Born in Brooklyn: Dan of All Day NYC on Growing Up New York

September 01, 2026 • 00:59:46
Born in Brooklyn: Dan of All Day NYC on Growing Up New York
The New Yorkers Podcast
Born in Brooklyn: Dan of All Day NYC on Growing Up New York

Sep 01 2026 | 00:59:46

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On this episode of The New Yorkers Podcast, Kelly Kopp sits down with Dan from All Day NYC for a funny, nostalgic, and very New York conversation about growing up in Bensonhurst and Gravesend, Coney Island summers, Canal Street, pizza, bagels, the subway, viral NYC moments, the Knicks championship parade, and what it really means to be a New Yorker.

Dan also shares how All Day NYC got started, some of his favorite viral moments, and his memories of being a 16-year-old high school student in Brooklyn on September 11th, 2001.

We also talk about Kelly’s experience surviving a 2017 NYC subway derailment, whether the subway feels safer today, and why this past summer felt like New York had finally found some of its old energy again.

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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Ladies and gentlemen, the next Brooklyn bound train in Mount island. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Stand clear of the closing doors please. This is Times Square or sympathy. Transfer his gentlemen to the shuttle to grandfather. [00:00:42] Speaker A: Hello everyone and welcome to the New Yorkers Podcast, a podcast by New York City Cop. I'm your host, Kelly Kopp, a professional published photographer, content creator, podcaster and the owner of New York City Cop Tours, everyone, where I show visitors to city I love through private walking tours that include the subway and Christmas walking tours and Christmas bus tours and the world famous Dyker Heights Christmas lights tours as well. But above all else, everyone, I am a New Yorker. With me today, everybody, I have my good friend Dan here, someone who spends a lot of time doing something I know a little bit about as well. Walking around New York City with a camera and showing people this crazy city that we call home. He's the man behind all day NYC where he shares New York through videos, photography, live streams and those everyday NYC moments that you really have to be out on the streets to capture. And as someone who is also out there in New York every single day creating content, I have a feeling we're gonna have a lot to talk about today, Dan. [00:01:39] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:01:40] Speaker A: I really do. But above all else, Dan is a New Yorker. So Dan, welcome to the New Yorkers podcast. How you doing today, buddy? [00:01:46] Speaker B: Thank you for having me. Appreciate the opportunity. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Yeah, this is pretty cool, you guys. It's funny because Dan and I ran into each other on the street, of course, in New York City, and we were going to see. Are you. I was going to see. I don't know if you were leaving. [00:02:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I was on my way to. It was the. The Leaning Tower of Midtown, you guys [00:02:05] Speaker A: probably know, that building that was structurally inadequate, I should say. And it was going to collapse. Maybe. We don't know. And we heard about it for one day and then we never heard about it again. Right. What happened with that, Dan? [00:02:21] Speaker B: There's a lot. There's a lot of things in New York City that make big headlines and then they disappear. Like remember when that crane fell? [00:02:29] Speaker A: Oh, in Midtown. It was a one. [00:02:32] Speaker B: So I feel like this was kind of. Because when this happened, I thought it was a huge deal. I mean, obviously they closed down blocks. You know, we were going there to get some B roll footage and not for our pages. [00:02:42] Speaker A: Right. [00:02:42] Speaker B: And there was a lot going on. I know that they shored up the building to make sure that it could, you know, be adequate for now. But what is the plan going forward? We haven't heard. [00:02:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:52] Speaker B: A single thing. [00:02:53] Speaker A: I mean, that One day we're all going to see what was going to happen. Hopefully that what wouldn't happen. And then next day is no news. [00:03:00] Speaker B: Wild. [00:03:01] Speaker A: But we were talking, and we're like, Dan or Dan. You know, we're about having Dan on the podcast. So I'm like, this is perfect. You know, he's. He is a true New Yorker. You know, I'm a New Yorker, too, but I wasn't born here, unfortunately. And, Dan, I think you were born here. [00:03:15] Speaker B: I was. Yep. [00:03:16] Speaker A: Yep. Tell us a story. [00:03:17] Speaker B: I was born here, Brooklyn, New York, 1985. Not to age myself too much, 1985, young man. But, yeah, I grew up here. Grew up here in New York City. Brooklyn, to be exact. Lived there for most of my life. Went to college out in Stony Brook, Long Island. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Nice. [00:03:38] Speaker B: And then moved back here to. Was in Brooklyn for a few more years until I moved to Manhattan. [00:03:44] Speaker A: Nice. Do you have any brothers or sisters or anything? [00:03:46] Speaker B: I do. Two younger sisters also in Brooklyn. Mom's still in Brooklyn, so we still got the. The main family out in Brooklyn. [00:03:53] Speaker A: So I go back. [00:03:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:03:56] Speaker A: What was it like? I mean, so you're. You're born in 1985, you said? Yeah, I was in high school, so [00:04:02] Speaker B: 90s 90s kid, I guess, is really when I started to. [00:04:05] Speaker A: What was New York in contrast in the 90s to today? And so where. And where did you hang out mostly? Was it in Brooklyn? In Manhattan? Were you all over? What did you do? [00:04:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good question. So when I was younger, you know, living my early adolescent life and teenage years, it was really just Brooklyn, you know, there wasn't a lot of going to Manhattan or the city, as we called it. You know, I would go here and there with the parents. Dad would take me to work sometimes. But it was really just living in Brooklyn and just kind of hanging out in our area. There wasn't too much moving around. Like, I grew up in Bensonhurst, Gravesend, like, right on the cusp. [00:04:42] Speaker A: So give me, like, geographically, where is that in Brooklyn? Because I live. He's lived up in upper Manhattan, so I just want to be clear, specifically. [00:04:48] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's literally like the southern eastern part of Brooklyn, right before Coney Island. [00:04:56] Speaker A: I was just going to say Coney island, which. [00:04:58] Speaker B: That's a great way to. Yeah. So that's where we spend a lot of our time. Coney Island. [00:05:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:02] Speaker B: All of my. My elementary school, my junior high school was in Coney Island. School bus would take a student all the time. Par parents would take us to the boardwalk, to the beaches, to Coney island for the rides. You know's Wonderland. [00:05:14] Speaker A: Must have been cool as a kid. [00:05:16] Speaker B: Very fun. Yeah. [00:05:17] Speaker A: Back then on Friday nights. [00:05:18] Speaker B: Yeah, they were doing it back then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:05:21] Speaker A: So at what age are your parents like. Yeah, you can just run around and do what you want and take the subway. Yeah. [00:05:28] Speaker B: So I think, like, junior high school or probably when I, like. Yeah, when I got into junior high school, it was kind of like you could just go out and do what you want, but not, like, run to Manhattan, but just in the area. So, like, we would take our bikes out in Brooklyn. We're riding them to, like, Toys R Us, which is by the Belt Parkway over there. Playing basketball every day. Summertime. Water gun fights. [00:05:50] Speaker A: What did you say? [00:05:51] Speaker B: Water gun fights. The fire hydrants. I still have a mean scar on my finger from aiming a can and cutting my finger open. Memories you'll never forget. [00:06:01] Speaker A: Parents must have loved that. [00:06:03] Speaker B: Yeah, they definitely love that. [00:06:04] Speaker A: But the fire hydrants, too. In the summertime. [00:06:06] Speaker B: Yeah. We always had an older kid or young adult. Adult that would come out with a wrench. This was before they put those special. So now they have, like, a special lock on it, which some people still have the. The key to it, but there's, like, a special key wrench that needs to, like, magnetize or. I don't know. [00:06:21] Speaker A: It's a weird. [00:06:22] Speaker B: They probably put those in, like, the late 90s, early 2000s. [00:06:26] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:06:26] Speaker B: So we would open them up and just, you know, go crazy. [00:06:29] Speaker A: So did you and you. What? How old were you when you and your friends could ride the subway without. [00:06:34] Speaker B: I would say probably like, high school. Yeah. As soon as high school hit, it was kind of like, hey, I'm gonna go to the city, me and my friends, and we're gonna go. This. Yeah. That has, you know, jackets or whatever, and, you know, stuff like that. So we started to hit soho, which wasn't, you know, too far into Manhattan. You know, you go right over the bridge. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Canal Street. [00:06:50] Speaker B: Canal Street. [00:06:51] Speaker A: Were they. Were they still selling? Not still, but. When did that start? Do you remember? Or do you know? Or was it always been when you. [00:06:58] Speaker B: What? I remember it's been my whole life. And. And I'm assuming beyond. Yeah, I think probably like, 80s. I think probably 80s. Maybe that's when that. [00:07:06] Speaker A: Selling purses and the wallets and everything. [00:07:09] Speaker B: Everything. [00:07:09] Speaker A: It's. I was talking with someone the other day. I forget who they were visiting, and they said they weren't too happy about, you know, the guys and ladies who Sell the purses and stuff. I said, well, they're doing it because the demand is high from you visiting. Yeah. [00:07:24] Speaker B: Oh, no, no. [00:07:25] Speaker A: You know, I mean, that's fine. Yeah. You're the one who's buying it. [00:07:28] Speaker B: 100. [00:07:29] Speaker A: You know, you're the one who's keeping them in business. You know, New Yorkers aren't buying this. Maybe. Maybe not a little here and there, but, I mean, yeah, the tourists are the ones who are buying it. It's funny. So it's because of you. I said, yeah. [00:07:40] Speaker B: And that's why you'll even see them in Midtown now, too. They're just, you know, they got their whole thing with the blanket and, like, they pick it up and go as soon as the cops come. And it's like. It's a mad. It's a mad dash, chase, cat and mouse game. [00:07:52] Speaker A: That's so funny. [00:07:53] Speaker B: I was down there one day live streaming it, and it was literally a cat and mouse game. So the cops would come, they would pick up their stuff, then they would run to the other side, then come back. [00:08:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:01] Speaker B: Then once in a while, they would jump out and start chasing them. And then they would get, like, a few things, bags and stuff, throw it in the back of the police car, and they would drive away. And then they come back. And I'm like, this doesn't make any sense. I'm like, this seems like such a waste of resources. Like, if we're going to go after anybody, let's go after who's. [00:08:19] Speaker A: The real criminals that are. I'm with you. [00:08:20] Speaker B: The real criminals. And. And maybe the people that are. That are providing all this stuff. [00:08:25] Speaker A: Correct. [00:08:26] Speaker B: Right. [00:08:26] Speaker A: These guys aren't just selling it. [00:08:28] Speaker B: They're just selling it. [00:08:29] Speaker A: There's. There's. [00:08:29] Speaker B: There's definitely somebody at the top. [00:08:31] Speaker A: That's funny. You know, my mind's eye, I have such a good picture of it, because the podcast. This podcast studio, too, has offices on Canal Street. So for the last three years, I've been walking through. Every week, I've been walking through them. I'm like, hey, what's up? You know, like, I'm getting to know [00:08:45] Speaker B: them, you know, and they're usually very nice. They're awesome. [00:08:49] Speaker A: They're really nice guys. So, you know, I feel kind of, like, protective of when I see the cops coming and. Yeah, no, and I'm not. Nothing against the cops. I'm just saying, you know, I kind of feel bad because they're. Yeah. [00:09:00] Speaker B: I don't think when the cops wake up, they say, we want to go to Canal street and Raid, you know, they're getting reactions from the top. So I don't. You know, there's no. There's no beef with that. [00:09:09] Speaker A: Yeah, that's pretty. That's pretty funny, though. I mean. [00:09:12] Speaker B: No, it's very funny. [00:09:13] Speaker A: There's, like. There's such a big. What's the part of New York City culture? You know? And so it's funny about. [00:09:20] Speaker B: They used to sell a lot of car stereo equipment down there back in the day. So a lot of those stores that have now closed up probably become condos, where a lot of car stereo stuff, subwoofers, decks. That's when. That's. [00:09:32] Speaker A: Have you bought anything? [00:09:32] Speaker B: Speakers? Yeah, I bought a deck there. Yeah. When I was growing up, probably when I turned, like, 19, I think I went there to get a. [00:09:39] Speaker A: That's pretty funny. [00:09:39] Speaker B: One of those in dash that you pull out, and you'd have to, like, put it in your bag so nobody would steal your car. Yeah. [00:09:47] Speaker A: So, okay, so you're in Brooklyn and then you leave Brooklyn, right? Yeah. So how'd that. How'd that work out? How'd that happen? [00:09:55] Speaker B: I. Well, I initially, like I said, I went to college out in Stony Brook, so that was my first break away from home, you know, moving into the dorms. [00:10:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:02] Speaker B: And just seeing life outside of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, which was different because you go there and then there's different kids from all over the United States, and then you also have, like, a lot of Long island out there. So that's like, a little different culture. But it was cool. It was cool to mix with everyone, you know, and get a different look at life. And when I graduated, I moved back home for six months, and I was like, I'm used to freedom. I gotta get out of here. [00:10:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:29] Speaker B: So me and a bunch of friends from college ended up renting out a big house in Bay Ridge. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:10:34] Speaker B: And we all split the rent, and it was pretty cheap, considering what the rents are now. [00:10:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, I bet. [00:10:41] Speaker B: I think we were paying 2400 for the whole house. And there was four of us. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Four of us. That's cheap. [00:10:46] Speaker B: Cheap. [00:10:47] Speaker A: It's pretty cheap. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:48] Speaker A: And so you're. You said Bensonhurst now? [00:10:51] Speaker B: It was. It was Bensonhurst, and I moved to Bay Ridge. [00:10:53] Speaker A: Yeah. So where's Bay Ridge specific? [00:10:55] Speaker B: Bay Ridge is pretty much the complete southern portion, west side of Brooklyn. [00:11:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:03] Speaker B: So if you go past, like, the park slopes of the world and all that, you keep going down right near Diker Heights. [00:11:09] Speaker A: People are. [00:11:10] Speaker B: If people are familiar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:11:12] Speaker A: I Know Diker Heights? [00:11:13] Speaker B: Well, there you go. [00:11:15] Speaker A: So that's. That's pretty cool. And then you move to Manhattan after that, right? [00:11:18] Speaker B: And. Yeah. So in 2014, I. I put on my big boy pants and. [00:11:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:23] Speaker B: Manhattan. [00:11:24] Speaker A: Nice. And so, Yeah, I think we live kind of close. Ish. [00:11:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm in the Upper West. You're like upper Upper West. Yeah, yeah, exactly. [00:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah. You're Upper West. I'm Upper Upper West. [00:11:37] Speaker B: There you go. [00:11:37] Speaker A: You know. How are you happy with where you live? [00:11:40] Speaker B: I am. When I first moved there, I was 29, so it, like, wasn't really, like, par with my lifestyle. Like, I still want to go out and. [00:11:49] Speaker A: Right. [00:11:49] Speaker B: But now it's gotten very lively, and now I'm older and I'm like, I don't even want the liveliness. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:54] Speaker B: I won't buy it. [00:11:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:55] Speaker B: So I grew into it perfectly. [00:11:58] Speaker A: And you're close to Central Park. [00:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:12:00] Speaker A: Nice. [00:12:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Which is. Which is amazing. I've been. I've been working in the Upper west side area for a very long time. So I started working, doing maintenance stuff in buildings when I was 16 years old. [00:12:12] Speaker A: Wow. [00:12:13] Speaker B: Yeah. So every time I wasn't in high school or college, I was just in between. Go there, do some relief work, clean up all these dirty staircases. You know, all that. All that fun stuff. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:24] Speaker B: So I'm familiar with the area, and I've seen it change. It changed a lot for the better. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, rents are obviously super high, but definitely for the better, I mean. Yeah, yeah. [00:12:35] Speaker A: I think. I think so, too. I think I. I mean, I lived here 13 years. My rent has gone up somewhat, but it's nothing compared to what, you know, if you're going higher and higher. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:45] Speaker A: It gets less and less, and so it's still pretty affordable in a way. [00:12:50] Speaker B: The only downfall is you're starting to see the businesses not being able to afford the rent, which is unfortunate. So you're seeing a lot of businesses that have been there for a long time closing down. You're seeing more Chipotle. Not that I don't dislike Chipotle. [00:13:02] Speaker A: I know. [00:13:03] Speaker B: You know what I mean? Yeah. [00:13:04] Speaker A: I like. I like Dos Toros, though. [00:13:06] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:06] Speaker A: You know? You know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Better than Chipotle. If anybody wants to know that. I prefer Dos Toros over Chipotle. So, Dan, let's talk about what you do on social media. Tell everybody your page and what your page is about and how did you get started and everything. And that's how we Became friends. [00:13:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:21] Speaker A: You know, through social media, which is awesome. So tell everybody about that. [00:13:24] Speaker B: So the page is all day NYC on all platforms. And I got started like many others, I feel like during the pandemic. So pandemic was a big changing time where people were kind of venturing. Venturing outside when they could. [00:13:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:40] Speaker B: And that's when I started seeing New York City a little slower. And I realized, you know what, there's something here. And I always kind of was on social media. I've been on the Facebooks of the world, the myspaces. Yeah. All you know, I have the experience with it. [00:13:52] Speaker A: That's fun. [00:13:53] Speaker B: But I never got into actual, like taking photos or videos. Also at this time, I feel like the phones were getting better. So like the iPhone finally had like a built in stabilization point because before that it was like your phone is just shaking all over the place. There was no gimbals. People didn't have people in own gimbals. Unless you were doing really professional stuff [00:14:11] Speaker A: and like you said. Yeah, yeah. [00:14:12] Speaker B: So agree. Yeah. So I feel like I, I was seeing all this stuff during the pandemic, especially with New York City being empty and I'm like, I need to really start getting this up on social media and posting it. [00:14:24] Speaker A: Yep. [00:14:25] Speaker B: So that's what, that's what I started doing. [00:14:27] Speaker A: You make, you're making me think of the stable stabilization. I was walking through Central park, it was 6ish years ago, and I saw Tony Bennett sitting in Central park with his wife. I'm like, this is an awesome video. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:40] Speaker A: And then back then I thought it was. And I just pulled it up the other day. Just. It was like, it was like so shaky and it's like terrible. [00:14:46] Speaker B: You know, I have a few of those going to the archives. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:50] Speaker B: Oh, man, Is this even usable? [00:14:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I was terrible. I would have never posted that. Yeah. Like, this guy is horrible. You know, unfriending or unfollowing and everything. So what, what, Tell me your say 3 favorite reels that you posted. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:15:05] Speaker A: What are your three very favorite. Real quick. I saw a really, really funny one the other day though. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:11] Speaker A: On your page, which was like the barbecue club. What was not a, like a, like a hot dog. It was a stand with music or something. What was happening there? Do you remember that? [00:15:21] Speaker B: Was it the one from yesterday, Midtown or something? Well, it was this one. There was this like crazy dj. [00:15:27] Speaker A: Yeah, there it is. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Okay. All right. So it was the school bus rave. I'm just doing my little live stream, riding around sometimes I'm riding around on a bike or a one wheel or walking. [00:15:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:39] Speaker B: I think I was taking a city bike home. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:41] Speaker B: And I hear music. And my one rule is whenever I hear music, follow it. So I follow the music. [00:15:45] Speaker A: That's smart. [00:15:46] Speaker B: And sure enough, there's a school bus that's converted into a DJ platform and somebody's just playing. [00:15:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:52] Speaker B: DJing on 34th street, right? [00:15:54] Speaker A: It was cool. Yeah, I like it. Just. [00:15:56] Speaker B: Just something you, you know, you wouldn't see every. [00:15:58] Speaker A: You know. And I know I asked you this question about your videos, but I want one second. Yeah, yeah. I have all these questions. You know, go for it. So. And you basically ride your bike or you said a one. A one wheeler. [00:16:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I have a one wheeler, which is like, you kind of stand sideways on it. It's not the one that you stand straight. It's the one. You stand sideways. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Right. [00:16:14] Speaker B: And you're kind of like. It almost looks like a skateboard, but it has one big tire. [00:16:18] Speaker A: Like a hoverboard or. [00:16:19] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, something like that. [00:16:21] Speaker A: You know, how hard is it to, like, learn to balance yourself on. I don't know if I had a [00:16:25] Speaker B: friend who was using one who was also streaming out in California, and I used to watch him do it, and I'm like, that looks really cool. And then I started seeing people riding them, and I'm like, that looks really cool. [00:16:35] Speaker A: I just. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah. [00:16:37] Speaker B: And I. I just. I bought one and I took it to Central park and I started out in the grass. [00:16:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:42] Speaker B: And I started out slow. And the first day I was like, okay, I think, get the hand of this, you know? And little by little, I would venture, I ventured into a pathway, and then I took it to the street in a few days. And little by little. [00:16:55] Speaker A: And so all over the city now, [00:16:57] Speaker B: doing that now I'm all over with it. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I just saw yesterday or last night this. This guy and he has his dogs on those things. You may have seen it. [00:17:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:17:05] Speaker A: It was really cool. [00:17:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:06] Speaker A: I was like, how is this dog maneuvering and turning? It was insane to me. Yeah, yeah. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Like the little bulldog. [00:17:12] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I just saw it last night. Just by coin, just by chance. But, you know, I saw you one of your videos too, which I thought was pretty funny. You're actually. There was like a traffic jam or directing traffic. And what. What happened? [00:17:27] Speaker B: I was also live streaming. The best stuff happens when you're live streaming. [00:17:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:31] Speaker B: And it was a complete traffic jam. I think it was right here on, like, 7th Avenue. [00:17:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I was in midtown, right? Yeah, yeah. [00:17:37] Speaker B: And I'm like, you know, while I'm live streaming, you have an audience, and it's like, you want to investigate. You want to see, you know, what's [00:17:43] Speaker A: going on with the same thing. [00:17:44] Speaker B: You know, you hear people honking the horns. We got to go see what's going on. And sure enough, it's all because there was a line into a parking lot y. And there was a woman who wouldn't. [00:17:55] Speaker A: I was going say, one car, right? [00:17:57] Speaker B: One car. [00:17:57] Speaker A: One car. Yeah. [00:17:58] Speaker B: Like, wouldn't pull over to, like, wait for the parking lot attendant to bring in the car and then keep the flow going. Like, no, I'm just going to stand right here with my big Escalade in the middle of the street. So I took it upon myself, and I directed her. [00:18:10] Speaker A: You did? [00:18:11] Speaker B: I said, come on. Come this way. Move down here. She thought she was gonna, like, lose her spot. And I know you're holding up the whole avenue. [00:18:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Like, this is pretty ridiculous. [00:18:21] Speaker A: I mean, the way you had the camera, too, you could clearly see that this person's car was messing up all of midtown Manhattan. [00:18:28] Speaker B: Literally. [00:18:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:29] Speaker B: So literally causing a bottleneck. Yeah. [00:18:31] Speaker A: Job. I love that. I thought. Yeah, I was. I was. I watched that a couple of times, just as, you know, just to see you or people driving around, trying to figure it out. [00:18:40] Speaker B: You know, you get these funny, interesting moments. [00:18:43] Speaker A: Yeah. So what are you. I asked you. Three. Right, Sorry. Three. Yeah. [00:18:48] Speaker B: There's so many. So tough. But, yeah. [00:18:50] Speaker A: Well, one or two. I don't care. [00:18:52] Speaker B: Yeah. You know what? I'll give you some of the ones that really started off with. With the virality. There was one day where I literally just walked outside my building, and there's a raccoon in the scaffolding, and he's doing this, like, acrobatic, I think, walk. [00:19:08] Speaker A: Oh, I saw it. [00:19:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:10] Speaker B: That was one of my most crazy viral videos. [00:19:13] Speaker A: That was incredible. That's been a year or two ago, right? [00:19:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was just, like, such a funny moment. I just, you know, pull out the camera. [00:19:20] Speaker A: It was. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Snap it. Yeah. Yeah. I think I put, like, Mission Impossible music behind it. [00:19:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. That was really cool. [00:19:27] Speaker B: It was an interesting one. You know, it's not something you see every day, and people are just walking under the raccoon, so a lot of people don't even see it. [00:19:32] Speaker A: I'm gonna admit this. I would never. I was a little jealous of that. I'm like, that's one of the coolest videos I've seen. Yeah. [00:19:38] Speaker B: You know, you got the content brain. Because I do the same thing. Like, when I see. I was like, damn, I wish I could. [00:19:42] Speaker A: Yeah, that was. That was. I was like, damn, that was a good one. [00:19:44] Speaker B: That was a cool one. That was a cool one. [00:19:46] Speaker A: We just got to call each other now when we see something cool and just be. Come. Come up here and get. Okay, what else? What else? Another one. [00:19:53] Speaker B: Some of my other ones probably, you know, not to go super recent, but. [00:19:58] Speaker A: No, that's fine. This. [00:19:59] Speaker B: This summer has really been so great in New York City. [00:20:02] Speaker A: Oh, well, let's talk about that too, in a minute. [00:20:05] Speaker B: I would say one of my favorites just for me personally, because I never thought, see, the day was being at the Knicks parade. And I was able to highlight and get like, Walt Frazier, like, rolling down the Knicks parade. Like, who would ever thought we would see the day, you know? So, like, that's really. That hits. That hits. [00:20:23] Speaker A: It was as. I. I was actually looking at some of your Nicks today. Nick's videos. I mean, you were right up front, right on the. Right on the street, right there. I was in the Woolworth Building, which was awesome. It was beautiful. You know, you were. You were right. [00:20:39] Speaker B: Overhead shot. [00:20:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were right. Right in their face. And I was just like, wow, look at these shots. [00:20:45] Speaker B: I went super early. So there was. There was a lot of. [00:20:47] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, what time did that get there? Tell us. [00:20:49] Speaker B: So I got there. I had another good friend of mine, Can't Stop, who's also does a lot of Nick stuff and other. [00:20:55] Speaker A: What's his name? [00:20:56] Speaker B: Can Stop. On Instagram, I think. Can't stop. 718. He was going to the spurs games in San Antonio. He's like all over the place. [00:21:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:04] Speaker B: He was like, yo, we're going. [00:21:05] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I can't believe I just said that. Nick, you guys, for a second, you just said first. My brain's trying to, you know, jump in everything. Yeah. [00:21:15] Speaker B: So he was like, yo, we're going to the parade. We're going to get there crazy early. So I'm like, all right, say less. So he got there at like 4:30 in the morning. [00:21:22] Speaker A: That's what I heard. [00:21:23] Speaker B: And I Woke up at 4:30. So I'm like. He said, we already kind of got like in a line because they weren't allowing press passes that day. [00:21:30] Speaker A: I know, yeah, that. That was rough. [00:21:32] Speaker B: But I'm like, you know what? It's rough. But I'm like, this is. I've lived for this. I'm. I'm going to this. [00:21:38] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:21:39] Speaker B: I woke up crazy early, and I said, I'm going no matter what. And I ended up getting in line with him. And we got right to the front of those gates when they first opened up, but we were standing there for hours. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Worth it, though. Did you have to go to the bathroom? [00:21:52] Speaker B: I made sure I only had a little coffee. I was, like, fully prepared. I, like, went to the bathroom. I woke up, and I was like, I'm only having a little sip of coffee. [00:22:00] Speaker A: Yep. You know, and that's it. [00:22:01] Speaker B: I'll stay dehydrated, but I'll be all right. [00:22:04] Speaker A: That's so funny, because people don't realize, you know, what Dan and I do and what we have to think about ahead of time is eating or drinking. For instance, at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, too. Like, these big events, especially the Knicks. I almost didn't go to the. To the Knicks, you know, parade because I was like, I'm gonna be stuck there without a restroom. We have to think about all these things. It's a lot, but, you know. Yeah. Yeah. And then I was in. You know, I. One of my friends invited me to the Woolworth Building, which I eventually got into, but I almost gave up. And what was amaz. I was there a few. I. I got there, like, at nine, like an idiot. The subways were insane. The. The. You know, at the World Trade center, you know, our Chamber Street. I should say to Fulton Street. Underground. Shoulder to shoulder, packed. We come up above ground. The oc. The oculus is completely surrounded with thousands. Hundreds of thousands of people. I mean, it was. [00:23:01] Speaker B: Some of those videos were crazy enough just to see that part. [00:23:04] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:23:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:05] Speaker A: And it was insane. And then I somehow managed to squeeze through almost to the Woolworth Building. But I was starting to get nervous because I was scared of a crushing situation. 100, you know, it was. Yeah. There was all these things going on. Did you think about that too? [00:23:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. [00:23:21] Speaker A: And then I ended up. Just happened to look, and it was. I saw this on the video. I happened to look and I saw the crowd running forward, like. And I was like, oh, my gosh, there's my in. And I jumped in and I ran with them. And I saw the entrance to the Woolworth Building for security, and I'd stop, and I pinned myself, and I said, I'm here. I'm here, I'm here. You know, and it was. [00:23:39] Speaker B: That's the New Yorker. [00:23:40] Speaker A: And, yeah, it was crazy. I mean, I gave up. I. I mean, I Gave up. I almost went. I couldn't even go home, though. [00:23:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:23:46] Speaker A: Because I knew I was stuck there for hours, you know? But it was so worth it. I don't want to make it sound bad because it was so incredibly worth it, everybody. For sure. So were you Knicks fan since you were this tall? [00:23:58] Speaker B: Since I was. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very young. [00:24:01] Speaker A: So how is that for you? You know, being a true New Yorker, a real New Yorker, watching your team after 53 years. [00:24:09] Speaker B: 53. [00:24:09] Speaker A: You've never seen them win? [00:24:11] Speaker B: Never. [00:24:12] Speaker A: Until this summer. [00:24:13] Speaker B: Until this summer. How cool is that? Oh, I even had to get a tattoo to commemorate it. [00:24:18] Speaker A: Let's see it. Can we see it? [00:24:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:20] Speaker A: Show that. Show the camera, too, because Murph from Impractical Jokers showed his, too. Yeah, yeah. [00:24:28] Speaker B: It's the trophy with the Tims hanging from it. And it says 26 champs done by Rich by. [00:24:35] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:24:36] Speaker B: R D tattoo. [00:24:37] Speaker A: Very cool. [00:24:38] Speaker B: I have to commemorate this. [00:24:40] Speaker A: Yeah, that's really cool. So, you know, let's talk about this summer. [00:24:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:44] Speaker A: It has been such an incredible summer in New York City and. Can't wait, can you? You can just feel the amazingness in this. This. [00:24:50] Speaker B: It's been incredible. You know, there's. There was. There was a part of New York City that I felt like it changed when the pandemic hit, and it felt like it never truly came back. So understood was back as far as busy and tourists and understood there was something weird. You know, it just didn't feel like the old. [00:25:09] Speaker A: It changed a little. [00:25:10] Speaker B: It changed a little. [00:25:11] Speaker A: Yeah. I get it. Yep. [00:25:12] Speaker B: And I feel like this summer made it feel like. Like back. [00:25:15] Speaker A: Like home. [00:25:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Like home again. For sure. [00:25:18] Speaker A: For sure, for sure. I mean, it's, you know, because I moved here 13 years ago, so I saw and felt New York City the way it was, and then the pandemic came, and it did change. It didn't feel like it's regular self. Yeah. [00:25:32] Speaker B: You know, for sure. [00:25:33] Speaker A: And now we're here and. And the Knicks is a great, huge part of it. What else do you think? [00:25:39] Speaker B: Part of it? Just the. The vibe. The vibe in general. [00:25:43] Speaker A: New mayor and I love, you know, what do you think about our new mayor? [00:25:48] Speaker B: I love him. I think he's doing great stuff for the city. [00:25:51] Speaker A: I hear you. [00:25:51] Speaker B: I agree. You know, there's a lot to do here, so somebody's always going to be upset about something, but I think as long as you keep going in the right direction and try to do, you know, the best for the people that need It. [00:26:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:03] Speaker B: You know what I mean? [00:26:03] Speaker A: I completely agree. I mean, you been here your whole life, so you've seen how the city reacts, interacts, you know, with our mayors. And I think this. I feel different. I feel something different with this mayor, too, for sure. The city is. Is. Seems happier. [00:26:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:24] Speaker A: So I just, you know, I. I think both of us have interviewed him some. A few times, too, and, you know, I think actually getting to talk to him, and he's. He's a. He's a good guy. [00:26:37] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. Yeah. The first time I met him, he was just really cool and personable and, like, making little side jokes and stuff, making everyone comfortable around him. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:46] Speaker B: And there was even somebody in the room that was like, oh, I didn't meet him before, and I wasn't too sure about, you know, how he would be like. And I didn't really know if. And they're like, he was great. So it's like, you know, you kind of get that. And it's not, like, fake either. It's like. No, it's an authentic. [00:27:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. But he knows you and remembers you, too, for sure. You know, when I see him, he's sincerely like, hey, you know. Yeah. You know, and it's. I was gonna say something else, too. I don't know. He's just all around. I've just really enjoyed talking with him. And he always has good, you know, sincere answers. [00:27:17] Speaker B: And I also like that he rides a city bike around. [00:27:20] Speaker A: I know. So the Knicks, a new mayor, and what else happened? The World Cup. [00:27:27] Speaker B: The World Cup. [00:27:28] Speaker A: You know, we had so many. [00:27:29] Speaker B: It's been so crazy. I like, you know. Yeah. [00:27:32] Speaker A: So. [00:27:33] Speaker B: No, the World cup was pretty insane, too. No, just seeing. [00:27:36] Speaker A: I saw your videos. Some of your videos. Yeah. Square. Amazing. [00:27:38] Speaker B: Just seeing everyone together, different people from different countries here in New York, celebrating together was pretty cool. [00:27:45] Speaker A: And what's amazing is every country that was here is also represented in some way or form here in New York City. [00:27:52] Speaker B: Very true. [00:27:53] Speaker A: You know what I mean? So. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Yeah. You would. You would go. So I. Me and my friends and my wife, we were looking to go to, you know, bars in different neighborhoods to celebrate for the different games. [00:28:04] Speaker A: Right. [00:28:05] Speaker B: And you could do that here. Yeah, that's, you know, that's what it's all about. [00:28:09] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, every night there was a different country celebrating or excited for what may or hap. What may happen. You know, they may win, celebrating. And all the people who live here from, you know, that are originally from that country, other, you know, parents or whoever. It's Just what New York is about is the diversity and all the different people from all over the world. It just felt so good. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it did. It did. [00:28:34] Speaker A: It felt like. [00:28:35] Speaker B: And it was like, perfect timing how everything just. [00:28:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:38] Speaker B: It was like, oh, we're done with the Knicks. Okay. Now we have the World Cup. There's just. [00:28:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And then after that was the best fireworks I think I've seen. Right? The Fourth of July fireworks. [00:28:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:28:49] Speaker A: I think we're in the same area because I saw your video and, like, on down in Dumbo this year. [00:28:54] Speaker B: I was actually over in Long Island City, so I didn't see. Oh, I did see the videos afterwards, but I didn't. [00:29:00] Speaker A: I thought I saw your. [00:29:01] Speaker B: I didn't see it the best this year, but I had some. I had a decent view of it. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:06] Speaker B: You know what I like? If you really look around, people are lighting fireworks everywhere. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:12] Speaker B: So if you really want to get into the nitty gritty, you go, like, all the way uptown or you go to some of the outer boroughs in Brooklyn. My gosh, forget about it. It gets pretty wild in my neighborhood. [00:29:20] Speaker A: It is. You don't sleep. Fourth of July. Yeah. And it's. It's cool, though. I mean, I'm not upset. Yeah. [00:29:25] Speaker B: It's a once, you know. Yeah. As long as they do it once a year. Don't do that. [00:29:29] Speaker A: You know, this was a special one, too. It was a 200. 250th anniversary of our country, and we're all celebrating that. And it was just. It was just a really. Just a great summer, and it's continuing, and I wonder what is next. What is next to add on to that. [00:29:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:47] Speaker A: Because it's. We're just moving forward. [00:29:49] Speaker B: Over. Yeah. I feel like I finally got to take, like, a little break of just, like, the events, and now it's just kind of like, I can enjoy. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:55] Speaker B: The actual summer, too. Right. So, like, you're not, like, you don't have this brain of, like, I have to go here. I have to go there to get a video of this. [00:30:01] Speaker A: Good point. I didn't think of that. [00:30:02] Speaker B: That's what we're doing. We're always trying to get content, you know, and it's like, now we can kind of like it freely or let it come to us. [00:30:08] Speaker A: I mean, when the Knicks games, the Knicks championship was over, I was so glad that I could rest. And this stress that we had, I. [00:30:18] Speaker B: That was a lot of. [00:30:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:20] Speaker B: There wasn't too much sleep, Eating very badly. A lot of pizza. And, like, quick on the go, because it was every day I would go to work, and then it was like, okay, the game's on. Where are we going for the game? What are we doing? Do we have to go out and document the celebrating? [00:30:33] Speaker A: Exactly. We do. We do. [00:30:34] Speaker B: Another two hours on. Yeah, you're getting home, like, midnight, and [00:30:38] Speaker A: we're stressed out because we're, you know, 27 points behind, and then we come up and we win. And just the emotions. Yeah, it's incredible. Really, really, really cool. [00:30:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:49] Speaker A: Okay, Dan, since you're a certified New Yorker, born here in New York City, let's talk pizza. Pizza, you know. So do you have your favorite pizza places you like to tell people to go to? And what is your favorite? [00:31:04] Speaker B: So when I grew up in Brooklyn, this was, like, I said, 90s LMB, Spimone Garden. [00:31:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:31:12] Speaker B: Square slices. [00:31:14] Speaker A: The original one, like, way out. [00:31:15] Speaker B: The original one way out there. Yeah, yeah. I was two blocks away from there, so that was just. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Wow. [00:31:22] Speaker B: That's how I grew up my first [00:31:23] Speaker A: time, like, two years ago to that specific location. Yeah. It was incredible. [00:31:26] Speaker B: Incredible. And just like the setup right outside, the picnic tables and stuff, also the spamoni is also very good. The actual ice cream, very good. So that was like. That was where I grew up. So that was always been my number one. You know, I wouldn't really venture out too much beyond. I think it was that and, like, Nap street pizza. We would order, like, a regular pie from Nap street, and the regular is like the circle, and then the Square is what LMB's Morning Gardens is known for. The Sicilian. [00:31:51] Speaker A: I like that. Doesn't LBs LMBS put, like, your sauce? [00:31:54] Speaker B: Yeah, sauce on top. [00:31:56] Speaker A: I love. [00:31:57] Speaker B: They call it red salt. Like, other places will call it a red slice now. [00:32:00] Speaker A: Oh, that's why. Oh, yeah. [00:32:02] Speaker B: But when I grew up, it was just, you know. [00:32:03] Speaker A: Well, growing up, growing up, growing up, I would always put the sauce on. Well, forgive me for saying this, a Pizza Hut. You know, growing up, not in New York, I was a young kid. Nothing against Pizza Hut to be. [00:32:16] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I had some of it in college. [00:32:20] Speaker A: Yeah. But I would put the. I would put the sauce on it. I always like sauce on my pizza. [00:32:23] Speaker B: There you go. [00:32:24] Speaker A: Then I went to L Bs. Like, this is how I like it. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that's it. [00:32:27] Speaker A: So they call. So what about what other spots? [00:32:30] Speaker B: So that was always like, the number one. [00:32:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:33] Speaker B: And then there's another one in Brooklyn called the Farah, which has also been there for a really long time. Avenue J. It's been there for a very long time. The old man who used to literally make the pies passed away, unfortunately, a few years ago. But you would go in there and he was still making them. He was. Had to be in his maybe late 80s, and he was still making the pies. And that. That was one of the. I've been there a few times recently, a couple years, but that was one of the last times I went. He was still making them. This was probably 20, 22, I'd like to say. [00:33:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:07] Speaker B: So that's a good. It's a good regular slice. [00:33:10] Speaker A: Where is it again? [00:33:11] Speaker B: Pizza? The Farah Avenue J in Brooklyn. [00:33:13] Speaker A: How do you spell it? [00:33:14] Speaker B: D, I, F, A, R, A. [00:33:16] Speaker A: Okay, good. [00:33:17] Speaker B: Yeah, they tried to branch out a little bit. I think they put one in Seaport for a little bit, but it didn't. I don't think it really worked out. It's hard when they branch out because it's. Yeah, they use different ingredients and stuff and. Well, what about, like, the original? [00:33:29] Speaker A: What do you think of Linda Street? Have you been there? [00:33:32] Speaker B: I have had it. Yeah. I had it early on before it got like, really hype. I like it. [00:33:38] Speaker A: I'm just like, I like it. [00:33:39] Speaker B: I wouldn't wait for it. [00:33:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:41] Speaker B: You know, there's certain things I'll try. I'll do the line thing just for my own sense or my people that follow me to be like, is this even worth it? But if I, like, already know about it and I've had it. Yeah, it's got to be really, really good for me to wait in a line for it. [00:33:57] Speaker A: I agree. I mean, I. I went to. I did. The line is. I felt like the line was kind of fast, but I had it and it was really good. Don't get me wrong. [00:34:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very good. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Yeah, it's very good. But I'm a Bleecker street pizza fan. [00:34:11] Speaker B: I like Bleaker Street. [00:34:12] Speaker A: I'm. I mean, that's my Go to a couple blocks away. [00:34:15] Speaker B: I like Bleaker Street. I love it. Slice. You know, you have John's right there. [00:34:19] Speaker A: Yeah, right there. [00:34:20] Speaker B: Pies. Yeah, you have a nice little triangle. [00:34:24] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:34:24] Speaker B: Pizza. Yeah, those are good spots. [00:34:27] Speaker A: Are you familiar with Coronet pizza? I'm sure you probably would. [00:34:30] Speaker B: Yes, yes. The big slices. [00:34:32] Speaker A: I. That. When I first moved to New York, it's on the opposite. Opposite side of my block. [00:34:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:36] Speaker A: So coronet with a K, K, O, R, O, N, A T. To this day, still one of my favorite slices. It's so big. [00:34:43] Speaker B: You Know, there's decent ones up there. That's a good one. You have Salon Carmines. Yeah, that's a good one. [00:34:49] Speaker A: It's really good. [00:34:50] Speaker B: There's also one that I like that's really far. It's on Dyckman Street. Pizza Palace. Another. [00:34:54] Speaker A: I've seen it. [00:34:55] Speaker B: Slice. [00:34:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:56] Speaker B: Very big slice. And they also do. If you're not into the pizza or you just want to do something different, they do the beef patty with cheese. [00:35:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:35:06] Speaker B: The cocoa bread. [00:35:07] Speaker A: Yeah. It's always. Yeah, I heard cocoa bread is the best. [00:35:10] Speaker B: Very good. [00:35:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Do you know what cocoa bread is? I'm not sure. [00:35:13] Speaker B: I don't know exactly, like, ingredients or how to make. [00:35:15] Speaker A: But it has to taste good. It has to be in cocoa bread. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. [00:35:20] Speaker B: That's the way. Yeah, yeah. That's the way. [00:35:22] Speaker A: That's how I have it. [00:35:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:23] Speaker A: You know, this is a little. Has nothing to do with what we're talking about, but way up Upper Manhattan is a restaurant that I love. And it was just randomly. I saw it with my good friend Carrie about a year ago. It's called Bitcoin Steakhouse. Have you heard of it? [00:35:37] Speaker B: No. [00:35:38] Speaker A: It's in Inwood. [00:35:39] Speaker B: Okay. [00:35:40] Speaker A: It is one of the best restaurants I've been to in New York City. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Oh, now I gotta go. [00:35:45] Speaker A: Yeah. I love it. And it's. I think they have music and the way the food is really good. We went for happy hour and happy hour. Even the happy hour food was phenomenal. It's called Bitcoin Steakhouse. [00:35:59] Speaker B: Interesting. I like the name. [00:36:00] Speaker A: And I was. Yeah, it was really cool. I was. We should all go back at a group of people and go back sometime. [00:36:05] Speaker B: I'll be down. [00:36:06] Speaker A: It's truly amazing. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Inwood is a very underrated part. And people forget about Upper Manhattan. You know, it's like. It doesn't. When they think of Manhattan, they only think of. Of where we are, midtown. And it's like. No, that exists, too. And it's really nice. [00:36:18] Speaker A: I actually like it. It feels like the Bronx, too. [00:36:20] Speaker B: It does. It feels like you're, like, in the city, but you're. You're, like, in. Like. Yeah, yeah. [00:36:23] Speaker A: But, you know, it's only, like. It was only like, two or three subway stops away from me. It was pretty close. Ish. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:30] Speaker A: And I love it. I just. It's a great restaurant. Great restaurant. Okay, so let's talk bagels. You have a. I'm not a big bagel eater, so I'll be. I don't really have a. You Know a good. [00:36:41] Speaker B: I like bagels. I don't eat them all the time just because they're not the best for you. But I do like good. I like a good bagel sandwich. [00:36:47] Speaker A: What do you get? [00:36:48] Speaker B: Well, I'm upset first of all because one of our places in the Upper west closed. I don't know if you remember Lenny's bagels. It was an old mom and Pop on like a Hundredth and Broadway maybe. [00:36:58] Speaker A: It's not part of Lenwick, is it? [00:37:00] Speaker B: No, completely separate. It was all mom and pop. They had like the bagels in the baskets. They made them there every day. And they had a bad boy bagel. It was egg, everything, onion and like all kinds of stuff. They're gone. Rip. I'm just reminiscing. But this is one of my favorites. But no, some of my go to's now like, I like Zucker. Zucker is. Isn't too bad. Been there, pretty good. They do a good bagel sandwich. If I'm moving around, I'll do a bagel pub makes a pretty good one. I mean, they're all kind of like chains now. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, I mean, I do like Essa bagel. [00:37:36] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure, for sure. Yeah. [00:37:39] Speaker A: What about Liberty bagels and the rainbow bagels and all that stuff? [00:37:41] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Super popular. [00:37:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:44] Speaker B: I think I got a Knicks bagel from. Yeah, they were doing a Knicks bagel. [00:37:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like a rainbow style too. [00:37:50] Speaker B: It was the only. [00:37:51] Speaker A: I got it too. [00:37:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:52] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I like. I'm just not a big bagel eater. [00:37:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:56] Speaker A: You know, for people who don't know why we have the best pizza and bagels in the world. Do you know why? I'm sure you know, the water. There you go, the water. That's the water. You guys, do you know where it's from? [00:38:06] Speaker B: No. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Yes. From the Croton Reservoir up in upstate New York and. And comes on down and. To New York City. You know what's funny? My very first day in New York city, it was August 1st, 2013. Whatever year it was. 13, because. No, I've been here 13 years. Yeah, that's right. [00:38:21] Speaker B: So 26. [00:38:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So I, you know, got a glass of water from the faucet because I'm from Florida. When water tastes like crap. [00:38:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:33] Speaker A: Sulfur. [00:38:34] Speaker B: Gotta enjoy. [00:38:34] Speaker A: Have you been there? Do you know what I'm talking about? [00:38:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:38:37] Speaker A: So you don't drink it? Yeah, yeah. And I took my first glass of water and it was summer, August 1st. It was cold and it Was crisp and it was refreshing. And I was like, holy moly. I did not know that water had, like, all these characteristics, like a fine wine. You know what I mean? [00:38:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, for sure. [00:38:55] Speaker A: And it was. I was like, wow, Florida's water. I didn't realize I was drinking that. [00:39:00] Speaker B: We have some of the best water. Yeah. I still use the water fountains that are, like, the public water fountains. Yeah, I'll use them. [00:39:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Sometimes I'll even just rate them on my, you know, channel, just for. [00:39:10] Speaker A: Really? You'll rate water? What are the best ones? You know, that's funny. [00:39:14] Speaker B: Wait, where was there really a good one? Actually, there was a good one over by the Baylander. [00:39:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:20] Speaker B: Up in Harlem over there. Right off the west side Highway. [00:39:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:23] Speaker B: They have one right there off the bike path. I think I rated that one pretty high. One of the worst ones was in Sheep Said Bay, Brooklyn. It was right off the pier. Maybe they were getting the water straight from the. [00:39:33] Speaker A: That's not a funny. That's so funny that you're raiding water fountains in New York City. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Why not? [00:39:38] Speaker A: Right? No, it's a good. It's a great idea. Because I see them all the time, and I'm thinking now that just, you know, since the pandemic wants to, you [00:39:44] Speaker B: know, debate me on the best. [00:39:46] Speaker A: That's pretty free you have. You rate the water fountains. [00:39:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I gotta do it again. [00:39:51] Speaker A: Well, since the pandemic, I see water fountains. I'm like, [00:39:55] Speaker B: true, true. [00:39:56] Speaker A: You know, you obviously do take the subway a lot, correct? Yes. How do you feel, you know, as a New Yorker? This is interest. This is interesting to me, too. Do you feel the subway has gotten sat. Do you feel the subway's gotten safer? Because I just know. It is pretty safe, in my opinion, for sure. You know, but from what it. From what you've seen growing up here as a. This tall. [00:40:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:19] Speaker A: You know, not until today. Give us your perspective. [00:40:22] Speaker B: I would say from that perspective, it's definitely safer. Just like the city in general, you know, so, like, what it was back in the day, you can't even compare it anymore. Is it still perfect? No. I think there's a huge, like, homeless issue here in New York City, just like other major cities. [00:40:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:37] Speaker B: And what happens is, a lot of times we, like, push them away from everywhere else, and they go to the place where nobody will see them. And that's the subway. [00:40:45] Speaker A: Correct. [00:40:45] Speaker B: You can ride it all day long. And then if people have mental health issues, that's where bad things happen. Somebody will push somebody into a subway very Unfortunate. And then it's, you know. [00:40:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Major headlines everywhere. [00:40:56] Speaker A: Right. [00:40:57] Speaker B: So I do think that is something that does have to be addressed, but it's very difficult situation to address, as we know. But I think, overall, it's safe. You know, I think it's. I think it's fair to say, overall, it's a safe way, and it's an effective way to move around. [00:41:12] Speaker A: I agree. [00:41:12] Speaker B: City. [00:41:13] Speaker A: It's inexpensive, too. It's the only way I travel. I have. Do you have a car? [00:41:17] Speaker B: No. [00:41:17] Speaker A: See? [00:41:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm city bike. And subway. [00:41:21] Speaker A: Yeah. That's the only way I travel. With subway. [00:41:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:24] Speaker A: You know, and I. I'm never fearful. I mean, of course, I've seen some interesting things, if to put it lightly. But I'm never worried about it. [00:41:32] Speaker B: I used to commute from deep in Brooklyn to Upper west side Manhattan, which was about an hour and 15. And I would be tired after work, and I would put my headphones in. I know I'm a bigger guy, and, you know, but it's rush hour. It's, like, sleep, and I would, like, wake up, and it was like, all right, 6th Street. I got a transfer here. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:50] Speaker B: And, like, I just had it in me. And it was like. Wouldn't even think twice about it. Obviously, there'd be things going on. Sometimes you'd pull your headphones out. [00:41:56] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:41:57] Speaker B: You're on edge, trying to. [00:41:58] Speaker A: That's funny. Your mind. Well, I mean, I was just gonna say you're a bigger guy than me. [00:42:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:03] Speaker A: And I still feel pretty. [00:42:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Pretty safe. I mean, I don't think. And I was in a subway crash. I don't know if you know this. In Harlem a few years in 2017. It was a derailment. It was pretty serious, you know, but it was. It was human error. Some. Some MTA workers left. Is that on the loose rails on the tracks? [00:42:24] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Because. Yeah, I remember there was something with like, a. A rail wasn't switched. [00:42:28] Speaker A: Well, we hit it, and it looked like it was a big explosion. [00:42:30] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:42:31] Speaker A: Because we're going full speed in the morning rush hour, and it looked like an explosion because when we hit the rails, it created this huge ball of sparks. [00:42:37] Speaker B: Wow. [00:42:37] Speaker A: We're thinking it's a big explosion. It was insane. [00:42:40] Speaker B: Oh, that's wild. [00:42:40] Speaker A: Nothing I've ever experienced. [00:42:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:42] Speaker A: Yeah. We crashed, and it was just insane. [00:42:44] Speaker B: Wow. [00:42:44] Speaker A: So what's funny about what I learned from that, too, is there's a person inside of me that I never knew I had in. In me that was like, you got to get off this train or I was a fighter. I mean, I was so laser focused to get off this train and clear headed. I couldn't believe the person I was. And it's weird. We jumped off the train because we thought it was gonna be on fire. It was insane. [00:43:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:43:04] Speaker A: But it was just crazy. I talked about this on the, I was on the news talking about it, but the person that I didn't know that was in me was like completely laser focused. Wow. And I was like, let's do this, do this. Point A to point B to point C, meaning the other me and these other guys were trying to get the back door open. [00:43:21] Speaker B: People coming together. [00:43:22] Speaker A: Yeah. It was crazy. [00:43:23] Speaker B: Yeah. That's one thing about New York. I feel like we were though we. [00:43:27] Speaker A: Exactly what we were doing. [00:43:28] Speaker B: We may not want to talk to each other every day, but if something goes down, I feel like people immediately come together. [00:43:34] Speaker A: Yeah. I tried to get a hold of these three guys that we worked, you know, very effectively together. Kick it. Well, we ended up kicking the door. Oh, wow. The window. And we got out. You know, everybody else was jumping. [00:43:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Wow. [00:43:45] Speaker A: But I tried to get to talk, talk to them because I couldn't believe I was in this experience too. I'm like, dude, that really just happened that we crashed and. But I couldn't get a hold of anybody. But the thing is, is a couple weeks later, it took me, I was a little nervous to ride the train, you know, a little bit of ptsd, I guess. But I'm like, this is New York, I gotta jump. So actually somebody said to me, you live, you're a New Yorker, you gotta just jump back on the horse. I'm like, you know what, you're right. I needed to hear that. And so after a few weeks, I got back on it. And within a few weeks after that, I was passed out on the train again. Coming home, you know what I mean? [00:44:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:14] Speaker A: I was like, here, listen. [00:44:15] Speaker B: That, that's. [00:44:15] Speaker A: I'm back. I'm back to normal. [00:44:17] Speaker B: That is the New York way. You know, I remember after 9, 11 happened. I was young, like 14 years old. [00:44:23] Speaker A: I want to talk about this. [00:44:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And I remember, you know, all that going down and then they used to do this thing on the news where it was like, what is the terror alert? Right? For the, for the week or day? And it was like color, right? And I was like, today it's like green, but tomorrow, like then it's like orange and it's like. And I'm like, you know, I'M a young dude, like 16 years old. I'm going to work on the train. It's like, what. Like there was always. They thought it would be like a subway bomb or something like that. And it's like, you're on edge, but you're like, what am I gonna do? I gotta, you know, gotta go. [00:44:56] Speaker A: You know what? I didn't think about talking about this today. I really want to get into this. Yeah, yeah. So that's fascinating. So here you are, what, 14. [00:45:06] Speaker B: 14? Yeah. Because 2001, I was born in 85. Is my math correct on that? [00:45:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Right. I gotta get up. [00:45:14] Speaker B: I think 16. Sorry. [00:45:15] Speaker A: No, you're. [00:45:16] Speaker B: Yeah, 16. [00:45:16] Speaker A: Close enough. [00:45:18] Speaker B: 16. [00:45:18] Speaker A: I want to start from that day. Tell me what happened in your life on September 11, 2001. [00:45:25] Speaker B: So I was in high school. It was my junior year of high school. I just started working that summer in Manhattan. So, yeah, got used to the back and forth. But I'm back in school now, just finished working for the summer. And I just remember we're. I think it was homeroom because it was early in the morning. It was like eight something in the morning. And. [00:45:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it was early. [00:45:45] Speaker B: Principal got on the loudspeaker and told us what had happened. A plane had hit the World Trade Center. We're not sure what's happening. We don't know if it was a terrorist attack. That word already started getting flown around. And then teachers. [00:46:00] Speaker A: This is before the second plane hit, [00:46:02] Speaker B: I think this is before the second. [00:46:03] Speaker A: Wow. [00:46:04] Speaker B: Yeah. This is before social media. So, like. [00:46:05] Speaker A: Correct. [00:46:06] Speaker B: There was no way to really know except what you heard. [00:46:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:09] Speaker B: And then I remembered, like, one kid in my class had a Walkman and he was listening to, like, the radio to try to get like, updates. So I think they kept us all in that same class for the day. And then I remember going into lunch, right? So we. They put us into the lunchroom, they bring us all down to the lunchroom. And I guess it's maybe like 10 or 11 o' clock now. So, like the, the towers fell. But we didn't know that. But we heard like all of the. We kept hearing like, planes, like, flying over. So I guess, like, they were bringing in the big planes just in case. [00:46:41] Speaker A: Like the jets. [00:46:42] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, in case something else was going down. So it's like, like, are we at war? Like, we don't know what's. Like, you don't. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. Like there was something in me that was like. Like, what the heck is going on? So shit's going Down. Yeah, shit's going down. So that was. That brings me to the next point. We're in the lunchroom. So it was me and my friends that played football at Lafayette High School, and my coach was the assistant principal. So I told my coach. I'm like, I don't know what's going down. But I was like, we don't want to, like, stay here. Like, I don't want to stay in school. And he's like. He's like, all right. He's like, what are you gonna do? It's like, I'm gonna bring everyone to my house because I live two blocks away. Wow. So it was like 10 of my [00:47:16] Speaker A: friends being that young to think of that. Yeah. [00:47:18] Speaker B: I'm like, let's just go to my house, figure out what's going on. We'll put on the tv. And we broke out. He's like, all right. I don't know nothing. So we left out the side door, and we went to my house to put on the tv. And then we finally saw it, because we didn't see it up until then because it wasn't like, TVs in every room. And there was ash already outside. Like, a light film of ash on some of the cars in Brooklyn. That. South of Brooklyn. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Wow. [00:47:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:47:42] Speaker A: Holy crap. [00:47:43] Speaker B: And it's just, like, you already started smelling a crazy smell. Like, it was just. It was crazy. [00:47:48] Speaker A: So could you see the area where the. Like, from where you live? Could you see, like, any smoke? [00:47:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I remember sort of seeing some smoke, but not really. I remember seeing more ash. Like, there was definitely, like, a film of ash, like, on cars. Yeah. Because it already had. Like, both of them had fallen, like, Right. Missed. We kind of missed it all. Later, we found out that some of the kids on the third floor were able to see the towers. There was a view of the towers, so I guess they. They saw it happen. But there wasn't that much communication because. [00:48:21] Speaker A: Right. [00:48:22] Speaker B: There was no, you know, texting. You're not. [00:48:24] Speaker A: You didn't even. It was such an unprecedented event. [00:48:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:27] Speaker A: You know, we. Something that was unbelievable that could even happen in the United States. [00:48:32] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:48:33] Speaker A: You know, mainland. [00:48:34] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:48:35] Speaker A: And so. [00:48:36] Speaker B: Oh, we heard the Pentagon got. So when we heard the Pentagon, then we're like, that. [00:48:41] Speaker A: I remember. [00:48:41] Speaker B: I'm like, what the hell? [00:48:42] Speaker A: Again, when the Pentagon happened, too, I was. Was. Yeah. I was like, this is getting. I mean, it was scary. [00:48:48] Speaker B: It was like, this is real. Yeah. Because at first we thought it was, like, a little plane that hit. [00:48:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:52] Speaker B: Because that's how it was described and, like, unless you saw it on tv. But once we went home and saw it. Yeah. The buses weren't running, so a lot of my friends commuted from, like, downtown Brooklyn. Flatbush. [00:49:02] Speaker A: Yeah. So subway. [00:49:03] Speaker B: No buses, no subways. So that's why it was also like, oh, come to. Come to my house. We'll hang out. [00:49:07] Speaker A: Wow. And so then what was the rest of your day like? [00:49:10] Speaker B: To be honest, it sounds crazy, but we're like, what are we gonna do right now? We're like, we're hungry. We went to Spumone Gardens, which sounds ridiculous. [00:49:16] Speaker A: Wow. [00:49:16] Speaker B: But you open. [00:49:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:17] Speaker B: Because it was like, yeah, like, you need to get lunch. You know, it wasn't like, oh, you gotta eat. But it was like, you're still in shock, and you don't really know. It's like, we gotta eat, so, like, let's go get pizza. So we went to get pizza, and then we went back to my house and we kept, like, just. We had the TV on. Eventually, my parents came home because I think my mom had a cell phone, but my dad didn't. [00:49:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:37] Speaker B: My dad was working lower Manhattan. I think he had to walk home over the bridge that day and walk all the way back because there was no. [00:49:43] Speaker A: I couldn't imagine subways. [00:49:45] Speaker B: No. No nothing. [00:49:45] Speaker A: As a teenager, you know what? Your bra. Your brain is processing. [00:49:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:52] Speaker A: You know, because you. Were you thinking, it's World War iii. Were you thinking, like, yeah. [00:49:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, especially when we were hearing, like, planes, like, go over. So it's like, is there actual war going? Like, did they get, like. We didn't realize, like, a plane went through until you saw it on. [00:50:03] Speaker A: Right. [00:50:04] Speaker B: And even then, it, like, still didn't really make sense, you know? But. Yeah, you're like, all these things are going through your head, like, are we at war right now? Like, what's going on? I remember, like, the whole week after, it was just. [00:50:14] Speaker A: Just. [00:50:14] Speaker B: We would go to school and the teachers would just kind of, like, talk to us just about, like, what happened. Like, what could happen. There was, like, no sports. Like, everything was basically canceled for, you know. [00:50:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:27] Speaker B: It was a. It was a very interesting, crazy time. [00:50:31] Speaker A: Wow. [00:50:31] Speaker B: Especially growing up so, you know, young into it. It's like, what the. [00:50:35] Speaker A: You know, I was in Orlando when this happened, and obviously it was horrific and terrible, but. But to actually be in New York City and experience when you're actually. Actually at ground zero. Pretty much, yeah. It must have been just. [00:50:48] Speaker B: And I remember. So the way it worked was I had worked in the city that summer but then we had football camp. So my last memory of the World Trade center was coming back from football camp. We drove past the World Trade, and this was probably the end of August, so I'd say, yeah, two weeks before. [00:51:04] Speaker A: Wow. [00:51:05] Speaker B: Yeah. So I do remember seeing it that one last time, which. [00:51:10] Speaker A: Wow. It was crazy. [00:51:11] Speaker B: And I didn't go. I didn't go back to that area of Manhattan for years. [00:51:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:16] Speaker B: Like, I would go. I would go to work, but I would just go straight to work. Like, I wouldn't. Because there was so much going on. They were still taking so much out. So I never saw. Except for on tv. Like, I never went down the ground zero. Like. [00:51:27] Speaker A: Right. [00:51:27] Speaker B: They would tell you not to go down there unless you were helping. [00:51:29] Speaker A: Right. [00:51:30] Speaker B: You know, so it was just like years and years of them, like, moving debris out of there. And then, like, finally when they started, like, building up the new foundation stuff, then it was like, okay, maybe you can go down pretty. Just a wild. [00:51:44] Speaker A: Well, I did see. I remember a very, you know, emotional moment when they topped off World Trade one and they put the big American flag on top. [00:51:52] Speaker B: Yes. [00:51:53] Speaker A: And I remember they announced that it was a middle of the afternoon and they announced on the news that World Trade one has been finished. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:59] Speaker A: And I remember hearing clapping around the city. I remember hearing the roaring. I was like. Like, I didn't know what it was at first, you know, because that's. And I was just like, wow. The whole city, big moment. [00:52:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:07] Speaker A: That was emotional. Like, we did it. Yeah. Like, we're back. And to the people who did this, [00:52:12] Speaker B: worried they're like, how could you build another big building? Like, what happens again? [00:52:16] Speaker A: Well, now World Trade two is being built. [00:52:18] Speaker B: I saw that finally. Yeah. [00:52:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:52:20] Speaker B: I'm still trying to see, like, what the imprint's gonna look like. [00:52:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:23] Speaker B: You know, with the skyline correct, it'll be interesting. [00:52:27] Speaker A: I'm not sure yet either. [00:52:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:28] Speaker A: But it's nice to see that's 25 years later, it's finally. [00:52:31] Speaker B: And the area is like. It's. Listen, I like what they did down there. Like, the memorial is beautiful. If you've never been. I highly suggest if you come to New York. [00:52:39] Speaker A: I agree. [00:52:40] Speaker B: Definitely see that. I love that. Like, a fact of it is that every day they go and they put the flowers you've probably seen for the people's birthdays. Birthdays. [00:52:50] Speaker A: Yeah. I think that's beautiful. [00:52:51] Speaker B: Beautiful. [00:52:51] Speaker A: The white rose. [00:52:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. So I think the way they handle it and the way they keep it up and, like, just seeing it's like really it's, it's, it's. It's a terrible situation. But it's nice what has come of it. [00:53:02] Speaker A: And it's beautifully memorialized. [00:53:04] Speaker B: Yes. [00:53:04] Speaker A: You know, when I went to my friend Steve and Denise were here for their 49th anniversary just the other day and I spent a few days with them and we went to the. The memorial. The 911 memorial, which I hadn't been to in a decade. And it's so much more too. They're adding so much more to it. [00:53:21] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:53:21] Speaker A: And it's. Excuse me. And it's very sad, but I think it's very. I can't think of the word. It's just. You know what I mean? It's. I think it's. No, they've beautifully memorialized. [00:53:33] Speaker B: You know, it's done very nice. And the way they do the lights every year still. [00:53:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:37] Speaker B: Lets you remember. [00:53:38] Speaker A: That's amazing. You know what's amazing too is like I didn't know it was heated around each twin, around each pool. It's heated like so I didn't even know. Yeah. The names are where the names are. So the names are always free of. I never thought about that. Yeah. So there's thing. Yeah. So that the snow can't cover it. Which I thought was really. That's really, really beautifully thought of too. Yeah. And. And also I think what's really incredible is when Santiago Caladrava, who you know is the architect for the Oculus, how he designed it so on. On 911 that specific day, this. The. The shadows come through the top of the Oculus and they recreate the twin tower shadows on the. On the floor. Did you know that? Yeah. It's really amazing. [00:54:23] Speaker B: That Interesting. Wow. [00:54:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:25] Speaker B: I. I do like the Oculus. I thought it was a very. [00:54:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:28] Speaker B: I like when they do something outside the box. [00:54:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:31] Speaker B: You know that's a very interesting looking building. [00:54:33] Speaker A: I really do too. It's an incredible architect. [00:54:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:38] Speaker A: Well, you know what, we have to go and you know, I feel I didn't realize we're going to talk about 911. I had all these other questions too, but I'm really glad we did for sure. I think it's such an especially time wise too. Yeah. [00:54:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:49] Speaker A: I think it's such an important, you know, conversation and so. Thanks Dan. This is. [00:54:53] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:54:54] Speaker A: And we could talk for another five hours. [00:54:56] Speaker B: Do a part two. [00:54:57] Speaker A: You know. We will. Yeah. Yeah. We should. We should. [00:54:59] Speaker B: You never know where we're gonna go because you know talking New York and [00:55:02] Speaker A: it's like, yeah, we can talk New York forever. [00:55:05] Speaker B: We can. [00:55:05] Speaker A: And I love that you are a born New Yorker, you know, so, you know, thank you. [00:55:13] Speaker B: I. I gotta thank my mom. [00:55:14] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. That's. Yeah, that's really cool. But thanks, Dan. [00:55:17] Speaker B: Thank you for having me. [00:55:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, Dan, we're closing out. Let's do some quick fire questions real quick. New York City edition. Subway or bus? [00:55:26] Speaker B: Subway. [00:55:26] Speaker A: Nice. Uptown or downtown? [00:55:30] Speaker B: Downtown. [00:55:31] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:55:33] Speaker B: There's more action? Yeah, I'm uptown, so I gotta go somewhere. I want to go downtown. [00:55:38] Speaker A: Brooklyn or Manhattan? [00:55:40] Speaker B: Brooklyn. [00:55:40] Speaker A: Nice. Let's see here. Dollar slice, yes or no? [00:55:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:45] Speaker A: And do we have dollar slices still now $50. Yeah. [00:55:49] Speaker B: Maybe that's a new mission. To find the only dollar slice left. [00:55:52] Speaker A: Yep. Okay, Dan, so tourists walking across the street, four people. How do you feel? [00:55:59] Speaker B: Very angry. [00:56:00] Speaker A: Good. [00:56:00] Speaker B: Come on. We gotta consolidate. We gotta consolidate that. [00:56:03] Speaker A: I say, good. Someone stops at the top of the subway stairs to look at their phone. [00:56:08] Speaker B: Gotta keep it moving. [00:56:09] Speaker A: Do you ever say anything? [00:56:11] Speaker B: I'm not a confrontational person, but if it gets to it, I'll be like, oh, come on. You know, I'll do. I'll throw something out there. [00:56:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:16] Speaker B: If it gets to be too much, it can only take so much. [00:56:18] Speaker A: You know what I always say? I'm like, that's a great place to stand. [00:56:21] Speaker B: That's a good one. [00:56:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:22] Speaker B: I say passive aggressive. [00:56:23] Speaker A: I like, just walk right back. That's a great place to stand. I like it. [00:56:29] Speaker B: And. [00:56:30] Speaker A: And finally, Dan, if someone comes to New York for the very first time and you can show them one place that I. Explains why you love this city, where you're going to take them. [00:56:38] Speaker B: I know it's blown up more in recent years, but Washington Square Park. [00:56:42] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Yeah. [00:56:43] Speaker B: I think it's just like a nice culmination of New York characters. [00:56:47] Speaker A: Yep. [00:56:48] Speaker B: It's. It's. It's a fun place, and you're going to see a lot. [00:56:52] Speaker A: I love it. [00:56:52] Speaker B: Some crazy things, too. [00:56:54] Speaker A: Completely agree. And so, Dan, before we let you go here, we at the New Yorkers podcast ask every guest the same question. After everything you've experienced here, growing up here, walking these streets, documenting the city and sharing it with people around the world, what does it mean to you, Dan, to be a New Yorker? [00:57:14] Speaker B: I think to be a New Yorker, it just. It's a mindset that switches. Whether you're born here or somebody like yourself who has been here for a long time, I think there's just something that switches in your brain that just gives you that New Yorker mentality Whether it's like you said, being stuck on that train and not, you know, you got to find your way out and you got to help people, you know, do that, I think there you get that added feature that I don't think a lot of people have, unfortunately. So that's not a bad thing. It's just, it is what it is. You. You have that added feature in your brain that gives you that, you know, you got to get something done. [00:57:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:49] Speaker B: New Yorker. New Yorker style. [00:57:51] Speaker A: New Yorker style. I love it. Nicely said, my friend. Thanks, Dan. You're awesome. [00:57:56] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:57:57] Speaker A: And we're gonna have you back. [00:57:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm glad we got to do this. [00:58:01] Speaker A: Me too. Me too. So, Dan, thank you so much today for joining us here on the New Yorkers podcast. Before we let you go, tell everybody where they can find all Day NYC on social media, watch your live streams, see your photography and keep up with everything you're doing. [00:58:13] Speaker B: Dan, all day NYC on all the platforms. If you want to see live streams, I stream on Twitch and YouTube and I've been doing a new account on Instagram just for photographs and all my camera stuff, which is shot by all day. [00:58:29] Speaker A: Once again, everybody, I'm your host, Kelly Kopp, also known as New York City Cop, all across my social media. [00:58:33] Speaker B: Please like and subscribe the New Yorkers Podcast and you can follow the New Yorkers Podcast on social Media at the New Yorkers Podcast. [00:58:42] Speaker A: And please leave us a rating or a comment and let us know how you're enjoying the show. My friends, we read all your comments and DMs and we would truly love hearing from you this week. A special thank you goes to Courtney7654, Lee McGarrett, Sue Rothwell, Ed and Betty Kopp, who's my mom and dad, Melissa Bickelman, Carol Ann and Kevin Wildley. Sylvain. H W U B S V v r y c 4c. You know who you are. Thank you all so much for listening and supporting the New Yorkers Podcast, everyone. And if you want to give us a shout out at the end of a future episode, leave us a rating on Apple Podcast or a comment on Spotify or YouTube. We read all your names right here on the show as you just heard [00:59:23] Speaker B: and thank you to everyone who watches, follows and supports allday nyc. [00:59:27] Speaker A: Dan, thank you again for being here and to everybody listening and watching, thank you for joining us. Have a lovely day and we will see you next time. My friends, [00:59:36] Speaker B: this is the last stop on this train, everyone. Please leave the train. 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