Museum of New York City - #10
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00:00Okay, guys, this is where we are, Museum of New York, by Diamond Writer.
00:24Now you're in New York.
00:28These streets will make you feel brand new.
00:31Big lights will inspire you.
00:34You're in New York, New York, New York.
00:44Dude, they can do things for Avatar now.
00:54It's not right up on me, but why so close?
01:24I grew up in a town that was famous as a place of overseas.
01:35The noise was always loud, there were sirens all around and it was real.
01:45I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that's what I can do, yeah.
01:55I can see my face in the light.
01:57So many of my monkeys fell down on Broadway.
02:05Even if it ain't all it seems, I got a pocket full of dreams, baby.
02:10I'm in New York.
02:13Concrete jungle where dreams are stated.
02:16There's nothing you can't do.
02:19Now you're in New York.
02:22I've been to every picture, man.
02:25I can even tell you this little spot right here, this is Waverly.
02:28The Waverly movie theater.
02:34Right on the other side is McDonald's.
02:46I'm gonna play this for you different than you ever heard before.
02:52This is where we are, guys.
02:55Welcome to the Museum of New York.
02:57One more time.
03:23There was famous as a place of overseas.
03:31The noise was always loud, there were sirens all around and it was real.
03:34Wow, buddy, I've been all over here, man.
03:42I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that's what they say.
03:53Look, Bruce Lee.
04:03Look, security in here, buddy.
04:08How do I get over here?
04:10Oh, look at him, there's some hot dogs in here.
04:15Dude, I've been all over.
04:18That's the Museum of Natural History.
04:20I mean, American history.
04:31All right, let's see how many we can name.
04:38Dude, I recognize all the faces over here.
04:40This is Harry Belafonte.
04:42Denzel Washington.
04:50Look, Luther.
04:52I've seen him in person.
04:54Look, Shirley from The Vernon Shirley.
05:03Biggie Smalls.
05:05Dude, that looked like the guy from Mod Squad.
05:09And the guy from the Far 2 Play boys in the hood.
05:12No, that was somebody else.
05:16Oh, look, I've seen her.
05:17I've seen her, she's in a bunch of those Marvel movies.
05:20And she did Rent.
05:26Oh, look at these guys, man.
05:28That Tupac up there and Biggie.
05:34Dude, even this I went on.
05:36Roosevelt Island.
05:38All you have to do is use your MetroCard.
05:40I wonder if you can go through here, man.
05:43That's good, man, I'm glad they got it blocked off like that.
05:45Look, ATM machine.
05:47Part of New York.
05:51Look at all these pictures, man.
05:53That's a lot of pictures, buddy.
06:01Dude.
06:06Dude, this is not the guy from Fame.
06:12How deep are they going over here?
06:18Look, Michael Strahan.
06:23Eddie Murphy.
06:25Iron Mike.
06:35Look, Queens and New York.
06:37I live in Queens, too.
06:39LaGuardia Airport, been there.
06:43Haven't been to the New York Hall of Science.
06:48Citibank, that's in Queens.
06:50The Mets play there.
06:52They did the World's Fair over here.
06:54I've been over there.
06:58Queens Museum?
07:01Used to be an ice skating rink.
07:03They changed it.
07:05Never been there.
07:09Coney Island?
07:11No, Rockaway Playland.
07:14Reese Beach.
07:20Dude, the Museum of Moving Images.
07:22I haven't been there, I gotta see that.
07:26Aqueduct, been there.
07:28Ate there.
07:30Silver Cup, see that every time I take the train?
07:33Number 7 train going to Queens.
07:37Queensborough Bridge.
07:45MetroClock, never saw a blue one.
07:48Look, man, look how far back they're going.
07:51When you used to get a transfer.
07:53Look at the old tokens, how they transfer.
07:55From all of these. I got one token in Minnesota.
07:57Oh, this is like Central Park where they did the horse and carriage.
08:11Dude, things are expanding pretty quickly.
08:19I'd like to go to that New York Transit Museum.
08:21I think that's in Brooklyn.
08:23Yeah, Brooklyn. I lived in Brooklyn too.
08:28The Brooklyn Museum.
08:30Wow, that's on Eastern Parkway.
08:33Botanical Garden, not too far, Eastern Parkway.
08:38DeKalb Market.
08:44Barclays.
08:46Atlantic.
08:49Atlantic Avenue.
08:53Dude, the pictures changed or something, man?
08:55Something happened to the pictures, man.
08:57Or what? Is it me?
09:00Look, if I look up, I can see Parsons Park.
09:02I look down, I don't see anything.
09:12Look, Coney Island, man.
09:15Every kid's fantasy.
09:17Blighton Beach, the D train.
09:25Wow.
09:36Look at that, the Children's Museum.
09:39I wish I could see what a jet looks like in person, man.
09:47Freeport.
09:51Freeport, Long Island?
09:54Dude, I was born on that one.
10:00I wonder if they're going to show the boardwalk.
10:05Jones Beach. I saw Luther Vandross there.
10:23Wow.
10:32Wow, they did a good job, man.
10:35Look at this, an old time train.
10:37Never seen that one.
10:40What? That's how the first train looked.
10:48I'd like to see that.
10:52Look how comfortable the chairs were
10:54before people started abusing them
10:56and they had to put in plastic.
10:59Wow.
11:02Wow.
11:04Look how comfortable the chairs were
11:06before people started abusing them
11:08and they had to put in plastic.
11:13The one train.
11:18What stop is this?
11:20Roosevelt Avenue.
11:27Look, that's where I'm at right now, in the Bronx.
11:30Let me see, the Bronx Hill, been there.
11:32Yankee Stadium, been there.
11:37Dude.
11:40This place still exists, man.
11:43It's kind of small and run down
11:45and nobody comes in there.
11:48That's near Kingsbridge.
11:51Sorry.
11:56See the island, buddy?
11:58That's where people go to get their seafood.
12:01Staten Island.
12:03I took trips over there.
12:05My brother lives there now.
12:07That's right across from Manhattan.
12:27Oh, look who we got here, buddy.
12:29Some of the same pictures.
12:32Or did I do a circle?
12:35I did a circle.
12:43This is what we do in New York, man.
13:00Oh, look at this one, man.
13:02Little taxi cabs in the beginning.
13:07Look, horse and carriage without the horse.
13:10That's pretty interesting.
13:14No bumpers.
13:17Look at that, boy.
13:19First accident happens to the passenger.
13:21Hopefully not bicycling it.
13:29Wow.
13:43How you doing, officer?
13:48I think we've seen it all, buddy.
13:50Yep.
13:58Yep.
14:07We've seen it all, man.
14:12Is there a window?
14:14Let me see if I can look out the window and see where we are now.
14:17No, it really is a museum.
14:20It's what an officer looks like when he's coming for you.
14:22Look, I didn't take a picture.
14:24I didn't do anything, man.
14:26I'm alright, brother.
14:28It's good. It's good. I'm good.
14:31Okay? Thanks, man.
14:37Let's see what you got, man.
14:39Handcuffs.
14:43Stay strong, brother.
14:46Doing a good job.
14:52Look, telephone booth. People don't even use that anymore.
14:58Uptown Manhattan. Did I see it? Dude.
15:04I saw the hot dogs there.
15:06Uptown Manhattan. No.
15:09I didn't see this one here, buddy.
15:12Look at that.
15:14Harry Truman Memorial.
15:16Harry Tubman. I'm sorry. Harry Tubman.
15:18Dude, I've been to Sylvia's.
15:20There used to be a big spot.
15:22Just the brownstones.
15:24Dude, the Autobahn.
15:26I've been here and I got pictures.
15:28I need to show them, man.
15:30This is where Malcolm X got shot.
15:32The Red Rooster.
15:34I think there used to be a club or something.
15:36Apollo. I've been there maybe twice.
15:38When Michael Jackson passed away,
15:41everybody went to the Apollo in New York City.
15:43And they played records over here.
15:45This is Adam Clayton Powell Building.
15:49Bill Clinton used to work in here.
15:51When he started working at Harlem.
15:56Harlem Globetrotters. I've seen them.
15:59Anybody know?
16:05Dude.
16:07They even put that over there.
16:10You know what this is, man?
16:18I don't know.
16:20I thought it was Dave Chappelle doing his free show
16:22in Brooklyn.
16:26Everybody's just trying to have fun, man.
16:30We don't need any wars.
16:33I love New York.
16:35This city that never sleeps.
16:37Concrete Jungle.
16:39I heard people say it.
16:41Oh, that's what we're listening to right now.
16:43Empire State.
16:47Look at those legs.
16:49They put on a little shorty.
16:51Look at that, man.
16:57Shorties.
16:59That's what you call a shorty.
17:02Somebody say, my shorty?
17:22That's the Ticket Trot.
17:24On Broadway. Near 45th Street.
17:26Right over there.
17:28This is our map.
17:30That's where we're at.
17:32It's only Manhattan.
17:36Where's the D train?
17:38D?
17:40D?
17:42I'm down here somewhere.
17:50Black Panther.
18:00What's this?
18:06I don't remember seeing that.
18:14What kind of socks are those?
18:16Oh, that's tomato there.
18:22It's not bad.
18:31Every time I get this, it keeps turning.
18:35Can I ever get in front of it?
19:01Hole-in-one, buddy.
19:06I think we saw everything.
19:09Shorty sauce.
19:21I've been here, too.
19:23That's in Hudson.
19:25That's a regular city music hall.
19:27That's on 47th Street.
19:29This is in the Bronx.
19:31I can catch a bus and go here.
19:33Or a train.
19:35It's Rockefeller Center, by the course of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
19:37Empire State Building, 34th Street.
19:39I haven't been over here.
19:41That's the U.N.
19:45Statue of Liberty.
19:48This is where the World Trade Center used to be.
19:50Memorial.
19:52This is the new World Trade Center.
19:54This is the old World Trade Center.
19:57Oh, I didn't see this lady up there.
20:09How about this?
20:16Shorty's.
20:22A lot of people got together to make this.
20:27This is the Village.
20:29This is the Gay Pride Parade.
20:31This is the Comedy Club.
20:33I used to get tickets there.
20:36I'm not really sure where this one is.
20:40The Blue Note.
20:42Dude, I knew I knew that area, man.
20:44I told you this is the Waverly Movie Theater.
20:46McDonald's is on the side.
20:48And further back is NYU.
20:50These are the kind of homes they have in the Village, man.
20:52Just like this.
20:54This is where NYU is.
20:56This right here is not too far from here.
20:58Maybe like about...
21:02I don't know, six blocks or something like that.
21:04This is NYU, right?
21:06I mean, this is the NYU School area here.
21:12Halloween Parade is the same thing.
21:16Well, it's kind of close, buddy.
21:18The Halloween in the Village, buddy.
21:20It's something to see.
21:25And this is our mayor right now.
21:28Eric Adams.
21:30And this is our governor right now.
21:32The mayor was female.
21:36In actuality, I didn't even know that.
21:44I never really start listening when Cuomo left.
21:49This is Chinatown, buddy.
21:55You can actually walk to Chinatown
21:57in Manhattan
21:59from over here, from NYU.
22:01It's a little distance.
22:05It's a lot to see in the Village, man.
22:08You know?
22:10It's a lot to see all over the place, man.
22:15Now, you gotta admit, man.
22:17These pictures on the wall that I just named
22:19look a lot better than the Third World place, man.
22:22There's no need for us to have trouble.
22:25We're living pretty good, man.
22:28You can join us.
22:30We can help you build your place up, too.
22:33We don't want to destroy the whole world, man.
22:38For what?
22:40What would be the purpose of that, man?
22:42To destroy all these beautiful things
22:44like you did over here?
22:47This lady died, man.
22:49You gotta see the other video.
22:52She died because of the toxins
22:54that got inside of her body
22:56and gave her cancer.
22:58But look at that, man.
23:00Does she deserve that, too?
23:02No, she's just trying to go to work,
23:04minding her own business.
23:06Look at these people, man.
23:08This is what happens when you've got war, man.
23:12I don't know what it looks like to you on television, man,
23:14but when you're there,
23:16it's dramatic, buddy.
23:18It stays with you forever.
23:21People see dead bodies over there.
23:23They see things.
23:25They want to prepare for it.
23:27They're still haunting every 9-11, man.
23:30Every time there's a terrorist act.
23:34Look at this truck, man.
23:36I was there. I saw a truck come back,
23:38but I didn't see something come back like that, buddy.
23:40You know how much heat it takes?
23:44You know nobody lived off of that, honey.
23:47If it's going to bend metal,
23:49it's going to burn flesh and bone.
23:52I saw a little bit of this, man.
23:54I took some pictures.
23:56I don't even know where they are now.
23:58I thought at one time it was going to be very valuable,
24:00but everybody had taken pictures.
24:03I guess every picture counts, man.
24:05You put it together, it makes like a little movie.
24:09Yeah. Okay, guys.
24:11It's been a moment
24:13from the 9-11 to the museum's flashbacks.
24:16This is how a train station looks
24:18when you go underground.
24:23I'm going to go right to the picture we had before.
24:30What are they telling me, buddy?
24:41Excuse me, officer.
24:43Do you know how I can get out of here?
24:45Is there an exit?
24:47Dude.
24:49You know what's funny, man?
24:51Every time I say I haven't been to a place, I've been there.
24:53How about over here, officer?
24:56All right. I know where I'm going to go.
24:58Right down here.
25:00Make a right.
25:02There should be a poster.
25:04Wow.
25:10Flashback of home.
25:12Right here, buddy.
25:22So, we are getting down.
25:24Museum of New York.
25:26I can't keep it.
25:28Sorry about that.
25:34New York, New York, New York.
25:39New York, New York, New York.
25:49Let's see.
25:50What I'm going to focus on...
25:52How about...
25:54Right here.
25:58McDonald's.
26:04You