Brownsville section of Brooklyn in 1971

[Jesus Is Lord]

it'd be nice to see a 2017 version.....

Looks waaaaaaaay better sans the projects . A lot of private houses were built in those vacant lots where the abandoned buildings were. white people are slowly moving there

 

[UpAndComing]

Brooklyn we go hard. Rep for life. What what

 

[jackson35]

cac is always ready to show the world the worse part of the hood, but refuse to show area that we lived in that don't look like this

 

[CinnaSlim]

When we're these buildings built and how did the destruction occur?

People were burniing down buildings for the insurance money.

 

[jaguar paw]

Looks like modern day Detroit and the east side hoods of Cleveland.

 

[Critical Distance]

 

[Arithmetic]

Hard to say.

In a lot of cases you had arsonists in the city...sometimes a$$hole tenants would start fires.
But it was well known that in a lot of parts of the city -- the South Bronx especially -- lots of building owners had fires set to their own buildings to collect the insurance.

I'm not sure about the Ville, but the south Bronx it was arson. Building Owners were tourching their buildings for the check. It's went on for well over a decade. I suspect some of that ocuurred in Brownsville

People were burniing down buildings for the insurance money.

That's wild. I'm sure a lot of people got displaced, but to where? Do you know when did the rebuilding began?

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

Looks like modern day Detroit and the east side hoods of Cleveland.

My first impression was " that look like east cleveland today" lol

 

[Banned Account12]

Looks terrible

 

[blackzeus]

 

[blackzeus]

Basically what I'm saying, I think a big reason why NYC was so dangerous back then, was it was basically a bunch of grimey, tough down south nikkas, put together on a small, densely populated island living on top of each other, forced to survive.

My dude shut the f*ck up, Willie D said it best your hood ain't no harder than mine.

 

[blackzeus]

South Bronx in the 70s is the craziest shyt I ever seen

shyt looked like Syria after all the bombings.

The craziest thing is that you know somebody was charging rent in that b*tch. Probably had to go in there with automatics to collect

 

[Londilon]

But for some reason we have to justify taking in other countries poor and giving them the highlife while our own citizens can't even get out of the ghetto.