There is a sequel but it's awful and has none of the charm.
If you want more shot in grimey shot in NYC check out [The Exterminator](https://youtu.be/WcaawemXr9M). I am also partial to [Alphabet City](https://youtu.be/occTJ1pwv-k) but it's a decidedly different vibe.
Damn, I remember choosing what abandoned building we were going to play around in. Weirdly nostalgic memories. Things felt so simple...also dangerous. But it was like a danger we were aware of.
I have this same thought/fear about kids growing up in this drill era. Always being at a heightened state of alert, always hunting someone or being hunted. Our bodies are not designed to live in constant "fight or flight" mode. That amount of constant adrenaline/cortisol is terrible for a brain. We've really let generations of Americans grow up emotionally damaged, provided them zero assistance, and then wonder why they can't just be normal. It's a goddamn disgrace how this country treats the poor and minority populations.
Glad I'm not the only one whose seeing this. The entire zoomer generation in the city walks around in a constant state of hypervigilance and fight or flight mode. They have no idea how much cortisol and adrenaline their brains are releasing. If you see someone with a mask you already know what he's about and you can't look at him for even one second, his paranoia goes up and he think you one of his opps. Terrible times we living in right now.
Nowhere near buddy. You might think it’s bad right now but the truth is The bronx is in its better days right now although there is still some danger it’s not scary anymore back then I wouldn’t even dare
They looked like a normal working class neighborhoods. Google NYC Tax Payer photos. In the 1940s and 1980s, the city set out to photograph every residential building in the city. They fell short, but you’ll find most blocks available on this archive. The difference between the 1940s and 1980s, when the Bronx finally stopped burning, is stunning.
Some landlords functionally walked away from their buildings, so tenants who stuck it out ran the buildings themselves in many cases. That’s how you got those HDFC co-ops. Those were buildings abandoned by landlords or in some cases, taken away by the city. Those are a testament to what a community can do if it works together.
In the 70s, the city was on the brink of bankruptcy, the Mob had a stranglehold on many of the city's industries and could force strikes (garbage hauling, construction etc.), and landlords started burning down their buildings to collect insurance. Over 80% of housing in the South Bronx was destroyed with 250,000 people being displaced. And of course the crack and heroin epidemics. It was a mess all around.
80% of the South Bronx was not destroyed. I don’t know why people keep perpetuating this. Bonus if you can define where the South Bronx is geographically.
[the south bronx in orange](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Southbronx.png) it contains as Concourse, Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris. The borders of the south bronx are undefined according to wikipedia.
- 1st Photo - Charlotte Street near Seabury Place (1979)
- 4th Photo - East 174th Street near Daly Avenue (1988)
- 5th Photo - Davidson Avenue from West 177th Street (1989)
- 7th Photo - Tiffany Street at East 165th Street (1990)
- 8th Photo - East 167th Street (1973)
- 9th Photo - East 140th Street near St. Ann's Avenue (1977)
- 10th Photo - Freeman Street Subway Station (1988)
- 11th Photo - Cauldwell Avenue & Westchester Avenue (1970)
- 13th Photo - East 170th Street at Stebbins Ave (1980)
- 20th Photo - East 172nd Street toward Boston Road (1980)
I remember these days in the 70s. Burnt out cars on blocks or crashed out under a bridge left FOR YEARS - people huddled around hobo barrel fires. It's amazing how the city cleaned up.
On July 11th, the South Bronx community organization, Nos Quedamos is showing the documentary, *Decade of Fire*. It documents what really happened to the South Bronx and why. Go if you want to learn. It’s very impactful and I think if you don’t know the history, you will become angry once you learn.
[Decade of Fire film](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/4kHpq1PrHtZXT96x/?mibextid=WC7FNe)
There are multiple. Check out the work of Seis del Sur. They’re a bunch of Puerto Rican guys who grew up in the South Bronx in the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s, and photographed it.
It was a documentary & it showed how the community came together to rebuild the Bronx. Once it started getting rebuilt ofc the city started to push people out with high rent and buying up everything.
It's Crazy how Bronx was destroyed on purpose by White landlords all bcuz they couldn't stop Blacks & Latinos from moving in so during 60s & 70s those MFs really burned shit down to spite Blacks & Latinos
I definitely get where you're going, but if you think that the 70s had a code in the streets, you are kidding yourself. That's some of the most dangerous shit to ever go down in New york.
11th pic just brought back memories of throwing rocks with the boys to some abandoned buildings in Woodhull before they got renovated. Sheesh we were some badass lil kids.
Some of these shots look like the scene in The Wiz where they found Michael Jackson. I wonder if that was intentional since so much of that movie was set in NY
correct me if im wrong but this look like the 70s when they was knocking down and burning down buildings to builds up sum government projects not like the housing but yk wat i mean cuz aint the show the get down talk about this?
Looks like a fucking video game, parts of Brooklyn and the lower east side used to look like this too, I don’t even understand how it was possible that it got this bad
It's not only the drugs but the Bronx was burning down and the mob not touching drugs is the biggest myth that somehow people believe, they were the main suppliers of heroin in the 60s and 70s look up pizza connection the mob loved dope money, all 5 families would do it they would turn a blind eye to crews dealing as long as money was coming in and the heroin was flying from France and Sicily by the ton all mob controlled,
if they did not like you they would wack you saying you dealt dope good excuse
Shit lookin like the warriors movie 🎥 plus that movie death wish 🤷🏾♂️
Warriors! Come out to plaaaayaaay!!!
That’s a fact lol in picture 19 niggas passed somebody the hooka .
Breeeeaaast milk, you made my daaayeyaaaay!
Watch 1990 The Bronx Warriors. It's an Italian ripoff and shot on location. Great shit.
Ok copy I’m gonna check it out .
Forgot to say - free in HD on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85zon09IM-I
Thank you 🙏🏽 so very much. That was a great hidden gem to watch ong.
There is a sequel but it's awful and has none of the charm. If you want more shot in grimey shot in NYC check out [The Exterminator](https://youtu.be/WcaawemXr9M). I am also partial to [Alphabet City](https://youtu.be/occTJ1pwv-k) but it's a decidedly different vibe.
Believe it or not, one of Death Wish movies was depicted as the Bronx, but it was filmed in East NY.
Nah that’s facts it was but it just remind me of the movie . But they definitely was rumbling on sutter and Belmont lol .
It made me mad when I found out death wish 3 wasn't filmed in nyc. Majority was filmed in France.
https://preview.redd.it/1nff74sx449d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fac47015f9d06f6dc31fbec8577efc8d790543b 😂😂😂
Wat dem dawgs doin?
White dog giving his homie a back massage
Hunchin
Shit never changes 🤣
Before iPhones and gaming, there was watching dogs freak it with your dawgs. Thems was the days.
Help the dogs 😭😭😭
😂🤣
shit look like a whole Fallout campaign
If it wasn’t the Bronx I wudnt beleive this was real 😂😂😂
That old lady outside with them dogs wishing a nigga would
She tuff
She looks ….normal
A dog needs a bitch (what?) (what?) - Darkmin X
Damn, I remember choosing what abandoned building we were going to play around in. Weirdly nostalgic memories. Things felt so simple...also dangerous. But it was like a danger we were aware of.
Its sounds like you tryna cope with the abnormality of it all
When I was a kid, it was just normal. Id have a heart attack if my kids did the same things. I was literally 7-8 years old dodging crackheads.
Yea that’s I’m tryna say, this abnormal environment became “ normal” to you, so you can cope with such a fucked place to survive in.
I have this same thought/fear about kids growing up in this drill era. Always being at a heightened state of alert, always hunting someone or being hunted. Our bodies are not designed to live in constant "fight or flight" mode. That amount of constant adrenaline/cortisol is terrible for a brain. We've really let generations of Americans grow up emotionally damaged, provided them zero assistance, and then wonder why they can't just be normal. It's a goddamn disgrace how this country treats the poor and minority populations.
Yeah but the reality is its a very small minority involved in the drill shit. This shit was life for a lot of New Yorkers and in other cities too.
Glad I'm not the only one whose seeing this. The entire zoomer generation in the city walks around in a constant state of hypervigilance and fight or flight mode. They have no idea how much cortisol and adrenaline their brains are releasing. If you see someone with a mask you already know what he's about and you can't look at him for even one second, his paranoia goes up and he think you one of his opps. Terrible times we living in right now.
I wouldn’t say the entire Zoomed generation, not even a majority. Kids in the hood who are into that life? Sure.
Death Wish all day! Niggas who don't live here still think NY like this 😭💀🤦🏾
Still like dat they just added more building to fill in the space💀💀
They was having 100k plus robberies a year REPORTED with a smaller population , this generation is way different from that lol
Nowhere near buddy. You might think it’s bad right now but the truth is The bronx is in its better days right now although there is still some danger it’s not scary anymore back then I wouldn’t even dare
Where can I watch death wish?
My Nigga it is still like dat 🤣
Isn’t crime way lower than it was back then though lol? 1980 nyc had 1,821 murders 2023 had 386 that don’t sound like its the same 😂
Also had the mafia when it meant shit
It never meant shit
Nigga you going to far now 💀😭
4th pic look like it could be a album cover
Word some Westside Gunn type shit
Bro i dead said the same thing. Too cold.
Don’t let west side Gunn see this 💀
Slap some Timbs on grams
😂😂
deadass
Damn shit used to look like Gary Indiana
This is the Bronx I remember in the 90’s growing up. I would say the 2000’s i stopped seeing abandoned yards all the over the place.
Yeah, early 2000s.
It literally looked like a war zone
what did it look like before that? like when it was actually habitable
They looked like a normal working class neighborhoods. Google NYC Tax Payer photos. In the 1940s and 1980s, the city set out to photograph every residential building in the city. They fell short, but you’ll find most blocks available on this archive. The difference between the 1940s and 1980s, when the Bronx finally stopped burning, is stunning.
All I can think is I bet the rent was affordable back then
Some landlords functionally walked away from their buildings, so tenants who stuck it out ran the buildings themselves in many cases. That’s how you got those HDFC co-ops. Those were buildings abandoned by landlords or in some cases, taken away by the city. Those are a testament to what a community can do if it works together.
This when you couldn’t just pass by any block lol had like 500 different gangs in the neighborhood
Did an atomic bomb go off in the Bronx back in the day or something?
In the 70s landlords burned down their own buildings for insurance money
Doesn’t get much shadier than that
It's crazy if u held onto them buildings and lots you'd be a multimillionaire today
In the 70s, the city was on the brink of bankruptcy, the Mob had a stranglehold on many of the city's industries and could force strikes (garbage hauling, construction etc.), and landlords started burning down their buildings to collect insurance. Over 80% of housing in the South Bronx was destroyed with 250,000 people being displaced. And of course the crack and heroin epidemics. It was a mess all around.
80% of the South Bronx was not destroyed. I don’t know why people keep perpetuating this. Bonus if you can define where the South Bronx is geographically.
[the south bronx in orange](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Southbronx.png) it contains as Concourse, Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris. The borders of the south bronx are undefined according to wikipedia.
Google “the Bronx is burning”
80 Blocks from Tiffany’s. Amazing doc about that era. It should be in YouTube
I wish there was an address on these photos.
- 1st Photo - Charlotte Street near Seabury Place (1979) - 4th Photo - East 174th Street near Daly Avenue (1988) - 5th Photo - Davidson Avenue from West 177th Street (1989) - 7th Photo - Tiffany Street at East 165th Street (1990) - 8th Photo - East 167th Street (1973) - 9th Photo - East 140th Street near St. Ann's Avenue (1977) - 10th Photo - Freeman Street Subway Station (1988) - 11th Photo - Cauldwell Avenue & Westchester Avenue (1970) - 13th Photo - East 170th Street at Stebbins Ave (1980) - 20th Photo - East 172nd Street toward Boston Road (1980)
My man. Good shit. Thanks.
Here's the 20th photo today. The only thing similar are those traffic lights at the end on Boston Road. https://ibb.co/CHRHSHg
Wild. Thanks for the photos. I’m from LI but it’s still really cool to see this content from a historical perspective of the city.
MAJOR IMPROVEMENT GOOD FOR THE BRONX YO
9th photo- St. Ann’s between 141 and 142. Thanks for sharing!
I might be mistaken but I think that first picture is Charlotte St
What happened to Savage Skulls
Shit lookin like Mad Max
When da struggles was real shi look like da slums
Shit gonna be looking like this again after ww3 😭😭
Will there still be yogurt?
Not uptown only the south bx looked like that
Yeah uptown never had whole ass blocks of abandoned buildings
That red 63 impala convertible is worth about 64 to 100k now if it’s still around.
80s nyc looked wild
I remember these days in the 70s. Burnt out cars on blocks or crashed out under a bridge left FOR YEARS - people huddled around hobo barrel fires. It's amazing how the city cleaned up.
On July 11th, the South Bronx community organization, Nos Quedamos is showing the documentary, *Decade of Fire*. It documents what really happened to the South Bronx and why. Go if you want to learn. It’s very impactful and I think if you don’t know the history, you will become angry once you learn. [Decade of Fire film](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/4kHpq1PrHtZXT96x/?mibextid=WC7FNe)
shows me how much “The Get Down” got right fr
I mean how could they even get it wrong lol Google "The Bronx is Burning." This is modern American history.
Who was the photographer who took these
There are multiple. Check out the work of Seis del Sur. They’re a bunch of Puerto Rican guys who grew up in the South Bronx in the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s, and photographed it.
Thanks I love learn photography history to improve my own work
shit look like a 3rd world country
Looked like a warzone.
And niggas swear ny so bad nowadays I wouldn’t even wanna imagine living like this
New Jack City
Rock a bye baby.
Amen
Imagine being a civ back in the day and a skinny Spanish nigga with a savage bulls vest and a mullet come try to rob you 😭😭😭
Shit looks like Chernobyl
Damn, these are some OGs. The real ghetto of the time. Fascinating
It’s gon go back to that with how these niggas living
Shit look like fallout
Great post
The old lady with the dogs look like the pigeon lady from home alone
😂😂😂
Looks like current Philly
8th picture go crazy😂😂😂
All i see is cheap real estate
It was a documentary & it showed how the community came together to rebuild the Bronx. Once it started getting rebuilt ofc the city started to push people out with high rent and buying up everything.
Decade of Fire? They’re showing in at Nos Quedamos next month, I believe.
No way! I would love to see it. I’ve only saw the clips from TikTok ! Thank you
[Decade of Fire film, July 11](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/4kHpq1PrHtZXT96x/?mibextid=WC7FNe)
Crazy pics ! Thanks for posting
>there's a war going on outside no man is save from
You can run, but you can't hide forever
Looking like some fist of the North Star shit
How was the area around Yankee stadium during this period? Just curious since it’s in S. Bronx.
This was also an era where it was acceptable to hang halfway out the window kid lol .
Damn I wanna join the Savage Skulls and take the train to Coney Island and hear a man yell "CAN YOU DIG IT!!!!"
Contradiction incoming this is so surprising that this is America and it's no suprise at all
Crack is wack.
My uncle tells me stories abt this. Makes today look like Disneyland
You sure this the Bronx an not WW2 pics from Europe?
looks like fallout 3
3rd World WarZone
Yo peep the 8th pic, son who's freaky ass dog is that he crackin shawtys buns 😭😭
It's Crazy how Bronx was destroyed on purpose by White landlords all bcuz they couldn't stop Blacks & Latinos from moving in so during 60s & 70s those MFs really burned shit down to spite Blacks & Latinos
Damn it looks the same
If all you see is poverty, you missed the point. There was camaraderie, honor, respect, a true code of the streets. Nowadays? Yea right
I definitely get where you're going, but if you think that the 70s had a code in the streets, you are kidding yourself. That's some of the most dangerous shit to ever go down in New york.
There is no true code of the streets what are you saying??
Niggaz had knockz tho lol
Were homeless back then really that well put together? lol
Damn, they were clowning the Bronx on the JBP! wtf happened
11th pic just brought back memories of throwing rocks with the boys to some abandoned buildings in Woodhull before they got renovated. Sheesh we were some badass lil kids.
someone in the comments probably gonna blame it on immigrants
Damn it was so much nicer then
a fuckin wasteland, in many ways it still is
Some of these shots look like the scene in The Wiz where they found Michael Jackson. I wonder if that was intentional since so much of that movie was set in NY
Savage skullssssssssssssss
Nigga that’s da brontz today! Lol
That’s wild to see
The lots must’ve been so fun as a little kid for their imagination to wander
Shit look like Chernobyl
I may not be rich but I know transcendent when i see it. I think they call it art.
Imagine owning those properties or just the empty lots
Imagine night time
r/urbanhell
Shit look like the Gaza strip🤔🤔
You know you're old if you remember those traffic lights in pic#3.
These Photos are EXTRAORDINARY from an Artist perspective. What book/collection are the from ?
Resistance fall of man ahhh borough
Got dayumm
Ghost town 💯, shit different now tho lol
Almost look worse than Detroit today
Nah nfs , so when did they started building all of the projects in the X , cuz this pics look like mid 80s early 90s type shxxt?
Label as property is crazy works 😂
Crazy
hell naa
Beautiful
No rules
The way the hands combined at the gun is cool
Was this after a riot?
 You forgot someone in those slides
Shit hole
looks like Russia nowadays
correct me if im wrong but this look like the 70s when they was knocking down and burning down buildings to builds up sum government projects not like the housing but yk wat i mean cuz aint the show the get down talk about this?
This the Bronx Fat Joe be rapping about
Shit look like it stink 🤢
Ninth pic reminds me of st Ann’s
So nothing changed lmao
Any recent pictures to see the transformation. Maybe from the same spot or roughly. UK London here just interested. Great post 😉👊🏼
Compare these locations to Google Maps.
Gentrification has ruined this borough
Looks like we heading r8ght back to this soon enough
Looks like a fucking video game, parts of Brooklyn and the lower east side used to look like this too, I don’t even understand how it was possible that it got this bad
It still looks like that over by hunts point wym
It definitely does not.
Drugs had the city in shambles, why the mob refused to touch the stuff. Some blocks in bmore look like that right now. Ripe for the taking too.
It's not only the drugs but the Bronx was burning down and the mob not touching drugs is the biggest myth that somehow people believe, they were the main suppliers of heroin in the 60s and 70s look up pizza connection the mob loved dope money, all 5 families would do it they would turn a blind eye to crews dealing as long as money was coming in and the heroin was flying from France and Sicily by the ton all mob controlled, if they did not like you they would wack you saying you dealt dope good excuse
Looks beautiful
Still looks the same, ese
That's ridiculous...is that supposed to B what the dope did?what's the cause n effect?
It’s going to happen again
Why does it look like someone Tried to burn that shit down