Everything Wrong w/ Billionaire's Row: A Tour feat. Samuel Stein

Tom Delgado takes a walk down Billionaire's Row w/ author and housing policy expert Samuel Stein. They talk about the major buildings of the street and the policies behind it. These include 432 Park Avenue, 111 57th Street, 157 57th Street, and 225 57th Street. They even talk about Central Park. Shot by Pat Burtscher and music by Shakir Stanley. Special thanks to Samuel Stein.

[howamilooking]

What a scummy world. Thanks for another reminder. "New York I love you, but you're bringing me down"

[clifforddean]

I'm 38 and it has been so long since New York looked beautiful, these high rises are eyesores imo.

[luiszuluaga]

I used to work in the Steinway building for two years back in the early 2000s when it still housed the Steinway showroom and before it ultimately was butchered. It was awesome to be in such a beautifully detailed building.

[jazrealpretty]

Love the history mixed with politics. Explaining the “dark side” and downsides of billionaires row.

[monylounge]

Growing up is realizing how corrupt NYC actually is to this very day

[RoaroftheTiger]

EMPTY Condos / Housing. That's what You get when a CITY decides to INCREASE It's TAX BASE by incouraging Multi-Million $$$ Condominiums. NOT to mention that such Residents can afford TAX Lawyers & Accountants to prevent them from paying the TAXES projected by the City ... Madness !

[williampalmer]

It is so sad that NYC will be marred by these ugly buildings so far into the future, and that such a transient moment of real estate madness, a mere instant in the city's history, will have such a long-lasting deleterious effect. It is a pure act of vandalism. They truly are monuments to corruption, and until the time that they are carefully deconstructed to make room for less grotesque spaces, they will be reminders of how little the obscenely wealthy of our time value anything but their own bank accounts.

[johnreid]

Was soooo hoping this video ended with you two dressing up like doormen and sneaking up into a few of these buildings!😅

[pinkyspiderr]

tom d is the man - got me reciting facts all over the mf city im loving it, keep it up!! been goin thru the catalogue heavy

[ioanaionescu]

please make more informative videos like this abt NYC today, not only its history ❤

[reecesidequest]

my gf is writing a sci-fi novel and took inspo from these buildings for part of a dystopian city-planet setting

[keetahbrough]

I really appreciate your friends sober and factual approach.. to presenting evidence to support his ideas. i"m in agreeance. xo

[alizhang]

Can you talk about the migrant crisis and how it will affect the city in the years to come?

[scottchambers]

Fantastic content Tom! A great mix of your humor and a topical subject with a subject matter expert in the field🤯 Viewer Valhalla for this sort of thing. Thank you for your work.

[mizzsparkle]

These buildings are such a blight on the skyline.
Love all of your videos. I will have to catch you live one day!

[ride]

If they didn't want rich people moving into Brooklyn, Hov shouldn't have pushed it so hard. He made it sound so cool to so many young white rich future millionaires. Thank about it.

[thru_and_thru]

Excellent video, really insightful. All New Yorkers should see this.

[jakez]

That piece of shyst is one of my favorite in all of Central Park, almost got lazy and abbreviated Central Park but didn't want to end up on a watch list. LA Chaim! 🎉

[ForestTekkenVideos]

10:49 literally there's spikes! I laughed! But then the dark realization came to me that it's to keep the homeless away and yeah that took away the laughter. Very good video

[ronaldcarlson]

Inspired by the trash can, that pretty much says it all. Reminds me of the Gilded Age and the days of the robber barons. America has a very wide gap between the rich and the poor and it seems to have widened thanks to Reaganomics and other factors.