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#157 Early Ghost Stories of Old New York
This is the Bowery Boys 7th annual Halloween podcast, with four new scary stories to chill your bones and keep you up at night, generally doused with…
12 years, 5 months ago
#156 The Boy Mayor of New York
As New York City enters the final stages of this year's mayoral election, let's look back on a decidedly more unusual contest 100 years ago, pitting …
12 years, 6 months ago
#155 Sesame Street to Seinfeld: NYC TV 1969-2013
In the third part of the Bowery Boys Summer TV Mini-Series, we give you a grand tour of the New York City television production world from the 1970s …
12 years, 7 months ago
#154 New York in the Golden Age of Television
It's the second part of the Bowery Boys TV Mini-Series, covering the years of New York City television production from the late 1940s to the 1960s.
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12 years, 8 months ago
#153 NYC and the Birth of Television
It's the beginning of The Bowery Boys Summer TV Mini-Series, three podcasts devoted to New York City's illustrious history with broadcast television …
12 years, 9 months ago
#152 Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue Hospital, you might have heard, once had a very notorious psychiatric ward. But those horror stories have only distracted from the rather br…
12 years, 10 months ago
#151 The Limelight: Church, Nightclub and Mall
If you had told 1840s religious leader William Muhlenberg that his innovative new Church of the Holy Communion, designed by renown architect Richard …
12 years, 11 months ago
#150 Consolidation! Five Boroughs, One Big City
Here's the story of how two very big cities and a whole bunch of small towns and villages -- completely different in nature, from farmland to skyscra…
12 years, 11 months ago
#149 John Peter Zenger and the Power of the Press
A long, long time ago in New York -- in the 1730s, back when the city was a holding of the British, with a little over 10,000 inhabitants -- a German…
13 years ago
#148 The Great Blizzard of 1888
This year is the 125th anniversary of one of the worst storms to ever wreck havoc upon New York City, the now-legendary mix of wind and snow called t…
13 years, 1 month ago