⁴ᴷ Walking Tour of East New York & Brownsville, Brooklyn, NYC - Pitkin Avenue
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- Enjoy this walking tour of the Brooklyn, NYC neighborhoods of East New York and Brownsville. I exit an A train at the Euclid Avenue subway station, and travel along Pitkin Avenue to Eastern Parkway.
Filmed March 3, 2018
Timestamps
1:00 - Exiting Euclid Avenue Station
3:16 - Crystal Street
4:55 - Logan Street
5:47 - Milford Street
7:27 - Atkins Avenue
9:15 - Shepherd Avenue
10:07 - Essex Street
11:01 - Linwood Street
13:26 - Ashford Street
14:15 - Warwick Street
15:45 - Barbey Street
17:30 - Hendrix Street
18:20 - Van Siclen Avenue
19:20 - Miller Avenue
20:55 - Wyona Street
21:40 - Vermont Street
22:34 - New Jersey Avenue
23:32 - Pennsylvania (Granville Payne) Avenue
27:15 - Alabama Avenue
29:00 - Hinsdale Street
29:55 - Snediker Avenue
30:45 - Van Sinderen Avenue (Entering Brownsville)
31:40 - Junius Street
32:30 - Powell Street
33:21 - Sackman Street
34:15 - Christopher Avenue
35:00 - Mother Gaston Boulevard
36:05 - Watkins Street
36:55 - Osborn Street
37:40 - Thatford Avenue
38:31 - Rockaway Avenue
39:25 - Chester Street
40:15 - Bristol Street
41:04 - Thomas S. Boyland Street
42:20 - Amboy Street
43:06 - Herzl Street
43:58 - Strauss Street
44:46 - Saratoga Avenue
46:02 - Legion Street
46:42 - East New York Avenue & Grafton Street
47:40 - Howard Avenue
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I grew up on Pitkin Ave & Strauss St. from 1986 to 1991. Now that I have lived in Atlanta, Virginia and California, the streets of Brooklyn look deplorable. But I'll never forget where I came from. Video Appreciated.
Rick West there’s places that are way worse. Like Camden, NJ. South side Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
What is the worst brownsvilld or south central
Rick West u from the Ville
MoneyOverFame I would say Southside Chicago but I wouldn’t say the other places.
This is not the same ENY n Brownsville. Back then this guy wouldn't b able to make that walk.
I feel like all the Brooklyn hoods are alright. Don’t get me wrong they are dangerous areas and to grow up from there is a true struggle. But I’m a white dude from the burbs, 15 and have gone to East Flatbush East New York and other areas in Brooklyn that have such a terrible stigma. The people there were all friendly, opening, welcoming, and never threating. Just mind ur own business and u good
What people don't know is that the borough of Brooklyn alone has over 2.5 million people. If Brooklyn were a city it would be the 4th largest city in America.
What about the Brooklyn Nets?
And queens the 5th
Exactly..physically Queens is the largest borough, followed by Bronx,Brooklyn,Manhattan and Staten Island. However, the Bronx,Brooklyn,Manhattan,Queens and Staten Island have the most people in that order. Queens has the disadvantage of having two airports, six parks and 3 huge cemeteries
@Harry Sachs the crazy part is for decades the city has haggled over the border line of Queens and Brooklyn...to this day there is a neighborhood called City Line in between
What you didn't know is that Brooklyn was a city in American before 1900's and it was the third largest city before joining NYC which was just Manhattan then.
My Bar Mitzvah reception was held at Jack Fisher's Kosher Little Oriental Restaurant on Pitkin Avenue, a few blocks to the East of Howard Avenue. It's long gone. So are Hyman Spitz Florists, owned by a friend of mine, and the Loew's Pitkin Theater. Ten years from now Pitkin Avenue and all of Brownsville and East New York will be renovated and become affluent neighborhoods. That's starting to happen in the Ocean Hill area of Brownsville. Brooklyn is the up and coming borough. So many parts of it are actually beautiful, safe, and filled with wonderful cultural institutions.
robbiesmile3 jew
Very true, lots of new renovations in the area, also lots of business in East New York
Was that the place about Kishke King?
I never walked that far East on Pitkin Avenue. I've wondered what it is like. Now I know. That's some long walk you took. Thanks for posting this video.
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Timestamps
1:00 - Exiting Euclid Avenue Station
3:16 - Crystal Street
4:55 - Logan Street
5:47 - Milford Street
7:27 - Atkins Avenue
9:15 - Shepherd Avenue
10:07 - Essex Street
11:01 - Linwood Street
13:26 - Ashford Street
14:15 - Warwick Street
15:45 - Barbey Street
17:30 - Hendrix Street
18:20 - Van Siclen Avenue
19:20 - Miller Avenue
20:55 - Wyona Street
21:40 - Vermont Street
22:34 - New Jersey Avenue
23:32 - Pennsylvania (Granville Payne) Avenue
27:15 - Alabama Avenue
29:00 - Hinsdale Street
29:55 - Snediker Avenue
30:45 - Van Sinderen Avenue (Entering Brownsville)
31:40 - Junius Street
32:30 - Powell Street
33:21 - Sackman Street
34:15 - Christopher Avenue
35:00 - Mother Gaston Boulevard
36:05 - Watkins Street
36:55 - Osborn Street
37:40 - Thatford Avenue
38:31 - Rockaway Avenue
39:25 - Chester Street
40:15 - Bristol Street
41:04 - Thomas S. Boyland Street
42:20 - Amboy Street
43:06 - Herzl Street
43:58 - Strauss Street
44:46 - Saratoga Avenue
46:02 - Legion Street
46:42 - East New York Avenue & Grafton Street
47:40 - Howard Avenue
Thanks
Damn
WOW!!! How I enjoyed walking with you, yet again!!
Damn this brings back a lot of memories, I get very nostalgic seeing this, reminds me of my childhood
11:07 Pitkin and Linwood, early 90's Dominicans used to shoot up that corner all the time trying to get that spot from some crew out of Queens
Yeah, it's much better now than what it used to be that's for sure!
Just happen to run into your video. I grew up in Glenmore projects and also played and had many friends right across the street in Seth Low projects. I even so the Deli store and the bank my parents dealt with on the corner of Pitkin and Mother Gaston Blvd. So many memories you brought back. As many people has commented "Never forget where you came from" Video is much appreciated!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing your experiences 😃
A great, high-quality video...thank you.
another day another banger.. really appreciate you hard work bro !!
This is such a wake up call for me to realize how lucky I was to know such stark emptiness. It was lonely in a way growing up in this kind of neighborhood because you realized how much nothing there was in life and how being in the moment was a valuable thing because you could do whatever it was since there was time to focus if you wanted to. You could also be distracted by the mundane things around. It was a blessing to know this.
thanks for this video! I love in Atlanta now but when I get home sick I watch this video. I'm from cypress hills projects
CYPRESS HILL PROJECTS ✊✊✊✊✊✊
East New York!!"uncle Murda voice """"
I've demolished homes and left the site cleaner than some of those streets. One of the things that make me cringe the most is stuff under my feet that not supposed to be there. On a demo site, I don't mind because it's supposed to be there. While walking the street or in my house, I can't take it! None the less, I love all these videos. It's nice to see ALL the sides of NYC, not just the popular ones you see on TV.
It was pretty depressing to see the condition of these two neighborhoods. They're known to be one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city.
Like what kind of stuff?
The Cachapas place on Jerome and Pitkin is so good!! I don’t eat corn so I usually order the yoyos which is a sandwich style made of fried plantain Venezuelan cheese, (meet of choice) lettuce, and this homemade sauce.
yesss
There are crimes in every neighborhood in Brooklyn no matter how petty, crime is crime. No one is exempt from a crime. Even the best so call neighborhood’s have mob crimes it’s just a different type of crime!
However, in mob neighborhoods Grandma can walk safely down the block any time of the day, and bad people disappear.
there crimes everyday in queens, bx, bk basically every borough expect staten island 😂
Decent work! Thanks heaps. :D
This is my old neighborhood. My family moved to Oh in 1974, so none of this looks familiar. I wonder who I would be today, if my family had stayed in NYC.
Adolf Stallin 😂😂😂😂
I use to live at 539 Euclid Ave... Btwn Belmont and Sutter from 2001 - 2005. 💪💪. Great Days!
WOW you REALLY did some walking...Allll the way to Eastern Parkway ! When you first got off the train, nobody was outside !. It was nice to see the stores that was still there and those that were almost landmarks that are now gone ! Especially when you got to my neighborhood. I can't believe that liquor store is STILL on the corner of Mother Gaston and Pitkin yet it looks like the bank across from it is gone. I could see my old public school P.S.298...Rockaway and Pitkin looks different but I saw 2 pizza 🍕shops that are still there ! Now I want a slice and some Zepolies! 😋😆 Watching this video brought back some great memories ! 👍🏾
Thank you 😃
@@ActionKid I'm going to share this with some of my fellow Brownsvillians who also moved away.👊🏽 This video is the psychological version of physically taking a trip back home ! Can you walk down Rockaway Ave from Atlantic to Flatlands or from Utica and Eastern Pkwy. to Kings Hwy. orrrr from Flatbush extension / Grand Army Plaza to dowtown Fulton St.? I know that's way too much walking but IJS I'm homesick and watching the videos is like medicine ! Since it looks like you have good knees & feet👣 and love walking🚶🏽♂️I'm just asking !😆😁 Afterall, you'll be living up to your name ! 😂
Yeah that bank is now a medical place...they fixed the building up real good
Born and raised in Brownsville
Awesome!
Friends with mike tyson? lol
Brownsville NY - home neighborhood of basketball legend World B. Free
Zab super judah too
@1400deadwood don't get started with the hip hop history of Brooklyn. Way too fuckin deep to put a list out. It was the most enjoyable moments of my childhood growing up around plenty of em...
Also Mel Brooks and lots of other comedians.
I ❤️ Brooklyn
ME TOO!!!!!!!
Why
Born in 2003 I missed this and my old friends
Rough tough neighborhood
Home of the Boot Camp Clik! Most of them are from Brownsville at least
I spent my summers not far from here on Hinsdale and New Lots in the 60's through like 92. It was great when my Grandparents moved there in the 50's and my family went to Dodgers games at Ebbets Field. In the 70's and most of the 80s the area was ravaged by crime & drugs. It is far better now. Only a handful of the buildings remain. I go back just to reminisce. I will always love NY
Wow my old stomping grounds, moved out in 1988 to upstate New York,bothers still living there though.
M.O.P( Brownsville)and Uncle Murda( East Nu Yawk)should do a whole album together
And Fabolous (Bed Stuy) and Casanova (Flatbush).
good job bro....keep it up .
👍
That was a long walk! Welcome to Brooklyn, where the heart is!!! Great tour.
I went to a funeral held at some place on Crescent Street called Crescent Moon at night. I'm still alive with 0 damage taken. The real stuff happens at night. Trust me.
Interesting video..If i could sum it up in two words ( taken from a Bob Dylan song)... Desolation Row.... thanks for posting and keep up the great work!
Look much safer now but if walk through same areas late 1980s sure it be different story very dangerous place but I never been to nyc
Will you marry me
We would have got robbed lol BACK THEN ALOT OF CRIME
I miss my home town and I know by now it dangerous in Brooklyn but I still miss it..
I’m going to New York this weekend and did research of the bad areas and saw this was one of the worst areas to be at. Honestly I think everything we hear on news or on the internet is an exaggeration because let’s be real. Over the past few decades the whole world has actually started getting better. Practically today is the safest time to be alive on this planet since the 50s.
this is better than baltimore and chicago. but still very sad
I am from East New York
Being from the west coast, trains going under me would make me feel some type of way 🥴🥴🥴
Umm we got subways out here too oakland sanfransico 😆
tweeze2700 I’m from Washington. We don’t have anything like that where I’m from. Closest thing is just a regular train, or the Amtrak
@@TheDezzy77 lol our train go under the ocean in Frisco its called Bart
Trains are all over in lower NY
He passed my house
@Knuckle Game Not nice buddy, nuch love from Scotland.
Good info for the Police
@@coochiecrook7120 why do you assume that the brother is in some kind of illegal activity? Worry about yourself, and enjoy the video.
You went walking around E NY? You crazy!
Yeah, was sketchy walking through here
@@ActionKid Only in your head
@@jamiewilliams685 only in your head gets cracked open
I use to walk in East New York(I'm from Queens with family on Essex St and Hegeman Av) in the early 2000s...was more dangerous then and not as built up as now..but I never had a problem
Grew up on Sackman Street in Brooklyn in the 70s. Look so different now.
You need to take the #3 train to New Lots Ave and walk around there next.
Good old East NY my home
Man you have great stamina👌🏾👍🏽 legs should be really toned, stay strong and thanks for the video!
RONNIE B Lol right!! I'm picturing him as very tall and thin.
Show the street sign. Let people know where you at. Lot of memories
I have time stamps of my location listed in the video description
Euclid Ave 🥶 Stop right after grant was my stop A line damn I miss it
Thanks for a glimpse of my childhood. You should have took a left in the beginning and head over to Cypress Hills projects. Then Pink House and Plaza. Thanks tho appreciate the video.
like your videos!! good sightseeing
I GREW UP ON SUTTER & LINDEN MY FOLKS ARE FROM HOWARD projects ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊ LOVE THESE DOCUMENTARIES
Sutter and linden? They dont cross, maybe on ither side of the conduit which would be queens but i doubt it and Howard is in the Ville and those 2 streets def dont cross in the ville
Sutter and linden ave how bout THAT linden plaza building5 how bout THAT make sense now smart guy
Oh and i know liden and Sutter don't cross by Howard projects smart guy gtfoh
Sutter and Linden dont cross at all
You guys go to a hood in Dominican Republic and this will be a fairytale for you all
Diego De La Mota the countries overseas are rough. That’s why they come to America.
callate campesino
any third world country my brother.
Sorry to hear that
@@JRBKLYN718 Campesino? Y tu sabes de donde yo soy acaso?
I grew up in the east , I went to 302 on Linwood then, FK Lane on Jamaica ave .. I left in 04.. idk about now but when I was there in the late 90s east ny was the bottom. You was either the hunter or the hunted , there was no in between ! Chestnut St hooligans, ya hearddddd
Ohhh I went to 302, last class after it shut down in 2014
Damn, im going to 302 this year, suprised that you actually went to that school it was actually really near by me.
I don’t go to Brooklyn for shit, only way I’m going is it I’m with my mans driving or going to my girl 😭😭😭😭
thanks
I know this might be a lame comment, but I couldn’t imagine having to walk around as a means for transportation with grocery bags and things. I guess because all my life I’ve lived in areas where cars are the primary means of transportation! It would be a eye opener to live like this! But it intrigues me at the same time!
Raised at 345 miller ave!!!🎉attended PS 149🎉🎉back in the 70s
My hood !🔥🥰
So far footages you have posted south bronx and Brooklyn area seem very calm and not seen much graffiti or gangs
It not like it use to be in the 80 and 90 like most city it calm down
@@gdollars2765 But that still sad
Try this with a Make America Great Again hat on. BTW... cool video
Why, are people on the left so violent that they will do harm to someone whose opinion is different from theirs?
@@pojo9925 Yes.
It actually looks better than it really is
25 min Grace towers. My old building yessir.
I stayed in nostrand ave back in the day that's when I collected comics and mastered Pac man, any body remember the Pac man manual ? It show you how to beat the game lol.
I use to live close by there, next stop towards Queens.
lived in Brownsville in the 70's. .much nicer then
Only thing about Pitkin Ave...no buses after Euclid and only 3 subway stations(Euclid Ave,Sheperd and Van Siclen heading west toward Brownsville) in a 18 block radius between Pennsylvania Avenue and Euclid Ave... Tip: to get to blocks in between, take the B14 bus along Sutter Ave and once stopped at your block just walk one block to Pitkin
Thanks for the tips!
@@ActionKid you welcome ...trust me I live in Queens and everytime I set foot over there I learn or see something new.i have family on the Linden Blvd side on Essex St. south of New Lots Ave
Love
Brooklyn Zoo! 👀💪🏿💪🏿
So much memories. Good and bad.
move fast, dont speak, watch your back
I was born in brookdale hospital in east new York brooklyn
It's interesting. I live in Italy.
There are good people in ENY and Brownsville but if you're looking for poverty, drugs, hopelessness, sub-standard anything, then ENY and Brownsville are the places to go.
23:32 - Pennsylvania (Granville Payne) Avenue ~ some day you should lead us on a long tour of this avenue from Starrett City Park (or the Belt Parkway) up to Broadway Junction. Please send me a PM if you are going to do it so that I can add a few words since I grew up on Sheffield Avenue (one block from Pennsylvania Avenue). Would love to walk with you and our friendly crowd some day. :)
Lived on saratoga ave and 98thst in the early 80s to early 90s boy oh boy totally different...it was more dangerous brother got his bike stolen father shot and killed.....but i actually still have good memories wit friends and family
I grew up 30 glenmore avenue brooklyn ny. I cant find the building in Google. Did they knock it down?
31:00 When he enters Brownsville.
fun fact:
at 9:15 those homes behind the griffitti covered boards which were brand new in 2018 are still vacant 4 years later. 🤷♂️
It's all just concrete and tarred streets to me. And that's every place in country. Concrete n tarred streets. It's the people that make the place what it is. Next time you do a vid like this, talk to the people, cause without them, this could be North Philly, West Baltimore, Compton CA, 8 Mile Detroit, 5th ward in New Orleans, etc etc just as easily.
It’s not where you live it’s the people
I used to live at 669 New Jersey Avenue in the East when I was a little kid; we moved to Staten Island (Park Hill aka Killa Hill/ then later Mariners Harbor) for a better surrounding and upbringing. #bkbornsibred67
You walking mad quick in this video son
I usually walk quick anyway 😃
ActionKid lmfaoooooooooo
Dangerous. All these places are ripped off. High prices in poor neighborhoods, including the cab service!
No cabs here...the fuck are you talking about
Brownsville
Euclid is my stop and as of right now all those stores are closed due to COVID-19
These areas will soon be gentrified SMH
Flatbush Massive not anytime soon that’s for sure...
Flatbush Massive hopefully one day we can put money and funding into these communities (through ‘gentrification’) that desperately need it without kicking out the people and families who have been there for generations.
that's good Dusty ass Brooklyn need a clean up 🤣🤣
@@moeglizzy6277 there's beauty in the dirt.
The VILLE will never be GENTRIFICATIONERS DOMAIN, THOSE 8 HOUSING PROJECTS STOPS THAT.
I went there
You did that walk? How many times did yer get shot?
didnt people see u walking with a camera or did you hide from the public eye? how did you mount it
I'm just holding a gimbal at chest level with the camera.
@@ActionKid so ur holding it with ur hand not with a chest mount harnass?
@@ActionKid well wouldnt it be lot easier and more flexible with a chest mount harnass, thats what I am gonna do
@@ActionKid btw i find it sooo strange no one is looking at your camera or making a fuzz about it, haha, where I live I betcha 1000 dollars they would harass me...
YOU SHOULD DO JAMAICA AV AROUND PARSONS IN QUEENS
Yea
I'm assuming you continued on to broadway junction.
Yes, I continued on to Broadway Junction to make the Fulton Street video czcams.com/video/k7cH4_lurU4/video.html
I saw my school Brownsville asend
Flockas bout to fess you up bro
Part of my family lives on Pitkin and u passed my grandma's house
Cool!
I’m searching for my father in the Brownsville area he don’t know I even exist his name is Kevin he use to go by Water and hung with a guy name Gerard back in the day they close to 50 now. They use to be on Rockaway Parkway around the corner from Pitkin Avenue. If you can help in anyway let me know!
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Hi i loved watching this video, i'm from Amsterdam and went to NYC 2 years ago and walked trough Bed-Stuy & Crown Heights. But is this the poorest/dangerous neighbourhood in NYC ?. I'm curious.
These two are one of the poorest neighborhoods in NYC. The poorest neighborhood is Mott Haven in Bronx, which I've walked through as well.
As for most dangerous neighborhood, that title would have to go to Midtown Manhattan due to the amount of crimes there. However, Brownsville is NYC's murder capital.
actionkid105 Ok thank you for this information. Because these city's looks so much a like. Next year i will be back in NYC and i will visit some of this neighbourhoods thanx again for the info x
D. Vanildo
Don't be around there at nite
D. Vanildo
Get your shit blown back fur real
Joseph Campbell hahaha trust me i won't even if i am a black guy 😂😂
Try walking with the sun at your back, the sun will be on the street signs and it will be easier to read the street names. In this video you were walking west on Pitkin ave. While the sun was going down. So for the viewer had the sun in his eyes. I know this area very well I lived on Amboy street between Pitkin and Sutter from Sept. 1945 to Nov. 1954 I was eight years old when we moved back to N.Y.
Damn he just walked by my brother’s house
U was walking on my block.
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