I’m 3rd Generation born & raised in Hells Kitchen 💪♥️ My family came over, got off the boat and planted roots where they stood, over 150 year ago ♥️ Yes, lots of our families came over during The Great Famine. But loads of English and German immigrants filled our neighborhood too. So much has changed from my immigrant families time there and even my time growing up there. I live in NJ now, but close enough to visit whenever I get homesick. Love my city, Hells Kitchen is the best of the West side 👏💪♥️ My dad started working in Manhattan Plaza when it was brand new, head maintenance man and even retired out of there, RIP Dad ♥️ My sister babysat Alicia Keys as a kid. There used to be bulletin boards in the lobby where lots of parents who lived in the building posted ads looking for babysitters, my sister and I got lots of our very first babysitting jobs there! ♥️ Everyone I knows parent were longshoremen, or works on Broadway, most in supporting staff roles. Those are our “houses”, so to say ♥️ Also, played in Clinton park my whole life, but you won’t dare ever hear me call Hells Kitchen, “Clinton” 🤬 No freaking way 🤬 Also, that murder was the basis for West Side Story ♥️
Wow. I live in Hells Kitchen and walk the city all the time. I had legit had not even seen half of this. Let alone knew the cool history. Tom you're killing it.
I live in Manhattan Plaza since it opened in 1978. This was fun to watch. You should have your own tv show. You are very funny. Maybe you should host a talk show.
Thanks for pronouncing Houston St. as How-ston St. I went to P.S. 188 on How-ston Street in the mid--1940s. I enjoyed ur tour of mid-town. I am now 80 yrs young.
Your Sex and the City reference for Hell’s Kitchen: Charlotte falls in front of a cab while fleeing Rudy’s (9th Ave btwn 44th &45th and meets Trey (her first husband).
My old neighborhood...miss it so much. Right next to that bakery was Rudy's where you get a free hot dog with your beer! Great memories. Thanks Tom for another great vid!
3:30 Esp enjoyed the info on the Manhattan Plaza buildings, occupancy based on occupation, in this case performing arts. I love learning new things, this was one of them. Thanks for these great and informative tours!
I’m a brand new resident of Hells Kitchen. Absolutely loving the neighborhood. It was also cool to see my building be shown in this video multiple times.
Paul Simon's song 'You Can Call Me Al" is kind of upbeat for such a bad thing that happened. I always loved the Video because of Chevy Chase, but I don't think I will ever listen to that song the same way again. LOL, Hopefully, my family and I will finally make the New York Trip that we were supposed to make last May (Thanks a lot Covid) and look you up for a Tour.
Love your fucking videos, found you by chance and now I’m watching all of them. You are responsible for me not doing what I needed to do and just watch tv.
New subscriber ♥️my first vid!!! I’m originally from East Harlem ...Wagner projects E121street first ave... I use to go to New York institute of Tech in the early 80s..i think it’s on 61street... Will probably binge watch your vids this weekend..my husband walked in and asked me if Phil was a random homeless guy you hired ..I don’t think so...oh my 29 year old daughter thinks your hot🤣got the whole family digging your vid♥️♥️♥️
My favorite tour guide. If i ever win the lotto, I’m headed to nyc to get the full nyc (or just Manhattan, the other boroughs look boring/rough) tour from Tom.
Lew Black, who went to Yale, was the playwright-in-residence at the Downstairs Theatre Bar at the West Bank Cafe on 9th and 42nd-in Manhattan Plaza. The Downstairs Theatre Bar has now been renamed the Laurie Beechman Theatre. There are a few clips of Lew and his sidekick Rusty Magee on UA-cam, and this is one of them: ua-cam.com/video/ahzhgv_VFW0/v-deo.html (I was a regular at the Downstairs Theatre Bar in the 90s, and one of my favorite lines from Lew Black's monologue was: "I remember when there were four seasons a year-not four seasons a month!")
Tom! My photos after 9/11. From that Fire Station. Are in the Smithsonian and Ground Zero Memorial Museum. All donated in memory of all the victims! I should send you the book with pictures of the memorials.
OMG! the best ever city-connoisseur is back! Been a bad day on my side in this part of the world and now this only could lift the spirit. Let's like this video before watching it and boost his Patreon people! 💵
I just came across your channel and subbed immediately. Very interesting videos and your stories of buildings and streets and NYC are fantastic. Thanks!
Spillane's is owned by the infamous mobster's son. Was hoping you would say something about Holy Cross Church (Father Duffy's old parish, and used as a location in 'On the Waterfront').
I am now a new sub. I love and miss New York so much. Grew up there. I’ll make sure to visit at least three times a year. My sister lives on 56 street right off the W. Side Highway. Thanks for sharing. I’m now in Fan. Hey Phil, you’re not alone I didn’t know this song either until he started singing. Lol
Great video. So much cool info relating to theatre stuff. I look forward to every one of your shows. So funny to learn you were a lawyer. You look like that lawyer who podcasts 😮. Glad you switched professions😊
18:04 I've stayed in that Econo Lodge on a reward points redemption. The front door handles are two different shapes. I also got bed bugs from my one night there.
i'll be honest: the fact that it took almost until the video was over to do a "sick plug" shocked the s**t out of me. LOL I'm so used to seeing probably 3-5 of them in every video! LOL
Hey Tom, Clinton is a little south. Hells Kitchen is also known as Midtown West but like you, I still call it Hells Kitchen. I never realized that the actors studio was there. I just love your tours and hope to go to one of your upcoming shows.
Hey Tom... Cool video! New subscriber! Native New Yawka here but now in NC! NYU grad and once a bike messenger in the early 1980's and traveled up and down those avenues and streets for years, but never really knew of some of the details that you have presented in this video. Thanks for letting this old guy learn a thing or two!
My old neighborhood. Lived on 9th and 50th in a rent controlled apartment from 1969 to 2000, than my son got succession rights. Family lived there till 2018. .. Still got family in neighborhood. The best neighborhood ever regardless of history.
Back in 2009 Hell’s Kitchen was my first home. Right across from the stables on W 45th and used to go to the West Way diner for lunch or breakfast. Didn’t know about the Seinfeld connection though. 👍🏼
Thoroughly enjoyed this, my wife and I stayed right on the edge of HK near to Times Square back in 2018, so much to explore next time! Greetings from Liverpool UK! Subscribed!
OK, I'm liking and subscribing because I'm a history buff, and they never taught this kind of stuff in school (and that was a million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth) but all this Hell's Kitchen talk is making me see "Gangs of NY" in my mind...
Hi Tom! Not sure if you went to Florida already. Met you on your last tour. It was a blast and loved meeting you. Hope to see you again in your NY comedy show in alphabet city. Love your walking tunes on UA-cam
Born and raised in 414 West 44th street. Attended Holy Cross School on W. 43rd and dear friends with the Poseidon Bakery's owners. Manhattan Plaza was my playground! Thank you for this treasure!
When I was a kid - I was on the site of the Port Authority Bus Terminal when construction was in progress. McGraw Hill publishing was also here at that time. By the way "Paradise Alley" with Sly was also filmed here. I remember reading about the Cape Killer. There were also Belgian/French neighborhoods here. Churhes had mass in both French and Flemish. Puerto Ricans were moving in as well so there was gang activity. Part of the Godfather also took place in Hell's Kitchen. Don Vito worked here in a business. There was an Italian neighborhood called "Guinea Alley" Jews lived here as well. I remember in 1961 coming out of the Lincoln Tunnel seein "Westside Jewish Center." Oh! there was at one time a train that used to run up the middle of 10th Ave(?) Mario Puzo wrote a novel "The Unfortunate Pilgrim" which was a story about a young man whose job it was to ride on horseback up the street to let people know the train was coming. Might add back in the day I had a friend who lived on 2d Ave between 44th and 43d St. His father had grown up in Hell's Kitchen and was very strict with his kids about being home on school nights and insisted they go to school and study. Anyway, great film. Keep up the good work.
Just came from there👍🏽 Very cool story about Larry David & Seinfeld! I’m a fan of both. I’m surprise he knew about Alisha Keys😍 and how she got her first piano. Great vid
Lived in NY my whole life, worked at the Petland in Hells Kitchen for 3 years. Learned a LOT about the neighborhood from people who lived here their entire life. Wild shit!
Our grandson will be starting a new life as an attorney working at Davis Polk Law firm on Lexington Ave. We are curious to know if that is where you use to work. He grew up in a small city in upstate New York (Geneva). It will be quite a cultural change for him. Thank you for all the information and history of New York City, Tom❣️
Coolest sounding neighborhood in the world and the real estate people try to change it 🙄. Pretty fitting given how real estate is determined to completely destroy the city. Awesome vid as always Tom, really enjoyed it!
Old Elk Hotel there was my grandparents' Hotel in 1920's Two of their three children died in uniform for America. Jim was a medic on the LEOPOLDVILLE SHIP. That disaster was kept secret for fifty yrs
I’m 3rd Generation born & raised in Hells Kitchen 💪♥️ My family came over, got off the boat and planted roots where they stood, over 150 year ago ♥️ Yes, lots of our families came over during The Great Famine. But loads of English and German immigrants filled our neighborhood too. So much has changed from my immigrant families time there and even my time growing up there. I live in NJ now, but close enough to visit whenever I get homesick. Love my city, Hells Kitchen is the best of the West side 👏💪♥️
My dad started working in Manhattan Plaza when it was brand new, head maintenance man and even retired out of there, RIP Dad ♥️ My sister babysat Alicia Keys as a kid. There used to be bulletin boards in the lobby where lots of parents who lived in the building posted ads looking for babysitters, my sister and I got lots of our very first babysitting jobs there! ♥️ Everyone I knows parent were longshoremen, or works on Broadway, most in supporting staff roles. Those are our “houses”, so to say ♥️
Also, played in Clinton park my whole life, but you won’t dare ever hear me call Hells Kitchen, “Clinton” 🤬 No freaking way 🤬
Also, that murder was the basis for West Side Story ♥️
Wow. I live in Hells Kitchen and walk the city all the time. I had legit had not even seen half of this. Let alone knew the cool history. Tom you're killing it.
Phil too!
Is this dangerous part of NY
@@asianfacility5682 Not really, no. By Port Authority (the beginning of the video) can be a bit dicey. But the further uptown you go the safer.
@@asianfacility5682 No.
I live in Manhattan Plaza since it opened in 1978. This was fun to watch. You should have your own tv show. You are very funny. Maybe you should host a talk show.
Thanks for pronouncing Houston St. as How-ston St. I went to P.S. 188 on How-ston Street in the mid--1940s. I enjoyed ur tour of mid-town. I am now 80 yrs young.
The camera man is a genius, he makes Tom look good.
Phil!
Or like a jackass
@@Distantwizardhi ther
phil is a very good cameraman. :)
You walked past Rudy's, one of the best dive bars in the city. Buy a drink...get a free hotdog. Good Video.
Your Sex and the City reference for Hell’s Kitchen: Charlotte falls in front of a cab while fleeing Rudy’s (9th Ave btwn 44th &45th and meets Trey (her first husband).
Best NY tour guide is back!!!! So happy!!!! :)
Tom, your tours just keep getting better. I now know where the character Kramer came from...how cool! Love Seinfeld!
Great tour and history lesson!
I live in Manhattan Plaza. So happy you included it in your video. It's a fascinating place to live.
My old neighborhood...miss it so much. Right next to that bakery was Rudy's where you get a free hot dog with your beer! Great memories. Thanks Tom for another great vid!
@Alex fool
3:30 Esp enjoyed the info on the Manhattan Plaza buildings, occupancy based on occupation, in this case performing arts. I love learning new things, this was one of them. Thanks for these great and informative tours!
I’m a brand new resident of Hells Kitchen. Absolutely loving the neighborhood. It was also cool to see my building be shown in this video multiple times.
You may not have enjoyed it during the 50s ,60s or 70s 🤣🤣🤣
Tom I used to live in Hell's kitchen back in 1987. I get my 2nd moderna shot in two weeks. So I'm thinking of coming to NY in June.
OMG, its time for toms tours!!
Paul Simon's song 'You Can Call Me Al" is kind of upbeat for such a bad thing that happened. I always loved the Video because of Chevy Chase, but I don't think I will ever listen to that song the same way again. LOL, Hopefully, my family and I will finally make the New York Trip that we were supposed to make last May (Thanks a lot Covid) and look you up for a Tour.
Dunkin Donuts used to be at south west corner at 42nd and 9th avenue. At 351 west 42nd street is an SRO.
Love your fucking videos, found you by chance and now I’m watching all of them. You are responsible for me not doing what I needed to do and just watch tv.
New subscriber ♥️my first vid!!! I’m originally from East Harlem ...Wagner projects E121street first ave...
I use to go to New York institute of Tech in the early 80s..i think it’s on 61street...
Will probably binge watch your vids this weekend..my husband walked in and asked me if Phil was a random homeless guy you hired ..I don’t think so...oh my 29 year old daughter thinks your hot🤣got the whole family digging your vid♥️♥️♥️
Great video!…did I miss the Improv Comedy Club at 44th street and 9th ?
My favorite tour guide. If i ever win the lotto, I’m headed to nyc to get the full nyc (or just Manhattan, the other boroughs look boring/rough) tour from Tom.
been learning tons, LOVE IT! Thank you! SUBSCRIBED!
So enjoyable to watch you, your like the cool history teacher. Keep up the great work!
Lew Black, who went to Yale, was the playwright-in-residence at the Downstairs Theatre Bar at the West Bank Cafe on 9th and 42nd-in Manhattan Plaza. The
Downstairs Theatre Bar has now been renamed the Laurie Beechman Theatre. There are a few clips of Lew and his sidekick Rusty Magee on UA-cam, and this is one of them: ua-cam.com/video/ahzhgv_VFW0/v-deo.html (I was a regular at the Downstairs Theatre Bar in the 90s, and one of my favorite lines from Lew Black's monologue was: "I remember when there were four seasons a year-not four seasons a month!")
Tom! My photos after 9/11. From that Fire Station. Are in the Smithsonian and Ground Zero Memorial Museum. All donated in memory of all the victims! I should send you the book with pictures of the memorials.
Had me at “annnnywhooo”. 😇 loved the vid, thank you, Tom.
i used to live here 15 years ago... it was kind high-end quirky area
OMG! the best ever city-connoisseur is back! Been a bad day on my side in this part of the world and now this only could lift the spirit. Let's like this video before watching it and boost his Patreon people! 💵
Yes Al🙌🏾‼️
I just came across your channel and subbed immediately. Very interesting videos and your stories of buildings and streets and NYC are fantastic. Thanks!
Phil!! You don't know "You Can Call Me Al"? 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️😂😂
Awesome look at my old work stomping grounds. Great video as always, Tom and Phil.
Mickey Spillane was a writer. He wrote the Mike Hammer books. Same name as the "gangster".
Thank God you're back! What a treat for a rainy day at home
love this area of NYC, thanks for the tour 😀
Wow very impressed with the history you know about the city... you got yourself a new subscriber
that big building on your left with the stairway used to be my elementary school. back in the 50s.
Your videos have lots of cool facts, almost non-existence in other channels same walking videos. Keep up the good work
Excellent tour! 👍🏼
1:05 This sentence was an example of a SYLLEPSIS, a figure of speech where the same word is applied in a different way in the same sentence.
Great tours. Love watching them
Spillane's is owned by the infamous mobster's son. Was hoping you would say something about Holy Cross Church (Father Duffy's old parish, and used as a location in 'On the Waterfront').
Great vid. I subscribed and you sing well!
I am now a new sub. I love and miss New York so much. Grew up there. I’ll make sure to visit at least three times a year. My sister lives on 56 street right off the W. Side Highway. Thanks for sharing. I’m now in Fan.
Hey Phil, you’re not alone I didn’t know this song either until he started singing. Lol
Great video. So much cool info relating to theatre stuff. I look forward to every one of your shows. So funny to learn you were a lawyer. You look like that lawyer who podcasts 😮. Glad you switched professions😊
18:04 I've stayed in that Econo Lodge on a reward points redemption. The front door handles are two different shapes. I also got bed bugs from my one night there.
Phil's in a mood... Love it😍 Great job Tom. Love the spontaneity :-) #fanofthefirsthour
66k in views n only 5.7k in likes, come on, most underrated channels/ characters. As of January 2022
Great video dude
i'll be honest: the fact that it took almost until the video was over to do a "sick plug" shocked the s**t out of me. LOL I'm so used to seeing probably 3-5 of them in every video! LOL
I reslly enjoyed this -thank you for doing these videos.
loved the seinfeld diner story. when i visited struggling performer friend years ago......great food 24/7
Tom you're still the best !
Sleepers is e very good movie. One of the reasons I want to visit Hell's Kitchen as well.
Been waiting for the TomDNYC vid! Now my weekend's complete! Always awesome!
Hey Tom,
Clinton is a little south. Hells Kitchen is also known as Midtown West but like you, I still call it Hells Kitchen. I never realized that the actors studio was there. I just love your tours and hope to go to one of your upcoming shows.
Thanks for all you do. Love the history of NYC. HI, Phil!
Keep doing what you doing! 💜👍🙏
First time I heard of the name Hell's Kitchen is from the Netflix's Daredevil. Thank you for the tour!
Great work Tom.. 👏
Hey Tom... Cool video! New subscriber! Native New Yawka here but now in NC! NYU grad and once a bike messenger in the early 1980's and traveled up and down those avenues and streets for years, but never really knew of some of the details that you have presented in this video. Thanks for letting this old guy learn a thing or two!
My old neighborhood. Lived on 9th and 50th in a rent controlled apartment from 1969 to 2000, than my son got succession rights. Family lived there till 2018. .. Still got family in neighborhood. The best neighborhood ever regardless of history.
You were one of the inspirations for my walk channel , first one I saw was you and action kid together still my faves
Back in 2009 Hell’s Kitchen was my first home. Right across from the stables on W 45th and used to go to the West Way diner for lunch or breakfast. Didn’t know about the Seinfeld connection though. 👍🏼
Thoroughly enjoyed this, my wife and I stayed right on the edge of HK near to Times Square back in 2018, so much to explore next time! Greetings from Liverpool UK! Subscribed!
Love this video. Thanks again for that $100, Tom. I didn't know you mean Zimbabwe dollar, but still 😁🍻😄
OK, I'm liking and subscribing because I'm a history buff, and they never taught this kind of stuff in school (and that was a million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth) but all this Hell's Kitchen talk is making me see "Gangs of NY" in my mind...
Jimmy Coonan and the Westies ruled the streets( Hells Kitchen) in the 60's@prissilou
Hi Tom! Not sure if you went to Florida already. Met you on your last tour. It was a blast and loved meeting you. Hope to see you again in your NY comedy show in alphabet city. Love your walking tunes on UA-cam
Been waiting for a new upload 🙌🏾
Same here👏🏾‼️
Great tour, hilarious, 3 stooges at temple & the history, love Rudy's
I remember visiting the Actor's Studio with an actor friend, years ago.
dude the seinfeld history !!!! we need more seinfeld videos !!!! Larry D is the man
Born and raised in 414 West 44th street. Attended Holy Cross School on W. 43rd and dear friends with the Poseidon Bakery's owners. Manhattan Plaza was my playground! Thank you for this treasure!
I lived in Hells Kitchen in the early 1990's 56th between 8th & 9th Ave. The Park Vendome LOVE IT...!
When I was a kid - I was on the site of the Port Authority Bus Terminal when construction was in progress. McGraw Hill publishing was also here at that time. By the way "Paradise Alley" with Sly was also filmed here. I remember reading about the Cape Killer. There were also Belgian/French neighborhoods here. Churhes had mass in both French and Flemish. Puerto Ricans were moving in as well so there was gang activity. Part of the Godfather also took place in Hell's Kitchen. Don Vito worked here in a business. There was an Italian neighborhood called "Guinea Alley" Jews lived here as well. I remember in 1961 coming out of the Lincoln Tunnel seein "Westside Jewish Center." Oh! there was at one time a train that used to run up the middle of 10th Ave(?) Mario Puzo wrote a novel "The Unfortunate Pilgrim" which was a story about a young man whose job it was to ride on horseback up the street to let people know the train was coming. Might add back in the day I had a friend who lived on 2d Ave between 44th and 43d St. His father had grown up in Hell's Kitchen and was very strict with his kids about being home on school nights and insisted they go to school and study. Anyway, great film. Keep up the good work.
had no idea about Westway Diner (having eaten there a hundred times). Excellent video.
Just came from there👍🏽
Very cool story about Larry David & Seinfeld! I’m a fan of both.
I’m surprise he knew about Alisha Keys😍 and how she got her first piano.
Great vid
I like your videos a lot! Thanks for an interesting walk.🇨🇱
Very informative! Thanks
Great to see you
Special shout out to Phil!
Like your videos. You are a walking encyclopedia of NYC
Lived in NY my whole life, worked at the Petland in Hells Kitchen for 3 years. Learned a LOT about the neighborhood from people who lived here their entire life. Wild shit!
Our grandson will be starting a new life as an attorney working at Davis Polk Law firm on Lexington Ave. We are curious to know if that is where you use to work. He grew up in a small city in upstate New York (Geneva). It will be quite a cultural change for him. Thank you for all the information and history of New York City, Tom❣️
I think I just saw Mickey Spillane and Jimmy Coonan!
Kinda funny how they use the Denzel pic without Ethan hawke the rookie cop lol I love these tours, keep ‘em comin
Nice tour thanks for sharing greetings 🖖
Excellent video. I stay in Hells Kitchen whenever I'm in NY. Love the neighborhood.
paul newman lived in hells kitchen, and then his rolex sold for 17 million a few blocks away. crazy stuff
Coolest sounding neighborhood in the world and the real estate people try to change it 🙄. Pretty fitting given how real estate is determined to completely destroy the city. Awesome vid as always Tom, really enjoyed it!
Loving the channel! Used to live in mid town & LES. Live in Florida now,great stuff.
Wow...great job. 🚀🚀❤❤
Great video! Very helpful for my upcoming trip. Thank you.
Tom thanks for this tour I was interested in the area where my grandad emigrated to from Ireland in the 1920s and he then disappeared
I lived at 411 West 45th!! nice memories..1970's-80's ..
I love all the history behind it all I’m from nyc bronx. And so much I still learn!!! Keep them coming ! Love the videos great commentary
I am asways excited when a new video of yours pops up
Old Elk Hotel there was my grandparents' Hotel in 1920's Two of their three children died in uniform for America. Jim was a medic on the LEOPOLDVILLE SHIP. That disaster was kept secret for fifty yrs
Tom! That headshot! Woof.
Your videos never disappoint.
iF not for the way you speak, it be the knowledge of the places you feature.
Please Keep doing this. Thanks to Phil on the camera 🎥 👍🏾
Just found a stream called learning things with Kyle and Phil! With Tom as special guest ! And Phil is Tom's cameraman ✌️✌️
love the tour Tom !