A Tour of New York's World Trade Center & 9/11 Memorial

[@mikedrown2721]

Hey Tom, I visited the south tower in 1979 at night and what a view. Thanks 👍👏😊♥️🇺🇸

[@ThecrazyJH96]

Went there a few years ago, seeing tourists With selfie ticks taking selfies at the 9/11 memorial pools was crazyyy

[@dj3t220]

i went there about 6 month ago, it was the exact same scenario .... I took some pictures of the buildings for a presentation i had to do for school, but seeing peaple with that much disrespect horrified me

[@tiamarrow6366]

It’s honestly very disrespectful…..I mean I get it, it’s a memorial but it’s not something to have fun with, it’s very serious and somber. My dad was one if the first responders with Rikers Island during that day, and he has only visited once……it disgusted him to see tourists taking selfies there.

[@dj3t220]

@@tiamarrow6366 And there are so many fucking place to take selfie in new york ... Can't peaple just be respectful in ONE place ??? A memeber of my family was in the first tower survived by a miracle, its still one of the biggest trauma of his life. Seing this must make feel him sick ... (its a suposition because we lost contact with him, he was so traumatized that he left without a msessage or smth ....)

[@JayJayFromAZ]

Saw the same. Incredible how people are disrespectful.

[@saskiapanter]

I would take pictures of the memorial sight, but no selfies. It's not a fun place, it's a place to contemplate...to remember

[@sadproductions2249]

Your sense of humor is gold love how respectful you are about the location your filming at but the humor helps lighten the mood aswell 🙏

[@jazrealpretty9383]

Never disappointed in a new upload! And the comic relief was much needed for a video on this topic. Thank you.

[@evandermajor7183]

I didn't know about Radio Row, informative as always!

[@annek1226]

I was at work when it happened. I along with a coworker had stood in the towers about six months prior. It broke my heart. I cried every year when they would do memorial programs about it.

[@gregoryphi]

well done, hilarious, educational and entertaining as always. sick plug

[@patriciaperkins4252]

I lost a good friend in that disaster. And, my family was very close for a time to the Tishman team, which built the first and the most recent iteration of the World Trade Center. Great review of the site. Thank you.

[@tiffprendergast]

So sorry

[@elizabethmarielunacordoba9956]

That's so sad I am so sorry 😔😐. It pisses me off that many people died. That day 😢

[@alanharrison694]

And I love all your videos, Tom. I have traveled all over the world, and NYC has always been my favorite.

[@paultarantino8862]

Great tour, Tom...this one really means a lot for all the obvious reasons. Thanks for all your hard word!

[@mitchelljarmellmiller6102]

Your videos are always so informative, entertaining and even funny. As you say, they pack a lot into them.

[@3xl255]

Another great video Tom. Can I recommend the film made on the day by two french brothers who happened to be making a documentary on a NYC fire station. Stunning and harrowing.

[@CSDonohue11]

I’m sure He’s seen it. Anyone over 13 has seen it Loose Change is much better Even Fahrenheit 911

[@AuroraDaPwna]

Well, shit, i haven't seen it 🙃😅 What's it called???? 👀

[@gerardorocha247]

@@AuroraDaPwna Its called 9/11 made by Jules Naudet and Gédéon Naudet. It’s free to watch here on KZbin. Just search up: 9/11 Naudet brothers.

[@rachmunshine9474]

@@gerardorocha247 I think they might be the only ones that got footage of the first plane hitting the first tower.

[@2TalentedCats]

This is a great video to remind us again about an event that should not be allowed to fade away. Personally, it reminded me of my long days of work coverage from that day in 2001, thank you!

[@barbaramelville6320]

Never forget 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@justcurious3514]

Thanks for all your hard work making this video. I know I say it a lot but I learn from every single one of your videos AND laugh the whole time. You rock!

[@joannelind6682]

Love your light hearted comedy. Appreciate that it breaks up the otherwise seriousness. Very informative and well produced video Thank you

[@cynterslave]

So glad you referred to it as One World Trade Center. I still hear realtors and some content creators call it the Freedom Tower, which it hasn’t been since the Port Authority officially changed it in 2009!

[@StephenCarrIsBald]

Alright mate it’s not that deep

[@AugustReversal]

What an easy decision to sub, you're so entertaining! Can't wait to visit the WTC again, was last there in 2011.

[@naysayer1238]

4:29 Down the street to the left of the guy, the one with the two green cupolas, that was the tallest office building in the world from 1899 to 1908.

[@stephenbacks3100]

My late wife and I Took a picture under The Sphere in 1999, while we were dating. We wondered what had happened to it, and saw it in a temporary memorial in Battery Park. We both loved that sculpture. Sadly, she passed away 4 years ago from cancer, but I have brought our sons to see the current location. That sculpture is something of a metaphor for us, but we still love it.

[@tomdnyc1]

Hey Stephen. Thanks for sharing. I'm sorry to hear about your wife.

[@toyaliens]

So sorry to hear

[@tamedshrew235]

I grew up in Conn and would go into the City every chance i could get. I remember when Phillipe Petit walked between the Towers and shortly after saw him doing a street show in the West Village. NY was so much fun back in those days ( drinking age was 18) and cheap enough to have fun in. Really enjoy your vids Tom, cannot believe your encyclopedic knowledge of history and lore.

[@mjaybash26]

Great job Tom D! Very educational and informative and love the humor you add as always.

[@111Phoenix777]

Very interesting, funny, and informative video. Thank you very much for posting this.

[@nicolefrances.c]

Tell my old coworkers I said hello 🥺🥺 I used to work at the museum & memorial. I miss them.

[@jwrarmstrong]

Tough topic. Well handled. Congrats Tom, job well done.

[@MrHubbmuscle]

TY for the tour. I’ve never been there but I was there the day they came down across the river in NJ. It was overwhelming just overwhelming

[@AcydDrop]

I was just wee when 9/11 happened I remember the teachers looking kind of concerned and upset. My mam told me about it later when i got home from school. I remember the story of that crazy lady who lied about being in the tower that day and it somehow became a really huge story.

[@Ray__E]

My family and I visited New York last year for the first time. We had a great time. We took the PATH to the World Trade Center and were amazed by the Oculus. It's a gorgeous building. We went to the memorial pools and it was definitely an emotional experience. Standing on the ground that so many people tragically died was a very sobering experience. Thanks Tom for these videos. Your knowledge on so many topics concerning NY is next level

[@saskiapanter]

Very interesting video Tom. I know exactly where I was, also on almost the top floor of a fairly high building at work, I can still point out exactly where I was. A coworker came in to tell us. He was the company clown, so we were all waiting for the punchline....which afcourse never came. Such a horrible day, I'll never forget it. I was SO scared, you have no idea. Living alone didn't help....

[@yutubetom]

I grew up in the lower east side in the 60s and 70s. Lower Manhattan (the Wall St area) was a ghost town on the weekends back then. It was not as residential as it is today, so the working folk were home elsewhere and there were zero tourists.

[@joelfrombethlehem]

Very well done, Tom. On August 28th, 2001, we played tourists and were on the South Tower's observation floor and on the rooftop walkway. Two weeks later...

[@gladys6100]

THE MORNING OF THE TRAGEDY, I WAS ON MY WAY TO WORK(THE DAYCARE WHERE I TAUGHT WAS NOT FAR FROM THE AREA)..I CHOSE TO WALK THAT MORNING, AND I'M NEVER GOING TO FORGET THE SOUND OF THE 2ND PLANE COMING AND HITTING THE 2ND TOWER!!...SO NOT ONLY AM I AFRAID OF "LOW FLYING" PLANES, LIKE THE SOUND LITERALLY MAKES ME JUMP, BUT JUST TO HAVE THAT "SIGHT AND SOUND" ENGRAVED IN MY MIND, FOREVER SUCKS!!!...I HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE "NEW AREA" SINCE THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED...I MISS THE ORIGINAL TOWERS, WOULD HANG OUT THERE ALMOST ALL MY WEEKENDS, AS A TEEN...THIS VIDEO IS MY "FIRST" VISIT TO THE AREA...MAYBE ONE OF THESE DAYS I'LL WORK UP THE COURAGE TO GO VISIT IN PERSON.🙂

[@EphemeralProductions]

I'm glad that you did this video, everything aside. People seem to tend to forget about 9/11 and how things went down with it, and how things were in the country soon after! we need to be reminded.

[@amandaeubanks7093]

Lord I could never forget.

[@xoxjohanna]

And all the innocent people in the middle east that were killed by the US govt after that

[@poppitpop]

People forget about tragedies real soon.

[@msfox103able]

I don't. I was in third grade and I saw it happen before getting on the bus. I probably didn't understand what was happening but I knew it was bad. 3000 people dead anyone that gets caught for having something to do with the attack even people who work for the government. The families that lost someone on 9/11 should decide their fate.

[@msfox103able]

​@@poppitpop Unfortunately you are correct. They should show respect and honor the memory not turn it into a photo shoot.

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Thank you for sharing your tours in New York. I still have not come to see the new World Trade Center area. I use to live in New York in the 1970s and I would walk around the old two World Trade Center 1 & 2. And there were the other buildings surrounding the area.

[@tiamarrow6366]

My dad was a Rikers Correctional Officer at the time, (worked there from when my older sister was born, to when I started middle school) and was one of the first responders. According to him and my mom….I was 2 years old, and at my grandma’s house when it happened, my mom was at work at a local university in our area (she used to work at the WTC) and my sister was in college. There was no way in or out of the city when it happened, it was completely chaotic and by time my dad made it back home….it was like 1:00 in the morning. He was actually given a book filled with aerial pictures of the damage, as well as the attack as it happened. He still has that book to this day, and I refuse to read it. Every year in school whenever 9/11 would fall on a school day, when I was in history class….my teachers would play a video pf the attacks, and I had to leave the room because of how traumatic it was for me. Although my dad survived, he does have a few health issues. I’ve only been to the memorial once on a school trip back during my senior year of high school and my dad’s picture was actually there…..he actually still has that picture in his phone. It’s heartbreaking that the museum closed, so I’m hoping it will open again in the near future.

[@alexibarra3472]

The museum closed? When? I was just there last year in Feb

[@CSDonohue11]

👎

[@tiamarrow6366]

@@alexibarra3472 yeah it closed I believe in August or early September like right before 9/11. The memorial itself is still opened to the public, but the museum I guess didn’t have enough funds due to the pandemic so it closed down.

[@tiamarrow6366]

@@CSDonohue11 ????

[@alexibarra3472]

@@tiamarrow6366 that’s sad... some places like that should never be closed.. there has to be something the city can do.

[@armandobarbarek]

I went to the top when I was 11 back in '88. I was visiting my cousins, aunt, and uncle and they took me to all the hotspots. I interviewed my uncle a while back and he brought up the story of where he was on 9/11, I had no idea how close he was. He was far enough away but he just came into Manhatten from Queens. I could tell it bothered him greatly. Another great video, Tom, peace out!

[@keithgreen1096]

Excellent, respectful, informative introduction and tour. I do wish you'd included St. Paul's Chapel, in part because of the role that it played for those who worked to rescue work and the removal of rubble.

[@alanharrison694]

My ex and I were on the first Path Train to be rerouted to midtown, after the first plan hit. She worked directly across the street, on Liberty St, and I had several clients in the neighborhood to visit. Very sad, and introspective day.

[@geetamoonesar249]

Hello Tom and fellow viewers. Happy new year everyone.

[@dylangilbert13]

Great video Tom. you’re the man

[@Drew791]

There’s a great video on how they clean the memorial (reflective pools and metal name carvings) every night. It’s unbelievable how disrespectful people are; throwing garbage into the water and scratching inappropriate things into the metal right next to survivors’ names. It’s depressing knowing that in another 100 years there will be absolutely nobody who lived through it and it won’t seem real to any future citizens, despite all the film and photographic archive footage of the event.

[@richardmorris7063]

I was driving back from Florida the day before, was looking @ the trade ctr 24 hrs before the first plane.

[@tosapornrojsuwanishakorn3183]

thanks for the update

[@victorsamsung2921]

I think St. Nicholas Church is open for visit as well.

[@kimmie7263]

Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Yea, the Oculus retractable skylight doesn't open. Santiago Calatrava Valls ... 0:36 AT&T Long Line Building (33 Thomas St.) behind Tom Henry Morgan, a.k.a. Henry Lerner von Ost Jr., humorist, along with Jane Jacob was against razing the businesses for the WTC site. Don't have a clue why I know that.

[@cjc2]

Great video Tom. I used to work down there many years ago. By the way, they filmed the final scene of King Kong at the WTC (1976)

[@LorenIpsum75]

I was there! Director Dino deLaurentiis in a cherry picker with his bullhorn! Only in New York, kids. 🤣

[@markharty9772]

I am sooooooo in love with this man,

[@joseollero3788]

Po que no hacen las torres gemelas otra vez?

[@Mrbeahz1]

After your tallest building question, was the Long Island Duck, out by the Hamptons, one of the choices?

[@Alex-fx5es]

Hahaha yeah, that's Big Duck in Flanders Long Island 🦆 Big Duck is the correct answer! 😄

[@samanthab1923]

Always remember the smelly Big Duck as kids driving out to my grandparents in Springs. 1960’s the LIE wasn’t finished. Had to take Sunrise to Montauk Highway. Glad they restored it.

[@shannono8397]

living in Hawaii, on 9/11 the call came early from a mainland friend. She warned me of the news. I vividly recal the lack of air traffic in the islands being a distant connection of what tragic events had happened. It was a very eerie silence felt in the Mid Pacific.

[@MONET8iAM]

I call the Oculus the Transformer lol, because it looks like it could jump out of the ground or open up or something

[@rexlex1736]

It's a good thing the tightrope walker didn't step on a banana peel while crossing.

[@LuciePohl1]

Amazing! My life is complete! ❤

[@landocalrisian2014]

Finally caught you on a recent tour 🎉🎉

[@michaelmcnally1242]

Hi Tom. An interesting part of the back story is that the lower west side docks were a wreck, but due to encroaching containerization of shipping there was no future for them, even though NY city government held out hope, mostly in a vain attempt to frustrate the Port Authority which was building out the new Newark and Elizabeth port facilities. So the trade center eventually happened atop what used to be the 19th century busy Manhattan waterfront on the Hudson.

[@meghancomo96]

1776 is when the 13 colonies (aka United States) declared their independence from England. Amazing that they incorporated that symbolism into the new WTC by making its height 1,776 feet. (Just in case anyone missed that).

[@eliskagray1546]

I remember I was sleeping and my brother woke me up and told a plane hit the tower. I first thought it was a small plane but we know the rest is history. The rest of the day was kind of a blur. Was working that day too. I was working cleaning in my local steel mill Dofasco. I think everyone was kind of shocked and in disbelief. Never forget9/11🙏

[@collextoys]

I loved that movie (THE WALK} and (man on wire) was really good to.

[@MamaCarola1]

I used to go there in the 90s for seminars on world trade & also US Customs over in 5 World Trade. I knew a man who actually worked for the Port Authority at 1WTC & he was there both times. Luckily he survived. Dark days in the city. It's a shame that the 9/11 museum closed because of funding issues.

[@digitalboxemma6734]

The museum Is still there?

[@MamaCarola1]

@@digitalboxemma6734 no it has permanently closed unfortunately

[@Marina-nn4md]

nope. it's. a lesser known 9/11 tribute museum that closed permanently due to the pandemic@@MamaCarola1. the oficial 9/11 Memorial Museum located underneath the memorial pools, where the foundation of the towers once stood is still open

[@StephenCarrIsBald]

@@MamaCarola1lol why are you lying? I literally visited yesterday

[@billmakky6642]

Missed a plug. The Fireman’s Memorial was cast at Bedi-Makky Art Foundry

[@tomdnyc1]

Hey Bill! Nice. Of course it was - all the best sculptures are!

[@MurraySheer]

Hey Tom, where were you on the day of the attacks?

[@1474JOHN]

The walk, is the name of the movie of the guy who walk the twins towers, is really a good movie

[@thru_and_thru]

Yeah it ain't bad but the documentary 'Man on wire' which inspired the movie is a real masterpiece.

[@1474JOHN]

@@thru_and_thru oh really, well thanks for the info, I'm going to check it out

[@Jim_me]

Nice video. Now I want to know the name of Eric's elementary school.

[@jackdaniels2905]

You're a funny guy. I really like your b-roll shots.

[@MrShaclakclak]

Thanks, Tom!!! I'm here for the trip, not the ride. Keep doing you, love NY

[@NondoPondo]

What became of building 7? Thanks.

[@usatourpros]

WTC 7 was the first building rebuilt (with a new design) and opened in May 2006.

[@AUTOPSY666]

Parts of the 2 towers fell on it and started fires that burned it down.

[@inkypink100]

I almost fainted seeing the tightrope pic.

[@carriehenry6721]

Alot of people never even visited the towers..I was in elementary school..as classmates Dad worked for the port authority..was on observation deck never forget it plus the lunch they gave us.... 🍀🐱

[@neilvictor8598]

i touched the screen

[@LancesLens]

I was on tour with a band called Stereomud and we had a day off in Minneapolis at a hotel next to the airport. Woke up and turned on the news as one of the NYC based band members knocked on the door. All day watching the news channels and the lack of air traffic at the airport which was busy with arrivals and departures the night before...

[@CSDonohue11]

🤣 Bro .., I lmao so gd hard in this 1 multiple times But especially the dead kids painting 😂

[@justcurious3514]

Me too. And at Anne Frank being a patron 😄

[@aaronx8006]

I was in high school on 84 st walked to 59st on the east side because we heard that the train on that side was working but it wasn’t ended up walking all the way to the Bronx

[@doriwiljt]

Love your videos.

[@sjmazzoli]

awesome tom..you are doing great things... ...nyc is amazing...it takes a hearty soul to do what you do...i enjoy what goes on in the background while you are 'splaining stuff....it is better to enjoy life then to destroy stuff...ok i am going to watch your video now..thanks again...when my yacht come in i'll leave bakshish no doubt...meanwhile...carry on...

[@hungbearlover]

I got up the old World Trade tower3 times . Was there the the first January after the event. There was stuff floating out of windows nearby and one huge Stars and Stripes flag over one office building adjacent to the site.

[@Jpkjr52]

Informative Thanks again John In Chicago

[@travelchic908]

Anyone who throws in an early Simpsons reference earns my respect (and a sub!) Interesting history about the area before the World Trade Center was built. Didn't know so many people were against it.

[@oritoab3069]

as a spanish guy, hearing u say "calatrava te la clava" made me spit my coffee hahaha

[@rodserling6955]

I remember when they started bldg the towers..they were awesome!Seen Mr Petite in tomkins sq park doing his tricks...i took alot of people to the world trade ctr to the top!Went their for a job in the Port Authority at the trade Center...i still cant believe they are gone?

[@Bernhard2024]

This was the first video I ever watched by yours. It seems, you´re a very nice man. I always dreamt to travel New York, but I never did. When I was little my older sister and I hab a huge wallpaper about Manhattan Skyline in our childensroom. I was so fascinated by all the skyscrappers. But next year I turn 50 and I want to fulfil my childhood dream to travel my beloved USA. But I`m not sure if I should go to Dallas or New York. And I hope my English is good enough. Sometimes I`m afraid to speak, because I`m afraid to make mistakes and make a fool about myself. My native laguage is German. I`m Austrian. But it was really a great experience to watch a video made by you. With all the humor and information. Great job!

[@alexandraweyer4715]

My grandmother had to go downtown to visit my grandfather while he was having hesrt surgery and recovery. She would stop by and watch them build the towers. She couldn't believe something could be that big. She was alive when they fell 6 months after the death of my grandfather.

[@GlobalAdventurer]

I'll be visiting there for the first time in about 6 months. That's my main reason on going to NYC.

[@AUTOPSY666]

Soon

[@johnebuckland]

Thanks Tom.

[@TerrileeYO]

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME

[@CityCinderella]

My work hood! Ty!

[@jenn8165]

A book is a meme thats 60,000 words long 😂😂😂

[@angelaeaves9686]

Hey Tom! Noticed you had a New Zealand cap on. (I’m a NYer but have friends that just visited us from there. We took them to the WTC. They were impressed.) I look forward to when you say crud and you didn’t this time. 😑 still love ya.

[@heraldofdisaster3322]

I suggest you do an interview with the Rockefeller family about this attack, if you can.

[@nalantunc2011]

We love you 🙏❤️❤️🙏

[@ArtFreeman]

I lived in New jersey but worked in a building in Wall Street. At that time there was just a big hole in the ground

[@Christiangrey999]

Where were you during 9/11 Tom? Highschool?

[@paulmcdonough1093]

Great vid tom

[@hairybeefman]

Did he just say "Ma-hadon" rather than Manhatan? 😂😂

[@richier5746]

I was in the house I grew up in, watching the Terminator when it happened.

[@forealpat397]

Nice tour.

[@2002yannick1]

best jokes yet

[@EphemeralProductions]

15:51! damn dude! sudden Darkness thrown in! LOL

[@caraOB]

Great job! Said by a native NYer.

[@josephmichael4766]

I worked for almost 9 years at 200 vesey. I highly recommend Nassau bar next time youre in the neighborhood.

[@ardesyvonne9406]

This is the first video I have seen on your channel and my jaw is almost dropping at how I an smiling, letting out a giggle, and rewinding to hear your comedic relief while watching such a serious subject as 911. I hope you know how good you are! God bless the victims and their families. Thank you for the positivity. I remember the day this happened and I was devastated. Changed my life🙏