NYC's Columbus Circle is Small but Mighty and Historical
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2021
- Tom Delgado takes you on a quick tour of Columbus Circle in New York City and tells you the history of this important intersection between 8th Avenue and Broadway. It includes Italian Americans, Ghostbusters, Columbus, the mafia, and other things! Shot by Stewie Vill.
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That mall at Deutsche Bank Center has decent public restrooms. 👍
Very true.
I agree!
At 7:30 on the left hand side is Lois Lane's rooftop apartment from the 1978 Superman movie.
Tom I stayed near Columbus Circle at 5 W 63rd ST. I used the subway station at Columbus circle. NY is one of those places when I visit I always want to return to NY.
Sat through the entire commercials just for you, Tom. One was for an “all natural” laxative. Did you know that, according to the ad, “Death Begins in the Colon”? I learn so much from your videos, even in the ads! 😆
Fun fact: prior to the New York Coliseum that site was occupied by NY's first Majestic Theater. Built for spectacle, the first stage version of The Wizard of Oz and Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland both premiered there.
"I appreciate you're thinking and uhm tasking yourself with that" jeez so funny lmao. I remember learning it in school but it's a shame I forgot the history of Pulitzer József as a Hungaran.
You should do tours of the various towns outside the city that have major ties to the city. Like croton and Ossining
This is so awesome! I was just transferred to 10 Colombus. I am now assigned here 😊 I am so grateful!
You have become hands-down my favorite New York tour guide. I love New York and even though I’ve visited it many, many times I still know very little about it. I’ve learned more through your videos! Your knowledge is very commendable. Plus you make it really fun! I just love the beginning when you say, “oh hello ,” it just really cracks me up every time!
Worked at 1775 Broadway (58th St) on June 29, 1971, when Joe Colombo was shot. Our office windows faced Columbus Circle. We heard the commotion and looked out. Saw the craziness that ensued.
We used to go to the Auto Show at the NY Colosseum every year, back in the 60's. The new British cars were the highlight for me, and one year they had the Aston Martin from Goldfinger. Man.
Me too, also the outdoor (camping) shows. My old man would take us to a bar near Times Square and show the bartender how to mix a proper cocktail (he was the head bartender at the Storm Club). Good memories.
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Tom makes me want to go to NYC!
I stayed in this area 2weeks ago during my visit. The area is very good. Near to everything. The chocolate shop beside Magnolia Bakery has one of the best hot chocolate drink I’ve ever had.
Hi Tom, Another great video. I was there years ago and still have two New York tee shirts I brought from a vendor near the Maine Memorial on a hot day when I was running out of dry tee shirts on a very hot day. My great grandfather was a sale man for a bicycle company in the 1890s whose main office was in Columbus Circle so I have a picture of what it originally looked like on a piece of stationary. It looks like .I think the studio that Ellen Degeneres does her tv show is in that area. That lipstick tower on the Hearst Magazine Building is out of place, It should have been classical or Art Deco. As I said, I enjoy your trivia information on your tours, You be a great guy to sit down , have a few brews and share ideas. I only wish that my friend from Brooklyn who moved to Florida was as outgoing as you are. He was Jewish and complained a lot like Woody Allen. I'll have to watch more of them. Ciao.
Tom From Pittsburgh,
I’m a New Yorker! I’m learning a lot from you!🗽Love watching your videos!
I've been watching a lot of your walking tours over the past two days (they're addictive!), Tom, and I have to say it: you are amazing! I'm Italian and ich spreche auch Deutsch! Danke, so many facts in such an enterteining way! top.
You need your own discovery channel you’re just too good for this👌
Great video as usual. Stewie is starting to grow on me. Though Phil is missed.
indeed!
Thx for another informative & fun tour, Tom. You asked if you forgot anything...I would've mentioned the Adam & Eve statues by world famous Colombian artist Fernando Botero inside mall, street level.
Ever wonder why the statues are placed where they are and what they may be pointing at or looking towards?
So much history , don’t know how you remember it all , i appreciate your videos Thank you 😊
The old NY Colosseum after it closed had huge homeless encampment on it's west side of facing Columbus Circle.
Thanks, man, for another Home Run of a video that captures the essence of the Real New York City!
I was gonna catch up with another lawyer called Mr. Goodman (better call Saul) but, decided to hang with savant like favourite tour guide. Thanks for the latest future sick plug Tom, from this side of the pond here in England (Brexitland 🇪🇺🤭).
Another great time had by all. 👍🏻
Great video! Central park west, would you please show Tavern on the Green , What it looks like in the outside front and side entrance. never seen it during the day only parts at night. Thanks
Hurst had a townhouse on the Upper West Side on Riverside Drive. Worth a mention on your UWS video.
Tom on and off succeed is so good, New York is eclectic like you. Regards.
Love when sky cloud is mirrored in sky scraper. You got the ships right!! These Immigrants are amazing!! Right Tom. Why is it it's mostly often Immigrants who dive into American History. Aside, notice, immense improvement on NYC busses. Post me on Statue off Liberty. Our Norwegian grandmother went through there in early 1900. Have the papers with her Photo on it. Stamped Central Park for all. Loved that park.Should cover the Art Museums. All has pretty interesting History, who build them, what's in them?? How art and Antiguity too found it's way to New York. Could be fun .Park, too hot, have an Icecream.!!.🌺🙏🇺🇸🗽🎨🖌️
Another great tour as always. When I'm doing Uber and end up in nyc with a fare and I'm in a spot of one of your videos I start telling customers about it as if I know the area!! Than I tell them to check you out if they want to learn about nyc!! 👍👍
Great video, lots of memories when I used to walk around there. You definitely do your homework. Thank You again
I'm watchin' here!! I'm watchin' !
Tom's here to brighten up a cold wet day in the UK! 😃😃✌️✌️
I always learn a thing or three from your tours. Nice shout out to Wynton Marsalis.
Tom is always very informative and love watching him
You would be on a perfect fit for PBS !
Great job tom. Lincoln Center next. Or where Broadway meets 9th ave aka columbus ave.
He already did that in the upper westside video
No body wants to see that.
I imagine you must have the clearest view of the world than most. With all that history knowledge you surely do. Love the videos and commentary! I'd like to see the stand up one day just to see the other aspects you have on this world that's gone to sht.
Big ups Hearst Tower, my former workplace! And Oscorp in Spider Man!
Great tour Tom and Stewie! Thanks
I've seen all your videos..😄
Fantastic job, Tom! I love your tours! I appreciate your work! Btw. My favorite part of NYC is The West Village, even though I've never been there before! lol Greetings from the EU!
You're gonna learn more about it very soon (insert creepy laugh)...
@@tomdnyc1 Perfect! lol Thanks so much! Cheers!
as a german: your german is pretty good bro :)
Danke schön, freund!
@@tomdnyc1 Gerne! :)
Used to love the auto show at the Colosseum and I could remember the name Time Warner building but not the new name of that bank 😆
And again, thank you for your work, it was again, really informative and historically interesting video.
Sincerely, Alex
Central Park East + tie-ins
Another great video.👍
Im so happy I stumbled on your page! I love your humor and I am impressed by your plethora of nyc history!
Very entertaining and informative! You’re much better and funnier than those other dudes… you know who I mean!
Thank you Tom!!!
I love your vides,thanks so much Tom!!
Awesome video as usual!!!
Excellent content,very informative!
I'd love to see a video of Central Park West!
I actually did one a while back but I had to can the footage because of a technical problem - it was one of the worst days in NYC history... Will definitely do another one soon!
Thanks for the New York history!!😀
I really really like your sense of humor!
17:13 You forgot a Sick Plug!
Excellent!
So much history in the circle. Greatly appreciate the history!
What's up,Tom!How you doin '? Really love your content full of cool stuff ,history sick facts!!!
Awesome 👍🏻
Tom I've been to Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Wynton's club was a great club when I was there years ago. It was called Dizzy's Club Coca Cola (I think).
loved it
A comment to hail the algorithm! Can't wait to finally see NYC with my own eyes some day. It's not all great, but boy it's grand.
Loved it ;)
love me some Tom Dlooong vids. best in the game next to AK. love the fun comedy aspect of these tours oh and the knowledge.
Tom I can’t wait to come to NYC and meet you my friend. Keep up the great work with these videos and hopefully soon we can collaborate. I just told 4 people about your channel here in Las Vegas to help you grow what you’re doing. Cheers my friend!
Thanks!
Where Palantine made his speech in Taxi Driver
Another great video, thanks for keeping it entertaining and non-political.
He is very biased towards socialism
You don't know what socialism means.@@mitchlauner9355
Sick plug
good job
sick!
Mr Pulitzer resembles screech from saved by the bell
Great stuff Tom, another one for the ‘excellent’ list. I get the feeling that your Columbus Circle video will get a lot more views than mine! Lol Good point on those bikers too, they really will knock you over!
Seneca Village was out there until the city raised it to make the park.
Love the videos!
Hi.
I couldn't believe that you didn't mention that the model for Columbia was Audrey Munson.
The Piccirilli's actually sculpted the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. "under the supervision" of Daniel Chester French.
Taxi Driver had a few scenes at The Maine monument.
There are 2 oceans depicted as men on the monument. The Pacific named by Ferdinand Magellan who actually was given the same mission by Spanish royalty as was given to Christopher Columbus . The mission was to navigate a fast nautical route to the Spice Islands. Magellan on that trip came upon what would be called the Philippines. He claimed it for Spain and was actually killed in the Philippines.
So the reason for the ocean statues on the Maine monument was to commemorate the nautical might The U.S. displayed in the Spanish American War. The Philippines was actually the first battle. When you stand at the Pacifics feet looking into Collumbus circle you are looking at the back of Christopher Columbus.
I thought that was fitting seeing the namer of that ocean followed in the footsteps of Columbus.
Another thing. The Maine monument uses a "Just War" theory story depicted by the statue imagery. I am not sure if this was an add on to that theory after this monument was built , but Pacifism or Pacific law was an option to war. The story wraps around the Maine monument starting with peace and ending in Peace.
Columbia nationally was the predominant allegorical figure for the U.S. before "Liberty Enlightening the World" was used for WWI war bond promotions.
So the Maine monument dedicated May 1913 used Columbia to represent the U.S. triumph in the Spanish American War. The new territories the U.S. aquired from Spain cause the world to first see the U.S. as a super power. Columbia Triumphant. By this Maine monument Justice statue ( without a blindfold) is a memorial Plaque constructed from Brooklyn built Maine Battleship steel. On the plaque Columbia is depicted as Liberty by her wearing of a Phrygian cap. A Phrygian cap is a symbol of Liberty.
America allegorical symbol was a strong female who wore many hats to symbolize a message.
If she wore a laurel wreath it symbolized our Triumph. If she wore a Phrygian cap it symbolized our pursuit of Liberty. The start of WWI 1 year 28 days later from the Maine Monument dedication began the promotion of New Yorks Statue Libery Enlightening the World and Columbia as a national figure faded like an ex girlfriend to Statue of Liberty.
Tom wieso bist du so cool?
You are correct about the bikers 🚴
My great -grandfather was a salesman for a New York bicycle company whose offices were in Columbus Circle . I have a piece of correspondence that has an engraving of some curved buildings that were once in the Circle in the 1890s. There was also a theater there that was made into a tv studio where the comedy program called YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS was broadcasted in the later 1940s and early 1930s. Tnat of course is long gone. The Deutsche Bank is the main bank that llended Trump money for his business ventures that he still owes lots of money to.
commuting alone in Manhattan feels off, went to school there for a couple of years, you feel lonely without being alone, theres literally millions of people around Manhattan in any given day
Perhaps it was Columbo's basket as to why?
18:05 yeah make a vlog about CP West specially the building where John Lennon was murdered... lot of history on that Avenue ..!
Tom’s already covered it, maybe in his “Upper West Side” video, maybe in a Central Park video.
@@conniedelio awesome I’ll check it out..!
Tom, when are you going to start doing lives?
Soon...
Yo Stewie! Where are you from?
Es Dominicano!
good video even if it was a tad too hippocampi
funny haha done!
Central Park West wasn't always "ritzy," though; this song by Ian Hunter is about how it was in the bad old 70s: ua-cam.com/video/TdtoyS19Eog/v-deo.html (Central Park and West-with captions)
15:58 😍
A real free spirit!
She's so hot 🔥
You missed out on a great story in relation to the Museum of Art and Design. The building is the 2nd iteration of that building. The 1st iteration was considered one of the worst examples of modernist / brutalist architecture and had to be remodeled for aesthetic reasons in 2008 I believe. Check out the great story behind it.
How will we celebrate 30k subs?
You were distracted at 1:30 for some reason.
Great tour as always! But associating jazz with shopping? SMH 👎 LOL!
I knew that would ruffle some feathers!
Where's Phil?
Ken Griffen is a billionaire.. for now. Until his GME shorts catch up to him
I have to admit that the videos are interesting! Try to explain some fun facts about buildings in New York a little better.
And I can't translate SICK PLUG in any way!
Miss Phil, but Stewie is great. Great video as always.
Tom is like Stephen King, he tells a great story, but is no good at endings…. I don’t know what to tell ya….
Stay Puft Man?
Barakade around the statue make it look dumb
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