When the late, great Lou Gehrig played for the Yankees, he would take part in the exhibition games at Sing Sing. Because Lou was born and raised in New York City, he actually knew some of the prisoners growing up, and that affected him. After retiring from baseball, he went to work as a parole board member for New York City until his declining health prevented him from fulfilling the role.
@Harley-and-Her-Ruff-Riders Жыл бұрын
Wow, didn’t know this. Thanks for the info! I’ve been a New Yorker all my life, but an upstate New Yorker 3 hours north of the City, so I tend not to know little stories like this. Because… well, I live across from a farm, and the restaurant I work for is very high end and across from a horse pasture. So it’s kind of like living in Nebraska.
@42WasTheAnswer Жыл бұрын
You and me might have been neighbors! Shout out to all the folks of Chenango County 🤘
@raymondtorres-gy8uj Жыл бұрын
@@Harley-and-Her-Ruff-Riders😂😂😂You could say that your from the Moon!!! 😂😂😂👍
@raymondtorres-gy8uj Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing that info i'am also from NY from Brooklyn NY east ny but did'nt know about that si thanks again... Blessings to you and your family always from Puerto Rico with lot's of love
@moosecat Жыл бұрын
@@raymondtorres-gy8uj My Dad lived in Park Slope, and I'm from Richmond Hill in Queens. Blessings to you and yours from Washington State.
@fortress1133 Жыл бұрын
The prison was literally the definition of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
@jacobpenkava29802 ай бұрын
Clever!!!!!!
@fourtyfivefudd Жыл бұрын
My many times great uncle was executed by electric chair at sing sing. He was a member of the Blue Ribbon Gang in Buffalo, NY in the 20s or 30s. His name was Max (The Goose) Rybarczyk. And funnily enough, in the 80s, Cuomo (governor at the time) actually acquitted him, saying he shouldn’t have been executed for a crime that he couldn’t be proven to have taken part in, as the leader refused to give up who actually did it other than himself. …as if being acquitted after your already dead even matters
@Sniperboy5551 Жыл бұрын
Aside from being symbolic, it does actually mean something. It’s revising history, he will be remembered as someone who was wrongfully executed, rather than as a criminal.
@fourtyfivefudd Жыл бұрын
@@Sniperboy5551 I wouldn’t go that far. He was a criminal and did murder lol. Just not that PARTICULAR crime. He probably would have been justly executed or at least imprisoned for life not long after I would imagine for something else. He was part of a small time mob
@CarsandCats Жыл бұрын
Well it sure matters for political reasons!
@CarsandCats Жыл бұрын
@@Sniperboy5551 All about that history revision, aren't we? See the comment below on how that works out.
@robertomaricruz60262 ай бұрын
@@fourtyfivefuddhe was still wrongfully executed. He was killed for a murder he didn't do. Yes even though he was a criminal and committed other crimes or murders etc he was still WRONGFULLY EXECUTED because this crime he didn't commit.
@Mk99987 Жыл бұрын
The name of the native tribe that lived there was Sint Sinck.
@jetsons101 Жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid Sing Sing being talked about in old B&W gangster movies. Thanks, Ryan, for another great watch.............
@jimoconnor6382 Жыл бұрын
3 Stooges made mention
@kishascape6 ай бұрын
Also law and order in the 90s episodes.
@DanIAmIBe Жыл бұрын
The phrase “going up the river” refers to being sent to Sing Sing.
@jamesmccullers9916 Жыл бұрын
That's exactly were it came from
@asylumlover Жыл бұрын
Long Live those Sing Sing memories!!!!!!!!!!!!
@rahrahrobbbieee Жыл бұрын
Sing Sing is slang for Ossining, NY.
@sarge687020 күн бұрын
THANK YOU!!! Guess you gotta be a New Yorker like me to know that!!
@onrr1726 Жыл бұрын
My Grandfather worked at Sing Sing Prision in the 1950's shortly after his Discharge from the Maine Corps when he returned from the Korean War. New Guards would often be sent to Sing Sing for training before getting their assignments else where in the state. He worked in Auburn Prison as both a Tower Guard and the Union President up till around late 1979 or early 1980 before taking an early retirement due to a back injury. Sadly he passed away in December 2021 after his 81st birthday.
@jaminova_1969 Жыл бұрын
My Uncle Bill worked at Sing Sing around the same time. He told me about the Rosenbergs and his experience as a WW2 Bombardier on a B17! Cheers!
@leonb2637 Жыл бұрын
Some sent to NY State prison who are from the NYC area or Long Island would rather be at the 'Sing Sing' as closer to where spouses, family live so can visit them. Many of NYS's prisons are hours away or not accessible by bus or trains from the 'downstate' area. One operational problem for this prison is the high costs of housing as in one of the most expensive suburban areas of the USA. Many new prison officers have to start there and there has long been issues of affordable housing for them.
@lynnesimmons3112 Жыл бұрын
My heart breaks because they can’t have visit’s, they should pay the officers accordingly to the local cost of living.
@jamesmccullers991611 ай бұрын
I use to hear cos talking about that for years in so many different jails through out the state but it's definitely a fact tho 👍👌💪💯💯💯
@AC-jk8wq Жыл бұрын
Nice work again Ryan! The pic of the Massachusetts license plate was probably made at Walpole State in Walpole, MA… 😃
@killaant84 Жыл бұрын
My dad and uncle were in walpole,I'm from Springfield Massachusetts
@danseeloff867 Жыл бұрын
My uncle was there from 2000-2004, my grandmother & I would take the Amtrak from Niagara Falls to go visit him. I remember the guards there in the visitation room didn't give a crap what the inmates were doing with their girlfriends 😂 it was kinda awkward sitting there with my grandma while the couple at the table next to us is making out.
@jamesmccullers9916 Жыл бұрын
Lol they do more than just make out in visit that's one of the reasons it was nic named swing swing 😂😂😂
@anthonyrivera84211 ай бұрын
Was there also did some time in the 90s we don't call it sing sing we call it swing swing
@LoyalAsst11 ай бұрын
@@jamesmccullers9916😂Swing Swing🤣
@LoyalAsst11 ай бұрын
@@anthonyrivera842😂
@raymondtorres-gy8uj Жыл бұрын
Love the way you tell the stories, just came across your channel and i really enjoyed watching this vídeo SO you have a new fan, subcriber.... I'll spread the channel with friends and family....👍
@Austrian_blood Жыл бұрын
Sing, sing = Ossining, NY.
@johnalder6028 Жыл бұрын
There were steps down to the train tracks and some prisoners got off there and were escorted to the prison.
@falloutcosplay8802 Жыл бұрын
Albert fish was at sing sing prison and died there
@mattr809011 ай бұрын
Great video very informative. Can you make a video about San Quentin or Folsom state prisons please 🙏.
@joelmonkley6177 Жыл бұрын
Old Sparky lived at Sing Sing for years never got charged for homicide
@ctntelevisionnetwork8738 Жыл бұрын
Great video as always! I have a video suggestion: The Western Union Building. This has been a building near the wtc site built in 1873 and the top floors burned down in 1890
@denisefarmer366 Жыл бұрын
A relative worked for Western Union her whole life, retired around 1960. I'd like to see a program about it. Thanks
@Harley-and-Her-Ruff-Riders Жыл бұрын
9:20 For anyone wondering, the photo isn’t really graphic but it would be against YT TOS since it shows someone dying. So it is heavy. But if you want to see, search ‘sing sing 1928 photo’ and you’ll see Ruth. I don’t consider it graphic as you can’t see her face, she is very blurry due to movement, and there’s no sign of her actually being electrocuted at the moment. (Ie even though she was, there’s no sparks of electricity or worse, fire which has happened from the chair.) it’s a haunting photo but it isn’t graphic.
@meberg500 Жыл бұрын
I looked up the pic and couldn't understand why he claims KZbin won't allow it. I guess the difference is that it's a real photo of a real incident? I've seen worse in a Nine Inch Nails video!
@Budehgong Жыл бұрын
@@meberg500 I've seen worse in newspapers. That photograph itself is not schocking whatsoever in today's world.
@meberg500 Жыл бұрын
@@Budehgong Well, technically it is shocking for one person! 😁
@denisefarmer366 Жыл бұрын
If you think about it, being strapped and immobilized in the chair, waiting....waiting for the shock. Seems cruel and unusual I guess, but so is being strapped to a gurney waiting for the IV to drip drip drip.....drop. it's a crazy system and maybe firing squad is preferred?
@TheZackofSpades Жыл бұрын
@@denisefarmer366 I have always genuinely thought life imprisonment was the the more “harsh” result than state-sanctioned murder, but maybe that isn’t the point? I went to law school but never really vibe’d with theories of criminality
@jameskoryta7197 Жыл бұрын
Very informative presentation. Thank you.
@KattMurr Жыл бұрын
I have some experience in that I currently work for NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision as a library clerk. I do not work in a facility but at an office in upstate N.Y. I've only been in this position less than a year, so still learning a lot!
@Harley-and-Her-Ruff-Riders Жыл бұрын
Upstate New York for the win! I’m 2.5 hours north of the City. (About 40 minutes south of Albany, near the town that shares the river’s name.) I’ve worked government jobs and I loved them if just for the fact that I also got to learn little things about the state’s history from them.
@KattMurr Жыл бұрын
@@Harley-and-Her-Ruff-Riders I live in a suburb of Albany...
@bilbobagginses494111 ай бұрын
Auburn here.
@danielpowers6246 Жыл бұрын
I was in SingSing in 1981 and played softball in the lower yard!
@jamesmccullers991611 ай бұрын
Tappan
@bilbobagginses494111 ай бұрын
Sing Sing was a hotel compared to my hometown prison, The infamous Auburn State.
@PatricioGarcia1973 Жыл бұрын
It has a nice museum too. If you take the metronorth towards Poughkeepsie you pass right next to the prison. The museum has the electric chair used on lots of death row prisoners
@Harley-and-Her-Ruff-Riders Жыл бұрын
Oh my god, I’ve taken this train at least 50 times in my life and never realized. Wow. I mean, I will be honest and say by Ossing I’m normally checked out of the scenery around me. But I didn’t know we literally travel THROUGH the complex until I just looked at a map.
@jamesmccullers9916 Жыл бұрын
I was there and from my window I could see the Mero and NYC hell of a nice view at night time tho
@shawntailor54852 ай бұрын
That was the chair Edison tried to ruin Tesla with .
@mikeypiros6647 Жыл бұрын
Was in auburn in 1988, they still had the chair, but was not used any more. Auburn is the oldest prison in New York..
@jamesmccullers991611 ай бұрын
It wAs actually in NYC first then they moved it upstate it's definitely a very old prison I couldn't stand that place the cos are Total ass holes
@SalvatoreEnea-bv7zhАй бұрын
I was there in 92 then in 2007 what a different it became bunk beds in cells
@bobtheelectrician6692 Жыл бұрын
@3:52 Photo of Lester B. Pearson, former prime minister of Canada, flanked by J. F. Dulles and Ike.
@glennso47 Жыл бұрын
I thought Sing Sing was in California. Maybe I’m thinking about another prison. San Quentin for example.
@anthonyrivera84211 ай бұрын
All inmates don't call the prison sing sing we call it swing swing for harldy no laws
@theraceanalystphdprovingha41196 ай бұрын
Just left the prison...the guard was up and eyeballing hard as I drove in supervisors' parking lot. Now onto 87 South...Thanks!
@nlpnt11 ай бұрын
I thought the answer to the headline question would be because it's in the commuter belt (the rail line running through it is the Metro-North mainline) and much more accessible for family visits from NYC than, say, Five Points or Dannemora.
@Powerule237 ай бұрын
It's exceptionally accessible for residents of NYC, including CO's, which is why "the Swing" is considered the 'hood of prisons within the state.
@bobgarske957911 ай бұрын
Love the shirt!
@Powerule237 ай бұрын
This is really well done. This is the first time I've seen so many aerial shots of the compound. I've driven to the facility while visiting Ossining and all you can see is two exterior walls. Otherwise, the only way you can see "in" is from a boat on the Hudson.
@ITSHISTORY7 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@jhosk Жыл бұрын
I for one would prefer that prisons go back to similar to the old ways. My ideal prison was one where the inmates produce EVERYTHING they need! But before they receive anything they would provide for local schools, don't work then don't eat.
@lifted04224 ай бұрын
Your living in dreamland not gonna happen
@shawntailor54852 ай бұрын
My life has been dont work dont eat since we could pull weeds on the garden . It's the way it should be , prison or not .
@rossbryan6102 Жыл бұрын
WHEN I WAS A KID IN THE LATE 40s AND THE 50s WE USED TO GO TO THE POST OFFICE TO LOOK AT THE WANTED CRIMINALS RUNNING LOOSE! EVEN IN KANSAS , SING SING PRISON WAS ALSO KNOWN TO US KANSAS KIDS ,EVEN MORE THAN LEAVENWORTH FEDERAL PRISON! I DID GET TO VIEW THE PRISON RIDING AMTRAK BETWEEN ALBANY AND NYC!
@bethr8756Ай бұрын
@@rossbryan6102 stop shouting
@GOOGLM3_NY7 ай бұрын
Sing Sing is in Ossining. Not Mount Pleasant. I am an Ossining resident.
@CatchyNameF1 Жыл бұрын
You can distinguish KZbinrs that made it, from their expensive and grotesque haircuts.
@allenmorgan6847 Жыл бұрын
West Point should be featured
@randyslegacy99 Жыл бұрын
As someone from Orange County, I agree.
@overland_adventure_nz Жыл бұрын
I cannot believe that the Sing Sing Prison is in the USA, yes I’ve heard the name in the prison before, but I always associate it with one of the Asian countries like Thailand, Vietnam Cambodia some like that.
@cruxiql2 ай бұрын
I drove up to that prison on a jetski to take a look at it. Guards told me to get away or else.
@paulw1762 ай бұрын
they enforced strict quiet at lights outensuring inmates got decent sleep. Sign me up!
@jamesbianco5655 Жыл бұрын
My biological Grandfather was a Prisoner at Sing Sing Prison, he was apart of a gang in New York City called the Westies. He was in Prison for Burglary, Sullivan Law which is gun possesion, kidnapping and a few other crimes.
@juliewoods6534 Жыл бұрын
The real purpose behind The Sullivan Law was to allow police to slip a pistol in the pocket of a political rival while he was being frisked. that ensured a quick conviction.
@killaant84 Жыл бұрын
I know who the westies are they worked with castellano
@bak-mariterry5180 Жыл бұрын
I WORKED 5 YEARS IN A ROW... PRESSING LICENSE PLATES .... IM A LICENSE PLATES PRESS'IN MO' FO !
@glennwall552 Жыл бұрын
The same up the river applies to psychiatric hospital.
@lynnesimmons3112 Жыл бұрын
IMO it should go back to labor, lockstep, and capital punishment. Sorry, not sorry.
@frankmetz867 Жыл бұрын
Had to make deliveries there it is a beautiful location no wonder why a contractor would want the property to make a fortune
@Legitlyyy11 ай бұрын
The exterior was also used in Oz for the fictional Oswald State Penitentiary!
@glennso47 Жыл бұрын
What about the prison in Thomson Illinois? Can you do a video of that?
@peeweemax10011 ай бұрын
I'm a retired correctional officer, nothing special about sing sing
@phishENchimps Жыл бұрын
Oh man. it feels so good to criticize people from the past with current "moral" standards. Presentists ruin history.
@bitemenow609 Жыл бұрын
We do not need electric chairs. We need Electric Bleachers.
@RobertHendrix-nh4vo Жыл бұрын
They still use lock step in nyc your handcuffed to another person
@jennyfermerchan6 ай бұрын
I live 4 minutes away from the prison I went pass by the prison wall after school and I’m not lying about it.
@jamesmccullers9916 Жыл бұрын
I left that spot 11 years ago and didn't look back 👍💪💯💯💯💯
@LukeWarm0511 ай бұрын
vs. = "versus", not "verse"
@treuky4 ай бұрын
Having contract services with prisoners or prisons with only want the state to increase the prison rate in order to increase their revenue through prison incarceration..
@Sniperboy5551 Жыл бұрын
We need to bring capital punishment back.
@Fred-mp1vf Жыл бұрын
I agree, but it's absurd that it costs over $1,000,000 to carry out each execution!
@mikeseier4449 Жыл бұрын
@@Fred-mp1vfI’ll do it for 20 bucks and a hoagie!…
@eric_has_no_idea Жыл бұрын
Ummm no. You trust the government and prosecutors to be infallible? In Illinois we found a dozen people were forced to confess, and later found to have not even be the right person. It was also found that evidence was faked, and witnesses were coerced. This was found across the country repeatedly. So again, do you trust your city and state to never make a mistake? Are you ok with innocent people being executed?
@rsinclair689 Жыл бұрын
@@Fred-mp1vfVets can do it for $100
@bludowski Жыл бұрын
I KNOW THIS PLACE!!! ITS NEXT TO THE METRO NORTH TRAIN I TOOK AS KID TO GET TO MY GRANDPARENTS!!
@davidllewis4075 Жыл бұрын
given I thought it was a federal prison in California, I'd say I learned something new here.
@ramonitavelez6746 Жыл бұрын
Yay sing sing I can't wait to go to sing sing
@brianedwards7142 Жыл бұрын
Asking for comment from anyone with experience of executions sounds like the setup for a horror movie.
@umertheclumsytube1932 ай бұрын
Who’s here from the book how to win friends and influence people?
@jefffarr6546 Жыл бұрын
Wonder what the picture was that they couldn’t show. I think I found it, picture of Rosenberg sitting in old sparky, but not sure if it’s the right one.
@carolineborgia7475 Жыл бұрын
editor here- I found it while I was editing it when I googled “Ruth Snyder” 😬
@mathewhilbert1809 Жыл бұрын
It’s photo of her in the chair
@mrwaterschoot5617 Жыл бұрын
allot of history on the henry hudson river.. on the the hudson sully sullenbrerger landed a multi zon airplane with 2 dead jet engines safely on the Hudson. the vaptain was prepared to go under if all passenger and crew were safe ...
@shawntailor54852 ай бұрын
SULLY !!!!
@cassidylava2587Ай бұрын
My husband just landed there last week
@danielpeters22822 ай бұрын
Check out the Yuma territorial prison. Brutal
@krakentoast Жыл бұрын
Lmao the name
@garybowlin7707 Жыл бұрын
Be like Idaho, bring back the firing squad.
@LoveLestat3 ай бұрын
i mean i looked ar aerial photos and it looks escapeable (not easy escape but definatley escapeable)
@ladyhonor82211 ай бұрын
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@user-ol9td6xg7g4 ай бұрын
I’ve seen the Ruth Schneider photos nothing gory or inappropriate just stills of her dead
@pannamal5182 Жыл бұрын
Thought sing sing 🎵 was a music academy. Thanks for clarification on the subject
@ralphgedney1782 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the laugh!
@user-rv1nv1uy6v Жыл бұрын
I was a correction officer 1974
@cigarsgunsandgasoline8032 Жыл бұрын
10:30 THIS is the "Juneteenth" I celebrate! Hope they're rotting downstairs!
@Itsaboutthewaterlife Жыл бұрын
Wow.
@stevenamendola2816Ай бұрын
I did 4 months in simg sing lol
@greggweber996711 ай бұрын
Consider what it was like that this progressed from.
@redneckroy8947 Жыл бұрын
The Ruth Snyder picture isnt disturbing or hraphic at all
@LoyalAsst11 ай бұрын
Angels with dirty faces was filmed there.
@mahmoodQureshikohatiPakistan Жыл бұрын
Very nice beautiful fantastic 🛳️🚢🚢🛶🛥️⛵🛳️🚢🚢👌👍
@jamesmccullers9916 Жыл бұрын
I see they didn't say anything about that big ass prostitution ring that had going on in sing sing
@user-cw7kq1ry4q2 ай бұрын
Right old sparky old stark Florida prison
@maxivisionvermont1333 Жыл бұрын
First lol just love history
@freetolook3727 Жыл бұрын
Congratulations on your victory! Here's your participation trophy!! 🏆😂
@redneckroy8947 Жыл бұрын
Licensebplate manufacturing is state funded money laundry
@DJslopp10 Жыл бұрын
9:14 yes
@Fox8ball.2 ай бұрын
If I wanted a tour id jave coicked that video i clicked on this because you said why they want locked up there 3 minutes in im so bored try harder
@jamesmccullers9916 Жыл бұрын
Swing swing
@ro_of_israel95146 ай бұрын
The south would never lol
@bean420man2 ай бұрын
The image of Ruth Snyder isn't intense. Stop supporting censorship.
@thomasbassett5028 Жыл бұрын
I believed the name Sing Sing was derived from the local Indian tribe, the Sint Sincks, a faction of the Mohegans that occupied the area. Sint Sincks begot Sing Sing, begot Ossining. Ossining has an areas known as Indian Village and all the streets are named for Indian Tribes and up until woke political correctness the local school athletic teams were the Indians. Now they're named after some bird. Anyway I enjoyed the video, I lived down the street from the prison for a time and went into the prison several times to remove sick or injured prisoners as a member of the local EMS corps.
@jamesferguson2353 Жыл бұрын
cool I grew up in Ossining from 1970 to 1988 then me and my family moved. I remember seeing the walls of the prison from my grandparents kitchen window on Spring street.
@barbt.92113 ай бұрын
Hi, than you must have known Mike aka the WIZARD. He was a great friend.
@treuky4 ай бұрын
Yeah seems like sing sing with nothing but a money maker, now it's probably more organized in the world how they make the money off these damn prisoners, obviously through the state 8 billion dollars. The funny thing is they don't have enough correction officers now make that make f****** sense
@hatednyc Жыл бұрын
No one wants to get locked up.
@jdderstine Жыл бұрын
Good rules even for today. After all prisoners are convicted felons
@Fox8ball.2 ай бұрын
🤷
@user-rv1nv1uy6v Жыл бұрын
I was a co 74-79
@brittster182 Жыл бұрын
Third hahaha
@daveh7989 Жыл бұрын
I liked the old Yankees baseball card sponsored by Fatima Cigarettes. That was a different era then. Your channel is so interesting and educational. I've enjoyed it for about two years now. It helped with passing the time during the covid disaster. Thank you for bringing these interesting subjects every ŵeek. It is very much appreciated.
@darnellhall8173Ай бұрын
Criminal minds 😮
@shidder_mutt Жыл бұрын
Howard the plumber had a stay at the big house
@user-cw7kq1ry4q2 ай бұрын
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@user-cw7kq1ry4q2 ай бұрын
Because of a conjucal visit of a healthy smarter retirement relationship of people of nice cleaner business of the ink pen