⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC (Narrated) : 86th St, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn from 18th Ave to L&B Spumoni Gardens
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- A walk in the neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn along 86th Street to L&B Spumoni Gardens in Gravesend.
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Filmed January 20, 2020
Timestamps
1:42 - Exiting the 18th Avenue (D) Subway Station
3:45 - Bay 19th Street
6:00 - 19th Avenue
8:12 - Lenny's Pizza (Featured in Saturday Night Fever movie)
9:10 - 20th Avenue
12:50 - 21st Avenue
16:36 - Bay Parkway
21:00 - 23rd Avenue
24:25 - 24th Avenue
27:20 - 25th Avenue
29:38 - Stillwell Avenue
31:18 - West 13th Street
34:00 - West 11th Street
34:45 - L&B Spumoni Gardens
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When Vegas Diner closed a few years back I knew that Bensonhurst had completely lost its Italian roots. A shame! This is my neighborhood. I remember playing stickball in the streets. The smell of succulent Italian cuisine coming out of the kitchens of many homes. Many memories. All of them good. Oh, by the way, Gravesend was said to come from London, England.
I was born and raised in that neighborhood from 1952-1969. Lived on Bay 14th St. Great memories. Slice and a coke.
Remember the 19 hoie
Grew up in Bensonhurst in the 70s and 80s was one of the safest neighborhoods NYC
But not "safe" enough for black people and other melaninated non-black people
Us too! 86th st and Bay parkway. I went to PS 128
I remember Bensonhurst in Bay Parkway in the 1960s...a quiet Italian Jewish neighborhood where I was most happy staying over my aunt's and uncle's apartment close to a golf course beside the bay before the Verrazano bridge even existed. I could see the parachute jump at a distance in Coney Island. I remember Steeplechase park and the exciting horse rides. In 1972 I lived in front of the 18th or 20th Avenue subway station one stop away from Baysaide. I loved the aroma of Italian food or cheeses from the Italian food stores
Cool! Was there a lot of itlaian mafia guys there at that time??
@@Jason.cbr1000rr In 1972 when I lived there I heard news that some thieves broke in a Roman Catholic church to steal a crucifix. The Mafia didn't like that and revenge was at hand until the clergy said that forgiveness will be granted if the individuals return the crucifix. I think they did. I knew an Italian co worker who was invited to a wedding or a birthday of Carlo Gambino by acquaintances connected to the Mafia. Great and friendly people...as long as you don't get into their business. I pray.that my friend Nick Maggi was not in the WTC working before the terrorist attack in 2001. My deceased father in law introduced me to a store keeper who was of the Mafia in Little Italy. A very charming amiable Italian. But dont mess with his business. But if I had a lot of money at that moment I'd buy his cheeses, antipastos, coldcuts and well the whole store. The Italian food aromas makes my mouth water
Every video just makes me want to get out and explore the city, on and off the beaten track.
Alexus LGBT me too
I’ve done that with other cities in other countries. It’s a way to see how people live. It’s a good form of escapism
Bensonhurst was not the only section that was the Little Italy of Brooklyn as many mentioned. Dyker Heights is also right next to Bensonhurst and both were all part of the Brooklyn Italy. It is still somewhat Brooklyn's Little Italy as it is now the last large Italian enclave of Brooklyn since many other large Italian enclaves of Brooklyn that once existed have mostly disappeared and the remaining ones are in very few numbers and very tiny. I would say Dyker Heights is the real Brooklyn Little Italy as that section is still majority Italian American with 13th and 11th Avenues still having majority Italian businesses and Italian Americans gathered for shopping needs even though there is an increasing Chinese and other populations coming in. Bensonhurst still has a lot of Italian residents and businesses, but are spread out and mixed with the increasing Chinese and other populations and businesses. Bensonhurst is really more like Chinatown and Little Italy equally intertwined together with smaller Russian, Middle Eastern, and Latino enclaves intermixed. Avenue U in Gravesend just right next to Bensonhurst also still has an Italian shopping business district with many Italian customers walking around. 18th Avenue still has a lot of Italian businesses, but intermixed with a large growing number of Chinese businesses.
Thank you for that information 😃
18th ave on Sundays a all the moustache Petes at the cafes in the back playing cards
I always enjoyed the Italian bakeries, restaurants, & stores on Court Street between Atlantic Ave. to President Street more.
Polarized area
L&B Spumoni Gardens has the very best Sicilian pizza anywhere. So great that you never see anyone order a regular slice, only the square. And the spumoni is unbelievable. I live on Long Island where there are many pizzarias, yet I'll think nothing of driving the 30 miles to Brooklyn just for pizza and spumoni.
Yes!! Best Sicilian pizza, you ain't kidding!
Agreed!
I was born and raised there. From 1967 to when I left in 1998.
It is so sad to see how so much of it is changed. All the Asians that have taken over. I remember before I left the Asians were starting to come and they were very unfriendly kept to themselves type.
Which is the opposite of the Italian neighborhood Bensonhurst and Gravesend was. Then, people said hello to each other. People would stop and chat with neighbors.
I am just telling my experience with the neighborhood change.
I heard the name Gravesend got it's name from the cemetary in Gravesend. When you follow the length of the cemetary along Bay Parkway, you come to the end of the cematary. Which is the border of Gravesend area. Graves end. No intricate story.
Thank you for this video. I've been wondering what the old neighborhood looked like now.
Glad to see L&B there. Went there so many times. I see only a few stores still remain from the old days. Supreme Meat, Rainbow, Effie's.
In the 80s there was NEVER a day when people weren't cruising down 86th street with the radio blasting. Many hookups were made, I'm sure, lol.
And the music blasting was good stuff, freestyle dance, club/house music.
Did anyone else go to the school on Stillwell ave, P.S. 248? It was a great school! Great teachers!
I used to live near 86th Street and Bay Parkway as a kid in the 90s. It was a traditionally Italian neighborhood that was changing to become Russian one back then. Then it changed again to become mostly Latino and Chinese one it is now. FYI that Marshals at 3:53? That used to be a movie theater and the owner had some beef with the wise guys and there was a shooting near the theater and it closed and stood empty for over a decade. Wise guys were still around in the 90s in Dykers and Bensonhurst. Good times!
Yup, I lived there in the 50s/early 60s: Bay 25th St. and then Bay 29th St., both just off 86th St. In fact, in the late 40s/early 50s my parents had a Beauty Parlor over, I think it was, a camera store just off Bay Parkway. I went back there a few years ago and there was a directory using stuck-in plastic letters, you could still see the outline of the name. Of course, everything looked smaller than I remember it. :) Thanks for the video.
@@normankleinberg5525 is that were Nobody Beats the Wiz was later, in the 90s?
@@mrvk39 I don't know, as I moved out of Bensonhurst in 1963. Look, my memory could easily be faulty but, as I say, when I lived there I distinctly remember the store having a huge recessed area in front of the door. You could walk around under cover looking at the stuff in the windows before ever setting foot in the store itself. In fact, on Saturday/Sunday nights you could hear people sing a cappella because of the way the sound echoed. Frankly, I don't know exactly when I came back but I DO distinctly remember seeing that glass covered directory with the faded outline of the name of my parents' shop. There was also the cavernous "Famous" cafeteria a few doors down (again, I think). Sorry for rambling but, frankly, I just don't know.
It was Gottis crew that had a shotting..It was a,movie theather
Used to go All.the time..
markv1 itsa bank now 😜
Thanks for the tour. I can't believe i never visited Bensonhurst when i lived in the Bronx up till the late 80's. Interesting observation no matter which block all the parked vechicles are late models!
Most people actually don’t visit many other parts in their own city so it’s normal. It’s actually common to live in a city and not really knowing it.
Yes, I mourn the exodus of Italians from Bensonhurst. If you've never lived in a community a village, had a home. that is not even recognizable anymore, you will never understand. It's like you came home one day and someone said, "Your mother isn't your mother anymore. You have a new one. Same for your brothers and sister. They've been replaced."
I know what you mean. We grew up there in the 80s
Completely different than early 1990s. Used to be close knit Italian neighborhood with kids all over the place. No outsiders were going through Bensonhurst back then
@Gabriel Batistuta Goal Because most of them moved to the suburbs Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester counties (New York state), Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Union counties (New Jersey). Many also relocated to the New York City borough of Staten Island (Richmond County).
@@mayena can't forget Connecticut and florida lol
I was a bit shocked when I vista New York I thought their would be Italian-American everywhere but theirs hardly any left all hipsters have taken over. Are that any Italian American neighbourhood any were ? In New York City ?
@@paddysmith461 italian-americans are now just white americans. The stereotypical Italian-Americans and immigrant Italians are a thing of the past.
@@mariopellegrino7661 well that makes me sad. I still sore some just not manny
Bensonhurst was the setting for the Honeymooners tv series back in the '50s.
Not exactly. They said Bensonhurst but 328 Chauncey would have been in Bushwick.
I was living there in the early 90s and it was still very Italian then. But nothing like it was in the 70s.
Never miss a show. This is one of the top with the more complete narration. Thanks.
Great to see the block that John Travolta, aka Tony Manero, strutted down in the opening scene of Saturday Night Fever 😊
I love the sound of the overhead trains, and once they go you can hear the birds (as you said) Amazing.
These neighborhoods have long histories and it's interesting to learn all about them
It's so interesting to see from Brooklyn. I remember the long bridge there from my visit 2008.
Great, I like the richness and diversity of this street, and it is convenient for people living in this place👍😊
I really like your videos, especially after school when i am tired and i can just watch how you walk in this great city. Wish you best ! ;--)
The chase scene in "The French Connection" 1971 was filmed on 86th street
So was the opening to Welcome Back Kotter
One of the john wick movies has a chase on 86th too
Horse scene in John Wick 3.
Meats Supreme will never die
So much fun as usual. I am still surprised there isn't more traffic especially during rush hour.
My neighborhood from 1966-84
I dont recognize it anymore except for a few stores that are still there
Great walk of Bensonhurst. Thanks for sharing this! Al
I find it funny how most of the people clinging on to the "glory days" of Bensonhurst don't even live here anymore. They're whinging on about the Chinese addled with racist undertones. If they did live here, they would know that their so sought-after Italians still exist, just not so much in the section you walked. On the 18th ave corridor in the 60-70th st is where you can see a mix of Italian and Chinese businesses. Even then, calling a neighborhood good just because they have the same background as you is idiotic.
I USED TO GO SHOPPING ON 86TH STREET MANY YEARS AGO AND I LOVED IT THEN, IT CHANGED SO MUCH IT'S SAD. ☹
Its better now then it was then.
@@johnottr Then the streets were clean now there filthy, and there were nice stores before now 86th street is a dirty dump! 🙄🙄👎👎
@@deborahdesanto2313 First of all the word is "they're", not"there". Second, the streets are just as dirty now as they ever were.
86th was nice back in the 60s and 70s now its Chinatown end of story!!!
@@deborahdesanto2313 Back in the 60s and 70s the crime rate in that area was much higher than it is today. Deb your racist skirt is showing.
your videos are really addictive! keep the videos coming!
Correct! Me too,addicted watching your videos Actionkid.Thanks
I lived on 86th St & Bay parkway, man how it's unrecognizable. We still talk about L&B pizza, Richie Lou's restaurant and Jans Ice cream. ❤ Makes me miss home.
As always my friend, you offer another great video. All your videos of New York represent New York perfectly. But I must say, there's something about Bensonhurst that really represents New York to me That and the Bronx i.e. "the grand concourse" is home to me somehow. Keep up the good work! God bless you and congratulations on your youtube award. You deserve it.
I grew up there and 60s 70s and 80s. Totally different place Bath Avenue and Bay 19th Street bath Avenue Mafia Central
Progress, I remember my dad saying "When I was a boy all this was fields.."
David S Cameron where’d he grow up there?
@@roderickstockdale1678 No no, Liverpool
David S Cameron I saw that later in the comments. What year was he born where Liverpool was full of fields?
@@roderickstockdale1678 obviously it wasn't in the City itself, just as the City of London remains a little over a square mile, my point is that all of the out lying areas where our parents took us walking are today called names such as Kirkby, Clubmoor, Stockbridge Village and suchlike..
Great video, shame it’s lost its 70’s & 80’s Italian & jewish and hispanic culture. 🇬🇧
Love the video, super narration. I miss the city, makes me want to go back and get a slice.
Just began watching your videos, love them!
30 years in Brooklyn and never went to 86th. Thanks Ken.
Where’d you grow up?
I love these elevated railways, we had one here in Liverpool along the docks but it was scrapped in the 1960s
The restaurant you pointed out looks like a great place to go when the weather is mild, plenty of outdoor seating.
I bet it's absolutely slammed on a weekend evening in summer
It’s crowded in the summer!
Great video ActionKid
Cool 😎 video
Really enjoyed this one. Love the narration.
Lots of mafia members came from this neighbourhood
PavanKumar Machiraju Paul Sirico.65th lives in Dyker now
Frankie Adonis owned a building on Bath Ave
He passed away maybe family still owns it
A few others still a bunch grew up from there
PavanKumar Machiraju Gravanno Sammy ..the Bull
had his contracting office place there
Friends of my father
Hes in Arizona now
They let him out a few years ago
Hes avoided trouble like the plague
D. Dios yea everybody’s gone, dead, locked up, turned state, or retired now the golden era is gone although they could be some crazy sick bastards they can never be forgotten for shaping America
@@DDios-ih9de i think gravano grew up in benshonhurst as well
That’s crazy
Looks pretty chilly down there.. in Italy it's sunny and splendid 💚🤍❤
In Napoli it's grey today :-p
@@visionist7 Al nord si sta bene invece 😉
@@user-us6ce7me8k but we still have the best food :-D
@@visionist7 👌👌
That was indeed a nice walk.....
This is my stomping grounds Gap used to be Jahn’s restaurant... ice cream dish called the kitchen sink... it has changed a lot I haven’t been there in many yearsTD bank used to be Chock full of Nuts coffee shop .. fruit and vegetables stores have been there for decades ... hsbc bank used to be the dimes saving bank ... across from McDonald’s used to be a roller skating rink down stairs and bowling upstairs... Petco that was White Castle back in the 60s.... neighborhood really has changed lol.... L& B is a landmark here been there ever since I was a kid... best pizza!
Hey bad, girl. What was the name of the Jewish delicatessen on 20th Avenue and 86th Street? If you remember.
@@retiredsquad7716 was it Hy Tulip or something like that?
@@jumpstreet1197 That's it. They had the best pastrami. Brisket of beef and corned beef's there. Great hot dogs. Hey, thanks for the name. It was really starting to bug me. I don't know how old you are. But do you remember the Oriental Theater spent a lot of Saturdays over there. By any chance, are you related to the russos who owned the candy store on 86th Street and 18th Avenue?
@@retiredsquad7716 51, not related to them.. Saw Rocky 1 at the Lowes Oriental (now Marshall's 😥) ...Vegas Diner now a Chinese Buffet....the neighborhood has changed but our memories will last forever!
@@jumpstreet1197 Yeah, I hear what
Saying
I miss the Marlboro & Lowe's oriental
I lived on 83 rd street and 19th Ave, most of the so called mafia guys were just punks when they had 4 or 5 guys behind them, those guys made me sick, this was back in 1966, then my family moved up state to Westchester Co. , now living in Florida.
Please tell us more about it!
great video. made me hungry.
My home town no matter what this will always be my home
I grew up in Bensonhurst. It has completely changed . All neighborhoods change and in 50 years from now it will change again. Don’t hate on the Asian’s their neighborhood Chinatown is gone also .
AK360, I have enjoyed many of your videos over the last couple of years. I may be wrong but, I do not think I have seen a walk of Staten Island. I especially like the walks where there is veiws of the water (Governor 's Island, Block Island). Have you done Long Island ? Martha 's Vineyard would also be fun.
Thanks! I haven’t done many videos of Long Island yet.
Grew up here . Stillwell Ave Bay 50. Nothing left
💔💔💔
Your outro here in January 2020 is much better than what you have now in October 2021!
I used to live in the Marlboro Projects on West 11th street and Avenue X. Until last December I worked at Block Institute across the street from the Projects.
Looks like this was recorded just before the pandemic. Wow! What difference a few years can make.
Gravesend is a town in Kent, England. By the way the word "town" used to be spelled with an "e" it's not pronounced though. In the same way that "Ye Olde" is pronounced "The Old". The "Y" is a now disused letter "thorn", just a quick way to write "th".
I think British people still write towne
it has changed so much , people selling there house and putting up of all look alike 2 family home … all stores closing , left empty , fruit stores at least 3 on every block ,,,, at night is sad,,,,,
I love it it's so interesting thank you
9:02 The shoe store in the Movie "Saturday Night Fever" you're mentioning was in the building of the Oriental Theatre behind you, which is now Marshals. There were store fronts on the front side of the theatre along with the shop where Tony fell in love with that shirt, he's got to have that shirt and asked if they do lay-away.
Thank you for that! I always wondered where the shoe store used to be!
@@ActionKid No problem. Always happy to help.
Bensonhurst is where The Honeymooners TV show took place.
2 suits for $199. By the time you do alterations there you spend about $500.
Love my old neighborhood.
So many stores closed.and many gone and changed
Sad
It was lively and safe place to grow up in..left in 2000
Only return to shop 86th bay pk all the produce stands and Asian markets there now
Just saw this and instantly pressed play
Bensonhurst is really diverse now that’s what makes nyc 👌🏽
Tanka you for the 86a streeta tour! I can stilla remembera Gene Hackaman chasing the train in a Frencha Connection wow was agooda movie!
Shocking how much it has changed. I loved living there when it was Italian/Jewish in the late 60's.
I'm from that neighborhood I wish they would have more videos
Back in the day Bensonhurst had the hottest girls in NY.
I have always loved chinese food. From the time I was a little kid in queens. I'm watching this at about 8:00 in the morning, I'm ready for a chinese lunch!
My 1 year old loves to fall asleep to your narrated videos. In think it has something to do with your accent. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
Can’t wait to see NY
Hey man, I deliver milk in that area. I was hoping to see myself there somewhere 😂
Go Vegan💚
You’re a milkman!
Loved it!!!
Thanks ActionKid!
The Italians got smart and moved to Long Island and Jersey when everyone started moving in.
Yes God forbid any other ethnic group but Italians live in that neighborhood
Jamaal Davis Exactly
Jamaal Davis right..... cause they know the neighborhood will turn to $hit.... tell me I’m lying....Fact Jamaal.... let me guess ..this makes me racist right?..,just keeping it 100
@@sdella1910 You would guess right
Jamaal Davis of course... that’s the norm for being honest...can’t be honest with being called a racist...wow
Super job.
It was a very cold morning that day, but you're used to that climate I think 😅😅, nice video, 👍👌
Damn u really started at the beginning lol
Raised in Dyker Hieghts so happy I got out of there 35 ys ago never looked back.
Yes, just outside London, along the river Thames, in Kent County, a few miles from the English channel, nearly opposite Belgium . it used to be a ship building yard.
When it was an Italian area that’s when it was in its golden age .....now its a zoo filled with strangers who have nothing in common
Yes I agree, I wish it was still ITALIAN!!! 🤬😤🤬😤🤭🤭
oh the hate!!
Where did all the Italians go?
@@blahblah1438 Staten island
Jets44 I see. Thanks
Chinese took over an area that was 95% Italian.
Bensonhurst is a nice area!! I went IS 281 cavallaro since 2002-05 and was okay when I'm not too good at language arts and also I'm doing fantastic job in arts, science and math!!
wow you went to IS.281 before i was even born.. i just graduated there this year. Can't believe how far cav has gone.
finally a new walking
The movie Out for Justice was filmed in Bensonhurst.
Bensonhurst is also the neighborhood where the great one Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners tv show was supposed to be from
fantastic
Nice video
Great work kid
Old memories who remembers the movie theater on 86 and bay it became a Marshall's not sure if thats even still there .... trip down memory lane wow
New York is wonderful , but Bayridge , Bensonhurst , and Staten Island shouldn't be considered part of the City ! they're the places time forgot and they don't know it , they're that dense !
you wish you can afford those neighborhoods/borough
@@thedon1029 , you're typical of the type of trash that lives there !
@@XX-gy7ue lol u right, peasant.
@@thedon1029 , that would be you !
Nice one
That was Bay Ridge Paints. That is on 5th Ave
joseph costello no Martin Paints
Good evening actionkid, nice walk weather looks nice ...
Im from bensonhurst this dude is spot on
Awesome video bro
a lot of great memories as a kid I lived on 74st and bay parkway The year was 1967 I was 10 years old I know iam old lol
So sad to see how this area declined the way it has, and so filthy looking...... I'm thankful for my memories of how great it use to be!!
When are you talking about it being good?
86th st is now mostly and majority Chinese bussines