Inside Downtown NYC's Least Known Neighborhood: Hudson Square

Tom Delgado shows you around Hudson Square, the little neighborhood nestled between Tribeca, Soho, and the West Village. He talks about the Holland Tunnel, the Ear Inn, Aaron Burr & Alexander Hamilton, and the Film Forum. Shot by Eric Thirteen.
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[@PierreMarkuse]

This man does a great job presenting! He seems like a guy who quit a career in a high-paying job to keep his sanity and follow his dreams. His knowledge of NYC seems so complete, he could be a tour guide.

[@EphemeralProductions]

😂😂😂

[@dollypuertorico]

What do you mean "he could"? 🤣

[@timothymacdonnell9079]

He is a tour guide.

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@timothymacdonnell9079 you guys are completely missing the sarcasm. 🙄

[@rexlex1736]

If Tom taught history in a college, his classes would be jam packed.

[@AGentlemansJourney77]

I was in NYC a few weeks ago and I was thinking about how cool it would be to get a personal tour from Tom.

[@khrizstar]

Why you didn’t ask for one?

[@3xl255]

Thanks Tom I really needed cheering up. Please dont give up, you and eric make a great team.

[@keet3028]

Tom you should do a “Dark Side” holiday edition. So glad you’re continuing to make content.

[@nooyorcste]

durc sid of trump tuowr

[@keet3028]

@@sirfranklloyd because that’s the title of a series of videos that Tom presents to us. Based on views, his viewers seems to gravitate more to those videos. You must be a new subscriber. Welcome.

[@annettemercado5237]

Tom, you are so knowledgeable on your History presentations. You are a "walking History book." 🥾 I really enjoy your program. Your're funny too!

[@travelingwithrick]

Tom, when I went to PA from Florida, to visit my kids I took an amtrak to penn station to walk few of the sections of nyc you talk about. Your the best with the history, comedy etc. Eric too!

[@DanDan-fu6sd]

22 minutes? Felt like 5. Thank you for your great work Tom.

[@reuben.mathew2]

So cool to see this channel growing. Keep 'em coming Tom!

[@shalonsmith3653]

That neighborhood is really nice. Lots of cobble stone streets as well

[@diegop2311]

Hey Thomas you should make a video on the nepotism in New York whose family still doing what or owning what

[@mochalibrarian5682]

Thank you so much for your historical facts and your creative way of sharing it. My husband and I love your videos. ❤ Keep going. ...Sick😊

[@ireneelizabeth4462]

Haha Burrrr.... The Ear Inn is a 😎 bar. Thanks, TomD.

[@Looter92]

Love Isamu Noguchi’s red ‘octetra’ sculpture. There were a few railroad tunnels built earlier

[@Sloozen1]

Watching this and thought of a great idea. Show album cover spots in New York. Like the Paul's Boutique building and that kinda stuff.

[@rondj3495]

Merry Christmas Tom D Legend . 🎅

[@justingooding647]

Great vid, but I wish you had mentioned that the legendary Paradise Garage was at 84 King Street, one of the greatest venues in the history of dance music & culture!

[@AA-cm3pd]

So infromative!

[@shannono8397]

Thank you for the great video...I like the bird at the end =^..^= It's always a great day when you post new! Sending hellos from Vermont

[@eugenedimitrov]

Awesome video as always!

[@eugenedimitrov]

@Tomdnyc- Really?I'd love to !

[@myownprivateglasgow280]

Those business improvement districts sound rather sinister... Which may explain why one beds are renting for $4k/mnth plus. Cheers for the insights big yin!

[@missyyourist9859]

Once again, I freaking love when Tom yells us!! I die every time he tells us not to interrupt him!! Bahahaha!! And yes, I know I need to reevaluate my childhood...😅🤣🤔😬😂

[@rodserling6955]

I worked for Con edison and the 9th ave Subway was served by the west 59th street power house and that bldg is also protected...and cant be changed!Mckim Mead and White is who designed the outside of the power plant..

[@rodserling6955]

In 1981 i was asigned to weld a boiler in the Woolworth bldg as Con edison leased those boilers in the sub basement,but what was here in the basement was an old Pool and gym and a host of other things?if i u can do a story about the Woolworth bldg that would be great!also Mr Woolworth is buried in the bronx as is the Borden family Mr George Westinghouse and Many many others?Woodlawn Cemetery 🪦 is a huge story waiting for you?

[@williammclellan1334]

Awesome video! I binged a bunch of Tom's video after I came back from my first NYC visit. I can't wait to go back thanks to the history I've been learning from these. Keep up the amazing work and have a great holiday season!

[@shannono8397]

could you do a video on the glass in the sidewalks, the blue round tiles, that could be viewed from early subway underground stations. I believe there are a few remaining sidewalks with them, and areas that have the glass. *I'm not sure the historical significance, however...super interested, but when I finally visited NYC I couldn't find them (if you've made a video on the topic already, I missed it...and am sorry)

[@richsit]

the shot at 12:57 had me rolling. another banger vid tomd

[@mikedrown2721]

Excellent video Tom, love the sound effects 😄 thanks!

[@504RoadTrips]

18:30 what’s with the two-light traffic signal in the background? It alternates between a solid red on top and a flashing red on the bottom.

[@christianhansen3292]

man made the electric lights so we can see in the dark!

[@TheSamurai66]

Hi Tom! Greetings from Tokyo! I am originally from NYC and we love your youtube channel. I am learning a lot about my hometown thanks to your insightful and entertaining tours. Hoping you can do a tour of Elmhurst, Queens (my old neighborhood) in the future. Planning to get a haircut soon?

[@booradley0x0]

Im addicted to these walking tours! I just got back from my first trip to NYC and Im dying to get back! Hello from Melbourne, Australia :)

[@melodyofpsalm9468]

Love your videos...Please keep doing them!

[@nicolascevallos2244]

Tom, de donde eres? me encantan tus videos bro!

[@tomdnyc1]

Soy Nicaraguense!

[@shekwaga]

I appreciate the poking fun at the word "content". Whenever a KZbin "creator" uses that word, I spit out my coffee. Like wtf?!

[@conniedelio]

Tom, many thanks for another brilliant history lesson. Best wishes to you for a happy, healthy, prosperous 2023!

[@jazrealpretty9383]

Love seeing Tom’s videos grow over the past few years!!! Go Tom!

[@micmac1121]

The amount of small companies pushed out by Trinity church, one being mine, I have no love for Trinity Church. The Ear pub has two things I loved about, one, they had crayons at every table with a white paper table top.being a commercial artist with friends, we made great art. 2: if you road motorcycles in NYC, once a month we had great gatherings there. Game was over when Trump built a hotel there, even before he was President, people stayed outside and protested. If I’m not mistaken, they took the Trump name off that building. It was on the corner of Varick and Van dam? Check me if I’m wrong. I worked in one Hudson Square and I hated it. Traffic was always congested to get in and out of the city. I would never want to work in that hood again.

[@lesleymacfarlane5038]

I found your channel entirely by accident. Been in NYC for 8 days and found my Host to be unnecessarily difficult. ADHD or whatever it is that people label THEMSELVES with. I was hoping to get to know NYC with her as she'd lived here for 17 years and she's originally from the Philippines. Sigh.

[@missichristensen3275]

Big hello from Napier New Zealand Love your vids and immense knowledge of NY

[@waynegray5568]

Tommy D! I and your subscribers (and most important, your advertisers), were wondering when you would post again! Anyway, best to you and the ones you love during Christmas! Wayne in Manhattan

[@rynesechrist]

Always happy to see a new video upload on a Sunday

[@The_Alexandra_B]

Another great piece of content 😅

[@paulvanbrug491]

Hello Tom ,, Seasons greetings from Canada,,✌️🤸🇨🇦

[@Larry-qz3es]

In the picture at 12:39, that was Battery Place where the 6th & 9th Avenue lines connected and diverged.

[@LlyleHunter]

My favorite Sam Shepard play is The Curse of the Starving Class. People go to Off Broadway to see something meaningful. If you don’t leave the theater depressed you must have seen a musical.

[@ChuckOU812]

Nice to know you are "listen to Public Radio" years old and you know who Logan Paul is. Sick!

[@md.redazaari123]

Always interesting 👍

[@hermyt]

Dollar coffee from the carts are like the oregano of marijuana. Get the inexpensive coffee from Chinatown.

[@johnbennett3781]

Love it Tom! Love the 20+ minute area tours… keep going baby!!

[@proboarder6456]

Great video!! I would have never known about the history of Hudson Street if it wasn’t for you, especially those hardworking Sandhogs! very well deserved respect

[@johansjournal]

I was in NYC a few weeks ago and I was thinking about how cool it would be to get a personal tour from Tom haha

[@jamesnorwood4084]

High Value neighborhood deserves Great Value shopping doncha no ... where's WalMart located around here??

[@wapartist]

Tom, you gotta be one of the few people to move from Florida to New York. Haha. Love from West Palm Beach brother

[@alanharrison694]

Great video Tom! I used to eat lunch at the Ear Inn almost daily when I had my office on Hudson. Great food, big portions.

[@guymorris6596]

That Ear Inn must have a good haunting history. What kind of food do they cook ?

[@alanharrison694]

@@guymorris6596 mostly American dishes, and a big bar

[@amiamiko5222]

Next time I'm in NYC I hope to grab a dollar coffee with yourself, Lucy + Tom

[@tonylarussa4046]

Hudson Square was named by a real estate broker.

[@timsworld9342]

It's been a while since you ate lunch on a stack of garbage bags. I always thought that was funny

[@markru2]

my father worked in printing as a linotypist on Hudson street as a proofreader

[@quentincrisp6933]

Very informative. Thanks! However the name "Hudson Square" has only been used over the last few years since coined in the mid 19th C. It's been dramatically expanded by developers and real estate agents and is located within the "South Village". You failed to mention the construction goings on behind you as Walt's new N.Y.C. headquarters leased from Trinity for 99 years/$650M. We residents now coin it as "Mickey Mouse Square".

[@baxtermaxtor]

Is the Dogpound in this? Let me watch till the end, Thomas

[@999Patriots]

Take a close look at the right eye of John Jacob Astor. His right pupil moves up and out in a lateral direction. A cranial nerve 4 palsy. Abraham Lincoln had the same cranial nerve 4 palsy in his left eye from an old trauma when kicked by a horse in his youth.

[@alfonsolara7917]

Really curious as to why there was a new mexico flag flying on the ear Inn.

[@LuciePohl1]

Best video I've ever seen! Tom is the best!

[@cdtkabag139]

you’re very handsome here

[@ljtinney]

So many zingers in this episode. Gotta love it.

[@sandaweigl2982]

Tom is so amazing! If you're not on his patreon, you're missing out!

[@deirdrerosesharples7453]

Jugy fruits ah...wine gums 😁 nenoggie lol, I love them freaking sweets num num.

[@MilesBellas]

Suggested topic : Hooverville Shanty Town : .Central Park 1933

[@jaytrader6596]

Edward Albee wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" a play first staged in October 1962. Later became a famous Movie.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Where there's theaters there's brothels and vice-versa. Soho, England, Soho NYC. Great content

[@KellyAnn2390]

I hope Haru gets back to her cute happy self soon! That's got to be the most upsetting thing to go through. 🧡

[@happytailspetcare697]

You're really funny and knowledgable, thank you for making these informative videos!

[@timothymacdonnell9079]

I loved the Film Forum when I was in NY.

[@letsif]

Hudson's Square should be renamed, Corporate Greed's Square.

[@guadalupevee3828]

Thank you for this fab video and for making laugh out loud!! Love ya🎄🥰

[@nelsongrimaldi3926]

Always fun and informative to see ur videos🥂🥂🥂🥂

[@MikeyedPeas]

tom...enjoy the contact thanks...makes me want to visit NY every year!

[@CatOuellette]

I think if you'd sell tickets for a Tom D NYC tour van in person once a week and advertise at the end of your youtube, you'd make a killing with tourism. Perhaps start a franchise.

[@amymalina5073]

That graphic about the raging anti-Semite felt inappropriate to this piece. Why is it in there? Oh, it’s a joke? That’s what they all say. Don’t be another asshole, your videos are well done and interesting.

[@Jim900]

Support this man

[@michaelyarbrough2330]

Diggin those gloves/mittens. Oh and the video too!!

[@danstuckie2115]

The mans world line and your face afterward got me haha

[@MikeStarr1000]

my wife says we're in SOHO, bc nobody knows what the hell Hudson Sq is, and these days not to be confused with Hudson Yards

[@NondoPondo]

Please only one fart wink per video. You are devaluating the value of the fart wink. 🤔

[@lukedaniell]

11:43 This should be a meme.

[@simeon_tribe_warrior]

Video Pigs 😂

[@amycrouch5293]

My family will be there Jan 4th-7th. Do you do private tours?

[@marilynpetridean1022]

how about a career change? History seems to be a passion.......

[@eugenedimitrov]

Hey ,Tom ! What's up?

[@dorikragh1939]

I think a history of Times Square before New Years would be really cool.

[@conniedelio]

Already done. Check Tom’s catalog. Sick plug!

[@Lgm4375]

🤣 Haunted by a... "me too" ghost 🤣

[@OldWurlitzerMusic]

great info about the history !

[@dissidentfairy4264]

For some reason I wasn't able to get past the Ear bar. Why Ear? If they needed to delete the "B' why not Car? Far? Jar? Oar? Par? War? or Zar? If they had chosen Car they could have decorated the place with vintage car memorabilia. Far as in far Out could have catered to the acid crowd. Jar they could have decorated the bar with jars and jugs. Oar they could have made it look maritime. Par they could have catered to golfers. War could have attracted punk Rockers, and Zar just sounds cool and futuristic, but Ear? Really? They could have even switched the letters around and called it Era! But Ear? How boring is that! Lol

[@roytownhill9934]

Merry Christmas Tom 🎅 🎄

[@irenelacour3486]

You do a great job telling us all the history of these neighborhoods. Where the rent is so high. Thanks again. See ya next time

[@knitterscheidt]

I lived on Varick Street right before the tunnel, in the 80s we called the neighborhood HoHo, for the businesswomen who practiced their vocation for the truck drivers waiting to get to the tunnel. Along the Hudson there were many old bars frequented by dock workers. I'm sure I tossed a few back from Ear and had some drinks too.

[@donaldbutcher1260]

The fact that a religious organization owns so much real estate in NYC is just one more reason to TAX THE CHURCH!!!

[@MikeStarr1000]

agreed, but actually Trinity does pay taxes on their businesses, just not on their houses of worship, from my understanding

[@johnnyc5382.]

"Hi I'm Tom Delgado always and I always whine about being "broke" but I seem to keep traveling the world anyway!"

[@1BigBucks1]

20:09 future Disney HQ

[@annchambers5739]

Wonderful