Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn Tour: All Kinds of New York History 

I love how you don't sugarcoat the history of the neighborhood.

This is soo informative I’m really learning something here history is actually just repeating itself as we speak with gentrification. I lived in Bed Btuy since 1976 and it’s totally different now I call it the new bed stuy lol

That family photo with Tom’s face everywhere…even as the kids, LOL

I swore I saw Tom today at the Bryant park subway station. It was like seeing a celebrity walking on the platform.

SO glad you pointed out about redlining and state/gov laws that specifically targeted black people to make and keep them impoverished. There is this standing idea that black people don't have because they weren't educated enough, or was somehow lazy, but truth behind it all is very well kept from common knowledge. Whats so amazing about this stuff is the fact that many of those laws and practices are still alive and well and active to this day!.

This was fascinating. I moved to Bed-Stuy 15 yrs ago when I won a rent controlled apartment through a lottery process, even then Bed-stuy was considered gentrified. It was a definite upgrade from Brownsville, which the section of Brooklyn they don’t normally feature in shows and movies lol

Yes Tom!! Loving it from the UK..unfortunately not Bedfordshire, but Bristol. Fun fact, apparently some bombed WW2 bricks and rubble of my hometown helped to build Waterside Plaza, East 25 Street...so there will always be a small part of Bristol in NYC, pretty cool.

Beautiful job Tom. I appreciate your preparation and information you shared in this video and the others. YOU ROCK SIR!😊

Tom i absolutely love your NYC videos they are so amazing and informative. Please dont ever stop doing them.

Finally!! Been waiting on my neighborhood forever 🎉

I wish I had u as a guide when I was there !! 🙌🏻 YOU are so watchable , funny, quick and informative 👊😎

You always do some great videos , showing those hidden parts of New York a lot of people miss. You should do one on Canarsie. Most people make fun of the name because it used to be out in the middle of nowhere. I had a friend who used ro live there where I used to stay when I visited him. You remind me a bit of him .He later moved to Florida. It was a nice area for a long time. I'm glad to hear you are also a preservationist as I am and you don't want to see people priced out of their neighborhoods. I'll look forward to your next video.

Brooklyn is the best borough in NY hands down. So much history and character to it

Always learning something when I watch Tom. Keep up the good teaching tom.

Can’t wait for Flatbush and Prospect Lefferts Garden! So happy to see my Brooklyn neighborhoods ❤❤❤

Your videos are a freaking gem every time. Thank you!

Thank you for this video. I enjoyed learning the history for Bed=Sty. I grew up in the Marcy Projects so this video really hits home. My mother used to bring my father's shirts to be laundered at Cascade. It's a shame to see what developers did but I guess that progress.

That was great

Thank you so much for making this video, I've been waiting for you to make one about my beloved nabe, I've lived in Bed Stuy for 18 years. Love your videos and everything you do so much! 😊

Thanks Tom! And Eric…..loved the info!

Hey Tom, looking great!❤

Loving the Brooklyn episodes. Can’t wait till you reach Canarsie

been a fan of this channel for a while and i love all the information and the history, i wish someone would do this for san francisco!

Having grown up as a third culture kid and a late teen in the predominantly white suburbs of DC, I was excited to move to NYC/Bed Stuy in 2000. I've been surprisingly salty about gentrification every since. But I appreciate your historical insights and hope that such power of knowledge can illuminate more spaces. I also look forward to the day when people in the area (and the nation at large) can embrace the variety of society instead of the tired birds of a feather trope. huzzah!

Thanks tom...love going down memory lane with you...great video!!

Every time I watch your videos I learn somethin keep up the great work

Love your videos and your humor -keep it up!

I love these video! Always so informative. However I do miss the walking around that you used to do (don't wanna make Eric trip n fall but it was so great to see the neighborhoods as you walked past the buildings, felt like I was walkin around with you!) Cheers!

You killed it as always!!!

I hope he keeps moving across Brooklyn until he reaches Coney Island. I would love to see him in my old neighborhood of Midwood. The old Max Senate studio was located there before the movie industry moved to California.

Hey Tom, great video! Love your videos and all that you do and bring to each video you make and upload every week. I get best of both worlds, comedy and information at same time. Definitely a great tour guide/comedian indeed! Im surprised you didn’t mention BEDSTUY they filmed DO THE RIGHT THING and also how SPIKE is from there as well. Anyways you meant well lol. This one hit home to me big time bc I’m from Brooklyn myself. Born and raised in north Brooklyn. Greenpoint as a matter of fact. Funny thing is now it’s on the map but wasn’t the case back in the day bc my dad used to drive yellow in the eighties and he picked up a passenger from Kennedy in 1985 and the guy told him he was going to Greenpoint for a meeting and my dad never heard of the place and asked him he would take him if he can show him the way which he did and the guy even give him $20 and told him to keep the rest as his tip. Anyways shows how far the area has come. No one used want to go into Brooklyn as a cabbie and forget about BEDSTUY or even seeing one in Williamsburg was seeing gold bc they were so rare but funny thing was they all had off duty sign bc they were going back into the big Apple to stay busy. Sorry to get off topic but I recall you were from GP area also but had to leave bc the rents kept rising and now I believe you’re in queens which I’m sure isn’t getting any cheaper from what I’ve been reading and hearing. Anyways just want to say I’m in the same boat as yourself and sooner or later by end of this year I have to leave a place I called home for the last 35 years of my life bc at the end of the day I just can’t plain afford it or anything else left in this city. I noticed even in the red photos you talked about GP had some part into that so I’m curious if that’s why it’s coming up quickly also now these days bc they were practically giving houses away in GP decades ago but no one wanted them including my own family members who had multiple chances to buy very cheap back in the day but again they never thought that these houses would be what they are worth today. Anyways please keep up the great work Tom. Maybe I will watch you from North Dakota or wherever I end up that’s hopefully affordable. Please see if you can do walking tour of south Brooklyn bc I’m very interested and curious about places like Mill Basin, Starett City, Canarsie, Flatlands ETC bc there’s hardly any subway service there besides the famous L train and a few other lines but that’s really about it as that goes otherwise it’s basically a desert with only way getting around are buses, walking or dollar vans (if they even have those around anymore). Take care Tom, CDUBBZ OUT

Outstanding Video As Usual😊

Another informative and cool video!!!

Fantastic! Thanks!

Seeing a flip phone in 4K is quite confusing, but lovely.

My stomping grounds for 9 years! Dope job TDNYC!

First time here, I’m a New Yorker and enjoyed your tour. Good luck Tom!

Literally that building on Myrtle and Marcy used to be a gas station when I was going to school over there

I love how u made a video about the neighborhood I live in!

BUT THAT "FAMILY" PHOTO, THOUGH!!🤣😂...TOM U NEVER DISAPPOINT, A NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY TOUR AND COMEDY!!...LOVE IT!!😉❤

Thank you for helping us be more educated and aware of neighborhoods that made a difference in our communities and culture! Being aware of good and not so good changes that make a difference to our community, as well. Oh, and btw, to me, you are a New Yorker!

Redlining made perfect sense.

Bed-Stuy, do or die. some did, some died and some did both. Worked there the summer of 1988 on "Do The Right thing". One of the best movies I ever worked on. Some times I go back to "the block". Curiously, where the Pizzeria stood (which was a set) is still a vacant lot.

Tom is the best to ever lace 'em up.

great video man

Thanks for this Tom - I loved going on that redlining, anti-leg-up-to-the-billionaires rant and emotional roller coaster with you! It needs to be said!

Thank you!

another banger.

Cool aloments, gardens my Granny Sharples had one....veggies and herbs❤

oh em geee it's tomdnyc in my neighborhood!! don't know if you take requests but would love a tour on the history of BK broadway maybe w some bushwick ave sprinkled in... love the vids!

More places! Like ten! And more video of the views around!

Yes you are doing a video of my neck of the woods where I was born at Bed-Stuyvesant and I miss my home town .

The Heart of the Stuy Bedford ave & Fulton St 💯

OMG…it’s Tommy D…in the place to be…giving us another video…

great video

I like that you also tell black history also!! Thank you

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Bed stuy/bushwick 🔥🔥🔥 love it there. Gracias 🙏🏽rest in peace Malcolm x

My family moved from Italy to bay ridge Brooklyn in 1969 I was born in 1972. Brooklyn was insane in the 80s and 90s what a great place to grow up. My dad brought his 1st house in bay ridge for 17k in 1970. Then he brought 3 multi family homes the following year to this day there still rented. All four houses have been collecting rental income for the last 50 years. combined today they would sell for close to 5 million dollars.

Good stuff

Brooklyn FTW! (From a former Brooklyn heights res now Texan)

That is going on every where I live in Houston Texas and it’s just like that over here where the ghetto Allison is becoming real popular and people are building beautiful townhomes and houses around in the hood and in the hood

Thanks again John in Chicago

Amazing, thanks for all the video. So we are New Yorkers after we die here, that's great lmao

The school board boycott was in Ocean Hill, Brownsville!

I need to meet you

You are a National treasure! I got to the part with Woolworth's ("You might remember them") and I realized that, No, people don't know what Woolworth's (Five and Dime, Five and ten cents store) is. Your videos are not just "old" history. but revealing of more recent history.

Would love a video on Clinton Hill!

Seeing that you are wearing a st augustine hat. It would be awesome to see you do a tour there one day.

I love the brownstone buildings.

The best as always. We thank you Tom. Informative like always. Not lame like other streamers, like Dutchmazz who eat shi##ts and eat in Coney island. You're the best and Iconic.

you know the saying Do or die in bed sty!

Looking forward to returning to Taormina for the best cooking class ever in the chef’s house. I had such a great time last year with Rosella and Gianca that I decided to come back again for a private tour with my family in August. Ciao ciao, see you soon , Adriana

Thanks for the info. I was born in Bed Stuy - Sterling Place.

I am 65 and have memories of my father talk about growing up in Bedford Stuyvesant ..He claimed to have been a gang member and they used zip guns for fights. I always thought he embellished but did enjoy his stories. He was also an alter boy at the local catholic church.

What sets NYC apart from most American cities is that some middle class people stayed and didnt' go to the burbs.

u should do a video on Howard Beach.

Is Bed-Sty gentrified now? During the 70s through the 90s, it was a no go. Love the Gem Spa shirt. Always stopped there, before going to the Fillmore. Another great tour Tom.

Do you mind if I repost a clip of this amazing video

Awesome video, Tom. Sick Plug!

Those staggered balconies on the building on Marcy and Myrtle are for Hasidic Jews. Each apartment needs a balcony that's open to the sky for them to build a Sukkah on the festival of Tabernacles: a hut covered by leaves that must be unobstructed by a ceiling according to Jewish law.

I lived at 191 Jefferson Ave 1996-2010. Great block parties My Grandkids went to P.S. 3..The Bedford School

Take the a train as Duke Ellington said

Eric graded the footage!

Ya gota do Sheepshead bay/ Brighton beach/ coney island

Do Bay Ridge…. Very historical rich neighborhood from the beach houses to ft Hamilton….

Hey, this is the place referenced in Halsey's song, Hurricane! :)

didnt see the link: u gonna have to post it somewhere down in the comments! thanks

The myrtle ave subway was above ground.

Living in Charlotte NC now but lived in ATL for over 33 years, but before that I was a Bklyn and Queens boy. I was born in Bed-Stuy at St. John's Episcopal hospital on Herkimer now known as Interfaith Medical Center.

You skipped over Biggie's house on ST.James pl ...maybe next time. I really enjoy all of your videos

Suprised you didn’t talk about Boddy Kennedy's connection to the community!

Great video but a thought on one part towards the end - that's not how housing works. More apartments actually means less rent overall. Those wealthy people now have luxury apartments to rent instead of buying out a local. People are going to move in regardless and fighting development only pushes locals out faster.

LiL Tom Mot🎉😂 let's get on with this video

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Could you do a tour NYC mafia history?

Those are some loud chirping birds near the Woolworth house lol.

wait...what's that yellow box in 4:04 with the chinese newspapers? does it serve as a locker of some kind?

Haha! I had moved my daughter out of the apartment across from Jay Z’s old building last year! Crazy times!!

seriously, no shot while on the curbside toilet?