Thanks for watching and making it into the comments section... god speed. If you are interested in a tour, reach out on IG (tomdnyc). I also run a weekly show in NYC called Let's See What Else (whatelsecomedy on IG) and a monthly show at Caveat - https://caveat.nyc/events/tom-ds-big-new-york-show . See you soon!

Thank god you threw in your career as a lawyer. The world gets to appreciate your considerable knowledge and sardonic wit! Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

Everybody’s favourite doppelgänger, lawyer, comedian, thespian, tour guide etc...! Sick plug 😉

You are without a doubt the best tour guide in this city, and I don't even know 99.9% of those people.

FINALLY. MY. NEIGHBORHOOD! I’ve been waiting for this one! My Greek Jewish family emigrated to the US in the 1920s and settled in the LES. (The owners of Economy Candy are my distant cousins!) Most left in the 80s but I moved back here earlier this year. I’ve always wanted to know more about the history but a lot of my family that lived here earlier in the century are gone. Though my mom loves to remind me how she didn’t have her own bed in her tenement apartment growing up and had to sleep in my grandpa’s bed when he went to work, driving the F train at night! I love learning about the city my family experienced and the history I walk by every day.

Hello there Tom!! I am a Puerto Rican who was born and raised in Manhattan on West 89th street Near Columbus...
My parents met and married in NYC in the 1950’s.
They Decided to return to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 in the mid 1970’s when things got pretty bad...
I visit NYC  a couple of times.. the last time (before Covid) I went with my brother on October 2019 and visited the Tenement Museum and loved it!! 💜
I love NYC and missed it!
Thank you Tom for your awesome guides!!
Gracias y muchas bendiciones para tí !! Sigue con tu excelente trabajo como guía para turistas!! 💙🎉🌟💫🎉🇵🇷⚡️🥂🎊  🇳🇮

At 2 Minutes and 37 Seconds you are inside of PS20 Anna Silver School that’s where I went to school at for my 4th , 5th and 6th grade years I graduated 6th grade in 2004 I’m 31 turning 32 in November, it brought back so many memories man only if u knew how special that park is to me and how wonderful it made my childhood when times were a little more simple that’s where I truly polished myself in basketball and football we won the championship in 2004 and went back to back winning again in 2005 but by then we had graduated and were in Marta Valle 25 which is right across from PS20
😢😢😢😢😢 take me back
Thank u 🙏🏾 I’m subscribing

You are not going “Backward” you are living an amazing dream life doing what you are excellent at…Teaching History to the masses….I want to walk with you when I get to TriBeCa in the Fall 2023….


        Peace

Everyone please forward Tom's site to 3 friends and ask them to subscribe. I am a native New Yorker who takes many tours. This guy is the best in the business!

Just posted a comment but to elaborate on why I love this guy, it’s his honest humor, his ability to not be sappy but to let his humanity come through as he discusses some of the hardships that immigrants endured. I’m so glad he made a career change from lawyer to tour guide. Next time I visit, he is my choice for tour guide. His descriptions of the neighborhoods allows me to imagine and feel what the areas looked like in the past.

once again, tom with another banger. i love this guy!

In 1992 I stayed with a friend (on Pitt St.) who worked at Alphabets and Benny's Burritos. The Hell's Angels had their headquarters a couple of blocks away and at night we'd hear motorcycles and gunshots.
There were dealers on almost every street corner.
The change in the neighborhood is astonishing. I suppose it's a lot safer now but it was the rough edges that made it special and memorable.
Thanks, Tom, for bringing back a lot of memories and bringing me up to date on what's happening in NYC.
Your knowledge of history is impressive and you ooze street cred. All the best.

Ciao Tom, I love the combination of fun and information in your videos. Wink!

OMG...I'm a 74 year old kid.

Another great video! There aren't a lot of lower east side videos so we enjoyed this one. A very unique neighborhood.

I was born on the lower east side in 1940. We lived in a small apartment building on Lewis St. corner Stanton (which was torn down decades ago.) I went to PS 188 on Houston St. til the 4th grade - when we moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I remember the Essex St. Market. My mother grew up on Rivington St. and she went to the Henry Street Settlement - and Seward High School. Miss those Knishes and Bialys. All  the years, when I mentioned New York, I'd say that I grew up on the LES ---- it wasn't until I started watching those TV programs where they showed properties on the UES. I never realized that I grew up poor --- but most of the people from our area were the same. NYC was great in the olden days - I don't remember any crime - the neighbors were always friendly. I'm sure the rent was around $25/month - for a 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. In 1949, my parents bought the first TV in the building. On Tuesday nights, at 9PM, my mother would line up a few chairs in the kitchen and the neighbors would come over to watch Milton Berle. We didn't have a living/family room. In 1946, our superintendent, Mr. Aranda, made me a party for my 6th birthday - the children and a few parents who lived in the building attended. I have a large picture of the neighbors - taken in my kitchen. It's one of my best memories!!! Thanks for the walking tour. I recognized all the street names.

I love this guy. I’m from NYC but moved away a long time ago. Thanks to him, I am learning so much interesting NYC history.

I hate it when you and Action Kid are both doing "Live" walks at the exact same time, but love it when you walk together. He's doing a Halloween thing right now...I'll watch his later...

"On the Bowery" a film by Lionel Rogosin shows the Bowery during the 50's.  That was the Bowery I knew as a kid.

So glad you mentioned William Seward and his survival of the assassin attack on him. Those bits of American history combined with your humorous takes are well appreciated.