Podcasts de NYC History

#246 Tales from a Tenement: Three Families on the Lower East Side

In today’s show, we’ll continue to explore housing in New York, but move far from the mansions of...

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#252 The Underground Railroad: Escape through New York

For thousands of African-American enslaved people -- escaping the bonds of slavery in the South...

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#256 DUMBO: Life on Brooklyn's Waterfront

Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) is, we think, a rather drab name for a historically...

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#261 The Huddled Masses: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty

The words of the The New Colossus, written 135 years ago by Jewish writer Emma Lazarus in tribute...

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#264 The Landmarks of Coney Island

The Coney Island Boardwalk -- officially the Riegelmann Boardwalk -- just became an official New...

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#267 Broadway: The Story of a Street

Today we're joined by Fran Leadon, the author of a new history of Broadway, called “Broadway: A...

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#277 The New York Comedy Scene: A Marvelous History

New York City has always cast a melodramatic profile in past Bowery Boys podcasts, but in this...

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#283 Walt Whitman in New York and Brooklyn

A very special episode of the Bowery Boys podcast, recorded live at the Bell House in Gowanus,...

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The World of Tomorrow: The New York World's Fair of 1939

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the fourth largest park in New York City and the pride of northern...

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The Tombs: Five Points' Notorious House of Detention

Some might find it strange that the Manhattan Detention Complex -- one of New York City's...

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Secret Places of Upper Manhattan

In Washington Heights and Inwood, the two Manhattan neighborhoods above West 155th Street, the...

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Talking Trash: The NYC Department of Sanitation

Picture New York City under mountains of filth, heaving from clogged gutters and overflowing from...

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Dr. Hosack's Enchanted Garden: Botany, Medicine, and Discovery in Old New York

Dr. David Hosack was no ordinary doctor in early 19th-century New York. His patients included...

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Dr. Hosack's Enchanted Garden: Botany, Medicine, and Discovery in Old New York

Dr. David Hosack was no ordinary doctor in early 19th-century New York. His patients included...

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Talking Trash: The NYC Department of Sanitation

Picture New York City under mountains of filth, heaving from clogged gutters and overflowing from...

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Secret Places of Upper Manhattan

EPISODE 293 In Washington Heights and Inwood, the two Manhattan neighborhoods above West 155th...

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The Tombs: Five Points' Notorious House of Detention

EPISODE 291 Some might find it strange that the Manhattan Detention Complex -- one of New York...

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#288 The World of Tomorrow: The New York World's Fair of 1939

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the fourth largest park in New York City and the pride of northern...

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#283 Walt Whitman in New York and Brooklyn

A very special episode of the Bowery Boys podcast, recorded live at the Bell House in Gowanus,...

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The Forgotten Father of New York City

Andrew Haswell Green helped build Central Park and much of upper Manhattan, oversaw the formation...

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