When New York looked like Ancient Rome

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This video explores how Roman architecture and city planning shaped Manhattan.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Streets of Manhattan
1:36 the Croton aqueduct
2:05 City Beautiful Neoclassicism
3:29 Mckim, Mead, and White
4:25 Classical infrastructure
5:11 Monuments
5:40 The anxiety of influence
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@toldinstone 3 месяца назад

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@user-wi6cz4hh5b 2 месяца назад

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@shaynewheeler9249 2 месяца назад

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@bostonraymudfloodadventures 2 месяца назад

I just stumbled upon your channel , what is your opinion on " Great Tartaria ???" Have you ever actually looked in to " Tartary???"

@rockutron9000 2 месяца назад

The demolition of the original Penn Station is insanity.

@flochforster7864 2 месяца назад

They hate our culture.

@peanut422hb 2 месяца назад

Must have been high tech. The destroyers from the 1800's don't want us asking questions.

@thedarkenigma3834 2 месяца назад

@@peanut422hbDoes this has to do with Tartaria or the Mud Flood?

@peanut422hb 2 месяца назад

@@thedarkenigma3834 I don't know exactly, but something is very wrong. When limestone and marble are destroyed 50 years after building according to their script . Go back and look at this behemoth of a building. .

@craigr6842 2 месяца назад

@peanut422hb These buildings were already here. New York is an ancient city

@actoraa 2 месяца назад

I can't believe a building such as Penn Station was torn down.

@GabiN64 2 месяца назад

Yeah that generation was crazy

@bobbo11357 2 месяца назад

I agree. My Dad thought it was even more beautiful than Grand Central Station

@lornamorgan3575 2 месяца назад

They did the same to Euston Station in London. Then, built that vile concrete box. All that's left is an entrance arch.

@jackthebro6548 2 месяца назад

REBUILD PENN

@littlsuprstr 2 месяца назад

Those people were poisoned by lead in the atmosphere from burning leaded gas and newsprint.

@antichristhater3440 2 месяца назад

The US literally had an open canvas to make our country beautiful with elegant architecture and instead we defaulted to shit.

@craigr6842 2 месяца назад

All stolen. Yes, that's correct. These were here.

@Layer67 2 месяца назад

@@craigr6842ignorant comment every civilization in human history has used ideas and concepts from other civilizations to build architecture.

@NarasimhaDiyasena 2 месяца назад

Yeah cause the J’s seized control via the Federal Reserve the same time we started making money, hijacking’s our ability to be something more than we are today.

@theFORZA66 2 месяца назад

@@craigr6842the phone you types this brainrot from is also stolen

@wcsii 2 месяца назад

Go back to Korea for that comment

@Thx1138sober 2 месяца назад

My dad took me to NYC in 1964 at age 6. While there, he took to a huge hole in the ground ringed in plywood and said, "Son, you are looking at one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century."

@jotrem4877 2 месяца назад

I’m so intrigued. What exactly was this “hole”

@hollister2320 2 месяца назад

@@jotrem4877 Penn station 😢

@Ravum 2 месяца назад

He took to it? Like he liked it?

@kettelbe 2 месяца назад

He took me. i guess@@Ravum

@Vlaedx 2 месяца назад

I don't understand this. Can you explain?

@Littlegoatpaws 2 месяца назад

When New York was truly at its peak. Maybe not in size but in splendor, relevance, and innovation.

@jamesleyda365 2 месяца назад

Absolutely! Truly awesome!🗽

@robroy6374 2 месяца назад

In my opinion NYC was at its peak from the 1960s to the 2000s

@espdtx4260 2 месяца назад

All of these buildings were here before from a previous civilization they're in every city even little towns think about it they all have buildings that we can't build today and spent every war destroying evidence

@Littlegoatpaws 2 месяца назад

During that 1960s to 1980s period so much went under the wrecking ball. Crime and decay rampant, depopulation, bankruptcy. It was rock bottom. It recovered some before 9/11, but it was never the same. Sort of like how Constantinople recovered after the Justinianic plague, but never with quite the same energy. At least that's kind of how I see it. @@robroy6374

@mgp1203 2 месяца назад

@@robroy6374 Never been to the US but when I think about a US state in their peak from 1960's and onward, I think mainly of California. When I think of NewYork, I always picture the city imagery from 1980's or 2010's imagery.

@kutter_ttl6786 2 месяца назад

If anyone wants to get an idea of how it's like to walk in the waiting area of the old Penn Station, visit Ottawa in Canada. The Senate of Canada building was the former central train station, and the main waiting room was also inspired by the Baths of Caracalla. It looks almost exactly the same as the old Penn Station's, but in 3/4 scale.

@knightstar1312 2 месяца назад

Interesting! I did go to Ottawa years ago. Are you referring to the interior of Parliament, the Senate section?

@ookie4179 21 день назад

Pfffft nobody wants to see inferior 3/4 ottawian architecture

@druna4721 2 месяца назад

I really love Roman/Greek architecture, wish we could see more buildings built in this style today.

@bastait 2 месяца назад

yea we god damn know you want america to be europe

@ecurewitz 2 месяца назад

Won’t happen, it’s too expensive

@nathanventura548 2 месяца назад

They're pretty but unoriginal at this point. Most architecture in the 21st century is mass produced, including classically styled buildings.

@robertozeladarodriguez5321 2 месяца назад

@@ecurewitz Not really they are not much more expensive than a modern building, unless you want everything to be marble, on average I read that it is between 3% more expensive.

@ecurewitz 2 месяца назад

@@robertozeladarodriguez5321 perhaps, but the builders still don’t want to spend any extra money if possible

@andersonklein3587 2 месяца назад

The brutalist designs that became more popular around 30-80 were pretty bad, but the Art Deco was not a downgrade, the Chrysler Building is still one of the most beautiful edifices in the entire world. Just saying.

@ccccaaal Месяц назад

Brutalism emerged in the 50s

@Zwingli-Was-Right-AHwasToo 2 дня назад

Mister klein. Thank your rome hating people who are architects, civil lawyers and ngo owners who pressed for modernist stuff bcause they hate everything european

@yesfredfredburger8008 2 месяца назад

Misread the title as “What New York Looked Like In Ancient Rome” and thought I needed a little more sleep

@oliviabb73849 20 дней назад

Love it lol ❤

@skitsschist11 2 месяца назад

Copying the architecture of Rome is cool, but we didnt have to copy their collapse too

@graciemaemarie11jones16 22 дня назад

they lasted 100 years. usa aint nothing

@caelin4174 22 дня назад

@graciemaemarie11jones16 youre double wrong lil bro

@jordanreeves6008 11 дней назад

usa torn down all the Hebrew buildings wake up they didn't make minority of them if they did there would be more but they cant copy god

@jordanreeves6008 11 дней назад

plus look at ww 2 or 1 all to rewrite history just look at the photos

@Username-2 7 дней назад

@@graciemaemarie11jones16 Do you struggle with math?

@timdella92 2 месяца назад

I’m still mad about the demolition of Penn Station.

@ideatorx 2 месяца назад

This is why I love Washington DC so much, its like being in a neoclassical dreamland, its stunning.

@777jones Месяц назад

The Lincoln Memorial is my favorite structure in the US.

@FlyingAlfredoSaucer 17 дней назад

@@777jonesmine is the Jefferson Memorial

@subnormality5854 2 месяца назад

'The Hidden Roman Design of New York City - RU-vid' Saving this original title for later

@paulkoza8652 2 месяца назад

Nice job. Classical architecture abounds in New York. You just scratched the surface.

@BLACCRAINBOW1997 2 месяца назад

The US had many beautiful building, these were all taken down and replaced with "modern" architecture. Early architecture in the states was amazing and an inspiration to the ppl making America.

@RonPauldidnothingwrong 2 месяца назад

The Manhattan Municipal Building is absolutely stunning in person. Me and a friend admittedly got very stoned in Thomas Pain Park/Foley Square in May 2022, and turned the corner to face the MMB with the setting sun gazing down on it indirectly from the west and it was the most grand looking building I've ever seen in my life at the moment. The bottom Roman-esque pillars with its Golden statue peak reflecting the sun were magnificent. Despite its faults NYC is an amazing megapolis worth exploring indepth.

@SlapShotRegatta22 2 месяца назад

"...and finally, in 2024 New York, the transition from the City Beautiful movement to the City Cesspool movement has been completed."

@Rice_BaL 2 месяца назад

I recently visited New York for a school trip and was amazed by the neoclassical architecture mostly around Times Square and the fashion district but it was pretty pretty much everywhere i went in manhattan

@jbug1979 2 месяца назад

You can still visit the Croton Aqueduct. Parts of it have been preserved as historic sites and greenways for walking and biking. It's a pretty nice day trip, if you live close by.

@matthewroth1299 2 месяца назад

Your videos are always 10/10--not terribly long, extremely interesting, well-edited, and of course educational.

@user-rl3iv2jk9q 2 месяца назад

12 March 2024 AD : After two fullll years or more , I remain a stout Told in Stone fan , looking forward to them every Friday . Very thsnk you Dr .Garrett Ryan .

@crossfire7474 2 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing the podcast interview and your new book. Hope to look into it soon.

@aalexander928 2 месяца назад

Thank you so very much for this short and excellent video of neo-classical architecture in Manhattan. As a New Yorker I mourn the loss of so many of the exquisite structures depicted. It remained a beautiful city through the 1950's.

@colorays 2 месяца назад

Off topic, but thank you for putting your ads at the end. RU-vid is so full of ads, and it is maddening to hear an add break after the first thirty seconds of a video.

@calebdoner 2 месяца назад

And women wonder why we think about the Roman empire so much. It totally surrounds us.

@ackvevo 2 месяца назад

Idk about you but I think about the Ming Dynasty little bro

@princejaxisblack8789 2 месяца назад

who’s we? you French or sumn? 💀 I don’t think about a particular European empire

@timothymatthews6458 Месяц назад

@@ackvevo The Ming was inferior the the Qin and Han. It was a relatively weak dynasty because the aristocracy was eliminated centuries prior.

@ackvevo Месяц назад

@@timothymatthews6458 based The Ming weren’t afraid of exploring the world either

@timothymatthews6458 Месяц назад

@@ackvevo Um, when I said it was weak, I was not implying that it was a good thing. It is bad when a state is weak.

@reference2592 2 месяца назад

Your videos are always sooo good. Thanks.

@johnsolo1701d 2 месяца назад

Chicago too - in some ways more so!

@ipanonymously9503 2 месяца назад

Way more

@JO3BID3N-is-a-P3D0 2 месяца назад

the entire u.s.a and the rest of the world actually

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar 2 месяца назад

Far more, more than you'd believe.

@777jones Месяц назад

I took an architecture class that really focused on Chicago. Its rise was a bit later and better organized than Manhattan’s.

@thomasmacdonough288 2 месяца назад

My father used to work at the (now defunct) Grand Prospect Hall, a beautiful 1903 Victorian style banquet hall in Brooklyn. Between my fascination with that building, and reading the Great Gatsby in HS, I found great admiration for early 20th century NYC and used it as a reference in art classes, so it's the version of the city I'm used to seeing. But whenever I see what they've done to the skyline in person, I feel disgusted. In the never ending tale of NYCs destruction, that aforementioned Grand Prospect Hall was torn down in 2022 to make way for an apartment block.

@pegcity4eva Месяц назад

Just googled it. Damn shame.

@BC-lo6rf 2 месяца назад

Outstanding as always.

@GravityZx 2 месяца назад

I really apreciate your work. Thank you!

@kartos. 2 месяца назад

Thank you for mentioning Philadelphia, it's tiring when William Penn's contribution to American city layouts gets ignored. Just look how Boston turned out

@dingjo5027 2 месяца назад

what a great video, will watch it several times, I will need to research McKim, Mead, and White further, Thanks!

@danielwoods404 25 дней назад

I love that your videos do not have unnecessary background info or introduction.

@christiantaylor4027 2 месяца назад

Most people don't see what's around them. I'm probably the same but I look at the architecture of small towns and big cities. It talks but only if you listen. Thanks for this vid.

@xXcangjieXx 2 месяца назад

And the fun part is you only need to look, sometimes even the most mundane buildings can have amazing details. Just the other day I went inside a boring industrial building from the 50s but once inside the whole entrance lobby was covered from ceiling to floor in a beautiful green swedish marble.

@christiantaylor4027 2 месяца назад

I agree. You never know. Great features turn up everywhere you look.@@xXcangjieXx

@YadraVoat 2 месяца назад

I suppose this finally explains the state nickname "The Empire State."

@conrad4852 Месяц назад

This was a fascinating & informative video. Thank you.

@PerennialAWL 2 месяца назад

I guess that’s why they call it “The Big Ap-Palaiologos”

@robroy6374 2 месяца назад

😂

@verandi3882 2 месяца назад

great video, i love this channel

@c0bra969 2 месяца назад

I wish youd do longer vids and more podcasts! Ive listened to them all 2 plus times! Channel is great.

@Charlie-hv3dh 2 месяца назад

Really cool channel man!! Love this lol!

@OstiaNumismatics 2 месяца назад

Love these videos. You should do one for Philly, we have a ton of great neoclassical buildings.

@TrailBlazer5280 2 месяца назад

Some of the old destruction was bad planning or negligence, but much of it was an intentional attack on our society. These were meant to remove beautiful things and heritage from our daily lives so we the workers would become indifferent to our surrounding. Be ok with moving often and prevent us from establishing community and pride.

@Oscar-zi2pp 2 месяца назад

My favorite piece of neoclassical architecture in NYC is the Con Ed building near union square. It is so grand on the skyline and feels larger than life! Great video as always

@JJ__ 2 месяца назад

“the anxiety of influence” - another Bloom fan? love that book

@prototropo 2 месяца назад

My favorite reminder of classical grace in public architecture is Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. Small in scale but vast in evocation, it never fails to send my thoughts winging to the ancient shores of a more eloquent, noble idea of civilization.

@ns7353 2 месяца назад

Don’t fail to mention the significant of ley lines ! The free masons would want them remembered

@AmericaandWorldArchitectureCha 2 месяца назад

super video, thank you

@endrawes0 2 месяца назад

New Yorker here. Not sure how new Tom's is but love the Seinfeld reference! Also I be was hiking the Old Croton Aqueduct trail just this weekend! Amazing feat for it's time

@WinstonSmithGPT 2 месяца назад

As the city decivilizes into complete collapse, unfortunately neoclassical architecture won’t leave ruins as picturesque as the original.

@jhfdhgvnbjm75 2 месяца назад

I wish the city beautiful movement had lasted, or better was still with us :(

@aurorathekitty7854 2 месяца назад

Never been inside the city but drove past it couple times. Seeing it as I drove past was good enough for me

@jileel 2 месяца назад

Many old structures in L.A. still stand, although our current civilization isnt wise or wealthy enough to care for them.

@lordbiro 2 месяца назад

Always great these vids 😊❤ thanks. Now hurry up with the next !! 😂😂

@akombalasau4022 28 дней назад

I'm so Fascinated of the past architectures.

@saxophonistballerina 8 дней назад

U cool for sponsoring in the end

@squidmeta 2 месяца назад

Wake up honey, new toldinstone video

@zachesherman 2 месяца назад

And she immediately throws the pillow in your face “why do you always think about the Roman Empire?”😂

@1Rab 2 месяца назад

@@zachesherman Are you in NC?

@zachesherman 2 месяца назад

@@1Rab ummmm.... no. Why do you ask?

@into_the_void 2 месяца назад

Im up . .... Im up .. jeeZ

@Winkle-Dinkle 2 месяца назад

IT’S BABE YOU RAPSCALLION

@StirlingCookie 2 месяца назад

I watch your videos every night before bed. I look forward to it every night.

@martinfernandez882 2 месяца назад

I long for the prewar New York cityscape, so beautiful.

@oO-_-_-_-Oo 2 месяца назад

Fascinating.

@williamsullivan3967 2 месяца назад

I really enjoyed this. Thanks!!

@froodsmash 2 месяца назад

RIP old Penn Station

@jorgemaza8142 2 месяца назад

Stunning

@tafutokuta2344 2 месяца назад

The past had so much more class and respect to form

@zbs8334 2 месяца назад

Is there any signs of Roman influence in Milwaukee?

@s_mau6902 2 месяца назад

if you haven’t seen it already, the old northwestern mutual insurance building is a really cool and great building with an obvious neoclassical influence, but it looks like most of milwaukee’s influence is german

@Dano12345100 2 месяца назад

New York still looks like Rome but of course it looks like Rome one century after the fall.

@jordanreeves6008 11 дней назад

cause it is Hebrew people where in slaved why do u think they say rome was built in one day

@Vlad_the_inhaler69 9 дней назад

@jordanreeves6008 they say it wasn't built in a day that's the quote tf you mean Hebrew slaves? .

@sophiaoconnell1927 2 месяца назад

There’s a lot of places where you can still catch the vibe to be honest especially around lower midtown and Wall Street. There’s even some Babylonian looking buildings with wild stone work.

@turtleanton6539 Месяц назад

Oh thats so interesting 🎉

@wauliepalnuts6134 2 месяца назад

Novum Eboracum

@knightstar1312 2 месяца назад

Interesting latin translation

@richardpchaseii5084 2 месяца назад

A lot of beautiful buildings in Boston/Cambridge, by McKim, Mead and White, too. I'm not sure who was responsible, but one of the oldest buildings, at MIT, sure qualifies as "Romanesque"!

@pavopija 2 месяца назад

Rome and NYC are my two favorite cities I visited. Coincidentally, while not having visited that many cities around the world, I think they are the two greatest urbanistic achievements of mankind.

@oliviabb73849 20 дней назад

Can you * please * do an extended length on this or something of similar nature ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

@FuNPUNFun777 2 месяца назад

Nice bro

@ejakobs9881 2 месяца назад

We need a city beautiful movement back, big time.

@jpvansplunder 2 месяца назад

Absolutely fantastic video. I love the voiceover and over-all style.

@nwilt7114 2 месяца назад

Now we have giant twig skyscrapers that are eyesores in the city skyline.

@olivere5497 2 месяца назад

'We wuz Caesars n shieeeeeeeet!'

@yodasmomisondrugs7959 2 месяца назад

😆

@canadianmmaguy7511 2 месяца назад

We wuz kangz

@canadianmmaguy7511 2 месяца назад

We sold other kangz to whites

@solar_warden81 2 месяца назад

😂

@akhripasta2670 2 месяца назад

Every Germanik ever Look at Notsee parliament logo, Holy "Roman" "Empire" US "Senate"

@bentationfunkiloglio 2 месяца назад

I buy my coffee beans directly from a local roaster. Can't ever go back to store bought beans! Getting coffee within a week or two of it's roasting is absolutely critical if one wants to achieve maximum coffee lovers' bliss, aka a coff-gasm.

@canadianmmaguy7511 2 месяца назад

Gay

@bentationfunkiloglio 2 месяца назад

@@canadianmmaguy7511 Appreciate your interest but I only like women. Cheers.

@canadianmmaguy7511 2 месяца назад

@@bentationfunkiloglio cheers

@CDLuminous 2 месяца назад

My town has a coffee roaster. We can never tell if the smell is coffee roasting, a skunk or someone smoking a blunt.

@bentationfunkiloglio 2 месяца назад

@@CDLuminous Must be roasting beans for Starbucks.

@MBP1918 2 месяца назад

What a time it was

@cedarflags 11 дней назад

A lot of smaller American cities still have skylines like this, but on a smaller scale. It's pretty neat to see a skyline untouched from the depression era.

@Trebor-17 2 месяца назад

Andrea Palladio 🇮🇹 "Father of American Architecture"

@waxonwaxofffg3768 2 месяца назад

Torn down to hide the past.

@dbyspae122 2 месяца назад

Tartaria the way you think of it never happened bud

@joecool9739 2 месяца назад

@@dbyspae122 Tartaria was the name given to the Eurasian Steppes by Medieval historians It was inhabited by Tatars and it was a hellish wasteland In Greek "Tartarus" was the name for hell...Medieval historians were fluent in Greek and Latin Not hard to see why they called that land Tartaria

@jesusisking8502 2 месяца назад

Obviously.

@Svenburchard 2 месяца назад

@@dbyspae122 They say many of these buildings took a year to build. It doesn't need to be tartaria to be suspecious.

@Poisson4147 Месяц назад

@@Svenburchard The Empire State Building took less than 18 months. There's MOUNTAINS of evidence documenting how it was done. Hard work and loads of planning can do all sorts of incredible things. Nothing "suspecious" [suspicious] about it if you understand anything about project planning.

@ChrisWashburn 26 дней назад

5:47 Small correction...the marble structure was dedicated in 1895, but it was finished 1892, after a year of fundraising and planning by public committee. Original concept Arch work started in 1886, and finished in 1889 was made of wood-frame and Plaster. Fun facts: The area in the 1790s was originally a burial ground, with public executions, which the area 30-40 years later was covered over and became a housing development for the rich.

@markvenaglia1548 2 месяца назад

Positively thrilled you've referenced, often, City Beautiful! Are you on gram?

@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156 2 месяца назад

I for one would be very curious to see a comparative analysis of American "Civil Cult" and Roman traditional religion. Temples to Jupiter, temples to Lincoln and Jefferson. Etc.

@susannewcomer9614 2 месяца назад

The center pf Washington, DC does has an ancient Roman atmosphere, and I think a time travelling Roman would think that the Lincoln Memorial was a temple to an emperor/god.

@Blackadder75 2 месяца назад

Trump cult as well

@robertbobbypelletreaujr2173 2 месяца назад

The sickness makes them incapable of going more than a few minutes without mentioning him. It usually only infects disturbed, malicious,loserly types.

@Potacintvervs 2 месяца назад

@@susannewcomer9614 I don't feel that this is by mistake. Lincoln is the forever dictator of the Democratic Party. He has achieved apotheosis, and his authoritarian rule over the United States sets him along the likes of great leaders before him, like Genghis Khan, or Julius Caesar, himself. Lincoln is worshipped like a god, and while he does not receive sacrifices, the rest of the tropes still apply.

@SJam491 2 месяца назад

Penn Station still exists, but it's entirely underground now. What stands above it is Madison Square Garden.

@APAL880 2 месяца назад

Madison Square Garden was also built by that same great firm that designed the old Penn Station. But that was demolished too in place of the cheap brown concrete mess called MSG.

@DukeoftheAges 2 месяца назад

yeah but the building above ground needs to be brought back

@CanYouDigItMan Месяц назад

Old school is the best school. True for almost everything.

@ronthesinger 26 дней назад

Francis Ford Coppola now has an upcoming film titled "MEGALOPOLIS", an epic Roman fable set in a fantastical New York City. :)

@whoami8752 2 месяца назад

I don't think "modern" when I think New York, I think of decay and rot.

@youtubegoogleb 2 месяца назад

The glory days

@andrejr.2001 2 месяца назад

I really love Roman and Greek Architecture. I wish there were more splendid architecture like that today

@PopeLando 2 месяца назад

Penn Station based on the Baths of Caracalla. Oh, *that* paragon of virtue!

@Aboriginal_American_Hebrew 2 месяца назад

New world is the Old world of ancient times

@ingold1470 2 месяца назад

Interesting that the beautiful buildings that so many contrast with the glass towers of today and the brutalist nonsense of 50 years ago were the result of a short-lived concerted effort.