I Went To The Worst Place To Live In Connecticut

[@NickJohnson]

Here's my entire Unboxing America Series: kzbin.info/aero/PLq-_cmf3H6yqgM1vGG305six5T7dqGURF

[@ask9166]

I'm sorry but you must not have done a very good job looking at the data. Hartford consistently ranks higher in terms of murder rate.. If you go anywhere in Hartford I promise you will find it More sketchy. Bridgeport was bad in the 80s early 90s and early 00s. It's been revitalized

[@justinianlthegreat7378]

To the people here that are from Bridgeport, I would like to say that the grass is greener on the other side. I was born and raised in Bridgeport, on the East Side next to East Main Street. I just want to point out that through hard work and dedication, you can achieve a better life. Growing up in Bridgeport, I’ve seen friends go to prison, young girls becoming pregnant, young men selling drugs, etc. I figured out long time ago that I could never accomplish anything in life if I end up like everyone else. So I worked hard and saved enough money to move out of Bridgeport. Nowadays, I live in Munich, Germany, studying automotive engineering and I’m currently on the mist of starting my own car company. I hope you guys are able to achieve your dreams and goals because as much as I love Bridgeport, it won’t help you achieve it. But if an East Side kid can make it out and big, so can you. I hope all of my “Bridgeportians” can read this and find it motivating to accelerate to a purposeful life. Best luck and wishes to you all!

[@copperdee3073]

I was born and raised in Bridgeport also. I live in Mainz, Germany, was stationed over in the Army. Now a have a German wife and 3 kids and work for the American military.

[@hanfucolorful9656]

You should contact BYD (China) to become a EV car dealer in Germany, don't lose this opportunity.

[@findmysoulgarden914]

Born in Bridgeport East Side kid grew up in the 70s and 80s... Pembroke, Stillman, Hallet, Orchard...

[@masonthelevel]

I taught in Bridgeport and both my parents were raised there through the 50's and 60's. They had the same experience and I often marvel at how all of my father's friends turned out: There were hippies and hawks, cops and criminals... you name it. My father was once told, "You were born a West End kid and you'll die a West End kid." He worked really hard and provided a good life for his family eventually moving to Trumbull, then Fairfield... After living in Florida for several years and my mother passing away, he is back in Bridgeport in an apartment... but it is NOT in the West End and is the penthouse of his building! He has come a long way... AND BTW, Couldn't disagree more with the title of this video labeling Bridgeport the WORST city in CT, but maybe I shouldn't be shocked: Someone from Massachusetts did put it together (probably a Red Sox fan too - Ugh!). I am 6'2" and weigh 250, so there aren't too many places that intimidate me - I'd feel safe pretty much anywhere in the BPT, but maybe that's because it is familiar to me and has always been right next door. New Haven actually has a higher violent crime rate per 1,000 residents and there other cities like Hartford, New Britain and Waterbury where I wouldn't feel entirely safe- possibly due to lack of familiarity, but there are places in those cities that make Bridgeport look like Club Med.

[@marsenault9683]

I'm not from Bridgeport I'm from the Hartford County area. But I worked a lot in this neighborhood in this video. Vast majority of people encountered were very very nice warm people. I can see why someone like you can make it out and even thrive despite the negative parts. I hope you achieve all you set out for!

[@brianmiller7213]

Thanks, with so many complaining about CT, this tour made me feel better about my State. The worse neighborhood, in the worse city in the State; no burned out houses, no junk cars left on the street, (with the exception of the industrial area south of I95, where there were few homes.) The roads were pretty free of pot holes, most of the residential neighborhoods had good sidewalks, commercial areas filled with small businesses, many examples of new construction of housing, redeveloped older industrial buildings...no where near areas of Detroit, Cleveland, or Camden.

[@crazytrain7114]

Ganim is doing a great job. Not in my philosophical sphere, but I vote for him everytime. Ned the midget's gotta go though.

[@litleflipsalberino5838]

I live in ct too and bridge port isn't that bad

[@adjrnyc1]

@@crazytrain7114 true that. I feel people get too caught up on his past and likely still ongoing corruption, that they fail to realize that he has for the most part improved the city. Now if only he could bring the mill rate back down.

[@finalevo1571]

@@litleflipsalberino5838 not anymore it’s not. But 10yrs back was a jungle..

[@wigletron2846]

@@crazytrain7114 imagine being happy you have a convicted felon for a mayor. And yes ned is terrible and worse than Malloy. This is why CT has no future

[@realdeal139]

Bridgeport is being cleaned up as we speak. What you see today is nothing how it was 30 years ago. The Bridgeport of today is up and coming and thriving.

[@jonathansansone8025]

I lived there 30 plus years ago and it looks way cleaner than it did then in the 80s! So I can agree with you there.

[@ohnonotzoey6478]

You can make it look good on the outside, anybody living here knows the crime is spiking.

[@redred4105]

IM 80'S 90'S BPT & IT WAS THE ROUGHTEST PLACE IN CT AT THE TIME I LIVED IT WOULDNT CHANGE IT WAS SO FUN DESPITE WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND ME

[@Saidwhatyourethinking]

How's that worming out?? Lol

[@realdeal139]

@@Saidwhatyourethinking working out great!

[@abrothaofacertainage4285]

Proudly, I'm born and raised in Bridgeport. I've lived on every side of town the east side is the roughest, but if you live through the late 80s and early 90s it is a much better place now.

[@jonathansansone8025]

I lived in the north end on Old town rd not far from sacredheart or trumbull mall. I moved in 1985, but i believe it was way worst back then.

[@abrothaofacertainage4285]

@@jonathansansone8025 yes it was way worse in the mid to late '80s to the mid 90s. By the way the last name Sansone rings bells in the construction and carpentry world around Bridgeport

[@grateful9672]

I agree with you 💯

[@801k5]

I lived on North end. On reservoir Avenue by Wilbur Cross in late 80s till 98. I moved out as well. I hated the T. Everyone thought they were hard and will only jump you. I went to Bullard Havens in high school. Also lived in PT. I loved the arcade FYE in Trumbull mall.

[@jonathansansone8025]

@@abrothaofacertainage4285 well my uncle Victor was a carpenter there for years, maybe thats it.

[@seppi65]

Outside of Greenwich (which is what people outside of CT who've never been here think the whole state is like), most big towns here look a lot like this. Bridgeport is just the biggest. It's not Kensington Philadelphia dangerous, or Youngstown desolate, it's just a good old CT industrial town whose better days are behind it.

[@NickJohnson]

Exactly

[@h.j.burns-curran1169]

I live in NY & worked in CT for years & that’s the best description I’ve heard. I also thought the same thing about CT b4 actually working there. Overall it’s not a bad state tho.

[@AlexMartinez-nd2hh]

If u wanted Kensington type content u had to drive down east main st and Washington park broad day light, people leaning , u didn’t even go in the greens in the hollow, the pandemic makes it look like the 80’ and 90’s, u got off the wrong exit, not 29 it was suppose to be 28 coming north🥱🥱🥱🥱

[@3ma_lengend]

Not exactly Norwalk Stamford Westport Stratford and Fairfield are pretty nice towns

[@winddmmy]

@@3ma_lengend STRATFORD HERE!

[@crazeyjoe]

Bridgeport is located in Fairfield county. The majority of the wealthiest Connecticut communities are also located in Fairfield county. Fairfield county is the "poster child" of the "land of the haves and have-nots."

[@azariacba]

Indeed. You have affluent/rich preppy towns on one hand, and dangerous small cities on the other hand. Nick mentions that houses are $250k in the part of Bridgeport he drove through...that's because the whole county is incredibly expensive. Houses in the wealthier towns are going to go for $500k or more, usually much more.

[@elsablue3646]

@@azariacba yes and in the towns you have mansions and shacks and when i grew up no one cared !

[@elsablue3646]

@@azariacba yes a 300,000 house in south carolina would be 1 million in fairfield county

[@elsablue3646]

@@michaelwhite2823 i think it is new jersey lol

[@laurieb.9555]

Right

[@jaesviews]

Bridgeport has it’s good & not so good areas just as any other big city. I grew up there, and I’ll always love it #BPTstandup❤️

[@kiyby2710]

I was reared in Bpt, Central High, married twice there, birthed 5 my children at Park City Hospital and Luce on all sides of Bridgeport including Fairfield and Stratford. BPT 4 LIFE!❤

[@LaylaRferg]

Same

[@tamedshrew235]

Born and raised in Waterbury, schooled in New Haven, Cleveland, Bridgeport and Philadelphia. Can unequivocally state this is NOT the worst part of Bridgeport. If you want to find the worst part of any major US city just look for a nucleus of liquor outlets, check cashing stores, transportation hubs, pawn shops, storefront churches, out patient drug rehabs, abandoned houses, broke down playgrounds, building murals with inspirational messages, and an interstate highway nearby. You were driving through the deindustrialized section of Bridgeport where many factories that once provided good jobs for the community were demoloshed and leveled a good 35 years ago.

[@michaelstreeto3889]

U definitely lived in New Haven

[@seancondall9709]

Ironically you named every single thing that Bridgeport has. East End/Eastside is notoriously the worst side. Its not as bad when I was a kid and the city is doing better but on a whole Bridgeport is still messed up on all sides of town

[@someotherdude]

dude half of those businesses can't even survive on Stratford Ave. Drug addicts don't have money.

[@michaelstreeto3889]

@@someotherdude no they have food stamps the other form of money

[@masonthelevel]

Thank you for the truth and for defending BPT!

[@RichZFishes]

Well, you never actually showed ANY of the East Side. You drove through and filmed the East End. Most of the East SIDE ( IE, north of Barnum Ave) would not have fit your narrative very well though. I grew up in the East End, before it became war zone. The last time I drove the length of Stratford Ave, 4 or 5 years back, was to show a visitor from Japan where I grew up. It looked much, much worse than it does now, based on your video. When I was a kid, Stratford Avenue was a busy, commercial district. That all ended with the growth of malls. Malls did to inner city commercial areas full of mom & pop stores what Amazon and other online shopping sites have done to so many malls more recently.

[@netm203]

What years were you there? I grew up on the EE from '86 to '04 and I'm always curious about the history.

[@outtadabl3u474]

I agree. I grew up on the east end as well. Wasn’t really a good depiction. And there def are worse parts.

[@RichZFishes]

@@netm203 From birth until I got married in '65. Moved to the East Side (Boston Ave) for a few years before I bought the house I still live in (not in Bpt.)

[@nycsongman9758]

"Malls did to inner city commercial areas full of mom & pop stores what Amazon and other online shopping sites have done to so many malls more recently." Very well-stated.

[@someotherdude]

Dude malls didn't do it, democrats did these cities in. Malls sprung up because people fled cities. Duh!

[@TheMarvelousBeautyChannel1]

Bridgeport is CT's largest city 🏙️. Surprisingly enough there are houses in the city with astronomical price tags since it is indeed a part of the esteemed Fairfield County. Also, it's not the "East Side" it's the East End as termed by the locals. For those who did not have to grow up in poverty or raise your children in poverty, be thankful. My paternal grandmother lived on Cowles St. until her ☠️. I've seen enough of Stratford Ave to last a lifetime on my many trips from the train station to her house. Stay safe and healthy everyone. 🙏🏽❤️

[@jaminkuff2351]

I take the METRO NORTH too .I always walk down Stratford Avenue...coming from NYC to live there,you'll basically die of boredom.There's nothing to do there apart from shopping. Lol

[@SharayaMW]

Thank you! No grocery store in the area for. . . EVER! The aftermath of the I-95 being reconstructed and routed directly through the area. Dunbar turning into a charter school. A ton of immigrant families taking over resources and pushing out native blacks. Overcrowding I'm homes, streets, roads, and public spaces. Blight and neglect. Probably one of Fairfield County's highest taxes places to survive. Does the city have a functioning Health Department??

[@TheMarvelousBeautyChannel1]

@@SharayaMW You are so right. And probably not @ the functioning health department ever to my knowledge.

[@russjones2818]

Hey 👋!! My daughter wants to attend ub. What do you know about that area? Is it near this?

[@SharayaMW]

@@russjones2818 UB is across town from the East End. It's campus is at Seaside Park. The South End is okay but it's also slowly getting gentrified. Some of their programs have struggled over the past few years.

[@tng_abu3201]

I moved to Bridgeport about a year ago from the Bronx NY, I’m downtown bp not far from the stress factory ( a comedy club) it’s pretty nice and clean. Way better than the Bronx imo

[@MrPickledede]

Are you Arab?

[@MrPickledede]

@Jayrbx078 thank you for answering for him

[@wonderwoman1700]

That’s the only part of Bridgeport that looks a little bit normal. You obviously don’t know anything about Bridgeport

[@tng_abu3201]

@@wonderwoman1700 obviously I don’t lol as I said I just moved there last year and I don’t need to know about the whole Bridgeport cause I don’t live in the whole bp

[@ratdude010]

@@wonderwoman1700 Downtown Bridgeport is the rich area of that town. I used to work down the street. Even in this “nice” area of town, there was a shooting. Glass was everywhere - the damaged restaurant, had to shut down. It doesn’t help that the elected mayor was a criminal. Further, the sewer company received fines for being overly litigious - a relative of the sewer company or something along those lines worked at the law-firm, which brought the sewer company’s lawsuits.

[@den19852]

Not even the closest of being the worse part of CT.

[@elainegovia8863]

There are some wonderful neighborhoods of this city. You choose to show the unkept areas. Shame on you 😕 😔

[@tinapullen6421]

Agree

[@tinapullen6421]

@@C-J-Outdoors I am not from Bridgeport but have lived here for the past 10 years. There are quite a few areas in Bridgeport that are nice. Just like every other Big Cities here in Ct. I happen to also work in Hartford, and if I had to choose for no other reason then crime rate wise.....I would stay in Bridgeport. To be the capital city, they should be ashamed of all the blight though out the city.

[@tablesturned7119]

@@elainegovia8863 that's the point.

[@dcregg89]

Fairhaven CT

[@mikeeyohio]

I've heard lots about Bridgeport, but nothing in this video looked bad in my opinion. The industrial section didn't look good, but that is the case in most cities. Much of what I saw looked like any typical older blue collar/middle class area in an "older" city.

[@forgettablegirl]

Mike as somebody who just recently came from Miami to Bridgeport. Bridgeport is absolutely horrible I work down here as a paramedic and I get to see the worst. EMS is absolutely understaffed and salty police and fire is also burnt out hi school is right next to a jail and the quality of schools out here are horrible.

[@forgettablegirl]

The roads are full of potholes they absolutely ruinyour tires and they’re pretty uneven to find an even road in Bridgeport is completely rare. Many run down buildings. Sidewalks are full of weeds. I have maybe about 4 to 5 neighbors who played music so loud that I could hear it from inside of my home and noise usually doesn’t bother me but this is excessive. A few months ago I looked out of my window and I saw a man shooting into a house. Some of these things I’ve never seen before for face value I also went to high school in Bridgeport for my last year and it was horrible I saw so many fights walking into school is probably like processing for jail because it’s crowded they have to pat you down check your bag you have to walk through a metal detector and they passed one of those portable metal detectors over you. People do not even listen to the principal or the teachers it’s almost as if half the school population was skipping class because they were all in the halls.

[@larrylove6759]

@@forgettablegirl why would you move to Bridgeport???? especially coming from Miami... Most people there are stuck...unable to move out. Nobody moves in

[@forgettablegirl]

@@larrylove6759 I didn’t know

[@davekeiser2282]

He didn't hit the right neighborhoods to give people an educated tour. On top of he kept going back over the SAME streets. Not a great ride. And if you're trying to throw shade on a city? Maybe look at some of the REAL rough neighborhoods. I grew up there and it was definitely a Hard Knocks type of education.

[@tigerwareagle1485]

Stewie: “Brian, this doesn’t look like Santa’s Workshop. It looks like… Bridgeport, Connecticut.” Brian: “Oh boy here come the letters.”

[@jynxie17]

I have never heard a line more true in family guy!

[@Sammykyt]

I remember that lol

[@SharonHF]

I remember that line. As a CT resident, almost any TV quote about my state sticks in my head.

[@mattmammone2338]

Back in grade school my Dad was always educating me on staying away from drugs, heroin and painkillers. Hes a hard working man and no snob at all, though he would tell me how addiction will send you in two directions. 'Matty if you don't make it, you'll end up back home in the cemetery -but your first stop on the way is Bridgeport" I never tried opiates once.

[@deborahbryant2395]

Looks like your home to me!!

[@jeanengelhard3641]

Just to clarify, your video is of the EAST "END" of Bridgeport, not the EAST "SIDE". I am from the EASE "SIDE" it also has a big share of the crime etc. But, there was always a distinction in neighborhoods.

[@BasementVinyL85]

Bridgeport was boomin in the early 50s 60s era.. its great city but once father panik was tore dwn folks were residentially spread out in diffrent parts of the city destroying the neighborhoods wit crime and etc... I lived in bpt since 85 and im telling you right now nothings worst i mean nothings worst than Hartford Ct..

[@Ruminations1from2Connecticut]

Same happened with marina village. You've got families renting houses in the north end killing and drug dealing. Facts

[@someotherdude]

I have to agree, Hartford is desolate, scary, colder and more dangerous.

[@justinmiller1118]

Nah, Hartford is beautiful. Crime is bad in the North End, but the South and West End are pretty great with not very high crime, and downtown is pretty amazing in spite of it.

[@logicallabstv1889]

@@justinmiller1118 i worked in hartford for a lil....i also know hartford at night time. two different hartfords. Completely. infact the population swells some crazy shit during business hours cause of downtown then after that the ghouls come out.

[@mjnyc8655]

Looks like mixed commercial and residential territory. It doesn't look bad. Perhaps a nocturnal visit might seem more menacing.

[@HoinskyRealEstate]

He was a few blocks from the real hood. He drove in the industrial area by long island sound. The begining of the video on stratford ave is legit rough...but nothing like the nineties

[@markwilson4078]

I layover in Bridgeport when going to and from work. Coming home from work, I have time to go for a walk in Bridgeport before getting to Waterbury, so I have actually been in that part of Bridgeport at night. Really, as long as you keep walking and don’t cause any trouble, you’re not really going to run into anything too bad.

[@candythe1ugh888]

Man he don’t know where he at 😂😂😂

[@someotherdude]

It's bad.

[@AnnMcManus-qu5eu]

I'm born and raised in Bridgeport CT, my mother is Native American and my father Irish. I had a lot of great experience growing up and loving Bridgeport. I received a great education, and I traveled across the country and lived in different states. I realized I was smarter than a lot of people in these different places. I was always able to find work because of the skills I developed living in Bridgeport CT, I loved the play ground programs that taught us recreation and skills to be around our neighborhood children and the wonderful workers that provided a excellent program and explain I can never forget. I learned great, meaningful working skills that served me well in life. I was able to share this knowledge and skills with my own children, who knew how to live and accomplish anything they put their mind to.

[@oceanblue5794]

Back when I was a kid, me and folks loved to take the ferry from Port Jefferson to Bridgeport every few weekends. Great times back in the 80s.

[@tigerm1969]

Best time to grow up!!People still had class& dignity!

[@jonathansansone8025]

I loved taking the ferry!!!

[@tiavee]

I loved taking the ferry as a kid in the 80’s too.

[@flippy3260]

i do this to this day to visit cousins down there

[@tia1629]

I know the area and am curious as to why you did not show the beautiful park directly on your left at 16:59?

[@mrs.pettway7506]

Bridgeport is a very beautiful city with so much great potential but I am not sure we will ever get there with the people that are elected to these councils and other political parties. The eastend where you are driving through use to be a very vibrant area decades ago.

[@everintransit4240]

Considering the slum I was expecting to see these streets and houses were remarkably well kept and mostly litter and junk free.

[@jackfarrell4727]

Wind blew all the litter to the white section

[@redred4105]

TODAY ITS CLEANER THEY RE DID BPT BACK IN 80'S 90'S MY CITY WAS FUN .MORE JOB RECREATION FOR KIDS BUT IT WAS CRAZIER

[@willriley5219]

I'm from Stratford, the next town over from BPT. I lived off Nichols Ave and was maybe a quarter mile from the success projects on MLK. Despite its flaws, growing up here in the 90's was a great experience. I live in Atlanta now and definitely miss being so close to NYC.

[@elizabethbowie9753]

I'm from CT. I lived in FLA for awhile. I love the south, but whenever I saw NYC on TV, I was homesick for NY!!! When country kids wld ask me if I ever went to NY, I'd say, Lots of times!! Hop on a train & you're there in no time!!!

[@elsablue3646]

Hi ! Also from connecticut close to new york. I love it people are kind of like new yorkers. In fact when i went down south the people were so nice i wondered what they wanted! Lol

[@loisbush7639]

Success is not projects where tht come from

[@tinapullen6421]

Success Village are co-op. They are owner occupied units. Not projects

[@redred4105]

STRATFORD WOOD END ROAD AREA ATL IS NOT FAR FRM NY

[@bobmcnelis3648]

It isn’t a bad place at all! I served the City for over 20 years, and found some of the nicest kindest people, anywhere! Do you think that they want to live like this? No! It’s years of corruption in government, and ridiculous real estate prices!

[@moonryder203]

I was raised in the East Side of Bridgeport, left a few years ago to Waterbury! 😂 When you grow up like this you don't see it like outsiders do. It's a different world many will never understand. Be grateful if you live or grew up in a good area, you are lucky.

[@mariooliveira6780]

So you left from a shithole to another shithole???🤔 Naugatuck here.

[@anderander5662]

The Ozarks look good to me

[@moonryder203]

@@mariooliveira6780 I’m actually in the best part of Waterbury over by Highland Ave. Very close to Naugy too.😃 Their was no way I was going to head back to a rough hood and Waterbury sure has plenty.😂

[@mariooliveira6780]

@@moonryder203 I went to highschool in Waterbury. You are in the good part of that shithole??🤔

[@moonryder203]

@@mariooliveira6780 it’s paradise compared to where I was in Bridgeport.

[@rachellacourt3320]

I grew up in Westport and moved to Bridgeport after College. That was in 1972. Haven’t left and wouldn’t leave. There’s nothing better than Bridgeport and by far has more Character and Vibrancy than anywhere else in Connecticut. So Chris, it’s people like you who bring out the worst in me. GTH

[@masonthelevel]

Love your comment! Dude from MA made the video - he don't know $#!+.

[@ms.c3]

I totally agree with you 200%. I appreciate your comment. Who the hell this man think he is! Knocking Bridgeport. I was born in Manhattan, at the age 4 my parents moved to Milford Ct and then to Bridgeport. I now live in Hamden Ct , but I still love Bridgeport. I ride from Hamden to seaside park. Thank God I’ve never had a problem living in Bridgeport. (Personal reasons I moved to Hamden Ct). The mayor is doing a wonderful job. They are making Bridgeport colorful. Streets are much cleaner and building condos in downtown.

[@rastaj99]

Wow! -says a person from Westport, and I can agree. I, too, grew up in Westport and hated the "i have more money than you" attitude there. I left as soon as I could and found "real" people in Norwalk. I will attest though that Bridgeport was a lot worse in the 80's/90's when places like Father panik village were around.

[@studleyjb3172]

I think you mean "can't " leave.

[@aaron1474]

@@rastaj99norwalk aint that much different from that type of demographic 😂😂

[@thebigskyguy]

New Haven , Hartford, Waterbury all have bad areas.

[@farahonaa]

I lived here Bridgeport CT I CAN TELL YOU back in the 80's, 90's and the beginning of 2000 it was bad now it have come down and there are worse places. You need to live and experience in order to know, there's good and bad people everywhere you go in the world. Bridgeport CT there's good Latin, Italian, etc. restaurants, Comedy Theater at the downtown, Captain Cove is a good place for the family and the Beardsley Zoo plus at the Arena downtown Bridgeport CT there are concerts and special events every month there is help for all kinds of needs as well 😊 Thank you for reading Blessings

[@angelhr79]

Yeah I lived there for a few years late 90's till 2001, place I lived was not the greatest place, gangs, drugs etc.

[@helvidiuspriscus9888]

Well, as a person who lives in Russia I find this part of Bridgeport quite decent. In Russia such a place would be even considered well-off.

[@anagarcia7408]

For the most populous city in CT, it really isn't that bad. I live here in the North End, and I like it. Very diverse City close proximity to NY and the transportation system is very good. I grew up in Norwalk, CT and there are pretty sketchy neighborhoods there as well. For those of us that have been around long enough, we know the 80's and 90's was pretty rough, but these Cities look much better now. Born in Queens NY, raised in Norwalk, CT and now live in Bridgeport, CT I can say the trickle effect from NYC has come up the I95 corridor. All the cities are cleaner and have less blight and crime than other parts of the US.

[@mikeyhammerfoot2904]

Here's a little personal story about that intersection @ 5:38. Im a truck driver and used to deliver to a place down the road from there called "Valley container." It was a cold winter night about 11:30 pm when I was at that corner about to make a delivery when a man climbed on the step of my truck demanding $20. I said "no I don't have it" and quickly opened my door causing him to tumble flat on his back with a knife falling onto the ground. He got up and instantly we both saw red and blue lights. Thank got a Bridgeport cop saw the whole thing and arrested him so I could make my delivery.

[@casey5535]

😨 wow. scary.

[@DoiInthanon1897]

What an interesting story 😂 Glad it was resolved with no harm done

[@steph-cst]

I work at valley now!!!

[@larrylove6759]

You was at connecticut and Hollister ave...valley container was a right turn two blocks down on Union ave

[@mikeyhammerfoot2904]

@@larrylove6759 not the back area where the docks are. If you keep going to the end of Hollister theres the gate where the trucks drop trailers

[@dratini101]

I remember about 10, 12ish years ago my friend moved to Bridgeport to work at her new job, and she lived in a brand-newly renovated apartment building on a block that was recently renewed too, her building was (I think) an old bank, it had the vault still in it, there was a whole block of new restaurants and cafes and shops, a little open air mall, it was super nice. We went for a walk to explore her new city one night and got to the end of her nice block and crossed the street, and it was like night and day 😂 the block across the street hadn't been touched yet, trash on the street, broken windows, shuttered shops, the difference between the two blocks was crazy...we turned around and went back lol I can't remember the name of her building or street, but it really was nice what they did with it

[@jaronfigueroa2877]

City trust building Your friend lived in dowtown bridgeport, which now has some really cool features including a brand new Amphitheater, comedy club, new restaurants and bars.

[@sj122s]

Too bad those buildings couldn't talk, as they would have some interesting stories...

[@michaelwhiting2583]

Well kept roads, someone care about that town

[@laurieb.9555]

Yes they stay working on the roads thank you

[@203klimo2]

As someone who live in Fl now buy used to live in Norwalk, it’s nice seeing Bridgeport talked about lol

[@mattmammone2338]

Nice! I live with my Dad in Greenwich and since my Mom passed away in may 2021 we've been sticking together and have plans to move down south, Virginia Beach. My family on my Moms side moved decades ago so it was always an idea for retirement and now it is looking more like a sure thing. As you know it is nearly impossible to live and work in Greenwich at the same time even if you're middle class, I count my blessings each day, if my dad didn't work so hard starting as a teenager with a rake we would be out of insurance which kept my mom alive for 12 years longer after her kidneys failed, and kept my dad from losing his job of 35 years as he was compensated for a broken leg in 2005. We both have an old world work ethic but it just doesn't cut it here nowadays. We both love Florida despite the wild west atmosphere to us its real people and unique to the core. When we visited The Keys for the first time its was tremendous, nothing like it. I will miss the Autumn and snow a bit but sunshine is my antidepressant, I can complain about the seasons while basking in a chez lounge lol Peace

[@jonathansansone8025]

I agree

[@matthewzizzo4586]

THE WAK IS SOOOO WACK

[@203klimo2]

@@matthewzizzo4586 ong

[@vanessa20316]

They only mostly show so much negative stuff going on in Bpt but they have so much positive things going on that people don't hear about .

[@ĪndīāñāBūdTøkêr]

Weak, not impressed. Looks like a suburb compared to Gary, IN and Detroit.

[@unapeppina4824]

Pretty sure even Baltimore looks more appealing than either of those cities.

[@jamesjl334]

I've been to Gary Indiana. Bridgeport is great compared to Gary lol.

[@seanyyk___4774]

So ? That’s a good thing 😂 Mid West is trash compared to east coast LOL

[@larrylove6759]

Bridgeport was the first major city to file for bankruptcy in 1986...its been a hell hole ever since...up till 2008 when they finally started recovering from bankruptcy...I see what I grow up in from 1988-2000...y'all just see the recovery stages with cameras all over the place...so when gary, ln and detroit have cameras on every corner because the crime is out of control then check back. Suburbs don't rank in the nation top 5 murder per capa

[@ĪndīāñāBūdTøkêr]

@@seanyyk___4774 East Coast is weak from top to bottom. Your whole style comes from the West Coast. All the gangs, etc, copied from West Coast. Carry on goofy, lol. When you get your own style, come back. 😂

[@gaybear5328]

I lived in Bridgeport in the 80’s them my family moved to North Carolina! the place looks exactly the same… even nicer

[@Sammykyt]

I am guessing you lived in Syria before moving to Bridgeport?

[@seanyyk___4774]

@@Sammykyt 🤣🤣🤣

[@cincyzoe]

Every industrial/private home areas look pretty much alike no matter where you go. The good thing about this area is that it’s relatively clean, most of the apartments and homes look well kept. Believe me when I say I’ve seen and lived in areas that are much worse. I give this part of town a C+. 😊

[@jasondeegan5943]

Look at the murder rate of this part of town and the amount of people in this part and I'm sure you're c+ would change to a failing grade

[@cincyzoe]

@@jasondeegan5943 Do you have the stats? Murder rates have lots of nuances such as; are the murders random or more of a ‘family affair’

[@jackfarrell4727]

Clean! The wind blew all the litter to the white section

[@hedaron3787]

@@cincyzoe during the blizzard in 2011, someone got stuck in the snow with their '95 Accord. Someone came to help... ...And stole it.

[@hedaron3787]

@@cincyzoe it looks like my post about stats got deleted?

[@AnnMcManus-qu5eu]

Bridgeport CT to me being born and raised was a amazing place to grow up. There were people from many different backgrounds from different countries. The working class, working hard to make a better life for themselves and their family. I call old school workers

[@lesliecas2695]

Homes in the worst city in Connecticut go for an average of $250,000? They're doing pretty well.

[@SharonHF]

Homes in the “best” towns average like 750k .. same county, different zip codes

[@mrso0611]

right, that's because it's NOT the worst city in CT lo

[@adjrnyc1]

Just a few years ago the average was around $150,000. Property values are going up partly cuz the city is getting better but also because a lot of NYC natives are moving here.

[@k_escobar917]

I grew up in CT and moved to FL 2 years ago…I’m honestly glad I left. CT willl always be home but most people there have that “stuck” mindset…it’s a very depressing place and Hartford where I’m originally from is full of ignorance. I hope CT people read this and don’t get triggered. I know they will; they always do 🙃

[@scamonehiphop1894]

Not this CT resident. Originally from Norwalk, live in Waterbury… Definitely feel stuck here😞

[@meself349]

I'm "stuck" in Connecticut and I couldn't agree with you more. Horrible place.

[@krillon203]

I feel so stuck here

[@NewHaven203]

Florida has so many people from Connecticut eventually parts of Florida will be just like Connecticut

[@markwilson4078]

I’m from CT and this does not trigger me, especially given which state you moved to. I used to live in FL, but moved up to CT. People from here want to move out, and I can’t say that I blame them. The inequalities of this state are horrendous. I go by some rich neighborhoods and sometimes I’ll daydream about living amongst them knowing full well it will never happen. As a resident of Waterbury, I am kinda resigned to the mindset that I will always be insignificant and poor, but at the same time, I just try to look at how I can make my own life better.

[@mannycruz2490]

Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury, Meriden, New Haven are very bad. I grew up in Hartford. CT is one of the worst states easily

[@bigtinymanowarrior7330]

Bridgeport is my hometown and was born and raised there. I love it with all my heart ❤️ anyone that was raised there will understand.

[@dominickgaramella6431]

I miss Bridgeport CT. The Black Rock section is nice

[@lucysmithers357]

I have to agree with you.. my oldest daughter liived on Black Rock and I would visit her from NC. There is also St Marys by the sea which is pretty. Every city has it's good and. bad.

[@dominickgaramella6431]

@@lucysmithers357 Aww thank you. I have so many memories of St. Mary's With my family. It feels good to think about

[@lucysmithers357]

@@dominickgaramella6431 My mother was born in Bridgeport Hospital. She loved St Mary's birthday the Sea. There was another place I can't seem to he name on the water. It had lots of shops , boats , a place to eat.

[@dominickgaramella6431]

@@lucysmithers357 The Black Rock Yacht club, perhaps?? IDK I grew up on Midland Street so I was right in the middle of Black Rock. The whole area is Classic New England American Life to me. I love it

[@lucysmithers357]

@@dominickgaramella6431 that might be it. Thank you. I also love New England.. I was born and raised in Stamford CT..I miss the change of seasons. I miss the water too..

[@melissasusan4174]

Shit looks like New London. I haven’t been to Bridgeport in years. The 80’s it was bad, I’d have to say Waterbury is the worst city in CT. Complete shithole. So I just looked it up and we are both wrong New Haven was number 1, Bridgeport number 3 and my neck of the woods number 4

[@michaelwhiting2583]

At least they don’t have liquor stores on every corner

[@mistabrown830]

Nah, but there is a church on every corner which is kinda ironic.

[@DoiInthanon1897]

For real

[@jamesjl334]

What you need to do is drive into success village or the greens. I grew up here and have spent a lot of time in this city. Thankfully I've moved on.

[@larrylove6759]

Success village is where all the older people stay....we use to have pop warners football practice at central high school then move it to success park cause it was safer

[@richardminfield6767]

@@larrylove6759 old people used to live in Success, you need to go there now and the greens 2 blocks from the police station have more crime and murders they are getting ready to knock it down

[@peggymattie5191]

This is nothing compared to Philadelphia, PA. Kensington Ave. Area. It's a real dump. You never saw such a terrible area. Very sad indeed...

[@NickJohnson]

Oh I saw it

[@MrPickledede]

Kensington Palace is beautiful

[@jonlouis2582]

You have to go to Hartford for that.

[@JJ33438]

Your narrative is so helpful as things have changed so much since I lived there! thanks for this.

[@gamingwithscottie1478]

Me being a Stratford resident, I have been to Bridgeport many times. The 2 good attractions are Captain’s Cove Seaport, and Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. My favorite thing about the city is the Bridgeport Islanders minor league hockey games. I also liked the time that I went to visit Sacred Heart University. They are actually redeveloping abandoned areas.

[@TheSuburbanBase]

I love the hockey games too. I grew up in Trumbull and live in Shelton now. The downtown area between the arena, the train station, and Housatonic is very nice, as is the north end, and black rock. I attended Housatonic years ago, and later went up to New Britain for CCSU. I would love for Bridgeport to at least become like New Britain. Their officials care, and while there are still problems, that city just gets better every year. The main issue is the areas people visit are very nice, but the regular residential places away from everything usually need work.

[@johnstancliff7328]

Nick, My family is originally from Connecticut. Bridgeport doesn't look bad at all.... Connecticut is an expensive state to live in so the Riff-Raff is in other states. I don't see burned out abandoned neighborhoods here, people seem to take pride in the area. just another nice area to live in.... don't see any homeless here, like in Oregon and California.... plus the area you were in is zoned for commercial and light industrial. so, I don't expect to see a lot of fancy homes.

[@larrylove6759]

Not the case in the 90's...nick is driving down Stratford avenue the east end of Bridgeport...this uses to be the one of the worst area of Bridgeport.. You don't see abandoned buildings because they have knocked them shits down. And there's no pride in Bridgeport nothing but hopelessness...the crime went down from all the cameras around the city but hopelessness went up

[@johnstancliff7328]

@Brendan Sullivan thats why I left and moved to Idaho. now, Idaho is getting to be unaffordable.

[@hanfucolorful9656]

Not too bad, just looks not new. Streets are clean, no homeless people, no graffiti.

[@lorettawilliams3185]

Due to gentrification, the East End was the largest group of homeowners that lived in their homes in the State of CT. If you ask anyone in CT which City is the worse, they won't say Bridgeport. The worst cities are closer to Hartford, Waterbury. The factories left and so did the resources. Note, the people in Bridgeport's taxes are some of the highest in the Country.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Yes, BPT has the highest taxes in CT. Everyone works, sometimes 2 and 3 jobs. We refuse to be poor!

[@dkncjets]

Dude I live 25 miles from Bpt, Bpt isn't Beverly hills but it aint the Bronx or Detroit, it's a descent city! Video didn't look that bad at all and yes I've worked in Bpt

[@larrylove6759]

From 1988-1996 Bridgeport was worse than The Bronx..and was the first detroit. Bridgeport was the first major city to ever file for bankruptcy. Bridgeport didn't start getting under control till 2008

[@loualbino5536]

@@larrylove6759 But it is not that bad now. I can't think of calmer inner city than Bridgeport.

[@larrylove6759]

@@loualbino5536 definitely not that bad now a days. The city finally recovering from it bankruptcy

[@robertottp7078]

Been there for the gathering of the vibes music festival never had a problem

[@vapaperboi]

Me too

[@pathmark6081]

Seaside is a beautiful park

[@someotherdude]

come on, driving to seaside from the highway is hardly 'seeing bridgeport'.

[@Ms.AuElle]

The city still has a lot of good parts to it structurally. They'll gentrify it just like they're doing to other cities all over the U.S. In 10 years, no one will recognize it anymore. This video will become a "remember when Bridgeport looked like....."

[@jasondeegan5943]

They are gentrifying the city very rapidly but if you look at the history of our city hall and of the police department there's been only trouble at the highest level until that changes Bridgeport will stay home to the worst city in Connecticut

[@NickJohnson]

Hope Bridgeport can improve!

[@Ms.AuElle]

@@NickJohnson I hope so too. Looked like it was a beautiful city back in the day. Shame to see it struggling.

[@Ms.AuElle]

@@jasondeegan5943 I guess at the heart of all struggling cities is a corrupt government. It's a shame to see, the city has so much potential to be great again.

[@realdeal139]

I disagree. Waterbury is probably the worst city in ct. Bridgeport no longer is. Perhaps nick should take a trip up there and he can see for himself

[@qqqqqqqqqqqqqq222]

And there are no bars on the windows, or high fences with locked gates around every house.

[@larrylove6759]

In the 90's hell yeah...you'll still see a few around town but in the 90's they had too.. nobody was renting first floor apartments

[@michaelstreeto3889]

That was the 90s

[@SkylineWeather]

YESSS CONNECTICUT LETS GOOOOOOOOOO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY

[@mariaanita9140]

This city is very ugly 😳😳😳🇧🇷

[@chrisf8855]

Yippee doooooo

[@rita75ist]

Ct such high taxes, and very expensive to live in. people arent that friendly either. ive been here 30 yrs

[@couchalmark675]

If this is the worst Connecticut has to offer, then Connecticut has it pretty good.

[@mikem7523]

If you are going to be fair, in that very neighborhood you “picked” follow East Main St a block further south and find the new high end waterfront development “Bass Pro Shop, restaurants and shops plus the new Bridgeport Harbor water front which now hosts Multi million dollar yachts on a daily! 👍🏻

[@RonsmooveTI]

Brass Pro Shop south of highway will see changes but rest is no fly zone.

[@ministrydiva]

Thank you 😊

[@markwilson4078]

I almost went inside that Bass Pro Shops! It’s just down the street from the train station where I have to make a transfer to go to and from work! I have gone to both the Starbuck’s and the Chipotle’s there (the latter is actually the only Chipotle’s I’ve ever been in). If I ever get an idea what Bass Pro Shops sells, I might make myself a case to go there one day.

[@mikem7523]

@@markwilson4078 Go across the street and check out the NEW Bridgeport waterfront they have an amazing restaurant and a dock system that is amazing with huge multimillion dollar yachts! Pretty awesome actually ...

[@markwilson4078]

@@mikem7523 I’ve seen what you’re talking about. I’ve thought about going to that restaurant too, but I’m kinda nervous as I’ve never actually worked up the courage to go there. Is the place exclusive or can you just walk on in? Also is that place super expensive to eat at?

[@lcinflorida8728]

Ha! I hitchhiked to Bridgeport when I was a teenager with my wing babe to see her family in the projects... It wasn't spiffy but I would not have said back then it was the worst place in Connecticut! The city still looks like any metropolitan area on Long Island Sound in Connecticut...

[@laural5177]

Lived in Fairfield and went to the University of Bridgeport in the 70s. Campus security would walk you from building to building at night so you didn't get mugged. You had to be careful when stopped at a red light because thugs would smash your car window and grab your purse of the seat. A Fairfield cop told me that if they were chasing a car over the Bridgeport line and it pulled into a housing project, they stopped following because they would come under gun fire. Black Rock section and Saint Mary's by the sea were not bad areas.

[@elsablue3646]

I used to do visiting nurse there. They would bring a guard for me but he waited in the car so if i got killed he wouldnt even know til i never came back. But people were always kind to me and i was okay but it wasnt the safest. A friend of my daughters lived there put his head out the window and was shot by a stray bullet fire. And university of bridgeport was my school for nursing back in the 80s it was nice there! Love from connecticut!💜 Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life! 👑🦁

[@CTEagleCeltic]

I hope y’all heard dude, 250k for a home… in the worst part of town… in the worst city in the state… That’s why CT is headed down hill, even poverty is expensive here.

[@polkhayes5878]

It looks so nice I was expecting the ghetto!! Looks like a nice suburb

[@logicallabstv1889]

well it was 1 in the afternoon.

[@ChristineEBrown]

I love how people who don't even live in Bridgeport Connecticut are so quick to put a label on it.

[@Nigmax1991]

This is Greatest channel about America, i'm from europe and i learned a lot from your videos, keep going 👍🌟

[@deborahbryant2395]

Stay where you are with all your diseases.

[@ministrydiva]

Good people come from this area, lawyers, doctors, nurses, cna , truckers, drug abuse counselors, cops, firemen, Pastors, Bishops, Priest, etc...so stop it already with the insults. 😡

[@A.C.00]

In the late 80's and early 90's this was an extremely dangerous city. Many murders.

[@RonsmooveTI]

Yea you had thugs set up toll booth like highways to drive through the area it still rough not like 90s.

[@larrylove6759]

Facts...and this video was made on Stratford ave..they wouldn't of made it pass bloody 5th if it was the 90's

[@richardminfield6767]

@@larrylove6759 Facts he wouldn't get pass Pettways

[@jeanengelhard3641]

Yes the days when much of the EAST SIDE was turned into a maze of one way blocks and Jersey barriers. Left in that time frame 85.

[@PLP357]

Many murders now, believe me.

[@donnasavage6703]

I grew up on East Main St in the 50's thru the 70's. I am proud of where i am from and the values instilled in me not only from family but from the friends i made along the way. I dont care where u are from, drugs teenage pregnancy and all other aspects of street life are evident. My friends last names were Rodriguez, Garcia, Brown and Smith. Their families also taught me a different culture and hard working good values. I was rich beyond compare. I thank all the people i met along the way..the good and the bad. My education could not be taught in schools. Thank you for the memories. Bridgeport strong.

[@karenstrycharz1499]

Interesting video & never knew the cities that are listed here! Great video! I live in Massachusetts!

[@SUNSHINE-pc8io]

Main 3 cities Bridgeport, Hartford, & New Haven that are talked about in Connecticut

[@johnolsen895]

Waterbury also!!

[@mikegkerr]

When I lived in Wilton in Junior High they used to bus the kids in from Bridgeport to provide us some diversity, but I can't recall ever having any classes with them. Once they got off the bus, where did they go?

[@donnasavage6703]

I was one of those kids. Senior year at Harding. We were not really allowed to be with each other. Went for a nature walk and then left on our own. Played basketball and hung out. Almost got killed in the bathroom when a very spoiled rich girl opened the door so hard almost knocked me out. She was upset because Daddy was punishing her and instead of $20 a week allowance she was getting $15. It was another world. Like a college campus. You came and went as u liked. Loved when they came to Harding, bell would ring and they would literally cling to the wall while life happened all around them. Wasnt impressed at all by them. Im sure vice versa.

[@jonathansansone8025]

Yup bussing was god awful!!! I was a victim of it

[@donnasavage6703]

@@jonathansansone8025 really? Get over yourself.

[@jonathansansone8025]

@@donnasavage6703 I'm sorry did I offend you for some reason?

[@donnasavage6703]

@@jonathansansone8025 i may be wrong but. U sounded like a kid from a good neighborhood who ended up slumming because you were bussed to some God awful school. I am sensitive because i was one of those kids who went to Wilton and almost had a door slammed on me by a spoiled brat whose daddy cut her allowance. No apology from her but i told my classmates in the ladies. Room to let it go.i took it. Out on you. I am sorry. Its not a war between the races its a war between the classes. I assumed and shouldnt have done so

[@mattlechner8442]

B-port does have one attribute that in the end may save it - Metro North Railroad. If you live in Bridgeport, and want a decent job, you can get one in New York City and the commute is within a normal time parameter. That is not true of many other troubled cities, where if you're there, you're stuck. Thanks to the railroad, if you're there in B-port - actually you're not stuck - you can take the train to get to NYC and work there, where there are always jobs that pay. Also, B-port to its credit, in part due to the influence of the Catholic Church, has resisted casino's. Yet - the casino's have succeeded in blocking development of alternative uses for the target casino sites. Alternative uses such as middle income housing which usually comes with a few scoops of some more heavily subsidized housing for people within lower income strata; and there needs to be a stronger push for those kinds of housing - which in turn leads to growth in general-purpose market-rate housing. Also, for the record, malls have absolutely nothing to do with the problems of B-port, and no doubt about it, there are problems in B-port. Stamford took a big hit from a mall, B-port never did. There are problems with criminals, including various types and flavors of organized crime, and there are also serious problems with the police, including all three kinds of police which call B-port home - including the Bridgeport Police, the FBI, and the Connecticut State Police. Also, a major problem which B-port has had for years - is that it "goes the extra mile" to block and disable business initiatives - which is why in the surrounding areas, we refer to it as "The People's Republic of Bridgeport", which is true and more sad than funny. Also, in B-port, for some reason, the Moonies found a home but they seem to have assimilated or perhaps given up the ghost concerning their cult-ish aspects. The key thing about B-port is if you want to have a decent job, thanks to the railroad - you can. NYC is commutable from B-port, and hopefully that will lead to more housing development instead of the Las Vegas style overly grandiose marina's which are run like armed private clubs, and aspired (by some misguided souls) casino's. It's the town that gave New York City Cardinal Egan, who was a great figure in New York history. For some reason, God put him in Bridgeport where some would say he earned his stripes, then God sent him to New York City where he became one of the greatest figures ever in the history of the Catholic religion, and of NYC history in general. My guess is he still watches over the place.

[@wolfinger71]

I've worked that whole state. Bridgeport is actually up and coming. They just built a yacht club and revitalized downtown. You should see the boats parked out there. Its nothing now to what it was in the 90's. Should have hoped on the ferry and do Long Island lol

[@RonsmooveTI]

Parts of Downtown still look like bomb level off the area.

[@someotherdude]

NO ONE is using that marina, and that restaurant and the surrounding businesses are in a vast, cold, desolate parking lot. And Ganim's man Pinto was bribed by a developer to steal that land from it's rightful owners, who were mostly people of color. That restaurant and marina are too far from downtown, which is too far from the train station, which is too far from the ferry, and the traffic jams too and from the arenas suck, but those arenas will be out of business soon.

[@RonsmooveTI]

@@someotherdude There million dollar yatchs at Steel Point restaurants are packed so as Brass Pro shop. Downtown is dead but it slowly improving. The easy access back on highway to suburbs or NYC area. Steel Point have more foot traffic than Downtown itself it little vibrant area for Bridgeport as long stay south of 95.

[@dianalewis8548]

My Mom grew up there way back when it was a classy town. My grandparents had a huge Victorian house. They grew up with maids and nanny. Very Downton Abbey. Sadly no more. It is now a home for retired teachers who saved it in all it's glory.

[@michaelwhiting2583]

Where are the boarded up houses like Baltimore has.

[@Falloff]

Really shows how truly low Connecticuts crime rate really is compared to surrounding states

[@larrylove6759]

You started off driving down Stratford avenue then loop around to connecticut avenue. Took that left down central ave. That building on the left @ 7:44 Ralphola Taylor Community Center the actor Michael Jai White use to teach karate there in the early 90's before he became famous. You took central ave to the old bridge to pleasure beach. then to newfield... there must have been people hanging out at newfield park cause you went around it completely. This is the East End of Bridgeport. The east side is a little up the road and predominantly puerto ricans. The East End not as bad as it used to be far as crime these days..ever since they put those cameras up along Stratford avenue

[@richardminfield6767]

Facts he never drove by Newfield Park

[@jonathansansone8025]

I actually am from Bridgeport, born in St vincents hospital and went to elementary school there. However we lived in the north end which was the best part of bridgeport then and still now. You should have showed areas like east main st, stratford ave, Beardsly terrace, Father panic village( if either are still there) marina village etc. However you are correct in general with Bridgeportbeing the worst part of ct, and it is a shame because all it needs is Big money to come in and set up industry etc to start a rehab. Bridgeport was not always like that, the main reason for its demise is because back in the 60s etc there were so many companies and factories that offered good paying jobs bit then either closed or transplanted elsewhere which hurt the city such as General electric, Remington Arms qre to name a coulple. But it has a great waterfront area and is in pretty close proximity to New York city. Im surprised it hasnt turned around yet honestly.

[@RonsmooveTI]

Hartford is worst in CT since 2003 then it New Haven and Bridgeport after that it Waterbury.

[@manfredmann2766]

Looks no worse than the older sections of North Omaha, Nebraska. When I used to have family in CT I had been to all sections of Bridgeport, CT, and when I used to live in Omaha, NE, many of the streets and housing were very similar. Where I lived in Omaha, reminded me of the North End of Bridgeport.

[@tamaramcrae4037]

It’s not so bad, a few of my coworkers moved there since it’s cheaper then westchester county and Stamford which is closer. A one bedroom apt is $1,200 with a parking spot compared to the outrageous prices near our job in white plains.

[@RonsmooveTI]

Bridgeport is pretty much Bronx, Mount Vernon, Yonkers and Queens half of people here from the city.

[@tamaramcrae4037]

@@RonsmooveTI you are absolutely right lol Those are the places they use to live

[@adjrnyc1]

@@RonsmooveTI yeah, Im originally from Astoria Queens but grew up in East End and it seemed like half of my neighbors were either from Harlem, the Bronx or Far Rockaway. But my friends and family from Astoria all moved to the North End. We practically grew up in different worlds despite being raised just a couple blocks away from each other.

[@voz805]

What many don’t know about Bridgeport is that it was an important manufacturing center - in fact its factories manufactured ⅔ of the ammunition used in WW2. Sadly starting 60’s-70s factories started relocating to the South where factory wages were much cheaper. But before that was widely known, thousands of unskilled workers moved to Bridgeport over the next decades but there were no thriving factories for them and they stayed anyway. Another problem for Bridgeport was that they elected corrupt mayors who gave away the store to its municipal unions so their property tax rate is higher than some of its surrounding wealthy suburbs.And despite I-95 running through it, today no big companies want to move there. No nice restaurants - practically just take-out. Doesn’t even have a box store. It does have a fantastic beach, Seaside Park if you can ignore Mandanici’s Mountain. Hope springs eternal that things will turn around some day

[@Alejandro-es3nj]

Apparently you've never seen Albany Ave in Hartford CT NORTH END

[@RonsmooveTI]

It look like Bridgeport east side, south end with wider roads and less pot holes. In 80s and 90s Bridgeport was ruthless you had thugs set roadblocks with toll booth had pay up drive through some areas. If you complain back then your house would of got burnt down there was 7 block area with burnt down houses. It much better than back then but it still rough city.

[@NickJohnson]

Damn

[@howconnecticutdo2209]

@@RonsmooveTI Bridgeport had the most homicides in CT history and Hartford had the second most in CT history. Hartford and Bridgeport been going back and Forth since the 90s so have New Haven but in the last almost ten years Hartford had the most homicides in the state of CT

[@johngaray35]

I grow up in Bridgeport when it was booming, once a month the Pleaser Beach Ball Room was jump, I learn to dance to my Salsa, work was every where everybody had a job, then drugs came on the seen and drain the life out of the people, out of the life of the city. The church is the only hope left.

[@oceanblue5794]

Bridgeport definitely not the worst for wear after the remnants of Ida barreled through a few days ago

[@DoiInthanon1897]

Heard it completely flooded the Northeast

[@nghianguyen8369]

Yes, this is the worst part of Bridgeport. It's between exit 29 and 30 of I95. The housing price in this area is about $300k and most of the houses are very old.

[@clearlynotwoke4929]

The worst part of anywhere in the USA is where all the kings and queens live. Strange but it’s the opposite in my country.

[@clearlynotwoke4929]

@@kllafedforthebread9681 we wuz kangz 🤣🤣🤣

[@clearlynotwoke4929]

@@kllafedforthebread9681 name one prosperous and safe country or city run by kangz

[@clearlynotwoke4929]

@@kllafedforthebread9681 wakanda doesn’t exist mr muck

[@fernandoalvarado9250]

I am from bridgeport born and raised i dont know where thus guy got his information from. Bridgeport is not as bad as it was in the 80s and 90s and theres other cities that are worst than bridgeport new haven is one of them.

[@SharonHF]

What about the northeast part of the state? (Windham County) Many CT people didn’t know it existed until Covid maps/stats. There are towns with houses much more rundown, where the incomes are lower and the people have been super unemployed since the mills and factories mostly went under a bunch of years back? If you took someone who didn’t know that part of the state there they’d think they’d suddenly gone to a poor part of the south.

[@Saltytacos]

I recently drove through there for the first time and you're 100% right - so many completely abandoned buildings. It reminded me of Nick's 'Gary, Indiana' video

[@ctmetalhxc]

Windham even in 2002 was known to be one of the worst areas of the state which is the last time I’ve been there.

[@michaelzeisler2257]

I was born and raised in Bridgeport in the North End in the mid 60s and 70s. I couldn't have thought of a greater place to grow up

[@ditto6330]

Nick... I expected it to look very different! It appears to me it's rather really quiet! It does have beautiful homes that seem to be taken care of. How far from there are the grocery stores or the Mall? Also How far do most people travel for employment? I really do enjoy all your videos and I know it's a lot of work putting them together! I really find them so interesting because I know I don't always have the extra monies to travel and at the same time I when I watch your videos I feel I've been there! Thanks Nick! Please stay safe 🙏

[@larrylove6759]

@@GeeEm1313 the next closest mall from Trumbull is milford mall

[@larrylove6759]

And these are not single family homes

[@paulromsky9527]

He drove through this area on a somewhat cool day and avoided many bad side streets. Drive through these same streets on a very hot and humid summer night after dark.. most areas he shows would be much more dangerous.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

The worst parts of Bpt are Stratford and Barnum avenues, which lead into Stratford, he didn't go to those streets. The North End and the West side are cool.

[@COD73045]

Im from Bridgeport grew up in FPV. East End and East Side i lived at the corner of Artic and William St. We moved to North Carolina in 97'. Ive walked through these streets

[@matthewcarriuolo3855]

Doesn't look too bad! I lived in Waterbury for one year, and it really was, for the most part, a hole. If New Haven didn't have Yale, then it would be truly terrible. I was surprised you didn't get off I-95 at Exit 93 in Connecticut. There's a Stuckey's there!

[@seanyyk___4774]

You need to explore more of New Haven if you really think that LOL. New Haven is hands down the best city in CT

[@CaptainWalrus77]

@@seanyyk___4774 Being the best city in CT is like being the smartest kid in special ed. Still subpar.

[@seanyyk___4774]

@@CaptainWalrus77 no reason to talk about yourself like that

[@justinmiller1118]

New Haven is actually kind of booming now - lots of tech companies and other startups, 7% GDP growth rate, lots of great stuff going on that has nothing to do with Yale. Your assessment would have been true of New Haven 10 or 20 years ago, but it's quite different today.

[@neilrusling-je6zo]

All the houses are built like you would do a garden shed, paper thin walls where you do not need good insulation because the building is unheated. Never get away with building cheap nasty crap like that, it would never even pass planning permission over here. You heard of these things called "bricks"? They do not need painting and you fill the air gap with insulation so there is a 250mm divide between inside and outside which makes the houses not leak heat like a shed.

[@1baccslap]

You know your hood is terrible when there's a jail sitting next to residential homes.

[@larrylove6759]

Or across the street from the high school

[@nitaatkinson4707]

Father Panik Village is where me and my family are from and proud of it ❤️❤️

[@Ihitthings2]

My husband lived in The Hollow when we started dating. It migt be sketchy, but the food around b'port is amazing!

[@realdeal139]

Hey Nick, just curious, what is your home state?

[@JenniferSparksSavoy]

I live a couple towns away from Bridgeport. It has some neighborhoods I would try to a avoid! lol but it also has ST Mary’s, captains cove, a new amphitheater for concerts. I appreciate your video tho! Enjoyed the tour! Going to subscribe to see more :)