HOODS UTICA NEW YORK

[@andrew4638]

I grew up in Utica. Left in '87 and haven't been back since '95. Looks like not much has changed. When I was a little kid it wasn't broken yet but then I watched it fall apart. I wish it could go back to the way it was before all the industry left.

[@DarkFoxV]

Things are improving. A lot of new projects, the population's finally started bending back upwards. Whitesboro got worse durring the great recession, but NH I checked out during the late pandemic, and it had a lot of expansions and so much new stuff. A lot of the neighbourhoods in Utica proper are roughly unchanged. They're trying to figure out Bagg's Square with urban planning, since it's the kind of layout in vogue but it's not business-heavy. The did put a roundabout near there tho, which I don't think anyone believes is a good place for one. And I haven't met anyone who agrees with the monument they chose, which was a national-fodused covid statue and not something celebrating Utica's history.

[@iliketocomment8144]

A lot has changed.

[@MrRusty145]

A focused covid statue? Good Gawd what a Bumbo Klog!

[@jamescummings6703]

Utica born and raised, I left in 1996. I miss what it was, my most memorable moments happened there. I still go back and always get that I miss home feeling. Can't go back though, been out of Utica too long to deal with the winter.

[@bikerbliss7411]

Born and raised in Utica. Left about 8 years ago. Still have family and friends there. Love my city but what it was 80s and 90s versus now.... No good careers or jobs but man I still visit as often as possible

[@jamesbrooks4821]

lol you went to some dry ass streets didn’t even hit James st 😭 but we appreciate the love though 🙏🏾 Conrhill baby

[@Eeveeswhimsicalwonders]

Ah yes, James Street. I was literally 4 houses away from turning in (I lived on Mohawk st)

[@mrlifesnatcher]

He gotta spin Jefferson Kossuth James Author Bleeker and areas around the south

[@c.romano1428]

James and Conkling here.

[@Paul-blart42345]

I can’t drive at night without thinking about driving through Utica at night anymore. Really becomes a whole different world.

[@shaliyah.145]

I live here and have lived here for about 6 years just be safe out here !!

[@wejdanalaradi1]

is it safe to live around genese st ? May i know what i should do to be safe living in utica? im planning to study and thought ftights me a bit.

[@zbaksjunior4x]

Where you live

[@MoneyBagjoe-bk5ve]

I also live in Utica Its safer than other cities

[@Eeveeswhimsicalwonders]

I just came here for childhood nostalgia

[@Chertoff88]

I grew up here, dirt poor. Never thought I'd make it out but I finally did. Now I have a good job in Boston. It's a terrible place but sometimes I miss it. So many memories of being a mallrat in the 90's. No reason to go back, there is nothing there for me now but ghosts.

[@totallyspicoli8771]

I appreciate you showing my hometown at a nice leisurely pace, subscribed now and watching all your vids, great work

[@neighborhoodguy]

Thanks appreciate it!!!

[@lazyd3450]

I was born in Utica left at 16 still go back there. And always will

[@totallyspicoli8771]

I'm from Utica too and there's definitely a mystique about that city that pulls us back, love that place

[@trainingk9sfromsouthpawhea889]

@@totallyspicoli8771 we love it there. I meed to see u do a pecial on old lsdy black annie and younfer dirty d

[@outlet3067]

i grew up in utica i just moved. honestly when i was a kid it was not that bad because i had the best childhood always outside, it was more vibrant now its just so gloomy and depressing. also the roundabout was never ever ever as bad as it is now i went back to visit and my best friend lives right on the round about so i know it was never ever this bad the chairs my buddies and i sat at and played with as kids are gone and their is so many homlesss people now, makes me sad stay safe

[@ryh5169]

Utica's heyday came from factories employing unskilled labor, and from heavy government subsidy (ie. the Air Force base in Rome). When these dried up, the economy died, leaving a surplus of bitter unskilled laborers who either had to move out, pick up new skills (mostly union dominated trades), or take up drinking. It was always the smallest and poorest of the upstate cities (compared to Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany), and lacks their geographic or historical advantages: eg. it doesn't have a port, is more isolated, lacks a PhD granting university to attract and retain skilled young people, isn't a state capital, etc. In the past 10 years it's gotten marginally better thanks to international immigrants, tons of state and federal money, and cheap housing attracting skilled remote work -- but there's still a long way to go.

[@billtooke6642]

Yep even compared to Binghamton (which had IBM) or Schenectady (which had GE, though Utica had a couple of GE plants) it was poorer.

[@bigvis497]

Import the third world, get the third world. Wasn't like this when the Goombas ran the place.

[@raycobb141]

Whoa was born in corn hill will forever love the city 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🦾

[@jaylady1136]

No back in the day Utica was fun .in highschool omg what a blast .if u have a good job and a nice home it's not that bad .

[@grettageragi9598]

you should have stopped for a meal at Joe’s on Jay Street. best mushroom stew in the world!

[@jaylady1136]

The crime rate is so high .my dad was a cop back in the day tommy ticket was his nick name but now I would not want my dad to be a cop in the days we have now

[@debbpoll9860]

Nice video...nostalgic😢...Add commentary (streets, neighborhoods)

[@claudettefolsom1509]

These are some of the cleanest sideways ,streets l've seen that says a lot

[@potatojake197]

6:49 Thanks for the view of that ride

[@saganandroid4175]

Leave Utica while you still can.

[@claudettefolsom1509]

Thank you so much Neighborhood Guy!

[@eaanyills]

A hood of what? It looks like a typical poor rust belt neighborhood.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

Haha

[@yerdaddy]

Because it is..I used to work near there.. People with money leave places where you can't make any... People without get stuck

[@lewisnonya761]

Wow I grew up there in the sixties and seventies I left in 1982 I'm watching this video and they go right up Mohawk Street he drove past the fish market and where Mr nostalgia is used to be right there at Mohawk and blandina I lived right there at 805 blandina Street just across Mohawk Street was mr. Belvederes little grocery store he drove up to Lansing and turned right before st. Anthony's church that's where I got my confirmation I loved growing up in that neighborhood it brings me to tears to see my hometown like that

[@DarkFoxV]

I miss Utica 😭😭😭

[@marriott2579]

You better look up the definition of hood because this is the cleanest and nicest hood that I have seen

[@neighborhoodguy]

Maybe you can help me what’s the definition??

[@macballajay5627]

Place has shootings every other day kids killing kids

[@Flowerz__]

I lived in booneville when I was a kid. We’d go to the Utica mall to get yugioh cards. I didn’t know they had a hood haha

[@zbaksjunior4x]

Lol you crazy come act fun they crazy Utica people i love Utica

[@pookaill]

The original "Sin City". Such a shame 😔

[@shortythepresident3913]

Well, at least now i know its not only New York "City" that has bad roads. Jeez....

[@FCCGP]

My Grandma lived on Albany St. You drove right by it. This was fun to watch.

[@Mallyumansky]

I live in utica now from Rochester ny originally and man this little city is no walk in the park bro

[@youngla84]

Damn bro you be everywhere

[@kimmore1681]

Right 😂😂😂

[@kimmore1681]

Utica is just like every other hood. Just mind your business. You’ll be fine.

[@Epck]

Im from li and it's so true like who is realistically going to go out of there way everyone is just chillin

[@r.a.9406]

Sorry but no. Due to strict gun control laws which favor criminals,”minding your own biz” isn’t enough.

[@Epck]

@@r.a.9406 well in a home invasion I suppose but not going thru to get to the deli or something

[@r.a.9406]

@@Epck Yah...like in Cornhill?

[@Epck]

@@r.a.9406 I have never been there so I don't know

[@MarkChambers-y3c]

The last thing or place of Utica i can remember was Chadwick's NY i wish we moved to Silvin Beach NY instead we moved to North Gay NY... I hated it..

[@MarkChambers-y3c]

Remember back in the early 70s pulling into a McDonald's parking lot and the smell of the fries could be smelled for block's... Now you pass a McDonald's you roll up your window so the smell don't get in... Mmmmm McDonald's old School...

[@elsabiodeyoutube9202]

Super intendente Chalmers

[@claudettefolsom1509]

Its CLEAN STREETS THAT IS A WONDERFUL THING!

[@nukebomb816]

I miss Utica definitely one of the best places I lived good memories. I moved to Virginia in 2018 and my best friend there ended up getting killed in his own hood in Cornhill #RipTizzy love you bro

[@frontstooplive]

I used to live in Cornhill. Crazy place, had some fun memories though

[@zbaksjunior4x]

@@frontstoopliveYeo check me out I’m from Utica ny too I’m African but I just come 2017 but it’s my second home town

[@charleshuniker4060]

My relatives lived in the corn Hill section that area went downhill quick

[@rebeccawatson1212]

I miss New York an I'm living in New Mexico an the drug's are really bad there if it hadn't been for the drug's I would still be there but they destroy an ruins people's lives an I'm thankful that I got out of the game

[@jn7420]

Actually some well built houses. Was probably nice "back in the day"

[@The_Real_DCT]

It really was. But thanks to years of incompetence from elected officials like Ed Hannah who despite getting booted out of office everytime he was mayor for corruption still kept getting re-elected until he finally croaked. Plus losing so many of the high paying jobs the place just became a shit hole. Sure they try to fix it but hasn't happened in decades so doubt it will ever happen.

[@DavidBerquist334]

What part of Utica is dangerous I hear corn hill is bad I have been at train station and munsin William protector museum walked a little behind museum and up to Kentucky fried chicken from the museum I haven't been there since 1980s and the train station was a few years ago when they had Lionel display do they still have it

[@claudettefolsom1509]

I have relatives upstate will be seeing Utica soon as well

[@brianhomka290]

In the interests of good "PR" the final scene, depicting the driver at the tire store getting an alignment and new tires, was edited out!

[@jomerry8023]

Grew up there..Had a grest childhood...

[@bigd8420]

Actually miss it live a few miles from there but go there on the regular may move back eventually

[@TiffahoTheDeadBeatMom]

Thanks for reminding why I left that shit hole in 94

[@davidjp7197]

Yes, have you heard? It's been clean every since you left 😂

[@TiffahoTheDeadBeatMom]

Ya looks like it. Looks like something right out of the walking dead. Enjoy your shlthole.

[@TheGraduate702]

It doesn’t look that bad. I don’t see any burnt down houses or street urchins.

[@angellosantiago7004]

De aquí son las hamburjuegas al vapor 😅😅

[@princesa92785]

Por que grabar las peores calles 😢 cuando tenemos mejores 😢.

[@mindfulnessme5493]

Looks crazy out there.

[@jaylady1136]

Show the park way please.we have house s here that will blow your mind .show them

[@mistygarcia2553]

My man lives there and I’m from Cali going there to be with him anything I should know or be aware of?

[@BlazedBob]

Just be careful of who you make friends with there.. Many selfish snakes around. Don't go walking around the hoods or parkway at night. Many criminals come to this city to hide. They drop the convicts off at the train station as well.

[@Chertoff88]

Yeah Don't come. You will find nothing but drugs and poverty

[@felixrodriguez6982]

Yo viví en los proyectos de utica si SERCA de la escuela por el zoo de utica armado de dólar general si y el garaje sonoco si y visite Roma también pero utica está mejor si para vivir es tranquilo si

[@hamzasinanaj9132]

I Love Utica

[@jaylady1136]

It's still broken

[@barmbailey6934]

Home of the Steamed Ham

[@olderinterracialcouple2630]

Show the whole town nice parts to Neighbourhood guy- COOL

[@jaylady1136]

I'm still here

[@WorldwideDarts]

Close to my house early in the video. I'm in an okay spot though

[@500gulf]

I was born in Utica. Lived there 18 years then went to college. Just went back 1st time since leaving. I’m in Tampa since 1989. My good HS friend never left and took me around. I can’t believe the architecture of many of the homes, really beautiful. I’m sad to hear Val Bialis has been closed due to the weather. I LIVED to ski there. Used to go to Mannys afterwards. I’m thinking seriously about moving back. It beats Tampa hands down. I❤️NY

[@jaylady1136]

Yes I moved to Tampa also but I'm back due to my parents .they need me now and Tampa is not going anywhere il be back

[@madelinevegas8123]

Looks poor and scary

[@GorillaGlue42]

Poor yes, idk about scary. Everywhere has its issues but overall there is a lot of good people here

[@moneymakingblack9087]

Yeah poor as fuck but it’s a good city with good people in it one of the best cities I been in

[@ajs_herefr]

That’s Utica, take it from a resident

[@GeorgeDavis-r9v]

What is that statue in the middle of the street called

[@apollosroman8784]

Sailors and Soldiers pointing South

[@GeorgeDavis-r9v]

@@apollosroman8784 thank u I have always wanted to know and the fact that I was born and raised in Utica but it's been awhile since I had left Utica when I was 12

[@ttvsirdikhead]

shiiiiiiit i still live here lmao

[@trainingk9sfromsouthpawhea889]

Me tooo

[@GorillaGlue42]

36 years and counting

[@MarkChambers-y3c]

I'd ask if you ever heard of the picente's but my cousin is Anthony and I'm sure no one has anything nice to say about him..

[@vincentcurtis3236]

Thank you, I went to school in utica from 2nd grade till Proctor Graduation. What the hell happened to my home city

[@DarkFoxV]

Automation x Globalisation x political neglect(especially state). The negative trend has been reversing however, and hopefully given we've the first Upstate governor (WNY-born, studied in CNY, worked in CDNY) in a century, that helps give us a voice.

[@davidjp7197]

Hey Vincent, fellow Utican here!

[@gregorycyr9272]

I was born in Utica moved when I was 2.

[@DarkFoxV]

I read this as "I was born in Utica when I was 2"😂 rereading it made more sense

[@danielNY315]

I miss my city wo much but I got warrants lol

[@augustusc1226]

I wonder if the trap house is still open

[@muamad1138]

lm in utica NY

[@jaylady1136]

My house is on James street

[@jaylady1136]

We have good part s to the parkway

[@Esther-ol7dy]

Sembra una città 👻 fantasma a me mette paura

[@BoeingOfficial]

Great steamed hams 10/10

[@Mubutu123]

No! It's an Albany expression

[@christianvidal1088]

Doesn't look that bad really

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

75 cent fee to use the atm is what up...

[@trainingk9sfromsouthpawhea889]

Utica market 60 cent

[@DarkFoxV]

Using your own bank's atm - priceless

[@ChristianCaseGaming]

Cornhill Is by far the worst in Utica I lived there back in 2004 then moved back to Holland Patent only after a few weeks

[@pircmodern]

Demonic Place, Utica Is…

[@nemisis49]

Utica born md raised

[@Hooper187]

I SAW MYSELF

[@jaylady1136]

Omg 😳

[@anthonyarabia9704]

Utica aint no joke kids

[@bjj_judothrows3446]

why

[@jeffisagod8391]

Go down Jason street at night

[@jaylady1136]

This is so funny to me

[@jamieerin3068]

*username checking in*

[@andrewjones2133]

In hear 👂🏽 the only thing nice about Utica is the college

[@DarkFoxV]

You heard wrong. The food is amazing. Lot's of cool architecture as well. And I mean, mafia history if you're into that 😂😂

[@TraverseRaps]

The food & a lot of the people really are nice level headed

[@brazenzebra]

Left long ago. UFA 68. Utica needs some serious gentrification. Maybe Cree, SUNY Poly, MVHS downtown, and rising home prices can help. Global warming might bless beautiful Utica with no-snow winters in 20 years. Nice video!

[@DarkFoxV]

Community works projects too. We're all in it together.

[@nancystormer1759]

You should visit. The City is rapidly changing for the better. I don't understand why this person showed some of the worst streets in Utica and did not show the massive changes for the better that have occurred during the last five years.