Walking NYC : Ozone Park & South Richmond Hill via Liberty Avenue (October 23, 2021)

I walk through Ozone Park & South Richmond Hill via Liberty Avenue from Rockaway Boulevard to Lefferts Boulevard. This walk mirrors the path of the Lefferts Boulevard branch of the A train and is frequently referred to as Little Guyana. This area has the largest Guyanese population outside of Guyana.
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Recorded October 23, 2021
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[@cynicalprogram1665]

A part of me cried watching that, that loud music (which forced me to move as it's played well into the AM on weekends and I actually have a job) and the filthy streets which were always swept by the business owners isn't anymore. Marlowe Jewelry, Friends pizza, the pork store all gone and replaced. I guess I need some fresh eyes as all I saw was a noisy filthy mess. Good video though, having seen it I guess I don't miss the old neighborhood as much as I thought I did.

[@raybarry4307]

AMEN. My family moved in 2005. I miss my old house on 113 unbelievably

[@bonniebonbon8575]

Went to John Adams High School there on Rockaway Blvd. Spent many many years around there.

[@LeslieAnneFarrell]

Thanks ActionKid! This is the neighborhood where I was born. Was there in January of last year for the first time in over 40 years. Still feels like home.

[@yuhvibez]

Thanks for sharing, this neighborhood used to be my home for 25 years. It was great to see you exploring it.

[@ActionKid]

You're welcome! It was fun to explore your old neighborhood.

[@yuhvibez]

If you ever come Orlando holla

[@leegreen316]

Thank you for sharing this...I grew up round there and raised my son off Liberty n 101 st... Great neighborhood n so diverse... everyone got along-didn't matter what religion or color you were..

[@joedoggo4856]

New York is one of the most interesting cities in the world. And Actionkid doe's a great job of showing us that. 👍

[@isodude1]

My old neighborhood...A lot has changed. Great trip down memory lane. Thanks for posting.

[@jurgenrathjen5965]

I lived in Ozone Park in the late 50's and 60's. Near Pitkan ave and crossbay Blvd. Heavily Mafia controlled. Featured in the movie, "Goodfellas."

[@jarihult]

Another good neighborhood exploration , good variety of shops , thank you for sharing 👍!!!

[@ActionKid]

Thanks for enjoying

[@damianmcdonagh7908]

I love your videos and the presentation is excellent. I used to live and work in New York and once lived in Flushing, Queens. I also previously lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn. I'm now living back in Ireland 🇮🇪

[@HengMiao]

It's nice to see the different neighborhoods in NYC and to see how diverse the area is. 🙂 It's always nice to see the elevated subway. Thank you for sharing this walk, AK! 😎

[@ActionKid]

It sure is!

[@luislaplume8261]

The elevated subway that you see was opened in 1915 for wooden elevated train line for the Fulton St. EL. from Downtown Brooklyn. The original line was only 3 miles long and opened in April 1888 for trains pulled by steam locomotives.

[@HengMiao]

@@luislaplume8261 Thank you so much for sharing the history about the train line and the locomotives! 🚂

[@janettejones5264]

I will get off Rockaway stop next time I had gotten off at lefferts last time

[@CindyG-NYC]

Beautiful diversity of Queens. Thank you ActionKid!

[@ActionKid]

You're welcome, thank you for watching!

[@livenate]

Yes thank you bro for doing here highly appreciated

[@louisetregomorgan4907]

This was a totally chilled vibe AK 🧡I 👀 kept hearing food ,,fun and music 🎶 very neighborhood .

[@Annalisa755]

I love to go shopping there whenever l visit NY from Canada. 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

[@monica-NJ-123]

Thank you AK , very interesting walk , love the fresh open markets and I would love to try some of the food xoxo

[@britishgray4952]

Good Thursday Evening AK Thank You For Sharing Liberty Ave Queens With All Of Us I Used To Have A Friend That Lived In That Area You Are Amazing Don't Ever Forget That Take Care With Love Always Ms British Gray From Tampa Florida Blessings

[@unknownranger250]

great video!! watching your videos from London!! drawing me to America everyyyday

[@CameraLooks]

Great walk video. Thanks for sharing. New fan from Canada

[@ro.3645]

Liberty ave and the A train….the sounds of my childhood…lived right at the corner of 114

[@renealise6110]

Even though I live in NYC I don’t get to the outer boroughs much . That’s why I enjoy your videos. Of course I love when you tour Manhattan and everything it has to offer. Good and bad.

[@ActionKid]

I appreciate that!

[@jasonbarton9352]

So many trips down Liberty Ave. in my life....man ....thx

[@girlinthecurl93]

Hello this was a nice walk thank you

[@jacquelinewilson1827]

Good afternoon wow I use to live in south Ozone Park as a teenager my mother had a home there back in 1967 have fun 💙💙

[@cashed-out2192]

That was fun!!!!

[@Kim-Art]

Hallo Kenneth !! Thank you for the walking tour.

[@VirtualMage]

Never been to the US but your videos shows some nice insights. Keep on

[@PeddyKrueger]

I love these videos

[@elizabethdiaz5434]

Thank you for sharing! 👍

[@Hunter-tz9en]

Awesome Walk AK! Thanks! I Love the smaller neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn. Very Peaceful compared to the hustle of Manhattan. 😌😊👍 Keep up the great work.

[@luislaplume8261]

When I was a boy this line still had incandescent light bulbs and it's original iron fencing on the stations. It was opened in 1915 as an extension of the Fulton St. EL from Downtown Brooklyn which opened in 1888 to first Nostrand Ave.

[@kevinwong6588]

One of two BMT els converted to IND use (other being Culver).

[@rocktron24]

Hi Ken, the Chinese Restaurants you saw are most likely owned by Guyanese Chinese, and not Asian Chinese. Their cooking style is somewhat different to what you would find in Asian Chinese restaurants at other areas of NYC, but the food is excellent. You must try the Chinese Black Eye Cake from a Guyanese bakery or supermarket - you will soon become addicted to it!!!.

[@ActionKid]

Thanks for the suggestions!

[@Neville60001]

What does this 'Black Eye Cake' taste like?

[@rocktron24]

@@Neville60001 Apologies for this belated reply. It is difficult to describe the taste. I recommend that you go to a Guyanese Supermarket in Liberty Avenue and try some. Many bakeries try to copy it, but only the experts get it absolutely right. There are two varieties available. The best ones come in a transparent plastic box of either 5, or 6. The second best ones come in a pack of 5 rolled up in grease-proof paper. Hope this helps.

[@janettejones5264]

I liked the chicken foot and mango sour

[@felipebaez3512]

Redman "i catch the A train to the leff, smoke the choc' set shit off like Boba Fett"😎

[@josephlofaso5746]

i lived on 114 st when i was a teen in the 70's that fruit and vegetable store used to be a Movie theater, before it closed to be a hardware type store. Also between 114-115st used to be a Woolworth. I walked those streets many times, miss those days.

[@THERARECYCLE]

I hope you tried some of Guyanese and Trinidadian foods /pastries,can't go around there and not go to a roti shop,wonderful bakery at 111st and liberty,you actually passed it.

[@richardterpenning3469]

Sure isn't the same neighborhood I grew up in. I was shocked to see the Greenwood Bakery still there. Ozone Park never looked like that in my day.

[@philipgior3312]

At one time this area had some of the greatest pizzerias, delis, ice cream parlors, chinese restaurants (Ho Wan is still there), and bakeries you could hope to find in the borough.

[@anasagud6101]

Thank you for showing me present day New York Very different from before Covid

[@anasagud6101]

God bless

[@tayshia19]

On crossbay Boulevard on the right there was taxi cab service, a bar called cookies, there was a piano school called keys success I went there was I was 12 , that area has a lot of good memories.

[@NotGeoWild_]

Shoutout 88 park, John Adams park, Forest park, 102 park, 106 park(not the show), Conduit park, Ps161 park, Smokey Park, Lincoln Park, Ajax park. One of the more homely places in Queens.

[@georgediaz1291]

I lived around this area from 1995 to 2000 ,I missed my former place on 109th Avenue and, 122 Street.

[@nconway567]

Great to see Greenwood bakery is still there. You missed another gem - at 104th St and Liberty - Oxford bakery. They used to have the best crumb cake. The entire area was mostly Italians when I was growing up. Those abandoned tracks continue up past 101st Ave, and on to Woodhaven. Near the tracks on 101st ave is where John Gotti had his famous "bergen hunt & fish club" that the FBI bugged in order to convict Gott. Gotti used to hold giant bbq's and fireworks on 101st ave, and had a big party after he was acquitted the second time. We used to get up on those abandoned tracks and get stoned up there. LOL

[@Neville60001]

The city of New York, the state government of New York, and the NYCTA need to turn that abandoned LIRR into a overhead light rail line similar to what the Scarborough (Toronto) LRT was _supposed_ to be (an LRT line with streetcars, or light rail) running in its own right-of-way to another part of New York City.

[@4kwalkplus330]

So interesting walk🌹❤️

[@mazz5889]

This was so great! I grew up in South Ozone Park and my first job was on Liberty Ave in the 80s. We moved in 2005, so everything looks so different now. I do wish you panned across the street more..like by 100 St on ... but in all, great to see it's still thrives. Thank you.

[@Kai0nTheMoon]

I was born and raised in S. Richmond Hill three blocks from Lefferts and Liberty starting in 1980. The transformation that has taken place in this neighborhood is staggering. It's almost like you crossed over into an alternate dimension. Glad to at least see Tommy's is still there and isn't yet another fruit market with weird west indian fruit I've never heard of. Not for nothing but that area has gone downhill with incredible speed. Some fun stories around that area - I was standing outside the Library on Lefferts one day when that Chase bank got robbed at gunpoint. The guys ran up onto the A train and I think they got nabbed a few stops away. Right where the Subway restaurant is at 28:39 there used to be an OTB and I was walking past once when a guy got thrown through the window from the inside. That place was like a western saloon - full of smoke and always fights. At 29.25, I was once walking past that Knockout store, another relic of yesterday, and saw a guy get nailed by a speeding car and he literally flew about 30 feet in the air and about seven store lengths before crashing down to the ground around where the Rite Aid pharmacy used to be. Dead in impact. Guy may as well have been hit by a meteor for all he felt. And across the street from Knockout there used to be a florist, and outside used to sit this old 'homeless' woman who begged for money. She had on this fake dirty leg cast for like 20 years. If you didn't give her any money when you walked past, she would curse you out like a sailor and tell you to go to hell. Very fat, nasty, dirty woman. Then one day I was waiting for the bus on Lefferts and Atlantic, right by that little park square, and who drove up to the red light in a huge Cadillac, but that nasty old 'homeless' woman. She saw me and I shouted 'hey you're not homeless!' and she gave me the middle finger and peeled away.

[@farazshaikh7979]

🔥🔥🔥 my future City

[@sidewalker1704]

Nice walking tour ☺️

[@nathicana]

Great to see you back in this part of Queens. Liberty Ave needs a lot of things (less noise, more cleanups, more diversity despite the storefronts) but south Queens is definitely worth exploring more as you get closer to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and those surrounding neighborhoods.

[@THERARECYCLE]

People in the neighborhood have been trying for years to clean up Liberty ave,sanitation department needs to help out more,can't blame lack of diversity if those other than Guyanese/Trinidadians/South Asians don't want to invest in the neighborhood.

[@nathicana]

@@THERARECYCLE That's why I appreciate it when any attention is brought to these parts. The rest of the city needs to know NYC isn't just whatever trendy nabe is written about in the nyt or similar. Maybe we can get some infusion of the kind of progress other nabes have seen, in the vicinity of Liberty Ave. Been here almost 40 years and have seen a regression or worsening lack of inclusionary investment that would bring a real Renaissance to the area. That's why I truly appreciate Action Kid's visits to these parts.

[@dannyboy34677]

The pizzeria you saw Romeo’s pizzeria I ate there and their pizza is to die for

[@ActionKid]

Good to know!

[@millardthompson8157]

wow'' nice thank you

[@topstriker8048]

Thanks Kenneth,Guyanese to the bones💯🙌🙌🙌

[@LEZLIE_PURPLE_PEONIES]

Come to Norfolk Va and walk Ghent, The Hauge and Downtown.

[@PS108]

Wow long walk I know because I lived there from 1957 to 1987 65 now I know the streets but not the neighborhood everything has changed except greenwood bakery bakery on greenwood Ave 111th Ave I know because my mother told me she said there was a bakery since she was born. I Also noticed the Chase Manhattan bank where my farther banked that ever since I can remember it's been there well thanks for the tour

[@thelegacyofnewyork5216]

Hey Actionkid, I lived in the area your walking from 1977-1995, Romeo's Pizza has been there since 1985.

[@blackwolfmane4532]

I Love New York it is something for every1 in New York it's never a dry spot city is active everywhere u go

[@markkenny5799]

Lived in Richmond Hill from age of 3 till 30. Mised that area. Ozone Pizza is one of the best pizzerias in ALL of NYC.

[@jameskazmierczak3924]

How do you not mention Oxford Bakery on 104 when doing a walk through of this neighborhood lol. They’re a staple there!

[@bpetvshow]

Thanks AK

[@dannyboy34677]

Ken, that’s close to where my sister lives. Very familiar with the area as well. That was the A train you took to get there.

[@ActionKid]

Very cool

[@jaimic4lyfe687]

damn this place has changed so much and i only moved a year ago

[@jamesnycgk2487]

greenwood, and ho-wan has been there since at least the early 80's

[@JoeBlunt]

🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾 nice bro

[@rdspike288]

My family lived in Richmond hill untill the 90s, back then it was mostly Italians, Irish, and Germans. A train back then was 10 cent back in 1976

[@vilmarmonticeli5449]

If you´re an American, try and see: Porta dos Fundos-The Guyana Vanished.You´ll like it.It´s funny.There are subtitles!

[@thelegacyofnewyork5216]

Greenwood and Oxford Bakeries made the best cakes and such in the neighborhood over 60 years!

[@lawrencegerena2920]

Love Guyanese's bakery ❤

[@tonisargent4695]

i used to lives in ozone park now living in sc i do miss ozone though

[@cur1ylol]

my friend used to live at 114 and go to some ps 62 school back in 2018

[@thelegacyofnewyork5216]

Key Food on 108st has been around longer than I was born bro, My gram owned a house on 108st and 107th avenue.

[@clementgoetke2385]

before key food it was A&P i lived on 108 st & 95 av

[@QueensNativeNYC]

Cool.. I do a lot of Uber eats drop offs in that area..

[@scottcarpenter8075]

Love seeing the old neighborhood. I moved out about 15 years ago. Cannot believe Tommy’s pizza is still around!!!! Would have love to know if La Liberdad is still around by the Walgreens on 97th Street.

[@JAI45624]

YES, GOOD FOOD

[@AmongusBalls65]

Yea libertad is still around

[@luckylove5021]

Looks like soundview in the Bronx

[@i.q.3280]

🥂

[@tayshia19]

My dad use work around there , it use to be menikee mufflers there

[@patsully2413]

This video should just be labeled "The Gambino Crime Family"

[@janettejones5264]

I visited lefferts and liberty great food wish they had mango sour in jars or packs I could have brought back home to buffalo with me

[@brianmohammed1790]

hi ak we should do a ststion tour on lefferts blvd a line ststion

[@certifiedquality6381]

Im on 91 street and 101 ave .I always walk to liberty ave .its great there but does need better new stores .plus around by lefferts blvd always flooded with people there .

[@genarojay7244]

AK my aunt an uncle live in far rockaway. Is pathmark the grocery store still around? I used to go shopping with my grandma an aunt there.

[@nathicana]

No more Pathmark. Their locations were mostly bought out by the company that owns Stop n Shop, and they were changed to that name.

[@ActionKid]

All the Pathmark grocery stores went out of business.

[@genarojay7244]

Thank you for that information I was curious to know if they still existed.

[@ksingh810]

When you hear chutney playing loud from a passing car you know your on liberty ave

[@Raining345]

I see a lot of old heads in the comments mentioning that this looks dirty and rundown compared to the "Little Italy" era where they lived in. As an individual that has lived in the new era of "Little Guyana" for the last 20 years, I can say you're right. The new diverse population here has become a breeding ground for more violent and uneducated people- worst of all, alot of them are illegal immigrants. The place may be dirty, and unruly but it is getting better. We are a thriving people. 50 years from now, I will be the old head reminicing about the days before some other ethnic group took over my block. I look forward to see how the next generation will shape this place. It is a growing experience for all involved.

[@thelegacyofnewyork5216]

Ho-Wan Chinese Restaurant has been on 111st over 50 years.

[@nickcef]

Nice walk-through! I hope they reactivate that old LIRR Rockaway Beach line again someday, but it would be a miracle if they did.

[@ActionKid]

I hope so too!

[@THERARECYCLE]

Am sorry but i hope they don't alot of homeowners closeby will have to uproot their lives,not worth the effort.

[@tylerdonley9130]

We are here visiting for our honeymoon

[@ActionKid]

Perfect!

[@vitomcsween974]

All these years and they still haven't changed the sign for lefferts boulevard station when the when it's clearly in the neighborhood Richmond Hill

[@ActionKid]

Weird how it's labeled as Ozone Park when it's in South Richmond Hill

[@bobby45]

Its in south ozone park not Richmond hill

[@mariamargiannis7255]

Hi action kid

[@jameslovett1558]

Almost everything has changed since last time there in 77

[@Neville60001]

So New York has an area known as Richmond Hill too, just like the similarly named city contiguous with Toronto? Interesting. I'm gong to bet it looks nothing like the Richmond Hill here, and is a lot more interesting because of the way it's laid out and also because of how dense it is. 10:49-This is the kind of ( _independent_ ) appliance store we _used_ to have in downtown Toronto (we had two like it on Queen Street West, both are now gone.) The whole area (so far) sounds similar to Little Kingston (an area on Eglington Street West starting from near Eglington West subway station) where there's a lot of Jamaican immigrant businesses, as well as businesses from other parts of the West Indies; unfortunately, due to the stupid crappy city planning of the infamous Rob Ford when he was mayor, the Eglington Crosstown LRT is messing up this neighbourhood, somewhat. As usual, great video, AK.

[@miniongamer7593]

10:17 This is the street I live now

[@BBKrish]

Kid . Once a subway car runs overhead. It becomes an El" or Elevated... The rest is a simple walk. Like more detail, history, surrounding areas.

[@clementgoetke2385]

was born in 1955 lived on 108st and 95th av moved out in 1983 very disturbing to watch this

[@1ten871]

HO Wan been there for 114 years

[@Alex-tr9wk]

Stop the music at 17:25 🤣

[@ABAbhi05]

👍🇺🇲❤

[@catverric165]

My hometown. It's much dirtier now.

[@sanicmaniac]

17:12 AYO PAUSE

[@HAMRADIOJOE4178]

THOSE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE THEIR LITTLE PARTY IN A PARK, NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. OMG HOW THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS CHANGED, FOR THE WORST..

[@alexrojas1877]

And you always hear cop sirens no peace at all then you have so many people making illegal driveways and have the nerve to get mad when you park in front of it people here are very selfish I’m saving my money to get the hell out and anyone who says it’s a nice quiet neighborhood is oblivious or just dumb

[@tomcatt9875]

wow I lived here early 80's , primarily Italian ,mostly white people back then

[@robyndavis3043]

That wasn’t an outdoor “fair”-it was a Hindu WEDDING