Flushing is literally my favorite place in New York. It’s underrated but I always discover new gems every time I go there. Thanks for highlighting flushing.
I was born in Flushing and my grandmother lived there. A lot of Colombians used to live there. I am talking the 1960's and 1970's. By the entrance of the 7 train subway was Woolworths, where Duane Reade is now, you could actually exit the subway straight into Woolworths by its own staircase.
Tom you have a gift. You’re the kind of person that can talk to someone and make them fall in love with knowledge. In a world where stupid behavior gets celebrated and compensated you’re a breath of fresh air. Thank you.
I was born and raised in Flushing (more on the Long Island end by Bayside), and I learned so much from the video!! Thanks for spotlighting the diversity and acceptance of Flushing. Fantastic job, man!
Great video, Tom! I didn’t think I’d be interested in Queens, but your tours have the unique combination of a deep history lesson infused with humor and friendliness. Best combination!
Thank you for the great history on Flushing, Queens! Love how it's so large, busy and diverse in many cultures. Very cool! Keep it up you're doing awesome...
i grew up in flushing, but a flushing way south on main street, but everyone understrood what flushing meant, although my school called it "old flushing." the last film i saw at the RKO keith was quadrophenia, circa 1980. the theater was magnificent but already quite run down by then, so much so that they were at time even having difficulties showing the film.
Great tour, thank you for walking through the town we grew up in... quick note, it's the Weeping Beach tree not Birch.. lol.... Many an awesome day skipping school and great evenings hanging out under that tree...❤
From 1980 to 1985, I worked at a take out restaurant on 149th and Northern. This was the era before it became Chinatown. There were a few Korean, Japanese and Chinese businesses on Union and on Bowne Streets. It is incredible change to what it is now. Back then, this entire area was much more diverse. I remember going to the movies at that RKO Theater. On Main Street was the Armed Forces Recruiting Center when I signed up and joined the Air Force. This video brings back a lot of good memories.
lots of korean people and stuff in Flushing along Northern Blvd, 162 nd street etc, very cool. you can read Greek newspapers in Indian deli stores. Plus bunch of Jewish establishments
I use to live and grow up on 160th street South East from Main Street Flushing, Queens, NYC. Loved going there to shop. I grew up in the 1970's where there was stores I use to shop at like Alexander, Woolworth that are no longer there ☹, Took the No7 train to 42nd street where it was the last stop and first going back to Flushing, Queens, NYC. But when I went back in 2014, Starbuck had the menu in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English, Spanish, Indian language, to name a few that I remember, my how times had change. FYI Flushing Meadows also hosts the US Open tennis every year.
Awww that Caldor image brought back a fond memory of me getting separated from my mom & lost in the Caldor that was on Fordham Rd & Grand Concourse when I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade. First (but not last) time my name was called over the intercom in a department store lol good times! 😊
Hi Tom, great episode! I'd love to see you do one on Bayside where I live. I believe Northern Boulevard NYS Rt 25A ends in Calverton where it merges with NYS Rt 25. I have lived most of my life within a few miles of Northern Boulevard whether I lived in Bayside, Great Neck or Huntington. My parents live in Mount Sinai NY very close to 25A there! Keep up the great work bringing New York history to life.
One of the great New York pizza places was one block south of Roosevelt Avenue on Main Street. It was called Gloria’s Pizza and was the best pizza around. You smelled it from the bus stop (right in front) and couldn’t resist getting a slice. There was no seating, just counter space. The RKO Keith’s Theatre was historic and beautiful. The basement was flooded with oil by the unscrupulous owner to try to get it demolished in addition to illegally demolishing parts of it.
I like the graphics and intro upgrade. Looks good and professional. Just learned my family came from England as quakers, so thanks! And had no idea of all the Chinese there in Flushing Queens. Great meeting your friend too, and the Hindu temple part.
16:52 the Marx Brothers family lived at 87-48 134 st. Richmond Hill, Queens (i'm from normal parents) so perhaps lower your standards a bit with a Star Tour or, a Jamaica, Queens, transportation-shopping tour tying into the upcoming gentrified neighblorhoods along the renovated El & subway lines. The Loew's Wonder Theaters were an important social node of the neighblorhoods in their day. Now that you've been to Germany has it given you a fresh perspective on German immigration to NYC and their part in building, literately, the city? Say yes just for your goilfriend relationship. Liked your tour of the Old German neighblorhood before Yorkville that used to be on the Lower East Side.
Hey Tom! I am fairly sure Scott and I just saw you on the 1 train and said hello when you were exiting. Just to reiterate, we both love your channel and think you bring a learned angle to the New York City youtube neighborhood tours. Hope you keep it up! Thanks for saying hi on your way out.
This was so very nice of you, I have never seen this before. My heart sinks when I hear RKO Keith's and the fact it is no longer. I grew up in Flushing, 146ST and 34 Ave and walked to northern Blvd and Main, Bowne park and Kissena park was a big hang out for us. Seeing all this on video and learning of the background, which I never knew was so interesting. I thank you so much for doing this and wish you and the camera man a bless Christmas and a healthy New Year.
This is an awesome video. Great content, awesome delivery, and very entertaining. I just found your channel and I'm super excited to watch the rest of your videos.
I have been enjoying your videos about my New York City for a long time ...let me ask you how you were able to amass such a tremendous amount of in-depth knowledge ?
Affordable housing is needed. Get rid of zoning regulation and parking minimums. It stops affordable denser housing from being built. Installing underground sealed dumpsters would also help with cleanliness and would make the area more livable. More pedestrian only streets in this area would help as well.
Re: NY World’s Fair …taking notes for Eric 🤗 … Flushing Meadows Park was site on United Nations before Manhattan. Site of 1939 and 1964-1965 Worlds Fair. There is a plaque still there with names and dates of Presidents of US and others who visited. I was at the 1964 Fair as a child. Queensboro bridge was finished in 1929. On the two side lanes until the sixties were trolly tracks but the trollies were gone. I lived here forever and never knew of this place. I feel sorry for Eric. one can hardly move its so crowded. Thank you! Tried to go into a Flushing branch to make a withdrawal and nobody spoke english 🤦🏼♀️ - yes, I did close the account after 50 years …….
Flushing was way more diverse in the 90’s. The past 20 years has seen a sharp increase in the Chinese population. A lot of other groups left in that time. Not to mention all the businesses that closed down- Caldor, Pecks, Chameleons, Main Street Collectibles, Dr Jays, Entertainment World, Barones Pizza, Gloria’s Pizza (they have one in Forest Hills now), Associated, Western Beef, Kane’s Diner, Woolworth, etc. Flushing is very different now than how it was during my childhood.
Tom is an awesome guide, makes me want to go where he goes. BTW, many English Quakers fled to Netherlands in 1600s, which is why some ended up in New Amsterdam. New Jersey also had two large early Quaker settlements.
Quakers did not need to escape anywhere .The Anglican church was and is a broad church.It was extremist puritans who wanted the ability to persecute Quakers such as those who sailed on the mayflower
@@neilthornton3544 with respect, Parliament passed two laws targeting Quakers and leaders were jailed in mid-1600’s, corresponding to the period followers sought refuge - and opportunity - in the Netherlands. This is not a disputed point in the literature.
Flushing is split between Taiwanese and Korean businesses. Depending on where you are in Flushing there 's a higher density of Korean businesses than Manhattan's K-town.
You should do a tour of Brooklyn's Chinatown in Sunset Park 8th Avenue as well. There are also other smaller NYC Chinatowns that may not look like much, but still worth exploring and making a video of. Brooklyn actually has 3 Chinatowns; Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, and Sheepshead Bay. Sunset Park and Bensonhurst have the largest concentration of Chinese populations with the difference that Bensohurst's Chinatown is split into several sections on 86th Street under the D train between 18th to Stillwell Avenues, Bay Parkway 65th-70th Streets, and 18th Avenue between 65th-75th, though 86th Street is much better as there are more variety of business and more prosperous and interesting. Sheepshead Bay just at the Q train Avenue U station also has a small Chinatown. Elmhurst in Queens also has a small Chinatown on Broadway by the Elmhurst Avenue R train. The smaller NYC Chinatowns are actually more intermixed in with other ethnic enclaves, which make these neighborhoods look very interesting and culturally plural and diverse.
Flushing is literally my favorite place in New York. It’s underrated but I always discover new gems every time I go there. Thanks for highlighting flushing.
Can you share some of your recommendation?
I was born in Flushing and my grandmother lived there. A lot of Colombians used to live there. I am talking the 1960's and 1970's. By the entrance of the 7 train subway was Woolworths, where Duane Reade is now, you could actually exit the subway straight into Woolworths by its own staircase.
Please be careful! Flushing has MANY open metal cellar doors near the stores and looking backwards can have you fall down a staircase.
Do you remember Alexanders? I just loved that place to shop at. Of course I am a female and us female just loved to shop. 😁
Tom you have a gift. You’re the kind of person that can talk to someone and make them fall in love with knowledge. In a world where stupid behavior gets celebrated and compensated you’re a breath of fresh air. Thank you.
You speaking various languages, is very cool!
I agree .
Cool to finally se Flushing.
This guys way of super casual delivery has such a captivating effect. It’s like listening to your cool interesting cousin talk lol
I see "Flushing, Queens" and instantly the theme song of the sitcom "The Nanny" pops into the head.
I was born and raised in Flushing (more on the Long Island end by Bayside), and I learned so much from the video!! Thanks for spotlighting the diversity and acceptance of Flushing. Fantastic job, man!
I miss NYC. Grow up there.thanks for sharing
I love visiting Flushing Queens
Great video, Tom! I didn’t think I’d be interested in Queens, but your tours have the unique combination of a deep history lesson infused with humor and friendliness. Best combination!
You don’t go “down” Long Island “ from anywhere in NYC, you go out.
I remember Kissena Blvd, Main Street as well, went to college in Queens..good memories.
You are a walking encyclopedia. Such a source of knowledge.
The perfect dinner guest. Thank you.......
Thank you for making this video. Grew up in Flushing!
Thank you for the great history on Flushing, Queens! Love how it's so large, busy and diverse in many cultures. Very cool! Keep it up you're doing awesome...
Great job yet again Tom, so pleased to see you venture out to Flushing and rep it so well. Top marks man!
IT so nice to see you do the tour of my old neighboorhood where i grew up) bowne street/northern blvd, you the best TOM
TomD is a NYC tour guide god! 😛
i grew up in flushing, but a flushing way south on main street, but everyone understrood what flushing meant, although my school called it "old flushing." the last film i saw at the RKO keith was quadrophenia, circa 1980. the theater was magnificent but already quite run down by then, so much so that they were at time even having difficulties showing the film.
I grew up in Flushing Queens in the 80’s. It was amazing back then. I lived on Kissena Blvd.
It was the best place in the world.
Holly Ave. here.
was flushing china town in the 80s ?
@@DowonLee-hb7mw to me it was because we never went into Manhattan.
You da man Tom! Thanks for showing. Greetings from upstate NY in Rochester 👍
Great tour, thank you for walking through the town we grew up in... quick note, it's the Weeping Beach tree not Birch.. lol....
Many an awesome day skipping school and great evenings hanging out under that tree...❤
tom your videos are nice and you are a great historian ,a friend of france :)
us brits saved france twice from the germans fact
Temple canteen is great! Also check out Dosa Hut nearby for more variety
Yessssssss finally!
From 1980 to 1985, I worked at a take out restaurant on 149th and Northern. This was the era before it became Chinatown. There were a few Korean, Japanese and Chinese businesses on Union and on Bowne Streets. It is incredible change to what it is now. Back then, this entire area was much more diverse. I remember going to the movies at that RKO Theater. On Main Street was the Armed Forces Recruiting Center when I signed up and joined the Air Force. This video brings back a lot of good memories.
lots of korean people and stuff in Flushing along Northern Blvd, 162 nd street etc, very cool. you can read Greek newspapers in Indian deli stores. Plus bunch of Jewish establishments
Tom, you are such a funny guy! Love your sense of humor and your personality overall.
I use to live and grow up on 160th street South East from Main Street Flushing, Queens, NYC. Loved going there to shop. I grew up in the 1970's where there was stores I use to shop at like Alexander, Woolworth that are no longer there ☹, Took the No7 train to 42nd street where it was the last stop and first going back to Flushing, Queens, NYC.
But when I went back in 2014, Starbuck had the menu in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English, Spanish, Indian language, to name a few that I remember, my how times had change.
FYI Flushing Meadows also hosts the US Open tennis every year.
Thank you for this my friend!
I graduated from Flushing High School in 98
Awesome video Tom, I thoroughly enjoyed your walking tour of Chinatown- Queens
Need to do a tour of Beechhurst and Whitestone and College Point.
That’s cool I grew up there 55 years ago.
Thank you and Eric. Thank you. As always f... brilliant -
Awww that Caldor image brought back a fond memory of me getting separated from my mom & lost in the Caldor that was on Fordham Rd & Grand Concourse when I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade. First (but not last) time my name was called over the intercom in a department store lol good times! 😊
Hi Tom, great episode! I'd love to see you do one on Bayside where I live. I believe Northern Boulevard NYS Rt 25A ends in Calverton where it merges with NYS Rt 25. I have lived most of my life within a few miles of Northern Boulevard whether I lived in Bayside, Great Neck or Huntington. My parents live in Mount Sinai NY very close to 25A there! Keep up the great work bringing New York history to life.
Great Production. Fantastic Channel. Thank You.
Enjoy you’re videos always great 😌
I absolutely lost it when you played the gong for the "sick plug"
One of the great New York pizza places was one block south of Roosevelt Avenue on Main Street. It was called Gloria’s Pizza and was the best pizza around. You smelled it from the bus stop (right in front) and couldn’t resist getting a slice. There was no seating, just counter space. The RKO Keith’s Theatre was historic and beautiful. The basement was flooded with oil by the unscrupulous owner to try to get it demolished in addition to illegally demolishing parts of it.
Around 2019 they were advertising a banner saying a dollar slice. Went inside it was like $2.50, lol.
I will go there again soon.
Tom, I’m going to donate to your patreon as a thank you for the fab entertainment you’ve given us all this year. How much is a haircut in NYC 🤔
Free
Mine was $200 😭😩😩
😜obviously he isn’t the one to ask! I think a guys w tip in Manhattan huts $20 but Queens lower!
Will he look like you?
@@steini6771 only if he’s lucky.
As usual a great tour. I much prefer these to the live shots. I'm looking forward to the stuff from the German trip. Keep up the great work!
Tom is geweldig!
Bro you are one the best Tour guides in NYC
Thank you for this amazing video!!
Best video you've done in a while. I like this style. Someone following you with the camera.
I like the graphics and intro upgrade. Looks good and professional. Just learned my family came from England as quakers, so thanks! And had no idea of all the Chinese there in Flushing Queens. Great meeting your friend too, and the Hindu temple part.
16:52 the Marx Brothers family lived at 87-48 134 st. Richmond Hill, Queens (i'm from normal parents) so perhaps lower your standards a bit with a Star Tour or, a Jamaica, Queens, transportation-shopping tour tying into the upcoming gentrified neighblorhoods along the renovated El & subway lines.
The Loew's Wonder Theaters were an important social node of the neighblorhoods in their day.
Now that you've been to Germany has it given you a fresh perspective on German immigration to NYC and their part in building, literately, the city? Say yes just for your goilfriend relationship.
Liked your tour of the Old German neighblorhood before Yorkville that used to be on the Lower East Side.
Thanks for doing a video on Flushing, I grew up in Flushing and lived there for 27 years. New world mall food court is somewhere I’ve missed going to.
Oh Tommy boy ! Y'know what , Tom , you' ve made me fall in love with Flushing . Well done .
Wonderful video, Tom you are really good, thank you for all your videos!!! I learn so much!!!
Wow! Love how you are so knowledgeable about the history of Flushing and NYC! The commentary and photography were on point!
Very nice Tom, awesome informative video..
Hey Tom! I am fairly sure Scott and I just saw you on the 1 train and said hello when you were exiting. Just to reiterate, we both love your channel and think you bring a learned angle to the New York City youtube neighborhood tours. Hope you keep it up! Thanks for saying hi on your way out.
Tom be walking and talking while passing up stuff. 😂
Tom is a NYC 🧙♀️.
This was so very nice of you, I have never seen this before. My heart sinks when I hear RKO Keith's and the fact it is no longer. I grew up in Flushing, 146ST and 34 Ave and walked to northern Blvd and Main, Bowne park and Kissena park was a big hang out for us. Seeing all this on video and learning of the background, which I never knew was so interesting. I thank you so much for doing this and wish you and the camera man a bless Christmas and a healthy New Year.
A fun visit to a place I've never been but heard a lot about. Thanks.
Much preferred over live. Honestly.
This is an awesome video. Great content, awesome delivery, and very entertaining. I just found your channel and I'm super excited to watch the rest of your videos.
ever think about walking through NYC's *other* chinatown? Sunset park?
I been there loved it.
16:49 Director John Favreau used to work there
Born and raised there. 157th st and Sanford ave
Great vlog as usual
I have been enjoying your videos about my New York City for a long time ...let me ask you how you were able to amass such a tremendous amount of in-depth knowledge ?
Study and research
I went to flushing Meadows Park about 20 years ago it was beautiful!
Would be interested to see a vid about the Hasidic community
You are amazing!
Affordable housing is needed. Get rid of zoning regulation and parking minimums. It stops affordable denser housing from being built. Installing underground sealed dumpsters would also help with cleanliness and would make the area more livable. More pedestrian only streets in this area would help as well.
Re: NY World’s Fair …taking notes for Eric 🤗 … Flushing Meadows Park was site on United Nations before Manhattan. Site of 1939 and 1964-1965 Worlds Fair. There is a plaque still there with names and dates of Presidents of US and others who visited. I was at the 1964 Fair as a child. Queensboro bridge was finished in 1929. On the two side lanes until the sixties were trolly tracks but the trollies were gone. I lived here forever and never knew of this place. I feel sorry for Eric. one can hardly move its so crowded. Thank you! Tried to go into a Flushing branch to make a withdrawal and nobody spoke english 🤦🏼♀️ - yes, I did close the account after 50 years …….
I loved your video Thank you so much for making this video
You said you were a comedian. that joke at the end with the fish .top class
lol @ the sound of the planes overhead every 5mins. It's very Queens. lol
Flushing was way more diverse in the 90’s. The past 20 years has seen a sharp increase in the Chinese population. A lot of other groups left in that time. Not to mention all the businesses that closed down- Caldor, Pecks, Chameleons, Main Street Collectibles, Dr Jays, Entertainment World, Barones Pizza, Gloria’s Pizza (they have one in Forest Hills now), Associated, Western Beef, Kane’s Diner, Woolworth, etc. Flushing is very different now than how it was during my childhood.
I am going there soon. Staying at Marco on NB so this is quite helpful.
How did you like Marco hotel? My friend said that many years ago and it was quite nice some of the cruise from LaGuardia airport stay there also
Thank Eric for the map.
Roosevelt is one of my favorite streets to walk In nyc.
It's not dead! It's resting...
Tom, I’m going to donate to your patreon as a thank you for the fab entertainment you’ve given us all this year. How much is a haircut in NYC
nice walk 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
You've a wealth of knowledge, absolutely top-notch. I've only been to Florida and doubt very much I'd ever be able to visit New York, I can dream.
Tom is an awesome guide, makes me want to go where he goes. BTW, many English Quakers fled to Netherlands in 1600s, which is why some ended up in New Amsterdam. New Jersey also had two large early Quaker settlements.
Quakers did not need to escape anywhere .The Anglican church was and is a broad church.It was extremist puritans who wanted the ability to persecute Quakers such as those who sailed on the mayflower
@@neilthornton3544 with respect, Parliament passed two laws targeting Quakers and leaders were jailed in mid-1600’s, corresponding to the period followers sought refuge - and opportunity - in the Netherlands. This is not a disputed point in the literature.
Hey Tom, a quick heads up, the plaza in 9:28 is in Korean not Chinese. Other than that great video as always.
korean? so called korean hangul writing system is just another copy of chinese seal scirpt of yuan dynasty, technically it is still chinese
Flushing is split between Taiwanese and Korean businesses. Depending on where you are in Flushing there 's a higher density of Korean businesses than Manhattan's K-town.
Talking about a guy with a peg leg as he walks side by side with a gentleman with a cane. That's comedy folks! Great video as always, Tom!
One cool Tour Of Queens, very interesting.
My hometown it’s my neighborhood love flushing raised 3 kids comfortablly
where do you sign up for a tour? my wife and i will be in NY for a few days this coming up week and we are planning some things to do.
as soon as I saw Luffy from One piece in the video Flushing had me sold
The Flashy girl from Flushings
the Nanny named Fran
Hey Tom, can you do Jamacia Queens next?
I love your videos.
Kunal is great! Will Tim Dillon be the next celebrity guest??
You should do a tour of Brooklyn's Chinatown in Sunset Park 8th Avenue as well. There are also other smaller NYC Chinatowns that may not look like much, but still worth exploring and making a video of. Brooklyn actually has 3 Chinatowns; Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, and Sheepshead Bay. Sunset Park and Bensonhurst have the largest concentration of Chinese populations with the difference that Bensohurst's Chinatown is split into several sections on 86th Street under the D train between 18th to Stillwell Avenues, Bay Parkway 65th-70th Streets, and 18th Avenue between 65th-75th, though 86th Street is much better as there are more variety of business and more prosperous and interesting. Sheepshead Bay just at the Q train Avenue U station also has a small Chinatown. Elmhurst in Queens also has a small Chinatown on Broadway by the Elmhurst Avenue R train. The smaller NYC Chinatowns are actually more intermixed in with other ethnic enclaves, which make these neighborhoods look very interesting and culturally plural and diverse.
Archie Bunker lives in Queens and Presdent Nixon was a Quaker!
Thanks for taking us around Flushing, Tom!
King of NYC!
Oh Em Gee lol thank for showing us around, Tom
You are the best
24:30 It all depends on where they are going and what time of day it is! Maybe they will get stuck out in traffic for 45 minutes 😂😂
Flushing is also home to the worlds greatest Electrician's LU#3