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#244 The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions
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 Vanderbi…
8 years, 4 months ago
#243 New York In Neon: Signs of the City
A neon sign blazing on a rainy New York City street evokes the romance of another era, welcoming or mysterious -- depending on how many film noirs yo…
8 years, 4 months ago
#242 New York and the Dawn of Photography
We’re taking you back to a world that seems especially foreign today – a world with no selfie sticks, no tens of billions of photographs taken every …
8 years, 4 months ago
#241 Edgar Allan Poe in New York
Edgar Allan Poe was a wanderer -- looking for work, for love, for meaning. That's why so many American cities can lay claim to a small aspect of his …
8 years, 5 months ago
#240 The Ghosts of Greenwich Village
For this year's annual Bowery Boys Halloween ghost story podcast, we cautiously approach the dark secrets of Greenwich Village, best known for bohemi…
8 years, 5 months ago
#239 Murder at the Manhattan Well
There once was a well just north of Collect Pond (New York’s fetid source of drinking water in the late 18th century) in a marshy place called Lispen…
8 years, 5 months ago
#238 Astoria and Long Island City
The borough of Queens has a history unlike any in the New York City region, but the story of its northwestern region -- comprising Astoria, Long Isla…
8 years, 6 months ago
#237 Columbus Circle: A Century of Controversy
Columbus Circle, a center of media and shopping at the entrance to Central Park, has a history that, well, runs against the grain. Counter-clockwise,…
8 years, 6 months ago
#236 Times Square in the '70s
Take a trip with us down the grittiest streets in Times Square -- the faded marquees of the grindhouses, the neon-lit prurient delights of Eighth Ave…
8 years, 6 months ago
The Crash of 1929: New York In Crisis
EPISODE 235 Something so giddy and wild as New York City in the Jazz Age would have to burn out at some point but nobody expected the double catastro…
8 years, 7 months ago