The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Rewind: A Bar Named Julius', New York's Newest Landmark

New York City has a new landmark, a little bar in the West Village named Julius', officially...

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#402 Treasures from the World's Fair

Flushing-Meadows Corona Park in the borough of Queens is the home of the New York Mets, the U.S....

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Side Streets: Good Diners, Great Pizza and Mars 2112

Greg and Tom -- with some help from producer Kieran Gannon -- reflect nostalgically upon old New...

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#402 The World Before Wordle: Talking Puzzles With AJ Jacobs

Crosswords, jigsaws, mazes, rebuses, Rubik's cubes, Myst, Words With Friends -- and now Wordle?...

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The Mysteries of Absinthe: Dancing With The Green Fairy

A Special Presentation: We know some of you like to celebrate the holiday spirit with actual...

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#400 Jacob Riis: 'The Other Half' of the Gilded Age

In 1890 the Danish-American journalist Jacob Riis turned his eye-opening reporting and lecture...

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#399 The Changing Lower East Side: A View From Seward Park

To wrap up our 15th anniversary celebration -- and to set up our big 400th episode -- we take a...

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#398 Marilyn Monroe in New York

In the mid-1950s Marilyn Monroe moved New York City in a disguise. She was the most famous woman...

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Rewind: Birth of the Five Boroughs

On January 1, 2023, New York City will celebrate a special moment, the 125th anniversary of the...

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#397 Ghost Stories of the Hudson River

Beware! The ghosts and goblins of the Hudson River Valley have been awakened. In this year's...

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Rewind: An Evening at Sardi's

In honor of an exciting new theater season, we're revisiting our 2011 episode on the history of...

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#396 Samuel Tilden and the Presidential Election of 1876

You may have heard about the messy, chaotic and truly horrible presidential election of 1876 --...

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#395 Jefferson Market and the Women's House of Detention

In the heart of Greenwich Village sits the Jefferson Market Library, a branch of the New York...

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#394 New York Calling: A History of the Telephone

Just a few months ago, New York City removed most of the remaining phone booths from the streets,...

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#393 Ric Burns and James Sanders on "New York: A Documentary Film"

In today's episode, Tom discusses the vast span of New York history with filmmakers and authors...

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Rewind: The Story of the Yellow Taxi Cab

In honor of the 125th anniversary of the first ELECTRIC CABS hitting the streets of New York, the...

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Invisible Magicians: Domestic Servants in Gilded Age New York

Tom and Greg are still off celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Bowery Boys podcast, so this...

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#392 The Bowery Boys Podcast 15th Anniversary Special

Let's go back to 2007. Tom and Greg recorded the first episode of the podcast which would become...

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#391 A Walk through Little Caribbean

What wonderful surprises await the Bowery Boys in Little Caribbean? The Brooklyn enclave in...

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#390 The Story of Flatbush: Brooklyn Old and New

Over 350 years ago today's Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush was an old Dutch village, the dirt...

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