⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC : Brownsville, Brooklyn Housing Projects

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I exit a (3) Subway Train at the Rockaway Avenue Station and venture into Brownsville: historically one of Brooklyn's most dangerous neighborhoods. I walk through Tilden Houses, Brownsville Houses, Sutter Avenue, Mother Gaston Boulevard, and Van Dyke Houses. Traditionally a Jewish neighborhood, Brownsville is also home to former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson.
From Wikipedia:
"Brownsville is a residential neighborhood located in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The 1.163-square-mile (3.01 km2) area that comprises Brownsville has 58,300 residents as of the 2010 United States Census. The neighborhood's boundaries are unclear, but it is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bushwick and Cypress Hills to the north; New Lots to the east; Canarsie to the south; and East Flatbush to the west.
Founded in its current incarnation in 1858, initially a settlement composed of Jewish factory workers, Brownsville underwent a major demographic change in the 1950s that saw an influx of African-American and Latino residents. Since then, it has consistently held one of the highest poverty and crime rates of any neighborhood in New York City."
Filmed April 30, 2019
Timestamps
1:15 - Exiting Rockaway Avenue (3) Subway Station
2:00 - Livonia Avenue & Rockaway Avenue
2:45 - Tilden Houses
7:45 - Brownsville Houses
11:33 - Sutter Avenue & Osborn Street
13:25 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Sutter Avenue
15:43 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Blake Avenue
17:40 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Dumont Avenue
19:40 - Linovia Avenue & Mother Gaston Boulevard
20:05 - Van Dyke Houses
26:25 - Sutter Avenue & Christopher Avenue
27:05 - Sutter Avenue & Sackman Street
28:00 - Sutter Avenue & Powell Street
29:00 - Sutter Avenue & Junius Street
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  • @prospect4954
    @prospect49545 жыл бұрын

    Keep that same energy when you come back for a night tour!!

  • @Slim545

    @Slim545

    5 жыл бұрын

    Spice 0o0 😭😭😭😭

  • @NoDidddy

    @NoDidddy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @falashagodsqbreaves3504

    @falashagodsqbreaves3504

    4 жыл бұрын

    FACTS I AM THE FROM THE VILLE. AND I KNOW BETTER. 😆

  • @queenoftenthousandmoons8864

    @queenoftenthousandmoons8864

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @LORD_Bishop

    @LORD_Bishop

    4 жыл бұрын

    !!!!!!

  • @giovannigommba5938
    @giovannigommba59384 жыл бұрын

    Damm son, you just nearly made me cry, you just once AGAIN took me down MEMORY LANE. i used live on 335 BLAKE AVE, THEN WE MOVED TO 275 BLAKE. BACK IN 1983-84. Basically nothing has CHANGED, even THOUGH it was or still is a rough neighborhood, I LOVE it. Lost my best friend. KEVIN BRANCK, ON THE SIX FLOOR ON OSBORN ST. Two days before he passed me and TROY SMOKE A BLUNT AND DRANK BEER BY THE BASKETBALL COURT. THAT SAME WEEK FRIDAY AROUND MIDNIGHT, GOT SHOT IN THE HEAD BY SOMEONE HE KNEW ON THE SIX FLOOR NAME AN OLDER DUDE NAME SCKILIT. WHILE PLAYING WITH A GUN THAT WAS 1984, HE WAS 16 years old. He and i went to THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL. THE BEST 4 YEAR'S OF MY LIVE.

  • @TenYah144

    @TenYah144

    3 жыл бұрын

    You sound like you might know my older brother or sister. We lived on Osborn. 268 and went to Jeff and Wingate

  • @angelikaweienberger-peters9230

    @angelikaweienberger-peters9230

    3 жыл бұрын

    So sorry

  • @angelikaweienberger-peters9230

    @angelikaweienberger-peters9230

    3 жыл бұрын

    But you have also good memories...it all depends on relationships and community you build. Have a good Life.

  • @j1ah826

    @j1ah826

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thomas Jefferson near Livonia ave? That school is terrible dude

  • @giovannigommba5938

    @giovannigommba5938

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@j1ah826 maybe, but I have great memories from the school...... 1981_1985.

  • @Slickmickyoyo97
    @Slickmickyoyo975 жыл бұрын

    Damn, you are a true ballsy NYer! I'll never forget working with a Puerto Rican dude named Julio, he grew up in Bed Stuy in the 80's . He always said "Man, I ain't scared of Brooklyn, I grew up in Bed Stuy I go anywhere in Brooklyn...except Brownsville son, I do not fuck around in Brownsville!"

  • @IvyANguyen

    @IvyANguyen

    5 жыл бұрын

    That was in the 1980s, right? Is Brownsville safer these days, in almost 2020?

  • @Slickmickyoyo97

    @Slickmickyoyo97

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ivy Agnes Nguyen Every neighborhood in NY is safer. But not every neighborhood is safe!

  • @thepizzaelf

    @thepizzaelf

    5 жыл бұрын

    Faux Wanata yea less crime is a disgrace

  • @morganlimes

    @morganlimes

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Faux Wanata white people fix everything shut it

  • @strzaaolo2966

    @strzaaolo2966

    4 жыл бұрын

    There's no people on the corners or anywhere. Everybody's staying home stuck to the internet. It's 2019.

  • @coreysmith3320
    @coreysmith33204 жыл бұрын

    Mike Tyson Brought Me Here....

  • @marvinbenjamin.
    @marvinbenjamin.5 жыл бұрын

    Back in 2000 u could never walk through there u would of got robbed at the train station.

  • @jameleason8200

    @jameleason8200

    4 жыл бұрын

    Facts

  • @marquiswilliams150

    @marquiswilliams150

    4 жыл бұрын

    Facts indeed

  • @hereisayana8207

    @hereisayana8207

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's crazy

  • @zfinesses459

    @zfinesses459

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fax

  • @LORD_Bishop

    @LORD_Bishop

    4 жыл бұрын

    100%

  • @heartofsteel1972
    @heartofsteel19724 жыл бұрын

    I was born in the Bronx and was brought up hating Brooklyn, for no reason at all ...Until I started working in BK and I started to have a real change of heart and today I can say " I love Brooklyn. For all the right reasons.

  • @raquelfrizzell

    @raquelfrizzell

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes! I'm from the bronx and we really didnt fuck with Brooklyn at all lol

  • @martinwadia300

    @martinwadia300

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@raquelfrizzell same for Brooklyn, i saw someome from the south bronx come to brownsville and get murdered, that's how it was back in the days sadly

  • @ShawnGS300

    @ShawnGS300

    2 жыл бұрын

    Is it because of “that Brooklyn Bullshit..we on it”. Back in the days, they use to say Brooklyn keeps on taking it.

  • @quanbrooklynkid7776

    @quanbrooklynkid7776

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ShawnGS300 damn

  • @coryd.6333

    @coryd.6333

    2 ай бұрын

    @@raquelfrizzell everyone hated Brooklyn said we was Grimey Im from Flatbush lol

  • @The3DSMaxinator
    @The3DSMaxinator4 жыл бұрын

    Must be mad early in the morning on a weekday after the youth were in school. Aint nobody out there this early.

  • @lyricistanonymous8126

    @lyricistanonymous8126

    4 жыл бұрын

    Definitely

  • @elenaa3408
    @elenaa34085 жыл бұрын

    this types of buildings reminds me of my childhood in Queens (boulevard) near parker towers. Thank you, this sounds of the city with this high buildings relaxes my soul and gives me positive energy to go on !

  • @BLETransitYT
    @BLETransitYT5 жыл бұрын

    I have family in Brownsville! Such great memories!

  • @ericalyons3834

    @ericalyons3834

    6 ай бұрын

    Do they like it there

  • @elaineen1
    @elaineen13 жыл бұрын

    One of my earliest memories is walking through this apartment my parents were moving into. The paint smelled fresh and it was so clean. My mother told me it was such an improvement from the tenement we were living in the Bronx. It was a new building at the corner of Dumont and Stone. Yes it was Brownsville Houses. Lived there in the 1950's then my parents moved to California. Now I am a grandfather and live in a nice home with a view. My message to all is that it does not matter where you are from just keep going and stay clean, study and you will make it. Never blame others for your failures. It doesn't matter if you fall just remember to get yourself up. Google the great folk who were from Brownsville and made it big.

  • @quincycooper1911

    @quincycooper1911

    4 ай бұрын

    your 100% RIGHT

  • @Japan_Silent_Walk
    @Japan_Silent_Walk Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this. Very raw and real. 🔥👍 Very different vibes from Tokyo.

  • @thecrooklynite2129
    @thecrooklynite21294 жыл бұрын

    Your brave for walking trough projects you don’t belong in

  • @heartofsteel1972

    @heartofsteel1972

    4 жыл бұрын

    Chris Barrett ...You have to act like you belong and have a that certain swag and sway your way through any ghetto part of the city. Don't act like a tourist unless you want to look like a visitor.

  • @LaDiiGiggleZ718

    @LaDiiGiggleZ718

    4 жыл бұрын

    If he was Mexican he wouldn't stand a chance. They dont like us

  • @fredajames8962

    @fredajames8962

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LaDiiGiggleZ718 you mean the stupid ass young teenagers cuz that's exactly wat they are they do that to anybody who looks vulnerable and don't look like they belong so is not that they don't like him that's just the code...action the kidd just got lucky cuz it wasn't really nobody outside to fuck with him cuz that go pro camera wouldve def got snatched

  • @Alicia_W413

    @Alicia_W413

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LaDiiGiggleZ718 who is they? Because last I checked the projects were filled with all types of people. Secondly, if you want to say that, the opposite can be true as well.

  • @bigbyrd9803

    @bigbyrd9803

    Жыл бұрын

    He dont get no points 4 dat i used to walk through Potomac Gardenz all the time

  • @technosmiley
    @technosmiley3 жыл бұрын

    tyvm for this video. it helped me show my small town wife that the projects are not that bad (during the day of course)

  • @Unknownether
    @Unknownether4 жыл бұрын

    Brownsville looks like such a nice place, and so peaceful in this video but sadly it's one of the worst places in New York

  • @eliashuertas9471

    @eliashuertas9471

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not really. It's bad but i feel it got a little calmer even the police in the neighbourhood says it's changing.

  • @fredajames8962

    @fredajames8962

    3 жыл бұрын

    It looks nice on the outside but crazy part about it somebody was prolly getting they head chopped of behind those project walls as he was walking past filiming

  • @bigdeelow1

    @bigdeelow1

    3 жыл бұрын

    That looks like one of the cleanest projects I've ever seen. 😳

  • @freshprinceoflondonss9008

    @freshprinceoflondonss9008

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bigdeelow1 Trash doesn’t kill people in the projects

  • @bigbyrd9803

    @bigbyrd9803

    Жыл бұрын

    I see people who think they about it but not about it at all. When someone cap on how tough NY is on G life, i do nothing but smh

  • @uzntyson2
    @uzntyson24 жыл бұрын

    I'm happy you did this video. People always calling the black and brown community dirty or violent. What you show is how peaceful it can be at time. Thank you! If you ever want to do this at night time. Let me know. I got you bro. Thanks for the vid and keep doing your thing.

  • @teshatillman893
    @teshatillman8935 жыл бұрын

    My aunt lives in Brownsville and my grandfather was on New Lotts Ave Rip GrandpaEast New York forever ❤️

  • @edgartheeggo6420

    @edgartheeggo6420

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tesha Tillman rip

  • @eldo59
    @eldo594 жыл бұрын

    I keep thinking about movies like Fresh, Crooklyn, Clockers, Brooklyn's Finest.

  • @badgerbhoy9534
    @badgerbhoy95343 жыл бұрын

    I bloody love this channel!!!

  • @FloridaJay
    @FloridaJay3 жыл бұрын

    Lots of memories in the library growing up, man you walked right pass my old block where it all stared........

  • @jacquelinegangas7728
    @jacquelinegangas77285 жыл бұрын

    Today is the international day of the worker! ... Greetings to all!💝👏

  • @inezsimpkins5019
    @inezsimpkins50194 жыл бұрын

    Oh my God this is THE area's where I use too live I sure miss my home town Been away since 1979 now in FLORIDA and hate it so much. But God blessed me with a BEAUTIFUL Habitat home.

  • @lesterdiamond6190
    @lesterdiamond61904 жыл бұрын

    great video, glad nobody ran up on you and stole your camera. thanks for your effort!

  • @BROTHERARTMUSICArturoJCastro
    @BROTHERARTMUSICArturoJCastro3 жыл бұрын

    The old hood I grew up and ran through. My family lived in Tilden, Van, and Brownsville houses. So Many schoolmates and life friends have passed on. But you want to impress, do this doing the hot summer days when everyone’s outside with nothing to do. 👀 Great video and memories though.

  • @green2stayecoswdmarketingn339
    @green2stayecoswdmarketingn3395 жыл бұрын

    Thanks I enjoyed this!

  • @jesusgirlkatrina
    @jesusgirlkatrina4 жыл бұрын

    I Really Enjoyed Watching This Video, I Love Everything About New York The Diversity, Food, Shopping, Brooklyn, Queen, Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island!!

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    @kaysuzz2462

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @tedted5431
    @tedted54315 жыл бұрын

    Nice video! Thx! 👍 🗽

  • @pauld2810
    @pauld28105 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from Seattle! I've just discovered your channel. You're very entertaining.

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    You’re welcome! Check out my other videos as well.

  • @xmuta
    @xmuta5 жыл бұрын

    You are brave to go there. Stay safe.

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @bino1939

    @bino1939

    5 жыл бұрын

    S L he should’ve went in the night time lol

  • @paulowarhol9375
    @paulowarhol93755 жыл бұрын

    The NYC's projects looks like our projects here in Sao Paulo, Brazil with little differences but what strikes me the most is the quality of the public spaces and sidewalks. Here's it's piles of garbage everywhere,no green areas and broken sidewalks😲

  • @paulowarhol9375

    @paulowarhol9375

    5 жыл бұрын

    www.google.com.br/search?q=cidade+tiradentes+sao+paulo+pictures&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjRi46KpPvhAhXBFLkGHXvxB8EQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=cidade+tiradentes+sao+paulo+pictures&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.12...15782.21415..22480...1.0..1.787.3681.0j4j3j1j0j2j1......0....1.........35i39.0u4LUFlt5lI&ei=bxDKXJGYB8Gp5OUP--KfiAw&bih=652&biw=412&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&prmd=inv

  • @Vision-sh2mt

    @Vision-sh2mt

    4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting....

  • @thodeohill6339
    @thodeohill63393 жыл бұрын

    Everybody want it to be all bad but some of the coolest people come from those projects

  • @bigbyrd9803

    @bigbyrd9803

    Жыл бұрын

    New York is not a hood anymore

  • @ericalyons3834

    @ericalyons3834

    6 ай бұрын

    @@bigbyrd9803what

  • @catherinec9307
    @catherinec93075 жыл бұрын

    Sooo great ! Thank you 🙏🏼 😘

  • @ThatBrooklynChick718
    @ThatBrooklynChick7184 жыл бұрын

    My Old Hood Brownsville&Seth Low Projects💯...it looks like early morning type shit! Memories Good&Bad! My family still out there. I'm Downtown Bklyn now💕💕

  • @jasonron5203

    @jasonron5203

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wasgud

  • @ActionKid
    @ActionKid5 жыл бұрын

    For those on mobile Timestamps 1:15 - Exiting Rockaway Avenue (3) Subway Station 2:00 - Livonia Avenue & Rockaway Avenue 2:45 - Tilden Houses 7:45 - Brownsville Houses 11:33 - Sutter Avenue & Osborn Street 13:25 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Sutter Avenue 15:43 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Blake Avenue 17:40 - Mother Gaston Boulevard & Dumont Avenue 19:40 - Linovia Avenue & Mother Gaston Boulevard 20:05 - Van Dyke Houses 26:25 - Sutter Avenue & Christopher Avenue 27:05 - Sutter Avenue & Sackman Street 28:00 - Sutter Avenue & Powell Street 29:00 - Sutter Avenue & Junius Street

  • @r68aproductions56

    @r68aproductions56

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @rebekahalessi3731

    @rebekahalessi3731

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wow. You are kinda brilliant. I have always been fascinated with Brownsville. I live in San Francisco, I think it used to be very Jewish, no? It was a beautiful walk we just took. I

  • @bino1939

    @bino1939

    5 жыл бұрын

    ActionKid you should’ve went through Marcus Garvey

  • @777wisdom7

    @777wisdom7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nobody is outside must be 6am LOL!, We wanna see the people......

  • @maciejkublik6297
    @maciejkublik62974 жыл бұрын

    Hello ActionKid,i really enjoy watchig Your films from NYC,it's almost like to be there:)Some day i'll visit New York;greetings from Warsaw:)

  • @sussybaka5322
    @sussybaka53225 жыл бұрын

    Holy ... You actually came out of there in one piece!!! You are one crazy/gutsy person. You were crazy enough to go into Brownsville with an expensive go pro camera.

  • @jonn40853

    @jonn40853

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is hood? Looks so peaceful, clean and nice lol this aint nothing close to where i live in deep east Oakland

  • @ablizzy

    @ablizzy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol this look like the morning time 🤣whaaa everything changes in brownsville onna weekend hitting night time and people tryna get lit.. i live in brownsville, he wasnt lucky its just always lowkey dead in the morning, at night, try doing this same walk recording lol

  • @slimeball3168

    @slimeball3168

    4 жыл бұрын

    Raw_Smoking408 go out there around 8 😂 mannnn

  • @allegraanegra455

    @allegraanegra455

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nobody was stealing his go pro🙄 you acting like he walked through the jungle with some lions chasing him. 😂

  • @lyricistanonymous8126

    @lyricistanonymous8126

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jonn40853 This is just one st of projects in the hood, early in the morning before the hawks come out.🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @rajindergupta8482
    @rajindergupta84825 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful blog thanks

  • @eapradius
    @eapradius5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for these videos! I miss New York!

  • @Jrhynie
    @Jrhynie Жыл бұрын

    Much nicer than Philly, Baltimore and parts of London. Tidy looking and neat.

  • @jamesstmanhattan
    @jamesstmanhattan5 жыл бұрын

    I got jumped and my shit got taken just from my reading the title lol

  • @raineyj560

    @raineyj560

    5 жыл бұрын

    Smh

  • @jamesstmanhattan

    @jamesstmanhattan

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@raineyj560 nfs son

  • @raineyj560

    @raineyj560

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesstmanhattan not a son, all lady

  • @jamesstmanhattan

    @jamesstmanhattan

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@raineyj560 my bad sis

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    @kaysuzz2462

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @williamrubinstein3442
    @williamrubinstein3442 Жыл бұрын

    NYC slums always look a lot better than those in Philly, Chicago, Newark, Baltimore etc etc. Fewer burned out ruins, less grafitti, more shops open, less threatening.

  • @chatterboxdebz4504
    @chatterboxdebz45045 жыл бұрын

    Not gonna lie when I saw the title I freaked a little 😂 I've saw a lot of updates from here but you did another great job..... How did you feel though genuinely walking around

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! It wasn’t anything too unpleasant walking around. You always have to be aware of your surroundings no matter where you are.

  • @fisheyetaxi6616
    @fisheyetaxi66165 жыл бұрын

    Nice video again!:)

  • @metrorailfan2334
    @metrorailfan23345 жыл бұрын

    Livonia Avenue** , nice video by the way. Can you do a walk from the L train at Livonia Ave to the 3 At Junius street to show the station connection

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the correction! I could if I'm ever in the area again.

  • @kimberlysmith3379
    @kimberlysmith33794 жыл бұрын

    It looks very nice and clean to me!

  • @martinwadia300

    @martinwadia300

    3 жыл бұрын

    this is coming from Kimberly Smith, yeah ight

  • @ericalyons3834

    @ericalyons3834

    6 ай бұрын

    @@martinwadia300how u know cause I’m from Manhattan it’s dirty out here garbage all over the floor

  • @Kaisersozze
    @Kaisersozze5 жыл бұрын

    Wow they even have scaffolding in the middle of a park. NYC, city of scatfolding.

  • @thedubbman4453
    @thedubbman44534 жыл бұрын

    Everybody rocking some nice kicks

  • @danrichardson4608
    @danrichardson46083 жыл бұрын

    I'm from Bville,and this was done real early,if Mother Gaston is empty

  • @nojacket3791
    @nojacket37914 жыл бұрын

    Grew up on 180 Powel street Seth low projects starting 1974. My cousins were Jehovahs witnesses (Bitting Family) lived in Van Dycke houses. The sidewalks & streets had embedded bottle caps on/in the ground.

  • @michaeldavis159
    @michaeldavis1595 жыл бұрын

    I used to live out there memories 👍👍👍

  • @itsbenja1318

    @itsbenja1318

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bville the hood the pj its all the same crazy.

  • @jermainegray4311

    @jermainegray4311

    4 жыл бұрын

    To many memories

  • @mikioni
    @mikioni5 жыл бұрын

    Nice video 🙂

  • @TenYah144
    @TenYah1444 жыл бұрын

    That's my hood. Rockaway avenue is my stop. You walked past my mothers building lol and a school i went to. Thats home to me

  • @bigdeelow1

    @bigdeelow1

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's crazy when u see your neighborhood on KZread..... I've seen mines a few times, I'm from Southside of Chicago.

  • @jameleason8200

    @jameleason8200

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bigdeelow1 they tour down most of the PJs out there I was there in 02

  • @tkso.philly-7868
    @tkso.philly-78682 жыл бұрын

    Love Brooklyn, where my Family is from.E.N.Y. Cyprus Hill Projects.AndJamaica Queens and to Long Island-

  • @michaelrobinson9639
    @michaelrobinson96395 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much ! Used to live on the other side at 675 Sackman street at Riverdale/

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome, thank you for sharing your experience

  • @beautifulrose6233
    @beautifulrose62334 жыл бұрын

    I love the way the buildings look, I'm not from NYC so I cant speak on it.

  • @guac1967
    @guac19674 жыл бұрын

    i worked with a guy that was a nyc cop for 7 years. he said it was hell he said that he worked the overnight shift around the projects, and it was stressful as hell after 7 years he quit to go drive a bus.

  • @michaelcevallos8715
    @michaelcevallos87153 жыл бұрын

    Grew up in linden houses on the 4 th floor, so many memories, moved out in 2015, shit was lit growing up in Brownsville, just tuck ya chain in

  • @ericalyons3834

    @ericalyons3834

    6 ай бұрын

    So how u like it there

  • @producerman10030
    @producerman100303 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in ENY. You are one brave person.

  • @weotalks2810
    @weotalks28104 жыл бұрын

    My Home TOWN, I saw my First OF 7 MURDERS BY THE TIME I WAS 19, But Made life LONG FRIENDS, AND TAUGHT ME CONFIDENCE & TO BE A MAN

  • @magnetokwa9700
    @magnetokwa97005 жыл бұрын

    Peace to my hoods! Brooklyn NY, Newark NJ!

  • @GetRekt-bw6pu

    @GetRekt-bw6pu

    5 жыл бұрын

    Newark reppin

  • @jameleason8200

    @jameleason8200

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@GetRekt-bw6pu Bricks🔥

  • @dolooutlaw2749

    @dolooutlaw2749

    4 жыл бұрын

    973 all damn day 🗣🗣

  • @kuerpotino8401

    @kuerpotino8401

    3 жыл бұрын

    Brooklyn all day and long branch nj

  • @jazmynbrown6820
    @jazmynbrown68204 жыл бұрын

    Sidewalks look cleaner than the ones here in Los Angeles. We got a nasty looking city!

  • @jermainegray4311

    @jermainegray4311

    4 жыл бұрын

    Trust me housing must have cleaned it up early other than that it's always nasty out there

  • @bp7792

    @bp7792

    4 жыл бұрын

    You sure do!

  • @bigdeelow1

    @bigdeelow1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gentrification.......🤔

  • @Tyler380
    @Tyler3805 жыл бұрын

    You know you live in a rough neighborhood when you put a Razor Wire fence around the Veggie garden at 21:33

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @QueensNativeNYC

    @QueensNativeNYC

    5 жыл бұрын

    Brownsville in the day actually looks kind of peaceful, it doesn't particularly look that mennacing.. Though God only knows what is going on is some of those projects.. And I would not want to be walking around down there at night

  • @TheHowToKing

    @TheHowToKing

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@QueensNativeNYC I was thinking the same. Everybody must be in the house...lol. Looks like it was still semi cold out.

  • @QueensNativeNYC

    @QueensNativeNYC

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheHowToKing Yep, just watched it again, in fact the only thing I hear is birds tweeting.. I don't hear gun-shots or gangster language or anything like that.. Though I do hear the sounds of ambulances in the background quite often, you can use your imagination on that, most likely domestic abuse or some poor soul overdosed on something.. Life in the projects is still no cake walk no matter how you look at it..

  • @queensuga1006

    @queensuga1006

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmbo🤣🤣🤣

  • @ajcornax11
    @ajcornax115 жыл бұрын

    Love the videos, watches them from rural Norway! Specially with the map in the first seconds. Is it possible during the course of the videos to put in the upper corner -for orientation- a little map with a red dot on the place where you are at that moment? F.e. every 5 minutes or when you're take a corner?

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I think the written timestamps are good enough, it might be too distracting to overlay a map

  • @UzziHD

    @UzziHD

    4 жыл бұрын

    This ain’t grand theft auto lmao this is Brooklyn

  • @ericalyons3834

    @ericalyons3834

    6 ай бұрын

    Me to

  • @sammyb.randall5006
    @sammyb.randall50063 жыл бұрын

    Good ol memories , i grew up in howard houses in the 1980's , 1990' s very goodchild-hood memories with mychildhood friends .myparents are from brooklyn n.y.

  • @zendavis3501
    @zendavis35014 жыл бұрын

    Come to my hood in Queensbridge. Love your videos.

  • @philosophyexplained
    @philosophyexplained4 жыл бұрын

    Its crazy how accurate gta is!

  • @MrGarra69
    @MrGarra695 жыл бұрын

    And good u came in the day time late night hours could've been a different tale feel me

  • @joelweiner4798
    @joelweiner47985 жыл бұрын

    Never been there, never will...thanks for the video..now i don't have to visit, for sure.. Keep up the great work.

  • @krissmgvlogs
    @krissmgvlogs5 жыл бұрын

    I bet that place looks a lot better than it did 20 years ago but I still would NEVER want to live there or even walk around there day or night! Its just depressing! And the covered walkways, is that a permanent structure, such an eyesore!

  • @joojoobomb

    @joojoobomb

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol yeah cause people stay throwing shit outta windows lol

  • @ericalyons3834

    @ericalyons3834

    6 ай бұрын

    @@joojoobombfacts u ain’t lie they still do it

  • @EddieTheMessenger
    @EddieTheMessenger3 жыл бұрын

    You got ballz Kid !!!!

  • @wandamoore4929
    @wandamoore49294 жыл бұрын

    The Ville is cool. Just mind your business.

  • @blueriver4484

    @blueriver4484

    4 жыл бұрын

    Exactly! Thank you. Same can be said for anywhere else in NYC or any other city in the US or in the world, for that matter.

  • @thatahkabdul

    @thatahkabdul

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@blueriver4484 when in Rome act like the romans

  • @dochoa7457

    @dochoa7457

    4 жыл бұрын

    But if u look like a chump or an easy target. Then you are food.

  • @kevm243

    @kevm243

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Tupac Shakur The whole NY was a war zone back in the 1990s!! But today it is NOTHING like back then INCLUDING where you lived! 137th & Brook is the 40 Pct and YES back in the 1990s it was a war zone it's Not today! As of today August 30th there have been 6 Murders in the 40 Pct so far this year. There have been a total of 35 people shot so far this year so its NOTHING like it use to be. There have been 273 Robberies there so far this year that comes out to 1 person robbed per day so NO people aren't getting robbed like crazy there anymore

  • @ericalyons3834

    @ericalyons3834

    6 ай бұрын

    Facts smh

  • @grevilleprince6621
    @grevilleprince66215 жыл бұрын

    man just keep doing it action kid

  • @BIG-BUDDY63
    @BIG-BUDDY633 жыл бұрын

    action kid your one brave individual walking threw these buildings that was very dangerous

  • @jeanetteroberts4427
    @jeanetteroberts44274 жыл бұрын

    2:18 is the strip from the movie Brooklyn's Finest. Where Wesley Snipes gets shot and Don Cheadle tries to save him.

  • @kentrock
    @kentrock4 жыл бұрын

    You should make a video on Jouvet night

  • @MrGarra69
    @MrGarra695 жыл бұрын

    I feel you bro on your depiction of Brownsville and I'm born and raised in Brownsville still living in Brownsville 42 years old left and came back trust me trying to leave again and it's a lot better than what it used to be but so true mid 90s early 2000 you have to worry about what color shirt you had on walking through Rockaway Avenue trust me so homeboy just showed you know that the neighbor actually has improved

  • @QueensNativeNYC

    @QueensNativeNYC

    4 жыл бұрын

    That neigborhhod was like hell in the 90s.. When I was a young guy I used to work for a low budget furniture store near the border of Queens and Brooklyn and I would go into those ghetto areas of Brooklyn often to do furniture deliveries..

  • @1961RetroMIke
    @1961RetroMIke5 жыл бұрын

    Hi Actionkid. As a lover of Baseball and the architecture of old baseball stadiums I am wondering if you have ever done a walking video of where old Ebbet's Field in Brooklyn was or the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan? Thanks again for another wonderful video.

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    I’ve actually never even heard of them before. I’ll have to do some research

  • @1961RetroMIke

    @1961RetroMIke

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi Actionkid, many Brooklyn citizens consider the day the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and the day that Ebbets Field was demolished to be the saddest day in the history of Brooklyn.

  • @davidmccandless8265
    @davidmccandless82655 жыл бұрын

    Hi action kid David here a Scot living in London I love your vlog as usual and I have lived in housing schemes as there are named in Glasgow Scotland and most people are law abiding but we do have ass holes and no gooders there to so thank you for sharing it David

  • @davidmccandless8265

    @davidmccandless8265

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi Kay fip thank you for the reply and all the best to you David McCandless

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions3 жыл бұрын

    i remember seeing the buildings at 5:20, or at least a good interpretation of them, on Grand Theft Auto IV. :-D

  • @majestik7107

    @majestik7107

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gta IV my favorite 🥰

  • @bortiz5260
    @bortiz52604 жыл бұрын

    Ny has some nice trees !

  • @KussDamato
    @KussDamato4 жыл бұрын

    k now go back and do it again in 12 hours.

  • @kalishagibbs3797

    @kalishagibbs3797

    4 жыл бұрын

    Facts😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @kuerpotino8401

    @kuerpotino8401

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gets jumped

  • @WecanWinJesse
    @WecanWinJesse4 жыл бұрын

    This Gato's camera got me thinking he walking like Ernie and Bert through the Projects.

  • @williame.pittman7225
    @williame.pittman72255 жыл бұрын

    Action Kid: Thanks for posting this video. Was this Sunday afternoon or this morning. Bill

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    It was Tuesday afternoon

  • @williame.pittman7225

    @williame.pittman7225

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ActionKid I wondered. Not too many people out and about.

  • @Usernotfounddd748
    @Usernotfounddd7485 жыл бұрын

    People are simple minded. Yes there are more dangerous neighborhoods in New York City in general BUT overall people who don’t live in New York wouldn’t even understand that New York can be dangerous in general! Even your “nice” looking neighborhoods have crime quite obvious..

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    Midtown Manhattan is the most dangerous neighborhood in NYC according to the statistics.

  • @raineyj560

    @raineyj560

    5 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, the upper class or rich, hide their debt or $$$ problems, they are criminals, they are abusive and they are drug addicts. Makes me so upset that the generalizations are thrown out just because ppl are poor or struggling.

  • @Tonyjones175

    @Tonyjones175

    5 жыл бұрын

    ActionKid that’s why cops carry assault rifles.on every corner. Just in case there’s a problem.

  • @Slim545

    @Slim545

    5 жыл бұрын

    ActionKid Na the south bronx is

  • @itachigaga1

    @itachigaga1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Brownsville is the worst and the people who want to stand in front from the buildings all day like they don't have a home is even worst

  • @MyDOOKIE1
    @MyDOOKIE14 жыл бұрын

    Born and raised in B-ville....LH stand up ! Rockaway and Sutter or as the OGs say (stone Ave) but he didn't even go thru half the hood he walked from 3 train to L train and got up outta there...

  • @DionteBOOMstudio
    @DionteBOOMstudio3 жыл бұрын

    New york projects apartments are sprawling compared to ours here in Little Rock.

  • @LudoLiuExtras
    @LudoLiuExtras5 жыл бұрын

    ok... i will use my gopro hero 7 and my feiyu to realize the same shot here in Nigeria ! I feel so interested by yours, maybe people would like to discover Lagos and Nigeria in the same way ! have a great day ! cheers from nigeria

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much! I would be very interested to see the world with similar videos as well.

  • @LoiLoScope

    @LoiLoScope

    5 жыл бұрын

    Please do not forget to do that. *But how can I gat notice when done?* Best regards, M.

  • @LudoLiuExtras

    @LudoLiuExtras

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ActionKid ​ i am now doing short cinematic drone videos of the place i am... But Thinking about it, i have the exact same set up as you : hero7 , feiyu 6g pro and zoom h4n and h1n... your videos inspire me a lot... i will give it a try !!!!

  • @LudoLiuExtras

    @LudoLiuExtras

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@LoiLoScope you can already see some drone footage about Lagos and Nigeria on my Channel ! I would recommend you to follow my channel and maybe subscribe :) if you like what you already saw !

  • @raymondhoward9173

    @raymondhoward9173

    5 жыл бұрын

    Always talk negatively of black areas

  • @mariatalavera4081
    @mariatalavera40814 жыл бұрын

    Wow I lived there back in 50 all the way through 70 there were no housing it had the most beautiful houses been back a lot of memories thank you for sharing 💖

  • @fitz382
    @fitz3824 жыл бұрын

    Looks fine

  • @MultiNemsi
    @MultiNemsi4 жыл бұрын

    The Ville Is the last samurai of BK.. Look at all the gentrification thru the BK. But the Ville stays the same. Always will.. Keep the BK breathing!

  • @MichelleJ79

    @MichelleJ79

    4 жыл бұрын

    MultiNemsi white folks are making their way up there, albeit slowly. I’ve seen some of them get off on Saratoga.

  • @MultiNemsi

    @MultiNemsi

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MichelleJ79 Shit sis...They better know where they comin..We ain't about that playplay. Never ran never will

  • @TheRuffs

    @TheRuffs

    4 жыл бұрын

    Michelle the fuck you talking about white folk

  • @martinwadia300

    @martinwadia300

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MichelleJ79 once I see them getting off on rockaway ave, then we'll talk lol

  • @MichelleJ79

    @MichelleJ79

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@martinwadia300 I feel you lol. I don’t live in Brownsville but some of my ppl who do have told me they’re starting to see small sprinklings of white folks on certain blocks. The day that Brownsville gentrifies will be the day hell has officially frozen over

  • @IanFromBrooklyn
    @IanFromBrooklyn3 жыл бұрын

    A quote from PNV Jay “Spin Brownsville Pz, leave Jaydee on his knees”

  • @thedude4795
    @thedude47954 жыл бұрын

    Dude! If you look up the first scene in Bullet (1996) these projects look JUST LIKE IT

  • @jaemoe1701
    @jaemoe17014 жыл бұрын

    you walk through Brownsville tilden projects please go to the Bronx walkthrough Castle Hill, soundview Bronx dale ,Monroe, Bronx River parkchester and hunts point

  • @teseotorras1315

    @teseotorras1315

    3 жыл бұрын

    Soundview houses and Eastchester houses- can't walk through the front gate w out 2 layers of kevlar

  • @HUNTSPOINT.
    @HUNTSPOINT.5 жыл бұрын

    Oh my times have changed!!

  • @dulaptv3667
    @dulaptv36673 жыл бұрын

    Imagine casually taking a stroll through tilden🤣🤣

  • @itsbenja1318
    @itsbenja13185 жыл бұрын

    you get off on rockaway train station but evening when there people out it look like recorded in this morning.

  • @TheHowToKing
    @TheHowToKing4 жыл бұрын

    It seems like nobody notices you recording? How do you have your camera concealed/attached?

  • @ActionKid

    @ActionKid

    4 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/aWuokq6EccqXY6w.html

  • @giovannigommba5938
    @giovannigommba59384 жыл бұрын

    The murder inc. crew were from SARATOGA AVE. The store from where the crew operated still there. The CORNER STORE RIGHT NEXT TO THE TRAIN STATION. Used to be owned by a lady named ROSE. All the mob hits back in the days, came from that store.There is were also PITKIN movie theater was also a famous place back then, I think today it houses a nyc school. If you look around BROWSVILLE has a lot of history.

  • @elaineen1

    @elaineen1

    2 жыл бұрын

    You must remember Stone Ave. I lived on the corner of Dumont and Stone.

  • @oldkidsjonge
    @oldkidsjonge5 жыл бұрын

    The buildings are nice but you can definitely tell why those crammed parks where you can only walk on the path aren't the best place for children to grow up (or I would have wanted to grow up as I can imagine) and play, especially since adolescents and teenagers also chill there. Very nice city though, and it's kind of comes with the city life I guess..?

  • @danielcrevelle7717
    @danielcrevelle77174 жыл бұрын

    Back in 05 i was visiting family, shorty hit line come to Brownsville around 11pm nah im good they dont fuck around in Brownsville

  • @sarkastikmenace1825
    @sarkastikmenace18255 жыл бұрын

    WOW