When New York looked like Ancient Rome

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[@user-wi6cz4hh5b]

Hello do you know if a channel named Mystery History still exists? The creator was a hippy type of man.

[@shaynewheeler9249]

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[@bostonraymudfloodadventures]

I just stumbled upon your channel , what is your opinion on " Great Tartaria ???" Have you ever actually looked in to " Tartary???"

[@Nollekeuh]

Ditch the stupid AI narrator.

[@starsaber9631]

The powers that run this world stop making buildings like this so future generations can control the narrative of history like they do today. And the best way to do that is to use materials in buildings that will rot and decay in a relatively short space of time. Stone buildings like those of the last last for thousands of years. A lot of people know that the history we are taught is a load of deal and the ancient architecture of the last shows that more than anything else. It's all about control 😓

[@rockutron9000]

The demolition of the original Penn Station is insanity.

[@flochforster7864]

They hate our culture.

[@peanut422hb]

Must have been high tech. The destroyers from the 1800's don't want us asking questions.

[@thedarkenigma3834]

@@peanut422hbDoes this has to do with Tartaria or the Mud Flood?

[@peanut422hb]

@@thedarkenigma3834 I don't know exactly, but something is very wrong. When limestone and marble are destroyed 50 years after building according to their script . Go back and look at this behemoth of a building. .

[@craigr6842]

​@peanut422hb These buildings were already here. New York is an ancient city

[@actoraa]

I can't believe a building such as Penn Station was torn down.

[@GabiN64]

Yeah that generation was crazy

[@bobbo11357]

I agree. My Dad thought it was even more beautiful than Grand Central Station

[@lornamorgan3575]

They did the same to Euston Station in London. Then, built that vile concrete box. All that's left is an entrance arch.

[@jackthebro6548]

REBUILD PENN

[@littlsuprstr]

Those people were poisoned by lead in the atmosphere from burning leaded gas and newsprint.

[@Littlegoatpaws]

When New York was truly at its peak. Maybe not in size but in splendor, relevance, and innovation.

[@jamesleyda365]

Absolutely! Truly awesome!🗽

[@robroy6374]

In my opinion NYC was at its peak from the 1960s to the 2000s

[@espdtx4260]

All of these buildings were here before from a previous civilization they're in every city even little towns think about it they all have buildings that we can't build today and spent every war destroying evidence

[@Littlegoatpaws]

​During that 1960s to 1980s period so much went under the wrecking ball. Crime and decay rampant, depopulation, bankruptcy. It was rock bottom. It recovered some before 9/11, but it was never the same. Sort of like how Constantinople recovered after the Justinianic plague, but never with quite the same energy. At least that's kind of how I see it. ​@@robroy6374

[@mgp1203]

​@@robroy6374 Never been to the US but when I think about a US state in their peak from 1960's and onward, I think mainly of California. When I think of NewYork, I always picture the city imagery from 1980's or 2010's imagery.

[@kutter_ttl6786]

If anyone wants to get an idea of how it's like to walk in the waiting area of the old Penn Station, visit Ottawa in Canada. The Senate of Canada building was the former central train station, and the main waiting room was also inspired by the Baths of Caracalla. It looks almost exactly the same as the old Penn Station's, but in 3/4 scale.

[@knightstar1312]

Interesting! I did go to Ottawa years ago. Are you referring to the interior of Parliament, the Senate section?

[@ookie4179]

Pfffft nobody wants to see inferior 3/4 ottawian architecture

[@Thx1138sober]

My dad took me to NYC in 1964 at age 6. While there, he took to a huge hole in the ground ringed in plywood and said, "Son, you are looking at one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century."

[@jotrem4877]

I’m so intrigued. What exactly was this “hole”

[@hollister2320]

@@jotrem4877 Penn station 😢

[@Ravum]

He took to it? Like he liked it?

[@kettelbe]

He took me. i guess​@@Ravum

[@Vlaedx]

I don't understand this. Can you explain?

[@leos-redline]

This is why I love Washington DC so much, its like being in a neoclassical dreamland, its stunning.

[@777jones]

The Lincoln Memorial is my favorite structure in the US.

[@FlyingAlfredoSaucer]

​@@777jonesmine is the Jefferson Memorial

[@paulkoza8652]

Nice job. Classical architecture abounds in New York. You just scratched the surface.

[@antichristhater3440]

The US literally had an open canvas to make our country beautiful with elegant architecture and instead we defaulted to shit.

[@craigr6842]

All stolen. Yes, that's correct. These were here.

[@Waynebruce234]

@@craigr6842ignorant comment every civilization in human history has used ideas and concepts from other civilizations to build architecture.

[@NarasimhaDiyasena]

Yeah cause the J’s seized control via the Federal Reserve the same time we started making money, hijacking’s our ability to be something more than we are today.

[@theFORZA66]

​@@craigr6842the phone you types this brainrot from is also stolen

[@wcsii]

Go back to Korea for that comment

[@yesfredfredburger8008]

Misread the title as “What New York Looked Like In Ancient Rome” and thought I needed a little more sleep

[@tiltingatwindmills3243]

lol I just read it the same way and I was so confused. Actually reading your comment is the only way I knew it was different

[@RonPauldidnothingwrong]

The Manhattan Municipal Building is absolutely stunning in person. Me and a friend admittedly got very stoned in Thomas Pain Park/Foley Square in May 2022, and turned the corner to face the MMB with the setting sun gazing down on it indirectly from the west and it was the most grand looking building I've ever seen in my life at the moment. The bottom Roman-esque pillars with its Golden statue peak reflecting the sun were magnificent. Despite its faults NYC is an amazing megapolis worth exploring indepth.

[@timdella92]

I’m still mad about the demolition of Penn Station.

[@aalexander928]

Thank you so very much for this short and excellent video of neo-classical architecture in Manhattan. As a New Yorker I mourn the loss of so many of the exquisite structures depicted. It remained a beautiful city through the 1950's.

[@BLACCRAINBOW1997]

The US had many beautiful building, these were all taken down and replaced with "modern" architecture. Early architecture in the states was amazing and an inspiration to the ppl making America.

[@archimetropolis]

You can easily blame the suburbs and car dependancy for this

[@jaby18]

The kindness here is so inspiring. Blessings to everyone!

[@jbug1979]

You can still visit the Croton Aqueduct. Parts of it have been preserved as historic sites and greenways for walking and biking. It's a pretty nice day trip, if you live close by.

[@matthewroth1299]

Your videos are always 10/10--not terribly long, extremely interesting, well-edited, and of course educational.

[@andersonklein3587]

The brutalist designs that became more popular around 30-80 were pretty bad, but the Art Deco was not a downgrade, the Chrysler Building is still one of the most beautiful edifices in the entire world. Just saying.

[@ccccaaal]

Brutalism emerged in the 50s

[@Zwingli-Was-Right-AHwasToo]

Mister klein. Thank your rome hating people who are architects, civil lawyers and ngo owners who pressed for modernist stuff bcause they hate everything european

[@screamingseal4805]

@@ccccaaalyeah it was a pretty pre war thing

[@BygoneT]

It definitely looks striking but it's not remotely close to the top 10, and it's not even its fault. It's simple and sleek but not to a degree that makes it THAT beautiful.

[@Rice_BaL]

I recently visited New York for a school trip and was amazed by the neoclassical architecture mostly around Times Square and the fashion district but it was pretty pretty much everywhere i went in manhattan

[@CoercedJab]

Look up hidden history it will blow your mind. Your eyes already saw for themselves… try visiting your states capitol next 💀

[@genevieve730]

I guess you missed the illegals crowding the sidewalks and the drug addicts sleeping in the street

[@user-rl3iv2jk9q]

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[@subnormality5854]

'The Hidden Roman Design of New York City - KZbin' Saving this original title for later

[@oliverpapai6011]

"When New York looked like Ancient Rome" as of 17 11 24

[@crossfire7474]

Thanks for sharing the podcast interview and your new book. Hope to look into it soon.

[@christiantaylor4027]

Most people don't see what's around them. I'm probably the same but I look at the architecture of small towns and big cities. It talks but only if you listen. Thanks for this vid.

[@xXcangjieXx]

And the fun part is you only need to look, sometimes even the most mundane buildings can have amazing details. Just the other day I went inside a boring industrial building from the 50s but once inside the whole entrance lobby was covered from ceiling to floor in a beautiful green swedish marble.

[@christiantaylor4027]

I agree. You never know. Great features turn up everywhere you look.@@xXcangjieXx

[@GravityZx]

I really apreciate your work. Thank you!

[@squidmeta]

Wake up honey, new toldinstone video

[@zachesherman]

And she immediately throws the pillow in your face “why do you always think about the Roman Empire?”😂

[@1Rab]

​@@zachesherman Are you in NC?

[@zachesherman]

@@1Rab ummmm.... no. Why do you ask?

[@into_the_void]

Im up . .... Im up .. jeeZ

[@Lady_Graham]

IT’S BABE YOU RAPSCALLION

[@TrailBlazer5280]

Some of the old destruction was bad planning or negligence, but much of it was an intentional attack on our society. These were meant to remove beautiful things and heritage from our daily lives so we the workers would become indifferent to our surrounding. Be ok with moving often and prevent us from establishing community and pride.

[@falcongamer58]

Here before naysayers claim it was purely because of profit

[@colorays]

Off topic, but thank you for putting your ads at the end. KZbin is so full of ads, and it is maddening to hear an add break after the first thirty seconds of a video.

[@BC-lo6rf]

Outstanding as always.

[@dingjo5027]

what a great video, will watch it several times, I will need to research McKim, Mead, and White further, Thanks!

[@TravelingDude18]

As always, an interesting video with cool facts that enrich what I knew. Can't wait to visit New York again and look for the hidden Roman architecture!

[@thomasmacdonough288]

My father used to work at the (now defunct) Grand Prospect Hall, a beautiful 1903 Victorian style banquet hall in Brooklyn. Between my fascination with that building, and reading the Great Gatsby in HS, I found great admiration for early 20th century NYC and used it as a reference in art classes, so it's the version of the city I'm used to seeing. But whenever I see what they've done to the skyline in person, I feel disgusted. In the never ending tale of NYCs destruction, that aforementioned Grand Prospect Hall was torn down in 2022 to make way for an apartment block.

[@pegcity4eva]

Just googled it. Damn shame.

[@danielwoods404]

I love that your videos do not have unnecessary background info or introduction.

[@SlapShotRegatta22]

"...and finally, in 2024 New York, the transition from the City Beautiful movement to the City Cesspool movement has been completed."

[@lechosenone7016]

why do people act like nyc isnt 100x better now than it was in the 70s to 90s. Back then NYC looked like war torn berlin. NYC is much more beautiful than ppl give credit for

[@jayzandstra1830]

@@lechosenone7016 we are not thinking of the 80's or 90's lad.

[@That_Awesome_Guy1]

​@@lechosenone7016 Who said anything about the 70s to 90s?

[@dorthvoder9375]

@@lechosenone7016 NYC has been preety ugly for a while now, unsafe streets, gangs and drug addict capital since the 1950s after all, a ney yorker is more likely to bite you in NYC than a shark in the ocean, after all. But it didn't take such a toll on the city back then and not at the scael it does now, the sheer lack of maintenance overshadows the newer works. It is certainly not better, and it hasn't been in a while. On the other hand I'd say New Jersey is looking good now.

[@HistoriaMoneta]

Love these videos. You should do one for Philly, we have a ton of great neoclassical buildings.

[@reference2592]

Your videos are always sooo good. Thanks.

[@verandi3882]

great video, i love this channel

[@crackerjack101jds]

Love this content. Fascinating stuff. Cant wait to start going thru your work. Great job.

[@kartos.]

Thank you for mentioning Philadelphia, it's tiring when William Penn's contribution to American city layouts gets ignored. Just look how Boston turned out

[@JayKarpwick]

Philly was founded* in 1682, when the Great Fire of 1666 was still fresh in British memory. Penn was familiar with Descartes' work on coordinate systems; its regularity and simplicity inspired his grid layout for the city. * *_NOT_* "found", the way the TartarSaucians love to try to redefine common English words ...

[@jileel]

Many old structures in L.A. still stand, although our current civilization isnt wise or wealthy enough to care for them.

[@ivdeadelendaest]

God I hate modern architecture with a passion, neoclassical was peak architecture.

[@johnsolo1701d]

Chicago too - in some ways more so!

[@ipanonymously9503]

Way more

[@JO3BID3N-is-a-P3D0]

the entire u.s.a and the rest of the world actually

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Far more, more than you'd believe.

[@777jones]

I took an architecture class that really focused on Chicago. Its rise was a bit later and better organized than Manhattan’s.

[@Oscar-zi2pp]

My favorite piece of neoclassical architecture in NYC is the Con Ed building near union square. It is so grand on the skyline and feels larger than life! Great video as always

[@AmericaandWorldArchitectureCha]

super video, thank you

[@williamsullivan3967]

I really enjoyed this. Thanks!!

[@jpvansplunder]

Absolutely fantastic video. I love the voiceover and over-all style.

[@skitsschist11]

Copying the architecture of Rome is cool, but we didnt have to copy their collapse too

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

they lasted 100 years. usa aint nothing

[@caelin4174]

​@graciemaemarie11jones16 youre double wrong lil bro

[@jordanreeves6008]

usa torn down all the Hebrew buildings wake up they didn't make minority of them if they did there would be more but they cant copy god

[@jordanreeves6008]

plus look at ww 2 or 1 all to rewrite history just look at the photos

[@Username-2]

@@graciemaemarie11jones16 Do you struggle with math?

[@WedgeyPage]

Can you do a review of Megalopolis? After watching this video I think you would enjoy it.

[@ns7353]

Don’t fail to mention the significant of ley lines ! The free masons would want them remembered

[@conrad4852]

This was a fascinating & informative video. Thank you.

[@alexdelvento1273]

Literally all roads lead to Rome 💪🏻🇮🇹🏛️💪🏻

[@DragonActual]

Glad this video showed up in my recommendations

[@c0bra969]

I wish youd do longer vids and more podcasts! Ive listened to them all 2 plus times! Channel is great.

[@pavopija]

Rome and NYC are my two favorite cities I visited. Coincidentally, while not having visited that many cities around the world, I think they are the two greatest urbanistic achievements of mankind.

[@prototropo]

My favorite reminder of classical grace in public architecture is Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. Small in scale but vast in evocation, it never fails to send my thoughts winging to the ancient shores of a more eloquent, noble idea of civilization.

[@JJ__]

“the anxiety of influence” - another Bloom fan? love that book

[@endrawes0]

New Yorker here. Not sure how new Tom's is but love the Seinfeld reference! Also I be was hiking the Old Croton Aqueduct trail just this weekend! Amazing feat for it's time

[@cedarflags]

A lot of smaller American cities still have skylines like this, but on a smaller scale. It's pretty neat to see a skyline untouched from the depression era.

[@StirlingCookie]

I watch your videos every night before bed. I look forward to it every night.

[@KatherineSimmons-em7nm]

great video, i lovke this channel

[@olivere5497]

'We wuz Caesars n shieeeeeeeet!'

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😆

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

We wuz kangz

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

We sold other kangz to whites

[@solar_warden81]

😂

[@akhripasta2670]

Every Germanik ever Look at Notsee parliament logo, Holy "Roman" "Empire" US "Senate"

[@Charlie-hv3dh]

Really cool channel man!! Love this lol!

[@lordbiro]

Always great these vids 😊❤ thanks. Now hurry up with the next !! 😂😂

[@oO-_-_-_-Oo]

Fascinating.

[@waxonwaxofffg3768]

Torn down to hide the past.

[@dbyspae122]

Tartaria the way you think of it never happened bud

[@joecool9739]

​@@dbyspae122 Tartaria was the name given to the Eurasian Steppes by Medieval historians It was inhabited by Tatars and it was a hellish wasteland In Greek "Tartarus" was the name for hell...Medieval historians were fluent in Greek and Latin Not hard to see why they called that land Tartaria

[@jesusisking8502]

Obviously.

[@Svenburchard]

@@dbyspae122 They say many of these buildings took a year to build. It doesn't need to be tartaria to be suspecious.

[@Poisson4147]

@@Svenburchard The Empire State Building took less than 18 months. There's MOUNTAINS of evidence documenting how it was done. Hard work and loads of planning can do all sorts of incredible things. Nothing "suspecious" [suspicious] about it if you understand anything about project planning.

[@AugustusCaesarBCE]

I really love Roman and Greek Architecture. I wish there were more splendid architecture like that today

[@froodsmash]

RIP old Penn Station

[@saxophonistballerina]

U cool for sponsoring in the end

[@bentationfunkiloglio]

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[@canadianmmaguy7511]

Gay

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@@canadianmmaguy7511 Appreciate your interest but I only like women. Cheers.

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@@bentationfunkiloglio cheers

[@CDLuminous]

My town has a coffee roaster. We can never tell if the smell is coffee roasting, a skunk or someone smoking a blunt.

[@bentationfunkiloglio]

@@CDLuminous Must be roasting beans for Starbucks.

[@akombalasau4022]

I'm so Fascinated of the past architectures.

[@richardpchaseii5084]

A lot of beautiful buildings in Boston/Cambridge, by McKim, Mead and White, too. I'm not sure who was responsible, but one of the oldest buildings, at MIT, sure qualifies as "Romanesque"!

[@martinfernandez882]

I long for the prewar New York cityscape, so beautiful.

[@YadraVoat]

I suppose this finally explains the state nickname "The Empire State."

[@bexiexz]

this is a rad video!

[@calebdoner]

And women wonder why we think about the Roman empire so much. It totally surrounds us.

[@ackvevo]

Idk about you but I think about the Ming Dynasty little bro

[@princejaxisblack8789]

who’s we? you French or sumn? 💀 I don’t think about a particular European empire

[@timothymatthews6458]

@@ackvevo The Ming was inferior the the Qin and Han. It was a relatively weak dynasty because the aristocracy was eliminated centuries prior.

[@ackvevo]

@@timothymatthews6458 based The Ming weren’t afraid of exploring the world either

[@timothymatthews6458]

@@ackvevo Um, when I said it was weak, I was not implying that it was a good thing. It is bad when a state is weak.

[@ChrisWashburn]

5:47 Small correction...the marble structure was dedicated in 1895, but it was finished 1892, after a year of fundraising and planning by public committee. Original concept Arch work started in 1886, and finished in 1889 was made of wood-frame and Plaster. Fun facts: The area in the 1790s was originally a burial ground, with public executions, which the area 30-40 years later was covered over and became a housing development for the rich.

[@PerennialAWL]

I guess that’s why they call it “The Big Ap-Palaiologos”

[@robroy6374]

😂

[@sophiaoconnell1927]

There’s a lot of places where you can still catch the vibe to be honest especially around lower midtown and Wall Street. There’s even some Babylonian looking buildings with wild stone work.

[@jhfdhgvnbjm75]

I wish the city beautiful movement had lasted, or better was still with us :(

[@Alien_offical-leader]

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[@AloysiusChristopher-pm7gg]

Thank god we have modern architectural wonders such as Walmart, Dollar General, and Red Lobster.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Don't forget the interior design of Chillys. Gives me the shivers and shakes everything I walk in.

[@aurorathekitty7854]

Never been inside the city but drove past it couple times. Seeing it as I drove past was good enough for me

[@FuNPUNFun777]

Nice bro

[@seanrizzle]

I've lived in New York City for 13 years, and I still sometimes get lost in the financial district...

[@zbs8334]

Is there any signs of Roman influence in Milwaukee?

[@s_mau6902]

if you haven’t seen it already, the old northwestern mutual insurance building is a really cool and great building with an obvious neoclassical influence, but it looks like most of milwaukee’s influence is german

[@tlinn8524]

Art Deco followed suite in a way, drawing inspiration from multiple ancient civilisations such as Maya, Egypt, etc. only through a contemporary, aspirational and futuristic lens

[@ejakobs9881]

We need a city beautiful movement back, big time.

[@oktavijanaugust2111]

thank you

[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

I for one would be very curious to see a comparative analysis of American "Civil Cult" and Roman traditional religion. Temples to Jupiter, temples to Lincoln and Jefferson. Etc.

[@susannewcomer9614]

The center pf Washington, DC does has an ancient Roman atmosphere, and I think a time travelling Roman would think that the Lincoln Memorial was a temple to an emperor/god.

[@Blackadder75]

Trump cult as well

[@robertbobbypelletreaujr2173]

The sickness makes them incapable of going more than a few minutes without mentioning him. It usually only infects disturbed, malicious,loserly types.

[@Potacintvervs]

​@@susannewcomer9614 I don't feel that this is by mistake. Lincoln is the forever dictator of the Democratic Party. He has achieved apotheosis, and his authoritarian rule over the United States sets him along the likes of great leaders before him, like Genghis Khan, or Julius Caesar, himself. Lincoln is worshipped like a god, and while he does not receive sacrifices, the rest of the tropes still apply.

[@expertplace]

"In Winnipeg, they created a Roman temple that exudes the feeling of strength and permanence associated with ancient architecture. Five stoic granite columns weighing 12 tonnes each stand guard over the famous intersection, protecting a cathedral-like banking hall of Italian marble with a ceiling adorned in gold leaf that is today valued at more than $2 million. The Manitoba Free Press called it “One of the most imposing buildings in Canada" 335 main street winnipeg, I always knew we had historic buildings, but that's pretty cooo

[@expertplace]

3:46 made me search to see if they had designed anything here and there it was.

[@SJam491]

Penn Station still exists, but it's entirely underground now. What stands above it is Madison Square Garden.

[@APAL880]

Madison Square Garden was also built by that same great firm that designed the old Penn Station. But that was demolished too in place of the cheap brown concrete mess called MSG.

[@DukeoftheAges]

yeah but the building above ground needs to be brought back

[@jorgemaza8142]

Stunning

[@Trebor-17]

Andrea Palladio 🇮🇹 "Father of American Architecture"

[@nwilt7114]

Now we have giant twig skyscrapers that are eyesores in the city skyline.

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

As the city decivilizes into complete collapse, unfortunately neoclassical architecture won’t leave ruins as picturesque as the original.

[@jimmyconway8025]

I'd say 30th street station the old post office across the street And philadelphia art museum are all close seconds to Penn station

[@Aboriginal_American_Hebrew]

New world is the Old world of ancient times

[@b.griffin317]

0:25 Since COVID New York most definitely sleeps.

[@Dano12345100]

New York still looks like Rome but of course it looks like Rome one century after the fall.

[@jordanreeves6008]

cause it is Hebrew people where in slaved why do u think they say rome was built in one day

[@Vlad_the_inhaler69]

​@jordanreeves6008 they say it wasn't built in a day that's the quote tf you mean Hebrew slaves? .

[@0lintana]

Do not forget the Church, alot of this is build in tribute to that!! You can find this stuff almost all over the world!!

[@tafutokuta2344]

The past had so much more class and respect to form