As I am a foreigner from Germany currently visiting the US, I had the Chance of seeing New York by accident because I missed my connecting flight to Dallas. It was absolutely fascinating, even more than I had imagined it. I have been to bigger cities like Shanghai, but none of those had this urban and, at the same time open feeling like New York. If the world should have a capital, it has to be New York. When I visited Dallas though, the inner city felt completely empty, even with the many skyscrapers. It felt like someone had simply placed the buildings there for no reason. I couldn't do anything without stepping inside a car and driving somewhere for twenty minutes, which completely eliminates the purpose of a city. Urban sprawl and inner city highways have destroyed so many American cities, which makes New York stand out even more to me.

I visited NY about 6 years ago, I loved the city and the people so much. I'm from Sweden but my parents are from the middle east, yet I still felt at home in NY. After my consultancy contract ended, I spent about a week in Manhattan. Sometimes me and my friend used to just sit on a curb and have a cold drink. I cherish the experience so much, that to this day I still have a goal of buying an apartment there. I miss you NY, hope to see you soon.

Actually New York is home to more than 800 spoken languages and dialects, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.

You should make a video about the history (rise and fall) of Detroit

Ahhh. New York. It is my favourite city. I just love the modern and amazing texture! The amazing buildings are so great. No city can match this city!

What a great video! Amazing job, good research and objective, comprehensive information. My geography teacher would be very proud....

This is an extremely underrated video! Best NYC history lesson ever!

Your videos just keep getting better and better. Keep up the good work!

As a New Yorker, I was excited to see this pop up. It was great to see you covering the Hudson Rail Yards, and 2nd Ave Subway project, along with the problems of the MTA and Real Estate market. I do wish you spent more time on the future though, New York's past is a great topic (Moses' plans, Immigration, Social Movements, Erie Canal), but I'm not sure it needed the emphasis it got. Maybe I'm just used to the Megaprojects videos

What I have always liked about New York, or particularly Manhattan, was the absence of the urban American sprawl and the kitschy homogeneous commerce and the lack of architecture that comes with it. Too many placed in America can be exchanged with other places without you even knowing, as they looks all the same. Manhattan is unique and the architecture is real. While the housing and office building of so many cities and suburbs in the southeast and southwest will be torn down after only decades, the buildings of New York will still stand hundreds of years after they were built. New York will become a great old city like London and Paris. I can’t imagine anything in places like Houston or Atlanta lasting hundreds of years.

The videos are incredible. Thank you for making them! I hope the channel continues in this direction.

Love the video - I've been here twice and there's something about the city that makes you feel alive and that you're part of a living, dynamic system. I 've lived in other major cities and visited some large metropolis but New York makes anyone feel alive.

ENGLAND: London's megacity

I'm Egyptian from Alexandria, Egypt's second biggest city and I can't wait for Cairo! I love your channel, always a great positive vibe to it. Can you do Los Angeles in the near future? #NotificationSquad

One of the most greatest, inspiring, motivating, and cultivatung videos I've ever seen!

amazing work (editing, voicing, and research data behind the video) keep up the great work and i subbed !

Brilliant stuff. London next please!

I love this series, please do London next

I love this channel. Awesome stuff each single one. Good job admin 👍👍

Your videos are awesome. Good history, storytelling, and inspiring. Thank you.

As a native New Yorker, I can say that we represent the best and worst of the world today. Yes, we are modern, rich, dynamic, "vibrant", and tolerant (to a point), but we're also filled with corruption, over-regulation, inequality, and yes, discrimination. New York City is the most segregated city in the US in terms of residential areas. One can see where each racial group lives quite clearly, with little overlap in most areas. The unions have the city's public infrastructure by the throat, and work progresses very slowly and at tremendous cost so as to benefit the union workers at the public's expense. This is why it's taking decades just to build a single subway line. The subway system was mostly built in just a few decades, with each line taking only a few years at most to build. The Empire State Building went up in roughly 11 months, now it takes years or a decade just to build something half as tall. To top it off, it's almost impossible to start a new business in the city without spending a ton of capital and time just in licensing, regulatory compliance, and obtaining permits. Entrepreneurship built this city; without it, we'll struggle to keep up against areas which allow for more efficient business creation, such as Texas. And this isn't even getting into the high taxes or expensive land. The gap between the rich and poor is one of the widest in America, public school are terrible (charter schools are little better), and the city's budget largely depends on just a few hundred thousand high-income workers in the financial sector, little manufacturing remains in the city limits, and racial gaps in wealth persist with little or not change since 50 or 60 years ago. We're hardly as good as we once were relative to our peak.

Great job TDC. Can you do similar mini documentaries on Shanghai, Tokyo, Istanbul, New Delhi, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Moscow, Seoul, Cairo, Sydney, London and Paris? Many cities in China are ridiculously big too but let's do one for each country first =). Oh yeah, do one on Tehran too. Iran is so under-represented in the internet. Thanks.

So happy I discovered your page! It’s perfect...informative and entertaining. 👌🏻🙌🏻

These videos about mega cities are magnificent. Thank you so much.

By far my favorite city I've been to

So glad you finally did NYC! I love these MEGACITIES documentaries! I moved from NYC 3 years ago and I def want to move back, but to answer the question you asked, New York's biggest issue (to the middle and working class anyway) is real estate prices. Thats the only thing that will keep me away anyway.

Great video as always! can't wait for Cairo's video greetings from Cairo, Egypt :)

im from Canada and im so obsessed with New York..Great video!!!

You should do Chicago. In my eyes, it's the second largest US city. If it was allowed to annex suburbs like Los Angeles did and be the same land size as LA, Chicago would be larger by over 1 million people.

Truly the greatest city on earth! Love from India!

Great thanks for connecting and providing information

I love your videos. They are awesome. A wealth of information in them. Thanks

I should not be surprised as many people do, but you left out what actually MADE NYC what it is today. Elevated and subsequent Subway system. Before 1915, many parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx were undeveloped and many of the city's poor were still confined to Manhattan below 14th Street. The 1913 Dual Systems Contracts (Dual because it was an agreement between NYC and the IRT and BRT) were specifically created for the purpose of providing new subways to these areas ripe for housing development. This new housing would not only provide a better quality of life for the poorest residents, but would also introduce them to better opportunities and San overall greater health. Many parts of New York City are have only hit the 100 year mark in the last couple of years. it was then the population skyrocketed again.

Born & raised in Brooklyn. It's population would make it the 4th largest city the U.S.

I really enjoy these videos. Thank you

Just stayed in New York for a couple days for the first time. Wow! What a massive, diverse, breathtaking city. It's bigher and greater than you first realised. I've been before but not to where I've actually have walked around the city for hours and riding on buses. The experience was something else. I still can't get over how huge everything feels. How it would take a life time to see it all!

As an Australian who hasn't been overseas in his life, I gotta say that New York seems like one hell of a place after watching Seinfeld and How I Met Your Mother, and listening to hip hop artists from Harlem, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. It's definitely on the bucket list, though a fear of heights stops me from visiting the main tourist attraction other than the Statue of Liberty haha.

Excellent video. There's no city like New York.

I just discovered your channel. I’m a born and bred New Yorker and a huge history buff. This is awesome.

Awesome video. Thank you!

Qualquer dia vou aí em NY ♥️ I LOVE NEW YORK🥰❤️

I love new york, im from new jersey but I grew up so close and so influenced by nyc that I feel like another new yorker

Awesome video!!

Love history so much!❤️

2:25 Mistake there, In the 17th and 18th Century the Netherlands was called the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands - it had no Monarchy or Crown.

I work in nyc, and I try to visit different neighborhoods from the city, it makes me feel like tourist in my own city

The reading of narrator is absolutely outstanding; soothing, calm and incredibly captivating! Thank you!

Great video!

I'm so proud of the history of my hometown! We are the definition of the American Dream! Queens raised

I was born in Bedstuy BK, lived elsewhere since then but can't wait to come back in a few years!

thank you, solid video

Nice video I love it.

400 languages!! New York🌷🌹⚘

Pls make a video about MUMBAI plzzzz

very well put.

New York is amazing. Nuff’ said :)

Can you do montreal or Vancouver

Great Video

God, your videos are SO awesome!!!

May I suggest a idea to explore on cities. I'm Canadian, live in Montreal. I have visited the USA, mostly in the Northeast and Southeast. The US and Canadian are very similar in many aspects: City development, city grids, cars and highway infrastructure. But on the ground, I noticed so many US cities with large poor inner city neighborhoods and lack of good public transportation. In the few large Canadian cities, the inner core neighborhoods are very vibrant w good transportation systems. Why is that? Why not research and do a video on this topic.

Don't go to New York, it's a great place for visiting but living there is a whole another level. If you wanna live in Manhattan, the heart of the city, be ready to pay $3000 rent for a 1 bedroom apartment. And Brooklyn too if you go near the Fairview market. The cheapest place if you're buying a house are either the Bronx or eastern Queens around Jamaica state. It's around 600k to 750k as the cheapest.

These videos are just excellent

Such a great beautiful historic place .. greetings from Egypt

Are you going to do LA/ Southern California 😲

I am from iraq and i will come visit new york this summer and hopefully try to stay at the plaza hotel or the ritz or just anything facing central park

Thanks Vishal

A nice video!

please never stop making these videos!

A video on Mumbai: India's MEGACITY

Amazing content, you should have more subscribers

These videos is really interesting. =)

Do one on Chicago

I live there, not that crowded even the city center.

Very good info

very useful thanks

Is there any Old York ?

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thank for your info

Nice video!

Hate when people talk about New York City and forget about the other four boroughs.

You should do a video on Philadelphia. It's a big city with a developing downtown. Population about 1.5 million. I feel like it could be a major contender one day on a global scale.

The history part is excellent!

Good video :)

Can you cover Toronto? Even some of the smaller cities can still be classified as mega. We have one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, and over 9.5 million people live in the greater golden horseshoe area, which is actually smaller in area than the ny Metropolitan area

Actually, Philadelphia was the capital just before Washington DC.

Awesome video

I live in and love New York. I think the best thing is the sense of community through the whole city

First and my home! BTW you forgot to mention how NYC is the "Urban" Culture capital of America. Basically, rap culture, hip hop, rising stars, acting, Starbucks, "ghetto culture". Dominicans along with Putero Ricans being the highest minority group with African Americans. It's just such an amazing place besides Manhattan I really hope anyone who wants to be here come here and stays.😍

Do one about Phoenix, Arizona. It's not the largest of cities but it is huge. It has an interesting street layout with every 8 blocks equaling a mile. The cities streets follow a strict grid iron pattern. Also it's interesting how it's a large city in the middle of the 115+ degree desert with minimal access to water. The city was also built from ruins, hence the name Phoenix because the city "rose from the ashes of the destroyed ruins".

Great video

Thanks for making this. Could you do Singapore next?

Do a megacity video on São Paulo please

Wasn't Philadelphia the capital before it went to DC?

Muito boa análise urbana da New York city!!

nice. I like your channel

30 years ago Shanghai was like what NY was 400 years ago 😝

LA has a long long long long long history

Good info

great vids

English & British aren't interchangeable! Union of the Crowns of Scotland & England was in 1603 and the two nations joined parliaments in 1707. American Revolution was between the 13 colonies and the British not English......That aside great video. I LOVE NYC