Inside Brooklyn's "Olde English Town": A Tour of Gravesend

First video. Love this guy already.

i use to go to the school right by the cemetery and we were always creeped out of the house bc it use to look creepy with vines growing I'm pretty sure they recently renovated that house

I grew up in Gravesend, Kent, England, it's also the believed resting place of Pocahontas

No more singing, please.

You forgot to mention how one of the owners of L&B had a hit put on him while he was walking to his house in Dyker Heights. He was shot and killed while bringing food home for dinner 😳

👍🏾😊

Now gravesend has a 4 day snow time

Familiar names. I used to play in Suydam Street Park which was between Knickerbocker and Irving Avenues. I lived in Wyckoff Heights in Bushwick a block from the Queens line on Stanhope Street. Stanhope Street was originally Cortelyou Street. The Cortelyou family was French Huguenot. Why the street name was changed I do not know.
The area was originally Dutch, then German and mostly Sicilian when I was a boy. I have Dutch, German, French Huguenot and Sicilian ancestry. There are others as well. My family has been here since 1627.

As a Canadian, I always find it strange that Americans seem to not want to zip or button their coats all the way up to protect themselves from the cold. You are freezing only because you are not properly dressed!

Advice: Always wear 1 or 2 intermediate layers between your shirt and your coat. Example: shirt + sweater + full-zip high collar fleece + winter coat. Also, always wear some kind of hat that protects your ears (a toque or "aviator hat"/ushanka is always good), gloves, and proper winter boots!

—From Montreal with love

Thank you for this lesson in history!! Loved it!
Also thank you for not using profanity! I can actually listen to you when my grandchildren are with me!

Definitely not as even 1 percent Italian as it used to be

I don't think Platt was pathetic, for using the strategy that gave us all this comfortable life.

No line at L&B? Did you film there at 7am on a Tuesday?

So funny, lived here in Bklyn (Manhattan Beach, 5 min away from Gravesend) essentially my whole life, and just "discovered" Gravesend. Just two days ago I detoured through there to pass by the cemetary and saw Lady Moodys house.

We won’t correct you, Tom. Most of us are here to learn from you 😂

You should do a Roy Demeo tour...betcha it will do very well

Thank you for making these videos...

The first three years of my life I lived with my family in a place called Beach Haven which is in Gravesend.

The original N train to 86 st bound announcement was: “This is a Gravesend - 86 St Bound N Local train. The next stop is: Lawrence Street.”

great that

Yo Tommy D please make a video about the five boroughs and how they came to be and how they became one please we need your history insight ASAP!!!

Put gloves 🧤 on.

We the UK should of kept the American colony 😂😂😂😂

And do nyc stuff. Its full of awesome history. We have great history here in bmore but not like nyc

Bro u had my attention the whole time
I love history and u did a darn good job layin it out. Hope u do more !

Hey Tom! I really enjoy watching your tours. I'm thinking about moving to NYC and I'm going to try any tour that you might have done where they're apartments near Madison Square Park and where you can walk and get things between the 60 block and downtown easy.

Quick correction: sufganiyot (the Jewish jelly donuts popular as Hanukkah treats, as are latkes) were originally brought to Israel by Polish Jews, who were Ashkenazi. The Hebrew word sufganiyot was adopted for them in Israel, so people — including lots of Jewish people — assume they’re originally Sephardic; but it’s not so. A similar treat originally enjoyed by Sephardim, although they’re not jelly-filled, is bimuelos. Another donut-type treat enjoyed by Moroccan Jews is called sfenj.

Brooklyn had a boutique called Lady Moody on East 13 Street named Lady Moody.

Gravesend has a nice Inexpensive store on West 9 St and Ave u to get a jacket and gloves.

so the first time he sang this lousy song I was angry then he does it AGAIN hate this song im outa here

GET A REAL COAT

Nice vlog about Gravesend. I never thought I would be keenly interested in it!

Silent viewer: So happy to see a new video despite what ever may be going on in the usa. Its Sunday as I'm viewing this and it feels like home once again. My first vist to nyc will invole a tour from you! Thank you for your knowledge and humor lol soy de texas y hablo espanol tambien.. mis padres ven tus videos en espanol.. mucho respecto!

Tom, now you've got to tell us more about your Queens apartment. I'm left hanging. I'm in Queens as well. I know those songs from way back when. Don't forget your gloves next time and wear a warmer coat. Be Good

Isn't that where Sheepshead Bay is?...Met my wife at the Shore Cafe 57 years ago...

You're not far from me

Thank you for your great work/ videos...👍 Yes, earlier the same Avenue U was a Russian-speaking area, then after a few years it also became Chinese, like other places in Brooklyn, Manhattan, including various Italian areas became Chinese, the same Brighton Beach was mainly a place for Russian -speaking Jews, also Russian-speaking, Ukrainian-speaking Slavs, Georgian-speaking people from Georgia, place from the former Soviet republics, now others with other ethnic people dominate there and so on. I myself am also a witness to all these changes during my time living in New York City...

Ohhh man! You were right on my block!
I really wanted to collaborate or help

Prince lived with Rod Stewart.....In New York?? And in Queens New York!!!!????? Reallyyyy???? Wow, Wtf. That's interesting AF in itself 😆

Buy a pair of gloves next time

He's so out of place. Maybe it's because he actually doesn't know what he's talking about.

Good Visio I came from ave u between est 7 and 8 st my uncle lived on neck road near triangle

Oh snap. I live here. Wow what a coincidence that this would be recommended to me

No one can drape himself over a urine & feces covered NYC park-bench making believe he’s passed out like Prof. Tom Delgado!!! Spectacular!!!!De Niro: move ovah!!!

Was a big Italian neighbor not anymore...mostly Chinese, and Mexican, and Russians

The Jews on those few streets are pretty well off, they have nice big houses you should have shown ,they also have huge houses in Deal NJ...where they go in the Summer

Why don't you have the THANK Feature where people can leave some money for you?

I was born there still 15 minutes from there in Gerritsen Beach

Audio sucks