't dangerous I don't live there so I can't make that claim but I can certainly relate to the residents if as dangerous as you posters say it is.

[@ghostfacekillahable]

hackney e8 estate blud you get me my home blud

[@musoehcr]

those areas look nice

[@hypeicez2416]

You Never Been To These places Before In You're Life

[@j_thom]

Home sweet home....a long time ago..

[@win86wintfir33]

This comment was made a long time ago

[@alexwoodrow260]

continued from previous comment... It's the policies that matter, not the party name. I know parties often stand for basically their name, but this is not always the case. You need to read the party's policies and what they really stand for, not just assume they are something by their name.

[@realcubano4301]

Hi , this Hackney housing are USELESS !!!! I Ben trying to get on Housing listing for about 7 month 😞😒 . In all the ways that you can imagine... online , by Post . They lost all my documents ,when Someone ask me to post them, and they Ben ignoring me since!!!! Don’t really know what to do . I have 2 baby’s and my wife in one Room... (rented private ) Is a bit sad to think the future and safety of my family.... guys any advice plz ? Thanks 😊

[@thetruth7675]

Make yourself homeless turn up to the housing office with your family and they will have to house you. They will put you in a hostel to start with then you will be housed. But be warned you will have to take what is offered to you it won't be a choice. Hope this helps god luck.

[@smashb3766]

Go back to ur own country g we ain’t got space

[@mustafakaratas3996]

Buckle your seat belt, and maybe after 15 years you can get your self a spot in a ghetto

[@bxox]

Man these are some nice ass ghettos. I bet y'all don't have nearly the same problems we do in America. I wih y'all would just stay focus on education and keep shit moving.

[@c3realK1ll4h]

Come on bruddah, yew aah bruddah, he is bruddah, they aah your bruddah, everybodies bruddah

[@womblowbobble1139]

B 6 years later: britian is one of the poorest countries and its shit

[@hughjass7880]

Dan Tayl hackney is the ghetto and homerton is the most dangerous

[@Mdap93]

They ghetto don't even come close to the ghettos of America I stay in Michigan look up detroit michigan ghetto and give a comment back once you check it.

[@joshlysergic8726]

***** Try Glasgow

[@buttholebzerker]

Alex Mills hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha! damn, that was harsh!

[@jeromeb4396]

This place looks sweet. Come to America so you see and experience a real Ghetto. I'm out.

[@danw7008]

@@jeromeb4396 haha always a yank comparing 😅 im from Glasgow..now im out

[@sassycat6487]

@jermaine tobin how about look up some of our crime statistics. We have some of the highest murder rates in the world because of these ghettos and all the thugs being trigger happy.

[@Therighteouscowboy]

what's the name of the rapper?

[@Zyzz710]

Daniel Tati Ricochet Klashnekoff

[@Sabotaz80xx]

@Eso1 Probably just lived in Shoreditch then, which is the nice part of Hackney

[@HKNYN1]

N1 baby!

[@standupEFC]

London is bad for muggings and stabbings but not as rough for murders compared to LA.

[@sebi726]

10 years ago when drill wasn’t shit

[@dannyzee4]

yeh Blacks (and Asians in the uk) went to the UK and US to do manual labour work, so of course poorer areas have a lot of those groups. Those areas have always had problems, before any non-whites were there.

[@buzzed1029384756]

@Eso1 so u thought "i no i live in a place where you cant go out unless ure carryin a gun,why not move to a place where u cant go out even wiv a gun."

[@miss.g-shun-w]

At least y'alls ghettos are tidy and it appears that the residents try to keep the grounds looking clean. The ghettos in my city look like freakin' landfills and the people just DON'T care.

[@tiltonroadbirmingham1153]

It's people who live in an area that make it crap

[@jc_9787]

Factual

[@mustafakaratas3996]

Birds born in cage think flying is a illness. The people are forced into a wrong lifestyle, you won't understand until you experience it

[@davidedwards2935]

Hackney central police station once the busiest police station in Europe is now posh flats haha

[@PodcastCentral333]

ZT ZT ZT ZERO TOLERANCE

[@Tams107]

oh that's why my boyfriend doesn't want to move here... didn't know

[@CrystalStarTube]

It's all hipsters now that live in Hackneyy

[@capz2651]

+Crystal Star no I lived in Hackeny all my life and some places are scary to walk around

[@adamstratton683]

/watch?v=jTgzKqBILpM But like how can you compare those projects to places like this? Even though those buildings are torn down there's worse places then that in US.

[@destroyedtelephone4124]

No

[@zareh7740]

why fly to nigeria, when you can catch a train to hackney. lol.

[@datway4152]

my m8 kyle would love dis nice track

[@TMoNeY187x]

@ClapperE5 not really.

[@devauthentic]

Nigga it look beautiful out there, so nice & sweet . 😭😭😭

[@joshlysergic8726]

+Harry Potter You're on all these vids chattin shit bruv like you're proud of this shit, no one should be proud its where the fucking politicians put you RISE UP

[@senemroza4283]

i am in the ghetto rAtATataTaa

[@gwarnc.yk1]

😂😂😂

[@alexwoodrow260]

All of these countries were state capitalist. I say this because, in all these countries you mentioned, there has always been a wealthy few and a poor majority, with the wealthy few being the State. Just because the party calls themselves "communist" does not mean they are communist in anyway shape or form. Do you really think the Labour Party are still a party for the workers? Do you really think the British national Party represent the interests of ALL British citizens?

[@BarneyTheDinosaur8D]

not saying you didnt have bad neighborhoods but really ghetto's in us are still far far worse im going by state filled with ghettos illinois,michigan,new york, new orleans, california,texas,atlanta,florida,maryland,Pennsylvania, missouri, Mississippi, and i was living in Cali during the 80s and 90s and i can tell you this every second of your life was in danger especially being hispanic in south central

[@hypeicez2416]

We Got Ghettos Like Peckham Tottenham Croydon And Newham

[@destroyedtelephone4124]

UK: 6,000,000 Crimes A Year With A Population Of 60,000,000. USA: 11,000,000 Crimes A Year With A Population Of 370,000,000

[@kingsb9672]

I live in Hackney on London Fields estate E.8

[@einetutterauchen]

This is a really good song. Fuckin britons know how to do it. even your gangster rap is proper haha

[@hypermodernism]

That's true I agree

[@MsGorter]

Good hip hop

[@WHISTONROADWRB]

Whiston Blocks 2:32

[@HirachieOfSociety]

I've walked through hackney and it's pretty fucked but it's nothing compared to Detroit...

[@hypermodernism]

Okay bro point noted

[@poopmcscoopface]

@Eso1 newburgh is not the murder capitol, but i get they get alot for a small city

[@Gofindyourselves]

i grew up in kingsmead @ 2:02

[@sambo2566]

such a nice boy

[@cropleycourt]

What a load of crap, this is not the hackney I live in. ok so it has some shoddy buildings and yes there is crime and it not the 2nd most deprived borough in England also the ethnic break down is wrong much to high but the ethnocentrism is part of what make Hackney 'Hackney' Hackney is a great place to live, it is why I choose to live here. Hackney has a diverse culture, a rich vision of it's self. Any one can take out the bad bits and make it a whole, yes it could be better but I love anyway

[@Br4ZuCa]

Too easy to get money from the council and live for free in this Country. in my country these people would get shit from the government and the Police and would start commit crimes. To many people don´t care about work and the system helps and give money. I can not understand why the council is owner of this houses simple home in England.

[@halflife5728]

its not that easy for an average citizen, you need to be a mother without a partner or a husband, you need to have aids, you need to have a mental illness, you need to be a homosexual or you can say you ve been tortured in your country of origin and cant go back( but somehow after gaining passport, you fly back to your origin country in any chance, for example Kurds) then the government steps in to place you this free flats which are on a brink of falling apart, burning down like Grenfell collapsing somehow. Normal average people are just punished with £7.5-8ph wage that can only cover rent, still, pay tax on that, boooo the system

[@jayriley4365]

Plus, look at Compton. Lol, looks lovely

[@FuzhBreh]

Hackney aint shit, all i know is that Haringey borough and most of South London is much worse

[@SESeven1905]

because it's been cleared out by rich people. all the crime has moved out south and to Dagenham and areas like that. don't take a dickhead to work out. go and live there now tho. Wouldn't last 5 minutes

[@FuzhBreh]

Yea i live in Stamford Hill

[@user-eu6wp6ws7c]

Stfu

[@Gofindyourselves]

I agree that london is not a slum like rio de jeniro etc but it has bad areas drugs killing prostitution, people do go hungry iv been there i grew up in hackney and you can be very poor.

[@alexwoodrow260]

How about you live in one of those houses or flats, and try putting up with properties that are falling apart and neglect from the Council and Central Government on a day to day basis. Try being able to provide for a family of four on £600 a month. Try to keep your cool while never being able to find a job because the Governmnet puts banks before YOU. That's all. Not difficult to survive life in England is it?