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Back to Search#463 Gilded Age Golden Girls (Live At City Winery)
A special presentation of our live show Bowery Boys History Live, recorded at City Winery, July 2, 2025
Bowery Boys History Live is a storytelling cabaret of all-true tales and spellbinding secrets fr…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Spirits Podcast: Urban Legends with Greg Young
Ready for a little summertime spookfest? This week we're thrilled to present to you a podcast appearance Greg made back in April on the Spirits Podcast. Hosted by Amanda McLoughlin and Julia Schifini…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
#462 The Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916
TERROR ON THE BEACH! Seaside resorts from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk, Long Island, were paralyzed in fear during the summer of 1916.
Not because of the threat of lurking German U-boats and sabot…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue
At the heart of New York’s Gilded Age — the late 19th-century era of unprecedented American wealth and excess — were families with the names Astor, Waldorf, Schermerhorn, and Vanderbilt, alongside po…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
#461 The Story of Inwood and Marble Hill
People who live in Inwood know how truly special it is. Manhattan's northernmost neighborhood (aside from Marble Hill) feels like it's outside of the city -- and in some places, even outside of time …
Published on 3 months ago
Children of the Gilded Age
The children of the Gilded Age were seen but not heard. Until now!
Listener favorite Esther Crain, author and creator of Ephemeral New York joins The Gilded Gentleman for a look at the world of childr…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
#460 The Brooklyn Museum and the Birth of a New City
While you may know the Brooklyn Museum for its wildly popular cutting-edge exhibitions, the borough's premier art institution can actually trace its origins back to a more rustic era -- and to the bi…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
#459 Moses vs. Bard: The Battle for Castle Clinton
In 1939, Robert Moses sprung his latest project upon the world -- the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge, connecting the tip of Manhattan to the Brooklyn waterfront, slicing through New York Harbor just to the …
Published on 4 months ago
The Trial of John Peter Zenger (Rewind)
A long, long time ago in New York — in the 1730s, back when the city was a holding of the British, with a little over 10,000 inhabitants — a German printer named John Peter Zenger decided to print a …
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
#458 Parkways and the Transformation of Brooklyn
When Prospect Park was first opened to the public in the late 1860s, the City of Brooklyn was proud to claim a landmark as beautiful and as peaceful as New York’s Central Park. But the superstar land…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago