NYC Then And Now - A Historic Trip Through NYC's Past
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Let's take a walk to some of my favorite sites in NYC and see what they looked like in years past. We'll stop and compare what we see today with one hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, and even three hundred and fifty years ago.
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When I take my customers on historic walking tours I always carry along with me prints of what it looked like during the time we're discussing. It helps us imagine we are back in the past ourselves.
Here's a video presentation of those places that I hope will transport you to the past with me, imagining what NYC looked like long ago.
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I hope to see you on a tour here in NYC one day. But until then, I'll see you here next time!
Karen Q
Thank you for all your passion and hard work on this. Especially thank you for the prints you found of Pearl St. in the early 1660s. My eighth-great-grandfather, Issac Kip, had a house there when he came from The Netherlands, and I've been on that street many times, wondering what it must have looked like. I also lived at 144th and Convent Ave for three years, and visited the Hamilton Grange several times. Another eighth-great grandfather, Claude Delemater, was a French Huguenot who was an original patent holder in New Haarlem before the English came. Yes, his son married Kip's daughter. Or maybe it was the other way around. I too love imagining how things would have looked when they were built.
Well-delivered speech. Great diction. Excellent selection of historical facts, places and their photos. A pleasant voice. Fascinating video made by a professional. Good job!
Fascinating tour of NYC even though I working in midtown for twenty years. Your tour explained many unanswered questions I had about the layout of the streets and their names. Totally amazing how the evolution of NYC was influenced by so many different factors. Thank you.
I lived in Yonkers your ,NY we went to lower Ny when i was in Jr high . your tour brought me back to that day. Thank you.
Your content is the finest, Mrs Q.! Thank you! I'm in Rio, Brazil, but I hope to get my hands on your book asap! I lived in 2 Gold Street for about 3 years and I'm eternally grateful for having had such a privilege! Thanks again!❤
Thank you!
Excellent video, love the passion and desire to recreate what NY once was. Can I kindly suggest including in the tour the old customs building that is now the National Museum of the American Indian. That is the original location of Dutch Fort Amsterdam, where Russell Shorto points out in his book, natives were not permitted to enter. Hope to join one of your tours in the near future.
I have two videos about the Customs House. This one is about the exterior:
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This is a tour of the interior of the Customs House:
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Thank you for watching!
I love seeing how NYC has changed over the years. I appreciate how you have such perfect prints to take us back into the past, making us feel as if we are in the prints. I also appreciate explaining everything in such detail down to the landfills. Who knew there was a canal where Broadway is now? I will have to watch the video again to make sure I am correct. What fun! 🤩
This is so neat to see! My Dutch ancestors were some of those early settlers. Actually, my great (x7 or 8) grandfather Van Keuren bought a home in Kingston, NY, in the year 1711, and it's still there today! ❤
Thank you for sharing your family story!
love stories of nyc. unfortunately not many channels do these kind of videos. we need more old pics :) its just so pity that so many old buildings were replaced. new york looked awesome in the old times.
I agree, it would be so nice to still have them
It is absolutely fascinating. Thank you!
Thankyou for taking me back in time!❤
I enjoyed this historical presentation very much! Thank you!
I really love this tour. Thank you so much for doing these!
this is amazing. i live in hamilton, ontario, but i consider myself a new yorker, because its the greatest city in the world. but i have two regrets that the penn center and the singer building were destroyed, just terrible
Superb.
This was awesome you're terrific thank you I appreciate your upload God bless.
Nay, you're not crazy thinking or dreaming about old New York...means you're passionate .....
Thanks again for these great videos
GREAT video...I love it..Looking at the old then the new is great..I appreciate all your work..
Interesting and very well documented video about New York history.
It's a fantastic tour Mrs Q! Keep doing them. I had no idea how small that souther tip of Manhattan really was back then. The pictures are a great way to tell a story
Thank you!
Great work!
This is an amazing presentation , so professional and easy to watch & understand. I visited NY city twice, first in 1969 and secondly in 2001 just 5 months before the twin towers came down. Already the skyline has changed . What will it be like 100 years from now I wonder 🤔🤗. Thank you for this beautiful video. ❤
Thank you!
fun tour thank you
Great video! Thanks!
Thank you!
It’s taking me a few times to watch your colonial tours to vision the transformation of colonial New York to present. Excellent job.. It’s just like going back in time and very relaxing.
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A lovely feature presentation on a subject endlessly fascinating. Its amazing that such a hideous city used to be so beautiful up until 1880!
Well done!
Good stuff!
Thank you!
I love thatvyou dream of New York in the past! It shows the passion you have. I've never been thete but would very much like to visit. Do you know much about Trinity Church? I'm not sure when it was built. I'm just starting to get to research on my Edwards family. Have you heard of the Edwards Heirs Association? It's very interesting. I have a receipt for a "share' that my great great grandmother had. I feel bad that she believed anything would come of it, as they could have really used it, I know. But what an interesting bit of family history. Thank you for these videos, I enjoy them.
Trinity was built by the Church of England in 1697. The North end of the graveyard is a bit older - 1685. After the Revolutionary War it became the Episcopal Church of NY.
I don't, unfortunately, know anything about the claims of Robert Edwards' descendants. The story sounds fascinating!
Just discovered this. Very cool.
Most lots in Manhattan, especially in the southern half of the island, have had several buildings sitting on them over the years.
Ausgezeichnet meine gnädige Dame. Unsere NY Geschichte!
As usual, a magnificent job. I know the city is going to the dogs, but every video makes me sorry I didn't do more when I was there.
My wife is related to the Bull family that has a history house still occupied by the original family. It's in Orange County NY.
May I make a suggestion? I am a big map fan, so it helps me understand where these places are (or were) if you could show the locations on a contemporary map for a few seconds.
Thank you for watching and for your suggestion. I added more maps and routes to my later videos, as I became more experienced.
You are such a lovely lady!
I love researching these old Tartarian buildings
duh ....wrong thats NY
I have the original hand written marriage agreement from my GG grandparents from Ireland 1865. They revived Aug 1865 & Lincoln’s death was still big news! My Great grandfather was a NY City Fireman late 1800’s to early 1900’s. My Grandmother & her siblings were all born in NY city.
Francis tavern has the bottom windows buried and raised entrance ways, you can tell it was a mud flood building and partially buried look at the bottom windows they are half way underground
My father's father arrived at Ellis Island in 1911 (from northern Italy). He went to work at the original Elysée at #1 E. 56th Street. He got married in 1917 to an Italian woman. The two of them left NYC in 1922 when they bought a farm in New Jersey, which became very successful. They were divorced around 1930 or so, and he married my grandmother in 1938.
Anyway I have a good size collection of NYC postcards, and I may have the same postcard of Fraunces Tavern, but all my postcards are in storage right now. I have an excellent book on the landmarks of New York, and I thought I read that the Fraunces Tavern we know today is basically a re-creation, but I don't remember why. From what I remember, Federal Hall was also known as the Sub Treasury building. But I don't remember any of the details. Your picture of Hamilton Grange was beautiful. Thanks for the interesting tour.
Thank you for posting! My paternal grandfather arrived from Italy in 1915, also through Ellis Island. Frances Tavern today is a reproduction. I have a full video about it here on my channel. Federal Hall, when it was the Customs House, was the sub treasury during the Civil War. Kind regards!
@@MrsQHistory Thanks for your reply.
In the November 1845 edition of the Whig Journal, Walt Whitman wrote a brief essay on pages 536, 537, and 538, titled, "Tear Down and Build Over Again." It addresses the demolition of NYC's historical and cultural landmarks. (Just in case you haven't read it lately.) Your approach is sincerely appreciated!
I did not know about this. Thank you for sharing it with me!
You didn’t show the remaining portion of the Wall Street palisade fence you can see amongst the cobbles protected by plexiglass
Wow, have you ever been to Fraunces tavern? I'm surprised that you didn't know very very little of the original building is left, as it has seen several major fires in its existence. What you see today is not much older than the 1860's
I have been there hundreds of times and work as a costumed guide there. The current renovation is from the early 1900s. You can learn about the building's history at Frauncestavernmuseum.org.
@@MrsQHistory yes, I've been there. I was just surprised you made it sound like it was the original building. The idea that it's the oldest building in New York is tourist propaganda
In 1975, the Puerto Rican revolutionary group FALN, bombed Fraunces Tavern killing and maiming innocent people, just to bring attention to their cause of freeing Puerto Rico.
At around 25:00, you mentioned that the current NYSE building was completed in 1705. You must have meant 1905.
I did, thank you!
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Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
1:00 1770's Mrs Q is HOT ! 🤩
LOL!
Is it VEEZEY street or VESSEY street the way you pronounce it in your other video?
They are interchangeable. NYers say VEEZEY but VESSEY is, I think, correct.
@@MrsQHistory I've always called it Vessey and I've heard a lot of New Yorkers say it that way, when I first learned about it. But then I will hear people say VEEZEY and began to question myself.
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New York è una città fantastica, peccato però che molti dei suoi antichi edifici siano andati distrutti, sarebbe stato più interessante costruire il nuovo non al posto dell' antico. Cmq è sempre bella new york
Grazie!
Long ago they cared about the city the people and health.
Now its rotting to be the worst and ugliest citys ever made.
New York was such a beutiful city - 60 or 100 years ago! But today it looks disgusting. with all these modern ugly buildings.
I loved seeing the historic architecture every day in Lower Manhattan. I hope it stays preserved.
Wow, she looks ghostly.
Look for the utters cows
Well, she's a city girl.
I have to thank the mud flood conspiracy theorists for opening my eyes to certain things.
Not sure why that made me giggle. Thanks.
@@simonestreeter1518 I guess it must be funny.
I think you are a very attractive woman no matter what the time period 😉
the christmas carol ghost lady's here nice effect with the black light on ur mug lolol
lolol besides ur boring i do like the video footage you take
Good lord, if you speak anything like the way you write, I would shudder at the thought of listening to you for more than about five minutes.
i shudder in less than 5 secs at ur face@@simonestreeter1518