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Back to Search#434 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: Empire of the Seas
The epic journey begins! The Bowery Boys Podcast heads to old Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, to find traces of New Amsterdam, the Dutch s…
1 year, 9 months ago
#433 New Amsterdam Man: An Interview with Russell Shorto
The Bowery Boys Podcast is going to Amsterdam and other parts of the Netherlands for a very special mini-series, marking the 400th anniversary of the…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands TRAILER
Announcing an epic new Bowery Boys mini series -- The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands. Exploring the connections between New York City and …
1 year, 10 months ago
#432 The Lenape Nation: Past, Present and Future
Consider the following show an acknowledgment – of people. For the foundations of 400 years of New York City history were built upon the homeland of …
1 year, 10 months ago
History of the New York City Subway (Rewind)
The New York City subway system turns 120 years old later this year so we thought we'd honor the world's longest subway system with a supersized over…
1 year, 10 months ago
#431 Park Avenue: History with a Penthouse View
The story of a filthy and dangerous train ditch that became one of the swankiest addresses in the world -- Park Avenue.
For over 100 years, a Park Av…
1 year, 11 months ago
#430 The Story of Flushing: Queens History, Old and New
Few areas of the United States have as endured as long as Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood with almost over 375 years of history and an evolving cult…
1 year, 11 months ago
#429 The Moores: A Black Family in 1860s New York
In today’s episode, Tom visits the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side to walk through the reconstructed two-room apartment of an African-American…
2 years ago
The Age of Innocence: Inside Edith Wharton's Classic Novel
Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence is a perfect novel to read in the spring — maybe its all the flowers — so I finally picked it up to re-read, in part…
2 years ago
#428 The New York Game: Baseball in the Early Years
Baseball, as American as apple pie, really is “the New York game.” While its precursors come from many places – from Jamestown to Prague – the rules …
2 years ago