⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC (Narrated) : The "Real" Little Italy (Arthur Ave) to Fordham Rd & Jerome Ave, Bronx
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2019
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I walk through the "Real" Little Italy on Arthur Avenue in Belmont, Bronx to Fordham Road. At Fordham Road I walk west to the Jerome Avenue (4) Subway Station.
CORRECTION: 13:32 is actually Theodore Roosevelt High School. The main campus of Fordham University is on my right.
From Wikipedia:
"Arthur Avenue is a street in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, which serves as the center of the Bronx's "Little Italy". Although the historical and commercial center of Little Italy is Arthur Avenue itself, the area stretches across East 187th Street from Arthur Avenue to Beaumont Avenue, and is similarly lined with delis, bakeries, cafes and various Italian merchants.
The Bronx's Little Italy has an Italian immigrant heritage that dates back to the 1850s. Arthur Avenue and Morris Park are viewed as the Bronx's primary Italian American communities. Other Italian American communities in the Bronx are the middle and upper class neighborhoods of Schuylerville and Country Club. The avenue itself is named for former U.S. president Chester A. Arthur.
Fordham Road is a major thoroughfare in the Bronx borough of New York City that runs east-west from the Harlem River to Bronx Park. Fordham Road houses the borough's largest and most diverse shopping district. It geographically separates the North Bronx from the South Bronx.
This street runs through the neighborhood of University Heights, divides Fordham from Fordham-Bedford and finally runs along the northern border of Belmont. It begins at its eastern point as a continuation of Pelham Parkway and at its western point continues over the University Heights Bridge into Manhattan, where it runs as West 207th Street. It is a two-way, four-lane road. East of Webster Avenue Fordham Road runs concurrent with U.S. Route 1 from Webster Avenue to Boston Road. Fordham Road is divided into East Fordham Road and West Fordham Road by Jerome Avenue following after the Manhattan grid, with address numbers for both the East Fordham Road and West Fordham Road increasing away from Jerome Avenue.
Fordham Road is under the management of the Fordham Road Business Improvement District, a non-profit organization under contract with the City of New York. The BID maintains, develops, and markets the merchants along Fordham Road and hosts many community events throughout the year."
Filmed June 6, 2019
Timestamps
3:15 - Arthur Avenue & 186th Street
4:35 - Arthur Avenue & 187th Street
6:16 - Arthur Avenue & 188th Street
7:50 - Arthur Avenue & 189th Street
9:30 - Fordham Road & Arthur Avenue
11:45 - Fordham Road & Hoffman Street
12:40 - Fordham Road & Lorillard Place
13:30 - Fordham Road & Bathgate Avenue
15:35 - Fordham Road & Washington Avenue
17:10 - Fordham Road & Third Avenue
18:35 - Fordham Road & Webster Avenue
19:40 - Fordham Road & Decatur Avenue
20:30 - Fordham Road & Marion Avenue
21:24 - Fordham Road & Elm Place
22:30 - Fordham Road & Tiebout Avenue
23:35 - Fordham Road & Valentine Avenue
24:45 - Fordham Road & Grand Concourse
26:48 - Fordham Road & Creston Avenue
28:20 - Fordham Road & Morris Avenue
29:45 - Fordham Road & Walton Avenue
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Narrated videos are the best. Please continue doing more narrated videos.
Yes this, i very much prefer them over non narrated video's.
If i were you, do more narrated but sending less videos.
Indeed. ,,, You have a good voice / accent for it.
YES!!!!
What a great way to spend a summer night walking around NYC whilst sat at home in England....Thank you..😁😁👍
You are becoming a new NYC treasure. Love the personal commentary. See giving me my summer walking plans in NY.
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Timestamps
3:15 - Arthur Avenue & 186th Street
4:35 - Arthur Avenue & 187th Street
6:16 - Arthur Avenue & 188th Street
7:50 - Arthur Avenue & 189th Street
9:30 - Fordham Road & Arthur Avenue
11:45 - Fordham Road & Hoffman Street
12:40 - Fordham Road & Lorillard Place
13:30 - Fordham Road & Bathgate Avenue
15:35 - Fordham Road & Washington Avenue
17:10 - Fordham Road & Third Avenue
18:35 - Fordham Road & Webster Avenue
19:40 - Fordham Road & Decatur Avenue
20:30 - Fordham Road & Marion Avenue
21:24 - Fordham Road & Elm Place
22:30 - Fordham Road & Tiebout Avenue
23:35 - Fordham Road & Valentine Avenue
24:45 - Fordham Road & Grand Concourse
26:48 - Fordham Road & Creston Avenue
28:20 - Fordham Road & Morris Avenue
29:45 - Fordham Road & Walton Avenue
My Brooklyn-raised Grandfather used to mention Arthur Avenue. He moved out of NYC when kids appeared, citing he didn't want to raise his children "in the city". Well gosh, NYC would have been a great place to grow up, I'm sure you can attest to that.
Walking towards the sunset with all the shops and people was pretty cool
My old neighbor 😌 I miss home! Thank you for this! ❤️
Love when day turn into night..something about new York city sunset
Always a pleasure to watch, no matter where you are in NYC! 💓💓
Great video as usual. I learned about the food chain on Arthur Avenue in 1950 at the age of 5. A butcher shop my mother shopped at had a baby lamb tied up by the front door. The butcher would let me feed it from a milk bottle. I thought it was a pet. After a few weeks no lamb. I asked where it was? Butcher pointed to meat showcase!
My grandparents had lived nearby on Camberling Ave. Many, many years ago there was a fish market that actually sold live fish like squid and eels! I remember when they brought them home, they would keep them in the bathtub full of water until cooking!! 😸
Loved walking down memory lane. I am from Arthur Avenue. I walked through those streets when I was a child with my mother. Looking at it now is bittersweet as my mom is no longer in a position to walk due to her health and a lot of the businesses have changed. It's been years since I been to Fordham Road.
thanks to your effort always doing this, so that many people outside U.S can able to see what is life in New York state.
I love walking the streets with you and listening to where we are😃💝💝💝💝. Keep them coming!!!
The Great street. Loved little Italy I worked on Fordham come through here Arthur Ave to home on Harrison. My husband enjoyed Italian icees and we enjoyed pizza slices, pies to bring home on paydays. In our era we were in our early twenties. Thanks for the history tour, enjoyed revisiting been since 1989
Really enjoyed this! Thank you from Canada!
Such a vibrant neighborhood, and you are an awesome tour guide. Love your voice too. Gentle and chill. Thank you once again.
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you for being such a great ambassador for NYC.
You do it justice
(1:58) The silver minivan backing up into a parking space reminded me of a scene from "A Bronx Tale" where Sunny is talking in the car to Colegio. The whole time he's driving backwards all the way down the street. The door test! LOL.
Great video as always. Authentic New York. Keep up the good work!
Another great video! Walking narrated videos feel like you're actually there and oh my gee that main area where all the shopping stores and restaurants is big! I think will visit the Arthur Avenue. Keep doing narrated videos - thanks again.
Another amazing video Actionkid. Narration is so much fun and it is so technically smooth and easy to watch. I really enjoy seeing all of these places you take us to in NYC. Have a great weekend. Cheers from Minneapolis.
Thank you 🙏
So early lol as always narrative videos are the best .
I like you commenting every place you go/such an online guide.Making me feel more of NYC
That was great! Nice to see a walker's prospective.
Great tour! Thanks
Great video & great narration 👍👍👍
Hi Action Kid, have been enjoying your videos. I think the narrated ones are a really more enjoyable than just walking with no pointing out the sites. 👍
Narrated, excellent!!!! Great Tour
Nice video as usual!
Thanks so much for doing these ADDICTIVE VIDEOS!
Your narration is a surprising treat.
More please.
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed.
I love your video thanks
I went to high school on Belmont Avenue.and my Dad and I would drive to the Madonnia Bakery every Sunday for Italian Bread and Italian cookies for my Mom!
I hope you had at least a chance to stop for a "slice" (pizza) or for some Italian classic like Eggplant Parm from Mike's Deli (if it's still there). What a great place that not alot of people know about... Maybe I missed it but have you been to City Island...you used to be able to get there by bus on Fordham Road but it's been awhile since I lived in NY,.but either go soon or in the fall...as it is packed in the summer! Really great seafood restaurants ..it's like a New England fishing village you wouldn't know it's the Bronx!
The food in Belmont is delicious 😋 I’ve been to City Island numerous times but I haven’t captured it on a walking video yet.
ActionKid These are truly hidden gems in the Bronx.. Can I make a suggestion ...this is a little different from what you do but on a really nice day take a walk through Woodlawn Cemetery...many many famous people are buried there...You used to be able to get a map of the famous gravesides at the gate house at the 233rd St entrance, such as LaGuardia, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, a famous Yankee..the name escapes me...the Woolworths have a masolieum that looks like a pyramid and the Helmsleys is up high and if you look directly through the window they you see the skyline of New York. In the summer they used to have concerts in the weekend .but it's been awhile since I left NY. I know it sounds a little creepy but it actually is beautiful and peaceful! Just a suggestion!
@@theresemartin3075 - Re: "Woodlawn_Cemetery"
Cemeteries with these names are indeed in the US like sand on the sea. To this special cemetery K. could make a plan. In Wikipedia (see bottom line), he finds a list of the notable celebrities are buried there. If he prepares accordingly, he can already choose a route which he then follows. It would be really interesting if he produces a narrated hiking video.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_Cemetery_(Bronx,_New_York)#Notable_burials
Your Videos Are Just Too Peaceful 😊🤗
Great area. Im from the Bronx... It's like a different world around there... Cool
Excellent clip 🙂
great walking video. Thank you.
Was born 1939 ,Beaumont Ave, & 187th lived there till 1961 when I married my earliest memories are of going with my Mother to the Market that. Opened 1940. Long history and memories of the Neighborhood.
@Vito Santo
i enjoyed reading your comments. My parents used to take me to The Arthur Avenue Market as a kid in the 1970’s, I hadn’t been back there in property 30 years and when I walked in, I started to cry sentimental tears. It had seemed so cavernous as a kid, I swore it was the same size as a football field! And here I was as an adult, the place seemed so small! I was amazed that this place of brick and mortar outlived my parents. It’s still something special. Best to you! 🐞
Hi action kid David here a Scot living in London I love your vlog as usual and look forward to seeing them so thank you for sharing it David
Great video..thanks for sharing..I always catch the BX 12 bus to get there from Upper Manhattan.. Dominick's and Enzo's are great , family style Italian restaurants..and the market has many food options, as well. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for highlighting a neighborhood that wasn't even on my radar. Now it is.
I was there 2 months ago Best pizza ever full moon and the best cigars are made inside the Italian market
Wow... thanks for the treat...
Hi there Actionkid! So nice to hear your amazing voice again, it has been a few videos :) I bet Fordham Rd. looks great at night with all the action and lights.
This part of the Bronx looks inviting !
I prefer these narrated videos, they help me learn about the details of an area
Another great video Pal.
Thank you 😊
Good work .. very enjoyable
Greetings from ireland great vlog as usual keep safe and keep them coming peace.
What time you got over there hope you got home ok
Keep safe
THANKS FOR USING THAT MUSCLES TO SHOW US THE STREET . GOD BLESS
I enjoyed thoroughly,
Grazie! Xie'xie, Thankyou!! We are strong New Yorkers!! We will endure, What a Heart Filled New Yorker You are!! Boogaloo Down Broadway🍒💙💖🎶🎶
From Toronto good work,I like the narrated videos better
Thank you❤❤
WOW! It only took you 30 minutes to walk from Arthur Ave. to Jerome Ave?! That’s awesome. It used to take me forever. Most times I ended up taking the bus though. Lol You were really moving on Fordham Ave. That hill is tiring. I LOVE your narrated videos! Please keep them coming!
I like your commentary .keep it up
Loved it! Next time, could you make that turn and walk us down the main Little Italy street? Would have loved to have compared it to the Little Italy we go to in Manhattan.
nice video!!!
Great video, some of the places you passed looked like gangsters and wise guys hung out there years ago like on the movie Bronx Tale.
Hey how's it going. I'm here on Fordham Rd myself visiting my sister. Haven't been home in over two years. Great video, keep it up.
Excellent video
Just viewed your video with Mary Jane presented in December 2019. Nice walking alongside you from my new home in "the South." Used to live in Westchester county but frequented Little Italy while taking college courses at Fordham and later during employment for decades after. Newcomer Albanians, Asians, and South Americans were smart, assimilating into the Italian enclave and 1 and All thrived. If your time and budget permits and you return, use a rental car or a Lyft or Uber, saw plenty of parking. And as you noted Fordham Road / Grand Concourse /Jerome Avenue are dangerous traffic zones for pedestrians as well as vehicles. Thanks ActionKood for the revisit and your good company.
Thank you for your information! The traffic here can get quite congested.
@@ActionKid Yeah since at least the last 100 years, BTW, in the banking / mortgage and insurance auto and property liability underwriting, Fordham Road was the "red line" for premium costs. If you were located in or drove mostly north the bill was less than if you were south of the line. Not at all fair but just the way it was, it seemed in the old days that there were more accidents and criminal incidents on the south side below Fordham. Your video shows that thats still the same as always, you nearly were run over or witnessed reckless chance taking by motorists several times in that half hour.
nice vid again
excellent job.
Yeahhh Fordham ! Great. Thanks.
Another enjoyable video. Got my I walk with ActionKid tot bag. Good quality. Thank you.
Awesome! Glad you like the bag.
Very nice video, I hope more narrated videos to come ActionKid :-)
Thanks very much for making a NYC sightseeing possible - watching from a different country (or continent!) Plus, we can see the parts of the city we would probably NOT be able to on a "normal" sightseeing. :)
You're welcome! This is the new way to travel the world!
Hey, great video. I enjoy when show areas that most tourists don't even know about. Like me...
My parents and I always walk around Manhattan,lower east side on the weekends but never walk in the bronx and from your videos on the bronx it looks very nice
Thank you
super video actionkid !! ... I'm walking hours by Ny like you haha !! ... today I took line 7 and got to the last station and walked through Main and Rousevelt ave 👌👍😃💝
Great! I hope you enjoyed your walk!
@@ActionKid 👏👌👍😊🎈🎈🎈🎈
In September I’ll have 5 days in NYC. Have visited NYC several times, but never made it to the Bronx. Plan on going this trip to see the botanical gardens and have lunch at Enzo’s on Authur Ave. (Calamari!) So thank you so much for this walking tour!
Fordham Road - been there, seen it, actually took the Bus from Inwood to get to Pelham Parkway Station, then took the train to catch the bus at West Farms Square to go over Whitestone Bridge into Queens to see Flushing Main Street - my kind of NYC- experience - see thats why I really love you videos so much, I can revisite places - great work, thanks very much.
Great! Sounds like a lot of transferring just to get to where you need to go but it works!
There is another bus to Flushing that you can catch near Pelham Bay Station - Q50. You may be able to take the subway from Inwood there and then transfer to the Q50 bus nearby.
Attended a Business College that was conveniently located above my workplace Sterling Optical IPCO. Loved Chinese crabsticks for quick bite, there were Gyros too back then.
One of my old hoods. There was a tragic murder of a 15 year old named Junior that lived in the area. The trial of his killings are going on as I type. Justice for Junior!
Rainey J I was just gonna ask if he walked thru there. I worked at dodge high school over there.
PoorJunior 😰
@@deuceswild6350 I commented before I watched, watching now
@@ActionKid 😥
Good stuff. Need to visit.
Definitely visit!
Belas imagens!
Love this ... Friends and family in Westchester County. I would love to see a video of Mount Vernon area or posh Pelham County.
yo Ken are in my old neck of the woods..Stay gold!
I went to Full Moon Pizza when I visited NYC a couple of months ago! Good stuff
Great 👍
There used to be a Full Moon restaurant next door years ago. It had been operating for decades. My grandfather had enjoyed dining there. The pizzeria is all that is left today.
Thank you once again for a wonderful video accompanying you through your journey of New York. I just recently bought a Go Pro Hero 7 Black BECAUSE of your channel....can you upload a brief video on how you gear up for your travels? Do you attach the camera to a chest holder? Do you use a gimbal? I try to see a glimpse of your reflection in store windows and it appears that you're using a gimbal.
Thank you very much! I do use a gimbal for my travels and hold it by hand at chest level. I should make a video of my setup someday.
Please More. Beautiful Video. thumbs up :D
You must feel very fit with your walking regimen. I recently started my own regimen and I feel more energized.
Okay .Thenk you beautiful city.Bey bey
I would enjoy taking a pause from my 🚶 with the action kid for a slice of deep dish 🍕 in little 🇮🇹.
Спасибо!
Great video. Can you do a walk through Washington Heights and Hamilton Heights?
Sure! I can do a video there in the future 😃
I liked that the W60 bus went by just seconds after you started talking about it. They'll pick you up Westchester-bound and drop you off Bronx-bound. You cannot use it for travel within the Bronx only. You must travel between the Bronx and Westchester (or within Westchester).
Great! That’s what I thought. The Nassau County NICE buses have the same policy with Queens & Long Island.
Hey love ur video....
Hi AK, just fund your channel ( while looking for Osmo Action info... ) great channel - love walking tours!
hi from Liverpool you are doing great work it's a long time since i was in NYC but will be going back
Had been to England many times but never made it to Liverpool. Would love to go and take the ferry across the Mersey! 😸
@@larrycj4382 a must do :D
Lived there in the 1970's. The Albanian community had a fearsome reputation for vendettas brought over from Yugoslavia (today's North Macedonia and Kosovo). Back then there were Italian-Americans and Italian-Italians. The classic 1955 film "Marty" takes place in the community. Fordham University's campus is in many movies, TV shows and commercials.
Awesome, thanks for sharing.
Actually, Albanians are the dominant ethnic group there today. There are now some Albanian shops and restaurants clustered nearby, which led the NY Times to refer to as "Little Albania"!
Nice
Oh This Video Is Filmed On My Birthday
No one:
Action Kid: DELICIOUS cannolis🤪🤪🤪
Love the narrated videos! Is this an area where the mobsters would be? Not trying to be offensive, just honestly curious.
Thank you. Gang members can exist anywhere in NYC. Organized crime is less active than what it used to be.
Mostly a nice neighborhood. In Boston's North End, which is big Italy, the sidewalks and business are packed seven days a week with good weather. I wish you went down some side streets. Thanks for filming. And you should be commissioner of traffic, you always notice dangerous intersections .
Thank you very much!
I am not far from the Arthur Ave neighborhood (we have never called it "Little Italy" - either "Arthur Ave" or "Belmont"). My grandparents and aunts lived there through the end of the 1970s. It is so much smaller today than decades ago! Have actually been to Boston's North End more times in the past few years! The North End is one of the last real Italian-American neighborhoods left in the US. So much larger than both NYC's "Little Italies" combined! Sure, San Francisco has North Beach (their "Little Italy") but the North End is the most authentic!
Take the gun-leave the cannoli! Brings back warm memories-thanks!
First, a small correction: the building referred to as part of Fordham U. at 13:35 in is Theodore Roosevelt High School. It was the local H.S. for two generations of my family and also the four members of "Dion and the Belmonts".
Really enjoyed this and other videos on your channel. I had my first taste of squid at Mario's Restaurant in 1970. The front of the Arthur Avenue Retail Market appears behind the opening credits of the film "Marty". Other scenes were filmed on Fordham Road as well as the Grand Concourse.
More recently, "A Bronx Tale" was based on this neighborhood but was not filmed there.
I saw then Senator John F. Kennedy give a campaign speech as Fordham and the Concourse.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video! I already corrected the reference at 13:35 in the video description. Thanks for all the information 😃
A shame that "A Bronx Tale" was actually filmed in Queens! The reason this Bronxite has never watched it! 😸
@Larry CJ
I see your point but man oh man they did a great job making it look exactly like Arthur Avenue. Unfortunately, it seems the City would not allow filming in Belmont. I hope you watch it someday. 🍅
Manja, manja..😍
Beeline does pickup and drop off in the Bronx I ride the beeline 20 to Yonkers at Bedford Park Blvd or I can take the beeline 42 from 233street
Oh that’s good to know! I know the Nassau County NICE buses that are near the Queens/Long Island Border can only pick up in Queens when traveling out to Long Island but not drop off. Further, they can only drop off in Queens but not pick up when traveling to NYC.
There used to be an Alexander’s department store all the way y up the hill on Fordham Road before Jerome Ave! Wow 😮 those were the days!!!♥️
Yes! Part of the Bronx memories! It was a massive store! I remember the "Thursday Thrillers" sales as a little kid waiting with my Mom on line for the store to open! 😸
It closed along with the other remaining Alexanders stores in 1992. It was replaced by another chain department store, Caldor, which lasted until 1999. Today, the site has been subdivided to accommodate smaller stores such as Marshall's.