I grew up in that neighborhood. All anyone knows around there anymore is drugs, gangster and violence and I feel like that'll never change or get better. Its incredibly sad.
0:01 How heartbreaking finding this once upscale mansion house is gutted and left behind forgotten and abandoned. Can you imagine the enchanting times and whimsical memories they entertained within the entire structure in the late 19th century?
@@joose315 Oh, that is so comforting to know the mansion is in the process of getting a renovating facelift. I know the expenses will be astounding, but it's all worth it to preserve this iconic household that once stood as a prominent fixture years ago. I hope the district council will seriously consider doing the same with the debilitating neighborhoods in upstate Binghamton.
@Dyne's Lair Then I guess to my estimation, and the way you describe what you'd seen years ago, it's safe to say the mansion is gutted and later torn down😟. How sad😢. Tragically, this opulent treasure🏚 of old has vanished, leaving behind nothing but endearing memories of bygone days in the late 19th century.
@Dyne's Lair Thank you so much, Dyne's Lair 😄Any upcoming updates regarding the renovation of this once splendid Victorian mansion would be deeply appreciated 😘👍
I live a half hour from Binghamton. It has definitely become pretty ghetto. Sad for a city and region that used to be the "Silicon Valley" of it's time. IBM, Endicott-Johnson Shoes, Edwin Link flight simulators, countless companies that did work on the Saturn V moon rockets (some of which was done in a hanger at the Binghamton Airport) ... now the largest employer in Broome County is the county government
My family lived in Binghamton during its aviation heyday. My dad was director of the lab at Link Aviation. We moved to Long Island because schools in Binghamton were on double session. My classrooms on Long Island had about 20 kids to a class⎯ a big improvement.
It's not getting fixed up sadly. No work has been going on it for years. Broome County has a seriously bad poverty and crime issue. The county Binghamton is in is the poorest in Upstate, New York at 27%.
I love it in Atlanta now it's nice it's beautiful it's clean houses are beautiful My miss being at my home but I got a big home new couldn't ask for much more
The sad thing about southern tier New York towns like Elmira, and Binghamton is when you are in them it is easy to see they USED to have it going on. I think the event that marked the downfall was the big flood in the early 70's when lots of the manufacturers started abandoning the area.
Binghamton is like other older northern cities. Things started pitching downhill after the Second World War when middle class flight to the suburbs got underway followed by disastrous urban renewal and highway projects and than deindustrialization began sinking its damaging teeth into these cities local economies causing unemployment and poverty. New York’s high taxes didn’t help matters any.
It really is zombieland now. 27% poverty rate, huge crime issue, I hate to tell you all this, but it is now the poorest county out of all 56 upstate, New York counties.
I grew up in Binghamton most of my life and it's really sad that nobody cared enough to keep the city going or to restore the old historical buildings. Would be a great place for people.
Binghamton used to be a nice and growing place. Now it’s a shithole. Many old closed factories just falling apart, drugs run amok and roaches. I worked for roto-rooter and got to see the lovely sights of this place and it’s gross.
Factories created a touch of pollution so liberals squeezed them out or just let the jobs go to China. Liberals have no regard for those who didn't go to Harvard.
@@r.pres.4121Binghamton is the most impoverished city in upstate, New York bud. Worse than Buffalo. You think Buffalo has it bad? Binghamton has it ten times worse. Our poverty rate is over 27%.
I believe a few years ago, a young man was shot to death in front of the burned down house. Apparently he was shot because local drug dealers thought he was trying to sell on their block. They were wrong and its so sad to see the family lost their house too.
Let's make 1 thing brutally clear: IF YOUR NOT A COLLEGE STUDENT YOU WON'T FIND AN APARTMENT. This is totally fucking sad that property owners only rent to college students. If you are the working tax payer moving this town forward, your not going to find a Decent apartment in a decent to upscale neighborhood in binghamton, so don't hold your breath. I take home close to $2000 a month by myself and I live in the Hood. Not because I want to but because Landlords only rent to students, exclusively. This is a blight on Binghamton.
@@DoctorZhivago91 , yeah thanks for taking time out of your busy day to correct my poor grammar. You know, it's people like you that remind me that assholes will take 1 thing from an entire statement and make an argument, just to prove a point. While ignoring everything else.
Yes this is what drove me out of this place years ago. Lack of job opportunities and no place to really rent. Such a shame because this area used to be such a nice place to raise a family and was actually quite beautiful when it was kept up on.
Graduated from BU in 1981, other than the buildings, it is beyond recognition. 8:27 on the counter, is the house on Fayette Street, where my partner of 11 years lived. She very sadly 😥 passed away. Take it from me - While Healthcare isn't one of them, greater Binghamton has some solid amenities within reach. Contrast Broome to the Hudson Valley or the Catskills...or the violence of Baltimore, Wilmington DE, or Philadelphia. Here in NYC, many facets of real living are out of sight, out of reach.
I lived in Binghamton from 2007 to 2017 I do not miss it at all. Moved back to California currently living in San Bernardino ironically i call SB the Binghamton of Southern California 😅😅
SB is warm Binghamton and Bing is cold SB. I was stationed in 29 palms for a couple months once and I when checking into 29 palms, I had to drive through SB from LAX to get to the middle of the desert. It was kind of terrible.
I remember these places i lived in this area for my entire life (im 17 and still living here) never moved outside of here its always been this way and i got use to the garbage :( its sad so much could be done to help fix this if everyone chimed but not everyone really truly cares about whats around them sometimes. Picking up litter, donating to housing and fixing abandoned homes, streets ect.
This is America. Majority of the cities in this country have similar looking areas and better ones in the burbs. It's not a blight on certain cities but, on the whole nation.
Wow you drove past my old place on 97 Pine Street I lived there in 2015 and it's about as shittest as you can get living in Bing, looks like my old slumlords are still living there too.
I have lived here all my life and feel stuck here. This place is nothing like it used to be. They make this a college town and kids dont take care of nothing Businesses leaving the area I stopped going to parades when a college kid was drunk and tried to pee off the bridge with kids right there told him to get lost or i would push him. sad to think how bad this has become a true dump of a city. not alot of businesses anymore just more bars. yeah time for me to find a way out of here.
How come I don't see you going to the south side. This video is showing only the parts were there is a lot of apartments and multi family homes that the city has been fight with the landlords. This is not the while city. Just like every city there is good spots and bad ones.
Binghamton is not upstate ny. It's in the southern most part of ny. nyc is not New York. Anything above Albany is considered upstate. But good video anyway. Binghamton is a shit hole. And it's not the only one in new york.
@@davemorford5662 Broome county collect thousand of dollars on property taxes and all kind of taxes and the roadways are in total disasters. Who enforced the bridge maintenance?? No one?! Who maintain the roadway under the bridge? No one?? Unbelievable. It's a town that the government forgot about it and no longer maintenance.
@@edithnogueira7899 lol if you want to go on a rant about road conditions that's fine but at least try to get your facts straight. The underpass you are posting about is on Glenwood Ave. Just two years ago the city put a new pumping station in, fixed the curbing and repaved the street. It is excellent shape. Repairing the bridge itself, in any way, would open the city to millions in liability and would never be allowed by the railroad. County taxes which you mentioned would never be used on any city street or bridge. The city has plenty of infrastructure needs but repairing private property like railroad structures is not among them.
In defense of Binghamton this vid makes it seem the entire city is like this. Well it’s not! I had a house on the south side for 20 years (recently ) and the neighborhoods were very well kept.
It's not what it seems man. Poverty rate in Binghamton, NY is now 27% and it has surpassed as the poorest county in upstate, New York. It has a seriously problematic crime issue unfortunately.
@Nikotromus You should visit Detroit.... or Gary, Indiana....or some parts of Boston. The areas shown in this video would be considered luxurious compared to the others.
@@toddrunyonThat's hard to say when the poverty rate is at 27% and it's located in the poorest county in Upstate, New York with a bad crime issue. You can't make this up. It's really bad.
There is always some good in the bad. Glad some people are trying to point out the very few good places if they even are anymore. Overall though, Binghamton and all of its surrounding areas SUCK.
You must be on the west side because I live on the south side and my neighborhood looks nothing like this eewww. We all live in beautiful well kept houses
Yup that's good ol bing.get out n walk next time.enjoy the zoo.parks.rest areas.main st foodies.place nvr did me wrong as many ppl I meet I enjoy each one.every one has their own story.peace.
Well you showed the poorest and oldest streets didn't see Riverside Drive that's a hood didn't see Otsinango park free open to all where is the baseball stadium you were one street away and the Forum and the Arena there is much here for culture and beauty. I have been on all those streets and not been afraid. Two rivers meet downtown with a beautiful park. Jazz music fest there in the summer. I think the biggest employer is the 2 colleges with all the supporting businesses that would fold without them. You missed a lot. 🤔😒
What its a nothing town too dont go there or endicott ny full of crack babies o well isaid it theres hoods filled with pussys too so you know so bings and endicott people shut up hehehe
Bro. The poverty rate is 27% and crime is really bad. It is as bad as it seems. I'm not gonna sugar coat it. Broome County is the poorest county in Upstate, New York.
South side, west side Endicott don’t let this video fool you… I own property on 2 sides block look like a tv show all year around…. Go to spots where people care about they area
Yes, the slave-owners. Slavery sucked for the enslaved but turned out to be great for African people of today. Especially, the ones that participate in the American dream. People like Michael Jordan, Usher, Doja Cat, Chris Rock and millions of other successful African Americans. They all benefited from slavery
Binghamton is not the hood it’s just dirty and unkept these people be leaving they car on and unlocked… they act pretty safe in Binghamton to be the hood
I grew up in that neighborhood. All anyone knows around there anymore is drugs, gangster and violence and I feel like that'll never change or get better. Its incredibly sad.
0:01 How heartbreaking finding this once upscale mansion house is gutted and left behind forgotten and abandoned. Can you imagine the enchanting times and whimsical memories they entertained within the entire structure in the late 19th century?
that is actually currently being rebuilt
@@joose315 Oh, that is so comforting to know the mansion is in the process of getting a renovating facelift. I know the expenses will be astounding, but it's all worth it to preserve this iconic household that once stood as a prominent fixture years ago. I hope the district council will seriously consider doing the same with the debilitating neighborhoods in upstate Binghamton.
@Dyne's Lair Then I guess to my estimation, and the way you describe what you'd seen years ago, it's safe to say the mansion is gutted and later torn down😟. How sad😢. Tragically, this opulent treasure🏚 of old has vanished, leaving behind nothing but endearing memories of bygone days in the late 19th century.
@Dyne's Lair Thank you so much, Dyne's Lair 😄Any upcoming updates regarding the renovation of this once splendid Victorian mansion would be deeply appreciated 😘👍
I know that place. That is on water street and many junkies used to go into that house to shoot up.
I live a half hour from Binghamton. It has definitely become pretty ghetto. Sad for a city and region that used to be the "Silicon Valley" of it's time. IBM, Endicott-Johnson Shoes, Edwin Link flight simulators, countless companies that did work on the Saturn V moon rockets (some of which was done in a hanger at the Binghamton Airport) ... now the largest employer in Broome County is the county government
All jobs to China or Mexico.
The biggest employer is the campuses. They employ thousands .
And most of the campus jobs are state .
Check BU and UHS employment numbers
My family lived in Binghamton during its aviation heyday. My dad was director of the lab at Link Aviation. We moved to Long Island because schools in Binghamton were on double session. My classrooms on Long Island had about 20 kids to a class⎯ a big improvement.
You should have went to Edwards street / The Toga / Carlise/ Country Town/ the North Side and a few more spots
I live down the street from that mansion and they are fixing it up slowly and I can't wait until it is done!
I used to live on Pearne St. Binghamton is a nice place just getting shitty.
Another frat house fix up 🙄
It's not getting fixed up sadly. No work has been going on it for years. Broome County has a seriously bad poverty and crime issue. The county Binghamton is in is the poorest in Upstate, New York at 27%.
I love it in Atlanta now it's nice it's beautiful it's clean houses are beautiful My miss being at my home but I got a big home new couldn't ask for much more
I grew up here. I now live in SC
The sad thing about southern tier New York towns like Elmira, and Binghamton is when you are in them it is easy to see they USED to have it going on. I think the event that marked the downfall was the big flood in the early 70's when lots of the manufacturers started abandoning the area.
Must not forget the end of the cold war ending and IBM leaving.
Binghamton is like other older northern cities. Things started pitching downhill after the Second World War when middle class flight to the suburbs got underway followed by disastrous urban renewal and highway projects and than deindustrialization began sinking its damaging teeth into these cities local economies causing unemployment and poverty. New York’s high taxes didn’t help matters any.
It really is zombieland now. 27% poverty rate, huge crime issue, I hate to tell you all this, but it is now the poorest county out of all 56 upstate, New York counties.
@@r.pres.4121 They keep telling us we won the second world war. I am beginning to have my doubts.
I grew up in Binghamton most of my life and it's really sad that nobody cared enough to keep the city going or to restore the old historical buildings. Would be a great place for people.
Why is every HOOD Binghamton Video just showing Fraternity houses. The real ghetto is from Oak to Edwards to Johnson City
😅 where is lake avenue and the first award sharky's Quinton Street Walter pilot used to live down there he was a good person
Binghamton used to be a nice and growing place. Now it’s a shithole. Many old closed factories just falling apart, drugs run amok and roaches. I worked for roto-rooter and got to see the lovely sights of this place and it’s gross.
Factories created a touch of pollution so liberals squeezed them out or just let the jobs go to China. Liberals have no regard for those who didn't go to Harvard.
They need a building inspector to go through and condemn all those houses that are patched up and braced with timbers.
@@stevemurray710 Local gov in Binghamton has been Republican for awhile. Issues have to do with more then party lines.
Liberal politics destroy everything good.
It was never a nice town
I was born and raised there and I had to get the hell away in the 70s. It’s not even a shadow of its former self.
If you think Binghamton is ghetto and destitute, come up and visit Niagara Falls that is ten times worse than Binghamton.
@@r.pres.4121Binghamton is the most impoverished city in upstate, New York bud. Worse than Buffalo. You think Buffalo has it bad? Binghamton has it ten times worse. Our poverty rate is over 27%.
Buffalo and Rochester has the HOODS
Both on my page
Binghamton is getting more scummy by the day yea Binghamton does rock
Not
I believe a few years ago, a young man was shot to death in front of the burned down house. Apparently he was shot because local drug dealers thought he was trying to sell on their block. They were wrong and its so sad to see the family lost their house too.
Let's make 1 thing brutally clear: IF YOUR NOT A COLLEGE STUDENT YOU WON'T FIND AN APARTMENT. This is totally fucking sad that property owners only rent to college students. If you are the working tax payer moving this town forward, your not going to find a Decent apartment in a decent to upscale neighborhood in binghamton, so don't hold your breath.
I take home close to $2000 a month by myself and I live in the Hood. Not because I want to but because Landlords only rent to students, exclusively. This is a blight on Binghamton.
All facts ,mofo be homeless messing around, I live in endicott
Word of advice if you got credit but don't rent
A lot cheaper than renting
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@@DoctorZhivago91 , yeah thanks for taking time out of your busy day to correct my poor grammar. You know, it's people like you that remind me that assholes will take 1 thing from an entire statement and make an argument, just to prove a point. While ignoring everything else.
Yes this is what drove me out of this place years ago.
Lack of job opportunities and no place to really rent. Such a shame because this area used to be such a nice place to raise a family and was actually quite beautiful when it was kept up on.
Graduated from BU in 1981, other than the buildings, it is beyond recognition. 8:27 on the counter, is the house on Fayette Street, where my partner of 11 years lived. She very sadly 😥 passed away.
Take it from me -
While Healthcare isn't one of them, greater Binghamton has some solid amenities within reach. Contrast Broome to the Hudson Valley or the Catskills...or the violence of Baltimore, Wilmington DE, or Philadelphia. Here in NYC, many facets of real living are out of sight, out of reach.
YOU DIDN'T MISS ONE MISSERAL DEPRESSED AREA WITHIN CITY LIMITS OF BINGHAMTON--"NICE WORK?!"
I lived in Binghamton from 2007 to 2017 I do not miss it at all. Moved back to California currently living in San Bernardino ironically i call SB the Binghamton of Southern California 😅😅
SB is warm Binghamton and Bing is cold SB. I was stationed in 29 palms for a couple months once and I when checking into 29 palms, I had to drive through SB from LAX to get to the middle of the desert. It was kind of terrible.
i like binghampton can u show more areas of new york
Binghamton is central NY.North of Syracuse is upstate.
Upstate is considered above New York City area!
I remember these places i lived in this area for my entire life (im 17 and still living here) never moved outside of here its always been this way and i got use to the garbage :( its sad so much could be done to help fix this if everyone chimed but not everyone really truly cares about whats around them sometimes. Picking up litter, donating to housing and fixing abandoned homes, streets ect.
New york isnt tht gorgeous now isnt it
Binghamton is more of a depressing place then a hood.I live in Raleigh NC come 20 minutes from Durham now that is hood.
This is America. Majority of the cities in this country have similar looking areas and better ones in the burbs. It's not a blight on certain cities but, on the whole nation.
Yo that’s krazy I’m movin there this summer
Wow you drove past my old place on 97 Pine Street I lived there in 2015 and it's about as shittest as you can get living in Bing, looks like my old slumlords are still living there too.
Is Pine a bad street?
Come back up to Schenectady this summer. Summer.
Old, boring and depressing city. Best seen in your review mirror.
This is very sad. Looks like it was once a very nice area. 😞
Went to SUNY B back in the 80s. Live in Leroy St n Main St i think across Key Bank.
Thats town is getting wores by the day no buddy int do ing ienting thats sad
Not really hoods. U missed liberty street, that’s a hood
I have lived here all my life and feel stuck here. This place is nothing like it used to be. They make this a college town and kids dont take care of nothing Businesses leaving the area I stopped going to parades when a college kid was drunk and tried to pee off the bridge with kids right there told him to get lost or i would push him. sad to think how bad this has become a true dump of a city. not alot of businesses anymore just more bars. yeah time for me to find a way out of here.
How come I don't see you going to the south side. This video is showing only the parts were there is a lot of apartments and multi family homes that the city has been fight with the landlords. This is not the while city. Just like every city there is good spots and bad ones.
Facts I just stated that in an above comment. I live on the south side and it looks nothing like this.
I love those old Queen Victorian mansion style houses i always wanted to buy one and fix it up we have a lot of those in Chicago
Binghamton is not upstate ny. It's in the southern most part of ny. nyc is not New York. Anything above Albany is considered upstate. But good video anyway. Binghamton is a shit hole. And it's not the only one in new york.
At minute 4:18 the overpass bridge is in terrible condition. Dont tell me the government does not have enough funds for at least paint it.
That bridge is owned by the railroad. The government has no obligation to fix it.
@@davemorford5662 Broome county collect thousand of dollars on property taxes and all kind of taxes and the roadways are in total disasters. Who enforced the bridge maintenance?? No one?! Who maintain the roadway under the bridge? No one?? Unbelievable. It's a town that the government forgot about it and no longer maintenance.
@@edithnogueira7899 lol if you want to go on a rant about road conditions that's fine but at least try to get your facts straight. The underpass you are posting about is on Glenwood Ave. Just two years ago the city put a new pumping station in, fixed the curbing and repaved the street. It is excellent shape. Repairing the bridge itself, in any way, would open the city to millions in liability and would never be allowed by the railroad. County taxes which you mentioned would never be used on any city street or bridge. The city has plenty of infrastructure needs but repairing private property like railroad structures is not among them.
Disgusting what some people are allowed to do to a city.
In defense of Binghamton this vid makes it seem the entire city is like this. Well it’s not! I had a house on the south side for 20 years (recently ) and the neighborhoods were very well kept.
FACTS AND THEY RECENTLY INVESTED IN HOUSING RENEWAL, ALOT OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS NEAR DOWNTOWN AND JOHNSON CITY
It's not what it seems man. Poverty rate in Binghamton, NY is now 27% and it has surpassed as the poorest county in upstate, New York. It has a seriously problematic crime issue unfortunately.
My family has had a house on Grand Blvd for 40 years. Neighborhood still as nice as it ever was.
Missed a lot
Sure did
That's not bad. It's just old.
Binghamton is not that bad,it's just depressing.
@Nikotromus You should visit Detroit.... or Gary, Indiana....or some parts of Boston.
The areas shown in this video would be considered luxurious compared to the others.
@@toddrunyonThat's hard to say when the poverty rate is at 27% and it's located in the poorest county in Upstate, New York with a bad crime issue. You can't make this up. It's really bad.
There is always some good in the bad. Glad some people are trying to point out the very few good places if they even are anymore. Overall though, Binghamton and all of its surrounding areas SUCK.
this old video only show the bad areas of Binghanton to make it look worse. Binghanton has beautiful places too and great universities.
Video was shot on February 25 2022 I have others on my page showing more of the city
I checked the google map, It has more beautiful than the videos , probably it only present small area
It does. It’s a small section of the city. Yes it’s an old city with character
You must be on the west side because I live on the south side and my neighborhood looks nothing like this eewww. We all live in beautiful well kept houses
Not much to check out except for the Citgo and Speedway
But this isn't even the bad part of Binghamton
Man ain't no hoods in bing ,college kids got all the apartments paying 500 to 800 for a room in a 3 bedroom apartment with roommates
rather desolate looking...
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Yup that's good ol bing.get out n walk next time.enjoy the zoo.parks.rest areas.main st foodies.place nvr did me wrong as many ppl I meet I enjoy each one.every one has their own story.peace.
Thanks for showing the worst of Binghamton. You make our city look bad! Its not that bad!
So you're saying this isn't Binghamton or is it?
@@bobl2887 it is binghamton, just the worst of it!
Well you showed the poorest and oldest streets didn't see Riverside Drive that's a hood didn't see Otsinango park free open to all where is the baseball stadium you were one street away and the Forum and the Arena there is much here for culture and beauty. I have been on all those streets and not been afraid. Two rivers meet downtown with a beautiful park. Jazz music fest there in the summer. I think the biggest employer is the 2 colleges with all the supporting businesses that would fold without them. You missed a lot. 🤔😒
What its a nothing town too dont go there or endicott ny full of crack babies o well isaid it theres hoods filled with pussys too so you know so bings and endicott people shut up hehehe
Wait what you write like a crackhead why can’t you spell? You must be one of those meth addicts in Binghamton I keep hearing about
365 for gas you know this video old lol
Not really couple weeks February 25 2022
Just because the houses aren’t renovated or modern and the people like to leave they garbage outside……doesn’t qualify it to be a “hood” 🤣🤣🤣
Bro. The poverty rate is 27% and crime is really bad. It is as bad as it seems. I'm not gonna sugar coat it. Broome County is the poorest county in Upstate, New York.
I live in Binghamton and it is not bad
I lived on Doubleday in 1974 as a college student. Vestal the following year.
Yes it is that bad
All depends on who you ask
First of all this is not the real hood, the real hood is in NYC, PHILLY AND other cities. Go to the five boroughs and then repost ty
I’m from the Bronx maybe check out the page
😱 scary
I live in Binghamton NY it's not that scary LOLOLOLOL
Not the hood in a way
You are literally showing all the “bad” areas. Show other streets as well
South side, west side Endicott don’t let this video fool you… I own property on 2 sides block look like a tv show all year around…. Go to spots where people care about they area
Amazing how our forefathers built all this and we couldn't even maintain it.
The slave owners you mean?😒
@@tilabryant5591 you're a numbskull, these weren't built by slave owners. Take your nonsense somewhere else goofball
Yes, the slave-owners.
Slavery sucked for the enslaved but turned out to be great for African people of today. Especially, the ones that participate in the American dream. People like Michael Jordan, Usher, Doja Cat, Chris Rock and millions of other successful African Americans. They all benefited from slavery
@@terryzabon333 spoken like true kkk member so tell me was the holocaust beneficial too?🙄
Boring little town.
Binghamton is not the hood it’s just dirty and unkept these people be leaving they car on and unlocked… they act pretty safe in Binghamton to be the hood
Binghamton aint upstate
Wrong
Yes you are