North Side St. Louis Hoods: St. Louis, Missouri 4K.

For a few years, St. Louis, Missouri was labeled the murder capital of the United States. "The Gateway to the West" has consistently been ranked through the years as one of the top three most dangerous cities in the U.S. St. Louis leads the major U.S. cities in murder rates, while East St. Louis leads all U.S. cities regardless of size in murder rates. Most of the crime in St. Louis, Missouri occurs on the north side, and this video shows you some parts of the north side.

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[saxybandgeek]

All the beautiful houses in north city that are left to deteriorate make me so sad

[zombiegirlfanter]

Its sooo crazy to see you drive down the streets I've been on a million times. Born &raised in this city. But yes, it makes me sad how the crime rate has gone up.

[AllThingsMstonita]

Born and raised so I pretty much know what areas to be on alert. I still love my city but I do pray that the violence will stop.

[joejonas]

I have a buddy named Clark from Chicago. He took his family on a trip to California, they of course had to drive through St. Louis along their trip. Poor guy ended up taking the wrong exit and ended up in these neighborhoods. He thankfully made it out okay, but he did unfortunately get his hub caps stolen when he was asking for directions to get back to the expressway.

[TropicTrdr]

Great video! I left STL in November of 2021 to help my aging parents in Florida but owned a big truck and ran it out of there for 4 years. The next time you're up there, take a look at Old North St Louis, a hotbed of preservation and home of the famous Crown Candy Kitchen, a deli that has been in business for over 100 years. The menu is great and the neighborhood has a lot of independent thinkers trying to make it right.

[amyshew]

I headed north and to see the old water tower and stopped for a coke and a lady kindly told me - you best watch out or you’ll get shot “ - apt advice .

[fedge]

And you all wonder why everyone moves way out in the county... Keep voting blue city dwellers, it's done you a lot of good.

[tylerbhumphries]

Thank you for making this video and thank you for actually talking about what led to the neighborhoods getting as bad as they got. I would just like to say it wasn’t that long ago and we all know plenty of people who participated in the racist practices you spoke of. I own a house just outside of the West End that was built in 1899. My grandparents were the first Black people to ever live in the home because up until 1962, no one Black was allowed to buy it. When doing research on my property because I want to keep a historic record of who has lived in the house, I found a newspaper from 1962 that explicitly stated “the house was now open Negroes” the asking price was also higher than it had been a few months before they’d decided to open the sell of the house to everyone. My dad was born in 1960 and he said by the time he was in school (1967) there were no more White people in his neighborhood. They’d all sold their homes to incoming Black people and left for the county and then his street and many others were redlined, which is what you were talking about but just to state it plainly: banks denied service to people who had addresses in those areas. So, again, thank you for stating facts and thanks for making the video but people way back in the day may have made some messed up laws but it was our parents and grandparents that kept them going.

[Tia]

You didn't hit the hoods on the northside that have all the violence.

[bennorthcutt]

North St Louis is such a warzone the French goverrnment tells French people visiting U.S. to AVOID the area. Let that sink in.

[benabroad]

I’m from the STL area and North St. Louis is a literal no-go zone

[rodgerbane]

I worked as a community organizer in St. Louis 92-93. You had to know where it was safe to go and where NOT to go. Particuarly "hot" were areas of dispute between rival gangs. Rates for kids suffering from lead poisoning were higher in St. Louis than almost anywhere else in the country.

[lowellfultz]

I guess I understand the speeding up of the video, but it gives me a little vertigo.

Lived in STL for 10 years (2008-2018). I am prior military, so lived in many different parts of the country and the world. STL was by far my favorite. I only left due to a personal situation that required it. The only time I ever felt uneasy in STL was after night ball games after they banned CCW in the stadium. At the time I moved away, there had been 2 people killed going from the stadium to their cars. So the Metro was our preferred method of getting to and from the games. STL is a great city in which to live. It's a shame that a small area can give a whole city a bad rep like this.

[verycherry]

I’m from the Northside.Moved to ATL.Will always be a STL girl.The city has a bad rep but some good people there.I miss my hometown

[billcorley]

Lived in STL for 75 years. Some of those neighborhoods I wouldn't want to fly over, however I only had one armed robbery 60 years ago being in a place I was told not to go into by my Father. Forest Park by the Boat House, usually relatively safe.

[marcopervo]

Stayed on the North Side over 4th of July weekend thanks to online hotel reservations and am not surprised about the violent crime. We found Downtown STL to be sketchy as well, even by Memphis/NOLA standards.

[joserobinson]

U can make it any where in life it’s all about what you want to do with yourself environment it’s about choices great video 🥇👍📺🪢

[DeltaLou]

Lived in downtown 8 years, and moved after a single mom was violently car jacked and killed in cold blood right on Wash Ave. They then torched the lady's vehicle down the road. That right there was enough to send me to the burbs. Still haunts me 5 years later!

[snowbird]

I grew up in St Louis got out as soon as I could. I wouldn't move back if someone gave me a house.
There are a lot of really bad places you definitely need to stay out of. No matter what race you are, you not safe. You didn't go to some of those places.
My parents are buried in St Louis and I am afraid to go to the cemetery

[flipnotrab]

People don’t understand the geographical size of “THE CITY” of St. Louis is pretty small. Regardless, the small NORTH CITY section is amazingly screwed up. So screwed up they blew a multi-billion dollar deal on the “NorthSide Regeneration Project”. Houses falling in on themselves that haven’t had taxes paid in years “should” have just been given to this project to kickstart it after years of buying properties. When people found out what was going on, they started making RIDICULOUS requests for money on “their homes”.. The group had been buying property left and right for $1000-$5000 beforehand. Then people who just had a name attached to a burned up, caved in house wanted $100k-$250k for it. Not viable to rebuild a community at those prices no matter how you slice it. EVERYONE lost because of greed.