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#108 Cable Cars, Trolleys and Monorails
For the third part of our Bowery Boys On The Go series, looking back at the history of New York City public transportation, it's a look at the long g…
15 years, 8 months ago
#107 New York's Elevated Railroads
Before there were subways, New York City transported travelers up and down the length of Manhattan by elevated railroad, an almost unreal spectacle t…
15 years, 8 months ago
#106 Staten Island Ferry
The Staten Island Ferry is one of the last remaining vestiges of an entire ferry system in New York, taking people between Manhattan and its future b…
15 years, 9 months ago
#105 The Newsboys Strike of 1899
Extra! Extra! Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst vs. the newsboys! Pandemonium in the streets! One hot summer in July 1899, thousands of cor…
15 years, 9 months ago
#104 CBGB & OMFUG
Modern American rock music would have been a whole lot different without the rundown dive mecca CBGB's, a beat-up former flophouse bar that made star…
15 years, 10 months ago
#103: Case Files of the NYPD
We're playing Good Cop / Bad Cop this week, as we take a close look at four events from the early history of the New York Police Department. You'll m…
15 years, 10 months ago
#102 Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach
Today it's known as Brooklyn's thriving Russian community next door to the amusements of the neighborhood of Coney Island. But a hundred years ago, t…
15 years, 11 months ago
#101 The Bronx Zoo
New York City's most exotic residents inhabit hundreds of leafy acres in the Bronx at the once-named New York Zoological Park. Sculpted out of the fo…
15 years, 11 months ago
#100 Robert Moses
We obviously had to spend our anniversary show with the Power Broker himself, everybody's favorite Parks Commissioner -- Robert Moses. A healthy deba…
16 years ago
#99 Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden is certainly the recognizable name in arena entertaining, hosting sports, concerts, even political conventions. But it adopted …
16 years, 1 month ago