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#303 Building Stuyvesant Town: A Mid-Century Controversy
EPISODE 303: The residential complexes Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, built in the late 1940s, incorporating thousands of apartments withi…
6 years, 4 months ago
#302 Gangs of New York (Bowery Boys Movie Club)
EPISODE 302: With Martin Scorsese's new film The Irishman being released this month, we thought we'd share with you an episode of the Bowery Boys Mov…
6 years, 5 months ago
#301 Haunted Houses of Old New York
EPISODE 301: Welcome to the unlucky 13th Annual Bowery Boys ghost stories podcast, where history combines with folklore for a bone-chilling listening…
6 years, 5 months ago
#300 The Forgotten Father of New York City
EPISODE 300: Andrew Haswell Green helped build Central Park and much of upper Manhattan, oversaw the formation of the New York Public Library, helped…
6 years, 6 months ago
#299 The Promenade and Preservation of Brooklyn Heights
EPISODE 299: Part Two of our series on the history of Brooklyn Heights, one of New York City's oldest neighborhoods.
By the 1880s, Brooklyn Heights h…
6 years, 6 months ago
#298 The Story of Brooklyn Heights
EPISODE 298: This is the first of a two-part celebration of Brooklyn Heights, a picturesque neighborhood of architectural wonder, situated on a plate…
6 years, 6 months ago
#297 Dr. Hosack's Enchanted Garden: Botany, Medicine, and Discovery in Old New York
EPISODE 297: Dr. David Hosack was no ordinary doctor in early 19th-century New York. His patients included some of the city’s most notable citizens, …
6 years, 7 months ago
Introducing Mob Queens
Check out Mob Queens, a new podcast from Stitcher! Mob stories are always all about the guys. But not this one. Anna Genovese is a New York drag club…
6 years, 7 months ago
#296 Talking Trash: The NYC Department of Sanitation
EPISODE 296: Picture New York City under mountains of filth, heaving from clogged gutters and overflowing from trash cans. Imagine the unbearable sme…
6 years, 7 months ago
#295 Saving the City: Women of the Progressive Era
EPISODE 295: This is a podcast about kindness and care. About the Progressive Era pioneers who saved the lives of people in need -- from the Lower Ea…
6 years, 8 months ago