Whenever I have a friend visiting NYC and they ask for a place to visit that is "off the beaten path" I send them to Inwood Hill Park and The Cloisters. Bonus: If you visit The Cloisters your pass will also get you into The MET. I think the pass is good for more than one day too, so you can visit the Met the day before or after if you don't want to do 2 museums in 1 day.
Greetings from Glasgow, Scotland. Famous Inwood son? Paul Stanley of KISS, born and lived his formative years on W211 St , Inwood before moving to Queens.Sick KISS plug…
You're back, buddy! We missed you! Your videos mean so much to us! Being able to tour the New York metropolitan area and learn from your wealth of historical knowledge, all from the cozy comfort of our own home, is PRICELESS. It's like BEING there. Wonderful videos. Your Latinamerican videos are amazing, as well. Thank you so much, Tomás. 🏆
I was led here because i am selected to live in Inwood through the NYC lottery for housing. Although I am excited about moving to Inwood i am concerned about the rezoning. This history lesson is quite interesting to watch ❤
Great tour again, thank you very much! But I miss a little bit the scenes/shots of you actually walking around, to be able to get some more impressions and a feeling for the surroundings, the people, the shops, the restaurant and the daily life in general of the neighborhoods you are exploring.
I really enjoy your vids but you left out Linden Terrace in Fort Tryon Park. Linden Terrace is a big favorite for peeps to sit and watch the sunset, do tai chi, sit and take in the view of the Hudson river from a high elevation and also has Linden Arch which is pretty cool. Thanks for all your vids!!
That Broadway divider is very real. Always has existed. Kind of wild the difference. Grew up there and only knew maybe two people above Broadway. They are their own community.
Live here all my life, in Inwood...Kareem Abdul Jabbar aka Lew Alcindor of the LA Lakers, grew up in the Dyckman Projects and played in the basketball courts there; Tubby Hook was another name for the Inwood Section of Upper Manhattan; Yes, plenty of Irish Bars once graced the streets; there are just a few remaining; Heather Gardens at Margaret Corbin Circle which leads to the Cloisters has a sign reading " Let no one say and say to your shame That all was beauty here until you came". Very much apropos. Dyckman Street west of Broadway towards the river has interesting dining spots , whereas, east of Broadway has a less appetizing flavor, so to speak. The Inwood area has the least expensive apartments for rent or purchase in all of Manhattan. Thanks for the video and keep up your labor of love.
Kareem aka Lew Alcindor lived in my projects and went to my elementary school, St. Jude's school! He also went to Power Memorial H.S. and played basketball with my brother there! my brother was 1 yr older and Jack Donahue was the coach!
Is Cock Hill, near the corners of Seaman Ave. & Dyckman or, Cummings St., one big pile of schist rock ? ... figures yea, potty humor like the chair in 6:11 11:05 Tom glancing to his left then right: " ... what do you think Phil should we keep it moving?" Phil: "Yea, let's get out (of here before we die).
Born and raised in New York and I’ve actually have never been to Inwood all 46 years of my life the furthest up north of Manhattan I’ve been to is 193rd St.
That modular apt. building looks rickety. "Mom..I moved up to Inwood, and I'm living in a converted shipping container! And the rent is still $2000 a month"
Never been up to this part of the city. We were supposed to drive up from NJ to see The Cloisters in the early 80s, my dad and stepmom and I, but everytime we tried it was closed, seemingly, back then. Skrew it! LOL I hear Inwood park is pretty cool.
@@samanthab1923 Yep going to Yonkers you would run across all that, of course. I just never got up there. I haven't even been to Washington Heights yet. I spent some time in the 70s and 80s at my dad's uncle's place in New Rochelle, that was about as close as we got.
I lived in the basement of the building at 212/10th ave for 2 years. All the things… the building had never been inspected, the plumbing started to collapse (from above) 2nd week, and it was just another day to open the door and find the janitor on the ground face down, surrounded by police… that being said, some great people I had the pleasure to meet!
Thanks , Tom !! Informative video. FYI : you mentioned the Broadway divide in income. A great book that touches upon it is by Professor Robert W. Synder : Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City. Also, a follow up on the Seaman Arch : there is a corner in Inwood called Seaman Ave and Cummings St. Can't make this sh*t up !!!
If you walked a few blocks south on Seaman Ave, you'd have seen Cummings Street. How'd ya like to live on the corner of Seaman and Cummings? Good video. Wish you had talked a bit about the cinema history here, it was pre-Hollywood and many silent films were shot here. They had a movie studio and everything. Btw, you walked right by the building where the original Van Helsig from _Dracula_ (1931) lived. Mwah ha haaaa. 🤘
Similiar to Corlears Hook Park, birthplace of the hooker, was Tubby Hook, Inwood, near Seaman Ave and Cummings, Dykeman (yeah, an oxymoron), o.k. Dyckman, Streets a place for longshoremen earning some coin ?
Another good walking tour video, thanks Tom but see if you can do more dark side video tours bc those were dope also! Maybe even do some walking at night time and show NYC how it transitions from crazy during day time into insanity at night time LOL
I'm just watching this wearing a sweater. I miss summer already! Don't teach children to drink from water bottles by picking it up from the street, lol. I've seen that arch, so weird they just put those shops front of it
Hi Tom need to redo a new reload of "HARLEM" aka Black Mecca again. This time a one hour time of all Harlem history from east Harlem, central Harlem and west Harlem (Morning heights and Hamilton heights areas too !) from 96th to 155th streets. 🌅🙂👋🇺🇲🗽💵❤️🚇🚍🚖🏢🚪🔑💯👍🌃
16:25 - This isn't true. Inwood in the 1970 census was 91% white and 7 % black. It was also 95% renter. From 1970-1980 the Hispanic population went from 2% to 50.4% squeezing out both white and black residents. People in apartments move - often. In NYC it's every 3.5 years on average. When new groups come in the old groups have to make room for them. How else would it work?
i miss the 80's i was building a school. watched stolen cars being striped in broad day light. the cops would befriend the dismantlers. the coacaine sales. one sat i cant believe i wasnt there. they found 3 million cash under a stripped car. good times
You didn't mention: 1. Inwood park is the only native forest left on Manhattan. 2. The Columbia C! 3. The history and geography of marble hill....look at the new York county line.... Manhattan is connected to the main land!
lol, it's not Manhattan County's northern most nabe. Marble Hill acrooss the Harlem River is. That Nabe is on the mainland like the Bronx that surrounds it. But it is part of Manhattan County and borough.
@@jessedylan6162 Since you live in Inwood, from a previous comment, might be interested on the online "New York Tours By Gary" blog. It has a well written two part article on Inwood including Tubby Hook. Misc. Does Dyckman Street also intersect Broadway ?
i'm also a Licensed Sightseeing NYC guide. I've been giving tours for 25 yrs .lol, but thanks for the suggestion. Yes, Dyckman intersects Broadway; Seaman intersects Dyckman and Cumming St intersects Broadway.@@vincentgoupil180
I grew up on 181st. Basically in the shadow of the cloisters. To this day, I still believe the cloisters, and fort tryon park together are the best piece of property on the island. You can debate me on this, but you will be proven wrong. Love the video, but I would have rather seen the cloisters in the Washington heights video 😏
Yeah, isn't Fort Tryon Park (and therefore Cloisters) part of Washington Heights? I never lived up there, but I've been there and I always thought Dyckman Street was the border. Fort Tryon is a great park, as is Inwood Hill Park.
Humm, great video! Being a native NYCer, I was taught in PS 64, that Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Cropsey Indians in what became Bowling Green Park (in 1624)
Tom - Unfortunately you missed some of the key elements of life in Inwood during the past half century. First Inwood was for many, many decades a hard-core Irish neighborhood. In the 1980s the area was chock full of Irish illegal aliens, many of whom were involved with the terrorist Irish Republican Army. That of course brought lots of FBI agents keeping eyes on their comings and goings around the clock! Now on a much lighter note, you also missed mentioning NYC's best immature giggle-inducing spot: the corner of Seaman Avenue and Cumming Street! Yes that's an absolutely real place just north of the Dykman farmhouse.
@@johnscanlan9335 El Incorrecto Similiar to 9:22, 4:03 where Tom admonishes Phil regarding Cock Hill, he is aware of the intersection of semen and cummings and the adolescent names. You're not the first commentator to make light of this.
Not good. Didn't show apartment buildings in front of the El subway. 207th street. 204th street Nagle ave. Sherman Ave. Vermilia Ave. Showed only upper class housing. Not the real down and dirty city life I grew up in.
I’d be more worried about having a moped with 2 armed gang members rolling up on you and robbing you at gunpoint. That’s more like what goes on up there as opposed to some deliverance type stuff.
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Whenever I have a friend visiting NYC and they ask for a place to visit that is "off the beaten path" I send them to Inwood Hill Park and The Cloisters. Bonus: If you visit The Cloisters your pass will also get you into The MET. I think the pass is good for more than one day too, so you can visit the Met the day before or after if you don't want to do 2 museums in 1 day.
Greetings from Glasgow, Scotland. Famous Inwood son? Paul Stanley of KISS, born and lived his formative years on W211 St , Inwood before moving to Queens.Sick KISS plug…
You're back, buddy! We missed you! Your videos mean so much to us! Being able to tour the New York metropolitan area and learn from your wealth of historical knowledge, all from the cozy comfort of our own home, is PRICELESS. It's like BEING there. Wonderful videos. Your Latinamerican videos are amazing, as well. Thank you so much, Tomás. 🏆
14:00… this Cloister’s segment is very cool.. right near Cabrini
So happy Phil is back !
As an Inwood resident -- excellent video. Good history and sociopolitical context.
Thanks for the tour of Inwood.
Exceptional work as always, Tom. Many thanks!
I always look forward to Tom's NYC 'Walking Tour' videos! 🐐
Tidying up something insignificant like a traffic cone shines a light on your love of New York, thank you for leading by example!
Please do a video on The Cloisters!
Hey Tom! What's up!? So excited Phil is back and the tour as well! Another sick one!!!
Thank you Tom, such a great way to spend some time. 😎
I'd love to see a video on the Cloisters.
I was led here because i am selected to live in Inwood through the NYC lottery for housing.
Although I am excited about moving to Inwood i am concerned about the rezoning. This history lesson is quite interesting to watch ❤
Great tour again, thank you very much! But I miss a little bit the scenes/shots of you actually walking around, to be able to get some more impressions and a feeling for the surroundings, the people, the shops, the restaurant and the daily life in general of the neighborhoods you are exploring.
Great to see Kevin Arnold from The Wonder Years at 13:17
He makes learning about NY fun.
the cloisters has the famous unicorn tapestry
That’s right!
9:18 this is so cool…. Never knew this!
The best as always!
Good morning Tom. Awesome video. I really hope you do a livestream sometime. You put a lot of amazing research into your content.
The Cloisters! I have a painting of the Cloisters, done by my grandfather in the late 30s or 40s.
I lived up in Inwood for 5 years when I was first out of college, on Park Terrace East. It's definitely a cool little neighborhood.
Never been to this part of Manhattan. Looking forward to checking it out myself. Great video and thanks for all the information.
I really enjoy your vids but you left out Linden Terrace in Fort Tryon Park. Linden Terrace is a big favorite for peeps to sit and watch the sunset, do tai chi, sit and take in the view of the Hudson river from a high elevation and also has Linden Arch which is pretty cool. Thanks for all your vids!!
It was a very interesting tour. I saw things I never knew existed and the ending by the water was exquisite:-) 🧚♀
You missed the Irish in the 50s-60s and 70s. Also all the bars. That is what Inwood was known for.
Wow… all this history!! Thought I was pretty up to date on my historical facts of Washington Heights.. Never knew!!
That Broadway divider is very real. Always has existed. Kind of wild the difference. Grew up there and only knew maybe two people above Broadway. They are their own community.
Love this, grew up in heights/Inwood.
Live here all my life, in Inwood...Kareem Abdul Jabbar aka Lew Alcindor of the LA Lakers, grew up in the Dyckman Projects and played in the basketball courts there; Tubby Hook was another name for the Inwood Section of Upper Manhattan; Yes, plenty of Irish Bars once graced the streets; there are just a few remaining;
Heather Gardens at Margaret Corbin Circle which leads to the Cloisters has a sign reading " Let no one say and say to your shame That all was beauty here until you came". Very much apropos. Dyckman Street west of Broadway towards the river has interesting dining spots , whereas, east of Broadway has a less appetizing flavor, so to speak.
The Inwood area has the least expensive apartments for rent or purchase in all of Manhattan.
Thanks for the video and keep up your labor of love.
Kareem aka Lew Alcindor lived in my projects and went to my elementary school, St. Jude's school! He also went to Power Memorial H.S. and played basketball with my brother there! my brother was 1 yr older and Jack Donahue was the coach!
I lived a few streets away from Dyckman St. My friend lived in the projects and i'd see Big Lew around the area many times.@@P.Kenney
@@jessedylan6162 You must be my age! where did you go school?
@@P.Kenney ps 152, jhs52, GWHS
Is Cock Hill, near the corners of Seaman Ave. & Dyckman or, Cummings St., one big pile of schist rock ?
... figures
yea, potty humor like the chair in 6:11
11:05 Tom glancing to his left then right: " ... what do you think Phil should we keep it moving?"
Phil: "Yea, let's get out (of here before we die).
Missed opportunity for B footage : there is an intersection of Cummings and seaman ave in inwood ...
My hood. Thanks, Tom.
I lived there from 1955 to 1966!
Born and raised in New York and I’ve actually have never been to Inwood all 46 years of my life the furthest up north of Manhattan I’ve been to is 193rd St.
That modular apt. building looks rickety. "Mom..I moved up to Inwood, and I'm living in a converted shipping container! And the rent is still $2000 a month"
Never been up to this part of the city. We were supposed to drive up from NJ to see The Cloisters in the early 80s, my dad and stepmom and I, but everytime we tried it was closed,
seemingly, back then. Skrew it! LOL I hear Inwood park is pretty cool.
That’s when I discovered it. Driving up the Henry Hudson from coming over the GW from NJ. Always on our way to visit relatives in Yonkers.
@@samanthab1923 Yep going to Yonkers you would run across all that, of course. I just never got up there. I haven't even been to Washington Heights yet. I spent some time in the 70s and 80s at my dad's uncle's place in New Rochelle, that was about as close as we got.
@@thiscorrosion900 Cool. You’ll get there. What part of NJ are you from? I grew up in Monmouth Co.
@@samanthab1923 I'm in LI NY. I was in NJ a lot years and years ago cause my dad lived there for years till 1994.
@@thiscorrosion900 Oh OK. We used to go out to East Hampton when my Nan & Pop lived there. Lots of fun but a hell ride with traffic
I lived in the basement of the building at 212/10th ave for 2 years. All the things… the building had never been inspected, the plumbing started to collapse (from above) 2nd week, and it was just another day to open the door and find the janitor on the ground face down, surrounded by police… that being said, some great people I had the pleasure to meet!
The plumbing started to collapse after 2 weeks and you stayed for two years? What kind of an idiot are you?
Awesome video Tom. Sick plug
@10:00 Washington square park's "arc de Triomphe" : Am I a joke to you?
Great informative video with humor 😊 !
Thanks , Tom !! Informative video. FYI : you mentioned the Broadway divide in income. A great book that touches upon it is by Professor Robert W. Synder : Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City. Also, a follow up on the Seaman Arch : there is a corner in Inwood called Seaman Ave and Cummings St. Can't make this sh*t up !!!
It's about time you come up north
Wo d
wonderful, great, fantastic, amazing, educational, supurb,, the best video
Have missed your sarcastic RUclips presence 😁 Siiiiick video tour, Tom 😊
Hey Tom .A voice from Cumbria. Inwoods best in winter
The Cloisters are cool. Game of Thrones on Hudson! It's a medieval building that has been moved from France and reassembled like, stone by stone.
Great vid Tom 👍
Sorry buddy, Inwood begins at Dykeman so the Cloisters is in Washington Heights.
If you walked a few blocks south on Seaman Ave, you'd have seen Cummings Street.
How'd ya like to live on the corner of Seaman and Cummings?
Good video. Wish you had talked a bit about the cinema history here, it was pre-Hollywood and many silent films were shot here. They had a movie studio and everything.
Btw, you walked right by the building where the original Van Helsig from _Dracula_ (1931) lived. Mwah ha haaaa.
🤘
great video
Great video!
Similiar to Corlears Hook Park, birthplace of the hooker, was Tubby Hook, Inwood, near Seaman Ave and Cummings, Dykeman (yeah, an oxymoron), o.k. Dyckman, Streets a place for longshoremen earning some coin ?
Another good walking tour video, thanks Tom but see if you can do more dark side video tours bc those were dope also! Maybe even do some walking at night time and show NYC how it transitions from crazy during day time into insanity at night time LOL
Great video. I know you couldn’t cover everything. I wish you would’ve covered the Irish history of the neighborhood.
I felt the same way
He is baaaaaaaack!
Ty Tom, what whats about the wheather
Tom, I'm pretty sure, the Morris - Jumel Mansion, is older than the original Dyckman House.
Tom never said it was.
1765 Morris-Jumel, 1784/5 Dyckman Farmhouse.
Very haunted 👻
@@samanthab1923 Very !
I'm surprised you didn't walk down the streets with the few detatched houses in Manhattan
You forgot about 207 yd. It was a cemetery as well
I'm just watching this wearing a sweater. I miss summer already! Don't teach children to drink from water bottles by picking it up from the street, lol. I've seen that arch, so weird they just put those shops front of it
I love the shorter hair! Now we can see your handsome face better. ❤️
Hi Tom need to redo a new reload of "HARLEM" aka Black Mecca again. This time a one hour time of all Harlem history from east Harlem, central Harlem and west Harlem (Morning heights and Hamilton heights areas too !) from 96th to 155th streets. 🌅🙂👋🇺🇲🗽💵❤️🚇🚍🚖🏢🚪🔑💯👍🌃
saw this one / liked it
16:25 - This isn't true. Inwood in the 1970 census was 91% white and 7 % black. It was also 95% renter. From 1970-1980 the Hispanic population went from 2% to 50.4% squeezing out both white and black residents. People in apartments move - often. In NYC it's every 3.5 years on average. When new groups come in the old groups have to make room for them. How else would it work?
PLS do a video over Forest Hills
Arch Automotive is an unsurpassed work of art 🤣😂
i miss the 80's i was building a school. watched stolen cars being striped in broad day light. the cops would befriend the dismantlers. the coacaine sales. one sat i cant believe i wasnt there. they found 3 million cash under a stripped car. good times
What's red lining
You left out that Inwood was predominantly Irish in 1940’s-1980’s! That’s what this neighborhood is most known for!
You didn't mention:
1. Inwood park is the only native forest left on Manhattan.
2. The Columbia C!
3. The history and geography of marble hill....look at the new York county line.... Manhattan is connected to the main land!
lol, it's not Manhattan County's northern most nabe. Marble Hill acrooss the Harlem River is. That Nabe is on the mainland like the Bronx that surrounds it. But it is part of Manhattan County and borough.
gr8!
Best neighborhood in Manhattan to live and raise children!
Sandwich was a Prince of Scotland
1:22 i thought the purchase was made at lower manhattan
How can i know if I'm "latino?" Is there some sort of blood test?
Dyke man???😂😂😂😂😂 you're the best Tom 👍👏😊❤️ Thanks for posting
Dyckman St@mikedrown2721
Dyke Man, oxymoron
Dyckman St. is adjacent to the corner of Cummings St. and Semen, er Seaman Ave. near Cock Hill.
@@vincentgoupil180 yes, I was just about to write the same comment. Seaman and Cummings St intersect off Broadway.
@@jessedylan6162
Since you live in Inwood, from a previous comment, might be interested on the online "New York Tours By Gary" blog. It has a well written two part article on Inwood including Tubby Hook.
Misc. Does Dyckman Street also intersect Broadway ?
i'm also a Licensed Sightseeing NYC guide. I've been giving tours for 25 yrs .lol, but thanks for the suggestion. Yes, Dyckman intersects Broadway; Seaman intersects Dyckman and Cumming St intersects Broadway.@@vincentgoupil180
you protect your neighborhood with your pocketbook
Love you
Manhattans northernmost neighborhood is Marble Hill.
I grew up on 181st. Basically in the shadow of the cloisters. To this day, I still believe the cloisters, and fort tryon park together are the best piece of property on the island. You can debate me on this, but you will be proven wrong. Love the video, but I would have rather seen the cloisters in the Washington heights video 😏
Yeah, isn't Fort Tryon Park (and therefore Cloisters) part of Washington Heights? I never lived up there, but I've been there and I always thought Dyckman Street was the border. Fort Tryon is a great park, as is Inwood Hill Park.
Yes, Dyckman St is the border between Wash Hts and Inwood..@@Alex-fx5es
167°C ?! You would be dead. Water boils at 100°C under normal air pressure.
Humm, great video! Being a native NYCer, I was taught in PS 64, that Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Cropsey Indians in what became Bowling Green Park (in 1624)
Maybe you're conflating the Lenape's name with the notorious Cropsey Maniac?
I can't believe you didn't say "Manhattan schist" a single time.
0:22 No!
Interesting and entertaining Tom----I like history. But Please-------It is time for a shave and haircut as you would look better.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
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I love people like you who bitch about rent but never want any new housing built
Tom - Unfortunately you missed some of the key elements of life in Inwood during the past half century. First Inwood was for many, many decades a hard-core Irish neighborhood. In the 1980s the area was chock full of Irish illegal aliens, many of whom were involved with the terrorist Irish Republican Army. That of course brought lots of FBI agents keeping eyes on their comings and goings around the clock!
Now on a much lighter note, you also missed mentioning NYC's best immature giggle-inducing spot: the corner of Seaman Avenue and Cumming Street! Yes that's an absolutely real place just north of the Dykman farmhouse.
9:22
@@vincentgoupil180 I'm not sure what your 9:22 comment refers to, but it certainly doesn't allude to the corner of Seaman Avenue and Cumming Street
@@johnscanlan9335
El Incorrecto
Similiar to 9:22, 4:03 where Tom admonishes Phil regarding Cock Hill, he is aware of the intersection of semen and cummings and the adolescent names.
You're not the first commentator to make light of this.
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Not good. Didn't show apartment buildings in front of the El subway. 207th street. 204th street Nagle ave. Sherman Ave. Vermilia Ave. Showed only upper class housing. Not the real down and dirty city life I grew up in.
He is showing a video from his perspective. You on the other hand are stuck in filth. Seek therapy…
I’d be more worried about having a moped with 2 armed gang members rolling up on you and robbing you at gunpoint. That’s more like what goes on up there as opposed to some deliverance type stuff.