Whenever I have a friend visiting NYC and they ask for a place to visit that is "off the beaten path" I send them to Inwood Hill Park and The Cloisters. Bonus: If you visit The Cloisters your pass will also get you into The MET. I think the pass is good for more than one day too, so you can visit the Met the day before or after if you don't want to do 2 museums in 1 day.
You're back, buddy! We missed you! Your videos mean so much to us! Being able to tour the New York metropolitan area and learn from your wealth of historical knowledge, all from the cozy comfort of our own home, is PRICELESS. It's like BEING there. Wonderful videos. Your Latinamerican videos are amazing, as well. Thank you so much, Tomás. 🏆
Greetings from Glasgow, Scotland. Famous Inwood son? Paul Stanley of KISS, born and lived his formative years on W211 St , Inwood before moving to Queens.Sick KISS plug…
Great tour again, thank you very much! But I miss a little bit the scenes/shots of you actually walking around, to be able to get some more impressions and a feeling for the surroundings, the people, the shops, the restaurant and the daily life in general of the neighborhoods you are exploring.
That modular apt. building looks rickety. "Mom..I moved up to Inwood, and I'm living in a converted shipping container! And the rent is still $2000 a month"
Live here all my life, in Inwood...Kareem Abdul Jabbar aka Lew Alcindor of the LA Lakers, grew up in the Dyckman Projects and played in the basketball courts there; Tubby Hook was another name for the Inwood Section of Upper Manhattan; Yes, plenty of Irish Bars once graced the streets; there are just a few remaining; Heather Gardens at Margaret Corbin Circle which leads to the Cloisters has a sign reading " Let no one say and say to your shame That all was beauty here until you came". Very much apropos. Dyckman Street west of Broadway towards the river has interesting dining spots , whereas, east of Broadway has a less appetizing flavor, so to speak. The Inwood area has the least expensive apartments for rent or purchase in all of Manhattan. Thanks for the video and keep up your labor of love.
Kareem aka Lew Alcindor lived in my projects and went to my elementary school, St. Jude's school! He also went to Power Memorial H.S. and played basketball with my brother there! my brother was 1 yr older and Jack Donahue was the coach!
I lived in the basement of the building at 212/10th ave for 2 years. All the things… the building had never been inspected, the plumbing started to collapse (from above) 2nd week, and it was just another day to open the door and find the janitor on the ground face down, surrounded by police… that being said, some great people I had the pleasure to meet!
I really enjoy your vids but you left out Linden Terrace in Fort Tryon Park. Linden Terrace is a big favorite for peeps to sit and watch the sunset, do tai chi, sit and take in the view of the Hudson river from a high elevation and also has Linden Arch which is pretty cool. Thanks for all your vids!!
Thanks , Tom !! Informative video. FYI : you mentioned the Broadway divide in income. A great book that touches upon it is by Professor Robert W. Synder : Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City. Also, a follow up on the Seaman Arch : there is a corner in Inwood called Seaman Ave and Cummings St. Can't make this sh*t up !!!
That Broadway divider is very real. Always has existed. Kind of wild the difference. Grew up there and only knew maybe two people above Broadway. They are their own community.
If you walked a few blocks south on Seaman Ave, you'd have seen Cummings Street. How'd ya like to live on the corner of Seaman and Cummings? Good video. Wish you had talked a bit about the cinema history here, it was pre-Hollywood and many silent films were shot here. They had a movie studio and everything. Btw, you walked right by the building where the original Van Helsig from _Dracula_ (1931) lived. Mwah ha haaaa. 🤘
Another good walking tour video, thanks Tom but see if you can do more dark side video tours bc those were dope also! Maybe even do some walking at night time and show NYC how it transitions from crazy during day time into insanity at night time LOL
Born and raised in New York and I’ve actually have never been to Inwood all 46 years of my life the furthest up north of Manhattan I’ve been to is 193rd St.
Never been up to this part of the city. We were supposed to drive up from NJ to see The Cloisters in the early 80s, my dad and stepmom and I, but everytime we tried it was closed, seemingly, back then. Skrew it! LOL I hear Inwood park is pretty cool.
@@samanthab1923 Yep going to Yonkers you would run across all that, of course. I just never got up there. I haven't even been to Washington Heights yet. I spent some time in the 70s and 80s at my dad's uncle's place in New Rochelle, that was about as close as we got.
Similiar to Corlears Hook Park, birthplace of the hooker, was Tubby Hook, Inwood, near Seaman Ave and Cummings, Dykeman (yeah, an oxymoron), o.k. Dyckman, Streets a place for longshoremen earning some coin ?
lol, it's not Manhattan County's northern most nabe. Marble Hill acrooss the Harlem River is. That Nabe is on the mainland like the Bronx that surrounds it. But it is part of Manhattan County and borough.
Humm, great video! Being a native NYCer, I was taught in PS 64, that Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Cropsey Indians in what became Bowling Green Park (in 1624)
I grew up on 181st. Basically in the shadow of the cloisters. To this day, I still believe the cloisters, and fort tryon park together are the best piece of property on the island. You can debate me on this, but you will be proven wrong. Love the video, but I would have rather seen the cloisters in the Washington heights video 😏
Yeah, isn't Fort Tryon Park (and therefore Cloisters) part of Washington Heights? I never lived up there, but I've been there and I always thought Dyckman Street was the border. Fort Tryon is a great park, as is Inwood Hill Park.
@@jessedylan6162 Since you live in Inwood, from a previous comment, might be interested on the online "New York Tours By Gary" blog. It has a well written two part article on Inwood including Tubby Hook. Misc. Does Dyckman Street also intersect Broadway ?
i'm also a Licensed Sightseeing NYC guide. I've been giving tours for 25 yrs .lol, but thanks for the suggestion. Yes, Dyckman intersects Broadway; Seaman intersects Dyckman and Cumming St intersects Broadway.@@vincentgoupil180
Tom - Unfortunately you missed some of the key elements of life in Inwood during the past half century. First Inwood was for many, many decades a hard-core Irish neighborhood. In the 1980s the area was chock full of Irish illegal aliens, many of whom were involved with the terrorist Irish Republican Army. That of course brought lots of FBI agents keeping eyes on their comings and goings around the clock! Now on a much lighter note, you also missed mentioning NYC's best immature giggle-inducing spot: the corner of Seaman Avenue and Cumming Street! Yes that's an absolutely real place just north of the Dykman farmhouse.
@@johnscanlan9335 El Incorrecto Similiar to 9:22, 4:03 where Tom admonishes Phil regarding Cock Hill, he is aware of the intersection of semen and cummings and the adolescent names. You're not the first commentator to make light of this.
16:25 - This isn't true. Inwood in the 1970 census was 91% white and 7 % black. It was also 95% renter. From 1970-1980 the Hispanic population went from 2% to 50.4% squeezing out both white and black residents. People in apartments move - often. In NYC it's every 3.5 years on average. When new groups come in the old groups have to make room for them. How else would it work?
