This man does a great job presenting! He seems like a guy who quit a career in a high-paying job to keep his sanity and follow his dreams. His knowledge of NYC seems so complete, he could be a tour guide.
Tom, when I went to PA from Florida, to visit my kids I took an amtrak to penn station to walk few of the sections of nyc you talk about. Your the best with the history, comedy etc. Eric too!
Once again, I freaking love when Tom yells us!! I die every time he tells us not to interrupt him!! Bahahaha!! And yes, I know I need to reevaluate my childhood...😅🤣🤔😬😂
Awesome video! I binged a bunch of Tom's video after I came back from my first NYC visit. I can't wait to go back thanks to the history I've been learning from these. Keep up the amazing work and have a great holiday season!
@@sirfranklloyd because that’s the title of a series of videos that Tom presents to us. Based on views, his viewers seems to gravitate more to those videos. You must be a new subscriber. Welcome.
My favorite Sam Shepard play is The Curse of the Starving Class. People go to Off Broadway to see something meaningful. If you don’t leave the theater depressed you must have seen a musical.
Hi Tom! Greetings from Tokyo! I am originally from NYC and we love your youtube channel. I am learning a lot about my hometown thanks to your insightful and entertaining tours. Hoping you can do a tour of Elmhurst, Queens (my old neighborhood) in the future. Planning to get a haircut soon?
Tommy D! I and your subscribers (and most important, your advertisers), were wondering when you would post again! Anyway, best to you and the ones you love during Christmas! Wayne in Manhattan
Great video!! I would have never known about the history of Hudson Street if it wasn’t for you, especially those hardworking Sandhogs! very well deserved respect
Those business improvement districts sound rather sinister... Which may explain why one beds are renting for $4k/mnth plus. Cheers for the insights big yin!
I worked for Con edison and the 9th ave Subway was served by the west 59th street power house and that bldg is also protected...and cant be changed!Mckim Mead and White is who designed the outside of the power plant..
In 1981 i was asigned to weld a boiler in the Woolworth bldg as Con edison leased those boilers in the sub basement,but what was here in the basement was an old Pool and gym and a host of other things?if i u can do a story about the Woolworth bldg that would be great!also Mr Woolworth is buried in the bronx as is the Borden family Mr George Westinghouse and Many many others?Woodlawn Cemetery 🪦 is a huge story waiting for you?
could you do a video on the glass in the sidewalks, the blue round tiles, that could be viewed from early subway underground stations. I believe there are a few remaining sidewalks with them, and areas that have the glass. *I'm not sure the historical significance, however...super interested, but when I finally visited NYC I couldn't find them (if you've made a video on the topic already, I missed it...and am sorry)
Great vid, but I wish you had mentioned that the legendary Paradise Garage was at 84 King Street, one of the greatest venues in the history of dance music & culture!
Very informative. Thanks! However the name "Hudson Square" has only been used over the last few years since coined in the mid 19th C. It's been dramatically expanded by developers and real estate agents and is located within the "South Village". You failed to mention the construction goings on behind you as Walt's new N.Y.C. headquarters leased from Trinity for 99 years/$650M. We residents now coin it as "Mickey Mouse Square".
I lived on Varick Street right before the tunnel, in the 80s we called the neighborhood HoHo, for the businesswomen who practiced their vocation for the truck drivers waiting to get to the tunnel. Along the Hudson there were many old bars frequented by dock workers. I'm sure I tossed a few back from Ear and had some drinks too.
The amount of small companies pushed out by Trinity church, one being mine, I have no love for Trinity Church. The Ear pub has two things I loved about, one, they had crayons at every table with a white paper table top.being a commercial artist with friends, we made great art. 2: if you road motorcycles in NYC, once a month we had great gatherings there. Game was over when Trump built a hotel there, even before he was President, people stayed outside and protested. If I’m not mistaken, they took the Trump name off that building. It was on the corner of Varick and Van dam? Check me if I’m wrong. I worked in one Hudson Square and I hated it. Traffic was always congested to get in and out of the city. I would never want to work in that hood again.
Take a close look at the right eye of John Jacob Astor. His right pupil moves up and out in a lateral direction. A cranial nerve 4 palsy. Abraham Lincoln had the same cranial nerve 4 palsy in his left eye from an old trauma when kicked by a horse in his youth.
I found your channel entirely by accident. Been in NYC for 8 days and found my Host to be unnecessarily difficult. ADHD or whatever it is that people label THEMSELVES with. I was hoping to get to know NYC with her as she'd lived here for 17 years and she's originally from the Philippines. Sigh.
I think if you'd sell tickets for a Tom D NYC tour van in person once a week and advertise at the end of your youtube, you'd make a killing with tourism. Perhaps start a franchise.
This man does a great job presenting! He seems like a guy who quit a career in a high-paying job to keep his sanity and follow his dreams. His knowledge of NYC seems so complete, he could be a tour guide.
😂😂😂
What do you mean "he could"? 🤣
He is a tour guide.
@@timothymacdonnell9079 you guys are completely missing the sarcasm. 🙄
If Tom taught history in a college, his classes would be jam packed.
I was in NYC a few weeks ago and I was thinking about how cool it would be to get a personal tour from Tom.
Why you didn’t ask for one?
Thanks Tom I really needed cheering up. Please dont give up, you and eric make a great team.
So cool to see this channel growing. Keep 'em coming Tom!
Tom, when I went to PA from Florida, to visit my kids I took an amtrak to penn station to walk few of the sections of nyc you talk about. Your the best with the history, comedy etc. Eric too!
Once again, I freaking love when Tom yells us!! I die every time he tells us not to interrupt him!! Bahahaha!! And yes, I know I need to reevaluate my childhood...😅🤣🤔😬😂
Love seeing Tom’s videos grow over the past few years!!! Go Tom!
Always happy to see a new video upload on a Sunday
Tom, many thanks for another brilliant history lesson. Best wishes to you for a happy, healthy, prosperous 2023!
Excellent video Tom, love the sound effects 😄 thanks!
Awesome video! I binged a bunch of Tom's video after I came back from my first NYC visit. I can't wait to go back thanks to the history I've been learning from these. Keep up the amazing work and have a great holiday season!
Tom you should do a “Dark Side” holiday edition. So glad you’re continuing to make content.
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@@sirfranklloyd because that’s the title of a series of videos that Tom presents to us. Based on views, his viewers seems to gravitate more to those videos. You must be a new subscriber. Welcome.
Im addicted to these walking tours! I just got back from my first trip to NYC and Im dying to get back! Hello from Melbourne, Australia :)
Love it Tom! Love the 20+ minute area tours… keep going baby!!
Best video I've ever seen! Tom is the best!
the shot at 12:57 had me rolling. another banger vid tomd
My favorite Sam Shepard play is The Curse of the Starving Class. People go to Off Broadway to see something meaningful. If you don’t leave the theater depressed you must have seen a musical.
Great video Tom! I used to eat lunch at the Ear Inn almost daily when I had my office on Hudson. Great food, big portions.
That Ear Inn must have a good haunting history. What kind of food do they cook ?
@@guymorris6596 mostly American dishes, and a big bar
Hi Tom! Greetings from Tokyo! I am originally from NYC and we love your youtube channel. I am learning a lot about my hometown thanks to your insightful and entertaining tours. Hoping you can do a tour of Elmhurst, Queens (my old neighborhood) in the future. Planning to get a haircut soon?
In the picture at 12:39, that was Battery Place where the 6th & 9th Avenue lines connected and diverged.
I hope Haru gets back to her cute happy self soon! That's got to be the most upsetting thing to go through. 🧡
Big hello from Napier New Zealand
Love your vids and immense knowledge of NY
Tom is so amazing! If you're not on his patreon, you're missing out!
Tommy D! I and your subscribers (and most important, your advertisers), were wondering when you would post again!
Anyway, best to you and the ones you love during Christmas!
Wayne in Manhattan
Great video!! I would have never known about the history of Hudson Street if it wasn’t for you, especially those hardworking Sandhogs! very well deserved respect
18:30 what’s with the two-light traffic signal in the background? It alternates between a solid red on top and a flashing red on the bottom.
Merry Christmas Tom D Legend . 🎅
Awesome video as always!
@Tomdnyc- Really?I'd love to !
I was in NYC a few weeks ago and I was thinking about how cool it would be to get a personal tour from Tom haha
Thank you for the great video...I like the bird at the end =^..^=
It's always a great day when you post new!
Sending hellos from Vermont
Hey Thomas you should make a video on the nepotism in New York whose family still doing what or owning what
Thank you for this fab video and for making laugh out loud!! Love ya🎄🥰
Love Isamu Noguchi’s red ‘octetra’ sculpture. There were a few railroad tunnels built earlier
You're really funny and knowledgable, thank you for making these informative videos!
I appreciate the poking fun at the word "content". Whenever a UA-cam "creator" uses that word, I spit out my coffee. Like wtf?!
Those business improvement districts sound rather sinister... Which may explain why one beds are renting for $4k/mnth plus. Cheers for the insights big yin!
Tom, you are so knowledgeable on your History presentations. You are a "walking History book." 🥾 I really enjoy your program. Your're funny too!
Support this man
Is the Dogpound in this? Let me watch till the end, Thomas
I loved the Film Forum when I was in NY.
I worked for Con edison and the 9th ave Subway was served by the west 59th street power house and that bldg is also protected...and cant be changed!Mckim Mead and White is who designed the outside of the power plant..
In 1981 i was asigned to weld a boiler in the Woolworth bldg as Con edison leased those boilers in the sub basement,but what was here in the basement was an old Pool and gym and a host of other things?if i u can do a story about the Woolworth bldg that would be great!also Mr Woolworth is buried in the bronx as is the Borden family Mr George Westinghouse and Many many others?Woodlawn Cemetery 🪦 is a huge story waiting for you?
could you do a video on the glass in the sidewalks,
the blue round tiles, that could be viewed from early subway underground stations.
I believe there are a few remaining sidewalks with them, and areas that have the glass.
*I'm not sure the historical significance, however...super interested, but when I finally visited NYC I couldn't find them
(if you've made a video on the topic already, I missed it...and am sorry)
my father worked in printing as a linotypist on Hudson street as a proofreader
man made the electric lights so we can see in the dark!
Always interesting 👍
So many zingers in this episode. Gotta love it.
22 minutes? Felt like 5. Thank you for your great work Tom.
Always fun and informative to see ur videos🥂🥂🥂🥂
Great vid, but I wish you had mentioned that the legendary Paradise Garage was at 84 King Street, one of the greatest venues in the history of dance music & culture!
Haha Burrrr.... The Ear Inn is a 😎 bar. Thanks, TomD.
Love you ! and i like Eric, of course. Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very informative. Thanks! However the name "Hudson Square" has only been used over the last few years since coined in the mid 19th C. It's been dramatically expanded by developers and real estate agents and is located within the "South Village". You failed to mention the construction goings on behind you as Walt's new N.Y.C. headquarters leased from Trinity for 99 years/$650M. We residents now coin it as "Mickey Mouse Square".
Edward Albee wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" a play first staged in October 1962. Later became a famous Movie.
Where there's theaters there's brothels and vice-versa. Soho, England, Soho NYC.
Great content
Love your videos...Please keep doing them!
I lived on Varick Street right before the tunnel, in the 80s we called the neighborhood HoHo, for the businesswomen who practiced their vocation for the truck drivers waiting to get to the tunnel. Along the Hudson there were many old bars frequented by dock workers. I'm sure I tossed a few back from Ear and had some drinks too.
Merry Christmas Tommy. 🎄
You do a great job telling us all the history of these neighborhoods. Where the rent is so high. Thanks again. See ya next time
Thank you so much for your historical facts and your creative way of sharing it. My husband and I love your videos. ❤ Keep going. ...Sick😊
Watching this and thought of a great idea. Show album cover spots in New York. Like the Paul's Boutique building and that kinda stuff.
The mans world line and your face afterward got me haha
Just got back from a visit to NYC and thought of your vids the whole time, love em!
The amount of small companies pushed out by Trinity church, one being mine, I have no love for Trinity Church. The Ear pub has two things I loved about, one, they had crayons at every table with a white paper table top.being a commercial artist with friends, we made great art. 2: if you road motorcycles in NYC, once a month we had great gatherings there. Game was over when Trump built a hotel there, even before he was President, people stayed outside and protested. If I’m not mistaken, they took the Trump name off that building. It was on the corner of Varick and Van dam? Check me if I’m wrong. I worked in one Hudson Square and I hated it. Traffic was always congested to get in and out of the city. I would never want to work in that hood again.
Good job Tom!
That neighborhood is really nice. Lots of cobble stone streets as well
Nice to know you are "listen to Public Radio" years old and you know who Logan Paul is. Sick!
My family will be there Jan 4th-7th. Do you do private tours?
Next time I'm in NYC I hope to grab a dollar coffee with yourself, Lucy + Tom
Thanks again John in Chicago
Tom, de donde eres? me encantan tus videos bro!
Soy Nicaraguense!
So infromative!
I think a history of Times Square before New Years would be really cool.
Already done. Check Tom’s catalog. Sick plug!
Really curious as to why there was a new mexico flag flying on the ear Inn.
tom...enjoy the contact thanks...makes me want to visit NY every year!
Another great piece of content 😅
great info about the history !
Take a close look at the right eye of John Jacob Astor. His right pupil moves up and out in a lateral direction. A cranial nerve 4 palsy. Abraham Lincoln had the same cranial nerve 4 palsy in his left eye from an old trauma when kicked by a horse in his youth.
We love you #tomdnyc ❤
Great video! Love your content. 😬
I found your channel entirely by accident. Been in NYC for 8 days and found my Host to be unnecessarily difficult. ADHD or whatever it is that people label THEMSELVES with. I was hoping to get to know NYC with her as she'd lived here for 17 years and she's originally from the Philippines. Sigh.
Diggin those gloves/mittens. Oh and the video too!!
Wonderful
High Value neighborhood deserves Great Value shopping doncha no ... where's WalMart located around here??
Hudson Square was named by a real estate broker.
Public radio is great in every state
Love your video and love NYC. Sorry about your Gators bowl loss (sort of. I’m a Nole who worked for UF for 12 years).
Such a cool guy and great content 👌
How does one become a camera person for Tom???
great tour TD . ~ JDS/CT
my wife says we're in SOHO, bc nobody knows what the hell Hudson Sq is, and these days not to be confused with Hudson Yards
Hornball? First time I’ve heard that one! lol
L.L.Bean catalog 😂😂😂
"Hi I'm Tom Delgado always and I always whine about being "broke" but I seem to keep traveling the world anyway!"
Suggested topic : Hooverville Shanty Town : .Central Park 1933
Hello Tom ,, Seasons greetings from Canada,,✌️🤸🇨🇦
Hey ,Tom ! What's up?
Dollar coffee from the carts are like the oregano of marijuana. Get the inexpensive coffee from Chinatown.
I think if you'd sell tickets for a Tom D NYC tour van in person once a week and advertise at the end of your youtube, you'd make a killing with tourism. Perhaps start a franchise.
Jugy fruits ah...wine gums 😁 nenoggie lol, I love them freaking sweets num num.