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Back to Search#476 Hot Victorian Holiday: Bowery Boys History Live! at City Winery
Bowery Boys History Live is a live-show series at City Winery hosted by Greg Young featuring a variety of historians and tour guides. The last instal…
3 months, 1 week ago
#475 Subway Tokens, MetroCards and Other Historic Fare
New Yorkers have gotten around their cities by subways, buses, elevated trains, streetcars and ferries. And the ways in which they have paid for them…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Great Fire That Transformed New York
This month marks the 190th anniversary of one of the most devastating disasters in New York City history — The Great Fire of 1835.
This massive fire, …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
#474 Made in France: The Statue of Liberty’s Forgotten Origin Story
She stands in New York Harbor as America’s most recognizable symbol—but the story of the Statue of Liberty begins thousands of miles away, in the cha…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Last Ships From Hamburg: An Immigration Story
Our second in a series of podcasts about New York City and American immigration history.
Between the late 1890s and early 1920s, over 2 million Jews …
4 months ago
#473 The Other Side of Ellis Island
Ellis Island is one of America’s great landmarks, a place in New York Harbor that represents the millions of people who arrived in this country durin…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: A History in Lights
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has brought joy and sparkle to Midtown Manhattan since the early 1930s. The annual festivities may seem steady …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
#472 The Many Mysteries of Amelia Earhart
The aviation hero Amelia Earhart, who became one of the world's most famous women during the Great Depression, is one of those historic figures that …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Rodgers and Hammerstein: Some Enchanted Broadway History
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II are two of the greatest entertainers in New York City history. They have delighted millions of people with t…
5 months, 1 week ago
#471 Ghost Stories of Long Island
For this year's annual Bowery Boys Ghost Stories podcast, Greg and Tom take a road trip to Long Island to explore the region's most famous haunted ta…
5 months, 3 weeks ago