I was born and raised in Harlem,It is my home village and living almost 69 years Their is no place like it,come all and visit and enjoy, It still HAS Flavor!
Harlem is a part of me forevermore Born and raised I absolutely hate the gentrification and the pricing out of the People who made Harlem the famous Hub that it is
@@glorymosbyfloyd3878 A brilliant and profound statement Brother Mumin, fact is: we can't complain if we aren't willing to pool our money and human capital together to invest, build and maintain. Too many of us whine without wanting to put in the hard work.
Harlem is my hometown. Born in the old Harlem Hospital. Grew up in East River Projects, Manhattanvile projects. Hung out in the Grant projects during the 70's -80's. Moved to the Bronx raised my daughter and then left N.Y. in '92...to Mobile, Al. Kinda miss all the different places to see and culture/ events to explore. Great shopping, etc. Nothing like it!!!!😉💝☺
You forgot to mention Harlem Week celebration in August. It's really Harlem month ,but the main festivities are the last week in August. With street fairs, music and food. Celebration of the black diaspora . Up town in the house!
I never lived in Harlem until last year and I loved it. We went into the shelter that didn't even look like a shelter and we had the most beautiful time and the love out in Harlem is the realest. I lived in the Bronx all my life but once I moved into Harlem I was hooked with all the art and beautiful music. And soon we'll have a apt in Harlem right on Adam Clayton Blvd
Indeed, Indeed That's why Harlem USA is Iconic & Historical, because of the People who rich History and Culture made it the Beacon that it is The gentrification that's going on is trying to erode the flavor away but to no avail, we are not going anywhere, it's just painful to see the drastic changes
Remember ALL the historical greats who lived in HARLEM: Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Adam Clayton Powell, James Baldwin, just to name a few, born, raised, and educated there, living in ATL now, HARLEM will ALWAYS be my home, miss it every day!!
I was born and raised in Harlem. Even with all of the changes it will always be home. I grew up, opened a business here (Aromas Boutique Bakery)and teach here. These days even all of my virtual content in filmed in East Harlem. Nothing but Love!
Im from the Bronx but used to visit Harlem in the 80s and early 90s.... I used to LOVE Harlem !!! Central Harlem was rough but it had that special something about that can't be explained... now it's no where the same. What I loved about Harlem was always a lot of people and music outside all day and night
What about the churches of Harlem? St John the Divine, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Riverside Church are all beautiful and have played key roles in Harlem.
This is one place with sooo much history. Amazing murals! Drove by and stopped at "Grant's tomb". Never realized I was passing through a small part of Harlem. Thank you for emphasizing the positives in each neighborhood.
Born and raised in Harlem 126 street between park and Madison east side went to p.s 30/31 J.h.s 275 90s era. Lincoln Wagner Wilson houses then Taft Johnson Spanish Harlem.
I love Harlem. It's so diverse and Afrocentric. I have wonderful friends that live and work in Harlem. I wish I was able to afford to buy a brownstone in Harlem. If I win the lottery I will 😊🤪
Born and raised in East Harlem a/k/a /Spanish Harlem, the Johnson projects 114th street & Lexington. LOVED my "hometown", it's in my blood. My school was across the street, P.S. 57. almost everyday during the summer and Sundays my 4 sibs and I would walk over to Central Park & spend the day there. Sometimes we'd spend all day at the Eagle or Cosmo movie theatre where we'd see a triple feature for 1.50! And who can forget La Marqueta! Bargains galore! I used to HATE when my mom would drag my sister and me to buy underwear 8 for a dollar, and the vendor would always ask "Is it for you?" ugh. We also HATED HATED HATED the fish market at the tip of La Marqueta, never forgot that smell. Good times
I lived in Brooklyn, but in the 1990s Harlem was an integral part of my life. I was always up there, eating at Uptown Juice Bar or buying doubles for $1 on 127th Street. I took African dance classes at Wadleigh on 114th St, National Black Theatre, Oberia Dempsey, Minisink, Countee Cullen, and the Harlem Y. I would dance to the drums at Mount Morris Park and met one of my long term boyfriends one summer at Grant's tomb. This was such a magical time in my life, from my late teens to 20s and I will always hold Harlem close for being the backdrop to that special time.
Drop me off in Harlem, yeah man, Beautiful Harlem. You'll get red bean and rice, it's very nice, way up there in Harlem" - Louis Armstrong (from the song "Drop Me off in Harlem" ruclips.net/video/nvp-MZ8enVQ/видео.html
When born, lived across the street in brown stone building#227 W. 127th St., around the corner from the RKO movie theater, LOWE'S and of course the APOLLO, old school dude here.
I loved this video. I grew up in Brooklyn but every now and then my friends and I would venture up to Harlem. I even performed at the Apollo for an off air amateur night. 😂. I've taken dates to the Apollo and Harlem. I have to revisit. I'm in Baltimore Md now. Not too far away. Great vid 👍🏾
oh harlem oh harlem famous poem by garcia lorca, famed spanish poet, he expressed the beauty of harlem.the place is still the place. i got to go there ,soon.
Sister’s Cuisine SLAPS! I happened to stumble upon them when I was around handling business and their food is amazinggggg. I learned a whole lot from this video. I have to take a trip to all these places.
Thank you, my first 7 years were spent growing up a block away from Strivers Row, now named Frederick Douglass Boulevard....mostly great memories. It was like living in a close knit village!
Latroy Sanders absolutely. I’ve apartments with terraces, laundry in building plus 24 doorman. Very famous. Charles Rangel, David Paterson among other famous people live it lived there. Gated parking too.
Somehow, I've got to find a way to go there. It's been so many years since I've even been anywhere near NYC but between the museums and the architecture, I have to get there.
@@juanshaftpatel7488 I'm 73 years old. I'm not interested in sugar daddies and Expedia isn't going to help, either. At least there are RUclips videos I can watch.
Why is that bad? Gentrification occur in all communities, it's called upgrade. The only problem is pricing the original settlers out of their own communit after the upgrade. But lawmakers can do something about that if they wanted to. But they don't, they like money too much. But, you elect them.
Xena Gomez me and you understand the reality of life and we are not PRIVILEGED , so if we tell our truth the owner of this website can take our comments down or as the saying goes comments disabled 😂🤣😂🤣 PRIVILEGED PEOPLE LOVE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF STRUGGLING PEOPLE , Then they move in the neighborhood and walk THEIR dog's and want you to baby sit their bad ASS children 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
100 West 121st Street. Apt. #23 NY, NY 10027 Born & raised. Born Harlem Hospital 135th st. Malcolm X Blvd across the Street from Shomburg ctr. PROUD Harlem Nite.
I am not from NYC nor have visited yet. I hope that Harlem can keep its vibrant cultural history and vibe that has always made it a unique place all its own. It would be a real tragedy to see it loose that.
Yes it did Miss Gomez but the drugs that was put in the community wrecked havoc in the community DRUGS,, ALCOHOL AND GENTRIFICATION, BUT AT LEAST THEY HAVE JESUS LOL LOL 😂🤣😂🤣
I have to thank you for your many glimpses of New York. I was born and raised there, but stuck in Michigan for many years now for various reasons. It's great to get an occasional look at the hometown (in my case, Brooklyn, but partially NY).
You failed to mention Italian East Harlem which still exists. Patsy's pizza on 1st and 116th street. Rao's Italian restaurant on Pleasant Ave. Both have been staples of the neighborhood for about 100 years. Also, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Feast. Which is very colorful and rich in culture. All my personal favorite parts about Harlem.
It is my understanding and it’s been 21 years since I’ve been to New York that the Harlem that I grew up with knowing about no longer exists it’s just a name. I was even told by one of my friends who moved to Harlem in the 1980s not to waste my time coming because it’s not what I think it is.
I never lived in Harlem, but spent a fair amount of time there from the mid 1980's to the mid 1990's. Yeah, it's a little cleaner and ostensibly safer, however, all of Manhattan has lost its soul. Back in the day, people would go into Harlem or downtown Delancey, Canal, etc. to get clothes and sneakers that you could not get ANYWHERE else. Now, it's all corporate. Same ish as you find in Peoria, IL or El Paso, Texas. Nothing particularly special about NYC in general, or Harlem specifically anymore.
There's still aspects of Harlem that's still flavorable but the gentrification and pricing out of the local residents is in full effect & very hurtful to witness A great deal of the Mom and Pop shops , clothing stores, music stores and restaurants that We love have damn near all but disappeared It's definitely not the same
This was amazing! Born and raised/named Harlem, Grew up at 45 Tiemann Pl. & 124th St. this was cool to watch. Unfortunately, Harlem is not the same! Miss the days of the Jazz Mobiles @ Grant’s Tomb in summer🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@MrHarlemHarris In Chicago, we had an event called "Summer Dance", in Grant Park in Chicago. Every Friday in the summer, a different kind of Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, Latin Jazz bands. Huge outdoor dance floor. Endless Sangria. Latin folks welcomed us Black Folks with open arms to come in and participate. Latin and Black cuties everywhere!! Afro-Cuban bands just be rocking!!!
@@MrHarlemHarris That's funny, I wanna come to New York. You may not get this, but if you never been there, it's hard to get a sense of what it really is. Luckily for me, all I need is some good food and some good girl watching, and plenty of places to walk. I'm in Seattle now, Chicago was home for 40 years, it's a world class city, but too much negative stuff about my life experiences in Chicago to say I have fond memories or it like New Yorker's always say...
Lots of people know about Grant's Tomb bcse we enjoyed free jazz concerts on Wednesdays during the summer. Nobody was thinking about Grant and his wife.
So many people are saying it is "not the same". What does that mean? I'm really curious.(Asking as a Chicagoan bit city boy who has never been to New York, and still can't get ta true sense of what the city is like.)
I’m a Brooklyn kid, born & raised. Dads job transferred him to Colorado, where we HAD to move to….but that’s another story. Anyway, as a kid, we would take the train into the city, head to Harlem and just “hang out”. Sometimes we would be chased out of a neighborhood cause we simply didn’t live there…LOL. AHH…the good ol’ days. I’m speaking of the late 50’s and 60’s and a touch of the 70’s. Missed the crack head period….glad of that, it would have broken my heart but NY persevered. Been back to Brooklyn many times and Harlem but now, you have made it imperative that I do with your compelling dissertation. Thank You
@@coreygatling9924 NYC subways are like gold; traveled throughout the 5 boros w/o a car, for years, and stayed in shape 😉 Cars are convenientbut I HATE being dependent on them in the suburbs.
In 1980 I was living by myself in Puerto Rico. I had lost both of my parents during the previous 1 1/2 yrs, my mom scarcely a month earlier and so I moved to NYC and after a couple of months living with my aunt, on the corner of 96th street and 2nd Avenue I moved to this small building located on 104th street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues. Found a job around the corner between 104th and 105th at this company called Jemaltown (shout out to all my ex-coworkers, including the officers at the 23rd precinct who used to provide security for us. You all know who you are) where I would spend the next 4 yrs until I got me another, better paying job in midtown Manhattan. I have to say before moving to Harlem, even back home in Puerto Rico I used to hear stories from ppl telling me don't go to Harlem. That's a dangerous place, they might rob you or even kill you if you go there. Guess what? Living in Harlem was most likely the most beautiful, gratifying experience I ever lived as a newyorker. I met a lot of beautiful people from so many different cultural backgrounds and ethnicities. Harlem was culture anywhere you looked at the time. One day the company sent me to work at this other store they had on 125th street near the APOLLO THEATER and loved it so much I requested a transfer. Years later and shortly before moving back to Puerto Rico against my will and due to a family matter, I would end up living on 125th street and Broadway, near the train station. As for those who told me it was dangerous visiting Harlem, I'd go out at anytime, day and late night, and never, EVER, had any type of negative experiences with nobody. Not even once. Haven't been back since I moved back home but if I ever do, Harlem will be one of the first places to visit. I recently got some pics of my old building an ex girlfriend sent me and immediately felt the nostalgia for my old neighborhood. I was planning on going last yr but then covid showed up and everything changed. Maybe next yr I'll hop on that plane once again. Stay safe everyone. Blessings.
It's different now sir I grew in harlem 1969 across from old harlem hospital dated change drug charge harlem is a war zone and the enemy is the people killing each over zero beautiful in late 70 early 80 after that is over .
You cant stop it. The reason you cant simply comes down to color. That color is green.Money will always be the power. People like to blame race because its easy but its all about economics.
@@ram0666 Yes.You have a very strong point and position there.IT ALL comes down to the Almighty Dollar...But, to be specific,Afro-American people have NEVER,fought for monetary gain.MERCENARY.- Love,devotion and,FREEDOM can NEVER be bought-
@@tkso.philly3879 I respect your opinion but im from Philly as well.I am a white male from 25th and Girard. My neighborhood was the only white neighborhood on the westside of North Philly.I dont know 1 person in that neighborhood no more, All of the lower income whites got replaced by the higher income whites.So i know color has zero to do with it,it is more to do with rich and poor. The reality is nobody can move in if nobody sells their property. Everybody loves their neighborhood until somebody pulls out the big check. Thats when everybody going hard settles down and gets on the next train out of town.Lets not forget that the people who leave,go with a bag and they chose that bag over the neighborhood.
@@ram0666 Yo my man,you DID say the STRAIGHT UP truth.Since you put it down like that,,,I don't know your age,but,I grew up in Passyunk Homes in South Philly.Nobody received SHIT but a notice to move out!!!---Ya see,MY neighborhood was built for the Philadelphia Naval Base during WW2.After the war,THEN the Philadelphia Housing Authority got it from the Federal government....THAT. was PRIME REAL ESTATE!!!--- Straight shot down Pattison avenue.Just across the bridge from Philly international airport,past the oil refinery,via the Schuylkill expressway,quick access to Center City.I was gone by the time the city told the residents,that there was an underground leak, from the refinery.But.When. I went back home after time in the Army,there was a totally new community there with names like,Di Napoli Way,Siracusa Street, Rome Court, etc...-Im glad to know that you DO,understand.But,ALSO know that there's TOO many who Didn't even have that $ option...-On another tune,I have family in Strawberry Mansion.AND, Girard School for Boys.Wow.Its been a while.-Peace and Blessings man-
I grew up in Black Harlem back in the60's early70's Harlem is no longer BLACK Unfortunately Harlem is WhiteWashed the Vultures, the Seagulls and the Devil is full effect. I went to p.s175 and I went to IS136 edgecombe Ave back in the70's movies were made there Superfly, Hell up in Harlem, Across 110th Street , Gordon's War those were the good Ol'days. I grew up in a BrownStone and it's Still Standing out of all these years.
@@DonMegaHim During the Civil rights era times were a Changing Black people was Standing up and fighting back the Black Panthers ran them out. But as time passed they slowly came back and they are walking all over it changing Shit the way they wanted it to be, you are not going to walk into their community and change nothing you are not going to walk in Williamsburg/Crown heights and do nothing, you are not going to go to the different parts of LongIsland and change nothing Minneola/Massapequa, Ronkonkoma I'll take it a further than that Nassau County that is a Upper Middle income area. Now back to Harlem they are going turn it into a"Turn it into a Tourist Attraction", like Time Square, that tour bus comes through Harlem and Stare and Glare at Black people as if they're freaks in a side show. Ppl from different parts of the world will be coming to Harlem.
@@DonMegaHim So what. We took it and made it better, with our rich culture that the whole world emulates. Whatever we have white people want. They buy Our lips, our big round asses , tanning their skin like ours....they want to be us.
Don't be surprised if they put in a BED AND BREAKFAST IN HARLEM Every black community from America to the Caribbean and around the world that's what's going on, take the land and kick the natives out, Look at the history of our family the native Americans SMH
@@lf1496 but once again, just like the whites were there now the blacks, soon it will be mixed, then maybe who knows? time keeps moving, and just because you remember it as one thing, in the grand scheme of time it is all just but a memory in time. you realize that right. In 500 years do you think anything will mean shit? nah
I use to live in Harlem a long time ago on 128th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenue. They probably have changed the names of the street since then (70’s).
I enjoy your videos I like your delivery I like your energy my first Duty station was Brooklyn New York I walked in the Harlem back in the day not too far it was a little dangerous back in the day it was one place in New York you could look people in the eye though I made it out people were cool someone did tell me I was a crazy white boy
Toheeb Adeshina I wouldn’t say Harlem is “so close” to Brooklyn, especially if you look at a map of NYC (I’d recommend looking at the MTA subway map of NYC).
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I was born and raised in Harlem,It is my home village and living almost 69 years Their is no place like it,come all and visit and enjoy, It still HAS Flavor!
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James Wynn
Hello from Australia 🐨🐾🐾🐾
Did you know Pee Wee Kirkland back in the day?
my mother was raised here. i was raised in astoria but i still love going to harlem with my mother
Have you met vado?
Harlem is a part of me forevermore
Born and raised
I absolutely hate the gentrification and the pricing out of the People who made Harlem the famous Hub that it is
Amen!! Harlem NY isn't Harlem without its soul. From another Harlem Knight.🙋🏾♀️😥
@@MsKewi-NYC Tell it
@Abdula Mumin Straight FACTS
@@glorymosbyfloyd3878 A brilliant and profound statement Brother Mumin, fact is: we can't complain if we aren't willing to pool our money and human capital together to invest, build and maintain. Too many of us whine without wanting to put in the hard work.
@@xeon222 You're absolutely right
Big reason HARLEM WILL NEVER BE THE SAME..... GENTRIFICATION....
@Zazu Yumsum All!
@Zazu Yumsum BORN AND RAISED..HOW BOUT YOU..OR YOU JUST GOT HERE
Born in Harlem. Raised in The Bronx. Facts Garry
garry jones
Hello from Australia 🐨🐾🐾🐾🐾
garry jones ....yes, I lived in the Bronx in the 60s thank God they helped Harlem, it was baaad !
Harlem is my hometown. Born in the old Harlem Hospital. Grew up in East River Projects, Manhattanvile projects. Hung out in the Grant projects during the 70's -80's. Moved to the Bronx raised my daughter and then left N.Y. in '92...to Mobile, Al. Kinda miss all the different places to see and culture/ events to explore. Great shopping, etc. Nothing like it!!!!😉💝☺
j.h.s 43
Did you know Pee Wee Kirkland and NY Freddie?
Brother.Your story sounds like mine,leaving Philly and living in the south because of my son.CULTURE Shock-
I born, raised and live in Harlem. Ah great time I've had. GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE OF HARLEM!
I absolutely LOVE hanging out in Harlem whenever I visit NYC. Can’t wait to get back.
Harlem Artisans Market also has some vendors selling very beautiful African clothing, skincare, oils, jewelry, & accessories.
You forgot to mention Harlem Week celebration in August. It's really Harlem month ,but the main festivities are the last week in August. With street fairs, music and food. Celebration of the black diaspora . Up town in the house!
I never lived in Harlem until last year and I loved it. We went into the shelter that didn't even look like a shelter and we had the most beautiful time and the love out in Harlem is the realest. I lived in the Bronx all my life but once I moved into Harlem I was hooked with all the art and beautiful music. And soon we'll have a apt in Harlem right on Adam Clayton Blvd
Harlem is and always be icon and histrionic for long lasting history and oh yeah let's not forget the people.
Indeed, Indeed
That's why Harlem USA is Iconic & Historical, because of the People who rich History and Culture made it the Beacon that it is
The gentrification that's going on is trying to erode the flavor away but to no avail, we are not going anywhere, it's just painful to see the drastic changes
Remember ALL the historical greats who lived in HARLEM: Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Adam Clayton Powell, James Baldwin, just
to name a few, born,
raised, and educated there, living in ATL now,
HARLEM will ALWAYS be my
home, miss it
every day!!
I was born and raised in Harlem. Even with all of the changes it will always be home. I grew up, opened a business here (Aromas Boutique Bakery)and teach here. These days even all of my virtual content in filmed in East Harlem. Nothing but Love!
This was dope! I was born and raised in Harlem and I love it. Glad it's being restored but sad they're pushing our people out.
By any means necessary!
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It’s what they do, and it’s disgusting.
I am so glad you addressed the elephant in the room out the gate
Im from the Bronx but used to visit Harlem in the 80s and early 90s.... I used to LOVE Harlem !!! Central Harlem was rough but it had that special something about that can't be explained... now it's no where the same. What I loved about Harlem was always a lot of people and music outside all day and night
Wow!
A hun 116street here. My parents moved when I was a little girl. I’ve always wanted to move back. Please don’t change Harlem !💖
I’m from Buffalo, NY originally and I’ve been living in Harlem for 7 years. I love it here.
How would you describe it now?
What about the churches of Harlem? St John the Divine, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Riverside Church are all beautiful and have played key roles in Harlem.
Who visits a city for the churches ?
Cannan bapt.church
@@davidmilton5887 idk, but churches are full of "out of towners " on Sunday. They are filming and taking taking pictures. Its ridiculous
@@coreygatling9924 Yes it is
It pisses me off
This isn't a damn show & I give them a look👁👁 & they usually calm it down
Dont forget Mt. Olivet Baptist Church 122nd St. And Lenox Malcolm X Blvd.
You forgot the Amsterdam News
I m leaving here (15 years)
I love this area.
102 st. and First Ave.
Grew up in Harlem 115th and 5th Avenue 125th street was beautiful back in the day. Live in queens now.
@@DonMegaHim Foster
This is one place with sooo much history. Amazing murals! Drove by and stopped at "Grant's tomb". Never realized I was passing through a small part of Harlem. Thank you for emphasizing the positives in each neighborhood.
Born and raised in Harlem 126 street between park and Madison east side went to p.s 30/31 J.h.s 275 90s era. Lincoln Wagner Wilson houses then Taft Johnson Spanish Harlem.
Went to p.s.30/31 and i.s. 275/p.s.175 too
Niky-Nelz aka N.E.L.L.I.E cool 😊
Lincoln projects all day
The Lincoln! P.S. 197/Fredrick Douglas JHS 43
Harlem is one of the most amazing places I have ever been to!
6:50 Wow that's my favorite food, I'm African, I think i will love living there. I'll come soon
I love Harlem. It's so diverse and Afrocentric. I have wonderful friends that live and work in Harlem. I wish I was able to afford to buy a brownstone in Harlem. If I win the lottery I will 😊🤪
Born and raised in East Harlem a/k/a /Spanish Harlem, the Johnson projects 114th street & Lexington. LOVED my "hometown", it's in my blood. My school was across the street, P.S. 57. almost everyday during the summer and Sundays my 4 sibs and I would walk over to Central Park & spend the day there. Sometimes we'd spend all day at the Eagle or Cosmo movie theatre where we'd see a triple feature for 1.50! And who can forget La Marqueta! Bargains galore! I used to HATE when my mom would drag my sister and me to buy underwear 8 for a dollar, and the vendor would always ask "Is it for you?" ugh. We also HATED HATED HATED the fish market at the tip of La Marqueta, never forgot that smell. Good times
Maria Albino-Coss I used to go to ps 57 as well!! 😁 good times
Hell yea,Wagner native here!!!
Que bueno votus.us
From 112th & Madison went to ps 101 then is 117 stayed in Taft housing I feel ya
@@anthonycameron2067 I went to IS 117 too! Muhammed Ali visited our school in the early 70s!
I wish i had the energy to walk those streets again.
You can, just take your time
Arguably the most gorgeous spot on the entire island 14:12
I lived in Brooklyn, but in the 1990s Harlem was an integral part of my life. I was always up there, eating at Uptown Juice Bar or buying doubles for $1 on 127th Street. I took African dance classes at Wadleigh on 114th St, National Black Theatre, Oberia Dempsey, Minisink, Countee Cullen, and the Harlem Y. I would dance to the drums at Mount Morris Park and met one of my long term boyfriends one summer at Grant's tomb. This was such a magical time in my life, from my late teens to 20s and I will always hold Harlem close for being the backdrop to that special time.
You hit all the best spots...memories!!!!
Drop me off in Harlem, yeah man, Beautiful Harlem. You'll get red bean and rice, it's very nice, way up there in Harlem" - Louis Armstrong (from the song "Drop Me off in Harlem" ruclips.net/video/nvp-MZ8enVQ/видео.html
Harlem state of mind ! Came up on 144th between Lenox & 7th..always will be home!😎
All about the hometown. HARLEM WORLD!
Thank you for watching.
YES
Native Harlemites (like myself, born and raised in the 70's), refer to Adam C. Powell Blvd as "7th Ave", and Fredrick Douglass Blvd as "8th Ave"!
As they should.
I love Harlem I was working in 125 st.for 6 years.
I used to live in the UWS and ALWAYS went to Harlem... so much culture, diversity and amazing food.
I've enjoyed living in Harlem more than anywhere in my life.
Moving there next year and I’m so excited 😆
@@TakeilaJeter how did/do you like the move?
255 W. 127th Street, apt 6B, St. Nicholas Projects, 10027. PS 157; JHS 43. It’s in the blood.
Thanks. Love me some Harlem.
When born, lived across the street in brown stone building#227 W. 127th St., around the corner
from the RKO movie theater, LOWE'S and of course the APOLLO, old school dude here.
Danny Reavis home BOY!
I loved this video. I grew up in Brooklyn but every now and then my friends and I would venture up to Harlem. I even performed at the Apollo for an off air amateur night. 😂. I've taken dates to the Apollo and Harlem. I have to revisit. I'm in Baltimore Md now. Not too far away. Great vid 👍🏾
Love Harlem it’s like a different world from the rest of New York reminds of Atlanta
Cotton club still open
Wow
Love it . Walking through here everyday brings back memories from my youth
oh harlem oh harlem famous poem by garcia lorca, famed spanish poet, he expressed the beauty of harlem.the place is still the place. i got to go there ,soon.
Sister’s Cuisine SLAPS! I happened to stumble upon them when I was around handling business and their food is amazinggggg. I learned a whole lot from this video. I have to take a trip to all these places.
Thank you, my first 7 years were spent growing up a block away from Strivers Row, now named Frederick Douglass Boulevard....mostly great memories. It was like living in a close knit village!
Live in Lenox Terrace and Harlem a great place to live.
Good place to move to?
Latroy Sanders absolutely. I’ve apartments with terraces, laundry in building plus 24 doorman. Very famous. Charles Rangel, David Paterson among other famous people live it lived there. Gated parking too.
Use to get my hair cuts across the street from the 'TERRACE' and remember seeing them being
built, that was truly 'back in the day'!!
Danny Reavis Before my time. I was born in the mid 60’s. Really back in the day!
Harlem has changed a lot. I lived there a long time ago. I plan to visit soon.
I lived in Harlem. I went to the City College of NY and worked in the Adam Clinton’s building. I love Harlem.
Somehow, I've got to find a way to go there. It's been so many years since I've even been anywhere near NYC but between the museums and the architecture, I have to get there.
if youre hot.. usually a sugar daddy will fly you out and put you up.. if not, try expedia
@@juanshaftpatel7488 I'm 73 years old. I'm not interested in sugar daddies and Expedia isn't going to help, either. At least there are RUclips videos I can watch.
@@miriambucholtz9315 IM DEADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD LOLLLLLLLL
GENTRIFICATION 😢😭😢😭😢😭
Why is that bad? Gentrification occur in all communities, it's called upgrade. The only problem is pricing the original settlers out of their own communit after the upgrade. But lawmakers can do something about that if they wanted to. But they don't, they like money too much. But, you elect them.
I know right
@@theresag1969 easy for u to say from your cookie cutter boring safe life
@@xenagomez4017
Easy for you to react to your personal assumptions than to address issues.
Xena Gomez me and you understand the reality of life and we are not PRIVILEGED , so if we tell our truth the owner of this website can take our comments down or as the saying goes comments disabled 😂🤣😂🤣 PRIVILEGED PEOPLE LOVE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF STRUGGLING PEOPLE , Then they move in the neighborhood and walk THEIR dog's and want you to baby sit their bad ASS children 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I enjoyed this video. I grew up in Harlem. I'm from the Polo Grounds.
545 west 126 street.. Manhattanville projects apt 9j.. from 92 til 2001..still my home.. but I live in east harlem now..
100 West 121st Street. Apt. #23 NY, NY 10027 Born & raised. Born Harlem Hospital 135th st. Malcolm X Blvd across the Street from Shomburg ctr. PROUD Harlem Nite.
@@joyy7506 my family had the restaurant on 121st and lenox
@@tyeshassmith434 were you related to Marvin, Sandy and them?
Joy Y yes that’s my family
Joy Y sandy died 4 years ago
I am not from NYC nor have visited yet. I hope that Harlem can keep its vibrant cultural history and vibe that has always made it a unique place all its own. It would be a real tragedy to see it loose that.
Too late
@@hereisayana8207 oh no...
Harlem Renaissance birthed black owned businesses
Yes indeedy
Yes it did Miss Gomez but the drugs that was put in the community wrecked havoc in the community DRUGS,, ALCOHOL AND GENTRIFICATION, BUT AT LEAST THEY HAVE JESUS LOL LOL 😂🤣😂🤣
I just ate at Sylvia's 2 days ago I'm going back there again
Absolutely love Sylvia's!!! The food is wonderful!!😍
@@ginacleveland7995 the food taste so delicious it's make me wanna come back 4 more
Isaiah Winbrone not as good as it used to be
@@tdon39 what you mean not good as they used to be
Did they treat you as second class customers compared to white customers?
I have to thank you for your many glimpses of New York. I was born and raised there, but stuck in Michigan for many years now for various reasons. It's great to get an occasional look at the hometown (in my case, Brooklyn, but partially NY).
You failed to mention Italian East Harlem which still exists. Patsy's pizza on 1st and 116th street. Rao's Italian restaurant on Pleasant Ave. Both have been staples of the neighborhood for about 100 years. Also, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Feast. Which is very colorful and rich in culture.
All my personal favorite parts about Harlem.
Always enjoyed Harlem from waaaaaaaay back in the day. #Brooklynite here
I’m definitely going there on my next trip to NYC!
I have been to Harlem just once & fell in love with it
Was Born in Harlem and that’s where my life story started but I was raised in Queens but always came back home here and there, it’s in my Blood
It is my understanding and it’s been 21 years since I’ve been to New York that the Harlem that I grew up with knowing about no longer exists it’s just a name. I was even told by one of my friends who moved to Harlem in the 1980s not to waste my time coming because it’s not what I think it is.
its better.. less thugs
I never lived in Harlem, but spent a fair amount of time there from the mid 1980's to the mid 1990's. Yeah, it's a little cleaner and ostensibly safer, however, all of Manhattan has lost its soul. Back in the day, people would go into Harlem or downtown Delancey, Canal, etc. to get clothes and sneakers that you could not get ANYWHERE else. Now, it's all corporate. Same ish as you find in Peoria, IL or El Paso, Texas. Nothing particularly special about NYC in general, or Harlem specifically anymore.
@@AldermanFredCDavis Fact's
Harlem ain't Harlem nomore. They took it back
There's still aspects of Harlem that's still flavorable but the gentrification and pricing out of the local residents is in full effect & very hurtful to witness
A great deal of the Mom and Pop shops , clothing stores, music stores and restaurants that We love have damn near all but disappeared
It's definitely not the same
This was amazing! Born and raised/named Harlem, Grew up at 45 Tiemann Pl. & 124th St. this was cool to watch. Unfortunately, Harlem is not the same! Miss the days of the Jazz Mobiles @ Grant’s Tomb in summer🔥🔥🔥🔥
I bet that was a cool vibe......
@@dxwallace55 such good vibes
@@MrHarlemHarris In Chicago, we had an event called "Summer Dance", in Grant Park in Chicago. Every Friday in the summer, a different kind of Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, Latin Jazz bands. Huge outdoor dance floor.
Endless Sangria. Latin folks welcomed us Black Folks with open arms to come in and participate. Latin and Black cuties everywhere!! Afro-Cuban bands just be rocking!!!
@@dxwallace55 I want come to Chicago so bad. Sounds amazing
@@MrHarlemHarris That's funny, I wanna come to New York. You may not get this, but if you never been there, it's hard to get a sense of what it really is. Luckily for me, all I need is some good food and some good girl watching, and plenty of places to walk.
I'm in Seattle now, Chicago was home for 40 years, it's a world class city, but too much negative stuff about my life experiences in Chicago to say I have fond memories or it like New Yorker's always say...
Hahhahhahsh 😂😂😂😂 banana republic right next to the Apollo theater
New Subscriber here ! This the type channel I’ve been looking for 🎉
This was such a Beautiful Segment. Ive learned more than I knew before and I grew up 14 blocks from Harlem 💕💕💕
Truly!
I got 10 reasons why I love this Channel! 🥰
Thank you for watching.
Thank you... Harlem is beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed my last visit..
UPTOWN Baby!!!!!! 🖤
Lots of people know about Grant's Tomb bcse we enjoyed free jazz concerts on Wednesdays during the summer. Nobody was thinking about Grant and his wife.
Lol
I absolutely love Harlem ✊🏾
I was born in Harlem. It's not the same, I live in New Jersey, and I love it there.
So many people are saying it is "not the same". What does that mean? I'm really curious.(Asking as a Chicagoan bit city boy who has never been to New York, and still can't get ta true sense of what the city is like.)
#11. The Harlem YMCA, and #12. Fairway Market @ 131st...Uptown Top Ranking! (Love is all I bring).
Thanks for watching.
i was in harlem many years ago-sugarhill. amazing views over roof tops. how many people......
I’m a Brooklyn kid, born & raised. Dads job transferred him to Colorado, where we HAD to move to….but that’s another story. Anyway, as a kid, we would take the train into the city, head to Harlem and just “hang out”. Sometimes we would be chased out of a neighborhood cause we simply didn’t live there…LOL. AHH…the good ol’ days. I’m speaking of the late 50’s and 60’s and a touch of the 70’s. Missed the crack head period….glad of that, it would have broken my heart but NY persevered. Been back to Brooklyn many times and Harlem but now, you have made it imperative that I do with your compelling dissertation.
Thank You
My Home. East HARLEM. Thank You For This Video!
Thank you for watching.
Great video can you make a vid just about the subways?
Thank you. Will add it to the list.
Thats a no. Pure aggravation
@@coreygatling9924 NYC subways are like gold; traveled throughout the 5 boros w/o a car, for years, and stayed in shape 😉 Cars are convenientbut I HATE being dependent on them in the suburbs.
My birthplace and childhood home. 1199
Harlem means SO MUCH to me mind you I’m from buffalo NY.
Before gentrification Harlem>
In 1980 I was living by myself in Puerto Rico. I had lost both of my parents during the previous 1 1/2 yrs, my mom scarcely a month earlier and so I moved to NYC and after a couple of months living with my aunt, on the corner of 96th street and 2nd Avenue I moved to this small building located on 104th street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues.
Found a job around the corner between 104th and 105th at this company called Jemaltown (shout out to all my ex-coworkers, including the officers at the 23rd precinct who used to provide security for us. You all know who you are) where I would spend the next 4 yrs until I got me another, better paying job in midtown Manhattan.
I have to say before moving to Harlem, even back home in Puerto Rico I used to hear stories from ppl telling me don't go to Harlem. That's a dangerous place, they might rob you or even kill you if you go there.
Guess what?
Living in Harlem was most likely the most beautiful, gratifying experience I ever lived as a newyorker.
I met a lot of beautiful people from so many different cultural backgrounds and ethnicities. Harlem was culture anywhere you looked at the time.
One day the company sent me to work at this other store they had on 125th street near the APOLLO THEATER and loved it so much I requested a transfer. Years later and shortly before moving back to Puerto Rico against my will and due to a family matter, I would end up living on 125th street and Broadway, near the train station.
As for those who told me it was dangerous visiting Harlem, I'd go out at anytime, day and late night, and never, EVER, had any type of negative experiences with nobody. Not even once.
Haven't been back since I moved back home but if I ever do, Harlem will be one of the first places to visit. I recently got some pics of my old building an ex girlfriend sent me and immediately felt the nostalgia for my old neighborhood. I was planning on going last yr but then covid showed up and everything changed. Maybe next yr I'll hop on that plane once again.
Stay safe everyone. Blessings.
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It's different now sir I grew in harlem 1969 across from old harlem hospital dated change drug charge harlem is a war zone and the enemy is the people killing each over zero beautiful in late 70 early 80 after that is over .
"Now equipped with Starbucks and even a Whole Foods" Lmao!
Just found your channel love it
Thank you for watching.
Thank you so much for this great tour!!!
SHE said;"no one",,,,,-can stop gentrification from happening.BUT!!!-WITH A CONCERTED EFFORT,,,"WE",,,-can!!!!!-
Yes We can
You cant stop it. The reason you cant simply comes down to color. That color is green.Money will always be the power. People like to blame race because its easy but its all about economics.
@@ram0666 Yes.You have a very strong point and position there.IT ALL comes down to the Almighty Dollar...But, to be specific,Afro-American people have NEVER,fought for monetary gain.MERCENARY.- Love,devotion and,FREEDOM can NEVER be bought-
@@tkso.philly3879 I respect your opinion but im from Philly as well.I am a white male from 25th and Girard. My neighborhood was the only white neighborhood on the westside of North Philly.I dont know 1 person in that neighborhood no more, All of the lower income whites got replaced by the higher income whites.So i know color has zero to do with it,it is more to do with rich and poor. The reality is nobody can move in if nobody sells their property. Everybody loves their neighborhood until somebody pulls out the big check. Thats when everybody going hard settles down and gets on the next train out of town.Lets not forget that the people who leave,go with a bag and they chose that bag over the neighborhood.
@@ram0666 Yo my man,you DID say the STRAIGHT UP truth.Since you put it down like that,,,I don't know your age,but,I grew up in Passyunk Homes in South Philly.Nobody received SHIT but a notice to move out!!!---Ya see,MY neighborhood was built for the Philadelphia Naval Base during WW2.After the war,THEN the Philadelphia Housing Authority got it from the Federal government....THAT. was PRIME REAL ESTATE!!!--- Straight shot down Pattison avenue.Just across the bridge from Philly international airport,past the oil refinery,via the Schuylkill expressway,quick access to Center City.I was gone by the time the city told the residents,that there was an underground leak, from the refinery.But.When. I went back home after time in the Army,there was a totally new community there with names like,Di Napoli Way,Siracusa Street, Rome Court, etc...-Im glad to know that you DO,understand.But,ALSO know that there's TOO many who Didn't even have that $ option...-On another tune,I have family in Strawberry Mansion.AND, Girard School for Boys.Wow.Its been a while.-Peace and Blessings man-
how can you leave our La Marquetta in east harlem? and record stores that sell a lot of hard to find latin music.
Thank you for such an informative video. 🤗
Looking forward to your next video
Thanks for watching.
I have to hit the museums in Harlem when I return.
Lived there for 3 years, love every second of it. 🖤❤
Nice......
As a kid I lived on 138th St. After moving from Oakland, CA in the 80's
Wow how did you adjust... that's a big change
I luv Harlem, back in the day I remember they use to sell bean pie right on the sidewalk and Harlem was the only place you could find black gold
You must do one on PS 90 my cousin sent a picture it's now a condo...........went there in the fifties.
As for good soul food, hit up A Taste Of Seafood on 8th Ave and 135th street. The best mac & cheese ever, is sold here!
Beautiful.
Thank you for watching.
I grew up in Black Harlem back in the60's early70's Harlem is no longer BLACK
Unfortunately Harlem is WhiteWashed the Vultures, the Seagulls and the Devil is full effect. I went to p.s175 and I went to IS136 edgecombe Ave back in the70's movies were made there Superfly, Hell up in Harlem, Across 110th Street , Gordon's War those were the good Ol'days.
I grew up in a BrownStone and it's Still Standing out of all these years.
@@DonMegaHim During the Civil rights era times were a Changing Black people was Standing up and fighting back the Black Panthers ran them out.
But as time passed they slowly came back and they are walking all over it changing Shit the way they wanted it to be, you are not going to walk into their community and change nothing you are not going to walk in Williamsburg/Crown heights and do nothing, you are not going to go to the different parts of LongIsland and change nothing Minneola/Massapequa, Ronkonkoma I'll take it a further than that Nassau County that is a Upper Middle income area.
Now back to Harlem they are going turn it into a"Turn it into a Tourist Attraction", like Time Square, that tour bus comes through Harlem and Stare and Glare at Black people as if they're freaks in a side show. Ppl from different parts of the world will be coming to Harlem.
@@DonMegaHim So what. We took it and made it better, with our rich culture that the whole world emulates. Whatever we have white people want. They buy Our lips, our big round asses , tanning their skin like ours....they want to be us.
Don't be surprised if they put in a BED AND BREAKFAST IN HARLEM Every black community from America to the Caribbean and around the world that's what's going on, take the land and kick the natives out, Look at the history of our family the native Americans SMH
@@lf1496 but once again, just like the whites were there now the blacks, soon it will be mixed, then maybe who knows? time keeps moving, and just because you remember it as one thing, in the grand scheme of time it is all just but a memory in time. you realize that right. In 500 years do you think anything will mean shit? nah
The color of the people doesn’t matter the people matter.
I use to live in Harlem a long time ago on 128th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenue. They probably have changed the names of the street since then (70’s).
hi there, I am born in HAARLEM,the Netherlands!
This video is a testament that Harlem is no longer black American it's been replaced! smh so what is this video even talking about.
I enjoy your videos I like your delivery I like your energy my first Duty station was Brooklyn New York I walked in the Harlem back in the day not too far it was a little dangerous back in the day it was one place in New York you could look people in the eye though I made it out people were cool someone did tell me I was a crazy white boy
THANK YOU!!! SOOOOOOO WONDERFUL!!!
Nice video! Love it up there in Harlem!
From Brooklyn to Harlem is about how many minutes.
Toheeb Adeshina about 25 minutes by subway. Driving will take more due to traffic.
@@timcamer4702 Harlem is so close to Brooklyn, that's great.
@@jazzg3068 by Subway or taxi 🚕
Toheeb Adeshina I wouldn’t say Harlem is “so close” to Brooklyn, especially if you look at a map of NYC (I’d recommend looking at the MTA subway map of NYC).
I would do anything to see Harlem