Wow! brings back memories, grew up in Park Slope but my folks moved to Marine Park when I was 16, Went to Lundy's for the best seafood and Randazzo's had the best Clam bar around, took a lot dates to the Roller Roast back in the early 70's and spent some pretty drunk nights at Popeyes Bar now it's an Applebee's, oh well! Living in NM since '03.
Wow man, I just moved out of sheepshead bay to gerritsen beach and I will never forget the memories. I lived right across the street from Trio Pizzeria.
what I tell that about begins with 41:00 seldom where it is possible to meet in New York even outside Manhattan such open big spaces which are also surrounded with small houses. all this gives a great view of miles around. and for this purpose it isn't necessary to be on the fiftieth floor) isn't present, of course the view of "plaza" hotel from the central park excellent, but also to Brooklyn is what to show.
My husband and I lived at the Sea Isle Apartments (on the left between Avenue Z and Voorhies Avenue) when we first got married. We were there when the blackout of 1977 happened. Spent the night outside with the other residents of the building; better than staying in a hot apartment. The next day we went to the beach to cool off. Thank you for the video.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I haven't set foot in that area that I absolutely exactly grew up in since 1985! So sad to be away for so long! This is wonderful!
I can't watch the whole thing now but I am so excited! I lived 26 years at Bragg and W in the Brigham Park Co-op! I went to PS 194, Marine Park Junior High School and Sheepshead Bay High School! I'm stopping at Ocean Avenue for now! If you see this, I'd like to know when did they tear down or renovate the old post office at Ocean and Avenue U which looks like a Rite Aid now? It's a shame because it was a really old post office and I wish they hadn't torn it down or renovated!
I prefer no narration so natural sounds come through uninterrupted. Brennan (U and Nostrand) has a small menu but the food is the highest quality you'll find anywhere.
Hey bro please always add narration it always feels so good to hear from you and so helpful get to know about NYC for whom who doesn't lives in USA,love from India
I actually like the mix of both narrated videos and videos with the natural sounds of the neighborhoods. I love doing urban hikes. While I'm more likely to do them in Chicago (which is much closer to where I live), I've done a number in New York. Your videos really bring back that experience. Thanks for all you do.
Hey dude, thank you for this upload. Sheepshead Bay was my old neighborhood. Love it I have a challenge for you ! Bike the bike lane side of ocean parkway from Church Ave to Ocean Parkway Station (Q) and then walk from Ocean Parkway Station to Church Ave. (BONUS if you bike from Prospect Park back to Coney Island, I walked it !)
Thank you for providing some wonderful current footage of the old neighborhood. I barely recognize anything. Seeing Roll n Roaster, Puppy City, Trio Pizza and Lundy's sent chills. My grandmother and uncle (Rose Levy and Leo Wasserman) had a kids clothing store on U between E.22 and E. 23, called Murray's Kiddie Shop. Uncle was diagnosed with Polio as a child and had a distinctive limp and walked with a cane. They were in business appx late 1950s until earIy 1970s. I remember on rainy days digging for worms in the dirt within the courtyard of my apartment building, and heading to The Bay to fish from one of the small piers. Rarely caught anything, but it was fun and peaceful. Moved to FL 30 years ago. Biggest mistake of my life.
Great video. Some deserve narration and some don't. Some of those long bridge walks of yours cannot be narrated. What would you talk about? I like it the way it is. Some need narration and some don't. In other words, don't mess too much with your successful formula!
I haven't been in this area since 1960 when I joined the Navy. The demographics of this area has not seemed to have drastically changed since then. However, my neighborhood of Flatbush (I went to Erasmus High) has changed drastically and not necessarily for the better...
12:26-OMG, an actual independent music retailer that _proudly_ *_still_* sells compact discs alongside DVD's/Blu-Ray/4k discs, and in a world that now despises them (the compacts discs)? That's incredible, and then some!
43:25: the end of bedford ave. you can walk from greenpoint at the intersection with manhattan ave near the nassau ave G train stop all the way to here nonstop through brooklyn.
In Sheepshead bay they sell those pocket kishes I used to stop on my bike and buy one for a dollar, they literally had them out front selling them as people walked by they were delicious
Matt Green did just that, going from rockaway beach queens to rockaway beach oregon in 157 days. read more about it here: imjustwalkin.com/usa/ He is also almost done with walking every street in NYC: imjustwalkin.com/ he is my personal inspiration.
I was looking to see if I knew anyone or their cars. If this was 40 years ago, I would have recognized several people from when you exited the station and walked east to Nostrand. I’ve been in this neighborhood and the same block since 1969. A lot has changed since then. Someone made a comment about people not looking at each other or making eye contact. That isn’t how it used to be, and that’s one of the things that changed. It’s how it is, and extends to any neighborhood. If anyone has any questions about the area, or stores that used to be, let me know. I’ve been here a long time.
@@phillipswatson3452 One reason is people get grandfathered in to a cheaper rent. A 1 bd for you in Sheepshead may cost $1800-$2k if you wanted it. But someone there 50 years may be paying 1300-1400. I grew up there as a little kid in the 70s and 80s. Not there in 20 years though. There are some survivor stores but many new ones too. Brennan Carr on U and Nostrand(where he crosses over and heads south at 16:00) is also an Amazing restaurant. Excellent Roast Beef.
Phillips Watson - Not a dumb question. I moved here when I was 7. Bought a house when I married 3 blocks away. Moved to Virginia for 2 years, wife didn’t like it and wanted to come back where her family was. I wound up buying the house I’m in now from my neighbors back in 1969, just 3 doors down from my parents house, the one I grew up in. Everybody knew each other back then. I’m not the only one still on this block. It was a different time, a different era.
this video is certainly off the tourist trail. personally an area I like is st nicholas ave through harlem, then the 191st subway tunnel to broadway through inwood, marble hill and kingsbridge to van cortlandt park. very pretty architecture in harlem and very "new yorky" feel throughout. washington hights and inwood are very interesting areas IMO.
Ehi Action Kid, why don' you trying to walk the perimeter (the coast) of Manhattan?, like from General Grant National Memorial Cemetery on West Side to Thomas Jefferson's Park on the East side.
a thing to remember is his camera's battery lasts only about 90 minutes and cannot be replaced AFAIK, which is why all his videos aren't more than about that long.
Hey actionkid. Casey Neistat is having a pop up at his place at 368 broadway this weekend. You should go by there. I posted on his page to personally invite you :) :) :)
Ok, I spent 8 days on Manhattan Island last year and I realized that I never saw one service station yet there were gasoline powered vehicles everywhere. I've spent 36 minutes walking with you in Brooklyn and guess what.....not one service station in sight....not one. Could you please tell me where New York city hides service stations. Oh, and at the 36:00 minute mark under the overpass with high weeds and an abundance of trash....don't go there after dark. It looks like a perfect place to dump a body in a Law and Order episode!😂😁
There aren’t too many gas (service?) stations on Manhattan Island but they do exist. I believe the reason for this, most of the time, is because the land is too valuable. It’s more profitable to develop the gas station into income producing properties. Often times you’ll have to rely on Google Maps or other navigation software to find them.
Enjoy the walks. Not the prettiest neighborhood. Typical inner city block it looks like. some of those store fronts, small brick buildings reminds me of certain areas streets in DC, or maybe, how a lot of Dc streets used to be.. especially downtown which has transcended into more attractive redevelopment. Ha! :))
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For those on mobile
Timestamps
1:17 - Exiting Avenue U (Q) Subway Station
6:15 - Avenue U & Ocean Avenue
10:40 - Avenue U & Bedford Avenue
16:10 - Nostrand Avenue & Avenue U
18:40 - Nostrand Avenue & Avenue V
22:20 - Nostrand Avenue & Avenue W
25:10 - Nostrand Avenue & Avenue X
27:45 - Nostrand Avenue & Avenue Y
30:45 - Nostrand Avenue & Avenue Z
33:30 - Nostrand Avenue & Voorhies Avenue
35:25 - Nostrand Avenue & Shore Parkway
38:25 - Emmons Avenue & Nostrand Avenue
42:59 - Emmons Avenue & Bedford Avenue
48:50 - Emmons Avenue & Ocean Avenue
BTW, NEXT TINE YOU GO, WALK DOWN NOSTRAND TO AVE X, CROSS STREET, TAKE AVE X ALL THE WAY TO THE BAY...MUCH FASTER WAY TO GET TO THE BOATS🤗
Stella Morris, was on your left was a fishing store when I was a little child, and still is👊🏻
Wow! brings back memories, grew up in Park Slope but my folks moved to Marine Park when I was 16, Went to Lundy's for the best seafood and Randazzo's had the best Clam bar around, took a lot dates to the Roller Roast back in the early 70's and spent some pretty drunk nights at Popeyes Bar now it's an Applebee's, oh well! Living in NM since '03.
love all your walks .Thank you
Wow man, I just moved out of sheepshead bay to gerritsen beach and I will never forget the memories. I lived right across the street from Trio Pizzeria.
dude walked past Brennan & Carr and Roll N Roaster in one straight shot, what a legend
I like Sheepshead bay and going out on the charter boats.. Thanks for the video..Keep up the great work.
Roll and Roaster. Been a long time away from it but I miss that place.
what I tell that about begins with 41:00
seldom where it is possible to meet in New York even outside Manhattan such open big spaces which are also surrounded with small houses. all this gives a great view of miles around. and for this purpose it isn't necessary to be on the fiftieth floor) isn't present, of course the view of "plaza" hotel from the central park excellent, but also to Brooklyn is what to show.
this is what I called the "outer outer boroughs."
Good to see Crazy George in this video in front of S&D's Ha Ha.
Lived in sheepshead bay for 35 years. Just went there Saturday to visit my family.
Thank you for this! This is where I grew up.
My husband and I lived at the Sea Isle Apartments (on the left between Avenue Z and Voorhies Avenue) when we first got married. We were there when the blackout of 1977 happened. Spent the night outside with the other residents of the building; better than staying in a hot apartment. The next day we went to the beach to cool off. Thank you for the video.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I haven't set foot in that area that I absolutely exactly grew up in since 1985! So sad to be away for so long! This is wonderful!
I can't watch the whole thing now but I am so excited! I lived 26 years at Bragg and W in the Brigham Park Co-op! I went to PS 194, Marine Park Junior High School and Sheepshead Bay High School! I'm stopping at Ocean Avenue for now! If you see this, I'd like to know when did they tear down or renovate the old post office at Ocean and Avenue U which looks like a Rite Aid now? It's a shame because it was a really old post office and I wish they hadn't torn it down or renovated!
You’re very welcome! I’m glad I could bring you back.
Sorry I don’t know the history of this area or what happened to the post office.
I prefer no narration so natural sounds come through uninterrupted. Brennan (U and Nostrand) has a small menu but the food is the highest quality you'll find anywhere.
Thanks of yours amazing videos, i know much more of others boroughs of New York City. Thanks! Marcio
A mister softee truck! That brings back memories!
I love the videos man. I’m from small town TN and your videos are interesting, calming, educational, an overall great channel!
Thank you
Hey kid, ur just great man. F&ing brilliant videos. I'm a Brooklyn native and u just bringing it back okay. 😉
Thanks! I love Brooklyn ❤️
❤️ BK, my fav borough!
Hey bro please always add narration it always feels so good to hear from you and so helpful get to know about NYC for whom who doesn't lives in USA,love from India
I actually like the mix of both narrated videos and videos with the natural sounds of the neighborhoods. I love doing urban hikes. While I'm more likely to do them in Chicago (which is much closer to where I live), I've done a number in New York. Your videos really bring back that experience. Thanks for all you do.
love all your vlogs channel keep it up man
My Dad had a boat there called the Meatball. That was around 1947. Dont remember too much I was just 6 years old. Enjoy your videos.
I love love love your vids! Be safe out there. You make me miss New York so much!
Thanks for your wishes
Please keep posting vids of all of the areas of New York it brings me joy!
28:54 aww she smiled too you. there are nice people around the world, you know
Actionkid,
I'm stalking the Turkey. Videos very good. Just keep going. Thanks.
You’re welcome! Glad you’re enjoying the videos.
WOW memory lanes used to bike all around there and you passed the Roaster I about died Im like what? no ones passes up the Roaster haha
I would like to thank all the hard working immigrants and US citizens for keeping NYC vibrant and lively
Hey dude, thank you for this upload. Sheepshead Bay was my old neighborhood. Love it
I have a challenge for you ! Bike the bike lane side of ocean parkway from Church Ave to Ocean Parkway Station (Q) and then walk from Ocean Parkway Station to Church Ave. (BONUS if you bike from Prospect Park back to Coney Island, I walked it !)
Thank you sir! My hometown!
Glad to be in your hometown!
Fantastic. Luv dese vidz.❤👍👍
We had a fishing boat called the genie 2
You are great !! ... super video !! 💝👌👍
Should do a Manhattan beach walk next it's right across the bay on Emmons ave
I went there briefly but not too much in the following video I recorded the same day.
THANKS 4 THIS VIDEO!!!!!! I LIVED THERE IN 2001 AND LOVE THAT PLACE!!!
Straightahead on the left I believe it was Brighton Beach, straightahead is Coney Island
Thank you for providing some wonderful current footage of the old neighborhood. I barely recognize anything.
Seeing Roll n Roaster, Puppy City, Trio Pizza and Lundy's sent chills. My grandmother and uncle (Rose Levy and
Leo Wasserman) had a kids clothing store on U between E.22 and E. 23, called Murray's Kiddie Shop. Uncle was
diagnosed with Polio as a child and had a distinctive limp and walked with a cane. They were in business appx
late 1950s until earIy 1970s. I remember on rainy days digging for worms in the dirt within the courtyard of my
apartment building, and heading to The Bay to fish from one of the small piers. Rarely caught anything, but it was
fun and peaceful. Moved to FL 30 years ago. Biggest mistake of my life.
I lived directly across from Trio pizza. Also did you ever go to house of jeans? My grandfather owned that place
Great video 🙂
Great video. Some deserve narration and some don't. Some of those long bridge walks of yours cannot be narrated. What would you talk about? I like it the way it is. Some need narration and some don't. In other words, don't mess too much with your successful formula!
Thanks . I love this área though Ive never actually been. Thanks to you its posible to see Sheepshead Bay
Love your all walkes
he he, don't we all.
This is awesome!
I haven't been in this area since 1960 when I joined the Navy. The demographics of this area has not seemed to have drastically changed since then. However, my neighborhood of Flatbush (I went to Erasmus High) has changed drastically and not necessarily for the better...
E.28th st & Ave U, born and raised, where my story started! Sad to see the entire area decline as it has.
12:26-OMG, an actual independent music retailer that _proudly_ *_still_* sells compact discs alongside DVD's/Blu-Ray/4k discs, and in a world that now despises them (the compacts discs)? That's incredible, and then some!
AND CROSSING THE BLUE BRIDGE IS MANHATTAN BEACH!! BEAUTIFUL PLACE TOO!
I always wanted to go out to Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn... I'm from east NY Brooklyn,
Stopping here! For now! The building at 11:12 was one I always wanted to move into!
39:00 best roastbeef on the friggin planet earth
Nice video bro.
43:25: the end of bedford ave. you can walk from greenpoint at the intersection with manhattan ave near the nassau ave G train stop all the way to here nonstop through brooklyn.
I’ve traveled Bedford Avenue the entire length several times by bicycle
My old neighborhood!!! The best there is
How did you walk past all these great classic food places on avenue u and not stop in!!?
41:29 oh wow Grass!
38:50 Rollin Roasters
Roast beef w cheez baby!
In Sheepshead bay they sell those pocket kishes I used to stop on my bike and buy one for a dollar, they literally had them out front selling them as people walked by they were delicious
Hey you walking through my ‘hood! I was looking for myself 😂
Dude...you should walk from NYC to LA
Hahahahah
Wow that would take forever to do!
Matt Green did just that, going from rockaway beach queens to rockaway beach oregon in 157 days. read more about it here: imjustwalkin.com/usa/
He is also almost done with walking every street in NYC:
imjustwalkin.com/
he is my personal inspiration.
Would’ve been nice if you walked on the Bayside with the fishing boats! I was born right in that area✌🏻👊🏻 now live in Florida😊
You passed my house east 19th and Avenue U kickazz
I was looking to see if I knew anyone or their cars. If this was 40 years ago, I would have recognized several people from when you exited the station and walked east to Nostrand. I’ve been in this neighborhood and the same block since 1969. A lot has changed since then. Someone made a comment about people not looking at each other or making eye contact. That isn’t how it used to be, and that’s one of the things that changed. It’s how it is, and extends to any neighborhood. If anyone has any questions about the area, or stores that used to be, let me know. I’ve been here a long time.
NJA 3 😎
INTERESTING....WHY SO LONG SAME "HOUSE" OR "APT"..MIGHT SOUND LIKE A DUMB QUESTION ??
@@phillipswatson3452 One reason is people get grandfathered in to a cheaper rent. A 1 bd for you in Sheepshead may cost $1800-$2k if you wanted it. But someone there 50 years may be paying 1300-1400. I grew up there as a little kid in the 70s and 80s. Not there in 20 years though. There are some survivor stores but many new ones too. Brennan Carr on U and Nostrand(where he crosses over and heads south at 16:00) is also an Amazing restaurant. Excellent Roast Beef.
The Ave U station should be renamed "Bejing" :lol:
alb12345672 An Asian friend said It is known as China Town 5. 😀
Phillips Watson - Not a dumb question. I moved here when I was 7. Bought a house when I married 3 blocks away. Moved to Virginia for 2 years, wife didn’t like it and wanted to come back where her family was. I wound up buying the house I’m in now from my neighbors back in 1969, just 3 doors down from my parents house, the one I grew up in. Everybody knew each other back then. I’m not the only one still on this block. It was a different time, a different era.
I am going in July NYC need to go of the tourist trail
this video is certainly off the tourist trail.
personally an area I like is st nicholas ave through harlem, then the 191st subway tunnel to broadway through inwood, marble hill and kingsbridge to van cortlandt park. very pretty architecture in harlem and very "new yorky" feel throughout. washington hights and inwood are very interesting areas IMO.
It was worth the walk just to see the swan 48:00
Those swans were a pleasant surprise!
I lived here in the 70's, Ave. X and E. 13th Street. At the 35:32 mark, you are looking down the street where the last victims of Son of Sam were shot
Awesome 😎 glad I could bring you back to your old neighborhood in the 70s
I can't believe I didn't remember that any of the victims were shot in that area! I was terrified during that time!
If i remember correctly, Son of Sam's last victims were shot in Bensonhurst in the Bay street's
@@gottabeme1560 no victims at X and E 13th
Feliks Gailitis
😱WOW...I REMEMBER THAT WAS A TOUGH ERA ALSO N.Y.C.BLACKOUT!!
my buds on ave u are literally in this vid living their Brooklyn lives
Still cold in May in NYC?? Hot down here in FL.
Sometimes it is
I know I was surprised at that too!
50's-70's depending on the day, but 80's comming this week.
Do you use a chest mount? I’m not 100% sure and it’s really bugging me
I hand hold a gimbal with my camera at chest level the entire time.
It's changed but i remember it well!
nostalgia
17:10 that's crazy George!
Sam I thought he passed away😭
Ehi Action Kid, why don' you trying to walk the perimeter (the coast) of Manhattan?, like from General Grant National Memorial Cemetery on West Side to Thomas Jefferson's Park on the East side.
That could be an idea, although it would be an extremely long walk!
@@ActionKid You are ACTION Kid, believe in yourself
a thing to remember is his camera's battery lasts only about 90 minutes and cannot be replaced AFAIK, which is why all his videos aren't more than about that long.
It’s actually a shame how much change is taking place! Used to be open and beautiful✌🏻
I don't really see anything wrong with this area so far.
I live here and I’ve sort of forgotten what it looked like prepandemic!
Whatttt happened to the q train
Miss your riding videos :/
You can still go back to see my old cycling videos. I’ll try to make some cycling videos when my lifestyle allows.
@@ActionKid Seen them all, they were all great.
My old stomping grounds🥰 would not want live there now!
Bedford and X across from the park, come in for Tea
49:00 TU-160 in the Saratov 😆
Thank you for the videos - great walks and documentation! I also make videos around NYC - I'm new to it but really love it :)
Thank you 😃
I will check you out.
Ocean Pkwy & west brighton avenue
You're soooo quiet... are you ok?
I’m doing fine 😃
Спасибо
Said in the official language of Sheepshead bay 😉
50k coming,cant wait
Can’t wait either!
I went to sheepshead bay high school 81-85
Hey actionkid. Casey Neistat is having a pop up at his place at 368 broadway this weekend. You should go by there. I posted on his page to personally invite you :) :) :)
Ok, I spent 8 days on Manhattan Island last year and I realized that I never saw one service station yet there were gasoline powered vehicles everywhere. I've spent 36 minutes walking with you in Brooklyn and guess what.....not one service station in sight....not one. Could you please tell me where New York city hides service stations. Oh, and at the 36:00 minute mark under the overpass with high weeds and an abundance of trash....don't go there after dark. It looks like a perfect place to dump a body in a Law and Order episode!😂😁
There aren’t too many gas (service?) stations on Manhattan Island but they do exist. I believe the reason for this, most of the time, is because the land is too valuable. It’s more profitable to develop the gas station into income producing properties. Often times you’ll have to rely on Google Maps or other navigation software to find them.
🤩🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
How come not talking?
I didn’t want this video to have narration, plus I can always do a voice over of the video later.
Green car.what? No breaks.beep beep.
no sense wearing out the breaks. if you see a pedestrian trying to cross the street in front of you be sure to hit the gas to beat them through it.
Is this a good neighborhood anyone
i saw my after school
Enjoy the walks. Not the prettiest neighborhood. Typical inner city block it looks like. some of those store fronts, small brick buildings reminds me of certain areas streets in DC, or maybe, how a lot of Dc streets used to be.. especially downtown which has transcended into more attractive redevelopment. Ha! :))
At least there's a chain of stores. Other parts of Brooklyn barely got any stores. Besides this place is no inner city if you actually go there.
😀😃😁
Let's meet up at china
Bro wtf i live here LMFAOO
A shame it’s so filthy.
I didn't see filth!
What the heck. There was one kid with a mask. Yet clearly prepandemic. When was this taken?
2019
Ok
love all your walks .Thank you!