I was born on the lower east side in 1940. We lived in a small apartment building on Lewis St. corner Stanton (which was torn down decades ago.) I went to PS 188 on Houston St. til the 4th grade - when we moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I remember the Essex St. Market. My mother grew up on Rivington St. and she went to the Henry Street Settlement - and Seward High School. Miss those Knishes and Bialys. All the years, when I mentioned New York, I'd say that I grew up on the LES ---- it wasn't until I started watching those TV programs where they showed properties on the UES. I never realized that I grew up poor --- but most of the people from our area were the same. NYC was great in the olden days - I don't remember any crime - the neighbors were always friendly. I'm sure the rent was around $25/month - for a 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. In 1949, my parents bought the first TV in the building. On Tuesday nights, at 9PM, my mother would line up a few chairs in the kitchen and the neighbors would come over to watch Milton Berle. We didn't have a living/family room. In 1946, our superintendent, Mr. Aranda, made me a party for my 6th birthday - the children and a few parents who lived in the building attended. I have a large picture of the neighbors - taken in my kitchen. It's one of my best memories!!! Thanks for the walking tour. I recognized all the street names.
FINALLY. MY. NEIGHBORHOOD! I’ve been waiting for this one! My Greek Jewish family emigrated to the US in the 1920s and settled in the LES. (The owners of Economy Candy are my distant cousins!) Most left in the 80s but I moved back here earlier this year. I’ve always wanted to know more about the history but a lot of my family that lived here earlier in the century are gone. Though my mom loves to remind me how she didn’t have her own bed in her tenement apartment growing up and had to sleep in my grandpa’s bed when he went to work, driving the F train at night! I love learning about the city my family experienced and the history I walk by every day.
Hello there Tom!! I am a Puerto Rican who was born and raised in Manhattan on West 89th street Near Columbus... My parents met and married in NYC in the 1950’s. They Decided to return to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 in the mid 1970’s when things got pretty bad... I visit NYC a couple of times.. the last time (before Covid) I went with my brother on October 2019 and visited the Tenement Museum and loved it!! 💜 I love NYC and missed it! Thank you Tom for your awesome guides!! Gracias y muchas bendiciones para tí !! Sigue con tu excelente trabajo como guía para turistas!! 💙🎉🌟💫🎉🇵🇷⚡️🥂🎊 🇳🇮
I moved to the lower east side from Va. Beach in 1981 at 17. I'll never forget being a young girl & just bopping around as if it weren't the broken down area that it was (ignorance IS bliss:)) That amazing feeling of butterflies & lightness in your gut because you know the day (or night) could bring literally anything. There were all these kids that would congregate at night at places like A7 & our bands would play. I still know a few people from that time & we marvel at how much different it is now in those neighborhoods. I just found your videos today & they are really fantastic. You know your stuff for sure!
So glad you mentioned William Seward and his survival of the assassin attack on him. Those bits of American history combined with your humorous takes are well appreciated.
At 2 Minutes and 37 Seconds you are inside of PS20 Anna Silver School that’s where I went to school at for my 4th , 5th and 6th grade years I graduated 6th grade in 2004 I’m 31 turning 32 in November, it brought back so many memories man only if u knew how special that park is to me and how wonderful it made my childhood when times were a little more simple that’s where I truly polished myself in basketball and football we won the championship in 2004 and went back to back winning again in 2005 but by then we had graduated and were in Marta Valle 25 which is right across from PS20 😢😢😢😢😢 take me back Thank u 🙏🏾 I’m subscribing
In 1992 I stayed with a friend (on Pitt St.) who worked at Alphabets and Benny's Burritos. The Hell's Angels had their headquarters a couple of blocks away and at night we'd hear motorcycles and gunshots. There were dealers on almost every street corner. The change in the neighborhood is astonishing. I suppose it's a lot safer now but it was the rough edges that made it special and memorable. Thanks, Tom, for bringing back a lot of memories and bringing me up to date on what's happening in NYC. Your knowledge of history is impressive and you ooze street cred. All the best.
You are not going “Backward” you are living an amazing dream life doing what you are excellent at…Teaching History to the masses….I want to walk with you when I get to TriBeCa in the Fall 2023…. Peace
He gained four inches and several pounds in this video alone! Early in the video Tom says his camera man is 6'10" and 320 pounds, then later he says he is 7'4" and 375 pounds lol.
There is a *Phil Rizdon* , comedian from Bushwick, Brooklyn, on You Tube. Funny Then again, there is *Punxsutawney Phil* as in the movie "Groundhog Day". Bill Murray plays Phil. The same Murray in "Ghost Busters" Tom's favorite movie which kinda leads one to think Phil is actually his "Harvey", an imaginary 7'4" 375 lb. groundhog who just happens to own a camera and is too large to fit through sideway scaffolding that Tom has to walk around them. (Phil is also Tom's doppelganger handler but that is old news.) Personally, I'm sticking with Tomd shrinking since Rick Moranis was also in "Ghost Busters" and starred in the movie "Honey We Shrunk the Kids". Coincidence ... ? Think about it. Send Tom knishes* so he won't wither away. Patreon donations are good too. *Hot knishes double as armpit warmers during those long walks in New York City's bitter cold winters. Been there, done that. Could Rizdon be thinking "I'm not some Lewis Carroll DMT shape-shifting groundhog." Sure, categorically believe that. Dreams can come true. I digress ... but it does explain expanding Phil while Tom getting small space truckin' LES.
Seen a lot of nyc your videos on YT. This by FARRR is the best. Not commercial, informative, doesn’t give me annoying young millennial gentrifyer vibe. Love it ❤️
Love the start, From 18-49....coming from Scotland I was in a church 2 days ago from..10-48 ...800 yrs of a difference, sometimes we forget how young America is, but you do have Taller buildings...keep up the good work
I lived on East 4th Street (as well as many other places) a very, very, long time ago. I used to have friendly rooftop fireworks wars with the "biker gang" on 3rd St. and learned a lot from their general escapades. This walking tour is one of the most accurate, historic and fulfilling take of any topic I've yet to see on TH-cam. This video should be archived and viewed a century from now. I also like the more serious tone. I wish all of what I remember a very very long time ago still existed. The polish restaurant on 1st Ave, the punk bars the vile smelling meat distribution center that's now a coffee shop. This video made me want to buy a Roman candle.
Mate I'm in Bristol UK and I just got in shit because you've got me lolling at 2am on a Thursday.....woke up my housemate. The wink at the end of the pizza/mask saga ended me.
I hate it when you and Action Kid are both doing "Live" walks at the exact same time, but love it when you walk together. He's doing a Halloween thing right now...I'll watch his later...
Thank you. Brings back lots of memories of growing up, living in the lower East side 1950s Came from Puerto Rico at age 3, that was 1948. I remember living at 260 East 4th Street, briefly on Columbia Street, my aunt lived on Rivington Street. Loved the ice cream parlors and pickles. My step father was a skilled jewelry maker.
You are by far the best logger ever: : nonstop entertaining and informative not to mention witty and charismatic Glad you didn’t waste it on being a lawyer🤪❤️
Hello Tom. Found your channel during lockdown here in Scotland. Amazing knowledge of your city. You really know your stuff and you make it really enjoyable to watch. Love it 😊😊😊😊😊👍
Definitely recommend the Tenement Museum. Perfect time capsule of the many waves of immigrants for whom the lower east side was their first step into the US. Thanks Tom & kudos to the excellent camera work!
I love watching your videos! I get to see all my old neighborhoods! I’m a retired lawyer. I remember as a child in the 70s my mom going to the LES on Sundays from Red Hook, to go to Orchard Street to buy winter coats for us and underwear. We used to shop at the Essex Red Market, go to the movie theatre on Essex St. (Spanish movies) and also got glasses at Sol Moscot and/or Cohens Optical. As a teenager I worked at the Henry Street Settlement. Such nice memories. We are Puerto Rican, and my parents came to NY in the 1950s and settled in the LES in furnished apartments. Then they moved to the Bronx for a short time and then went to Williamsburg. From Williamsburg they moved to Red Hook and then in 1977, they returned to Williamsburg.
The saying used to be back in the day of Alphabet City: Aware, Beware, Caution & Death! There were other sayings of the names, but that's the one I remembered the most.
I’m from the UK and absolutely love NYC, it’s a pretty young city compared to York where I live near in the UK but I find the NYC history fascinating. Great video 👍
Oh man you’re bringing me back. I used to party and bar hop in the LES all the time back in the day. Also I’ve visited the Tenement Museum as well and I agree it’s pretty cool.
Great memories! My parents owned 2 commercial buildings on Bond St and the Bowery back since the 40s. When my father passed in the early 70s, my mother sold both for only $300,000. I can only imagine what they are worth today. I used to go to CBGBs on the Bowery when it first opened. The start of Punk music groups.
You're doing a fantastic job with these videos! I grew up on Avenue A between 6th & 7th Street. Child of the 70s and teenager in the 80s, and I'm usually sad about most of the places there in my youth have disappeared, but you remind me that it's still a great part of town, and I need to visit more often.....
I just came across your channel a couple of days ago and haven't been able to see anything else. You master storytelling like the best of them. Congrats. Absolutely amazing. Keep it up.
Thanks for taking an extra moment to show the underappreciated Houston / Bowery mural 10:25 . I have been taking pics of that wall since the 1980s. Next time you pass Sara Roosevelt Park tell the story why Robert Moses named it after her and not her daughter in law.
Tom - Please do come to Quebec. I will be very much happy to give you a tour. You are amazing person to listen and to enjoy time with. Thanks for making these videos.
How things have changed on the LES. I had friends who I used to visit there. I remember the Hell's Angel's had their club on Avenue C. Thanks for showing the history of a very interesting neighborhood, Tom!
Oh now it all makes sense that you speak different languages, so informative of history, and in depth analysis of the areas including financial, and law related stories of the city! Sending you respect from South Korea!!!
When you give tours face to face, I hope you make those owww, wwooww, claps claps sfx as well. Why I like watching these vids? it give me the feeling I'm back there. Cheers.
Another excellent video. Your mind is like an incredible encyclopedia or NYC knowledge. I marvel at it and wonder how you learned all the many interesting fact you recount on your videos. AK, WRF, TNYCWS etc. have some fun videos to watch but you are the best due to your extensive knowledge of the areas you cover. Thank you....
Also, check out "Manhattan's East Village-Three Decades of Madness". It chronicles all the good, bad, and ugly of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Thanks for this video.
Constantly rewinding your vids to get all of the facts right!! It is great to learn and have fun listening to you at the same time!! Thanks for all of your hard work!!
I lived in Manhattan for 5 years starting in 1989, but did not research the history of the Lower East Side in detail, so this video is very interesting. I also learned a lot about the immigrant history associated with the city. I used to visit frequently because an acquaintance of mine lived on Avenue A (paying attention to the surroundings, of course), but the scenes I remember now from those days include unique murals and telegraph poles designed with broken tiles. The history of the "COHEN'S" glasses store is also amazing. Anyway, great video, thanks!
Tom! Your videos are THE best. I'd love to see your takes/tours on the towns off the Hudson Valley Metro-North line like Riverdale, Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Tarrytown, Cold Spring, Beacon, Peekskill, etc. We drive as a family to all of these towns but they're easily accessible by train. Your Sag Harbor video is the one that made me think of you for walking tour content. Sarah Jessica Parker's "Divorced" TV show and the movie "Girl on the Train" feature many of these Hudson River towns. You would be THE BEST walking tour guide of such incredible towns.
Fun history and visuals. Big thanks. I can tell you read actual books, and that you have a lot of them. I lived at Stanton and Clinton in the early 70s, hippie of course. I have some really good memories of that place, that time. NYC is the best.
I grew up in the LES and taught elementary school...in the school in from of the Synagogue on Essex...............I appreciate your thorough explanations....
I was born on the lower east side in 1940. We lived in a small apartment building on Lewis St. corner Stanton (which was torn down decades ago.) I went to PS 188 on Houston St. til the 4th grade - when we moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I remember the Essex St. Market. My mother grew up on Rivington St. and she went to the Henry Street Settlement - and Seward High School. Miss those Knishes and Bialys. All the years, when I mentioned New York, I'd say that I grew up on the LES ---- it wasn't until I started watching those TV programs where they showed properties on the UES. I never realized that I grew up poor --- but most of the people from our area were the same. NYC was great in the olden days - I don't remember any crime - the neighbors were always friendly. I'm sure the rent was around $25/month - for a 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. In 1949, my parents bought the first TV in the building. On Tuesday nights, at 9PM, my mother would line up a few chairs in the kitchen and the neighbors would come over to watch Milton Berle. We didn't have a living/family room. In 1946, our superintendent, Mr. Aranda, made me a party for my 6th birthday - the children and a few parents who lived in the building attended. I have a large picture of the neighbors - taken in my kitchen. It's one of my best memories!!! Thanks for the walking tour. I recognized all the street names.
FINALLY. MY. NEIGHBORHOOD! I’ve been waiting for this one! My Greek Jewish family emigrated to the US in the 1920s and settled in the LES. (The owners of Economy Candy are my distant cousins!) Most left in the 80s but I moved back here earlier this year. I’ve always wanted to know more about the history but a lot of my family that lived here earlier in the century are gone. Though my mom loves to remind me how she didn’t have her own bed in her tenement apartment growing up and had to sleep in my grandpa’s bed when he went to work, driving the F train at night! I love learning about the city my family experienced and the history I walk by every day.
Tell your cousins thanks for existing
Everybody’s favourite doppelgänger, lawyer, comedian, thespian, tour guide etc...! Sick plug 😉
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You are without a doubt the best tour guide in this city, and I don't even know 99.9% of those people.
Thank god you threw in your career as a lawyer. The world gets to appreciate your considerable knowledge and sardonic wit! Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Hello there Tom!! I am a Puerto Rican who was born and raised in Manhattan on West 89th street Near Columbus...
My parents met and married in NYC in the 1950’s.
They Decided to return to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 in the mid 1970’s when things got pretty bad...
I visit NYC a couple of times.. the last time (before Covid) I went with my brother on October 2019 and visited the Tenement Museum and loved it!! 💜
I love NYC and missed it!
Thank you Tom for your awesome guides!!
Gracias y muchas bendiciones para tí !! Sigue con tu excelente trabajo como guía para turistas!! 💙🎉🌟💫🎉🇵🇷⚡️🥂🎊 🇳🇮
I moved to the lower east side from Va. Beach in 1981 at 17.
I'll never forget being a young girl & just bopping around as if it weren't the broken down area that it was (ignorance IS bliss:))
That amazing feeling of butterflies & lightness in your gut because you know the day (or night) could bring literally anything.
There were all these kids that would congregate at night at places like A7 & our bands would play.
I still know a few people from that time & we marvel at how much different it is now in those
neighborhoods.
I just found your videos today & they are really fantastic.
You know your stuff for sure!
Pushcard??
Ciao Tom, I love the combination of fun and information in your videos. Wink!
I agree 😄😀
Brilliant! You and Phil...... get famous.....soon.....-please! Great vid.... again!
So glad you mentioned William Seward and his survival of the assassin attack on him. Those bits of American history combined with your humorous takes are well appreciated.
Tom you're still the best !
At 2 Minutes and 37 Seconds you are inside of PS20 Anna Silver School that’s where I went to school at for my 4th , 5th and 6th grade years I graduated 6th grade in 2004 I’m 31 turning 32 in November, it brought back so many memories man only if u knew how special that park is to me and how wonderful it made my childhood when times were a little more simple that’s where I truly polished myself in basketball and football we won the championship in 2004 and went back to back winning again in 2005 but by then we had graduated and were in Marta Valle 25 which is right across from PS20
😢😢😢😢😢 take me back
Thank u 🙏🏾 I’m subscribing
In 1992 I stayed with a friend (on Pitt St.) who worked at Alphabets and Benny's Burritos. The Hell's Angels had their headquarters a couple of blocks away and at night we'd hear motorcycles and gunshots.
There were dealers on almost every street corner.
The change in the neighborhood is astonishing. I suppose it's a lot safer now but it was the rough edges that made it special and memorable.
Thanks, Tom, for bringing back a lot of memories and bringing me up to date on what's happening in NYC.
Your knowledge of history is impressive and you ooze street cred. All the best.
You are not going “Backward” you are living an amazing dream life doing what you are excellent at…Teaching History to the masses….I want to walk with you when I get to TriBeCa in the Fall 2023….
Peace
Coolest virtual tour. 😎👌🏾
Brilliant ! Funny informative and entertaining, Phil seems to be getting taller each video . .
Totally man👍🏾!
... or Tom is shrinking
He gained four inches and several pounds in this video alone! Early in the video Tom says his camera man is 6'10" and 320 pounds, then later he says he is 7'4" and 375 pounds lol.
There is a *Phil Rizdon* , comedian from Bushwick, Brooklyn, on You Tube. Funny
Then again, there is *Punxsutawney Phil* as in the movie "Groundhog Day". Bill Murray plays Phil. The same Murray in "Ghost Busters" Tom's favorite movie which kinda leads one to think Phil is actually his "Harvey", an imaginary 7'4" 375 lb. groundhog who just happens to own a camera and is too large to fit through sideway scaffolding that Tom has to walk around them. (Phil is also Tom's doppelganger handler but that is old news.)
Personally, I'm sticking with Tomd shrinking since Rick Moranis was also in "Ghost Busters" and starred in the movie "Honey We Shrunk the Kids".
Coincidence ... ?
Think about it.
Send Tom knishes* so he won't wither away. Patreon donations are good too.
*Hot knishes double as armpit warmers during those long walks in New York City's bitter cold winters. Been there, done that.
Could Rizdon be thinking "I'm not some Lewis Carroll DMT shape-shifting groundhog."
Sure, categorically believe that. Dreams can come true.
I digress ... but it does explain expanding Phil while Tom getting small space truckin' LES.
once again, tom with another banger. i love this guy!
Seen a lot of nyc your videos on YT. This by FARRR is the best. Not commercial, informative, doesn’t give me annoying young millennial gentrifyer vibe.
Love it ❤️
Love the start, From 18-49....coming from Scotland I was in a church 2 days ago from..10-48 ...800 yrs of a difference, sometimes we forget how young America is, but you do have Taller buildings...keep up the good work
Always a pleasure to see u!
Another great video! Thank you!
I lived on East 4th Street (as well as many other places) a very, very, long time ago. I used to have friendly rooftop fireworks wars with the "biker gang" on 3rd St. and learned a lot from their general escapades. This walking tour is one of the most accurate, historic and fulfilling take of any topic I've yet to see on TH-cam. This video should be archived and viewed a century from now. I also like the more serious tone. I wish all of what I remember a very very long time ago still existed. The polish restaurant on 1st Ave, the punk bars the vile smelling meat distribution center that's now a coffee shop. This video made me want to buy a Roman candle.
Beautiful city. We've only been once last year and it immediately became our favourite city in the world. We are from England and we will be back.
Another great video! There aren't a lot of lower east side videos so we enjoyed this one. A very unique neighborhood.
Mate I'm in Bristol UK and I just got in shit because you've got me lolling at 2am on a Thursday.....woke up my housemate.
The wink at the end of the pizza/mask saga ended me.
I hate it when you and Action Kid are both doing "Live" walks at the exact same time, but love it when you walk together. He's doing a Halloween thing right now...I'll watch his later...
I just moved to this area not long ago from Los Angeles and I really like it. Thank you for all the informations I’m getting from your video. 🙏🏾🙏🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Another ace tour Tom 😉
Thank you. Brings back lots of memories of growing up, living in the lower East side 1950s Came from Puerto Rico at age 3, that was 1948. I remember living at 260 East 4th Street, briefly on Columbia Street, my aunt lived on Rivington Street. Loved the ice cream parlors and pickles. My step father was a skilled jewelry maker.
You are by far the best logger ever: : nonstop entertaining and informative not to mention witty and charismatic
Glad you didn’t waste it on being a lawyer🤪❤️
Agreed! Except on the logger part...we know you meant vlogger.
Comes of a bit corny/douchey for a first time viewer but then he grows on ya. :)
@@BillAnt underhanded
Tommy boy, the best thing to happen to NYC since bagel. 😄 Good tour bro.
Hello Tom. Found your channel during lockdown here in Scotland. Amazing knowledge of your city. You really know your stuff and you make it really enjoyable to watch. Love it 😊😊😊😊😊👍
people are leaving new york in droves. don't come to this city.
TOM,DO NOT STOP MAKING VIDEOS. OF YOUR TOUR GUIDES OF NEW YORK CITY.I LOVE THEM 🎈😎❤️ TAKE CARE GOD BLESS
Definitely recommend the Tenement Museum. Perfect time capsule of the many waves of immigrants for whom the lower east side was their first step into the US. Thanks Tom & kudos to the excellent camera work!
I love watching your videos! I get to see all my old neighborhoods! I’m a retired lawyer. I remember as a child in the 70s my mom going to the LES on Sundays from Red Hook, to go to Orchard Street to buy winter coats for us and underwear. We used to shop at the Essex Red Market, go to the movie theatre on Essex St. (Spanish movies) and also got glasses at Sol Moscot and/or Cohens Optical. As a teenager I worked at the Henry Street Settlement. Such nice memories. We are Puerto Rican, and my parents came to NY in the 1950s and settled in the LES in furnished apartments. Then they moved to the Bronx for a short time and then went to Williamsburg. From Williamsburg they moved to Red Hook and then in 1977, they returned to Williamsburg.
The saying used to be back in the day of Alphabet City: Aware, Beware, Caution & Death! There were other sayings of the names, but that's the one I remembered the most.
I was in Alphabet City in the early 90s. I ate ate the pizza place where they filmed the 'fight' in Berry Gordys Last Dragon.
@@thenewpeanutbutter8766 My sister lives next door to that spot, lol. My mom actually saw them filming that movie back then.
You're funny and very knowledgeable. Thank you and Phil for the LES tour.
Tom, you need to bring back the “Ooooh” and “Ahhh”sounders on the newer videos. Always good for a laugh!
Thank you love your videos love NY ❤️👏🏾👏🏾👍🏽
I’m from the UK and absolutely love NYC, it’s a pretty young city compared to York where I live near in the UK but I find the NYC history fascinating. Great video 👍
Boerderij is the Dutch word now for Bouwerij. Love the tours and the history!
You walked by my High School!!! Seward Park HS!!! Thank you!!!
Mine too! '78
My too
It's amazing Tom able to remember those buildings exact year they were built.
I'm fascinated. I was a cop from 81-01 and to see the change is unbelievable. Thanks. Love your channel. Love learning.
The construction in Manhattan is awesome to see all the machinery running is it cool to see
Good to see your building up your subscribers 👍 Awesome content.
Oh man you’re bringing me back. I used to party and bar hop in the LES all the time back in the day. Also I’ve visited the Tenement Museum as well and I agree it’s pretty cool.
Why u don’t party no more in the lower lol 🤔🤔🤔
@@buttadae2044 not really sure lol
Great memories! My parents owned 2 commercial buildings on Bond St and the Bowery back since the 40s. When my father passed in the early 70s, my mother sold both for only $300,000. I can only imagine what they are worth today. I used to go to CBGBs on the Bowery when it first opened. The start of Punk music groups.
Those were super fun days...seeing the Talking Heads, Blondie and The Ramones strolling on the Bowery. And the Mud Club.
I think this is probably his best video. Funny, focused and we hear a bit more of his personality and story.
You're doing a fantastic job with these videos! I grew up on Avenue A between 6th & 7th Street. Child of the 70s and teenager in the 80s, and I'm usually sad about most of the places there in my youth have disappeared, but you remind me that it's still a great part of town, and I need to visit more often.....
I just came across your channel a couple of days ago and haven't been able to see anything else.
You master storytelling like the best of them. Congrats. Absolutely amazing. Keep it up.
Thanks for taking an extra moment to show the underappreciated Houston / Bowery mural 10:25 . I have been taking pics of that wall since the 1980s.
Next time you pass Sara Roosevelt Park tell the story why Robert Moses named it after her and not her daughter in law.
Oh my! You are so engaging…. Thank you for this fantastic insight
tomas u are a full bucket of information thank you sir.!
Tom - Please do come to Quebec. I will be very much happy to give you a tour. You are amazing person to listen and to enjoy time with. Thanks for making these videos.
How things have changed on the LES. I had friends who I used to visit there. I remember the Hell's Angel's had their club on Avenue C. Thanks for showing the history of a very interesting neighborhood, Tom!
Delighted to see a new video 😀 keep up the great work Tom 👏
Oh now it all makes sense that you speak different languages, so informative of history, and in depth analysis of the areas including financial, and law related stories of the city! Sending you respect from South Korea!!!
Fantastic. A new fact with every step you take.Thank you.
When you give tours face to face, I hope you make those owww, wwooww, claps claps sfx as well.
Why I like watching these vids? it give me the feeling I'm back there.
Cheers.
Same here too👏🏾!
I was there and that whole area but didn't know I was in east village...I need you as a guide next time I'm there
So much history I did not know. Thank you Tom for the tour and history lesson. Also, thanks Phil for filming🙌🏾🎥‼️
, Amazing tours Tom,,, brilliant charming,,,, love from the UK X
Awesome tour
Another excellent video. Your mind is like an incredible encyclopedia or NYC knowledge. I marvel at it and wonder how you learned all the many interesting fact you recount on your videos. AK, WRF, TNYCWS etc. have some fun videos to watch but you are the best due to your extensive knowledge of the areas you cover. Thank you....
Excelente😀 Loved the info! Saludos desde Texas!
Also, check out "Manhattan's East Village-Three Decades of Madness". It chronicles all the good, bad, and ugly of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Thanks for this video.
Tom D is a such a pro he can drop one vid a week and it’s always just heavenly 🔥
From the Philippines, I like this, we learn the history of the place, really awesome.
Another successful tour!
Tom u r fun. Thanks for the smiles ♥️
Constantly rewinding your vids to get all of the facts right!! It is great to learn and have fun listening to you at the same time!! Thanks for all of your hard work!!
Damn 29.40 very busy corner, great tour as usual BrUH, it's 2.40 am here in Argentina but i knew it was Worth it
New sub. Love UR logs. Never been to N. Y. THANK U M Cali. Man everybody walks there. I m impressed what is best walking shoe. Thanks again. 💋
Tom I would love it if you did a tour of Times Square on Halloween evening....but it may not be safe...
Amazing tour. One of the best I’ve seen. Very informative and well done.
Another great informative tour. The buildings are amazing and I’m missing NYC so much..
Thank you TD...
I love your videos and personality.
Top job , Tom - infectious enthusiasm !
Wow, just saw the corner of Norfolk St. My 2nd great grandparents lived there as immigrants from Germany.
Thank you for sharing this great post. I really enjoyed it and can't wait to get back to NYC to visit again.
another great video my man!!!
Absolutely great historian!
Tom, I’m binge watching your videos, you are amazing!
Nice! 142/150 you now have 11.8k subscribers!!
Enjoyed this video.
Can't wait for the next one!
Thank you for your tours - keep doing your thing.
I love this channel man
The winking kills me ! Love it
I lived in Manhattan for 5 years starting in 1989, but did not research the history of the Lower East Side in detail, so this video is very interesting. I also learned a lot about the immigrant history associated with the city.
I used to visit frequently because an acquaintance of mine lived on Avenue A (paying attention to the surroundings, of course), but the scenes I remember now from those days include unique murals and telegraph poles designed with broken tiles. The history of the "COHEN'S" glasses store is also amazing. Anyway, great video, thanks!
That was riveting on Rivington...great job!
Excelente! I love all of those stories. I used to live in Ave B. Nice shot of nostalgia, thanks
Tom! Your videos are THE best. I'd love to see your takes/tours on the towns off the Hudson Valley Metro-North line like Riverdale, Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Tarrytown, Cold Spring, Beacon, Peekskill, etc. We drive as a family to all of these towns but they're easily accessible by train. Your Sag Harbor video is the one that made me think of you for walking tour content. Sarah Jessica Parker's "Divorced" TV show and the movie "Girl on the Train" feature many of these Hudson River towns. You would be THE BEST walking tour guide of such incredible towns.
Funny, Knowledgeable and Entertaining "Tom". Great video.l
Thanks for all the fun history
Great video, thank you!! We are staying in Rivington st. for 2 weeks in April and visiting NYC, thanks for all the info 🙏🙏🙏
Another excellent tour, your the best👍
Fun history and visuals. Big thanks. I can tell you read actual books, and that you have a lot of them. I lived at Stanton and Clinton in the early 70s, hippie of course. I have some really good memories of that place, that time. NYC is the best.
I grew up in the LES and taught elementary school...in the school in from of the Synagogue on Essex...............I appreciate your thorough explanations....
I Needed this one. I’ve been Staying @ Houston & Eldridge since Wednesday. Good deal Tom 👍
I love these walks