Traffic and parking are brutal ... especially around the Upper East Side area where I go to York Avenue around upper 60s, low 70s. Actually, you pay less for parking the longer you stay at the garage, it can be around $40 for the day. Parking tickets are much more expensive in that area, too! I just go when I absolutely have to. :)
luvsdvds $40 for the day? That’s Nightly Rate for less than 4hours. I had lunch with my wife.. she works at rocafeller center. I paid $120 for 55mins. Not the place for parking at all.
@@cheapestwhips2010 --- I live in Queens, so I only go to Manhattan when I go to NYP Weill Cornell Medical Center, we have parked in the hospital's parking lot, so I guess that is why it is more reasonable? You have made me feel better about the parking fee! :)
Another fact for #9. Times Square use to be called long Acre square because it’s an acre long. The name was changed to Times Square when the New York Times moved into the area. The old Times Square headquarters in Times Square remains empty to this day expect for the Walgreens/Duane Reade that occupies the first floor. The building pays its property tax from renting Ad space on the side of the building.
BTW, an acre can't be "long." Like saying an apartment is 500 square feet long. But we understand your short-hand. And thanks for the info. Actually I think it was more likely named after a person, perhaps a property owner, called Longacre, or a place name in England. There are lots of places called Longacre. And the origin probably, as you say, might have to do with a narrow area of tilled land (an acre) that has long sides.
I'm going to walk down 6 1/2 Aenue tomorrow, lol. I have passeed by many times, but never looked up to notice the 6 1/2 Ave sign between the Avenues...
I live at 6 1/2. So I always tell the cab driver to drop me off at 6 1/5. Some flyovers don’t get it. Yeah from 51st to 57th, you can walk through in the middle of Avenue.
To a modern-day visitor, the site of Seneca Village resembles much of its surrounding landscape: rolling hills, rock outcrops, and playgrounds. But what many do not realize is that this area near the Park’s West 85th Street entrance has an important history - more than 200 years ago, it was once home to Seneca Village, the largest community of African-American property owners in 19th-century New York City. The village existed between 1825 and 1857; by 1855, there were approximately 225 residents, which consisted of roughly two-thirds African Americans, one-third Irish immigrants, and a small number of Germans. As the first significant community of African-American property owners, Seneca Village provided residential stability. With property ownership came other rights not commonly held by African-Americans in the City - namely, the right to vote. When the City built Central Park, the Seneca Village residents were displaced and all traces of the settlement was lost to history. Since the 1990s, scholars and archeologists have been working to bring the history of this significant community to light. In June of 2011, a group called the Institute for the Exploration of Seneca Village History conducted an excavation at the Seneca Village site that uncovered stone foundation walls and thousands of artifacts from residents that offer valuable clues to unraveling the story of this community. *information from: www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/seneca-village-site.html
@cindi brady I have seen one on the subway tracks and one on the sidewalk ; they were both normal size . I am curious about your name , do you know about the " Cindy Brady " on the Brady Bunch TV series from about 50 years ago ?
Lived here for 44 years. Complaining about parking i Hear you. Heres the trick go google street view and look at alternate side parking rules. Plan accordingly and wait in car for about 30 minutes.
Every day New York City frustrates me. Every single day, as an immigrant, New York City inspires and motivates me. No place like it on earth. No other single small area on the planet has as much talent, money, and intellectual resources. Wherever you live, New York City has benefitted your life. And I find something here every day to piss me off. But I still can't imagine living in any other place.
Here are a few more fun facts for everyone: 1. The best thing about NYC is packing up your shit and moving out. 2. The best pizza in New York is in New Jersey. 3. Most people who claim to be from New York aren't
My goodness, how things change indeed. I'm glad I left when I did. They ought to do a flip side to this video with all the homeless, the super shady/dangerous neighborhoods, the high rents everywhere (including the other boroughs) and other assorted true info. It was however, the best place for a wild child to be hanging out at back in the 80s and 90s.
OMG! Before the video even started I was sure she wouldn't mention 6&1/2 Ave! It's my favorite Manhattan fact to tell people. 😁 I love using that walkway. 🤗
For the longest time, the East Side has had a "half avenue," between 3rd and Park, called "Lexington," and another, between Park and 5th, called "Madison." The West Side, however (always having been just a bit different) named their first and only one "6-1/2" rather than borrow another Revolutionary War moniker. I REALLY hope that this catch on, and we eventually get, on the West Side, "5-1/2," "7-1/2," "8-1/2," and "9-1/2"; and, on the East Side, "Concord," "Hamilton," and "Jay." :)
I have used the 6 1/2 Ave. walkways almost every workday since they were built, but I never noticed the signs. But I retired in 2015. Maybe they are new, but maybe I just walked and paid more attention to not being hit by a car in crosswalks. Lex Park and Mad Avenues are not half avenues!
They used to be SOOOO much better (and less expensive) until they became the #1 tourist attraction in Manhattan and did that “facelift”; they now look and feel just like their sister store, Bloomingdales. New New York sucks!
The Lowline Park...The underground park in an abandoned subway station. It's the perfect greenspace for people who prefer parks that are inhabited by rats instead of squirrels.
Ive worked in so many buildings in Manhattan i sometimes forget how cool it is to be a construction worker in NYC. The two buildings she showed on millionaires row have the most beautiful views of NY ive ever seen, i worked in both of them and have cool pics. The white one also has like a 14 ft. Sway tollerance, it actually moves back and forth over 10 ft in high wind, you can feel it.
Not true, there is plenty of free entertainment especially in the summer from legit concerts in parks, jazz music at Lincoln Center, free outdoor movies (last one I attended was sponsored by Carona...so free beer?). So just have to know and plan it right...oh yeah take the Staten Island Ferry (free) for nice views.
After living in Manhattan for 35 years (1960 to 1995) (mostly in the midtown area of East 52nd Street) and enjoying much of what is depicting in this video, I found another gem in another part of the world (a place that I merely visited for one week before I broke my promise to myself of never ever moving elsewhere). During that one week (supposed one-time only) vacation, I fell in love with a place in Mexico called San Miguel Allende and visited it 4 more times during the next years 1993-1995) before I found out I was in love the San Miguel Allende and broke my "affair" with Manhattan. And so I moved to SMA on April 25 1995 and even as unexpectedly to me, myself, never returned to Manhattan or even the USA in the many years that I made my home in San Miguel (now 1995 to, well at least today, September 26 2021), now 27 years and still counting. Once again, I figure to never leave my new love, SMA. But I did get a divorce from 3 women and 1 town, so who knows what is next?
#13th the Houston street in the Bowery district does not pronounce like "Houston" Texas. It pronounced like "Howston" by some of us, the Manhattanites. A native accent, that's all.
LOL That's what I have learned first in the early 90's when our tour guide (German) recommended that special pronounciation. "Otherwise they (the locals) realise you don't come from NYC!" Same goes for 'Greenwich Village'. I guess 90% of all tourists may say 'Green(...)' instead of 'Gren(...)'
Thanks for uploading the video, I didn't know about the Low Line being in the works. :) I was surprised not to see anything about Fort Tryon Park, The Cloisters, the Museums, the neighborhoods ... there is so much to see ... it's a shame that you have to confine it to just 11 things. You might consider covering more points in more than one video?
What I know having studied, worked and lived there in the late 60s/ early 70s while working as a fashion illustrator is that my one bedroom apt on the Upper East Side in an old brownstone was $90 dollars a month/rent controlled, 30 dollars a piece with two roommates and now that exact same apartment on East 91rst Street between 2nd and 3rd Ave. goes for $2500 a month! Of course, fully renovated now. Checked it out on the internet! Shows you just how GREEDY landlords/banks/people have become since then! A subway token was 35 cents a ride...what is it today? LOL Still LOVE NY even though my apt was robbed once and ransacked! Scary!
I love how it actually taught me things I didn't know. I was expecting fluff like "Did you know SNL films here?" and "The borough's known for yellow taxis."
I'm a proud New Yorker, a Downtown Manhattan resident and I learned a few things today. I truly enjoyed this informative video...looking forward to another cool one.
@@spo5egy This should be one of your plans on 2020. Although New Yorkers have a great time in expressing themselves in a unique way, we also welcome everyone to visit our UNIQUE CITY and make you part of it whether you like it or not 😁👍 New York City has the BEST Melting Pot in the World!!!!
Derrell Rose NYC i great, but it’s old. There are places in Europe that are architecturally old but feel modern. That’s not the case for NYC. It’s all outdated. Even people. And what does diversity have to do with anything?
@@RuthCuadrado u inexplicably said "... living off past glories". Not sure what this means but I've traveled quite a bit and everyone wants to go to NYC. The people make it desired "not feeling" old. Hope this brings it full circle for you.
@@RuthCuadrado thats true, in london we had contactless facilities for 15 years now, nyc still uses signature on card payments, london has oyster card, new york city still uses the old system with the metrocard, outside manhattan new york city neighbourhoods seem old, london has more mmmodern neighbourhoods
Also, the world government, or the United Nations, is located in Manhattan. It consists of five buildings and a small park. The tallest building, the Secretariat Building, is 39 stories tall. A tour of the UN is a must for visitors to NYC.
Born, raised and still living in Manhattan. I love my city and my career within it but I find it so sad that the cost of living and rent and are out of control. The hot dog cart permits are just as ridiculous as transportation. In 2015, to get a license to operate a cab in NYC it was about $1.3 million. But you could make a good living. Then Uber came along. Cab drivers were drowning in debt, while working a job where they could get regularly robbed or even killed at any time. Now licences (medallions) are about $200,000. But fewer people are taking cabs and there are so many with this debt. Things change so quickly here but it's not always for the better. It angers me when outsiders comment negatively on the parts of NYC that might not be glamorous but are filled with hard working people.
I'm a transplant to NYC and it breaks my heart how hard people have to work just to have the basic need of a decent place to live. I make a good salary but buying a home within a decent commute to my job is out of reach if I also want to plan for retirement.
Born a New Yorker but honestly I dislike Manhattan. Everything is so expensive and walking in Manhattan is like walking though cattle. The myth that New Yorkers are rude well it’s true especially in Manhattan.
Fun fact: In fiscal year 2023, NYC issued approximately 15.5 million parking and camera violations, resulting in about $1.08 billion in fines. This translates to roughly $2.96 million in parking ticket revenue per day.
@@allnyc3412 Many had tried to deliver a Manhattan message, BUT NOT LIKE YOU.😁👍 After you, there's been many tedious copycats trying to portray the every day life in the BIG APPLE. One "Californian Brah" as she called herself, moved to a New York suburb with a roommate from Craigslist, found herself in a livinhell' and called herself a "Native New Yorker" as she went hopping around New York "as a blogger for RU-vid." Then, she mentioned the word "temporary" because as fast as she snooped in, she snooped out back to her now again "Native Californian STYLES" back to California, but not before leaving my Precious City, trashed our ways with great discomfort noting her finesse COMING OUT OF HER A**, AS IF NEW YORKER HAVE TO USE THE "FOK WORDS" as adjectives for everything and everyone. I'm not sorry that her little ambitious plan failed. That mostly happens when your logic is flawed by your own analytical reasoning for which is 0 to none. I'm glad that she's "so far" gone from New York City. At the same token, her RU-vid videos should be censored, furthermore canceled. Thank you for taking your time in a constructive manner. I'm proud to hear you voice your knowledge INTELLIGENTLY. Is respectfully addressed that NEW YORKERS don't need to inflict violence to have half baked ideas posted on RU-vid.
the Cloisters in Fort Tryon park. was purchased by George Gary Barnard in Europe ,dismantled shipped and sold to John D Rockefeller. He them purchased the land and had it built
I live in staten island and on a hill, and I can see lower manhattan, Jersey city, and newark, New Jersey, and a small portion of the verrezzano bridge.
I haven’t been since 1999. In a six year period I’d go every year, or every other year, and we would fit as many Broadway shows in as possible. During the day we would visit other city places. I never had enough time. And I never went to the top of the WTC. I regret that most of all. I miss New York a great deal and want to go back. Visiting is just dealing with the fun stuff. I don’t have to share an apartment with 4 other women to pay the rent, and food prices are cheaper where I live. But I could spend a week or two there every year and be in heaven.
# 12 Not all of Manhattan is on the island. Marble Hill used to be on the island until the Harlem River was diverted so that larger boats could sail through
I am a New Yorker loved my state. However,it hurt me to know that Central Park was once a community called Seneka community which homes were taken away from blacks and the Irish people. Yes in the future only the rich will be living in New York.
Moved to Manhattan in 2000 from CA and never looked back. Now own a mortgage free pad on the UES, work in finance in midtown and enjoy my fave restaurants all over the city. Great city. Near the 6 1/2 avenue is the BEST burger stop inside Le Méridien hotel- West 56th street (believe it’s called the Burger Joint). Worth a stop and enjoying a delicious cheeseburger.
Here's one thing that most people, even those in Manhattan, don't know about Manhattan (and in case you do any follow-up videos). The northernmost point of Manhattan is not on the island. This neighborhood is Marble Hill, which lies north of the Broadway Bridge over the Harlem River.
I can forsee one day that Central Park will simply become the back lawn, or front lawn, of the billionaire class, no longer being accessible to the public or tourists.
I like this video because it’s very interesting and informative. I like the lady putting her own “view” into her voice. I also like it as I’ll never have the money to go there, well at least not yet.
Close, but not correct. The actual highest point is about 10 blocks north of J. Hood Wright Park in Bennett Park at 183rd and Fort Washington Ave. in the Hudson Heights section of Washington Heights.
@@monchiemonchum Hudson Heights has always been just Washington Heights. It just happens to be west of Broadway where the socioeconomic divide is. We don't have that here in Inwood. It's all one neighborhood where Broadway is the divide between people with more money and those with less.
