Always thought Houston was pronounced Houston. Now I know Houston is pronounced Houston and not Houston.

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Can you believe we read Houston and Houston differently? We totally get you!

@DanielsimsSteiner

3 жыл бұрын

I also think it’s crazy Houston is actually Houston cause it looks like Houston, I always assumed it was Houston. Lol

@chicoblackly3119

3 жыл бұрын

huh? i- all the 'houstons' are the same . i think i lost braincells reading this

@metro-sn

3 жыл бұрын

@@chicoblackly3119 nah, you’re just not from NY, you wouldn’t get it lol

@chicoblackly3119

3 жыл бұрын

@@metro-sn but how do you differentiate its all spell the same

Union Square: Am I a joke to you?

@eliyaskiya

2 жыл бұрын

RIP Union Square

A New Yorker of 43 years, great job, simple and to the point.

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@lemonman394

3 жыл бұрын

As a New Yorker for 0 years and 0 days. He did ok

@bmorewecanbemore3398

3 жыл бұрын

York

@bmorewecanbemore3398

3 жыл бұрын

2 26th

@__Mr.White__

Жыл бұрын

43 years? You must be incredibly rich to live so long in the most expensive city!

I refuse to live in NOHO, can't live without 'em 'hos.

@SRosenberg203

3 жыл бұрын

SoHo is much more fun. Who doesn't like to go south with some hos?

@visionartstudio6946

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@tylerdurden639

3 жыл бұрын

*BRO'S BEFORE HO'S!*

@dame5079

3 жыл бұрын

This beautiful😂🙏

@Haroon38931

2 жыл бұрын

@@tylerdurden639 Join us in BROHO

New Yorker here! This is a really helpful and concise video for those who don’t know the city. The one thing I would point out is that you referred to everything south of midtown at one point as the financial district, which I think could be a bit misleading as it is only the bottom tip of the island. Otherwise great video

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback!

@5eviexe466

3 жыл бұрын

Are you a real New Yorker or an incomer hypster who pretends to be a new Yorker

@5eviexe466

3 жыл бұрын

@Bruno Lora which part

@5eviexe466

3 жыл бұрын

@Bruno Lora which part do you live? I'm from London pretty much like NYC but I've always dreamed about swapping cities and living in New York.

@just_cade

3 жыл бұрын

I've always referred to the area south of 14th as "Lower Manhattan" as a general name including the Financial District, East and West Villages, SoHo, Tribeca, etc. I call the Financial District "Downtown", and usually when I say Downtown, that's what I mean, but I also just use the word downtown when say I am going south, regardless of where I am above 14th street.

A helpful hint from a local: within the grid there are 20 streets to a mile. This means you can cover about a block per minute. An avenue block is the length of *three* street blocks, so it'll take you about three minutes per avenue. That means (for instance) a trip from the Flatiron Building at 23rd & 5th to Times Square at 42nd & 7th will take you: - 19 streets = 19 minutes - plus 2 avenues = 2x3 or 6 minutes So you'll be in Times Square in 25 minutes if you hike it. I used this all the time before map apps took all the adventure out of life. PS - why isn't it pronounced SowHow?

@jefffinkbonner9551

7 ай бұрын

Dang, this is super cool! Now, is that a street per minute or a street per New York minute? 😉

I couldn't believe how well designed NYC was when I visited before google map was a thing in the 2000s. It was impossible to get lost as long as you knew the street and the avenue of your destination

Manhattan's grid is amazing. About 30 years ago, my boyfriend and I were driving from Boston to a convention in NYC, held at a hotel near Madison Square Garden. We set off in the general direction of NY without a map, just following the signs. We figured that when we got closer to NYC, we'd stop and buy a map of the city. We ended up driving right into Manhattan from the highway, like, oh crap, there's nowhere to stop, we're in it now. We navigated right to the hotel using just the address. The street numbers were counting down to the street that our hotel was on, then we just found the cross street and we were there. I was astonished, as this is very much not possible to do in gridless Boston. We never did buy a map. We had our weekend at the convention and just drove out the same way we drove in. I loved it.

I have been to New York City numerous times and I can say I know my way around Manhattan. Yet, getting out of a subway station and walking in the opposite direction to where I'm going still happens to me. Don't get me wrong, getting lost in NYC can be a magical experience since you get to "find" gems along the way that otherwise you'll never get to know, but learning that even streets runs East would be a time-saver on my next visits. Thank you for a very informative video!

@timafiggy

2 жыл бұрын

just don't take the A train to the empire State bldg if you are looking for it. thake the B train. the 6 train to to the Chrysler bldg if you want that. when you get out it is to your left. also if you are getting out of Gran central past th Hyatt hotel walk another block east. right on your left side , .

@darlagts

2 жыл бұрын

​@@timafiggy thank you! I stay in Central Harlem, close to Lennox Ave., so the No. 3 is my usual mean of transportation, quite convenient being an express train and running on 7th ave., I might add. Although, if I'm heading East, to the museums or any of the parks or shops on 5th Ave., I would frequently use one of the the buses lines that runs on 5th, since I enjoy the sightseeing opportunity, provided it is before noon, otherwise it will take forever to get anywhere.

Just came across this...a KZread recommendation. A few points: for orientation and navigation purposes, it's good for visitors to know that streets are pretty close to each other but avenues are pretty far apart. So, it someone tells you to walk from 28th to 29th Streets on 5th Ave, that will take you at the most a minute, but walking from 28th and 5th to 28th and 6th is a longer trek. I agree with other posters about your over-simplification of the neighborhoods. I realize you were just trying to not clutter the map, but everything north of Central Park is NOT Harlem, and there are tons of very unique and distinct neighborhoods below Midtown. It's not all just the financial district! It also would have been helpful to explain why Broadway doesn't follow the grid pattern (it was an original trail used by the indigenous population prior to the arrival of the Europeans).

I lived in NYC my whole life and never connected the dots that even streets go east and odd streets go west. Wow.

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Mindblowing!

@markfox1545

2 жыл бұрын

Not very bright, are you?

@aidandagrossa575

2 жыл бұрын

no same learned so much and i lived here my whole life

@kanyebreast6072

2 жыл бұрын

@@markfox1545 Not very nice, are you?

@aumurphy

2 жыл бұрын

Learned it when I was a bike messenger

I'm not from Manhattan but I live in Brooklyn and everytime I look out my apartment window I see our beautiful Manhattan Skyline. Proud New Yorker here 😘

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky you 😍

@chasbodaniels1744

2 жыл бұрын

The Jersey side of the Hudson and Brooklyn have spectacular views of Manhattan at night, especially. Those couple of miles away from the island provide a nice wide perspective.

And I thought I knew NYC. Wow, so informative.

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful for you!

The area you called Financial District should have been called downtown. Same with Harlem because Harlem is uptown, The Financial District and Harlem are specific neighborhoods. Dyckman isn't in Harlem

@Tokkemon

3 жыл бұрын

It was simplified for the tourists who will never go north of 110th Street.

@chechantal

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he lost me at the generalization of Harlem and “Financial District”. Uptown and Downtown are the appropriate references and terms that are completely relatable to most tourists.

@determineddylan8793

3 жыл бұрын

Dykman is considered Washington Heights

@g.carreon8724

3 жыл бұрын

@@determineddylan8793 dyckman is in between the heights and inwood but considered more inwood than the heights

@reggierodriguez6546

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same. The financial district should have been referred to downtown manhattan. That’s the way us locals calls it anyway

Super cool!!! As someone who has not been to and has only known NY through movies and videos and stories and literature, this is suuuuuuuper cool to see on an actual map! More of this please! :)

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Coming right up ;)

the trick about orienting yourself out of the subway is much more useful when thinking about the avenues because of exactly what you said - the main streets that the subway stops stop at are two-way, like 23rd, 34th, 42nd, etc. Even avenues go north and odds go south - much more helpful when orienting yourself than 2-way streets!

Would love to see these breakdowns for more cities around the world!

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned, it might happen 😉

@_dnL

2 жыл бұрын

Yes please 🥺

It's funny that Broadway in this video is "the little exception I have to mention at the end" - when in reality it's literally the oldest of all the roads they talk about :D It follows the path of the old trail native americans carved into the manhattan brush, later made wider by the dutch (which is where it gets it's name from: when the british took over New Amsterdam, they saw the unusually wide path through the brush and called it: "the broad way")

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's so interesting!

Even flows to the East, never knew that before, helpful tip.

Informative video but for those watching this before visiting nyc for the first time, there are a few inaccuracies that are worth pointing out: 1:30 - No one in their right mind refers to the entire area from Union Square down as the Financial District (FiDi). FiDi is essentially the southern tip of the island. If you're trying to go to union square or Houston street, etc. and ask for directions to the Financial District, you will be sent very far out of your way. Along that same vein, I would also argue that Midtown does not go nearly as far south as Union Square, but that's not as egregious. You can actually see this in the photo at 2:00. The tall buildings in the foreground are FiDi, and the tall buildings in the background are Midtown. That entire huge area of more low-lying buildings in the middle are almost entirely residential neighborhoods that are completely glossed over in this video. 2:24 - "The further uptown you get the more residential it becomes" statement isn't accurate. Yes, the neighborhoods uptown are mainly residential, but so is the massive area between Fidi and Midtown. In fact, many downtown neighborhoods are some of the most densely populated in the city. 3:03 - 4th Avenue is called Park Avenue for literally its entire length except for a small stretch between Union Square (14th Street) and Astor Place (8th Street), not because it's just in a particularly fancy part of town. 3:10 - Both Madison and Lexington Avenues span far longer than just the Upper East Side (UES). Both avenues pass through the entirety of Midtown and Harlem, as well as some downtown. 3:50 - The area circled is not all Alphabet City. Alphabet is only the upper half or so of the circled area. Lower East Side is the lower half of the circled area and is a distinct neighborhood. 4:20 - SoHo and NoHo are small neighborhoods that, yes, are located below and above Houston Street, respectively. But absolutely neither one covers the entire area below or above Houston. For example, nobody from New York would call the Lower East Side SoHo or the West Village NoHo. 4:58 - Yes, the two-way streets are exceptions to this rule, but there are also a few special case exceptions even with specifically 1-way streets. For example, both 60th and 61st streets on the east side flow West. 6:25 - Forgetting the pretty significant Union Square here on the intersection of Broadway and Park.

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for clarifying these things, we appreciate it 🙌

@kqatsi

2 жыл бұрын

Yes to everything here. The only one I didn't catch was the 4th Ave. point. 81st between Columbus and Amsterdam also flows east to aid the flow of traffic around the Museum of Natural History and to the 79th St. Transverse.

@coleklaassen9427

Жыл бұрын

@@BrightTripTravel haha taking this like a champ, W

This is one of those hidden gem channels on KZread, akin to SmarterEveryDay and Two Minute Papers

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

😊😍

I cant see how this would ever be useful to me but you do a bloody good job of explaining thank you👏

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I'm not even planning to go to NY but I thought this was amazing. Fantastic job guys. I'd be interested to see New Zealand travel guides! It's a wonderful place

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Noted! 😉

for a foreigner who loves NYC this was insightful and fun!

NY'er here. This is a truly wonderful video. It makes a good learning tool. Quick note...did you mean to say Houston is considered 1st Street? 1st Street is a separate street from Houston though..

Tbh I love how Manhattan's street layout was designed, main, long avenues with smaller roads cutting them into grid sections, with the FDR Drive outlining most of the island, everything well thought out and improved for centuries, amazing

@yutubetom

2 жыл бұрын

The FDR Drive is only on the east side. The Westside Highway is on the, well, west side.

@nvagn

2 жыл бұрын

@@yutubetom ah, I mistook it with its equivalent from GTA, my bad

Since you mention Broadway and the various Squares, it's interesting to point out that Madison Square Garden is not, in fact, located on Madison Square. How it came to be built above Penn Station (at West 34th Street) is a whole other story.

“Orient yourself by finding Central Park”. In Jersey City we “orient” ourselves throughout the area by if we can see the financial district

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

That's so cool!

I love to watch such videos and understand more about this beautiful world.

Thank you for your video. It's very helpful.

Great video! Thank you!

amazing video thanks for sharing

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Amazing! Can’t wait to be there! ✨

That was absoluty brilliant, man! Thank you so much!!

Oh man this was so interesting! Thank you!

This was amazing! As a visual learner and someone who loves understand map I'm in love with y'all and these videos!!! Thank you!

Great video, clear and informative

Thanks! Great explanation!

Great job! Easy to understand!

Very well explained, thanks for sharing! 👍🏻

Lower Eastside and Alphabet City are two adjacent neighborhoods they are not the same

@timafiggy

2 жыл бұрын

yeah wouldn't it be divided at Delancy or Grand?

@vincentlu36

2 жыл бұрын

@@timafiggy Houston street is the boarder

this is really helpful, thank you

Useful. Thank you.

Your amazing!! Love the detail orientation in your work!

I think it is interesting that Broadway actually follows the path that the Indians used to travel to lower Manhattan to fish.

@stevenroshni1228

3 жыл бұрын

The diagonal is pretty useful!

@MichaelfromtheGraves

3 жыл бұрын

I only watched this video to see if this myth was in here. Glad to see they didn't include it. The real trail was on the east side of current day Central Park.

@clydelaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelfromtheGraves Interesting. I saw the Broadway story in a documentary. I'd like to see a link to what you are saying. I also like the legend that the Pennsylvania turnpike follows the original path that Daniel Boone took when exploring Pennsylvania.

@clydelaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelfromtheGraves Thanks. Although I must admit I like romantic legends much better than the truth. LOL

@MichaelfromtheGraves

3 жыл бұрын

@@clydelaz cartographyandillustration.blogspot.com/2015/10/wickquasgeck-trail-manhattan-island.html?m=1 here's a map showing the difference between the two. In Dutch maps of lower Manhattan, the two were the same. So I'm guessing that's the origin of it.

Awesome! Thank you!

This was SO USEFUL! For someone who’s never visited NY. but has grown up on a diet of Friends and Seinfeld - suddenly so many street references in them make sense!

@Gorboduc

11 ай бұрын

The Seinfeld restaurant is still there on 110th Street & Broadway, and is called Tom's btw. 👍

I'm a New Yorker here, but I live in Queens, and well, I have just learned new things about the city. First of all, I didn't even know that there's a roundabout in the city! and now, the MTA central park is now going to haunt me for days

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha 😂

Excellent video man! Actually the best and only one i needed to watch to understand whats going on!

Brilliant video, very informative and helpful.

This was sooooo helpful! I dream of living in nyc and watch lord of youtubers from the city and now I’ll feel way more oriented to the locations they discuss.

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Yay!

thank you for this great video

An excellent concise, entertaining and informative presentation. Love the format!

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I am so glad I came across this!

Another great video, nice.

Thank You! Helpful.

Great explanation

Great video, so excited to see more from you all!

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to show you even more cool stuff :)

Beautiful and wonderful thank you!

this video is brilliant 👏🏻

Fantastic video I love it I learned a lot Thank you very much Have a wonderful day

I watched a video last year about the history of settlement and growth of New York and it showed the implementation of the grid system quite well, but this gave me an education on how it actually works! Thank you!

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome 🙌

Thanks it’s really helpful.

Loved this video

Soooo helpful! Thank you for the easy breakdown!!!

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

Anytime 😊

That was wonderful ♥

Thank you. I have been to the city several times, but this helped clear things up.

Excellent!

Loved it.

Cheers mate, looking forward to using your tips on our next visit !

I love watching these map videos. Can't wait to see more.

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

Yay, we're glad 😊

Brilliant video

Great video. Direct and concise. Heard all these terms my whole life and now I know what they mean.

Wowww, I learned so much in 7 minutes! Thank you so much!

Really well done/explained!

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

Yay, we're glad!

This was great. I am a geography and map nerd and this kind of thing fascinates me. I've been to NYC a few times and absolutely love how well organized the grid is and have always found the subway very easy to navigate. You are very right though, about not trying to use a subway map to guide you above ground. It's similarly easy to get around above ground, but in a slightly different way, which may sound strange but I'm sure you know what I mean :)

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

We’re so happy you liked it! Have you watched our San Francisco video yet? 😊

@loufancelli1330

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrightTripTravel Yes! The SF one was very interesting, I had heard about the reclaimed land but not to that level of detail. I'd love to see even more cities!

Brilliant info, great channel

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks 😊

Interesting. Thanks for making this!

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

very interesting and insightful video esp the even and east thing

Great video, thanks!

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

Thank you for the best and most illustrative video on the NYC street grid.

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

This video was SUPER informative! Thank you!

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

So glad! You're welcome 🙌

Outstanding breakdown…provided me a lot of new understanding of Manhattan. Very helpful.

So helpful ‼️

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Very nice!

I love this so much! Please do this for other cities, it pleases me so much seeing people equally interested in maps as me

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

We LOVE maps 😍

I watched this 2 years ago with zero intention to visit any time soon. Now I'm in NYC and my friends are in awe as to how I know this

I was always curious about this, great explanation!

@DanielsimsSteiner

8 ай бұрын

I’m so glad u liked it! Thanks for watching!

This is incredible!!! My map loving heart is so grateful!

@BrightTripTravel

9 ай бұрын

I'm so glad!

Perfect!

Best explanation! Most helpful for my tlc exam

EXCELLENT VIDEO! I have been to NYC atleast a dozen times and learned so much! I wish I had watched this sooner!!

Very Informative 👍

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Tremendous job. AGAIN. Thank you. So interesting, fun, and well thought out.

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

This video is so helpful! Thank you!!

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

We're so glad!

Best explanation by far

@BrightTripTravel

3 жыл бұрын

Yay, we're glad!

This was really helpful Thank you!!!

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Thank you so much. This was wonderful.

@BrightTripTravel

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very helpful!!

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

SUPER HELPFUL!!!

@BrightTripTravel

2 жыл бұрын

YAY!!