The Hidden Side of New York : Driving Through Roosevelt Island

[@dianecarlberg8002]

Its interesting and quiet. No homeless. Very clean. I could live there😊 Love you & your dad conversing❤

[@ellan0r]

The videos with Action Kid’s dad are great to watch - such positivity! 😄🙌🏻 More videos with Action Dad please

[@jarihult]

These drives are great🚘and it was nice to see Roosevelt Island 😎 2:03 great view 6:46 that bridge looked quite nice 🙂And the Island itself looks quite nice looking place🙂Thank you for sharing this informative, enjoyable and relaxing drive with your dad A K🙂👍!!!

[@rionno7294]

Like that's the sweetest thing of your dad!🤗

[@ActionKid]

Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed the drive!

[@HengMiao]

23:02 Great capture of the Roosevelt Island Tram. 😍 Roosevelt Island is serene has an exclusive feel to it. The views are amazing, and it was nice to hear the conversations about the history with your dad. Thank you for sharing this relaxing drive with your dad, AK! 🤗

[@rogertemple7193]

Great to see you and your dad back out driving around and especially on Roosevelt Island this really nice seeing this area of New York take care and Thank You AK.☕👍🇺🇲

[@ActionKid]

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed Roosevelt Island!

[@sherylleelee]

Action Dad is cool.

[@ActionKid]

[@rozwhite4297]

Keep these driving videos coming with your Dad, please! ❤

[@ActionKid]

Thank you so much!

[@raditorium]

Talking with your father makes me feel calm. I want to listen to your explanations and talking continually. Thanks for good video.

[@richardhales92]

They have a funny conversation experience. Sometimes ActionKid is the boss, it seems. Maybe Dad lets him shine. In any case, it's a very interesting experience and I hope they're close and get along. I think they do, but when you see relationships online, they're different than the ones we have and it can be jarring.

[@maritkjn505]

Interesting area. Thank you for sharing ☺

[@ActionKid]

You're welcome!

[@ausflygirl3430]

Hey AK, glad to see your fresh content someplace I would have never seen or ventured to on my own! Roosevelt Island has such history - a bit scary too - but is clean, modern, calm and active. The tram over from Manhattan is incredible and looks well utilized. So special to hear your Dad's take on things and insight.

[@ActionKid]

Thank you so much!

[@spelunkyboy]

Damn. Your dad's accent - peak NYC. I always thought you were a 2nd gen based on your accent - but he's got a wayyy stronger native NYC accent than you. Big up from another Asian.

[@rozwhite4297]

I thought the same thing.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Well they both have lived there all their lives pretty sure. So that explains his strong accent. :)

[@spelunkyboy]

​@@EphemeralProductions I mean his dad is the one with the NY accent. ActionKid has a general Asian American accent, maybe some New York influence but not the main accent.

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@spelunkyboy we hear it differently I guess. AK has a very pronounced boroughs accent to me. Enough that anyone that hears him can tell he’s a New Yorker.

[@spelunkyboy]

​@@EphemeralProductions Fair enough. I mean I'm not doubting he has some NY accent, it's just that his dad's way stronger. I think to put what I meant in a different way: His dad sounds like he was born and raised in New York for generations - I can't even tell any ethnicity, it's just a general NY accent to my outsider ears. AK to me sounds like any Asian American guy who spent his childhood in NY sure, but has that Asian lilt that made me initially think he was like me (one of those kids that had immigrant parents and therefore had a somewhat Asian-y accent from growing up speaking in a somewhat compromise). That's what the other commenter (and I suppose some of the other people who liked my comment) mean: it's a surprise he adopted a race-specific accent when his dad wasn't a first gen

[@JM-vh7oc]

First time I have ever even heard of Roosevelt Island - thanks for the visit.

[@maureenshea4268]

Your father knows so much about the city. It’s amazing.

[@sosmra]

Thank you and your dad for this trip thru LA (lower Astoria ) I went to Rainey Park as a kid with my family, then with friends to play sports, and hang out when older and with my girlfriend who is my wife now. We all used to ride our bikes thru Roosevelt Island and remember the buildings your dad is talking about . When first getting our cars would drive there as well .

[@ouebe8838]

Nice ride on Roosevelt Island with your dad behind the wheel. It's always nice to hear you talk about the city. Thank you both.

[@christinebojic492]

I love having a walk on Roosevelt Island, so great, taking the tram. In the same time so close and do far from Manhattan ❤😊

[@richardhales92]

You might know this story, but if you walk to the end of the island, there's a statue of a woman, who pretended she was crazy, but she was a reporter and wanted to do a news story on patients who were mistreated in the psychiatric hospitals on the island, and she risked being put away herself just to get a story! She helped change the abuse that was going on. She was a hero.

[@bigben1986]

I remember 14 st, I grew up in the projects not far from there and attended IS126 back in the 80's. Lots of condos there now and Roosevelt island was my escape every weekend

[@richardhales92]

Funny story: I was taking the tram one night, living in a condo on the island, and as I approached 59th Street and 2nd Avenue, a cop car was following a car and the guy in front (they were about to cross the 59th Street Bridge), in the passenger seat, was shooting at the cop car, saw me, and fired 2 bullets. LOL. I ducked and layed down on the ground. What can you do? You never forget when someone fires a gun at you! LOL. I went home, taking the tram and got over to island and for days I turned on the news, bought all the newspapers and never was a story printed about it! You would think if there was a shoot-out going through Manhattan it would be a big news story! Nothing! Ever!

[@kevinwusanity2242]

Nice drive of where i went to High School

[@ActionKid]

Very cool!

[@OUTNABOUTwithYoursTrulyLIZZOC]

Nice Drive Through Roosevelt Island, I felt like I was a passenger in the car and enjoying the views!

[@-fairy_tail.-2753]

Hi Actionkid! Hope your leg is okay and I just tuned in your video.

[@ActionKid]

Thank you so much!

[@margd77]

Hey, AK! I really enjoyed this driving tour through Roosevelt Island. I found it very interesting. Thanks. 😊

[@billyhunter2161]

Where's the lighthouse?

[@modestaoatis4232]

Good morning action kid hope all is well and your leg is study progress in each day

[@ActionKid]

Thank you so much!

[@DroOnTheGO]

Awesome vid! I don’t think I’ve seen this area of NYC. Unless it was when I was a kid and don’t remember.

[@ActionKid]

It's well worth a visit!

[@BrykuIRL]

Is this from a livestream or recording? The quality is so nice

[@ActionKid]

I recorded this earlier.

[@joanike1902]

My first time seeing the entrance to the island from the Queens side. You are lucky you had easy access to it as a kid. Great for bike riding.

[@dissidentfairy4264]

I really enjoyed seeing this because I don't ever remember seeing it before. Your dad had a lot of courage to ride his bike down that, no wonder he crashed. lol I love his fun stories:-) Interesting facts about the Island, mental cases and the morgue. It sounds like a desirable place to live. lol Oh, and then you have the Smallpox Memorial Hospital. What an inviting place! lol What a beautiful drive and I love the water. I'm on my way to an appointment, I'll finish this video when I return. So far the first ten minutes have been a hoot. lol

[@dissidentfairy4264]

Wow! What views! I love the 🌺🌺🌺cherry blossoms. I was wondering if he was going to drive up that truck ramp into the truck. lol Amazing views of the city. I miss the 🦤snow geese. Thanks AK and dad for the fun tour!

[@D.N..]

HI Ken.. slowly but surely, you're getting better! I hope you're going to be able to show lots of great Halloween sights.🤠

[@benlee6500]

Peace N quiet along the routes with your dad....l didn't know there's a peaceful place for motorists plying the route along the island....a drive on the bright side of NYC...kudo to AK and his dad for sharing the journey 😊😅🎉

[@chaxologist2024]

First! No pre-recorded live today, eh? Yes, I made a scooter riding video through Roosevelt Island the other day!

[@kevinwusanity2242]

Hi I am techically first like you are second!

[@chaxologist2024]

​@@kevinwusanity2242Hehe...at least my comment is the oldest in this section if I'm not mistaken.

[@ActionKid]

That's cool!

[@rionno7294]

I bet your dad will help you drive there and with Roosevelt Island Long Island City AK, that's dominating here!😍🤩🥰 I think the only way to get there is to ride the Roosevelt Island Tram or the Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge.😏😊😇 It'll be a way to get to Roosevelt Island too!😊😎🤭 I hope you and your dad will love it here and thanks for sharing that enjoying drive as glorious with your dad Action Kid!😌🤗🥹

[@richardhales92]

You know who lived on this island? Grandpa Muenster from the Muensters! He was always nice and said hello, but he looked just like he did on the Muensters, minus the make-up. You kind of felt, well, he didn't want to put the make-up on today, but looked exactly the same and it was, well, funny seeing him after watching the show as a kid.

[@stuartwray6175]

Munsters

[@richardhales92]

@@stuartwray6175 Wrong spelling? Sorry.

[@christinenapoli5106]

Lionel your time w your dad & all the sights you’re sharing.

[@JAMESPATTERSON-mk9sr]

AKs YT friend Walk Ride Fly did a vid along Arthur Ave . AK did one with Rich Mancuso , the NYC sportswriter and a native of the area several years ago . Rob stopped by the church that Mr. Mancuso grew in and where his parents had there homegoing services . I remember Mr. Mancuso being very moved entering that church . Rob viewers were moved by that portion of the vid

[@JAMESPATTERSON-mk9sr]

Cornell Tech Graduate School $83,000 per semester = paying for that expensive construction on Welfare Island . Kudos once again to dear old dad for helping creating content for old AK . The apple does not fall far from .....

[@streetfoodnetworkpk]

Very Nice Enjoy Video Awesome♥

[@Alex-bj7ot]

👍

[@sandranynj7118]

@ActionKid are you driving with your foot boot cast on?

[@chairlesnicol672]

@benlee Prace n quiet ...in NYC! , you gotta b kidding! LoL!

[@EphemeralProductions]

83,000 for just one semester??!! That oughta be illegal! 😳🤯

[@shakeydave6391]

how do u drive with a cast on

[@johnchristopher20]

I see your father does rolling stops. Let’s hope the police don’t get persnickety with him.

[@EphemeralProductions]

The police have a lot more to worry about in a city that size than someone doing California stops. lol

[@ActionKid]

[@ElizabethDiaz-n2b]

😀🤩❤️🚘👍

[@monkeystuff661]

Roosevelt Island is not like Manhattan I think it's like Queens that's good

[@jenlarge9036]

Interesting, but ugly. Why have a stop sign before the pedestrian crossings? That would drive me mad.

[@deathbycake7637]

Wasn't Roosevelt Island the place where the American version of the horror movie Dark Water took place?

[@ss_sailaway]

I agree it looks great for biking or walking on the island. 🚠🚲 But driving out of the question. That is way too many crosswalks that you have to stop for😒 Thank you AK & Papa!