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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...
Perched over the Hudson River near the city of Hudson sits Olana State Historic Site , once the wondrous home of painter Frederic Church . T...
The Garment District in Midtown Manhattan has been the center of American fashion for almost one hundred years. The lofts and office buildin...
In our modern world, people are turning to all sorts of unusual beliefs and fringe disciplines just outside the bounds of medical science an...
Carnegie Hall is one of America’s greatest and most enduring cultural landmarks, enchanting audiences and making history since its opening n...
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...
In 1889, Robert Ray Hamilton, great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, became ensnared in a sensational web of deceit — forged identities, atte...
Why is the West Village both historically important and incredibly expensive? In the final part of our West Village mini-series , we look at...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
On Lexington Avenue sits a special food store named Kalustyan's with a second floor stocked with international spices, syrups, and bitters....
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...
New Yorkers have gotten around their cities by subways, buses, elevated trains, streetcars and ferries. And the ways in which they have paid...
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...
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...
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...
Ellis Island is one of America’s great landmarks, a place in New York Harbor that represents the millions of people who arrived in this coun...
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has brought joy and sparkle to Midtown Manhattan since the early 1930s. The annual festivities may see...
The aviation hero Amelia Earhart , who became one of the world's most famous women during the Great Depression, is one of those historic fig...
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II are two of the greatest entertainers in New York City history. They have delighted millions of peop...
For this year's annual Bowery Boys Ghost Stories podcast , Greg and Tom take a road trip to Long Island to explore the region's most famous...
On October 26, 1825, the fate of New York City – and the entire United States – changed with the opening of the Erie Canal , a manmade water...
Dominicans comprise the largest immigration group in modern New York City, and Dominican culture has become embedded in the city's rich fabr...
Today's New York neighborhood called NoHo, wedged between Greenwich Village and the East Village, holds the stories of many people and place...
As New York City enters the final stages of a rather strange mayoral election in 2025, let’s look back on a decidedly more unusual contest o...
On January 3, 1924, 25-year-old George Gershwin was shooting pool in a Manhattan billiard hall when his brother Ira Gershwin read aloud a sh...
We love the podcast History Daily, a co-production from award winning podcasters Airship and Noiser, so we're presenting two episodes with a...
On the evening of December 5, 1876, the glorious Brooklyn Theatre caught fire, trapping its audience in a nightmare of flame and smoke. The...
The ultimate bar crawl of Old New York continues through a survey of classic bars and taverns that trace their origins from the 1850s throug...
We’ve put together the ultimate New York City historic bar crawl , a celebration of the city’s old taverns, pubs, and ale houses with 18th-...
Once upon a time New York City oysters were not only plentiful and healthy in the harbor, they were an everyday, common food source. The ori...
A special presentation of our live show Bowery Boys History Live, recorded at City Winery, July 2, 2025 Bowery Boys History Live is a storyt...
Ready for a little summertime spookfest? This week we're thrilled to present to you a podcast appearance Greg made back in April on the Spir...
TERROR ON THE BEACH! Seaside resorts from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk, Long Island, were paralyzed in fear during the summer of 1916. N...
At the heart of New York’s Gilded Age — the late 19th-century era of unprecedented American wealth and excess — were families with the names...
People who live in Inwood know how truly special it is. Manhattan's northernmost neighborhood (aside from Marble Hill) feels like it's outsi...
The children of the Gilded Age were seen but not heard. Until now! Listener favorite Esther Crain , author and creator of Ephemeral New York...
While you may know the Brooklyn Museum for its wildly popular cutting-edge exhibitions, the borough's premier art institution can actually t...
In 1939, Robert Moses sprung his latest project upon the world -- the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge , connecting the tip of Manhattan to the Brook...
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...
When Prospect Park was first opened to the public in the late 1860s, the City of Brooklyn was proud to claim a landmark as beautiful and as...
On October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford walked into a press conference at the National Press Club and, using more precise, more eloquent...
Join us for an interview with Instagram historian Keith Taillon ( @keithyorkcity ), whose detailed posts about New York's history have earne...
We invite you to come with us inside one of America’s most interesting art museums – an institution that is BOTH an art gallery and a histor...
The history of the United States Postal Service as it plays out in the streets of New York City -- from the first post road to the first pos...
A special bonus episode! Two years ago we featured Patrick Bringley on the show, the author of All The Beauty In The World (Simon & Schuster...