People who say he is cold, arrogant, a creep and far worse should watch just a few minutes of this. It is clear he is a gentle person.

He's a legend, so naturally funny, love him and his films!

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." Woody Allen

He's so honest about everything. He doesn't sugar coat BS stories. If he hates something he says so. Which also lets you know that when he likes something he really likes it.

Greatest filmmaker of all time; I will always love, admire, and respect Mr. Allen. This video is charming and wonderful! I will have to check the documentary out; I have not seen it yet.

5:15 "Do you remember coming to grandma's house for dinner?" "I hated it" "You hated it...sigh..ok"

“I still wake up thankful that I don’t have to return” Every single time I walk by my old high school

now that Heywood Allen is 85 years old in 2021 this reflection of the past is our touch stone to people and places that don't exist anymore

Such an amazing story teller.

I’ve loved Woody’s movies ever since I saw my first one which was “Play It Again, Sam” back in the early 70’s. My two favorite movies of his were “Annie Hall” and “Crimes and Misdemeanors”. Annie Hall had so many classically funny scenes, for example the one where Alvy and Annie run into each other at the tennis club after their doubles game (“La de dah, La de dah, la la”) and the scene where Annie’s brother Duane, played by Christopher Walken, confesses to Alvy his desire to crash his car into into an oncoming car. I nearly died laughing at that one. Classic staff that has held up well over the years.

This is such a gem. Woody is so effortlessly funny.

The story about how you used to be able to hear the tick of the traffic light from the street is so beautifully bittersweet & nostalgic

I am almost a contemporary of Allen Konigsberg (Woody Allen), being 7 years younger, and can add quite a bit to this. I grew up in the same neighborhood (Ave K and E 11th-12th St), was bar mitzvahed in the same synagogue (Talmud Torah of Flatbush), went to the same K-12 (P.S. 99), and hung out on Ave J and Coney Island Ave. So we both enjoyed the pizza, charlotte russes, Brooklyn Dodgers, appetizers, chinese food (especially Joy Fong) and everything else that great neighborhood had to offer. The neighborhood bully at my time was Junior (Genaro) Sirico, who later achieved fame as Paulie Wallnuts on The Sopranos.

I just love Woody Allen xxx

Thanks for this. Watching Woody reminisce over his childhood days in Brooklyn was a nice way to pass a cold, rainy, January 2020, morning in Brussels.

Watched a podcast interview of him from the last few months. He’s aged so much 10 years. We should all wish him a long life.

its extraordinary that he still can remember this much detail after this many years

For most of us, our best times were those of childhood, and we're just trying to catch a glimpse of them while we 're getting through our days.

What a beautiful, gentle person Mr Allen is! 100% genuine and sincere. I could watch and listen to him all day long, talking about anything. Soon Yi is such a lucky girl!

Never forgot his roots - I find this video relaxing and engaging

my family arrived from cuba in 1961 and we planted ourselves in brooklyn.we lived on butler st. by atlantic ave. then we moved to ft.hamilton pkwy. from there we settled on parkside ave. next to caledonian hospital(now gone).my mom and dad both worked at the hospital.i went to the caton school(p.s. 249) and the holy innocents grammer school.we left in 71 and moved to jersey,i now live in florida but whenever i talk to someone they can definetly hear my "brooklyn" accent! this bourogh has never left me....

I enjoyed Mr. Allen's trip back to Brooklyn greatly. Like him, it was my old neighborhood too. I lived one block away on Avenue K at 1302. All the stories he told, I relate as well since I lived them as he did.

Great tour of Brooklyn and of your memories Woody! You are the best!

I wish his movies were on Criterion, imagine Annie Hall and Manhattan, his two masterpieces.

I just loved that ...I could listen to Mr. Allen talk about anything for hours!

I am proud that I adore Woody Allen.

god i love this man. Hes made me and my dad laugh so hard growing up watching his movies. Especially tale the money and run. Even his little “i hated bicycles” statement in the beginning of this made me die laughing.

Love these little "insider" memories, like how the neighborhood used to be so quiet, Woody could heart the *click* noise in his bedroom, from when the traffic light changed from red to green down the street.

The image of Woody Allen on roller-skates!!! 😂😂😂

long live BROOKLYN NY 1940's and 50's....thanks woody for the tour. many greats from that neighborhood including my mom!

The man is a national fucking treasure!

Wow. Woody lived only a few blocks from me and my family on e 21st My Dad knew all the comedians like Mel Brooks in his early days who came to our place for dinner all the time..... I wonder if he knew Woody too although Woody would have been 14 years younger than my Dad and just starting out in comedy My Dad went to see his frienfs in conedy clubs all the time. I shall have to ask my Mom. She did say yes and woidy had a different name then. Woody probably went to all the same places we did. like Keys chinese or the corner pizza place. Prospect park. He probably went or knew of my family owned Klink dry cleaners and liquorr stores we had .too. Funny.I always loved Woodys Movies kinda felt familar somehow. I just looked it up and found my old apartment wasnt really that super close to his home but close enough

There is an authenticity to Woody that I really like, he seems totally detached from the arrogant, self-important Hollyweird types. Never caught up in fame and vanity, he sounds just like an average guy to me.

Brooklyn is as it was, an absolute wonderful place to live and grow up. Its is as an Italian would say, a place that makes your bones.

When he talks about religion and the school he went to, I can intimately relate to his feelings because I felt the exact same way. The difference being I was raised Catholic. Woody and I could sit down and probably talk for hours about the mental punishment we had to endure.

I can watch this forever .. love you. Woody .. the guy in the end has the same sarcastic humour as Woody 😂

I grew up very close to Midwood , and would travel to Kings Highway to go to the music stores in the very late 60s . Mr. Woody Allen is a very complex man . One with human contradictions , however this documentary fills me with such nostalgia . It leaves me with one out come . Beautiful . Simply beautiful .

I miss Brooklyn. It will always have my heart.

I find this absolutely charming. I was born just before they tore Ebbitts Field down. And I lived on Lefferts and Washington. I live outside of London in the UK now. But Woody sounds like home. My mum was his contemporary. For me, this was very warming. Thank you for making the effort. PrincessBitcoin

Woody our families knew each other very well back when you were born on for many years. My dads aunts the Olshefskis at 1469 east 15th and my moms family Gertude and Abe Barach and my mom Sara Barach in Midwood whom you both went to school together at Midwood high. I have pictures of Woodys dad with my aunts hanging out in Smiths bar in the Bowery. My Dads parents were Annie and Stanly Baginski. I know from my parents your mom and dad and our family were very close friends. I am Saras son and still live here in Brooklyn in the Bensonhurst Midwood section

The guy at the end. Haha. Everybody is a comedian.

Kids don't grow up like this now. The 80s and the 90s were the last time kids hung out and did stuff similar to this, which was my time. This was when there weren't too many ways you could be entertained, so had to go out. Today kids are glued to their TV and Video games. Kids are mostly indoors on their phones or Ipads... lol In the future no one will ever leave home due to virtual reality.

I've heard so many troubling things about Woody, but I still acknowledge his talent and always interesting personality. Thanks for the video.

Way to go, Allen !! The best is yet to come.

Brooklyn has changed dramatically since his day, many neighborhoods are extremely expensive and gentrification is forcing middle class out. Downtown BROOKLYN is growing too. Lots of skyscrapers popping up.

That would be awesome running into Woody Allen in New York. You'd half expect to hear some lively jazz music in the background.

A better more communal time, when people knew and spoke to their neighbours, where all the other Mothers on your street knew you and your family, would tell you off for being bad, but soothe you when you were upset, when you played with the kids in your street, IN the street, where it was OK for you to cycle, or in Woody's case, skate off with your friends, no phones, they didn't know exactly where you'd gone, but didn't panic cos they knew you'd be back. That's my childhood too. I feel such a sense of loss for modern kids, they have more stuff but they are isolated, the past is a different country, aint it?

I feel the sense of community has all but gone. You never see kids playing in the streets or neighbors knowing each other and playing cards on the corner.

so cool seeing all these great old buildings and nice neighborhoods. thanks Woody.😁

Oh that was sweet.

Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man...... Love ya Woody!!

Fantastic...thank you so much for posting!

Always love & admire Woody Allen's work not only as filmmaker also comedian, he's natural gifted man.

Fantastic. I felt like he was taking me on a tour of my old neighborhood in Queens.

I love the revisit of his stomping grounds. Growing up in a major city like NY, Chicago or L.A, is a remarkable experience in the time when kids played outside and had that independence. Amazing, Enjoyed. Ty.

Thanks for the memories!

this is gold, would have liked if he went inside or interacted with locals thanks for this

I get the impression he had a happy childhood with loving supporting relatives who were well off. It's not as if he struggled to survive in a ghetto living in poverty or had anyone physically abuse him. He just hated school because the teachers were mean to him.

I loved the ringing endorsement of the elementary school he attended.

A wonderful tour and a lovely documentation of growing up in that particular neighborhood. The wisecrack at the end is something you would have expected in one of his movies.

I am addicted to woody Allen movies I realize this was from 2001 but he is sharp as a tack and so brilliant

HILARIOUS interaction between Woody and Mom at 5:15, I mean really really funny. In this 3-5 second exchange you know EVERYTHING you need to know between The Woodman and Mom. ...

Thanks so much for posting--no matter what, I'll always like Mr. Allen

So happy he did this and agreed to film it.

He looks and sounds great. Really good memory, too.

Its amazing How woody recalls all the incidents at every corner where he stepped.

This is awesome! I love Woody Allen and his movies 💖💖💖

That was awesome, i really enjoyed it , thank you

When he said he hated going to Gran & Grandpa's house, his sister's reaction was like a character from one of his films. Also I could see how she didn't get him, and saw in him things she didn't approve of. Made me feel alone in this world. We are all misunderstood.

god watching this just makes me envy his memories and stories i wish my life was as exciting and cool as his in that time

How can anyone not like riding a bicycle?

I was born in 73 and raised in sheepshead bay and although it was a different part of Brooklyn, the landscape of Woody’s neighborhood in the 40’s seems very similar to what remember.

lalaland , Great Post!! Thanks for posting.

Loved it. He really painted pictures of his childhood and Brooklyn. No wonder he had so many stories to tell in his movies. ~ I also really like the last scene with the bearded guy and the scarf standing in front of Woody Allen's childhood home.

Fantastic to see this, such a legend! I'll be watching Sleeper later!

My father and I drove a guy Max Essex back to New York City to pick up his sister she lived in Flabush Avvna some old apartment building some neighborhood in Brooklyn. Max was an old guy it was the 1960's he had not been there many years was excited talking about places he knew growing up, these old bridges, these toll bridges he said there is the nickel bridge toll was a nickel when I was a kid, etc. like in the 20's or something we were driving around at night he could not see well but his stories from memory were fascinating. He was very excited, almost passing out from talking! He had a lot of trouble finding her apartment building, oh it's down that street, no , that way, that way, this has changed, I don't know , go down that street, oh there's the park, all this maze of searching. He said oh look, there it is , I know this place ! I remember now ! We picked his sister up, she didn't talk much, she was upset we were there so late and was little afraid , she had never been out of the city. I could not get that. She never had a car had her places to shop. Her friends, her neighborhood. That's it.

woody allen revisits 1970's brooklyn everytime he makes a film!

It will be a sad day when this guy passes from time to eternity.

Seeing NYC, Brooklyn, the Bronx through Woody Allen's eyes has always been a deeply-felt pleasure. The opening shots of 'Manhattan' , alone.💗 So, watched his films all my life.I was in my 20's then, for most of them. Stuck in NoWhere, Texas. Dreaming of visiting NYC, someday. All those scenes he showed me, all those songs he connected to NYC ... I finally made the trip to NYC when I turned 65. Walking those same streets he walked, so fulfilling! And I just want to say: Thank You, Mr. Woody Allen, for making me love NYC before I ever got there.

Bittersweet memories for Mr. Allen. I enjoyed it very much.

Last nite, I and another Bronxite, described the wonderful world of stick ball to a non New Yorker. I preferred the schoolyard version where the two wings of the school, J.H.S. 82 created a "u"...one wall had the battery's box and base hits were based on which floor the ball hit with a grands lam resulting from the ball hitting the opposite wall and ricocheting back and hitting the other wall. As many as 5 games were played simultaneously. In the street version we would take the stick ball bat, a broomstick handle out of view when a police car drove by. Woody did not mention that football was also played in the street or "gutter" as we called it with 3 man teams facing each and routs were described as "go to the Chevy and go long"or "cut to the Buick." This was popular because we had no grass in the West Bronx.

Thanks for taking us back. I also remember the click of the relays in the traffic light boxes on a quiet night, especially on a snowy night. We had our Jr. High graduation at the Kingsway theater.

His work resonates with me and candled a fire that I didnt knew I had. One of a kind artist.

The only kid on earth who hated bikes.

Woody, we thank you and appreciate you and we adore you more and more always. You are the wild, wise, insight that is found nowhere else, and we toast to your greatness, always. Such a magical tour.

Wow -- never knew he was from right around there. I've been to the stop many times -- always to go to DiFara, the pizza place seen at 2:38. It's the best pizza I've ever had. I'd come down from Manhattan just for the pie. To clarify, I've never lived in NYC but I've been there about 16 times. It's my favorite city in the world.

I remember the Kingsway theatre and I think I saw "Goldfinger" there in 1964.

"The house is worth a little less" LOL LOL!!

Fascinating look at Woody’s childhood neighborhood. Like the town I grew up in, lots of things have changed for better or worse. Thanks for posting this.

There is something about the Jewish sense of humour that is so charming and appealing. Even his sister comes across as a natural comedian.

"Everyone's a Comedian, Take 127". Older dude at 21:09 when told Woody Allen once lived in this gent's present neighborhood. "Now the house is worth a little LESS," he jokes - proud of himself for his own ability to go into "Woody-mode." ...

This was great!

Hey the things that he may or may not have done is private between the people and him: as far as public life goes he’s a freaking genius.

I really loved this tour- I have never been thru but only passed by!🙂

The talented Woody Allen is Avery good observer.Good childhood memories helped him make great movies.

That guy in the end. Jewish sense of humor is the best.

The effervescent background music lets me know this was pieced together in the same vein as his recent biography which I found to be fascinating. A two part program that moves along at a pleasant pace and gives some insight into woody's life. The scene About his antique typewriter was priceless.

Loved this interview! Really interesting.

I am really amazed how nice Brooklyn looks again

Even though it's obviously more interesting being Woody-specific, I feel like you could take this sort of trip with any old person to where they grew up and it would be a fascinating time..