GREENSPOINT A DANGEROUS HOUSTON TEXAS HOOD

Part business and part residential, family-friendly Greater Greenspoint is centered around Greenspoint Mall at the intersection of Interstate 45 and the Sam Houston Tollway. In addition to the profusion of hotels and shopping centers, there are also several green spaces with walking trails and picnic areas, including Tom Wussow Park, Buckboard Park, and Dylan's Park.

[@HoodAdventures]

I’d like to welcome 🙏 all of my subscribers back to the channel and I’d also like to welcome all of my new subscribers. I appreciate each and every one of you! Let’s get it 🤟🏾 “Coming soon to a hood near you”.

[@truthbetold1549]

Imperial Valley is where I see the news channels go back and forth from.

[@paultheisen873]

Excellent video! Brings back some memories from my college days. Yes, I'm a Yankee from Michigan but spent about 12 months combined on three engineering internships over 1984 and 1985 in North Houston. Worked at a chemical plant on Wallisville Rd in Channelview but lived in a residence hall at 3000 Beltway 8 (they called it North Belt back in the day) where Halliburton's (HAL) HQs are now located. Worked for a company called NL Industries, which had their global HQ where HAL is today. I'm 60 now so memories from HS and College days seem a great charm when you're retired :>) Greenspoint Mall and the surrounding area are certainly a big part of my college days experience. Reflections from a "visitor" who absolutely loved the Houston experience of the mid-80s. After the Tigers, I still root heavily for the Astros, who I saw at the Dome about 20 times in 2 years. 1. GP Mall - first visited after moving to Houston Jan 1984. What an AWESOME mall it was. It had EVERYTHING! Loved the food court (Brothers Pizza), arcade, water chime, GC movies, etc.). I had a few bucks to spend after saving for college and spent them right at that mall! In 84 and 85, don't remember any concerns about crime, etc. in the mall area. I must have went there over 50 times during my ~12 months (combined) in Houston. Mr. Dunderbak's (German deli with great beer) was also a favorite memory. 80s Mall = A+++ 2. GP area overall. Didn't notice much about potential crime in 84 but Summer 85 noticed a lot of 70s apartments that seemed to be getting run down (lots of gutters broken and hanging down for weeks, the constant "$99 move-in special and first 2 months free" ) made me wonder if these were pseudo- housing projects. You made a right turn onto Imp Vall on Greens. I used to shop at a then=Safeway on the NW corner. Decided to NOT shop Safeway after dark. Maybe my "white Suburban guy Spidey sense" was tingling but even by 85 the area just seemed risky. To be continued.

[@shelbybarrett7648]

I grew up in Houston. Went to Greenspoint Mall in the 70's and 80's. I grew up off Gulfbank and 45..there once was a Safeway grocery store two blocks away from our home.. my neighborhood is still called Hidden Valley..I graduated from Aldine Sr in 1986.

[@HoodAdventures]

Ok cool that’s what’s up. Shout out Aldine Mustangs.

[@jaws2003]

I asked an aquantience of mine that lives in Houston about an address off of Northborough Drive. He sent me your video. I'm supposed to help my homegirl move there from Florida next week. This has me wanting to bring my AR-15 and body armor.

[@HoodAdventures]

I ain’t trying to laugh 😂 but I feel you though. I have an uncle that lives on Northborough @ Greens Rd. & he said that he stay clutching so I wouldn’t even be mad at you for bringing that AR with ya. I don’t think it’s bad as it used to be but I ain’t trying to down play it either because it still get active over there and better safe than sorry. Plus that area has a lot of gang activity going on at the moment.

[@Oneofyoplayapatnas]

How did it go

[@jaws2003]

@Oneofyoplayapatnas nobody bothered me like that, but the Latinos there acted very rude. In Florida, they are a little more friendly. Especially if you speak Spanish. There was a food truck off of Greens and Northborough, and that woman was on some other ish with me and my homegirl. The complex my homegirl lives at is so so.

[@theathompson9363]

I just happen to run across your channel. I grew up in Acres Homes, lived in the point in the 80's and graduated from Aldine High.....I like how u show the hood parts of Houston

[@HoodAdventures]

Oh ok cool my pops is from Acres Homes (Knox St.) over in Lincoln City. I’m glad that you like my videos; I definitely appreciate it and also thank you for subscribing to the channel.

[@phyllislawson3294]

I lived in greenspoint forever, back in the day. When it was a very nice, and a safe and economical, place to live, for the money. It became known as Gunpoint in the late 80"s. when somebody pulled a gun on someone at the Mall. I left greenspoint in 2003. That area, went to hell when I left. The flooding started in 2001and for some reason it became, a regular occurrence. I never had a problem with flooding prior to that flood. A year or two after leaving Greenspoint I went back to eat at one of the restaurant and had my 1st crime encounter, in that area. I worked at Foley"s, Montgomery Ward's Dillard's Sears, Burger King. Jack in the Box. Dairy Queen and A T and T. Yes back in the day it was a Single person paradise. Graduated from Aldine high School. I could leave a job today and have another one tomorrow. Greenspoint was the most beautiful cheap areas you could live in Houston, back in the 80's and 90's. I paid $64 dollars for an effiency in the 80's and 18o.oo dollars for the same apt in the 90's. These same apartments were $3hundred and fifty dollars in 1981. We went through the Reaganomic. housing crash and the apartments got really cheap. Altho we have experienced crash since then, however I have never experienced the apartments going down that cheap any more. Today. I probably could not lease, anyone of those apartments for 900 dollars a month! . I could not tell you what happened, to that area. But I grew up and got out!

[@joetaylor2394]

I finished my senior year at Aldine going to the Carver campus. Today Acres Homes is becoming gentrified. Who knew?

[@screwed4life_4thward]

I remember when the Greenspoint area was nice and upscale way back in the day. It started going downhill after that female sheriff was carjacked at Greenspoint mall, kidnapped and murdered . “The gang “Greenspoint Posse” was in full effect and had taken over the area robbing and killing.. also once a lot of those apartments and houses started to accept Section 8, it was a done deal .

[@HoodAdventures]

You are speaking straight facts; I had forgot all about that lady sheriff that was kidnapped and murdered; that was crazy. But you’re right, greenspoint used to be like Spring back in the day.

[@Drew-di6nt]

It went downhill when the Oil and Gas industry crashed. Lived in GP from Elementary to High School graduated in 97.

[@joetaylor2394]

Greenspoint was in decline long before then, mid-to-late 80s was when gang activity was on the rise and progressively became worse after that. HPD established a substation inside the mall and increased its presence in the area but it was too little too late. The high density of multifamily housing (apartments) was more than law enforcement could handle. Now even commercial properties can’t lease office space there because nobody will commute to the area due to the crime. When Exxon relocated the remaining offices from Greenspoint Plaza to their huge new campus in Spring it was the kiss of death. As much of the apartment communities being flood prone even they are having problems maintaining occupancy. Urban renewal by means of a wrecking ball and bulldozer is probably the only thing that can repurpose the area

[@joetaylor2394]

Now that IAH (George Bush) Airport has grown to add more terminals the demand for logistical warehouses is increasing, and it’s only a matter of time until the mall is repurposed or leveled altogether and turned into warehouses. In fact you’ll see much of the property along the Beltway become warehouse complexes once expansion of the new terminals is complete. It’s the circle of life

[@dawonfields7360]

@@HoodAdventures i heard that elgin street and scott street is ratchet too

[@dubwilkinson1341]

half way through the video and still listening to road noise i wont be round if you ever make it to greenspoint

[@azenh]

Grew up in north borough, man back in 2013/14.. been so long. Brought back memories watch thing video thank you.

[@HoodAdventures]

I’m glad I was able too bring back memories; I also appreciate you for checking out my content; don’t forget to subscribe to the channel.

[@azenh]

@@HoodAdventures got you fam, keep up the great content and continue to do what brings you joy! 🤟🏻‼️

[@paultheisen873]

To be continued part 2: 3. Aldine area itself: I really liked the city. It seemed to me to be "middle" middle-class. Not upper class, not lower. Just really darn-good people!!! Went bowling at some alley on Aldine-Bender more than once. Mostly white, some Hispanic. Went to church every Sunday at St. Leo the Great by Aldine-Westfield and Lauder. My last weekend there planned on going to Mass at St Leo's but it had been hit by a fire (August 1985). Never heard what caused it. Played hoops at a pavilion at Pep Mueller Park (nor sure if that was Aldine or not). 4. Houston economy 1984-85. SOFT but not full recession (that happened 1986). Sometime after the peak price (then) of oil in 1981, the apartments massively built from 1976 to 79 by GP became a weight upon the owners so they had to lower rents. BY 1985, it was clear if I did move to Houston, I would NOT be living there. Spring TX was better. 5. What happened to GP Mall post my time 1985 - from reading past "success" stories online (1988, 1998, etc.) it seemed that the slow response to building crime rates and gangs was met too slow and too weak. Even pre-Internet era, once ONE person is robbed in the parking lot, it spreads like wildfire. Too bad because the GP area had so much promise!

[@xxbadmoonrisingx]

GP gonna always be a major crime area in houston. its just like spice lane area on the southwest side. whenever you have that many apartments located near two major freeways you are going to have crime. its cheap rent and i'm sure they take tenants with felonies on their records. Where else can they live? you are right it doesn't look that bad but i wouldn't be out there late at night or anything. ppl who have more money are going to live further up north in the better part of spring. that who area is going to stay hood. it really is a shame because that northern houston real estate is so convenient but nobody want to live there unless they have to. not to mention it floods down near the greens bayou too, which doens't help it at all.

[@HoodAdventures]

Yessir you are 💯 percent right about that; also thank you for checking out the video. Don’t forget to like 👍🏾 and subscribe if you don’t mind.

[@joetaylor2394]

Run off the cartels, if possible. Cheap apartments = multiple safe houses, unless those apartments get bulldozed and a proper affordable housing program to take its place this cycle will just repeat itself. Indigent and Section 8 tenants shouldn’t be lumped together nor should they be relegated to live in one specific area which is why we have these problems

[@xxbadmoonrisingx]

@@joetaylor2394 its the unfortunate effect of all the corruption in this government. ppl are born into a cycle of poverty and nor does it help with all of the illegal immigration that takes away a lot of jobs from tax payers. our country is corrupt. the politicians just line their pockets and the rich get richer and the poor stay poor which leads to crime. there's no way around it. the apt owner doesn't care, its not like he lives there. he just has some manager take care of stuff for him.

[@oscargomez1206]

Damn I was deported to Mexico from Houston in 01 and you just brought back memories. I lived through out all that area greens rd and north chase right in front of whyndam hotel before the building next to it was built in the early 90's and used take a 5 min walk to the mall to hit up cicis pizza and the arcade and also saw honey I shrunk the kids with the fam. Moved to imperial valley then to airline and northborough and ella blvd and 1960. Thanks for these memories❤

[@HoodAdventures]

I’m glad I was able to bring back memories; so did you get to make it back to the states if you don’t mind me asking? I ain’t trying to be all up in ya business like that.

[@oscargomez1206]

@@HoodAdventures Nah its all good. I'm still over here in Juarez right across the border from El Paso. I watched that video you posted from the mountains in El Paso too. You should do a video from Juarez one of these days. I can show you around.

[@emmanuelbernard6450]

I really enjoy riding around,seeing area I haven't seen in a long time

[@HoodAdventures]

Thank you and I definitely appreciate you checking out my content; I will be bringing new videos real soon.

[@donnagray9524]

We lived on Imperial Valley in the old Hollywood Apts back in 90-91 and it was bad at that time. UTI placed us there. We’d hear gunshots on the street behind us after dark and I had the t tops stolen off my car with out even unlocking the doors. Definitely an experience coming there at 18 from Northeast Ohio!!

[@tootsiestoots7815]

Once you unlock survival mode and master ; it’s so much more to life! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@HoodAdventures]

✊🏾✊🏾💯

[@DeepVerma728]

Lived in Greenspoint off of Northborough for 2 years. This is not a bad area at all.

[@poseidon3201]

Some small towns don't have a land mass a population nor a beautiful polarizing skyline like Greenspoint that's facts and Greenspoint is still a business hub it's an edge City easily accessible to Bush international airport and downtown Houston.

[@GoogleAccount00]

Hello, is Northchase Drive & Benmar Drive located in GP? Are those cross streets a safe area? My job wants to relocate me to Texas ASAP and to those cross streets. Thank you!

[@HoodAdventures]

Let me try and explain this to the best of my abilities. To answer the first part of your question, yes those cross streets you named are in Greenspoint. I will just put it like this; Greenspoint (Northside) or what some people like to call it (Guns Point) has always had a notorious reputation for being dangerous. I would say this; working there in the day time may be alright and that being said I wouldn’t leave anything valuable in my car especially something that’s visible or that would indicate that it’s something valuable in your car. Also stay away from those clusters of Apartments in the Greenspoint area especially at night because that area does get active. I have a uncle that live off of Northborough Dr. and he would tell you the same thing. Honestly even if I was to take a job in Geeenspoint coming from out of I would not live in Greenspoint. Drugs, Homicides, Car Theft, Car Jackings and all of that go down over there. So to answer your question nah I wouldn’t move there. Is it still active or dangerous “Yes” in certain pockets of GP especially in those apartments. Greens Rd, Ella Blvd, Imperial Valley, Northborough, Goodson Rd., yeah those are no go zones especially at night. Not bad as it was in the 90’s but it ain’t sweet over there either. It’s two different school districts that serve that area too. The main one is Aldine ISD and Spring ISD serve a smaller portion of it as well. The Spring ISD portion is just a little bit better but not by much.

[@braggsdesigns76]

Good video but you forgot about greenbriar town homes on aldine Westfield and greens rd

[@HoodAdventures]

Thanks for checking out the video and you’re right about that.

[@blsaoo86]

I remember it being called gunspoint when I lived in Spring

[@HoodAdventures]

Facts!! And still do 💯

[@joetaylor2394]

Aldine graduate 1983. I know this area very well

[@user-yy9kn9iw6y]

yep this is my hood and it is definitely dangerous.

[@HoodAdventures]

Salute 🫡 and thank you for checking out my content; don’t forget to subscribe.

[@HustleTownUSA69th]

I can see my home 5:33 behind the gray building when you turning left on Rankin. Greenspoint is not dangerous unless you doing dangerous activities yourself. Other than that everybody minds their business

[@HoodAdventures]

Big FACTS I appreciate you checking out my content 💯

[@alingais4248]

Aldine high class of 2010!!! Damn I miss Houston mane!!🤘🏽

[@thewhitesnauzer3661]

dang 2010 I graduated 2018 at the school lol

[@midwestgrammar2941]

I been stay in Houston going on 8 yrs & though Greenspoint was a whole upscale city outside of Houston

[@HoodAdventures]

No lie, it used to be that way back in the day; it was considered a suburb like Spring. Houston annexed it; and once they started building those cluster of apartments over there that was all she wrote.

[@mariohunt8986]

Greenpoint was all love never had a problem with it lived there 5 yrs

[@LOGOBEATS]

Use to live out here for a year it’s not that badt’s what you make of it tbh

[@tiffenysimmons8958]

Ella is Greenspoint

[@HoodAdventures]

That’s what’s up!!

[@DigitalRaider1]

Took this route from Rushwood to Westfield high school. Apts. along Ella brought in the rift-raft.

[@HoodAdventures]

Ella is kinda wild especially south of Westfield High School

[@joetaylor2394]

All of those apartments along Ella Blvd were a lightning rod for the narco trade as far back as the mid-80s. Harris County judge H.N. McElroy’s daughter was a victim of a cocaine overdose and launched a task force to combat the rampant drug epidemic that had taken over the area. Night club Tampico Bay actually operated as an undercover narcotics task force since it opened. The names and the faces have changed over the years but the narcotics business is still thriving, now Cypress Creek Parkway (FM1960) is what Greenspoint had once been. The oil & gas industry moved to the Woodlands and the demand for yay went with it

[@noahgilliam5162]

Watching you drive my by my apartments and saying it doesn’t look too bad here lol shit pop off in those parking lots. The gas station Tiny’s you pass right after is the spot too. I ain’t gonna lie I lived in the hood my whole life. Moved from the hood in GA to H town. You meet some real cool people in the hood and some of my best friends I met there.

[@HoodAdventures]

Already!! That’s what’s up, but I already know Greenspoint pop off. Georgia be live too I gotta go to Atlanta ain’t been there in some years. “The Bluff” the Atlanta zones Yeap it be poppin out there haha.

[@frescoservice5124]

I lived in Gunspoint on gibson crossing for 5 years it was my first time living in a somewhat black neighborhood because I’m from Brownsville TX 98 percent MEX 🇲🇽 I really love it. I would be in my garage working on projects with my music blasting just like I like it 🔊 nobody ever complained in fact people would slow down and compliment the music I’m a mechanic so I’ll help people that were stranded sometimes spend hours till I got their car up and running one time it was 3 girls 2,men they were thankful yelling saying only in the north we look out for each other you don’t get that in the south everyone was cool 😎 crime wise I witnessed 2 murders 1 right in front of my house and we heard gunshots every week in 5 years every week 😂

[@HoodAdventures]

Good ole Greenspoint, my pops took me to see that movie 🎥 Honey I shrunk the kids at the Mall 😂 but on the cool I remember we used to go that mall on weekends and that mall was always popping off. That mall and Sharpstown used to go hard back in the day. I have some good old Greenspoint memories on the cool. They had a game room at the mall; I think it was called Tilt?? I remember celebrating station too.

[@joetaylor2394]

Aldine graduate 1983. I know this are extremely well

[@javierrosado1174]

Rushwood born & raised! 56 ways to get It!! 🤘🏼

[@HoodAdventures]

That’s what’s up!!

[@DigitalRaider1]

When did you live in Rushwood?

[@javierrosado1174]

@@DigitalRaider1 late 80s till 99 I went to Conley & Teague Middle School. My sister went to Nimitz.. Clover Trail Lane 🤘🏼

[@DigitalRaider1]

@@javierrosado1174 I thought Rushwood went to Westfield?

[@javierrosado1174]

@@DigitalRaider1 No the neighborhood behind us did she went there for a lil bit too tho & Bammel.

[@klewis564]

I remember when they changed the signs.. me and my friends were perplexed lol

[@HoodAdventures]

LoL, cool & thank you for checking out my channel, don’t forget to subscribe.

[@3600blockempire]

You right by old apt Morgan bay

[@thethinbluelinegang]

All of Houston is equal opportunity these days but SW holding it dine!

[@joetaylor2394]

It’s all suburban survival now, the evils of gentrification are putting together a perfect storm of class war that will break out sooner or later, probably sooner. “White Flight” drove demand in the suburbs but to an unsustainable level. Young hipster types can barely afford median rent. Inner loop is already overpriced beyond fair market value but it’s a struggle because homelessness and crime made “walkable” areas not walkable. Much of these urban sprawl problems could be fixed if more people used a viable mass transit system. But because Houstonians like their cars it’s probably not going to happen anytime soon

[@thethinbluelinegang]

@@joetaylor2394 Pretty much sums it up, we got to see a bum shit and wipe their ass in Herman Park for theater under the stars. The move to Katy two months ago was well worth it but some of the same woke shit out here.

[@sidecashtalks9405]

Stop lying I lived here for 15 yrs somebody died and shot up at the store and next a other a that gate across the street plus another guy got killed by his girlfriend in Canfied apts so stop.

[@HoodAdventures]

Nigga who lying and what are they lying about and what are you talking about

[@loronetrulliot2606]

Greenspoint aka Gunspoints

[@freemanbridges5353]

Greenpoint ain't hard stayed there

[@user-yo4vj1ij5g]

Bro I live yes there

[@EDD519]

is there any NON dangerous hoods in Houston ?

[@HoodAdventures]

Yeap there are plenty; I will post some of them as well. I actually posted a few already.

[@hasanicoward4425]

They tried moving some people off Ella Blvd they thought were bad but they moved to Cypress Station

[@everythingbashink293]

On me this mf turnt Lmao

[@dannydimas8414]

this is home

[@chris.h9316]

Cold part about it greenspoint not ah hood they made it like that suburb kids

[@HoodAdventures]

Yeap, back in the day it was like spring.

[@everythingbashink293]

Go over there and tell them that. 😂 & who made you the person who call the shots on who from the hoodK and who ain’t

[@chick-fil-agal2264]

dang u in my everyday route to take my kids to westfield hs,ella not really that bad i live in the silver glen area between spears n tc jester but yes my daughter(17) got killed in gunpoint by a 15yr old in summer of 22 the element appt over a young in his feelings stalker but my i use to live directly in gp in the 80,90n early 2000's wasnt too bad, matter fact u passed my 1st appt n her death spot.

[@HoodAdventures]

Oh wow I’m sorry to hear about what happened to your daughter; that is crazy for real. My uncle live in GP off of Northborough.

[@R.Stone281]

Sorry about your daughter.. thats terrible. My condolences.. What a small world though, I used to be on that bus route. 👍🏻 Went to Westfield HS during the 2001-02 school yr. Alot of them clowns wanted to jump me bc they had to switch up the entire route after I enrolled since I stayed on the far outskirts of Spring ISD. (bunch of fakeass wannabe gangsters/rappers went to that school) but none them fools ever did anything except talk shit when I wasnt around telling people they were going to jump me. I didnt have even 1 fight at that school them boys was all talk, no action.

[@youngkat3591]

1960 more Active than Greenspoint. 1960 N Ella

[@HoodAdventures]

I ain’t gonna lie I lived at Cypress Station on 1960 back in the day and it was active as hell.

[@youngkat3591]

@@HoodAdventures Hell yeah bro Especially Cypress station

[@klewis564]

Cypress station was the shit lol

[@pantysniffer5467]

Anything that has anything to do with Ella is Greenspoint it cuts off after 1960 but cypress station is literally filled with mfs from Greenspoint that moved to spring

[@stashandskate]

my crib on rankin!

[@HoodAdventures]

Ok cool that’s what’s up ✊🏾✊🏾

[@glennbuchanan5780]

Gunpoint is what they call it now.

[@HoodAdventures]

That’s facts! You’re right about that.

[@williamroberts8920]

Ella Blvd is not in Greenspoint

[@HoodAdventures]

Gotcha

[@pantysniffer5467]

Shut the fuck up yes it is you not from here nigga once you cross 1960 you are in spring 1960 is what separates it

[@righteousbeyondgravity]

My Neck of the woods

[@HoodAdventures]

Already!! My uncle live over there off of Northborough.

[@righteousbeyondgravity]

@@HoodAdventures O Ok Ok!! Yea Mane I grew up in Camden Park but the 60 (1960), Boroughs, The Bottom (Arbor Court), Goodson etc etc all stomping grounds for ya boy° Yall did that G!! Keep up the good work Broyo!! Salute 888°

[@erichani1]

Hiram Clarke area

[@HoodAdventures]

Yes indeed I plan on doing the Hiram Clarke area very soon.

[@R.Stone281]

Woww.. u been around for a while then. I was wondering how u knew so much about GP. My family stayed right off of Seminar on Flowerfield Ln. back in the mid90s, early 2000s (back when there were still houses all up n down that street.) Alot of jackings, shootings, gang drivebys, robberies, bigtime DEA drug busts, etc in the area. That whole area was very active back then. Ive seen it all over the yrs... TBH Id never move back. Although I will forever have fond memories of the area for many reasons. Its the crime that keeps me away and the constant flooding. If you live in that area, youre gonna get completely fkd every time theres a tropical storm, hurricane or just unusually high rainfall. Not to mention, the areas went to shit. The Mall aint there anymore, they dont even have the Fuddruckers anymore 😂 That was my favorite spot.

[@HoodAdventures]

Yeap I been around for a minute; that’s how I know that you are speaking big FACTS. I remember when hurricane 🌀 Harvey hit and they had to evacuate all of the people off of greens rd. I have an uncle that stay on Northborough tho and he said it be turnt up still over there.

[@carrtex]

I grew up on Ella and kuykendal back in the day. Alot has changed since then

[@HoodAdventures]

Yeap it really has on the cool

[@joetaylor2394]

Yet, the more things change the more they stay the same. I lived at Kuykendahl/1960 from 1990-1996 before moving to Sharpstown (out of the frying pan and into the fire 😎). I might not know all there is to know about hood life but a lot of my time living in Houston has been in one hood or another

[@Metfqn]

I live pretty much on that exact corner now lol the area for sure needs a little help to get businesses and jobs flowing back in but it's not the worst in the world!

[@erichani1]

Hiram Clarke area

[@HoodAdventures]

I will definitely do the Hiram Clarke area.