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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

The tides of American history lead through the streets of New York City — from the huddled masses on Ellis Island to the sleazy theaters of 1970s Times Square. The elevated railroad to the Underground... Read more

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#100 Robert Moses

#100 Robert Moses

We obviously had to spend our anniversary show with the Power Broker himself, everybody's favorite Parks Commissioner --... Read more

19 Mar 2010

1hr 7mins

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#59 Five Points: Wicked Slum

#59 Five Points: Wicked Slum

You've heard the legend of New York's most notorious neighborhood. Now come with us as we hit the streets of Five Points... Read more

19 Sep 2008

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#302 Gangs of New York (Bowery Boys Movie Club)

#302 Gangs of New York (Bowery Boys Movie Club)

EPISODE 302: With Martin Scorsese's new film The Irishman being released this month, we thought we'd share with you an e... Read more

1 Nov 2019

1hr 20mins

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#72 Rockefeller Center

#72 Rockefeller Center

JD Rockefeller Sr. may have earned his money is some rather unscrupulous ways, but his son Junior made good by giving mi... Read more

19 Dec 2008

38mins

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#109 New York City Subway, Part 1: Birth of the IRT

#109 New York City Subway, Part 1: Birth of the IRT

In the fourth part of our transportation series BOWERY BOYS ON THE GO, we finally take a look at the birth of the New Yo... Read more

6 Aug 2010

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#134 St. Patrick's Cathedral

#134 St. Patrick's Cathedral

One of America's most famous churches and a graceful icon upon the landscape of midtown Manhattan, St. Patrick's Cathedr... Read more

10 Feb 2012

46mins

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#135 The High Line

#135 The High Line

The High Line, which snakes up New York's west side, is an ambitious park project refitting abandoned elevated train lin... Read more

9 Mar 2012

45mins

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#303 Building Stuyvesant Town: A Mid-Century Controversy

#303 Building Stuyvesant Town: A Mid-Century Controversy

EPISODE 303: The residential complexes Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, built in the late 1940s, incorporating ... Read more

15 Nov 2019

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#301 Haunted Houses of Old New York

#301 Haunted Houses of Old New York

EPISODE 301: Welcome to the unlucky 13th Annual Bowery Boys ghost stories podcast, where history combines with folklore ... Read more

17 Oct 2019

1hr 11mins

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#29 Brooklyn Bridge

#29 Brooklyn Bridge

The Bowery Boys explore the story and the family behind the Brooklyn Bridge, one of New York's most treasured landmarks ... Read more

18 Nov 2008

36mins

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#63 New York Stock Exchange

#63 New York Stock Exchange

We tackle the New York Stock Exchange in this episode, beginning with Alexander Hamilton, some pushy auctioneers, a coff... Read more

26 Sep 2008

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#244 The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions

#244 The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions

At the heart of New York’s Gilded Age – the late 19th century era of unprecedented American wealth and excess – were fam... Read more

24 Nov 2017

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Secret Places of Upper Manhattan

Secret Places of Upper Manhattan

EPISODE 293: In Washington Heights and Inwood, the two Manhattan neighborhoods above West 155th Street, the New York gri... Read more

28 Jun 2019

1hr 11mins

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#212 Bronx Trilogy (Part One) The Bronx Is Born

#212 Bronx Trilogy (Part One) The Bronx Is Born

The story of the Bronx is so large, so spectacular, that we had to spread it out over three separate podcasts! In Part O... Read more

1 Sep 2016

54mins

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#121 Fraunces Tavern

#121 Fraunces Tavern

Fraunces Tavern is one of America's most important historical sites of the Revolutionary War and a reminder of the great... Read more

18 Mar 2011

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#36 Life In British New York 1776-1783

#36 Life In British New York 1776-1783

What was life like in New York during the British occupation during the Revolutionary War? Overcrowding, prison ships, f... Read more

29 Nov 2008

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#150 Consolidation! Five Boroughs, One Big City

#150 Consolidation! Five Boroughs, One Big City

Here's the story of how two very big cities and a whole bunch of small towns and villages -- completely different in nat... Read more

5 Apr 2013

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#86 Boss Tweed and the Glory Days of Tammany Hall

#86 Boss Tweed and the Glory Days of Tammany Hall

You cannot understand New York without understanding its most corrupt politician -- William 'Boss' Tweed, a larger than ... Read more

2 Jul 2009

38mins

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#224 The Arrival of the Irish: An Immigrant Story

#224 The Arrival of the Irish: An Immigrant Story

You don't have a New York City without the Irish. In fact, you don't have a United States of America as we know it today... Read more

16 Mar 2017

54mins

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#177 The Big History of Little Italy

#177 The Big History of Little Italy

Little Italy is the pocket-neighborhood reminder of the great wave of Italian immigration which came through New York Ci... Read more

20 Feb 2015

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