I feel like "the plan" is to ignore this place long enough so that everyone leaves, then developers can come in, fix it up, charge outrageous prices and continue the cycle of unaffordability.

@kirstenweyter4431

5 ай бұрын

Sounds about right!

@MrSloika

5 ай бұрын

Developers don't want this. It's not a easy commute into Manhattan and the property would need to be filled before they could build anything on it.

@tennesseeterri

5 ай бұрын

You are absolutely right, they can make a quick buck and be gone before anyone notices the place is a dump.

@muscleman125

5 ай бұрын

it would probably be faster for me to ride the train from New Haven to grand central than it would be for the people in The Hole to use public trasport to get into Manhattan, and New Haven is 50 miles from the city. @@MrSloika

@user-nv4vg2kc1m

5 ай бұрын

@@muscleman125 it’s a 10 min walk to the A line and then you’re in the city in 25 mins.

Cash, these reports you have been making for the last 4 - 5 months are way better than any NYC TV channel has to offer. I will not be surprised if any of the big ones in NYC offer you a daily segment produced by you from the bottom up. You clearly deserve it. Thanks -

@cjspyker

5 ай бұрын

you know that 85% of the videos he make have local News segment videos on them

@radicalmama135

5 ай бұрын

Nah this way he can do what he wants when he wants how he wants and his efforts have built him a fantastic business

@ihunt12903

5 ай бұрын

Hahahaha you think Main Stream media is gonna let him put a spot light on the democrats failures ?????😂😂😂

@billyonthewheels75

5 ай бұрын

I think Cash should stay independent. Once mainstream media gets involved, they will have him doing puff pieces. We need more independent journalists out there documenting what is really going on.

@anthonyforfare7223

5 ай бұрын

@@ihunt12903 yup ,can’t fix stupid ! The zombies are everywhere! Keep your head on a swivel and stay frosty 🥶

The reporting you're doing in this series is award winning.

This is the kind of piece the local TV stations should be doing. I suspect some of those "abandoned" vehicles are actually occupied but are allowed to look abandoned so nobody will bother the people living in them. I'm kind of surprised that nobody has thought of planting weeping willow trees. My parents had bought a two acre property with what looked like a stream but was actually where the neighborhood drained. I suggested that they plant a weeping willow at its base. The drainage ditch disappeared and eventually smoothed out to the level of the rest of the lawn.

@rhays615

5 ай бұрын

Yes, there are lots of trees that suck up quite a bit of water from the ground. I had a client tell me once that they chopped down all of their cottonwood trees and after that their basement started flooding. What a waste of badly needed space.

@Jmar1024

5 ай бұрын

There is a weeping willow in that neighborhood. I have the picture on my phone

@belajadevotchka2

3 ай бұрын

​@@rhays615 Do you mean that trees are a waste of badly needed space?

@vickythefist7062

2 ай бұрын

We have a natural spring on our farm land that floods and planted the same trees now 20 years on our land no longer floods .

@tobiwonkanogy2975

Ай бұрын

Weeping willows are great provided you keep them 30 feet from the septic beds . They will wriggle their way into the drain tubes and restrict them if left too close. i've never heard of cottonwood other than the cove but makes sense , absorbent growth would make a drastic difference.

Anyone else who doesn’t live in NYC, have no plans of moving there but just love Cash’s videos? 😄

@SouLoveReal

5 ай бұрын

San Francisco in the house! It's not _all that_ HERE, either. I LOVE Cash's videos.

@bak-mariterry5180

5 ай бұрын

Norfolk, Virginia.

@kimjanina

5 ай бұрын

Yes 😅 I’m watching from Switzerland🇨🇭

@MrsK4759

5 ай бұрын

Me! You could not pay me to move to NYC, but I never miss Cash's videos ❤

@janeentumbao8690

5 ай бұрын

Me! Chicago area!😂😂😂😂

kinda wish we could've gotten the residents first-hand accounts of living here, it would've been super interesting

@firesign4297

2 ай бұрын

Part 2 is NEEDED....

You are flat out amazing. You inform, you don't waste our time with filler, and you are carving out a niche that has completely disappeared from cable tv. Many of us are STARVED for news, any news. Thank you.

@elizabethbennet4791

5 ай бұрын

"news"? lolo ok Negative nancy

I lived in Queens for many years and took the subway every day, it doesn’t surprise me that this place exists but it is very sad that nothing has been done and makes me angry !! Thanks Cash for your excellent investigative reporting, you have a real calling- just stay safe✌🏼🥰

@Allenryan819

2 ай бұрын

It’s easy to miss it because it’s really located, between Lindenwood and Cypress Hills. And East new York It’s not technically not queens, but it’s not technically Brooklyn either.

Thank you for your reporting, Cash. This is stuff we would NEVER see on the legacy media. You do an amazing job!

@imachieving7018

5 ай бұрын

We would in fact see this in legacy media because the New York Times ran an article on this a while ago and Cash got inspired by it.

@metsrock15

5 ай бұрын

@@imachieving7018literally this neighborhood has been mentioned by legacy media for the last 40 years at least​

@Kyle-cd1ys

5 ай бұрын

There was a NY Times article about this neighborhood a few weeks ago.

@vianilism2893

5 ай бұрын

Legacy? You mean Corpo Medía

@daisyinthesun

5 ай бұрын

This is what happens in a Godless world!

Cash my man if there’s an award for citizen journalism you definitely should be nominated. One wouldn’t expect to see this in such a massive city. Where I live we are used to doing things without government assistance. It must be difficult for city dwellers to get used to being on their own. 🍻

@user-ms9bn3iv4e

5 ай бұрын

true that

@1953beetle

5 ай бұрын

It'll be a challenge.

@daisyinthesun

5 ай бұрын

America the land of Godless people!

@jc9233

3 ай бұрын

Go on Google Search it and put in his info. There are tons of awards my guy. Especially in nyc

Man, thank you so much for talking about this and for using your platform to show empathy towards others. I respect you.

It's not that forgotten. The Times did a Sunday piece on the area about 2 or 3 weeks ago and I've seen at least 3 or 4 other KZread videos about the area recently.

This area is actually labeled as "The Hole" on Google Maps, and the neighborhood's boundaries are shown.

@user-iv7us4gp4l

5 ай бұрын

Wow...Way Too Funny...you're right. "The Hole" even includes Chuck E. Cheese and Dollar Tree xD

@BOONEHOUND1

5 ай бұрын

Well damn, I just looked it up on GM and there it is. I don't know if it's funny or sad

@snazzydrew

5 ай бұрын

what in the absolute hellmouth.

@ix3myxcuti3

5 ай бұрын

I grew up around here. We were taught to NEVER go there. I am so used to the idea of this being here. I am shocked to see this video.

@amandad6104

5 ай бұрын

"the hole"? 😂

Sad there are areas like this while NYC is spending billions on migrants.

@-Just-Judy

5 ай бұрын

they should send them there

@memorysometimers3067

5 ай бұрын

This would be a great place for migrants!!! More space and lots of shelter everywhere !! 😉

@robena3021

5 ай бұрын

👏🏾👍🏽👏🏾👍🏽👏🏾👏🏾👍🏽👍🏽

@cjspyker

5 ай бұрын

if something doesn't affect the rich people why would you fix it. it's pretty simple

@yah-ovais-real4898

5 ай бұрын

It's economics.They invited them.Not enough slaves to pay taxes.

This is one major benefit I can see of social media. You doing videos like this to show case issues the mainstream and local medias either won’t show or refuse to show.

I went from this guy has some potential to this guy is better than some big companies. Kudos brother

Imagine living in one of the most expensive places in the world with the highest taxes and the city won't even provide basic services. What a total clownworld.

@nicmainville9954

5 ай бұрын

This is a universal problem in the US, I live in the Midwest and we have to deal with similar issues when trying to get local municipalities to use our taxes on infrastructure projects or really anything that benefits the tax payer.

@sandyfitzgerald4167

5 ай бұрын

It ridiculous when a city and state have HIGH taxes and they don’t take care of their own.

@mache2784

5 ай бұрын

@@nicmainville9954 People that say this is a universal problem just hasn't look at the numbers of how much different NYC is from any other city. I would understand for a city in the Midwest having issues but in NYC it is just neglect because NYC has the resources and some.

@marial3231

5 ай бұрын

I can’t say it on here but I’m at the point despite being economically well off to approach, very kindly and with a biiiig heart, those in the “let them eat cake” 😅

@tiffanycurtis4794

5 ай бұрын

maybe citizens citizens can run America and cities and states more than these politicians that people vote for cause I think the citizens do more for each other than politicians do I bet they don’t live in this

I used to live in the Pink Houses literally 2 blocks away … & that area is crazy … it’s a dumping ground for bodies too… that’s the area they found Immett dead body at 🙏🏽… behind the brush by Gateway mall… that area is known for mafia killings….that area has the belt pkwy one on side & Linden Blvd on the other… & that movie theater is closing as of 2 days ago🙌🏽🙏🏽

@ElleBrOw

5 ай бұрын

That’s the area where experts searched and searched for the jogger from cross bay. Then all of a sudden the victims father joined the search team and 𝗆𝗂𝗋𝖺𝖼𝗎𝗅𝗈𝗎𝗌𝗅𝗒 found the body 🧐 but a Black man. with special needs somehow became the culprit

@robena3021

5 ай бұрын

I know😢..Linden movie theater is now closed😢

@ElleBrOw

5 ай бұрын

Nah it’s not belt parkway. It’s the conduit & linden blvd. You can’t access this area from belt pkway

@goobthe3rd

5 ай бұрын

Tbh that movie theater has been in decline for years.

@lindawilson795

5 ай бұрын

This area is unfit to live in.😮

Well thanks for putting these type of videos out. I’ve never heard of the hole and I’m not alone. But the city knows and does nothing about it. Damn shame.

Cash, your videos are the most spectacular I've ever seen on You Tube!! I love your apartment videos too !! Your sense of humor keeps me coming back time after time! Simply the BEST!!

I bet mosquitos are just wicked in the summer.

@53mandevilla

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, the size of cars! 😮😮😮

Amazing reporting! I grew up in NYC and have never heard of this neighborhood before, too bad Cash didn't give the actual name of this neighborhood, I doubt it's officially called "The Hole". I also wish he'd interview some of the residents as well as address the question of why they haven't yet sued the city. If you're being forced to pay the same taxes as every other New Yorker but getting non-existent services, the city shouldn't be surprised when residents bring a lawsuit.

@FF11000

5 ай бұрын

Lindenwood, it’s a bit of a walk from Euclid Av the last stop of the C

@pandanasia

5 ай бұрын

It's really called The Hole by way of East New York. I had family in Linden Plaza (seen at the beginning of the video). Back in the day, my dad said it was nothing but grass there and it was the official borderline between the poor Black residents of East New York and wealthier white residents of Howard Beach.

@dubreil07

5 ай бұрын

It’s in East New York

@dubreil07

5 ай бұрын

@@FF11000it’s not lindenwood it’s east New York right next to the Pitkin train yard on the Brooklyn side of the boarder

@carolr7823

5 ай бұрын

Here's what I found. "The small neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens has a colorful history but an uncertain future because of climate change. The Jewel Streets neighborhood, which is also known as the Hole, is blighted and often floods. Some residents want a way out."

I’ve learned so much about the real NY from your recent reports. You’ve done a great job. Thank you!

I'm watching from Australia. Your recent videos are way better than so-called professional journalism here!

Hey Cash, thank you for making a video on this bizarre neighborhood. When I did my engineering master's thesis on flooding in nyc, this neighborhood was the spot for the most flooding. If you look at satellite map data from the past, you will see that some areas in that neighborhood was being used for disposal of chemicals and burning of materials. Over many years, these activities contaminated the groundwater flow and probably made the area non-porous. That's why there's so much standing water, because the water can no longer penetrate through the soil. The area is almost 4 blocks and it is segregated from other neighborhoods, I remember the closest neighborhood's sidewalk is at least 10 ft above the "hole". It was almost like the city abandoned the area and built around it. - Bivob

@elizabethbennet4791

5 ай бұрын

WHERE

Not to put down your real estate videos, but these videos you’ve been doing lately are incredible.

your news style/format vids are fire Cash! you clearly have something to say and so many want to hear it! well done, dont stop, and stay safe! ❤ from Alberta Canada

Boy they must be bummed tonight. It's rain like crazy.

It’s about to come down today! Im from Manhattan 49 years I’ve never heard of this place. Thanks for sharing 👍🏽

@ElleBrOw

5 ай бұрын

Manhattan 49 yrs says it all 😂

I've lived and worked in nearly every NYC borough (Brooklyn is scary), yet I have never heard of the Hole until this video. Thank you Cash.

@miola2083

5 ай бұрын

Same, NEVER heard of the Hole.

@jinkenz6459

5 ай бұрын

I've lived in BK for 30+ years, it's the best, imo. A few YTers have done videos on this location.

@cjspyker

5 ай бұрын

probably because it's surrounded by two highways and it's barely considered a neighborhood

@cjspyker

5 ай бұрын

if you don't live in canarsie or East New York I can't take you seriously

@goobthe3rd

5 ай бұрын

@@jinkenz6459@actionkid did one a few years ago iirc

Cash, I love your other videos about rental properties and stuff like that but I’m telling you you’re a good investigative reporter. And it’s really sad that there’s neighborhoods like that and Houston area has the same issue. Just forgotten areas.

Cash, you’re on fire! Excellent story. Excellent channel content. Thank you!

No taxation without representation. All of these 50 sum residents need to come together and fight it in court, pool all their money together. That’s their only hope tbh.

@user-ws4sm4lz6q

5 ай бұрын

Look at all the outsized representation that the oligarch class receives, and only having a fraction of the tax burden that the middle class has. There is no existing elected Republican or corporate Democrat who doesn't function to make the already fabulously rich, richer.

@willythemailboy2

5 ай бұрын

It would be hard to justify spending the millions necessary to fix this one area when the city is so short of money and so few residents are impacted. It's hard to accept but needs of the many vs needs of the few. Sadly the most likely outcome is the whole area being condemned so the cost of fixing it can be rolled into the construction costs of redevelopment.

@muscleman125

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I think you are right, the most likely solution is gonna be encouraging the residents to move out willingly or straight up condemn the whole neighborhood, pay everyone to move, and then start over from scratch. The fact that anyone even allowed the land to be developed in the first place is a horrible mistake, look at how much damage and money it is gonna cost the city today just to cram a few more people into city limits 100 years ago. @@willythemailboy2

@brucealanwilson4121

5 ай бұрын

​@@willythemailboy2Then the city should exercuse eminent domain & clear out the area, then make it a park.

@willythemailboy2

5 ай бұрын

@@brucealanwilson4121 That is probably the best solution, although I'd recommend it be part of the city's runoff/flood prevention infrastructure first and a park second. Basically a green space designed to flood.

There was a pond in the area so many hundreds of years ago. You can't develop what won't hold any weight. It's probably sinking as well. The development of the area shouldn't have happened, but they tried, huh?

@muscleman125

5 ай бұрын

anything to cram several hundred more people within city limits.

@jashanestone

5 ай бұрын

​@@muscleman125 no please!! Not anymore people in my beautiful Brooklyn neighborhoods, please!! 😢

Always fun to watch your videos! 😀

Just googled The Hole. What a history!!! Great reporting, Cash. Time for one of those quick NY shows that come on at the weekend.

Finally, a place i can afford !

@miola2083

5 ай бұрын

😢

@Wonder907

4 ай бұрын

As long you don't mind maintaining your own property like any NORMAL person and don't buy one of the stupid houses with a basement that shouldn't even be there in the 1st place xD

@neecywatson8250

4 ай бұрын

Yessssssss!!!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

The scary part about that neighborhood if there's a real rainfall and there's no way for the water to go. That place will be on the ground because it's basically like you said a basin.

@susannpatton2893

5 ай бұрын

So is any underground basement apartment. They aren't waterproof. The drain systems get overwhelmed as well

@ElleBrOw

5 ай бұрын

As if there hasn’t been any “real rainfall” . This area has been desolate for decades. When driving the conduit if you blink you’d miss it. It’s otherwise unseen territory.

@kizashikaze9066

4 ай бұрын

If that was the case, this place would have *zero* residents still living there. The Hole has had "real rainfall" just as much as the rest of the city has had "real rainfall". Hurricane Sandy affected here just as well.

I couldn't imagine living in that neighborhood and paying taxes.

We appreciate you CASH!!

I saw this place on another video that the guy walked all over, No one ever bothered him. I can't even imagine what rent would cost. So sad for anyone living there 🙏😩Yes this is the United States, the rich get richer and the poor get NEGLECTED

@ElleBrOw

5 ай бұрын

Rent? What’s back there to rent 👀

@robyndavis3043

5 ай бұрын

That KZreadr was ActionKid

@RSST662

5 ай бұрын

Don't rent .

@mikeoglen6848

5 ай бұрын

Has the Action Kid been there?@@robyndavis3043

@nicmainville9954

5 ай бұрын

@@RSST662how out of touch are you to make a statement like "don't rent"? What alternative do you have to renting? Buy a house? Have you seen the bloated prices on houses, the rising interest rates and rising insurance rates? Seriously, do people like you actually think everything is as easy as just saying "don't rent"?

NYC neglecting residents/taxpayers? (Unprecedented...)

@MrSloika

5 ай бұрын

Idiotic comment.

I hope someone in that neighborhood, or the city sends this into the local stations there. If the water is this bad in the winter, I can only imagine what the mosquito issue is like in the summer. The conditions here are third world and needs to be addressed. Keep up this sort of content, along with the rentals. 🎉❤

Thank you for bringing exposure to this blight. You do those residents a bit of justice.

Imagine all that standing water/sewage in the buildings that are vacant and don't get pumped out. Perfect breeding grounds for mold. I wonder what the health conditions are for the 50 residents that choose to remain in such conditions.

nice video. I read that it was once used as a burial ground for the mafia. I would love more videos about you looking into 'forgotten' places in NYC. (at least in my experience) all people think about when they think NYC is huge buildings, overflowing garbage, and people od-ing on the streets. To bring light to what its like in these spots is very interesting and I believe you have the unique opportunity to document these given your journalistic talent.

@paulbonaventura4969

5 ай бұрын

"ya heard nothing...capisce" !

@marie_84

5 ай бұрын

Then we'd better pray that the city never starts digging there....😂😂😂

@McChrister

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@paulbonaventura4969Hahaha, capisce…..🤌🏼🤌🏼😈

@Jmar1024

5 ай бұрын

There's another "forgotten" area in nyc called Meadowmere. It's much less dangerous than The Hole but even further removed from civilization

@daisyinthesun

5 ай бұрын

America the land of the Godless

These NYC reporting productions keeps getting better and better.

I used to live next to this place! I knew it from the second you said the elevation. Just didn't know what it was called. Growing up I always wondered what was wrong and why it was so low and flooded all the time. I literally had NO IDEA people actually lived there. I thought it was completely abandoned. Those poor people. It's not fair that the city ignores them.

@thegreat9481

3 ай бұрын

The city isn’t keeping them there…

I use to live very very close by over on 790 Eldert where those big buildings are. And it would fill up like a literal river in those back streets. Crazy you’re covering where i used to live many years ago.

@eddihaskell

2 ай бұрын

I think you lived near where my second cousin Louie was dumped 20 years ago. He talked too much.

Quickly becoming my fav City reporter, reminds me of the old casey neistat videos.

@yvonneplant9434

5 ай бұрын

Cash is terrific. Philly has a good one as well, Philly Captain.

@robena3021

5 ай бұрын

Facts, this dude is good!!😊

I literally love all of these videos. Super informative and helps me learn more about my city. And I am a New Yorker born and raised.

I’ve lived here for over 3 decades but have never heard of this sordid pit of hell of a neighborhood. Great work as always.

This just does not make any sense to have people living like this, people paying taxes and nothing is getting done. People dumping trash there and not proper drainage is horrible. Hopefully this video catches news channels and get on these politicians ASS!!! and get things done. Thanks for sharing Cash.

@bovnycccoperalover3579

5 ай бұрын

Doubtful

@kirstenweyter4431

5 ай бұрын

To be sure some NYC bureaucrat is pocketing the money and laughing all the way to the bank.

@1NikkiNewJersey

5 ай бұрын

@@kirstenweyter4431 so sad

@MultiArtStyleTWT

5 ай бұрын

Spending millions for the 50 residents that live there? There are much bigger fish to fry (migrants, housing, crime ect.)

@1NikkiNewJersey

5 ай бұрын

@@MultiArtStyleTWT fix it up so more people can love there. Make it a liveable neighborhood and affordable so people can have somewhere to live

I live on the other side of this, the trash dumping is a wider problem but the flooding is so localized. Sometimes when I take an Uber, the driver makes a turn in The Hole because GPS has no idea…The movie theater across the street has closed and will become a grocery store. Many interesting (though still troubling) things are happening in this ENY area - please continue your coverage - maybe go out to Gateway shopping center - Thanks

@joeAnon796

5 ай бұрын

Aww man they closed that huge movie theater? I was looking for this throughout the whole video. Speaking of Gateway, I saw a sign saying they're getting a Dallas BBQs 😋

@Roadrunner65553

5 ай бұрын

Where is this neighborhood?

This video just makes me say WOW!!! unbelievable, and this is the richest country. I have deep sympathy for regular US citizens. Awesome reports lately Cash!

It's absolutely awesome that you went over there and filmed content. I actually went over there once before. And it was wild. Hopefully, someone of some importance sees your video and decides to help those people

I gotta say your channel is really interesting as this documenter of New York it's really interesting to see you wandering & explaining the places.

They should plant water thirsty trees, like Willow. Fescue grass ans Willow would change that grossness into a beautiful habitat. Also, the city could begin to raise the ground level by using the area to dump topsoil that is removed from other construction sites. 1 week of trash removal would clear all the junk out. This is 100% fixable… find a Green-based civil engineering contractor. It doesn’t have to look like this.

@ritatharp5238

5 ай бұрын

Exactly!

I know this neighborhood. It's called Dog Town. In the background are the Linden Plaza apartments. Further up are the Cypress Hills projects and the Pink Houses.

Finally!!!! If I had to live in NY, THIS would be my neighborhood. Chickens, a garden, self-sufficiency....Now, you're talking my language. But I'm an old Texan, so that probably has something to do with my need to be left alone to live my life without gov't intervention. BUT, if these people are paying for infrastructure? Then the city needs to come in & take care of their taxpayers. I agree with @ChrisJones below. Seems like the politicians & businesses want to run out everyone so it can be turned into expensive condos or something. Pisses me right off. I hope & pray these neighbors come together & sue the mess outta the city. But I also know that as long as they keep electing the same type of politicians they have no chance. Once elected they are forgotten all over again.

@redbandit38

4 ай бұрын

Sorry but the only way to fix it is bring investors with money.

@Michael-zf1ko

2 ай бұрын

Yea, honestly out of most places in NYC, I wouldn't mind living there. It just sucks that shitty people dump their garbage there and you'd still be paying NY taxes.

this is exactly the kind of place where you just refuse to pay any taxes in, because none of that is goung back to you

@muscleman125

5 ай бұрын

That's what I would argue if I was one of those 50 residents. If 40 of them banded together to write strongly worded letters to the city, I'd imagine the neighborhood is pretty tightly-knit, and that they could all band together to stop paying their property and city taxes until they get help. Might not be legal per se, but neither is taxation without representation, technically speaking. If anything it would get the situation in front of a judge and would be another big headache for the city.

@B3Band

4 ай бұрын

Move there and try it. Easy to tell other people what they should do with their time and effort. Most of them are probably just glad that the police don't kick them out of those abandoned vehicles they're living in.

Great video Cash! I love the twist you're giving to the channel. Keep it up!

It is amazing how people have to live in such conditions. I hope your videos reaches out to someone with a heart so these residents can have new streets and sewer system. Very disappointing. I hope it tuns around! Thank you Cash for sharing this.

Great job Cash. I pray this makes it to the media and perhaps it will be the only push needed for the elected officials to get active and complete what was promised to these people.

At first, I thought this was Willets Point in Queens near CitiField where the Mets play. What people don't realize is that every borough has these areas that don't have storm drains. Another area without storm drains is Meadowmere right near Kennedy airport which is on the border with Nassau County. I'm sure every borough, except Manhattan, has these one-off areas that time forgot - and the city chooses to forget.

@goobthe3rd

5 ай бұрын

They tore up a bunch of those lots behind ex-Shea Stadium to build CitiField™️ IINM but that isn’t to say that WP is a great neighborhood. I did see a video years ago of someone who went back there and it was like Mad Max.

@bandesj

5 ай бұрын

@@goobthe3rdI had a flat fixed there (near Shea) on a Sunday about 30 years ago and I thought I was in a third world country. The building construction of some of those auto repair shops are quite questionable. If those shops were in Florida, one hurricane and they'd all be gone.

@MrSloika

5 ай бұрын

@@bandesj Some of those shops actually do reasonable work and don't charge a lot. It's also a good place to find used parts for an older car.

@bandesj

5 ай бұрын

@@MrSloikaNo doubt.

@georgeplagianos6487

5 ай бұрын

​​@@MrSloikainteresting tip thanks Are they also called chop shops,?

Who is the representative for that district? Who is taking the cash that's already been "appropriated" for this in a budget but never gets anywhere for how long now? 🤔 follow that money. You'll find your answers kids.

@miola2083

5 ай бұрын

Great point!

@robena3021

5 ай бұрын

Yeah .that area is called E.N.Y. ( East New York) is benn that c way since I wz a kid (45 years at least)😢

@cjspyker

5 ай бұрын

this will be the last part of East New York I fix

Great reporting - thank you.

Such interesting videos, Cash! You are perfect for this and show the truth of this sadness and neglect. Thank you! 👏❤️

I used to pass The Hole on my way home from work and had a friend in HS who lived there. Definitely a forgotten part of NYC. There were some old mob stories that they used to use the area to get rid of some "things".

@georgeplagianos6487

5 ай бұрын

😂hahaha " this hole" must be in some mobster movies of NYC. You see you'll see dump trucks rolling backwards to release the coffin like cement blocks in case human remains. If a cop car comes and asks what are they doing? The answer would be" Oh we're helping build up this poor neighborhood buy laying out some blocks of cement

@Jmar1024

5 ай бұрын

The FBI found bodies there dumped by Gotti. He lived in Howard Beach which isn't far from the Hole

It looks like the cleaner version of Manhattan

thanks for covering this! i grew up right next to the hole and its great to see some attention being brought to it

Fascinating video! Never heard of "the hole" and am glad you educated us! Thanks Cash!

Within the first few minutes of watching, I said this looks like parts of Houston, TX. Low and behold you show an abandoned bus with Houston on it.🙃 I'm born and raised in Brooklyn and live in Houston now. Many parts of Htown look sad like this. I'm glad the majority of BK doesn't look like this. There are very gorgeous and safe areas of Brooklyn, for anyone wondering. Thanks for your exceptional journalism. Way better than local news.

That abandoned bus with a Houston sign looks like and old X-Greyhound bus from many years ago. 🥺

Just wow... Nice work Cash.

Raw sewage isn't something a resident of an American city of NYC's scale should have to deal with. Radical idea, I know!

@goobthe3rd

5 ай бұрын

I worked in a HS in Soundview up in the Bronx and whenever it rained or it got too hot, the sewers got all rotten smelling and they told us at one point NOT to drink the water from the fountains because of pollution from the landfill (apparently that particular section was built on landfill)

@annem7806

5 ай бұрын

Its run off, NOT raw sewage running from local toilets.

This is so sad basically a forgotten neighborhood that could be rebuilt

@zamoranyc

5 ай бұрын

It should never be rebuilt, why would you build in an area that naturally floods.

@Jmar1024

5 ай бұрын

The ground is sinking there's no hope for this area

@sciencemadeeasy1788

4 ай бұрын

If Japan has considered ur advice it wouldn't have developed!!?​@@zamoranyc

Yea I agree with everyone esle thank you for reporting these things. the new growth for the channel is crazy good!! these on lunch breaks are the best

Cash, been watching your videos recently and mainly saw you go to gentrified Brooklyn and Manhattan so it's nice to see you come to East New York. I walk through this area all the time to get the gym that's nearby and have always been intrigued on how unkept and different this section of ENY is. Most people don't even know about this section of ENY and how different it is to basically every part of the city. Definitely learned some stuff I didn't even know today, thanks!

I'm from Brooklyn, and I know exactly where this is!!! It's near linden blvd in Howard Beach. There used a lot of mafia activities going on there, and this place is where they buried dead body's .

@Jmar1024

5 ай бұрын

The home of Gotti

I have a chainsaw, snow blower, self-propelled lawnmower, and weed whacker. I've also lived in places where they put houses on stilts because of flooding. So if I need to move to NYC, this would be a good neighborhood for me. Not likely that I'll be moving, but thanks for the tip just in case.

@user-ms9bn3iv4e

5 ай бұрын

I would rebuild this if I got a place to sleep and one trip to times square

@innagotavita6117

5 ай бұрын

It’s a good idea, you can probably live rent free

@fedupamerican296

5 ай бұрын

​@@innagotavita6117 especially since squatters have more rights than property owners do in US.

There's probably a lot of stealth happening there. No doubt some of those campers have people living in them. In fact probably a few trucks parked around the city are actually moving tiny homes. Lots of yt videos on stealth tiny home/box trucks and van builds.

Honestly this is the most beautiful area I have ever seen in the NYC area! Junk cars within walking distance and you can actually see the sky!

wow ive lived in NYC my whole life and never knew of this place

@BLACKAAROW

5 ай бұрын

Same!

@SexyBeautifulBabe

5 ай бұрын

Everyone in nyc from the 70s and 80s knows that that’s where the mafia would dump the dead bodies

@Ciph3rN1N3

5 ай бұрын

Knew it was there just thought of it as part of east new york

@MrSloika

5 ай бұрын

Every large city has places like that. BTW, even life long residents of NYC rarely venture very far from their own neighborhood.

Good report. I live in a hurricane zone. It is heartbreaking when your house floods. Hope the city starts to pay attention to their needs.

The hole also extends below Linden Blvd. behind the Linden Dinner. Back in the 1960s there was a few houses down there, most of the houses have been torn down by now. To live back then and go into the southern end of The Hole was like walking from 20th century New York City to 19th century rural Appalachia.

In my suburb living experience, you'd call the electric company to remove branches from power lines. He thinks the park department handles power lines? And septic tanks never fill with rain water because where would sewage go? Rain water is supposed to collect into a stream otherwise water pools into a pond. I believe he's making a mistake in that the street water he's finding is simply not making its way into the rain sewers.

are you going to cover the tunnel that was found in nyc yesterday?

@ElleBrOw

5 ай бұрын

Was found in Brooklyn. Crown Heights to be exact.

So informative - you do such a great job on reporting situations.

question i’ve always had is do you record these videos the same day you post them? it’s incredible how good these reports are and how you’re able to quickly make these videos early in the morning.

CNN or FOX , should be calling you soon . Excellent video

I saw Action Kid do a walk through of this hood in 2022 and went there three days later. At 2am. I didn't feel unsafe but it definitely gives off weird vibes at night. Certain spots are freezing cold, and it's a fact that bodies were discovered there. Residents claim to have seen ghosts at night, but I haven't. I was once surrounded by a family of hungry racoons which was cool. One actually looked me dead in the eye and stood up and leaned against my leg

@goobthe3rd

5 ай бұрын

I lived nearby (on the other side of Pitkin Yard) and never wanted to go past this part of town. And wouldn’t be caught dead ☠️ there at 2AM

@TopGKev

5 ай бұрын

Probably a mafia dumpsite

@kevm243

5 ай бұрын

​@TopGKev that whole area was a known mafia dumping grounds back in the 80s & 90s. There is hope though, just 2 minutes to the West of exactly where he filmed this there is like a 2 mile stretch of brand new Condos and other Apartment buildings that have recently went up over the last 10 - 15 years. That whole stretch was exactly like this but now it's totally developed (I'm actually surprised I NEVER thought I'd see that Part of East NY get new developments (anyone who knows anything about East NY knows what I mean)

@jimmyleeR1

5 ай бұрын

In the ghetto nobody hears and nobody cares😢🎉😂😢😢😢❤

@kidkudoD1

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I've also watched that develop up over there. Id never walk threw there at no 2am lol me & my boy used to cut threw there to get to grant at times back in the day but we made them walks quick lol

Your editing is amazing Cash

Cash- I can’t say enough good things about your special episodes. You are such an asset to NYC! Keep going! A+ ☮️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

My grandparents are from East New York/City line aka the hole. Forbell street used to be dangerous. A few years ago you would of never been able to just walk around with a camera and film over there

@ElleBrOw

5 ай бұрын

Forbell is a correctional facility. Around the corner is a homeless shelter. Down the block is Pink houses and Linden Plaza. I remember shopping in TSS (times square stores) backinthedayz before the movie theater was built. Across from movie theater was one of the worst nursing homes in America. Patients remained deceased & “allegedly” undiscovered for days.

@stephanieh369

5 ай бұрын

It's still not safe to walk over there. Two years ago, an off duty cop was shot and killed over there.

@Jmar1024

5 ай бұрын

Forbell and Sapphire Street are extremely creepy especially at 3am alone on a bicycle

@ElleBrOw

5 ай бұрын

@@stephanieh369 Tell the whole story.

@Donny.G1952

5 ай бұрын

@@ElleBrOw Wow you brought it back with Time square stores. That closed when I was just a kid. I’m from the Red Hook section but I have much family and friends in east New York so I’m more than familiar. I wouldn’t walk through the hole without a firearm

Surprised you didn't interview a local 😮

Once again, excellent reporting.

Big thanks to you Cash for documenting this.

Really interesting when you show us places like this.

Here in Far Rockaway we have sewers, but we’re on a “sandbar,” so we flood!