The conditions are getting worse in The South Bronx NYC

[@mdexplorer3998]

There was a news story on one of the TV channels (Fox 5) about the situation back in September, that was after I posted a video of the area, there was talk about cleaning the area up but so far nothing

[@kennethmatthew3453]

During my 2 years truckn I told any company I drove for "I'll go anywhere but NY". I have nothing against NY but I've been told by a few old timers New York could be very rough for less experienced drivers. Either way comparing nighttime Chicago to Nighttime NY I'd say NY at night is at least 5 times more populated then Chicago. Main thing which scares me about going to NY is low bridges which states high enough for the truck but the truck can still get stuck if going underneath the wrong part of certain bridges even when the signs show within proper height. The more experienced drivers already know which areas to avoid while trucking through NY. I would be extremely nervous if going through NY at night with so many people out and lower visibility. Those streets in the vid look way too tight for me lol but it's the large amount of pedestrians roaming around which makes me the most nervous especially considering how many people run/jaywalk in front of the truck out of nowhere in far less congested areas/not looking before they run across the busy road with moving traffic then they sometimes just stand there in fear as I struggle to come to an emergency stop cause they're somehow too scared to move Geez some pedestrians no more intelligent than deer but whatever it is what it is I'm just grateful no tragedy has ever involved a truck under my control. Some other drivers for other companies I drove for sitting in prison for very long time cause they were not paying attention/on their phones. Same is true for 4 wheelers who were also on their phones before getting others hurt. Even before truckn it was very rare for me to even answer a phone while driving cause I've always took road safety extremely seriously above anything else.

[@njjjjjjjjhhhs]

sadly it was way "worse" during the 80's to early 90's and especially 1970's

[@KimonSheri]

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY Dont IT? Thank you sad so sad.

[@Dwellinginlight]

You "explored" a SMALL section of South Bronx, but you're trying to make it look like ALL of south Bronx is going down hill. You're no better than the drug addicts on the street.

[@TMGettingMoney]

@@kennethmatthew3453 good story very accurate depiction of NYC. I was born and raised in NYC in Harlem, and lived in all of the boroughs, except Staten Island. And NYC is a jungle for real for real. People don’t seem to understand unless they actually visit and move around in the thick, in them congested hoods and projects in them five5 Boros. Then when you actually move around and then close at all hours of the day, especially at night during the warm days, preferably the summer days, then you will understand exactly what I’m talking about. Them boros is dangerous. Like a wild jungle that is out of control. You got the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything else all in between call Mom and literally the city that never sleeps. That’s what makes NYC one of the most notorious, one of the most infamous, but yet one of the most intriguing cities in the world, hands-down, yu erd💯💯💯

[@sugakookie6303]

I feel bad for the hard working folks that live in this area and can’t afford to move out of there…

[@BluemanArthur]

I’d grab the clothes on my back and get out

[@aim-for-greatn3z947]

You'll be be surprised 😂 People are completely fine living in garbage as long the government is paying for it.

[@ChaoYangMF]

If it was not a dump the rents would be higher.

[@karloalberti]

@@BluemanArthur Where to.... ? comment said hard-working folks that live in this area and can’t afford to move out.

[@stedsnellings9340]

​@@karloalbertiif you can afford to live there you can afford to leave that 💩 hole behind🤷🏾‍♂️💯

[@williamrowlands1789]

Looks almost as bad now as it did back in the 70's except for no burned out abandoned buildings all over the place.

[@LisaNC832]

Give it time

[@djsatane]

actually was way worse at night in 2000, and I mean actual crime wise, not just litter

[@lexsteel12]

Give time, is heading in that direction.

[@romanc.5074]

My supervisor grew up here in the 70s and 80s and says that now it is worse.

[@serenity4083]

Looks like Kensington. Excellent video.

[@lousanto1054]

The Bronx is Philly on steroids...

[@subvertsoundsystem]

Like a third world country. It's embarrassing really that only a handful of train stops away is pure opulence.

[@mdexplorer3998]

The train station is right there plus there are 7 different MTA buses that go thru that intersection

[@ANGELGONZALEZ-mm1pm]

​@@mdexplorer3998 That's a main Portal. I would go to Queens.

[@DonnellOkafor_hateslgbtq]

Starting to look like it did in the early 80s

[@EMJE272]

Thanks to DeBlasio and Adams. Democratic leadership destroyed NYC

[@sfg206]

Pure opulence? Nothing in NY is pure...period

[@rlionheart8657]

The UN should order a travel warning for places like this.

[@patnarciso35]

Born and raised in the Bronx. What a friggin shithole it has become! What a shame

[@mdexplorer3998]

It is a shame what this area is becoming.

[@linlee8860]

They keep voting for Democrats what can you expect? and then the useful!d!ots wanted to defund the police.

[@georgiexyz8137]

Why people call it "the Bronx " and not just Bronx ?

[@antmck99]

​@georgiexyz8137 its a statement

[@juliopascual3589]

Yo, on a serious note. I knew this block very well, and it has its moments. But this is at another level epidemic. This is simply sad, man 😔

[@chrisnolan7423]

@juliopascual3589 hunts point looks better than it did in 1988 but not 2018

[@aristidesgarcia9906]

I know the area , living on third Ave and 155th street back in early 70s but don't remember the area was like that😢.😢😢

[@antmck99]

​@chrisnolan7423 hunts point is way better

[@antmck99]

I use to go to school in that area. If you ask me, it got worse in 2019

[@rubenowitzv.3135]

Go check parts of Paris folks?.. It’s world 🌎 wide.

[@MrCorvette32]

99 percent of cities are fine. dwell on the 1 percent of filth and claim the sky is falling. these videos are the death of us

[@edwinbaez3656]

Agreed. I've been there.

[@chrisnolan7423]

@-rubenowitzv.3135- the common thread is a lack of affordable housing and social services, but I am sure the hundreds of thousands of migrants arriving have nothing to do with it.

[@Dr.Pepper001]

San Francisco is by far the worse.

[@karolinab.8104]

Sorry, but I've never seen anything like this in Europe, at least in areas where white people live.

[@realmoftheunknown-w8d]

confirms why I think anyone living and commuting in NYC through this is nuts, but they keep voting in governments which allow the problems to occur and even encourage it, like the sanctuary city policy which costs NYC billions. Those billions could have helped the people already here who are living in poverty

[@DeenScene]

The city needs more people who are willing and able to work. These homeless people are drug addicted, have violent behavior issues, they are NOT family oriented and unwell in their physical body. Many of them have children in foster care or are deadbeat dads. They are USELESS to society. Immigrants have more strive and will help the economy in the long run. They didn't come to sit on their ass for handout or get on drugs.

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

Nyc is safer than most Southern city's Google it trumper.

[@DougFresh407]

Knobgobbler​@@METALFACEDOOMXXXX

[@I_Stand_With_RussiaZOV]

@METALFACEDOOMXXXX what party runs the cities down South oh wait the same party that controls New York Democrats 🐑

[@Poppi-G]

@@METALFACEDOOMXXXXI live in the south. Ain’t never seen no shit like this.

[@bigal0172]

This is Mott Haven the center of heroin addiction going back to the 80's. Nothing has changed here except the buildings. The filth and drug use has not changed plus there are methadone clinics at the highest numbers in this area which honestly does not help the community in any real way. I lived there on 148 between Bergen and Brook Avenue and had my mirrors stolen hundreds of times in the 2 years I lived there. Moved out in 2007 to Westchester County and never looked back.

[@antmck99]

You're like 15-20 blocks down. I used to go to school in that area. And it didn't look like that when i hung in that area. It's like that because the city places a drug drug addict clinic there, i think, 2019. And it looks like that ever since. Besides that, it was a clean area

[@ramcesdelgado5123]

Grew up and raised in the Bronx for majority of my life. Things gotten worse conditions. Didn’t felt safe living in my old neighborhood. I moved out since the Summer.

[@Marinedevildawg]

I have not been back home to the south Bronx in a while. Some things never change.

[@burnthecandleatbothendz]

i live in north Dakota, this is how i imagine all of nyc

[@MystikalSmoker1776]

Damn I lived in kingsbridge about 10 years ago, and I thought the Eastside area was wrecked back then. Can't imagine what my old neighborhood looks like now. Love what Hochul had done with the place.

[@DavidPacJr]

I lived on 197st and grand concourse before I left the state. It’s bad over there.

[@adiesel30]

South Bronx, capital of Wakanda.

[@thorkellofnamdalen4382]

😂😂😂😂

[@DavidCaban-m7w]

I thank god and my dad for moving from the Bronx in the early sixties. My dad moved by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and had worked there as well. Therefore I joined the Navy and retired and now I am still close to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I am so glad that I don't have to witness this waste of human life. Good Lord Help Them To Help Themselves. What a shame this is happening.

[@Heyymynameisjbells]

I left NY in 2012 sad to see how much it has gone downhill since then.

[@RicoChrisRage]

My family lives in Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens and I've never seen it this bad .. The Devils Toilet and Playground ..

[@Mike_Greentea]

So anyone moving to nyc avoid those 3 places he mentioned

[@Kitty-SkinImIn]

Hail Satan.

[@onebridge7231]

People brag about living here as a flex. They can have it. Nothing about NYC appeals to me.

[@aim-for-greatn3z947]

The money.... But unfortunately very FEW have those nice jobs😂

[@ot7302]

Same can be said for America as a whole

[@linlee8860]

@onebridge7231, Every state, city run by Democrats look like their world trash. Blame the voters who continues to vote for this nonsense.

[@browser37]

@@ot7302were the best country in the world, I can tell you don’t travel because you would’ve never said that if you did

[@ot7302]

@@browser37 looooool !!!

[@kendavid4386]

GOD HAS BLESSED WITH A HOME IN WOODS OF EAST CENTERAL GEORIGA NO STREET LIGHTS NO PAIN IN THE PEOPLE NO CRIME.

[@theoBaba773]

It's comin ur way. Stay tuned 🖐🏼

[@shonuf5152]

Shhhh.....

[@JALOPPY]

Pain in the people is the cause of ALL of this

[@Kitty-SkinImIn]

Hail Satan.

[@patrickmarrow5490]

Brand Nubian (Punks Jump Up To Get A Beatdown) is the back ground music. My cousin lives in this area of the BX,and I've walked this block all the time when I visited from NC.

[@cryptothedawg1160]

At least they got they music pumping 24/7

[@BrooklynBound4]

Yeah I don’t go here. Its inhumanely disturbing and disgusting

[@EzequielReyes-pn4en]

I agree ☝️ smh 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@lucky7mojo]

maybe we should go there with some soup, water, coffee, bread , first aid kit.

[@BrooklynBound4]

@ there is an outreach program that does canvas the area but those individuals rather be high and lost.

[@Kitty-SkinImIn]

@@BrooklynBound4no one truly WANTS to be addicted. Have you ever talked to an addict or seen brain scans?

[@BrooklynBound4]

@@Kitty-SkinImIn kitty don’t be a dingbat

[@donreyes3921]

From sunny FL… looking good, keep up the great work!

[@TheNickcherry1]

This looks like the Kurt Russel film Escape from New York lmaoo

[@TrevorBrass]

This is quite sad that the USA's biggest and most well-known city looks like this. A zombie stumbling about would fit in and no one would notice. It's a shame we as a society have let it fall to this.

[@Kitty-SkinImIn]

It's only gonna get worse. America is about to Implode with mental illness, drug addiction, and homelessness.... I give it a year...

[@andrewilliams9015]

But they've been sending Billions and Billions of dollars to other countries and our shit fucked up. It's not only NYC either. They show us everyday they don't fuck with us.

[@thekfc]

On a different note, the announcements I keep hearing on the trains as I pass by is that the elevators to that station will be out until December 2025 - that is a year from now. The elevators looks almost complete, it looks like the MTA is also ignoring that area too.

[@patrickdoyle-v4h]

Sleeping on a cold floor does things to your bones, you suffer later

[@TheMctrog]

Plus the sleep is horrible , I would wake up more tired than when I started.

[@GuacamoleyNacho]

Shld lay a cardboard. KZbin dun u dare delete my comments.

[@GuacamoleyNacho]

Give the homeless a job like road sweeping benefits everyone even if it is min wage, at least they have something to start moving up. KZbin dun u dare delete my comment.

[@GuacamoleyNacho]

Give the homeless a job like road sweeping benefits everyone even if it is min wage, at least they have something to start moving up. KZbin dun u dare delete my comment.

[@reallitycheckk]

​@GuacamoleyNacho yet when a politician advocates a federal job guarantee, ppl cry socialism

[@3dplanet100]

9:34 Look at that plaza. It has the potential to look beautiful, however, why the city don't clean it? Trash everywhere. The City of New York is a city that has a lot of money. No excuse to not employ people to sweep the public sidewalks and plaza.

[@mdexplorer3998]

The plaza was very beautiful when it first opened, they even have a fountain but that has not been used in a while.

[@thekfc]

@@mdexplorer3998 I think that the black flat marble area in the center of the plaza is the fountain or supposed to be it.

[@buddypvaz124]

I've watched the entire video. I admit you hooked me and you reeled me in. How do I book accommodations? I'd like to be someplace very close to the subway stairs. Is cardboard available on site? Or do I have to bring my own? Does one dress casual or hobo? It didn't seem as if there were any restrooms available are bottles or bags handy? What time is check out? Does that DJ play at or before 6:00 a.m. and when he starts how long does he provide entertainment? And lastly is tipping optional?

[@Petqn]

Damn, and I thought I live in a bad environment...

[@hiramabiff2017]

Just trying to remind myself why we stopped visiting NYC each year as a wedding anniversary tradition/treat for the past 16yrs so my American wife could do some shopping and forget she married a poor Englishman. Thank you for reminding me we did the right thing.

[@magno172]

Why are you visiting the South Bronx? Sounds like you are in poverty. You visit nyc for Central Park and Skyline views from tall buildings. Everything else is irrelevant. Anyone with money has private skyline views so they can look down at everyone else.

[@hiramabiff2017]

@@magno172 If I went to a major city just to look at the marvellous skyline architecture and beautiful parks I could have stayed in London. I know you probably have never heard of a passport or can not point at a map to where a foreign country is located , but the 16yrs of visiting NYC on our foreign travels and seeing the rise of Ghetto scum ruining it I'll spend my money elsewhere. The amusing part about your comment is the fixation on wealth , which always implies that person talking about it is mostly likely poor themselves.

[@BoostMobile-xz4fj]

💯💯​@@magno172

[@EJM86]

That's the city's fault. Clean it out, is that simple

[@thekfc]

There are always talks about cleaning it up especially during election time but after the election is over, nothing is done.

[@Openthedoor-kk]

La culpa siempre es de los demás, menuda excusa barata.

[@Audi-s6q]

How ???????

[@GuacamoleyNacho]

Give the homeless a job like road sweeping benefits everyone even if it is min wage, at least they have something to start moving up. KZbin dun u dare delete my comment.

[@robertcuminale1212]

That didn't look too bad. I worked the area around Jerome Avenue and the Grand Concourse in the late 1970s. I was a telephone installer for New York Telephone. WE had to work two to truck because it was unsafe to work alone. Our work center was on Hoe Avenue. We came in one morning and found the work center burned to the ground. We salvaged most of the vehicles and move to Jerome Avenue near Mosholu Parkway. The work center was so overcrowded that once you parked your car you were stuck. The parking lot had way too many cars. The area around the Bronx Zoo had fires every night. The company threw standards to the wind and let us do whatever it took to make the phones work. The building probably wouldn't be there in the morning anyway. The company took all the telephone cables out of the buildings and mounted the terminals on poles. We just threw the wire out the window and hooked it up. We kept "flea lists" at the work center. The Supers lived in the basements and always had a pack of dogs full of fleas. We'd check our orders against the list and turn back any order in a "flea building" for management to check out before we'd go there. My partner and I got caught in an unlisted building once and caught fleas. We turned our orders back and went to the work center where there were showers, a washing machine and a dryer. We had to leave our wallets in a locker before we went out to work our orders. We just carried our company ID, Company drivers license, state driver's license and a few dollars. We would disconnect phones that were full of cockroaches. We had to double plastic bag them and still we had roaches on our trucks. They were exterminated monthly. If you brought lunch you put everything in a Tupperware bowl to keep them from eating your lunch. I was loaned to Manhattan. I did a good job and they helped me transfer permanently. It was good to back in Manhattan. In 1979 I transferred to North Carolina and the whole crap hole behind.

[@Myscentsei]

Sad to see my old hood revisit the 80s

[@ManuelReyes-bn8kv]

Born in the Bronx grew up in this area 138st this is sad to see the streets and the homeless people and addicts in this area the bronx is no place to live anymore Sad very sad!

[@teemos80]

They always been here nothing changed since the 70s excepted newee buildings

[@Silenced4lyfe]

Lord Jamar song playing early in the morning ❤

[@ManManYaheard]

This is why ppl say they only miss NY as a friend I can relate I’m from Newark it’s the same shit

[@brojabal]

Have a happy new year, this videography was awesome!

[@mdexplorer3998]

Thank you, I always try to improve

[@jgboys1]

I grew up in The Bronx and went to high school in the south Bronx during the 70’s and this might be worse now than it was back then. Back then it was just burnt out buildings and rubble. This looks more like a society ready to collapse.

[@SheikDjibuti-t4b]

I lived in NYC in the 90's from 92 till 99 and it was never this bad although bronx was always seen as a rough burrough 'part of the city'. people I knew there told me it the 90s was a golden age compared to the 70's I guess its fallen backwards again

[@mdexplorer3998]

I grew up in the Bronx, have been living there since 1983, it has been bad but not like this.

[@romanivanovich6717]

bidenomics obamanomics

[@SoSikWitIt]

Omg this is crazy ur lying for no reason the bronx in 92 and 99 was way worse crime rise and they still had over 50% was still burned down the crack was still in affect and more drugs it still looked like the 80s roads was horrible no bike lanes no maintance no nothing i bet u sum indian

[@ramhaven2322]

Giulanni was the mayor from 1994 to 2001 and had a major police crack down everywhere, started to enforce all laws even the minor ones and for a brief time NYC was a decent place and cleaned up a bit. Of course low iq democrat people could not stand it and actually prefer trash and garbage everywhere and this is how you end up with the current third world city you have now. People want to live this way, plain and simple

[@teemos80]

It was much much worst than this in the 80s and 90s you guys can't be from the bronx

[@Mike_Greentea]

Looks like a fun place to live with horrible weather. I don’t understand what the draw is

[@eyestoenvy]

This is my hood, my subway station, my shopping district, etc. Yes, it is in RAPID decline. I've never seen anything like it. Growing up for me entailed the South Bronx as a complete slum, with abandoned building & lots every where. Where the smell of fire (usually a burning building or car) would hit you as you walked outside. Where cars never slept in peace while parked, as they were constantly broken into or vandalized. Then I went to high school, and a man named Giuliani became mayor. Upon completing my first year I'd dare say that the South Bronx was dam near unrecognizable to me. Trash dam near vanished over night. As did homelessness in the subways, open air drug use, fare beating, vacant lots, burnt out tenement buildings, loitering, jay walking, vandalism, graffiti, I mean you name it. Immediately thereafter came new construction, new businesses, infrastructure investments, and more. Then Bloomberg succeeded Giuliani as mayor and continued these successful initiatives and policies, while adding some serious beautification and sophistication to municipal venues & services. He turned the city into the place everyone wanted to live in. He ran the city as if it were a business, a successful one. His handiwork began to make the Bronx as the new go to borough for living, doing business, and investing in. What am I getting at here? Simple. The policies of the eras of these two men, a span of 20 years or so, were tremendously successful in correcting just about every ailment of the South Bronx and the entire city as a whole. I'm talking about the "broken windows policies" (prosecuting small offenses to stave off misdemeanors and felonies) and (here it comes) "stop and frisk." This formula, in addition to strong leadership, were so brutally effective that other municipalities across the land and beyond began to implement them. No sooner did they vanish did the cancer we see today begin. And all because the bleeding hearts of a few took precedence over those of the many. Usually without realizing that such measures were indeed ensuring their safety and those of their loved ones. And so here we are, with the cancer spreading, and the rot taking hold. Will things improve? Not until the voting patterns change, hence likely not for the foreseeable future. Thanks for the ear.

[@Bluedrizzle719]

I used to work around that area and looking for an apartment or place to live and the amount the rent was nearly exactly the same as my paycheck, I was like there’s no way I’m going to pay for an apartment I hardly stay in, it doesn’t make sense so I just saved my money until I found a way to move out and when I came to visit family recently a few months ago, I was terrified at the way 149th st was in this condition. My guess is that since a lot of places have high rent, and people who work paying them probably decided to sell crack to pay for it and this is the outcome…. It’s not good…

[@KeysonMitchell-wp3tw]

Usually this is around 3rd avenue 149th morning to night time, fordham road, just around the busier sections of the Bronx.

[@HeatherLewis213]

In the opening scene, you're like damn hope that guy is okay, and the cops come down and check on him and you're like "phewww, he'll be good", then you turn around the corner and there are like 5 more people strung out on the stairs. Crazy.

[@mdexplorer3998]

Actually it was a woman, I too thought that it was a guy but when I got to the top of the stairs I noticed that it was a woman.

[@browser37]

I’m not from NY but there’s just something about it that always keeps me coming back.

[@LisaNC832]

I have always said that I don't think I could ever live in an environment where it's constant noise, constant activity, and constant people around me, but I guess that just something that you get used to over time. I used to live in the Northeast. I'm now in the south. A lady i met here was from New York and she said that she actually missed hearing the sirens, the constant activity, and the people yelling outside. She said it was comforting to her🤷‍♀️

[@3dplanet100]

2:26 that jump! 😂 Lol

[@reanimator7775]

Looks identical to the 7th Street Metro Station in Los Angeles.

[@AkaOGbUtch]

Sadly the vast majority of large cities are like this or even worse and only getting worse by the day.. I hate to make things political but it speaks volumes when you look at a map and realize most all places like this are democrat lead.. look at Florida for example.. they are a hotspot and so called paradise and have some of the craziest people you may ever meet but somehow everywhere I go thr place is clean.. it definitely makes you think..

[@heknowsall7778]

I lived in a city for two years when I was a young man & I'll never ever do it again. People are pigs ignorant & rude & cities are filled with these kind of people. I'll stay in my little village where people are kind respectful & will help anyone.

[@crackfare1989]

I went there. I walked around for the whole day going from South Bronx to Northeast Bronx. The amount of cars, chaos, congestion, trash, run-down buildings, streets, roads, etc. It had me at a loss for words. This is nearly the same vibe as a Central American or South Asian downtown city area. The people cannot continue to live like that. No matter how hardened you are to this type of environment.

[@aim-for-greatn3z947]

But you will! Especially if the government is your dad like 80 people are.

[@MsKpSkipper]

So, if they clean this area, where would the homeless and mentally challenged people go?? To much mental issues and homelessness and drug use at the same time

[@HenrySantos-xg8bl]

Bronx NY is a dangerous place right now to live, just be careful folks

[@HaleyChain-vw8rr]

People are allowed to give up but the local authority isnt allowed to.

[@digblaster4214]

That areas been like that for decades

[@jossphcohen724]

The filth and garbage is what's sad. Thank God I live in a clean city in South Carolina. I don't take it for granted after seeing this blight.

[@brianpeterson5559]

Born and raised in NY , I will say right here and now.... This is the result of Democrat leadership.

[@ViceCoin]

Cheap rent and meth in rustbelt Appalachia JD Vance Methland.😅

[@johnjack902]

Period

[@wofat6300]

This is how they like it.

[@ViceCoin]

@wofat6300 Bronx has more population than WV and most rustbelt states, 1.4 million. LOL

[@leonbxxhhxnc]

@@johnjack902stats you wont hear on Fox News: in terms of life expectancy, literacy, and GDP per capita, blue states consistently do better than red states, and blue cities consistently do better than the red rural areas. You can find these stats independently, but not on Fox. Note: those red areas have real harsh poverty too, it just looks different.

[@jvc7244]

6:20 "Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down" by Brand Nubian playing in the background

[@joeweatlu5169]

In the old days that area was known as "The Hub". I didn't live far from there. At 2:39 , where "Mr. Wireless" is (where Melrose meets Third Ave.) used to be Nedick's hot dogs and orange drinks.

[@yuripetrovic7606]

Third world country

[@brianthebrain7528]

So a couple of blocks is now consider a country?

[@yuripetrovic7606]

@brianthebrain7528 The couple of blocks are systemic of larger third world issues. Some of which being (compared to the rest of the first world): Highest levels of poverty, highest levels of police brutality, lowest life expectancies, highest healthcare costs (up to 60% of average salaries for average Americans), highest number of hours worked and lowest standards of living. America being a third world country among the first world countries is a well established joke among everyone.

[@yuripetrovic7606]

@@brianthebrain7528 The couple of blocks are systemic of larger third world issues. Some of which being (compared to the rest of the first world): Highest levels of poverty, highest levels of police brutality, lowest life expectancies, highest health costs (up to 60% of average salaries for average Americans), highest number of hours worked and lowest standards of living. America being a third world country among the first world countries is a well established joke.

[@yuripetrovic7606]

@@brianthebrain7528 In fact it was either the EU or the UN which sent an investigative team into the USA to do a report on poverty and even confirmed it was of "third world levels" Assuming you've never seen anything other than the American life, look around. You'll be shocked at how better off people are compared to you.

[@mrmrso228]

How many third world countries have you been to?

[@nycgweed]

My wife has to pass this scene every day to go to work. She’s from COLUMBIA and she says she never saw this.

[@no1computerrepairguy]

They always have money for drugs though...

[@mdexplorer3998]

Yep, There are services & homeless shelters in the area but they can't go there because of the drug use.

[@SectionATE617]

Yo this reminds me of Boston in the 80's!! Especially down Dudley!!

[@Leif-s9w]

Try Central Square in Cambridge late at night, right where River, Western and Mass Ave come together. Or in Boston, along Tremont across from the Common. Plenty of poop and needles! Dudley Sq, btw has a brand new name.

[@SectionATE617]

@Leif-s9w yep it does!!

[@007---abc-p8b]

Like 16th century England !!!

[@spg5658]

A once great city totally ruined now. Disgusting

[@WingManPilot]

...this is nothing

[@raydelavega7457]

BORN IN THE BRONX, SHIT HOLE SINCE THE 60S!!! LUCKILY I SURVIVED THE HOLD UPS, THE MUGGINGS, THE DRUGS, FUCKED UP BUILDINGS, ETC. THIS WAS DELIBERATELY DONE TO THE PEOPLE, NO FUCKING DOUBT DELIBERATELY DONE!!!

[@lizdoyle7158]

Leadership is needed enforce the laws clear the streets of unruly people and keep the areas clean and tidy Lead by example take control law and order must be seen working daily this cant be allowed to continue its not Worth ,living in an area were no one cares make the area a great one again

[@tigerlee7189]

Hello mdexploer3998 What brand and model of your camera? The wide angle lens is also fantastic. Thank you in advance for your information. Cheers.

[@mdexplorer3998]

DJI Osmo Pocket 3

[@fishbarbeque8540]

Wow, love this boots on the ground type videos!!!

[@rdgSWwot]

Just to lighten the mood here.. 7:10 that's me every morning at 5:00 AM. I'm actually a morning person but for about 30 seconds it could go either way 🤔🤣

[@sequanamcclary8753]

I live in Melrose, so I see this everyday. It's scary. Like the real walking dead.

[@user-tz4yj2bz8w]

Was looking to see if I knew you cause I live on Melrose too lol. But yeah 149th and 3rd ave right where that crossroad section that whole area is drugged out mostly by the subway entrances and by that 41 bus stop where the benches are. It's crazy

[@whuffer5103]

How can being in such a large place make me feel claustrophobic? Trapped

[@salvation2979]

Worse? it’s always been a hellhole there. the cops don’t even bother anymore.

[@chrisortiz7663]

Thas the Hub. Breakdancing and chilling out. Anther spot was by Whitecastles.

[@davidponce1910]

If New Jersey is not careful this is the same stuff is going to happen to it in a couple years these blue States man I'm telling you😢😢

[@y_e_s_L]

😭already happening in Newark 😂

[@GordonBittle-w7y]

Who would live in such a place 😮

[@Mike_Greentea]

Not me even if the rent was free

[@ride4kix]

So sad to see so many homeless people, how people let drugs take over their lives and this Administration allow this to happen and not give these people help.

[@thatstheguy07]

We are literally in that dystopian future we all used to see in the movies.

[@nighthawk_1]

When MDExplorer comes out the station it reminds of the movie, "Death Wish" when Charles Bronson walks the streets surrounded by addicts, loud music, sirens blaring, and the nocturnal city people.

[@alijaffery7735]

They gotta start arresting people for drug use.

[@davidweinrich5135]

Back in the day circa 1996 I was receiving welfare and had a public service work requirement; one assignment was for the Dept. of Sanitation; I would leave my rooming house on Tremont at 6:30 am and jog 4 miles to the south Bronx sanitation depot for 7am start; typically 3 or 4 of us would be taken in a van to a nearby location and with brooms, a shovel and a trash barrel on wheels we would walk miles that sometimes included this very location, sweeping up trash - many, many barrels of trash - and in the afternoon I would jog back to the place on Tremont. Not looking for thank you or a pat on the back, just sayin', you got to always keep fighting hard or else you can wind up sleeping on the sidewalk like in the video.

[@chination1796]

Imagine the smell out there 🤧

[@Mike_Greentea]

I like that smell 🤠

[@chination1796]

@Mike_Greentea You must be from NY 🤣

[@SteveFrancishops]

Sheesh I drive on the bright side I’m loving the expansion of the Bruckner and the Deegan . Makes for a smoother drive during non rush hrs as an uber/lyft driver

[@TMGettingMoney]

Yo, that beat for that rap song that was playing in the background, was fire sun 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯

[@shawntandy4326]

That's the reason the culture is ruined! You reap what you sow!

[@mdexplorer3998]

That was Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down by Brand Nubian

[@lonelytravelerusa4419]

Thanks 🙏 for your videos. Nice 👍

[@mdexplorer3998]

thanks for watching

[@lonelytravelerusa4419]

@ thanks 🙏 for the opportunity to share your videos

[@zhli4238]

I'd like to think they were all once normal people, sleeping in bed. Then something happened, housing prices gone up, cost of living gone up, drugs took over ... those who are prestigious in America should help fixing the problems, not cursing it.

[@alexjohnson1554]

So vibrant and diverse

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining 😉.

[@AliMuhamad-rp5qp]

damn the zombies are out even in the morning rush.

[@sandroriccardo8617]

24/7

[@Darrenjwj]

Are they Tranq Zombies ?

[@mdexplorer3998]

Yep, they are tranq zombies

[@mdexplorer3998]

It doesn't matter what time I pass there I see them

[@rondadonjuan4102]

It’s sad my friends have an inside joke which area has the worse zombies 149 or 125 🤦

[@liberty4175]

I think it’s an insult to the incredible man that Roberto Clemente was and what he accomplished to name this filth with his name.

[@IsmaelEYEINTHESKY]

It's looking like the 70s all over again

[@browser37]

History repeats itself 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@TubysBasement]

I used to work at Hostos Community College close by, they were able to keep that area nice during the day time pre-pandemic. How does it look now?

[@mdexplorer3998]

It's ok, there is a lot of construction in the area, the Post Office is under renovation as well as a few buildings in the area.

[@81imbored]

This feels like GTA. Can’t recall if there was zombies around like this in the late 80’s or early 90’s I didn’t pay attention. My mom worked with narco freedom back in early 90’s and she said place is filled with addicts and hiv patients. Police Dept is few blocks away not that it matters. And Lincoln hospital is not to far away. One of the worst places in nyc.

[@mdexplorer3998]

Yep, Lincoln Hospital is 2 blocks going West on 149th St and there is a new police precinct about 3 block going East on 149th St

[@joelrudzinski6829]

One thing that always bugs me about areas like this and that is the people do not have the dignity to keep the area CLEAN at the very least. If you travel to many poor communities or cities like Gary Indiana where at one time Crimes was rated the worst in the Nation at least the Community keeps the streets and general area clean to try and bring some normalcy to the area. Look at this Place the peole live in filth and just trash the area out of control and the Police are helpless to do anything under the Democrats and especially Alvin Bragg.

[@Chripiter]

I grew up in NY and spent many years using drugs all over the Bronx. This area had always been particularly bad. I actually think it's better than when I was out there in the late 80s and 90s. Crack had sorta just hit the streets and next level up,or down was heroin. That's what I was doing. Now the problem is fentynl. It's replaced heroin and it's why you see the Zombies out there, just stuck in one position and in un natural poses. Most of the old time junkies are dead already, killed by fentynl, or aids,or liver disease. Nycis crazy expensive too. A 1 bedroom apt even around this area is probably at least 1500 dollars a month, and it's guaranteed to have cockaroaches, and possibly bedbugs. It's not a nice place to raise kids. Poverty level is high,and it's a primarily Hispanic population, mostly Puerto Rican. Good people, stuck in a bad environment, with challenges due to poverty.