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I haven't lived there in a decade, although I work there. I park in Arbor Hill each day. I don't feel unsafe there. I know there's some gun play at times during the summer, but Albany is a much nicer city than most in Upstate. I worked on a jobsite several years ago on Sheridan. Everyone was worried his car would get broken into. Never happened. Tge only robbery was the city of Albany putting tickets on cars. I lived in Utica briefly years ago. What a hole. Summer in Albany is nice too.
This summer has been bad for Albany NY. Lots of shootings and homicides. Its too small for the nonsense. Im from the Bronx we have the same issues this summer but it’s bigger and more spread out.
@Troy PS did you read my comment? This is not my city I’m from the Bronx. Who brags about murder you sound mad ignorant. You must be a low life proud of the number of people killed in your city! Sad NYC had 446 this year 👏🏿👏🏿 45% Bronx let me go brag and celebrate. Smh 🤦🏾♂️ go do your research Albany NY not no where near the size of Cleveland or population .The metro area population of Cleveland in 2020 was 1,763,000, Albany a small town of about 100k. You must be a kid. Go read a book instead of glamorizing death.
@@jmorgan3882 the capitol of the state not the city Albany ain’t shit I just purchased a few homes out there no disrespect but it’s a lot of try hards there as cheap as it is to live out there how come none of these get money dudes y’all talk about I never see them at the Albany lane bank auction are they serious 🧐
@@allgramsnoscams4805 I could tell by the way you talk you haven’t really spent time in Allah born ….. PLENTY Of members that you DONT Know OWNS Hundreds Of Property In The City …..
I lived here for 4 years, I'm from Jersey City so I'm used to living in a city. I'm a white guy 53 now, I lived here in my early 40's. I worked on mostly Clinton Ave. Rebuilding abandoned houses gunshots every day, cops doing 100 mph or so responding. One day I just got a pack of cigarettes and was walking packing them, well a couple guys tried to take them! Well to their surprise I whooped both in front of their boys, thought I was an easy mark. I fought for 14 years!! But yeah ALL cities have HOODS!! Small % cause the problems. There's A LOT of people there that don't act like animals, shooting each other for a LOOK OR COLOR SHIRT!!! Some people are scared to come out of the house!! That's not fair to them. South Pearl is a mad house to, the Governor is right there two or three blocks up.There are beautiful parks there to. Albany is diverse, All kinds of people. I loved living there.
CharlieBo, thanks for the outing! Right now I’m smack dab in central California with triple digit heat! Even though we have AC, it would be nice to be able to go somewhere recreational! We are so limited as to where we can go, even outdoor dining is out of the question with the triple digit weather we’ve been having lately. Take care and thanks again! 🙋🏻♀️
Da Dirty Fucking South & it's Muggy Ass Weather, including Houston Texas, why People want to Live there I Can't Imagine with that Kind of Summer Weather?
First of all, this is just Arbor Hill, which is one of the more socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Albany. The south end can be pretty rough around the edges as well, but the trick in Albany as with many places is to have some respect for people when you are in the area where they live/work. For instance, not driving around recording them on a "hood safari". As a plumber, I've worked quite a bit in Arbor Hill, and even though I'm literally the whole jar of mayonnaise, I've never had anything but positive encounters with the people that live there. It's as simple as being polite and showing people some common courtesy. It's also disappointing to me that this is the only impression you give of Albany, as there are so many neighborhoods to see, all with some really great people in them!
Came here to say the same. Born bred and still live here. Used to deliver to all neighborhoods, never a problem. Just love. Now Albany High was a different story. I was mugged 3x lol but that’s ancient history
@@andrewwheelerguitar Hi.... I live down in Westchester Co...I'm a PA They want me to move to Albany for the Hospital for a year...what's a normal middle class area to get a apartment in for a year? Thanks.
Born and raised in Arbor Hill but i lived in MD and Georgia I seen some spots in life but i always end up back here. made a short film on my block on my channel. Arbor Hill the movie. Thanks for da love on my hood bro💯💪🏾
BUFFALO is the most dangerous city in NY State, but people are always surprised when they find out that there are ghettos and alot of hoods in UpState NY. B-Lo, The ROC, The Cuse, Niagara Falls and The Capital Region all have a tuck your chain in vibe in the air. 🤯😵👀🌨️🌨️🌨️☁️☁️☔☔☔🌆🌆🌆🕸️🕸️🕸️🥃🥃🥃🍕🍕🍕🍗🍗🍗🍺🍺🍺🔪🔪🔪🚨🚨🚨🛑🛑🛑🚧🚧🚧🚑🚑🚑🚓🚓🚓🔝🔝🔝🗽🗽🗽🏚️🏚️🏠🏚️🏚️🏠🛣️🛣️🛣️🥊🥊🥊🎲🎲🎲🥾🥾🥾🖤🖤🖤☢️☢️☢️⚠️⚠️⚠️⌛⌛⌛⚰️⚰️⚰️⚔️⚔️⚔️🥀🥀🥀🌁🌁🌁❄️❄️❄️🙈🙉🙊💉💉💉💊💊💊🚬🚬🚬🕧🕧🕧
I just shot in Albany for my channel and was kinda shocked at how many abandoned houses there were. Seemed like way more than the typical East Coast city has.
I did an internship there earlier this year and since I’m from a different country I noticed there were a lot of reasons as to why this is from a foreign perspective. Albany is too reliant on cars still, many people live outside the city, within suburbs and go shopping in the absurd about of strip malls littered around the outskirts (largest Walmart in the country and Crossgates being examples). For this reason Downtown suffers, it’s dead, which leaves little incentive to go there, so people continue to abandon the inner city in favour of the suburbs. However, I did see and hear that a lot of revitalisation was occurring. New property sales, new businesses, pedestrian planning, etc. Give it 10 years and I can see Albany becoming a whole new city if all goes well, a city that might be worth talking about outside of political talk.
i’m from brooklyn and i always wanted to see if there’s any hoods upstate but this is crazy it looks so much like baltimore or virginia or something like that
Every little city upstate has hoods. Go ride through Newburgh, Middletown, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Hudson, Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Utica. The crazy thing is, they all look just like this. Some are bigger and some smaller but the same shit.
I see you only covered a small section. I'm surprised you didn't go to swan(sewer) or the bottom of livingston by north Pearl. Quail and Clinton or lark and orange. Yeah a whole different atmosphere at night.
Haha, no worries! Honestly, everyone thinks that 😂 if someone from outside of NY finds out someone is from NY, they automatically assume NYC, forgetting the rest of us in other parts of the state exist lolll
Bad representation of city .good rep of hood..yes this is where alot of Ny states legislation gets done..not nyc..its very small city..nice except a few neighborhoods
It's a big spread out area of 4 immediate counties and several other nearby counties and there are probably 100 municipalities in the area . North Albany where he drives for most of the video is about .00001% of the Capital District if that. It's mostly suburbs and small rural towns.
@@Thesauce585 western ny still falls in the category of "upstate new york" anything north of poughkeepsie is upstate. Infact some say anything north of yonkers honestly but i think poughkeepsie is the border.
Arbor Hill has a really interesting history - it was originally designed as a neighborhood of mansions for the wealthy. White flight, red-lining, and other discriminatory lending practices led to what you see today. A little justice would go a long way to restoring this neighborhood.
i feel like pine hills isnt much different.. at least over by quail and Ontario. .. just fewer trees and more 2 family style homes filled with students xD
Actually looks kind of chill. Everyone seems relaxed. Lots of nice trees. Peaceful looking neighborhoods. 😇 Crime scene not even 3 minutes into the video is kind of alarming though! 😨 6:25 Castle at end of road? 😮
@@inanymin369er there was an episode of The Simpsons which featured a skit called 'Skinner and The Superintendent.' You'll have to watch the skit fully to appreciate it, but Principal Skinner makes the claim that people from Albany call hamburgers 'Steamed Hams', which gave birth to a meme.
Majority of upstate ny cities have bad reps buffalo ny makes the list for one of americas most dangerous large cities newburgh looks worse than this Rochester is bad syracuse is bad Schenectady is also bad troy ny another one there are a lot of cities in the state that have conditions like this and have extreme crime rates
Yeah but the crime rate in bronx and brooklyn last year were as bad as chicago this aint worst than the bronx or brooklyn or Queens/harlem It looks grimey but dam NYC been scary the last 2 years.
Unfortunately, this is what most of New York looks like... Derelict, abandoned buildings, boarded-up and broken windows, weeds and overgrowth everywhere; drugs, thugs, prostitutes and just general despair...
Is is rundown like most cities in New York but every clean, to trash. I am inLos Angles and this area is Much cleaner no homeless or garbage everywhere. Thanks
My mom has lived there since 2006 with a woman who is supposed to be her girlfriend. My mom lets this woman control her and refuses to leave or see her family in Maryland including me because the woman doesn't want her to. My mom skipped both of her parent's funerals and my college graduation because the woman would "not allow" her to return to Albany if she left to visit family. The woman is insane and yells at people and hits them, but for some reason my mom is choosing to stay there, as is my sister who is basically supporting them both since they are both in poor health and both unemployed. I worry about my mom all the time and even though the woman is nice a lot of the time, she becomes unhinged over the smallest things and will go off on a tangent for hours and attack anyone who dares to argue with her. I just wish I could see my mom more because I really miss her and she never calls me even though she does want to talk to me. I always have to call her, which irritates me because I feel like I have to play by her rules.
I live in nyc and there were big differences between them. However they are both now cesspools of violence, unemployment, and homelessness. Reminds me of the 1970s.
Ayyyyy my home town. Know this city like the back of my hand. There’s been a shooting every day here and in Troy for the past like 5 months. Shits getting out of hand honestly. Some of the areas you were in, the cops don’t even stroll through there at night. Everyone walks with their straps out right in their hand.
Benghali In Platforms Actually black people are the most targeted here. Albany and Troy have the most racist cops I’ve ever dealt with in my life. I’m white but because I have black friends they identify me as one of them. But it is what it is. Most of the population here is very diverse. The only ones who see color are the police and hicks.
I live in the Bronx now but a native lf NC ,Durham , and although the vibe here seems southern one fundamental difference is we have Apartment complexes on the whole whereas Northern cities have Row houses\Apartments. Also northern cities are vastly unilateral and down south is most suburban in nature. Thank you brother for teaching us .
I've seen them a lot in the capital district region all the way up to Glens Falls. I think they mean that the local city government has deemed the building unsafe to enter and inhabitable.
My sister worked for the NY Parole board and her car was stolen parked behind her office building in the handicapped spot. Yes, it was near the hood in Albany. Most of the city is the hood.
When a particular group of people end up being the majority in a certain area, that area tends to look like shit and have massive amounts of violent crime. Meanwhile, all the areas surrounding the city of Albany have a different group of people in the majority and those areas are thriving. Really makes you wonder…
It’s horrible out here moved from the city and i honestly expected the capital to be better would not recommend for anyone to move to this part it’s depressing and nothing to do
I'm from Sunset Park, Brooklyn but live in Saratoga Springs, NY now (about 20 min from Arbor Hill/ Albany NY) and the hoods in Brooklyn are WAAAAAY worse than anything up here. Arbor Hill is like Beverly Hills compared to some of the areas in Detroit and Philly that you've been to. Albany, NY is tame AF.
Omg! This brings so many memories my 4 sisters and I as a baby I lived on Tenbrook place grew up in the Rensselaer Projects on the 12th floor Also we on Madison ave, Madison place, and Orange St. We left to move to Saginaw Michigan in 1975.
@Sarah Jane No doubt. Me to be honest I have not lived in Minneapolis for over 30 years. The young people in this video are much different than the ones I used to know in the early 1980's. Where I live in small town Central Minnesota, people there think they are experts on how people live in the bigger cities because they watch mainstream media news. It's like I'm on another planet.
Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and even Niagara Falls are the hoods of UpState NY. The rest like any other state is just Forest farms and little country twins.
@@xoxoxoxoxo7997 That's anywhere in America. All of Illinois isn't Chicago, all of Maryland isn't Baltimore and all of Michigan is not Detroit. Name me one big State that is majority urban? Come on man🤷🤷🤷🤷
South Pearl Street. Someone just spoke that name here on the messages.I was on South Pearl Street with my boyfriend on Christmas Eve 2015. It's still had cobblestone streets and very old buildings. It was very one that Christmas Eve and Christmas day about 66 degrees. There was something magical about South Pearl Street with a cobblestones glimmering in the night.later on my boyfriend's brother told us that South Pearl Street wasn't the best place to be but we had stopped at a gas station to ask directions we are in the wrong place. But nothing happened it was Christmas Eve and the weather was beautiful.
Someone just got shot to death in their car literally a block and a half away from me yesterday. Albany def more hood than not once you get away from the white people suburbs
The Capital district is a great place to live.I have lived in Albany Schenectady,Niskayuna and now I reside in the Scotia Glenville part of Schenectady.East greenish is a nice place.Mant nice areas in the Capital District
It's actually one of the safest places to live in the country . It's like a bubble that's how it feels. Colonie has more than once ranked the safest city in the country with over 75,000 residents.
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You should do Troy and Schenectady if youre still in capital region.
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takeover08 lol
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When did you record this?
You’d never guess the governor’s mansion is like down the street from one of the hoods 😂🤣💀
@Anthony Wilson yes it is.
@Anthony Wilson def is
As a matter of fact, yes it is and is located at the end of the last street in this video.
that's crazy
Facts😂
As far as hoods go, this one's got some charming classic architecture. Sad much of it is in disrepair.
some of them homes are 200 years old..
We need some excitement lol
Well they are revitalizing parts of Albany now. Either through renovations are or starting from ground up with new apartments and lofts.
come to Milwaukee. Lots of intersections with tons of great looking architecture now dilapidated.
I live in Albany Ny. There are some very beautiful parts of Albany. Everywhere has a hood.
Exactly
U cute
I haven't lived there in a decade, although I work there. I park in Arbor Hill each day. I don't feel unsafe there. I know there's some gun play at times during the summer, but Albany is a much nicer city than most in Upstate. I worked on a jobsite several years ago on Sheridan. Everyone was worried his car would get broken into. Never happened. Tge only robbery was the city of Albany putting tickets on cars. I lived in Utica briefly years ago. What a hole. Summer in Albany is nice too.
OP isn’t dissing Albany.
This is just a channel dedicated to footage of hoods in each city.
Understood just stating facts. Albany definitely needs to step up and reconstuct its neighborhoods
I always wondered what Albany New York looked like I never would have imagined the city has its own hoods. Thanks for the video.
It looks like Philly. I would not have imagined Albany looked like this either.
All of Albany Troy and Schenectady are giant hoods.
We have a few albanys had 95 shooting this year alone
I live in Troy, which is like 8 miles from Albany. It gets crazy.
zach518 facts I live over in cohoes/Watervliet now. Sometimes I can hear the gunshots from across the Hudson in Troy.
Damn Albany looks bad on camera too.. born and raised here and growing up it looked nothing like this. It really has gone down since. So sad.
I was born up there but raised in alabama and do not remember it looking like this when I was a child
Thank your Democratic politicians
This gives me a bmore, philly ,Camden ,Cincinnati, Chicago feel .. definitely the hood
Definitely!
I’ve been to Bmore & u ain’t lyin lol
Some of it. Also looks like New England cities. Overall, a mixture.
except the homicide rate is no where near those places
@@broncomcbane6382 facts , niggas can walk on ANY block in Albany
This summer has been bad for Albany NY. Lots of shootings and homicides. Its too small for the nonsense. Im from the Bronx we have the same issues this summer but it’s bigger and more spread out.
@Troy PS did you read my comment? This is not my city I’m from the Bronx. Who brags about murder you sound mad ignorant. You must be a low life proud of the number of people killed in your city! Sad NYC had 446 this year 👏🏿👏🏿 45% Bronx let me go brag and celebrate. Smh 🤦🏾♂️ go do your research Albany NY not no where near the size of Cleveland or population .The metro area population of Cleveland in 2020 was 1,763,000, Albany a small town of about 100k. You must be a kid. Go read a book instead of glamorizing death.
@Troy PS lmao Cleveland and Albany are not same sized cities lmao
@Troy PS it's not a contest. It's sad really
@@xoxoxoxoxo7997 can I let you in on a secret? Albany is actually in New York not Ohio
Albany may have more shootings but it is totally cool.
This my local area thx for comin here, u should also visit schenectady and poughkeepsie while u around
Summer of 2020, lots of shootings and killings in Albany, NY. Lots of condemned buildings with red X's. This is the capitol of NY.......sad.
No it’s not Albany is Dawson’s creek this isn’t Nyc
@@allgramsnoscams4805 Albany is the Capitol
@@jmorgan3882 the capitol of the state not the city Albany ain’t shit I just purchased a few homes out there no disrespect but it’s a lot of try hards there as cheap as it is to live out there how come none of these get money dudes y’all talk about I never see them at the Albany lane bank auction are they serious 🧐
@@allgramsnoscams4805 I could tell by the way you talk you haven’t really spent time in Allah born ….. PLENTY Of members that you DONT Know OWNS Hundreds Of Property In The City …..
I lived here for 4 years, I'm from Jersey City so I'm used to living in a city. I'm a white guy 53 now, I lived here in my early 40's. I worked on mostly Clinton Ave. Rebuilding abandoned houses gunshots every day, cops doing 100 mph or so responding. One day I just got a pack of cigarettes and was walking packing them, well a couple guys tried to take them! Well to their surprise I whooped both in front of their boys, thought I was an easy mark. I fought for 14 years!! But yeah ALL cities have HOODS!! Small % cause the problems. There's A LOT of people there that don't act like animals, shooting each other for a LOOK OR COLOR SHIRT!!! Some people are scared to come out of the house!! That's not fair to them. South Pearl is a mad house to, the Governor is right there two or three blocks up.There are beautiful parks there to. Albany is diverse, All kinds of people. I loved living there.
I walked home from a wedding by the capital to the hotel one nite... was prolly a bad idea Didn’t know Albany was the hood
I’m assuming they probably have pretty good fried chicken spots up there huh
Fr you can be driving to the governor's whole ass mansion and go thru a couple hoods
CharlieBo, thanks for the outing! Right now I’m smack dab in central California with triple digit heat! Even though we have AC, it would be nice to be able to go somewhere recreational! We are so limited as to where we can go, even outdoor dining is out of the question with the triple digit weather we’ve been having lately. Take care and thanks again! 🙋🏻♀️
I live it Fresno. It’s been a very nasty summer this year. More humid than it usually is
Your humidity doesn't compare to Memphis TN 🤣 it's really fuckin hot here you all have soft heat
All of california is hot right now
Da Dirty Fucking South & it's Muggy Ass Weather, including Houston Texas, why People want to Live there I Can't Imagine with that Kind of Summer Weather?
It was Cooler Just Before this & BOOM!!! Fucking California Heatwave!!!
First of all, this is just Arbor Hill, which is one of the more socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Albany. The south end can be pretty rough around the edges as well, but the trick in Albany as with many places is to have some respect for people when you are in the area where they live/work. For instance, not driving around recording them on a "hood safari". As a plumber, I've worked quite a bit in Arbor Hill, and even though I'm literally the whole jar of mayonnaise, I've never had anything but positive encounters with the people that live there. It's as simple as being polite and showing people some common courtesy. It's also disappointing to me that this is the only impression you give of Albany, as there are so many neighborhoods to see, all with some really great people in them!
Came here to say the same. Born bred and still live here. Used to deliver to all neighborhoods, never a problem. Just love. Now Albany High was a different story. I was mugged 3x lol but that’s ancient history
@@andrewwheelerguitar not u saying bred
@@spencer8521 I wasn't born and raised here?
Well said, these white boys filming poor back areas in the USA suck.
@@andrewwheelerguitar Hi.... I live down in Westchester Co...I'm a PA They want me to move to Albany for the Hospital for a year...what's a normal middle class area to get a apartment in for a year? Thanks.
Shout out my boy visiting Alb, been following your channel for a bit.
been waiting for you to show albany!
You should tell ppl this is Arbor Hill 😁
Yes I noticed is Arbor Hill too Henry Johnson blvd and Washington Armory by Lark Street.
It's not all the Hill tho
He didn't even hit Qual
Born and raised in Arbor Hill but i lived in MD and Georgia I seen some spots in life but i always end up back here. made a short film on my block on my channel. Arbor Hill the movie. Thanks for da love on my hood bro💯💪🏾
100 shootings already this year in Albany 😑
BUFFALO is the most dangerous city in NY State, but people are always surprised when they find out that there are ghettos and alot of hoods in UpState NY. B-Lo, The ROC, The Cuse, Niagara Falls and The Capital Region all have a tuck your chain in vibe in the air. 🤯😵👀🌨️🌨️🌨️☁️☁️☔☔☔🌆🌆🌆🕸️🕸️🕸️🥃🥃🥃🍕🍕🍕🍗🍗🍗🍺🍺🍺🔪🔪🔪🚨🚨🚨🛑🛑🛑🚧🚧🚧🚑🚑🚑🚓🚓🚓🔝🔝🔝🗽🗽🗽🏚️🏚️🏠🏚️🏚️🏠🛣️🛣️🛣️🥊🥊🥊🎲🎲🎲🥾🥾🥾🖤🖤🖤☢️☢️☢️⚠️⚠️⚠️⌛⌛⌛⚰️⚰️⚰️⚔️⚔️⚔️🥀🥀🥀🌁🌁🌁❄️❄️❄️🙈🙉🙊💉💉💉💊💊💊🚬🚬🚬🕧🕧🕧
Right. Lol
Go it.
*Got it.
You named your profile ECMC?? LOOOOOOOOLLLL thats funny
Niagara Falls tho 😂
I live here and the whole city doesn’t look like this please don’t judge us all because of a couple streets ❤️
Right, he's only driving in 1 section & giving ppl the impression the whole city is like this SMMFH 🤦🏿♀️
@@BeautifulEmpress333 he drove more than just one street
It don’t even look bad tho
Damn ma you hella bad can I get yo number?
Truth Teller nigga shut the fuck up
My home...it's been a rough year here
Yeah he passed my house and I seen my dad and neighbors chilling
I just shot in Albany for my channel and was kinda shocked at how many abandoned houses there were.
Seemed like way more than the typical East Coast city has.
I did an internship there earlier this year and since I’m from a different country I noticed there were a lot of reasons as to why this is from a foreign perspective.
Albany is too reliant on cars still, many people live outside the city, within suburbs and go shopping in the absurd about of strip malls littered around the outskirts (largest Walmart in the country and Crossgates being examples).
For this reason Downtown suffers, it’s dead, which leaves little incentive to go there, so people continue to abandon the inner city in favour of the suburbs.
However, I did see and hear that a lot of revitalisation was occurring. New property sales, new businesses, pedestrian planning, etc.
Give it 10 years and I can see Albany becoming a whole new city if all goes well, a city that might be worth talking about outside of political talk.
i’m from brooklyn and i always wanted to see if there’s any hoods upstate but this is crazy it looks so much like baltimore or virginia or something like that
It's plenty of hoods I'm from Buffalo . It's jus smaller compared to any boro .. but the same shit in every hood u Kno how it go
Dont nowhere look like Bmore
Immigrants eating Boogres 🤧 461-YAO
It's mostly forests upstate
Every little city upstate has hoods. Go ride through Newburgh, Middletown, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Hudson, Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Utica. The crazy thing is, they all look just like this. Some are bigger and some smaller but the same shit.
It reminds me of Brooklyn in the 80’s and 90’s with much wider streets.
Pay no attention to the haters. I've been here almost a full year. It's not that bad.
It's also very diverse which is a major win
I see you only covered a small section. I'm surprised you didn't go to swan(sewer) or the bottom of livingston by north Pearl. Quail and Clinton or lark and orange. Yeah a whole different atmosphere at night.
No doubt Quail is no joke,I had family on 2nd ave
You can really see the old wealth in Albany. Lot of beautiful old homes here
Place sucks so glad I moved to Atlanta yo my fellow Albanyeins don't waste your life here it's so much better in other states
We need to stop with Albany hate
My old neighborhood! I grew up there. I lived on Clinton ave. between Lark street and Henry Johnson/Northern Blvd.
i grew up on beverly ave down by n.blvd.
I'm from the UK & didn't know it was the State Capital of New York until I heard it on quiz show!, Just always presumed the Capital was New York City.
Haha, no worries! Honestly, everyone thinks that 😂 if someone from outside of NY finds out someone is from NY, they automatically assume NYC, forgetting the rest of us in other parts of the state exist lolll
A lot of people assume NYC is the capital ur not alone lol
Bad representation of city .good rep of hood..yes this is where alot of Ny states legislation gets done..not nyc..its very small city..nice except a few neighborhoods
Get familiar
It's a big spread out area of 4 immediate counties and several other nearby counties and there are probably 100 municipalities in the area . North Albany where he drives for most of the video is about .00001% of the Capital District if that. It's mostly suburbs and small rural towns.
Super interesting video! Your channel is 🔥
North new York is definitely something very different than new York city
Ohh dude won't admit it
@@Thesauce585 Bruh Roc isn't Western NY it's Upstate
@@Thesauce585 western ny still falls in the category of "upstate new york" anything north of poughkeepsie is upstate. Infact some say anything north of yonkers honestly but i think poughkeepsie is the border.
@@Thesauce585 in the city everything up to metro NY is called North new York
Its called Upstate
Arbor Hill has a really interesting history - it was originally designed as a neighborhood of mansions for the wealthy. White flight, red-lining, and other discriminatory lending practices led to what you see today. A little justice would go a long way to restoring this neighborhood.
Aye I’ve been waiting for you to come to Albany.... born an raised interesting place to come up kinda the same as everywhere really
Fax just normal hoods and nice neighborhoods, nun too nice nun too crazy
Structurally, this city looks pretty good. Also, probably because it is daytime, looks pretty peaceful.
Now drive through pine hills and eagle point area. It's like night and day.
Albany's weird like that. You got really run down neighborhoods and really nice ones a couple blocks away from each other.
Or Loudonville..yes some beautiful homes
@@tiffanielafleur6597 true
i feel like pine hills isnt much different.. at least over by quail and Ontario. .. just fewer trees and more 2 family style homes filled with students xD
Actually looks kind of chill. Everyone seems relaxed. Lots of nice trees. Peaceful looking neighborhoods. 😇
Crime scene not even 3 minutes into the video is kind of alarming though! 😨
6:25 Castle at end of road? 😮
It’s the old Armory :)
I thought it was a church! : -O
For a smaller city it is extremely violent
the castle building is the washington ave armory home of the former Albany Patroons
@@nickg3497 I used to watch them play as a kid back in the late 80s. I don't remember it being on the edge of the "hood".
Next time you're there, be sure to stop in a restaurant and ask for some Steamed Hams
steamed hams? that sounds like a gag from the simpsons!
Dude been here my whole life never heard of this..can u explain..lol
@@inanymin369er there was an episode of The Simpsons which featured a skit called 'Skinner and The Superintendent.'
You'll have to watch the skit fully to appreciate it, but Principal Skinner makes the claim that people from Albany call hamburgers 'Steamed Hams', which gave birth to a meme.
Wait, there’s projects in Albany?? WHATTT 🤣. Thumbnail looks like the BX
Yeah alot of em too
Albany is like the 6th borough.
Clay Alston nah Newburgh is
@@globoy6661 Never been to Newburg. I hear it's like the BX
@@globoy6661 Newburgh is a major shit hole. They should bulldoze that and the city of Poughkeepsie into the Hudson.
I’ve never knew that Albany had a hood. I was born and raised in the bronx. And after looking at this video, it looks just the bronx but even worse.
Lots of people from Harlem and the Bronx was going to Albany University since 04 to now
Majority of upstate ny cities have bad reps buffalo ny makes the list for one of americas most dangerous large cities newburgh looks worse than this Rochester is bad syracuse is bad Schenectady is also bad troy ny another one there are a lot of cities in the state that have conditions like this and have extreme crime rates
@@jakerod3014 that's crazy
Yeah but the crime rate in bronx and brooklyn last year were as bad as chicago this aint worst than the bronx or brooklyn or Queens/harlem
It looks grimey but dam NYC been scary the last 2 years.
Facts
Use to work at homeless shelter for alcoholics on North Pearl street.
Unfortunately, this is what most of New York looks like... Derelict, abandoned buildings, boarded-up and broken windows, weeds and overgrowth everywhere; drugs, thugs, prostitutes and just general despair...
This is what the city of utica land rome looks like...the whole thing. Albany has more good neighborhoods than bad ones. City still has life
Prostitutes 🤔
Actual bullshit. Most of NY does NOT look like this. Some of the cities have a shitty side of town. Don't be so ignorant 🤡
So much atmosphere and character. I would love to live there.
Is the infamous ghetto-chopper still there? I moved out of Albany back in the mid 90s. It had it's good....and not so good areas, like most cities.
I wonder what happened at 2:25. Dope video. Cities in upstate NY look more run down than NYC
That's because NYC is bigger and more famous.
The city is on the decline real quick.
@@Bpabrown148 True. It was real nice like 30-40 years ago. It's an old city.
True.
2 days ago it was shooting...we had 2 murders on Monday and 4 shootings within 6hours
Is is rundown like most cities in New York but every clean, to trash. I am inLos Angles and this area is Much cleaner no homeless or garbage everywhere. Thanks
😂 this makes it look better than it is some days .
Great video. One of your best!
My fam live out there they hate it lol ima go visit tho see whats the difference between Albany and nyc thanks Charlie 🙌🏼💯
Word is bond 👑😎💯
My mom has lived there since 2006 with a woman who is supposed to be her girlfriend. My mom lets this woman control her and refuses to leave or see her family in Maryland including me because the woman doesn't want her to. My mom skipped both of her parent's funerals and my college graduation because the woman would "not allow" her to return to Albany if she left to visit family. The woman is insane and yells at people and hits them, but for some reason my mom is choosing to stay there, as is my sister who is basically supporting them both since they are both in poor health and both unemployed.
I worry about my mom all the time and even though the woman is nice a lot of the time, she becomes unhinged over the smallest things and will go off on a tangent for hours and attack anyone who dares to argue with her. I just wish I could see my mom more because I really miss her and she never calls me even though she does want to talk to me. I always have to call her, which irritates me because I feel like I have to play by her rules.
My mom used to not even talk to me at all though for several years even if I was the one calling, so I guess at least now she talks to me.
@@wrestlerx8494 go seek counseling.
I live in nyc and there were big differences between them. However they are both now cesspools of violence, unemployment, and homelessness. Reminds me of the 1970s.
When u gonna go to petersburg VA outside of richmond ?
I went to college in Petersburg, River Rd ,commerce at..etc
Albany, Schenectady and Troy make up the Capital Region metro area.
Don't let the trees fool you.
Troy is the worst
@@realMrHudson All 3 cities have there moments. I wouldn't say Troys the worst.
Schenectady is pretty bad also lol
troy got like 2k ppl
Ayyyyy my home town. Know this city like the back of my hand. There’s been a shooting every day here and in Troy for the past like 5 months. Shits getting out of hand honestly. Some of the areas you were in, the cops don’t even stroll through there at night. Everyone walks with their straps out right in their hand.
Hes deffently not wrong its wild out hrre
Benghali In Platforms Actually black people are the most targeted here. Albany and Troy have the most racist cops I’ve ever dealt with in my life. I’m white but because I have black friends they identify me as one of them. But it is what it is. Most of the population here is very diverse. The only ones who see color are the police and hicks.
It's not bad
CheeeezPIC yeah, all those black medical doctors in Albany, NY who are “targeted because of their race.” 🙄
Fran Graham you’re not from here.
i love this, it's like charlie boi is your ghetto tour guide
I remember getting lost here on ny way to mt shift at the hospital. Amazing what a few turns can get you to
Go to schenectady hamilton hill you may not come back
yup
Lol
Yo I literally just drove down that street today😂
I live in the Bronx now but a native lf NC ,Durham , and although the vibe here seems southern one fundamental difference is we have Apartment complexes on the whole whereas Northern cities have Row houses\Apartments. Also northern cities are vastly unilateral and down south is most suburban in nature. Thank you brother for teaching us .
Most of upstate ny I'd rural and suburban with a southern feeling
Brings back memories, from nyc visiting Albany... well stranded there and that place molded me 👌👌👌
I left Albany and employment for Albany School District in 2009. Very sad changes as my mother's family lived here starting in 1832.
My sister in law lives under the Henry Johnson overpass and her landlord is the definition of a slumlord.
That's my fucking city. Smallbany let's goooo lol
All those red placards with white X's on buildings tells you a lot about Albany's condition.
I've seen them a lot in the capital district region all the way up to Glens Falls. I think they mean that the local city government has deemed the building unsafe to enter and inhabitable.
Correct in the unsafe and unlivable
My sister worked for the NY Parole board and her car was stolen parked behind her office building in the handicapped spot. Yes, it was near the hood in Albany. Most of the city is the hood.
Very depressing. Left Albany area in 2017. Sadly shootings have become much worse in recent years. 100+ year old buildings continue to decay.
Albany cold af! I had to come back to Florida.
this looks more hood than some of those other New York vids .. like buffalo and Staten Island .. but not the bronx the bronx looks hood
Looks can be deceiving NYC has been scary the last 2 years.
I grew up on Delaware Ave.. albany will always be my hometown its gone downhill the last 25 years.
When a particular group of people end up being the majority in a certain area, that area tends to look like shit and have massive amounts of violent crime. Meanwhile, all the areas surrounding the city of Albany have a different group of people in the majority and those areas are thriving. Really makes you wonder…
Upstate kkk member spotted
But fr come on man lol that's the situation with most hoods in the us
European hoods are mostly white and still hood
It's funny because the space between the city and Albany is actually nice
Seeing my childhood neighborhood on here makes me feel so old 😂😂😂😂😂
Where u from 🤔
It’s horrible out here moved from the city and i honestly expected the capital to be better would not recommend for anyone to move to this part it’s depressing and nothing to do
I love this videos. Thanks my man.
Keep up the good work.
I legit live down the street from here- but i live in the suburbs
I live by this and yes this really is the hood of Albany Albany NY
The streets of Albany are terrible. Only roads that get taken care are where important people live
@@nicholasolsiewski7876 I live in Glenmont. Like another world.
Did you stop by Troy NY yet?
The capital of Connecticut, Hartford is run down shabby look like this.
You would think the capitals of ct and ny look decent
Same w Trenton NJ
I'm from Sunset Park, Brooklyn but live in Saratoga Springs, NY now (about 20 min from Arbor Hill/ Albany NY) and the hoods in Brooklyn are WAAAAAY worse than anything up here. Arbor Hill is like Beverly Hills compared to some of the areas in Detroit and Philly that you've been to. Albany, NY is tame AF.
Saratoga springs is nice right ?
Never thought the city I was born in would look this terrible smh. This is sad.
State capitals seem to have the same look. Resembles Harrisburg
Old Tartarian buildings that we cannot build to this day.
Omg not in the slightest. Albany is NOTHING like that shit hole of Harrisburg
There seems to be very little commercial activity- where are the shops, pubs, cafes etc etc?
Don't you know that old Charlie isn't too interested in those areas.
Corner store capital of the world lol. Tons of shopping a few streets over
Welcome to food desserts in low income areas
There's corner stores on every block, and a whole lotta restaurants
In the rest of the city
Nigga finally came here
Lived in a project in Albany for the first 3-4 years of my life.
Omg! This brings so many memories my 4 sisters and I as a baby I lived on Tenbrook place grew up in the Rensselaer Projects on the 12th floor Also we on Madison ave, Madison place, and Orange St. We left to move to Saginaw Michigan in 1975.
I live in Albany Oregon and thank God I do.....
cubbiotti1980 been to Portland lately?
Say hi to Gary the Conqueror.
Guy in red shirt wearing a backpack looks at the car for a long time. 9:56
@Sarah Jane That is possible.
@Sarah Jane No doubt. Me to be honest I have not lived in Minneapolis for over 30 years. The young people in this video are much different than the ones I used to know in the early 1980's. Where I live in small town Central Minnesota, people there think they are experts on how people live in the bigger cities because they watch mainstream media news. It's like I'm on another planet.
He looks like he's waiting for Charlie to pass so he can cross the street lol
Correct me if I'm wrong but, did we just ride through Arbor hill? It's been a minute.
When I think of NY state, this is definitely not what I pictured lol
Most of it is not like that. lots of farm country upstate.
Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and even Niagara Falls are the hoods of UpState NY. The rest like any other state is just Forest farms and little country twins.
Some really depressing medium sized cities but a few miles in any direction ur in beautiful farm or mountain land
@@xoxoxoxoxo7997 True.
@@xoxoxoxoxo7997 That's anywhere in America. All of Illinois isn't Chicago, all of Maryland isn't Baltimore and all of Michigan is not Detroit. Name me one big State that is majority urban? Come on man🤷🤷🤷🤷
Thank you
I love my city 🤞🏽
Gangsta
3rd St my original hood where I grew up straight ghetto
You either never seen better or just suicidal . Nobody normal can love this.
I love and hate it lol
Hankyou Mikey pitbull
South Pearl Street. Someone just spoke that name here on the messages.I was on South Pearl Street with my boyfriend on Christmas Eve 2015. It's still had cobblestone streets and very old buildings. It was very one that Christmas Eve and Christmas day about 66 degrees. There was something magical about South Pearl Street with a cobblestones glimmering in the night.later on my boyfriend's brother told us that South Pearl Street wasn't the best place to be but we had stopped at a gas station to ask directions we are in the wrong place. But nothing happened it was Christmas Eve and the weather was beautiful.
They keep the stone streets intentionally for historic values
@@ahziidagutta6059 yes and I love that area it was beautiful on Christmas Eve I don't care how old or rundown it might be I loved it
U gotta do Schenectady
The thumbnail is literally where I grew up..’01-‘18 ….Albany native fr
Looks like the next season of The Wire!
😭😭😭 I'd love to know what this man is driving
*I RUN THESE HOODS* 😤 💯
😂
I run FROM these hoods :)
pepperpepperpepper nyc hoods are weak lol
Payu Temptest Is it crack u smoke?
Bossup stfu
I hope they go up the chain of command and get everyone responsible for carrying out an injustice.
Someone just got shot to death in their car literally a block and a half away from me yesterday. Albany def more hood than not once you get away from the white people suburbs
The Capital district is a great place to live.I have lived in Albany Schenectady,Niskayuna and now I reside in the Scotia Glenville part of Schenectady.East greenish is a nice place.Mant nice areas in the Capital District
It's actually one of the safest places to live in the country . It's like a bubble that's how it feels. Colonie has more than once ranked the safest city in the country with over 75,000 residents.
Dude passed my house