Podcast Episodes

The Scandalous Hamiltons: Sex, Lies and Blackmail (The Gilded Gentleman)

In 1889, Robert Ray Hamilton, great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, became ensnared in a sensational web of deceit — forged identities, attempted mur…

15 hours ago

#482 Pride and Preservation (The Streets of the West Village Part 3)

Why is the West Village both historically important and incredibly expensive? In the final part of our West Village mini-series, we look at the eleme…

1 week ago

#481 How The West Village Became A Neighborhood (The Streets of the West Village Part 2)

In Part Two of our mini-series, The Streets of the West Village, we turn to the people who gave the neighborhood its character and vitality — from Ir…

3 weeks ago

#480 The Streets of the West Village: Creating the Village (Part 1)

Why are the streets of Manhattan's West Village so unusually charming and romantic? Why does it make such an excellent place for a night out in New Y…

1 month, 1 week ago

Frozen in Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888

Here’s a classic from the Bowery Boys Podcast archive, recorded in early 2013, just a few months after Hurricane Sandy. 

Each winter, when forecaster…

1 month, 1 week ago

How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River (from HISTORY This Week)

For more historical deep dives just like these, check out HISTORY This Week wherever you get your podcasts!

February 14, 1905. A stick of dynamite det…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

#479 NYC '84: The Case of the 'Subway Vigilante'

On the afternoon of December 22, 1984, shots rang out beneath the streets of New York, from the subway's 2 Seventh Avenue express train.

A Greenwich V…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

#478 The Disappearance of Judge Crater

On August 6, 1930, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater stepped into a taxi on West 45th Street and vanished without a trace.

For 27 days, nobody…

2 months ago

The History of Brooklyn Heights and the Promenade

“A Highway is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.”

That was a headline in the New York Times back in November about the highly problemat…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

#477 Chester A. Arthur: The Gentleman Boss

On Lexington Avenue sits a special food store named Kalustyan's with a second floor stocked with international spices, syrups, and bitters. In 1881, …

3 months ago