Driving Tour Philadelphia’s Most Disturbing Hoods In 4K UHD | Kensington to Badlands (Narrated)

all right so now we're on clearfield street clearfield and kensington this was a popular business district in the 80s 90s and early 2000s around the time i graduated from high school 2005 2006 around that time is you know when this avenue slowly started going downhill i'm not gonna say there was never substance abuse in this neighborhood i'm not gonna say that they never distributed products in this neighborhood but it wasn't as bad as it is now i think the epidemic that hit this neighborhood really hard is fentanyl that's probably like one of the worst things that could ever happen to this neighborhood because that took this neighborhood down a deep and dark hole so this is kensington used to be a very very popular business district now it's all closed down closed abandoned and the ones that are open are struggling to make means on my right hand side was the famous four sons that was my favorite restaurant growing up as a kid they sold off the business and four sons is no longer there you're on k and a k a stands for kensington and allegheny you can catch the train here the blue line wherever you see this blue train track above us you can catch the train there and you can go to northeast philly or you can go to southwest philly you can go to south philly or you can catch transfers catch the orange line and go to west philly so let's make a right right here on 800 east allegheny avenue the walgreens on my left hand side was looted to the max and it shut down on my right hand side there's a bunch of little small businesses [Music] fronts [Music] we're on the 3200 block of jasper street jasper and allegheny now we're driving down jasper and wish heart my brother used to conduct business on this block on my left hand side you'll see a couple guys conducting business on my right hand side is where my brother used to hang out this is where he used to conduct business and as always if you're not out here conducting business there'll be someone here to take your place all right we're going to make a right on 1800 clearfield street okay on my left left-hand side it appears to be a long line of people i think they're giving out meals yeah they're giving out meals probably meals to the less fortunate oh and they're giving out clothes also i guess they're giving out winter gear so right here you'll see this lady she's just crouched over i don't know why she's there you want to cross would you like to cross man no you want to cross okay so she's arched over she probably has some type of spinal issue because she's really arched over normally when you see people like that down here they're usually under the influence so they're dipping out heavy but she was walking like that so i'm gonna assume that she probably has some type of spinal issue that guy right there in front of us with the stick walking man i knew of him for probably like 20 plus years he got so skinny wow he got skinny back in the day i think like at 98.99 he installed a radio to my pop's car long time ago he's still out here pushing man still out here pushing so this little avenue right here is usually pretty pretty uh busy it's busy all time of the year it doesn't matter winter summer spring fall is always busy as you'll see all right we're passing the 700 block of east allegheny we're crossing over g street passing g in hilton passing madison 800 east madison 800 east willard i'm gonna make a left right here in westmoreland do [Music] my mom used to live right here on the left-hand side and on the right-hand side that parish that church used to be open back in the day but the church is all closed down i think they still use a portion of it but this main church right here that you see that's closed down you see the the rectangular thing right there there were steps and they basically used cinder blocks and blocked up the steps so you can't even walk there anymore i shot a music video in that building before all right so now we are crossing over to the 800 no we're crossing over to the 600 block of westmoreland passing 3200 king street passing 3200 tampa street on my left hand side that will lead us back to e and westmoreland that chinese store must have some type of agreement with the dealers that are out here because the dealers conduct business in the chinese store and when i mean like hotcakes i mean like hot like but like selling candy like i mean busy busy busy corner heart rail passing aurora and all up and down these avenues that i'm driving on people have been shot people have been robbed people have been killed graham's back shout out to old dollas oh dallas this is another popping strip right here not any of the heavy stuff but the greenery 3200 block of d street passing 3200 hurley passing 3200 bo did not there's a name written right there on my right hand side if you look on the right hand side of the screen and you look up you'll see d-e-a-z-o-e these his name was deez you see right there on the right top right he passed away he was a graffiti artist literally shortly after i met i had met him he passed away 3200 rose hill street yet these was in my eyes he was infamous he had literally just came out on the scene in philly but he was hitting every main avenue with johannes with balls of steel and we're passing b in westmoreland 3200 block of kip on my right now all these little blocks at one day or another they were all busy little strips different errors from the 80s to the 90s even the 2000s because like as late as 2000 we're passing ella right now as late as 2000s right here on a in westmoreland was a busy avenue i actually lost a friend from high school rest in peace wilson graduating class with 06 he passed away he got killed right here on this corner now a westmoreland this corner was a hot block back in the day back in old 302 or 405.06 it was a popular popular strip really popular corner uh let's cut up water street water has always been popular this street right here pretty much from all throughout north philly a lot of water street always been active water street has always been active right here on water and i believe this is ontario right here on order in ontario this prime time sports bar i believe somebody who worked in it that gentleman that his face is on on my left i don't know if you guys got a chance to catch it but he was killed right out front of the bar this is a and ontario a really popular still to this day corner it was buzzing back in the day was really popping back in the day back in like the 90s and the 2000s but it toned down a little bit but it's still active ella street 3400 ella kip these are all you know known areas there's literally i've i've just driven by like several rest in peace boxes they'll place a box on the corner where somebody was killed at they'll put some candles and they'll put some teddy bears there in memory and i just passed in this neighborhood alone probably seven different in-memory boxes [Music] all right so now we're making a left right here on tioga this is tioga tioga street tioga and ella the 200 block of east tioga a in tioga 3400 block of tioga [Music] passing 3400 water this corner on my left hand side was a pretty popular corner too growing up lee street on my left hand side so the way row homes and in the city the way this grid style neighborhood works is most streets go up and down up and down up and down but depending on what part of the city you're in sometimes there'll be two streets that go up sometimes there'll be three streets that go up and you gotta you know take a long detour to get to where you want to go sometimes they go up and down sometimes they're two-way streets so that's why this tour isn't through every single area because in order to go through every single area i may have to pass a spot more than once and for your attention span and for mine i don't want to keep seeing the same thing over and over again so hence why i'm you know taking little detours but we're still making progress now the area that we covered today is just one pinch one section of philly this does not stand for all of philly this does not this is whole street right here we're turning that whole street left side of whole street 3400 hope now this would it be like i don't want you guys to see this area and think that all of philly is like this but philly's huge man philly is huge from southwest philly to west philly to south philly to north philly to northeast philly to center city some people wouldn't even consider kensington north philly some people back in the day would have considered kensington northeast philly philly doesn't really have an east east would be considered like richmond or like the river you know by camden but you know the the older people would have considered this area like northeast philly back in the day but right now it's to me and to a lot of the residents is considered the north side of the city so north philly so you got this fedex dude and a penske rental truck in front of us i guess they didn't give him a fedex vehicle so he had to rent a penske truck he just dropped off a package he knocked on the door and drove off sometimes that's bad because they can go right up to your package and pick it right you see right there step you can go and pick it right up i think he's gonna drop another one off literally feet away from the first location is he yep he's gonna drop off another package guys and that's how it is when you're in the city it's a walmart package all right he's gonna pop the trunk yeah that thing is filled with packages tons and tons of packages i think he's gonna deliver that's a tv it looks like a tv yep it's an android tv a spectra android tv 32 inch wonder if it's for gaming and that's a walmart box wonder what's in the walmart box what if that's like an xbox s and like a gaming tv and no he better not leave that out there on the steps no way jose not in this neighborhood there's traffic behind me too so the people behind me have no choice but to wait it's usually like that in the city up and he left the package that was a tv bro ladies and gentlemen he left the tv oh somebody came to the door quick excellent beautiful they were smart it was like oh no they was expecting that package because you leave a tv and something that looks like an electronic out here you might not be fortunate enough to come out and actually find it okay let's see if he has any more packages to drop off on this block all right so this corner right here is hope and ontario still a little active corner they got a little fire right here on my right hand side in that trash can you see us smoking i guess they're burning wood to probably stay warm they got chairs out there so they hang out i'm trying to crawl some people are generally about to run into me now in front of the penske vehicle someone else is holding up traffic you have to deal with that not only with random people who want to hold conversations but ice cream trucks any type of delivery or moving services pizza delivery uber since you're in the city and you're on a single street you have no choice but to wait or to reverse and most people don't really know how to reverse on tiny blocks like this look at the penske guy had to stop again for another package can't blame him he's trying to make a living he's a young brother young gentleman looks like he could be in his mid-20s maybe even her early 30s if he just has a young face but he's out there grinding doing what he has to do to make a living in these tough times yeah he knocked on the door and the person came out look how tiny this block blockage you have to drive on the sidewalk on my left hand side this is a police district this is the 25th and i believe 24th and 25th police district on my left you see this building that's gated up but it's abandoned they closed it like and i think 2004 2005 2006 i don't know but they closed and they relocated it to whitaker avenue so we're making a right on the 200 block of westmoreland yeah that was a police station located in the middle of this neighborhood but now it's abandoned it's been closed for probably an easy 15 18 years give or take from the 3200 block of howard howard in westmoreland rest in peace this is the black that my best friend my lifelong friend walt the one that i mentioned earlier he lost his life on this block not only did he lose his life in this block but he lost his life in his house on my left hand side that ramp the ramp that went up that was his home and he was killed inside of his home so he wasn't even safe in his home and two days later he had a plane ticket to leave to california to work on a movie because he was in the film business too and he was gonna go work on a movie in california but they took his life too soon all right so we're passing ontario rest in peace well i miss you bro cramped school on my left i could have named all the schools that we passed but we're on tioga street kyogre and howard kyogre and howard on the left-hand side there seems to be a lot of construction going on in that neighborhood so i'm gonna have to skip tioga for like two or three blocks and just take venango like a little detour we're on 100 of an angle on my right and 199 which will be considered 200 angle on my left so if we make a left we're going to hit the 200 mango street [Music] on the right-hand side these garages are like metal shops welding things of that nature we're passing the 3 500 block of masher on my left hand side that's masher but i don't want to go down there because it's going to lead me to a detour now we're passing 3500 paletthorp street or what some people would call pallathorp but i call it pelthor all right we're on the 200 block of glenwood avenue 2nd and glenwood avenue remember that street that i said was really popular earlier it's a really busy street that's it right in front of us second street and as you can see all types of traffic drive down second street you see all these cars it's one of the fastest streets to help you get through the city 2nd street 5th street broad street those like the main streets are mingo etc etc so we're making a left down 2nd street and then i'm going to make a right on tioga on my left-hand side we have vega signs that's an older gentleman probably in his 70s he makes graphics custom graphics for cars you can pretty much replicate whatever you want from logos to rest in peace graphics to business graphics he does all types of vinyl work truck lettering designs banners window lettering decals etc etc we're gonna make our right on the 200 block of tioga this is second of tayoga one of my best friends too growing up me and him don't hang much anymore you know because he went his way and i went my way he's in a relationship and you know some people get shacked up like that but this is his hood and i actually come and show here to him [Music] this is probably a rough hood too a little rough neighborhood but i used to be out i never really looked at them as rough growing up because it was home it was like i feel comfortable walking in any one of these neighborhoods i don't feel tense i don't feel worried i just it's my neighborhood so growing up i didn't look at it as rough but when you become an adult you learn that people are afraid to come to these neighborhoods people who are not from the neighborhood they're you know we get stereotypes and they prejudge that neighborhood so i learned that as an adult so we have a little auto body slash junker out on my right i never really utilized it much i think i only went there once orianna street on my left we're not gonna go down orianna we're still on glenwood we have an abandoned factory on my right and a lot of the banded factories if they don't get rehabilitated and they stay abandoned they end up being exploration spots where abandoned explorers to go explore people may go live you know homeless people might go and live in them stooping them or they end up being graffiti spots like graffiti havens places where graffiti artists will go to practice the graffiti and just explore we're on fifth street 3300 block of fifth street now my left-hand side this would probably be one of the most busiest or most i would say the biggest corner in the city it was classified and like a list of i believe like in 06 or something a list of like the top 20s drug corners in philadelphia pa the corner i'm about to show you was number one 3300 block fair hill street we're on the 3300 block of 6th street now 6 in glenwood now we're gonna make a left from the 500 block of westmoreland my mom actually currently lives in this neighborhood she lives like a block away from here and shout out to my cousin ainge chavo who's also a youtuber a-n-g-e-c-h-a-v-o that's his channel he actually used to conduct business with the owner of this strip he knows people from out here he used to be out here too running around when he was a youngster this right here fifth is one of the the biggest corners in the city as far as money making fifth in westmoreland yep the owner of this black and he owns many buildings and they're still out here still out here conducting business he has many people working for him now i don't know if it still holds the number one spot because we know that kensington and allegheny became pretty bad and kensington is somerset there's a lot of little avenues now that are runner-ups but i know from a historical standpoint perspective that was one of or the biggest corner in the city now remember i was talking about earlier that philadelphia's big that it's a huge city well just imagine how bad that corner how much money that corner had to make in order for it to be bigger than southwest philly west philly et cetera et cetera et i think it was a million dollar corner some of these blocks could generate anywhere from 10 000 a day to 30 000 a day or more depends on what time of the month you actually come visit their neighborhood okay i think we're gonna end up taking a left and we're gonna work our way towards quote unquote the badlands this will be considered the badlands we're not there yet but if you keep going straight you'll end up hitting erie you end up here hitting huntington park we're on the 500 block of tioga 500 block of west tioga we're on tioga and sedgley tioga and sedgley sedgley is home of one uh philly's artist who's actually really lyrical not many people know about him his name is goody guns i think his new name now um is sanchez that's his new rap name shot a couple music videos for him but that guy is gifted beyond belief thinking like eminem nas and like big puns smushed into one and that makes sanchez that he's super super talented i know this is his trip he's been all around the city but most recently this is the strip that he was on all right so now we're on six and sevenly [Music] just keep on going straight i was going to go down 6th street but let's go straight and work our way towards the badlands we're passing marshall 3 400 block marshall street now we're passing the 3400 block of 7th street if you would have made it right down 7th you would have saw plenty other corners that were active there's active corners all throughout the city south west north east et cetera et cetera however some of the most active corners reside in north philadelphia all right we're on nathan allegheny shout out to my homie y rico young rico bikestar rico y'all check out his youtube channel w h y r i c o y rico he's an up-and-coming comedian content creator and he's sharp on pedal bikes this is his hood so we're gonna make a left right here this is the 800 block of sedgley that crosses right over to allegheny emerges into allegheny we have glenwood avenue 700 block of glenwood avenue we are now approaching what they call the badlands now there's many different little teeny blocks that we can cut through here we probably don't have time to go through them all today anybody who knows the city is going to say i probably skipped a lot of corners but the problem is there's not enough time in the day to cover every area of the city so i can do my best just to take you guys to the hot spots that i know of and give you a little verbal tour all right so again we are facing double parking people blocking the street this person might not even be in their vehicle they might have left their vehicle in the street and they went inside a house the tags the new york tags new york empire state so either they just moved to the area which i highly doubt or they're here to pick up a family member or they are in the vehicle so maybe it's like uber maybe a new york uber driver waiting for his client to come out lyft or something i don't know but at least they were courteous enough to move a lot sooner than the other guys in some areas of the city if you rush people they'll look at you like you're in the wrong this corner used to pop too it depends on what time of the day you actually come out here but maybe a lot of young gentlemen are out here you know conducting business we're on 8th clearfield badlands my cousin's actually out there on the right and i have family that owns the house right here on the left my mom used to live on this block too boy my mom is living a lot of blocks in philly but yeah all right so we're gonna make a right on east 800 block of allegheny that's eighth and allegheny yeah my cousin that we just passed who was out there i said he was on the right-hand side i'm pretty sure that he's conducting business out there too he's a veteran and he's been in the game for a real long time and i don't think his ways have changed at any time lately i grew up in this area too i got a chance to explore a lot of areas in the city because for a for starters my mom lives in a lot of different neighborhoods and b i like just groaned i roam freely you know i didn't really have anybody to stop me from learning about my neighborhood so i went out and i explored as a team some kids stood inside playing video games i wasn't huge at gaming when i was a teenager i was a gamer when i was like in my single digits eight nine maybe like 10 11 12 probably like 13 14 but by the time i got it like my 15 16 set i was running the streets i was exploring and you know learning about my hood building relationships so we're gonna take this yellow ever so slightly across 6th street we're passing reese [Music] passing fifth street fifth and clear field now we're passing orkney now we're gonna get back into some activity this neighborhood is also known for activity you can see more activity in the little tiny blocks but we're not going to go through it on my right i would have went to my right but the blacks closed all because they're doing some work in the middle of the street that's a pretty active block a lot of these little blocks are active surprisingly enough the hispanic neighborhoods are the ones with a lot of the activity absolutely there's not only just hispanics out there distributing product because it'd be african-american brothers too out there distributing product and the occasional caucasian brother if he grew up in the hood and he grew up with the homies he'll be out there working too and you know working on on the block but the neighborhood with the most activity is the spanish neighborhoods all right we're passing 300 indiana fourth in indiana this is a historic neighborhood right here there's actually a book uh written about this corner right here i live to tell about it i forgot the author's name he's now a pastor but he was a a gang member he was a drug lord and he was from this neighborhood and the book was most intriguing but book i ever read in my life it was so intriguing that i actually finished it and i don't finish many books in my life but it was actually a chapter book and i finished it and i loved it and it told me a lot about this neighborhood and the days when he used to run the streets in the 80s and yeah really really interesting book and it talks about this neighborhood and you know the history behind it that crv just ate the stop sign he had no care for us whatsoever there was also a big drug dealer back in the day named reds that used to be in this neighborhood but he ended up doing i think an rt like one of those british european interview uh youtube videos it was on youtube it was on tv and i think they came and they did an interview on them and surely after he was in indicted yeah right after that interview he was indicted so i don't know who owns this neighborhood now but usually every neighborhood in the city has an owner so you know the owner may own one strip two strip three strip i don't know you know what's the maximum strip you know these owners have i don't know you know how many they have under their belt but you know you do the mathematics if one strip can make you 10k a day or you have a ten thousand dollar day stripped and you have you know eight thousand dollar day stripped and you may have a 25 000 a day strip but then you multiply that by several strips you can imagine what type of money these guys the big guys are bringing in on like a weekly slash monthly basis and just to sum it up for some of you who don't know what some of these guys make now i said it earlier not everybody that's standing outside is a dealer like myself when you live in the neighborhood you just want to hang outside of your house and just because they have a hoodie and they look urban like myself doesn't mean they're up to no good but me being a lifelong resident i could usually tell who's who you know what i mean so when you're from the neighborhood you kind of got a better grasp on what's going on versus from when you're not in in the neighborhood if you come from out of the neighborhood and you see 20 guys standing on the corner you're going to be confused but if you're from the neighborhood and you go to a certain neighborhood and you see 20 guys standing on the corner and you know the neighborhood you'll go oh those 20 guys are about to go play football because you know that they're not up to no good or you can tell those 20 guys are about to get it in and do something they probably shouldn't do you know what i mean so yeah let's go straight now again i passed several plus potential corners that we could have went through that [Music] it's only so much time in the day guys but if this is something that you guys seem interested in generally interested in if the numbers reflect interest and you guys want more of this i don't mind you know doing you know a couple of these a month all right so we're passing lehigh avenue lehigh avenue is really where this whole tour started that building on my right-hand side now it's a projects or like a housing apartment complex but back in the day it was chopped i believe it was saint christopher's hospital like a children's center children's hospital but now it's like an apartment i think low-income apartment this park on my left-hand side i have roots in this neighborhood the roots that i have is my pop used to run that store right there my uncles my pop and my grandpa my grandpa bought it and and my pop was running the store back in the day so that was my pop store it was actually called jr grocery store yeah back in the day then if we go to my right hand side let's go to my right my pop had that store my pop's cousin which was my second cousin had this restaurant on my right hand side i grew up in this restaurant on my right-hand side and then my pop's other cousin she was married to the owner of that so you can say that he was like a second cousin also so my other second cousin on that you see that cold beer on my left hand side so this little strip right here i have some roots there but that first store that was called jr grocery store the one that i said that my pop ran back in the day before i was born that's the store that he met my mother so if it wasn't for that store and him meeting my mother when he was operating that store i probably wouldn't have been born or if i would have been born i probably wouldn't be myself i'd be a completely different person with a completely different backstory if i had a different mother or if he didn't have me and i just didn't exist all right we're going passing rhys i would have went down rhys but let me take you to now this neighborhood right here uh 2500 fair hill if you go down to my left you'll end up hitting drama's neighborhood oscino vasquez you end up here you go down a little bit more you'll see meek mill's corner where he you know comes out occasionally and chill go down a little bit more around marshall you'll see freeways neighborhood philadelphia freeway um blessings to his family you know my condolences he just lost the sun recently philadelphia freeway i grew up listening to you sir um this is marshall this corner right here this neighborhood in general is not so much of a spanish neighborhood but it's more of an african-american a predominantly african-american neighborhood there's a few mexican robs actually memorials on my left hand side that's actually where he lived his his people not where he lived but he had people like his his family actually lived on that house right there so there's actually a mexican rod memorial right there in that corner but this is another spot like another neighborhood that not only is there you know activity but there's a lot of shootings this neighborhood right here in particular i'm going to take you to a corner that has an exaggerated amount of shootings we're passing 2600 darium right here guys this corner right here knight 410 several times a year whether it's morning whether in the afternoon or whether it's night people are shot or killed here right here on this corner there was even right up the block there was a female and i believe two other gentlemen who were executed in the basement of the home people ran in the house executed them in the basement execution style and then left them in the basement and they were found in the basement murdered cumberland 800 block of cumberland this turns into a one-way little cheap germantown gas station on my right [Music] we're gonna make a right down germantown [Music] avenue you see the trolley tracks on the ground on the thousand block of cumberland passing 10th street 10th street merges right here it's weird this is one of those angle blocks where the orientation of the city starts to shift a little bit this is germantown and huntington germantown wasn't always this colorful i believe it was an initiative to brighten up the community germantown was a business district as you can see on the left and the right hand side you'll see plenty of businesses many of them are closed down some are still open but they basically did this colorful theme i believe to uplift the community because this is another community that's experienced years of oppression germantown ave now as you can see we have a bus in front of us the 23 bus is having trouble turning it came from the thousand hundred of west huntington street and it was making a left and that honda pilot on the corner is parked on the no parking zone that says no parking from three to eight directly parked on it and the bus had trouble turning passing oakdale a lot of these businesses were looted after they're looting they completely went out of business they weren't able to open back up because most of these were mom and pop shops these aren't big commercial franchises we're back on lehigh avenue passing hutchinson now we're passing 9th street nathan lehigh avenue 2700 block of 9th street 900 block of lehigh on the next block on my left-hand side you guys will see a save a lot family dollar a snipes a burger king that's a new plaza that they made several years ago on that plaza was actually my middle school the middle school that i graduated from in 2002 was called julia the virgos bilingual middle magnet school it's on my left right there where you see the burger king and all that my elem my elementary school my middle school was actually located right there but they knocked it down and they turned it into another commercial complex on my left-hand side that big building is a library see right there it looks kind of like roman the guy in front of us just cut us off in the maxima no signal to cut us off but he put a signature turn in the corner the right hand side we have a dunkin donuts a bunch of small little mom and pop shops on my left and my right hand side passing reece street we passed fair hill street this is 2700 reese on my left-hand side you'll see a speedway gas station that speedway gas station tends to have a bunch of teenagers several plus teenagers like 10 11 12 hanging out there daily asking for change and asking a pump of gasoline now that's a new thing back in the day it was only homeless people you know substance abuse users etc etc that would be at the gas station actually to pump your gas so that they can generate some change to go get their next fix however in 2020 and 2019 and i think it all started probably like 2018 maybe maybe 2017 but i know 2018 2019 for sure there was groups that just started hanging out there all teens as young as i've seen like 10 11 10 11 12 year olds 13 year olds 14 year olds i think i've seen his oldest as like 18 year olds hang out there and actually change ask the pumpkin guests i don't know what they use the money for but they absolutely do hang out there and ask the pump gas shout out to my homie nick my homie nick from this block nick in the gang 2500 block there's 2500 lawrence 2500 lawrence street that guy didn't bother stopping he completely ate the stop sign and impala shout out to drama this is drama's block the musician this is a popping active corner too or active strip maybe that's why he was in a rush he was in a rush to make it to the strip 400 block of york if we make a right over here we'll end up passing drama we'll pass his little hood we just passed his block orkney i got family that lives right here on orkney we're in the 2300 block of fifth street fifth in york as you can see there's a patrol unit parked right here in the corner they tend to park patrol units on corners that have a history of violence so if you ever see a patrol unit on a corner it's not there for drugs it's there because it has a history of violence of shootouts passing rhys drama be hanging out on my left hand side if i'm correct oshkino vasquez 2 from this neighborhood we're going to make a left on 6th street driving down 2300 block of sixth street we just hit six and dolphin we have some affordable housing on the right hand side passing reese a recent dolphin now we're on fifth in dauphin 2300 black of fifth street now we're passing orkney in front of us if we keep on going straight that's the elementary school that i went to but we're not gonna go straight because it's a dead end now we're driving down orkney a lot of these blocks you see that they're empty or abandoned you see a lot of vacant properties i promise you because it has already begun i promise you that within 10 years these will all be completely habitated or habilitated or rehabilitated homes they'll be they they will build homes and each and every single one of these lots all the lots on my right i promise you in 10 years or less they'll all be filled with homes investors are coming to the community and buying those lots buying the address i believe the addresses some of them are like 40 feet long by like 12 feet wide that's what most row homes are nowadays they'll buy the address the slot the vacant lot and then they'll invest you know 60 70 grand maybe to build the home like am i right there there's a huge building right there that was just building a lot you know to buy it a lot for probably five 10 15 grand abandoned lot then they'll go and they'll invest maybe 50 to 100 grand to build the house that's between you know labor and materials and then you know that's probably like an initial 75 000 investment then they'll go and mark the house up for 150 250 300 000 or more depending on the zip code world lawrence we're passing liftgoal there's block of lift on my right hand side meek mill uh when i used to work in this school on my left hand side meet me used to hang out here on the corner and yeah this was the spot where he would come and hang out lou racing garage was on that block so he used to have his banshee his iron man banshee was stored in lou racing garage i don't know how often he comes and hangs out in this neighborhood but this was one of his chill spots chilling corners and mind you this corner is probably three minutes from where i grew up at petey crack used to be from this block and from third street pd crack not many people know of him but he was a a rapper that was signed to roc nation at one point yeah this was where he used to be from and bold shout out to the homie bold burkside 215. this is bold's neighborhood who's also another musician and graffiti artist this block right here is where a lot of history started at for me it's where i shot one of my my biggest bike life videos this is where it started if you go on my channel click to most popular uploads you'll see the most popular upload started right here from the garage where meek mill stored his banshee on my right hand side that garage where the classic car is at yeah this is where it all started and me pretty much used to chill out here some people say he's from you know south philly some people say he's from north well when he comes to north this is one of the corners that he touches base and visits he has homies out here [Music] all these houses on my left and my right they were made within the last eight to nine years you see that really tall one on my right that's an example of a lot that was once a lot you see how tall it is then they're gonna build that new home in it they come with you know fully furnished brand new out the box central air central heat roof decks beautiful brand new homes and then though like i said i told you the mathematics earlier they'll do a little small investment they'll double triple their money and that home will be for sale for 325 000 in this neighborhood and people would be more than happy to buy it looking look at the screen look at my left hand side take a look at the next block you see that tall building right there on my left hand side behind the available sign you see it because i'm not going to go to it but you see that that block right there the house that's another example of done building brand new houses and then a lot this is american street american street has been gentrified the last year or two heavy so this was once a wide open from corner to corn you can cross the street and be completely wide nothing in the center they just built this whole little grass strip in the middle they removed the train tracks they built this little bike lane and they confined it to one avenue to one little strip now you see this giant light on my right hand side this giant light on my right hand side was a scrap yard it was a scrap yard for many many many many years but the scrapyard's been closed so to my knowledge i think that the scrap yard was also sold some investors probably bought it and they probably have something in mind to build there we make a right over here we're making a right on burke street you see another patrol unit there but now he's not there because this is a popular shooting corner he's there he's either on break or he's trying to catch people eating stop signs or speeding up american street or something because there's no shootings on that corner right here now let's go through this block right here third and berks we're on the 1800 block of orianna street i'm gonna make a right you see all these new houses in front of me these were lots these were empty abandoned vacant lots now on my left and on my right this complete block was empty i did a vlog two years ago coming on this block literally i passed this block probably two minutes later or or i got held back two minutes at home before i came to this block and luckily those two minutes to help me behind somebody got killed on this block and i passed through it right after they got killed they were shot dead here this was all empty left and right less than two years ago but now as you can see brand new homes brand spanking new new brick pointing new brickwork new installation new shingles new everything new for cave the vacation of this house on the left looks like it's falling off they did a horrible job this house on the left if you zoom in i don't know if you guys are able to zoom in but the bricks they're like falling forward that's a brand new home they haven't even did the steps yet but it goes to show and then these houses on the right you see these little two-story houses they're the og residents they're the original residents that's been around here forever and now they got new neighbors and a lot of these neighbors come from look at delaware the mercedes-benz delaware this fiat delaware so they literally came from delaware they called us the orienta terrace nine four-story four bedroom homes master suites etc etc wow yeah the person got shot and killed right here next to this pole and i literally had missed it by by but minutes by two minutes i had missed it if i would have been two minutes sooner i would have probably been caught in the controversy all right so we're going to take a left right here through the 1900 block of 4th [Music] street if i go right we'll end up going into freeway's neighborhood philadelphia freeway his old stomping grounds now technically most of these philly artists that i'm you know tying them to a neighborhood they don't just stay to that neighborhood they're like me they usually travel all of philly but those are the neighborhoods that they're you know most known for you know the hangout spots and as you can pay attention to you'll see this neighborhood right now is getting gentrified so they're dropping new buildings left and right like little boxes they're dropping them everywhere we're on fifth and berks 1805th street 400 west berks this neighborhood is receiving a lot of gentrification a lot of new the light just turned green and the people behind me immediately beeped some people like that too they'll they'll go above and beyond to rush you yep he's about to fly by me even though it's a red light yeah i guess he's in a rush to go to the supermarket maybe there's a supermarket on my right hand side that supermarket has been several different things over the years now it's our cousins i think right still the cousins yeah it's still cousins but it's been like browns it's been like a whole bunch of other things they'll get new houses on my left i like that little pop-up shed that blue one on my left looks pretty neat building on my right that was abandoned for many years i adored that building that red building i adored it i would love a building like that i would genuinely love and live in a building just like that and they sold it i think they sold it last year it was for sale for a couple years but you know for a building like that they're hanging on one cheap probably a half a million or more even in the poor condition that it's in but just because of the size the square foot the land you're buying and then the zip code you know because when you get to the one that so what i showed you guys i showed you guys some of the one nine one three three and i think one on one three four depends i didn't pay attention but where we're at now we crossed over susquehanna and once you cross over susquehanna you're in though 1912 area code so the 19122 area code is a little bit more costly than the one nine one three three even though the one nine one three three it depends on what parts of 19133 you're at two because some one nine one three three home sell for a hundred and forty thousand hundred and eighty thousand two hundred thousand while some one nine one three three home sell for thirty thousand thirty five thousand forty five thousand fifty sixty thousand even as low as fifteen thousand depending on on what part of one on one three three you're in now when you cross over to one nine one two two the house is automatically jumped to two hundred thousand two hundred and fifty thousand three hundred and fifty thousand and so on and closer you get to gerard avenue then the houses end up going to be 400 500 000. and the closer you get to the heart of the city you're talking about seven eight hundred thousand a million dollars per home in the city if not more and you'll notice there's these modern houses dropped in every single slot on my left on my right on my left on my right i'm gonna you'll see i'm back to back brand new homes just dropped in and you can usually tell that they're brand new because of the stylization they don't usually follow the same zoning code i don't understand that because i know some neighborhoods are really strict on zoning and all these new houses they're not following any specific zoning code they are designing them however they want i've seen rusty homes like literally the whole stylization of the home is rusted you look at the front of the home it's metal it's been rained on and they allowed to get that rust look i've seen some funky looking brand new homes they be brand new but they're funky looking looking on my left they use like three materials for the front blue burgundy they use like some tan material then they make them look like so feng shui so weird so strange one of my cousins that passed away marshall this was his block and freeways you know from the neighborhoods marshall 6th street 7th street bergs etc etc and look it right in the middle of the block on my right hand side boom they dropped a brand new home again on the right-hand side look it boom they're working on a brand new home on the hand side boom there's two more brand new homes see them brand new and a lot of those residents come from i'm telling you not only delaware they come from jersey they come from florida they come from california they come from nevada they come from texas they come from louisiana north carolina south i've seen tags from all over america come here to live in philadelphia some people go why would you want to live there i would never move my family there um there must be a reason for everybody coming here because there's many many people moving here that black that we just passed we're on diamond street marshall and diamond that black that we just passed with all of those colorful houses they were made probably like 18 years ago maybe a little bit longer maybe a 99 or something i don't know but there's like affordable housing complex you usually have to like sign up be on a list to get those brand new houses but as time goes they tend to age and they don't age too well because they do a specific stylization that's based on the error that the house was made in and then fast forward you know 15 20 years passed by and the houses look really dated one of my favorite homes or some of my favorite style of home is a row home the brick work that that that style that just clean plain rojo brick or you can use the colorful bricks i've seen people use like on my left hand side boom this is a good example they use like more burgundy bricks like darker or like green burgundy it's like different shades of black bricks as long as it's a brick pointed style and it's clean brick i usually like it all right guys so we're on fifth and diamond street this is going to conclude today's tour if you guys enjoy this type of stuff comment below let me know if you enjoy it you guys will let me know you enjoy it by hitting that thumbs up button and by blowing up my comment section if you genuinely genuinely really enjoyed it feel free to share this video with one friend share 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Length: 65min 56sec (3956 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 09 2020