Mini Ghost Town in Stamford, Connecticut
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- Hidden next to a major highway in Stamford, CT is a street that has escaped the development and modernization of the surrounding city. This street of abandoned businesses functions as a time capsule for how this city used to be.
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You wouldn't have even driven down that street back in the 80's. The entire South End was a dangerous place in those days. It's pretty fascinating to look at how it looks now.
What ya doin in Connecticut?? Interesting find!! Great explore! 🥰🥰🥰
I did a lot in Connecticut! I got a lot filmed!
Hi Ray , Manhattan street use to be my hangout spot in the late 80s, the first building with the manhattan sign was the pool hall with a juke box, little further down was manhattan variety run by a man call Crazy Larry he had a juke box too the sign is still there under those dry leaves , it was right before the first church , there was two churches then P&P furniture that is where we got our last bed from, the last bar was the biker bar , to me it was a very nice place every one was doing there thing , but the drugs was taken its toll people was hook.
Walk just three or four blocks south and east of the old Stamford town hall up into the early 1960s, and this intersection of Pacific & Manhattan is what most of those surrounding neighborhoods used to look like! Remember, Pacific and Canal streets, plus dozens of off-shoots and cross streets, ran straight up into the section of downtown immediately east of Atlantic Square, where the buses stop, and where the monuments of Veterans Park now stand.
When you park under the town center mall off Greyrock Place, think about this: that area looked like what was filmed in this video! There was only two lane Main Street, no "Tresser Blvd", no Marriott, Champion Plaza (400 Atl), none of that.
There is a 7 story 80’s Taubman Mall in Stamford as well. And also there is still a blockbuster video sign at a thrift shop that was an old blockbuster, and down the street from that is a 2-story McDonald’s
I didn't make it to that mall, maybe in the future. But I did see that old Blockbuster sign, pics are up on my instagram.
I worked in that Blockbuster. Had to chase a few miscreants that would bother customer out of the lot. It's funny seeing that sign up for so long but I think it recently came down
That’s on Manhattan Street. It was entirely destroyed and now it sits as an empty lot. Supposedly, the owner wants to build something there, but they are wsiting for some sort of approval by city hall.
That there's the intersection of Manhattan St with Pacific. Cut off by I-95 from downtown in the late 1950s, this ethnically diverse neighborhood was left to ROT, while north of the Turnpike the downtown was re-envisioned and transformed into a crystal palace for the wealthy corporate elite.
Pacific street itself, off which Manhattan runs toward the west, before i-95 used to run north right up to its intersection with that portion of old Main Street which was replaced by the Town Center Mall. Pacific was racially 50 percent black, and 50 percent everything else(white, latino, etc.). So you can see what the goal of downtown Stamford's URC(Urban Removal Commission) really was!
I lived at 8 Woodlawn ave in the south end..right down the street from the cemetery.
Oh yes I know that area. It's been abandoned for years!
This has all been knocked down! 😢
My uncle use to run a bar in the blue building it was called Manhattan Cafe from about 2001 to 2008
Very interesting! Was this street still active in those years?
@@RayOutThere Google Street View can be an interesting window in cases like this, because they got a shot of the street in fall 2008. That wrecked church was the Little Zion, for example. By 2014, it was already falling apart (busted windows, etc.). The furniture store down the way went through three owners before shutting down completely by 2015 and moving to Henry Street. It looks like the block had fallen into total disrepair by that point, too.
@@RayOutThere Yes it was. Up until the 90s it was a busy little street. Some business hung on until the early 2000s. and one Peruvian restaurant was on the end of the block until maybe 5 or 6 years ago. I think the MTA now owns the property, the buildings are due to be torn down.
I wonder why BLT (Building & Land Technology) hasn't scooped that up yet. Or else he has (Carl Kuehner) and just hasn't done anything with it yet. He's basically the one who's redeveloped the whole south end of Stamford.
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Yeah they're pretty cool...
looks like 20s to 40s...did someone tell you about that block or did you just find it ?
I researched it ahead of time. I look up cool places to check out but often I find them by chance
Lol look at new haven the abandonedness is crazy
Maybe on my next trip to CT
Give it another year they knock down both sides get rid of the street and put up another apartment complex.
That was! My home
When he mentioned the highway was nearby, I automatically thought this was probably an African American neighborhood long ago. All over America they've built highways through African American neighborhoods. African Americans have been in Connecticut since the 1600's.
I lived in the south end too..on Woodlawn Ave
This is part owned by my neihghboor . When they added the road they got kicked out of there shops that was where the road is now and now have to pay to demo the lot. The city screwed them and it sucks
Address??
What street is this
Manhattan Street, between South Pacific and Atlantic Streets, in the South End of Stamford CT
the South End 💖
Southend
It will not remain that way for long.