NEW YORK CITY WORST HOODS 1970'S / 80'S COMPARED TO TODAY (HARLEM & THE BRONX)

[@vitalqua320]

You definitely deserve more recognition for this!

[@adm712]

Lifelong NYC resident here and trust me when I tell you, people living in these 'hoods in 1974 or 1984 would consider 2024 a futuristic paradise by comparison l.

[@kevin7151]

Likewise, born 1960 and lived here all my life. Seen so much bad stuff back in the 70s and 80s. Things are tough today, but NYC was essentially a sh*thole 40/50 years ago. Amazing that it actually recovered the way it has.

[@dwayneneal3342]

Yeah I don't buy that

[@user-cn2ql8pf1b]

Its true. Crime was also far worse​@@dwayneneal3342

[@kevin7151]

@@dwayneneal3342 trust me it was really tough times. Had my car broken into multiple times each year. Happened all the time to my friends too. Good buddy of mine in the Bronx had his apartment broken into twice in 6 weeks. They actually took the urn with his fathers ashes and trashed everything else they didnt steal. A great deal of violent crime too. Look up the murder rates during that time. I also remember the blackout in July of 1977. A great deal of looting when on. Some parts of the city, like in Bushwick on Broadway took over 25 years to start to recover. Am sure there are videos of all of this on YT too. Stay well.

[@frogsterjonesiii6482]

Hard to believe there was a place that was worse than Detroit is in the 2000's.

[@icybear1113]

Its nice to see charliebo go back in time and share this with us

[@kingsittystudios2400]

i was here, in NYC, in the 1970's, 80's and today, its a totally different place.

[@ErgensUit1987]

If it was for you. What time would you rather be in at the moment? And how was it different compared to nowadays. Can you name some examples? Sidenote: I have never visited USA, would love to go to for the nature etc.

[@tommeadows-ie2xb]

@@ErgensUit1987 Harlem and Bronx are not very different than they were in the 70s. Harlem is till mostly welfare, drugs and middle aged men just sitting around smoking weed all day. Bronx has nicer areas but is also the #1 worst county for health in New York State. Both are poor and dangerous. Brooklyn is terrible too but Manhattan below 100th St is nice.

[@sven888]

That's true. Very odd how fast it changed too.

[@teezee1000]

As someone who was born and spent a lot of my youth in the BX, I remember a lot of those abandoned buildings, I remember my family had a high rise in a white building (clinton tower) and the BX was always on fire. I later found out a lot of those fires were intentional, building owners trying to get insurance $$$ was rampant.

[@wolfslumbers91]

I didn't know CharlieBo313 had the ability to time travel.

[@Sehlan-jw2cm]

Fr though.

[@lucky-one4569]

Ahora lo sabes, Bobby

[@stevenfetzer4911]

Fart??​@@Sehlan-jw2cm

[@taraerskine3954]

CharlieBo

[@dissidentfairy4264]

Lol I was thinking the same thing:-) I just watched Time Changer and loved it.

[@godbluffvdgg]

I used to make deliveries from philly to nyc in the late 70's 2-3 times a week on foot, ... I never imagined it would be turned around...Going there used to make me happy to get back to PHILLY... :)... I was on google street maps recently; It's night and day...Very clean for a giant city!

[@BoricuaLouieV]

Now Philly is the dump lol

[@godbluffvdgg]

@@BoricuaLouieV HOW DARE YOU!

[@MikeConrad-oj6se]

That's a long way to make deliveries on foot, man

[@godbluffvdgg]

@@MikeConrad-oj6se : )...You!!!! :)...But, damn that would be a hoof!

[@mephistosprincipium]

that’s a two day walk (for one direction) lol

[@Hubjeep]

0:33 I heard that Mercedes-Benz 300 diesel before I saw it! May still be running today!

[@DJLordShango]

Yhea that New York was terrible. I remember visiting Brooklyn in the 80’s coming from canada . The energy was unmatched but. NY was really scary and extremely dangerous .

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

it's extremely dangerous once again.

[@ecup1384]

​@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Back then it was 2200 Kills in a year Dangerous. Now Just 350. Thats a difference

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

@@ecup1384 We didnt have subway pushers then..and a lot of those murders were 'gang related" it wasnt random attacks like today. But 2200 is a lot of death.

[@de5163]

@@Piggy-Oink-Oinkif we are talking statistics 1970s NYC way wayyyy more dangerous than current NYC. I think the difference now would probably be more mentally ill ppl sleeping in the streets.

[@brendanmcmahon2744]

@@Piggy-Oink-Oinkthere were more subway murders back then. You have no idea what you are talking about.

[@reptilegod1490]

this is so interesting! It would be great to get some interviews from people who have lived on those times

[@ronen160]

Great compilation!! Thank you for creating this video.

[@AKawalski]

Awesome comparison video mr. Transformed but still ‘challenging’ and ‘tricky.’ Thank you

[@Marvel-Rogue]

Oh God, the Boogie Down Bronx was the worst of the worst 😫 total waste landscape ever

[@rocksofoffence.righteousam2422]

That, and parts of Uptown

[@MrHorse-by3mp]

100% solid gold footage, Charlie. I think it's important for people to remember that what happened in the South Bronx wasn't merely neglect but coordinated arson and insurance fraud perpetrated by the buildings' owners. Hardly anyone was ever prosecuted let alone convicted for this wholesale destruction.

[@StreetLethalRacing]

Absolute bullshit. If the people respected the area, didn’t commit crime, and were on a more human level, then property values wouldn’t drop, and landlords wouldn’t have resorted to such tactics to get their money back. Ask yourself how the area was before this during the 40’s and 50’s before Jacob Javitz ruined this city in the 60’s? It was paradise.

[@adambowles3804]

@@StreetLethalRacing Bullshit! You're saying if the animals there acted as humans...?? We need to get to the reason behind why these places looked like a war zone 40 to 50 years ago. It's not all the fault of the residents. Far from it.

[@user-uo7fw5bo1o]

​​@@StreetLethalRacing Bull hockey pucks! Robert Moses started the downward spiral with all his freeways criss-crossing The Bronx and the housing projects and urban renewal schemes.

[@ennaww]

Looks like a war zone - buildings in rubble/ruins. Love seeing the old cars.

[@steviboyy]

broken glass everywhere.....

[@kravin74]

People pissing on the stairs , you know they just don't care

[@NikkiLynn1588]

You have the best videos ever!! Love them.

[@CharlieBo313]

Thanks for watching.

[@psilva2565]

Charlie as a kid in the back seat of family car taking video, on a trip to NYC.

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

This is the NY I always remember growing up.

[@jaygamilwatson8529]

Excellent video

[@Joshdyisdifh]

This is what parts of Philadelphia looks like today.

[@Cosmo4357-mj1tw]

Kensington avenue.

[@garyrigby21]

and Baltimore

[@xwhitexstarxx]

Which parts?

[@Slim900]

@@xwhitexstarxxKensington

[@bio-plasmictoad5311]

Must of been a hell of a playground for kids. I'd imagine quite a few kids and even adults got into bad accidents exploring the rotting buildings.

[@BusDriversLife]

No Cell Phones only Beepers back then!

[@teezee1000]

Not even beepers, those came in the 90s

[@logan5326]

@@teezee1000…word up homeboy! 👌🏿

[@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls]

The public pay were like the cell phones back then. Some locations had lines just to use the pay phone. If you were to have a long conversation, you'd need a hella quarters

[@JOESSECRETGARDEN85]

Yo im from the D to good to see your almost at 1million subscribers keep pushing you will be there soon

[@dissidentfairy4264]

Wow! This is some amazing footage. It almost looks like an apocalypse at times.

[@lostmind5063]

Old time New York is soo interesting and fun to watch. I wish I was alive back in this time era.

[@garyrigby21]

Proper old NYC the way i remember it and loved it

[@antwangordon6918]

0:22 bro beeper went off 😂. I remember those days, in the mid nineties I had one.

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

NY in the 70's looks like Detroit today...

[@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls]

And I'd like to think that NYC and Detroit should have the top economies in America

[@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls]

At least NYC didn't go bankrupt like Detroit did

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

@@spontaneouz1000-sr6ls they did at one time before the democrats took over everything

[@rauldiaz7309]

From Illinois! About 7 years or so ago I took a road trip to NYC and of course had to hit The Bronx. The clip of the school house/lot with the kids is from a video posted on YT many years ago. I made it a point to find the school and I did - P.S. 61, I believe. Big difference in how the whole neighborhood looks now compared to the old bad days of The Bronx! Crotona Park is right behind the school.

[@SharonBook]

This was what Washington DC looked like in the 70s.

[@Coffee240]

❤ very good video ❤ it reminds me a city, that's a prison. I visit there, and NYC, drove through all of it. When I got back on I94 , i promised I would never be back. Sad.

[@JohnnyT002]

At the 0:45 mark you see an old abandoned school building. It's location is 220 West 148th Street. When you look at it now on Google maps you'll see that it's not abandoned now. It's the PS 90 Condominiums.

[@erroljr.7480]

Wow nobody with phones in their hands! 😂😂😂

[@xisotopex]

this is great but a video retracing the route in the car would be gold.

[@DieselDF16]

I still feel the sadness in the air. It's triggering me, it always seems like it's too hard to live in America. Very sad.

[@infinitesimotel]

What's more triggering is all these blacks unduly soaking up living space and those lovely cars.

[@shevn_fut5453]

😮 Damn Charlie, you're good with vidz, didn't know you conjure up the last Millennium, the Cadillacs were the newest vehicles on the street , thanks for the past visits

[@MikeConrad-oj6se]

Back then homies drove Cadillacs, now they drive BMWs and Benzes.

[@Alfriv109]

Leningrad looked better after the siege

[@lifeisagambletv]

I played in these abandoned buildings during the bronx is burning Era and then visit my grandmother in East new york cypress p's where they were shooting off the roof

[@rocksofoffence.righteousam2422]

If you've survived in NYC from 1970 thru 2000, you're truly special!!! My Hat tilts to you

[@yankeesandgiants1886]

In the late 60's- early 70's went to a few Yankee and NY footballl Giant games with my Dad and you had to park in these sketchy lots and leave the keys. Scary place. Driving through the South Bronx on a hot day with no A/C my Dad would say "Roll'em up." Times Square smelled like sex and piss. The city is so much better now.

[@TylerChristoher]

The graffiti got better didn't it

[@edwinpillay1409]

Came to NYC in 1979 from South Africa and still ❤ this city today.. it's still NYC to me no matter the era.

[@nicebluejay]

70's nyc was rough, nyc is a paradise today compared to then -- pretty unbelievable actually.

[@taramahoney2412]

Wow the difference is night and day. That was back in the time where everyone would throw trash out their car windows. The bldg look so old and outdated. New York looked like a junk yard.

[@Prone-Ski_BX]

It's incredible that Hip Hop came out of the South Bronx.

[@erniegutierrez2288]

Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message" playin in my head while I watch this video. "Like"

[@IMGWindham]

Broken glass everywhere 🎶🎵🎶 u

[@AVG-ub5sj]

Imagine how many unsolved crimes/ murder/ kidnappings took place back them…sad 😢

[@azdrifter3968]

Re-upload? I know I've seen this.

[@user-uo7fw5bo1o]

I was living in a suburb of Boston in the 1970s when the arson plague was at its height. Brick buildings would literally crumble from the flames! Baltimore, Philly, Canden, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, and other cities today have nothing on what happened to the South Bronx, Harlem, and parts of Brooklyn in the 1970s! "Ladies and gentlemen, The Bronx is burning."

[@user-wm8no6kz6s]

This is the Bronx not Manhattan!

[@hotbx119]

It was mostly Manhattan.

[@David_Slavik]

What kind of city is this? Is this Johannesburg South Africa? 🤔

[@TheOldTapeArchive]

The place did a 180 from the 70's & 80's, but has regressed a lot in the last 8 years. The unremoved graffiti and gang tags all over (which ain't street art) is always a dead giveaway that a city has gone into the sh*tter.

[@Heather-lg4gq]

Street art is forced, commissioned crap.

[@somedutchguy9184]

Charles Bronson fixed that.

[@curtg7396]

Looks like it was filmed in 1986

[@xwhitexstarxx]

Where was located 1:15 ?

[@RUD-LION-KMarc-Tribute]

Incroyable je suis de France 🇫🇷 et je me dis que j’ai eu de la chance 😱 mon dieu les gens vivait la 🥵 J’essaye de trouver des documentaires avec le New York de l’époque quand elle était prospère, cette ville mais j’ai du mal en France. un jour quand j’étais plus jeune, j’ai regardé le film Warriors et ça se passait là-bas sur ces images incroyables

[@azdrifter3968]

They said back then that they were doing what they were doing in those neighborhoods because they were a product of their environment. They became as grimy as the blight they were living in. They said, "If they fixed up our neighborhoods and made our areas a better place to live, we wouldn't be doing all this drug dealing and gang stuff." So. The city listened, and fixed up the areas and made them the better place to live that they are today. But still, they just sell drugs and do gang stuff. Maybe it wasn't the environment that was the problem after all. Maybe the people had a lot to do with it. 🤔

[@infinitesimotel]

The people had everything to do with it. 3rd world people 3rd world place.

[@tony--james]

It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under !! Grandmaster Flash

[@nostalgiaof98]

What movies were filmed in the Bronx in this era, Superfly?

[@stephenheath8465]

Fort Apache and Wild Style

[@craigpetties1476]

The 80s 💎💎

[@dissidentfairy4264]

It may not be perfect but it's definitely changed for the better.

[@robertgraziano]

I've seen New York when it was good,bad,and ugly. Now it is beautiful and I Love New York always!

[@bubblesdelight]

Wow, this was bad the Government made sure people live in poverty,mean while their wallets are getting thicker. Dirty sh*ts get rich off poverty, it truly looked like a 3rd world Country. An eye opener for me, love Aotearoa New Zealand.❤❤❤❤❤

[@marblox9300]

I don't get what is wrong with this BEFORE picture.??? It is a perfectly normal black neighborhood.

[@ghostbison1]

Whoa ❤

[@BkKellz]

This is late 80s 87-89 to early 90s Jeep Cherokee didn't come out until 87 or 88

[@86Argonaut]

Neighborhoods reflect the values of the people that live there.

[@infinitesimotel]

White man create, black just take.

[@raidensnake9471016]

That's a damn loud heavy breathing!

[@Muhammad80008]

Like my hood in Czechia is called Bronx, last year there was triple murder in next to my flat

[@kevinoreilly4172]

The 70's were really bad. The Bronx was the worst.

[@garneauweld1100]

I think the city is getting better. I remember the late 60s and it was a complete dumpster fire. I think bad things peaked in the early seventies and it's only been getting better from there. I used to live in the city, now I do not as well as the state.

[@zroy9263]

This is the NYC that I was born and raised in! I was living in Flatbush, Brooklyn during these days, and even though it wasn't nearly as bad as the boogie down south Bronx, it was still mean on those streets of Brooklyn! Lots of ILL shit was going down!

[@TMendocino]

Thank for teaching the whiny Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Y who pretend the Cities were better back in the day. At 60, I remember both Los Angeles and San Francisco with neighborhoods like this....the Tenderloin, South of Market, Skid Row, Cabrini Green in Chicago. This is what Cities were like.

[@Heather-lg4gq]

The abandoned rotting buildings made it better. Don't you get it?

[@TMendocino]

@@Heather-lg4gq They weren't even born, yet the yearn for the days when LA and SF were so much better. NOPE

[@Heather-lg4gq]

@@TMendocino I wasn't using sarcasm. The idea of old cars surrounded by unboarded vacant properties everywhere with no fences is my idea of a good time. in 2024 Most cities won't let a property sit for more than a year before they take it down. and while it waits to be taken down there's boards, fences, cameras, and security. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a total idiot. I know it wasn't like a fantasy movie back then, But I'd have more crap to keep myself occupied with.

[@TMendocino]

@@Heather-lg4gq It was a dangerous mess. There is no romanticizing the 1970's and 1980's

[@Heather-lg4gq]

@@TMendocino the thought of me being able to defend myself against my tormentors, without fear of cameras everywhere and being able to find a woman who doesn't care about instagram or having $50,000,000, then hop in a dodge diplomat and go explore an abandoned building is all I need to romanticize it. If it was a terrible time for you, I'm sorry, I really am, but its a terrible time for me NOW, and I might have been able to save myself before it was too late had I been born 30-50 years earlier. Chicken pox, AIDS, I'd take all of it just to be happy for even 1 day 😊

[@joshthegreatest1198]

Where was Big L during this era?

[@lildirt793]

139 Lennox I belive ?

[@BoricuaLouieV]

Imagine night time

[@jeandefrance6969]

Sad reality for an American place

[@derim006]

AMerican dream right there ..... nothing better then a house build it and live in small communities like Amish people or like in old times but American Dream go live in prison cells called cities lots of buildings and small apartments to pay them up until you die .... brainwashing is good working great and no one try to change a thing for himself or everyone to make change and to leave this paganic money system but everyone love to live like this poor etc ....

[@jennalee1]

I remember driving through there in 1989 and thinking I was in a war zone. It was like another planet. All the crumbling buildings. I had just come back from the army in Germany, where I'd seen old bombed out WWII buildings in better shape.

[@kingtubbyleeperry]

It looks even worse than described in grandmaster flash song: It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under Broken glass everywhere People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care I can't take the smell, can't take the noise Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice Rats in the front room, roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat I tried to get away but I couldn't get far Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car

[@jonathanfalvo2414]

A lot of the Bronx and Harlem was basically third world in the 70s and 80s

[@edholohan]

I'll bet the rents were cheap.

[@markhayden1]

I don't see any attempt at a comparison here.

[@josephvelez7680]

excuse me, but what in the fuck. I live in Chicago but been to Harvey as well a few times as I used to manage properties over there. I thought there was terrible but this looks like...a 2x warzone. That 8 ball + corruption really hit that city hard.

[@Paragneis]

MURICAH!!!

[@robertajoanna973]

😮 parecia zona de guerra

[@jubernardi23]

O que é isso, senhor?! 😂😂🤡🤡 Oh lugarzinho complicado e 🗑️!☠️☠️💣💣 Vamos comparar com SP, manas?🥰

[@jubernardi23]

@@priscae.😂😂

[@robynlea6950]

Lo que era.

[@MultiFloyde]

Looks like 3rd would slums !

[@Vixinaful]

So it really did look like a bomb went off. What man has done for these parts of NYC is incredible. Im deeply impressed by the good in mans hearts.

[@AVG-ub5sj]

The homeless nowadays would of loved it back them, some probably did 😢

[@Ice0slayer]

Feels like the only thing that got better are the cars and video cameras

[@jahlilbrown302]

This giving Philly vibes today

[@aaronbradwell989]

It looks like the Gaza Strip.

[@MikeConrad-oj6se]

Except They could get food and water

[@peterbarrett5496]

Geeesus why is there so much trash. The hippies finally got something right

[@totsmini3105]

🏅BRILLIANT-footage💫 Charlie-boy!!

[@kutyna4nogi141]

the only common thing that hasn't changed in 50 years is the crap on the streets. Garbage and waste everywhere. I guess everyone throws their garbage out the window there.

[@joeleone2228]

Everywhere lol Whatever you say Karen....

[@kutyna4nogi141]

@@joeleone2228 yes, clown, everywhere

[@joemoore8054]

You sure this wasn't recorded last week??

[@seanberry1969]

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[@stefanialaviola4326]

Quartieri pericolosi allora e ora

[@kakarot4star]

Kids nowadays think they grew up in the hood HaHa please. This was the same way in Baltimore in the 80's and 90's when i grew up , no police cameras no phones so many drug dealers and fiends it looked like a block party

[@garyrigby21]

even the Rats were tougher in those days

[@ramsoncole4605]

looks like every single black neighborhood i've ever seen, nothing new.