Everything Wrong w/ Billionaire's Row: A Tour feat. Samuel Stein

[@ologhai5750]

Unless it's a row for just one billionaire, the apostrophe goes after the "s".

[@OuterEastLLC]

good point.

[@luiszuluaga6575]

I used to work in the Steinway building for two years back in the early 2000s when it still housed the Steinway showroom and before it ultimately was butchered. It was awesome to be in such a beautifully detailed building.

[@SuperSawyerg]

This episode should get an award.

[@chrispeterson1247]

Yeah in the USSR or North Korea lol

[@stevielicks8262]

“There’s only so much land in a city like New York and especially on an island like Manhattan” doesn’t sound like a legitimate criticism of a supertall skyscraper with such a tiny footprint. Just come out and say that you’re jealous and your high school sweetheart left you for the rich kid.

[@chemicalfrankie1030]

This episode is trash. One ideologically driven perspective, no rebuttals. Stopped watching when the guy said skyscrapers are like single family homes… ok…

[@kyle857]

I couldn't even see them when they were talking in the park thanks to all of the shadows! /s

[@TheCronedoggy]

Yeah just two people whinging about buildings ​@@chemicalfrankie1030

[@jazrealpretty9383]

Love the history mixed with politics. Explaining the “dark side” and downsides of billionaires row.

[@mcultra57]

The downside of being rich is living in a bitching penthouse in Manhattan? How is that the "dark side" ?

[@RoaroftheTiger]

EMPTY Condos / Housing. That's what You get when a CITY decides to INCREASE It's TAX BASE by incouraging Multi-Million $$$ Condominiums. NOT to mention that such Residents can afford TAX Lawyers & Accountants to prevent them from paying the TAXES projected by the City ... Madness !

[@pinkyspiderr]

tom d is the man - got me reciting facts all over the mf city im loving it, keep it up!! been goin thru the catalogue heavy

[@howamilooking5952]

What a scummy world. Thanks for another reminder. "New York I love you, but you're bringing me down"

[@aldum14]

You mean scummy city.

[@jaydubb2636]

It's not the world, it's not the city. It's people. Greedy people. That can't see past their need to get more money. They suck

[@macginni]

nice LCD

[@rogerhayes1805]

Living in NYC is a love hate relationship....lo

[@Harry_16710]

used to love walking down 57th street; now I'm nervous something's gonna fall on me. Great video, Tom & Samuel👏👏

[@clifforddean232]

I'm 38 and it has been so long since New York looked beautiful, these high rises are eyesores imo.

[@thru_and_thru]

I'm the same age but only moved to NYC in 2010. I think this is around the time the eyesore constructions started going up.I worked down by the Barkley center in Brooklyn while it was being built. Everybody who lived around the neighborhood would comment on how this was gonna completely change the whole are...I guess they weren't wrong ha. Even downtown Brooklyn now had a nosebleed pencil tower.

[@mmhoss]

I was born and raised here and was enamored with them as a kid. Today I find the vast majority of them to be viciously ugly. I quite like 432 park though, it’s very understated compared to any other glass behemoth

[@J3unG]

These shits wouldn't pass on the West Coast. Check this out: Liberty Tower in SF was built badly and is FUCKING LEANING. People who bought condos in this building are FUKD. It was built on land that used to be marsh and the cunts didn't drive the building piles to bedrock so the shit is leaning. The next earthquake will knock down all the buildings built during the tech-bro in SF (2007-2020).

[@kyle857]

People said the same thing about the Empire State building. Only 432 is kind of ugly, and really it is just boring.

[@kyle857]

​@@thru_and_thru It's just that you were used to the buildings that were already there. The worst NYC buildings were built in the 70s and 80s.

[@mizzsparkle3421]

These buildings are such a blight on the skyline. Love all of your videos. I will have to catch you live one day!

[@anthonyboarman3833]

I agree.

[@tobene]

As a non New Yorker I don't get this one. Isn't New York THE city of skyscrapers?

[@largol33t1]

It's amazing how damn UGLY those buildings are. They're an eyesore.

[@richiekock8835]

The 'expert' doesn't want to be in the video (hilarious reluctant face). I love Billionaires Row. Best thing in NYC.

[@f8rox7l]

so cool to see your commitment to making content tom! don’t get discouraged by the low numbers, sometimes small and niche is where it’s at. loved the vid and keep it up!

[@keetahbrough]

I really appreciate your friends sober and factual approach.. to presenting evidence to support his ideas. i"m in agreeance. xo

[@alanharrison694]

Far from being a billionaire, I owned a condo in the 90s at a 34 story 58 W 58 St. The only super high rise was Carnegie Hall Towers. Now I see they are popping up all over the neighborhood, and places like the Steinway showroom are sadly gone. Moved overseas years ago and have not been back to NYC for 20-years, it is sad to see these monstrosities overtaking the neighborhood.

[@mon3ylounge]

Growing up is realizing how corrupt NYC actually is to this very day

[@3506Dodge]

Many other American cities are much more corrupt.

[@chrispeterson1247]

democrats derrr

[@mon3ylounge]

@@chrispeterson1247 it’s beyond democrat and republicans. It’s easy to just dump all problems on political parties but the truth is Democrats and Republicans are different but still the same

[@JNYC212]

My Dad told me this in the 80s and how much we are be extorted 🤬

[@JNYC212]

​@@chrispeterson1247Seriously 🙄

[@sharon-o7v]

The disparity between rich & poor in 2024 is disgusting

[@yvr2002rtw]

The poor should fight back by refusing to have kids.

[@Atrail_Mckinley4786]

​​@@yvr2002rtwIndeed. People have kids they can't afford which just increases child poverty and keeps familes stuck in poverty.

[@dalecooper9942]

So don't go to Dubai. It will make you even sadder

[@jackieb133]

Maybe not disgusting. More astounding than anything.

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@dalecooper9942 Racist has to bring up dubai

[@LockportDan]

Wonderful. Very informative. Brilliant guest. Thanks.

[@thru_and_thru]

Excellent video, really insightful. All New Yorkers should see this.

[@luiszuluaga6575]

Unfortunately for many of us we do! 🤣

[@johnmichaelreid]

Was soooo hoping this video ended with you two dressing up like doormen and sneaking up into a few of these buildings!😅

[@TheOnni1]

Such great content thanks for the info 🤘🏾

[@scottchambers2814]

Fantastic content Tom! A great mix of your humor and a topical subject with a subject matter expert in the field🤯 Viewer Valhalla for this sort of thing. Thank you for your work.

[@williampalmer8052]

It is so sad that NYC will be marred by these ugly buildings so far into the future, and that such a transient moment of real estate madness, a mere instant in the city's history, will have such a long-lasting deleterious effect. It is a pure act of vandalism. They truly are monuments to corruption, and until the time that they are carefully deconstructed to make room for less grotesque spaces, they will be reminders of how little the obscenely wealthy of our time value anything but their own bank accounts.

[@andres_wanders]

Great comment! Sadly true

[@gp7910]

Really ugly buildings that ruin a classic skyline

[@thru_and_thru]

Yes they are the ultimate symbols of greed.

[@arcticmonkey3]

It’s progress.

[@johnnyxmusic]

Corruption?

[@Dionysus_333]

VALUABLE CONTENT. Thank you for shedding light on this 7-fold problem

[@Jesse615]

Great episode! Like many NYrs, I know that section of Mid-Town very well. And for me, even if the bland garbage on 57th were affordable, I still wouldn't want to live there. That part of town is now, basically, just a large outdoor mall, with all the personality and charm that goes with it. There's a reason the Beaux-Arts and City Beautiful architecture is still with us, and not torn down.

[@dianeholtman3069]

And they don’t care if the outside of the building is ugly because we’re the ones who are looking at it, not them.

[@LibertyWines]

Great discussion with Professor Sam Stein ~ excellent review of post capitalism & its NYC real estate manifestations. Thanks Tom & crew!

[@RR-bd4bm]

This one's TOP, thanks to all three of you.

[@eduardodifarnecio2336]

Mr Stein is a true mensch, calling it like it is. Although the notion that working class New Yorkers could afford an apartment in Central Park South does stretch credulity.

[@ForestTekkenVideos]

10:49 literally there's spikes! I laughed! But then the dark realization came to me that it's to keep the homeless away and yeah that took away the laughter. Very good video

[@jamesbreen7406]

These buildings are indeed grotesque, but let’s not pretend that the housing crisis can be solved solely by building more “affordable housing”. 10,000 destitute migrants arrive in NYC every month, with no end in sight.

[@jackieb133]

Wouldn’t it be something if everyone, newly arriving or already here, had a decent place to live? Just a thought.

[@jniemec]

Paradoxically, people like Stein influencing policy is one of the primary reasons why we have this great wealth disparity.

[@rcmc7352]

This would have been more entertaining if they complained about them while inside one, cause honestly those views are worth it.

[@ride1123]

If they didn't want rich people moving into Brooklyn, Hov shouldn't have pushed it so hard. He made it sound so cool to so many young white rich future millionaires. Thank about it.

[@mikedrown2721]

Another humorous historical NYC video. Thanks Tom 👍

[@andres_wanders]

I would argue that none of those super tall buildings have any real architectural merit. Regardless of their deleterious symbolism, they're just plain ugly.

[@jan-cq5wv]

Not just ugly, but plain looking as hell!!!

[@WooBino.]

Steinway tower is beautiful.

[@jaredleemease]

Thank you Tom. Thank you Samuel. 🏜🕺🏻🐕🏖

[@DStuart-s1q]

Old Study: Depression increases as apartment floor heights increase. If you can't see human faces on the street from your flat--it's alienating. 5 floors up--that's perfect.

[@AL-lh2ht]

ah yes the famous unsourced study

[@MsTravelchanel]

I freaking love this format

[@nafnaf0]

7:24 billionaires' row is not an issue for the rest of the city. Having one area that has higher end housing, does not limit having lower end housing elsewhere. There are huge properties in the Hamptons, should those be high density too?

[@glamnefercent]

it's the family photo with all ur faces for me😂😂😂

[@dissidentfairy4264]

Always fascinating and informative! I ❤NYC.

[@FionaEm]

Great tour & interview with Sam. I can't believe developers were allowed to butcher such a picturesque neighbourhood with those monstrosities ... but then again, I can. We have a similar problem here in Australia, albeit not to the same extreme. Let's hope Sam is right about "late stage" capitalism, and we move back to something more sustainable!

[@aashishkulkarni2332]

This is the first video of yours that i watched... Loved the video very informative ...subscribed Also if you can tell which app or software you use for editing your videos?

[@Atombender]

220 Central Park West is the limestone building in the foreground at 14:55, it actually fits the NYC skyline and has no structural issues. Kenneth Griffin bought the duplex penthouse and it wasn't even on the market.

[@Narry121]

The last point is the important part. Not the new building destroyed these rent stabilised apartments, that were the developers, investors, buyers and the city officials that made it possible. So just people. And you can hold people accountable, especially these that want to be reelected. Other point. In my hometown apartment towers must have 30% rent stabilised units on site to be allowed to be built. And that didn’t stop new developments.

[@markhualda7488]

I hope this goes viral

[@Tenzin819]

It was nice bumping into you in Woodside this afternoon

[@123batina]

110 billionares in NYC? Im soooo jealous. If only my city had millions struggling for food and shelter and several hundreds of billionaires. We would be so fancy.

[@ioanaionescu8036]

please make more informative videos like this abt NYC today, not only its history ❤

[@jakez1930]

That piece of shyst is one of my favorite in all of Central Park, almost got lazy and abbreviated Central Park but didn't want to end up on a watch list. LA Chaim! 🎉

[@jakez1930]

*COMEDY*

[@J3unG]

@@jakez1930 TRAVESTY also.

[@eugenedimitrov]

That was so informative and so sick tour!!! Really worth Oscar or Emmy awards

[@weizenobstmusli8232]

I don't get the idea of super large appartements. How much space do you need? Hor many bedrooms?

[@renardramonfoxx]

this is mine most favorite video by far and I've been watching your videos for about 5 years now

[@karlee3095]

Thanks for the tour and info. Disgusting that these buildings were allowed to be built and the owners don't pay property taxes.

[@Tchild2]

I have never understood why the super wealthy would buy these boxes in the sky, with the newer, usually sub-par materials and construction; leaks, noises, elevator issues, etc etc, as opposed to buying a beautiful townhome style with construction style that has lasted the decades.

[@scottallen8950]

for some, it's the maintenance. With a townhouse, you're responsible for maintaining the building just like a residential house....also these buildings have great amenities....pools, gyms, saunas, etc. And also service, especially if you're not here often. It's nice to know your packages will be waiting for you.

[@AL-lh2ht]

buddy they own both.

[@johnfriel-uj2zs]

Scared To Go In One Of Those Buildings.😊 They Look Like Would Fall Apart.😊 Outstanding Video As Usual 😊❤😅😅

[@ScottStentenFilms]

amazing!!! this is the best video i have ever seen!!!

[@samrubinoff]

Great one Tom!

[@ScoutEboy]

Looks amazing.

[@maiadonahue6788]

Requested the book from the NYPL - very excited to read!

[@huntingtonparkway]

I really want to see inside of one apartment in each building. Can you make that happen

[@pinkyspiderr]

ive been inside several units all over up and down this street, theyre all hotel-like, highly curated, spotless, vapid, soulless apartments but with incredible views. vertigo accompanying. picture a lot of venetian plaster, white appliances, big windows, and plush furniture. fancy? yes, but far from the coolest or most tricked out places. very boring and formatted predictably. rich, useless, idea-less, a$$holes.

[@majix123]

there are a few videos from realtors who promote some of the units in these particular buildings

[@ypey1]

Enez Yilmazer or Arvin Haddad if you want a realistic view

[@enricorizzi15]

FROM EUROPE: WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT IN THE U.S. OUR GRAND-GRAND-GRAND-GRANDCHILDREN COULD STILL FREELY SPEAK ABOUT "LATE CAPITALISM" AND "SOCIALISM" IN THE "LATE STAGES OF CAPITALISM". THANKS. THE DECADENCE IS HERE (TO STAY)

[@reecesidequest]

my gf is writing a sci-fi novel and took inspo from these buildings for part of a dystopian city-planet setting

[@5naf6]

like literally any contemporary dystopian novel ever

[@kyle857]

So she's ripping off blade runner and star wars?

[@robyn7862]

Everything is wrong with billionaires in general....great video Tim...thank you

[@Robertegan]

NIce job. I like the give and take between you and Samuel about the Billianarie Toys Club. "The New York Times ~ The Daily News," as Billy Joel would say.

[@whatsinyourkitchendona]

very informative, thank you again

[@antonioduverge3558]

I don’t see the problem with that, do you know how many would like their city look like that, I wouldn’t buy even if I had the money but a lot of people have reasons to buy in those places.

[@chwistofa]

nah thesetowers are awe inspiring; ground breaking architecture and engineering

[@animaginaryboy_]

Awesome vid! You guys are the schist!

[@markboden4592]

The Tom 'family' on the real estate sign in the yard.😅

[@Oliveras1943]

These days I only talk to my echo and my echo talks to me.

[@marblox9300]

Housing should not be an investment - it should be a place where people actually live. All housing should be Owner Occupied by law.

[@Prolute]

Idiotic idea. Plenty of people don't want the liabilities of home ownership and would rather have their money invested in something other than real estate.

[@marblox9300]

@@Prolute As if the way it is now is working. What a DumBass Comment.

[@Prolute]

@@marblox9300 It's working a lot better than what you're suggesting. What actually needs to be done is loosening of zoning laws so that we get less single family suburbs and more mixed use, multi-family developments.

[@PhillipRPeck]

@@Prolute I think he means that if you own it you should live in it, not that everyone should have to own. Basically, not buying housing as an investment property

[@Prolute]

@@PhillipRPeck So you'd have to shack up with an owner if you weren't an owner yourself. It's a stupid idea with no thought put into it. The fact of the matter is that there will always be a market for renters and it's not right to deny someone the ability to rent a house or apartment.

[@elihyland4781]

Sam Stein is cool as hell

[@ioanaionescu8036]

i love this video and the humour in it

[@QuickFinishPR]

Saludos desde Puerto Rico Tom!!

[@chrisjackowski591]

Tom, why haven’t you had a recent collab with Sarah? Miss your collab with her. In another note, well done Tom. This is a positive, inspiring, as well as informative content that I’ve watched from a New York KZbinr. Cash Jordan on the other hand, he has a predicament about nyc.

[@MAA-hu3do]

Tom looks like he actually took a shower for a change.

[@David-v2t8h]

I live in the Mohawk Valley, between Albany and Syracuse. Haven’t been to New York City in fifteen years. I love the historic architecture of Soho, Union Square, Cooper Union, etc…..yet the more I see stuff like this…..the less I miss going to NYC. Sad.

[@thru_and_thru]

I feel ya. Living in Dutchess county, still go down there every few months. It's bitter sweet. In one way I enjoy the energy of Manhattan but also it is a very different vibe. It's gone so far beyond gentrification that everywhere is starting to look like Soho or 5th avenue...all the neighborhoods are blending in to one.

[@txsphere]

Here in San Diego we have a similar problem. Not as tall and expensive but the only thing built is luxury. If it bothers you that much maybe it is time to start voting for politicians that will do something rather than saying vote blue no matter who. It is your fault, change or suck it up.

[@w.robertjohnson558]

Excellent!

[@J3unG]

This shit here is the kind of stuff you should be doing, bro. You can do tour and walk but having a progressive guy like this is SORELY NEEDED for the walking tours. Keep going on this, bro. Maybe you can do walks with progressives and talk about NYC or something like that. In any case, tie it so some social justice issue. Keep going with this trend.

[@carlosanilber]

Great video!

[@jerrytwolanes4659]

More Pat! If not for Pat I would not have subbed. I'm pro Pat! Vote Pat! Pat 2024!

[@ChrisGaun]

Dude is against tall buildings in Manhattan. Strange world

[@Bobrogers99]

Some cities have protected their historic centers by limiting the scale of new construction and building their skyscrapers in their own zone. Sadly, NYC has chosen to replace the mix of housing, offices and shops in lower Manhattan with these monuments to ego.

[@AL-lh2ht]

You are not following contruction projects there that closely are you?

[@JT-wn7wb]

Good one Tom! how $ rolls in the city.

[@Emilya-A]

Is this where the TEMU building is?

[@wapartist]

Looking classy with that businessman hair cut brother.

[@ThrowBackZone]

$240 million for an apartment?! If that’s not a blatant flaunt of inequality, I don’t know what is.

[@J3unG]

It's an investment. Probably by Saudis, Russkie oligarchs or Chinese businessmen. WTF. NYC for sale, bro. Probably some Zionist selling it.

[@andrasszerencses]

I was at the very same spot this very morning eating my breakfast lol.

[@JNYC212]

What I saw happening in the early 2000 when working on 67 btw 2nd & 3rd Ave. I could see all the change in construction, the men walking around looking at real estate and the energy and vibe of the city shifting. Native are scrambling for their live and these Politicians are scratching their asses while this BS is playing out. Thanks for pointing it out again as it should be.

[@landocalrisian2014]

I wanna see the next King Kong and Godzilla movie destroying these eye sores in an epic battle. Make that movie 😜

[@sambaxrock]

SO SO GOOD. More videos like this! 🍉 🌈

[@tudofett]

The people signing your pay check do not equate to an equitable economic development paradigm? How will you two clean their toilets if they don't have a property with said dirty toilet for you two to clean?

[@Potato5115]

J.Lo & A-Rod?? When was this video made?

[@nadia-i1l5h]

I actually like the slip up, sick of hearing about her rotation of husbands . Ben , her latest crutch or look at me/us storyline is a goner as well. Cue in the next

[@KellyRussell-jg8ti]

It’s almost like saying they keep building mansions in Beverly Hills and not building enough public housing for us poor folks.

[@edwardhamm5535]

It was not the trashcan it was I. M. Pei's Society Towers in Philadelphia. Robert Vinoly, the architect, used those towers as a model but made it much better. The big square windows are perfect. It is an efficient use of space and affordable housing is still available if a 4 car garage and a dock is necessary buy a House in the suburbs. Thats what I did.

[@ronaldcarlson8572]

Inspired by the trash can, that pretty much says it all. Reminds me of the Gilded Age and the days of the robber barons. America has a very wide gap between the rich and the poor and it seems to have widened thanks to Reaganomics and other factors.

[@gridley]

FWIW, in 2020, Wall Street gave much more $$ to the campaign of Joe Biden than the campaign of Donald Trump

[@briansieve]

I hate wealth equality. Always. But at least the Gilded Age built beautiful buildings. These are horrible.

[@ronaldcarlson8572]

@@briansieve I agree!

[@AbimaelLopez-hz3qq]

@@ronaldcarlson8572there was expensive stores in manhattan but most of them are closed and now People will live in empty buildings

[@ioio5993]

The "Greater Fool" theory, where you expect to sell your PoS to a larger fool than yourself for a lot more than what you paid for the PoS in the first place.

[@AL-lh2ht]

dude you have no idea how realestate is valuable.

[@ArtFreeman]

There are Queens and Brooklyn which is on Long Island.