⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC's Upper East Side with a Resident of 6 Years (August 12, 2020) 

I come from a town of 1,300 ppl in South Carolina so you can imagine how much of an adventure your videos are lol

Thank you for taking me through my old neighborhood. I moved away to look after my Mom and be near family almost 2 years ago. I miss my home more and more each day. So nice to see the City so clean and coming back to life! I was fortunate to have lived in the UES for 38 years! Thank you!

God bless NYC. The city will bounce back stronger than ever. Love your videos Action Kid.

I love your videos when you have special guests. Listening to new yorkers talking to each other is a lot of fun!

I live in Syracuse, Ny and I really enjoy NYC. I can’t thank you enough for your awesome and informative videos. So thanks for everything you do, much appreciated.

He's so nice and I like his accent! I really enjoyed this. Love when you collab AK. Always looking forward to your videos.

Dimitar was a wonderful guest, I really enjoyed this collaboration AK! Another outstanding adventure, so much fun!

one of the best ones I have seen in months. a joy to watch

Love the videos, gutted not to be coming in October for my 6th visit from the UK, fingers crossed for next year

NYC well shown. Details do not escape the lens. Every corner, every alley, its heights, buildings, its people, streets, parks, sidewalks, rivers, lakes, seas👏

Your walking tours provide fond memories of my childhood! Thank you!

This was a marvelous walking tour. Dimitar's accent I am familiar with as my old Math teacher in college and his wife come from Bulgaria. Enjoyed the narration. Please do more of these NYC tours.

WOW WOW WOW KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK AKK

Another fascinating walk, and with a cheerful, optimistic guest. I’m enjoying the chat and tour. Always exciting and different adventures.

Nice video. Spent a lot of time in that area back in the day when I was a student at Hunter College on 68th Street and Park Avenue.

Great video, the Met looked magnificent 💥Your friend has great energy ...I wish I lived there!! 👍🏼

Hello Actionkid your friend is really hype up! Thanks Actionkid! ☺☺

Uy!! First. Great vid, AK!

Another vídeo for my favorite neighborhood. Great guy the bulgarian, Hristo Stoichkov 😉. Thanks from spain

A beautiful and amazing show. My thanks, appreciation and respect.

First time in America went to new york last year for my birthday:) had a great time 😊😄

It was the person we saw in another video with his electric bike, glad to see it

I don't know if you are using a regular camera or a very high-end cell phone but the quality comes out very nice. What are you using??

I love this walk. He seems really nice!

Thank you for your video. I lived in NYC for several months last year, my apartment was near 2nd avenue and I am familiar with these shops and street views, your video reminds me of that good days. Miss and Love NYC so much, hope everything will be fine.

Glad to see you guys this was fun 💕your videos.

Hi AK, great walk and tour as always. Greetings

Hey, man. Been a longtime fan of your channel. Would you advise me to travel to NYC for a week in mid-november? I'm from México. I would really like to go before December, and I think if I wait it's gonna be at least 6 months more before I can go.... And it's cheap now! Thanks.

I'm loving your tours, from Australia

You two have good chemistry that makes for an enjoyable video experience. Dimitar has a lot of knowledge and knows a lot of people that also adds. Thank you for this video experience AK. You are the best.

Hello from Orlando Florida Thanks for sharing another great walk.

Thanks for the tour and the smiles!

Is it me....or you too notice that there are few grocery stores

I know him :) he is from my home country. Greetings from Bulgaria

Just to let you know that neighborhood you were walking in is not the Upper East Side it's called Yorkville,,, I know because you walked right past the apartment I grew up in on 2nd Avenue

The Firehouse on 85th...bustling with activity...include next time. And you forgot to mention Carlow East os an UES treasure for over 50 years!! Details. Enjoyable to watch. My old 'Hood 💜

Ken, get a Brompton. Great bike and not really hard to change flat. Just get Marathon tires and you won't need to worry.

I really like when you have guests on your videos. You should consider doing it on weekly basis.

I know this neighborhood well. On the corner diagonal from Best Buy was the best pizza parlor in the world. I got pizza there for decades. It changed names to 'Europa', but the pizza was the same. Looks like it's gone now. There's Mimi's pizza on 84th st and Lexington. That was the Beatles favorite pizza place. There's a Dunkin Donuts between 86th and 85th. I love Dunkin Donuts lemon donuts, but not all DD's carry the lemon donuts but this one does. There is an OK bar between 86th and 85th. It's a good pit stop. It's also where I'll meet someone. I took the subway from Queens, my daughter took the subway from Brooklyn, I got to town early, we met at the bar, had a drink then went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Across from Best Buy was a place where you could get an 'Orange Julius'. I don't even know what an Orange Julius is, but for 50 years there it was. A guy described Orange Julius like this, 'Ever take a wizz and it's cloudy? That's what Orange Julius looks like.' I just looked it up... is an American chain of fruit drink beverage stores. It has been in business since the late 1920s and is noted for a particular drink, also called an Orange Julius. The beverage is a mixture of ice, orange juice, sweetener, milk, powdered egg whites and vanilla flavoring, similar to a morir soñando or orange Creamsicle I walked past Orange Julius forever, for nearly 50 years, and now for the first time in my life I'm curios to try one. If I remember right there is a movie theater right there too. It's a multiplex now, but when Star Wars came out it was still a single huge screen theater, so I went to see Star Wars there, sat in the balcony. In the balcony guys were wandering around hawking joints. Yeah man, could still smoke in a movie theater in the balcony, the weed thing was new though. I can't remember if I took part in the weed. I was going to college back then so I probably did. In the 1980's, me and my homey, we were living out in Eastern Long Island at the time in a huge half wrecked country house, when we decided to rock out in NYC on a Memorial Day Weekend. All the city people would go to Long Island for the holiday so we did the opposite. Stevie Ray Vaughan was playing somewhere in the city, but he was sold out. Instead we saw Lonnie Mack play at the Lone Star, got fucked up at CBGB's, then camped out in my big old luxury car on 87th street just off Lexington. It was a safe hood, my friend slept in the back seat, I slept on the front bench seat with the driver's curb side door kicked open. I played guitar then, and always had a guitar with me. I woke up, beautiful sun shiny Sunday morning, sat up, and my buddy was up already, picking guitar on a stoop while talking to a homeless guy he bought a coffee for, and he had a large coffee ready for me. He had drank his coffee already and was having a beer. The party was just warming up. Went to see Leslie West that night, at the Ritz I believe. Man was Leslie powerful on the guitar. You should have heard his version of Hendrix's 'Red House', it was devastating. Finished the party hearty holiday with 5 am breakfast at Juniors on Flatbush ave in Brooklyn. I got the Virginia ham sandwich with home-fries. I couldn't believe it, they give me 2 nice size sandwiches on rolls. Check this out... Stevie Ray Vaughan was friends with Lonnie Mack, and he went to the Lone Star the night I was there. He didn't play with Lonnie. But damn it was cool to be hanging in the same club as my hero. I did a lot of partying like that, sleeping in my car. I called it 'taking a budget vacation', and what I saved on hotel rooms I spent on beer and live music. I took my last budget vacation to Maine and New Hampshire in July 2015. I had a van at the time, that made it more of a luxury budget vacation, slept on an inflatable mattress. I learned about sleeping in Walmart parking lots. A good trick I learned is peeing in a widemouthed plastic quart size Gatorade container. Can even do it while driving. I was so stuck in traffic once, had to pee so bad I filled the container. It was bumper to bumper; I didn't want to dump it out the window and splash it on another car, so I set it on the floor. I had lost the cap. The piss wound getting spilled in my car. The hard lesson was 'Don't lose the cap'. A girlfriend once decided to clean my car. She didn't tell me, just did it. She was laughing at me when I went to the dumpster to try and retrieve my piss jug. The best way to piss jug is pull off somewhere and fake believe you're making a cellphone call. I watch these ActionKid videos and have flashback memories of my times in NYC. This is the third time I left a long NYC adventure story at his videos. Too bad there wasn't easy to get video recording equipment and RU-vid in my party days. I could have posted my debauchery, even make a best of vomiting in the gutter video. Long live Action Kid. I love these videos!

I know the neighborhood. The 30 story building you mentioned at 30:50 is famous. It is on the north side of 85th, just east of Third Avenue. You can see it in the opening credits of the 1970s TV show "The Jeffersons", a great comedy.

My mother lives on 91st and 1st ave and when I'm out there I walk all around UES. The guess was friendly but I was hoping he was more like Rich Mancuso telling stories from the past but he's only been there at that time six years so it make sense he doesn't have a real history of the area. They actually was looking at the building from the TV Show the Jefferson but he had no idea. When I'm there I usually always walk too see that building and 900 Park Place which is another TV show Different Stroke but overall it was informative and I learn some new eateries and cool spot to hangout next time I'm there.

Disagree - You can't negotiate a lease. Somehow rents are going higher. Those shops run you 15.000 to 25.000 a month and they will not budge. It's Over.

I love your videos!! Greetings from Tunisia

Hi my friend ... how do you stop the video from shaking when you video. How do you stabilize. I have an iPhone ... but the image shakes.

Nice tour - nice chat... didn't see many taxis - ha just as I was typing saw one - lol

Gotta be a first ever...a New Yorker greeting another NY'R on the streets....

Insomnia chocolate chip cookies at 3am are the best!

Is 5th Avenue opening up?

Thanks for posting.

Yo 5 that's my old neighborhood lived there (1964-71) (1975-79) (2002-04). Lived above Bradys bar my last 2 yrs in The neighborhood paid 120 dollars a week for a tiny room with a shared bathroom in the hallway. At the time (02-04) one of the last neighborhood old school boarding house for the working man. Thanks for highlighting What is "Yorkville" also known as the upper eastside!

Who is this guy ? He reminds me of those Serbians in Astoria.

They had a Wendy’s in the Bronx years ago. I don’t know about now.

Dude you were so close to the PaPaya King Hot Dog on 3rd Avenue and 86 street! You have to visit and grab a great Hot Dog and papaya drink! Use to go there as a kid up toward Lexington 86 old vaudeville theaters turned into movie houses! Saturdays get see two movies and grab Hot dogs for lunch! Old RKO and Loew’s movie houses now demolished!

I moved from there in 1976, wonder anything changed

Excellent video 👍 👍

As U R 4m Asian origin AK, which country R U 4m? if I may!

AK when you coming to Philadelphia?

Hutch and Waldo cafe is amazing I get a flat white and blue smoothie bowl and hutch club action kid if you in that area again go there and try it , beware it's kinda of expensive

so simple and nice

Excellent video

Now you reminded me I remember him from his live stream. Glad you are now "interviewing" other New Yorkers. but 10:20 was a little too close encounter between two unmasked people hahaha, better be aware of asymptomatic transmissions. Those food carts near the end, mobile food licenses are prioritized for veterans so if you aren't a vet you will never have a shot. So what happens is that vets who got the license but don't want to work in their own cart would rent their license and show up at the cart once in a while to prove that they work there. Last time I heard the rate was about 4000 per month. It was a lot like renting a store location.

Nice vidéo I enjoy it 👍💖

lived on E 81st. Between East End and York.

I stay on the upper east side on E 90th street between 3rd and 2nd Ave I walked down 3rd Ave to get to the whole foods

muito legal as ruas da cidade interessante que nao é muito diferente das ruas do rio de janeiro brasil valeu um abraço

did anybody else notice the store or place called "kidville" had a small laugh at that

Good ride my friend !, Take care yourself.

Where did you find that Russian?

Fun video you guys need to go on Sat. Night to all the restaurants and talk to the cute single girls. You never know.

Have you gone to Top Of The Rock yet?

I HAVE BUSINESS ON THE EAST SIDE FOR 27YEARS I LOVE THE EAST SIDE BUT I STAY IN ASTORIA NEW YORK YEA I'M A B~A ALL WAYS 2020 GOD BLESS YOU AMERICA

Miss new york

Great to see so many people not hiding behind their mask. #unmaskamerica

21:37 Evil Zabar's on the right. Eli's is at least double the cost of anywhere else.

great thank you

I never go east of Lexington Ave., darlingg.

Love this lively commentary on the restaurants and shops on the Upper East Side. Dimitar could run for Mayor of the UES, as he knows a lot of ppl, a lightning rod in a very positive way. Hope you can get to the MET to film it's 150th anniversary and then treat yourself with a video review of a meal at the Pig Heaven. That would be another AK work of Art. :)

More people wearing their masks around their neck than actually using them properly!

Know a days a sneeze is just as bad or worse than passing gas.

Second Avenue is better. Lexington is very narrow; hard to have the tents. New York will come back!

I'd like to nominate ActionKid for Mayor. Let's go!

born and raised UES!

Meanwhile... LA Walk About = 50% Homeless 25% Druggies 25% Regular People

house music from Chicago/Detroit.

He's a really nice guy great video.

I work around this area. For sure I'll check that Gelato place when it's open :)

20:15 that's one hell of a mask.

well done

👋🏻👋🏻

6:39 I lived in that building in the 70's as a kid !

He looks like Liam Neeson

tandaan nyo yan,,,,,,

Funny his friend was asking about when gyms will open up at 24:15, when the New York Governor Cuomo just mentioned it yesterday that gyms will be open.

Keep going

There are so many free apartments because everyone is moving out of NYC, high taxes, crime, drugs, rats and trash. Only a year ago it was nice, now look at it.

30:50 the jefferson’s ( tv show ) building

where are you ??????????????? you ok /// from last vid

6 am upload 👀

This area was my home for years. This was one of the nicest places to live in Manhattan for families. It looks horrible now.

ambulansya ng munisipyo at sasakyan na may tatak ng munisipyo,,,,,punta ng punta dito,,,,,pinapakialaman buhay ko,,,,,tignan natin,,,,mahal na mahal ng mayora at konseho niya taong bayan,,,,,,bo tan,,,,,