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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 haggling with customers over the price of fruits, fish…
5 years, 4 months ago
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 creation and development as America’s prime entertainm…
5 years, 4 months ago
#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 "Bowery Boys Movie Club", in which we conjure up New …
5 years, 5 months ago
#343 Literary Horrors of New York City
In the 14th annual Bowery Boys Halloween podcast, we celebrate some classic strange and supernatural terrors written by the most famous horror writer…
5 years, 5 months ago
#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 Meyers and Greg Young have also done a LIVE cabaret ve…
5 years, 5 months ago
#341 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Celebrating the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 150th year since its founding -- and certainly one of the strangest years in its ext…
5 years, 5 months ago
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, right behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is…
5 years, 6 months ago
#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 in Bridgeport, CT on January 4, 1838 to parents of a…
5 years, 6 months ago
Rewind: The Revolutionary Tavern of Samuel Fraunces
Fraunces Tavern is one of America’s most important historical sites of the Revolutionary War and a reminder of the great importance of taverns on the…
5 years, 6 months ago
#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. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal”.
T…
5 years, 6 months ago