Last time i visited NYC I made a point of visiting this spot just to try and imagine what the Five Points used to look like. Pretty difficult.

Interesting how the USA still struggles with liberty and freedom for all.

Great details. Well done.

You said they tore down all the buildings and built parks but what happened to all the people that were living there????!!!!! They didn't just magically disappear. They were kicked out and had to find a new places to live. Geez poor people can't catch a break.

where do you get your paper maps. i would like one of my city

I will 'always' call it 'National Airport' Station, always 😃 Scary the train digital screens use Microsoft Windows. Tackle people in the way on the left.

Funny you missed how the entire area was called “Little Africa” after Angolan indentured servants (several of whom built the wall on Wall Street) won their freedom & were compensated with plots of land at Collect Pond, becoming the center of Black settlement ther from the 1640s on into the 19th Century. A long history, unmentioned at all. Also: African “immigrants”? Do better

Loved it! Thanks for you work!

Wonderful! Thank you for introducing the soon to be forgotten Chinatown. Chinatown has always been a neglected NYC community. From the terrorist 911 attack, rapidly rising rents, the pandemic, and congestion pricing, The city never try to do much to protect or cleanup this historical community. If it wasn’t for the few Chinese social organizations fighting to keep the community together and working with the local 5th precinct to keep crimes low, Chinatown would have been wiped out from NYC years ago. The Chinatown today has lost almost all of its charm compared to what it was 35 years ago. It was a thriving community where it gave hopes to so many immigrants a chance to achieve the American Dream. The community was decently safe compare to many other immigrant communities. Most of them worked and studied very hard to get out of poverty. People from nearby cities and boroughs went to school, summer school, church, grocery shopping, doctors, dentists, shopping, and all types of daily life activities in Chinatown. Some of them commuted from Staten Island and Jersey. It was not a place just for immigrants. It was a community that gave a sense of belonging to all Chinese Americans in the nearby cities. Chinatown under Hochul, De balsio and Adam’s leadership has been terrible. They built a center for drug addicts for them to use drugs, migrant shelter and homeless shelter. They have been trying to build a new prison there again. The community fought back deblasio with strong resistance. These politicians are turning Chinatown back to a slum just like it was in the 1800’s, wiping out 200 years of hard work from the community.

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It is a shabby city now, and prone to criminality. But still beautiful.

River names are swaped. Besos on the right, llobregat on the left.

what's the song that starts at 9:45？

Are the cards back or just phone apps? Last time I was in Tokyo was right before CV19. We are heading there next week. Are they also good in Kyoto and Osaka? We plan on being there 2 weeks.

The statue was built upon the order of the Egyptian Khedive Said Pasha, to be erected where the Suez Canal opens to the Mediterranean, and some of the expenses were paid by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz. The ordered statue was completed, but the erection of such a large statue in Egypt was abandoned due to concerns that the erection of such a large statue would cause discomfort among the Muslim people, and after waiting in a warehouse in France for years, the statue was given as a gift to the USA in 1884.

Afrikaans is not a mixed language it is Dutch spoken different I was in Belgium and only spoke Afrikaans to the Flemish people

2 things that make Chi engineering great. 1)the skyline & keeping the lakefront skyscraper free & 2)Alleys. I can’t stand the thought of having to put trash cans&dumpsters on the street. NY should have put more thought when building instead of just mindless growth (here’s a skyscraper their a skyscraper). That city smells & the rat problem sheesh smh

In other interesting point new Yorkers refer to Manhattan as the city .

You mention Italians once in passing. No mention of the work on the transcontinental railroad. And you only mention anti-Irish and Chinese sentiment. What about how a lot of Chinatown today was Little Italy. Kind of BS revisionist history in my opinion.

Not too far different from the tube system here in London, if anything its probably easier to navigate

Wow this video is ridiculous, what kind of kids do you have? Because most of these places are more suitable for adults that like to just chill and take in culture than for kids, kids would prefer places like Euro Disney in France, islands like Tenerife,.. Orlando florida.. your talking about Costa Rica and Taiwan 😂 most kids my own included are pretty hyped and like alot of kiddie stuff to do, water parks theme parks, are your kids hippies? 😂😂

Very interesting episode ❗🔥💯👍

I descend from primarily Dutch settlers on the European side of my dad’s ancestry. I have genetic ties to the western cape of south africa

8:30 the horse and carriage thing is true, and Brigham Young expected it of all the cities, even Lehi. In fact, it is in the histories that he told David Evans (my great great grandfather) that Lehi (who had already built their business streets close together) was to push their businesses back. They refused to do this thing, and that’s why Pioneer Crossing eventually had to be built.

I've noticed, no comment on if the stations or trains has free wifi?

i am trying to figure out where the comic con in japan is held

Good effort! A few minor glitches but one of the best concise timelines I’ve seen of this fantastic city.

If i’m going with my family, do i have to get a SUICA for everyone (also kids) or i can register everyone in a SUICA (phone)?

COOL FILM SCHOOL VIDEO

I don't give a hoot cause I will never visit that awful country.

At 6:19, the caption says 1300 B.C. and I think what you mean is 1300 A.D. (or C.E. for common era, whichever is your preference). But the Notre Dame was not constructed in 1300 B.C. (or B.C.E, depending on your preference).

who is this beautiful babyboy and what's his ig

My family came from the Dominican Republic in the 40s to Elizabeth & prince! Now we are all over N.Y & America, living the dream.

0:51 the rivers are flipped, Llobregat is in the south(left) and Besòs in the north(right)

Interesting video. cheers.

So many wrong things with this video. Mate, do some real research before doing a video like this one…. Just a couple: - in your map, the Llobregat is actually the Besos and viceversa. - Messi is from Argentina

ALSO DONT FORGET THAT DOWNTOWN WAS BUILT ON A NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVEYARD. THESE EUROPEANS AND ASIANS ARE NEW HERE.. 400 MEASLY YEARS

Cataluña was never considered a kingdom, it belong to the kindom of Aragon, with just some autonomies

Thanks!

The rivers are mistaken. Besos is el llobregat and el llobregat is besos

PS Chinatown is still not pretty, not at all what any reasonable person would call beautiful. Since the 1990s , Chinatown expanded to overtake "Little Italy" and the old Jewish area of the "Lower East Side" so that it now is extended up to Houston St.

I was told that’s where they sold the slaves . Next to the Wall

My only real problem with this vid is its use of euphemism. These were not "working class" nor "marginalized". The were POOR, destitute. The bigotry v the Irish was because the were CATHOLIC. Until really the 90s, the inhabitants of 5 Points were invariably Irish, who weren't escaping "potato famine" but British starvation. There was no dearth of food in Ireland. It was all owned by British who exported it all to England.

What a story!

The llogbregat and the besos are inverted at the beginning of the video

10:35 not sure if this is really true anymore (highest concentration of Chinese). Manhattan Chinatown is shrinking and will continue to shrink. With congestion pricing coming, sadly its going to probably crush Manhattan Chinatown. In the future, Manhattan Chinatown probably be a tourist shell a la Little Italy. The world's largest Chinatown is Flushing, NY is far more diverse types of Asian business with locals living there. Brooklyn have a few genuine Chinatowns as well.

I went from one of the worst passports in the world to one of the best (U.S.). My job requires a lot of travel and I can’t express how valuable a strong passport is. Applying for a visa is expensive and invasive and not even guaranteed. Beyond the ease of traveling, you also get more respect with a stronger passport which is sad but true.

Most browsers come with free VPN's. Don't fall into another subscription trap!

Good information. Would love to see some primary source info from a current or former vendor or resident who is actually Chinese

Well done! You should do one on Coney Island. Very interesting stuff with John Y McCain and the other Barons of Coney Island.