Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn Tour: All Kinds of New York History
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025
- Tom Delgado takes you around Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, telling you about the history of Bedford, Stuyvesant Heights, the civil rights struggle there, and hip hop artists like Notorious BIG. Tom also tells you the changing nature of New York and Brooklyn. Thanks for watching! Shot by Eric Thirteen.
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That family photo with Tom’s face everywhere…even as the kids, LOL
that was hilarious
Beautiful job Tom. I appreciate your preparation and information you shared in this video and the others. YOU ROCK SIR!😊
Tom i absolutely love your NYC videos they are so amazing and informative. Please dont ever stop doing them.
100 % !!
This was fascinating. I moved to Bed-Stuy 15 yrs ago when I won a rent controlled apartment through a lottery process, even then Bed-stuy was considered gentrified. It was a definite upgrade from Brownsville, which the section of Brooklyn they don’t normally feature in shows and movies lol
But it's Tyson's home !! ;)
Never Ran Never Will!
Education of Sonny Carson and Death Wish 3 was filmed in that area lol
Lol yeah there are a few movies, Don Cheatle did a movie in Brownsville, and “Summer of Sam” filmed a blackout looting scene on Pitkin Ave
Hope all you white liberals are happy you pushed all the blacks out of their homes just to be hip.
Brownsville is not even close on the same level as Bed-Stuy.
Bed-Stuy always had expensive Brownstones. Whites live there b4 blacks began to migrate from the South.
Bed-Stuy in mid 50’s to mid 60’s was a mixed area of whites & blacks until all whites moved out.
When rent was $150 to $250 can u believe that based on what craziness rents are today.
This is soo informative I’m really learning something here history is actually just repeating itself as we speak with gentrification. I lived in Bed Btuy since 1976 and it’s totally different now I call it the new bed stuy lol
I swore I saw Tom today at the Bryant park subway station. It was like seeing a celebrity walking on the platform.
Finally!! Been waiting on my neighborhood forever 🎉
Great history right
I wish I had u as a guide when I was there !! 🙌🏻
YOU are so watchable , funny, quick and informative 👊😎
Thank you so much for making this video, I've been waiting for you to make one about my beloved nabe, I've lived in Bed Stuy for 18 years. Love your videos and everything you do so much! 😊
Always learning something when I watch Tom. Keep up the good teaching tom.
Yes Tom!! Loving it from the UK..unfortunately not Bedfordshire, but Bristol. Fun fact, apparently some bombed WW2 bricks and rubble of my hometown helped to build Waterside Plaza, East 25 Street...so there will always be a small part of Bristol in NYC, pretty cool.
Thank you for this video. I enjoyed learning the history for Bed=Sty. I grew up in the Marcy Projects so this video really hits home. My mother used to bring my father's shirts to be laundered at Cascade. It's a shame to see what developers did but I guess that progress.
Use to walk by Cascade everyday, Myrtle Ave was an adventure!
Shoutout to Crown Fried on Myrtle across from Marcy Projects. I hope they still got that picture of Jay-Z up. 😂
Loving the Brooklyn episodes. Can’t wait till you reach Canarsie
Thanks Tom! And Eric…..loved the info!
been a fan of this channel for a while and i love all the information and the history, i wish someone would do this for san francisco!
Every time I watch your videos I learn somethin keep up the great work
Hey Tom, looking great!❤
SO glad you pointed out about redlining and state/gov laws that specifically targeted black people to make and keep them impoverished. There is this standing idea that black people don't have because they weren't educated enough, or was somehow lazy, but truth behind it all is very well kept from common knowledge. Whats so amazing about this stuff is the fact that many of those laws and practices are still alive and well and active to this day!.
@Recovering Attorney so they say... I mean i get it.. I'm black, and though the original redlining was despicable. If you really REALLY think about it. Its removal would've seen to two things at the same time. a ton of hate crime, and more divide between peoples. White people traditionally are such that they are happiest being among their own. And to see others in any level of numbers to them feels like a forced invasion. Black people simply wanted no more and no less than everyone else, especially considering their history in the country being the very peoples that built it via slave labor. kinda sucks when after the job is done your people is then subject to being violently attacked by those who weren't even a part of the nations creation. as such.. with all the new immigrants so did they step over those were were actually entitled to a much much more. but was made to take low in part to keep the peace. in part. and yes, a lot of thins still go on to this day, and laws haven't always been abolished as such.
Horrific! It is felt every day. . . Creepy imperialists.
@RecoveringAttorney It was illegal back then but they did it under the table. please dont tell me your that naive to think unscrupulous people even those in government obey standing laws. LOL.
To some degree it is still seen. I live in queens far rockaway/arverne. I remember taking the a train and when the white people got off they went one place and the black people went the other place. I always wonder until one night I made the wrong turn and was shocked when I saw an nice stretch of area with beautiful condos and bars, restaurants, subways and only white people I was shocked!! Because just across the train line were black us black people and our homes didn't look so nice I am still baffled to this day... new to the US btw
💯💯💯 The U.S. Government has never called A protective and ethical truce on black people 😒
Brooklyn is the best borough in NY hands down. So much history and character to it
Tk U. I live in Manhattan now but I’m from Brooklyn & proud of it. Brooklyn ppl also r laid back , classy ppl.
If u don’t bother us we don’t bother u.
Also think 🤔 of all the famous ppl who came out of Booklyn: Barbara Streisand, Judge, Rurh Ginsburg, Barry Manilow, Spike Lee, Roxanne Roxanne, Nas, Notorious-BIG,
Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown etc we’re go getters.
@@glennis-dankuwel6020 same here. live in the city but still spend 90 percent of my personal time in BK
no doubt!!
Go to East Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York and you'll change your mind quick....
Can’t wait for Flatbush and Prospect Lefferts Garden! So happy to see my Brooklyn neighborhoods ❤❤❤
Thanks tom...love going down memory lane with you...great video!!
I love how u made a video about the neighborhood I live in!
Hey Tom, great video! Love your videos and all that you do and bring to each video you make and upload every week. I get best of both worlds, comedy and information at same time. Definitely a great tour guide/comedian indeed! Im surprised you didn’t mention BEDSTUY they filmed DO THE RIGHT THING and also how SPIKE is from there as well. Anyways you meant well lol. This one hit home to me big time bc I’m from Brooklyn myself. Born and raised in north Brooklyn. Greenpoint as a matter of fact. Funny thing is now it’s on the map but wasn’t the case back in the day bc my dad used to drive yellow in the eighties and he picked up a passenger from Kennedy in 1985 and the guy told him he was going to Greenpoint for a meeting and my dad never heard of the place and asked him he would take him if he can show him the way which he did and the guy even give him $20 and told him to keep the rest as his tip. Anyways shows how far the area has come. No one used want to go into Brooklyn as a cabbie and forget about BEDSTUY or even seeing one in Williamsburg was seeing gold bc they were so rare but funny thing was they all had off duty sign bc they were going back into the big Apple to stay busy. Sorry to get off topic but I recall you were from GP area also but had to leave bc the rents kept rising and now I believe you’re in queens which I’m sure isn’t getting any cheaper from what I’ve been reading and hearing. Anyways just want to say I’m in the same boat as yourself and sooner or later by end of this year I have to leave a place I called home for the last 35 years of my life bc at the end of the day I just can’t plain afford it or anything else left in this city. I noticed even in the red photos you talked about GP had some part into that so I’m curious if that’s why it’s coming up quickly also now these days bc they were practically giving houses away in GP decades ago but no one wanted them including my own family members who had multiple chances to buy very cheap back in the day but again they never thought that these houses would be what they are worth today. Anyways please keep up the great work Tom. Maybe I will watch you from North Dakota or wherever I end up that’s hopefully affordable. Please see if you can do walking tour of south Brooklyn bc I’m very interested and curious about places like Mill Basin, Starett City, Canarsie, Flatlands ETC bc there’s hardly any subway service there besides the famous L train and a few other lines but that’s really about it as that goes otherwise it’s basically a desert with only way getting around are buses, walking or dollar vans (if they even have those around anymore). Take care Tom, CDUBBZ OUT
I love these video! Always so informative. However I do miss the walking around that you used to do (don't wanna make Eric trip n fall but it was so great to see the neighborhoods as you walked past the buildings, felt like I was walkin around with you!) Cheers!
Love your videos and your humor -keep it up!
First time here, I’m a New Yorker and enjoyed your tour. Good luck Tom!
That was great
You killed it as always!!!
I like that you also tell black history also!! Thank you
Having grown up as a third culture kid and a late teen in the predominantly white suburbs of DC, I was excited to move to NYC/Bed Stuy in 2000. I've been surprisingly salty about gentrification every since. But I appreciate your historical insights and hope that such power of knowledge can illuminate more spaces. I also look forward to the day when people in the area (and the nation at large) can embrace the variety of society instead of the tired birds of a feather trope. huzzah!
Fantastic! Thanks!
Another informative and cool video!!!
My stomping grounds for 9 years! Dope job TDNYC!
Thank you for helping us be more educated and aware of neighborhoods that made a difference in our communities and culture! Being aware of good and not so good changes that make a difference to our community, as well. Oh, and btw, to me, you are a New Yorker!
Tom is the best to ever lace 'em up.
Thanks for this Tom - I loved going on that redlining, anti-leg-up-to-the-billionaires rant and emotional roller coaster with you! It needs to be said!
I hope he keeps moving across Brooklyn until he reaches Coney Island. I would love to see him in my old neighborhood of Midwood. The old Max Senate studio was located there before the movie industry moved to California.
He already did a Coney Island video look it up.
Midwood is awesome. DiFara pizza!
@@NicholasKuqali yep used to eat there all the time. I heard that the owner passed away so they closed. Such a pity it was the best.
@@dorikragh1939 I didn't know he passed. The last time I was in Midwood in 2022 the shop was closed for Easter but had a return date. He must have just passed.
BUT THAT "FAMILY" PHOTO, THOUGH!!🤣😂...TOM U NEVER DISAPPOINT, A NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY TOUR AND COMEDY!!...LOVE IT!!😉❤
I love how you don't sugarcoat the history of the neighborhood.
Yes you are doing a video of my neck of the woods where I was born at Bed-Stuyvesant and I miss my home town .
Outstanding Video As Usual😊
great video man
Redlining made perfect sense.
Cool aloments, gardens my Granny Sharples had one....veggies and herbs❤
You always do some great videos , showing those hidden parts of New York a lot of people miss. You should do one on Canarsie. Most people make fun of the name because it used to be out in the middle of nowhere. I had a friend who used ro live there where I used to stay when I visited him. You remind me a bit of him .He later moved to Florida. It was a nice area for a long time. I'm glad to hear you are also a preservationist as I am and you don't want to see people priced out of their neighborhoods. I'll look forward to your next video.
Literally that building on Myrtle and Marcy used to be a gas station when I was going to school over there
Thank you!
Bed-Stuy, do or die. some did, some died and some did both. Worked there the summer of 1988 on "Do The Right thing". One of the best movies I ever worked on. Some times I go back to "the block". Curiously, where the Pizzeria stood (which was a set) is still a vacant lot.
oh em geee it's tomdnyc in my neighborhood!!
don't know if you take requests but would love a tour on the history of BK broadway maybe w some bushwick ave sprinkled in... love the vids!
great video
Amazing, thanks for all the video. So we are New Yorkers after we die here, that's great lmao
More places! Like ten! And more video of the views around!
Is Bed-Sty gentrified now? During the 70s through the 90s, it was a no go.
Love the Gem Spa shirt. Always stopped there, before going to the Fillmore. Another great tour Tom.
definitely. it still has issues in parts but it is one of the nicest up and coming neighborhoods in brooklyn. bedstuy is truly nice now
Seeing a flip phone in 4K is quite confusing, but lovely.
The Heart of the Stuy Bedford ave & Fulton St 💯
What about Nostrand and Fulton?
Would love a video on Clinton Hill!
Thanks again John in Chicago
I was raised there until i was about 18 ..1967- 1982 399 koscisusko st ..also as a baby was living on dekalb st to about 5 years old went ps 25 and then junior reid high school 57 ..
My family moved from Italy to bay ridge Brooklyn in 1969 I was born in 1972. Brooklyn was insane in the 80s and 90s what a great place to grow up. My dad brought his 1st house in bay ridge for 17k in 1970. Then he brought 3 multi family homes the following year to this day there still rented. All four houses have been collecting rental income for the last 50 years. combined today they would sell for close to 5 million dollars.
weird flex to say your dad is a landlord
Salute to the pops. Great business there
@@figo007tv it was just luck and the perfect generational time to move to New York City. I can’t see someone coming from Italy these days and being able to accomplish all that especially because Brooklyn is so expensive a broken down house is a million dollars
another banger.
Good stuff
Do you mind if I repost a clip of this amazing video
Brooklyn FTW! (From a former Brooklyn heights res now Texan)
OMG…it’s Tommy D…in the place to be…giving us another video…
Lived in Bedstuy for 3 months, loved it. New Zealand ❤
Looking forward to returning to Taormina for the best cooking class ever in the chef’s house. I had such a great time last year with Rosella and Gianca that I decided to come back again for a private tour with my family in August. Ciao ciao, see you soon , Adriana
Your videos are a freaking gem every time. Thank you!
Bed stuy/bushwick 🔥🔥🔥 love it there. Gracias 🙏🏽rest in peace Malcolm x
The best as always. We thank you Tom. Informative like always. Not lame like other streamers, like Dutchmazz who eat shi##ts and eat in Coney island. You're the best and Iconic.
Seeing that you are wearing a st augustine hat. It would be awesome to see you do a tour there one day.
You are a National treasure! I got to the part with Woolworth's ("You might remember them") and I realized that, No, people don't know what Woolworth's (Five and Dime, Five and ten cents store) is. Your videos are not just "old" history. but revealing of more recent history.
I love the brownstone buildings.
u should do a video on Howard Beach.
Hey, this is the place referenced in Halsey's song, Hurricane! :)
That is going on every where I live in Houston Texas and it’s just like that over here where the ghetto Allison is becoming real popular and people are building beautiful townhomes and houses around in the hood and in the hood
Thanks for the info. I was born in Bed Stuy - Sterling Place.
Did you ever hear Rochelle scream “CHRRRRISSSS” throughout the whole neighborhood?
you know the saying Do or die in bed sty!
I am 65 and have memories of my father talk about growing up in Bedford Stuyvesant ..He claimed to have been a gang member and they used zip guns for fights. I always thought he embellished but did enjoy his stories. He was also an alter boy at the local catholic church.
Ya gota do Sheepshead bay/ Brighton beach/ coney island
I did Coney Island - ruclips.net/video/QZ0XwA4koek/видео.html
didnt see the link: u gonna have to post it somewhere down in the comments! thanks
wait...what's that yellow box in 4:04 with the chinese newspapers? does it serve as a locker of some kind?
Not sure if you’re serious…
No it’s not a locker, that’s Toms uh tomfoolery. It’s just dispenses newspapers
I lived at 191 Jefferson Ave 1996-2010. Great block parties My Grandkids went to P.S. 3..The Bedford School
What sets NYC apart from most American cities is that some middle class people stayed and didnt' go to the burbs.
Could you do a tour NYC mafia history?
Sick plug-he's already done one!ruclips.net/video/ICjB7m0Ujg8/видео.html
The school board boycott was in Ocean Hill, Brownsville!
Tom do a tour on all the famous ppl who came out of Brooklyn ie Barbara Streisand, Ruth Ginsburg, Spike Lee, Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Foxy Btown, Roxanne, Nas, Barry Manilow etc it’s so many more I can’t think 🤔 of right now.
Malcolm X had two homes 🏡 Upstate & in Brooklyn w/his mom on Pacific St we knew & grew up w/ his children. It was his safe house that the F. B. I didn’t know about.
I used to live on Gates and Bedford years ago, in a crack trap/rave house. Good Times. Love the Stuy and always love returning
Those are some loud chirping birds near the Woolworth house lol.
Living in Charlotte NC now but lived in ATL for over 33 years, but before that I was a Bklyn and Queens boy. I was born in Bed-Stuy at
St. John's Episcopal hospital on Herkimer now known as Interfaith Medical Center.
dawg has the cutest smile
seriously, no shot while on the curbside toilet?
I considered it...
I need to meet you
Eric graded the footage!
🎉
Those staggered balconies on the building on Marcy and Myrtle are for Hasidic Jews. Each apartment needs a balcony that's open to the sky for them to build a Sukkah on the festival of Tabernacles: a hut covered by leaves that must be unobstructed by a ceiling according to Jewish law.
The myrtle ave subway was above ground.
Great video but a thought on one part towards the end - that's not how housing works. More apartments actually means less rent overall. Those wealthy people now have luxury apartments to rent instead of buying out a local. People are going to move in regardless and fighting development only pushes locals out faster.
Take the a train as Duke Ellington said
LiL Tom Mot🎉😂 let's get on with this video
can't find Eric Heightswood on the map, maybe it's too small and one half apartment square foot