Almost all of the cities outside of NYC looks like Buffalo. Rochester, Albany, Niagra Falls, Syracuse, Troy, Schenectady, Utica, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Newburgh and other cities in New York State looks like this.
Every former steel town has neighborhoods falling in. People moved away and many homes were just left to fall in. Old manufacturing buildings become dangerous eyesores. There should be something in place to stop manufacturers from abandoning their factories. Either sell them or tear them down. Those old housing projects should have come down the day after the last person moved out, so the government is complicit in the mess.
Wow 😮 thanks for sharing. Most people want to see videos of exotic places, but this is the reality for most folks in America. Love the ambient sound of your videos. Great work!
Sadly, it’s not uncommon in the rust belt. When communities rely on 1 or 2 companies (manufacturing) and the companies leave or fold, this is the result.
I enjoy watching European city videos, they have poor areas but nothing like American cities, they also preserve their old architecture. Most European cities look very nice.
It's been about six years since I've been to Buffalo since moving further away. I've always liked visiting and it's hard to see it go down further but I appreciate your videos because they show reality. Thanks for this!
Greets from Hamburg in Germany. as a facility manager I love to watch such videos and I thing that the red bricks came from the scottisch irisch and german settlers or workers, red bricks are a traditionall building material. Hamburg is the second biggest city in Germany and is "the red bricks" house city. Many buildings like the "Chile Haus" big office buildings are made out of this bricks. Buffallo today looks like many citys of the usa where NOT the rich live.
My sister ran away from home back in the early 70's. We found her in Buffalo NY. She was pregnant and living with a guy. My parents tried to get her to come home but she wanted to stay. My dad made the guy marry her. We went to Niagara Falls after that and back home to Pittsburgh. When I saw B. NY..it brought back memories..😊
This hurts to see. I grew up in Rochester, Buffalo, and Greece. My grandma has lived in Rochester by #7 school for over 60 years. When I was little, we would walk to Wegmans, school, and church with no fear. But that has changed!!! I beg her to move but she won't. She's been robbed and still won't move. I moved to Florida many years ago and will never move back to NY. It hurts to see the condition the city has been reduced to. The beautiful buildings wasting away... Sad.
Just across the border in Canada, people are spending $2,000 per month just for a single bedroom to sleep in. In Buffalo, the same room costs only $500 per month. If you want the Buffalo economy to pick up, just allow Canadians to live in Buffalo for the nights, then have them commute to their jobs back in Canada in the morning. You will have hundreds of thousand of Canadians flocking to Buffalo for cheaper housing, and they will then be spending their money in Buffalo for groceries and other things, and this influx of millions of dollars each month will help support the Buffalo economy.
Canadians in Windsor cross the border daily to work in Detroit. What you say re: living in Buffalo sounds good but the crime perception might hold people back.
Some rust belt towns have died. Others have not. Bethlehem, PA, has taken the derelict Steel Stacks and turned them into a thriving arts center. They also have walkways so you can walk along the old steel stacks.
What area of Buffalo is this? I grew up on the West Side during the 1970s/80's . currently live in North Tonawanda.. Is this south of Downtown? Like where the Perry projects used to be?
That’s one side of town. It is actually undergoing a major makeover starting with the waterfront. It’s also not too hot or cold and has 2 fresh water lakes.
Ah man...Poor Buffalo...lived there when I was only 3 n 4 for 1 year...so coarse my Memories are sparred from what might of been...really I just remember the Weather being absolutely Wild...70° one day 4 ft of Snow the Next...
The city's population has dropped by about 50% since its peak in around 1950 - half as many people need half as many buildings, and this is the result.
Hamilton ontario I drove through was a massive industrial city at one time. Based on what I saw it has bounced back . I didn't see any areas like this there . Many Towers going up in it's downtown . Why hasn't Buffalo been able to turn around?
Also Buffalo is not as bad as other Rust Belt cities in terms of decay. The city is actually recovering for quite some time and more people are moving here from the Northeast cities.
Very interesting video. I lived there for 15 years and would take drives like this. I could never figure out the city. Looking rough..? this implies that this is something recent ..has been this way for years..no decades. But, there are bright spots in Buffalo. Elmwood is looking great, and at least there isn't an empty tower at the end of main st. In NYC presently, but actually looking to perhaps get an apt up there to live maybe 4-5 months out of the year. Summers in the Buffalo area are lovely. (Note: Take a drive around Salamanca one day.)
I crossed the border from Canada to Buffallo back in the 90's. I was only there for a couple off hours, I didn't see areas like this but what I saw made me feel very nervous. It was very dystopian.
Yet, across the river in Fort Erie, vacant lots are selling for $200K+. Every time I cross the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls I'm shocked at the comparison between the glitzy west side to the destitute eastern side.
Buffalo is another great american that was sold out. Here is something to think about . In the last 70 years united states population in 1940 was 132,165,129 million . In 2020 it 331,449 281 ...The u.s. population has tripled in 80 year. Threw automation has cut jobs. Now low paying retail and service job that left.
Looks like its hasn't changed much from when I was there in the 90s....We took a wrong turn and ended up in this area...My head was on permanent swivel until we got out of area...
Its the old Buffalo Psychiatric Center (A mental asylum), those are the wings that gradually got shorter as they went out. The more insane the patients were, the farther out from the central administration building they'd be housed. The outer wings that he showed in the video are abandoned, the middle few are a hotel and on the other side a few were unfortunately demolished to build the outbuildings of the current psychiatric center.
Yet there’s almost 900k people in the region if you include the suburbs. The city is a hollowed out shell but the region itself is a pretty scarce property market of late with rapidly rising prices.
📉 Economics dictate. It's basic math. If 1 or 2 companies are 80% of the towns employment and tax revenue, and one or both closes. That's the end of the town. Buffalo is such an example. Very sad.
Yep, that's the East Side for you. Most of Buffalo's land area is not like this, but the decline over the decades will still result in large areas of abandonment. It all comes down to the loss of manufacturing jobs.
A tragic fall of a once great American city! Buffalo was known in 1900 as the "Queen of the Great Lakes" for its energy and breathtaking architecture. Detroit and other similar cities once teemed with magical, mesmerising architecture. St. Louis was among the world's greatest cities in the early 20th century. Americans should not have allowed their once glorious cities to fall into such shameful decay.
Buffalo really is a cool city still- these sites and sights not withstanding. This was the Queen City of the whole great lakes region, second only to Chicago. To this day, this city still has the most diverse array of architecture styles of any city, and even the old crumbling stuff is still present and spared because this city fell fast and hard right before urban renewal projects really became popular. It was the closing of steel mills, and also the opening of the Welland canal in Canada and the St Lawrence Seaway that directed ship traffic away that this Erie canal gateway city began to dwindle. Still a great town though
i grew up there but was injured during Blizzard of 77. after some rehab moved to Ft Lauderdale I never moved back. Great food, many friends but that snow! Go Bills!!! when I moved to South Florida so did tens of thousands of Buffalo area people but didn’t know that at that time.
This is sad. My grandfather grew up in Buffalo during the 1950s and 60s and he said during that time Buffalo was booming with businesses and a fun nightlife with lots of clubs. I wonder when it all changed and why.
Buffalo has been dying for decades. Did you know Buffalo was one of the first cities with abundant electricity? Yes they had hydro-electric power back in the 1880s. It was just a boom town. Once electricity became more widespread in America businesses moved away.
so many beautiful buildings just abandoned ... makes me mad. It´s just frustrating to see that.
8:15 - Now, that oughtta tell you somethin': the ONLY business that is STILL up n running is the liquor store!
That’s a sad reality 😢
Almost all of the cities outside of NYC looks like Buffalo. Rochester, Albany, Niagra Falls, Syracuse, Troy, Schenectady, Utica, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Newburgh and other cities in New York State looks like this.
Have spent time in Utica, decades ago. Even then it was a mighty grim place.
Elmwood Village in Buffalo & Fleetwood Mt. Vernon look nothing like this. There are two sides to the coin.
Yonkers actually looks better than this
That big old abandoned church,beautiful building so sad to see it decaying
It's sad to see any once thriving beautiful place go downhill. Not just a church.
Every former steel town has neighborhoods falling in. People moved away and many homes were just left to fall in. Old manufacturing buildings become dangerous eyesores. There should be something in place to stop manufacturers from abandoning their factories. Either sell them or tear them down. Those old housing projects should have come down the day after the last person moved out, so the government is complicit in the mess.
Well said...agree 100%
Absolutely true
Good point.
Maybe house the homeless?
Wow 😮 thanks for sharing. Most people want to see videos of exotic places, but this is the reality for most folks in America. Love the ambient sound of your videos. Great work!
Thanks for watching!
WHEN THE CHURCHES ARE BOARDED UP YOU KNOW IT'S OVER.😮
For an European it’s interesting to see this kind of the American way of life.
Sadly, it’s not uncommon in the rust belt. When communities rely on 1 or 2 companies (manufacturing) and the companies leave or fold, this is the result.
I enjoy watching European city videos, they have poor areas but nothing like American cities, they also preserve their old architecture. Most European cities look very nice.
Where life ?
It's been about six years since I've been to Buffalo since moving further away. I've always liked visiting and it's hard to see it go down further but I appreciate your videos because they show reality. Thanks for this!
Thanks for watching!
Toronto is only an hour away and it’s like a completely different world.
Very true this is sad😢
At one point in the late 60s early 70s Toronto and Buffalo were competing in population and growth and wealth.
2 hours
Toronto was never a big manufacturing town. Windsor is probably a better example.
The decline of the Roman Empire.
You know things are bad when the cops abandoned a police station
Every video of every city and town comes down to “the jobs left”. That’s what happened. They came for the jobs and then the jobs went away.
0:39 - The PERFECT location to film a Zombie movie...!!
Greets from Hamburg in Germany. as a facility manager I love to watch such videos and I thing that the red bricks came from the scottisch irisch and german settlers or workers, red bricks are a traditionall building material. Hamburg is the second biggest city in Germany and is "the red bricks" house city. Many buildings like the "Chile Haus" big office buildings are made out of this bricks.
Buffallo today looks like many citys of the usa where NOT the rich live.
My sister ran away from home back in the early 70's. We found her in Buffalo NY. She was pregnant and living with a guy. My parents tried to get her to come home but she wanted to stay. My dad made the guy marry her. We went to Niagara Falls after that and back home to Pittsburgh. When I saw B. NY..it brought back memories..😊
Decadent, depressive and still fascinating : seems like lot of places in the US are falling apart
I lived there in the early 70’s. It was pretty depressing then too.
This hurts to see. I grew up in Rochester, Buffalo, and Greece. My grandma has lived in Rochester by #7 school for over 60 years. When I was little, we would walk to Wegmans, school, and church with no fear. But that has changed!!! I beg her to move but she won't. She's been robbed and still won't move. I moved to Florida many years ago and will never move back to NY. It hurts to see the condition the city has been reduced to. The beautiful buildings wasting away... Sad.
A lot of Buffalo is very nice. Every city has its hood.
Just across the border in Canada, people are spending $2,000 per month just for a single bedroom to sleep in. In Buffalo, the same room costs only $500 per month. If you want the Buffalo economy to pick up, just allow Canadians to live in Buffalo for the nights, then have them commute to their jobs back in Canada in the morning. You will have hundreds of thousand of Canadians flocking to Buffalo for cheaper housing, and they will then be spending their money in Buffalo for groceries and other things, and this influx of millions of dollars each month will help support the Buffalo economy.
Canadians in Windsor cross the border daily to work in Detroit. What you say re: living in Buffalo sounds good but the crime perception might hold people back.
100%! Sounds good to me.
The only huge flaw is the wait at the border. If this could happen, the wait could be 3 hours +. Nope. Not happening.
What happened was America evolved from a manufacturing to a service based economy
There’s too many people homeless to have so many empty buildings. It’s so ridiculous.
@ToriNore My same thoughts.
Some rust belt towns have died. Others have not. Bethlehem, PA, has taken the derelict Steel Stacks and turned them into a thriving arts center. They also have walkways so you can walk along the old steel stacks.
What area of Buffalo is this? I grew up on the West Side during the 1970s/80's . currently live in North Tonawanda..
Is this south of Downtown? Like where the Perry projects used to be?
That’s one side of town. It is actually undergoing a major makeover starting with the waterfront. It’s also not too hot or cold and has 2 fresh water lakes.
I do love the winter sky and the bare branches on the trees. Thanks for the video💗
It’s really sad to see the abandoned churches.
Ah man...Poor Buffalo...lived there when I was only 3 n 4 for 1 year...so coarse my Memories are sparred from what might of been...really I just remember the Weather being absolutely Wild...70° one day 4 ft of Snow the Next...
The city's population has dropped by about 50% since its peak in around 1950 - half as many people need half as many buildings, and this is the result.
Is this the new trend in the US? Plywood windows!
It feels like the end of the world happened before the end of the world.
Nigra Falls, which is 20 min from Buffalo, looks exactly like that .
Niagra is coming up soon on the channel!
@hoodsnhollers I was there last summer for a couple of days. Please show the real niagra falls, not just a fall.
Steel plants closed
High taxes
Bad weather
etc
Hamilton ontario I drove through was a massive industrial city at one time. Based on what I saw it has bounced back . I didn't see any areas like this there . Many Towers going up in it's downtown . Why hasn't Buffalo been able to turn around?
WOW, another great video. Your camera is so clear and awsome. Thanks for the ride!
Thanks so much !
It's like this all over north America,even small towns.
Also Buffalo is not as bad as other Rust Belt cities in terms of decay. The city is actually recovering for quite some time and more people are moving here from the Northeast cities.
What the hell HADN'T happened???
Very interesting video. I lived there for 15 years and would take drives like this. I could never figure out the city. Looking rough..? this implies that this is something recent ..has been this way for years..no decades. But, there are bright spots in Buffalo. Elmwood is looking great, and at least there isn't an empty tower at the end of main st. In NYC presently, but actually looking to perhaps get an apt up there to live maybe 4-5 months out of the year. Summers in the Buffalo area are lovely. (Note: Take a drive around Salamanca one day.)
Sad to see...I was born and raised there.......left and never went back....
In terms of sheer ugliness and depressing vibes, Buffalo has Detroit beat.
detroit still way worse.
The industrial age was when everyone could eat, but those days are now long gone.
I crossed the border from Canada to Buffallo back in the 90's. I was only there for a couple off hours, I didn't see areas like this but what I saw made me feel very nervous. It was very dystopian.
Yet, across the river in Fort Erie, vacant lots are selling for $200K+.
Every time I cross the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls I'm shocked at the comparison between the glitzy west side to the destitute eastern side.
I lived in Kingston NY back in 2000 and drove through Newburgh. It was pretty grim looking back then. Can't imagine how bad it is now.
Well the lumber companies are thriving selling all that plywood.
Buffalo is another great american that was sold out. Here is something to think about . In the last 70 years united states population in 1940 was 132,165,129 million . In 2020 it 331,449 281 ...The u.s. population has tripled in 80 year. Threw automation has cut jobs. Now low paying retail and service job that left.
What is the name of that big complex of red brick buildings? And why does it look abandoned ?
Perry Street projects, owned by the state.
There should have been something in place to stop manufacturers from abandoning their country!
What is the building at the 15:11 mark? It looks like an asylum.
Former Buffalo Psychiatric Hospital. It's a Kirkbride designed asylum.
It was! The middle and first wing on either side is now an upscale hotel, the rest are either being renovated or just abandoned.
@@ethanmcdonald7840 I thought the Hotel went bankrupt and closed.
Always so sad to see places like this. When I think of Buffalo I think of Niagara falls
Canadian side of Niagara Falls in head and shoulders above American side.
Looks like its hasn't changed much from when I was there in the 90s....We took a wrong turn and ended up in this area...My head was on permanent swivel until we got out of area...
He drove through the Perry Projects. N those are going to be torn down and the neighborhood revitalized
Wow! What are those huge buildings ? They were all attached.
Its the old Buffalo Psychiatric Center (A mental asylum), those are the wings that gradually got shorter as they went out. The more insane the patients were, the farther out from the central administration building they'd be housed. The outer wings that he showed in the video are abandoned, the middle few are a hotel and on the other side a few were unfortunately demolished to build the outbuildings of the current psychiatric center.
You should visit Hamilton and London Ontario as well.
Guess nobody's shuffling off to Buffalo any more...
It is so sad to see what has happened to this once beautiful city.
Thanks!
Thank you so very much!
The old Richardson building has some cool architecture I think.
Where do the city's residents work, who is left behind? How do they live?
The jobs usually leave AFTER crime is not controlled.
Not enough jobs then
I live outside the 716... i grew up here and wow.. it's very sad. Thanks for showing the other half of this city. I hope someday there's industry
Thanks for watching!
Yet there’s almost 900k people in the region if you include the suburbs. The city is a hollowed out shell but the region itself is a pretty scarce property market of late with rapidly rising prices.
Was the huge fenced-off area an old college campus? How sad. Thanks for the great job.
I'm wondering what it is, too.
Nope, that is part of the Buffalo Psychiatric Center that closed down years ago. It is supposed to be haunted.
I love Buffalo and its people but: No jobs = No money = No food = I'm outta here
Looks alot like Southwest Detroit
Looks very similar to Chicago where I’m from. Crazy how cities that have winter months make their buildings and homes very similar to one another
4:24 wow the contrast!
Wow. 😮… 😢… sad to see this. Thank you for sharing ❤
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This is the solution to the homeless problem in America.
Just renovate these empty environments and place them right there.
God what a depressing looking place. It makes me sad to see some of those beautiful structures just empty and slowly decaying.
📉 Economics dictate. It's basic math. If 1 or 2 companies are 80% of the towns employment and tax revenue, and one or both closes. That's the end of the town. Buffalo is such an example. Very sad.
Even Mr. Beeper and Promo the robot left town!
Buffalo, New York has been like this for 30yrs
What happened to buffalos?
The signs of a strong economy
No real economy and lake effect snow doesn't sound cozy and inviting.
Manufacturing, railroad hub, Great lakes shipping.... The world changed and left Buffalo behind....my birth city.
Buffalo been rough for decades plus once again their field goal kicker failed them....
Yep, that's the East Side for you. Most of Buffalo's land area is not like this, but the decline over the decades will still result in large areas of abandonment. It all comes down to the loss of manufacturing jobs.
A tragic fall of a once great American city! Buffalo was known in 1900 as the "Queen of the Great Lakes" for its energy and breathtaking architecture. Detroit and other similar cities once teemed with magical, mesmerising architecture. St. Louis was among the world's greatest cities in the early 20th century. Americans should not have allowed their once glorious cities to fall into such shameful decay.
Omg!! It looks depressing and abandoned.
Just look at those huge buildings and think about the old days when that whole area was booming and rich.
It's like a zombie apocalypse took place there.
how often do you think of the roman empire ? but fr there should be some use to these once-beautiful houses
I was born and raised in Buffalo back in the 70s, I moved away in the mid 90's and to see it like this now almost brings me to tears 😢 So sad...
How can the US be the strongest and richest country in the world with these cities and environments?! No understand...
What beautiful architect buildings there is much that can be done for this area it still looks beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching
When I was little my mother would give me a dime so I could take the streetcar down Fillmore to visit my Grandmother.
0:40 That's a public housing project that's be demolished for new construction
Buffalo is also cold as heck. People do move to warmer places.
Buffalo really is a cool city still- these sites and sights not withstanding. This was the Queen City of the whole great lakes region, second only to Chicago. To this day, this city still has the most diverse array of architecture styles of any city, and even the old crumbling stuff is still present and spared because this city fell fast and hard right before urban renewal projects really became popular. It was the closing of steel mills, and also the opening of the Welland canal in Canada and the St Lawrence Seaway that directed ship traffic away that this Erie canal gateway city began to dwindle. Still a great town though
I lived there from 1996-2019. During that time nothing changed there except the amount of snow
i grew up there but was injured during Blizzard of 77. after some rehab moved to Ft Lauderdale I never moved back. Great food, many friends but that snow! Go Bills!!! when I moved to South Florida so did tens of thousands of Buffalo area people but didn’t know that at that time.
This is sad. My grandfather grew up in Buffalo during the 1950s and 60s and he said during that time Buffalo was booming with businesses and a fun nightlife with lots of clubs. I wonder when it all changed and why.
Why is Buffalo like this?
Even the trees look creepy
Buffalo has been dying for decades. Did you know Buffalo was one of the first cities with abundant electricity? Yes they had hydro-electric power back in the 1880s. It was just a boom town. Once electricity became more widespread in America businesses moved away.
The life's and stories those old buildings must have 😔
Nice to see someone filming were we live nice
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