time 1988 came around the drug dealers in my neighborhood were millionaires they had suped up BMW'S and guns that were intimidating off site alone, shootouts and killings was a regular, just to give people an idea of how dangerous it was on Cypress Ave here's a couple names Boy George and Puerto Rican Pistol Pete those 2 alone were ruthless and it was a nightmare living in those conditions, waking up to a thud that shook the walls in my bedroom just to see a man thrown off the roof bleeding to death over Crack fortunately I called the ambulance and he survived, it was tough and still have a bearing on me till this day at 52 years old

@lamarthart8626

3 ай бұрын

Alpo, AZ, Rich porter....

@joeychaseschecks9188

Ай бұрын

geto george silva

@toddmorrissey8372

Ай бұрын

Boy George was massive heroin dealer in the Bx.

@user-ml6el1mt7s

24 күн бұрын

​@lamarthart8626 tell us you watched Paid in Full without telling us 😂

@oldoaktrees

4 күн бұрын

Did you really want to hurt Boy George? He wants to know

That triangle dollar and mirror was fire. Did he come up with that on his own?

Crack is Whack and I miss the 80’s more than words can say.

@hereisayana8207

4 ай бұрын

Yes especially 80s NY

Thanks Regan, Thanks Oliver Stone

@bobwoww8384

3 ай бұрын

F regan

The death penalty or life in prison for selling drugs is absolutely ABSURD

@user-je7qx6ft9i

3 күн бұрын

Highly racialized and racially motivated…you know the story 😢

The kids today in the video in their 40's or early 50's today. WE FAILED..... This is the environmen your subway pushers, stabbers, shooters, grew up. Look at the youth today, this was their parents .

@beachboi6196

4 ай бұрын

Well I grew up in 80 California same thing with dope boi on every corner same thing nation wide at that time in 80

@kameronjones6633

4 ай бұрын

All part of the plan

@nailonblare4810

4 ай бұрын

Grandparents

@Error_-qz2zr

4 ай бұрын

And now the street drugs are more deadly than ever. The government is waging a war on these communities and society is sleeping

@mykellhunkins9007

4 ай бұрын

That’s why I hate how us of the older generation just sit and point the finger with no positive solution. We are at fault as well!

These flashbacks documentaries are so good bc i wasnt born around then...est 1990 so seeing this is like wow. In future tho can the "Wayback Archives" tag be placed somewhere else lol i like to read names etc

i love this channel

How much of these funds could have been pushed into building community’s and providing education and resources. That was the root of the problem. This is wild. 17:31 pretty much sums up this country. Just like the drug dealer America has profited from the sale of human suffering.

Very informative piece

I grew up in Jamaica Queens and everything changed in 1968. The suburbs turned in to a ghettos and there were drug addicts walking around day and night. I was terrfield for my safety until 1972 my mom passed away and me and my little brother moved away. I went back a year later and it was still the same.

@paulsmith5720

4 ай бұрын

Interesting point of view from someone who was raised in what was a notorious area of Queen's NYC at that time. I'm from the UK 🇬🇧. We did not see the same issues in the black communities over here until a little later but I can relate. Even as a kid we received excellent coverage about what was happening in New York. Seemed like a completely different world until the same things began to occur here in the UK 🇬🇧. Anyway thanks for posting and great comment.

@quanbrooklynkid7776

4 ай бұрын

​@@paulsmith5720 damn

@bobwoww8384

3 ай бұрын

Love your mother❤

growing up in East New York in the 80s, they always said Queens is soft...get money, no doubt! but soft ass individuals...except Far rock, but iykyk Far rock has always been a different animal in itself

@danielwilliams846

4 ай бұрын

What about queens females ? , u see because to me if everyone's soft 🍦 individuals man o man u can only imagine how feminine and soft 🍦 on the inside the women is 😻 that's how Im looking at it

@aaronx8006

4 ай бұрын

Growing up in the south Bronx it was crazy

@beachboi6196

4 ай бұрын

​@@aaronx8006been from California I saw movies in 70 of Bronx like fort Apache man that shit in 60 70 with abandoned buildings gangs and drugs were crazy as way before crake they ha heroin dealers on them street tha shi was anher beast

@QUNYC7

4 ай бұрын

Southside Jamaica Queens was always money makers and killers. If you where on the Island or up North, most of the dude from Queens where locked up for murder.

@bodhi_satfa

4 ай бұрын

Fax. FR still scary

Saint Mary's Hospital Brooklyn NY, is torn down now.

@quanbrooklynkid7776

4 ай бұрын

What part of Brooklyn ny was it in...

@39Missmel

3 ай бұрын

Crown heights

Does the reporter know math. If in fact a drug healer is making $100,000 a year and gets busted for 5 - which means no selling during that point - then 100/5 = 20. That’s $20,000 a year. Which they might as well make earning an “honest” living.

@Livefromthewhytehouse

4 ай бұрын

I agree the only thing w a honest living making that wage is it’s hard work.. selling drugs is easy n if it’s good sells itself.. ice seen dudes sleep all Day n work a few hrs lol

@thedarkage187

4 ай бұрын

If they could find a job....remember during this time it was hard to find ah job especially in the 80s early 90s

@quanbrooklynkid7776

4 ай бұрын

​@@thedarkage187I ain't even know that

@bobwoww8384

3 ай бұрын

20k a year went way farther back then.

@thedarkage187

3 ай бұрын

@@bobwoww8384 Yes indeed..20k in the 80s is equivalent to 50k today.

@ 1:29 you see the souls leave their bodies, when they found out a 10 year made 1,600 a week..

Does somebody know the name of the gospel song that can be heard in the background at the beginning?

@neverresign7248

4 ай бұрын

I think it’s bishop Paul s Morton and greater St. Stephens - Save Our Children. Tapes shown at min 0:57.

@Usta765

4 ай бұрын

​@@neverresign7248 "P.U.T.S.O.C." actually seems to be the "People United To Save Our Children Mass Choir", can't find that particular "Save the Children" song nowhere online unfortunately, but many thanks, your hint was very helpful!

@Aaron-ii2lq

Ай бұрын

​@@neverresign7248no it's joy to the world Steven Gibbs

@NYUArchaeology

23 күн бұрын

That gospel song is called "white jesus please enslave our black women again please".

Hezekiah....you see this..?

@knucklegame5050

4 ай бұрын

Hezakya the "Originator" of this.

@WayBackArchives

4 ай бұрын

@@knucklegame5050 he definitely inspired me, I’ll give credit where it’s due

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, And consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: They are confederate against thee. - Psalm 83:2‭-‬5

@bobwoww8384

3 ай бұрын

Indeed

1988 Far Rockaway Queens! Shit was no joke!!

That first guy speaking had a hard line view that many white folks and conservative black people agreed with at the time. Unfortunately this lead to unfair mass incarceration. It's a different world now, obviously. Newer drugs that can be much more Instantly fatal. Anyway thanks for posting.

Training Day?

crack is bad

Good old US Government

FAFO was invented in NYC 😮😮😮

113th supthin blvd

7:31 😂

Dude on the thumbnail look like jalen hurts lol

anyone beaming up that Scotty watching this documentary ?

What neighborhood is at 7:52

@cv1368

4 ай бұрын

I’m say east ny

The thumbnail look like Kanye 😂

@bettynuggz

Ай бұрын

I came to see if someone else thot the same and I finally found your comment

1989 happened george bush sr along with them football number sentences

Money making Mitch era

@danielwilliams846

4 ай бұрын

✨ money 💵 💰 makin' Mitch ✨

I bet all dope was some frizzy drop fire bk then. 🔥💨🔥💨🔥💨. Lololol. 🎅🏿

Greed is the problem if you don't share the wealth this is what you have. Let's look at the cause of the problem instead of looking at the victims.

You are not the only one with these videos. Still you put the annoying wayback archives in the middle . Unsubscribed your channel . Bye

@7777VANITY

4 ай бұрын

😂 lol

Whyte supremacy?

@bobwoww8384

3 ай бұрын

😊old white guys with beards F Everything up

Awesome New Yuck city? 😂😂😂 One of the most overated city EVER !

@brianhardy2502

4 ай бұрын

You do realize this documentary was made 35 yrs ago and it was us "New Yuckers" that fought back and eradicated New York of most of this crime! Hopelessness! And the police and political corruption that enabled all shown in this documentary? In short..we the community got tired of it! And fought back! And won! And why we remain the capital of the world! And why out of towners and even the maker of this documentary that had the audacity to like your ignorant response! And still try to comment on our city and people while we studiously ignore you and have gotten on with our life! Prospering! On the same streets this documentary shows we're once so hopeless! Haters!😂😂😂😂😂

@icepick976

4 ай бұрын

New Yuck $hitty

@icepick976

4 ай бұрын

New Yuck $hitt¥

@Queensni99a

4 ай бұрын

Whats overrated about nyc?

@EvLDJGetRite

4 ай бұрын

Yet u took the time out to speak about it so u must love this overrated city 🤷🏽‍♂️.

Woooooowwwww.... the story of the economy is as true now as evvvvveeeerrrr before... if they only knew how right they were