East Village Travel Guide: Everything you need to know 

Found your channel last week and have completely enjoyed it. My wife and I are planning several weekend trips to visit NYC and your videos give great itinerary ideas for short visits. We have already visited the "cheesy" tourist attractions downtown and ready to explore the hidden areas. Thank you for your creativity.

Love your videos, pretty much watched all of the NYC Borough videos and cannot wait to visit this fantastic city

One spot you should check out is Ray’s Candy Store in the East Village right by Tompkins Sq Park. Such an old school NYC institution

The East Village / LES / Alphabet City is my favourite hang out spot in Manhattan! Love that you included the Anthology Film Center! I have spent a lot of time there satisfying my inner movie nerd. Lot's of old and even older history there especially if you are into 'alternative music and culture’ or if you are of German descend. Your stop #11 St. Marks Church used to have live shows and one of the first if not the first live performance of the Velvet Underground organized by Andy Warhol was at that church. The CBGB music venue was just around the corner and even the city officials understood its importance and included it in the trailer when NYC tried to get the Olympic Summer Games. Luckily they didn’t get it but unfortunately CBGB had to shut down for good in 2006. They later opened a CBGB ‘fanshop’ inside Newark airport that still exists but let’s not talk about that. The whole area around St. Marks Place and Tompkins Square Park was also the epicenter of the squatting and punk / hardcore movement in NYC. In 1975 the first “punk store” in the U.S. “Trash & Vaudeville” opened but due to the astronomical rent in the city and the gentrification they had to shut down in 2016 after having been in the same spot for 41 years. But I guess international music and movie stars need a place to live as well: Javier Bardem owns one of the tiny apartments in one of the houses next to where the shop used to be. The East Village is also known as “The Ukrainian Village” but there are barely any left but VESELKA is still there! A Ukrainian restaurant that is open 24/7. Long before the Ukrainians came the entire area was called “Kleindeutschland” (aka. Little Germany). By the late 1860’s over 50.000 German immigrants would live in the area and their community was thriving. In 1904 during a big celebration on a ship with all the heads and important people of the community the ship sank and most people died. There is still a little memorial for all the little children who drowned somewhere by the playground at Tompkins Square Park. The German community “dissolved” after that and most of them moved to other parts of NYC or the East Coast.

This is the kind of content we need! Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Hey! I absolutely love your content, it's fantastic! The editing is great and you have a really down to earth personality. I genuinely think that if you keep going with RU-vid your channel could grow really big and become a major player on the platform. Excited to see where your journey goes and keep working hard! :D

Love it! You’re so good at the guides!

I really like the off the beaten path neighborhood vlogs...Good job

Oh yeeeesss i am so exited for this series! I will visit New York for the first time this year, so this will be super helpful ☺️👍🏻

Great video. I’ll be there in oct and you’ve given me some new places to put on my list!

"Relaxing but aggressive experience" - this alone is worth investigating that Turkish and Russian bath 😂 Great video, Tal! Got 1 ad, FYI.

Thanks for the video Tal. There's certainly lots going on, not as vibrant as Greenwich Village but much more character, loved it.

Hello Tal!!!! 18th view, 7th like and possibly first comment. What a beautiful day! Such hidden gems, so cool to learn about them. I especially liked the big smile on your face when talking about the Cube, always brightens my day. ❤️😻❤️ILLINOIS

LOVE your informative stuff! Don't let the a-holes get ya down! I remember you eating those fish shaped pastries w/Moshe et al in another country! Carry on, my friend! 👍👍👌💜💚💙💟👍👌

Just happened upon your channel...From one New Yorker to a current New Yorker you do a great job..I dont get a chance to watch to many vids as i am to busy making my own. its a lot of work as i have over 4500 vids up. But i will check out some of your older vids and spread the word about you with my subscribers....Good luck....RR

sick tour bro!

the cube is kina cool that hahaha i had no idea u can move it. love the vid

Low key mad that I’m just finding your videos about NYC after just being there last week! Guess I’ll have to go back 😊

Great great film.

"The Cube" was actually titled "The Alamo", and the big brown building on the right is the original Cooper Union building, an arts and science college endowed and founded in the early 19th century. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech there. After the speech, Lincoln and several other attendees walked down 7th Street to McSorley's Ale House to knock back a few brewski's. Put that in your next EV tour.

That was really absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable. Well done for challenging your embarrassment levels too. 😡 FYI no adverts today.

I didn’t know it spun!!!!! that is so cool!

Was sooo much better back in 90s. When I loved lovin there. Totally diff now

Great job! Check out the new book Manhattan's East Village- Three Decades of Madness. It will fill in a lot of blanks about the 60s, 70s and 80s.

At the start you were by my grocery store on the corner of Christie st and Houston lol, also don’t forget raclettes on 12th st. The famous cheese place where they scrape melted cheese off the wheel on your dish

you should do more of these

Absolutely love these new neighborhood guides!

the cube is iconic bruh

This was 🔥🔥 Coming back right before we go to NYC again! Would love to link up! 🙌🏼

It is not about the places only. It is about the history of the East Village. Punk-rock, Alphabet City, the reason of the speak - easy like Blind Barber, Thompkins Square Park, Gnocco...

I grew up there, and it wasn't until 3:48 that I recognized where you were !! Could you please tell your locations more often?

He protecc He attacc He The Traveling Clatt LOL I'm going to this on every video

Yesss 😁

Momofuku Ko is pronounced basically exactly how it's spelled (Romanized). Momo rhymes with "so-so", fuku rhymes with "coo coo". Momo means peach, fuku are the sailor uniforms worn by Japanese schoolgirls. Ko means child, and Momo is also a common given name in Japan. Might've been named after someone but I dunno. Anyway, sorry about blathering on.

Thank you for all the great videos, I found your channel watching John in here be Barr . I have a question for you about NYC in October. I'm planning a trip in October for a few day and I was wondering will the city be decorated for Halloween during the whole month. Is it October a busy time to be in the city or is every month busy lol. Thank you again !!!

Have you gone to see a Broadway show yet? How expensive is it? What one would you want to see? I would love to go to the film place you showed, and the comedy place, the speakeasy, and all the Japanese food!!! I'm so jealous!

Love your tours !!! How far away from your home are you ? Does it take long to get home? Being from England have no idea

This intro is 🔥 the 💥👂👏☝🙏👊👑

Casey N last video is the tell to u tube I think. I am digging the Grove of the video 😁.

Hey brother... Which location in ny have noticed more family friendly oriented neighborhood , where you seen more families with kids hanging around than just couples/ singles. ?

94k getting close!!!!

That cube was massive 😂 Will I get any good luck if I try to spin that cube? 😂

cool video

I would love your videos even more if you would use a stabilizer for your camera

Nice video , but you really need to tell people what the boundaries are of each neighborhood you are touring. ie the east, west , north and south streets. Outlinig the area would be very helpful to those not familiar with NYC.

Not too bad then. That's good .

Is it called East Village bc it's part of Greenwich Village or is Greenwich Village a different neighborhood entirely? Sorry not a native New Yorker

I can help you with Washington heights because I live there.

Back then Tompkins Square Park was literally a homeless tent city. There were riots in 1988 when the city finally kicked them out of the park. You literally cannot believe what parts of NYC were like back then. Literally like a war zone, with buildings falling down, buildings with no front WALL facing the streets, (kind of like dollhouses.) It looked like Beirut, but filled with junkies, hookers, pimps, drug dealers, etc. I'm NOT exaggerating. Alphabet City, to the East of the park WAS INSANE. A no-man's land. Everybody used the Avenue letters for Avenues A, B, C, D, to stand for A: Alright, B: Borderline, C: Crazy, D: Dead. There were no subways and no cops in there, you were risking your life! The further you went in, the worse it got. Now it's beautiful and quiet, and the apartments cost a million and up. WATCH: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bmgggwd4tjI.html

Tompkins is still sorta dangerous a lot of drugs there...kinda sad if you end up there at night there are a lot of strung out kids

Are you going to cover Staten Island?

When are you going back to Philippines

Tal Can you do a tour of Starbucks in New York City ?

I thought your favorite chicken is Filipino Chicken Jollibee, lol.

Lol I was just sitting in the park

Noice ? Nice lol

You forget to go to rays candy

RIP UBC... :/

You should try the intro first

Nice video, fyi 3 advertisements

Not wheelchair accessible.

You did the east village and you didn’t go to vaselka?.. come on dude lol 😂

Not wheelchair friendly.