New York City

place · in 57 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 26 · 2008: 10 · 2010: 5 · 2011: 6 · 2012: 3 · 2013: 7

Threads

John's trip to Savannah, Georgia and airport wait (2007) — story, tell, 2007–2007
John house-hunts in Indianapolis (2007) — story, retell, 2007–2007
Paper Towns Tour (2008) — stage, milestone, 2008–2008
Hank asks Nerdfighters to RSVP for the Paper Towns tour events (2008) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2008–2008
John's spring 2010 tour for Will Grayson, Will Grayson — stage, milestone, 2010–2010
Hank invites viewers near New York to the Quidditch World Cup (2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011
John at BookExpo America in New York City (2012) — story, update, 2012–2012
Hank and Katherine's 23-hour trip from Missoula to New York for Carnegie Hall, with lost baggage (2013) — story, tell, 2013–2013

What the videos say

2007

2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd — John introduces himself: John Green, 29, a writer living in New York City. (00:00:37)
2007-02-01 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 1, 2007 — At the Savannah airport John must record in one take: he left his computer's power charger at home, has 23 minutes of power and may not get back to New York by midnight. (00:00:13)
2007-04-13 · Friday the 13th: Step It Up! — Hank challenges John to attend a Step It Up event in New York and wants video of him at a rally, even a rally of one, asking Congress to step it up for 2007. (00:01:32)
2007-04-13 · Friday the 13th: Step It Up! — Step It Up events are everywhere: one each in Missoula, Glacier and Corvallis (for Montana, three block parties on one block) and about 400 in New York City alone. (00:01:32)
2007-04-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 16: Brotherhood of Traveling Shirts — John couldn't attend any Step It Up rally: instead of protesting carbon consumption he was consuming it on airplanes from San Antonio to New York, arriving after the rallies ended; he made a poster. (00:00:00)
2007-04-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 24: Moving — John is a little worried: he has no friends in Indianapolis and thinks he will miss New York. (00:01:29)
2007-05-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters — John is at the New York City airport on the way to house-hunt in Indianapolis, his first visit there as a resident. (00:00:10)
2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — After a long hot day in New York City, John has spent the day reading the screenplay of the Looking for Alaska movie. (00:00:10)
2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — John is back on the odd days, in New York City scouring the streets for free moving boxes because Hank has turned them into conservationists. (00:00:03)
2007-06-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 31: Yogurt eating — John and the Yeti agreed to eat everything in the fridge before leaving New York, so his after-dinner meal was frozen chicken vindaloo, carrots, ketchup and Italian dressing. (00:00:00)
2007-06-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues — John, fuzzy on the last 24 hours, 'goes to the tape' and pieces together that he was out with friends at their going-away party from New York. (00:00:03)
2007-09-06 · September 6th: The Book Club Returns — In New York John had only what he thinks everyone should have: an apartment, good public transportation, affordable food, an independent bookstore; in Indianapolis he owns a car. (00:02:00)
…and 9 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2008

2008-08-06 · Everyone's Your Friend... — Hank reports he is in New York, in Times Square. (00:00:00)
2008-08-12 · Eight Days of Awesome — In New York City Hank met the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, who said he admires EcoGeek; Hank says it felt like being king of nerddom for a day. (00:00:40)
2008-08-15 · Metric Sabbath — Hank says that around day twelve he is coming down: he spent a lot of time thinking and writing about Terminus and New York, and part of him is crashing and missing Terminus. (00:01:36)
2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — John announces an October 16 New York launch party for Paper Towns' release with Hank, their parents, the Yeti, Maureen Johnson and other authors; Julia Nunes is floated as a 'rumor'. (00:01:12)
2008-09-24 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — John says Julia Nunes will not be at the New York event but will be at the Boston event. (00:02:10)
2008-10-10 · Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow — Hank says the brothers will be at the New York City launch event, viewers can RSVP on Facebook via papertowns.com, and he hopes to see many across the US through November. (00:02:48)
2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — Alex says that after finishing Paper Towns and seeing it would launch in New York, he asked Charlie to come and booked tickets leaving in about two and a half days. (00:02:03)
2008-10-21 · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — John tells Hank he is awesome: the two days they just spent together in New York and Boston were the most awesome of his life. (00:00:33)

2010

2010-01-11 · Ecosystem Services 101 with Hank — Hank says when New York City's water became undrinkable, restoring the Catskill watershed matched an $8 billion filtration plant at about a tenth of the cost. (00:01:19)
2010-01-11 · Ecosystem Services 101 with Hank — Hank says New York City has some of the best water of any American city, and the Catskill ecosystem keeps up although water use keeps growing quickly. (00:01:48)
2010-03-11 · New Tour! New Book! (Remember Books?) Your Q's A'ed! — John will be in Indianapolis on March 15 talking about vlogging, then on tour in April in Chicago, Boulder, Austin, New York City, Madison (Connecticut), LA and San Francisco. (00:00:29)
2010-04-12 · On the Separation of Conjoined Twins — John is in New York City, still on tour for Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and thanks the Nerdfighters who came out and those who gave him t-shirts. (00:00:00)
2010-09-30 · MY FRIEND CHESTER — John says that three years ago he and Sarah (the Yeti) moved from New York City to Indianapolis, where more space meant buying a lot of furniture. (00:00:43)

2011

2011-07-19 · Gatsby's American Dream: Reading The Great Gatsby Critically, Chapter 1 — John says narrator Nick Carraway moved from the Midwest to New York and back, something in New York sent him home, and he is a bit highfalutin with words. (00:00:29)
2011-09-07 · The Great Gatsby: Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes — John says the Valley of Ashes was real: in 1922 there was an ever-growing dump of burned waste from people living in and around New York. (00:00:18)
2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity — John says he has spent a couple of days in New York meeting his publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel and agent Jodi Reamer about The Fault in Our Stars and wonderful things he can't tell about. (00:00:22)
2011-11-10 · 27 Part Video — Hank says Harry Potter fans play actual Quidditch in New York every year, this weekend, and urges viewers who are around to go; details in the description. (00:02:02)
2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — In one take John lists the stops: Boston, New York, Washington DC, Raleigh, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Albuquerque, Tempe, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. (00:00:00)
2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — Tickets are going fast and New York is almost sold out; they are trying to add a second New York event; ticket details are in the doobly-doo. (00:02:19)
2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — Tour de Nerdfighting updates are in the doobly-doo: shows in Vancouver, Boston, New York, Portland and Raleigh are sold out, but tickets remain in many cities. (00:01:56)

2012

2012-06-06 · The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday — Asked what happened to the An Abundance of Katherines cover contest, John says it is part of why he is going to New York: on Thursday he announces the winner and reveals the cover. (00:00:31)
2012-06-12 · Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo — John spent last week in New York City at BookExpo America, which he calls essentially the VidCon of book publishing, and found it a celebrity fest. (00:00:00)
2012-11-08 · VOLT! A Dream Comes True. — Living in New York, John and the Yeti had no car; after moving to Indianapolis in 2007 he inherited his parents' old car, whose windows don't roll down. (00:00:00)

2013

2013-01-11 · On the Ownership of Ideas — Hank says he really will see John on Monday and may see viewers too: there are two pre-Carnegie rehearsal shows in New York, tickets $10, all proceeds to charity. (00:03:44)
2013-01-15 · North Korean Chicken, Stagecoach Travel, and other Thoughts from before Carnegie Hall — John says Hank and Katherine's trip to New York was a nightmare of delays, missed connections and lost baggage, taking 23 hours from Missoula. (00:00:00)
2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says the first thing he and Hank liked together as kids was They Might Be Giants, and they sing TMBG's cover of a song about New York City. (02:43:06)
2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall — Hank, in New York, heads to Carnegie Hall for the show, joking that his biggest fear is that he runs away. (00:00:05)
2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art — John says Ai lived in New York from 1981 to 1993, knew Allen Ginsberg, worked as a photojournalist, then returned to China and the Beijing East Village artist community. (00:00:31)
2013-10-04 · Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set — Ansel says that while shooting Divergent in Chicago, Shailene gave him a package not to open; days later Josh Boone told him to open it: a rotten Dutch cheese and tomato sandwich meant he got the part. (00:01:25)
2013-11-19 · On Middle School Misery — John unexpectedly found himself alone on a train in New York, where Brotherhood 2.0 began for him and where they played a sold-out Carnegie Hall show earlier this year. (00:00:11)