McKeesport Pennsylvania - Headed Towards Ghost Town Status
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- čas přidán 2. 09. 2023
- City: McKeesport (Suburb of Pittsburgh)
State: Pennsylvania
Around the turn of the century in 1900, McKeesport was an absolutely critical area for steel production ... not only in the US but globally. By 1920, the Pittsburgh area was responsible for half of all steel production in the entire world. Unsurprisingly, places like Mckeesport were booming. At its peak, its population reached nearly 60,000.
Seventy five years later, the city has declined dramatically with the current population under 20,000... a decline of 2/3s. Some neighborhoods of the city, particularly those closest to the river, have been hit particularly hard and are virtually deserted.
Despite the decline, the area still makes for a fascinating drive due to the interesting architecture, brick streets and famously steep streets (like many areas in the Pittsburgh metropolis). - Zábava
As someone who has lived here for 10 years, in one the house you drove past no less. There are plenty of families trying to do their best. Cost of living is insane. There are a lot of disabled people living here as well. There was supposed to be money comings in to fix roads and demo abandoned houses but the local government fixes up their area of town and leaves any place near public houses trashed. But there are average working families here, when you watch that please remember we are not all drug users and crooks. Some of us are trying our best with what we have..
Definitely not my intention to portray anyone in a bad light, just want to show how cities change and places that were once booming. For me this channel is mostly about showing the architecture and the neat old buildings... I'm from Baltimore and they started tearing everything down so I just wanted to document some of it before it's all gone.
This is the exact same situation in Niagara Falls NY. There are many people working and struggling to get by despite the severe poverty and drug gang problems. Deindustrialization along with rampant political corruption and rising poverty destroyed Niagara Falls in the exact same way as both Braddock and McKeesport. Also many of these working class cities did urban renewal which just made their problems even worse.
Cost of living there sounds great
i would like to recommend someone who lives in mckeesport on youtube you should look up WalterGarner he documents as much of the blighted buildings being torn down as possible . and i have lived here for 28 years a house is cheaper than western usa and so is rent and most things unless you go to pittsburgh or philly . also they are building new homes downtown slowly but surely . it is called mckeesport rising and they have not forgotten . ik its sad but when they shut down our mills with nothing to help us get on our feet well it happens .
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I moved to PA about 5 years ago as my work moved. Unfortunately I was dealing with grief and heartache and picked up some addictions. I lived fairly close to McKeesport and there were so many addicts, I became friends with a few.
I remember going to trap houses, meeting dealers, pimps and prostitutes.
To me, PA will be the place where I’ve met some of the best people in my life. People that I can still call if I need someone. I MISS them so much. PA will also be for me a place of depression and misery. The cold grey skies (no sun), the drinking, the drugs - it’s not a place for someone like me.
Thanks for sharing! Nice to see videos of some of these towns that I see on maps. :)
Thanks, Glad you enjoyed it!
As one who grew up in McKeesport, I notice in videos trying to document the city's downward spiral that the documentarians focus on the Downtown area , the Tenth Ward, and the area around Walnut Street. These documentarians never seem to go to Haler Heights, Auberle/Vocational School area, Hall Park ("Chickeyville"), Grandview, etc., neighborhoods where residents take pride and care of their homes.
With all due respect to the thriving parts of the the city, if the goal is to show the effects of deindustrialization, it doesn't really make sense to go to the areas that you mention. I'd happily put up videos from other parts of of town (and I have before over the course of the 500 or so videos I've posted), but in this case, the goal was to show the parts that have seen significant population loss.
You are right. But the effect is to show "ghetto porn" where people can sit cozy in their homes and feel a thrill at seeing areas they would never go to.
And Christy Park has some nice homes as well. What I notice is the documentarians who label McKeesport a suburb of Pittsburgh which of course they are the two cities biggest cities in Allegheny County, but McKeesport was the home of National Tube, it was not founded as a suburb for workers to commute into Pittsburgh.
I lived in McKeesport for years and moved away in 2005. My former house is condemned. It’s sad to see what’s happened here.
Agreed! Would love to see the area have a resurgence... but unfortunately there's not much left at this point.
Deindustrialization
My family came over from Scotland and Ireland and founded this town. They are no doubt rolling in their graves. Makes my heart break!
Agreed! It's a shame to see the shadow of a formerly great industrial town.
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youre a mckee? id love to hear about its founders. were they related to mckees from mckees rocks? im convinced the "rocks" were burial mounds. a straight line connects mckees rocks burial mound, point state park, the mckeesport cemetery. much history was destroyed. any info would be awesome. 🍻
Well that’s where they should be sending all them migrants 💯
Exactly what I was thinking. They would be thrilled to start their own communities, open markets, restaurants etc. Only catch: Has to be jobs for them nearby.
@@Cherylvision the government can make it happen💃
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How dare you, I live there and for you to say that is very hurtful and insulting.
We’d gladly accept the immigrants.
WHAT a great looking area to live in....now in decline. We can thank a good part of this decline on our wonderful government and corrupt corporations for this type of sad event. They've destroyed our towns and cities by moving manufacturing out of America, and setting up in places like Mexico, China, Singapore, Korea, and other foreign countries. Remember what they've done to us........
Yea between the rolling hills and all the rivers it is a really pretty setting... sad to see such a naturally nice looking place neglected so much.
Mckeesport is a hill billy city fr
Not even slightly what are you talking about
Mckeesport is not a blaq city its a whyte trash / hill billy city df whyte ppl dominate mckeesport
Democratic Aftermath
Give it a rest. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
now you go fix it, looser.
Wrong! Horrendously failed republican socioeconomic policies aftermath.
I think this shows how things have become so bad with jobs going away and people trying to survive . Very sad , but it’s in a lot of the rust belt areas .
as someone who grew up in McKeesport after the mills closed up it was very hard for McKeesport and surrounding area to stay afloat, many good jobs left the area, and very few new businesses moved in.