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- The story of New York City, America's megalopolis.
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As I am a foreigner from Germany currently visiting the US, I had the Chance of seeing New York by accident because I missed my connecting flight to Dallas. It was absolutely fascinating, even more than I had imagined it. I have been to bigger cities like Shanghai, but none of those had this urban and, at the same time open feeling like New York. If the world should have a capital, it has to be New York. When I visited Dallas though, the inner city felt completely empty, even with the many skyscrapers. It felt like someone had simply placed the buildings there for no reason. I couldn't do anything without stepping inside a car and driving somewhere for twenty minutes, which completely eliminates the purpose of a city. Urban sprawl and inner city highways have destroyed so many American cities, which makes New York stand out even more to me.
Phm07 glad you enjoy it here, nyc has really good vibes
I live near Dallas, and I agree. You should've went a little farther to Fort Worth. The Stockyards is the most beautiful place I've ever been!
Phm07 New York blows Texas out of the water . I go to manhattan every year I love it . It's expensive but worth every single penny. U get meet so many tourists from all over world . I agree NYC is the capital of the world.
See u in NYC🗽
Pretty much every city in the Mid Atlantic is the go to for visiting America
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Dc
Providence
The only exception outside of the Mid Atlantic is Chicago
New York is the alpha world city and nothing like America except it's the ultra competitive extreme version of American capitalism derived from the old European economic system.
I visited NY about 6 years ago, I loved the city and the people so much. I'm from Sweden but my parents are from the middle east, yet I still felt at home in NY. After my consultancy contract ended, I spent about a week in Manhattan. Sometimes me and my friend used to just sit on a curb and have a cold drink. I cherish the experience so much, that to this day I still have a goal of buying an apartment there. I miss you NY, hope to see you soon.
Great story. NYC is such a great people-watching place. Looking forward to my next trip too!
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Actually New York is home to more than 800 spoken languages and dialects, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
Yes, and particularly in the borough of Queens. Many people only think of Manhattan but there is so much culture and sights to explore in the other boroughs of New York.
You should make a video about the history (rise and fall) of Detroit
and rise again. I've heard that central Detroit is becoming really nice
katten elvis yea I'm from SE Michigan and you hear quite a bit, downtown is becoming the PLACE to be, although it's less well known and he wouldn't do a video on it Ann Arbor (home to university of Michigan) is also popping as well
Thank god someone said it!
I live in Detroit , It's reversing because jobs are coming back
Sudan Gaines Pa Glad to hear it
Ahhh. New York. It is my favourite city. I just love the modern and amazing texture! The amazing buildings are so great. No city can match this city!
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Hong Kong is New York on steroids; you should visit.
What a great video! Amazing job, good research and objective, comprehensive information. My geography teacher would be very proud....
What I have always liked about New York, or particularly Manhattan, was the absence of the urban American sprawl and the kitschy homogeneous commerce and the lack of architecture that comes with it. Too many placed in America can be exchanged with other places without you even knowing, as they looks all the same. Manhattan is unique and the architecture is real. While the housing and office building of so many cities and suburbs in the southeast and southwest will be torn down after only decades, the buildings of New York will still stand hundreds of years after they were built. New York will become a great old city like London and Paris. I can’t imagine anything in places like Houston or Atlanta lasting hundreds of years.
I agree.
Atlanta will look like New York soon, the way they're building down there.
As a native New Yorker, I can say that we represent the best and worst of the world today. Yes, we are modern, rich, dynamic, "vibrant", and tolerant (to a point), but we're also filled with corruption, over-regulation, inequality, and yes, discrimination. New York City is the most segregated city in the US in terms of residential areas. One can see where each racial group lives quite clearly, with little overlap in most areas.
The unions have the city's public infrastructure by the throat, and work progresses very slowly and at tremendous cost so as to benefit the union workers at the public's expense. This is why it's taking decades just to build a single subway line. The subway system was mostly built in just a few decades, with each line taking only a few years at most to build. The Empire State Building went up in roughly 11 months, now it takes years or a decade just to build something half as tall. To top it off, it's almost impossible to start a new business in the city without spending a ton of capital and time just in licensing, regulatory compliance, and obtaining permits. Entrepreneurship built this city; without it, we'll struggle to keep up against areas which allow for more efficient business creation, such as Texas. And this isn't even getting into the high taxes or expensive land.
The gap between the rich and poor is one of the widest in America, public school are terrible (charter schools are little better), and the city's budget largely depends on just a few hundred thousand high-income workers in the financial sector, little manufacturing remains in the city limits, and racial gaps in wealth persist with little or not change since 50 or 60 years ago. We're hardly as good as we once were relative to our peak.
NYC can't possibly be more segregated than chicago... right?
@@alexanderl8794 honestly, it isn't. New York is more fair and diverse than most other cities. Less segregated than Chicago
@@danialhalal Agreed
America is a continent, not a country
@@revolucion-socialista The United States of America is a country.
This is an extremely underrated video! Best NYC history lesson ever!
As a New Yorker, I was excited to see this pop up. It was great to see you covering the Hudson Rail Yards, and 2nd Ave Subway project, along with the problems of the MTA and Real Estate market.
I do wish you spent more time on the future though, New York's past is a great topic (Moses' plans, Immigration, Social Movements, Erie Canal), but I'm not sure it needed the emphasis it got.
Maybe I'm just used to the Megaprojects videos
I for one really enjoyed the past commentary. The future is harder to cover in a fact-based video like most of the ones he makes. If you're looking for commentary on the future of the city, I'm sure there's plenty of intellectual discussions at universities and by policy makers you can find (or even attend).
The videos are incredible. Thank you for making them! I hope the channel continues in this direction.
Your videos just keep getting better and better. Keep up the good work!
I'm Egyptian from Alexandria, Egypt's second biggest city and I can't wait for Cairo! I love your channel, always a great positive vibe to it.
Can you do Los Angeles in the near future? #NotificationSquad
HanaTNT I'm from Egypt too but live in Los Angeles, so happy to see that there are other Egyptians on this channel too!
That's so cool, I really wish to go to LA and live there. Hope it's as good as it looks =)
HanaTNT lol it's not, LA is realllly overrated, maybe a good visit but not a place to live
Mr Seboss had to look up what Kahire was, but yes I agree, and what I think about Mamluk Turks isn't very positive because of their treatment of minority groups such as Copts and general restrictions they applied that are still in place today in Egypt and cause problems
Mr Seboss it is not a big deal, it's in past history and it was a small empire for a comparatively short period of time, most people most likely are neutral of them and don't have a positive or negative view of them
Love the video - I've been here twice and there's something about the city that makes you feel alive and that you're part of a living, dynamic system. I 've lived in other major cities and visited some large metropolis but New York makes anyone feel alive.
Great thanks for connecting and providing information
You should do Chicago. In my eyes, it's the second largest US city. If it was allowed to annex suburbs like Los Angeles did and be the same land size as LA, Chicago would be larger by over 1 million people.
It's a great place, I always enjoy my time there. I did the river architecture tour last summer--very cool.
in non blind peoples eyes, it would be the third
GhastCraft your stupid
No it wouldn't. LA's metro area is still significantly larger.
But alas, you're number 3. Probably soon to be overtaken by Houston.
By far my favorite city I've been to
ENGLAND: London's megacity
You mean LONDON: England’s Megacity
@@dom7181 You mean ENGLAND: London's megacity.
Max Stone no I don’t. England isn’t a city, London is, so next time be more careful when correcting someone
@@dom7181 I was joking, have you listened to Jake Paul's It's everyday bro?
Team Elite Dominic Jake pauls team would disagree here.
So happy I discovered your page! It’s perfect...informative and entertaining. 👌🏻🙌🏻
amazing work (editing, voicing, and research data behind the video) keep up the great work and i subbed !
So glad you finally did NYC! I love these MEGACITIES documentaries! I moved from NYC 3 years ago and I def want to move back, but to answer the question you asked, New York's biggest issue (to the middle and working class anyway) is real estate prices. Thats the only thing that will keep me away anyway.
World's greatest I love it here in NYC, but it's really expensive
Tbh Manhattan and Brooklyn are more dangerous than Queens
Save up maybe. That’s what I had done and I live in Brooklyn. Amazing play place and it is my favourite city. Never will get old.
Can't believe I paid so little money for an Airbnb studio in downtown manhattan...
World's greatest infrastructure in NY is crap
Great job TDC. Can you do similar mini documentaries on Shanghai, Tokyo, Istanbul, New Delhi, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Moscow, Seoul, Cairo, Sydney, London and Paris? Many cities in China are ridiculously big too but let's do one for each country first =). Oh yeah, do one on Tehran too. Iran is so under-represented in the internet. Thanks.
Your videos are awesome. Good history, storytelling, and inspiring. Thank you.
One of the most greatest, inspiring, motivating, and cultivatung videos I've ever seen!
Born & raised in Brooklyn. It's population would make it the 4th largest city the U.S.
Truly the greatest city on earth! Love from India!
Thanks
I love this channel. Awesome stuff each single one. Good job admin 👍👍
Just stayed in New York for a couple days for the first time. Wow! What a massive, diverse, breathtaking city. It's bigher and greater than you first realised. I've been before but not to where I've actually have walked around the city for hours and riding on buses. The experience was something else. I still can't get over how huge everything feels. How it would take a life time to see it all!
I should not be surprised as many people do, but you left out what actually MADE NYC what it is today. Elevated and subsequent Subway system. Before 1915, many parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx were undeveloped and many of the city's poor were still confined to Manhattan below 14th Street. The 1913 Dual Systems Contracts (Dual because it was an agreement between NYC and the IRT and BRT) were specifically created for the purpose of providing new subways to these areas ripe for housing development. This new housing would not only provide a better quality of life for the poorest residents, but would also introduce them to better opportunities and San overall greater health. Many parts of New York City are have only hit the 100 year mark in the last couple of years. it was then the population skyrocketed again.
The question is how does the entire NY metro/Tri state region find a way in the modern era to create this same level of mass affordable housing?
As an Australian who hasn't been overseas in his life, I gotta say that New York seems like one hell of a place after watching Seinfeld and How I Met Your Mother, and listening to hip hop artists from Harlem, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. It's definitely on the bucket list, though a fear of heights stops me from visiting the main tourist attraction other than the Statue of Liberty haha.
Go other places in the US as well.
You should thank Chicago for inventing the culture of New York.
These videos about mega cities are magnificent.
Thank you so much.
I love your videos. They are awesome. A wealth of information in them. Thanks
Brilliant stuff. London next please!
I love this series, please do London next
im from Canada and im so obsessed with New York..Great video!!!
I just discovered your channel. I’m a born and bred New Yorker and a huge history buff. This is awesome.
I love new york, im from new jersey but I grew up so close and so influenced by nyc that I feel like another new yorker
2:25 Mistake there, In the 17th and 18th Century the Netherlands was called the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands - it had no Monarchy or Crown.
Great video as always! can't wait for Cairo's video
greetings from Cairo, Egypt :)
I really enjoy these videos. Thank you
I'm so proud of the history of my hometown! We are the definition of the American Dream! Queens raised
Qualquer dia vou aí em NY ♥️
I LOVE NEW YORK🥰❤️
The reading of narrator is absolutely outstanding; soothing, calm and incredibly captivating! Thank you!
Awesome video. Thank you!
I was born in Bedstuy BK, lived elsewhere since then but can't wait to come back in a few years!
African Renaissance nah you must ain't never been down south...plus when you get back to bed stuy say hello to your new neighbors cause they let Becky and billy take over the stuy now....
400 languages!! New York🌷🌹⚘
Awesome video!!
Thanks Vishal
I work in nyc, and I try to visit different neighborhoods from the city, it makes me feel like tourist in my own city
Excellent video. There's no city like New York.
blackchang1981 I agree
Singapore,Hong Kong ,Tokyo Beijing.
Cosmic 01 All great cities (especially Hong Kong) but save for maybe Singapore NONE are as ethnical as diverse. People are the soul of a city.
Except London, which is more diverse than New York, older and ultimately better in almost every way.
The Gooner : London is a great city (and one of my favorites) but I am more than confident that London isn't as diverse as New York (especially considering the different ethnic groups that live there.) Older yes...better? Subjective and extremely debatable. I will say this...London is definitely more expensive than NYC!
I'm born and raised in NYC, been living here most of my life and I love it - it's the greatest city on Earth. The biggest challenge facing NYC is overcrowding... all the other problems (subway delays, rising prices, gentrification, traffic) are largely based on that. Income inequality is also a big issue although that's throughout all of America, not just NYC (it's just more obvious in NYC).
I live in and love New York. I think the best thing is the sense of community through the whole city
I am from iraq and i will come visit new york this summer and hopefully try to stay at the plaza hotel or the ritz or just anything facing central park
New York is amazing. Nuff’ said :)
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Such a great beautiful historic place .. greetings from Egypt
Great video!
Don't go to New York, it's a great place for visiting but living there is a whole another level. If you wanna live in Manhattan, the heart of the city, be ready to pay $3000 rent for a 1 bedroom apartment. And Brooklyn too if you go near the Fairview market. The cheapest place if you're buying a house are either the Bronx or eastern Queens around Jamaica state. It's around 600k to 750k as the cheapest.
TheVideomaker2341 But both Bronx and Queens are extremely dangerous and have a high crime rate.
William James no they don't have high crime levels
William James please site these exorbitantly high crime levels
TheVideomaker2341 my house cost 1 million dollars in queens New York and its not even a mansion, just a normal average house 😕
William James Not anymore, it used to be in the 70s and 80s but now, it is safe.
Pls make a video about MUMBAI plzzzz
These videos are just excellent
Can you do montreal or Vancouver
May I suggest a idea to explore on cities. I'm Canadian, live in Montreal. I have visited the USA, mostly in the Northeast and Southeast. The US and Canadian are very similar in many aspects: City development, city grids, cars and highway infrastructure. But on the ground, I noticed so many US cities with large poor inner city neighborhoods and lack of good public transportation. In the few large Canadian cities, the inner core neighborhoods are very vibrant w good transportation systems. Why is that? Why not research and do a video on this topic.
It is due to long term effects of racism and classism. Unfortunately.
Great Video
Nice video I love it.
Are you going to do LA/ Southern California 😲
LA is not a mega city or even a city at all
I live there, not that crowded even the city center.
very well put.
Love history so much!❤️
Hate when people talk about New York City and forget about the other four boroughs.
The four other boroughs are part of New York City, which is part of New York State.
Your obviously not someone who was born in New York....otherwise you would have known that New York City is made up of the boroughs manhattan, queens Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island
Do a megacity video on São Paulo please
thank you, solid video
Thanks for making this. Could you do Singapore next?
Do one on Chicago
O'hare has eaten bensenville alive, also return the elgin-o'hare to a freeway! We need metra to extend lines (build the STAR line!)
Chicago is not a mega city.
HypergeometricTest hater
Shubham Machhi Cubs!!
HypergeometricTest whatever country your from, America is better
A video on Mumbai: India's MEGACITY
You mention one short documentary in the description, but I'd suggest to those interested in New York's history to check the 18 hours long film: "New York: A documentary Film". To this day it remains one of the best and informative 'mega-documentary' I've watched.
Everything's one youtube, start with the first part "New York History Volume I 1609 1825"
very useful thanks
Is there any Old York ?
Yeah, its a big city in northern england
Black King theres a city called york in england that was around before nyc so yeah
York is the capital of the English county of Yorkshire and is also where from New York has gotten it's name, as mentioned in the video. Since it was founded by the Romans ca 71 AD I would say it qualifies for the name Old York even though it keeps its name due to being the original
Black King yeah
Ludvig Persson New York isn't named after the city of York it was names after the duke of York.
Actually, Philadelphia was the capital just before Washington DC.
J.R. Productions And before Philly.It was New York and should of always been NY
Very good info
These videos is really interesting. =)
Can you cover Toronto? Even some of the smaller cities can still be classified as mega. We have one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, and over 9.5 million people live in the greater golden horseshoe area, which is actually smaller in area than the ny Metropolitan area
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Make a video about Bogota, Colombia, please. Your videos are quite good.
Amazing content, you should have more subscribers
Wasn't Philadelphia the capital before it went to DC?
Congress was forced to flee to Princeton, New Jersey, on June 21, 1783,[3] and met in Annapolis, Maryland, and Trenton, New Jersey, before ending up in New York City.
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please never stop making these videos!
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English & British aren't interchangeable! Union of the Crowns of Scotland & England was in 1603 and the two nations joined parliaments in 1707. American Revolution was between the 13 colonies and the British not English......That aside great video. I LOVE NYC
Can you please do a video on Chicago
Fair Verona no! Y'all can't just enjoy something without wanting inclusion. This ain't about you.
Fair Verona .no we don't have time to make video, we want you to focus on your meantlity.
Chicago is not a mega city
Awesome video
I've been in NYC, is my second most visited foreign city (first one being Newark), I love it. I think what makes NYC what it is, is its people, there is every peace of the world in that mega city.
You should do a video on Philadelphia. It's a big city with a developing downtown. Population about 1.5 million. I feel like it could be a major contender one day on a global scale.
Aja Moore nah
LA has a long long long long long history
la traffic :(
Leon TicklePickle Thank goodness for the Metro Red/Purple Lines to exist. They’re the only transportation to travel more than 70mph in densely Los Ángeles compared to the 101, 5, and 10 freeways which are 55mph to 60 mph.
whathell6t Japan its up to 200 mph with a booming populous larger than any city in America, now that place is a mega city. I'm brown boy seriously considering moving there.
Muito boa análise urbana da New York city!!
Nice video!
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30 years ago Shanghai was like what NY was 400 years ago 😝
Best doc on NYs history has to be New York a Documentary Film. Its a Ken Burns series of 8 1.5-2 hrs films. Although I have to say, this was a great little mini doc of the city
Great video
Do one about Phoenix, Arizona. It's not the largest of cities but it is huge. It has an interesting street layout with every 8 blocks equaling a mile. The cities streets follow a strict grid iron pattern. Also it's interesting how it's a large city in the middle of the 115+ degree desert with minimal access to water. The city was also built from ruins, hence the name Phoenix because the city "rose from the ashes of the destroyed ruins".
Alia Shelesh shut up
Nolan S Uh no.
I live in a suburb of Phoenix metro. I live in Tempe and it's great here. If u did do one here, I would greatly appreciate it. Yes it is very hot here. This past summer, temps reached 121°F. That's about 49°C. There are weird things that I do here during my day, for example, door handles may be extremely hot so I'm mindful of that, sometimes I where gloves while driving because the steering wheel can get extremely hot, and I get up at 5am to do yard work and workout outside because it's a lot cooler then.
Phoenix itself is not that big but the entire valley is huge.
dixon13 Yep. You are right. Along with Tempe, Scottsdale, Glendale, Anthem, Peoria, Litchfield Park, Paradise Valley, Gilbert, and Mesa, the Phoenix Metro is very large.