The Birth of NYC: On a Fireboat w/ Author Russell Shorto

Tom Delgado takes you on a boat trip through New York Harbor, talking about the history of New Amsterdam and interviewing author Russell Shorto. They talk about Peter Stuyvesant, New York City, and what makes the city special. Shot by Eric Thirteen.
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[@tomdnyc1]

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[@sgtleobella]

Thank you for not doing endorsements. I found your channel while researching my upcoming trip to New York. There are a couple of other channels I watched a few videos on, but yours stood apart partly because you don't do endorsements. On one channel, the KZbinr was talking about places to stay in NYC and the bulk of the video was about AirBnB. At the end of that segment, the person was like, 'use this code for $40 off' and I was upset with myself for essentially watching a 5 minute ad haha

[@howdieall]

T.HANKS #TERMINALLIST🤔

[@Evenstar213]

Once in NYC, my wife and I hit the NYC museum, and get to learn about the town creation. The museum was utterly empty though, which is bummer. Thank you for bringing the topic up. Cheers mate

[@aydinoglu5301]

When I walk down the streets of new york, all the diversities and everything. Wonderful thing kinda bathe in that. 👌 Russel Shorto

[@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239]

Wonderfully tremendous. You two's energies complement each other perfectly!! 🚢

[@donallogue7565]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@SusannahPerri]

"Animals are friends, not food," I love it, thank you Eric!! ❤

[@dk3062]

Friends AND food.

[@portlandsamber]

💚🐖 🐄 🌳 🐔 🐕 🐱💚

[@donallogue7565]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Cool being on a boat and going past landmarks . . . creates perspective and admiration for achievement.

[@mikedrown2721]

👍👏😊 Thanks Tom

[@Mrbeahz1]

At 5:44, a very significant statement: "The immigrants think this is America - it's not, it's New York".

[@timothymacdonnell9079]

Tom is awesome. Great interview. I learned a lot.

[@D.N..]

I really enjoy your videos, ! You provide a lot of great historical information !

[@raycrou8837]

This trimmed beard is🔥🔥🔥

[@KozakSports]

Brilliant!!!!

[@joolsca]

When people around the world romanticize america, they're really talking about New York....there is so much rotten in america but new York is undeniably a great city.

[@vincentgoupil180]

LOL

[@mariowalker9048]

Lol tons of people dream of the American dream in the suburbs

[@joolsca]

@@mariowalker9048 the "american dream" lol

[@pittsburghliving412]

Excellent! 🙌

[@jamesstark8316]

Great book. Read it twice.

[@gibranward6945]

Great information 👍🏿

[@eugenedimitrov]

Wow!That was another sick tour and awesome video as well!

[@namret12]

Great info! Thanks!

[@eugenedimitrov]

Hey Tom! Hanging out with ya ,man !!!Pretty cool!!!

[@travisangelini1347]

love it!!!!

[@andrasszerencses]

this was really a great video, lovely interview, left alone at the end lmao speechless

[@william2036]

Eric great dietary information for everyone

[@dogradsky]

This is so tight

[@sandra4395]

I am thoroughly enjoying your interviews; they are so interesting. Thanks for taking the time... :o)

[@BrianKliewer]

"I'm pretty....cultured" Lol I thought you were going to stop there.

[@simon7762]

Oh I read his book, and mainly because of you Tom!

[@TXMEDRGR]

Eric is a KZbin genius.

[@py2007]

Fascinating stuff. Well done!

[@petrmiskerik]

As always, awesome video guys.

[@SusannahPerri]

Another great video, Tom! I've shared this one with my California friends of Dutch descent!

[@sallyannkelly9887]

Hey Tom, I saw you on Flatbush misdemeanor. sick plug

[@LuciePohl1]

More like: The Birth of Cool With Tommy D!

[@constance480]

Tom, another great video. They keep getting better and better!!! Bravo👏👏👏

[@alankovacs7636]

I will read this book, thank you so much. I just visited NYC but was not able to see you in person. Please mention here more frequently where you perform so more of us can see you live! Best of luck always

[@romanmarshall2382]

Very well done Tom. Your videos have really improved and you’ve obviously found something that people want to see. Keep it up!

[@jennygibbons1258]

Great stuff. Interesting.

[@donallogue7565]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@LouiseEgan]

AWEsome!! Love the book, but you made it shorter 😆 and very cool that you got Russell Shorto to accompany you on this treacherous, seagoing, always interesting journey.

[@eugenedimitrov]

Got nterested in NYC history by yourself recently! It's so vast and unique!!!

[@weavery2k]

damn. crew member at 7:09 stirs my boat

[@kellyfoss1685]

@11:17 . . . Too real 😄

[@tootsieshmutsie6428]

great vid

[@EatinGoodOsrs]

Time for a haircut Tom! 💇‍♂️

[@aydinoglu5301]

Rooting for your great job Tom. Will be reading one of the first when your book released.

[@JNYC212]

The Ending 😭😭😭

[@Dutch-bi1wf]

Yeah, we kind of want it back now

[@saskiapanter]

Wow, this was great. Gonna share this one on Facebook and tag my parents and brother, they're going to love it❤️👍😃🇳🇱 Jonkers comes from Jonkheer I think. I've heard the stories about how we tried to trade with the natives instead of killing them off or chasing them away. I'd like to know way more on this.

[@speedlaws]

Congrats on that flatbush misdemeanor appearance

[@erickjerland1281]

Tom I enjoyed your video. I’m in Paris. I love Paris. The only other city to live besides NY would be Paris.

[@coachskicks9964]

Good

[@christianmoller6141]

LOL, I caught the Green Screen reference!!

[@patriciahartner7336]

you ARE an unlikely furry friend.

[@donallogue7565]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@letsseewhatelse6086]

Siiiiiick...

[@skipprice4376]

So then.. If you can make it there..You can also make it in NJ ? Well..Maybe not 😬 Slowly I turned. Good vid Tom👍

[@LordsChamber]

:))))))))) love it!!!!:*

[@patriciadcnp]

You should flatiron your hair sometime, it would be purdy with the wind!

[@LuciePohl1]

😂

[@CatOuellette]

Been following your channel for a while. Wondering if there'll ever be an Indigenous American history prior to colonization.

[@donallogue7565]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@vincentgoupil180]

Hey, Tommie, came across dis yeah article, "Because All Da World Was Not New York City: Governance, Property Rights, and the State in the Changing Defination of A Corporation 1730-1860" Hendrik Hartog 1979 Indiana University School of Law Might be of interest if you're not familiar with it.

[@sgtleobella]

Eric: "Animals are friends, not food, Tom." Me, watching this video while eating a ham and cheese melt: 👀

[@oscaruglyface]

I stan Eric. Tom, go vegan!

[@vincentgoupil180]

Tom seemed happy talking to someone, Shorto, who can read and write. 9:27 is NYC under the municipal charter of 1653? Does that mean the defunct Dutch West India Company still owns the city? Perhaps a follow up video on Nicholas Bayard or, families of the street names below Canal Street, i.e. Lispenard (da Spaniard) to the Anti-Rent War in NYC. Since Shorto is on the Netherlands Project do comtempory Netherlanders even know their history of the New Netherlands colony, even the New Amsterdam settlement or, it is looked down on as are the Afrikaners by the Dutch as are the Dutch by the British? Why do Dutchies resent their language being anglicized, i.e. phonetically hearing stoep for stoop meaning trap not stairs? Is this all Dutch logic? Questions, questions. Tom you're a "defunct" :) lawyer what the heck is a charter? A contract? Ed-u-mac-kay us. Perhaps, instead of seltzer a coffee shop. Good video Tom, Russell, *thanks* , enjoyed it

[@newdotv12]

Dude ! What about new Angoulême, you know , the Verrazano story ????

[@jamespark1075]

Jorge masvidal?

[@michaelz9892]

Crew guy looks cute from behind. Just sayin.

[@christianhansen3292]

U trying to look like an 80's wrestler with that hairdo! lol

[@christianhansen3292]

what that book go for on ebay? lol

[@SUPERSCHMOO]

thanks for the video, but maybe the only talking cameraperson should be Luci

[@MilesBellas]

5:40 How much is "Made In China" ? . National Identity = Manufacturing = Cyclical Capital

[@BAMMBAMMNYC]

⚓️🛥🔌⚡️🗽👍🏼 #la🔌⚡️😁👍🏼

[@MilesBellas]

4:40 The UK did not develop that same notion of cultural tolerance unfortunately..... Maybe the "Island Mentality" creates a limited world view, limited gene pool, limited ideas etc... ?

[@MrRollingEgo]

Tom stop harming animals. It's not about your diet it's about your actions harming non human animals who can experience pain and suffering just like you and me.

[@dk3062]

Humans aren't animals Some animals are food. Stop proselytizing on a tourist video

[@Alex-fx5es]

@@dk3062 Humans are part of the animal kingdom - anyway, this is off topic

[@EphemeralProductions]

I see Tom is another of the many grammar na**s. Lolz. Many of whom i know!

[@doncacique2769]

They bought the land from the wannabe, or they tricked them into trading for a bunch of worthless junk.