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01 The Wheel: Ferris' Big Idea ('The First' Podcast Special Preview)
01: The first Ferris Wheel was invented to become America’s Eiffel Tower, making its grand debut at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. The wheel’s inv…
9 years, 5 months ago
#215 Ghosts of the Gilded Age
For this year's 10th annual Bowery Boys Halloween special, we're highlighting haunted tales from the period just after the Civil War when New York Ci…
9 years, 5 months ago
#214 Bronx Trilogy (Part Three) The Bronx Was Burning
The Bronx was burning. The Bronx is now rising. In the third and final part of our Bronx history series, we tackle the most difficult period in the l…
9 years, 6 months ago
#213 Bronx Trilogy (Part Two) The Bronx is Building
In the second part of the Bowery Boys' Bronx Trilogy -- recounting the entire history of New York City's northernmost borough -- we focus on the year…
9 years, 6 months ago
#212 Bronx Trilogy (Part One) The Bronx Is Born
The story of the Bronx is so large, so spectacular, that we had to spread it out over three separate podcasts! In Part One -- The Bronx Is Born -- we…
9 years, 7 months ago
#211 The Notorious Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue
Ann Lohman, aka Madame Restell, was one of the most vilified women of the 19th century, an abortion practitioner that dodged the law to become one of…
9 years, 7 months ago
#210 Digital City: New York and the World of Video Games
New York has an interesting, complex and downright weird relationship with video games, from the digital sewers below Manhattan to the neon-lit arcad…
9 years, 8 months ago
#209 The Waldorf-Astoria's Complicated History
You might think you know this tale, but do we have surprises for you. The Waldorf-Astoria -- or the Waldorf=Astoria or even the Waldorf Astoria -- h…
9 years, 8 months ago
#208 Great Hoaxes of Old New York
New Yorkers can be tough to crack, maneuvering through a rapidly changing, fast-paced city. But they can, at times, also be easily fooled.
In this ep…
9 years, 8 months ago
#207 The First Subway: Beach's Pneumatic Marvel
The first subway in New York -- the first in the United States! – travelled only a single block and failed to influence the future of transportation.…
9 years, 9 months ago