The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Rewind: The City in Flames - The Great Fire of 1835

PODCAST This month marks the 185th anniversary of one of the most devastating disasters in New...

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#346 The Beatles Invade New York!

How Beatlemania both energized and paralyzed New York City in the mid 1960s as told by the women...

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Rewind: The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary

An account of a mysterious typhoid fever outbreak from the early 20th century and the woman —...

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#345 LaGuardia's War on Pushcarts: The Creation of Essex Street Market

Once upon a time, the streets of the Lower East Side were lined with pushcarts and salespeople...

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Rewind: On The Radio: A History of the Airwaves

The discovery of radio changed the world, and New York City was often front and center for its...

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#344 Ghostbusters (Bowery Boys Movie Club)

To wrap up this month's series of spooky-themed shows, we're releasing this 2018 episode of our...

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#343 Literary Horrors of New York City

In the 14th annual Bowery Boys Halloween podcast, we celebrate some classic strange and...

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#342 Ghost Stories of Old New York (ALIVE at Joe's Pub)

Prepare to hear a few spirited stories in a whole new way. For the past couple years hosts Tom...

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#341 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Celebrating the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 150th year since its founding --...

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Rewind: The Mystery of the Central Park Obelisk

Cleopatra’s Needle is the name given to the ancient Egyptian obelisk that sits in Central Park,...

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#340 The Real Life Adventures of Tom Thumb

Charles Stratton, who would become world famous as “Tom Thumb” in the mid-19th century, was born...

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Rewind: The Revolutionary Tavern of Samuel Fraunces

Fraunces Tavern is one of America’s most important historical sites of the Revolutionary War and...

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#339 James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal

Interview with author Eric K. Washington, author of “Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H....

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Rewind: The American Museum of Natural History

Ancient space rocks, dinosaur fossils, anthropological artifacts and biological specimens are...

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#338 A New Deal for the Arts: Murals, Music and Theatrical Mayhem

PART 2 of our two-part podcast series, \"A NEW DEAL FOR NEW YORK\"\r\n\r\nIn this episode, we...

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#337 Robert Moses and the Art of the New Deal

PART ONE of a two-part podcast series A NEW DEAL FOR NEW YORK. For Part One, we look at the...

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Rewind: TESLA -- The Inventor in Old New York

The Serbian immigrant Nikola Tesla was among the Gilded Age\'s brightest minds, a visionary...

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#336 The War on Newspaper Row

The newspapers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst -- the New York World and the New...

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#335 Pulitzer vs Hearst: The Rise of Yellow Journalism

In the 1890s, powerful New York publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst engaged in...

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Rewind: The Land of the Lenape

The story of the Lenape, the native people of New York Harbor region and their experiences with...

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