How do you know so much?!? Very impressive. I haven't been able to return to NYC in years and your walking tours give me all the good feels. Thank you!

I love how you always take a nap on the benches, you look like a bum but it always cracks me up

I really appreciate Tom's knowledge and humor! So, Tom's parents be proud of him, he's doing great job!

I love the history of NYC. Every inch has a story

When do you get to be a teacher on a sitcom? Or snarky barista? Good video, I like when you repeat stuff, helps me put stuff together. When I come to NYC, I am gonna know my way around!

Had no chance exploring NYC years back when I got a scholarship, watching your walking tours it reminds me of how fantastic this city is and your knowledge as well. Brilliant 👍

I used to live in 29 Washington SQ W. The best apt I've ever lived in 💖

Great video as usual Tom

Great informative videos! Thank you!

Incredible video!…thank you

I love your tours. Keep doing it. You ere good at it.

Visiting NYC tomorrow so I gotta cram all my TomD videos - I am smart now... thanks Tom!👍🏼

Another great video

Amazing just subscribed.. I'm in love with Tom.. Brilliant

Tom you're a wealth of knowledge! Thank you for providing the truth of it all... Sometimes we don't get all of the truths in "history class" but here you do, therefore, thank you for the enlightenment. Take care and your parents should be proud of all the good work you do!

Very Enjoyable - Thanx ..... mvc

Your videos are so wonderful and enthusiastically informative I never want them to end! Thank you!

Good job Tom, as always, a very informative video. Love it!

Never be sorry for spitting knowledge on America's past! Love these vids!!

Great job as always, Tom! Stewie, you’re as smooth as silk!

You could mention that Anderson Cooper lives just below Washington Square Park, that LITTLE WOMEN was written on MacDougall a block or two south of Washington Square, that Joan Baez lived on Washington Square and mentioned it in the song Diamonds & Rust.

Great channel. Subscribed. Could you please make a video of Chess Forum in Thompson street . Cheers.

John Sebastian (of the Lovin’ Spoonful) and his family, lived across the hall from Elenor Rosevelt on the 15th floor.

Geweldig!

Fantastic, Tom! No matter that I'm drunk. lol I love it. I mean the video. I just got back from some birthday party. I have not drunk for 8 months anything alcoholic but today. Thanks for the info on burried people as well! Cheers! Greetings from the EU!

Washington square park is one of my fave parks ..I’m a little bit disturbed to find out about the dead bodies ...Little tidbit for you ..Jane Fonda and Robert Redford made a movie called barefoot in the park(referring of course to Washington square park)..enjoyable and disturbing in its own right . Check it out

Great tours Tom, a big Hello from the UK, South of England,,,,, can't wait to visit NYC

You should do a Stuytown / Peter Cooper Village video! Lotta history

Saw Charlie many times. Also the fireman and Calypso tumblers. I lived on bleecker above the village gate.

Love Tom’s informative and funny videos

Ex New Yorker left the City with my parents to suburban Rockland County! Really enjoy all the City history especially Central Park and museums! I grew up on Eastside 96 street area 2nd and 3 avenue (60’s)!

Thank you , always informative xoxo

Come for the History lesson... Stay for knowledge of Tom's strained relationship with his parents.

Interesting history.. you are so informed thank you. I always enjoy your videos

I can see Tom as a younger Kunstler. I forgot his protege's name, but both presented the working class and those in need because of being side tracked by society. He should have his own law firm and find the best lawyers who thinks the working class should be represented. I love is tours and will miss them if he decided to move on, but he is brilliant and I think this touring is just a breather to get his destiny in tow.

Just like all of them Washington Square Park is my favorite park in NYC.

I’m 22 & Will Smith is one of my favorite actors. Loved Fresh Prince. Dude was also from Philly so 😊

new york can be soo good. thanks.

I like your video!

for many years i lived 3 blocks away on 9 street and Broadway this park is a great freek show in the summer

I started watching you at the beginning of lockdown last year, your knowledge is great and I have learnt so much about New York, I will one day grace your amazing country, keep up the great work 👍🏼

Thank you very much Tom

I just found this channel and all I want to do is binge watch. Love it!

Dope video, Tomi! Can’t wait to get back to NYC one day soon.

Great day for Tomdnyc video!

Great informative video Tom , I was here last yr wish I knew all this history back then ....thank you so much 🇨🇦

Great job Tom, love it, thank you ! Waiting your next video. Send you force and love from France ( great accent for Arc de Triomphe, by the way !! ). Keep going !

Thank you very much for this new video 👍🏻 we are waiting always for your videos. We always learn from you about that specific part of Manhattan and your sense of humor make us always laugh. Makes up everything because we cannot come to New York City. 👍🏻💪🏻🍀

Please do The Bronx Zoo tour😉🙏🏼💯🥰

Tom - I don't know what to tell you.

Sick

I appreciate your sense of humor and your knowledge of Our Little Town, NYC🍎I just had to subscribe 🥰👍🏼

A renaissance of Parametric Architecture = essential.

The name Grennwich comes from Groenwijck, Dutch for "Green District". It has nothing to do with Greenwich in England.

started following at 11k subscribers. Let's go for 30k! Thanks Tom for videos with added value. Shout out to Stewie!

Shout out to Charlie Barnett and Master Lee!

great vid Tom

No sick plug for Snug Harbor? Staten island has so few things to be proud of. :)

Dude, I hope your parents love you bro.

"Or can you?" LOL! So you need police protection now :)

Tom! No, that's where 5th Ave. Ends!

Nice tour. Thanks my friend. Greetings from Vietnam

2 amazing NYC stories in 1 minute - the Sri Lankan food cart guy and Stanford White's last night on the town!!! Tom on Fire 💥

Hi Tom. I didn't know Albert Gallatin had anything to do with NYU. He is buried in Trinity Churchyard. He was an immigrant from Switzerland who settled in Western Pennsylvania at a place called New Geneva. He was one of the leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion. He was also Secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Ambassador to France. He was a Democratic-Republican, the origin of the Democratic Party. He died in 1849,

That woman with the pram right at the start glancing across like: what’s he up to? Blah! Lol Great stuff again Tom, top work my man. I always love the views of the WTC (looking downtown) and the Empire State Building (looking uptown), and also, it’s a beautiful park!

I'm down for a game of chess

Why is Italian Giabaldi statute in that park???

Team Harry Thaw checking in.

Do Bronx videos

Hey Tommy...it's a Fugazi...lol

Tom, New York looks cool, I like old buildings. Do you ever go to the scary parts of New York? I read Patti Smith's book "Just Kids" It was excellent, have you ever thought about putting that in one of your tours? All the places she talked about were so cool, The Chelsea Hotel, Max's Kansas city club, CBGB,S, Coney Island, the places where her and Robert stayed. That would give you some street creds!

This guy is the best!

Tom - here is a book recommendation “never caught” about Martha fav slave Oney. When he made Philadelphia his home during time he was president there was a law in place within 6 months Slaves were to be given their free papers. One day Oney was complaining at age 22 and was asked If she had her free papers - she had no concept of “free papers” when asked if she had ever left Philadelphia- she replied “oh yes Mr Washington sends us back to the plantation every 5 months” !!!! Records show he enforced others followed law provided slaves with free papers within 6 months

The inflight film on my first visit to the big apple was I am legend 🤪.

You forgot about the Italian kids who used to enter the park and attack people with baseball bats.

G'day Tom, I never miss any of your tours and wherever your "sick plugs" points to, for after. Hope I can do tour in person when I come back to NYC, one day.

Tom, where is the "crummy hotel over Washington Square", mentioned by Joan Baez her only hit song, Diamonds and Rust? Supposedly, Bob Dylan is smiling out the window, and in that square, their "breath comes out white clouds, mingles, and hangs in the air". Ring a bell? You offer us Washington's slaves, Bohemian insurrection, but no diamonds, no rust? I feel like I've already paid.

Instagram didn’t exist 15 years ago

its greenwich mean time. mellicans.

Tom Delgado is corny and sexy at the same time. Yes, that's possible.

Tom !!! I screamed when you fed that squirrel. While some people think they look cute from afar, ground squirrels in California can carry many infectious diseases and are primarily responsible for the Bubonic Plague's current outbreak in California. Egads !

My parents don't talk to me either

I'm disappointed you didn't mention that Henry James, the novelist, also lived on that row and even wrote a short novel called "Washington Square", filmed as "The Heiress" with. I think, Olivia Dehavilland, Montgomery Clift, and Ralph Richardson in the late forties, if memory serves. Love your videos, by the way.

Dude, I know this will never happen and is insanely impractical, but it would be amazing if you took your same video/touring style and applied it to something like London or Paris. Super entertaining and informative; thanks!

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I find the brisk walking distracting and it is obviously making you winded.

Hey Tom just started watching your channel while I cook for my son. Will you be doing any video in the Bronx. The Bx Little Italy was cool but there is more.

Hi tom I have a times square question, why are some of the curb edges metal in times square

Can I please see you do stand up? 😭

Grwat video again. I have a question. Could you go to the 9-11 memorial around September 11th? It'll be 20 yeard ago....still feels like yesterday.

Can you please put all your videos on Patreon for those of us who support you there? I don’t know if you realize how many commercials KZfaq puts everywhere these days. It’s horrible. I hope you are at least compensated for them.

Hey Tom…I’m proud of you 👏🏾 can I be your mama 🥰🥰🥰🙃

Some of Tom's facts are anything but true. For one there was a history of executions in the park the park. Thou there is a story that there were but two hangings in 1820. One being a Rose Butler who was accused of arson along with slaves. The reel cause being poorly maintained wooden chimneys in lower Manhattan's older structures. In 1643 the Dutch drove the Native inhabitants out of this narrow marshy valley that was known as Tobacco Field. Thru it ran the Minet stream which started in what is now Union Square park as a spring. The story goes that the generous Dutch occupier's gave the land to some of their slaves on condition of a percentage of their crop every year and their first born children. Later it was a potters field where in they believe over 20K are still interred in the park. Recently when infrastructure was being performed on the east side a vaulted tomb was exposed. So they were not all poor people interred there. When N.Y.U. first started construction they asked New York to supply prisoners to do the stone work where upon the mostly Italian immigrants living just south of the park vehemently protested causing the militia to be called out to occupy the park for several days. This was the first labor demonstration in the country. Some of the alumni are : Winslow Homer, Walt Whitman and Samuel Colt. Mark Twain who in the 1880's lived on 11th St. would frequent the park. The fountain was originally in Central Park and moved here after the Civil War. The park gained notoriety for the folk singing that went on mostly on weekends. Then in 1961 the city banned all music in the park excepting the classical concerts that were held in the fall months. The claim being that the residents west of the park were being disturbed by the noise. I believe it was because people of color were attracted by and joining in the music. We demonstrated where upon the police came down on us with their billy clubs. But, we persisted and to this day there is music and every summer a Krishna festival. On January 26 1917 during the Armory show of European art Marcel Duchamp a guest of some Village artists broke into the arch. After a party in the room above the arch they proceeded the roof shot off cap guns and declared "the republic of Greenwich Village". In the early '60's an x heavy weight fighter Big Bill Brown a.k.a. King Brown would sit astride the fountain with nothing but tight Bermuda shorts and 6'2" of black muscles reciting his street poetry, "My habit got long and my money got short". Other characters then were: Danny Fitzgerald who would later move to France and over the next half century busk all over Europe with his "Lost and Wandering Blues and Jazz" ensemble, while strumming on his washtub bass. In the Spring and Summer at sun rise with the park empty and the sparrows singing is, well you just have to experience it for your self. P.S., the statue of Washington, the statesman was posed for by Mr. Universe (those big caves) and sculpted by Alexander Calder the Father a son of the same name who created of the mobile.

Used to be a great place to score drugs back in the 90s. Lots of skaters there at the time before they moved to Union Sq and so did the drugs. Goodtimes

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Tom didn't you just go to Tampa and have dinner with your parents? lol Did they talk to you while you were there, asking for a friend...

Greetings from the prisoner island of Australia.👍😊

yeah masons

Hey Tom, I'm one of your students from Louisiana!! Have you ever done Stone Street area?

hit like for all the dunking on slaveholders