I spent a lot of precious time in the Bronx…I came from the New Jersey suburbs and spent time with my cousins who lived in a project under the El. I loved walking to the candy store to buy comic books,going to the playground, going to the mobile library,going to the Bronx Zoo, getting stuck in traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway,hanging out with all the kids who made up my cousin’s entourage( one of whom became a world-renowned author) and generally having so much freedom. I am now 74, and I cherish those memories…
I am from Europe. I visited New York many times and The Bronx is one of my favorite boroughs to visit. I went to Crotona Park, met Hip Hop heroes. People are warm.
love, love, love this video - I lived on City Island (Bronx) for years, it was and is my very favorite place I've ever lived, and I miss it everyday. It was like living in a little New England seaside village with easy access to the biggest, best most wonderful big city in the world, NYC.. Just watching this made me cry because I miss totally everything about living there. Born in NY, grew up/schooled there.... lived there almost my entire life except for the last 7 or so.... When you don't live where you love, you merely exist.
@@JeffreyBillington-q3d Same here, but not because I particularly liked it. It’s because of the attitude and the accent. My adult children still make fun of the way I TAWK.
I was born and raised in the Bronx until we moved to Connecticut when I was 13. I went back for a visit last summer and was impressed with how clean the Grand Concourse was and how friendly most of the people were. In articles about the Bronx , including this piece, there is so little representation of pre 1960s history. Yes, Arthur Avenue is always mentioned as an ode to old Italian neighborhoods, but it seems as if Jewish and Irish Bronx history has been erased. When I was growing up in the 1950s-60s, all ethnic and religious groups lived in the same neighborhoods an all got along...99% of the time.
I ran a telecommunications business off Pelham Parkway next to a bakery and an SUPERB Italian deli and no one walking by knew that this unassuming business with no sign, generated $200,000,000 Million (LEGAL) a year in audited revenues. NYC bankers would literally laugh at us when we went to borrow money or garner investment and not want to come out to see us. We did over $2 BILLION in revenues over the last 20 years; maybe spurned on by that City arrogance towards an ethnic business; but we had that Bronx resilience. The Bronx is a place of massive OPPORTUNITY that most people don't see or is under their radar; it is a diamond in the rough and when you run a business there it's a feeling like the old pioneers had going out West to make their fortunes. Hard, hard work, sweat and long hours. But like Fat Joe said, anyone can make it there if they hustle.
You should do this type of segment showcasing various parts of the U.S. Too many people think the U.S. is only NYC and LA. There are a lot more great neighborhoods and communities out there.
I was born in 1945 in the Bronx at Royal Hospital on the Grand Concourse and grew up on Mosholu Parkway I am reliving my whole youth on watching the travelogues and this clip Seeing the Bronx literally go up in flames during the 1970's I was completely turned off but now I can see a rebirth of that borough
I remember growing up in the Bronx during the 70s and 80s , news crews from other countries , crews filming documentaries and movies , I always asked myself , why are they all here in the Bronx? , later on in my life I realized how famous for all types of reasons the Bronx was ....
I was born in New York but live in L.A. these days and I carry those images of burned out buildings from the 1970's in my mind. Times Square and 42nd Street weren't so picturesque then either. But I've seen in the news how midtown has been beautified. This segment shows me how the Bronx has made a come back too.
My mother me there was judge in the Bronx Court House would ask you what neighborhood you were from during jury selection. He would then proceed to give you the history of that neighborhood. He was one of a Kind.
Great video. Only gripe is when she said it’s the most diverse place in America. That belongs to Queens; no bias, just facts. There’s a reason why it’s called the world’s borough. Shoutout to the Bronx tho. Met a lot of great people from there.
Read the book after reading the article in The New Yorker. Always wanted to walk across the Bronx (like the author did) - when I lived there (1990s) it was not a good time to do that.
Born and raised in the BX. Eff what ya heard. Best place that brought the culture to what it is now‼️ South BX young to the BEST life in Co-op City. Not all is bad like you hear. BX STRONG....NY STRONG....ALLL DAY 🤜💪🤛🫶🫶🫶
The Bronx is a constantly evolving place. Lived there for 11 long years during my middle age. Not the Riverdale side of the Bronx. The hood so to speak. Very surprised to see that Vanessa Gibson is now the Bronx Boro President as she was a State Assembly member of the district I lived in and I had met her when she was first elected to that post. The Bronx is about the human spirit. There are a lot of struggling humans in the Bronx. It is not a fairy tale. But it is good to see that a strong perseverant woman can rise from near the bottom, to the top there. Also, the Bronx does not need any chearleading stories about it on tv. Nobody wants you moving there. The less attention it gets, the better. People living there don't want you moving there because it means the rents will go up and they might need to move to South Carolina to make ends meet.
@@mrmrso228 Look at (3:08) in this video. Is that a 100 year old house? Same for (3:17) The houses on the street at (3:22) are stylistically mid to late 20th century, based on their proportions and materials.
@ that was ONE neighborhood in a Borough of many neighborhoods. Charlotte Gardens was built in the 80s. Majority of single family homes in the Bronx were built in the 20s to the 50s. I live in one of them.
I watched this show this morning . When I think of the Bronx I think of something down and dirty the 1970s image is burnt in my brain. But lately the Bronx if you watch TV or movies or read all these comments about the Bronx. They have whole foods and Starbucks They have white women that are walking their Yorkies , Poodles and other dogs up and down the street. When I think of the Bronx I think of lost and found America loses it the Bronx will find it . That was off of a movie I think it was Hell's kitchen Well one day I got to go to the Bronx
Bring back the 8 third Avenue elevated line back and the ninth Avenue elevated line and the Putnam railroad lines back to make the south Bronx greater again.
This comment won’t go over well. I lived in The Bronx from 1955 to 1974. We called it “The Beautiful Bronx.” The many parks, golf courses, the art deco apartments, the beaches, the zoo, the botanical gardens, the stadium. In 1966, that all changed with the tsunami of immigrants. The residents of my era were all immigrants too: Italians, Irish, Jews, and everyone got along and took pride in their neighborhoods. The new immigrants brought crime and filth. When I last visited a few years ago, I finally saw some revitalization, and some of the neighborhoods looked quite beautiful again.
That is not historically true. Do you have any idea what the Lower East Side was like when Jewish and Italian immigrants first came in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s? It was all about crime and filth. Immigrants come here with nothing. It takes time for them to raise themselves up to a better life. Think you need to study the history of NYC a bit more.
@@georgiasmith7615 I wasn’t around in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I specifically said 1955 to 1974. Think you need to study reading comprehension a bit more.
I was born and raised in the bx, a hard pass on a tour of one of nyc's worst boroughs. The only decent part is marble hill near 230, 231 and b'dway. Near van Cortland Park too but that can be changing too. The rest of the bx is a nightmare
This was supposed to be about the Bronx, but it turned out to be a way to promote every person they interviewed by asking them questions about the Bronx. I really didn’t need to know that Fat Joe has a chain of sneaker stores. And how does Neil DeGrass Tyson ever get any science done? He’s never not on TV or someone’s podcast.
The A doesn’t go to the Bronx. The 9 was discontinued some years ago. And we have lights here. Not sure where you’re getting your getting your info from.
The 8 third Avenue elevated line had gotten destroyed and tairing down for no reason. The 8 third and ninth Avenue elevated line definitely needs to be brought back to life again. Including the Putnam railroad line.
The Bronx is the most over photographed place out of the five boroughs. It's a shame that Brooklyn wasn't as photographed as the Bronx was during the 60's-80's.
I spent a lot of precious time in the Bronx…I came from the New Jersey suburbs and spent time with my cousins who lived in a project under the El. I loved walking to the candy store to buy comic books,going to the playground, going to the mobile library,going to the Bronx Zoo, getting stuck in traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway,hanging out with all the kids who made up my cousin’s entourage( one of whom became a world-renowned author) and generally having so much freedom. I am now 74, and I cherish those memories…
❤memories amazing ❤
And WE were always envious of the relatives who lived in Jersey or Long Island. If you had spent 24/7 in the Bronx, your memories wouldn’t be as good.
I was happy to get home, but no place on earth is perfect…
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Job 33:25
Isaiah 65:21
Isaiah 45:18
I am a Bronx native, Throgg's Neck . This is a fantastic segment! I'll make sure to share this with all my Bronx homies. .📺🩵
I am from Europe. I visited New York many times and The Bronx is one of my favorite boroughs to visit. I went to Crotona Park, met Hip Hop heroes. People are warm.
love, love, love this video - I lived on City Island (Bronx) for years, it was and is my very favorite place I've ever lived, and I miss it everyday. It was like living in a little New England seaside village with easy access to the biggest, best most wonderful big city in the world, NYC.. Just watching this made me cry because I miss totally everything about living there. Born in NY, grew up/schooled there.... lived there almost my entire life except for the last 7 or so.... When you don't live where you love, you merely exist.
Clamdigger.😊
No matter where I go I will always be a Bronx kid 😊
@@JeffreyBillington-q3d Same here, but not because I particularly liked it. It’s because of the attitude and the accent. My adult children still make fun of the way I TAWK.
The Botanical Garden is fabulous!!!
I was born and raised in the Bronx until we moved to Connecticut when I was 13. I went back for a visit last summer and was impressed with how clean the Grand Concourse was and how friendly most of the people were. In articles about the Bronx , including this piece, there is so little representation of pre 1960s history. Yes, Arthur Avenue is always mentioned as an ode to old Italian neighborhoods, but it seems as if Jewish and Irish Bronx history has been erased. When I was growing up in the 1950s-60s, all ethnic and religious groups lived in the same neighborhoods an all got along...99% of the time.
Very enjoyable piece. Thanks!
Anne Maria Louisa Italiano known as Anne Bancroft was born in the Bronx. Best Actress Academy Award Winner for THE MIRACLE WORKER (1962). 😀
I had the pleasure of meeting her on the set of G.I. Jane, she was super sweet.
@@MaryBravado That's great! Wow!
The BRONX is the safest place in NYC right now ❤
Not the safest , you are wrong.
We love The Bronx...love City Island, Botanical Garden. ❤
Colin Powell was a Bronx boy too!
I ran a telecommunications business off Pelham Parkway next to a bakery and an SUPERB Italian deli and no one walking by knew that this unassuming business with no sign, generated $200,000,000 Million (LEGAL) a year in audited revenues. NYC bankers would literally laugh at us when we went to borrow money or garner investment and not want to come out to see us. We did over $2 BILLION in revenues over the last 20 years; maybe spurned on by that City arrogance towards an ethnic business; but we had that Bronx resilience. The Bronx is a place of massive OPPORTUNITY that most people don't see or is under their radar; it is a diamond in the rough and when you run a business there it's a feeling like the old pioneers had going out West to make their fortunes. Hard, hard work, sweat and long hours. But like Fat Joe said, anyone can make it there if they hustle.
The Bronx is now my daughter’s home. She’s a proud teacher in this borough.
You should do this type of segment showcasing various parts of the U.S. Too many people think the U.S. is only NYC and LA. There are a lot more great neighborhoods and communities out there.
Great job Susie! More Susie I hope❤
Bronx native- yes! 🙌🏼
HELLO FROM THE BRONX!!
#upTheBronx
I was born in 1945 in the Bronx at Royal Hospital on the Grand Concourse and grew up on Mosholu Parkway I am reliving my whole youth on watching the travelogues and this clip
Seeing the Bronx literally go up in flames during the 1970's
I was completely turned off but now I can see a rebirth of that borough
This was fun. Such diversity!
Unsafe areas.
Beautiful love story ❤️ of Bronx. Awesome history 👏🏾
Bronx Proud❤
Shoutout to The Boogie Down Bronx, all the way from Houston, Tx
I remember growing up in the Bronx during the 70s and 80s , news crews from other countries , crews filming documentaries and movies , I always asked myself , why are they all here in the Bronx? , later on in my life I realized how famous for all types of reasons the Bronx was ....
I was born in New York but live in L.A. these days and I carry those images of burned out buildings from the 1970's in my mind. Times Square and 42nd Street weren't so picturesque then either. But I've seen in the news how midtown has been beautified. This segment shows me how the Bronx has made a come back too.
Susie is a great correspondent..... Shout out to the BX!
My mother me there was judge in the Bronx Court House would ask you what neighborhood you were from during jury selection. He would then proceed to give you the history of that neighborhood. He was one of a Kind.
Why not show Hunts Point, Bronx at 1am?
??? why
Your out of bounds 😂
When will ppl in other parts of the US/world understand that strength lies in diversity🤝✌️🕊🙏
You guys also forgot STANLEY KUBRICK was born and raised there! 🤔
Great video. Only gripe is when she said it’s the most diverse place in America. That belongs to Queens; no bias, just facts. There’s a reason why it’s called the world’s borough. Shoutout to the Bronx tho. Met a lot of great people from there.
Wonderful
Cool I just moved the Catskills
Interesting diversity of characters in the Bronx, representative of the diversity there.
my uncle lou and aunt roz lived on the grand concourse
Love Susie!
Susie Essman was raised in Mount Vernon. I’d hardly call her a Bronxite.
Casa Grande,AZ in the house
❤❤❤, Thanks
Big up Bronx every time
Great story
Read the book after reading the article in The New Yorker. Always wanted to walk across the Bronx (like the author did) - when I lived there (1990s) it was not a good time to do that.
Born and raised in the BX.
Eff what ya heard. Best place that brought the culture to what it is now‼️
South BX young to the BEST life in Co-op City.
Not all is bad like you hear.
BX STRONG....NY STRONG....ALLL DAY
🤜💪🤛🫶🫶🫶
Healthy-sized Joe 😂
I wanna go, now! ❤
Castle Hill native
BX BABY!
The Bronx is a constantly evolving place. Lived there for 11 long years during my middle age. Not the Riverdale side of the Bronx. The hood so to speak. Very surprised to see that Vanessa Gibson is now the Bronx Boro President as she was a State Assembly member of the district I lived in and I had met her when she was first elected to that post. The Bronx is about the human spirit. There are a lot of struggling humans in the Bronx. It is not a fairy tale. But it is good to see that a strong perseverant woman can rise from near the bottom, to the top there. Also, the Bronx does not need any chearleading stories about it on tv. Nobody wants you moving there. The less attention it gets, the better. People living there don't want you moving there because it means the rents will go up and they might need to move to South Carolina to make ends meet.
BX❤
They should have included comedian Robert Klein and the late Red Buttons as part of their list of names of people from the Bronx.
Tracy Morgan is from Bed-Study Brooklyn
With all those single family houses the Bronx has become more like suburbia.
Those single family houses have been in the Bronx for close to 100 years, if not longer.
That's not how it is on the west side of the bronx, there's hardly any SFH
@@yourofficialrealtor1057Riverdale has lots of SFH.
@@mrmrso228 Look at (3:08) in this video. Is that a 100 year old house? Same for (3:17) The houses on the street at (3:22) are stylistically mid to late 20th century, based on their proportions and materials.
@ that was ONE neighborhood in a Borough of many neighborhoods. Charlotte Gardens was built in the 80s. Majority of single family homes in the Bronx were built in the 20s to the 50s. I live in one of them.
Not gonna lie. I visited the Bronx
The Bronx is fantastic.... but it's not safe to leave
My home
All of a sudden we are promoting the Bronx? 😂
Something wrong with that? When was the last time you were in the Bronx?
@ I live in the Bronx
@@raulestevez7307 ok so what’s wrong with promoting the Bronx?
@@mrmrso228 What’s wrong with you?
@@raulestevez7307 nothing is wrong with me. What’s wrong with you?
I’m a BRONX NATIVE!
I watched this show this morning .
When I think of the Bronx I think of something down and dirty the 1970s image is burnt in my brain.
But lately the Bronx if you watch TV or movies or read all these comments about the Bronx.
They have whole foods and Starbucks
They have white women that are walking their Yorkies , Poodles and other dogs up and down the street.
When I think of the Bronx I think of lost and found
America loses it the Bronx will find it .
That was off of a movie
I think it was Hell's kitchen
Well one day I got to go to the Bronx
There is no Whole Foods in the Bronx and there’s been White women here for a long time. Not sure who told you differently.
Bring back the 8 third Avenue elevated line back and the ninth Avenue elevated line and the Putnam railroad lines back to make the south Bronx greater again.
The last time that i felt safe in the Bronx was 1959
This comment won’t go over well. I lived in The Bronx from 1955 to 1974. We called it “The Beautiful Bronx.” The many parks, golf courses, the art deco apartments, the beaches, the zoo, the botanical gardens, the stadium. In 1966, that all changed with the tsunami of immigrants. The residents of my era were all immigrants too: Italians, Irish, Jews, and everyone got along and took pride in their neighborhoods. The new immigrants brought crime and filth. When I last visited a few years ago, I finally saw some revitalization, and some of the neighborhoods looked quite beautiful again.
That is not historically true. Do you have any idea what the Lower East Side was like when Jewish and Italian immigrants first came in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s? It was all about crime and filth. Immigrants come here with nothing. It takes time for them to raise themselves up to a better life. Think you need to study the history of NYC a bit more.
@@georgiasmith7615might want to read the comment again.
@@georgiasmith7615 I wasn’t around in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I specifically said 1955 to 1974.
Think you need to study reading comprehension a bit more.
I was born and raised in the bx, a hard pass on a tour of one of nyc's worst boroughs. The only decent part is marble hill near 230, 231 and b'dway. Near van Cortland Park too but that can be changing too. The rest of the bx is a nightmare
Die-hard Bronx Native, where are peeps from Mott Haven?🥰🥰
Kingsbridge Heights 🫡
The only good neighborhoods left in the Bronx are Riverdale, Country Club and Throggs Neck….And yet still the poorest county in the nation!
You left out Morris Park, City Island, Pelham Bay, Woodlawn, and Pelham Gardens.
Love my home fr
Boogie down Bronx 😂
... da Mainland
Aside from Arthur Ave the Bronx is a mess
You forgot caridb
😂 why is fat joe there
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My burrow The Bronx
fat joe sucls rocks
174th & University ❤
The Bronx: Philadelphia on Steroids.
Allerton ave all the way
This was supposed to be about the Bronx, but it turned out to be a way to promote every person they interviewed by asking them questions about the Bronx. I really didn’t need to know that Fat Joe has a chain of sneaker stores. And how does Neil DeGrass Tyson ever get any science done? He’s never not on TV or someone’s podcast.
If you fall asleep on the 1 or 9 or A train and have to hustle home in endlessly dark neighborhoods, you know you're in The Bronx 🎉🎉
The 9 train stopped running 20 years ago. The A train terminates in northern Manhattan; it doesn’t go to The Bronx.
I just go by my fond mugging memories of the early 2000s. Ah, sweet Bronx 🙄
The A doesn’t go to the Bronx. The 9 was discontinued some years ago. And we have lights here. Not sure where you’re getting your getting your info from.
@@steveconnwhat part of the Bronx was that?
The Italians, Jews, Greeks, Polish and Irish took better care of the Bronx back then compared to today.
Europeans.
While the Bronx crashed in the 70s, We ,the workers, got crushed to poverty and broke while working 3 jobs. I don't see it as progress.
C'mon, man, you're ruining their sales pitch. 😂
They try to implant memories.
I think queens is more diverse they have an Asian community both orinato and south Asia
Neil is puertorican.
You forgot the Romeo Santos
Luther Vandroos went to Taft.
I see, only in the Bronx do people put family first...good to know.
J Lo? 😅 She's so untalented
She's not from the Bronx. She'a from East Harlem( the Barrio).
@yvonneplant9434 No, she's from bronx. From castle hill.
@@yvonneplant9434she’s from Castle Hill. Where do some of you get your facts from?
Helped P Diddy... pop-pop......
Why is THE in front of the cities name? The Queens, The Brooklyn, The Trenton, The Camden, nope no The!
It's a great place to live yet nobody in this video chooses to live there today..lol..lol..lol..
Where's Kanye and that black professor who running third party all silent 😮all cowards
Immigrants saved the Bronx after the 70’s
Who burnt the Bronx down?
La casa de la salsa
The Cross Bronx destroyed the entire community.
The 8 third Avenue elevated line had gotten destroyed and tairing down for no reason. The 8 third and ninth Avenue elevated line definitely needs to be brought back to life again. Including the Putnam railroad line.
Fat Joe and Chaz had too much plastic surgery
You mean gentrification 😂 that's occur
What gentrification?
Who owned it prior to Jonas🤔
The indians
Skipped the Indigenous lives before Bronx arrived?
And they know the Lenape tribe residents still exist (all over the New York Metropolitan area).
Dihann Carroll
The Bronx is the most over photographed place out of the five boroughs. It's a shame that Brooklyn wasn't as photographed as the Bronx was during the 60's-80's.
Dewitt Clinton……Pax to all the Brothers….
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