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1ne You're just the same forgotten thing So look out I'm knock…
Caesar palace You're just the same forgotten thing So look out I'm knockin…
One I'm not gonna ruin it tonight, I don't wanna spoil…

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@dang5297

2y↑201

Love old reports like these !

@Animalfarm6cats

There's one that is 1:30 minutes on Son Of Sam hitting Bensonhurt.

@frankzito1660

1y↑46

Born and raised in Bensonhurst. 15th and 64th. Loved it in the late 60s and 70s. Beautiful.

@tpfmike1976

Same here.. horrible now..

@runkapbandit2659

2y↑64

back when criminals and murderers took pride in their work by not hitting innocent civilians

@reillymoore3257

2y↑12

Yes, the intended target
was the only target 🎯

@AngelLuisEspada1970

2y↑5

@@reillymoore3257 😗🚬

@qolspony

2y↑6

So not true. Many robberies and murders happened to feed a drug habit. At the time it was crack and cocaine which was affordable compare to competing drugs.

@laughalotitsgoodforyourbod7627

2y↑3

Yesss, also women and children were off limits!!!

@mrvk39

2y↑9

this was NEVER EVER true!

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@nullnull403forbidden

2y↑88

Proud to say born & raised in Brooklyn, Bensonhurst.

@poodledog8479

2y↑2

Me too. I love ❤️ my neighborhood that's why everyone wants to live here.

@u.s.m.c.fewproudthemarines2987

2y↑2

@@poodledog8479 u still there friend

@jashanestone

2y↑4

You sound like these modern times..
Where today's gangs gives certain groups ppl a "bad name"..
Love my hood..!! 😉

@Heart2HeartBooks

2y↑7

Disgraced to say I was born in Brooklyn It is a $#Ithole now! Would never go back . 50% want to leave in a new poll.

@hamzamahmood9565

2y↑2

YOOO just moved to Bensonhurst its lovely 😍

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@AngelLuisEspada1970

2y↑39

Should have a channel pertaining towards news archives as these 😀 as in the 50's through the late 90's.

@lovely0482

2y↑1

Go ahead make it happen 😁👍🏼

@42luke93

1y↑30

I wish this were an hour long!

@arsalan8746

2y↑18

Crazy median income to live their was 18000 dollars now u need more then 80k

@Eazye166

2y↑27

Even at that time… the crime now is out of hand!!!!

@qolspony

2y↑16

The crime was worse in the 80s and 90s due to the crack epidemic. And a lot of people where dying from AIDS and Narcotics. Believe me, it wasn't a good time. But it was more affordable for most people though.

@edgethawavestar2855

Bensonhuest was getting close to 30 murders a year back in the 80s. Those Italian gangs were warring with eachother as well as other minorities who came into there neighborhood trying to bag there women

@user-xb4fm5rx8h

@@qolspony Violent crimes all around are worse today, the crime rate was at its worse in the late ‘80s, and early ‘90s in NY thou.

@cookievoid

1y↑15

It has changed so much for 40 yrs and is still changing now, thats amazing

@billy1673

2y↑76

It was only dangerous for the mob guys who were skimmin off the top.
Otherwise, it was the safest place on earth!

@ramencurry6672

2y↑5

I visited Bensonhurst over a week ago. It was good.

@dquinn8344

2y↑2

The amount of home and apartment burglaries and car break-ins in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst (all over Brooklyn) were INSANE in the late 80s...At least a couple of times a week I saw lowlifes carrying Sony Trinitrons down the street back then....

@billy1673

@@dquinn8344 and more than a couple times I saw some wise guys stompin the fuck outta some douchebag who made the mistake of stealing that trinitron.
There’s a reason people who didn’t have vowels at the end of their last name avoided that neighborhood.

@64Street

Actually, you are right. Imagine some idiot cutting the wrong person's car tire because of a "Climate Change Protest".

@christophg159

1y↑2

There was no crime in Bensonhurst in the late 80s there felt like pleasantville

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@derekblaustein6013

1y↑95

That's my old neighborhood! It doesn't take much to put two and two together and realize that the mob is part of the reason why the neighborhood was beautiful and safe! Not that I'm condoning the mafia or that I personally would want to be affiliated with that life, I'm simply saying that having a mafia-controlled neighborhood certainly had its advantages.

@scooby7511

1y↑9

Absolutely agree with you!!

@sostdm617

1y↑8

@@WeeWeeIII exactly

@christof8duece

1y↑26

This was a wild comment, I lived in Bensonhurst my whole life.

they tormented the neighborhood with fear and controlled police so if you didn’t feel safe from them, you were cooked.

@magamaga1827

agree. i grew up in whitestone, queens. was a great place. now it's all hispanic and chinese and getting worse by the day

@derekblaustein6013

1y↑7

@@WeeWeeIII I understand what you mean, but the vast majority of people living in those neighborhoods knew nothing about what was going on behind the scenes and in the business world. What they did know was that they could go out alone to pick up Chinese food at 11pm and not have to worry about being robbed, raped, beat up, shot, etc. In some other neighborhoods in Brooklyn, you could be risking your life even going out in broad daylight. So to most us, our old neighborhood was a safe and enjoyable place to live.

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@monix6000

2y↑70

New Yorkers used to not be afraid to take justice into their own hands

@erenjaegar2905

Got a bunch of liberal soy boys nowadays so it only makes sense

@newyorkcity76

2y↑15

It’s not justice it’s Sicilian mafia Hits in 80

@vladimirgonzalez103

2y↑6

Literally a mob

@Awesome_Aasim

2y↑17

Except no. This is gang-related activity. It is not citizens exercising their second amendment rights.

@tyycha1324

2y↑12

That wasn’t justice that was gang retaliation

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@Supersquishyawesomeness

2y↑49

At least the mob got who they were aiming for.

@jhowardsupporter

2y↑11

Yeah and it wasn't innocent civilians.

@radiofreealbemuth

2y↑16

Mob kept the thugsand gangsters out and enforced the streets better than cops

@scratchingtomakeit8647

2y↑1

@@radiofreealbemuth now its the other way around now eh.

@edgethawavestar2855

@@scratchingtomakeit8647 the mob was having dealers selling crack for them in the 80s. But true innocent victims rarely got caught in the crossfire.

@natemyers4946

2y↑11

Please, they killed innocent civilians as well, stop the cap.

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@ceasarandrepont5331

2y↑26

Bensonhurst looks nothing like this today! More Asians, Russians, Mexicans, Arabs, and very few Italians and Jewish people left.
I know I am from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY. and I live in Homecrest, Brooklyn, NY.

@ImmortalDraylo

2y↑5

Bay ridge is completely different now. Tons of middle easterns. They even changed one of the avenues to be completely in arabic or something. Really weird how fast things can change. All the kids coming out of school being arab or latino. Not saying its bad but its not what is was

@ceasarandrepont5331

2y↑1

@@ImmortalDraylo Yes, I was still living there when 5th Ave in Bay Ridge started to change and 3rd Ave as well.

@willc5723

2y↑8

Italians moved to Staten Island and New Jersey

@pokinapllu4781

2y↑4

Well, my family's Arab and we've been in bensonhurst since the 70s.

@qolspony

2y↑2

@@ImmortalDraylo wow. But you know. The west village was a black area before they eventually ended up on the upper westside and finally Harlem in the 1920s. Many of these buildings still exist today.

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@SpontaneityJD

2y↑16

12th avenue is bensonhurst? what lmao. I guess the news never heard of Dyker Heights.

@Frankieefootballmundial

Come during the holidays it’s nice

@SpontaneityJD

2y↑1

@@Frankieefootballmundial Or don’t come. There’s enough traffic here during Christmas

@jaybones821_YT

Yeah. When you see-it every ear its like. The 5/6 houses on 17 ave were beautiful So many lights. But every year my mother would drag me there. Im like maa! I seen it. Leave me alone im playing Atari 2600 ova heeeeere!!😂

@SpontaneityJD

@@jaybones821_YT 17th ave? I think you mean around 10th to 11th ave

@jaybones821_YT

@@SpontaneityJD no. I mean 17 the ave. There was a group of houses between 82st and 81 st. And they all got together and did the whole thing. your right also. They had the big bucks up there and the big animatronic and all that. And you can literally drive around for hours 👀 at all the pretty lights up in “Dyker Height’s”✌🏼

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@Abandoned_Brane

12w↑6

New York was something special. It was alive. Now not so much. Outside the museums, there's no reason to visit.

@Yasmine-ow7bd

6w↑1

Yup. If you aren’t seeing anything of the arts… museum or a play… leave.. The clubs suck now, food scene is still good.. though I may say restaurants lost their quality standards they once had. However, no place like New York…

@jayonez137

Gentrification took all the culture away.
It’s now filled with soulless hipsters who overpay in rent

@scooter39045

2y↑20

My dad bought 3 buildings in Bensonhurst in 1986 and then he sold them in 1989.

@reillymoore3257

2y↑4

My dad had a building in the Gowanus neighborhood, where in the 1970's & 1980's the crime was so bad that nobody would buy into it, and people would often say that you couldn't pay them to live there. Today, the rents have skyrocketed there and developers are buying and building nonstop - even around that rancid, green slimy Gowanus Canal.

@johndoubleu3996

2y↑2

@@reillymoore3257 Hell yeah I remember...I am 58 born in marine park and have been living in dyker heights since 95...

@johndoubleu3996

2y↑4

I bet he wishes he didn’t sell them when he did...Who knew..

@meluk6991

2y↑74

Gotta love the 80s. No fake news, that's for sure!

@sheldonhchambliss1385

2y↑2

I agree

@Simlife101

You clearly haven't seen CNN reporting on the War pretending there was a chemical attack.

News has and always will be fake.

@waynebarry2597

Probably the dumbest comment I’ve ever seen.

@st.thomasaquinas19

you really think fake news is a new phenomenon? you think fake news just was popularized post internet? you’re as susceptible to propaganda as a 1930’s bavarian. the only thing that’s changed is now the mainstream media aren’t the only ones running around with cameras, fact checkers, and and a platform- that’s why we are able to so easily call them out for their bs nowadays.

@grant8917

37w

What are some of the best sights and attractions In Brooklyn, I was there with my mother back in 2016 for the first time and I hope to go back someday again?

@64Street

2y↑58

A little Woodside, Queens story. About 50 years ago I invited my Irish friend Tommy down to our weekly Sunday dinner at my grandmother's house. With my six uncles and their Wives girlfriends and kids, etc., there were always about 25 people there. We had drinks upstairs on the plastic couch and ate in the basement starting at about 1:00PM. 1:00 PM...no exceptions. So Tommy, who grew up in and knows all about Queens is bringing his new girlfriend Elaine who lives in Glen Cove, New York. She is a newbie to the sights of Woodside, Queens, NY. As they are walking up to my grandmother's house, which is surrounded by factories and long lonely streets, Elaine points out to Tommy a guy sleeping in the front seat of a car. Elaine asks Tommis if he is going to my grandmother's house. Tommy looks in and says, "I don't think so". They finally walk downstairs and everyone says hello to Tommy. Tommy says that there is a dead guy with a bullet in his head staring at the roof of his car. Elain almost passes out. We all, 25 or so Martini drinkers, kids, dogs, and all go to take a look. Yep he is dead. Back in the house Grandma asks, "Tommy, you want some wine?" Tommy looks at Elaine, "So how is your day going?" "Hungry?"

@rickyparrilla2426

2y↑3

LMFAO. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. It's sounds insane but you do kinda get use to the craziness in your neighborhood. I was the same way. That was a great story!!! Thanks.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@64Street

2y↑14

@@rickyparrilla2426 Hey Ricky, one last note. My Late Uncle Tony was one of the three largest custom tailors in New York. His biggest customer was Paul Castellano. I used to get suits from my uncle when some of his clients prepaid but never showed up to pick up their $5000 suits. Go figure. In 1975 at 23 years of age I was the best-dressed clerk in the NBC Finance Department. One VP Exec saw me once and said to my boss, "Are we overpaying this guy?"

@michaelscottland4239

This is woodside now https://youtu.be/Ku2Ym7WgA3Y

@dquinn8344

2y↑5

I recall many mob murders in Brooklyn and I saw the aftermath of a few of them myself. I remember walking outside of a bar on east 2nd st and ave U as a 14yo in 1978 going to school one morning. Behind the yellow police crime scene tape in front there was a pile of brains on the ground....

@blakemcnamara9105

2y↑2

Wow pretty crazy. I grew up and still live in Woodside but I never heard of, nor seen any crazy things happen here.

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@jamesdavis6036

14w↑2

Born & raised 20th ave & 63 street.
We never locked the doors, ever!
Growing up was heaven on earth.

@Animalfarm6cats

2y↑63

It saddens me every time I go there. It's just not the same.

@wileecoyote5749

2y↑14

Democratic repercussions

@cjc2

2y↑19

It’s changed a lot. Many years ago the Jewish immigrants lived in private homes on Bay Parkway and Italian immigrants lived in small apartments. These days lots of immigrants from other places like China, Eastern Europe, Russia and Central America call the area home.

@PatricioGarcia1973

2y↑11

I go to work there every week for the last 16 years, it’s sad how year after year it has been changing. 18th ave, Bay Parkway and 86th street now is like a 2nd Chinatown, no more Italian bakeries, soccer clubs, feasts, etc. Now is 24 hour busy with trucks….

@jasminesuarez8358

2y↑18

I was the token black girl raised in Bensinhurst in the 80s and 90s. I had a great childhood living there.

@jasminesuarez8358

2y↑9

@@PatricioGarcia1973 I remember the bakery on 18th ave and 86th street.

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@jesusisking117

2y↑8

It's actually pretty much the same neighborhood today except the mob is gone or underground. The area is more mixed and there's lots of nice shopping

@64Street

2y↑3

Yeah, I think serious mobsters today are businessmen or owners of politicians. Paul Castellano types come to mind.

@LannieLord

30w↑1

It looks like Chinatown now.

@jamesdavis6036

14w↑1

This guy's smoking something. You have no idea

@luccariello

Disgusting anything that is mixed is disgusting

@ReuvenShopper

2y↑18

New Yorkers in 1980's look more real and human than New Yorkers in 2010's and 2020's .

There has to be some Science 🧪 , to explain this 🤔.

@lifestraight

2y↑3

Looked more human? Explain

@therandomwizard188

2y↑3

Social media

@KMFDM_Kid2000

2y↑2

@@therandomwizard188 found the Boomer

@skywishr1313

just 2020s
I dont see anything with 10s

@hereisayana8207

2y↑4

Because there were native NYers back then... that's who gave it the vibe and flavor, now its 90% transplants, so it won't be like before

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@el_Contra

11w↑3

lived in Bensonhurst for 12+ years, it was great to be able to walk anytime at night...

@ventureted

25w↑3

65% Italian American, 30% Jewish. Wild! How things have changed.

@pauliewalnuts5241

25w↑1

The great replacement

@ashanyc9146

24w↑1

@@pauliewalnuts5241 Italians and jews were immigrants too. i bet they Replaced other groups. Italian and Jews immigrants don't own this nation. no one own this nation.

@pauliewalnuts5241

18w

Changed as in been destroyed.

@PapeySapote

10w↑1

@@ashanyc9146I hope you keep that same thought process when white hipsters are moving into black neighborhoods.

@commiekillahjay2525

2y↑19

Ahhhh. The good oldays. I was born in Bensonhurst in 1980.

@Charlietales2022

PS 186

@gennaropupa5599

1y↑3

Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, yes, but there is the Mapleton section in between (Graves End ). Great place.

@davidbee7060

Lmao I grew up on ave u. Trust me it ain't nice

@tommywho7055

2y↑12

I graduated from New Utrecht High School in 1983. I never had any problems walking around 86th Street.

@dyl923gonz7

2y↑1

do you still live in bk? i graduated utrecht 1990

@knight_wolff

2y↑4

I’m mindblown you mention new Utrecht high school I just graduated there 4 years ago and still live around there pretty quiet in the nights around here very rare to see a crime near here

@tommywho7055

@@dyl923gonz7 Still do!

@tommywho7055

I still remember the good time I had in that school. When ever there was a food fight in the cafeteria, my friends and I would climbed up by the window and watched the fight from above! We were lucky to have a swimming pool in the basement! Hope you have some good memories too!

@Official_Kings_Versus

2y↑1

Lucky you 👍🏾💯💪🏾

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@theallnightr

2y↑28

Better than now. At least the people getting hurt back then we’re in the mob as opposed to now where it’s just punks hurting the elderly or random hardworking immigrant.

@johnmarshall4399

36w↑1

Polarized all italian flags no american flags

@Supervillainmc

1y↑4

Bath Av was no joke in the 70s-80s

@MarvinMonroe

1y↑21

Not a cellphone in sight! Just people living life to the fullest with absolutely zero worries or problems. Times were so much simpler back here I was born in the wrong decade

@user-or6yn8pm3c

45w

Too bad the average liberal idiot will look at statistics from those days and say it was worse.

@dquinn8344

2y↑8

I remember that late 80s mob war....Closed circuit cameras got big really quick.... Nice to see John and Cora Ann Mihalik here at the end. Sammy the Bull talks about these 80s Brooklyn murders on his YT show....

@Jimfromearthoo7

2y↑3

Great pizza ask John Travolta!😂

@thekeith-donovanexperience

2y↑27

What a time to be alive

@georgeplagianos6487

Time to be alive What A Time to die if you're up mobster

@MERCURYSUNSET

1y↑2

"Mob murders , not only do they mess up sidewalks " 😂😂What a great way to start a news story .

@raafeekhan1078

2y↑32

Now 95% Chinese xd

@newyorkcity76

2y↑6

Jews still there

@LOLWAAHH

11w↑1

And much safer lol

@raafeekhan1078

11w

@@LOLWAAHH fosho

@kartiersupremewhite330

2y↑33

Good old NYC the 80s! Gotta love it!!!!!!

@zacharythomason7359

2y↑3

Same here

@stylistxoxo5757

2y↑13

Love it in the early 90s and early 2000s, it was great back then, didn’t hardly know to much about the 80s, cuz I was just born lol

@megaotstoy

16w↑3

no poop on the streets, no junkie zombies wondering around, no homeless tents... looks much safer than most of the American cities nowadays

@tameriajones593

10w↑1

That's true cause they didn't allow it back then.

@musicalmelodies3595

26w↑4

"Gooood ethnic groups" big Staten Island vibes 😂🎉

@anettedesire8824

2y↑18

Good ol days

@ENNEN420

31w↑1

“Its just a few people that break the law, thats why theres a huge mob presence and litter everywhere”

@apap1586

30w↑1

At least the mob keep their conflict in house.. forty years later you have gangs just shooting anywhere even with children walking by.

@jaybones821_YT

1y↑5

I was born on 83 st between 16th and 17th ave. Remember Anne’s Candy store and maryanne’s Deli. In between the Butcher and Cb Shack!! I miss the old days. Nobody will ever understand how great it was growing up in that neighborhood at that time. The freedom. The safety. The murders 😂🤣.

@dumbassperze4767

2y↑9

Remember Lenny playing his guitar 🎸 86th and bay parkway

@jaybones821_YT

Yeah acting all retarded. when he’s done for the day, he walks away all normal. that guy was loaded. And he was a genius for picking that spot. He played an accordion. No? Or did he play both?

@biancas7624

2y↑4

12th ave isn't considered Bensonhurst anymore..it's Dyker Heights now.

@chrismaurina5260

2y↑5

Bensonhurst is now mostly Asian,I grew up in ozonepark queens now it’s all Indian crazy how a neighborhood can change in 30 yrs

@miltongreene1889

2y↑2

Nice report, Grimey.

@ThomasBMawn

2y↑4

Back when there was no potholes!

@AyayronBalakay

2y↑9

mind ya own bidness ya hear me?

@americasfavoritebrazilian2399

2y↑5

This was a Great time in New York. They didn't go after civilians

@Coodeville

24w↑2

It's all different now

@vaderthekittenchannel1979

2y↑7

I love the EIGHTIES!

@dumbassperze4767

2y↑5

Neighborhood changed so much

@lindal8179

2y↑2

For the worst

@qarbo08

11w

But visually, it’s still the same 😆

@d.lloydjenkinsjr

Lol 0:51 “so if you watch the news…” I fucking do

@blahblah8812

34w↑1

It literally same as now

@johnnydoubleu3656

2y↑16

Live right around the corner from those homes on 12th ave....Not 65% Italian anymore...

@Good_Luck11

2y↑1

and alot of chinese

@yekaterinaaverbukh8486

2y↑2

isn't 12th ave more like Dyker heights? It used to be very Italian too

@johndoubleu3996

2y↑1

@@yekaterinaaverbukh8486 Yes basically Dyker Heights

@ladyrachel13

10w↑1

No way in heck would I live in a place like that. 🙅🏻‍♀️

@ladyrachel13

5w↑1

@@doctorc499 a small village in Central Texas.

@ladyrachel13

5w↑1

@@doctorc499 you can be an honorary Texan. 🤠🐮🐎🏜️🌵

@poodledog8479

2y↑9

It's a great place to live.

@joeantinora8396

2y↑4

Was there for all of that news reports..was around when the hits happen..when Frankie's car got blown up..that was a sad day. Remember walking down the block with my friends when the car blown up..smh as kids we all used to go to Frankie's house swim in his pool..we had great times! It was the wild west..and it was a beautiful time for me atleast..if you mind your business you were fine. Bath beach Brooklyn..Bensonhurst..Bath Ave where I'm from! Now 52 I live in Staten island.

@shelleymitchell8834

12w

Grew up in trump village near coney Island later in life lived in shore haven in bensonhurst where I met some fantastic friends who I will never forget ❤️ ♥️ 😀 💙 bensonhurst people are the friendliest people in the world 🌎 💙 I miss the old days now that I relocated to west palm beach Florida ⛱️ I don't miss the snow but I miss the people Florida is nothing compared to bklyn the only good thing here is the weather and the ducks the people suck and the shopping is horrible I wish my old bklyn building didn't become sooo run down but when the landlord changed the place became rundown they were letting anyone in and the element was getting skeptical with alot of drugs no offense but the foreigners they let in for the most part where no working people they were excorts drug addicts and low level bums they ruined the bldg and got free rent they were the disgrace th the great neighborhood that I grew up in where I went to Lincoln high school and bklyn college I wish to God that it stayed the way it was I miss the good old days I will never forget the great bensonhurst we grew up in back then these kids will never experience fun like we had in the old days I am 61 now I still remember the old bklyn 😅😅😅😅😅

@AlvisWuSky

2y↑2

I just love the year's of 1980 i live in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn :)

@lennarthagen3638

2y↑1

Skimming of the top makes me think of milkshake

@marz1054

2y↑46

I was raised in NYC my whole life born in 88. My father had very weird work hours, always had a ton of cash & sometimes wouldn't come home for days. When i was young i asked my mom what did dad do for a job and she told me hes a supervisor for a company lol..i wasn't a dumb kid i knew he was doing something but i just didn't know what his exact occupation was. Till this day i believe he was either Batman or involved in organized crime lol

@oocollins

2y↑3

Lol could be .. both..

@reillymoore3257

2y↑6

That reminds me of Victoria Gotti telling the story of her childhood when she goes on to describe visiting her dad in Prison. Her mother would explain to the Gotti children that their father actually had a very important job - working at the Prison. 😂 While it may have worked for a while, little Victoria and her brother couldn't understand why dad never came home at night.

@Richard_John_Dick_Grayson

2y↑1

@Marz10 I can confirm, that he wasnt the Batman....

@laughalotitsgoodforyourbod7627

2y↑7

Selling drugs and women mommy definitely knew but didn’t care cause he was providing... taking out other providers.

@dquinn8344

Did your father ever have a "front" business?

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@junegoon6061

48w↑8

Grew up in Bensonhurst from early 70s, 2nd grade PS204, Dyker Heights Jr High, New Utrecht High. I wandered round Bensonhurst amongst crazy racial tension, constant riots unbothered because i literally grew up with them. Extremely popular with all races. If you didn't know me you wasn't nobody. Some Best time of my life. I got private school quality education. My Italian friends showed me so much love, Blacks as well. Im Black bused out from Black neighborhood early 70s. It was very Dangerous times for Blacks. I was respected by Bad Ass Italians, Blacks, Puerto Ricans. Respect to all my friends n Real Bensonhurst People.

@mgtowlevel5293

2y↑6

You cannot walk down the street and mind your own business anymore problems come to you.

@lifestraight

2y↑2

That's not true. You still can, but it doesnt guarantee no one will approach you.

@mgtowlevel5293

@@lifestraight you black. No problem for you. I'm white in USA. I learned in first grade that the world hates whitey.

@costambar3230

2y↑5

We love the good old days. Because we we're younger and stronger

@mrvk39

2y↑21

2:04 John's children now own most of Bensonhurst. It stopped being mostly Italian in early 1990s, after most left for the suburbs, and became mostly Russian in the 1990s-2000s, and now, after most Russians left for better areas, it is mostly Chinese and Latino.

@professional.commentator

2y↑1

I heard there's also a lot of Central Asians like Uzbeks that live there now. They're basically like Russian-speaking Muslims and most of them looking Asian.

@mrvk39

2y↑2

@@professional.commentator could be! When I was living in Brooklyn, most former USSR groups from Central Asia lived in Forrest Hills, Queens. But, I wouldn't be surprised if some now, moved to Bensonhurst.

@lifestraight

2y↑3

As recent as 2010-2012 Bensonhurst still had a very significant Jewish and Italian population.

@mrvk39

2y↑4

@@lifestraight I am sure it exists, but what is "significant"? It used to be predominantly Italian (70% or more) and now it is what? 30% maybe?

@dquinn8344

2y↑3

I remember Robin Quivers reporting on Howards Stern's show in 1995 that Italians were no longer the single biggest ethnic group in NYC . For the first time Puerto Ricans were the biggest single ethnic group. In the 1960s in Coney Island we had a foreign Mexican mailman (Bert) for a decade but Mexicans were far and few between in Brooklyn and in about 1991 I noticed a sudden EXPLOSION of foreign Mexicans in Brooklyn moving mostly to PR neighborhoods like Sunset Park...

@VinylToVideo

Bensonhurst was probably the safest area in New York in the old days of the mob. They kept the place free of others doing crime.

@michaelmereday6791

29w

Years ago early 80s I was caught drinking and driving we did that in the 80$getting pulled over was never a thought to worry about lol I fell asleep at a light in Flatbush cops handcuffed me put me in car took my brrt I had in front seat lol and drove with me handcuffed in back while drank my beer and laughed they dropped me off near bath ave near a bar I was drunk a little some guys were outside and saw what was going on loll they helped me to train and put me on it wild night Brooklyn it was a cool time

@Brooklynapoli

36w↑2

Go now! 🤢🤢🤢

@brooklyn5466

2y↑3

All the Italians have moved out to live in Staten Island.

@dquinn8344

2y↑1

AND they have been running out of Staten Island for 30 years.....

@brooklyn5466

2y↑1

@@dquinn8344 Where are they going?

@BotanicalJourney

No. They mostly died. Italian immigrants who came over in the 60s/70s/80s made this neighborhood Italian and they have been dying off. And their children and grandchildren move elsewhere for work, better schools, better homes, etc. Same as every ethnic group in the city. There is not a single neighborhood today that is the same as 1987. And you would be very hard-pressed to find someone whose family has lived in a given neighborhood for more than 2-3 generations.

@peterpaul231

52w↑2

Funny. We lived in one of those "middle class" 2 family attached homes. Today it cost over 1 million dollars. So much for the middle class.

@jamesbianco5655

My Grandparents lived on W 7th & 86th St. Just around the corner from L&B’s!

@targettwentyone

Wow that’s like 40 years ago 😮

@TheWavy87

36w↑2

People pretend that bensonhurst was a good neighborhood. People got killed all the time. Lmao

@willc5723

2y↑1

So that’s where Matt groening got the name frank grimes from for the simpsons

@iuliannicola5715

2y↑4

The good old days!!

@jayjay-xx4zf

2y↑4

all this time I thought Bensonhurst was in queens not Brooklyn 😩😩

@chapter1762

Elmhurst is in queens

@azul8811

@@chapter1762 It must have been the “hurst” part that threw him off…

@phoreignoutcast1361

2y↑18

Bensonhurst is way diverse now and the neighborhood changed a lot

@baYs6726

Used to be racist as fuck

@raygreen5926

2y↑8

Is this where the famous overheard railway is as in the French Connection film ? Greetings from Ireland ☘☘☘

@phoreignoutcast1361

2y↑2

@@raygreen5926 tbh I don’t really know but shout out to Ireland from nyc 🗽🌎‼️

@reillymoore3257

2y↑4

@@raygreen5926 Yes, actor Gene Hackman drove his 1971 Pontiac LeMans in the famous chase scene under the el. Parts of 86th Street and down New Utrecht Avenue were also some locations. 🎬

@raygreen5926

2y↑4

@@reillymoore3257 Thanks for the information. Ray-Dublin town ☘☘☘

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@anthonygallo3576

..... Its a nice neighborhood, ive lived here 63 years . I walk around and mind my business. What a genius!!!!

@altonbrice1632

2y↑5

Well they have to bring back some of that justice start in the Bronx lol.

@Real_Mob_LCN_On_Location

2y↑5

Grew up there since 1979, I'm 53 y/o Still the best neighborhood. And still home to gangsters.

@andrew_trucker

After the Chinese guy spoke the news lady was like WTF

@selfishstockton6123

24w

Who’s the blonde smoke show at the end?

@SamDustin0077

2y↑5

How come all the italians left the neighborhood?

@phoreignoutcast1361

2y↑3

My dad used to work in construction with them he said most of them sold they houses/property and most left to New Jersey and Staten Island that is why they are barely out here in Bensonhurst their still is Italian restaurants and cafes/bakeries etc but not as much as how it was in the 80s plus the mob is not out here anymore like in the 80s they almost extinct lmao

@willc5723

2y↑2

When Staten Island got rid of the dump they all left Brooklyn for cheaper houses

@dquinn8344

2y↑2

@@willc5723 There has been massive White migration out of Brooklyn for 60+ years. Jamaica Queens, Bed Stuy, Bushwick and Crown Heights (and many others) were mostly White until 1960-1970....

@adm712

2y↑3

The Italians left the neighborhood because the Chinese offered them a shit ton of money for their homes.

@BotanicalJourney

1y↑2

They died. Most Italians now live in a neighborhood called Greenwood Cemetery. You can find the whole neighborhoods in the community mausoleums there. It was all the Italian IMMIGRANTS who came to the US in the 1960s/70s/80s who made Bensonhurst Italian. Back when this was filmed virtually every store on 18th Avenue from 60th Street to 86th Street was owned by an Italian immigrant. Italian was spoken everywhere. Cafes, pork stores, fresh pasta, fish markets, vegetable markets, jewelers, tailors, import stores, music shops, and tons of other businesses that they owned and that catered to them. Now those people have died off and there is no more immigration from Italy, so the neighborhood changed. This happened in every Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn, such as Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg, Dyker Heights, etc. They all changed because the off-the-boat Italians are dying off and the American born ones move to other areas, as they always have. And this is true for every ethnic group in the city: when immigration ends, the ethnic neighborhood ends. I'm old enough to remember Norwegian neighborhoods, Puerto Rican neighborhoods, Irish neighborhoods, Syrian neighborhoods, etc. All gone now. You would be very hard-pressed to find a New Yorker who has been in his neighborhood for more than 2 generations.

@Niko-cw6kq

2y↑6

Crazy to look at this when you live in bensonhurst now lol you wouldn’t ever think there was mob members and shit around here that’s crazy

@newyork4311

2y↑4

I grew up in Bensonhurst in the 90s. By the time I left in 2001, pretty much a different neighborhood.

@Evdath

30w

Did they do these " hard working good people living here "puff pieces for other neighborhoods that got a bad rap back then? Would be nice if they got the same fair treatment.

@jeepcam2692

2y↑5

The mafia town

@NickTheStallion

2y↑1

Where's Spike? 😂

@chunhchan

2y↑6

Didnt Frank Grimes work in Springfield

@NevaSellmySoul

2y↑1

Lol

@georgedorame909

❤️ Brooklyn shouts Woolf Leo and Lil Zach saved my life

@allinonethegreat

2y↑4

So Frank Grimes reporter from The Simpsons came from here lol

@gcboy16

2y↑23

White communities was just as ruthless

@dang5297

2y↑9

Bensonhurst during the 80s was like white Harlem

@l.n963

@@dang5297 poor community= more crime, skin color or ethnicity has nothing to do with it

@dang5297

2y↑5

@@l.n963 Bensonhurst was never a poor community

@dang5297

2y↑10

@A Fera absolutely agree. The mafia didnt kill anyone that wasnt in the game. Matter of fact they actually made some of the neighborhoods safer with their presence

@MyKeeP81

2y↑2

@@dang5297 yeah but they were trashy as trashy gets

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@johnmcdonald789

2y↑1

Grew up there it def isnt the same from when I was a kid

@commander-bw6yd

2y↑1

Carmine and frank did not pay there tab at the Chinese restaurant

@ginolorenzo9851

2y↑2

today all of those Italians disappeared
and the Asians and Muslims live In all of those neighborhoods now

@margiesbeauty

2y↑2

There are still some Italians who still over here but you don’t see them like back then.

@timothyleavy7246

1y↑1

That was the 80's... Getting your ass kicked, outnumbered, in Brooklyn. 😅😅😅. Been there. 😊😊😊.

@Ishbu101

Wait...the reports name is Frank Grimes LOL! That's a character from the Simpsons.

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