⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC (Narrated) : East Harlem/Spanish Harlem (1st Avenue, 2nd Avenue, Lexington Avenue)

[@ActionKid]

For those on mobile Timestamps 2:53 - 1st Avenue & 96th Street 8:30 - 1st Avenue & 101st Street 12:40 - 1st Avenue & 105th Street 18:00 - 1st Avenue & 110th Street 22:10 - 1st Avenue & 114th Street 26:40 - Patsy's Pizzeria 27:25 - 1st Avenue & 118th Street 31:35 - Wagner Houses Community Grounds 36:10 - 2nd Avenue & 121st Street 41:12 - 116th Street & 2nd Avenue 43:40 - 116th Street & 3rd Avenue 45:40 - Lexington Avenue & 116th Street 49:48 - Lexington Avenue & 112th Street 52:45 - Lexington Avenue & 109th Street 57:05 - Lexington Avenue 105th Street 1:00:15 - Lexington Avenue & 102nd Street 1:03:33 - Lexington Avenue & 99th Street

[@cmonbone]

ActionKid, I would love to have a wall map to mark where I have "walked" with you but I can't find a suitable one. Can you help? Your videos are a dream come true for me! I have never had the chance to visit, but thanks to you, I have seen so much of the greatest city in the USA!

[@rockstarmoneyent4098]

At 46 mins my projects Woww I came along way

[@ervinvice1521]

You passed one of the rarest of sights in Manhattan : a gas station.

[@cindysalt6328]

I love this guy his documentaries are so interesting Spanish Harlem ❤️❤️❤️🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷❤️❤️❤️🐸🐸🐸

[@juant3969]

Glad to see you’ve done a walk through of the area where I was born and raised on 116th st and 1st Avenue.. and you’ve walked past my junior high. Man you’ve brought back memories when you’ve mentioned it. Thanks man. I really appreciate it and see that’s it’s still around. I’m still friends with my old class mates today and I’m 43 yrs old. Wow I can’t believe it’s still there

[@tracydaniel2646]

I stopped to to watch this because was born and raised in East Harlem and miss it so much. Come every summer but pandemic made me skip my first summer. This really made me feel connected again. One thing, glad the narrator experienced how harmless East Harlem really is...can try afternoon hours too. :)

[@MariaColon879]

Thank you for doing this walking tour of East Harlem. I grew up on 115th street and haven't been there for many, many years. My family lived throughout East Harlem from the 1910-2015. Wr moved from there in the 1960's. Many parts of Harlem that I remember are no longer there but at least I have good memories of living there.

[@mja9123]

Remember the Cosmo movie theater?

[@victorlopez1147]

23:14 Wow i can't believe that laundromat on 115 St & 1st is still there. I used to go there to do my laundry. Used to live on 116 bet 1st and Pleasant Ave in the 60s & 70s.

[@victorlopez1147]

59:52 Back in the 50s when buses used to have a rear bumper and Lexington used to be a two-way kids would stand on the bumper and hung on to the bus' rain gutter to catch a free ride. As a teenager I tried this on a bus going north and when that bus reached the bottom and bounced I almost fell off. After that, NEVER AGAIN. I grew up in EL BARRIO, thanks for the memories.

[@yaya3025]

The city bus is a great way to view neighborhoods. Thank you for another terrific video and your historical notes

[@nasdaqua]

Thanks for this nice walk. Whenever i hear the name, East Harlem, i think of Ben E King's famous song, " There is a Rose in Spanish Harlem". Also called El Barrio ( the neighborhood), it is a venue for Keith Haring's famous " Crack is Whack" painting within the park of his name at 122nd St/2nd Ave. Back in the '30's, 40's and 50's,and beyond , Stickball games were played along it's streets. There's actually a Stickball Hall of Fame Museum within the Museum of the City of New York. Two famous food venues are Rao's Restaurant on Pleasant Ave and 114th St and one of America's original coal oven pizza restaurants, Patsy's at 116th and 1st Ave. Famous, La Marqueta ( the market) is located between 111th st and 116th St and Park Ave .. Lots' of history and drama coming from East Harlem. Keep up the great work, Actionkid.

[@ActionKid]

Thank you!

[@rosamead-metzler7031]

My BEAUTIFUL Mommy would sing that song to me. I was raised in Spanish Harlem💗🌹💗!!!

[@charlesgrayson1510]

Interesting part of Manhattan Island. I used to think the entire borough of Manhattan consisted of skyscrapers but I 've learned that there's more to Manhattan than skyscrapers. From what I've seen this part of Manhattan resembles the Bronx.

[@l.n963]

well uptown kind of is the bronx, just separated by a river... the vibe is similar in the heights and the south bronx...

[@SurfSealionking]

One of my favorite, watched till the very end. Thanks.

[@johnperry4572]

56:20....I think that building USED to be St.Cecilias school(I'm going back about 75 years)....church was in the block right next door....used to have family on E.105 St. (Paternal grandparents....my dad...and 4 uncles)

[@christopherwhitfield92]

I was born and raised in that neighborhood from 68-18 half a century true indeed thanks for taking me back for the memory peace bro

[@jc9240]

Your State-Of-The-Art Video Gear makes East Harlem in a near Autumn Sunny Morning Season look beautiful and Scenic!....Unlike the area I was born and lived in from 1959 to 1975....it's so crispy clear visually and audiobly that you swear you were actually there walking yourself... Keep up your great work, vision and mission!!!

[@ActionKid]

Thank you very much!

[@snorlax3212]

I enjoy your commentary on the history of the neighborhoods you visit. Educational and interesting stuff; good job sir!

[@iNeverHadMercy]

33:43 Jalepenos and some "other" plants for sure - wink/wink (lol!!) ANOTHER perfect weather NY stroll !! Thanks, AK !!

[@RichardAuletta]

My father was born in East Harlem in 1917 -- Another great walk, ActionKid!

[@GulfCoastLady]

Thank you so much for this video. I love Harlem.

[@judithhinton5784]

Loved this look at East Harlem, ActionKid! Watched from beginning to end. Great narration as always! Looking forward to the next one! Take care..

[@leelasaraswat4662]

I'm an American living in India many years. Love watching your videos. A big Thank you to you Action Kid.

[@ginasourelis-smith9311]

This video was so on time. Will be visiting NY in October and staying in this area. It was great walking with you. Thanks!

[@ActionKid]

You’re welcome!

[@swirlcrop]

Thanks for the awesome video. It makes me want to move back to the city and enjoy such walks again.

[@pir3lli261.5]

Very nice blue sky

[@jjnyc4610]

When you walked through Robert Wagner projects the first building on the left was the building I grew up in! 2369 first ave(born in 1960 left in 1976)my family was among the first tenants in 1955...went to John s Roberts and the old ps 80 which you didn’t see since it was hidden behind that big new ugly brown box of a building across the street! Thank you soooo much for the memories. I walked down those same streets ...the East 90s and 80s are the area called Yorkville I attended Park east Hs which was or still is 103rd street...walked the streets played on those streets.. got chased and bullied down those streets but hey childhood is childhood😂 Thanks again my friend❤️

[@ActionKid]

You’re welcome 😊

[@2009Lavoz]

Great walk. Always good to checkout my old stomping grounds. Nice work 👍🏼. I sometimes forget how awesome NYC and Spanish Harlem really is..

[@catalinafreire6585]

Apart from that, lovely videos. Greetings from Madrid.

[@8sp8]

I'm watching your videos from Japan and learning English with your narration. Thank you!

[@ActionKid]

You’re welcome!

[@jimlasterni7310]

Thank you for showing a part of New York City I am not familiar with it is very interesting to see other cultures of life

[@victorlopez1147]

59:26 The candy store I used to buy gum & candy on my way to JHS on 103 & Madison .

[@estherstephens1858]

I was born in East Harlem. @ 58:55 (where you had to replace your battery) I missed the fragrance place on the corner of 104 St Lex Ave. At the time of this writing I STILL have oils from that store! @59:40 that check cashing place has been there FOREVER!!! @59:48 Bendicion Tio!!! I’m 56 yrs old and I still say bendicion tio. Thank you for taking me down memory lane.

[@ActionKid]

Very cool :D

[@user-us6ce7me8k]

I love your narrated videos 👍😎

[@minniec.9127]

You walked pass 110 St and Tito Puente Way with no mention to Tito Puente. He was a legend American musician, songwriter and record producer, a Puerto Rican brother from Spanish Harlem with a music career that spanned over 50 yrs. He is one of the greats in Latin jazz. His most famous composition was "Oye Como Va", later popularized by Carlos Santana.

[@ActionKid]

Thanks for sharing that information! I had no idea who he was.

[@D.N..]

Wagner Community gardens is a good way to let folks have a better sense of ownership and pride , which helps for a better community, ! Growing and tending a garden allows residents to see the end result of their work ! 😋

[@iainsanders4775]

Over 80K! Congrats!

[@ActionKid]

Thank you 😃

[@raineyj560]

👍🏾👍🏾

[@01ruudjemulder]

YES, arrived in New York yesterday !!! Tomorrow watching the German - American Steuben parade on 5th Ave !! I'm looking forward. Ruud Mulder (NYC fan) The Netherlands

[@ActionKid]

Very nice!

[@may-beeart7930]

I loved this! Very nice walk! tks AK

[@ConcietedMuchXD]

cant wait to see all of your videos when its autumn and all the trees are yellow and orange!

[@lynn4548]

Thank you for taking me back home to one of my childhood neighborhoods ..... I grow up on the east side 103 st Amsterdam ave....

[@lynn4548]

Miracle Your right don’t know why I said east I think where he was was on my mind ? I went to holy name on 96 st.

[@carolynnewyork6919]

Use ,2 live there 116an first. Miss it greatly. Thank u 4 taking me home

[@marcusperez7799]

Hard at work as always. Thank You. Your subscríbers love it.

[@ActionKid]

You’re welcome!

[@ephraim8894]

I was happy when u made it to 101st and Lexington. Great memories makes me think of the summer block parties, basketball tournaments, people sitting out on front of their buildings, playing dominoes, stickball. 😢😢😢

[@LuisSantiago-cf6ok]

Wow! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. So many of the bldgs you passed I've frequent. The best was the walk down Lexington. Was surprised to see the deli on the corner of 112th St, Lots of sandwiches bought there for field trip. The church at the corner of 111th St was the famous church taken over by the Young Lords in 1969 or 70. These were my old neighborhood. That bldg on 109th with the windows boarded up was once and friend's place. Again thanks. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@frank-xp6pj]

Wow nothing is the same anymore, I remember when Spanish Harlem use to be predominantly Puerto Ricans myself back in the 80's & 90's....someone posted it's mostly Mexicans & central americans now.

[@vicschannelthevictor6851]

Thanks for the video I grew up on 112 st first ave. It changed a lot since 1986

[@dianestretch5087]

Another interesting walk.

[@AenselWalkingVideos]

Great area to check! Excellent video!

[@ortzruiz]

Happy you and Manny showed Spanish Harlem I am from EL BARRIO

[@ortzruiz]

PS Don't be fooled by what you hear that Spanish Harlem is a lousy place to live. I lived there for 42 years and it was a wonderful place to live with my family. 🙏

[@pamelagriffin3561]

At the RFK bridge is were the FDR Dr ends and the Harlem River Dr. Begins

[@jamesstark8316]

I still call it the Triborough Bridge and I refuse to call the 59th Street Bridge the Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge. Nothing against hizzoner. Cheers.

[@pamelagriffin3561]

@@jamesstark8316 i still call it that too i live 3 blocks from the triboro bridge

[@b.griffin317]

@@jamesstark8316 here here

[@Janos3838]

Good video!Thanks for sharing!👏👏😊😊

[@trmdude5738]

Thanks man, appreciate what you do

[@johnperry4572]

59:20.....you can blame the former Interboro Rapid Transit Co. for that hill....ride the Lexington IRT in that area..... you'll see that just south of 103rd St....the express tracks curl under the local tracks.....all the way down to just south of 51St Street

[@wordtomytimbs2442]

18:37 thats a dope green truck!

[@ActionKid]

Really dope!

[@LoiLoScope]

Hi! - New style? Arriving with a bus? - The subway will be very offended.

[@healingtimeinkorea]

Good morning. nice to meet you.😉 This amazing video makes me very happy and amuses me. Greetings from your friend 'HTK' from Korea.💌😊🖐

[@jamesstark8316]

Hey AK, nice video. You passed my favorite car wash at 17:09 located at 109th and 1st Ave. Totally stupid to keep a car in Manhattan but what can I say, "stupid is as stupid does." I pay $450 a month just to garage the car and I may use it once or twice a month but again, what are ya gonna do? Lol. Cheers.

[@apex157x6]

Great history on this one!

[@alfoncesmithe]

Nice video very informative you have great knowledge of N.Y.C.I'm learning so much, I also spotted 3 gas stations quite close together that's rare in Manhattan. I new there was problems here but you have added a lot more info thank you Kenneth your knowledge is Priceless take care man👍☕☕🗽🗽🙂👍

[@tedted5431]

Very nice. Thanks! 👍 🗽

[@ingtvjapan6590]

You upload so many videos in a week!! Please take care..!

[@ActionKid]

Thank you!

[@b.griffin317]

59:30 manhattan valley, the remains of an old river.

[@nancyojeda4844]

Yes they do keep them nice I remember I use to live in housing projects in the Bronx in the late 70's the apartments are real nice and big

[@jc9240]

Coming up 1st Avenue from 96th to 120th street and the opposite coming back down on 2nd Avenue it's like Day and Night, a take of two New York City Views just a block apart!

[@ll5584]

32:20 " pigeons taking a bath " 🤣👍👍

[@rockstarmoneyent4098]

You walked pass my high school on 1st ave across street from sanitation god bless you be careful and safe LOVE MY CITY NYC BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD 🌎

[@MannyExploresVlog]

Congrats on 80K subs, I like East Harlem, the main reason I go there is for The Cuchifritos spot, for great food.

[@ActionKid]

Thank you!

[@jjnyc4610]

Manny Explores ooh is it the one on 116th? My friend and I use to go there all the time🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@mja9123]

116 an second.

[@jessebrace]

49:30 I'm about to move to 112th street so I was looking forward to what cool history facts might be around my new apartment, but you just said to watch out for stepping in dog poo poo LOL! 🤣

[@geriortiz6846]

hi actionkid..good work...keep it up..i wish i could do that..

[@kengoodwin5838]

Super nice video. Makes me want to move there.

[@jeahavvalentin980]

Excellent video like always sir

[@davidwoo8920]

Funny to see the gas stations on 1st Ave, and enjoyed the eastside walk, thanks.

[@iaj7517]

Thank you very much for posting! This is actually my old neighborhood where I was raised decades ago. Many memories. Thanks again!

[@anneross1021]

I used to live on E 112th street near el bario...

[@b.griffin317]

neighborhood is looking up. 😎 you keep giving me ideas of where to visit AK.

[@jacquelinegangas7728]

hello actionkid !! ... I watched the video on TV, I remember my walks in that area, it was super cool !! 💝💝

[@samirrami4586]

as usually on the top , well done .

[@raulroca4694]

Yo escucho hablar del east harlem, el barrio, y me acuerdo de la cancion de Arsenio Rodriguez, el ciego maravilloso, "Fuego en el 23"

[@mikioni]

Excellent☺

[@j37as]

YOU SHOULD OF VISITED SYLVANS PLACE ALSO THE LANDMARK HARLEM COURT HOUSE

[@robsonrodrigues805]

Belíssimo video!

[@jimdoyel5044]

Another good one, AK. Thanks. How about a video about extreme upper Broadway? Don't know the area myself, but have a family friend that lives up there. Maybe you've already done so, and if that's the case, sorry I haven't seen it.

[@ActionKid]

I haven’t really walked extreme upper Broadway but I’ve done many cycling trips through there, as well as a cycling tour of Inwood

[@whimseyme9245]

Aww I used to live on E 119 st I wish you would of turned on there my dad owned the auto body shop across from the 3 story house we lived in which is a dentist office now I believe

[@johnnynoirman]

Action Kid--I would love to talk to you about putting music to some your videos.

[@johnnynoirman]

Checkout my channel and you will see what I mean...

[@Mathin3D]

NYC - best city in the world.

[@b.griffin317]

1:06:12 as opposed to the williamsburg part. 😉

[@stankormy5717]

New York is on the up &up!

[@Denis-jd6dd]

Cool stroll! Thanks!!!XDD

[@fernandosanchezcuadro1487]

Congratulations from Spain for your new video. Autum and winter is coming, I like very much your videos when you are recording under the rain (rainny day) and under the thunderstorm (massive thunderstorm), could you record a video under a great rain or under a magnificent thunderstorm in Times Square or in other population street or avenue? And I like when you are recording under the night with all artificial lights. The best for me will be a video at night under great thunderstorm. And last I have a curiosity, Which is your personal opinion about MrKong NYC and tomasz Bykowski KZbin channels?

[@ActionKid]

Thank you 😊 I would make some more thunderstorm videos, but it’s all dependent on the weather conditions, where I am at the time, and my ability to record it. We’re not forecasted to have rain in the next week. MrKong NYC and Tomasz Bykowski have great channels too that also show NYC. I don’t particularly enjoy Tomasz’s style of skipping around different NYC neighborhoods from one clip to the next in the same video though.

[@debolt4796]

nice thanks

[@thomaskevinhughes8890]

Fantastic job through the New York public housing authority it's wonderful it's better than Chicago high-rise projects anymore torn down in Chicago I would like to see you do White Plains New York

[@Livingmydreammm]

Thank you❤❤❤

[@kei2142]

Do you upload at 6 am then go to work or something? Happy Friday

[@ActionKid]

Yes I schedule most of my uploads for 6AM. Happy Friday to you too 😃

[@jaymoneyman2116]

How about Randells island its peaceful

[@TDMoorethanjustORCHIDS]

man i was just in manhattan and took my mom to the Botanical Garden and had to subway to 125th and Lexington to catch another subway..i've never been so intimidated by all the people on their hustle, of the poverty and homelessness mental illness desperation in that one block...was like skid row .

[@ActionKid]

Yes, it’s pretty bad there

[@b.griffin317]

25:03 ooo la la 😎

[@michaeljay9019]

On the Lexington hill I once saw a guy walking with a huge turtle under his arm. I asked him what he was doing. Walking my turtle, what's it look like? Lolol God I miss living there!!!!

[@lscarver5]

The video is nice, but East Harlem also has Black residents too. The boundaries for Italian Harlem stretched from Lexington Avenue to Pleasant Ave. Also their population didn't end at 116th Street. Maybe the narrator could do a little more research on the area. One more thing, if NYCHA gets "criticism" maybe it's warrented. Ask some of people who reside there, or watch the news reports.

[@magdalena4314]

Thanks, for that! I'm trying to understand where he got his history on El Barrio from 🤔. I've been living here 18 years now.

[@Shawk95]

ActionKid It would really help if you could also mention where subway stations are located. I enjoy your walking tours very much. Thanks.

[@ActionKid]

I could but there are just so many subway stations to list!

[@Shawk95]

@@ActionKid Well, what can I say? It would be really informative tough.

[@jamesstark8316]

They are shown on his accompanying Google map but you're right. Maybe a shout out when he passes a station? I think he does most of the time. Cheers.

[@FifthnLincoln]

27:57 Looks like the band has a gig and is waiting to get picked up? :)

[@johnobolojohnstonejohn7891]

Excelent