We lived in Syracuse for a while . My daughter was doing fellowship in upstate hospital. She is a doctor. Now we are back to India . We are Indians . We stayed in Jefferson tower one of the oldest building there . It was a pretty happy time for us .👍
I grew up in Syracuse and I had a lot of friends, good schools and good teachers. That got me into Univ Buffalo. I've enjoyed my life because SUNY BUFFALO gave me the education in Mathematics to get good jobs.
OMG!! Syracuse has grown! I got homesick this year and decided to check out RUclips for videos on my hometown and I'm amazed and pleased the city is doing so well. I miss upstate NY but not the snow. I live in south Ga now because of the warm weather. Y'all Yankees have done a great job. Happy holidays 🤗
I’ve lived in Syracuse for a good chunk of my life, and I quite enjoyed this video! It was very interesting to see my city described from an outside perspective, despite the lack of information about the heavy poverty and segregation of the city. I also thought it was funny how pretty the pictures made the city look. Walking through downtown Syracuse on a normal day feels like walking through a ghost town, what with the gray weather and lack of foot traffic. If you ever visit again, I recommend visiting Water Street Bagels and the neighborhood and shops near Westcott Street :)
Glad you found it interesting! I do think that one's experience in a place like Syracuse can vary dramatically from day to day, depending on the weather, time of day or week, and activities. I've found that when I'm going to a city specifically to enjoy everything the city has to offer, I have a better time in general. I've actually been to Westcott before, but will definitely check out Water Street Bagels next time I'm there!
Right now due to the weather and COVID, it is quite. When there are normal festivals and activity, it is a bit different though. Yes, parts are high poverty, but what people don’t consider is that off campus college students are included. Syracuse is also a big refugee resettlement city and in turn, you have newcomers that are trying to get on their feet, which can take a while.
I live in syracuse and host a few history walking tours. you video was awesome! I especially liked the bit about the rail line. Definitely going to be sharing this with local teachers. thank you!
Went to school in Oswego back in the late 89’s just north of Syracuse. Originally from NYC. Video brought back a lot of memories of areas I used to visit while in college when I used to hangout in Syracuse. Nice video & good job.
I really hope that Syracuse On Track, the cities light rail service, returns one day. Especially with a seasonal service from within or around the city to the state fair grounds. The state fair draws in huge numbers of people each year.
Syracuse is a pretty cool place indeed. A lot of people say Syracuse isn’t the best place to live at, as a person born and raised here, in my eyes, Syracuse NY is actually a nice place to live in. The community is nice. Syracuse does have some ups and downs, but I will always love the city.
I have lived here almost all of my life. I am in the Western suburbs now. The last real boom the City had was in the late 90's the Armory Square area was the scene, there were some Tech jobs, service, and artists who would influence the culture. At that time I worked in a beautiful old "mansion " on James St. a block from Teall Avenue. Those few blocks have many historic buildings. Enjoyed the video, others have stated that Syracuse is a not so desirable place to live, however every city has it's warts. It's location is key to ADK, the Finger Lake region, heck even Vermont is only 3 hours away. Great job
Thanks for pointing out James street! I streetviewed that; there are indeed some beautiful houses. I didn't know about the nineties boom, I wonder what changed? And yes the location is very key, I say the same thing about Albany.
It was a mild boom. I was a working as a Technical Illustrator for an engineering firm back then. A lot of the major work was gobbled up by firms/agencies in NYC. We were small potatoes, but we had serious contracts with the Big 3 in the automotive industry. As a young Gen Xer back then Syracuse was a great balance of social scene and the fun adventure of outdoors.
Nice job on the Video very well done. I moved out of the Cuse in 88 due to economic reasons great town and the surrounding area has a lot to offer Wish I could move back....
@@TheDCShow0 people say there isnt but there is still little italy and some markets like columbus bakery, thanos imported goods, Francescas, biscotti cafe. only some moved it was mostly italian now its vietnamese on the north but yeah id say there still is a strong italian community
Glad to watch your video after a recent video posted that shows Syracuse as the 4Th Worst places to live in New York State. Was impressed with Lincoln Square and some of its architecture and the historic pictures you presented. It shows that despite the current facts or rumors about the place, it still holds some Historical reminisce of a Golden Age where Beauty, Art and Creativity still had a place in the visions of progress. Thank you for the enlightening video and narrative.
Really appreciated this video. I did a series on Instagram featuring some of the dirt cheap homes for sale in this city. Researched hell out of it but your video showed how beautiful the city is, regardless of the negative influences everyone seems to whine about. Not saying they aren't real bit for an outsider it was lovely to see how nice the city is. Helps to balance the downside. It is so easy to trash a place. And the rust belt has its issues. But climate change in other areas is making a place like Syracuse look very interesting. Thanks again!
I liked this video. It reminded me that there are nice things about Syracuse, a place where I spent some of my young years (high school ages). I then went to college on LI and spent 8 years in the LI/NYC area before moving to San Francisco, where I have lived ever since. When I was there I didn't find much about it to like a lot of the time. As I watched this I realized that I might find more to like as an older adult. But no relocation for me, family are gone now and I can't imagine returning to that lake-effect snow! Thanks for the video!
MOST used to be a New York Army National Guard Armory. I was stationed there. It had neat stone tunnels and an old horse stable we used to park the HMMWVs and other vehicles.
Yup, crime and moldering neighborhoods are a real issue but unfortunately that could be said about most Upstate cities, that so often teeter between being on the brink of revival and totally going under. As an Upstater I say that with affection actually. Erie Blvd needs to go, it’s a wasteland of asphalt. But Syracuse also has its charming and quirky bits . Onondaga Lake has been largely cleaned up and it and the park surrounding it are fantastic.
I’ve lived in Syracuse, my whole life and it’s a very nice city not super compact like New York City not empty like utica or Cortland and Destiny Mall, formally known as carousel mall is a nice place to visit and has hundreds of things to do
Thanks for this. I'm heading up in a few months from NYC as part of my effort to explore my state. I was hoping you would mention the Creek Walk that I read about. Perhaps a local can give me some insight as to what to expect from it.
I loooooooooved this video, loved loved loved it. It shows what I was exactly looking for: urban landscape, rent prices, urban amenities, points of interest, history, architecture, mid-XX century failures, etc. Amazing job, subscribed.
Nice video- Kind of like Buffalo-Underrated with some great old places and architecture -nice areas and then there are the stay away zones. But also like Buffalo its about the nearby suburbs that are very nice and rural with good people. In Buffalo even we who live in the suburbs when asked where we live say Buffalo first. The cost of housing is probably still very reasonable in Syracuse burbs while up here in Buffalo home prices have been shockingly soaring the last 8 years.
I had a brief chat with an American college girl on a Taipei MRT train on July 2, 2022. She is from Syracuse. I attended Syracuse University in the late 80s. Have very nice memories.
Syracuse is just like any decent sized American city. Some parts are “hood”/rough and some parts that people forget about are actually quite nice. Also, each side of town has a mix. Some lean more one way than the other, but you can find a mix of neighborhoods on all sides. So, it has its good and bad. For instance, ask people where Strathmore, Sedgwick, Scottholm, Salt Springs, Bradford Hills, Meadowbrook, Tipperary Hill, Winkworth and Court-Woodlawn are. I wouldn’t be surprised if people that even live in the city know where they are and all of those areas are nice, solid areas of the city. There are others as well. So, what you may find is people stick to their area of the city, but aren’t familiar with other parts of the city.
I live in Syracuse and I always look at it as a horrible city because of everyone else that wasn’t mentioned in this video but now I realize there may be hope in my home town🍊315
Yeah it's really not a horrible city, and there are plenty of people who love it and want to make it better. From my experience, most people who talk trash about their city really never take the time to appreciate it properly.
@@TheDCShow0 You are right in the respect of appreciating for what it is without expectations. People experience life in general from each tinted glasses and the way they process the experience from their current perception and understanding of the matter. Nothing will ever be perfect if one is not willing to make it so. Worth reading online article "30 Things you need to know about Syracuse before you move there"
You showed downtown only. Definitely not a accurate representation of Syracuse. This is what a visitor may experience if they were in town for a night or two.
I definitely agree that this only shows a very small part of Syracuse. Not being from Syracuse, I wasn't able to draw any conclusions about more than a small part of the city without spending a tremendous amount of time on research. I'm not naive. I know that there are tremendous levels of poverty in Syracuse. I assume that violent crimes occur at an uncomfortably high rate. There are many ways to view a city, and I chose to be optimistic in my interpretation.
@@TheDCShow0 Next time, check out the University Hill, Westcott, Tipperary Hill, Eastwood, a couple of businesses on Grant Boulevard(Peppino’s & Change of Pace) in the Court-Woodlawn neighborhood, Destiny USA(6th biggest shopping center in the country), North Salina Street has a few good restaurants, Franklin Square is a nice hidden neighborhood with a cafe/nice apartments/a sandwich shop, Webster’s Pond in the Valley and go down the street to Gannon’s for ice cream; check out the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Burnet Park, ice skate in Clinton Square during the winter, check out a festival at Clinton Square during the warmer months, check out the view of the skyline from Onondaga Park and walk on the Creekwalk among other things just within the city when things open up.
Lived there for 35 years was a great place in the 60s and 70s right up to the time the carousel mall was made, after that, it just seemed to slowly start fading ...
I lived in Jamesville and worked in Syracuse for 4 years. Dont go to syracuse city as its depressing, quiet for a city and full of homeless people. Occasionally there would be nice events like food fair, winter events. Destiny mall is big although it feels like most malls in america and slowly dying. Winters can be nasty, car rust out over time because of the salt. They are fast in clearing out the snow though. Affluent neighborhoods and towns nearby are nicer. Manilus, DeWitt, Jamesville, Cazenovia, and Skaneateles and feels much more active.
I’ve lived here my whole life I love it here and fun fact we are the only place on EARTH that has the green light on top instead of on the bottom on one of the streets I used to live on
@@TheDCShow0 I rather wait until this virus is over with to see the inside of the destiny USA mall and I have the video before the virus came and they still adding store in the mall even they closing some of the stores in the mall and inside the destiny USA mall it's look nice but the outside of the mall it's okay
@@mynasiathedoll2141 it's not like used to be and I'm glad that I did went there before the virus but the only thing is I don't like walking to the mall with a lot of traffic going on
But also this is not the real Syracuse and all the people that were born and raised here know that you are just showing what a visitor that stays only a few days would see everyone else knows that Syracuse is not a city you want to live in💯
Yeah 100% I wasn't able to capture anything in the spirit of what the average person in Syracuse experiences from day to day. The goal of this video was to show people that Syracuse is a city worth paying attention to. Maybe in the future I can make another video that dives a bit deeper.
What a nice surprise video. I should tell you about ON Track. It was NEVER finished. The bridge over Park Street was never put in to get to the Amtrak Station. It did have good ridership to games and special events at the shopping center. Centro's bus hated it and lobbied against it. It would have been perfect for the real estate now so popular around the former Lackawanna Station. Or if it continued under the CSX (New York Central Main to the State Fair Grounds. Like tracks used to do on it's way to Oswego. It really wasn't light rail. It was a single 50 year old RDC or Rail Diesel Car. One more thing, Amtrak moved out of their 1,000 car FREE PARKING LOT. In East Syracuse. This impacted ridership, with a paid parking lot owned by Centros! If your gone for a while those parking charges add up. Yes there should be a network of local trains. Buses cheap to run can not and will not attract the ridership rail does.
They renamed Carousel Mall to Destiny Mall? Lived there for 14 years. I had some good childhood memories but I don’t miss it. Winters were nasty and people weren’t friendly.
Do you work for the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce? You should because you're able to show a fictional Syracuse that isn't an unmitigated disaster that gets worse with each passing year. Anyone who's able is fleeing the area and the people who stay tend to be miserable compared to other parts of the country. I don't say this to criticize you or your video, but Syracuse is tragic.
Keep making videos. I love upstate new york but live elsewhere at the moment. Your videos make me feel close to the northeast. If I may give a little feedback, could you please enunciate a little bit more? I have to blast the volume sometimes to understand what you're saying. It's your accent, not a knock on you. Thanks again. The quality of your videos is professional.
Yes that’s excellent feedback! I picked up on that myself a bit and I think I improved in my video about Troy, and am going to invest more in sound quality for sure! I really appreciate what you’re saying, I’m gonna keep going for sure, and I anticipate the quality of my videos will improve!
3:21 ...nope. Genesee street didn't "stay there until 2001". That's just when the ice rink you see now was starting to take over. Previously there was a park in the style of Hanover Sq.. Only significantly larger & more complicated. There was a yearly tradition of huge ice sculptures being created there & in the warmer months people hung out, kids rode skateboards. There was no street there in my lifetime.
lived there for 2 years before my wife forced me to request a transfer. actually, other than the winters, very high taxes, was nice to live there, especially all of the gorgeous villages in the region.
@@JuanDiaz-ug7fl I am puzzled by your comment. Are you not part of a diverse background? We all should be able to live together in a peaceful nice community.
JFK airport is probably at least 4 and a half-5 hours from Syracuse. If you have to fly to JFK, you can take a subway from JFK to either the port authority or penn station and then take a bus or Amtrak to Syracuse.
i saw some people with binoculars by the state office building (that's different than the state tower building, but about a block over) looking at the old nynex building on state there, by fireman's park, so i asked why, and they told me there's a nesting pair of perigrine falcons up there
I loved the history covered in this video! I’d be curious to know what it’s like to live there and what public transportation is like there now too. Seems like it would be a difficult city to drive.
I would be curious myself (I've never lived there). I would disagree with the notion that it is a difficult city to drive in. I think the fact that its a relatively small city that's lost population would mean that there are more roads than the city currently requires. I'm no expert though; people who actually live in Syracuse would know better.
@@TheDCShow0 I felt like with the roads being more narrow and so much pedestrian traffic around that I’d have to be much more cautious driving there. I thought about those same roads covered with snow, ice and slush and all the cars parked in the sides of the roads and thought about how often it looked like people have to parallel park and I thought about all of that in the most slippery conditions. That’s what made me feel like it would be more difficult to drive. I should’ve been more specific.
Not difficult to drive. You can be anywhere in 10 minutes. Public transport is spotty for the outskirts. Roughly hourly for the main area's in the City.
I'd like to add to this by saying that plans to remove I-81 have received national attention from both the US DOT and Biden himself, and with NYS allocating almost $1B to replacing the I-81/I-690 sections in the city with a community grid.
Nah, there are some nice areas of the city as well. Check out the area around Nottingham High or even around Corcoran High. The outer neighborhoods are still largely solid to very nice.
I don't spend a lot of time in Syracuse, but my inclination is that the only parties would be thrown by college kids, but college is in finals week or over rn so I doubt even that is happening. Mostly, people are inside or at casual gatherings because its very cold and covid is going on. But I really don't know why I'm even answering this because I have no firsthand evidence.
That was a very well done review if this mid sized city. Unfortunately like most American cities there is unreal violence filth and danger in the Cuse... you may want to mention it because after watching this it seems like a place I’d love to live.... having been there before.... I can tell you it is definitely NOT a place I would ever want to live. It’s so freaking sad that Americans don’t care about it take care of their cities....not sure why we can’t figure it out... compared to most of the rest of the world
Some people want to live there, others do not. Not that Alec Baldwin is everybody's favorite actor, but it may interest you to know that he has rave views about Syracuse. I think the problem with American cities is that the wealth has fled to the suburbs. Europe has kept their wealth in the urban core, and their suburbs are what our inner cities are like.
@@richardhunter4235 Someone was stabbed in broad daylight a couple of blocks from where I live. Sounds scary, right? My natural reaction would be to be more tentative to go out into the streets, but that is a bad strategy. We all own the streets, they are our community. To keep them safe, more people need to be out on them. If we abandon them because we're scared of crime, they will rot. I'll be walking tomorrow in order to avoid yielding the streets to madmen who stab innocent people. I urge you to do the same, no matter how safe or dangerous your neighborhood is.
First Syracuse is only known the university that’s it nothing more 💯💯💯An I lived here my whole live went to other states an all they say is oh you from that good university town
They are planning on removing I-81.. But you missed out on so, so much more about Syracuse... Just covering 3 squares of downtown doesn't even start to do it justice.. you missed the Landmark Theatre, expanded for Broadway shows, the Erie Canal Museum, only weigh lock building in existence.. and all the wonderful parks we have in the city, among so much more..
Very nicely done. You made Syracuse look like a beautiful city. You also managed to film this without showing the tons of homeless people and drug addicts that sadly rove the streets. Syracuse was almost ruined by greedy investors who are trying to make it like NYC. Those rents are too high and there's too many bad landlords. Yes, it does need a great deal of healing, but I believe it still has a lot of potential. There is a quaintness about it that you captured a bit in this video. The nice areas in Syracuse are some of the best places to live in the world, given the reasonably safe weather, low cost of living and transit, ...
Downtown and SU are nice enough. But since you ask what it would take to earn an “ A”, Maybe a little less bias and showing the rest of Syracuse: the Westside, the Southside, “ the Valley”. Maybe some drug use and Crime Rate statistics and local news clips that cover all too frequent shootings.
Thanks! I'm actually neither from Syracuse nor working on this for a school project. I go to the University at Buffalo, and am just really interested in cities. Syracuse is nearby so I decided to target it for investigation.
The crime level is through the roof you can't leave your car running to keep it warm if you go in the store because it'll get stolen it's in one of the highest taxed counties in the country Onondaga County and Onondaga Lake still is a nasty cesspool
that train only went from carousel, downtown by clinton towers and i hear down to green lakes or was it jamesville beach eventually, making it pretty useless for going anywhere most people need to go on the reg
It can be segregated, but it also has very diverse neighborhoods too. Schools are still generally integrated, but it depends on where you are in the city.
Loved this, go often being in the 518 area (way way wayyy upstate NY lol) best place to eat a good bagel is "the psychedelic*atessen" I think it's called- its right downtown Syracuse, next to ONLY THE BEST WRESTLING GYM EVER.....CURBY 3-STYLE WRESTLING CLUB!!!
@@TheDCShow0 omg you kinda can't miss it, it's got this incredible grateful dead theme lol its honestly really cool, and the art inside and out is pretty cool lol I know right to the side of that bagel shop there are stairs that go down to the waterfront and along the building wall it says Syracuse NY!! Cool pic spot lol plus its right on the Hudson river and you can see the bridge from there, out back by the water! Curby 3 style wrestling (aka Joe usenellini, spelling *) club does this outside wrestling event called " Headlocks on the Hudson " its an incredible event that my son and us always had fun at, it's only been going a few years now but you can find where I'm talking about by maybe looking up that event lol (I remember things primarily from my kids wrestling venues and landmarks lol so sorry for the crappy directions lol)
We lived in Syracuse for a while . My daughter was doing fellowship in upstate hospital. She is a doctor. Now we are back to India . We are Indians . We stayed in Jefferson tower one of the oldest building there . It was a pretty happy time for us .👍
I'm glad you enjoyed your stay!
I grew up in Syracuse and I had a lot of friends, good schools and good teachers.
That got me into Univ Buffalo.
I've enjoyed my life because SUNY
BUFFALO gave me the education in Mathematics to get good jobs.
OMG!! Syracuse has grown! I got homesick this year and decided to check out RUclips for videos on my hometown and I'm amazed and pleased the city is doing so well. I miss upstate NY but not the snow. I live in south Ga now because of the warm weather. Y'all Yankees have done a great job. Happy holidays 🤗
I’ve lived in Syracuse for a good chunk of my life, and I quite enjoyed this video! It was very interesting to see my city described from an outside perspective, despite the lack of information about the heavy poverty and segregation of the city. I also thought it was funny how pretty the pictures made the city look. Walking through downtown Syracuse on a normal day feels like walking through a ghost town, what with the gray weather and lack of foot traffic. If you ever visit again, I recommend visiting Water Street Bagels and the neighborhood and shops near Westcott Street :)
Glad you found it interesting! I do think that one's experience in a place like Syracuse can vary dramatically from day to day, depending on the weather, time of day or week, and activities. I've found that when I'm going to a city specifically to enjoy everything the city has to offer, I have a better time in general. I've actually been to Westcott before, but will definitely check out Water Street Bagels next time I'm there!
Right now due to the weather and COVID, it is quite. When there are normal festivals and activity, it is a bit different though.
Yes, parts are high poverty, but what people don’t consider is that off campus college students are included. Syracuse is also a big refugee resettlement city and in turn, you have newcomers that are trying to get on their feet, which can take a while.
I also live in Syracuse
@@llllk-fz6xw same
What do you mean segregation? Like racial segregation? Would this effect my college experience
I live in syracuse and host a few history walking tours. you video was awesome! I especially liked the bit about the rail line. Definitely going to be sharing this with local teachers. thank you!
incredible, ive lived here for my whole life and you have reopened my eyes of my home. Thank You
I grew up in Liverpool and I loved it! Thanks for the memories.
I grew up in Baldwinsville
Went to school in Oswego back in the late 89’s just north of Syracuse. Originally from NYC. Video brought back a lot of memories of areas I used to visit while in college when I used to hangout in Syracuse. Nice video & good job.
THanks! Glad I could remind you of that time!
Is it a safe place to raise a family?
I really hope that Syracuse On Track, the cities light rail service, returns one day. Especially with a seasonal service from within or around the city to the state fair grounds. The state fair draws in huge numbers of people each year.
They must have done a crap job promoting it. I have lived in the Syracuse area my entire life, since 1988, and I never even knew it existed lol
Syracuse is a pretty cool place indeed. A lot of people say Syracuse isn’t the best place to live at, as a person born and raised here, in my eyes, Syracuse NY is actually a nice place to live in. The community is nice. Syracuse does have some ups and downs, but I will always love the city.
Yes well said. There are ups and downs but the love is always there.
I have lived here almost all of my life. I am in the Western suburbs now. The last real boom the City had was in the late 90's the Armory Square area was the scene, there were some Tech jobs, service, and artists who would influence the culture. At that time I worked in a beautiful old "mansion " on James St. a block from Teall Avenue. Those few blocks have many historic buildings. Enjoyed the video, others have stated that Syracuse is a not so desirable place to live, however every city has it's warts. It's location is key to ADK, the Finger Lake region, heck even Vermont is only 3 hours away. Great job
Thanks for pointing out James street! I streetviewed that; there are indeed some beautiful houses. I didn't know about the nineties boom, I wonder what changed? And yes the location is very key, I say the same thing about Albany.
It was a mild boom. I was a working as a Technical Illustrator for an engineering firm back then. A lot of the major work was gobbled up by firms/agencies in NYC. We were small potatoes, but we had serious contracts with the Big 3 in the automotive industry. As a young Gen Xer back then Syracuse was a great balance of social scene and the fun adventure of outdoors.
Nice job on the Video very well done.
I moved out of the Cuse in 88 due to economic reasons great town and the surrounding area has a lot to offer
Wish I could move back....
damn that's too bad, I am gonna move away from my upstate city soon, I'll probably feel the same thing
Try it, it is nothing like it was, its not safe there period now because they made it a sanctuary city.
im an italian from the cuse and i love how diverse and strong the community is
You’re Italian? Is there a strong Italian community still today?
@@TheDCShow0 people say there isnt but there is still little italy and some markets like columbus bakery, thanos imported goods, Francescas, biscotti cafe. only some moved it was mostly italian now its vietnamese on the north but yeah id say there still is a strong italian community
@@JoeySaraceni , the Northside (formerly the vibrant Italian community) has become Syracuse's biggest open air drug/ho market.
i’m italian u know the stor on butternut lombardis goods? i can’t spell the last name😂
Glad to watch your video after a recent video posted that shows Syracuse as the 4Th Worst places to live in New York State. Was impressed with Lincoln Square and some of its architecture and the historic pictures you presented. It shows that despite the current facts or rumors about the place, it still holds some Historical reminisce of a Golden Age where Beauty, Art and Creativity still had a place in the visions of progress. Thank you for the enlightening video and narrative.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it. There are so many videos out about how horrible Syracuse is, which I think is often the wrong attitude to have.
@@TheDCShow0 , 🤣🤣🤣
Really appreciated this video. I did a series on Instagram featuring some of the dirt cheap homes for sale in this city. Researched hell out of it but your video showed how beautiful the city is, regardless of the negative influences everyone seems to whine about. Not saying they aren't real bit for an outsider it was lovely to see how nice the city is. Helps to balance the downside. It is so easy to trash a place. And the rust belt has its issues. But climate change in other areas is making a place like Syracuse look very interesting. Thanks again!
Can I see your series?
I saw a stunning 1910 house in the suburb of Syracuse and it's making me want to dive right in
great, just what we need, a-hole gentrifiers. better to stay a dump
I liked this video. It reminded me that there are nice things about Syracuse, a place where I spent some of my young years (high school ages). I then went to college on LI and spent 8 years in the LI/NYC area before moving to San Francisco, where I have lived ever since. When I was there I didn't find much about it to like a lot of the time. As I watched this I realized that I might find more to like as an older adult. But no relocation for me, family are gone now and I can't imagine returning to that lake-effect snow! Thanks for the video!
MOST used to be a New York Army National Guard Armory. I was stationed there. It had neat stone tunnels and an old horse stable we used to park the HMMWVs and other vehicles.
Nice and great job, thank you from Brazil friend!! :)
Yup, crime and moldering neighborhoods are a real issue but unfortunately that could be said about most Upstate cities, that so often teeter between being on the brink of revival and totally going under. As an Upstater I say that with affection actually. Erie Blvd needs to go, it’s a wasteland of asphalt. But Syracuse also has its charming and quirky bits . Onondaga Lake has been largely cleaned up and it and the park surrounding it are fantastic.
I’ve lived in Syracuse, my whole life and it’s a very nice city not super compact like New York City not empty like utica or Cortland and Destiny Mall, formally known as carousel mall is a nice place to visit and has hundreds of things to do
That was very interesting. Thank you!
Of course! I’m aiming to get better at videos of cities like Syracuse, let me know if there’s any you wanna see done
Thanks for this. I'm heading up in a few months from NYC as part of my effort to explore my state. I was hoping you would mention the Creek Walk that I read about. Perhaps a local can give me some insight as to what to expect from it.
The creek walk seems pretty cool, I havent' walked the whole thing but it the part I did walk was excellent.
I loooooooooved this video, loved loved loved it. It shows what I was exactly looking for: urban landscape, rent prices, urban amenities, points of interest, history, architecture, mid-XX century failures, etc. Amazing job, subscribed.
Thanks so much Isaac, that really means a lot! There will definitely be more where this came from.
Totally Agree. I Loved the flow of Pictures and how it all came together with the narrative. Also subscribed.
Nice video- Kind of like Buffalo-Underrated with some great old places and architecture -nice areas and then there are the stay away zones. But also like Buffalo its about the nearby suburbs that are very nice and rural with good people. In Buffalo even we who live in the suburbs when asked where we live say Buffalo first. The cost of housing is probably still very reasonable in Syracuse burbs while up here in Buffalo home prices have been shockingly soaring the last 8 years.
I had a brief chat with an American college girl on a Taipei MRT train on July 2, 2022. She is from Syracuse. I attended Syracuse University in the late 80s. Have very nice memories.
Syracuse is just like any decent sized American city. Some parts are “hood”/rough and some parts that people forget about are actually quite nice. Also, each side of town has a mix. Some lean more one way than the other, but you can find a mix of neighborhoods on all sides. So, it has its good and bad.
For instance, ask people where Strathmore, Sedgwick, Scottholm, Salt Springs, Bradford Hills, Meadowbrook, Tipperary Hill, Winkworth and Court-Woodlawn are. I wouldn’t be surprised if people that even live in the city know where they are and all of those areas are nice, solid areas of the city. There are others as well. So, what you may find is people stick to their area of the city, but aren’t familiar with other parts of the city.
That's a good way of putting it
I live in Syracuse and I always look at it as a horrible city because of everyone else that wasn’t mentioned in this video but now I realize there may be hope in my home town🍊315
Yeah it's really not a horrible city, and there are plenty of people who love it and want to make it better. From my experience, most people who talk trash about their city really never take the time to appreciate it properly.
Same
@@TheDCShow0 You are right in the respect of appreciating for what it is without expectations. People experience life in general from each tinted glasses and the way they process the experience from their current perception and understanding of the matter. Nothing will ever be perfect if one is not willing to make it so. Worth reading online article "30 Things you need to know about Syracuse before you move there"
Syracuse gang
What up cuz
Whaaa? No Dinosaur BBQ? 😯🤭 Thanks for the video. It was very informative and well done.
Hahahah I know I should have included it it’s a fantastic Syracuse export and locale. Thanks for the compliment!
great video sir enjoyed!
Thank you so much!
Great Video keep up he efforts
cool brother Matthew and cool brother Daniel heading here !!! they might preach at syracuse collage i will have to see!!!
Excellent filming, Great video series.
Thanks I really appreciate that
Well done. Thanks for the insight into this city.
No problem! I hope you found what you’re looking for
You showed downtown only. Definitely not a accurate representation of Syracuse. This is what a visitor may experience if they were in town for a night or two.
I definitely agree that this only shows a very small part of Syracuse. Not being from Syracuse, I wasn't able to draw any conclusions about more than a small part of the city without spending a tremendous amount of time on research. I'm not naive. I know that there are tremendous levels of poverty in Syracuse. I assume that violent crimes occur at an uncomfortably high rate. There are many ways to view a city, and I chose to be optimistic in my interpretation.
@@TheDCShow0 Next time, check out the University Hill, Westcott, Tipperary Hill, Eastwood, a couple of businesses on Grant Boulevard(Peppino’s & Change of Pace) in the Court-Woodlawn neighborhood, Destiny USA(6th biggest shopping center in the country), North Salina Street has a few good restaurants, Franklin Square is a nice hidden neighborhood with a cafe/nice apartments/a sandwich shop, Webster’s Pond in the Valley and go down the street to Gannon’s for ice cream; check out the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Burnet Park, ice skate in Clinton Square during the winter, check out a festival at Clinton Square during the warmer months, check out the view of the skyline from Onondaga Park and walk on the Creekwalk among other things just within the city when things open up.
@@ckh937610 If you're running near Webster Pond, beware of the geese. Some of them can get real mean.
@@davidobrien2739 Yeah, but that is their natural habitat and it is nice when the ducks cross Valley Drive from the pond.
@@ckh937610 Great information. Is "Lyncourt" and surrounding areas a good place to live? Thank you for your input.
Good video dude!! I wish to visit some day
Thank you! I hope you get to visit!
If you're going to visit Syracuse, may I suggest September? I grew up there and September is beautiful!
i also love the new modern highrises and skyscrapers
Me too I love a tasteful building in a downtown area.
Lived there for 35 years was a great place in the 60s and 70s right up to the time the carousel mall was made, after that, it just seemed to slowly start fading ...
It was fading long before that
I used to live in Syracuse. I’m coming back for the first time in 12 years! It’s not perfect but it’s home
I love Syracuse! I think that the removal of i-81 is going to lead to big things!
It's not perfect but it's home. Truer words have never been said.
clinton square was there before that. they just changed the fountain design so they could use it as an ice skating rink in the winter
Very good job ❤❤❤
Good to know… congratulations. ❤from 🇧🇷
I lived in Jamesville and worked in Syracuse for 4 years. Dont go to syracuse city as its depressing, quiet for a city and full of homeless people. Occasionally there would be nice events like food fair, winter events. Destiny mall is big although it feels like most malls in america and slowly dying. Winters can be nasty, car rust out over time because of the salt. They are fast in clearing out the snow though. Affluent neighborhoods and towns nearby are nicer. Manilus, DeWitt, Jamesville, Cazenovia, and Skaneateles and feels much more active.
I’ve lived here my whole life I love it here and fun fact we are the only place on EARTH that has the green light on top instead of on the bottom on one of the streets I used to live on
Yes on tip hill, I love the Irish spirit
What a claim to fame! Syracuse is objectively bad on nearly every metric.
Yeesh why so mad
i drank at nikos a couple of times. also hanover square was where the chili-fest was. is it still there?
I grew up in Syracuse and I missed my hometown Syracuse and I hope I move back to Syracuse some days and my favorite the mall destiny USA
I've never been to destiny USA actually and now you have me wanting to go
Destiny is so lackluster and not worth it nowadays
@@TheDCShow0 I rather wait until this virus is over with to see the inside of the destiny USA mall and I have the video before the virus came and they still adding store in the mall even they closing some of the stores in the mall and inside the destiny USA mall it's look nice but the outside of the mall it's okay
@@mynasiathedoll2141 it's not like used to be and I'm glad that I did went there before the virus but the only thing is I don't like walking to the mall with a lot of traffic going on
@@TheDCShow0 , THREE of the four major department stores have deserted the mall. Macy's is the only one left.
I drove through Syracuse for the first time 2 weeks ago. How does the city of Albany compare to it?
Shout out to my city of Syracuse great video
Yes thank you and big shout out to the 315
I live in syracuse ny.i like and I love syracuse ny.👍
Well said
Studied at SU in the early 2000s. Quaint, sweet city. Miss it!
The Dietz lantern factory is also from Syracuse right?
Interesting city!
But also this is not the real Syracuse and all the people that were born and raised here know that you are just showing what a visitor that stays only a few days would see everyone else knows that Syracuse is not a city you want to live in💯
Yeah 100% I wasn't able to capture anything in the spirit of what the average person in Syracuse experiences from day to day. The goal of this video was to show people that Syracuse is a city worth paying attention to. Maybe in the future I can make another video that dives a bit deeper.
What's wrong with it?
@@tacocruiser4238 To much to explain
@@Nfreem47 is it crime, taxes, weather, infrastructure? at least give me a hint.
@@tacocruiser4238 yes it’s all that stuff
The rail diesel car that used to make up that commuter line is now used by Conway Scenic Railway in New Hampshire
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
What a nice surprise video. I should tell you about ON Track. It was NEVER finished. The bridge over Park Street was never put in to get to the Amtrak Station. It did have good ridership to games and special events at the shopping center. Centro's bus hated it and lobbied against it. It would have been perfect for the real estate now so popular around the former Lackawanna Station. Or if it continued under the CSX (New York Central Main to the State Fair Grounds. Like tracks used to do on it's way to Oswego. It really wasn't light rail. It was a single 50 year old RDC or Rail Diesel Car. One more thing, Amtrak moved out of their 1,000 car FREE PARKING LOT. In East Syracuse. This impacted ridership, with a paid parking lot owned by Centros! If your gone for a while those parking charges add up. Yes there should be a network of local trains. Buses cheap to run can not and will not attract the ridership rail does.
Thanks for that info, very interesting stuff! Its fitting that you're "intercityrailpal".
@@TheDCShow0 I think we would agree about alot of things. Good work! I'll be watching for more.
They renamed Carousel Mall to Destiny Mall? Lived there for 14 years. I had some good childhood memories but I don’t miss it. Winters were nasty and people weren’t friendly.
Do you work for the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce? You should because you're able to show a fictional Syracuse that isn't an unmitigated disaster that gets worse with each passing year. Anyone who's able is fleeing the area and the people who stay tend to be miserable compared to other parts of the country. I don't say this to criticize you or your video, but Syracuse is tragic.
I was born and raised in Phoenix just north of Clay. The city has potential but now moved to London. But still great city!
Wow London is a substantial upgrade! I didn't know Phoenix existed until you commented this, thanks for putting your hometown on the map for me!
@@TheDCShow0 No problem my parents were British so I moved when I was 12
Landmark Theater! I saw the "Lion King" there!
I agree to you that Syracuse is a Pretty nice place to live There is very ghetto places in it like butternut street
amazing ,it looks so clean and calm in contrast to the big Apple ..
Yes it really is not as bustling as the big apple, but it can get busy from time to time.
Keep making videos. I love upstate new york but live elsewhere at the moment. Your videos make me feel close to the northeast. If I may give a little feedback, could you please enunciate a little bit more? I have to blast the volume sometimes to understand what you're saying. It's your accent, not a knock on you. Thanks again. The quality of your videos is professional.
Yes that’s excellent feedback! I picked up on that myself a bit and I think I improved in my video about Troy, and am going to invest more in sound quality for sure! I really appreciate what you’re saying, I’m gonna keep going for sure, and I anticipate the quality of my videos will improve!
3:21
...nope.
Genesee street didn't "stay there until 2001". That's just when the ice rink you see now was starting to take over.
Previously there was a park in the style of Hanover Sq.. Only significantly larger & more complicated. There was
a yearly tradition of huge ice sculptures being created there & in the warmer months people hung out, kids rode
skateboards. There was no street there in my lifetime.
sometimes, in my dreams, there were canals, but not just the old one, more, instead of the centro buses
lived there for 2 years before my wife forced me to request a transfer. actually, other than the winters, very high taxes, was nice to live there, especially all of the gorgeous villages in the region.
I loved Syracuse NY, worked at at SU! Needs better government, leadership and diversity!
Diversity ruin cities.
@@JuanDiaz-ug7fl I am puzzled by your comment. Are you not part of a diverse background? We all should be able to live together in a peaceful nice community.
@@sandranynj7118 please stop embarrassing yourself.
What's the means or usual transportation to get from JFK Airport to East Syracuse NY and how much it cost
JFK airport is probably at least 4 and a half-5 hours from Syracuse. If you have to fly to JFK, you can take a subway from JFK to either the port authority or penn station and then take a bus or Amtrak to Syracuse.
@@TheDCShow0 is uber also available and maybe how much it cost approximately
Uber would probably cost you several hundred dollars since it’s 9-10 hours round trip for the driver
@@TheDCShow0, thanks for answering my query... and i’ll get back if i have still some thoughts in my mind.👍
i saw some people with binoculars by the state office building (that's different than the state tower building, but about a block over) looking at the old nynex building on state there, by fireman's park, so i asked why, and they told me there's a nesting pair of perigrine falcons up there
I loved the history covered in this video! I’d be curious to know what it’s like to live there and what public transportation is like there now too. Seems like it would be a difficult city to drive.
I would be curious myself (I've never lived there). I would disagree with the notion that it is a difficult city to drive in. I think the fact that its a relatively small city that's lost population would mean that there are more roads than the city currently requires. I'm no expert though; people who actually live in Syracuse would know better.
@@TheDCShow0 I felt like with the roads being more narrow and so much pedestrian traffic around that I’d have to be much more cautious driving there. I thought about those same roads covered with snow, ice and slush and all the cars parked in the sides of the roads and thought about how often it looked like people have to parallel park and I thought about all of that in the most slippery conditions. That’s what made me feel like it would be more difficult to drive. I should’ve been more specific.
Ah yes, the snow and ice can definitely make driving treacherous in a city like Syracuse, now that you mention that I agree 100%.
Not difficult to drive. You can be anywhere in 10 minutes. Public transport is spotty for the outskirts. Roughly hourly for the main area's in the City.
@@DSGLABEL This is true. Public transportation can be solid in select areas near a major street. So, you would have to be strategic in that regard.
wow.
Thanks dude
I'd like to add to this by saying that plans to remove I-81 have received national attention from both the US DOT and Biden himself, and with NYS allocating almost $1B to replacing the I-81/I-690 sections in the city with a community grid.
I don't know what Syracuse N.Y. you visited?The one I'm familiar with is nothing more, but a massive
ghetto,and that's putting it lightly.
Sounds like you didn’t take much away from this video...
Finally, someone who knows accurate information about Sewercuse.
@@ohshiet6726 Sewercuse!
That's a good one. I have to write that
down.
Nah, there are some nice areas of the city as well. Check out the area around Nottingham High or even around Corcoran High. The outer neighborhoods are still largely solid to very nice.
@@ckh937610 Sooner or later down the
road it will change.
How is syracuse situation now?
Like are people roaming freely and parties are going on?
I don't spend a lot of time in Syracuse, but my inclination is that the only parties would be thrown by college kids, but college is in finals week or over rn so I doubt even that is happening. Mostly, people are inside or at casual gatherings because its very cold and covid is going on. But I really don't know why I'm even answering this because I have no firsthand evidence.
No...COVID has cut that out.
Man this is great! Like nonody talks about Syracuse and then you come out with this dope vid and now people wanna go there 💯💯💯💯
Thanks! I really wanna boost upstate NY tourism.
Great vid
Thank you! I really appreciate the support.
How far is it from NYC?
About 5 hours depending on traffic if driving. I went to college @ Suny Oswego back in the late 80’s early 90’s. Drove past Syracuse all the time
Syracuse is the kind of place you might say is nice enough to visit, but you don't really want to live there.
Some people wanna live there...
I lived there but currently had enough of Alabama so...
can you elaborate on why?
@@matthewvaughn5788we are neighbors.. same here I had enough of Georgia.. My home is Rochester NY..
That was a very well done review if this mid sized city. Unfortunately like most American cities there is unreal violence filth and danger in the Cuse... you may want to mention it because after watching this it seems like a place I’d love to live.... having been there before.... I can tell you it is definitely NOT a place I would ever want to live. It’s so freaking sad that Americans don’t care about it take care of their cities....not sure why we can’t figure it out... compared to most of the rest of the world
Some people want to live there, others do not. Not that Alec Baldwin is everybody's favorite actor, but it may interest you to know that he has rave views about Syracuse. I think the problem with American cities is that the wealth has fled to the suburbs. Europe has kept their wealth in the urban core, and their suburbs are what our inner cities are like.
Safe or not?
Depends where you are...
Definetly not, like all cities crime and murders at all time highs
@@richardhunter4235 Someone was stabbed in broad daylight a couple of blocks from where I live. Sounds scary, right? My natural reaction would be to be more tentative to go out into the streets, but that is a bad strategy. We all own the streets, they are our community. To keep them safe, more people need to be out on them. If we abandon them because we're scared of crime, they will rot. I'll be walking tomorrow in order to avoid yielding the streets to madmen who stab innocent people. I urge you to do the same, no matter how safe or dangerous your neighborhood is.
I am so sick of people randomly ragging on Upstate. Thanks for the open-minded, reasonable review. You got a sub.
First Syracuse is only known the university that’s it nothing more 💯💯💯An I lived here my whole live went to other states an all they say is oh you from that good university town
Thanks for the sub! Yes I am in agreement, people are overly negative when they really should just be enjoying what they have.
They are planning on removing I-81.. But you missed out on so, so much more about Syracuse... Just covering 3 squares of downtown doesn't even start to do it justice.. you missed the Landmark Theatre, expanded for Broadway shows, the Erie Canal Museum, only weigh lock building in existence.. and all the wonderful parks we have in the city, among so much more..
Not a bad little city. There's a bar on almost every corner. Ok basketball and close to lake ontario
Very nicely done. You made Syracuse look like a beautiful city. You also managed to film this without showing the tons of homeless people and drug addicts that sadly rove the streets. Syracuse was almost ruined by greedy investors who are trying to make it like NYC. Those rents are too high and there's too many bad landlords. Yes, it does need a great deal of healing, but I believe it still has a lot of potential. There is a quaintness about it that you captured a bit in this video. The nice areas in Syracuse are some of the best places to live in the world, given the reasonably safe weather, low cost of living and transit, ...
Thank you! I think you have a much more balanced view of Syracuse than a lot of people commenting here...
My experience was the bad neighborhood was near the dome
I LOVE SYRACUSE
An also why yall hate it so much, yh I guess there’s nothing there but it’s a nice little city to walk about in
Aye let’s go baby 🍊 ❤️
Yes love that Syracuse pride.
good job!
Thanks so much I couldn't do it without viewers like you!
This from an outsider!
I would give him a "B" grade for keeping it nice!
What would it take to get an "A"?
@@TheDCShow0 Nothing. Your grade is your grade.
I am the tough teacher! ;)
Downtown and SU are nice enough. But since you ask what it would take to earn an “ A”, Maybe a little less bias and showing the rest of Syracuse: the Westside, the Southside, “ the Valley”. Maybe some drug use and Crime Rate statistics and local news clips that cover all too frequent shootings.
I was born in the city
Excellent
My son was born there
amazing!
Great video. Are you from Syracuse originally or is this a school project and you are an SU Student?
Thanks! I'm actually neither from Syracuse nor working on this for a school project. I go to the University at Buffalo, and am just really interested in cities. Syracuse is nearby so I decided to target it for investigation.
@@TheDCShow0 Cool. Have you heard of Centralia Pennsylvania yet? The city that’s been abandoned and burning for over 50yrs now?
Limp lizard is a go to.
The crime level is through the roof you can't leave your car running to keep it warm if you go in the store because it'll get stolen it's in one of the highest taxed counties in the country Onondaga County and Onondaga Lake still is a nasty cesspool
you mean there is a crime ... in this city ??
syracuse is a junkyard with a few people wandering around
One man's trash is another man's treasure I think.
Check me out hosting at the comedy club (Funny Bone) out when it reopens. Stage name MrJaxn🙌🏾
I want to go back
Same
that train only went from carousel, downtown by clinton towers and i hear down to green lakes or was it jamesville beach eventually, making it pretty useless for going anywhere most people need to go on the reg
Yes it is Central New York NOT Upstate, NY. He mispronounced Onondaga which is the name of the County and the small Lake. The large lake is Onieda.
Onondaga lake is far from small
Segregated City, I spent my entire elementary/middle school years from 93-2000 in Syracuse and never seen where white kids lived...I had fun.
what neighborhood did you live in? I’m actually kind of ignorant on how Syracuse is segregated
It can be segregated, but it also has very diverse neighborhoods too. Schools are still generally integrated, but it depends on where you are in the city.
I love ❤️ Syracuse NY
Few words have been better said.
I also love this city. It isn’t the best place in the United States to live. But it is a very interesting and cool place. I actually am from Syracuse.
That
Niagara Mohawk building is an architects wet dream, its amazing. Long live Syracuse.
Indeed
Probably the coolest building downtown
Loved this, go often being in the 518 area (way way wayyy upstate NY lol) best place to eat a good bagel is
"the psychedelic*atessen"
I think it's called- its right downtown Syracuse, next to ONLY THE BEST WRESTLING GYM EVER.....CURBY 3-STYLE WRESTLING CLUB!!!
I'm gonna have to hit that when I bike through Syracuse!
@@TheDCShow0 omg you kinda can't miss it, it's got this incredible grateful dead theme lol its honestly really cool, and the art inside and out is pretty cool lol I know right to the side of that bagel shop there are stairs that go down to the waterfront and along the building wall it says Syracuse NY!! Cool pic spot lol plus its right on the Hudson river and you can see the bridge from there, out back by the water! Curby 3 style wrestling (aka Joe usenellini, spelling *) club does this outside wrestling event called " Headlocks on the Hudson " its an incredible event that my son and us always had fun at, it's only been going a few years now but you can find where I'm talking about by maybe looking up that event lol (I remember things primarily from my kids wrestling venues and landmarks lol so sorry for the crappy directions lol)
omg! the realtor music! what? you couldn't get any vogon poetry?