I grew up in Irvington. It was a very decent blue collar town. Everybody knew everyone & it was safe. I graduated high school in 1974. We walked everywhere before we had our drivers licenses. And we walked home from dances at night. There was no crime then. Irvington went downhill in the early '80's. What happened was the government started giving out no down payment mortgages. People who couldn't afford homes moved in from Newark & brought drugs & crime with them. Then, a mass exodus of people moved out of Irvington & more of the same people moved in. That's the truth. I lived it. We had a great upbringing there. Every once in a while, if we are in the general area, we will drive by the old house & school & church. But we only do this when it is super cold, like in January or February, and everyone is inside. It's sad how this nice town went to sh*t. And Irvington High School is a complete zoo. It's a disgrace. They should just close the damn high school. Teachers pass the kids so they don't get killed.
I work EMS in Irvington, it's definitely not a place to hang around in if you're not from there. Especially not once you cross 18th towards 21st and Avon. Majority of the people there are very friendly and hard working just trying to get by. Theres a small majority that make it dangerous unfortunately.
While I agree with your assessment in the description, the vast majority of the people who live there are decent, hard-working people. Drive through at 6, 7AM during the week...you will see them heading to their cars for another days work, to pay their bills, to feed their kids and keep a roof over their heads.
Hello guys ! This is the first video of this city called Irvington nj, this area looks ok except for a few bad things I found on my visit. A second video will be out in a few days, wich is going to be on the worst area of this city. If you'd like to get notified when I upload it, be sure to subscribe and hit the bell icon so you don't miss it. Also, please like the video. Thanks!! There's one thing I wonder everytime I read your comments, I'd like to know where are you watching from. Please let me know in the comments, I'm interested on knowing about you, my youtube friends. Thanks to all of you that are giving me great support 👏
At about nine minutes of the video you actually in the city of Newark at that point. Once you get to the bridge going over the highway that's no longer Irvington. The street signs in Irvington or blue. Newark has green signs
You don’t know what your talking about. It’s no where near as bad as it was in the 90s early 2000s. The zombies that used to walk the streets are gone. Stop using my hometown for clickbait
Echt heftig,was für massig Stromleitungen da so im Freien hängen,hier in Germany liegen die größtenteils unter der Erde und sind so bei Stürmen besser geschützt.Cooles Video,super gemacht,weiter so und viiiiel Glück..🛻🚙🚘🚗
I disagree I grew up in Irvington, NJ from 1989-2016 in a single family home. Irvington truly didn't go downhill until the year 2000 when people from the worst projects in Newark came to Irvington because the projects got knocked down. I went to Rutgers and attained a Master's Degree, now I work in DC area for the government making very good money. Plenty of good people came out of Irvington after it went "downhill". In the late 80s-early 90s plenty of middle class Blacks and Latinos moved in mostly from NY looking for a better family experience. In the early 90s I remember it being very diverse my elementary school classrooms were like the United Nations and kids would play on the block. Irvington was at its worst from 2000-2009 when I was in high school/college. After that, it got a bit better and I hear it's gentrifying now so it will probably get better soon.
My mother was born in Irvington, my dad in Newark. In the 80’s and 1990’s we went to Irvington quite a bit… Olympic Market, there was a coin shop, and Toys 4 Tots or Toys 4 All, I can’t remember which… and my parents favorite store, Home Liquors. I used to ride my bike down to the Hostess Wonder Thrift shop for incredibly cheap Twinkies we weren’t allowed to have in the house. The only place we didn’t really go was the Castle theater because my dad said everyone would talk through the movie, so we should go elsewhere. Yeah we were the only white people around but we didn’t think for a second we didn’t belong there, or were unsafe there… we’d always been there. It wasn’t until we left that we learned life didn’t have to be like that. You could leave your bicycle unchained, your purse in the shopping cart, and your car running outside the store. Just not how we lived our lives.. and not how anyone else has to either. Just leave. Best thing we ever did.
Lol I went to school in Irvington from 1992-2000. All the teachers ever told me was how beautiful Irvington used to be. From carnivals and movie theaters and no crime. Never saw anything but trash. Grew up there at the wrong time I guess
@@drepop803 Thanks for your response! Yes, it was an amazing place at one time and it can be again when people start investing in rebuilding it. It will run full circle eventually. Parts of Newark are already showing signs of a rebirth. Cherish your time there, I’m sure there were some good memories! I used to walk to the Castle, Sanford and Stanley theaters when I was a kid!
I grew up there in the 60s and went to Florence Ave School. Homes were well kept and no crime. I lived on Laurel Ave about a block away from Maplewood. Maplewood was at least middle class with some houses that to my young eyes looked like mansions.
@@paleghost Thanks for your response! It was indeed a wonderful town. Parents never worried about where the kids were. Doors unlocked. Great friends and family there. I cherish those memories.
Irvington, NJ used to be such a quaint little town. But White flight in the 1970s left it exposed to ghettoization. So far it has been holding its own a little bit, but it doesn't take long for the cookie to crumble. I hope to God it doesn't go the way of Camden, NJ. Then all hope would be lost! 🏚
I love it how the blame for the degradation of the city is on the white people who left and not the folks who stuck around that actually caused the place to fall into degeneracy
How is someone potentially being shot a laughing matter ? I find your attempt at cowardly exploiting people in rough living conditions for views to put money in your pocket even more funny to be honest
I grew up in Irvington. It was a very decent blue collar town. Everybody knew everyone & it was safe. I graduated high school in 1974. We walked everywhere before we had our drivers licenses. And we walked home from dances at night. There was no crime then. Irvington went downhill in the early '80's. What happened was the government started giving out no down payment mortgages. People who couldn't afford homes moved in from Newark & brought drugs & crime with them. Then, a mass exodus of people moved out of Irvington & more of the same people moved in. That's the truth. I lived it. We had a great upbringing there. Every once in a while, if we are in the general area, we will drive by the old house & school & church. But we only do this when it is super cold, like in January or February, and everyone is inside. It's sad how this nice town went to sh*t. And Irvington High School is a complete zoo. It's a disgrace. They should just close the damn high school. Teachers pass the kids so they don't get killed.
I work EMS in Irvington, it's definitely not a place to hang around in if you're not from there. Especially not once you cross 18th towards 21st and Avon. Majority of the people there are very friendly and hard working just trying to get by. Theres a small majority that make it dangerous unfortunately.
Right! Finally someone agrees with me👍thanks fam.
Absolutely! And one of our trucks and our medic unit passed by you going to NBI at 10:55 in the video hahah. That was cool to see!@@willyG503
A few?😅
While I agree with your assessment in the description, the vast majority of the people who live there are decent, hard-working people. Drive through at 6, 7AM during the week...you will see them heading to their cars for another days work, to pay their bills, to feed their kids and keep a roof over their heads.
Yep. It’s just a lot of hardworking people stuck in the system. It’s not easy to make it out the hood
@@recycledmotivationdon't make it into a hood
Hello guys ! This is the first video of this city called Irvington nj, this area looks ok except for a few bad things I found on my visit. A second video will be out in a few days, wich is going to be on the worst area of this city.
If you'd like to get notified when I upload it, be sure to subscribe and hit the bell icon so you don't miss it. Also, please like the video. Thanks!!
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Funny.... asked my mom why she moved to Livingston in the late 50s...... she told me at the time they couldn’t afford Irvington....how funny is that?
At about nine minutes of the video you actually in the city of Newark at that point. Once you get to the bridge going over the highway that's no longer Irvington. The street signs in Irvington or blue. Newark has green signs
I grew up in Irvington its been 40 years since I was back. The township was going downhill then. I hate to think it can get any worse than it is.
Yes, it will get worse. People don't care.
You don’t know what your talking about. It’s no where near as bad as it was in the 90s early 2000s. The zombies that used to walk the streets are gone. Stop using my hometown for clickbait
I live in Woodbridge. I work in Irvington. It's not a safe place. Especially at night
I agree, and I like that you say that because I lot of people tell me on the comments that I'm making things up, Thank you for that!
Oh hush up just mind ya business and you’ll be fine stop lying
Grew up here left in 2016. Irvington at its worst was during 2000-2007. Its much better than back then.
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I live in Birmingham Alabama know but I am familiar where area of Irvington chancellor Ave Lyons avenue route 78
Irvington Newark same shit. It should be part of Newark.
Echt heftig,was für massig Stromleitungen da so im Freien hängen,hier in Germany liegen die größtenteils unter der Erde und sind so bei Stürmen besser geschützt.Cooles Video,super gemacht,weiter so und viiiiel Glück..🛻🚙🚘🚗
It was nice when I was a child living there.
My grandfather bought a 2 family in 1963..after fleeing Newark.. irvington started downhill about 1974.. not safe anymore
Now it's worst
You're right man! This place is not easy. Is Getting more dangerous every year. A lot of people is selling their properties and moving away.
I disagree I grew up in Irvington, NJ from 1989-2016 in a single family home. Irvington truly didn't go downhill until the year 2000 when people from the worst projects in Newark came to Irvington because the projects got knocked down. I went to Rutgers and attained a Master's Degree, now I work in DC area for the government making very good money. Plenty of good people came out of Irvington after it went "downhill". In the late 80s-early 90s plenty of middle class Blacks and Latinos moved in mostly from NY looking for a better family experience. In the early 90s I remember it being very diverse my elementary school classrooms were like the United Nations and kids would play on the block. Irvington was at its worst from 2000-2009 when I was in high school/college. After that, it got a bit better and I hear it's gentrifying now so it will probably get better soon.
My mother was born in Irvington, my dad in Newark. In the 80’s and 1990’s we went to Irvington quite a bit… Olympic Market, there was a coin shop, and Toys 4 Tots or Toys 4 All, I can’t remember which… and my parents favorite store, Home Liquors. I used to ride my bike down to the Hostess Wonder Thrift shop for incredibly cheap Twinkies we weren’t allowed to have in the house. The only place we didn’t really go was the Castle theater because my dad said everyone would talk through the movie, so we should go elsewhere. Yeah we were the only white people around but we didn’t think for a second we didn’t belong there, or were unsafe there… we’d always been there. It wasn’t until we left that we learned life didn’t have to be like that. You could leave your bicycle unchained, your purse in the shopping cart, and your car running outside the store. Just not how we lived our lives.. and not how anyone else has to either. Just leave. Best thing we ever did.
I left that place a couple of years ago. Not my kind of neighborhood that's for sure.
Used to live at 21st street ........and 16th ave next to the PS bus garage.... late 50s....... my grandparents lived across the street until 1975
How is the part of Irvington that borders Vailsburg Newark section?
Bad lol
I grew up there in the 50s and it was a wonderful place! Nobody locked their doors! I went to Madison Ave. school.
Lol I went to school in Irvington from 1992-2000. All the teachers ever told me was how beautiful Irvington used to be. From carnivals and movie theaters and no crime. Never saw anything but trash. Grew up there at the wrong time I guess
@@drepop803 Thanks for your response! Yes, it was an amazing place at one time and it can be again when people start investing in rebuilding it. It will run full circle eventually. Parts of Newark are already showing signs of a rebirth. Cherish your time there, I’m sure there were some good memories! I used to walk to the Castle, Sanford and Stanley theaters when I was a kid!
I grew up there in the 60s and went to Florence Ave School. Homes were well kept and no crime. I lived on Laurel Ave about a block away from Maplewood. Maplewood was at least middle class with some houses that to my young eyes looked like mansions.
@@paleghost Thanks for your response! It was indeed a wonderful town. Parents never worried about where the kids were. Doors unlocked. Great friends and family there. I cherish those memories.
The house in the thumbnail is Newark not Irvington
Ok cool, thanks for the correction. 📷 📷 📷
Irvington, NJ used to be such a quaint little town. But White flight in the 1970s left it exposed to ghettoization. So far it has been holding its own a little bit, but it doesn't take long for the cookie to crumble. I hope to God it doesn't go the way of Camden, NJ. Then all hope would be lost! 🏚
Then again, some whites also gave it ghettoization.
I love it how the blame for the degradation of the city is on the white people who left and not the folks who stuck around that actually caused the place to fall into degeneracy
That corner is owned by the Crips now
hello anybody from the area i live in rahway!!!
Bro You sliding thru all the Hooka streets You not Slick!
Was a nice blue collar neighborhood then
i am in irvington
Ok cool. Is it getting more dangerous?
yes it is
@@willyG503 yes
it is but it's okay for now it's a little dangerous for a little kids to just be walking out by yourself it's okay
I can imagine yeah, what is the worst area in all Irvington, what streets.
@@willyG503 44 Smith
How is someone potentially being shot a laughing matter ? I find your attempt at cowardly exploiting people in rough living conditions for views to put money in your pocket even more funny to be honest
Hot mess now!
When you see a sign for old Irv, swerve.
It does not look that bad to me.