Hey Southern Life, Good Morning and what up my guy? I too and so sad for all the victims the survivors and the entire Maine communities involved in this tragedy that occurred last night. I remember when I mentioned to you in the comments like this to visit Lewiston Maine ( long story short I'm born and raised in Boston Massachusetts now living in Providence RI and I remember learning long ago that a lot of ex Boston or ex Massachusetts folks migrated to Lewiston Maine back in the day because I guess when states like Maine were dealing with low population numbers like Vermont they would pay money to US citizens in other states to move to states with low population numbers?) when you and the wifey was visiting the New England States like Maine this past summer! Thanks for all you do & keep up with your mission work because you are shining a light 🕯️ on things that are overlooked or unseen in this life okay l!!
As far as the immigrant population I think it is important to note I knew somalis there. One guy was the son of a former presidential candidate in Somalia and was rich when he came over. Still he wanted to gangbang, him and his buddies formed the somalia mafia and cook and sell crack and make rap videos. The women are great but the men fell victim to black American culture, but I think they are quickly assimilating
Poverty in Maine looks to be lot nicer than poverty in the south, which is absolute third-world in many parts. No wonder why the north doesn't like those buses with Texas plates rolling into there.
@@sosaxoxo6044 That's because republican states get approx. 71% of all the third world trash you democrats import to America. It's true. Feel free to look it up.
my dad raised me and my sister in westbrook and later moved to raymond maine. when i got older i decided to move to tennessee where my mom stays. i can tell you that its alot more comfortable being poor in maine than it is in the south. the hoods around here will kill you for just being where your not suppose to be or for just being the wrong color. the time i spent in maine we only used guns to go hunting... here we use them for self defense and have to carry one with me everywhere, even work. ive been robbed at gun point in downtown nashville broad daylight but shit like that is unheard of in maine
I was born at St. Mary’s. Graduate from Lewiston high school. I have moved out and back at least five times in my lifetime. I’m about to retire from my full-time career in Rhode Island which I didn’t move to willingly. Lewiston can be a shit hole, but you know what? It is my shit hole and I still love it and can’t wait to get back.
@@changer1285not enough jobs to draw black folk out of the South. Barely enough for the Quebecois. Detroit, Chicago, etc. had real jobs. Lewiston is a small city in the middle of nowhere that was going downhill by the 1920’s.
This is a joke right? That whole tour had clean streets, no trash even around the dumpsters behind the store fronts. no delapidated homes or buildings, no drug addicts walking around like zombies, and I only seen one cop. Lol dude, I lived in Dayton for 10 years.. You're so sheltered.
Dude has an agenda or something…..yes, there are lots of addicted people and growing homelessness, but there is hardly any violent crime or the issues that real bad areas face. This is only one town, also. The state as a whole is beautiful.
Maine is a great state and a great place to live. It's not like a real ghetto or tent city or anything like that. People everywhere have drug problems. Overdoses are on the individual. Regardless of one small town, Maine is still one of the safest place to live anywhere. Period. He talks about seeing the whole picture but then he's talking about only one town and using it to judge the while state. That's like going to our absolute nicest town and saying the rest of the state is exactly like that.. ridiculous. This guy needs to open his eyes. One town does not paint a picture of an entire state.
As a Lewiston resident, this video did not capture it's reality. Had he taken a left and went more downtown at the start of it you would've seen a big shift in the people.
WHEN YOU WERE DRIVIN DOWN LISBON ST. THAT’S NOT THE HOOD. THE TREE NAMED STREETS ARE THE HOOD UP TILL YOU REACH LISBON ST. THERE ARE ART GALLERIES, CAFES, RESTAURANTS AND OTHER RESPECTABLE BUSINESSES ON LISBON ST. THE WORST PARTS ARE BY THE GREYHOUND STATION AND THE POST OFFICE. YOU SHOULDA SHOWN THAT AND KENNEDY PARK. THERE WAS A SHOOTIN THERE A FEW YEARS AGO WHERE A MAN DIED. KENNEDY PARK IS NOT A SAFE PARK BY ANY MEANS. IT ONLY LOOKS PRETTY MUCH LIKE A LOTTA LEWISTON UNTIL YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE BOARDED AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS.
I live here and I thought it was a stabbing where the guy died. Happened right before I moved here. Racial tensions were super high bc a white man died, so obviously that meant it was time to demonize the refugees. I feel like it's been better in recent years, but I stay to myself so maybe I don't know what all goes on. That said I live in the middle of the tree streets and we literally just had a shooting tonight so come to think of it maybe I just got used to it...
When textile mills and footwear factories were in their prime / operation, those apartments were luxury appartments! And those neighborhoods were beautiful! The French Canadians that had moved there were hard working people with great faith in God. They were very proud of their families, homes, workplaces, parks and places of worship!
Lewiston was always a crappy gritty factory town that was mostly French-speaking Canadians and their ancestors. The factories that people worked at started to produce textiles and shoes during the Civil War, for the Union army. These factories started going under in the 1920’s and were only kept in business through generous tax subsidies and grants. Finally, in the 1960’s and 1970’s, taxpayers stopped paying to keep these failing companies open. When the factories closed, the smart people left town, and Lewiston was left with the old people and drunks and drug abusers. There were never any luxury apartments in Little Canada, either, or anywhere in Lewiston. They were the same places you see today. The only people keeping the city going nowadays are the African immigrants.
With all do respect as someone who grew up in Lewiston and Auburn and surrounding towns drugs aren’t the entire reason a huge hit was mills closing and loss of jobs that are available but what video shows are not the worst parts, it has its ups and downs but the city does have lots of good people
Am sure there are great people. I hope you treat your immigrants right they are the only people who have to will power to change that place because the local population isn’t growing. Just because the government abandoned your community doesn’t mean you have to be a failure.. the government doesn’t give hispanics crap and look at South Florida.. we built it with our own two hands.
damn . it’s so crazy seeing lewiston again . brings so many memories back. i’m 18. and used to live in maine. i moved to florida when i was like 6 and been here ever since . so looking at this gives me a feeling i can’t even explain . i used to live in river valley village . they called it tall pines . and dang i miss that place
Wow, thanks for this video. I was looking at cheap properties there . Massachusetts is more expensive and I have been looking in either New Hampshire or Maine but it's colder too which I don't like, however this past summer has been unbearable and the cold weather is looking better and better
I used to date a woman who had an apartment in that area. We never had any problems. It was a neat building anf the interior wood work was exceptional. Many of thos buildings date from when the mills were in operation. The exteriors may look old, but the apartments are usially pretty nice.
Dude, Lewiston Maine is a State of migrants. Like you stated, It has a large population of French ( Canadian) My grandfather moved to Maine in 1903 as an Irish immigrant and was an indentured servant ( White Slave ) Until he earned his citizenship by joining the Army and serving in WWI . A whole different type of MAN back then. Didn't just hop a plane or walk across the border with his hand out . The politicians have given us no choice but to FUND/ Support the refugees and immigrants , while our own citizens live in poverty. So yeah a bit salty about the system . I am 60 years old and grew up/ worked / played in the streets you drove around and you missed a whole lot . Its worse than you showed. Like @Miandria525 said.Tree streets < . Things took a huge dive starting in the 1980's and have progressively got worse. One thing you got right was the connection between the immigrants and drugs.
I’ve lived in Lew for 16 years and it isnt like shoot outs every day like everyone says or thinks it’s more like stabbings, sexual assaults, robbery’s, drug addicts, over doses etc and those random interactions with the the people who act like a npc
Jose when were your Statistics from Maine done? In the last yr. 6 mnths?? No They don't do them that often, times are changing fast. Why are you OK with Illegals invading our border?
Because its a lie. I talked to the spokesperson for US Customs directly face to face in el paso. He said he tells the news the truth and they spin it 20 different ways. drove along the border from zapata to san diego i didnt see a single border crosser. All i saw was thousands of cops, border agents and checkpoints. Meanwhile all my guatemalans friends that are your neighbors down there In Naples and Bonita flew to plane to Canada and casually walked a few miles to USA from the NORTHERN border. But you don’t know that because your listening to fox news not asking illegals how they got here in person.
He drove through more of the "main roads" the ones they try and keep real nice for vacation land, you go further into the city and it's in all truth disgusting.
I used to go to Lewiston every summer. Loved the place. Lots of characters hanging out the windows of the Lisbon St. tenements shouting at each other. I used to frequent the pawn shops along there. I'd watch people rummaging through my car while I was inside the shops. One time I got back into my car to find a woman sitting in there. She said "Hi", I squinted, she said "No?" and got out and walked away. It was a wild place but I never found it to be a dangerous place.
Noticed this was early morning and you missed lower hortin st pierce and Knox aka my paper route in 83 good thing we still had an afternoon route back then imagine being 9 and passing papers in the dark (5am) with a week's worth of money
I live in Maine 30 mins away from Lewiston and it was tragedy I remember my mom waking me up and saying I don’t have school today with no answer . what happend but then I heard the news and it was very scary too and I’m ten and it was still scary
Good video I am from Tampa FL and my family moved to Maine back in 2003 Maine is a beautiful state but onces you get away from the Coast it's a very serious drag problem and people can be very rude it's not like down south respect down there for sure.
The reason murder rates are considered more relevant to public safety is that murder is something out of an individual's control, whereas overdoses are completely within the person's control. It's not a difficult concept.
You're showing me areas of New England I never explore. I am from CT, and this looks like a typical New England city. It actually looks like a less grimy Waterbury, CT.
yeah sadly, those industries left. Military was huge in Maine back than the same for boating. Times sure have changed and the state is in a decline. no longer the gem of America it once was. this horrible event wont make things better. I hope the people can come togther and heal. this is just so wrong
I moved to Lewiston 4-5 years ago. I only lived they for about 6 months. I grew up in Boston and also lived in Providence. It definitely is a urban place with a hood feel to it . There are triple decker apartment houses every where. Kennedy park was pretty ghetto the cops drove up and down pine St all day long I lived on Blake st. I didn't really like it.
I’m from the real hood gangland projects pissy hallways murder guns galore lot of people on the street corners etc this hood is beautiful compared to where I’m from
Not born but raised in lewi. Im talking down town Bartlett street, pierce n knox streets n i still miss the place...mostly my friends tho. Its been years since ive moved away n nowhere else says home like that place did. People just arent as real here. Unfortunately after my lil bro got jumped n stabbed momma moved us away.
Maine native here. Grew up on these very streets. Since this was posted 9 Months ago, I can honestly say you missed it. By years. The "hood" and "ghettos" are incredibly dumbed down comparative to years ago. Let me tell you why. Early 80s to late 90s there was horrifying ghettos and hoods in some of those very streets you were driving in. I'd say about 8 years ago, the Federal government and police of Lewiston decided to make a greater appearance and posted about it in the news. Since then a lot has changed massively. Buildings have been torn down and replaced, communities have been getting help and the city stepped up to clean the streets. At 9:03 Directly ahead is the police station. The police station wasn't there until about 8 years ago. Before that corner, one street to the right is "Knox" street. The worst of them all. Straight-ish or to your right is the park named "Kennedy" park. I remember growing up living on those streets where my father was part of gangs. Guns went off constantly. Night time was the worst. People got robbed everywhere, my father was shanked twice. Those streets used to be riddled with some of the worst drugged up clowned people I have ever seen. Esspecially kennedy park. People used to live in apartments that the "slum-lord" Landlords never cared to check on the building. The tenants weren't legally living there. The mere walking down knox street wasn't just asking to be jumped. You were GOING to be jumped. That wasn't a street that was turf, and every apartment from the left to right were people in that gang. The hood only consisted of streets around Kennedy park "mainly". It crumbled off a bit else where but not too much. So this includes Knox, birch, park, blake, bates a bit of walnut. You also didnt go at night which is at least now, when it's most active around those parts in the middle of summer. To mention something you spoke about with immigrants... Yes they did come here and a lot had bad behavior some tried starting gangs but it was quickly stopped, and only some of that still remains which you'll see if you go back at night during the summer at knox and bates street. But it's nothing like it used to be.
I came to say pretty much same thing. I grew up on Bartlett street but I lived on Knox and peirce. We ran all over those streets. Not much we didn't see. We moved 11 years ago tho after my bro was jumped and stabbed by the Somali gang. They got no jail time of course n my 14 year old bro nearly died. Ma forced us to move. I still miss it tho. Other then that incident we got along with most people so wasn't much of an issue.. they were like fam
I've lived here since '82. Its bad but not nearly as bad as its reputation. Its weird seeing someone drive past the building I grew up in saying " this is the worst hood in Maine " Its really not, you should see Augusta
I’m from Biddeford, Sanford and Biddeford are probably next in line when people think of “ghetto” but Sanford is quickly takin 2nd because Biddeford has gotten very gentrified in the last decade
Can anybody list me all the neighborhoods of Lewiston? I’m working on a project and can’t find anything online showing neighborhoods, corners etc. I’m looking for the names of lower working class neighborhoods. Does it even have neighborhoods or is it all just called Lewiston?
From Knox st to Howe st. Particularly walnut and pierce. Kennedy park. That is the worst part. I moved to Florida from there a year ago and I don’t miss it at all.
High rates of "lesser" violent and property crime including simple assault, sexual abuse, theft up to $500 or whatever arbitrary number they decide, as well as "other" serious offenses (extortion, forgery and fraud anyone?) not to mention drug offenses can occur along with high drug overdoses but things are still "safe"...
I always thought of Minneapolis as a city with high Somali population but I could be wrong? Don't see much of one here in Pittsburgh but did see on in Detroit when I grew up there
You worked very hard to drive around the poorest area of the city. Those wood buildings were built for the textile mills that you worked hard not to show. You avoided showing all the nice parks. There are very nice residential areas and new High-school and middle-school with fantastic athletic fields. That rate of overdoses you refer to has dropped significantly. The dirty streets are from people who were raised in a different culture. I have seen far dirty streets down south.
I had a friend in Lewiston and would often visit him and his wife. It was nicknamed " Little New York City ". There was little quaint shops here and there and the people were French and white. Obama brought in thousands of Somali people and took away all the quaintness. I drove again to visit in that downtown area and all I saw was Somali people everywhere and no sign of old Lewiston. Im not racist ...Im Native American and Mexican. Its sad what happened to Lewiston and former President Obama seems to care for.other countries and their people before Americans.
Can we finally realize it’s a class issue, not a “White issue”? If you have money- regardless of skin color- you move out for greener pasture. Poverty and drug addiction is spread out among all.
Don’t let junkies give Maine a bad name, it’s a nice state and yes Lewiston is another older northern town that’s industry left years ago resulting in poverty but for the most part Maine is a good place
A lot of litter? The streets look clean to me. I'm here reading comments and from what I'm reading it isn't bad living there. I wouldn't mind living there.
@luckylove5021 Nice that you feel that way but Mainers don't feel that way about you. Mainers have a long tradition of abusing "summer" people who are "from away" which is anyone who doesn't speak the weird accent they use to identify each other, like a passcode. Mainers will actively work to drive you "back where you came from" with insults, fraud, cheats, shunning, assaults, and then laugh together when you go. Never lived anywhere in the world like it.
Texas has a murder rate of 8.2 per 100,000 people vs Maine's 1.7 and you're trying to say Maine is more dangerous because of it's overdose rate? HA! I lived in Lewiston for over 20 years and there isn't a single street that I was ever afraid of walking down at 3 a.m. Same goes for Portland. We may overdose at three times as much as Texas but I have a 0% of dying from it because I don't use. 5x the murder rate in Texas and I am 5x likely as getting murdered, but that's somehow safer? The Dirty Lew might be the armpit of Maine, but not because it's unsafe.
Texas isn’t a dangerous state, it’s actually one of the safer ones. A dangerous state would be Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi. I would pick texas 100x over to live than maine.
Maine's biggest mass murder and one of the deadliest in the entire nation in over half a century? Oops. I still feel safer here than walking around at 2 a.m. in most major US cities. Sh!t, even 2 p.m. in south Chicago or the wrong part of NYC is intimidating. Lewiston was a one time thing by an idiot. It's a 24/7 risk in many other cities.@@jeremynelson6173
@@MrRufusRToyota Texas homicide rate is about the national average. But your overdose rate in maine is the 2nd highest only WV is higher. You overdose rate is 56/100K … thats the problem.
This is a joke right? You want to know how you can have a lot of drug overdoses but still have very low crime, poverty, and violence? I'll give you a hint: Drug usage is unrelated.
So I forgot Maine was a state … just a state I never thought about in a minute. That told me that this must be a safe ass state … so I’m here trying to see what’s the worst… and honestly it’s the best 😂😂
Geesh Lewiston Maine, is like Newburgh, NY. Most don't know~The city of Newburgh, New York, (Upstate )played a significant role in shaping welfare policies in the United States., it ran this place into the ground .
Lmfaoo i’m born and raised in Boston Massachusetts and this is a joke! Anywhere in Maine is nicer than the ghetto here where there’s actual projects! I don’t see one project in Maine! Can you get killed going outside? It just looks like a bunch of rundown houses. I deal with that any day then deal with what I deal with. Here is a matter of fact it looks very peaceful to me there.
Lewiston is small so its crime rate is proportional to it size. I would have to say Biddeford and some areas of agusta not to mention kennendy park in portland would all give lewy a run for its momey
This guy is fixated on overdosing. Crime rates are made up of numerous offenses. A city given a low safety/high crime rate is based on a multiplicity of crimes. I'm from San Francisco where we have very high overdose, car breakins and what the state has foolishly voted in as petty theft rates. SF murder rates are lower than most big cities. Assault is also lower. Property breakins run average. Almost impossible to place SF into overall low, middle or high.
I found working pentagrams painted on the floors of the two spire towers on the Basilica on Ash st. It was drone footage on a CZcams channel. I got screen shots. I messaged the institution and never heard back. The drone footage is gone and Google earth smudged the pentagrams out! The high school is the home of the Blue Devils! They hail a Grandmaster at most home games. 🙄
@@CelestialKappa yeah, no. They were up on the outside tower floors. Only officials have that access. It wasn't graffiti. It was accurate with working symbols. I saw it on drone footage. I found it on Google earth to.
@@SOMEOLDFRUIT Yeah, no. Kids here don't need to be "officials". I grew up here and trust me when I tell you this the kids here will scale entire tower sized buildings at night to tag anything they please. What you saw has absolutely no connection to the Lewiston blue devils. It's a god damn team mascot. You delusional hot mess. Come back to reality.
u sound a bit jaded against maine bro.. are u salty because alabama has a higher murder rate? sounds like u are jealous that maine drug addicts commit less crimes. dont hate the player hate the game
Chicago cold as hell violent crime off the chart same Detroit,Milwaukee, Cleveland so cannot be weather. Maine, NH , VT, all of northern new york next to zero for violent crime of any kind at all even in very, very poor struggling places. There is a drug problem though for certain. Its a world apart from the violent crime throughout the deep south .
Hmmm...looks like Lewiston was prosperous at one time bc it has nice big bldgs and previous businesses. Are the Somalis part of the expanding Islamic caliphate? Lewiston was previously French-speaking before Somalis were flown in bc of legal French-Canadian immigration. Hmmm...Somalis like to infiltrate states along the Socialist Canadian border... BTW ppl from Nigeria were also flown into southern ME (Portland) years ago bc they also speak French...ME is a declining American state bc of govt-sponsored illegal immigration. Look at what political party controls the ppl there... 🥺
It’s a failed mill town, so lots of houses but not a lot of money. Mills and factories shut down and drugs took over. Lots of people there who weren’t born and raised in Maine. They drive like idiots and I avoid that city at all costs.
Lewiston is not bad lol also overdose isn’t bad your depiction of Maine is funny I live in NH also lived all over the USA and Maine is low key same with NH and mass a lot of liter lol? Looks like a hood hahaha you made the dirty Lew look good.
💖 I hope this town can come togther and heal. So hurt, can't imagine what the community is going thru right now.
Hey Southern Life, Good Morning and what up my guy? I too and so sad for all the victims the survivors and the entire Maine communities involved in this tragedy that occurred last night. I remember when I mentioned to you in the comments like this to visit Lewiston Maine ( long story short I'm born and raised in Boston Massachusetts now living in Providence RI and I remember learning long ago that a lot of ex Boston or ex Massachusetts folks migrated to Lewiston Maine back in the day because I guess when states like Maine were dealing with low population numbers like Vermont they would pay money to US citizens in other states to move to states with low population numbers?) when you and the wifey was visiting the New England States like Maine this past summer! Thanks for all you do & keep up with your mission work because you are shining a light 🕯️ on things that are overlooked or unseen in this life okay l!!
As far as the immigrant population I think it is important to note I knew somalis there. One guy was the son of a former presidential candidate in Somalia and was rich when he came over. Still he wanted to gangbang, him and his buddies formed the somalia mafia and cook and sell crack and make rap videos. The women are great but the men fell victim to black American culture, but I think they are quickly assimilating
@@darrellturner671my dad always blamed everything bad in Maine on those damn massholes lmfao
This is the cleanest "ghetto" I've ever seen. It is not one.
Agree; we see so much of this pain everywhere...
Poverty in Maine looks to be lot nicer than poverty in the south, which is absolute third-world in many parts. No wonder why the north doesn't like those buses with Texas plates rolling into there.
The shittiest places in ME is better than 80% of the east coast
Florida is the swamp.
All Republicans States to lol You Forget to mention That Part 😂😂
@@sosaxoxo6044 That's because republican states get approx. 71% of all the third world trash you democrats import to America. It's true. Feel free to look it up.
@@Arbor-Ed until today
my dad raised me and my sister in westbrook and later moved to raymond maine. when i got older i decided to move to tennessee where my mom stays. i can tell you that its alot more comfortable being poor in maine than it is in the south. the hoods around here will kill you for just being where your not suppose to be or for just being the wrong color. the time i spent in maine we only used guns to go hunting... here we use them for self defense and have to carry one with me everywhere, even work. ive been robbed at gun point in downtown nashville broad daylight but shit like that is unheard of in maine
Not till today
@@moniho6907exactly sickos
Lol Lewiston is probably safer than most places in Florida
I was born at St. Mary’s. Graduate from Lewiston high school. I have moved out and back at least five times in my lifetime. I’m about to retire from my full-time career in Rhode Island which I didn’t move to willingly. Lewiston can be a shit hole, but you know what? It is my shit hole and I still love it and can’t wait to get back.
There we go! Truth!
Hey if you don't like maine everyone can f off!!!
Well keel maine for ourself!
That's a low bar my guy 😂
Did not age well…
@@brudderrem😂 ya beat meee too it
"This isn't diversity for a normal place, but it is for Maine" 😂😂😂
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My dad, brother and I make up 0.2% of the Asian population in my town in Maine lmfao
Maine had no slavery and no large industry, so Maine has a small black population.
@@MrRufusRToyota we had mills and we still make paper. That's industry
@@changer1285not enough jobs to draw black folk out of the South. Barely enough for the Quebecois. Detroit, Chicago, etc. had real jobs. Lewiston is a small city in the middle of nowhere that was going downhill by the 1920’s.
This is a joke right? That whole tour had clean streets, no trash even around the dumpsters behind the store fronts. no delapidated homes or buildings, no drug addicts walking around like zombies, and I only seen one cop. Lol dude, I lived in Dayton for 10 years.. You're so sheltered.
Dude has an agenda or something…..yes, there are lots of addicted people and growing homelessness, but there is hardly any violent crime or the issues that real bad areas face. This is only one town, also. The state as a whole is beautiful.
Maine is a great state and a great place to live. It's not like a real ghetto or tent city or anything like that. People everywhere have drug problems. Overdoses are on the individual. Regardless of one small town, Maine is still one of the safest place to live anywhere. Period. He talks about seeing the whole picture but then he's talking about only one town and using it to judge the while state. That's like going to our absolute nicest town and saying the rest of the state is exactly like that.. ridiculous. This guy needs to open his eyes. One town does not paint a picture of an entire state.
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As a Lewiston resident, this video did not capture it's reality. Had he taken a left and went more downtown at the start of it you would've seen a big shift in the people.
It's bad here I don't know why it doesn't look bad in your video.,,?
Bro, no disrespect, but people overdosing is a choice THEY made. Maine didnt make anyone oversose. Youre reaching.
WHEN YOU WERE DRIVIN DOWN LISBON ST. THAT’S NOT THE HOOD. THE TREE NAMED STREETS ARE THE HOOD UP TILL YOU REACH LISBON ST. THERE ARE ART GALLERIES, CAFES, RESTAURANTS AND OTHER RESPECTABLE BUSINESSES ON LISBON ST. THE WORST PARTS ARE BY THE GREYHOUND STATION AND THE POST OFFICE. YOU SHOULDA SHOWN THAT AND KENNEDY PARK. THERE WAS A SHOOTIN THERE A FEW YEARS AGO WHERE A MAN DIED. KENNEDY PARK IS NOT A SAFE PARK BY ANY MEANS. IT ONLY LOOKS PRETTY MUCH LIKE A LOTTA LEWISTON UNTIL YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE BOARDED AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS.
This part of maine is relatively nice compared to other cities. We should meet and discuss more over a drink?
I live here and I thought it was a stabbing where the guy died. Happened right before I moved here. Racial tensions were super high bc a white man died, so obviously that meant it was time to demonize the refugees. I feel like it's been better in recent years, but I stay to myself so maybe I don't know what all goes on. That said I live in the middle of the tree streets and we literally just had a shooting tonight so come to think of it maybe I just got used to it...
When textile mills and footwear factories were in their prime / operation, those apartments were luxury appartments! And those neighborhoods were beautiful! The French Canadians that had moved there were hard working people with great faith in God. They were very proud of their families, homes, workplaces, parks and places of worship!
Thank you. Both my maternal and paternal grandparents migrated here in the 30s and 40s. ❤
@@theseus900I hear democrats are also responsible for Maine’s snowy and icy weather too.
Lewiston was always a crappy gritty factory town that was mostly French-speaking Canadians and their ancestors. The factories that people worked at started to produce textiles and shoes during the Civil War, for the Union army. These factories started going under in the 1920’s and were only kept in business through generous tax subsidies and grants. Finally, in the 1960’s and 1970’s, taxpayers stopped paying to keep these failing companies open. When the factories closed, the smart people left town, and Lewiston was left with the old people and drunks and drug abusers. There were never any luxury apartments in Little Canada, either, or anywhere in Lewiston. They were the same places you see today. The only people keeping the city going nowadays are the African immigrants.
@@theseus900The only thing the Irish did was keep the taverns in business.
With all do respect as someone who grew up in Lewiston and Auburn and surrounding towns drugs aren’t the entire reason a huge hit was mills closing and loss of jobs that are available but what video shows are not the worst parts, it has its ups and downs but the city does have lots of good people
Am sure there are great people. I hope you treat your immigrants right they are the only people who have to will power to change that place because the local population isn’t growing. Just because the government abandoned your community doesn’t mean you have to be a failure.. the government doesn’t give hispanics crap and look at South Florida.. we built it with our own two hands.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSCubans were given all the handouts in the world, along with all the Hispanics committing fraud in Dade County. Let’s get real.
damn . it’s so crazy seeing lewiston again . brings so many memories back. i’m 18. and used to live in maine. i moved to florida when i was like 6 and been here ever since . so looking at this gives me a feeling i can’t even explain . i used to live in river valley village . they called it tall pines . and dang i miss that place
I used to play with a bunch of hoodlums in Tall Pines! Mardens and Burger King made it even better when they came along. 💪😎
Bro I moved from Lisbon Lewiston town line to fl 2 years ago when I was 15 ,I miss it dude
Wow, thanks for this video. I was looking at cheap properties there . Massachusetts is more expensive and I have been looking in either New Hampshire or Maine but it's colder too which I don't like, however this past summer has been unbearable and the cold weather is looking better and better
I used to date a woman who had an apartment in that area. We never had any problems. It was a neat building anf the interior wood work was exceptional. Many of thos buildings date from when the mills were in operation. The exteriors may look old, but the apartments are usially pretty nice.
I love how argument is Maine isn’t safe because of overdoses. Because that’s totally the same as someone shooting you or stabbing are you smh
Lol I'm laughing cause your right. I live in nyc .
Exactly…Maine IS safe compared to most other states. His argument is ridiculous.
@@giantrobot9000Maine is absurdly safe compared to the rest of the USA, which has third world levels of homicide rates.
@@Lana-pf5ceAnd now they hold the 10th biggest mass shooting in the nation.
I definitely would not call this a hood, but I’ll just say, drugs usually don’t come from angles
Dude, Lewiston Maine is a State of migrants. Like you stated, It has a large population of French ( Canadian) My grandfather moved to Maine in 1903 as an Irish immigrant and was an indentured servant ( White Slave ) Until he earned his citizenship by joining the Army and serving in WWI . A whole different type of MAN back then. Didn't just hop a plane or walk across the border with his hand out . The politicians have given us no choice but to FUND/ Support the refugees and immigrants , while our own citizens live in poverty. So yeah a bit salty about the system . I am 60 years old and grew up/ worked / played in the streets you drove around and you missed a whole lot . Its worse than you showed. Like @Miandria525 said.Tree streets < . Things took a huge dive starting in the 1980's and have progressively got worse. One thing you got right was the connection between the immigrants and drugs.
That’s a lie. There were no indentured servants in the early 1900’s - ridiculous.
I’ve lived in Lew for 16 years and it isnt like shoot outs every day like everyone says or thinks it’s more like stabbings, sexual assaults, robbery’s, drug addicts, over doses etc and those random interactions with the the people who act like a npc
Jose when were your Statistics from Maine done? In the last yr. 6 mnths?? No They don't do them that often, times are changing fast. Why are you OK with Illegals invading our border?
Because its a lie. I talked to the spokesperson for US Customs directly face to face in el paso. He said he tells the news the truth and they spin it 20 different ways. drove along the border from zapata to san diego i didnt see a single border crosser. All i saw was thousands of cops, border agents and checkpoints. Meanwhile all my guatemalans friends that are your neighbors down there In Naples and Bonita flew to plane to Canada and casually walked a few miles to USA from the NORTHERN border. But you don’t know that because your listening to fox news not asking illegals how they got here in person.
Canada searched us for half an hour. They opened katies tampons. Us customs opened our truck, and closed it. That was all. Didn’t even look.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS As far as I'm aware, the asylum seekers in Maine want to go to Canada but cant go on foot
Main has few Illegal immigrants. What it does have is a sizable (legal) refugee population from Somalia in some cities.
Syrians
This doesn't look like a hood !!!
He drove through more of the "main roads" the ones they try and keep real nice for vacation land, you go further into the city and it's in all truth disgusting.
i forgot maine was a state let alone had a hood🤣🤣🤣
He was so close to the trap but took the left turn on walnut lol
I used to go to Lewiston every summer. Loved the place. Lots of characters hanging out the windows of the Lisbon St. tenements shouting at each other. I used to frequent the pawn shops along there. I'd watch people rummaging through my car while I was inside the shops. One time I got back into my car to find a woman sitting in there. She said "Hi", I squinted, she said "No?" and got out and walked away. It was a wild place but I never found it to be a dangerous place.
Go back to Louisiana bro
@@Arbor-Ed Huh? Never been there.
Noticed this was early morning and you missed lower hortin st pierce and Knox aka my paper route in 83 good thing we still had an afternoon route back then imagine being 9 and passing papers in the dark (5am) with a week's worth of money
0:53 that brick wall with the dark spots is where an old radiator shop blew up
What time is he driving around first thing in the morning. That place is bad I don't know why it didn't look bad
I live in Maine 30 mins away from Lewiston and it was tragedy I remember my mom waking me up and saying I don’t have school today with no answer . what happend but then I heard the news and it was very scary too
and I’m ten and it was still scary
Good video I am from Tampa FL and my family moved to Maine back in 2003 Maine is a beautiful state but onces you get away from the Coast it's a very serious drag problem and people can be very rude it's not like down south respect down there for sure.
The reason murder rates are considered more relevant to public safety is that murder is something out of an individual's control, whereas overdoses are completely within the person's control. It's not a difficult concept.
Murder is the most dangerous stat a city can have so if it’s low it can’t qualify for dangerous
America is a giant hood
Jose how do you rate Peter Santenellos channel?
Interesting. You gave some great information in this vid.
You're showing me areas of New England I never explore. I am from CT, and this looks like a typical New England city. It actually looks like a less grimy Waterbury, CT.
I was born here and it ain’t that bad lol
Dude fr same! This dudes obviously not from around here. He's reading off a page of statistics.
It not dangerous at all there what
What was the history of the town? It has a lot of 3 storey buildings it must have done well at one time.
yeah sadly, those industries left. Military was huge in Maine back than the same for boating. Times sure have changed and the state is in a decline. no longer the gem of America it once was. this horrible event wont make things better. I hope the people can come togther and heal. this is just so wrong
This guys info is WAAAY off🤦
I moved to Lewiston 4-5 years ago. I only lived they for about 6 months.
I grew up in Boston and also lived in Providence. It definitely is a urban place with a hood feel to it . There are triple decker apartment houses every where. Kennedy park was pretty ghetto the cops drove up and down pine St all day long I lived on Blake st. I didn't really like it.
Looks miserable
I’m from the real hood gangland projects pissy hallways murder guns galore lot of people on the street corners etc this hood is beautiful compared to where I’m from
Maine is well known as a rehab destination. Maybe a lot of those ODs are people who have held down a job for a while then relapsing with that money.
I never touched a drug once so I wouldn’t know
I live in Lewiston and I like here, definitely is not bad . I'm from Brazil so I feel very safe around here hahahah.
There's a reason they call it "The dirty lew".😂😢
Not born but raised in lewi. Im talking down town Bartlett street, pierce n knox streets n i still miss the place...mostly my friends tho. Its been years since ive moved away n nowhere else says home like that place did. People just arent as real here. Unfortunately after my lil bro got jumped n stabbed momma moved us away.
Nothing at all looked scary here. Looked like a nice town.
see the overdoses.. thats whats scary
Looks clean to me I'm From Hartford Connecticut murder rate is high and overdose is also don't believe the hype until to visit yourself
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSyou think this shit scary come to Brooklyn 😂 I promise you every day you’ll see something strange
@@animalstyle5242 Brooklyn is soft nowadays bro this isn't the 90s come look at parts of bmore or Kensington in Philly it's make NYC as a whole soft
@@naptime0143 go to east ny or Brownsville you wouldn’t say that if you was that. I put that on my life you wouldn’t
How relevant is this video today now????? CRAZY
yeah before this thing my video was the only one really talking about the towns issues
I live in Lewiston and it rlly depends what area you live in and there isn’t that many abandoned places lol
11:35 What building is/was that? To the right
@@tigeabenton2174 that’s not Lewiston, it’s auburn lol
@@tigeabenton2174 Not sure what was inside it... But it was an old mill, the street is called Minot Ave.
Maine native here. Grew up on these very streets. Since this was posted 9 Months ago, I can honestly say you missed it. By years. The "hood" and "ghettos" are incredibly dumbed down comparative to years ago. Let me tell you why. Early 80s to late 90s there was horrifying ghettos and hoods in some of those very streets you were driving in. I'd say about 8 years ago, the Federal government and police of Lewiston decided to make a greater appearance and posted about it in the news. Since then a lot has changed massively. Buildings have been torn down and replaced, communities have been getting help and the city stepped up to clean the streets. At 9:03 Directly ahead is the police station. The police station wasn't there until about 8 years ago. Before that corner, one street to the right is "Knox" street. The worst of them all. Straight-ish or to your right is the park named "Kennedy" park. I remember growing up living on those streets where my father was part of gangs. Guns went off constantly. Night time was the worst. People got robbed everywhere, my father was shanked twice. Those streets used to be riddled with some of the worst drugged up clowned people I have ever seen. Esspecially kennedy park. People used to live in apartments that the "slum-lord" Landlords never cared to check on the building. The tenants weren't legally living there. The mere walking down knox street wasn't just asking to be jumped. You were GOING to be jumped. That wasn't a street that was turf, and every apartment from the left to right were people in that gang. The hood only consisted of streets around Kennedy park "mainly". It crumbled off a bit else where but not too much. So this includes Knox, birch, park, blake, bates a bit of walnut. You also didnt go at night which is at least now, when it's most active around those parts in the middle of summer. To mention something you spoke about with immigrants... Yes they did come here and a lot had bad behavior some tried starting gangs but it was quickly stopped, and only some of that still remains which you'll see if you go back at night during the summer at knox and bates street. But it's nothing like it used to be.
I came to say pretty much same thing. I grew up on Bartlett street but I lived on Knox and peirce. We ran all over those streets. Not much we didn't see. We moved 11 years ago tho after my bro was jumped and stabbed by the Somali gang. They got no jail time of course n my 14 year old bro nearly died. Ma forced us to move. I still miss it tho. Other then that incident we got along with most people so wasn't much of an issue.. they were like fam
horrible depressing vibes
I've lived here since '82. Its bad but not nearly as bad as its reputation. Its weird seeing someone drive past the building I grew up in saying " this is the worst hood in Maine " Its really not, you should see Augusta
Yeah Augusta is worse off than Lewiston. Currently Biddeford might be the worst city/town in the state.
@@truthteller9154😂😂😂 Disgusta
Still Dirty Lew
I’m from Biddeford, Sanford and Biddeford are probably next in line when people think of “ghetto” but Sanford is quickly takin 2nd because Biddeford has gotten very gentrified in the last decade
Biddford commonly referred to as Lewiston by the sea
I would say Sanford is getting worse every year and prices of homes there are getting more expensive, it doesn’t make much sense.
This where alpo was hiding at during his witness protection
Disgusting how they shipped somalis there
They will own that town in 10 years. Hard working people. The locals will die from OD and the somoli will work and buy everything
@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS just like they bought their plane tickets over here? Just like they pay for their food and clothes and school? Yeah no lmfao
“They” lol
Lewiston is not the place that you want to be in.
There are places ten times worse
I miss it
Go down by porias market around suppertime. Tell me what you think.
I live there just left there down south 1000 times worse that's a kiddy's park compared to Alabama Atlanta Tennessee
Not when it comes to drugs it aint. Its a full graduation party in drugs
Can anybody list me all the neighborhoods of Lewiston? I’m working on a project and can’t find anything online showing neighborhoods, corners etc. I’m looking for the names of lower working class neighborhoods. Does it even have neighborhoods or is it all just called Lewiston?
Tall pines , the bricks , barlett street etc
From Knox st to Howe st. Particularly walnut and pierce. Kennedy park. That is the worst part. I moved to Florida from there a year ago and I don’t miss it at all.
How does having high overdose rates make it not safe?
You think living in a drug infested crap hole is safe??????? Your dilutional
If you want to see shabby go the the capitol of Maine which is Augusta. (It was nice and quaint in the 1940s.)
High rates of "lesser" violent and property crime including simple assault, sexual abuse, theft up to $500 or whatever arbitrary number they decide, as well as "other" serious offenses (extortion, forgery and fraud anyone?) not to mention drug offenses can occur along with high drug overdoses but things are still "safe"...
I always thought of Minneapolis as a city with high Somali population but I could be wrong? Don't see much of one here in Pittsburgh but did see on in Detroit when I grew up there
You worked very hard to drive around the poorest area of the city. Those wood buildings were built for the textile mills that you worked hard not to show. You avoided showing all the nice parks. There are very nice residential areas and new High-school and middle-school with fantastic athletic fields. That rate of overdoses you refer to has dropped significantly. The dirty streets are from people who were raised in a different culture. I have seen far dirty streets down south.
Looks fine. Would you rather it be like the hoods in South America!?
Better weather and better vibes, loud reggae music and good beaches.. that would be a dream.
Da Real Streetz of Lewiston🤣
Doesn’t look that bad.
Looks depressing to me
Born and raised here and will never leave. You have no idea what you're talking about!
It doesn't seem bad until your out walking the streets in the summer.
The overdose rate and crime rate comparison to other places are high because there is less people in the state
Absolutely not how rates work. A rate is a percentage has nothing to do with total number
I had a friend in Lewiston and would often visit him and his wife. It was nicknamed " Little New York City ". There was little quaint shops here and there and the people were French and white. Obama brought in thousands of Somali people and took away all the quaintness. I drove again to visit in that downtown area and all I saw was Somali people everywhere and no sign of old Lewiston. Im not racist ...Im Native American and Mexican. Its sad what happened to Lewiston and former President Obama seems to care for.other countries and their people before Americans.
Can we finally realize it’s a class issue, not a “White issue”? If you have money- regardless of skin color- you move out for greener pasture. Poverty and drug addiction is spread out among all.
Don’t let junkies give Maine a bad name, it’s a nice state and yes Lewiston is another older northern town that’s industry left years ago resulting in poverty but for the most part Maine is a good place
😂😂😂 They don't call it DIRTY LEW for nothing
😂😂😂
A lot of litter? The streets look clean to me. I'm here reading comments and from what I'm reading it isn't bad living there. I wouldn't mind living there.
@luckylove5021 Nice that you feel that way but Mainers don't feel that way about you. Mainers have a long tradition of abusing "summer" people who are "from away" which is anyone who doesn't speak the weird accent they use to identify each other, like a passcode. Mainers will actively work to drive you "back where you came from" with insults, fraud, cheats, shunning, assaults, and then laugh together when you go. Never lived anywhere in the world like it.
Maine license plate reads: VACATION LAND, as in bring your money, drop it here, and go home.
@@tardigrade9493😮
That’s the cleanest hood I’ve ever seen!
At 7:00 take a left ... thats the hood down Bartlett hill thats the hood
Texas has a murder rate of 8.2 per 100,000 people vs Maine's 1.7 and you're trying to say Maine is more dangerous because of it's overdose rate? HA! I lived in Lewiston for over 20 years and there isn't a single street that I was ever afraid of walking down at 3 a.m. Same goes for Portland. We may overdose at three times as much as Texas but I have a 0% of dying from it because I don't use. 5x the murder rate in Texas and I am 5x likely as getting murdered, but that's somehow safer? The Dirty Lew might be the armpit of Maine, but not because it's unsafe.
Texas isn’t a dangerous state, it’s actually one of the safer ones. A dangerous state would be Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi. I would pick texas 100x over to live than maine.
That didnt age well
Maine's biggest mass murder and one of the deadliest in the entire nation in over half a century? Oops. I still feel safer here than walking around at 2 a.m. in most major US cities. Sh!t, even 2 p.m. in south Chicago or the wrong part of NYC is intimidating. Lewiston was a one time thing by an idiot. It's a 24/7 risk in many other cities.@@jeremynelson6173
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSthe homicide rate in Texas is almost 5 times Maine’s.
@@MrRufusRToyota Texas homicide rate is about the national average. But your overdose rate in maine is the 2nd highest only WV is higher. You overdose rate is 56/100K … thats the problem.
PROBABLY NEEDS MORE DIVERSITY...
TO CLEAN UP THE SITUATION?
I live in Maine unfortunately, all of maine sucks, but it is not dangerous.
Probably not
This is a joke right?
You want to know how you can have a lot of drug overdoses but still have very low crime, poverty, and violence? I'll give you a hint: Drug usage is unrelated.
So I forgot Maine was a state … just a state I never thought about in a minute. That told me that this must be a safe ass state … so I’m here trying to see what’s the worst… and honestly it’s the best 😂😂
Geesh Lewiston Maine, is like Newburgh, NY. Most don't know~The city of Newburgh, New York, (Upstate )played a significant role in shaping welfare policies in the United States., it ran this place into the ground .
Lmfaoo i’m born and raised in Boston Massachusetts and this is a joke! Anywhere in Maine is nicer than the ghetto here where there’s actual projects! I don’t see one project in Maine! Can you get killed going outside? It just looks like a bunch of rundown houses. I deal with that any day then deal with what I deal with. Here is a matter of fact it looks very peaceful to me there.
It is far from safe in anyway and its only getting worse.
As a st louisan this is a joke lol! You should visit north or east STL!
Lewiston is small so its crime rate is proportional to it size. I would have to say Biddeford and some areas of agusta not to mention kennendy park in portland would all give lewy a run for its momey
All dumps
This comment didnt age well 😢😢😢 praying for lew
Minneapolis has the largest Somali population, concentrated most in north Minneapolis.
This guy is fixated on overdosing. Crime rates are made up of numerous offenses. A city given a low safety/high crime rate is based on a multiplicity of crimes. I'm from San Francisco where we have very high overdose, car breakins and what the state has foolishly voted in as petty theft rates. SF murder rates are lower than most big cities. Assault is also lower. Property breakins run average. Almost impossible to place SF into overall low, middle or high.
I was born in the Dirty Lew.
We call it “the dirty lew”
I found working pentagrams painted on the floors of the two spire towers on the Basilica on Ash st. It was drone footage on a CZcams channel. I got screen shots. I messaged the institution and never heard back. The drone footage is gone and Google earth smudged the pentagrams out! The high school is the home of the Blue Devils! They hail a Grandmaster at most home games. 🙄
@@SOMEOLDFRUIT Lol, that called graffiti, and teens here like to do it here and there its called "Tagging".
@@CelestialKappa yeah, no. They were up on the outside tower floors. Only officials have that access. It wasn't graffiti. It was accurate with working symbols. I saw it on drone footage. I found it on Google earth to.
@@SOMEOLDFRUIT Yeah, no. Kids here don't need to be "officials". I grew up here and trust me when I tell you this the kids here will scale entire tower sized buildings at night to tag anything they please. What you saw has absolutely no connection to the Lewiston blue devils. It's a god damn team mascot. You delusional hot mess. Come back to reality.
Fisherman have always been known for herion use.
Why dint this have no likes
@@user-me6hs9ym5f Reality is not something one wants to be known
Man was I right. So sad
Damn
Lol
So many ignorant comments were made in this video.
Fitting
The title of the video should instead be: “The Worst “Hoods” In Maine, Lewiston.
I live near lewiston, and the buildings are not abandoned there just old
Rappers don’t want to die…
u sound a bit jaded against maine bro.. are u salty because alabama has a higher murder rate? sounds like u are jealous that maine drug addicts commit less crimes. dont hate the player hate the game
Chicago cold as hell violent crime off the chart same Detroit,Milwaukee, Cleveland so cannot be weather. Maine, NH , VT, all of northern new york next to zero for violent crime of any kind at all even in very, very poor struggling places. There is a drug problem though for certain. Its a world apart from the violent crime throughout the deep south .
No, its not close to zero for violent crime just well below the US average. Also significantly higher in the poorer towns like Lewiston.
came here after searching for lowest crime state
Hmmm...looks like Lewiston was prosperous at one time bc it has nice big bldgs and previous businesses.
Are the Somalis part of the expanding Islamic caliphate?
Lewiston was previously French-speaking before Somalis were flown in bc of legal French-Canadian immigration.
Hmmm...Somalis like to infiltrate states along the Socialist Canadian border...
BTW ppl from Nigeria were also flown into southern ME (Portland) years ago bc they also speak French...ME is a declining American state bc of govt-sponsored illegal immigration. Look at what political party controls the ppl there...
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Right!
It’s a failed mill town, so lots of houses but not a lot of money. Mills and factories shut down and drugs took over. Lots of people there who weren’t born and raised in Maine. They drive like idiots and I avoid that city at all costs.
Lewiston is not bad lol also overdose isn’t bad your depiction of Maine is funny I live in NH also lived all over the USA and Maine is low key same with NH and mass a lot of liter lol? Looks like a hood hahaha you made the dirty Lew look good.
It’s crazy how Maine flys under the radar for crime and bad areas… the state does seem like it’s struggling
Your un education on the subject
I love how he ONLY drive around on the shitty side of town... my street is lovely... where is the Bates campus for example? Smh
Thats a huge chunk of shitty lady