Why's it Called That?: Lower Manhattan

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  • Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
  • In this video, Tom Delgado takes you around Lower Manhattan, NYC, and explains to you the stories behind the names of its famous streets and places. He covers Wall Street, Broadway, Broad Street, and others. You'll be able to re-tell these tidbits when you walk around the area with your grandma or significant other or both! Shot by Eric Thirteen.
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  • @AlexOnBass
    @AlexOnBass Рік тому +49

    I’ll be visiting New York for the 1st time this December and when I booked the trip I found your channel and have been binging your videos ever since. Keep up the fantastic work!

    • @MF_SCARED
      @MF_SCARED Рік тому +7

      If youre here on a wednesday go to his weekly comedy show he hosts, well worth it

  • @mfitzpat74
    @mfitzpat74 Рік тому +5

    Tom is the coolest guy in NYC. Fact.

  • @m.cunningham9817
    @m.cunningham9817 Рік тому +4

    Ok, if you're not already. Have you ever consider being a stand up comic? Priceless sense of humor. So funny dude🤣

  • @luismatta9790
    @luismatta9790 Рік тому +7

    It's great to see someone not making a doomsday video about NYC, keep up the great work.

  • @Moncriefs
    @Moncriefs Рік тому +6

    "He definitely wasn't a Patreon subscriber" lmao🤣🤣🤣

  • @LuciePohl1
    @LuciePohl1 Рік тому +4

    Another home run by the King of NYC!

  • @kimallistonseekeroftruth
    @kimallistonseekeroftruth Рік тому +5

    Hi Tom gtcu, I am a follower of Policeoffthecuff, remember Sgt Bill Cannon and Det Phil Grimaldi had you on their show as a guest.
    Visited NYC a few years ago, had such a wonderful trip. We stayed in the Hudson Boutique Hotel.
    Greetings from the UK, great coverage of NYC Lower Manhattan, love your knowledge of history.
    God Bless

  • @DisDutch
    @DisDutch Рік тому +12

    We are happy to hear you are actually doing great job pronouncing Dutch words! Thanx Tom! Greetings from Amsterdam!

  • @markleddy8741
    @markleddy8741 Рік тому +4

    WOW I AM TOMS BIGGEST FAN , WHEN THE VIDEO STARTS I LIKED IT AT THE BEGINNING CAUSE I KNEW IT BE GREAT! OMG then when Tom said knowledge is POWER I KNEW I WAS Learning a lot, so on my next Date I'm gonna share this. thanks Tom man you're making me popular with the ladies!

  • @barbarawillis5187
    @barbarawillis5187 5 місяців тому

    I enjoy learning about the little known facts of NYC history. Thank you Tom. Thank you Eric for the lovely shot of the regal golden retriever taking a break lying on the corner sidewalk while his human companion waits patiently.

  • @LMays-cu2hp
    @LMays-cu2hp Рік тому +4

    Thank you for sharing your walk all rounds there in New York.

    • @LMays-cu2hp
      @LMays-cu2hp Рік тому

      You make laugh because of some of your walks and I have been New York so many times over the last 40 years. My Father and Step-Mother still live in New York. And many cousins are there as well.

  • @lisieb1
    @lisieb1 Рік тому +6

    When will do one on Gramercy and Gramercy Park?

  • @VladBurlutsky
    @VladBurlutsky Рік тому +3

    Tom is the best!😂

  • @Mrbeahz1
    @Mrbeahz1 Рік тому +3

    "Mr. Stuyvesant, Tear down this wall!"

  • @kezboy1
    @kezboy1 Рік тому +14

    Appreciate your videos Tom. Curious; are you ever going to venture over to NJ and do some videos on NJ history or how it ties in with NY?

  • @EatBugsSeeGod
    @EatBugsSeeGod Рік тому +2

    Wow! The more WE know! From You! Excellent vid!

  • @jordi7494
    @jordi7494 Рік тому +3

    Thank you so much for these videos Tom 🙏

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 6 місяців тому +1

    Love these tours!!!!!

  • @eugenedimitrov
    @eugenedimitrov Рік тому +2

    Awesome and perfect video tour as always!!!

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown2721 Рік тому +3

    👍😊♥️ Thanks Tom, I enjoyed the tour

  • @btkcollections
    @btkcollections Рік тому +2

    ❤ this video. Funny and some history for the knowledge

  • @wendym5137
    @wendym5137 Рік тому +4

    Absolutely awesome Tom ,Eric 👌 👏 🤣 thank you

  • @arilebon
    @arilebon Рік тому +4

    Made my day. Thank you!

  • @jasonvaccaro5352
    @jasonvaccaro5352 Рік тому +2

    Love the editing on this one! Very funny

  • @simonsmj1
    @simonsmj1 Рік тому +2

    Awesome vid! You rock Tom

  • @sirryorinins1332
    @sirryorinins1332 Рік тому +2

    THANKS TOM / GREAT TOUR / THANKS

  • @superperson978
    @superperson978 Рік тому +1

    Nice basket shot.... yum

  • @lunabouch
    @lunabouch Рік тому +3

    Tom wonderfully presented and your humor was just perfect for this Lower Manhattan tour👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer8564 Рік тому +2

    always feel a school boy chuckle when ever im on broad and beaver streets

  • @geoffreyselvage1673
    @geoffreyselvage1673 Рік тому +2

    Loved the video Tom.

  • @pixiejofreed
    @pixiejofreed Рік тому +2

    You are hilarious! 😂 Love this video!

  • @Grahzzyvtvlog
    @Grahzzyvtvlog Рік тому +2

    a car honks he says thank you lol 😂

  • @raycrou8837
    @raycrou8837 Рік тому +7

    If you did a tour of Amsterdam and compared similarities with New York especially from the 1600s, that would be EPIC🤯

  • @eugenedimitrov
    @eugenedimitrov Рік тому +2

    Hey Tom! Hope you are doing great!

  • @LiquidJFunk
    @LiquidJFunk Рік тому +2

    The Wall on Wall street is also a Sick-Plug.. Great video Tom..

  • @gunvid19
    @gunvid19 Рік тому +1

    “They’re going to be so impressed with you they’re going to want to marry you immediately” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 These videos are hilarious and very informative. Thank you for the great videos!

  • @volks0220
    @volks0220 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for pronouncing “Lenape” correctly.

  • @harryjamessmithmusic7762
    @harryjamessmithmusic7762 Рік тому +3

    Perfect!

  • @timothymacdonnell9079
    @timothymacdonnell9079 Рік тому +2

    Tom is awesome!

  • @danmusiceasy
    @danmusiceasy Рік тому +2

    Love those videos, thanks for keeping the coming! Will you do the High Line anytime soon? I think it's awesome. I watched videos of people walking it many times.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Рік тому +1

      I would love that. Especially what it used to look like

  • @blasterb118
    @blasterb118 Рік тому +6

    Another classic from Tom!

  • @mikehisey2631
    @mikehisey2631 Рік тому +3

    Tom is a STUD !!

  • @veramakayan5914
    @veramakayan5914 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for this history lesson

  • @littlemonkeyone
    @littlemonkeyone Рік тому +1

    Love ya Mean It….. great videos 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @waltvan4831
    @waltvan4831 Рік тому

    Great job man

  • @vealchop2490
    @vealchop2490 Рік тому +2

    Best channel on UA-cam 🤘🤘🤘

  • @santimoreno8862
    @santimoreno8862 Рік тому +3

    watta legend. this guy is terrific

  • @travelingwithrick
    @travelingwithrick Рік тому +1

    Awesome video as usual. But no mention of 56 Beaver St.( Delmonico's)?

  • @LollyandPop2
    @LollyandPop2 Рік тому +3

    So funny! Love your videos. I knew someone years ago who saved his belly button lint to make a pillow. Goals.

    • @tomdnyc1
      @tomdnyc1  Рік тому +5

      Like the saying goes "The belly button lint pillow wasn't built in a day!"

    • @deborahjesic4804
      @deborahjesic4804 Рік тому +2

      @@tomdnyc1 My collection only takes an hour. ♥

  • @phwayne
    @phwayne Рік тому +1

    Very informative video Tom, one of your better ones. I went on to view the Women's World Cup 2019 video - is the host, your twin brother? :)

  • @claudiaicabalzeta7584
    @claudiaicabalzeta7584 Рік тому +2

    Love your video

  • @eugenedimitrov
    @eugenedimitrov Рік тому +1

    Wow! Kinda into Lower Manhattan!!!

  • @DisDutch
    @DisDutch Рік тому +1

    “ Eric: wow” 😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239
    @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239 Рік тому +2

    "Brandon, your Uber!!"

  • @skater1191
    @skater1191 Рік тому

    I have zero interest in ever going to New York but I do like your channel. Keep up the good stuff.

  • @animaginaryboy_
    @animaginaryboy_ Рік тому +3

    A petition to bring the canals back to Broad Street and make Tom Lord of the Beaver District

    • @tomdnyc1
      @tomdnyc1  Рік тому

      You can be treasurer

    • @Alex-fx5es
      @Alex-fx5es Рік тому

      Bring back the beavers!!! 🦫🦫

    • @animaginaryboy_
      @animaginaryboy_ Рік тому

      @@tomdnyc1 floppy tails make it rain. ok too far. sorry.

  • @Jaksu74
    @Jaksu74 Рік тому +2

    5/5 material!

  • @robbatayaki5505
    @robbatayaki5505 Рік тому +1

    vraiment très intéressant !

  • @andrenewcomb3708
    @andrenewcomb3708 Рік тому +2

    That's a pretty shot of WTC 1. Looks like being left behind . . . because I'm NOT in there. Boy, have I made a bunch of unbalanced choices!

  • @ustimaula7694
    @ustimaula7694 Рік тому +1

    I just watched Bang Pandji Pragiwaksono vlog then I'm here.

  • @iLiketurtles26
    @iLiketurtles26 Рік тому +1

    Lol hey Carley!

  • @jamesstark8316
    @jamesstark8316 Рік тому +2

    Time Out magazine just listed Ridgewood, Queens (my boyhood neighborhood) as the 4th Coolest Neighborhood in the World! Go figure.

  • @RP-ip4se
    @RP-ip4se Рік тому +1

    Why did I pause @ 8:30 and replay it so I laugh again.

  • @deborahjesic4804
    @deborahjesic4804 Рік тому +1

    Lol..I caught that! Your territorial like me! No tolerance for bad manners either! ♥

  • @ReeKent100
    @ReeKent100 Рік тому +1

    Sick socks, Tom

  • @saskiapanter
    @saskiapanter Рік тому +1

    Can you spell the last street what it was in Dutch, I get Markt and Steegje, but not what was in between those two words. Markt is market and steegje is alley. Liked this video a lot, and our language has always been a mystery to everyone abroad 🤣😂

  • @donnadrane4977
    @donnadrane4977 Рік тому

    The lower east side has such character.

  • @vincentgoupil180
    @vincentgoupil180 Рік тому +1

    13:55 Booger on Patagonia vest ALERT !!! *
    13:47 the picture insert covered up the handoff
    10:34 Now, datz' ACTING !
    Tom's a shoo-in if there's a remake of "Marty" 1955 movie.
    Thanks for da tour.
    Looking at a map didn't realize dem'z streets parallel each other. Now that you covered Beaver St. will ya will be touring Corlears Point birthplace of the Hooker ?
    * remember,
    You can pick your nose
    And you can pick your friends
    But, you can't pick your friend's nose

  • @andrasszerencses
    @andrasszerencses Рік тому +1

    omg your first words were not weird at all lmao

  • @Josephprouse1234
    @Josephprouse1234 Рік тому

    Tom, you forgot to plug the link for that sweet turtleneck.

  • @raptorsfanboy
    @raptorsfanboy Рік тому +1

    Tom D man! Also, where is hair salon street?

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer8564 Рік тому +1

    5:00 ticker tape parades are not the same since the 90's none of the windows in new buildinggs open so you cant toss out paper. also less paper.. in the 80's there was still computer reports. still something to behold i recommend going. my first was when the hostages came home in 80.. i wont list them but ive been to many

  • @dion4078
    @dion4078 Рік тому +2

    hi tom i love eric i was just wondering is phil doing alright? shoutout phil

  • @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239
    @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239 Рік тому +1

    I would love to see a video on nyc alleys, Manhattan or other boroughs.

    • @vincentgoupil180
      @vincentgoupil180 Рік тому +2

      Would be a short tour. Manhattan has maybe one or two alleys.

    • @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239
      @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239 Рік тому +1

      @@vincentgoupil180 yes, I've heard that....any alleys'd be cool.

    • @vincentgoupil180
      @vincentgoupil180 Рік тому +3

      Then Cortlandt Alley
      Perhaps Tom could relate the orginal NYC patroon Cortlandt Family to other streets Bayard (The Spaniard from John Lennon's book ::), Delancy, Jay.

  • @robyndavis3043
    @robyndavis3043 Рік тому +1

    The “Borough of Staten Island”==Richmond County; the “Borough of Brooklyn”==Kings County; the “Borough of Manhattan”==New York County; the “Borough of Bronx”==Bronx County; and the “Borough of Queens”==Queens County

  • @letsseewhatelse6086
    @letsseewhatelse6086 Рік тому +2

    Freakin' siiiiiiick!

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer8564 Рік тому +1

    i see what you did there with the "old school" and "trading places" references

  • @MizukuMirai
    @MizukuMirai Рік тому +3

    Gonna need a video on the history of the World Trade Center next Tom! Great video as always!

  • @manchesterisblue1023
    @manchesterisblue1023 5 місяців тому

    your editor must be a big fan of newgrounds

  • @timafiggy
    @timafiggy Рік тому +1

    itbased on Districts. yes i love you are at finally opened Gramercy park.

  • @waynegray7130
    @waynegray7130 Рік тому +2

    Tommy D,
    After you get a hair cut and can afford to take a shower and shave, I have a suggestion. Since it's mid-October why don't you do ghosts or cemeteries of Manhattan! Please, we all want to see Eric, OK man! With love, Wayne P Gray

  • @aritrabha
    @aritrabha 6 місяців тому +1

    I do love history, but I would like to be a history hater in one of these videos someday...😅😅

  • @Elizabethitsthebig1
    @Elizabethitsthebig1 Рік тому +1

    Tom is it pronounced fye dye or fid de like 50 cent?

  • @BAMMBAMMNYC
    @BAMMBAMMNYC Рік тому +1

    🗣La 🔌⚡️

  • @AmbroseChamberpot
    @AmbroseChamberpot Рік тому +2

    13:45 sorry you had to breathe in that junkie's smoke and germs

  • @junkiejackflash
    @junkiejackflash Рік тому

    Well, if I had to guess, I'd say it's called that, because on a map, it's the lower section of Manhattan. You're welcome guys.

  • @donnacarter2617
    @donnacarter2617 Рік тому +1

    Hahaha
    Eric seems to be a little guy behind the camera. A man with few words.....lol

  • @Thomas116-m2n
    @Thomas116-m2n Рік тому +2

    No thumbs up after you threw away the trash?

  • @maymaja9629
    @maymaja9629 Рік тому

    You look so much like Penn Badgley

  • @LlyleHunter
    @LlyleHunter Рік тому

    Oh! So you have been to Tampa.

  • @scottduke2809
    @scottduke2809 Місяць тому

    your jokes are fire (!!!) one missed opportunity, if i may be an asshole, is with Broad St... surely there's a hooker joke in there somewhere. ;)

  • @goodfay
    @goodfay Рік тому +1

    Lol. Nyc. They forgot

  • @oscaruglyface
    @oscaruglyface Рік тому +2

    I'm here for vegan eric

  • @mirandalapides2116
    @mirandalapides2116 Рік тому +2

    i love you

  • @gerardorocha247
    @gerardorocha247 Рік тому +1

    60K+ subscribers and yet you still don’t have a fandom name. Maybe you’ll have one in mind once you hit 100k?

  • @paulwilliams8870
    @paulwilliams8870 Рік тому +2

    I thought napoleon was 5’7?

  • @carmenstephen7333
    @carmenstephen7333 Рік тому +3

    No seriously! Are you growing your hair to sell it?

    • @tomdnyc1
      @tomdnyc1  Рік тому +5

      I'm growing it out to trade it for longer hair.

  • @domenicming9551
    @domenicming9551 Рік тому

    enslaved* revolt.

  • @pineyforkpress
    @pineyforkpress Рік тому +1

    "New York", not "New York City", Brits never approved the latter. Get your facts right.

  • @jamesg9609
    @jamesg9609 Рік тому +1

    Couldn’t get through the interminable 15 minutes of introductory chit-chat. There may or may not be an informational video buried somewhere in all this happy talk, but unless you have limitless patience, you’ll never really know. This guy needs to STFU and GET TO THE POINT.

    • @vincentgoupil180
      @vincentgoupil180 Рік тому +3

      ha, Belly Lint Guy

    • @phuongla4512
      @phuongla4512 Рік тому

      definitely not a patreon subscriber. Google exists, try that if you just want pure data.