#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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#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...
59:16
#252 The Underground Railroad: Escape through New York
For thousands of African-American enslaved people -- escaping the bonds of slavery in the South...
01:06:05
#256 DUMBO: Life on Brooklyn's Waterfront
Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) is, we think, a rather drab name for a historically...
01:00:58
#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...
01:10:25
#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...
01:00:06
#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...
01:08:06
#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,...
01:15:44
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...
01:08:30
The Tombs: Five Points' Notorious House of Detention
Some might find it strange that the Manhattan Detention Complex -- one of New York City's...
58:56
Secret Places of Upper Manhattan
In Washington Heights and Inwood, the two Manhattan neighborhoods above West 155th Street, the...
01:14:14
Talking Trash: The NYC Department of Sanitation
Picture New York City under mountains of filth, heaving from clogged gutters and overflowing from...
01:13:19
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...
01:14:42
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...
01:14:42
Talking Trash: The NYC Department of Sanitation
Picture New York City under mountains of filth, heaving from clogged gutters and overflowing from...
01:13:19
Secret Places of Upper Manhattan
EPISODE 293 In Washington Heights and Inwood, the two Manhattan neighborhoods above West 155th...
01:14:14
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...
01:05:31
#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,...
01:12:58
The Forgotten Father of New York City
Andrew Haswell Green helped build Central Park and much of upper Manhattan, oversaw the formation...
01:18:03