Kips Bay, NYC: Inside an Overlooked Historical Neighborhood 

About 5 years ago, I read a story about an elderly woman who died in Greenwich Viilage. She had moved to NYC in 1955 to be an actress. To save money, she lived in an apartment with 3 other young women. I think her share of the rent was $4 a month. Over the years, the other women moved out, but she stayed in the apartment. When she died, 63 years later,her rent was $28.43 a month.

Hey Tom - you had me at "i believe the children are our future ..." 😄 Thanks for that!! and all the history too

New subscriber here. I discovered your channel last night, subscribed, and left it on while I slept. Needless to say, it was like astral projection as I dreamed I was being rowed in Central Park Pond in the spring. I’m still watching this morning as I work from home waaaay over here in Sacramento. Thanks for that and for doing what you do. 💗

Crazy (and awesome) that NYC still has trees that are turning colors and haven’t dropped all their leaves yet!

Tom singing Whitney Houston is the best

Thank you Tom, try to stay warm. 🕺🏻🐕

Yaaayy new Tomdnyc video ❤❤❤ Thank you Tom.

With Tom singing " The Greatest" had me cracking up. He is so funny!

The I.M. Pei-designed Kips Bay Plaza one of the surviving examples of Brutalist architecture.

18:51 I literally had the same expression when I saw the Will Smith photo in the window 🤣🤣🤣

I’m in kips bay💃 glad you are in my neighborhood❤️ hey Kips Bay Towers is not city housing it’s private condos. We are a wonderful community of people. You should have seen our private garden! People come to see our beautiful garden. What about the ferry and the walk along the water. Dog park. Tell the Nyu hospital history too.

Gotta be one of your best videos! Thanks for the work that went into it

This one brought back so many memories living in the nabe as a young man thirty years ago. I lived at 23 Lex former Martha Wash hotel which were like micro studios, which went for $500 a month. Ooh boy! I remember walking up Curry Hill but I didn't eat indian food at the time. Also used to go to a Baskin Robbins at the end of 23rd &1st. It's a great, quiet section but now it's too expensive!

Great video! Keep the information and comedy coming!

Great video as always Tom. Would love to see you do a tour of Fordham University one day! Some of the richest history in all of NYC hidden on our campus. Keep up the great work

Thank you for another great video! It looks like a beautiful fall scene where you were. Sad, up here in Rochester, we had those colors a little over a month ago 😢. Now the trees are bare. I love learning the history with you! 😊

I live right near here! It really is a pretty neighborhood!

I laugh, I learn! Thanks, Tom!

Wow born and raised in New York and I never heard of this neighborhood. I always thought Gramercy ended at 34th St.😂

Yessss!! "Take a taxi!!" 🚕

WOW ! Loved it*** & all the pigeons were delightful especially at 6 :15 those three crossing behind you 😊😊😊

Always enjoy these videos! Love learning about neighborhoods I've lived in!

by the way, cool facts - the taxi on that statue of that Dalmatian is actually a real car! 25:36 and it's in front of the Hassenfeld Children's Hospital which is named for the family who started the Hasbro toy company

Even the pigeons looked cold but they're so cute! I've never seen a self-cleaning fire hydrant before. It must know that dogs roam the neighborhood:-) I enjoyed the show and tour as usual:-) 🧚‍♀ "It matters little when one goes." That gives me immense comfort for my eventual demise. lol 🧚‍♀

Woah - just stumbled across this page, you’re a great storyteller!

Another awesome eps,learning about my home...

Great vid, Tom. I recently moved out of Kip’s Bay after living there for 25 years and even though I’m a history buff, I knew little of the history discussed. I can’t wait to enlighten my old neighbors next time we get together.

I attended school in that area in the 70s.

Great piece! Loved that dig at Monsanto.

You are so right about the taxis in Manhattan!!

So happy you did this! I’m from the UES My parents are from Kips Bay and I’ve always loved the neighborhood. Love your videos bro

Tom, hey! What's up? Another sick tour as always!!!

You did a great job with the tour! I enjoy watching your videos and was especially excited to see one covering my neighborhood. I liked how you included a stop showing the housing projects around Bellevue South Park and didn't just stop at Kips Bay Plaza. Urban renewal projects played a major role in the history of Kips Bay and practically affected all of the blocks between 1st and 2nd Aves. from 23rd to 33rd Sts, except for a row of townhouses that remain on the south side of 30th Street.

Thank you, Tom, loved your new vid. Always enjoying it ❤

Love your videos! The lip oiling sound effect, had me rolling with laughter.

I love your videos. For some reason the algo decided I didn't want to see this and instead wanted the horrors of war piped to me. ???? Keep up the good work.

Thanks Tom, cool vid 🤙

Always look for your historical and entertaining videos Tom...it makes my day. Thanks 👍👌👏😊♥️💯🇺🇸

Proud graduate of Baruch College, also known to us as UCLA or “university on the corner of Lexington Ave”, as is my wife my sister and many friends, all children of immigrants, who have prospered in this great city. For very little money, received a great education in business, and while underwhelming as a “college experience” I don’t regret it when working with folks with 120k in debt and degrees in “nuthin much” ha ha..NYC Forever!

I usually go to Kips Bay for the AMC bc theres always seats lol

Somehow I still want to live in NYC and risk it all despite the "harsh" reputation

I love the interviews with store/business owners. It would be cool if you can do some man on the street interviews too and talk to residents.

Hey Tom, I have an idea: RUN FOR MAYOR!! I'll vote for you, the revolutionary, up-n-comer who really knows his way inside and around this gran manzana!

Great! I always thought New York Had a rotten core!! Thanks for the grit!!!!

This was awesome and funny😂❤👍😆😆

come up to Vermont and buy some flannel lined jeans, or carhartts. Tom, you're the best, Thank YOU and you Camera Crew for making such good videos~ I'm so glad I can visit NYC now, it was a dream living in Hawaii to see NYC, your videos really helped me! *moving my StudiO' to the east coast was the best decision ever!

Always had this odd dream to go to NYC and live like a bum for a week. Not like a homeless person... That would be crazy, except you know beard long hair shopping cart i believe theyd let me just be, and id be able to hang out unbothered in some cool places. 15:53

Thanks brutha. I'll check it out on my next day trip

Sorry, my French heirloom always cracks it when I hear CUNY. Good stuff mate, keep it up!

Thumbs up for saying CUNY needs more funding...100%

Siiiiiick...

I've been there but had no idea it was called Kips Bay!

i think you said it all ... to solve the housing problem "just build more luxury housing!!!

Hey, Tom -- nice video. That area was also once known as "Little Friuli" to the many immigrants who came from the Friuli region of Italy in the first half of the 20th century.

24:37 TommyD doing his civil duty

hello from Idaho.......

Like this part of town

I live near Kip's Bay Towers. I usually see "Piece of Cake" moving trucks parked in front there, mostly for people moving out.

Kalustyan's is a great store. FYI, they ship.

Damn it Tom, did you not learn anything from smelling the flowers last time (drinking from the spraying hydrant)?

Wilhelm scream within first 30 seconds!

Hi from Malaysia.

Really like your videos. My dad grew up in NYC. He passed away, a month ago. I'm trying to learn about all of the places he was associated with there. He lived on W. 148th St, in the 1950's and early 1960's... in an Estonian neighborhood. Does anyone know anything about this location then or now? Maps label it as Sugar Hill. Tom, could you please please please do a tour of this area? Thank you!!

Excellent Tom and very interesting history-----------also, time for a SHAVE--Please.

Is it me or does anyone else hear running water? Great video as always!

How the hell am I the FIRST LIKE on this video? Tom is funny and informative!

My Uncle’s 6th Great-grandfather 😊

IM Pei designed the medical examiner building on 1st Ave opposite Bellevue Hospital. The scaffolding surrounding the building has been up for 14 years for mysterious reasons.

Tom we walked through there (Russ and Cathy)

That is the helicopter that is mainly used by the Governor, although she scaled back her usage after being criticized for using it too much.

p.s. 3:06 cool actual postcard sold by the Lenapes to the Dutchies 16:55 why you no go inside buildings ? Adds a new dimension other than standing outside in the cold Suggestion: ran across the archival article "Blight of the Tainted Havemeyer Millions" along with Scott Yunker's "Mystery in the Mansion" (2019) about the ghost of Lillie Havemeyer Mayer. Might be of interest if not done already ... I mean, tainted blight, com'n, viewers luuuv tainted blight then, again, not from Queens had normal parents don't see it. Be the first or one of the few to tour the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) with it's strange facade of stone layered between two sheets of glass and innovative interior stage design. You're an actor.

Yo! Where’s Phil???

Queen Minnehaha lift here in the early 1800s and she ended up in Buffalo New York

14:32 did I just see Tom doing what I think I saw him doing?

if you mention CUNY, don't forget to describe SUNY and PUNY.

Tom... You're a comical man. I like that. Also... Idk if you know, but normally Jackets can be zipped up. Esp when it's, you know, cold? So what's wrong with you man? Close your damn jacket.

LOL funny guys. Did you just get emotional singing? :)

Zip your coat up if you are cold x

Amen Tom we need to build more affordable housing. It’s getting insane!

Not sure why you consider slum clearance is a bad idea?

Tom, Just received Edward Rutherford’s New York as a gift today. Thoughts?

Do we ever see Cameron?😊

@5:53 😂😂

Tom, put on some gloves and zip up your coat!!

❤️🇱🇨!!!

fighting 69th deserve an episode... great/terrible movie with cagney pat obrien and alan hale sr, there leader donovan would start the oss/cia. i think its still an active unit

Alright, Tom! Just admit it, you like shitty weather. It's not your first video like that XD

Sexual Chocolate! @9:05

It's good to do once but only if u are under 40 lol

BOLLOCKS !!! *:-* Did Ole' Tom say stuffy ole artists ? Chalk it up to brain freeze (freezing one's bollokes off)

lol kith

Ok, whoever deleted my previous comment: What is so nefarious about referencing an Asterix comic's (Asterix in Britain) Roman Strategy joke?

Daymmm why are your nails so long

You could quit this Day Job & become a Lounge Singer, its a Joke come on.

Robert Moses. 👎

I enjoyed this Kip Bay neighborhood tour.

Quick Tip: when you’re cold, zipper up your jacket! Resolved!

The Louve pyramid, blech!

Love the cat photo.

I'm getting a Jim Jarmusch vibe from this. I'll get my coat