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The Bowery Boys: New York City History
Tom Meyers, Greg Young
517 episodes
2 days ago
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 Railroad. Hamilton to Hammerstein! Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.
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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 Railroad. Hamilton to Hammerstein! Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.
Show more...
History
Places & Travel,
Society & Culture,
Documentary
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The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#453 All The Beauty In The World: Guarding the Met with Patrick Bringley
Patrick Bringley discusses his book about being a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his new off-Broadway show based on his best seller.
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5 days ago
58 minutes 53 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#452 How New York Got Its Name
In the year 1664, New Amsterdam was taken over by the English, and the New York officially got its name.
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1 week ago
1 hour 10 minutes 32 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#451 The New Yorker Magazine: Talk of the Town for 100 Years
The New Yorker was first published one hundred years ago. And even though the present-day magazine is often quite contemporary in content, the New Yorker's tone and style still recall its glamorous Jazz Age origins.
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 11 minutes 29 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
At The Movies with Meyers and Young (Side Streets)
In honor of the Academy Awards, the Bowery Boys hosts pay homage to the great Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert while looking at five award-worthy films with strong New York City connections.
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1 month ago
59 minutes 35 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#450 Harlem in the Jazz Age: A Renaissance in New York
We’re looking at the glamour and mystery of Harlem during the 1920s, a decade when the predominantly black neighborhood, in the words of Langston Hughes, “was in vogue.”
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1 month ago
1 hour 23 minutes 32 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#449 Italian Harlem: New York's Forgotten Little Italy
One of America's first great Italian neighborhoods was once in East Harlem, an enclave almost entirely gone today except for a couple restaurants, a church and a long-standing religious festival.
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1 month ago
1 hour 22 minutes 11 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
The Return of the Waldorf Astoria (Rewind)
The Waldorf Astoria is reopening this year, so we thought we'd again raise a toast to one of the world's most famous hotels.
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2 months ago
51 minutes 52 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#448 Inside the Memory Palace with Nate DiMeo
Two podcast dinosaurs talk about history, memory and elephants -- Greg Young interviews Nate DiMeo from the Memory Palace
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2 months ago
58 minutes 44 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
The World of Tiffany Glass: Lighting the Gilded Age
The extraordinary story of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the world of Gilded Age glass design he and his artisans helped inspire.
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2 months ago
1 hour 1 second

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#447 Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village
The story of Greenwich Village, one of America's great music capitals, and one of its greatest stars -- Bob Dylan.
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3 months ago
1 hour 20 minutes 5 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#446 Mr. Morgan and His Magnificent Library
The former library of J.P. Morgan -- one of the most powerful Americans to ever live -- is open to the public as the Morgan Library and Museum, continuing to highlight the world's greatest examples of the printed word
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3 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes 47 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
The Radio City Rockettes: New York's Dancing Queens (Rewind)
The Rockettes are America’s best known dance troupe — and a staple of the holiday season — but you may not know the origin of this iconic New York City symbol. For one, they’re not even from the Big Apple!
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3 months ago
52 minutes 23 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#445 The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: A Century of Cheer
The history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- from wild balloon chases in the sky to kitschy celebrity appearances
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4 months ago
1 hour 16 minutes 39 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#444 New York's Classic Mom-and-Pop Shops (with New York Nico)
What is New York without its diners, its small book shops, its curious antique stores and its historic delis? New York Nico shares his favorite local businesses.
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4 months ago
58 minutes 59 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
Whatever Happened to Dorothy Arnold? (Rewind)
The mysterious disappearance of a young woman becomes one of the most talked-about events in New York City history.
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5 months ago
45 minutes 52 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#443 Ghost Stories of the Five Boroughs
Ghost stories from New York City's five boroughs -- from Staten Island's tombstone-toting ghost to the Hessian ghouls in a Flushing house of worship.
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5 months ago
1 hour 24 minutes 13 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#442 Urban Legends of New York City
Are there alligators in the sewers? Tom and Greg go deep into their favorite New York urban legends. breaking down their origins and revealing the hidden truths that live beneath the legends.
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6 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes 19 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#441 The Recluse of Herald Square: The Ida Wood Mystery
This is the story of Ida Wood, a Gilded Age belle turned recluse, who chose to withdraw from society while still living in the heart of Old New York.
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6 months ago
1 hour 49 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
The Ghosty Men: Inside the Collyer Mansion (Rewind)
New York City is filled with stories of people who just want to be left alone – recluses, hermits, cloistering themselves from the public eye, closing themselves off from scrutiny. None attempted to seal themselves off so completely in the way that Homer and Langley Collyer attempted in the 1930s and 1940s.
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6 months ago
52 minutes 42 seconds

The Bowery Boys: New York City History
#440 When Longacre Square Became Times Square
What was Times Square before the electric billboards and the Broadway theaters? What was Times Square before it was Times Square?
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6 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes 5 seconds

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 Railroad. Hamilton to Hammerstein! Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.