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Buffalo, New York | What The Hell Happened?

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  • čas přidán 18. 08. 2024
  • Buffalo, New York is looking ROUGH! With violent crime rates twice the national average, and a soaring poverty level of over 28%, this city has its work cut out for them. Let's take a drive and check out some of the worst areas.

Komentáře • 352

  • @Kanezilla66
    @Kanezilla66 Před 6 měsíci +138

    WHEN THE CHURCHES ARE BOARDED UP YOU KNOW IT'S OVER.😮

  • @hstone39
    @hstone39 Před 6 měsíci +176

    Almost all of the cities outside of NYC looks like Buffalo. Rochester, Albany, Niagra Falls, Syracuse, Troy, Schenectady, Utica, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Newburgh and other cities in New York State looks like this.

    • @mdmarko
      @mdmarko Před 6 měsíci +14

      Have spent time in Utica, decades ago. Even then it was a mighty grim place.

    • @johndear1592
      @johndear1592 Před 6 měsíci +29

      Elmwood Village in Buffalo & Fleetwood Mt. Vernon look nothing like this. There are two sides to the coin.

    • @joyblessing2011
      @joyblessing2011 Před 6 měsíci +28

      Yonkers actually looks better than this

  • @anjachan
    @anjachan Před 6 měsíci +130

    so many beautiful buildings just abandoned ... makes me mad. It´s just frustrating to see that.

  • @chrishusband659
    @chrishusband659 Před 6 měsíci +117

    You know things are bad when the cops abandoned a police station

  • @l.salisbury1253
    @l.salisbury1253 Před 6 měsíci +174

    8:15 - Now, that oughtta tell you somethin': the ONLY business that is STILL up n running is the liquor store!

  • @someguy4502
    @someguy4502 Před 6 měsíci +253

    The decline of the Roman Empire.

  • @skivvywaver
    @skivvywaver Před 6 měsíci +198

    Every former steel town has neighborhoods falling in. People moved away and many homes were just left to fall in. Old manufacturing buildings become dangerous eyesores. There should be something in place to stop manufacturers from abandoning their factories. Either sell them or tear them down. Those old housing projects should have come down the day after the last person moved out, so the government is complicit in the mess.

  • @megataurus7779
    @megataurus7779 Před 6 měsíci +139

    That big old abandoned church,beautiful building so sad to see it decaying

    • @jasonlee8156
      @jasonlee8156 Před 6 měsíci +7

      It's sad to see any once thriving beautiful place go downhill. Not just a church.

  • @GodisGreatt
    @GodisGreatt Před 6 měsíci +120

    Wow 😮 thanks for sharing. Most people want to see videos of exotic places, but this is the reality for most folks in America. Love the ambient sound of your videos. Great work!

  • @menguardingtheirownwallets6791
    @menguardingtheirownwallets6791 Před 6 měsíci +113

    Just across the border in Canada, people are spending $2,000 per month just for a single bedroom to sleep in. In Buffalo, the same room costs only $500 per month. If you want the Buffalo economy to pick up, just allow Canadians to live in Buffalo for the nights, then have them commute to their jobs back in Canada in the morning. You will have hundreds of thousand of Canadians flocking to Buffalo for cheaper housing, and they will then be spending their money in Buffalo for groceries and other things, and this influx of millions of dollars each month will help support the Buffalo economy.

    • @micheleemcdaniel389
      @micheleemcdaniel389 Před 6 měsíci +22

      Canadians in Windsor cross the border daily to work in Detroit. What you say re: living in Buffalo sounds good but the crime perception might hold people back.

    • @vmvm3857
      @vmvm3857 Před 6 měsíci +8

      100%! Sounds good to me.

    • @oceanblue5794
      @oceanblue5794 Před 6 měsíci +23

      The only huge flaw is the wait at the border. If this could happen, the wait could be 3 hours +. Nope. Not happening.

  • @raintreeindeed
    @raintreeindeed Před 6 měsíci +68

    My sister ran away from home back in the early 70's. We found her in Buffalo NY. She was pregnant and living with a guy. My parents tried to get her to come home but she wanted to stay. My dad made the guy marry her. We went to Niagara Falls after that and back home to Pittsburgh. When I saw B. NY..it brought back memories..😊

  • @darrenXparker
    @darrenXparker Před 6 měsíci +38

    Every video of every city and town comes down to “the jobs left”. That’s what happened. They came for the jobs and then the jobs went away.

  • @hartmutlorentzen9659
    @hartmutlorentzen9659 Před 6 měsíci +78

    For an European it’s interesting to see this kind of the American way of life.

    • @susanpage8315
      @susanpage8315 Před 6 měsíci +27

      Sadly, it’s not uncommon in the rust belt. When communities rely on 1 or 2 companies (manufacturing) and the companies leave or fold, this is the result.

    • @maynardcat
      @maynardcat Před 6 měsíci +27

      I enjoy watching European city videos, they have poor areas but nothing like American cities, they also preserve their old architecture. Most European cities look very nice.

    • @001bsc
      @001bsc Před 6 měsíci +9

      Where life ?

  • @lindah8838
    @lindah8838 Před 6 měsíci +25

    It's been about six years since I've been to Buffalo since moving further away. I've always liked visiting and it's hard to see it go down further but I appreciate your videos because they show reality. Thanks for this!

  • @l.salisbury1253
    @l.salisbury1253 Před 6 měsíci +47

    0:39 - The PERFECT location to film a Zombie movie...!!

  • @OutOnTheTiles
    @OutOnTheTiles Před 6 měsíci +87

    Toronto is only an hour away and it’s like a completely different world.

    • @tammybrown4901
      @tammybrown4901 Před 6 měsíci +9

      Very true this is sad😢

    • @aps454
      @aps454 Před 6 měsíci +17

      At one point in the late 60s early 70s Toronto and Buffalo were competing in population and growth and wealth.

    • @bskinny9009
      @bskinny9009 Před 6 měsíci +16

      2 hours

    • @whoasuckaa
      @whoasuckaa Před 6 měsíci +6

      Toronto was never a big manufacturing town. Windsor is probably a better example.

  • @SpettroFamily
    @SpettroFamily Před 6 měsíci +28

    Decadent, depressive and still fascinating : seems like lot of places in the US are falling apart

  • @ToriNore
    @ToriNore Před 6 měsíci +44

    There’s too many people homeless to have so many empty buildings. It’s so ridiculous.

  • @markbrooks7157
    @markbrooks7157 Před 6 měsíci +62

    I lived there in the early 70’s. It was pretty depressing then too.

  • @dday9257
    @dday9257 Před 6 měsíci +102

    It’s really sad to see the abandoned churches.

  • @johnmurphy5466
    @johnmurphy5466 Před 6 měsíci +36

    Buffalo is another great american that was sold out. Here is something to think about . In the last 70 years united states population in 1940 was 132,165,129 million . In 2020 it 331,449 281 ...The u.s. population has tripled in 80 year. Threw automation has cut jobs. Now low paying retail and service job that left.

  • @peterstean2138
    @peterstean2138 Před 6 měsíci +50

    The city's population has dropped by about 50% since its peak in around 1950 - half as many people need half as many buildings, and this is the result.

  • @lindatallon9217
    @lindatallon9217 Před 2 měsíci +8

    Sad to see...I was born and raised there.......left and never went back....

  • @susanpage8315
    @susanpage8315 Před 6 měsíci +44

    Some rust belt towns have died. Others have not. Bethlehem, PA, has taken the derelict Steel Stacks and turned them into a thriving arts center. They also have walkways so you can walk along the old steel stacks.

  • @frankpohl4377
    @frankpohl4377 Před 6 měsíci +35

    Greets from Hamburg in Germany. as a facility manager I love to watch such videos and I thing that the red bricks came from the scottisch irisch and german settlers or workers, red bricks are a traditionall building material. Hamburg is the second biggest city in Germany and is "the red bricks" house city. Many buildings like the "Chile Haus" big office buildings are made out of this bricks.
    Buffallo today looks like many citys of the usa where NOT the rich live.

  • @piratecat5113
    @piratecat5113 Před 6 měsíci +33

    Is this the new trend in the US? Plywood windows!
    It feels like the end of the world happened before the end of the world.

  • @jeffreybodean7300
    @jeffreybodean7300 Před 6 měsíci +46

    It's like this all over north America,even small towns.

  • @TheWMBWLife
    @TheWMBWLife Před 6 měsíci +30

    What the hell HADN'T happened???

  • @Ross1966
    @Ross1966 Před 2 měsíci +8

    A lot of Buffalo is very nice. Every city has its hood.

  • @kathywebb6606
    @kathywebb6606 Před 6 měsíci +64

    In terms of sheer ugliness and depressing vibes, Buffalo has Detroit beat.

    • @drumitar
      @drumitar Před 6 měsíci +26

      detroit still way worse.

  • @TASconfidential
    @TASconfidential Před 6 měsíci +22

    This is the solution to the homeless problem in America.
    Just renovate these empty environments and place them right there.

  • @ernokirnyan9984
    @ernokirnyan9984 Před 2 měsíci +8

    How can the US be the strongest and richest country in the world with these cities and environments?! No understand...

  • @ronpatrick9836
    @ronpatrick9836 Před 3 měsíci +4

    I love Buffalo and its people but: No jobs = No money = No food = I'm outta here

  • @adeimousragnarok8150
    @adeimousragnarok8150 Před 6 měsíci +21

    Ah man...Poor Buffalo...lived there when I was only 3 n 4 for 1 year...so coarse my Memories are sparred from what might of been...really I just remember the Weather being absolutely Wild...70° one day 4 ft of Snow the Next...

  • @mud664
    @mud664 Před 6 měsíci +9

    Steel plants closed
    High taxes
    Bad weather
    etc

  • @ronibrouthers1338
    @ronibrouthers1338 Před 6 měsíci +31

    There should have been something in place to stop manufacturers from abandoning their country!

  • @jays.4254
    @jays.4254 Před 6 měsíci +31

    WOW, another great video. Your camera is so clear and awsome. Thanks for the ride!

  • @shannonlee1010
    @shannonlee1010 Před 3 měsíci +3

    This hurts to see. I grew up in Rochester, Buffalo, and Greece. My grandma has lived in Rochester by #7 school for over 60 years. When I was little, we would walk to Wegmans, school, and church with no fear. But that has changed!!! I beg her to move but she won't. She's been robbed and still won't move. I moved to Florida many years ago and will never move back to NY. It hurts to see the condition the city has been reduced to. The beautiful buildings wasting away... Sad.

  • @s5adventures
    @s5adventures Před 6 měsíci +47

    Always so sad to see places like this. When I think of Buffalo I think of Niagara falls

    • @micheleemcdaniel389
      @micheleemcdaniel389 Před 6 měsíci +13

      Canadian side of Niagara Falls in head and shoulders above American side.

  • @thebutterflygarden1138
    @thebutterflygarden1138 Před 6 měsíci +6

    📉 Economics dictate. It's basic math. If 1 or 2 companies are 80% of the towns employment and tax revenue, and one or both closes. That's the end of the town. Buffalo is such an example. Very sad.

  • @jimiplayscobo5877
    @jimiplayscobo5877 Před 6 měsíci +8

    Well the lumber companies are thriving selling all that plywood.

  • @freeatlast.
    @freeatlast. Před 6 měsíci +5

    The industrial age was when everyone could eat, but those days are now long gone.

  • @thevultrantransituniverse1487
    @thevultrantransituniverse1487 Před 6 měsíci +29

    Also Buffalo is not as bad as other Rust Belt cities in terms of decay. The city is actually recovering for quite some time and more people are moving here from the Northeast cities.

  • @jmt8706official
    @jmt8706official Před 13 dny +1

    The old Richardson building has some cool architecture I think.

  • @billding7073
    @billding7073 Před 2 měsíci +3

    No real economy and lake effect snow doesn't sound cozy and inviting.

  • @DJSkratchalot
    @DJSkratchalot Před 6 měsíci +7

    Looks like its hasn't changed much from when I was there in the 90s....We took a wrong turn and ended up in this area...My head was on permanent swivel until we got out of area...

  • @tanyailoveny1176
    @tanyailoveny1176 Před 6 měsíci +5

    Nigra Falls, which is 20 min from Buffalo, looks exactly like that .

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Před 5 měsíci

      Niagra is coming up soon on the channel!

    • @tanyailoveny1176
      @tanyailoveny1176 Před 5 měsíci

      @hoodsnhollers I was there last summer for a couple of days. Please show the real niagra falls, not just a fall.

  • @wandajones5479
    @wandajones5479 Před 6 měsíci +11

    Wow! What are those huge buildings ? They were all attached.

    • @ethanmcdonald7840
      @ethanmcdonald7840 Před 6 měsíci +19

      Its the old Buffalo Psychiatric Center (A mental asylum), those are the wings that gradually got shorter as they went out. The more insane the patients were, the farther out from the central administration building they'd be housed. The outer wings that he showed in the video are abandoned, the middle few are a hotel and on the other side a few were unfortunately demolished to build the outbuildings of the current psychiatric center.

  • @user-to1yw8vv2k
    @user-to1yw8vv2k Před 6 měsíci +7

    Hamilton ontario I drove through was a massive industrial city at one time. Based on what I saw it has bounced back . I didn't see any areas like this there . Many Towers going up in it's downtown . Why hasn't Buffalo been able to turn around?

  • @mamacash5779
    @mamacash5779 Před 6 měsíci +14

    The old Perry projects will be demolished soon.A whole new rebuild it's gonna be beautiful.You can go google Perry projects.I believe their a blueprint of what it will look like I love my city.But yes we struggle like any other city.But we are the city of good neighbors #716❤

  • @terq1000
    @terq1000 Před 6 měsíci +6

    Where do the city's residents work, who is left behind? How do they live?

  • @Misterwhistle
    @Misterwhistle Před 6 měsíci +4

    I crossed the border from Canada to Buffallo back in the 90's. I was only there for a couple off hours, I didn't see areas like this but what I saw made me feel very nervous. It was very dystopian.

  • @chrismatheson4376
    @chrismatheson4376 Před 2 měsíci +2

    This place looks post apocalyptic

  • @ruby055
    @ruby055 Před 6 měsíci +3

    What happened was America evolved from a manufacturing to a service based economy

  • @Piggy-Oink-Oink
    @Piggy-Oink-Oink Před 6 měsíci +13

    Buffalo been rough for decades plus once again their field goal kicker failed them....

  • @boristheamerican2938
    @boristheamerican2938 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Buffalo has been dying for decades. Did you know Buffalo was one of the first cities with abundant electricity? Yes they had hydro-electric power back in the 1880s. It was just a boom town. Once electricity became more widespread in America businesses moved away.

  • @user-op2is7tk3k
    @user-op2is7tk3k Před 6 měsíci +17

    What beautiful architect buildings there is much that can be done for this area it still looks beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

  • @stevenmccormackmusic
    @stevenmccormackmusic Před 4 měsíci +3

    Yet there’s almost 900k people in the region if you include the suburbs. The city is a hollowed out shell but the region itself is a pretty scarce property market of late with rapidly rising prices.

  • @matttorrence2900
    @matttorrence2900 Před 6 měsíci +6

    The jobs usually leave AFTER crime is not controlled.

    • @KristNi
      @KristNi Před 6 měsíci

      Not enough jobs then

  • @khman1983
    @khman1983 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I lived in Kingston NY back in 2000 and drove through Newburgh. It was pretty grim looking back then. Can't imagine how bad it is now.

  • @MikesGoogleAcct
    @MikesGoogleAcct Před 6 měsíci +3

    Yet, across the river in Fort Erie, vacant lots are selling for $200K+.
    Every time I cross the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls I'm shocked at the comparison between the glitzy west side to the destitute eastern side.

  • @jtomczak100
    @jtomczak100 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Say what you want born in this city and il die in this city no place id rather be

  • @empressvogt
    @empressvogt Před 6 měsíci +13

    What is the building at the 15:11 mark? It looks like an asylum.

    • @rosiemcnaughton9933
      @rosiemcnaughton9933 Před 6 měsíci +9

      Former Buffalo Psychiatric Hospital. It's a Kirkbride designed asylum.

    • @ethanmcdonald7840
      @ethanmcdonald7840 Před 6 měsíci +5

      It was! The middle and first wing on either side is now an upscale hotel, the rest are either being renovated or just abandoned.

    • @greg33770
      @greg33770 Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@ethanmcdonald7840 I thought the Hotel went bankrupt and closed.

  • @jonesy4588
    @jonesy4588 Před 5 měsíci +3

    do you really have to ask ? if you don't know just turn on a tv

  • @kakayou546
    @kakayou546 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Where are all the people

  • @tracygunnell5109
    @tracygunnell5109 Před 6 měsíci +6

    Looks like Everyone quit caring.........

  • @StansboyJohn
    @StansboyJohn Před 6 měsíci +16

    Let’s not fool ourselves shall we. We know what happened don’t we?

  • @rickd404
    @rickd404 Před 11 dny +1

    It is so sad to see what has happened to this once beautiful city.

  • @mikeellindonut2004
    @mikeellindonut2004 Před 6 měsíci +3

    The signs of a strong economy

  • @lissettevasconez9939
    @lissettevasconez9939 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Omg!! It looks depressing and abandoned.

  • @davidskidmore6768
    @davidskidmore6768 Před 6 měsíci +12

    The life's and stories those old buildings must have 😔

  • @markodjuric4282
    @markodjuric4282 Před 6 měsíci +8

    What is the name of that big complex of red brick buildings? And why does it look abandoned ?

  • @MichiganMade
    @MichiganMade Před 4 měsíci +3

    Looks alot like Southwest Detroit

  • @thevultrantransituniverse1487
    @thevultrantransituniverse1487 Před 6 měsíci +5

    You should visit Hamilton and London Ontario as well.

  • @HansWalkingTours
    @HansWalkingTours Před 6 měsíci +3

    Wow. 😮… 😢… sad to see this. Thank you for sharing ❤

  • @Floorguy1000
    @Floorguy1000 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Very interesting video. I lived there for 15 years and would take drives like this. I could never figure out the city. Looking rough..? this implies that this is something recent ..has been this way for years..no decades. But, there are bright spots in Buffalo. Elmwood is looking great, and at least there isn't an empty tower at the end of main st. In NYC presently, but actually looking to perhaps get an apt up there to live maybe 4-5 months out of the year. Summers in the Buffalo area are lovely. (Note: Take a drive around Salamanca one day.)

  • @johnattaway6741
    @johnattaway6741 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Looks the same as when I left in june 1996 just went back home feb 2024.. its a shame 😏

  • @Rockstopmotion
    @Rockstopmotion Před 6 měsíci +4

    Coming to a city near you

  • @BobSmith-ui4qu
    @BobSmith-ui4qu Před 6 měsíci +6

    Second largest city in New York State.

  • @synthvvavve191
    @synthvvavve191 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I live outside the 716... i grew up here and wow.. it's very sad. Thanks for showing the other half of this city. I hope someday there's industry

  • @Millerscrossing123
    @Millerscrossing123 Před 6 měsíci +4

    No jobs, no families, no economy, simple

  • @chrishiggens9225
    @chrishiggens9225 Před 4 měsíci +1

    God what a depressing looking place. It makes me sad to see some of those beautiful structures just empty and slowly decaying.

  • @matts1351
    @matts1351 Před 6 měsíci +15

    Buffalo really is a cool city still- these sites and sights not withstanding. This was the Queen City of the whole great lakes region, second only to Chicago. To this day, this city still has the most diverse array of architecture styles of any city, and even the old crumbling stuff is still present and spared because this city fell fast and hard right before urban renewal projects really became popular. It was the closing of steel mills, and also the opening of the Welland canal in Canada and the St Lawrence Seaway that directed ship traffic away that this Erie canal gateway city began to dwindle. Still a great town though

  • @ernestconnell8087
    @ernestconnell8087 Před 6 měsíci +12

    Ain’t that America for you and me. Ain’t that America, it’s something to see 🎶

  • @danpurcell9764
    @danpurcell9764 Před 6 měsíci +8

    Sad

  • @gustavocobian1757
    @gustavocobian1757 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Even the trees look creepy

  • @professional.commentator
    @professional.commentator Před 6 měsíci +2

    It's like a zombie apocalypse took place there.

  • @Rabbits6ix
    @Rabbits6ix Před 6 měsíci +2

    Buffalo, New York has been like this for 30yrs

  • @AlwaysInnaHoodie
    @AlwaysInnaHoodie Před 4 měsíci +1

    Forget Gotham this the worse gloom over a city I’ve seen

  • @Gary-zq3pz
    @Gary-zq3pz Před 3 měsíci +1

    Guess nobody's shuffling off to Buffalo any more...

  • @lyndacummiskey6456
    @lyndacummiskey6456 Před 6 měsíci +6

    You are a little late that's been like that been like that before 1995.

  • @cultusdeus
    @cultusdeus Před 6 měsíci +5

    Buffalo is also cold as heck. People do move to warmer places.

  • @JesseJames-wj8ft
    @JesseJames-wj8ft Před 6 měsíci +8

    Judging by the old decayed churches, this city was built for humans, and the humans evacuated it for some reason ,,,, Hmmm, let me think, what could it be ??

  • @tertur2957
    @tertur2957 Před 10 dny +1

    Even Mr. Beeper and Promo the robot left town!

  • @gaetanocastellino2798
    @gaetanocastellino2798 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I lived there from 1996-2019. During that time nothing changed there except the amount of snow

  • @patriciaanne7932
    @patriciaanne7932 Před 6 měsíci +7

    Hope you had a chance to stop at Paula’s donuts and get some! Much love for Buffalo NY❤

  • @tinatiller3371
    @tinatiller3371 Před 4 měsíci +3

    I was born and raised in Buffalo back in the 70s, I moved away in the mid 90's and to see it like this now almost brings me to tears 😢 So sad...

  • @theswede5402
    @theswede5402 Před 6 měsíci +12

    Buffalo 66 with Vincent Gallo is a fantastic little movie taking place here.

  • @leehines1260
    @leehines1260 Před 6 měsíci +10

    Beautiful buildings.

  • @gulfy09
    @gulfy09 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Housing shortage in Toronto Ontario..