#485 The Painter Who Brought The World To New York
Perched over the Hudson River near the city of Hudson sits Olana State Historic Site , once the wondrous home of painter Frederic Church . T...
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The Bowery Boys: New York City History
New York City history is America's history. It's the hometown of the world, and most people know the city's familiar landmarks, buildings and streets. Why not look a little closer and have f...
The Bowery Boys: New York City History Podcast Guide
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20 of 554 episodesThe Garment District: Where New York Fashion Is Made (Rewind)
The Garment District in Midtown Manhattan has been the center of American fashion for almost one hundred years. The lofts and office buildin...
#484 The Phrenology Craze
In our modern world, people are turning to all sorts of unusual beliefs and fringe disciplines just outside the bounds of medical science an...
#483 The Treasures of Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is one of America’s greatest and most enduring cultural landmarks, enchanting audiences and making history since its opening n...
The Pushcarts of the Lower East Side (Rewind)
Once upon a time, the streets of the Lower East Side were lined with pushcarts and salespeople haggling with customers over the price of fru...
The Scandalous Hamiltons: Sex, Lies and Blackmail (The Gilded Gentleman)
In 1889, Robert Ray Hamilton, great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, became ensnared in a sensational web of deceit — forged identities, atte...
#482 Pride and Preservation (The Streets of the West Village Part 3)
Why is the West Village both historically important and incredibly expensive? In the final part of our West Village mini-series , we look at...
#481 How The West Village Became A Neighborhood (The Streets of the West Village Part 2)
In Part Two of our mini-series, The Streets of the West Village , we turn to the people who gave the neighborhood its character and vitality...
#480 The Streets of the West Village: Creating the Village (Part 1)
Why are the streets of Manhattan's West Village so unusually charming and romantic? Why does it make such an excellent place for a night out...
Frozen in Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888
Here’s a classic from the Bowery Boys Podcast archive, recorded in early 2013, just a few months after Hurricane Sandy . Each winter, when f...
How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River (from HISTORY This Week)
For more historical deep dives just like these, check out HISTORY This Week wherever you get your podcasts! February 14, 1905. A stick of dy...
#479 NYC '84: The Case of the 'Subway Vigilante'
On the afternoon of December 22, 1984, shots rang out beneath the streets of New York, from the subway's 2 Seventh Avenue express train . A...
#478 The Disappearance of Judge Crater
On August 6, 1930, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater stepped into a taxi on West 45th Street and vanished without a trace. For 27 da...
The History of Brooklyn Heights and the Promenade
“A Highway is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.” That was a headline in the New York Times back in November about the highly...
#477 Chester A. Arthur: The Gentleman Boss
On Lexington Avenue sits a special food store named Kalustyan's with a second floor stocked with international spices, syrups, and bitters....
#476 Hot Victorian Holiday: Bowery Boys History Live! at City Winery
Bowery Boys History Live is a live-show series at City Winery hosted by Greg Young featuring a variety of historians and tour guides. The la...
#475 Subway Tokens, MetroCards and Other Historic Fare
New Yorkers have gotten around their cities by subways, buses, elevated trains, streetcars and ferries. And the ways in which they have paid...
The Great Fire That Transformed New York
This month marks the 190th anniversary of one of the most devastating disasters in New York City history — The Great Fire of 1835. This mass...
#474 Made in France: The Statue of Liberty’s Forgotten Origin Story
She stands in New York Harbor as America’s most recognizable symbol—but the story of the Statue of Liberty begins thousands of miles away, i...
The Last Ships From Hamburg: An Immigration Story
Our second in a series of podcasts about New York City and American immigration history. Between the late 1890s and early 1920s, over 2 mill...
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