Why Spanish Harlem is a Famous NYC Neighborhood

Tour guide and comedian, Tom Delgado, takes you around Spanish Harlem and dips a bit into East Harlem, telling you the history of the neighborhood and telling you some stories. He covers the Italians, Puerto Ricans, drugs, street art, the Museo del Barrio, and more. Shot by Pat Burtscher and music by Shakir Standley.
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  • @williampalmer8052
    @williampalmer805211 күн бұрын

    Concise, informative, and entertaining. The fact you don't have 10x the amount of subs, when people who eat laundry detergent have millions, is a sure sign that we are culturally bankrupt.

  • @andwegogentle
    @andwegogentle11 күн бұрын

    I went to the elementary school that is physically connected to the Museum of the City of New York. I had a beautiful childhood. We used to have our classes in central park when the weather was nice. If we were studying anything that had a relevant exhibit in one of the museums, we'd have a class trip to the museum instead of just studying in class. Diversity in the neighborhood was celebrated, and it was drilled into us to grow in knowledge of different cultures in order to understand people. The folks I've kept up with are all open minded, well read, well traveled adults. I don't know what it's like there now, but I'm very proud of growing up in East Harlem. Your video made me smile.

  • @carmencirino4669
    @carmencirino466911 күн бұрын

    A very good job in singing in Spanish.😊 Thanks for sharing

  • @MercedesCruz-qe1nj
    @MercedesCruz-qe1njКүн бұрын

    Im puertorrican. Retired school teacher. Only visited NY in the summers back in the 60s. ❤NY. The city of my dreams( not come true) i have lived in Fl since 1979. I enjoyed your presentation.

  • @helensyron6744
    @helensyron674411 күн бұрын

    Love the new look Tom!

  • @marisolpearls9276
    @marisolpearls92769 күн бұрын

    Great tour. I grew up here and still reside. Enjoyed your brief Puerto Rico history too, as I am Puerto Rican. My parents came to NY in 1965. Both didn't finish their education on the Island. So it was exciting when i graduated from High School, then College and had my own business. I returned to East Harlem to care for my elderly parents since they were never interested in leaving. They made friends and a life for themselves here.

  • @BowoodEducation
    @BowoodEducation6 күн бұрын

    I especially love your singing. Seriously, very informative with a humorous satirical slant. I Enjoy it.

  • @DQs-gy6nk
    @DQs-gy6nk4 күн бұрын

    Thank you for enlightening us and for the tour!

  • @eugenedimitrov
    @eugenedimitrov9 сағат бұрын

    Hey Tom! What's up? Another great tour !!! So cool!

  • @newzcutter
    @newzcutter7 күн бұрын

    My parents were born and raised in Spanish Harlem. Italian on my dads side Puerto Rican on my moms side. Then moved to the upper east side.

  • @annchambers5739
    @annchambers573911 күн бұрын

    Yes, I learned loads too & from all your vids! A nice haircut & white t to keep COOL. But you're always COOL . . .

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown272111 күн бұрын

    👍😺What's your cats name Tom? Thanks for the excellent tour!

  • @newzcutter
    @newzcutter7 күн бұрын

    14:29 I remember when they refurbished the mural back in the late 90s. I was living on 100st at the time. I actually knew a kid in the mural as an adult. He’s in the white shirt behind the girl on the bike. He grew up on that street.

  • @Pegalita
    @Pegalita11 күн бұрын

    Anither great video! Thanks for all you do!

  • @carmencirino4669
    @carmencirino466911 күн бұрын

    Love the tour👏

  • @gilrosario7224
    @gilrosario722411 күн бұрын

    Keep doing your thing

  • @verajaglal5139
    @verajaglal513911 күн бұрын

    Interesting as always 😊

  • @markharty9772
    @markharty977211 күн бұрын

    I LOVED this presentation. My family lived in East Harlem at a street named Sylvan Place which no longer exists. They were Spanish and arrived pretty early in the 1900's. I really liked your impression of the "typical" museum goers which resemble me. BTW, you look really handsome when you shave. Don't get too skinny.

  • @ChrisOhMy

    @ChrisOhMy

    10 күн бұрын

    I told a woman the other day to not get too fat. It wasn't received well. Got a lecture on how we're not supposed to comment on people's bodies

  • @chadtucker8361
    @chadtucker836111 күн бұрын

    Nice haircut!👊🏼

  • @MeowImages
    @MeowImages11 күн бұрын

    Wow, looking good!

  • @DivaDivaFashionista
    @DivaDivaFashionista9 күн бұрын

    I kept expecting to see myself walking through the background 😅 I enjoyed seeing my old neighborhood

  • @roytownhill9934
    @roytownhill993410 күн бұрын

    Nice one Tom, and was it 3 phones you scored? Bonus! 🤙

  • @gavinmatts
    @gavinmatts7 күн бұрын

    Amazing Marc Antony recall

  • @karamuenster
    @karamuenster11 күн бұрын

    😂 🐀, hey amigo cool tour!! 🥤stay fresh everybody.

  • @RTheWalkerOfGreenB
    @RTheWalkerOfGreenB11 күн бұрын

    ill be back in nyc two weeks from now

  • @gladys6100
    @gladys61006 күн бұрын

    I HATE THAT I MISSED YOU IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD!!....YOU WERE NOT TO FAR FROM WHERE I WORK AND LIVE!!...COOL VIDEO, AS PER USUAL!!😉👌❤❤❤

  • @Larry-qz3es
    @Larry-qz3es11 күн бұрын

    Great video of my neighborhood Tom. If I had seen you yesterday at Pleasant Avenue @116th Street, I would have greeted you. FYI, there were attempts to rename the neighborhood as "Upper Yorkville" or "Spaha", but it was vetoed on the spot. I am a long-life native of this neighborhood.

  • @ronaldbailey8676

    @ronaldbailey8676

    10 күн бұрын

    Wow i didn't know that i was born & raise on 116 & 117 st. & park ave on the downtown side in the late 50's early 60's today is my b-day 6 -20-56

  • @maritzamaldonado5303
    @maritzamaldonado530311 күн бұрын

    Marc Anthony, you funny you funny😂😂😂 we will be a party🎉🎉🎉

  • @stevedoherty4680
    @stevedoherty468011 күн бұрын

    If they do a movie on Ted Bundy sign up 😂

  • @russellzauner
    @russellzauner11 күн бұрын

    Now I know, Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say.

  • @MilesBellas
    @MilesBellas6 күн бұрын

    Germany as with Italy was fragmented until 1871 when it too became a country.

  • @jm2437
    @jm243711 күн бұрын

    Nice to see Tom is in his "Rick Grimes just got to Alexandria and got re-civilized" era of his Covid Apocalypse hair and beard styling.

  • @josemurga3121
    @josemurga312110 күн бұрын

    Yes I think you provide more history than El Museo del Barrio! Not too shabby! Not sure about your Tito or Marc impersonations though. Glad you didn’t attempt to sing La India. I give this video a B+

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer856411 күн бұрын

    1:18 a good friends cousin was a mobster from that neigborhood they wrote a book about him the pleasant avenue connection

  • @YT_upwiththesun
    @YT_upwiththesun11 күн бұрын

    Another great video. And we get to see your handsome face!

  • @christianmoller6141
    @christianmoller614110 күн бұрын

    Sharp new haircut. The new Corporate gig must be working out.

  • @MikeP2055
    @MikeP205511 күн бұрын

    We need a "History Lover" graphic for the person at 9:20.

  • @robkeysnj
    @robkeysnj17 сағат бұрын

    Candy Stores that didn't sell candy....Upper Manhattan had a lot of these with a menu. $5 for Columbian. $7 for Cali. $10 for Hawaii. Push your money thru the hole in the building and get what you want.

  • @undefined40
    @undefined4010 күн бұрын

    Poor General Slocum, the thing he is nowadays known for being the disaster striking the ship commemorating him, but not longer what he was actually commemorated for.

  • @aaronx8006
    @aaronx800611 күн бұрын

    Geraldo Rivera was a young lord

  • @traumachef1
    @traumachef111 күн бұрын

    Where u been?

  • @MeowImages
    @MeowImages10 күн бұрын

    11:25 How it started 11:52 How it's going

  • @Waltaere
    @Waltaere11 күн бұрын

    Tooom 😃

  • @marcelofarciert9498
    @marcelofarciert949811 күн бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @wordmachine6
    @wordmachine611 күн бұрын

    First one, as the kids say ☝🏽

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer856411 күн бұрын

    no ben e king reference? ... there is a rose in spansish harlem

  • @TomTheCopywriter
    @TomTheCopywriter11 күн бұрын

    Anybody remember Caporal chicken on Broadway near 157th? 🙂

  • @carmencirino4669

    @carmencirino4669

    11 күн бұрын

    yes I grow up in Manhattan.

  • @TomTheCopywriter

    @TomTheCopywriter

    11 күн бұрын

    @@carmencirino4669 Damn I miss that chicken, so good!

  • @lyckantrope
    @lyckantrope11 күн бұрын

    Tom, maybe someday tour of Chicago?

  • @cintronfam8668
    @cintronfam86689 күн бұрын

    🫡

  • @BAMMBAMMNYC
    @BAMMBAMMNYC11 күн бұрын

    🗣I don't know what else to tell ya but another 🤒🔌⚡️ 📟🍎🏙🏙🌁🌁🏙🗽🇵🇷⛪️✊🏽😎👍🏽 #LaPlugga🔌 #🤒🔌

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer856411 күн бұрын

    8:oo CARLOS SANTANA NOT TITO PUENTE

  • @davet1081AA
    @davet1081AA10 күн бұрын

    Just a question from a fan Tom: Are you the same guy that does stand-up on the NY subway disguised as Jesus? Asking for a friend....

  • @jim8764
    @jim876411 күн бұрын

    Ze Germans !!!

  • @ClaribelRamirz
    @ClaribelRamirz10 күн бұрын

    Layback is better.

  • @captmuttonchops
    @captmuttonchops11 күн бұрын

    Algorithm engagement comment

  • @coreyaaron7954
    @coreyaaron795411 күн бұрын

    You know what? Crack IS whack.

  • @prestonradtke222
    @prestonradtke22211 күн бұрын

    I’m sorry, no amount of sugarcoating can hide the fact that East Harlem is still the preeminent shithole in Manhattan. Especially 125th and Lexington.

  • @worlds_1st_ortegz

    @worlds_1st_ortegz

    10 күн бұрын

    LoL

  • @danieljones8639
    @danieljones863911 күн бұрын

    Did I just see you encourage a history hater!?

  • @SeaBassTian
    @SeaBassTian11 күн бұрын

    Not subscribing to Tomdnyc is wack!

  • @latinobeef
    @latinobeef6 күн бұрын

    Why did you choose to center on Puerto Rico and not Mexicans, Italians, or even Black culture? 116th Street is a melting pot of history, food, music, ethnicities and you showed a broken down market. You focus on how Puerto Ricans can't afford anything so they succumb to graffiti. Not all Hispanic people fall into that painted stereotype of the "underprivileged." Not sure why you go to East Harlem to focus on some church that was held hostage and using statistics to make some kind of message of how bad blacks and latinos are because they are drug addicts. Why didnt you provide any postive display of East Harlem? Why didn't you provide any helpline for drug addicts or people who are dealing with loved ones who are addicted? You might be able to read online history lessons but this video is more about yourself with goofy pranks and mocking gangster signs than the current people, their culture, and how they are thriving or suffering in East Harlem. Bottomline, you had the chance to show a lot, but chose to show next to nothing but yourself talking to the camera and goofing off, discard trash, and nothing but negativity. But what do I know.