New York Brooklyn Flatbush Church Ave Utica Ave traffic drive by videoshots 1995

[@rawillthetruth118]

Things was so beautiful in the 90s💯

[@walacoll]

Coming across that random fight in front of the store was iconic lol

[@IAmNextUp]

Well said

[@BrownsvilleBaby_Est]

Wonder how them OGs doing now.

[@medouard6362]

My neighborhood. I recognize all the streets there. A lot of those businesses surprisingly are still here

[@illridge]

bredren... my people on 55th and church.... you probably know of some--- surely.

[@medouard6362]

@@illridge probably…love bro

[@iamwhatiam187]

@@illridge I live in 55th and Church Ave, that was in 2018 though before I lived in 45th and Ave D

[@DennisHodge-rc8nx]

This is the real New York idk wats going on now

[@zoomanx9661]

Outside influences ♿️ 🩸 🔱 🤴🏽

[@cvllvc]

Its called improvement. Things cant stay the same forever. You should be glad to see some sort of change and elevation.

[@zoomanx9661]

@@cvllvc some things progressed, other regressed. Going back to gangs is a form of regression. Try not to be overly intelligent

[@Needallfunds]

The real flatbush*

[@cvllvc]

@@zoomanx9661 and you seem to be solely focused on the regression. Thank you for clarifying that even though i didn’t ask.

[@kriscole8648]

Damn. This brings back so many memories. I miss these days so much

[@brooklynalmighty845]

Different Brooklyn

[@Noog6284]

Facts

[@EddyVal-l1n]

VERY!! Dangerous bk... Last 20 years NYC is laughable compared to this ...

[@brooklynalmighty845]

@@EddyVal-l1n NYC is definitely watered down now.

[@jasonwaterfalls9615]

The Brooklyn that was taking it

[@AmberSantana-is3dq]

@@EddyVal-l1nthe kids nowadays wouldn’t have survived this era if we placed them in this time frame gen z would be doing laundry in prison for people 😂

[@OldHeadTV1]

that made my day low key brought a tear to my eye i was born in kings county i went to ps 135, 397, 92, is 61 and e-hall all i know is Brooklyn just that glimpse of Kenmore theater with the 3 dollar movies every sunday on easter the whoel flatbush would be at kenmore or kingz plaza and hearing the music i know its coming from right in front of the church its either the church people selling their tapes or that skinny guy with the van that use to sell mixtapes on tdk tapes. if you have any footage of flatbush ave from the 90s please post i appreciate this though it made my day

[@HotFiya05]

Kids at the end reminded me of me and my squad 😢. St Johns n Nostrand . Don't speak to any of em anymore.

[@trav8028]

Our Home

[@jasonsandy5139]

I went to PS 135 too. Grew up on e46 and church ave! Respect! 💪🏾✊🏾

[@dondepar07]

Went to Ps 91 then to Ms 61. From Kingston and empire

[@82Brooklyn7]

I went to I .S 61 too I could of went to EHall but ended up going to Westinghouse H.S I was around back in 95-96 being from Flatbush Ocean and Parkside aka the Dark side it definitely was live back then💯💯💯

[@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624]

Well. There’s something new every day. Brooklyn, New York in the 1990s. How nice! 👍🏿

[@WithDr.B]

Big up the county of Kings! This is the Brooklyn I grew up in. ❤

[@Neillan]

Same! Everything looks so familiar, despite just how much has happened since.

[@kreambeezy1090]

What a shame we could never get these times back. So Legendary! Ain’t nothing like Brooklyn man I tell you 😓 Thankful for this video 🙌🏽

[@regula9304]

Came across this vid on tiktok and ironically I shot a music video here recently. It kind of goes to show, EastFlatbush hasn’t changed much in 30 years. This is some good footage.

[@samj458]

It's changed a whole lot . It was way worse back then

[@nyc_bk11]

Yo son, take me back to the 90's. You can have this wicked stupid era. I would give anything to go back in time, I hate this modern time. Just look at our young men, speaking well, introducing you to Brooklyn & NYC. God this new modern world is straight pathetic.

[@jameleason6124]

Me too too many Haters Jealousy and Backstabbers I miss those 90s 😢🥹😅😅

[@kingoftrainz]

That car alarm and ice cream truck jingle made me feel very nostalgic

[@farahjoseph]

Me too! It took me back in time

[@breakthroughs]

I definitely remember coming to this area a lot back in the days

[@champion8473]

They passed my corner and i remember all them stores that's not there no more. A few guys are still locked up from them times till today

[@speak4061]

Lol the kids at the end

[@joseyeastwood]

I hope those kids at the end are still here in doing well.

[@petej7136]

Great vid. All the fruit markets and liquor stores are still around. Most of the buildings are too, just different businesses in them. That Utica and Church corner is still a hotspot. The kids at the end definitely takes me back, that was my childhood, I hung out all around and that was so Brooklyn!

[@MonetaryGain]

3:42 Linden and Utica. I used to live a block away from there in the 50s right on Linden back in the early 1990s. KFC right on the corner and McDonald's down by Clarkson. I used to frequent them all the time. Now I think Popeyes replaced KFC and McDonald's is still in the same place. I also went to Winthrop junior high school in that neighborhood. I used to walk all the time from Linden and Utica all the way to Eastern Parkway to Utica train station instead of taking the bus to there. Till this day, my legs are strong and equipped for long strides. I am a stamina daddy!

[@BKthoroughbred]

@@MonetaryGain SAY WORD!!! Me Too!!! Grew up on 53rd and Clarkson. Used to have to with catch the B46 to Eastern Pkwy to catch the 4 train. To this day My legs are tree trunks because most times I use just walk up the mile uphill instead waiting for bus. AND then on the way home when me and boy used to get off the train we used to race the either B46 of B17 bus home. He would take one side of Utica and I would take the other side and we used to race to the corner of 53rd and Remsen. Most of the time we used to beat the bus too. Good times -this is when I was in elementary and middle schools in the late 70s and early 80s.

[@kingsittystudios2400]

yeah, this footage is dope!!!!

[@frank-xp6pj]

Yep, during the times when people came outside in their neighborhoods

[@pwhales264]

Church in Utica avenues are my own stomping grounds. I grew up in East New York and East Flatbush on 91st Street and Kings highway. Some of the best years of my life were spent in East Flatbush

[@David-r8k3u]

Lil man said welcome to new york city i remember 95 like it was yesterday I'm from the area called the 90z right next to Brownsville 11212 stand up

[@BrownsvilleBaby_Est]

Lil man probably a father now..Earlier 80s baby

[@BrownsvilleBaby_Est]

Thomas Boyland ,and Hegeman.Brookdale birthed me.

[@nevgotbeats]

2:56 the Korean store, optician store and the laundromat is still there till this day

[@82Brooklyn7]

Definitely brought back a lotta memories being from Flatbush myself it definitely was live in 95 and 96 compared to Flatbush now 💯

[@naptime0143]

When no cellphones existed. As a 2000s baby I always wondered what growing up in 90s felt like

[@frank-xp6pj]

A lot more physical activities in the streets, a lot less staying in the house because the internet wasn’t out yet and we didn’t have realistic video games or cellphones. So everybody came outside & the neighborhoods were always full of people….in this generation we got rappers on social media telling ops to pull up but when they do & go live it’s a ghost town & nobody’s outside…..not the case back in the day….rappers didn’t go on social media & telling everybody to come outside to be on a video shoot because the streets were already flooded with people ESPECIALLY in the housing projects & low income neighborhoods.

[@BKthoroughbred]

Cell phones was around. Mom Dukes has one since 93 because she worked in hospital and was on call. And in the streets you could get one in some sort of shady way. But it had to be discarded after a few weeks/months. I got my first cell phone in 97 from OmniPoint, which became VoiceStream, which became TMobile by 2007

[@iamwhatiam187]

@@TrapBushMontana Wasn’t it more violent back then ?

[@militantacecolleti5208]

It's was was m different

[@nevgotbeats]

You missed out on

[@Zo_1987]

Brooklyn and Chicago streets look damn near Identical!!!

[@rashonkelly3598]

They really do sometimes Baltimore also

[@aadanis_]

Throwback to my childhood!

[@farahjoseph]

Mine too

[@oznola10]

That is the neighborhood I grew up in. Love it !!!

[@shawng5313]

3:12 that’s my grandparents sneaker store 😅❤

[@safe8488]

Do they still own it?

[@Roadsiderevelationsnyc]

Before the cell phones , before instagram , tik tok

[@HHb-g7g]

Alot of business is gone since 1995

[@Roadsiderevelationsnyc]

Pay phones and beeper days. I was 15 and this was the best place in the world

[@KeyannaPottinger]

Ocean avenue and church avenue 🗽♥️🥰

[@StuyJamaicaYonkers]

New York when I was there, ‘95 I was in the 6-7 grade in Yonkers but living in Jamaica Queens, Bo’s my hometown though but neva lived there

[@StuyJamaicaYonkers]

Bk’s

[@Bar4Bar1282]

Lot of places closed this must of been a Sunday

[@OldHeadTV1]

i thought the same thing...more than likely i was at kenmore watching a 3 dollar movie 😂😂 3 dollar ill be in there all day watching all the movies they have the best nachos til this day.

[@milestone_achiever4634]

Lots of 80's cars still. The amount of 80's Caprices on the road is astounding. Did not see one Lincoln Town that had the rounded design from 1990 until 1997. Was also hoping to see a '93 Maxima or 'a 94 Acura Legend here and there!!!😂😂😂

[@jasonsandy5139]

One chinese spot says Open 7 days a week. Come to think of it, pretty much no chinese spots in the hood closed on any days. Money was rollin' in for them wings and fries, extra hot sauce and ketchup. Ketchup and bbq if you were up on that at all. 😋

[@dondepar07]

With $3 you get fries or plain fry rice with 4 wings

[@AmberSantana-is3dq]

The ice cream trucks don’t even make this sound anymore the buses don’t brake with this sound either I can cry I’m from the south bronx

[@unrulytdott2824]

flatbush did a decent job of holding off gentrification based on this video a lot of stuff is still similar. I would love to see a video of bedstuy, crown heights, brownsville around this time

[@robroy6374]

ocean hill, new lots, east new york, prospect heights, etc. as well.

[@TrapBushMontana]

Na Flatbush still ain’t the same ….

[@unrulytdott2824]

@@TrapBushMontana of course not but compared to neighborhoods like Williamsburg, bushwick and fort green its way better off

[@theybeonbody1309]

IT STILL LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME. PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BLAMING GENTRIFICATION AND TAKE A LOOK AROUND. MOST OF IT CHANGED BECAUSE PEOPLE MOVED DOWN SOUTH

[@unrulytdott2824]

@@theybeonbody1309 lol gentrification is still definitely playing a role though don’t get me wrong, why do you think these people are choosing to move down south in the first place? I just think that compared to many others Flatbush is holding out relatively well, it may also have to do with the fact that Flatbush isn’t as accessible to the city like West Brooklyn (dumbo, fort greene, Williamsburg, downtown) which is virtually unrecognizable compared to 25-15 years ago

[@Neillan]

My old neighborhood, been looking for some footage from this time for years now. BK, that's who we are!

[@lMcFlyyl]

48th still got that laundry and West Indian grocery🔥

[@b4yonce]

That movie theater use to always get shot up 😂😂 and yet we still go n watch like three movies. Clarkson nostrand and rogers 🏠

[@hood_nation_tv]

I miss it so much 😢

[@illridge]

wth??? thats my block .... 50's... church/utica/ remsen/ linden.....Eastern pkwy to the 4 and 5 train...Dollar vans. Yard men.

[@jthahooper_8582]

My moms grew up on Woodruff back in the day…. She told me all the stories of how it used to be on Flatbush

[@SIPA50]

I'm From Troy and church ave

[@jasonsandy5139]

E46th street and church! 💪🏾

[@SIPA50]

@@jasonsandy5139 My homie Ben used to live on that block!

[@keronwindley4950]

Used to work on 42nd and Church,.. At that Rite Aid that no longer exists

[@fullybluntt]

Real Brooklyn the planet

[@thatruth031]

When Brooklyn was Brooklyn now it’s all gentrified with these hipsters and migrants ruining it

[@javianjohnson8746]

The good ole days man...

[@88ntil]

That corner still look like that

[@randolphcarr4316]

Make me wanna shed some tears I really miss those days, life was good but not really. Was that the B35?

[@SpecialJournay]

Wow ❤

[@erob3878]

Wow..

[@incognito3743]

Oh snap!!! Biltmore Ballroom!!!! 🗣️BIG UP FLATBUSH……..before the gentrification ☹️

[@FtWreckless818]

The legendary Biltmore ballroom in the beginning of the video

[@BrownsvilleBaby_Est]

Baçc when Brooklyn was Brooklyn!!!Juss us,Never Dem!!! I was born around the corner at Brookdale May 3,1991

[@rodgibelfond7463]

I moved to Boston in’93 after growing up in Flatbush

[@isaiahwinbrone]

Brooklyn look nothing like that now

[@coldcrush9]

Love them ASTRO graffiti stretch tags

[@CamilleClyne]

You pass 34th street so fast lol

[@GenerationfleX897]

The 90s part of east flatbush( e. 91st.-e.98st.) was the Brooklyn that was official right before we hit never ran never will Brownsville

[@Godgotme1986]

So different you feel it not the same from then to now

[@BarzOverAll]

Church ave yes, church st no

[@janun11]

Thats what i was saying

[@robroy6374]

Yes. Church Street is in Tribeca/Lower Manhattan.

[@janun11]

@@robroy6374 thats nowhere near that

[@robroy6374]

@@janun11 i'm not even talking about that. pay attention kid

[@janun11]

@@robroy6374 nobody asked you tho we know that

[@jimfoo-6041]

Just,imagine inside the Housing Projects...This is actually considered a (C) Dangerous Precinct...(A) Bed Stuy, Brownsville, Crown Weights

[@miggz1294]

This where the Labor Day parade was at…mad shootings that night on church and martence street lol .. I’m from Harlem and I never been back.

[@cocobrowns]

My homeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....Yasssssssssss.. This is what I remember

[@905bwana]

Da infamous Biltmore ballroom

[@shotalife8299]

Damn I miss the old BK. Was just talking about Mcrory's earlier.

[@militantacecolleti5208]

Omg! Old FlatBush ‼️

[@darianbroomfield8361]

The real nyc the real Brooklyn 90’s forever

[@herumayala5252]

Damn my homeboy jess was outside 1995 4:14

[@darianbroomfield8361]

I was born in 1995 that was a beautiful year big L dropped his debut album lifestyles of the poor

[@dannybx78]

Classic Brooklyn.

[@zoomanx9661]

Classic

[@SpeakMusic25]

Band Bang Brooklyn the wild east…

[@1010Winz]

2x Chinese restaurants on 1 block. ❤

[@CONNECTELECTRIC]

A Sunday afternoon drive I bet.

[@brianroberts6144]

That sign at linden and utica still there

[@random-ig6tp]

Is this Church St at 0:03?

[@shawng5313]

Yup!

[@brooklynbred1460]

Backwhen it wzs a great place to live. Now im upstate Hudson Valley and you couldn't pay me to visit

[@adrina911]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@HortonGourcuff]

Still dusty to this day😂😂😂

[@Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect]

Church AVE

[@cliffs9458]

Brooklyn was bad, back then but everywhere you look it's nicer, but it depends of the hood.

[@jjinnyc75]

What was going on at 2:27 lol

[@jwashingtonparker]

YOU DISRESPECTING ME SON!

[@commentandlikedistributor]

I wonder how much all that Wendy’s cost compare now back then 0:26

[@leronmorris5069]

I see method man a cross the street lol

[@ManManYaheard]

Around the time New Jersey drive came out that was a wild era biggie ready to die Tupac me against the world Nas mop smiff b wessun Keith Murray redman rekwon purple tape that was the year everybody was riding to all that shit lol 1995

[@adamgoodell5805]

Those blocks still look pretty much the same. Just lower crime now and massive NYPD presence - but a lot of the same people

[@bornpsychopath2996]

Before the high prices for everything even pop smh and dude kicked the dude and the dude didn't do nothing

[@getparadox]

Church Avenue.

[@LilHondaCivic808]

Biggie smalls 🕊️🍾

[@versace2030]

Church Ave ! NOT Church st. Those were the times for real, Heavy Caribbean pressence you deadass don't need to go the Caribbean they brought it here for you in BK ! LOL.... (Big up the East Flatbush, Flatbush, Crown Heights mon dem ) 🌴

[@VideoStockArchives]

Great! Thanks for info

[@versace2030]

@@VideoStockArchives Flatlands and Canarsie heavy Caribbean too! ENY, Brownsville and Bed-Stuy you can find some pockets where there is Caribbeans too !

[@wadalife93b66]

Kenmore theater

[@hood_nation_tv]

Real nyc ,

[@playmakers8588]

Sht still look the same lowkey lol

[@TrapBushMontana]

Only East Flatbush look the same .. Flatbush on the other hand lookin like a downtown midwestern town

[@playmakers8588]

@ facts flatbush look way diff now

[@Bshinez]

biltmore ballroom..

[@alistent21]

Biltmore

[@jeffghant4760]

2:50- That was a potential homicide and you just drove away. Might have missed some good footage.

[@Neillan]

Ya'll see black men dying violently as some sort of sport/fetish and it's sickening. Move on.

[@juniorchandler4669]

Karl Optical on Church and Schenectady still here that owner is the true goat, I was born in 1997 and that whole block is still there of business