As usual, I spent half the video laughing along with your self-deprecating humour, and the other half being impressed by your amazing NYC knowledge. Please post more vids to keep us entertained 👏 Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Once again, very much enjoyed this tour. Your knowledge of NYC history is bonkers. You should start a blog or write a book, would love to read more in-depth stuff in your style. Or maybe a little series of videos dedicated to one specific thing. Cheers!
tomdnyc awesome Tom👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 !!!! I hope they pick you my friend or the History Channel, me and my wife would be delighted to go on your NY TOUR once this craziness is over , take care and keep the awesome work !
Like you sense of humour and mix of very good knowledge....people like you are very rare.....just just keep it up.. keep on posting and keep on blogging...
Good to see you a walking and a touring again. (Did you fire your last camera guy, AK?) The architect Philip Hubert designed the first condo in 1884, the Chelsea Hotel. Condo means you own the airspace between the walls but not the walls, ceiling, floor themselves. A couple of million dollars of fiat money for air. Seems appropriate. Btw, along with the Chelsea Hotel there were the Washington Square Hotel and the Hotel Albert occupied by connected wannabe artists unlike you. What do you do again? Standup comedy Art. Yes, the most creative of dem all. I think so. Tom Waits mentioned* a while back when visiting Manhatten he was amazed to see people waiting in line a hour for salad. He initially thought there was a cat/girl fight. Tom W.: "Frankly, I was embarrassed for them.". *(RU-vid, on one of David Letterman's last shows.) Read below you would like to visit Croatia. If ya do you could expand your repertoire by giving tours. Just ad lib some stuff. Most Americian tourists wouldn't know. "Gee, his English is very good.". Thanks for your videos. Enjoy them.
Near 7:00 you're explaining landlords and leases. Since I'm slow, how long are leases? Paraphasing, "Locking someone in at twenty years at a higher price rather than a higher price initially.". Also, "... hoping the price of a lease will rise each year ...". How do these two comments relate to each other? Is a lease/rental price locked-in/fixed or does it rise each year? Or both, fixing the initial base-line lease price and rising it each year? Yet another question for Tom da Oracle. With more renters moving out of the city will rent prices drop or can leases be renegotiated? Or with evictions and mortgage foreclosures happening will we, da little people if we're lucky enough, all be renters in some 3rd world project on Avenue D? Ontologically or metaphysically, your choice. Of course, this micro-economics scale doesn't apply to the Hampton Beach residents. Granted this is not a Real Estate 101 video I appreciate your bits of realty ... er, reality you bring to your videos as most New York City blogs don't. One blog freatured a sandwich for twenty or more dollars at a nearby location that in the other boroughs would have being a fraction of the price. What's up with the fascination of new york pizza slices? Is Christina's Polish-American Restaurant, south of South SOHO, SOSSOHO, but just NONOWA (north of north Wall Street. Sic, the Boolean Guide to New York City. I'm beginning to understand the Lenape's, indigenous New Yorkers, transplanted Japanese language.) still around? Roberto's Bakery? Apologies for the length of the comments.
I love your style (crossing while red) ! And this was during Covid Hysteria; well done! I just discovered your channel and I'm going to spend October in New York and I will watch all of your vids in advance.
I think I am gonna ride the hair out and see how long my hair will get and how off-putting I can become! The bear must stay trimmed though - it gets too distracting to touch!
My favorite hangout as Artist, going to NYU, for Art Masters . 1980' great memories, then rivitalized by Artist , before fashionable...Shame on Landlords. It used to be a Mom and Pop eateries, sooo great.🇩🇰🇺🇸🖌️🎨📬
JFK Jr lived in TriBeCa. He was actually one of the first big celebrities to live there. 20 N. Moore St. was the address. A lot of celebs live on his block today. It's also right across the street from the Ghostbusters firehouse!
I loved the Knowledge Tom has but I don’t like the gentrification that’s happened in the neighborhoods in New York it seems it’s only for the very wealthy now
Ya' done good and held your composure well in the video with boss-lady. Btw: the song "Angie" also refers to Andy Warhola. Listen to the song, "Angie-Andy ... Andy ... there ain't a woman that comes close to you." Not, " ... any other woman.".
I can’t stand soho now, I worked there in the 70’s at the height of the artists takeover. It used to be cool. It feels like a mall now. The architecture is still groovy but the vibe is elitist and mass produced.
Thanks, Karen. And yeah, SoHo is wild on rent. We'll see what happens to rents in the coming months though. It's a pretty empty neighborhood right now.
Many years ago, the now named DeSalvio Playground was called the Spring St Park on Spring St and Mulberry in SoHo. Yay! Broome St! Where I was born and raised. Thank you, Tom for a walk down memory lane.
Tom, you are gem that I found because of the pandemic. How I wish we could have appropriate-aged school kids watch some of your videos for their shortened, virtual, online classes. Stay well, and thank you!
@@tomdnyc1 Tom, considéralo, acá le he mostrado tus videos a mucha gente y les gusta mucho. La información que ofreces es abarcadora, y toca puntos históricos, políticos, sociales, antropológicos, de arquitectura y todo en una onda de buen humor, algo que no es fácil de realizar. Confió q la pandemia pase y pueda regresar de paseo a NY y poderte contratar para una excursión dentro de la fascinante historia que encierra esa ciudad. Te deseo continuos éxitos.
Your knowledge of our city's history and culture is so vast and informative! Very interesting, I did not know about most of this, despite living in the city my whole life. I think we will see a huge drop in real estate prices in the near future, and New York City will be accessible to the working class once again!
Once upon a time The main library used to have a apartment on the top for like a over night guard and his family to live in. Does the library still do that? It would be cool to see that apartment even if it's not in use now.
Yep PBS and similar sources like short stories. It will probably be year's before I get there sad to say but dude it's awesome you know so much and I love all that crap all the stuff quote un quote normal people could care less about. I like to understand shit so when I finally come it's because my inheritance kicked in sad to say but hopefully it WONT BE SOON. You understand the normal reasons one gets inheritance and that will be a sad day for me so I'm not looking forward to that but I am realistic about life and coming to explore N.Y. is going to be awesome. I'm Irish so of course during the daytime to eat food and drinks the most expensive and best Irish pub and at night; "because there will be no eating of food at these places;" the shadiest most notorious mobed up Irish pub you know of. Dude I'm crazy like that I like to live and experience the best of life and see all of it. I think your the type of friend that differently would be a blast to do these things with and I'm glad you know so much about the city. Dude we differently will have fun and I want to go everywhere. I swear if covid doesn't kill us and Hamilton goes back on stage we are going and I got you bro premium seats too I want front row the spit section. I will figure out how to get backstage to meet the cast I'm also weird like that. I walk around like I owe everything and people are not used to that, so I get into places no one should have ever let me be in. It's my imaginary balls that helps me accomplish that task. But for right now I'm broke like everyone else. Just keep up with me and when I know I can come I'll hit you up to make some plans.
... erh, Tom if ya haven't seen "After Hours" git' thee to Netflix. It's after midnight Soho (was it Soho in 1986?) with a "yuppie" looking for love with all the wrong women (Carl Jung's Anima "The Wall" rabbit hole redux on the DMT subway line, or not.) "Something Wild" (Demme's movie before "Silence of the Lamb", go figure) is another late 80's Manhattan romantic comedy. As a Floridian, ... cough .. 'transplant', parts were filmed in that state so one scene is downtown then next a truck rolls by with a Seminole football signage. Yea, you and Deborah 'Blondie' Harry, transpla ... . Howzabout a tour of places that don't exist anymore. Standing in front of the place formerly known as CBGB explaining when Punk was still Trash or who was Richard Void and I forget, Richard Hell & da Voidoids ... doesn't matter, they were all punks I tell ya. That'll be a show stopper. Just subscribed, u' happy now? Just kidding. You're doing a great job, really, no poop. I like your rent comments as bits of reality you don't hear in other NYC videos. Is the Polish neighborhood you lived in sending e-mails for putting them in the limelight? Do you sit in your apartment listening to Simon & Garfunkel's song, paraphased, "Tom the only living boy in New York" (Baby Driver?). Questions, questions. I digress.
