Walking Tour NIGHT TIME Philadelphia's Richard Allen Homes Projects Once MOB Supported (Narrated)

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  • Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
  • In this tour Toon takes you on a walk from North Philadelphia to North Central Philadelphia where the Richard Allen Projects are located. These projects were once supported in the past by famous MOB bosses like Joey Merlino who would buy turkeys and home goods for the families who lived here during the holidays.
    Poplar is a neighborhood in Lower North Philadelphia. It is located north of Callowhill,[citation needed] between Spring Garden/Fairmount and Northern Liberties,[1] bounded roughly by Girard Avenue to the north, North Broad Street to the west, Spring Garden Street to the south, and 5th Street to the east.[citation needed] The neighborhood is mostly residential with commercial frontage on Broad Street and Girard Avenue and some industrial facilities to the west of the railroad tracks along Percy St. and 9th St.
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    The neighborhood of Ludlow is a small neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is bordered by Girard Avenue to the south and Cecil B. Moore Avenue to the north. It extends from 5th Street west to 9th Street. Ludlow is about 65.9% African American, 18.9% Hispanic, 10% White, 4.8% Asian, and 1.4% all other.
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    Yorktown is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia. It is located north of Poplar and west of Ludlow.[1] The James R. Ludlow School and William H. Harrison School were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[2]
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    West Kensington is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia. It is north of Olde Kensington. The Market Frankford El above Front Street forms the line between West Kensington and Kensington. Its bordering neighborhoods are Kensington to the east, Harrowgate to the northeast, and Fairhill to the west. It is bounded by Kensington Avenue to the east, American Street to the west, York Street to the South and Allegheny Avenue to the north.
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    Walking Tour NIGHT TIME Philadelphia's Richard Allen Homes Projects Once MOB Supported (Narrated)
    #Mob #Hoods #Projects

Комментарии • 70

  • @headron66
    @headron66 3 года назад +14

    Sitting here in Scotland enjoying a trip around Philadelphia, who would have known that you could see another neighbourhood from your laptop. Thank you TOON215. Peace and love. ✊🏼

    • @thebizzyoo
      @thebizzyoo День назад

      Much love to Scottland from Philly definitely want to visit one day

  • @justwalk-travelasmrchannel1630
    @justwalk-travelasmrchannel1630 3 года назад +5

    PHILLY!! awesome informative walk! love this channel!!

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      Much appreciated! Thank you for leaving a comment! Have a wonderful day

  • @annwilliams9214
    @annwilliams9214 3 года назад +1

    This was really fascinating to watch. I remember riding the train past the Richard Allen homes to and from work. I appreciate you showing the neighborhoods and providing some history. Thank you, be safe 🙏

  • @cdchase6116
    @cdchase6116 3 года назад +1

    you are a brave man...i was a baby in the early 60s when my family lived at Richard Allen PJs...strangely, i can recall the layout of our unit at Brown Place...bilevel floors...black and white checkered flooring...the sirens...the screams and yelling...glad we got out before i started kindergarten. thanks again for the tour. stay safe, sir.

  • @TriniMonstera
    @TriniMonstera 3 года назад +6

    I felt so anxious every time you passed through the dark areas. Those streets are so lonely looking. Barely anyone about.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад +1

      Haha yea some blocks be pitch black lol. Thanks for leaving a comment. Have a great day :)

    • @blainessster2994
      @blainessster2994 2 года назад

      yea bc if anyone outside they gon get shot

  • @SparkleRose47
    @SparkleRose47 3 года назад +4

    You are a great narrator, Toon. I learn a lot listening to your videos.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      Thank you very much for the support. I appreciate it!

  • @Soneal24
    @Soneal24 3 года назад +5

    These streets be hittin different at night

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for leaving a comment I appreciate that!

  • @thewalkingfer7168
    @thewalkingfer7168 3 года назад +1

    Beautiful place my friend!...cool and nice tour again 😀👍🇪🇸

  • @cookiegarcia4515
    @cookiegarcia4515 3 года назад +3

    Richard Allen is north Philly

  • @rosalynjeffery9510
    @rosalynjeffery9510 3 года назад +4

    The old Richard Allen Projects is where I grew up. Those were the days.❤🥰🙂

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      Thanks for sharing your story. Appreciate you leaving a comment. Have a awesome day!

  • @phillystyles5223
    @phillystyles5223 3 года назад +2

    Love you man stay focused!

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      Thank you for the positive support 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🤜🏽❤️🤛🏽

  • @saleemackridge339
    @saleemackridge339 3 года назад +1

    The video is cool keep up the Philadelphia videos toon215

  • @MargaretLeber
    @MargaretLeber 3 года назад +4

    American St. is so wide because the railroad used to run down the middle of the street.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      Yup your right. I grew up in this area and played on American street as a kid. The tracks were there up until about 2 years ago. I have documented American street on several driving tours, motivational speeches, walks, and even in this vlog in 2018 where I walk from corner to corner on this whole side of american street.
      ruclips.net/video/bm2UqJ_08_s/видео.html
      Appreciate your support. hope you have a wonderful day!

  • @danie7968
    @danie7968 3 года назад +3

    Love your walks, always praying for your safety

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      I appreciate the positive support and kind words. Thank you very much!

  • @williamwaller2485
    @williamwaller2485 Год назад

    @53:07 Just across the street to the right me and my neighbor a girl by the name of Doris was crossing the street when a car suddenly struck her. The image is still there in my mind after all these years. She survived so if you're still with us Doris I hope life is treating you well. ❤ Lil Willow - Richard Allen Projects Resident from 1958 - 1969 That super market straight ahead use to be called MACS and up the street was another store, Mr. Howser & Buddy

  • @mickeymch876
    @mickeymch876 2 года назад +1

    I got robbed at the Richard Allen projects back around 1987 or 1988. I was working close by and I don't like to pay to park so I parked around 10th and Brown at about 6am one morning. When I turned the corner to head toward Spring Garden street was about 8 fine young men in their late teens or early 20's with bats. If it wasn't for a local guy walking on his way to work that told them to FO I probably would have been beaten to death but I did give them my wallet. I had no cash and everything else was easily replaceable so they basically got a Velcro wallet, my license, credit cards that were cancelled before the stores opened and a bank card with no pin to an account with $3 in it.
    I still don't pay to park, I have issues with PPA. Now I often park around Hawthorne park, the former location of the infamous MLK projects.

  • @mained5528
    @mained5528 3 года назад +1

    That's Cambridge Plaza/Mall @49:00
    New homes start at 12th $ Wallace.

    • @usupreme
      @usupreme 2 года назад

      New Homes/West Pop stand up.

  • @grayguru44
    @grayguru44 2 месяца назад

    That boi REALLY in the trenches!

  • @MargaretLeber
    @MargaretLeber 3 года назад +1

    I figured your umbrella was going to break...you can't treat an umbrella like a cane. Ask me how I know. :-) (Did the same thing when I was a kid)

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад +2

      Haha it was actually in the trash. I found it like 2 weeks prior. Hence the tape. lol. My ghetto job trying to connect it back together 😂 😂 😂

  • @ozfest8573
    @ozfest8573 2 года назад

    Hey brother. I own one of the Richard Allen homes since 2020. Looks like PHA was giving out 0% interest loans to residents who wanted to buy the Richard Allen homes with the driveway and large yards back in 1996-1999. People are now deciding to sell so I scooped mine immediately because anything south of Girard is booming. Many in the neighborhood are homeowners and either decided to stay for life or sell in the next 5 years if the market is right. The long line of cars you were looking at are GoPuff drivers picking up their orders to deliver.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  2 года назад +1

      That’s awesome man! 🙏🏼✨ yes your minutes away from the heart of center city Philadelphia

  • @AbsoluteMdot
    @AbsoluteMdot 3 года назад +2

    It looks so scary

  • @gannon3816
    @gannon3816 3 года назад +2

    You better be careful walking those streets at night... notice how quite the streets are? its a war out there

  • @MargaretLeber
    @MargaretLeber 3 года назад +1

    "Eastern Daylight Time"

  • @stacybogert3400
    @stacybogert3400 3 года назад +1

    Hey Toon215💚

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      Hello! Hope your doing well. Thanks for supporting with a comment!

  • @TC-tr8ko
    @TC-tr8ko 3 года назад +6

    You don't "pass away" when shot. You got murdered.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад +2

      Yup... but i have to reframe from saying certain keywords that will put the video in a different category. So I say "passing" or "Loss of life" so be more PG13 lol. The word you used will send a red flag hahaha. Thanks tho have a great day !

  • @stephlon801
    @stephlon801 3 года назад +2

    RAM SQUAD 💧💉🎈™️

  • @sedney2889
    @sedney2889 3 года назад +1

    High rise was were the tennis courts was at in 2000.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for leaving a comment

  • @sedney2889
    @sedney2889 3 года назад +1

    Cambridge Street was a different project same area. All of Cambridge is gone.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад +1

      Appreciate you sharing your knowledge!

  • @MargaretLeber
    @MargaretLeber 3 года назад +3

    Hope that was fireworks.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      Probably was. It was only a single pop so they probably had one left lol.

    • @MargaretLeber
      @MargaretLeber 3 года назад +1

      @@TOON215 Go back and listen at +02:50 .... you were talking so you didn't hear them. There was a lot of fireworks up around Norristown last night too.

    • @MargaretLeber
      @MargaretLeber 3 года назад +1

      @@TOON215 More at 20:00

  • @michael-pg8fi
    @michael-pg8fi 3 года назад +1

    Gunshots at 20:10 ? Philly is such a fucking mess man. Mayor isnt doing jackshit about this.

  • @jeffweingrad4658
    @jeffweingrad4658 3 года назад

    It's Daylight time in the summer, Standard time in the winter. I see corporate people mess this up all the time and it drives me nuts, so I want the rest of us to be better than them.

  • @rapchampion4366
    @rapchampion4366 3 года назад +1

    Yo do you really get a lotta rats in those alleyways?

    • @rayswann7618
      @rayswann7618 3 года назад

      We got a lora lora lora rats

  • @Kiwishi
    @Kiwishi 2 года назад

    U walking through them alleys like nun I’d be bitching if I wasn’t clutchin

  • @zootedmylo4151
    @zootedmylo4151 2 года назад

    Pov . U live in richard allen

  • @sedney2889
    @sedney2889 3 года назад +2

    Still dangerous area to walk around at 🌃. Not a prison yard now like it used to be.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Hope you enjoy your day

  • @theyeyo6342
    @theyeyo6342 3 года назад +1

    Watch out my guy 🤣🤣🤣

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      Yes sir... Have a great day thanks for stopping by

  • @michelledavis1331
    @michelledavis1331 4 месяца назад

    Hey good work. This video is inaccurate. Do some more research. You walk thru 3 different communities. Btw. Highlight some good that have came from the community too you walk through. The city need positivity!

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 месяца назад

      Guess your new to the channel. This was shot several years ago when I use to document my city. I have captured over 600 virtual tours covering over 100 philadelphia neighborhoods throughout all corners of phiiladelphia. I kinda know the city like the back of my hand. Born and raised in NORTH PHILLY. 5-7 minutes from here.
      After documenting the city I decided to do a cross country trip in 2021. Which I completed in 10 months in June of 2022. I captured over 400 tours covering 48 states here in the USA.
      After that I haven't really documented much and just been chilling in the country side a few hours from Philly. Living that retired life in the woods in my mid 30s. ♥️😅
      With over 2000 videos in this channel. I promise you haven't watched anything. There's positive and great stories about each community. And there are darker sides to the neighborhoods documented. I'm not bias. I tell it like it is with no favoritism. Also I'm not google earth or siri so I don't know it all. What I did here anyone can do. And they can do it better by adding their own dynamic to it.
      Have a fabulous day.

    • @michelledavis1331
      @michelledavis1331 3 месяца назад

      Nope. I have watched a couple of your vids over time. K&P that was easy. This video say three years ago not five…hmm pandemic time. The video title read a tour of Richard Allen. “You” walked through Harrison, along 10th street connected to Cambridge then walked through Richard Allen. Your Overbook and Wynnefield video was wrong too and in South Philadelphia. Your research is poor. It is not bushes it is shrubs. Masonry facades or stone facades You know your city, nope you know your hood. l will stop there. You are confusing people. Sorry bud. Guess you were just driving.

  • @stacybogert3400
    @stacybogert3400 3 года назад +2

    You be careful

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад

      Thanks for the thought!

  • @purevibemedia
    @purevibemedia 3 года назад

    You do better with these North Philly neighborhood. You didn't have a clue about Tacony lol you talked more about cars than anything and skipped over a lot of historical landmarks. But it's ok.

  • @SocialTPIC
    @SocialTPIC 3 года назад +1

    What was the point of this🤨

    • @purevibemedia
      @purevibemedia 3 года назад

      RUclips pays you the more views you have... So the point is to make money. Same as TikTok.

  • @jacobkatz1478
    @jacobkatz1478 3 года назад

    I love your driving tours of Philly, but I cringe whenever you talk about rehabilitating buildings. Buzzzzz! You rehabilitate people, NOT buildings. You RENOVATE buildings. I hope you rehabilitate your usage of the word.

    • @TOON215
      @TOON215  3 года назад +2

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts... appreciate it. But a simple google would help you out buddy.
      VIA GOOGLE:
      "Rehabilitation of a building means returning a building or a structure to a useful state by means of repair, modification, or alteration. ... Restoration of a building or a structure is a process of depicting the characters and features of a property as it appeared at a particular period."
      "Rehabilitation is defined as the act or process of making possible a compatible use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values."
      "There are many definitions of rehabilitation as the standards of document in the U.S. preservation community define it as “The process of returning a property to a state of utility, through repair or alteration, which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions and features of the ..."
      www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=rehabilitation+building+meaning