HARLEM NEW YORK CITY HOOD - AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS HOOD NEIGHBORHOOD DRIVE THROUGH

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  • čas přidán 22. 04. 2023
  • We are in Harlem New York City, America's most famous and iconic hood. Harlem has a decorated history going to back to Dutch Settlement when it was mostly farmland but most of us now know it as being the highly urbanized, fast paced Black/ African-American and Puerto Rican strong hold in Northern Manhattan. The Graceland of hip hop, cultural epicenter and also in many instances its America's Most Famous Ghetto or hood... So we wanted to take a drive from West Harlem to East Harlem in 2023 on a 80 degree Spring day to see what Harlem is like now. Of course it's changed over time but is it good change? We stroll down Frederick Douglas Boulevard, drive across 125th and pass historic spots such as the Apollo Theater, ride down Malcolm X Blvd and end our ride on the East Side by 1st Ave. So is Harlem on the rise? Is it livable or miserable? Please watch and let us know what you think in the comments. Please LIKE if you like, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE! Thank you for watching and most importantly ENJOY!
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Komentáře • 116

  • @isaiahholland7444
    @isaiahholland7444 Před 11 měsíci +8

    Im 3 hours and 26 minutes away from nyc. I just went there not to long ago. Had a blast. It was my first time ever in NYC.

  • @renerenatorivera9062
    @renerenatorivera9062 Před 10 měsíci +6

    I grew up in Harlem and worked for the state (NYS Dept. Of Labor)in an office building on 125th st.Everything is so familiar.

  • @chrisluck5176
    @chrisluck5176 Před 10 měsíci +9

    I really enjoy the fact that there's no talk except what you hear on the streets.I am an early 50's white Aussie man who after seeing a Woody Allen documentary and I don't even know any of his movies but just felt compelled to watch saw this area where he grew up, this set of shops In particularly and I just got this feeling in my gut there's where I'm from like I should be in New York. Thanks for this stuff it gives me a better feeling about New York than watching Kojak when I was younger. 😀

  • @donalddove472
    @donalddove472 Před 9 dny

    another superb video ,good job

  • @user-dw4kn9oi1m
    @user-dw4kn9oi1m Před 3 měsíci

    Classic video tour of the streets of Harlem, the hood !

  • @martymar9311
    @martymar9311 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Thanks 😊👍

    • @ghettomerica
      @ghettomerica  Před 10 měsíci

      You're welcome! Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed

  • @davidtrotman5990
    @davidtrotman5990 Před 6 měsíci +3

    This may seem strange to some viewers, but in comparison to San Francisco's Tenderloin and Fillmore neighborhoods, the streets in Harlem are very clean. Harlem is much denser than most if not all of San Francisco but the residents don't seem duty bound to litter at every available opportunity.

  • @travelandeats8518
    @travelandeats8518 Před rokem +7

    From Connecticut I go to Harlem often just to go. Train to 125th pretty cheap and easy. Been to Wagner and MLK projects

  • @jajajaj666
    @jajajaj666 Před rokem +3

    4:44 are those Polo Grounds? Good vid❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @ghettomerica
      @ghettomerica  Před rokem

      Thank you! Thanks for watching!

    • @schuylerhecht8253
      @schuylerhecht8253 Před rokem

      No. Those are Fredrick Douglass houses. Polo grounds are in the beginning at 155th out of frame

  • @Bradbluebathgate
    @Bradbluebathgate Před 9 měsíci

    3:49 that use to be a barber shop on 144th st (Right Side)

  • @sofie3154
    @sofie3154 Před rokem +12

    Very nice travelling along in the car with you. Much better than seeing these places through movies only. I have subscribed!

    • @ghettomerica
      @ghettomerica  Před rokem +1

      Hey Sofie. Thanks for riding along and keeping my company. Look forward to having you along for many rides to come. Have a great week!

    • @anthonysmall7978
      @anthonysmall7978 Před rokem

      I just love this wish I was still working at Taino Towers gained much respect there.

    • @darwinlong543
      @darwinlong543 Před 10 měsíci

      Me too lol

    • @user-dw4kn9oi1m
      @user-dw4kn9oi1m Před 3 měsíci +1

      True, safer in the car

  • @kyul9357
    @kyul9357 Před rokem +1

    That corner fried chicken store was there when I left NY in 2013

  • @Bradbluebathgate
    @Bradbluebathgate Před 9 měsíci

    on the left... that use to be a small resturant 1:45

  • @heru3337
    @heru3337 Před rokem +25

    New York haven’t changed since the 90s I really miss nyc

    • @ghettomerica
      @ghettomerica  Před rokem +1

      Thank you for watching!

    • @MaxLove-hu2ow
      @MaxLove-hu2ow Před rokem +4

      It's improve since the 90s, and you shouldn't of never left since you miss it so much, ain't no place more safer or better

    • @frankgiuliano380
      @frankgiuliano380 Před rokem +8

      come back dude. enjoy the highest crime NYC has ever seen under Mayor Adams and DA Bragg.. The filth, the rats, the graffiti.. it's awesome. and you get to live in some of the worst housing stock in America! the winters are great too. bone chilling cold from November until Late March..

    • @MaxLove-hu2ow
      @MaxLove-hu2ow Před rokem

      @@frankgiuliano380 it takes a ignorant knucklehead like you to try to paint a picture about this dynamic city, but it ain't gone work, new York is not the only city that has rats trash crime and so forth, were not paradise and neither is no other city as well ok we have problems to what city don't fool? New York is great yes but it has problems like anywhere else ok so stop acting like its an oasis and not suppose to have problems. Your wasting your time.we love this city and we don't care what kind picture u try to paint.

    • @wildinnnn8699
      @wildinnnn8699 Před rokem +5

      Ny now is the best version of nyc..that guys Probaly not a native Nyer.. everything is down and it’s a lot cleaner than it ever was..ny of the past was a completely different animal compared to now.

  • @Bradbluebathgate
    @Bradbluebathgate Před 9 měsíci

    1:24 all ghetto got a liquor store... there use to be a lot of bars in harlem

  • @vrodbr
    @vrodbr Před měsícem

    I wish the neighborhood looked like that when I was growing up in Harlem in the 70s and 80s.😂😂 I grew up on 137th street between 5th and Lenox.

  • @WickedBoo13
    @WickedBoo13 Před rokem +13

    I see a lot of nice cars for this being the "HOOD"

    • @Landis_Grant
      @Landis_Grant Před rokem +7

      Selling drugs is very profitable.

    • @LuisMartinez-mm5oi
      @LuisMartinez-mm5oi Před rokem +5

      people buy much more expensive cars than they should as well. average American car payment is 700+ a month

    • @el.aye.bee.4477
      @el.aye.bee.4477 Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@Landis_Grantso everybody that lives in the hood and drives a nice car is a drug dealer? How do all these people with all these nice cars all co-exist without killing each other over "turf"? Smdh.

    • @carolederent7638
      @carolederent7638 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@Landis_GrantAre you looney? How are there 1000s of dealers in this few blocks of neighborhood shown? Harlem isn’t Kensington Street of Philly or Skid Row of LA

    • @frostyacidity8030
      @frostyacidity8030 Před měsícem

      because this isn’t the 80s anymore where everyone drives box chevys also Harlam isn’t as bad as it was in back in the day.

  • @BaltasarVespuchi
    @BaltasarVespuchi Před 10 měsíci +2

    Looks alright... wouln't wan't to live there though

  • @REALRICHHAITI_
    @REALRICHHAITI_ Před 3 měsíci

    ❤❤❤

  • @b.vonschnauser207
    @b.vonschnauser207 Před 10 měsíci +1

    This actually looks pretty tame for Harlem. Was your drive early in the morning? Also, did you edit out the bands of rogue dirt bike thugs?

  • @scottduke2809
    @scottduke2809 Před 4 měsíci

    how are there basically no cars on the road? heavenly traffic! 😃

  • @joygeegemini9241
    @joygeegemini9241 Před rokem +5

    The projects even look nice. At least they don't tear their projects down. Explains why we don't see any ⛺ s.

  • @toniroman8833
    @toniroman8833 Před rokem +1

    The west side is cool, it's the east side you have to worry about

  • @joygeegemini9241
    @joygeegemini9241 Před rokem +5

    Looks way way better than Kensington. I'm from Louisville & Harlem beats Louisville by a lot.

    • @kyul9357
      @kyul9357 Před rokem

      Louisville is a dump

    • @schuylerhecht8253
      @schuylerhecht8253 Před rokem

      You're clearly a suburban white person..where you from Quakertown PA? 😆... Kensington is the living dead..but no gang of dudes outside a cornerstore on Kensington ever started shit with me and randomly punched me in thr face. Then again I've just walked Kensington minding my business with my NY swag and my arms out of my pockets... so that's real talk

  • @tkso.philly-7868
    @tkso.philly-7868 Před rokem +2

    I🤎 Harlem

  • @longislanddriver6336
    @longislanddriver6336 Před rokem +10

    THANK YOU..
    NEW YORK IS THE #1 CITY.

  • @arpressurewashing5221
    @arpressurewashing5221 Před rokem +1

    Where is Loaded Luxxx!?

    • @Buckz2024
      @Buckz2024 Před 9 měsíci

      Where they from in Harlem mook and rex

  • @thom-mark6443
    @thom-mark6443 Před rokem +8

    Hood? Give me a break. Stayed there in 71' with a lady friend. Most interesting time of my life. Today it's like a suburb.

    • @ghettomerica
      @ghettomerica  Před rokem +1

      I agree. Just going by the ancient reputation. Some people still think it stands as it did in the 70’s. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!

    • @chazzanderson520
      @chazzanderson520 Před rokem

      Go to polo grounds lol

    • @m1ghtysauc397
      @m1ghtysauc397 Před měsícem

      Nothing says hood like a Chase bank and Old Navy lol

  • @rahmanmikaeelrahman7613
    @rahmanmikaeelrahman7613 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I hope it’s a safe city with friendly people

  • @ROLLIE_ROLLIE
    @ROLLIE_ROLLIE Před 3 měsíci

    FREE MAX B

  • @Bradbluebathgate
    @Bradbluebathgate Před 9 měsíci

    Teng Dragon use to be Wo-Hop

  • @TeaGTAG
    @TeaGTAG Před 6 měsíci

    Me looking for Axel and them three men: 🤔☁️➡️👨‍🦯🍑🚶🏿🚶🏿🚶🏿

  • @cowpunkability
    @cowpunkability Před 10 měsíci +2

    I don’t think hood is being used here in the older way is it? Bc Harlem is expensive. It’s a neighborhood but not hood as in busted.

  • @KINGBLACKHULK
    @KINGBLACKHULK Před rokem +2

    The snitches paradise 😂😂😂😂

  • @joygeegemini9241
    @joygeegemini9241 Před rokem +4

    Not anywhere in NYC can be considered "hood" anymore when very few can afford to live there. Where's the homeless encampments? I don't see one. Any ideas?

    • @Bpabrown148
      @Bpabrown148 Před rokem +3

      On the train.

    • @Jhihmoac
      @Jhihmoac Před rokem +1

      No "Homeless Encampments" in NYC... You want those? Cross the Hudson, pick up I - 80, and take that West 'til there's no more of it - clear to San Francisco!

    • @joygeegemini9241
      @joygeegemini9241 Před rokem

      @@Jhihmoac How do they manage that?

    • @Jhihmoac
      @Jhihmoac Před rokem

      @@joygeegemini9241 - Simple, you just LEAVE! The politicians (ditto law enforcement) in NYC don't tolerate, nor encourage any of that homeless squatters garbage! Too many landlords and property owners with far too much to lose and far, FAR too much political pull!

    • @schuylerhecht8253
      @schuylerhecht8253 Před rokem

      @@joygeegemini9241 read the book Mole people...he'll just utilize CZcams and watch a video homeless in NY.

  • @soccerchamp81
    @soccerchamp81 Před měsícem

    Whole Foods market in Harlem? I’m sorry but who in Harlem can afford a Whole Foods…

  • @manelchakroun545
    @manelchakroun545 Před 4 měsíci

    How many black poeple😮

  • @mikej6624
    @mikej6624 Před rokem +2

    Top 3 most dangerous nyc neighborhoods

    • @ghettomerica
      @ghettomerica  Před rokem

      What would you say are the top 3? In what order? Thanks for watching.

    • @mikej6624
      @mikej6624 Před rokem +1

      @@ghettomerica south Bronx, Brownsville, Harlem(east and west included)

    • @ghettomerica
      @ghettomerica  Před rokem +2

      @@mikej6624 I think that’s fair. Can add East New York along with Brownsville.

  • @agthaog1986
    @agthaog1986 Před rokem +2

    No place liek the town... but maaannn gentrification is a mothafukka

    • @ghettomerica
      @ghettomerica  Před rokem

      For sure. Nyc leads the charge in the tri state as far as that goes.

  • @Meandtheghosts
    @Meandtheghosts Před 10 měsíci

    We humans built a city like this huge, and complex, and still don't know how the pyramids was built.Really?!

    • @1q2w3e4r5t6zism
      @1q2w3e4r5t6zism Před 10 měsíci

      The stones were cast at the destination (compare the building style of the Egyptians, hence the location on the water and the sand, cement pits). Therefore: there was never a transport of stones.

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@1q2w3e4r5t6zismHmm yeah... and how did they transport the huge carved stones to the top with only muscular force?

    • @1q2w3e4r5t6zism
      @1q2w3e4r5t6zism Před 10 měsíci

      @@jimbotron70Don't you get it? The stones were stirred together directly at their target location - similar to a cement foundation. So all you had to do was transport the sand and the water up.

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 Před 10 měsíci

      @@1q2w3e4r5t6zism If you really think they made the huge stones by just mixing sand with water like kids at the beach you're lost, in any sense.

    • @1q2w3e4r5t6zism
      @1q2w3e4r5t6zism Před 10 měsíci

      That's it! Incidentally, this is also how the other houses of the Egyptians were built. Inform yourself!@@jimbotron70

  • @roderickgreene8745
    @roderickgreene8745 Před rokem +3

    I like Harlem

    • @ghettomerica
      @ghettomerica  Před rokem +2

      So do I

    • @ZamirMalachi6354
      @ZamirMalachi6354 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@ghettomericaHarlem is controlled by ✡️😈👹💯🇮🇱👀🐀💰🐒🦍🦧🐵🤣

  • @McDark84
    @McDark84 Před 10 měsíci

    Far far better than Phillie......

  • @beereaucrat3233
    @beereaucrat3233 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Kensington philly looks much worse...

  • @dricoirving3236
    @dricoirving3236 Před rokem +3

    it aint the hood anymore!

    • @mikej6624
      @mikej6624 Před rokem +3

      It is

    • @tkso.philly-7868
      @tkso.philly-7868 Před rokem +2

      Gentrification... $$$$$$$.

    • @frankgiuliano380
      @frankgiuliano380 Před rokem +1

      #3 most dangerous area of NYC. That said, on Lenox Ave, there are some good restaurants. best time to visit is Sundays. get out before dark. BTW: some of the architecture is beautiful. The gentrification that started in the early 1980's has stopped.

    • @SoSikWitIt
      @SoSikWitIt Před 7 dny

      @@frankgiuliano380 gentrification started in late 90s and went rampent in 2009-now

  • @schuylerhecht8253
    @schuylerhecht8253 Před rokem +1

    I lived ontop.of that liquor store on 153rd for almost 10 years. I dodged bullets one night, I saw at 3pm on a Sunday afternoon outside that laundromat on 154..a guy leaking to death after getting popped sitting in his car...kids were playing outside the laundromat... Crack and prostitution RUN that hood...once a week gunshots...I just moved out last year...so those of you that think NY got soft it's funny when I see the transplants, tourist, and yuppies walking around in disbelief....shit is still very loud on the zoo block up by the polo grounds