It’s actually kind of shocking when a shed is taken down, because you got so used to it, and you start to wonder, “did I get off the subway at the wrong stop?”

@SuprousOxide

2 жыл бұрын

And then you think, aww crap I've got an extra block to walk now before I can get out of the rain again

@Chris-pt6hh

2 жыл бұрын

When the neighboring building took down its scaffolds, I didn't recognize my own street where I had lived for two years, at all.

@alunesh12345

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuprousOxide Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally ❤🙌😘🤗😍🥳

@RealBNews

2 жыл бұрын

YEP! It's so confusing when you see sunlight and an open sidewalk when you've seen unhoused people and tables set up under there for over a year. -_-

@CristianMartinez-cr1eo

2 жыл бұрын

@@alunesh12345 No.

According to HAI, all films made in February are the worst out of the year. When is the Curiosity Stream series releasing? Mid February

@thecinephilefish9465

2 жыл бұрын

don't worry, HAI is just capitalising on a weak market

@halfasinteresting

2 жыл бұрын

Wait... uhhhh........

@WingsOTWorld

2 жыл бұрын

This means that the only thing to watch is the HAI special!

@samuelgunter

2 жыл бұрын

don't worry, this isn't a film

@WingsOTWorld

2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelgunter it's better than a film! XD

street-level scaffolding is often up for years at a time here in nyc. when it is finally removed, it's amusingly disorienting, as if someone had just 'updated the map' over the weekend

@ScourgeBliss

2 жыл бұрын

As a New Yorker this is so true.

YES !!! That's what NYC needs: a way for cheap building owners to inconvenience and slow down pedestrian traffic all while creating a semi permanent roof hiding yet more sky.

@SuprousOxide

2 жыл бұрын

Pedestrians want the roof when it's raining.

@robertmoore6149

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuprousOxide NYC is not lacking for roofs. It is lacking in greenspace, aka being outside. Neverending sidewalk sheds is the worse of both worlds. Cant see the sky and still out in the elements. And trust me, those things can and do leak so being out of the rain is iffy as well.

@Olivia-W

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertmoore6149 I don't know. Out of the rain and out of the sun, it's not so bad.

@robertmoore6149

2 жыл бұрын

@@Olivia-W There is a time and place for being out of the elements, it's called indoors. New Yorkers struggle to find nature. They dont need help hiding from it.

@Olivia-W

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertmoore6149 Go to work in the pouring rain and tell me that again, will you?

Dear god…I have always feared the day when the biggest city in the US would be in the pockets of big scaffolding…

@wyskass861

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the mob is involved in skimming money from the scaffolding business somehow.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

This is probably the most unexpected threat to NYC.

@alunesh12345

2 жыл бұрын

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally ❤🙌😘🤗😍🥳

@crazysanta6641

2 жыл бұрын

@@alunesh12345 jeSUS

@kekerosberg1654

2 жыл бұрын

@@alunesh12345 Dude, there is nothing worse you can do to make people to be disgusted about religion than spamming this kinda comments on unrelated videos and discussions. Stop it

I thought Sam looked like a stock photo businessman in real life, I can’t believe this illusion has been shattered.

@Jenny-tm3cm

2 жыл бұрын

Me realizing I think all men look like stock photo businessmen

@shayelea

2 жыл бұрын

That…was NOT what I expected Sam to look like.

@soundscape26

2 жыл бұрын

There's more Sam here, with Joseph from Real Life Lore and Brian from Real Engineering: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYKNrKptfbSqpdI.html

@alunesh12345

2 жыл бұрын

@@shayelea Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally ❤🙌😘🤗😍🥳

@NoNameAtAll2

2 жыл бұрын

sam showed up? when?

I’ve worked in an office in Manhattan for 13+ years (pandemic not withstanding) I’d say that total cumulative time that my building has been scaffold-free is four years! The sidewalk shed is basically an awning for the smokers. Would be better to just build a permanent overhang and call it a day.

@alunesh12345

2 жыл бұрын

Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally ❤🙌😘

@importantculturalarchive

2 жыл бұрын

I mean the bible is very clear that good works and faith are necessary for heaven but if you believe in some weird crypto pagan religion than sure. Might as well throw in faith in the sun god and the moon god to have all of your bases covered as well

@PrivateMcPrivate

2 жыл бұрын

But THE MONIES!

@fortusvictus8297

2 жыл бұрын

@@importantculturalarchive omg, did you really just take that bait? ...new to the internet?

@squeaksquawk4255

2 жыл бұрын

But then the overhang would fail an inspection, and would need it's own overhang. Wait...

Having listened to all of Louis Rossmanns rants about NYC land lords, the fact these things get left up forever rather than fixing the problem doesn't surprise me at all.

@filanfyretracker

2 жыл бұрын

I mean they are so cheap they would not have heat in the building if it were legal, And if the building gets sold to a management company or hedge fund the cheapness only gets worse because now you have a slumlord with shareholders.

I always got nervous walking under the sidewalk sheds...people crash into the support poles, lean on them, set up side stalls on them etc. Do they inspect them too? (In other words, when will we see sidewalk shed sheds?)

@danielclark4624

2 жыл бұрын

am i the only person in new york that LIKEs the sheds?

@syrialak101

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielclark4624 Nah, I think they look cool.

@joshuacheung6518

2 жыл бұрын

Fortunately, eyeballing most of them gives you enough warning-if they look like they're falling apart or leaning, cross the street!

@harrypjotr4987

2 жыл бұрын

they are there to withstand falling debris from buildings, a human leaning into one of the poles should be the least of your problems. the question is, are they strong enough to withstand a large amount of brick falling down.

@SolarAdrift

2 жыл бұрын

And when can we sing the campfire song song under sidewalk shed sheds?

Scaffolding are found against buildings, buildings are made made of bricks...but how are bricks made?

@KishinAubrey

2 жыл бұрын

with moincrap obviously

@marcosettembre

2 жыл бұрын

It sounds like an intro of a vsauce video

@Vis-Light

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcosettembre you wouldn’t get it

@marcosettembre

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vis-Light I'm not a veteran but I know that bricks are a meme here, I don't why tho

@jbird4478

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcosettembre Because his best videos are all about bricks. And there are tons of them. Like hidden gems.

*Government passes a new law that has unintended consequences.* Lawmakers: “Repeal the law? Never! Let’s make a *new* law with unintended consequences!”

@alunesh12345

2 жыл бұрын

Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally ❤🙌😘

@adenrius

2 жыл бұрын

@@alunesh12345 Shut up, please.

@enteecee.

2 жыл бұрын

Government isn't the problem here: it's businesses acting on government. If businesses were kept from influencing elected officials, this wouldn't be a problem. Blaming this on government is like saying cars don't work because yours stopped running after you never changed the oil.

@louismelahn1805

2 жыл бұрын

@@enteecee. , if businesses had sufficient influence, the silly law would be repealed. Clearly, something else is at play, here. I call it bureaucratic inertia.

@bradarmstrong3952

2 жыл бұрын

This is the whole thing, Louis, exactly this. If you just flip it on its head a little it will make more sense: "government solutions to government-created problems" aka job security for government leaches.

Life long New Yorker here and feel very lucky to live in a building where we had to fix the facade, scaffolding was put up, facade was fixed, and the scaffolding was quickly taken down in about 2 months 😂 that being said scaffolding is sometimes welcome as a place to hide from rain/snow/searing sun or a place to sit for a minute.

@cauyawolfe4724

2 жыл бұрын

Escape; kzread.info/dron/C16Z_fhOsclvpjoRrZ9hqw.html

As someone who recently moved to NYC, this is a super interesting video! I see scaffolding EVERYWHERE

@stubblycuber2729

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@GregCutchRally

2 жыл бұрын

No, you see sidewalk sheds!

@diegodesouza5382

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

@PendulumCancel

2 жыл бұрын

My roughly 100 year old building had scaffolding across the entire length of it's front for five years. They finally removed it almost two weeks ago and I rejoiced, but a week later they reinstalled some slightly smaller scaffolding again. I freaking hate it!

@greenoftreeblackofblue6625

2 жыл бұрын

Must not be in Staten Island

I just opened Google Streetview and dropped a pin. My entire screen was just covered in scaffolding. 10/10 video intro.

Can’t they just copy the corresponding law of literally ANY OTHER CITY of the world? It works fine EVERYWHERE but NY.

@MrOobling

2 жыл бұрын

The scaffolding industry is now a billion dollar industry in NYC so it holds some power of its own. Also, developers are now used to the cheap prices, and would make a huge complaint if it was changed and developers hold a huge amount of power.

@soundscape26

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to mention that... New York is old by US standards but c'mon, there are much older cities all over the world and none needs to use this. It makes the city look quite ugly and rundown.

@enteecee.

2 жыл бұрын

@@soundscape26 Very few of those older cities have as many buildings as big and as tall as NYC's because of when their relative building booms happened. Look at at the tall sections of older cities - they're much newer than New York's first major crop of skyscrapers. That said, no NY doesn't NEED this, either. They're trapped into it by bureaucracy and the power of business over government, as the video outlined pretty well.

@soundscape26

2 жыл бұрын

@@enteecee. Thanks for the extra info. Also yes, so in order to have shed/scaffolding companies profiting, you keep many parts of NYC as a permanent eyesore.

@michaelfoye1135

2 жыл бұрын

New York isn't a city, it's a crime syndicate. This is just one of many rackets.

I actually got offered a job in the city at an architecture firm that does independent law 11 inspections and permits for repair. Part of the job would have included me repelling off buildings to inspect bricks

@stephengnb

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds bad a$$.

@Tankerpaul223

2 жыл бұрын

That would probably be pretty cold during the winter. Inspections are done in the warm months i bet, eh?

@decidiousrex

2 жыл бұрын

A job repelling buildings? That's a dream job. I mean buildings don't move usually, to repel them would require doing literally nothing

@Alamyst2011

2 жыл бұрын

That company is decades behind. I inspect brick in old furnaces, chimneys, industrial buildings etc. Cant beat a drone

@soconoha8495

2 жыл бұрын

@@decidiousrex I would think convincing a building to flee is quite the feat!

"If you took all the scaffolding in New York and lined it up altogether then you get.. arrested immediately" That was hilarious 😂

@wyskass861

2 жыл бұрын

We expected a distance to California, but he flipped it around on us, and made it literal. That humorous rascal!

@alunesh12345

2 жыл бұрын

@@wyskass861 Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally ❤🙌😘

@wyskass861

2 жыл бұрын

@@alunesh12345 Why?

I love when the trailer teaches you absolutely nothing about the show and gives you no reason to want to watch it

@Reester11

2 жыл бұрын

I hate to agree with such a rude way of saying this, but ya was hoping for at least an idea on the plot.

@sproge2142

2 жыл бұрын

Extremely accurate, got to be the worst trailer I've seen in my life 😂

@alexsteil7227

2 жыл бұрын

In fairness I guess he called it a 'teaser,' but I still am left curious what is even the concept. Love you Sam, your work is phenomenal, but I'm gonna need a bit more info buddy lmao

@halfasinteresting

2 жыл бұрын

It's a teaser trailer...

@shahidnyker2900

2 жыл бұрын

@@halfasinteresting in other words, it's a trailer of trailer

Seriously, even their own building has had the sheds for 13 years. Whole thing makes New York look run down.

@Tony-hx2fj

2 жыл бұрын

probably because of rent control, landlord cant sell building and cant raise rents to pay for improvements. what would you do?

@gm2407

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tony-hx2fj Petition for rent raise due to improvements or communal funding to fix the building.

@Tony-hx2fj

2 жыл бұрын

@@gm2407 I imagine that funding is far and few between. Could you imagine the cost of these kinds of repairs not to mention all the permits, fees, scams. then to have property tax raised accordingly. Only big companies could afford that. When rents cost as high as Tokyo then residents could squawk.

@gm2407

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tony-hx2fj In fairness in huge cities like New York everything is expensive. I consider them financial black holes and avoid them.

@Utonian21

2 жыл бұрын

Comments like this make me laugh because they don't make the city look "rundown" at all, IMO. Just gives the impression that the city is constantly under construction which Is partially true. NYC is the biggest city in the country with a rich history and it's own identity. I genuinely don't know what mofos expect it to look like lmao

I visited NYC over the summer and was SO confused as to why there was scaffolding literally everywhere lmao. Thanks for this.

@CryptocurrencyInsider

2 жыл бұрын

It’s nice when there’s a torrential downpour in the summer. Also gives you shade.

@2008bunnybigenderflux

2 жыл бұрын

I went as a kid and was like "is this city just being built?"

Bruh even the department that enforces to limit scaffoldings also has scaffoldings ahahahaha

When something sucks it's usually either neglect or cheapskate behavior. At this point, just straight up force the property owners to fix it within a few years. More cities should force property owners to take care of their shit. They're just lazy and have no respect for whatever pre war architect that spend time building these. A spit in the face to those people.

@MRWATSiT2YA37

2 жыл бұрын

If you were an owner of one of those buildings, you’d do the exact same thing. Because it’s cheaper.

@dannypipewrench533

2 жыл бұрын

As a pre-war architect, I do not mind sidewalk sheds on my buildings. I wanted to put some on when I originally designed them, but sidewalk sheds did not exist back then. At least not this concept of sidewalk sheds.

@bradarmstrong3952

2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how people like to spout this sort of tripe, but forget to mention that rent control has capped the money landlords can charge for the only product they have. I suppose you wouldn't mind paying your fair share of the cost of the building by paying a market-driven rent? ... Yeah, I didn't think so.

@dannypipewrench533

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradarmstrong3952 Rent is an interesting topic. Yes, it should be higher if we want the buildings to improve, but hardly anybody could afford that. So, now we cannot complain about how the buildings look. Honestly, the best solution is just not to live in a large city. I do think we should remove the rent cap, though. I am not a communist.

@TheBooban

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradarmstrong3952 hard to see how any reasonable rent control caps building maintenance. But what is universal for business is not to pay for unnecessary costs, like repairs if they can be avoided. That makes the most sense to me and in that case it wouldn’t matter if there was or was not rent control.

Scaffold isn't cheap either. It's usually rented to the client, and needs frequent inspections by scaffolds. I work for a scaffold company and their favorite things are the "permanent rentals" like snowsheds, or awnings, or staircases and balconies.

@JohnS-ch7cr

10 ай бұрын

Scaffolding is definitely not cheap so that where this video is wrong. It would actually be much cheaper to get the facade finished as soon as possible because the scaffolding companies charge to install, remove and rent the scaffolding every month and I'm talking an average cost in the tens of thousands monthly for these buildings.

@MrRezRising

10 ай бұрын

@@JohnS-ch7cr You're 100% right. I'm a commercial property manager in Manhattan. My largest building is 1340 Broadway in Herald square, across from Macy's. The LL11 scaff cost us about $150,000. $60k install, $20k to remove, and about $10k a month in rental fees and electricity to keep it lit. Took about six months. If you were planning on an indefinite scaffold, you'd be better off just buying the thing once it's installed and selling it when it comes down, or barter the removal with it with whatever company you use (I use Everest). I'm talking many years of use, maybe even decades, which does happen. The building on the SW corner of 57th and 9th had a scaff for almost forty years! It came down recently and they renovated. I heard the new owners made it happen.

@CMDKeenCZ

4 ай бұрын

@@JohnS-ch7cr Then why do so many buildings keep the scaffolding for years and years, though?

@JohnS-ch7cr

4 ай бұрын

@@CMDKeenCZ That's a good question, most people assume it's because its cheaper than fixing but my point goes against that theory. The only thing I can think of is that there is such a big problem with the façade that isn't fixable so they keep the scaffold up so it is indefinitely "under repair"

I've only spent a few weeks of my life wandering the streets of NYC, but I was under a sidewalk shed when a car slammed into it and scared the living crap out of me. Thankfully nobody was hurt. Also, the people who noticed went about their business as soon as they realized they weren't in imminent danger, without making sure everyone involved was okay.

I like that you used Buffalo’s city hall at the 4:20 mark. It really is a beautiful building; inside and out.

@MatthewFranzek

2 жыл бұрын

You caught it too!

@JDSpartan2007

Ай бұрын

Glad someone said it. Go Bills.

great video! watched the entire thing

@Eee12388

2 жыл бұрын

Did you sir. Did you.

@Philth_E

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, good job!

@WillHellmm

2 жыл бұрын

That's cap

@connorgergeni7062

2 жыл бұрын

You commented this one minute after the it was posted

@DABRJ

2 жыл бұрын

@@connorgergeni7062 r/whoosh

Just yesterday, I watched a Louis Rossman update on NYC commercial real estate. I was wondering about all of the scaffolding/ sheds. TADA! Thanks for answering my questions!

I mean, technically the sheds are achieving what was intended- protecting us from getting hit in the head by falling masonry while just walking along on the sidewalk. It’s just they’re having an additional unexpected side effect 😂 for what it’s worth, I live in a listed building in Brooklyn which needed repairs recently- there was scaffolding up for about 6 months for the repair, then a shed for a few more while awaiting the re-inspection. Really not a huge deal to eliminate the risk of getting hit in the head by masonry IMHO!

@MrOobling

2 жыл бұрын

.... I think you missed the whole point of the video. Most buildings which set up the scaffolding never do the repair.

@stevenfallinge7149

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrOobling Meaning they pose said danger, which makes them necessary. You can find articles about deaths from falling facades in NYC even from the last few years.

@740mc

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenfallinge7149 If they... uh... mantained the building that wouldnt happen

@stevenfallinge7149

2 жыл бұрын

@@740mc One can only wonder whether the money they're saving is going to expensive parties or simply to other necessities, but in America, the rat race is eternal.

@Hypertropes

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrOobling again- technically speaking, they are achieving what was intended 😅

as a New Yorker I’ve always wondered why there’s scaffolding absolutely everywhere

@randomtinypotatocried

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I just always assume it was some sort of construction or some law that required it

0:33 Staten Island really shouldn’t be apart of NYC, we desperately want to leave but they won’t let us, and then scream about how horrible we are, it’s basically an abusive relationship at this point

@AerysBat

2 жыл бұрын

You should be split off into NJ and NYC should split from upstate!

@dunebasher1971

2 жыл бұрын

You mean "a part of", not "apart of". You actually WANT Staten Island to be apart from NYC, not a part of it.

@Owyourhurtingme

10 ай бұрын

@@dunebasher1971okay grammar police. I think you know was meant.

I love your content. Thanks for the information and entertainment. Merry Christmas!

The last time I visited NYC I was wondering about this. It just furthers my opinion that it's become a vast swath of urban decay. Great video!

Good video. I'd also like to recommend How To With John Wilson's episode on Scaffolding as well. Hilarious show but also arguably his most informative video and does a great job as well of explaining the weird world of NYC Scaffolding.

@dag101101

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, it's the first thing I thought of! Also a warning, the episode is NSFW.

@weldin

2 жыл бұрын

I only clicked on the video to recommend this show haha

@Sebastian-tu8zt

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure that episode was inspiration for this video

4:21 Showing a shot of Buffalo's city hall, 716 represent!

Great video and exactly the type of topic I find interesting about your channel :)

I just got back from a trip to NYC and I had sooo many questions about the scaffolding. You answered every single one of them. Awesome video. For realz.

"Don't worry, it's only been up for 13 years"😂😂

nice work , I admire your work ethic and passion

solution: make the old scaffoldings illegal, make it so they can only rent the new designs, make the cost increase gradually the longer it sits, eventually they will be so prohibitively expensive they have no choise but to do proper maintenance of the facade of the building as its the cheaper option.

Recently been to NYC and I was wondering about this, thank you for the great explanation!

4:21 Hey, that's not New York City. It's Buffalo's City Hall.

It is amazing that US passes a law and actually enforces it. If this law was passed in the first place to protect civilians in my country (hardly a chance), many buildings would get past of inspection due to corruption. Scaffoldings may look bad but they are actually useful for protecting civilians, i understood from this video that problem of US bureaucracy is not corruption but complexity and shear size of the country with tons of laws sometimes colliding with eachother. I mean even state buildings have to install scaffoldings, amazing.

@danielclark4624

2 жыл бұрын

lets not pretend corruption isn't also a problem in New York though

@LMacNeill

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielclark4624 Yeah -- the bigger the city, the bigger the bureaucracy. And the bigger the bureaucracy, the more difficult it is to root out corruption and get rid of it. NYC being the largest city in America, it stands to reason that the corruption is going to be pretty rampant.

@ohpurpled

2 жыл бұрын

I mean it's kinda not enforced though is it? People are basically getting away with putting up a large "oops this might be unsafe" sign and moving on

@Jehty_

2 жыл бұрын

Somehow every other city in every country (including the US) doesn't need sidewalk sheds. So I don't think you came to the right conclusion.

@sammexp

2 жыл бұрын

Most developed countries with the rule of law does enforce laws.

I love how I've watched hundreds of Hai videos yet am still able to find more interesting ones whenever I want to

this thought went through my head the other day watching a video in nyc, thanks for this!

"Don't mind paying $3000" damn they got a real good deal on that rent huh.

@B14285seven

2 жыл бұрын

It's their share of a 4 bedroom I'm sure :P

@anupamtiwari5587

2 жыл бұрын

Like a decent apartment with proper space or one of those apartments where Peter Parker lives? Coz if it's the latter, it surely isn't a good deal.

@B14285seven

2 жыл бұрын

@@anupamtiwari5587 making a joke about Nyc apartment prices :p

@anupamtiwari5587

2 жыл бұрын

@@B14285seven Ohk. Not a new yorker or even an American for that matter, so couldn't get it. 😅

I noticed all the sidewalk sheds when I visited NYC, but it there was so much of it I couldn't comprehend it as scaffolding, and instead saw it as some kind of architectural flourish unquie to the city, perhaps intended to provide shelter from the rain

@whythehecknot5038

2 жыл бұрын

That's kind of awesome, in a way, lol

The plus side is that they can make great shelter in an unexpected rainstorm. I recall, circa 2001, finding myself in Union Square w/o an umbrella and making it from there to the PATH train stop at 14th & 6 Ave and only getting a little bit damp

My body physically rejects that’s the body HAI’s voice comes from

There's nothing more permanent than a temporary plan.

We all noticed this but never really wondered why. I just thought its perpetual renovation works. That 1 Billion dollar business for the sidewalk shed though.

At 4:20 (nice), that's Buffalo city hall that's shown. It's a very beautiful building actually. In my opinion, it's the best looking art deco building.

4:20 Is that a shot of Buffalo, NY's city hall from the intersect of Court Street and Pearl Street?

I saw that on How To With John Wilson. Great show

NY city logic... Building pencil skyscrapers only the 1% can afford,ok. Spending more money to protect the 100%,not ok.

This explains so much, and makes everything fall into place

That's fascinating thanks for the video

Did I just never notice it, or do they deliberately remove all the scaffolding when they shoot movies and TV shows in NYC? I don't think I ever saw any of it when watching classical media filmed in NYC, like "Ghostbusters" or "Seinfeld". Only relatively recently, when I started watching dashcam and "walking" videos on KZread, I noticed this unique and distinctive feature. Another thing I noticed about NYC, which is off topic here, but interesting to mention, I think, is that the cars in NYC are different. In pretty much every other US city, you see, besides lots of Teslas, tons and tons of German luxury cars. You know, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Porsche. Not so in NYC. I watched a lot of dashcam and walking videos from there (shout out to the "ActionKid" KZread channel) and noticed that German cars are really rare on NYC steets. It is all Lincolns, Escalades, Denalis and so on. First I hypothesized that maybe it is because there are so many Jewish people in NYC and maybe they don't want to drive German cars, but then I remembered that Los Angeles is barely less Jewish and it seems to be the place with the most German cars in the USA.

@Am-Not-Jarvis

2 жыл бұрын

Most shows that take place in New York are filmed in backlots in LA, Seinfeld included.

@ghost_curse

2 жыл бұрын

Most shows set in NYC are not in fact filmed in NYC. For instance Suits is filmed in Toronto

@dr.woozie7500

2 жыл бұрын

Because rich people in NYC like having taxi/limo services (they don’t drive themselves) and typically those services use large American sedans/SUVs like Escalades and Continentals.

@TrangleC

2 жыл бұрын

I see. Thanks for the explanations.

@mysteryman7877

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, Jews don’t really have problems with German card anymore. It’s really just that it takes a very specific type of person to drive in NYC.

As a Dallas born lifetime Dallas resident I approve of the Dallas joke😂🤣😂

A rare good video from this channel.. keep it up

I did it, I finally joined Curiosity Stream and used your code Hai! I can't wait to see whats inside from my fav youtubers!

4:20 shows the Buffalo City Hall, not New York City's. Time to put that in the mistakes video

There's an episode of How To with John Wilson about scaffolding in NYC.

Love the fast pace actually pretty funny

I moved into a building in 2001 in the West Village and moved out in 2020. The sidewalk shed on Hudson between Perry and Charles was there and is still there. The family that owns the building and the old gas station is known for this kind of "repair." Just like it took 18 years to replace the pipe on Houston street.

I literally was just thinking of this after watching a Louis Rossman (the real estate KZreadr) video and wondering why NYC looks like such a garbage heap.

@Reester11

2 жыл бұрын

louis rossman is a tech repair youtuber not real-estate youtuber.

@captainheat2314

2 жыл бұрын

@@Reester11 he's both

@haveaniceday4585

2 жыл бұрын

@@captainheat2314 Lmao he's really not though. He's been making MacBook repair video's for years. When he moved offices he documented the search, move and renovation of his new office. And now and then he makes a video about the current state of NYC and how bussinesses are leaving all the time. Still, 95% of his channel is tech and repair.

@Niosus

2 жыл бұрын

Someone got "wooshed" here but I'm not sure who it is...

@tomorrowhowever7488

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I only watched the same LR vid yesterday. He's the "Right To Repair" man. He works with IT hardware. He also advocates for ALL Right to Repair issues! (auto, household appliances, etc.)

I am glad i finally know why. I have been working in the city for over 30 years and things just got worse with these scaffoldings. They do make the city look crappy.

I started visiting NYC in the mid 80’s. I always wondered why there were so many scaffoldings. Thanks HAI! Now I finally know.

This was a good one, well done👍🏻

dont know why, but ive always liked the sidewalk sheds. i grew up in new york and i cannot imagine fully uncovered sidewalks in manhattan. honestly, they are nice in ways, shade from sun and rain, as long as you can get past the poles blocking the part of the sidewalk next to the street

Not counting China, I thought Tokyo has a lot of new construction. Houses have short life span in Japan and always new construction to meet demand. The old Showa architecture street just disappeared a few years later for larger modern structures. Nakagin being a dilapidated modular structure has retaining nets to catch falling debris and overdue for demolition.

@dannydaw59

2 жыл бұрын

I imagine Tokyo had to build buildings quick and cheap after WW2.

Finally pulled the trigger and signed up for Curiosity Stream. Thanks for the deal.

Well your special releases on my birthday so I guess I’m obligated to watch it

“You’d find that there are 340 miles or 540 kilometers of scaffolding in The Big Apple, which is enough to travel from New York to this point in the Atlantic Ocean that’s 340 miles away from New York” That made me laugh way harder than it should

I've lived in NY my whole life and I hated going into the city cause the scaffolding just always looks so damn ugly among other reasons lol

@SuprousOxide

2 жыл бұрын

It's a city, it doesn't look great without the scaffolding, either

@DaveXXX

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuprousOxide I'm sure it'd look much better without

@LRM12o8

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuprousOxide lol, there's plenty of beautiful cities in the world. New York won't be found on that list...

I noticed this on my first trip to NYC in 9th grade, and every time since. And I’ve also noticed the absence in every other big city I’ve visited.

i'd wondered about this; good to finally find an explanation

You can not leap from us man who sounds super similar to guy from Wendover productions

I’m not gonna lie, as a native New Yorker, I have wondered this my entire life. I didn’t realize there was so little scaffolding in Staten Island, but in order to notice that, I’d have to spend time in Staten Island and, come on, who does that? Lol

@Utonian21

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh Staten Island continues to get dunked on everyday, lmao

@Owyourhurtingme

10 ай бұрын

Because you prob can’t afford to live on Staten Island.

the humour in this made me subscribe

Hi Sam! Love your videos. You know that when you talk about NYC city hall passing a law in 2009, you show Buffalo City Hall, right?

@holger_p

2 жыл бұрын

Seems to be part of the comedy. Also to choose a random point in the ocean to explain a distance, instead of choosing a place like Atlantic City.

Wow, all that scaffolding goes on until THIS POINT in the ocean. I thought it would only reach until THAT POINT.

the section from 1:05-1:20 is pure gold

Late last year I was in NYC and saw several of the "urban umbrella" style sheds. Probably not a majority of the installations, by a long shot, but they are used, especially in high end neighborhoods.

It would be very easy to fix this. NYC, like every other municipality, has design standards for all structures. Make the standard design prohibitively expensive. On top of that, enact a special yearly tax on sidewalk sheds. And the tax rate increases for repeat payers. The city gets money. The sidewalk shed business continues to exist for a long enough period to phase out slowly. We get open clear sidewalks.

@Croz89

2 жыл бұрын

That would expose the real problem, that many old building facades in NYC are too expensive to maintain. They'd have to slash city taxes to make it profitable for owners to rent space out at affordable rates, or face many lovely pieces of historic architecture getting the wrecking ball.

@SuprousOxide

2 жыл бұрын

And then you cry "What have we done?" when you have no scaffolding to walk under on ugly cold rainy days!!! We should go the other way and require them everywhere

@wyskass861

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe consider that it's not a problem, and people aren't bothered by this.

@NoxiousAffection

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuprousOxide I've seen you making similar comments all over the video and I'm mostly just wondering this -- Do you own an umbrella?

@SuprousOxide

2 жыл бұрын

@@NoxiousAffection have you ever used an umbrella in Manhattan? Windy enough you're likely to destroy the umbrella and while they'll keep your head and shoulders dry, that's about it. The scaffolding works, what's the downside?

That is... not how I imagined you in my head

It’s depressingly dark. The tall buildings block a lot of the sun as it is and for people walking the streets, they get even less sunlight with these green sidewalk whatever you call them! It looks like a dark Forrest floor where the only way to get direct sunlight is to get above the ground or to an open space like a park of stand in specific locations and get fried by the sun reflecting just right of a tall building back down to the sidewalk. You’ll feel like an ant under a microscope if you mistake reflected sunlight for direct sun light.

I remember first visiting nyc when i was like 7 and this was like the first thing i noticed about the city. Good to see 14 years later i have an answer

You're literally the guy from real life lore

@xp8969

2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao, nah, similar styles but different voices

For years I've watched nebula ads on lots of my videos but it still hurts cus I can't watch it because I am unable pay for it since curiositystream doesn't take Indian cards. Please do something about this I've commented multiple times to no avail.

@thelordofcringe

2 жыл бұрын

Does paypal accept your card? Should be able to use that to sign up.

I was just here last weekend and asked my husband (a native) why and he had no clue!! Answering my questions in almost real time 😂

The writing was superb 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Born and raised in NYC. These sidewalk sheds protect us from falling debris as well as weather. They also provide minimal shelter for the homeless. Not to mention they are part of the look of the city. If we just had permanent awnings to protect from the rain the city would be less interesting. Keep the scaffolding.

@LowJSamuel

2 жыл бұрын

Is the constant trash piled on the sidewalk because you don't believe in dumpsters part of the look of the city, too? What about the homeless people sleeping?

@holger_p

2 жыл бұрын

How much debris does it catch ? Is this a real danger ? One could roof the entire street, or make the little roof a permanent part of the building. This kind of temporay thing is ridicoulus.

As a Brooklynite I agree, it is surprising Staten Island even has buildings. Also scaffolding sucks and we hate it. Also also, if you're not subscribed to Nebula you're missing out. Get on that!

@Owyourhurtingme

10 ай бұрын

What’s that supposed to mean? Why is it surprising for SI to have buildings? What am I missing?

@Darkflowerchyld718

10 ай бұрын

Because Staten Island sucks

@mrjuicejunior

5 ай бұрын

​@@Owyourhurtingmeshe's probably referring to that Staten Island is pretty empty

As a New Yorker it feels like a whole new world when the scaffolding outside your house is taken down. I had no idea that there was a sky above the lobby of my building.

In Australia and New Zealand many buildings have permanent awnings which probably help achieve this even though they were designed for weather protection. I don't know what steps are necessary to install a permanent awning, but it could probably be done on some buildings.

Would love to watch your show but can't figure out what the 16th month in the year is...

I would say they should start increasing the fine so it compounds against itself for every month they're inconveniencing peds with their scaffolds... but the owners are probably already lobbying against something like that. lol

I love that when you said, 'city hall', you showed a picture of Buffalo's city hall !

Love the video! I had to laugh though at the City Hall shot, because that's City Hall in Buffalo, NY and not New York, NY

This video was just an undercover facereveal?????