Inside Park Slope, Brooklyn: Behind the Fancy Brownstones & History

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  • @chrisrodgers429
    @chrisrodgers429 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    This guy needs his own show on discovery Channel!!!

  • @Jordan-tr8yw
    @Jordan-tr8yw ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Love all the history you provide. Thanks for the tour!

  • @matthaffner9920
    @matthaffner9920 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Absolutely love your videos. So packed with facts and details and just the right amount of comedy sprinkled in!!

  • @landocalrisian2014
    @landocalrisian2014 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thanks for doing this Park Slope tour Tom.

  • @deniseg812
    @deniseg812 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I grew up in Carroll Gardens, I've said this before. Take notice that from Red Hook up to Prospect Park the streets don't meet. It was meant to slow the enemy down if we were attacked from the water.

  • @travelingwithrick
    @travelingwithrick ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Always good when a new Tom video pops up.

  • @royalclipper5382
    @royalclipper5382 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the way you illustrate your tours with historic photographs.... Thank you Tom D !!

  • @hotintheheights
    @hotintheheights ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Ive been following you for over 3 years Tom. Im glad you're getting so many subscribers and the Patreon too. Its crazy all the knowledge u have mixed with the humor.
    Que sigan los exitos hermano!

  • @VanessaCBklyn8
    @VanessaCBklyn8 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Your memory is amazing. Thank you for the numerous piles of information that you have given regarding so many parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Plus you are very entertaining.

  • @vbkngx
    @vbkngx ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Always a good day when there's a new video from you mate. We're landing in NYC at the beginning of May for our first holiday in the U.S. and your videos have been a great help - keep up the top work.

    • @NiKiMa023
      @NiKiMa023 ปีที่แล้ว

      As a NYer, I hope you had a great visit

    • @vbkngx
      @vbkngx ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NiKiMa023 We did, thanks! Loved every second of it. NY was definitely a highlight and we certainly made the most of it. Even proposed to my partner in your beautiful city, so NY now holds a special place in both our hearts. We also managed to catch one of Tom's shows, another highlight. Was the trip of a lifetime.

  • @estebancruz9079
    @estebancruz9079 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I started watching your videos a couple of years ago for information but now I do for that but also comedy. Thank you!

  • @andeytubeyshamon
    @andeytubeyshamon ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Superb as usual Tom 🙌🏻🙌🏻 can’t wait to get back to NY

  • @angelicagaldos
    @angelicagaldos ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sick Plug! Awesome tour, Tom. I'm going to add Park Slop to my places to visit while I visit family in Sheepshead Bay.

    • @cybergal99
      @cybergal99 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Take the Q train to 7th Avenue and make a left .. the place where he talk about the plane crash is a block away. I grew up down the block from there. Have fun, Sheepshead Bay is great as well!

    • @angelicagaldos
      @angelicagaldos ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cybergal99 I found out that my mom used to work at the high school there back in the 80s. I'll keep the Q trian in mind if at my aunt's place in Manhattan.

  • @mondoenterprises6710
    @mondoenterprises6710 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This guy brings history alive for the people!

  • @JXY2019
    @JXY2019 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It was the prettiest neighborhood I saw in Brooklyn

  • @taylorg1585
    @taylorg1585 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tom I have been following you for a couple years now and this is one of my favorite videos thusfar. The plane crash story is absolutely insane, I have spent time around Park Slope and had absolutely no idea.

  • @JulianSteve
    @JulianSteve ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great job, Tom! Most of the information in this video is new to me, so thank you. P.S. - Park Slope is really nice!

  • @roytownhill9934
    @roytownhill9934 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video Tom, fun and fact filled as always 👍🤘

  • @dorisq9241
    @dorisq9241 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I enjoyed learning the history of Park Slope and the Food Coop was something new for me. Thank You, as always!

  • @conniedelio
    @conniedelio ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Possibly your best work, Tom. Thank you!

  • @rafaelmangual6478
    @rafaelmangual6478 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I grew up in Park Slope. I went to John Jay High School on 7th. Avenue. You forgot to mention (or maybe didn't know) that inside Prospect Park there's a Quaker cemetery and buried in that cemetery is the famous Hollywood actor...Montgomery Clifford. You know...Private Pruitt in "From Here To Eternity'.

  • @annchambers5739
    @annchambers5739 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loved it! Always a wealth of knowledge! & The ruby slippers at the end! 👠👠

  • @LollyandPop2
    @LollyandPop2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Always love to see Tom’s videos pop up on my TH-cam!

  • @takishaedwards273
    @takishaedwards273 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am so happy I found your channel!!! I love NYC history. It's not taught enough in NYC schools

  • @maryredmond1399
    @maryredmond1399 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loving your videos so much information about my favourite place keep posting your great 😊

  • @lornahardin4563
    @lornahardin4563 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was nice, love the brownstones, would love to see inside one. The history was neat. You are funny to boot. LOL

  • @JXY2019
    @JXY2019 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You should write a New York history book

  • @simon7762
    @simon7762 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tommy back at it again dropping some juicy facts!

  • @fatboyhoover
    @fatboyhoover ปีที่แล้ว +1

    TY, this is amazing walk through!

  • @kiwi21k6
    @kiwi21k6 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love the history! And you're funny. Thank you for the videos.

  • @843Reboot
    @843Reboot ปีที่แล้ว +3

    it was the trenton trouser snakes. funny that you freestyled that shit.

  • @eugenedimitrov
    @eugenedimitrov ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Tom! What's up! Really into Brooklyn and Park Slope as well!

  • @tiffanyi5645
    @tiffanyi5645 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The creepy walk into camera view at the beginning of your videos gets me every time!! 😂😂😂 I truly appreciate and enjoy these videos! I would love to see you do the neighborhood near Hamilton’s home if you haven’t done so already

  • @kuakilyissombroguwi
    @kuakilyissombroguwi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dude, are you reading this off a teleprompter or it’s all off the top o’ the dome? Amazing content!

  • @ariellasandberg2001
    @ariellasandberg2001 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sometimes I visit the Old Stone House with my mom, and go to the park. We do that before going to Puppetworks (which I also love going to, since it's nostalgic)!

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve never been to NYC but heard about park slope many years ago, when reading the book “the widows walk” by Marian Fontana (the wife of a 9/11-perished firefighter). She lived in park slope.

  • @epicviewerJJ
    @epicviewerJJ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I laughed out loud at “Sludgy” and then I unlaughed when you said it died💀😭

  • @stepheneson4107
    @stepheneson4107 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "You'll understand why people watch Real Housewives TV shows"..... That one line alone made this video worth it 🙂

  • @vhalib
    @vhalib ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for touring my neighborhood.

  • @christianhansen3292
    @christianhansen3292 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your History Knowledge Mr Tom Delgado. I am from Canarsie myself. that pier is very polluted indeed Jamaica bay but a bird reserve isnt far away by marine park. should go thru the trails sometime.. Love to pick your brain smarty pants! lol

  • @subwayjoefrombrooklyn4471
    @subwayjoefrombrooklyn4471 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very informative and entertaining. I’ve always loved Park Slope (grew up in Bensonhurst - I’m in my 60s now). I always said that if I ever won the lottery, I’d buy a Park Slope Brownstone. The way prices are now, I’d have to win Mega Millions $$$.

    • @tomdnyc1
      @tomdnyc1  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You'd have to win Mega Millions, pay in cash, and offer above the asking price.

  • @HardtimesRecords
    @HardtimesRecords ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dark Slope Brooklyn! I miss the old Park Slope from the 70’s, 80’s & 90’s!

  • @manuelleiva7086
    @manuelleiva7086 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the reaction to the quebec fiddle concert poster had me dying all mornign

  • @claudiogallucci563
    @claudiogallucci563 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm goingvto brookyn next weekend going to che k our this old fort thanks to you great video thank you

  • @lisieb1
    @lisieb1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love all of your videos! I’m still hoping for a Gramercy one 😊. Unless you already did one and I missed it somewhere. I’ve looked at all your videos. Thank you!

    • @tomdnyc1
      @tomdnyc1  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I did a little Gramercy Park vid on Patreon! May do another one soon.

  • @tarafudge6697
    @tarafudge6697 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Before the Dutch were the Lenape they were the original inhabitants of south Brooklyn, as Park slope was then known. Europeans arrived in the 17th century.

  • @AustinD1993
    @AustinD1993 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent Video!

  • @sswwwaaann
    @sswwwaaann ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tom, Can we get a Jersey City video? Are you ever gonna cross that river?

  • @danlilly1790
    @danlilly1790 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy 4/20, Park Slope & Tom D, Stewie, Eric, & all of NYC from down here in Arkansas!

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer8564 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i worked on an extention of the hospital around the time of the covid outbreak. got to visit the stone house.. nice to know more about it. i would park right where the plane crashed . who knew? at lunch id walk up the block the other way to the park and have a toke on my lunch break right where you wrap up this video. your back is to the street and you are facing a wall to prospect park. there are benches there or id hop the wall and sit in the park. like revisiting an old friend

  • @gazsilla
    @gazsilla ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tom should do live tours w/ groups. I'd go.

  • @farashimbo9917
    @farashimbo9917 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember fifty years ago, a proposal was floated to dredge the Gowanus Canal. If I remember right, one of the opponents was the Police department; they said if they dredge the canal, they would have more unsolved murders on their hands than they had manpower to deal with.

    • @vincentgoupil180
      @vincentgoupil180 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Interesting
      Trying to get Tomas to do Wallabout Bay when the East River floaters resurface during the spring thaw.

  • @thefpvlife7785
    @thefpvlife7785 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Born at Methodist hospital and lived across the street from the old stone house, 339 3rd street 1st floor. Back in 1974 when I was a little itty boy I would enter that old stone house because it had no doors or windows and I would hand food to the few homeless people who would sleep in there. The place reeked of homelessness and urine but my Mom would be there making sure I wouldn't get hurt. Also the Brooklyn Dodgers back then were called the Trolley Dodgers, avoiding the trolley's that ran along 4th & 5th ave. I think Tom missed a gem .... if you just walk a block over to 2nd st and 3rd ave, parts of the existing wall still stands of the old original stadium. O' n by the way they won many "World Series" back then against team from up and down the East coast.

  • @Mike-g1p
    @Mike-g1p ปีที่แล้ว

    these tours are great!

  • @mirmir9806
    @mirmir9806 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What brand of jacket is that you are wearing?

  • @timothymacdonnell9079
    @timothymacdonnell9079 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tom is awesome! Great video

  • @mwalter3755
    @mwalter3755 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are super cool man. Being yourself while lecturing :) New genre 🙏
    Actually made me subscribe even it was just an algorithm, which randomly brought me here.

  • @Larry-qz3es
    @Larry-qz3es ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is a cemetery in Prospect Park called Friends Quaker Cemetery and actor Montgomery Clift is buried there.

    • @tomdnyc1
      @tomdnyc1  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gonna do a video about the park this summer I think.

  • @ComeOneComeAll
    @ComeOneComeAll ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My family lived on 14th St between 8th Ave and Prospect Park West for over 40 years. My mom is a Baby-Boomer who grew up in the era when it was a blue collar enclave. The old guard has nearly evaporated. I'm back now in NY for the first time in 13 years and am stoked to hit the Slope again for nostalgia. Thank you for sharing the knowledge. I used to visit in the 80's and 90's pre Yupster 2.0 boom, what a difference! The block parties were the evidence of that. I got snubbed by some of the new families on the block post 2004 but we were all getting along just fine when I was a kid up through the late 90's. Connecticut Muffin in Bartel Pritchard Square used to be this great classic diner owned by my friend's dad. Shout out if you remember that and Circles Pizzeria next to the movie theater!

    • @johnfarrell9681
      @johnfarrell9681 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My granny worked as the cook in the "Chiclets" Mansion for many years and we grew up in the less than fashionable area between 9th St and 15th St. where many of the workers settled. The chic area was always between Flatbush and 3rd street.
      I remember that plane crash vividly being in second grade in St Saviour's grammar school on 8th Ave and Sixth Street.

    • @ComeOneComeAll
      @ComeOneComeAll ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnfarrell9681 Nothing like having East Coast heritage! Thank you for sharing.

    • @johnfarrell9681
      @johnfarrell9681 ปีที่แล้ว

      BTW - we never referred to it as the Chiclet Mansion or The Chiclet anything, so that wasn't as widespread as you'd been told.

    • @ComeOneComeAll
      @ComeOneComeAll ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnfarrell9681 I had to visit the old house on 14th St during my most recent visit to NY. I made a brief vlog, It was hard to accept the vestiges of my family's story there are now long gone, th-cam.com/video/mbPzV1k1MnU/w-d-xo.html

    • @ComeOneComeAll
      @ComeOneComeAll ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnfarrell9681 I had to visit the old house on 14th St during my most recent visit to NY. I made a brief vlog, It was hard to accept the vestiges of my family's story there are now long gone, th-cam.com/video/mbPzV1k1MnU/w-d-xo.html

  • @valeriewood5515
    @valeriewood5515 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interesting about the plane crash. Great video Tom. 😎

  • @gerberjoanne266
    @gerberjoanne266 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This guy comes off as a hippy-dippy type, but once I got into this video, I could see how much serious research he did in preparing it. Lots of substance, all well done, yet also entertaining. One criticism: He forgot to cover my block! Oh well. An oversight, I'm sure.

  • @noeliaramos7922
    @noeliaramos7922 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Tom, how do you manage to memorize all the history? Great job!

  • @beverlyledbetter4906
    @beverlyledbetter4906 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've always loved that area and those brownstones. I've wanted to live in one my whole life!☺️

  • @michaelhurley3171
    @michaelhurley3171 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had a friend who lived in Park Slope. Like every one else he could no longer afford it!

  • @johnlennon1049
    @johnlennon1049 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Born and raised there. Lived on President St. between 4th. & 5th. Ave. That was in 1950 and moved out in 1995. Worked at Con Edison on First Street in Brooklyn from 1973 on. Finally retired.

  • @Allenryan819
    @Allenryan819 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My second favorite booklyn neighborhood second only to Brooklyn Heights my third favorite Williamsburg, where I live of course😉

  • @topquarkbln
    @topquarkbln ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for sharing. Very funny entertaining factual ❤️👍

  • @troy__1995
    @troy__1995 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    tom you da best!

  • @MetaMorphicHD
    @MetaMorphicHD ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Would love if you did cypress hills Brooklyn historic district

  • @merccadoosis8847
    @merccadoosis8847 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    06:00 Sachem is pronounced "say chem" (at least that's the way we always pronounced it in the old days), not sac hem.
    good report. as always while I am glad to see development and revitalization of a neighborhood, I am saddened by the consequences of gentrification which roots out poor folks.

  • @donaldblock640
    @donaldblock640 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was in St. Francis Xavier school when that plane went down, it passed right over us.

  • @finnaronhagar
    @finnaronhagar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your videos, great content. You kinda look and sound like Penn Badgley lol

  • @AmbroseChamberpot
    @AmbroseChamberpot ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brooklyn Baseball Team played in an area busy with Trolleys. The opposing teams made fun of them by calling them Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers.

    • @tomdnyc1
      @tomdnyc1  ปีที่แล้ว

      One of these days, I am going to do a video on the Dodgers!

  • @lunabouch
    @lunabouch ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good tour. So many fascinating facts about Brooklyn. A plane crash😵‍💫

  • @Myraisins1
    @Myraisins1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A neighbor told me he bought his brownstone for 35k and there were others for sale across the street. He thought of buying another one but decided he didn't need two houses. He said that was the biggest mistake of his life. Just check the prices of homes in Park Slope and you'll know why.

    • @tomdnyc1
      @tomdnyc1  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nice. If he bought one, he did alright!

  • @CharlesReiche
    @CharlesReiche ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I want to start a bottle water company called Gowanus Springs, but I'm not sure that it will do well.

    • @Alex-fx5es
      @Alex-fx5es ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh come on, the gowANUS cANAL has the cleanest purest water 🤣💩

  • @MikeP2055
    @MikeP2055 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    STEWIE! Stewie would never recommend a Matrix movie to Tom.
    One of my favorite throw-away jokes from Brooklyn Nine-Nine is when Boyle recommends a boat ride down the Gowanus Canal as a romantic date idea.

  • @kevinjoseph517
    @kevinjoseph517 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    governor carey lived at 2nd street an pp west then at grand army plaza.

  • @goldengirl54
    @goldengirl54 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You Sir, are a wealth of NY knowledge. Felt bad for poor "sludgie."

  • @hothotheat3000
    @hothotheat3000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s beautiful and quiet. I don’t live in NYC, but if I had unlimited cash, I’d move here or Brooklyn Heights. Manhattan is far too frenetic for me.

  • @alfredovalenzuela615
    @alfredovalenzuela615 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chiclets mansion, love it

  • @blyve
    @blyve ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My mom was pregnant with me at the time of the plane crash. She was on Lincoln Pl., 2 1/2 blocks away and slept through the whole thing. She was awakened by the phone, asking if she was alright once word got out.

    • @susanfaulkner2304
      @susanfaulkner2304 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My mom too. I was born 4 months later.

  • @simonbonanno2811
    @simonbonanno2811 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Actor Montgomery Cliff is buried In Prospect Park Quaker cemetery.

    • @AmbroseChamberpot
      @AmbroseChamberpot ปีที่แล้ว

      gate's never open at least whenever I'm there

    • @johnfarrell9681
      @johnfarrell9681 ปีที่แล้ว

      The gate can be scaled. I know. My High School bf and I (yes, gay - need you ask?) broke in a few times to make out there as a teenage tribute to Monty. This was just over 50 years ago.

  • @tomadrianaariannachristian7465
    @tomadrianaariannachristian7465 ปีที่แล้ว

    How about covering Brownsville and East New York

  • @eeeeee217
    @eeeeee217 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Randomly chose to look at your video. History needs to be thought from first grade. Thank you.

  • @kevinjoseph517
    @kevinjoseph517 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grew up there 1950s-1970s.

  • @frankromero5581
    @frankromero5581 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another Good one tom . wittely funny cute . 🥇

  • @HarryRomangibaro4
    @HarryRomangibaro4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brother, esa muy flaco. Que esta pasando?

  • @Zackyblack12
    @Zackyblack12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    pretty dope . just wish we could have spoken about the community that existed during white flight.

  • @deborahjesic4804
    @deborahjesic4804 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    😂 You're so adorable!😅Can I come over!

  • @Highland804
    @Highland804 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Trouser Snakes? 😂

  • @dx42
    @dx42 ปีที่แล้ว

    How is "dilapidated" an SAT word?

  • @robbatayaki5505
    @robbatayaki5505 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    j'adore tes videos de NY

  • @pete7389
    @pete7389 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Throughout its history Park Slope was also racially integrated when segregation was still the norm, which gave it the open-minded reputation it has today. Racial tolerance led to openness to gay folks, and like most gay neighborhoods in America it is clean, safe, fun, interesting, upscale, etc.

  • @satanofficial3902
    @satanofficial3902 ปีที่แล้ว

    And below the fancy brownstones... *CHUD!!!*
    Chud avoidance safety protocols and procedures must never be forgotten. Not even for a moment. Chud are ALWAYS hungry.
    A moment of carelessness, a very short lifetime of regret.

  • @Zenpapa77
    @Zenpapa77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hahaha Stront. Maybe more like 'Kak'

  • @stephaniealejandre3727
    @stephaniealejandre3727 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do Hamilton Height pleaseeee

  • @undefined40
    @undefined40 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So that's what the Adams family's mansion looks at daylight.

  • @sherylleelee
    @sherylleelee ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No Eric...and what happened to Phil?

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Phil has moved onto other ventures some time ago. Eric’s been his main guy since then. Eric is off out of town when Tom filmed

  • @calotono
    @calotono ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My dear latino brother, why no more 4K? I miss the crispiness.

    • @tomdnyc1
      @tomdnyc1  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's coming. My 4K brother is out of town. He'll be back soon!

    • @calotono
      @calotono ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tomdnyc1 Still, thanks for the awesome videos man. Next time I visit I’ll get in touch with you! Last time I spent my budget on a helicopter ride 😹