Lionel Nation - Walking Through Hell’s Kitchen: The Famous Ninth Avenue Food Fest Madness
Aired: 2025-05-19
Duration: 50:34


=== Ninth Avenue Food Festival (12:36) ===

[00:00:00]  The play here.
[00:00:01]  Are you following us?
[00:00:03]  Can I get a...
[00:00:04]  Can I get a...
[00:00:06]  Oh, I know what I'm doing.
[00:00:08]  Hang on a minute.
[00:00:08]  I gotta move this over a little bit.
[00:00:10]  Hang on a minute.
[00:00:15]  There we go.
[00:00:17]  Hang on.
[00:00:20]  Hold this stem for me.
[00:00:21]  Thank you.
[00:00:24]  There we go.
[00:00:26]  That's more like it.
[00:00:29]  There we go.
[00:00:30]  Is everybody there?
[00:00:31]  Let me tilt this down.
[00:00:34]  That's it.
[00:00:34]  Are we all there?
[00:00:35]  Five by five.
[00:00:36]  Good, good, good.
[00:00:39]  Here we are.
[00:00:40]  Ready to go.
[00:00:41]  This is the Ninth Avenue International Food Festival.
[00:00:46]  International.
[00:00:47]  It is an absolute tradition in Hell's Kitchen.
[00:00:52]  Tradition.
[00:00:53]  It's like nothing like it.
[00:00:55]  They have them on other...
[00:00:57]  Sixth Avenue has there, but not like this.
[00:01:00]  I think this might be the oldest, or one of the oldest.
[00:01:04]  All right?
[00:01:04]  Ready to go?
[00:01:05]  I'm ready.
[00:01:06]  Everybody clear?
[00:01:07]  Make sure terrific.
[00:01:08]  Okay.
[00:01:09]  There's loads of food available.
[00:01:11]  There we go.
[00:01:13]  Now, let me move this down here a little bit.
[00:01:17]  New York's finest.
[00:01:20]  Thanks to Commissioner Tisch.
[00:01:22]  God bless these people.
[00:01:25]  We're going to walk you through.
[00:01:26]  Make sure I'm okay now.
[00:01:28]  Make sure you can hear me.
[00:01:30]  I've got the headphones in.
[00:01:34]  This new police commissioner, don't you agree, is a godsend.
[00:01:38]  She is phenomenal.
[00:01:42]  First responders.
[00:01:44]  Excellent.
[00:01:45]  Keep up the great work.
[00:01:47]  I'm not saying that gratuitously.
[00:01:50]  Everyone, people would.
[00:01:53]  I always say about the first responders that didn't really mean it.
[00:01:56]  Look at this, my friends.
[00:01:57]  First of all, loads and loads.
[00:02:00]  Oh!
[00:02:02]  Is that for free?
[00:02:04]  Thank you.
[00:02:05]  Thank you.
[00:02:06]  I'll take you.
[00:02:07]  Thank you.
[00:02:07]  Honey, this is hell, eternal life, or eternal destruction.
[00:02:14]  Amazing fact.
[00:02:15]  Oh!
[00:02:16]  Honey, this is hell.
[00:02:17]  We've got to worry about hell.
[00:02:19]  I'm not going to give her a dollar.
[00:02:22]  People can take it the wrong way, you know what I mean?
[00:02:25]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:02:27]  Anyway, there you go.
[00:02:30]  Let me see why.
[00:02:33]  Let me see something here.
[00:02:38]  Let me move my...
[00:02:40]  just a second here.
[00:02:46]  There we go, that's good, that's good, that's good.
[00:02:51]  Very Jersey Shores-ish.
[00:02:55]  Yes, yes, I'm sorry.
[00:02:57]  It's very difficult to walk, look at the camera, read your comments.
[00:03:03]  Here's wellness on the go, honey.
[00:03:06]  Free blood pressure reading.
[00:03:08]  I will never have anybody touch me other than my wife.
[00:03:13]  Ooh, look at these here.
[00:03:14]  I like these little...
[00:03:16]  Look at this stuff here, honey.
[00:03:20]  Three dollars each?
[00:03:22]  No, it's okay.
[00:03:24]  what's going on.
[00:03:25]  Does anybody want to buy a We're going to survey it.
[00:03:28]  Almost $5,000 for traffic for helping people at over 70 people price Yeah.
[00:03:42]  I think she's just pretending she works here.
[00:03:45]  Remember years ago there were the people who were Remember the big water bottles?
[00:03:53]  Help the homeless.
[00:03:54]  It was all a scam.
[00:03:55]  Remember that?
[00:03:55]  They're gone.
[00:03:59]  Now this guy I dig.
[00:04:01]  Whatever this is called.
[00:04:04]  Excuse me.
[00:04:10]  That's a diggeridoo, right?
[00:04:13]  Diggeridoo?
[00:04:14]  A fiberglass tube.
[00:04:16]  A fiberglass tube.
[00:04:18]  I thought it was a diggeridoo, the Australian, uh, excellent.
[00:04:25]  From the wild section of northern New Jersey.
[00:04:27]  This is what it's about.
[00:04:33]  Excellent.
[00:04:34]  I'm not sure exactly.
[00:04:37]  You got a buck?
[00:04:41]  This is El Zunie, my buck.
[00:04:45]  He's from New Jersey, honey.
[00:04:52]  Where in Jersey are you my friend?
[00:04:54]  All right, I'll talk to you soon, okay?
[00:04:58]  Okay.
[00:04:58]  All right.
[00:05:14]  All right, not exactly warm.
[00:05:17]  I'll give him a buck.
[00:05:19]  Anyway, sorry for the adjustments.
[00:05:21]  I mean, if he behaved, he could have done maybe five bucks.
[00:05:23]  If he behaved.
[00:05:24]  Well, he wasn't very engaged.
[00:05:25]  Now we're getting into, now we're crossing, now we're getting more into the bowels of this.
[00:05:30]  Well, this goes all the way down.
[00:05:31]  To what, 30?
[00:05:33]  No.
[00:05:34]  It'll go below 40 seconds.
[00:05:36]  Yes, he's camera shy indeed.
[00:05:41]  I'm in the thick of it because it's water too down.
[00:05:54]  You know what I'm digging is that corn.
[00:05:56]  I could tell.
[00:05:57]  I'm digging that corn.
[00:06:00]  See this right here?
[00:06:02]  Cannabis dreams.
[00:06:04]  Cannabis.
[00:06:05]  But there's never anybody in there.
[00:06:07]  You notice that?
[00:06:09]  Because it's all on the street.
[00:06:11]  The business they're doing over there.
[00:06:14]  Big gay bar over there.
[00:06:16]  Very quiet.
[00:06:17]  Well, no, they are.
[00:06:18]  Let me take a peek.
[00:06:19]  Where?
[00:06:22]  Listen, if I owned a bar, swear to God, it'd be a gay bar.
[00:06:26]  No fights, top shelf, money, money, money, money, money.
[00:06:34]  You like this, honey?
[00:06:39]  Girl Scout cookies, keep them.
[00:06:41]  Aww.
[00:06:45]  What is this over here?
[00:06:47]  Old octopus, lasagna.
[00:06:51]  Is this the...
[00:06:52]  What's the name of the place there?
[00:06:56]  Oh yeah, blue.
[00:06:59]  Right, right, right.
[00:07:01]  Most of the places...
[00:07:02]  Very nice.
[00:07:04]  Most of the places have their set up right in front of their...
[00:07:09]  Fat Boys opened up a while back.
[00:07:13]  We don't know.
[00:07:17]  How's business, Fat Boys?
[00:07:20]  Good.
[00:07:21]  Do you have any vegan or plant-based stuff there?
[00:07:23]  We do have an impossible burger.
[00:07:25]  Oh, impossible.
[00:07:25]  There you go.
[00:07:26]  That's what we do.
[00:07:28]  Good for you.
[00:07:28]  I love you guys.
[00:07:29]  We're in the hood.
[00:07:30]  We're going to come by and see you.
[00:07:32]  Thank you.
[00:07:33]  See that?
[00:07:34]  I know I didn't get his face in there at all.
[00:07:36]  Oh, we can do that at home.
[00:07:37]  That's not what I meant.
[00:07:40]  Sound check.
[00:07:41]  All right.
[00:07:44]  This Koskaval is very good, too.
[00:07:47]  Hello.
[00:07:48]  Kind of a topicy kind of joint.
[00:07:50]  How do I sound?
[00:07:51]  Good?
[00:07:52]  Reverb good?
[00:07:54]  Michael?
[00:07:54]  Sounds good?
[00:07:55]  We got to go there one time.
[00:07:57]  Koshkabal.
[00:07:57]  Here we did that...
[00:07:59]  Peterborough.
[00:08:00]  Look at those little Peterborough rolls and stuff.
[00:08:02]  They have a nice set up too.
[00:08:03]  They're very nice.
[00:08:04]  And look at this over here.
[00:08:05]  I think we have a Greek.
[00:08:06]  Is this a Greek?
[00:08:07]  This is a performance thing.
[00:08:08]  I like this.
[00:08:18]  Seizures Palatine.
[00:08:25]  This is the 50th anniversary of the year, honey.
[00:08:36]  I'm digging the look of it so far.
[00:08:39]  All right.
[00:08:40]  Hello, hello.
[00:08:42]  All good?
[00:08:43]  Here we go.
[00:08:48]  This is the main stage, you do all the performers.
[00:08:50]  Because they do Rocky Top.
[00:08:56]  This guy's good.
[00:09:02]  Here we go.
[00:09:03]  Here we go.
[00:09:04]  Take me home.
[00:09:04]  Take me home.
[00:09:10]  Alright, get to the show.
[00:09:14]  Alright.
[00:09:15]  So much for the intro.
[00:09:16]  There you go!
[00:09:17]  You've got a second.
[00:09:18]  There you go!
[00:09:19]  Start, start again.
[00:09:22]  By the way, those aren't costumes.
[00:09:24]  That's what people normally look like here.
[00:09:30]  Just play it, goddammit.
[00:09:32]  Let's go.
[00:09:36]  There you go.
[00:09:41]  Rocky Top.
[00:09:43]  Closer, my God, to thee.
[00:09:46]  Onward, Christian soldiers.
[00:09:48]  Save room in the lifeboat for me.
[00:09:51]  Come on, this is boring.
[00:09:52]  I've got people watching this.
[00:09:55]  Here we go.
[00:09:59]  Hit it.
[00:10:00]  Alright, everyone.
[00:10:01]  Hello, hello.
[00:10:03]  Welcome to the 9th Avenue Food Festival.
[00:10:06]  My name is LaShield Bagdati.
[00:10:08]  And I am so excited to be back here for the third year in a row.
[00:10:12]  I don't think so.
[00:10:15]  This is my hood.
[00:10:16]  I live here.
[00:10:19]  It's an extra pleasure to be singing for this community as we all gather and enjoy this beautiful day.
[00:10:27]  It is beautiful.
[00:10:27]  And I'm really excited to be here with my band.
[00:10:29]  I want to introduce them up front and then I'll tell you guys more as we go along.
[00:10:36]  Let me play something.
[00:10:37]  We play together all the time.
[00:10:38]  These are the coolest.
[00:10:40]  Cats playing jazz today.
[00:10:41]  Please check him out in all the clubs around town.
[00:10:45]  On guitar, we have the one and only John Merrill, everyone.
[00:10:49]  All righty, big John.
[00:10:50]  Big John.
[00:10:51]  All right, never heard of him.
[00:10:52]  That's okay.
[00:10:55]  On bass, we have Yoshi Waki.
[00:10:59]  Yoshi Waki, everybody.
[00:11:01]  Put your hands together and clap.
[00:11:05]  And on drums, back for the second year in a row, Mr. Patrick Chan.
[00:11:08]  We got Yoshi Walkie and Patrick Chan.
[00:11:12]  I am Ashol.
[00:11:15]  And we're going to be playing for you guys a lot of tunes from the Great American Songbook, which are these timeless classics.
[00:11:24]  Most of us will hopefully remember these tunes, so sing along if you remember them.
[00:11:30]  It is a little windy, and we're excited to just bear with us, but we're here to...
[00:11:37]  Give you guys these beautiful, timeless songs from our heart.
[00:11:42]  So on that note, we're going to start with a little tune from Mr. Louis Armstrong.
[00:11:46]  Oh, here we go.
[00:11:47]  I believe they are 44th Street.
[00:11:49]  Yeah, they're in the hood, is it?
[00:11:53]  Okay, here we go.
[00:11:54]  Here we go.
[00:11:57]  Yoshi Haki.
[00:12:00]  Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive There we go.

=== Ring Toss Memories (11:48) ===

[00:12:31]  Go down here, honey.
[00:12:34]  The introduction was longer than the...
[00:12:37]  Alvin Ailey, by the way, this dance place where perverts sit outside and watch girls.
[00:12:43]  Very famous, Alvin Ailey dance.
[00:12:44]  Very, very, very famous, but the pervs sit outside and watch.
[00:12:48]  Here's Corn of the Cobb.
[00:12:49]  Oh, I'll be coming back to this.
[00:12:51]  Ooh.
[00:12:54]  Roll up.
[00:12:54]  Switch on some more.
[00:12:56]  No, I can't walk.
[00:12:58]  I gotta be professional.
[00:13:00]  I gotta do this and then we'll come back.
[00:13:03]  No bouncy houses for us.
[00:13:05]  We're not going in the bouncy house.
[00:13:07]  How much would it take for us to go in the bouncy house?
[00:13:12]  You did the slide the other day.
[00:13:14]  I did the slide.
[00:13:16]  I'm preserving my bones.
[00:13:18]  They're in the hood, right?
[00:13:20]  She said they live.
[00:13:21]  Aren't they down the street or something?
[00:13:22]  Who, the musicians?
[00:13:23]  Yeah.
[00:13:25]  That place is damn good.
[00:13:27]  Boca de Baco.
[00:13:29]  Look at these.
[00:13:30]  See?
[00:13:30]  Asians with the masks.
[00:13:33]  Huge.
[00:13:33]  I think they know something.
[00:13:35]  This is packed.
[00:13:36]  This is packed and it's nice and warm today.
[00:13:39]  Thank goodness.
[00:13:40]  People are out and about and buying.
[00:13:42]  Are we having fun?
[00:13:43]  Yes or no?
[00:13:43]  By the way, I dedicate this to my sister who's a shut-in.
[00:13:47]  Look at all these bounties.
[00:13:48]  Who will be watching this.
[00:13:50]  She last got out of bed.
[00:13:51]  Here's Brown the Clown.com.
[00:13:54]  Softball toss.
[00:13:55]  There we go.
[00:13:56]  Check out this brother.
[00:13:57]  Oh my goodness.
[00:13:58]  She's from the Jersey Shore.
[00:13:59]  She's tough.
[00:14:02]  She's tough.
[00:14:03]  Look at this.
[00:14:04]  Don't mess with that.
[00:14:08]  These are the old carnies.
[00:14:13]  This is so rigged.
[00:14:14]  Watch this.
[00:14:15]  Hey!
[00:14:18]  Hey!
[00:14:19]  Maybe it's been $50.
[00:14:21]  How about Drown the Clown, ladies and gentlemen?
[00:14:23]  Look at this.
[00:14:28]  Very good joint.
[00:14:29]  That Boca de Baco was delicious.
[00:14:31]  This was our favorite place here.
[00:14:34]  This was our favorite place, our mine.
[00:14:37]  I like the little manicure and go there and one day they just closed up.
[00:14:43]  Broke my heart.
[00:14:44]  But there's nobody at the ring toss.
[00:14:45]  Ring toss is not doing too well.
[00:14:47]  Kids are sick of the ring toss.
[00:14:48]  Yeah, this doesn't really do it.
[00:14:51]  Why do I get the feeling they're ex-clown?
[00:14:53]  Nobody's at that either.
[00:14:55]  Not exactly invited.
[00:14:58]  Are you feeling the magic, folks?
[00:15:00]  Are you feeling the magic?
[00:15:01]  Are you having fun?
[00:15:05]  161 people watching.
[00:15:07]  I know my sister will be watching from the confines of her bed.
[00:15:10]  Her home attendant will be pointing out the various goings-on.
[00:15:16]  She's a shut-in.
[00:15:17]  We're not proud of it, but what are you going to do?
[00:15:22]  Get some balance here.
[00:15:27]  Beer.
[00:15:29]  How about some suds?
[00:15:31]  You want a cold one?
[00:15:33]  Oh, look at this.
[00:15:36]  Now this, hang on.
[00:15:39]  I just want to get the smell of this.
[00:15:42]  This is jerk chicken, all cued, stew chicken, curried goat.
[00:15:49]  Oxtails.
[00:15:50]  Oxtails.
[00:15:52]  Remember the place Holidays on 57th?
[00:15:56]  I used to get that by the pound.
[00:16:00]  Cubans call it rabo.
[00:16:05]  Is this beautiful or not?
[00:16:08]  Oh my God.
[00:16:10]  The carnivore in me just...
[00:16:11]  I still want...
[00:16:14]  I dream of meat.
[00:16:17]  This is good here.
[00:16:18]  I like this.
[00:16:19]  Look at the corn on the cob, huh?
[00:16:21]  Look at this.
[00:16:21]  Are these are repas?
[00:16:24]  There's no sign here.
[00:16:25]  What is this?
[00:16:28]  Oh, this looks damn good.
[00:16:29]  Oh, yeah.
[00:16:30]  This is my school.
[00:16:31]  This looks like South American.
[00:16:33]  This looks like they have at the church.
[00:16:35]  At church or something?
[00:16:37]  Yeah, there's no name.
[00:16:39]  Oh, my God.
[00:16:40]  The fruit juices.
[00:16:46]  I like something called Just Ice Tea.
[00:16:50]  That's it.
[00:16:51]  That's it.
[00:17:01]  See this right here?
[00:17:02]  This, we believe, is a...
[00:17:06]  What is this?
[00:17:06]  Homeless, a NYCHA...
[00:17:08]  It's going to be a homeless...
[00:17:09]  Yes.
[00:17:10]  For homeless families.
[00:17:11]  State-of-the-art homeless went up overnight in like an hour.
[00:17:15]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:17:15]  I don't know who did it, but either it's the most incredibly efficient building or the most dangerous, because it went up overnight.
[00:17:30]  Here they go.
[00:17:31]  Here they go.
[00:17:36]  That dim sum time looked kind of interesting.
[00:17:39]  Oh, there's a line.
[00:17:39]  I like when there's a line to be there.
[00:17:41]  Matcha.
[00:17:42]  I don't get it.
[00:17:44]  Matcha, matcha mood, I don't get it.
[00:17:48]  Seriously, I don't get it.
[00:17:49]  And acai, don't get it.
[00:17:53]  I've never had Nutella in my life.
[00:17:56]  You see these ices here?
[00:17:58]  Very, this is very, this used to be out of Corona.
[00:18:01]  Remember that, the ice queen, ice lady from Corona?
[00:18:04]  The Queens.
[00:18:06]  Very famous.
[00:18:08]  Does this make any sense, honey?
[00:18:10]  Wasn't in Corona there was the...
[00:18:13]  Isis, the ice...
[00:18:15]  I'm rambling.
[00:18:17]  No, the shaved ice, the scooped ice, the ice fade, the Corona, what?
[00:18:23]  Now where would this be for that Italian sausage, sajić, and your peppers and onions?
[00:18:32]  Here's jerk off the grill.
[00:18:35]  Come on everybody, use your punitentiary humor there.
[00:18:38]  Jerk off the grill.
[00:18:44]  Have you ever experienced jerk off the grill, ladies and gentlemen?
[00:18:52]  Notice the Mexicans always working.
[00:18:54]  It's always the Mexicans.
[00:18:57]  Mexicans make the city move.
[00:19:02]  Now we're really picking up speed here.
[00:19:04]  Now we're picking up speed.
[00:19:06]  Oh my God.
[00:19:08]  This is the world's best Caribbean rum cake over here.
[00:19:14]  Peking duckles, what I wouldn't give.
[00:19:16]  Pan-fried buns.
[00:19:17]  Oh my god, pan-fried buns.
[00:19:20]  I had that once, but it cleared up.
[00:19:24]  Barbecue, I'm dying over here.
[00:19:27]  I'm dying.
[00:19:29]  Dumplings, squid, oh.
[00:19:36]  Kettle corn, New York City, honey.
[00:19:40]  Look at this.
[00:19:41]  Dumplings, he's making a fresh batch.
[00:19:43]  Veggie dumplings.
[00:19:43]  Well, when I'm done with this, we're gonna circle back.
[00:19:47]  Yeah.
[00:19:48]  I got a duty to do.
[00:19:54]  Kettle corn.
[00:19:56]  Isn't it beautiful?
[00:19:58]  Are you having fun, yes or no?
[00:20:00]  There's always gonna be the smart-ass troll.
[00:20:03]  Some poor, dejected loser sitting in his parents' basement.
[00:20:07]  No, I'm just anticipating.
[00:20:07]  I can't read it.
[00:20:08]  I can't put the sun and all that.
[00:20:10]  I can't put it.
[00:20:15]  Now, you see these New York City police?
[00:20:17]  Now, they may look smaller, but you know what?
[00:20:19]  They get the job done sometimes better.
[00:20:24]  Oh, look at this right here.
[00:20:25]  Now, right here.
[00:20:26]  What's wrong with this sign?
[00:20:28]  Zeppeli and fried Oreos.
[00:20:30]  Okay?
[00:20:31]  Apostrophe S. You know how that drives me crazy.
[00:20:34]  Keep going.
[00:20:34]  I don't want you to go over the edge.
[00:20:36]  I'm not going to...
[00:20:37]  I don't need that.
[00:20:39]  Has anybody tried a fried Oreo or a...
[00:20:45]  See how the streets and the side streets are kept at bay?
[00:20:51]  Here's a man in a dress.
[00:20:53]  He looks like the fellow from Silence of the Land.
[00:20:57]  Here we go.
[00:21:01]  We're gonna be back here.
[00:21:02]  Look at this.
[00:21:08]  Maíz, como está?
[00:21:10]  Oh, look at this.
[00:21:12]  Oh, honey.
[00:21:14]  Maíz asado.
[00:21:18]  Oh, look at that.
[00:21:19]  Oh my God.
[00:21:27]  You wanna see that, bro?
[00:21:27]  That is just...
[00:21:29]  How would you describe?
[00:21:39]  This smell is so unique, isn't it?
[00:21:40]  Smell that?
[00:21:41]  That jerk?
[00:21:41]  Yeah.
[00:21:49]  You look like with a spear walking down the street.
[00:21:54]  Imagine walking with just this huge spear.
[00:21:58]  Go ahead, look at this.
[00:21:59]  They look like a hash punch, don't they?
[00:22:02]  Not that I would, no.
[00:22:04]  I've read a lot about it.
[00:22:12]  This is you, the girl from Jersey.
[00:22:15]  I like these masks.
[00:22:21]  Look at this.
[00:22:22]  She's legit.
[00:22:28]  Notice how bracelets...
[00:22:30]  These are these great Brazilian percussion...
[00:22:34]  These gourds.
[00:22:36]  I don't know what they're called.
[00:22:39]  They got some good ones here.
[00:22:41]  Do they have a card, I wonder?
[00:22:46]  Look at this.
[00:22:46]  Everything's square, visa.
[00:22:49]  I like these.
[00:22:53]  See this guy here?
[00:22:54]  This guy here keeping his eye on it.
[00:23:01]  He's keeping an eye on it.
[00:23:11]  You see the old houses?
[00:23:21]  See this style?
[00:23:22]  This is from like the Godfather.
[00:23:25]  Also The Godfather, as you know, occurred here in Hell's Kitchen.
[00:23:29]  Home's Kitchen, they remodeled a little bit, I think.
[00:23:32]  Home's Kitchen, yeah.
[00:23:33]  They remodeled.
[00:23:35]  What is this guy?
[00:23:36]  Dan, chile.
[00:23:37]  What is this guy?
[00:23:37]  I don't know.
[00:23:40]  Because I was a little bit older.
[00:23:42]  Cántame.
[00:23:43]  That's what I told you.
[00:23:45]  That's what I told you.
[00:23:48]  You know what he's saying?
[00:23:52]  We will kill your children and your blood will pour down the streets.

=== Paella Plans (07:54) ===

[00:24:01]  We will destroy your country and your pride.
[00:24:07]  We will own your politicians.
[00:24:09]  Listen, he says, destroy your hierarchy.
[00:24:12]  So maybe I'm more even.
[00:24:17]  I'm more even.
[00:24:18]  Let me see if I translate.
[00:24:20]  To all the trolls!
[00:24:25]  This used to be our favorite Oh, you missed the whole group of the No F Boys went by.
[00:24:49]  The who?
[00:24:50]  I can't say it.
[00:24:50]  It's a family program.
[00:24:51]  They're called the No F Boys.
[00:24:54]  The hell F?
[00:24:55]  No F Boys.
[00:24:57]  Oh, I didn't see that.
[00:24:58]  Yeah.
[00:24:59]  Honey, point them out ahead of time because I'm too busy negotiating.
[00:25:01]  It's crowded.
[00:25:03]  Look at this.
[00:25:04]  Oh, my God.
[00:25:06]  I used to look.
[00:25:07]  This was...
[00:25:08]  Oh!
[00:25:09]  Look at the turkey.
[00:25:11]  Oh God!
[00:25:14]  I love this!
[00:25:17]  Oh God!
[00:25:20]  Oh my god.
[00:25:25]  Oh my god.
[00:25:26]  Doesn't that look good?
[00:25:28]  A la llanera!
[00:25:34]  Look at that.
[00:25:40]  How dare you!
[00:25:49]  Favo!
[00:25:51]  That's my favo.
[00:25:53]  That's turkey, honey.
[00:25:54]  And pato is duck.
[00:25:56]  Remember that.
[00:25:59]  Oh!
[00:26:01]  Oh!
[00:26:02]  That's your star.
[00:26:03]  Oh, this is West Tampa.
[00:26:05]  Oh, my God!
[00:26:08]  Oh, we're gonna be back for this.
[00:26:10]  oh my god Look at that.
[00:26:27]  Those are the arepas.
[00:26:30]  Moza arepas.
[00:26:31]  Sweet, melted.
[00:26:33]  Oh, I'm telling you.
[00:26:35]  Where's 973?
[00:26:36]  Jersey.
[00:26:37]  North Jersey.
[00:26:38]  Could be Patterson.
[00:26:39]  It could be New York City.
[00:26:40]  Oh, man.
[00:26:41]  I'm going crazy.
[00:26:45]  There's Jerk Spot for the hard way, honey.
[00:26:50]  Oh, this is killing me.
[00:26:52]  Fried ice cream.
[00:26:53]  Oh!
[00:26:54]  Fried ice cream.
[00:26:55]  Oh my god.
[00:26:58]  Look all the way down.
[00:27:06]  All the heads.
[00:27:07]  Yes.
[00:27:08]  Look at this.
[00:27:09]  It goes for block.
[00:27:15]  Don't freak.
[00:27:20]  Now look at the regular places.
[00:27:21]  This is Thai.
[00:27:25]  Peruvian.
[00:27:25]  Back there we had Indian.
[00:27:27]  Our place, jazz.
[00:27:30]  There's...
[00:27:31]  There used to be Druze.
[00:27:38]  Buddy, elevate your senses.
[00:27:41]  Safispa.
[00:27:43]  Elevate your senses.
[00:27:44]  I think you know what that means, right?
[00:27:47]  Tapas.
[00:27:48]  Tapas.
[00:27:49]  Oh, yes.
[00:27:50]  Fly to the west side, the hop sauce.
[00:27:52]  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:27:54]  Look at this.
[00:27:54]  Wow.
[00:28:04]  The best.
[00:28:06]  Thank you, sir.
[00:28:07]  The best.
[00:28:08]  I appreciate that.
[00:28:09]  I'm a big fan of yours.
[00:28:10]  Thank you.
[00:28:11]  This is my YouTube channel.
[00:28:13]  What makes Hell's Kitchen hot sauce the best?
[00:28:16]  The pride of the West Side.
[00:28:17]  Well, we make chef-driven sauces.
[00:28:22]  Absolutely.
[00:28:23]  To compliment, not to injure.
[00:28:26]  Thank you, sir.
[00:28:28]  Please do.
[00:28:32]  You too, sir.
[00:28:33]  Thank you.
[00:28:35]  No.
[00:28:36]  They're actually very, very good.
[00:28:41]  Now, this may sound...
[00:28:44]  How do I say this?
[00:28:46]  If you see a bunch of people in families enjoying something, that's where I go.
[00:28:53]  Oh, look at the paella!
[00:28:55]  Oh, my God!
[00:28:58]  Do you know where the name paella comes from?
[00:29:02]  Veggie paella.
[00:29:03]  Oh my God!
[00:29:05]  We're gonna have to get to the rest.
[00:29:07]  Oh!
[00:29:08]  If you like to try, we have to shop with chicken or veggie salad.
[00:29:13]  I'm going to get the veggie paella later.
[00:29:16]  Paella from the word paraella.
[00:29:22]  And where are you located?
[00:29:24]  Oh, there.
[00:29:25]  Oh, look at this!
[00:29:28]  We're in the hood.
[00:29:29]  I'm going to come.
[00:29:32]  We'll do it on the way back because I got to walk.
[00:29:35]  Thank you.
[00:29:36]  I'll take some sure.
[00:29:37]  Honey, try a little bit.
[00:29:40]  Oh, yeah.
[00:29:43]  Honey, you saw them.
[00:29:50]  Beautiful.
[00:29:51]  Oh, thank you.
[00:29:54]  Thank you.
[00:29:57]  Look at this.
[00:30:05]  Feed me.
[00:30:05]  I can't hold this.
[00:30:09]  I'll try my best.
[00:30:15]  Oh yeah!
[00:30:17]  Hold the camera?
[00:30:18]  Oh yeah, no, no.
[00:30:19]  Don't lose the string beam.
[00:30:21]  Oh, cheese.
[00:30:21]  Mmm.
[00:30:28]  How are you, sir?
[00:30:33]  Come stai?
[00:30:38]  Yes, that's right!
[00:30:40]  That's right!
[00:30:42]  Oh, it's better!
[00:30:43]  Get up!
[00:30:45]  Very training!
[00:30:48]  Where are you?
[00:30:53]  I'm gonna be back.
[00:31:00]  Honey, we gotta do this.
[00:31:06]  Look at this.
[00:31:07]  That little place.
[00:31:09]  I know that.
[00:31:10]  We gotta go there.
[00:31:10]  What's this?
[00:31:11]  50th and...
[00:31:13]  This is delicious.
[00:31:16]  Oh, I'm telling you.
[00:31:18]  You know what?
[00:31:18]  That's what we're going to go on the way back.
[00:31:20]  As soon as I blow this pop joint.
[00:31:22]  Let's see what's going on.
[00:31:23]  This is going on for blocks.
[00:31:26]  I forgot I was walking around with this.
[00:31:29]  Look at the juices.
[00:31:30]  Are you having fun?

=== Karma Pasta Ladies (14:24) ===

[00:31:34]  Me too.
[00:31:36]  And they're legitimately Italian.
[00:31:38]  They're working very hard.
[00:31:40]  How am I doing on this side?
[00:31:41]  Good.
[00:31:44]  Thank you for the super chat from whomever.
[00:31:46]  I can't see it right now, but thank you.
[00:31:51]  There's Bake and Shark.
[00:31:52]  Put that in there, honey.
[00:31:57]  This is where we've got to go, 50, down the street.
[00:31:59]  See, we wouldn't know this.
[00:32:01]  You can walk down the street here from one week to the next and see an entire new series of places.
[00:32:08]  Not that the turnover is great, but from week to week.
[00:32:16]  Shark.
[00:32:19]  Shark is a very nice, clean, very...
[00:32:23]  Very tough.
[00:32:25]  You ever had shark steak?
[00:32:26]  No.
[00:32:26]  Very good.
[00:32:28]  Oh, yeah.
[00:32:30]  I'm from Florida.
[00:32:34]  Maybe there's the Knights of Columbus of Hell's Kitchen.
[00:32:36]  That's that famous one.
[00:32:38]  Nobody's at their booth.
[00:32:39]  I know.
[00:32:41]  Look at this one.
[00:32:42]  Oh, Colombian bakery.
[00:32:44]  Oh!
[00:32:46]  Carne asada, bandeja paisa.
[00:32:49]  I don't know if you can't keep a word or to rather it's horrible, but you can't help yourself.
[00:32:54]  Let me tell you something.
[00:32:55]  For those people who don't know this, New York is about heterogeneity.
[00:33:00]  It's about different cultures.
[00:33:02]  Anybody who confuses wanting to get rid of illegals who are criminals...
[00:33:09]  From getting rid of culture is out of their mind.
[00:33:12]  I've never seen this much international food though.
[00:33:15]  Never.
[00:33:15]  Never.
[00:33:17]  See this here?
[00:33:18]  Amish market.
[00:33:19]  Actually an Amish dude.
[00:33:21]  For years it's been there, right?
[00:33:24]  Irish bars.
[00:33:29]  Oh look at this.
[00:33:45]  Angel V says.
[00:33:48]  Now it's nice and breezy.
[00:33:51]  I know, sort of.
[00:33:53]  It'll slow down.
[00:33:59]  Now they go German.
[00:34:01]  I give these people a hug.
[00:34:14]  There's a lot of credit to come out here and sell this stuff and set up.
[00:34:18]  Absolutely.
[00:34:23]  Notice how they have Mexican service.
[00:34:25]  German chicken brat.
[00:34:28]  Bratwurst and Bollardwurst.
[00:34:33]  Oh yeah.
[00:34:37]  I'm heading back to the pasta, Mia.
[00:34:42]  I love it.
[00:34:43]  All the families.
[00:34:43]  Mickey Spillane, by the way.
[00:34:44]  The famous Mickey Spillane, off by Roy DeMeo and Jimmy Coonan.
[00:34:54]  More corn and the cob.
[00:34:56]  This is obviously a franchise of some sort.
[00:35:01]  Isn't this amazingly calm and clean?
[00:35:04]  Clean, calm, people are happy, everybody digging it.
[00:35:11]  People of every...
[00:35:13]  Men in dresses.
[00:35:14]  Nobody gives a shit.
[00:35:16]  What does that mean?
[00:35:20]  Is that the name of them?
[00:35:22]  No fuckboys.
[00:35:23]  No, I know, but who are they?
[00:35:26]  Oh, oh.
[00:35:29]  There's no...
[00:35:30]  They're called...
[00:35:30]  Don't...
[00:35:31]  No F...
[00:35:32]  Big...
[00:35:32]  Big...
[00:35:33]  What's it?
[00:35:33]  Beefy gay guys?
[00:35:35]  I like that name better.
[00:35:38]  See these ladies right here?
[00:35:39]  This is it.
[00:35:40]  Part of the franchise.
[00:35:42]  And they wear t-shirts like bullying makes me hot.
[00:35:47]  Honey, you should have told me.
[00:35:49]  Honey, you were busy.
[00:35:50]  The next time.
[00:35:50]  No, no.
[00:35:51]  Stop me because I want to interview you.
[00:35:54]  Democrats.
[00:35:55]  Political.
[00:35:56]  Keep going.
[00:35:58]  What?
[00:35:59]  That's okay.
[00:36:00]  They're entitled.
[00:36:01]  They're going to lose.
[00:36:02]  What?
[00:36:05]  Oh yeah, yeah.
[00:36:07]  That was nice.
[00:36:17]  Remember when empanadas in Tampa were like, we had them and nobody heard of them.
[00:36:22]  They're like, you know, meat pies.
[00:36:24]  They've only been here.
[00:36:25]  Here, right.
[00:36:26]  Maybe 10 years.
[00:36:33]  Oh, that's for me.
[00:36:37]  Hell's Kitchen t-shirts.
[00:36:45]  Where are they?
[00:36:47]  The men's looks like that black one back there.
[00:36:54]  Yeah, I like something that just...
[00:36:57]  Is this a shop?
[00:37:00]  I think you're just selling the shirts.
[00:37:04]  You want to get a black one?
[00:37:06]  That's the Hell's Kitchen, the TV show.
[00:37:11]  Banana butter.
[00:37:12]  Look at this over here.
[00:37:18]  Ooh, key lime pie, bread pudding, peach cow.
[00:37:21]  This is soul food.
[00:37:24]  Oh, yeah.
[00:37:26]  Oh!
[00:37:31]  914.
[00:37:33]  That's Westchester, right?
[00:37:34]  What's left here upstairs?
[00:37:36]  What's left here?
[00:37:39]  They have a lot of goodies in there.
[00:37:41]  Soul Food Grugula.
[00:37:44]  You're the last.
[00:37:49]  Everybody's still having fun.
[00:37:50]  I'm not even looking.
[00:37:53]  I'm just walking around with a stick.
[00:37:54]  I can't see it because of the glare.
[00:37:57]  Are people actually watching this?
[00:37:59]  I don't know.
[00:38:00]  I have no idea.
[00:38:01]  I can't see.
[00:38:02]  Because I got to look where I'm going.
[00:38:08]  You don't see Tim Pool doing this, do you?
[00:38:11]  No way.
[00:38:12]  Not for good reason.
[00:38:14]  There's Mrs. L checking out the glasses.
[00:38:18]  Everybody having fun?
[00:38:19]  Oh, I'm starving.
[00:38:22]  Let me tell you something, my friends.
[00:38:23]  I need more likes.
[00:38:26]  I am absolutely, positively...
[00:38:29]  100% still carnivore to the bone.
[00:38:34]  And I am dying.
[00:38:36]  Dying.
[00:38:39]  because once I start I can't stop.
[00:38:46]  Thank you.
[00:38:47]  And paellas everywhere we go.
[00:38:51]  Calzone.
[00:38:55]  New York and New Jersey's best.
[00:38:57]  This is typically seen at like San Gennaro.
[00:39:01]  Pass the soul, honey.
[00:39:04]  the taste of Italy.
[00:39:17]  How far does this go down?
[00:39:19]  There's 48. At least it goes to 47. I know.
[00:39:39]  Wow.
[00:39:42]  That's a good sign.
[00:39:45]  I will never understand tattoos.
[00:39:49]  I don't understand them.
[00:39:51]  I don't get it.
[00:39:59]  Now, if I owned a place, I would hire people to stand in line like this.
[00:40:03]  Because people will wait.
[00:40:06]  Urban Lobster Shack.
[00:40:08]  Check out the line on this one.
[00:40:15]  I will also say something.
[00:40:16]  $20 a roll.
[00:40:19]  I will also say something, and I don't want to be unkind.
[00:40:22]  Some people should not wear yoga pants.
[00:40:25]  That's all I'm saying.
[00:40:27]  All I'm going to say is it's a free country.
[00:40:32]  It's a free country.
[00:40:38]  Yes, I took them there by the garden.
[00:40:43]  Some of these people just sit back and read.
[00:40:52]  They don't talk to anybody.
[00:40:53]  They don't engage.
[00:40:55]  I would have somebody friendly to talk to people.
[00:40:59]  Oh yeah.
[00:41:04]  Look at that black line.
[00:41:07]  Over here.
[00:41:10]  Black.
[00:41:11]  Right over there.
[00:41:12]  Take a look at it.
[00:41:14]  Okay.
[00:41:15]  Okay.
[00:41:16]  Do you have a card?
[00:41:19]  Yeah, we do have a card.
[00:41:20]  Are you in the hood?
[00:41:22]  Are you in the hood?
[00:41:24]  No, I'm not in the hood here, but we are online.
[00:41:28]  We're everywhere.
[00:41:29]  Excellent.
[00:41:30]  Thank you.
[00:41:33]  I used to have a bunch of those.
[00:41:39]  Hell's Kitchen is still a very important name I think.
[00:41:51]  Here we go.
[00:41:52]  I need dancing.
[00:41:53]  Happy people are happy.
[00:41:55]  Yes.
[00:41:56]  Very well.
[00:41:57]  Well, I'm actually going to sit over there.
[00:42:02]  There's Gelatoville.
[00:42:03]  A lot popped up.
[00:42:05]  There was that?
[00:42:05]  A lot of the restaurants.
[00:42:06]  Yep.
[00:42:09]  He's dancing.
[00:42:09]  Here we go.
[00:42:11]  He's dancing.
[00:42:12]  I swear.
[00:42:13]  That's a beautiful game.
[00:42:15]  What do you like with this one, okay?
[00:42:26]  Isn't that beautiful?
[00:42:27]  Isn't that something?
[00:42:43]  gluten-free arepas.
[00:42:45]  Is that beautiful or what?
[00:42:52]  On the way back we're going to be tearing it up.
[00:43:02]  We really don't even go this far down.
[00:43:06]  How are you?
[00:43:25]  That was nice.
[00:43:26]  I don't know if he was being...
[00:43:28]  Either that or put down the camera.
[00:43:31]  I don't know.
[00:43:32]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:43:35]  Karma pasta ladies and gentlemen.
[00:43:45]  Famous Amy's bread.
[00:43:46]  Been there since ever.
[00:43:48]  That's been there forever.
[00:43:49]  Forever.
[00:43:51]  Am I still on?
[00:43:52]  Yeah, we're still going on.
[00:43:55]  44 minutes straight, honey.
[00:43:56]  Oh, my goodness.
[00:43:57]  Oh, look at those soaps over there.
[00:43:58]  That's awesome.
[00:44:04]  Lean Mexican Kitchen, that's me.
[00:44:07]  Ooh.
[00:44:09]  Al Horno.
[00:44:10]  This is energy food.
[00:44:13]  We never walk down this far.
[00:44:16]  Well, I don't walk down the middle of the street.
[00:44:17]  I'm usually busy.
[00:44:18]  Well, we don't walk down the middle of the street.
[00:44:19]  I don't look up.
[00:44:20]  But I don't ever walk.
[00:44:22]  You're very neighborhood.
[00:44:24]  It's like you're stuck.
[00:44:26]  No, no.
[00:44:27]  I walk on certain streets.
[00:44:29]  Yeah.
[00:44:37]  That seems so sad.
[00:44:38]  Candy apple?
[00:44:39]  Caramel apple?
[00:44:41]  That's me I guess.
[00:44:49]  There used to be about three or four different yum-yums all next to each other.
[00:44:53]  Look at Vinny's Pasta Kitchen, vegan.
[00:44:59]  See how gluten-free and vegan plant-based has changed everything?
[00:45:08]  46th Street.
[00:45:10]  Who's Francis Perkins?
[00:45:11]  Every now and then there'll be a street that has a name.
[00:45:18]  I'm looking down there.
[00:45:23]  The weather, the breeze, the smell.
[00:45:28]  Excuse me, how far does this go down to?
[00:45:31]  40 seconds.
[00:45:32]  By the way, thank you for the great work you're doing.
[00:45:34]  50th year.
[00:45:35]  We're on YouTube.
[00:45:37]  I'm just taking people around the hood.
[00:45:38]  We never miss this.
[00:45:40]  This is an institution.
[00:45:41]  This is the best.
[00:45:41]  Oh, this is one of the best festivals in all of New York.

=== Why This Music Reigns (02:45) ===

[00:45:44]  The other ones, they don't have it.
[00:45:46]  Anyway, keep you in the green.
[00:45:47]  Thank you, sir.
[00:45:49]  Thank you, sir.
[00:45:49]  Enjoy.
[00:45:51]  Guess where they're from?
[00:45:53]  New Jersey?
[00:45:54]  Well, where?
[00:45:56]  Yeah, but just saying.
[00:45:57]  I don't know.
[00:45:58]  They look like they're in touch.
[00:46:00]  Like they're in charge.
[00:46:02]  It might be like the San Gennaro crew, you know what I mean?
[00:46:04]  Yes, I understand what you're saying, and I think that's why...
[00:46:06]  I'm just saying.
[00:46:07]  That's why there's no problems here.
[00:46:10]  Just saying.
[00:46:11]  We haven't seen all these people and we haven't seen one problem.
[00:46:15]  Now I have no idea if any of these people's faces show because I'm walking and I'm the worst camera person because I'm not even looking at it because I'm forgetting.
[00:46:27]  Oh, here we go.
[00:46:29]  Here's your style, honey.
[00:46:30]  Yeah, because there's my kind of music.
[00:46:31]  Ha!
[00:46:32]  This is music.
[00:46:37]  Hang on.
[00:46:37]  Thank you.
[00:46:51]  Greatest music ever.
[00:46:59]  Okay I get rings
[00:47:29]  That's right Joe, look at them, look at them We've shown these young folks up We've shown these young people up, baby That's beautiful.
[00:47:58]  That's beautiful.
[00:48:02]  It's a staff.
[00:48:05]  That's right, Joe.
[00:48:06]  Get up.
[00:48:10]  Not a lot of words, but a lot of feeling.

=== End of the Road (02:20) ===

[00:48:13]  Imagine sitting down and writing the get up.
[00:48:16]  That's music, isn't it?
[00:48:18]  Yes.
[00:48:18]  That is music.
[00:48:22]  The smell of charcoal.
[00:48:27]  You have no idea what this does in it.
[00:48:29]  Something, something happens.
[00:48:31]  Primordial, primeval.
[00:48:32]  Talea doku.
[00:48:36]  Talea doku.
[00:48:37]  Idda.
[00:48:38]  Five napkins.
[00:48:42]  Very popular for burgers.
[00:48:44]  Five Napkin was a huge, was very popular, one of the first still.
[00:48:50]  And Nietzsche, by the by ladies and gentlemen, perhaps the most famous bar in, I think one of the greatest, certainly Hell's Kitchen, but in New York City.
[00:49:02]  I think we should end up there because we're almost at the end of the road.
[00:49:03]  Yeah, we should turn around here.
[00:49:06]  Can you see Rudy's Bar?
[00:49:09]  Oh, Poseidon Greek Bakery, they had a write-up.
[00:49:12]  In 42nd Street I was watching.
[00:49:14]  You see the pig?
[00:49:16]  We got to see the pig.
[00:49:18]  This is...
[00:49:19]  This is the dive bar.
[00:49:21]  The absolute...
[00:49:24]  They have free hot dogs.
[00:49:26]  Look at this.
[00:49:31]  Turkish, Greek...
[00:49:32]  There it is my friends.
[00:49:35]  If you're ever in New York, this is it.
[00:49:41]  Can you see this?
[00:49:46]  We've got to take a picture of us in front of the pig.
[00:49:48]  What do you say?
[00:49:48]  Rudy the pig.
[00:49:49]  Rudy the pig.
[00:49:51]  Anyway, what do you say we...
[00:49:52]  I'm going to do this.
[00:49:53]  Should we get him one?
[00:49:55]  I'm going to say we've had the best time.
[00:49:57]  Thank you for being a part of us.
[00:49:59]  Yeah, thank you.
[00:50:00]  I love that we're able to share a slice of New York.
[00:50:04]  It's coming back.
[00:50:05]  And thanks to all the great people who make the 50th anniversary.
[00:50:10]  Of the 9th Avenue Food Fair.
[00:50:12]  It's so important.
[00:50:12]  Absolutely great.
[00:50:13]  Anyway, we love you.
[00:50:14]  Thank you so much.
[00:50:15]  Don't forget to follow Mrs. L at Lynn's Warriors.
[00:50:18]  Also, this week on WABC, 3 to 5 a.m.
[00:50:24]  Don't ask me why.
[00:50:25]  I have no idea.
[00:50:25]  We just go with the flow.
[00:50:27]  Just go with the flow because I'm an animal.
[00:50:29]  Anyway, we love you, my friends.
[00:50:30]  Thank you, everybody.
[00:50:31]  And don't forget, monkey's dead.
[00:50:32]  Show's over.
[00:50:33]  Sue ya.