Thanks for the great tour of one of the most beautiful neighborhoods of Manhattan! Used to live and study in NYC in the late 1960s/early 70s but lived on the Upper East Side and worked in mid town as a fashion artist. I met my husband in the Village though and he had also gone to NYU and worked at the Village Gate owned by the late Art D'Lugoff. We met at the New School for Social Research, now New School University in a psyche class. We last took our three daughters to the Village to see the longest running hit show, "The Fantastiks"! I remember before we got married hanging out at all the great old trattorias and side walk cafes! When I was growing up in NJ I remember a famous bakery in the Village called Sutter's I believe that had huge windows where one could look in from the sidewalk and watch the pastry chefs with their tall white chef hats decorating wedding cakes and such. Used to walk through Washington Square in my long Hippie dress back in the day, too. Many fond memories and going to the Provincetown Playhouse as well. We were married in 1974 in Provincetown, MA, which used to be called " Helltown" in the late 1800s and "Greenwich Village North" in the 1920s and 30s! Writer Norman Mailer and his wife are buried there as well. Never went to Soho that much and not surprised that the artists there got squeezed out since they probably couldn't afford the escalating rents! My apt in an old brownstone on the Upper East side went for 90 dollars a month, rent controlled, a one bedroom/one bath , large kitchen, living room. Today that same apt goes for "$2500 a month! And we thought the inflation was bad in the 1970s? Ha, shows one the level of greed since then! "New York, New York, it's a hell of a town, the Bronx is up and the Batteries down" ..a wonderful town and one of the most beautiful cities in the world next to Boston, Paris, Rome, London and others! Miss NYC, left part of my heart there many moons ago!

Thanks. I went down to Greenwich Village in the '50s and '60s,for the Jazz.Mmmmmmmm

love your videos about New York! Very informative!! Thank you so much!

Great video of these utterly gorgeous areas!!!

I just love looking at those fire ladders, they look so New York. The cast irons.

Great job with this video👏... very concise and informative for visitors and native NYers.

Love this...Thank you!!!

thankyou for sharing your knowledge..great vid

You have a bit of Rick Steves vibe to your voice. Nice video, thanks for sharing.

These lower Manhattan districts are the best.

Wow, I like the way you spoke about the places. I just subbed.

I've never been to NYC but you make me want to go

All i want is a greenwhich village brownstone, its my favorite area

I’ve never managed to make it through one of these videos but I’m so glad i did with this one! I live in Texas and pretty much know absolutely nothing about NY so this was a nice video to watch :)

I stayed with a friend in Harrison Street, last year. It was early March and very cold!

Love greenwhich village

REALLY AAZING VIDEO IENJOYED WHATHING YOUR VLOG THANK YOU

This area. The food are good. Comedy clubs. Shopping for unique shoes and clothes. Chess players in the parks. NYU university area. Live jazz club. Kind of hipster. Plenty nice restaurants. Good food. Tattoo shops. If not tattoo person. It's ok. Still can't go wrong. Good to visit.

I sang in Washington square park, I just sit in with a trio playing there.

ILOVE NY THE BEST

@09:22 Gay & Christopher Street The Stonewall Inn is on Christopher Street.

Looks good I wanna live there

I miss NYC

great video man

Grove Court is a charming place.

Did that guy steal a olive 2:52 😂

It was in March 2002 that I had the pleasure of visiting Manhattan with a tour group. What was surprising to me was how safe and clean Manhattan was. One of the pictures I took was a man playing a guitar in Times Square. He was wearing only underwear and a straw hat. It appears to me that if you lived in New York City you really would not need a car.

Soho and it's brick roads make it so beautiful

In the mid 1970’s, I lived on W 21 Street, to be in an affordable area, near the Village. Soho then really was empty. My neighborhood, Chelsea, also became fashionable and expensive.

I live in the village and never take the same route home twice. 😊

i will have my funeral here in the village i love the village

New York City is probably the greatest city in the world. It has everything. The greatest talent of the world comes to New York. You’ll find everyone here. But New York is too expensive. After moving from my parents house because they sold it to developers I finally see that to have a great place to live is too much money. Great place to visit though.

You showed Grove St and Perry St without mentioning Friends or Sex and the City. How did you manage to do that? ;)

i saw grove street in the video. Does that mean our beloved CJ lives there....... XD

I need to send a message back in time to my grandparents and ask them to buy property there

love all of this bring it on but do add chelsea pleasssse

Dean and DeLucca moved from Prince St. Its OK, so many changes over time. No going back,for any of us.

Soho, Turf of the Hi-Hats

THERE WAS A SONG CALLED WASHINGTON SQUARE GOOGLE IT ITS BY THE VILLAGE STOMPERS

I got a tattoo in Greenwich Village by a cute Native American guy....did a great job.

I became enlightened ,and a hippie here.

"Friends" forever. Well... you know what i mean

If I ever hit the lottery/win big enough,I’m moving to soho...I love this area,I’m just glad living here in Newark,I’m only a path train away...less than 30 min/I’m there...wait so you mean to tell me,I’ve walked over dead souls allllll these yearsssss sheesh 😬😬😬

Washington Square the famous reference in the song Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez with a hard driven adaptation by Judas Priest.

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YORKKKKKKKKKKKKKK LIVES NEW YORK

The only thing I miss is the cultural center, The Met, MoMA etc. The rest is overpriced crap including Dean and Deluca. Some Broadway and off Broadway shows are worth it . Little Italy and China town are okay. The soul of Manhattan has long left it.

FYI no public bathrooms in Dean & Deluca

What's the weather

There are buildings for section 8 too

Is east village different from both of these? new to new york

Wow I have something named after me..,

MISS U DAVID LYNN JONES R I P

I ride my bicycle thru those streets on sundays. Beats walking any time

They kill me using the word Hip.

At the rate it's going, NYU will take over every building in lower Manhattan.

I came to watch this just so I can imagine better Jude St. Francis walking there.

4:14

LOVE THAT PARK BIGAGLO DRUG STORE ON THE CORNER NYC

Did u see the one shoplifting

Where is Chinatown? Italian Village? New York University? Off-Off Broadway theatres? Outdoor markets in the Summer? Outdoor restaurants? Where is all that?

Manhattan looks so much like parts of Manchester uk...

Should now be called , Greenback Village.

Why do people pronounce it house-tin street?

too many people too many tourists difficult to get around

Where are u from ur accent

The cuisines of the world are on display here ranging from ethiopian, egyptian, italian.... faLaFeL KMSADKSJDSDKASDJK

DAVID L JONES WAS A DOG LOVE RIP

That nigga stole a grape 😭😭

Dude just stolen a little something at 2:52 lol

It's so one sided down their if you know what I mean!

Soho in France

Idk Norm McDonald gave KZfaq tours 😅

I miss the old grimy seedy new york...

This man said Howston St 😂😂😂

7:30- Bleecker & Macdougal. Only one block away is 225 Sullivan. This was where Vincent (The Chin, aka the Oddfather) Gigante---mob boss of the Genovese crime family held court. Back in the day (1957) he shot and wounded Luciano (now Genovese) family boss Frank Costello. The Chin succeeded the powerful Vito Genovese. Before The Chin's death in 2005 you could see him walking around this area in his robes or pjs mumbling and acting odd, hence the "oddfather." It was all a ruse of course to make it look like he was insane, and incapable of being boss of no criminal organization, so that when he was nabbed by the police for possible crimes he could plead insanity. It didn't work. He almost succeeded in blowing up John Gotti, and would have---- had Gotti kept an appointment. Instead, Gotti's underboss (he was a target too) was blown to bits in a car bomb. Gotti was supposed to have been with his underboss in the car that day. I like a little of the macabre, the dark and nasty history stuff in some of these places too.

Well, if all the artists were pushed out, what is the point of going there. Doesn't sound too interesting. Just expensive. Would rather visit someplace else.

Soho has become a boring high end shopping district, with few basic amenities for residents who actually live there. The ‘cutting edge’ left 30 years ago,replaced by trust funders and shopping for tourists.

I'd like to see what it looks like now after disasterous CV response policy has shuttered our cities..

Those neiborhoods look like the downtown east side in Vancouver but in the downtown east side has alot of homeless people Drug addiction and is the complete opposite of good to walk through

now NYU will be freeadmission

I miss my old New York I miss the twin towers

That's the sad part of what's happening in NY today. No one but the wealthy can afford to live there anymore. NY has lost it's soul to the almighty dollar. NYU has become one of the best propaganda schools in the country.

Eww My god !!! Sooo Kewl !! Next time I wanna meet up with Longboard Logan and Vegan Meghan for a Pumpkin Kale Breast Milk Latte' I know where to go !!!

hah.. New York City, where eggs go to die... If you're a single woman, you're going to stay that way.

Buncha settlers

No matter how NY and actually most US cities try, even their middle class streets look like a dump compared to west European design. US is slabs slabs slabs, cracks and potholes.

overrated.