I stayed in ABQ for three months in 2022. I’m naturally very self aware of my surroundings. I rented a place off Menaul Blvd. but did most of my shopping in the North Valley. I now live in a small town in Georgia. Though not to this extent, every city has their “war zone” be it big or small. I’m very thankful for the beautiful parts of ABQ. The food! I still have a bottle of hatch chile wine. I hiked Sandia. The Petroglyphs. Marble Brewery. Old Town. I even had time to go to Madrid and Santa Fe.
Heading home has a great system for helping people. Medical facility, beds to sleep, laundry, library, computers and the most important part counsel to help navigate the system to get the services available.
You can score the blues for $1 now these days. The market is so flooded. From $25-$30 it dropped to that low. Kinda gives you an idea of how much is on the streets these days. Wild shit. Dig the video my man.
Thanks for the tour of my neighborhood. The solid waste workers and the po lice have been shuffling the unsheltered mostly early mornings Mon-Wed. I imagine you toured the War Zone right before the Pride parade is why you didn't see a good portion of our unsheltered people. I notice alot of those fences that businesses have put up leave little room for our wheelchair residents on the sidewalks? It's also embarrassing that the sidewalks aren't really handicapped and disabled, accessible in 2024? Especially since this is where lower income people live.
If you need to utilize the sidewalk when cycling and pedestrians are present, you need to dismount and walk your bike for the safety of others. It's just common courtesy!
New Mexico is actually a beautiful state. I BLAME the Government for not helping these ppl. Finally after all the pitching some of us did. They finally made a housing for these ppl with programs to help with their addiction. Yes some don't want the help but this disease really messes with yr mind.
The caravan belonged to the lowman family (sp) great country bands would come and play their. 🌵 Massive dance floor. I used to perform refrigeration work there back in the day.
I moved to Albuquerque in 2016 why do they call it "International District"? I understand "the war zone" but international 🤔 I don't get it. I was waiting for a bus there once & was asked what kind of drugs I preferred 😮 I don't think I looked like I did drugs I was a 58 yr old lady wearing new blue jeans & a tee shirt with sandles (expensive sandles) my hair was clean & brushed had make-up on like an older lady would. Felt weird!! I haven't done drugs since 1982.
I think this is very sad. It's clear this was at one time a thriving quiet community. Likely people had lived there most of their lives, and opened businesses. They were living the American dream. Now this drug comes along and took root in this community somehow. So no one's house or business is worth anything. Who would buy a house or business there? So it appears that good people who have nothing to do with this are now stuck there until things change. I mean kids cannot even ride their bike over to that school park to play. At least I wouldn't let my child out in that neighborhood without some adult present!
Wasn’t like like 5-6 years ago, most these ppl aren’t even from NM, other states dump there overflow of homeless on us! These areas were bad but not this bad, n it’s a damn shame!!! No sympathy for these ppl!
Actually Great Vlog man !!! i want to explore Albuquerque because of there is awesome landscapes and need to know peoples lifestyle. am from India. is it safe for solo traveler. if am came could you help for taking me to warzone?
I used to drive at night in this war-zone from work, and busier than daytime, feeling not safe; in order for me to avoid the menace, I had to speed-up, oh boy racing all the time w/ my dodge Charger like a movie “Need for Speed”, who happened it’s our very own actor from New Mexico that popularized the movie “Breaking Bad”.Coincidence?
The Fairgrounds are always in the worst part of town in every city i've been to...and thats a lot of cities_ must be a requirement I don't know about_ same with Football stadiums_ Theres a lot of homeless here in NM_ California buses their homeless to other states, that creates a big problem for states that didn't create the problem
Soft on crime policies the people in the north valley vote this in and the people in the south valley and the war zone have to deal with it… I’m from the north valley
They used to throw away their clothes😮 I've seen first a shirt half a block pants another half a block a pair of shoes within the next block there's the socks & underwear 😢
Sad to see my home city so locked down, filthy and crazy. I suppose im somewhat spartan in my views that people who do not wish to contribute to society do not deserve a place in it.
If you are an addict and live for drugs each day and you only have one life and that’s how you want to Live it before you die then that’s your choice but go where the rest of us. Don’t have to look at it. Or clean yourself up and live life like a human being and make a change ! Change is hard but life is just as hard for all of us that are sober and live life on life’s terms , we get up everyday sober and still in the same world they are ! We don’t walk around poor me with our hand our hoping someone will feel sorry for us because we choose to do drugs and this right here is the out come ! What did you think was going to happen when you chose that life ?
A zombie is made when a boker generates or fakes a regular temporary brain death against the boker's target. After the brain death is induced the boker performs a rite of revival. Zombies are usually sent out into the fields at night, where they function as slaves for their masters. Onile Ogun.
Just look at the APD in general. Remember when Cops came to town and the mayor kicked them out cause they weren't showing ABQ in a good light, wasn't that ABQ just providing the entertainment, it wasn't Cops the TV shows fault, lol. ABQ has a lot of problems, but could be a nice place for sure.
I've lived in Albuquerque for 2 years now. The War Zone still looks like this. The city continues to struggle with poverty, inequality, and corruption. How is that different from anywhere else in the US? It's NOT. 😂 Burque just has the spine to be rough around the edges right out in the open. Albuquerque is a charming, sleepy city located in a poor Southwestern state. It's very much the Wild West, and when you mix in social problems and the same government ineptitude every state faces, it's not surprising that we have tent cities on some of our streets.
I lived in Albuquerque a while back ('95 and '96) and still have friends there. I have never, ever heard it called Burque. ABQ? Yes. The 505? Yes. Burque? No. Is Burque a hipster thing or what?
@@darricshhh I don't know if it's a hipster thing, but I have cousins who have lived here all their lives and have always called it Burque. Maybe it's become more popular since you left?
If you are on a bike or scooter 🛴🛵, you and riding on the side Walk, you are supposed to yield to the pedestrians on the side Walk, if I was walking on side Walk, I would not move for anyone on a bike or scooter 🛴🛵, he will wait me, it's a side Walk, you don't want car's the to hit you, so stay off the side Walk so you won't hit them walking on the sidewalk, side Walk only for walking, unless you are in a wheelchair, but I understand people on bikes or scooters, but you have to stop and let the pedestrians walking on the sidewalk, people walking on the sidewalk have the right away people on bikes must stop and let them pass or go around on the street and get back on the sidewalk but nobody walking on the sidewalk you have to pause for anybody on the bike or a motor scooter unless it's a wheelchair
In ABQ, yes, you’re supposed to yield the right of way to pedestrians. That said, you allowed to overtake on the left hand side, but you have to audibly let people know that’s what you’re doing, which Buggs did.
@@UhhhImTrashSorry bikes belong on the streets or bike lines, I understand why people on bikes are using the side Walks , because of the people in car's don't pay attention, but if you must ride on the sidewalk on bikes, fine, but you give the pedestrians on the sidewalk the right away, as for me, i don't move out of the way of people on bikes, they have to wait on me, because it says in the name sidewalk and not bike lines
Showing people the area of Albuquerque known as the WarZone. He definitely should have spoken on the history of the area and how and why it got its nickname “The WarZone”
@@MsPaulieboy It’s a section of Albuquerque where rival gangs and drug dealers literally went to war causing many drivers to-by shootings and countless murders. So many murders that locals began to call that section of Albuquerque “The War Zone” because that’s literally what it seemed like. I believe the name first came about sometime in the 80s during the crack epidemic and heroin crisis all across New Mexico. The name stuck and as you can see it’s still a dangerous part of town so the name has never went away. It’s still a war zone to this day, just not on the level it was in the 80s-90s. The murders have spread out, but the war zone is still a dangerous place to be if your deep in the streets depending what gangs/neighborhoods you ride with, etc. there’s ALOT of different gangs and “crews” in Albuquerque but the war zone is kind of a central area for a Neighborhood Crip set known as the War Zone Crips. But there’s so many gangs, I can’t even get started it would take an hour long documentary to name them all lol. Here’s a good documentary of what the warzone is like today. ruclips.net/video/RfM4bvy8G1w/видео.htmlsi=b3cSgQZe5QBTiM2x
@@MsPaulieboy because going back to the 80s it’s an area of town that experienced constant shootings and murders. Theres several gangs in the area as well that were literally “at war” and the daily shootings and murders got it its name, the WAR ZONE. It was a dangerous area all the way into the 90s where gangs and drug dealers warred with each other for turf, and reputation. To this day it’s still located in a bad part of the city, still lots of gangs, homelessness, poverty, and drugs but the murders have spread out all over the city of Albuquerque, but it will probably always remain known as the war zone because of the murder rate and the high crime rate. Here’s a better video/documentary on “the war zone” : ruclips.net/video/RfM4bvy8G1w/видео.htmlsi=ujIYeWnGYZTTqcoM
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Griffs was the best hamburger in Albuquerque!
Hell yea it was!! Bobs burger and taco burgers are pretty
🔥🔥 as well, their green chile really never was disappointing.
They tore down Griff’s
Griffs is n Fort Worth
Back in the day 😢…….
They closed down because of you no good people around here
Never been to Buque but I hope to ride my horse there someday. 😁
You are putting that bike to good use.
I stayed in ABQ for three months in 2022. I’m naturally very self aware of my surroundings. I rented a place off Menaul Blvd. but did most of my shopping in the North Valley. I now live in a small town in Georgia. Though not to this extent, every city has their “war zone” be it big or small. I’m very thankful for the beautiful parts of ABQ. The food! I still have a bottle of hatch chile wine. I hiked Sandia. The Petroglyphs. Marble Brewery. Old Town. I even had time to go to Madrid and Santa Fe.
@@0000TheGent I lived in Ga for a bit in Columbia, also a couple of yrs in Dalton (or as I called it "carpet" Ga. 🤣😂🤣)
We need a video of this place at night, theres none 😂😂
Fs, abq is def much different at night!
@@THEGLASSMANSWORLD thx gonna watch
@@THEGLASSMANSWORLD where I couldn't find it on your page
Not really what you would expect but Not as active at night
@@THEGLASSMANSWORLD where? Is it recently?
Damn that bikes fast. Never seen central so dead
@@dirtyscoundrel2013 20 mph
@MichaelWilliams-ro9bm looked faster. Thanks for replying
@@dirtyscoundrel2013 they have a max speed of twenty mph on most electrics.
Keep it up, your content is nice
It’s because we have a week governor 🤯
Heading home has a great system for helping people. Medical facility, beds to sleep, laundry, library, computers and the most important part counsel to help navigate the system to get the services available.
You can score the blues for $1 now these days. The market is so flooded. From $25-$30 it dropped to that low. Kinda gives you an idea of how much is on the streets these days. Wild shit. Dig the video my man.
What is a blue?
@jewzone8784 that is low.
Synthetic Fentanyl the drug that’s dropping ppl like flies
I used to live at cinnamon tree on central ave. There's lots of fencing and lots of homelessness now wow 😮
Thanks for the tour of my neighborhood.
The solid waste workers and the po lice have been shuffling the unsheltered mostly early mornings Mon-Wed. I imagine you toured the War Zone right before the Pride parade is why you didn't see a good portion of our unsheltered people.
I notice alot of those fences that businesses have put up leave little room for our wheelchair residents on the sidewalks?
It's also embarrassing that the sidewalks aren't really handicapped and disabled, accessible in 2024? Especially since this is where lower income people live.
If you need to utilize the sidewalk when cycling and pedestrians are present, you need to dismount and walk your bike for the safety of others. It's just common courtesy!
@@narragarrathunder-rider8146 haha grow a pair
What's that big pit next to the library supposed to be?
Has to be a electric bike hahaha
By far the best video on NM here. Thanks Alex.
New Mexico is actually a beautiful state. I BLAME the Government for not helping these ppl. Finally after all the pitching some of us did. They finally made a housing for these ppl with programs to help with their addiction. Yes some don't want the help but this disease really messes with yr mind.
One night I passed that McDonalds on Wyoming and they had a bonfire behind there
Will you please share the bike model you are using?
I don't know why but I like watching your videos ❤🎉 thanks
Its very dangerous out there I stayed there for four months on Tennessee st I believe. Off central
The homeless encampments in this area are largely along Trumbull Ave, a little south of Central.
The caravan belonged to the lowman family (sp) great country bands would come and play their. 🌵 Massive dance floor. I used to perform refrigeration work there back in the day.
I appreciate you RJ 😎👌👁️👂👍❤️ #1love ABQ
Not once but twice I pulled into that gas station and the price of diesel 'magically' went up 10¢/gallon in price upon which I exited the bay
I moved to Albuquerque in 2016 why do they call it "International District"? I understand "the war zone" but international 🤔 I don't get it. I was waiting for a bus there once & was asked what kind of drugs I preferred 😮 I don't think I looked like I did drugs I was a 58 yr old lady wearing new blue jeans & a tee shirt with sandles (expensive sandles) my hair was clean & brushed had make-up on like an older lady would. Felt weird!! I haven't done drugs since 1982.
Every time... even in the heights you get asked for drugs at the bus stops
😂
this is like Disney land compare to what you see in Oakland , and San Francisco ... lol
I build fences in the war zone alot it's crazy the stuff you see.
Do you have a e-bike? And we’re did you get it ?
Its like you see one block youve seen the whole city everywhere looks the same. Sure youre not riding in circles.
Yeah once it starts turning night I leave or go home … 😊
Interesting video. I was tracking your street bike ride via Google Maps to get a better layout of the tour. You move quick!
Get you a beep beep horn.
I think this is very sad. It's clear this was at one time a thriving quiet community. Likely people had lived there most of their lives, and opened businesses. They were living the American dream. Now this drug comes along and took root in this community somehow. So no one's house or business is worth anything. Who would buy a house or business there? So it appears that good people who have nothing to do with this are now stuck there until things change. I mean kids cannot even ride their bike over to that school park to play. At least I wouldn't let my child out in that neighborhood without some adult present!
Aaaahh at 2:20 it looks like you are about to run into that tent thing
Wasn’t like like 5-6 years ago, most these ppl aren’t even from NM, other states dump there overflow of homeless on us! These areas were bad but not this bad, n it’s a damn shame!!! No sympathy for these ppl!
Actually Great Vlog man !!! i want to explore Albuquerque because of there is awesome landscapes and need to know peoples lifestyle. am from India. is it safe for solo traveler. if am came could you help for taking me to warzone?
I used to drive at night in this war-zone from work, and busier than daytime, feeling not safe; in order for me to avoid the menace, I had to speed-up, oh boy racing all the time w/ my dodge Charger like a movie “Need for Speed”, who happened it’s our very own actor from New Mexico that popularized the movie “Breaking Bad”.Coincidence?
I’ve seen much worse than this in San Diego, Phoenix, Houston and Tucson
I moved to ABQ 1 1/2 years ago and it’s mostly very nice
Yeah they been cleaning it up for years, it's starting to look like a decent town.
No where l can Get a nice message on Cagua?
Albuquerque looks like a real shit hole. I guess that's everywhere now?
Nah the rich part nice
Our city is beautiful, fuq these homeless assholes that duty a small area up! Most of them are not even from here!!!!
No that’s just a small area. There’s a lot of nice areas in ABQ.
The Fairgrounds are always in the worst part of town in every city i've been to...and thats a lot of cities_ must be a requirement I don't know about_ same with Football stadiums_ Theres a lot of homeless here in NM_ California buses their homeless to other states, that creates a big problem for states that didn't create the problem
Soft on crime policies the people in the north valley vote this in and the people in the south valley and the war zone have to deal with it… I’m from the north valley
Anybody know what kind of e bike he's using, pretty impressive
They used to throw away their clothes😮 I've seen first a shirt half a block pants another half a block a pair of shoes within the next block there's the socks & underwear 😢
That’s not the War Zone. The War zone is on the other side of Central. Drive inside the area of Louisiana and Zuni, that’s the war zone. Js
This is a sad video the good people need New Mexico needs to take back their state and make it Land of Enchantment
Like the video
The City needs to clean all that trash in the alleys!
Sad to see my home city so locked down, filthy and crazy. I suppose im somewhat spartan in my views that people who do not wish to contribute to society do not deserve a place in it.
What camera are you using ? Keep the videos coming. New sub here
He posts it on a water mark in some of his other videos
If you are an addict and live for drugs each day and you only have one life and that’s how you want to Live it before you die then that’s your choice but go where the rest of us. Don’t have to look at it. Or clean yourself up and live life like a human being and make a change ! Change is hard but life is just as hard for all of us that are sober and live life on life’s terms , we get up everyday sober and still in the same world they are ! We don’t walk around poor me with our hand our hoping someone will feel sorry for us because we choose to do drugs and this right here is the out come ! What did you think was going to happen when you chose that life ?
never been to Albuquerque but i hope to ride my ebike there someday
Where u comin from on an ebike to ABQ?
Burque used to have a thriving New Mexican/Chicano culture, mostly assimilated and gentrified now, the governor wants us to be like San Francisco CA 🤮
How come you never go on the south east side? It's been bad for decades and only gets worse
NM is the 2nd poorest state in the US.
A zombie is made when a boker generates or fakes a regular temporary brain death against the boker's target. After the brain death is induced the boker performs a rite of revival. Zombies are usually sent out into the fields at night, where they function as slaves for their masters. Onile Ogun.
At 3:50 there was no 7/11 there it was a Circle K right there before
U didnt see the stopsigns ,huh ?
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Slow down. Your going to got dam fast and besides it's day light.😮
Never a 711 A Circle k lol has it ALL WRONG!
He just keeps repeating himself
You’ve clearly never been to Detroit Michigan lol
Albuquerque went from bad to worse in the last 10 years.....dont miss driving thru that garbage pile one bit
It’s not just Albuquerque it’s everywhere.
So move
You think Homeless in your Area is Bad?
Try San Francisco & Oakland
Purpose of the video? This is in most American cities. Albuquerque has a lot of problems. Just look at their police department dui unit.
Just look at the APD in general. Remember when Cops came to town and the mayor kicked them out cause they weren't showing ABQ in a good light, wasn't that ABQ just providing the entertainment, it wasn't Cops the TV shows fault, lol. ABQ has a lot of problems, but could be a nice place for sure.
@@cobra935ocops are the bad guys
I've lived in Albuquerque for 2 years now. The War Zone still looks like this. The city continues to struggle with poverty, inequality, and corruption. How is that different from anywhere else in the US? It's NOT. 😂
Burque just has the spine to be rough around the edges right out in the open. Albuquerque is a charming, sleepy city located in a poor Southwestern state. It's very much the Wild West, and when you mix in social problems and the same government ineptitude every state faces, it's not surprising that we have tent cities on some of our streets.
I lived in Albuquerque a while back ('95 and '96) and still have friends there. I have never, ever heard it called Burque. ABQ? Yes. The 505? Yes. Burque? No. Is Burque a hipster thing or what?
@@darricshhh I don't know if it's a hipster thing, but I have cousins who have lived here all their lives and have always called it Burque. Maybe it's become more popular since you left?
@@jonathanm4518 maybe so
If you are on a bike or scooter 🛴🛵, you and riding on the side Walk, you are supposed to yield to the pedestrians on the side Walk, if I was walking on side Walk, I would not move for anyone on a bike or scooter 🛴🛵, he will wait me, it's a side Walk, you don't want car's the to hit you, so stay off the side Walk so you won't hit them walking on the sidewalk, side Walk only for walking, unless you are in a wheelchair, but I understand people on bikes or scooters, but you have to stop and let the pedestrians walking on the sidewalk, people walking on the sidewalk have the right away people on bikes must stop and let them pass or go around on the street and get back on the sidewalk but nobody walking on the sidewalk you have to pause for anybody on the bike or a motor scooter unless it's a wheelchair
In ABQ, yes, you’re supposed to yield the right of way to pedestrians. That said, you allowed to overtake on the left hand side, but you have to audibly let people know that’s what you’re doing, which Buggs did.
@@UhhhImTrashSorry bikes belong on the streets or bike lines, I understand why people on bikes are using the side Walks , because of the people in car's don't pay attention, but if you must ride on the sidewalk on bikes, fine, but you give the pedestrians on the sidewalk the right away, as for me, i don't move out of the way of people on bikes, they have to wait on me, because it says in the name sidewalk and not bike lines
The best part about dating a homeless gal is: it doesnt matter where you drop her off!!
That's Fucked Up Dude 🤬
@@brendaleelucero8940 🤣😂🤣😂
@@brendaleelucero8940 100%agree
Hello..!!! You are going very fast...slower please...!!!
Cheapest and purest drugs in the country
Get out of here Dewey you don't want no part of this
Blue State. 'Nuff said
This is in every state. There is nothing unusual about anything happening there
NOT CANDELARIA
Purpose of video?
Showing people the area of Albuquerque known as the WarZone. He definitely should have spoken on the history of the area and how and why it got its nickname “The WarZone”
@@ThumperGI’m curious why do they call it that?
@@MsPaulieboy It’s a section of Albuquerque where rival gangs and drug dealers literally went to war causing many drivers to-by shootings and countless murders. So many murders that locals began to call that section of Albuquerque “The War Zone” because that’s literally what it seemed like. I believe the name first came about sometime in the 80s during the crack epidemic and heroin crisis all across New Mexico. The name stuck and as you can see it’s still a dangerous part of town so the name has never went away. It’s still a war zone to this day, just not on the level it was in the 80s-90s. The murders have spread out, but the war zone is still a dangerous place to be if your deep in the streets depending what gangs/neighborhoods you ride with, etc. there’s ALOT of different gangs and “crews” in Albuquerque but the war zone is kind of a central area for a Neighborhood Crip set known as the War Zone Crips. But there’s so many gangs, I can’t even get started it would take an hour long documentary to name them all lol.
Here’s a good documentary of what the warzone is like today.
ruclips.net/video/RfM4bvy8G1w/видео.htmlsi=b3cSgQZe5QBTiM2x
@@MsPaulieboy because going back to the 80s it’s an area of town that experienced constant shootings and murders. Theres several gangs in the area as well that were literally “at war” and the daily shootings and murders got it its name, the WAR ZONE. It was a dangerous area all the way into the 90s where gangs and drug dealers warred with each other for turf, and reputation. To this day it’s still located in a bad part of the city, still lots of gangs, homelessness, poverty, and drugs but the murders have spread out all over the city of Albuquerque, but it will probably always remain known as the war zone because of the murder rate and the high crime rate.
Here’s a better video/documentary on “the war zone” :
ruclips.net/video/RfM4bvy8G1w/видео.htmlsi=ujIYeWnGYZTTqcoM
Don't play around Albuquerque 💀 🤬😡👿😤.!!
Albercracky sucks.
Aaaahh at 2:20 it looks like you are about to run into that tent thing