Sitting here in Scotland enjoying a trip around Philadelphia, who would have known that you could see another neighbourhood from your laptop. Thank you TOON215. Peace and love. ✊🏼

This was really fascinating to watch. I remember riding the train past the Richard Allen homes to and from work. I appreciate you showing the neighborhoods and providing some history. Thank you, be safe 🙏

Beautiful place my friend!...cool and nice tour again 😀👍🇪🇸

PHILLY!! awesome informative walk! love this channel!!

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated! Thank you for leaving a comment! Have a wonderful day

you are a brave man...i was a baby in the early 60s when my family lived at Richard Allen PJs...strangely, i can recall the layout of our unit at Brown Place...bilevel floors...black and white checkered flooring...the sirens...the screams and yelling...glad we got out before i started kindergarten. thanks again for the tour. stay safe, sir.

The video is cool keep up the Philadelphia videos toon215

I felt so anxious every time you passed through the dark areas. Those streets are so lonely looking. Barely anyone about.

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yea some blocks be pitch black lol. Thanks for leaving a comment. Have a great day :)

@blainessster2994

2 жыл бұрын

yea bc if anyone outside they gon get shot

You are a great narrator, Toon. I learn a lot listening to your videos.

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the support. I appreciate it!

Love you man stay focused!

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the positive support 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🤜🏽❤️🤛🏽

These streets be hittin different at night

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for leaving a comment I appreciate that!

Richard Allen is north Philly

@53:07 Just across the street to the right me and my neighbor a girl by the name of Doris was crossing the street when a car suddenly struck her. The image is still there in my mind after all these years. She survived so if you're still with us Doris I hope life is treating you well. ❤ Lil Willow - Richard Allen Projects Resident from 1958 - 1969 That super market straight ahead use to be called MACS and up the street was another store, Mr. Howser & Buddy

Love your walks, always praying for your safety

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the positive support and kind words. Thank you very much!

That's Cambridge Plaza/Mall @49:00 New homes start at 12th $ Wallace.

@usupreme

2 жыл бұрын

New Homes/West Pop stand up.

American St. is so wide because the railroad used to run down the middle of the street.

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Yup your right. I grew up in this area and played on American street as a kid. The tracks were there up until about 2 years ago. I have documented American street on several driving tours, motivational speeches, walks, and even in this vlog in 2018 where I walk from corner to corner on this whole side of american street. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKFmt9ODj5Oej9Y.html Appreciate your support. hope you have a wonderful day!

The old Richard Allen Projects is where I grew up. Those were the days.❤🥰🙂

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story. Appreciate you leaving a comment. Have a awesome day!

Hey brother. I own one of the Richard Allen homes since 2020. Looks like PHA was giving out 0% interest loans to residents who wanted to buy the Richard Allen homes with the driveway and large yards back in 1996-1999. People are now deciding to sell so I scooped mine immediately because anything south of Girard is booming. Many in the neighborhood are homeowners and either decided to stay for life or sell in the next 5 years if the market is right. The long line of cars you were looking at are GoPuff drivers picking up their orders to deliver.

@TOON215

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome man! 🙏🏼✨ yes your minutes away from the heart of center city Philadelphia

I got robbed at the Richard Allen projects back around 1987 or 1988. I was working close by and I don't like to pay to park so I parked around 10th and Brown at about 6am one morning. When I turned the corner to head toward Spring Garden street was about 8 fine young men in their late teens or early 20's with bats. If it wasn't for a local guy walking on his way to work that told them to FO I probably would have been beaten to death but I did give them my wallet. I had no cash and everything else was easily replaceable so they basically got a Velcro wallet, my license, credit cards that were cancelled before the stores opened and a bank card with no pin to an account with $3 in it. I still don't pay to park, I have issues with PPA. Now I often park around Hawthorne park, the former location of the infamous MLK projects.

I figured your umbrella was going to break...you can't treat an umbrella like a cane. Ask me how I know. :-) (Did the same thing when I was a kid)

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Haha it was actually in the trash. I found it like 2 weeks prior. Hence the tape. lol. My ghetto job trying to connect it back together 😂 😂 😂

Hey Toon215💚

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Hello! Hope your doing well. Thanks for supporting with a comment!

It looks so scary

High rise was were the tennis courts was at in 2000.

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for leaving a comment

You better be careful walking those streets at night... notice how quite the streets are? its a war out there

"Eastern Daylight Time"

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Cambridge Street was a different project same area. All of Cambridge is gone.

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you sharing your knowledge!

You don't "pass away" when shot. You got murdered.

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Yup... but i have to reframe from saying certain keywords that will put the video in a different category. So I say "passing" or "Loss of life" so be more PG13 lol. The word you used will send a red flag hahaha. Thanks tho have a great day !

RAM SQUAD 💧💉🎈™️

It's Daylight time in the summer, Standard time in the winter. I see corporate people mess this up all the time and it drives me nuts, so I want the rest of us to be better than them.

Gunshots at 20:10 ? Philly is such a fucking mess man. Mayor isnt doing jackshit about this.

Hope that was fireworks.

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Probably was. It was only a single pop so they probably had one left lol.

@MargaretLeber

3 жыл бұрын

@@TOON215 Go back and listen at +02:50 .... you were talking so you didn't hear them. There was a lot of fireworks up around Norristown last night too.

@MargaretLeber

3 жыл бұрын

@@TOON215 More at 20:00

U walking through them alleys like nun I’d be bitching if I wasn’t clutchin

Watch out my guy 🤣🤣🤣

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Yes sir... Have a great day thanks for stopping by

Yo do you really get a lotta rats in those alleyways?

@rayswann7618

3 жыл бұрын

We got a lora lora lora rats

Pov . U live in richard allen

Still dangerous area to walk around at 🌃. Not a prison yard now like it used to be.

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Hope you enjoy your day

You be careful

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the thought!

You do better with these North Philly neighborhood. You didn't have a clue about Tacony lol you talked more about cars than anything and skipped over a lot of historical landmarks. But it's ok.

Hey good work. This video is inaccurate. Do some more research. You walk thru 3 different communities. Btw. Highlight some good that have came from the community too you walk through. The city need positivity!

@TOON215

Ай бұрын

Guess your new to the channel. This was shot several years ago when I use to document my city. I have captured over 600 virtual tours covering over 100 philadelphia neighborhoods throughout all corners of phiiladelphia. I kinda know the city like the back of my hand. Born and raised in NORTH PHILLY. 5-7 minutes from here. After documenting the city I decided to do a cross country trip in 2021. Which I completed in 10 months in June of 2022. I captured over 400 tours covering 48 states here in the USA. After that I haven't really documented much and just been chilling in the country side a few hours from Philly. Living that retired life in the woods in my mid 30s. ♥️😅 With over 2000 videos in this channel. I promise you haven't watched anything. There's positive and great stories about each community. And there are darker sides to the neighborhoods documented. I'm not bias. I tell it like it is with no favoritism. Also I'm not google earth or siri so I don't know it all. What I did here anyone can do. And they can do it better by adding their own dynamic to it. Have a fabulous day.

@michelledavis1331

Ай бұрын

Nope. I have watched a couple of your vids over time. K&P that was easy. This video say three years ago not five…hmm pandemic time. The video title read a tour of Richard Allen. “You” walked through Harrison, along 10th street connected to Cambridge then walked through Richard Allen. Your Overbook and Wynnefield video was wrong too and in South Philadelphia. Your research is poor. It is not bushes it is shrubs. Masonry facades or stone facades You know your city, nope you know your hood. l will stop there. You are confusing people. Sorry bud. Guess you were just driving.

What was the point of this🤨

@purevibemedia

3 жыл бұрын

KZread pays you the more views you have... So the point is to make money. Same as TikTok.

I love your driving tours of Philly, but I cringe whenever you talk about rehabilitating buildings. Buzzzzz! You rehabilitate people, NOT buildings. You RENOVATE buildings. I hope you rehabilitate your usage of the word.

@TOON215

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts... appreciate it. But a simple google would help you out buddy. VIA GOOGLE: "Rehabilitation of a building means returning a building or a structure to a useful state by means of repair, modification, or alteration. ... Restoration of a building or a structure is a process of depicting the characters and features of a property as it appeared at a particular period." "Rehabilitation is defined as the act or process of making possible a compatible use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values." "There are many definitions of rehabilitation as the standards of document in the U.S. preservation community define it as “The process of returning a property to a state of utility, through repair or alteration, which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions and features of the ..." www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=rehabilitation+building+meaning