The Bowery: A Tour of NYC's Former Skid Row

Tom Delgado shows you around the Bowery in New York City. He tells you its history as the city's main thoroughfare, a haven for alcoholics, ladies of the night, butchers, theater, music, art, crime, gangs, and now fancy hotels. Shot by Cameron Burton.
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[@Allenryan819]

My mother recently passed away, and we would always watch your videos and joolz guide when it came to New York City history and London history thanks for posting this new video it brings good memories. And as someone who was born and raised in New York still there is interesting history I learned every day.

[@user-tm7me1ef9l]

The first time I went to NYC on my own was in 1977. I had an idea that I might stay in the Village. My aunt wanted me to meet a friend and colleague of hers in Chinatown. The day I got there was a Sunday, so it was fairly easy to get around. I stopped at a place near the Bowery. There was a Police station and a couple of cops out front. So I asked them if they could recommend a place nearby. They said "Don't stay around here." I ended up staying at the YMCA on 34th Street for $4 a night.

[@brianmatthews9697]

My great-grandmother was born on a farm there in 1872. She lived to be 94.

[@wouterschijf47]

Boerderij Tom, I am Dutch and visited last year in september to see the ancient Dutch Places, it’s like Amsterdam !!

[@alarikaguilar7543]

Love all these Manhattan historical videos… the Bowery has so much history.. great video!

[@RedQNZ]

I love the really old buildings that are still in that area they are easy to miss as you walk north from Canal Street, they some I would imagine go back the late 1800s

[@kennethpogue718]

Taggers never cease to amaze me. How the hell did they get up top the Bowery Savings Bank to hit the facade SO MUCH?! 😮 Sad but amazing at the same time. Oh i see now. Hopping roofs...

[@alanharrison694]

My father owned two buildings on Bond Street, right next to the Bowery Lane Theater from the early 40s to the mid seventies. After he passed my mother sold them for around $350k, and by today’s value, they would be worth millions.

[@sgtleobella]

The good thing is, if she invested that $350K in the 70s, it would also likely be worth millions today.

[@plumeretbonnet]

thank you

[@johnnytoobad7785]

Back in the late 70's and early 80's I used to take the #6 IRT from GCT to Astor Place to visit friends that lived in the E. Village. We used to patronize "McSorley's" and also "The No-Name Bar" (it was on a corner with a large glass facade). Black leather attire was preferred but not required. There you might see members of The Clash, Blondie, The Ramones and The Rolling Stones (!) It may have been 316 Bowery where the mural is today. I know there used to be a bar there.

[@matthaffner9920]

Another awesome video guys!!

[@mikedrown2721]

Always a interesting video Tom. I like that mini mini van

[@Larry-qz3es]

At Chatham Square, the 3rd Avenue EL operated in Manhattan until 1955, the last surviving EL in the city. The 2nd, 6th, and 9th lines were all gone by 1938-1942.

[@LouiseEgan]

At the end of a long day, it's so good to watch one of your videos, Tom -- solid laughs from snide remarks and ... great info!

[@beachbum8888]

Great stream Tom always quality

[@EUPHORIAMUSIQ]

I love your historical videos, Tom . Good work 👏

[@melodyofpsalm9468]

Hi Tom...I love your New York videos! It is so interesting to hear about the history behind the city. Thank you for posting these...keep 'em comin'! ❤

[@eugenedimitrov]

Learned a lot actually! Always wanted to find out more about Bowery and here it is ! My dream kinda came true !!! Take care !!!

[@MikeP2055]

Another great one, Tom! I have to rewind your videos so many times because I'm gawking at the architecture and passersby so I miss important dates. I love history so much! Even though it isn't directly on the Bowery, I was hoping you'd end at McSorely's having a carbol--I mean an ale.

[@eugenedimitrov]

Hey Tom! What's up? So sick tour as always!!!

[@user-wm8no6kz6s]

Welcome back Tommy D

[@skipprice4376]

Interesting as always 👍 Nice work 😎

[@xiaogeju2011]

I like this video. In few days if everything goes well, I will be there. Thank you for warming up!

[@Melaniekaye]

You're awesome! Full of historical knowledge and hilarious!

[@LA-fw1tp]

I love your videos and hilarious style! Currently reside in NYC myself and wonder if you still have tours in parts of the city because I would love to pay for a tour with you and some of my family and friends. Happy Holidays ✌️👍❤️

[@dimitriodee]

Boerderij - Boohr_the_rye Dutch for farm Great to hear all this history

[@jaredleemease]

Thank you Tom. 😎

[@robyndavis3043]

Irving Berlin also wrote the song, “White Christmas” (and was a Jewish-Russian immigrant)

[@MikeP2055]

That's the song I thought he was going to mention. We are clearly older than Cameron, haha.

[@bggould380]

Great video

[@christophersmith1155]

good job . this was my old neighborhood till 2012. im sorry you didnt mentioned the bowery theater on Delancey and Bowery.

[@dissidentfairy4264]

You are always entertaining and we actually get to learn something too. lol 🧚‍♀

[@feralNYC44]

So good.

[@jeffgolden9585]

Tom, you’re amazing. Been watching weekly for about 3 years. Hah, Skeletor at 22:59. Just want to point out because I have been enjoying your videos that I would actually pay you if I could film just one video someday. Ok, cheers from MPLS.

[@utaburke5423]

I'm listening to this at work in the background so not sure if I missed it, but did you mention CBGBs, and Nom Wah in Doyers St?

[@user-bx6ox6ww4u]

Nice video. Bowery comes from the Dutch word Boerderij which idd means Farm in English. Warm regards from Belgium.

[@user-vb2bo3ts2h]

Cool spot walked around there for a while

[@animaginaryboy_]

Tom’s getting good with the editing! The to-go cup throw and natty light run over, seamless!

[@masonloh1411]

8:23 Bowery Savings Bank - You didn't mention how magnificent the interior & ceiling of this particular building!

[@BlissonYoutube]

Please update this to your New York walking tours playlist so I can directly download all the videos on the playlist and watch them one by one

[@Jpkjr52]

Thanks again John in Chicago

[@coolaunt516]

Such beautiful buildings, no matter where you go. Anothr reason wny I love New York!

[@IanNicholsBroadwayBomb]

Hey I like your Style! Nothing fake about you. Thanks for the "on the Bowery" recommendation

[@beyondvaudeville]

Another great video, Tom! But you left out the legendary Sammy's Bowery Follies. And Mazie Gordon, the Queen of the Bowery immortalized in The New Yorker by the great Joseph Mitchell!

[@kelliespinks216]

I'm pausing this to watch On the Bowery.. well done. You know have two tabs.

[@littleblackduck3134]

New to your channel... lovin' it but a tour of the Bowery w/o mentioning Monk Eastman?

[@coolaunt516]

If Cameron has never heard of Irving Berlin, ask him if he's ever heard of "White Christmas", also written by Irving Berlin.

[@memphoscorpio]

You make one hot model. Just in case the you tube gig doesn’t pay the bills 😂😂. Keep up the great work.

[@ArtFreeman]

I enjoy your videos on the history of New York city and other places. By the way, what is the Dutch word from which bowery came from? Thanks

[@m.halcyon5772]

There is a film called 'Jay Myself' which follows Maisel through the most daunting of all house moves, as Maisel and his wife, daughter, and a platoon of professional movers try to edit and condense the detritus of a half-century of artistic life.

[@larsjuergensmann6776]

CBGB and Joey Ramone-Place: love the Bowery! And like your german...Take care. Cheers from Cologne ;-)

[@keet3028]

Tom, please tell me that flip phone was a prop phone?? If you are still carrying a flip phone, you are a rare breed and one of a kind.

[@tomdnyc1]

Not a prop!

[@EphemeralProductions]

Well WE know who ain’t much on texting. lol

[@monica-NJ-123]

18:29 a story unfolding ? The couple behind Tom 🤔

[@VAGGY8TH]

I thought the same thing! Seems to have not ended well :(

[@monica-NJ-123]

@@VAGGY8TH yes I know seemed sad

[@tomdnyc1]

Yeah, I thought about putting ridiculous captions or something but I thought it would be too distracting!

[@JulieJones21]

Tom! Does the noise bother you? NYC is so damn loud. I live by Cooper Avenue and I'm thinking of getting ear plugs.

[@jim-hn7ko]

" On the Bowery" is an amazing film. check it out if you can!

[@ianthetourist]

Tom, you're the fucking shit!!! Keep up the good work.

[@two3D]

The Sunshine Hotel is a good documentary of one of the last flop houses on the Bowery.

[@deirdrerosesharples7453]

Tiffany and Newbridge Cutlery started same way, glass🙂then went on to make silverware, jewellery, that's why Newbridge Cutlery has the same blue box and blue ribbon... connection

[@chrisromanous8924]

MORE DARK SIDE TOURS PLEASE TOMMY!

[@Bamps1031]

When will I see my name at the end of a video as Patreon supporter ⏰. 🤔love the videos , keep up the great job. 😊

[@tomdnyc1]

Well, crud, sorry about that. Send me a Patreon message so I have your handle on there - sometimes the Patreon subscriber's status shows up as different on there. I can sort it out.

[@drifterproductions8742]

I'm pretty sure an emotional goodbye was going on between 2 people in the background when you were talking about the fire fighters between the 18 and into the 19 minute mark. At the end of it the girl had walked away and the guy is standing there watching her go, looking like he knows he'll never see her again. She's moved on. She met someone else online, now she's moving to Utah to be with him. Even though they've never met face to face, she knows he's the one, like many people seem to believe before they uproot their lives and move far away just to find out they couldn't be more wrong about that. She'll then contact the guy she left, admit she made a big mistake, and ask to come back to him. But he is unsure. He loved her, and she left him. He knows she must have had sexual relations with the guy at least a few times in the 3 months it's been since she left. Does he really want her back after that? Will she end up just leaving again out of the blue? She must not really love him if she was talking to other guys online while they were together. But he has had quite the dry spell since she left. He'll take her back, making her promise she won't do that again. She says she won't. But we all know better.

[@andrewfischer8564]

12:02 you did not spin the cube? they just renovated and it once again can be spun... i learn so much about my own city from these vids

[@andrewfischer8564]

ps there was a movie serial series THE BOWERY BOYS they did dozens of movies .. were a sat morn staple in the 70's

[@andrewfischer8564]

pps cbgb was a rough place. my friends band played a few times.

[@scubadiva666]

"Vote early…and vote often!"

[@andrasszerencses]

"Yeah I did that in my head" LOL. Yes we can see there's only some weird romance activity at 18:30 , gangs are gone hah.

[@3506Dodge]

graffiti everywhere! Much more than when I was there 8 years ago.

[@mimiginkgo]

Chantham square a windy bench castle

[@shodopoet]

Great video when at CBGB you pee around the block my ol’ stomping ground 🤠 walk over to Mott eat at Wo Hop nice shout out to Kerouac ✊🏼 my 🩸

[@VAGGY8TH]

Did we just witness a breakup at the 18:25 mark??

[@kennethpogue718]

Tights on stage?!!!! DEVIL WOMAN!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@markedward1137]

Didn't Dick Van Dyke do a commercial mentioning The Bowery?

[@eugenedimitrov]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@daveousley1201]

Tom, your tours have become TOO interesting and TOO entertaining. Please stop.

[@daveousley1201]

#JK

[@RobinHerzig]

Bouwerie Lane how great is that 😃 1813 whadda year amirite

[@josephciolino2865]

PHEBE'S!!!

[@malcolmxbox]

Looks like the Chinese own the historic buildings down there. Very informative video, thanks for making it.

[@3xl255]

16:57 lol

[@michaeldubin8220]

Thanks for clarifying that Geoge Washington was black

[@robyndavis3043]

Where’s “Audrey 2?!”

[@annettemurphy8349]

The Hare KrIshna Movement started there. 26 2nd Ave

[@sgtleobella]

Has Cameron never been to a baseball game?! How has he never heard of God Bless America haha

[@py2007]

Ironically, William Macready was the son if an Irishman!

[@boxadorsrus5991]

Hey! Watch it, buddy. My bank is in a shed.

[@heathermichael3987]

So the time to buy was in the 1960s.

[@heathermichael3987]

Can you do a holiday tour ? And a news years tour I heard it’s a big deal then getting things ready for New Years ,

[@harowil3]

Dude- really enjoy your tour - and i really enjoy you - you’re a really hot looking guy and I can’t think of a better tour guide!!!!

[@annaloph]

😍🌎😎💖

[@MrRezRising]

Beuweri? Bouwerie? Beawerrrry? F*** it. 😂 Edit: And just as I'm thinking of the Looney Tunes cartoon... That might have been the original, "How did I get here?" movie openings.

[@maryfoerter4222]

Sorry Tom, had to pause you to watch "Bowery Bugs"

[@tomdnyc1]

Glad you watched it!

[@scotttafil7584]

Why don't these youtubers send a quick thank you to people that subscribe and send there hard earned money it can not be so hard to do. I canceled mine but will still watch and give thumbs up

[@EphemeralProductions]

Carbolic acid. Carbonated water. 😂😂

[@newbigjon]

am i real new yorker now that i watched this video?

[@andrewfischer8564]

i am and i do

[@thekentishpilgrim]

Gangs of NY.

[@JAtra3la]

😂🕴️📸

[@springsummerwinterorfall]

My mother got mugged in the bowery by one of the Bowery boys he he he he he

[@deirdrerosesharples7453]

Gangs of NY am I right... rabbit 🐰

[@999Patriots]

NYC politics: vote early and vote often.

[@Gl6619]

Seriously though…how can Cameron not know “God Bless America”….it’s not like you have to be some far right overly patriotic type to know that song.

[@wireless1235]

Ok the interest of historical accuracy, I'm very disappointed you didn't film real women of ill repute for the video.

[@captmuttonchops]

Algorithm engagement comment

[@theantagonizer958]

This guy must have moved their last week because the bums are still there on the Bowery and the rest of the Lower East Side

[@RedQNZ]

CBGBS...

[@JohnPap21]

I've notice that New Yorkers are no longer fat as they used to be in the past. That's an improvement. But I wonder why.... Bloomberg's ban on soda? Vegan lifestyle due to left leaning ideology?

[@roboliver9980]

They’ve never struck me as being fat especially in comparison to say Florida etc. It’s likely the stress that keeps everyone lean in nyc.

[@conman_co]

Everyone walks