Hey Tom, I visited the south tower in 1979 at night and what a view. Thanks 👍👏😊♥️🇺🇸

I was at work when it happened. I along with a coworker had stood in the towers about six months prior. It broke my heart. I cried every year when they would do memorial programs about it.

Went there a few years ago, seeing tourists With selfie ticks taking selfies at the 9/11 memorial pools was crazyyy

I lost a good friend in that disaster. And, my family was very close for a time to the Tishman team, which built the first and the most recent iteration of the World Trade Center. Great review of the site. Thank you.

Your sense of humor is gold love how respectful you are about the location your filming at but the humor helps lighten the mood aswell 🙏

So glad you referred to it as One World Trade Center. I still hear realtors and some content creators call it the Freedom Tower, which it hasn’t been since the Port Authority officially changed it in 2009!

Never disappointed in a new upload! And the comic relief was much needed for a video on this topic. Thank you.

This is a great video to remind us again about an event that should not be allowed to fade away. Personally, it reminded me of my long days of work coverage from that day in 2001, thank you!

well done, hilarious, educational and entertaining as always. sick plug

Another great video Tom. Can I recommend the film made on the day by two french brothers who happened to be making a documentary on a NYC fire station. Stunning and harrowing.

I didn't know about Radio Row, informative as always!

I grew up in Conn and would go into the City every chance i could get. I remember when Phillipe Petit walked between the Towers and shortly after saw him doing a street show in the West Village. NY was so much fun back in those days ( drinking age was 18) and cheap enough to have fun in. Really enjoy your vids Tom, cannot believe your encyclopedic knowledge of history and lore.

My late wife and I Took a picture under The Sphere in 1999, while we were dating. We wondered what had happened to it, and saw it in a temporary memorial in Battery Park. We both loved that sculpture. Sadly, she passed away 4 years ago from cancer, but I have brought our sons to see the current location. That sculpture is something of a metaphor for us, but we still love it.

Thanks for all your hard work making this video. I know I say it a lot but I learn from every single one of your videos AND laugh the whole time. You rock!

And I love all your videos, Tom. I have traveled all over the world, and NYC has always been my favorite.

Tell my old coworkers I said hello 🥺🥺 I used to work at the museum & memorial. I miss them.

My family and I visited New York last year for the first time. We had a great time. We took the PATH to the World Trade Center and were amazed by the Oculus. It's a gorgeous building. We went to the memorial pools and it was definitely an emotional experience. Standing on the ground that so many people tragically died was a very sobering experience. Thanks Tom for these videos. Your knowledge on so many topics concerning NY is next level

Love your light hearted comedy. Appreciate that it breaks up the otherwise seriousness. Very informative and well produced video Thank you

Your videos are always so informative, entertaining and even funny. As you say, they pack a lot into them.

I was just wee when 9/11 happened I remember the teachers looking kind of concerned and upset. My mam told me about it later when i got home from school. I remember the story of that crazy lady who lied about being in the tower that day and it somehow became a really huge story.

Great job Tom D! Very educational and informative and love the humor you add as always.

I grew up in the lower east side in the 60s and 70s. Lower Manhattan (the Wall St area) was a ghost town on the weekends back then. It was not as residential as it is today, so the working folk were home elsewhere and there were zero tourists.

THE MORNING OF THE TRAGEDY, I WAS ON MY WAY TO WORK(THE DAYCARE WHERE I TAUGHT WAS NOT FAR FROM THE AREA)..I CHOSE TO WALK THAT MORNING, AND I'M NEVER GOING TO FORGET THE SOUND OF THE 2ND PLANE COMING AND HITTING THE 2ND TOWER!!...SO NOT ONLY AM I AFRAID OF "LOW FLYING" PLANES, LIKE THE SOUND LITERALLY MAKES ME JUMP, BUT JUST TO HAVE THAT "SIGHT AND SOUND" ENGRAVED IN MY MIND, FOREVER SUCKS!!!...I HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE "NEW AREA" SINCE THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED...I MISS THE ORIGINAL TOWERS, WOULD HANG OUT THERE ALMOST ALL MY WEEKENDS, AS A TEEN...THIS VIDEO IS MY "FIRST" VISIT TO THE AREA...MAYBE ONE OF THESE DAYS I'LL WORK UP THE COURAGE TO GO VISIT IN PERSON.🙂

TY for the tour. I’ve never been there but I was there the day they came down across the river in NJ. It was overwhelming just overwhelming

I'm glad that you did this video, everything aside. People seem to tend to forget about 9/11 and how things went down with it, and how things were in the country soon after! we need to be reminded.

Very interesting video Tom. I know exactly where I was, also on almost the top floor of a fairly high building at work, I can still point out exactly where I was. A coworker came in to tell us. He was the company clown, so we were all waiting for the punchline....which afcourse never came. Such a horrible day, I'll never forget it. I was SO scared, you have no idea. Living alone didn't help....

Thank you for sharing your tours in New York. I still have not come to see the new World Trade Center area. I use to live in New York in the 1970s and I would walk around the old two World Trade Center 1 & 2. And there were the other buildings surrounding the area.

Very interesting, funny, and informative video. Thank you very much for posting this.

Love your videos man! thanks for hanging out virtually with us ❤

Very well done, Tom. On August 28th, 2001, we played tourists and were on the South Tower's observation floor and on the rooftop walkway. Two weeks later...

What an easy decision to sub, you're so entertaining! Can't wait to visit the WTC again, was last there in 2011.

My dad was a Rikers Correctional Officer at the time, (worked there from when my older sister was born, to when I started middle school) and was one of the first responders. According to him and my mom….I was 2 years old, and at my grandma’s house when it happened, my mom was at work at a local university in our area (she used to work at the WTC) and my sister was in college. There was no way in or out of the city when it happened, it was completely chaotic and by time my dad made it back home….it was like 1:00 in the morning. He was actually given a book filled with aerial pictures of the damage, as well as the attack as it happened. He still has that book to this day, and I refuse to read it. Every year in school whenever 9/11 would fall on a school day, when I was in history class….my teachers would play a video pf the attacks, and I had to leave the room because of how traumatic it was for me. Although my dad survived, he does have a few health issues. I’ve only been to the memorial once on a school trip back during my senior year of high school and my dad’s picture was actually there…..he actually still has that picture in his phone. It’s heartbreaking that the museum closed, so I’m hoping it will open again in the near future.

Tough topic. Well handled. Congrats Tom, job well done.

Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

My ex and I were on the first Path Train to be rerouted to midtown, after the first plan hit. She worked directly across the street, on Liberty St, and I had several clients in the neighborhood to visit. Very sad, and introspective day.

Excellent, respectful, informative introduction and tour. I do wish you'd included St. Paul's Chapel, in part because of the role that it played for those who worked to rescue work and the removal of rubble.

living in Hawaii, on 9/11 the call came early from a mainland friend. She warned me of the news. I vividly recal the lack of air traffic in the islands being a distant connection of what tragic events had happened. It was a very eerie silence felt in the Mid Pacific.

Great video Tom. you’re the man

Hello Tom and fellow viewers. Happy new year everyone.

Hi Tom. An interesting part of the back story is that the lower west side docks were a wreck, but due to encroaching containerization of shipping there was no future for them, even though NY city government held out hope, mostly in a vain attempt to frustrate the Port Authority which was building out the new Newark and Elizabeth port facilities. So the trade center eventually happened atop what used to be the 19th century busy Manhattan waterfront on the Hudson.

Great video Tom. I used to work down there many years ago. By the way, they filmed the final scene of King Kong at the WTC (1976)

I am sooooooo in love with this man,

Finally caught you on a recent tour 🎉🎉

thanks for the update

Thanks, Tom!!! I'm here for the trip, not the ride. Keep doing you, love NY

I loved that movie (THE WALK} and (man on wire) was really good to.

awesome tom..you are doing great things... ...nyc is amazing...it takes a hearty soul to do what you do...i enjoy what goes on in the background while you are 'splaining stuff....it is better to enjoy life then to destroy stuff...ok i am going to watch your video now..thanks again...when my yacht come in i'll leave bakshish no doubt...meanwhile...carry on...

i touched the screen

1776 is when the 13 colonies (aka United States) declared their independence from England. Amazing that they incorporated that symbolism into the new WTC by making its height 1,776 feet. (Just in case anyone missed that).

Amazing! My life is complete! ❤

I remember I was sleeping and my brother woke me up and told a plane hit the tower. I first thought it was a small plane but we know the rest is history. The rest of the day was kind of a blur. Was working that day too. I was working cleaning in my local steel mill Dofasco. I think everyone was kind of shocked and in disbelief. Never forget9/11🙏

I used to go there in the 90s for seminars on world trade & also US Customs over in 5 World Trade. I knew a man who actually worked for the Port Authority at 1WTC & he was there both times. Luckily he survived. Dark days in the city. It's a shame that the 9/11 museum closed because of funding issues.

I almost fainted seeing the tightrope pic.

There’s a great video on how they clean the memorial (reflective pools and metal name carvings) every night. It’s unbelievable how disrespectful people are; throwing garbage into the water and scratching inappropriate things into the metal right next to survivors’ names. It’s depressing knowing that in another 100 years there will be absolutely nobody who lived through it and it won’t seem real to any future citizens, despite all the film and photographic archive footage of the event.

I went to the top when I was 11 back in '88. I was visiting my cousins, aunt, and uncle and they took me to all the hotspots. I interviewed my uncle a while back and he brought up the story of where he was on 9/11, I had no idea how close he was. He was far enough away but he just came into Manhatten from Queens. I could tell it bothered him greatly. Another great video, Tom, peace out!

It's a good thing the tightrope walker didn't step on a banana peel while crossing.

You're a funny guy. I really like your b-roll shots.

Alot of people never even visited the towers..I was in elementary school..as classmates Dad worked for the port authority..was on observation deck never forget it plus the lunch they gave us.... 🍀🐱

Informative Thanks again John In Chicago

Love your videos.

I was on tour with a band called Stereomud and we had a day off in Minneapolis at a hotel next to the airport. Woke up and turned on the news as one of the NYC based band members knocked on the door. All day watching the news channels and the lack of air traffic at the airport which was busy with arrivals and departures the night before...

I was driving back from Florida the day before, was looking @ the trade ctr 24 hrs before the first plane.

This was the first video I ever watched by yours. It seems, you´re a very nice man. I always dreamt to travel New York, but I never did. When I was little my older sister and I hab a huge wallpaper about Manhattan Skyline in our childensroom. I was so fascinated by all the skyscrappers. But next year I turn 50 and I want to fulfil my childhood dream to travel my beloved USA. But I`m not sure if I should go to Dallas or New York. And I hope my English is good enough. Sometimes I`m afraid to speak, because I`m afraid to make mistakes and make a fool about myself. My native laguage is German. I`m Austrian. But it was really a great experience to watch a video made by you. With all the humor and information. Great job!

Anyone who throws in an early Simpsons reference earns my respect (and a sub!) Interesting history about the area before the World Trade Center was built. Didn't know so many people were against it.

My grandmother had to go downtown to visit my grandfather while he was having hesrt surgery and recovery. She would stop by and watch them build the towers. She couldn't believe something could be that big. She was alive when they fell 6 months after the death of my grandfather.

🤣 Bro .., I lmao so gd hard in this 1 multiple times But especially the dead kids painting 😂

The walk, is the name of the movie of the guy who walk the twins towers, is really a good movie

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME

I'll be visiting there for the first time in about 6 months. That's my main reason on going to NYC.

Thanks Tom.

I call the Oculus the Transformer lol, because it looks like it could jump out of the ground or open up or something

as a spanish guy, hearing u say "calatrava te la clava" made me spit my coffee hahaha

best jokes yet

Great vid tom

I was in high school on 84 st walked to 59st on the east side because we heard that the train on that side was working but it wasn’t ended up walking all the way to the Bronx

I got up the old World Trade tower3 times . Was there the the first January after the event. There was stuff floating out of windows nearby and one huge Stars and Stripes flag over one office building adjacent to the site.

Nice tour.

My work hood! Ty!

4:29 Down the street to the left of the guy, the one with the two green cupolas, that was the tallest office building in the world from 1899 to 1908.

Hey Tom! Noticed you had a New Zealand cap on. (I’m a NYer but have friends that just visited us from there. We took them to the WTC. They were impressed.) I look forward to when you say crud and you didn’t this time. 😑 still love ya.

I remember when they started bldg the towers..they were awesome!Seen Mr Petite in tomkins sq park doing his tricks...i took alot of people to the world trade ctr to the top!Went their for a job in the Port Authority at the trade Center...i still cant believe they are gone?

A book is a meme thats 60,000 words long 😂😂😂

Great vlog

great video

Nice video. Now I want to know the name of Eric's elementary school.

I think St. Nicholas Church is open for visit as well.

Nice visit

Missed a plug. The Fireman’s Memorial was cast at Bedi-Makky Art Foundry

Great job! Said by a native NYer.

We love you 🙏❤️❤️🙏

15:51! damn dude! sudden Darkness thrown in! LOL

I worked for almost 9 years at 200 vesey. I highly recommend Nassau bar next time youre in the neighborhood.

I suggest you do an interview with the Rockefeller family about this attack, if you can.

After your tallest building question, was the Long Island Duck, out by the Hamptons, one of the choices?

I lived in New jersey but worked in a building in Wall Street. At that time there was just a big hole in the ground

Tom, do you eat a hotdog 🌭 for every episode?

Hey Tom, where were you on the day of the attacks?

I was in the house I grew up in, watching the Terminator when it happened.

Po que no hacen las torres gemelas otra vez?

like your beanie btw :)