Inside New York City's MOST DANGEROUS HOOD - South Bronx 🇺🇸

exactly where's that i don't think you wouldn't want to walk like that on that side of the area there's benji yes everybody knows benji not really a good scene back there everywhere you go you got a bridge at the end of the day all right salute to you a thousand times this is your home okay it's been really bad yeah just be careful man so we got a pork taco [Music] you see my here [Music] hello from new york city this is such a massive place with so many different types of neighborhoods and today we're going to go into the most dangerous neighborhood of the city the south bronx [Music] [Music] really really really really 149th and third don't know the name of this hood at south bronx we're gonna go from here down to mott haven so we're gonna cruise around walk around this neighborhood check out what's going on and then mott haven should be interesting wait where you from dude i was born in vermont i lived in ukraine the last four years california my adult life i just came back to the states wow yeah you just i just came back what's going on there's nothing nothing there's one word worse than a year ago yeah well not that bad you always be aware look around yeah the summertime in the summer time on this block is at least like two three fights a day how about the white guy okay yeah you see no problem okay cool but walking around like that yeah i don't know thanks brother i don't think you wouldn't want to walk like that on that side bit edgier than i thought it would be to be honest got some fruit going on here cookies department store of course at mcdonald's you know what right now in new york no music in the city at least that's what i've been told so far in manhattan nothing no street performances and that's what that's what makes the city so amazing is all that live music and energy i'll tell you what i feel a lot of energy right now definitely a different environment than i've ever ever been in oh beautiful church there what church is that bro you know little reggae that's nice nice vibe cuts the edge where's the good food brother see what lola's is that yeah go to two blocks there you're gonna see a nice big restaurant two blocks down one forty two they're not the lola's gonna 148 you're gonna see a nice restaurant what's it called i've got neighborhood restaurant but it's nice it's nice what's your name peter george all right george what's up so uh let's go see what the restaurant scene is like here [Music] home cooked chicken what's the name of this place fresh kitchen that's what i got out of that uh okay full transparency guys the neighborhood is uh pretty intense out there oh there we go it's good chicken neighborhood's pretty intense i sort of have to fuel up and figure out my next steps this one guy warned me it's it's gone downhill quite a bit so uh the goal is meet some cool people learn about the [Music] neighborhood the bronx is very famous for a few things i'd say the number one thing would be hip-hop rap music and then also graffiti i don't know if it started here but it's uh it's very famous for its graffiti so new york right now beginning of october 2020 very interesting place just a kid very interesting place uh manhattan seems pretty quiet i mean there's still life but compared to what it's normally like super quiet crime across the city one of the stats i read said homicides are up 70 this year versus last year so there's there's a little more edge we have the pandemic we have protests a political election coming so there is a palpable tension but then it's also normal life at the same time all right what do you got in here [Music] do you have like 15 batteries or [Music] whatever [Music] here we go i just walked past quite an interesting drug scene over there uh 20 guys shooting on heroin you said heroin is the big thing here [Music] white black hispanic everyone was in on it just right off the street so he said the heroine is coming super strong no more no longer is it the uh crack but the heroin and i think there's a lot of it going on down there and you can't really put the camera on heroin addicts i mean you can i guess but they look really paranoid obviously because they think uh they're a police or something just past that drug scene is allstate insurance my wellness solutions safe med so i'm going east here on 149th and is turning more latin feeling the music the people and that's what new york is you just go through these streets and the ethnicities change a lot of times all right so i just went into this cell phone shop met this pakistani guy who's been here for three years in the bronx what were you saying bro ron the father of liar the bronx is the father of liari and liari is the um the hardcore neighborhood in karachi where there are actually a lot of rappers and a lot of boxers right a lot of boxers there i made a video there and they already loved it get my wife one yes get your white one get my wife one this is styling it's comfortable too everyone why don't you guys have one i wake up you got to represent the bronx exactly where's that's what i'm doing yeah yeah yeah yeah you got time for today i hear you what's going on with the corona here right now um what's going on is it going up or going down well not here going down going up going up brooklyn's growing up because they didn't pay attention the first time they don't pay attention all right well you know the duke got their own doors so they're not wearing masks they still ain't weird and they've got one city they got one town in brooklyn and there was something with the middlesex or something yeah that [ __ ] is 37 percent now [Music] oh okay [Applause] do you need an appointment or no um just come in with the id okay now heading south to mott haven i believe it's 138th and that's another busy street the bronx is a large area it's uh what is it 42 square miles so this is the south bronx they're all different parts of the bronx they're really nice expensive neighborhoods there are more concentrated neighborhoods like this a little bit of everything the population in the bronx overall is 1.4 million people if it was its own city i forget what it would be but it's uh it's got the third highest population density in the states i think would be like the eighth biggest city in america you see the bars on the windows obviously showing it's not the safest neighborhood but it's got some charm over here garden areas things seem to be a little bit better taken care of over here vines up the side of the building yeah they would barely abuse animals well done okay so they're the rescue dogs yes i have to be nine years okay they were barely abused they were beaten they were starving to death um and they cut his testicles off the guy who owned them and left them to dine a rooftop in brooklyn there's benji yes everybody knows benji and i and jesus [Applause] it just got nice like right around this area yeah under the bridge too she don't bite really she's like yeah she's a snapper he's like he's my wife they're husband and wife they've been together since they were babies oh she's upstairs i'm about to go get her now good good seeing you honey you too so you live you've lived in the neighborhood a long time no i'm only here 10 years ah people cool here everyone gets along i have no problem with nobody i'm the only white person in my group all the jews are building uh buying everything and building it up here yeah see this was all jews at one time it was before yeah yeah and then you know it had things go by you know time goes by yeah and then when i moved here 10 years ago it was still just this night i never had a problem with nobody i mind my business you know yeah i don't want to get involved with nobody [ __ ] i don't know nobody's [ __ ] and oh what's he selling always somebody's always telling something i saw a bunch of guys shooting up heroin up there yeah they do that down here is nicer yeah they they they shoot up and in my building chill they'll be in the elevator smoking crack i don't understand that how you open the elevator doing this smoking crack in there they should get their ass kicked down the throat you'll slam it down their throat yeah because the stem or the glass whatever they call the pipe because like i said there's children in the building how are you going to do that you live here why don't you do it in your house that's your [ __ ] do it in your house don't do it in the elevator where people got to see you yeah yeah they're so cute okay and then two down and then the other guy is spanish the puerto rican man owns three of them he owns three of them because back in the days they paid thirty five thousand dollars for now they're worth over a million dollars seriously each one of these over a million yep yep they're beautiful take care bye-bye yeah it looks like we're near a police station must be over there that looks vacant up there look at that one where is it right there yeah that's faking and these are the projects and she said these i don't know i was the first person i've talked about she said these some of these apartments can go up to like fifteen hundred dollars a pop but they get free free electricity what's up guys hey how's it how's the neighborhood lately uh where specifically the whole freaking like one 149 [ __ ] disaster this whole [ __ ] disaster yeah should i i was recording should i shut this up no absolutely not okay it's been really bad this whole pre precinct is a [ __ ] show yeah just be careful man you moving in are you living here no i'm just walking through yeah it's it's a lot it's super high in crime lately man it's been like that since what probably around the corona when they started it got really bad moving you know just what about down here 138th nothing worse than it's been right my haven it's better there than over there right 149. well one four are you talking about the hub area yeah where the metro comes out yeah the subway comes out yeah the k2 and a lot of drug activity yeah they they were there was like 20 guys just sitting shooting up on the sidewalks that's all the way up 149 i mean i don't know how far you walked on your recording if you yeah yeah i walked up there and all the way down yeah it's kind of live here no if you look you've talked with the drugs and you know that yeah the dope head and k2 it's all the way up 149 it looks like it feels like it's been getting worse around the globe yeah you know guys i've been out of the country four years i just got a month ago i did quarantine all that [ __ ] but um thank you it's weird yeah you're you're retreating they go to uh you could do that yeah but that's that's hardcore yeah i would just stick over here stick over here and back up and down 149 if you want or maybe walk through like patterson all right so hey it actually looks nice though it's a good looking area yeah it does it's a lot nice too until you touch it there's a lot of small pockets all right guys thank you you're you're italian though originally right you look like my father yes a little bit of a different vibe more space on the sidewalks not as many people still lively this is the traffic that doesn't seem to be happening in manhattan right now quite a vibrant neighborhood old woman buying ice cream a little history for you so the bronx is named after jonas bronx he uh he was part of the new netherlands colony swedish explorer bought the land from the native americans they tried to grow things they didn't grow so well that's how it started off then it was uh it was irish americans it was german americans it was italian americans then around the 40s a lot of caribbean nations came a lot of puerto ricans came in and shortly after a lot of african americans came into these neighborhoods so the face has changed dramatically in quite a short amount of time and they got great mexican food i always find the food scenes quite awkward eating in front of a camera people seem to love it so we got a pork taco here tomato cilantro lettuce very nice very nice that's about as good as i am with food shots i don't know what to do say it's good have you ever seen a food show where they say the food is terrible [Music] six dollars for a drink and a monster taco this place is epic which is gracious what's the name of your restaurant santa clarita restaurant santa clarita restaurant okay very good mexican food thank you yeah that place rocks where'd my man go he took off went he was like he went inside okay i didn't have the power button on when he was talking to me oh well what are you reading um cool do you like raven do you like ray bradbury yeah he's good huh yeah i'm science fiction in holland that's what i read you're living in a different world yeah yeah escapism yes take care guys all right bye-bye all right sometimes that happens guys we're i don't hit the record button right but anyways really cool guy telling some facts about the neighborhood this is a landmark neighborhood with these brownstones so you have really interesting architecture cool doorways ornate windowsills some nice color in here this one needs to be redone obviously but look at the top there that's stunning you guys did this all yourself yes that's cool you take halloween seriously all the way chris we do that every time for the kids do you have trick or treaters here um beautiful yeah cool i like your style thank you take care god a lot of cool people there was another guy back there uh he was with his girlfriend and another guy and they were super cool and awesome they gave me their number to take me to uh where grand master flash grew up and also the the origin of hip hop but they didn't want to be on camera but i'm getting a lot of good good vibes i mean there is a heaviness at south bronx but everyone i've talked to has been pretty cool so far hello how are you doing like that don't be shy okay watch this what is the purpose of the reason i love the camera why are you here the message grandmaster flash i love you for the whole purpose of keeping the culture love i love you for the spirit from within self and then also to how do you say getting it expressed through other individuals which is another blessing so when i say express you're going over to other people and you're talking about that topic that of an individual that was a legacy which is a blessing and you my friend are you from the south bronx right here right here talk to me about it it's so many different reflections it's it's all about the individual about what they want to bring and what is the offspring and then how they want to have mixture inside of it at the end of the day so it's all about the individual when he comes to the south bronx what his mind frame of thinking is he's channeling different energies and once they start channeling different energies now you're making bridge to all of those things that you came in contact with and then they're going to give off a relationship which is going to be a reflection and from that reflection we built there's a lot of love in the south bronx you know i'm not going to just say the south bronx to put myself in one category okay i'm going to say all burgers at the end of the day because my greatest thing was i just came back from massachusetts and i would have never thought the love would be so overwhelming out there the way it was it was outstanding and i'm coming from the bronx coming from the bronx going away after massachusetts and receiving the love that i received hands down ten times what you put out you get back well i told you it's the reflection of the individual at the end of the day what are you selling here we got from movies to um oils to perfumes to headphones chargers phone cases ladies anything you guys like you're more than welcome anytime you got lovely what's your name brother my name is sean they call me black the movie god bless the movie god y'all got love when you come out here okay love you for that partner and keep doing that um go pro homework and keep not just experiencing but keep contacting with so many individuals so everywhere you go you got a bridge at the end of the day all right salute to you a thousand times this is your home you got love when you come through okay i'll see you when you pass again let me know what's going on from there all right have a good day stop by here again remember [Music] [Music] and then you get that in the south bronx kelly's fashion optical another mexican place and there's that psycho dude [ __ ] he's following me all right let's get into this see you're making this for the family no sir looks good [Music] bye bye that's where i that's go they just got a set up there outside on the sidewalk a grill going she had all the condiments it looked like she was actually selling it wow look at this bike that looks like something i have no idea what that is suzuki all modified out so you see in the bronx a lot of beautiful detail like this a lot of history right another one let's check this one out across the street yeah a lot of little cool detail i mean it's gritty it's not let's not play pretend it's pretty but then it's got this stuff oh that looks similar how's this pizza man it's really good [Music] how's this pizza man it's good pizza yeah [Music] the best in new york my opinion yeah good [ __ ] box all right i'm in i got it what's the name of this place golden pizza golden pizza right on rocks what do you got to say about the south frogs uh it's quite a diverse loud place but there's good people here yeah try the pizza okay you like it is this guy over here next to the car regular everybody the regular here people hang out here all the time solid messy and good that's awesome [Music] golden pizza 138th street and brook ave highly recommend going here if you're in new york cool guy that owns it too [Music] this guy is rocking the fashion what's your name good job juju dude you need to give me some tips bro i'm trying you know what i'm saying i just i just uh try to try to combine my colors real well that's it [Music] that about wraps it up in the south bronx but i want to leave you with a few of the lessons i learned a lot of drugs a lot of crime there's some edge but i also want to mention that there's a lot of beauty here there's a lot of human connection there are a lot of smiles a lot of people went out of their way to help talk on camera and yeah it's in this extreme place for sure but it's got something really cool in it and the food is excellent also if you want to support this channel you can go to my patreon page i'll have a link around here i have different offerings you can dm me and i will answer you you can get the behind-the-scenes footage you can make suggestions for future videos or you can just support the channel whatever you'd like to do but that is helping me make this content so thanks for coming along until the next one from the south bronx you

Channel: Peter Santenello

Views: 3,681,255

Rating: 4.6367931 out of 5

Keywords: New york city, south bronx, bronx, dangerous new york, new york, mott haven, is new york city dangerous, the bronx, the hood life, peter santenello

Id: R_rgKg8Cwco

Length: 28min 2sec (1682 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 14 2020