You are king of cute. You should post shirtless videos instead. 💕

They're not usually "1-2 family" They were usually 3-4 family. Now that rich yuppies are purchasing them they're being converted into 1 family. (I lived in one as a kid in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn.) In the old days entire families lived in a brown stone. In mine it was.. My grandma (garden) Aunt/Uncle (parlor) Us (3rd fl) Aunt (4th fl)

I have seen brownstones in various places, the South End of Boston, the upper west side, and parts of DC. I'm surprised to learn I agree with Edith Warton. These buildings are dark and dreary, and the zero lot line construction has to be a light challenge in the interior soace eben with the large windows.

no disrespect but this is so weird. ill informed opinions / information about peoples homes and neighborhoods being presented as fact by a white man for texas. like do you know any working class people of color from these neighborhoods? we’re still here at the same underground DJ sets you are. lol you think we don’t have dishwashers and laundry in brownstones? boys in a bubble and this ain’t it very strange.

He displaced about 240,000 working class New Yorkers with his precious highways and essentially destroyed the Bronx and large parts of Brooklyn and Queens. He loathed working class people and wanted to drive them out of the city, especially Manhattan. He was also openly racist. He thought that keeping the water cold in city pools would keep Blacks out. He was a truly terrible human being.

Brownstone is absolutely beautiful. They should continue using it.

Maybe I'm missing the point but I simply don't understand the fetishization of minority poverty by white yuppies like this guy. Brooklyn became a more well-off neighborhood because NYC succeeded as an economic center, I do not blame the white middle-class college students for this. How I WISH this would have happened in my home city of St Louis but instead we have some of the worst poverty in the nation and institutions that continue crumbling. I understand that some families will not be able to afford rent on their homes any longer but cities aren't meant to be stagnant, they need to change in order to remain competitive. These low-income families are not banished to homelessness, they move to more affordable neighborhoods which continues stimulating economic growth in new communities. I applaud Brooklyn for their initiative in zoning for more density in an era where too many cities are afraid to grow in order to appease the Nimbys. Instead of freezing in time and declining, Brooklyn chose to be vibrant.

I loved the transparency; I, too, live in Clinton Hill and am part of the problem. LOL

YUCK!! GIVE ME MY WOODEN SHACK ON MY FAMILY FARM LAND , ANY DAY! BROOKLYN IS BEST VIEWED 1300 MILES AWAY!!

One of the biggest problems with replacing ANY of the brownstones with high-density housing is in the example you showed. It's hideous. There are many historical examples of high-density housing which is beautiful and/or charming, but that's not what will get built. Until that's addressed no one will champion replacing brownstones.

Moses, despite all the money he controlled with the TBTA never took from the kitty. He could have made himself a rich man, yet didn't.

That jenga building is so fking hideous. I hate it so much. Not every art is beautiful and not every needs to seeing your art

Brooklyn is a cesspool.

For God's sake, above all else, make affordable housing. It's the height of immorality to rig "housing markets" artificially keeping rent and prices in the Stratosphere "pull up the ladder behind me" "trickle down" mentality destroying a whole nation and destroying the young hardworking wage working generations, putting children and elderly out on thr streets

Brownstones are interesting and unique, today housing is so generic and boring, it has ZERO character unlike brownstones or otherwise.

I have always wondered about The Brownstone.

Brownstones look beautiful Modern buildings = UGLY

When in thing that my great grandfather inherited a large one in Manhattan (of all places) in the 1960s and he destroyed it and sold the land to a local entrepreneur, for a misery, because he needed the money. Now in place of this house stands Bloomingdale on Third. This house today would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Should you ever create another video. Stop using " A CLICK " for every frame. It is truly maddening.

Moses wanted to cut an expressway through Greenwich Village and somehow - thank God - they managed to stop him!

Really well done. Thanks for no weird background music

The History Of My 🗽🏙️❤️NYCITY Is Very Eye Opening, From Your Perspective. Thank You.

Your Intro About The FDR Drive HIGHWAY, Is Hilarious!!!😂

🗽🏙️💃🏽💞Born & Raised in ENY/Bushwick Sections. We've been in our paid off, Brownstone in Bushwick for 54 years! We saw the change for the past 40 years, since your persuasion & GENERATION MOVED IN!! DONT GET IT TWISTED!

❤Brooklyn Heights & Cobble Hill Is Magnificent

❤Love Our Paid Off Brownstone In Bushwick, Brooklyn NY🍂🗽🍁🌆💞The Architecture In Parkslope, Borough Hall, Strivers Row, BedStuy Are Timeless & Classic!!

Jojo Lorenzo!!!!!!❤🎉

Do Flatbush next!!

Very educational! As a native Brooklynite, who grew up a *brick* building in Ocean Hill/Brownsville, my take on brownstones is that *they are so narrow* ! Yes, they're considered elite in 'hoods like Bk hts, Pk Slope, and Clinton Hills, but unless you inhabit the entire building, you're living in a horizontally *narrow* space! If you have the whole building, you have more *vertical* space, but it's still all *narrow* !!!

To the narrator: But are you really a New Yorker? Where were you born? Where did you grow up?

I would only add that Brooklyn History is the early history of this country. Stoop is a dutch word reflecting the layers of immigrants to the USA, even before it was the USA. To edit this rich history is to edit American history... leave the brownstone intact, leave the neighborhoods in tack.

Lived there 1954-1978

*Gentrification, gentrification, gentrification. It's always the same story...* 😮‍💨

The area above the steps aren’t called “porches”, but stoops. I think porches are usually enclosed.

That clicking sound is annoying! in what's supposed to be an informative video. Clicked out at 2:39 mark sorry babe

You Kansas corn huskers wouldn’t have not survived in Williamsburg back during the 60, 70 and 80s, especially when the Ching-a-lings and the Southside Brothers just a few gangs that called Williamsburg home. Street rumbles and fights were common.

These are not problems. NYC Gov needs to leave brownstones alone. If they are in historic districts, don't touch them. These brownstones went from rich to poor people and back to rich people. I see no problem with that. The rich were displaced by poor people. And now the poor people are displaced by rich people. It's a market cycle. I don't see why the City Gov should forcibly take down single family homes that give character to a neighborhood and put up huge low-income apartment buildings and overpopulate an area. This is what happened in the 50s and 60s and those apartment buildings and inhabitants destroyed neighborhoods throughout the city. From upper Manhattan to Brooklyn to the Bronx. This was evident in the 70s and 80s when NYC was rocked with crime and quality of life issues. You are seeing something similar today on a smaller scale with the influx of illegal immigrants and NYC taking over housing to house them. These areas are experiencing high crime and quality of life issues.

Nero Wolfe!

2:54 Harrison, I knew nothing about you until I started watching your awesome videos after KZbin brought me to your channel. Now I understand how your arms developed such an incredible vascular structure (veins). To be both an excellent basketball player and a software engineer at the same time is extremely impressive. I really enjoyed learning about the Brownstones of Brooklyn and how their color masked the environmental pollution around them and why they were raised above street level.

That’s Yiddish not Hebrew.

That’s not central air at 11:24.

4:50 improper use of the word gritty ( charmingly dilapidated). It had BECOME gritty maybe by the year 2000 BUT IN THE 70s and early 80s that zone was not “gritty”, it was a hell hole.

I just finished watching your video on the history of Brownstones, and I have to say-it was amazing! I loved how you broke down the history in a way that was so easy to follow but still packed with fascinating details. The visuals were spot-on, and I especially enjoyed the history of the quarry that supplied the stone materials. The connection with the stoops and what was going on with the maintenance of the streets and sidewalks at the time period of construction is interesting. It’s clear you put a lot of effort into this, and it really paid off. Thanks for teaching me something new and making it so enjoyable!

Sounds like he said “cut the eye”

Why the clicking noise as if using a remote to change pictures. Really bad production choice for an otherwise excellent video. Seriously distracting and very much ruined my experience of this work.

Good video. I grew up in B’klyn, nothin else is like those old brownstowns. I just wish you hadn’t used the word “iconic”.

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I live in a BedStuy brownstone. It’s beautiful but definitely has its flaws.

BS, we do not need to destroy history for more housing in the city. We need more jobs in the suburbs. We can build a strip mall with a thousand car parking lot, but not an office park???? BS

This video is like a game of 3 Truths And A Lie 😂😂😂😂