If you are in NYC and want a good distraction from all this *waves hand*, please join me this Wednesday April 22nd on my walking tour of the Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue 🎩💰🚶🏻♀️It’s a lot of fun!
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The Bowery Boys Podcast is finally on YouTube! We would love it if you'd hit the subscribe button while you're there. Of course, we'll still on all the regular audio players as well (Apple, Spotify, Overcast and the rest!)
We discuss the history of La Marqueta, future site of Mamdani’s new city-run grocery store, and other city-run markets from New York City history in this week’s show on the pushcarts:
We discuss the history of La Marqueta, future site of Mamdani’s new city-run grocery store, and other city-run markets from New York City history in this week’s show on the pushcarts:
The streets of the Lower East Side used to be lined with pushcarts with people selling all sorts of food items. It was the original fast food! Whatever became of this nostalgic tradition? We break down the whole story in the latest Bowery Boys podcast:
The streets of the Lower East Side used to be lined with pushcarts with people selling all sorts of food items. It was the original fast food! Whatever became of this nostalgic tradition? We break down the whole story in the latest Bowery Boys podcast:
Mayor Mamdani chats with New Yorkers while walking the six miles from City Hall to Gracie Mansion, fulfilling the promise he made in his inauguration speech to “be outside” as Mayor — “because this is a government of New York, by New York, and for New York.”
Our podcast on the mysterious history of North Brother Island is now available on YouTube, with detours into the stories of Typhoid Mary and the General Slocum disaster:
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Jane Jacobs advocated for ‘human scale’ neighborhoods at a time with Robert Moses was dreaming of exactly the opposite. Their ideas clashed upon the streets of the West Village. Learn more in the final part of our mini-series The Streets of the West Village, now available
Our podcast on the mysterious history of North Brother Island is now available on YouTube, with detours into the stories of Typhoid Mary and the General Slocum disaster:
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The Stonewall National Monument in the West Village is more than just landmark to LGBT rights. This site contains objects that showcase many different historical eras and forms of remembrance.
More in our latest podcast — Pride and Preservation: The Streets of the West Village.
In tomorrow's new Bowery Boys podcast -- the final part of our West Village series featuring some pretty seismic events in New York City history.
Did you watch the Netflix series Death By Lightning and want to learn more about that scoundrel Chester A Arthur? The Bowery Boys podcast on 'the accidental president' just went live on YouTube:
Did you watch the Netflix series Death By Lightning and want to learn more about that scoundrel Chester A Arthur? The Bowery Boys podcast on 'the accidental president' just went live on YouTube:
Those who support the Bowery Boys Podcast on Patreon get weekly ad-free versions of our older shows. Today we just re-released our episode on the United Nations Headquarters, recorded in October 2008 (Bush was still president!). Visit our Patreon page to learn more:
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🧵 First four Best Picture winners. Four very different films. All four in the public domain.
🎬 WINGS (1927)
🎭 THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929)
🪖 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
🌄 CIMARRON (1931)
Choose your own Best Picture! 🏆
Watch them all ⤵️
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1️⃣/5️⃣
#redcarpet #Oscars
Why are there so many small, bizarre wedge-shaped buildings along Seventh Avenue in the West Village? You can blame the subway — and a clash between the quiet 19th century Village and the expanding city. Hear all about it in the latest Bowery Boys podcast How The West Village Became A Neighborhood.
AI marketing email fail. If somebody knows Randy and Dave, I’m happy to forward this along.
Next on the Bowery Boys Podcast: We're getting lost in the West Village. First episode in this new limited series arrives Friday.
First episode available now — Creating the West Village. Featuring underground creeks, forgotten cemeteries and even a scary old prison.
Next on the Bowery Boys Podcast: We're getting lost in the West Village. First episode in this new limited series arrives Friday.
We just re-released our Great Blizzard of 1888 show into the Bowery Boys podcast feed. Hopefully, history doesn't repeat itself with the current storm hammering the American northeast, but it's fascinating to hear how Old New York dealt with a weather catastrophe during the Gilded Age.
We just re-released our Great Blizzard of 1888 show into the Bowery Boys podcast feed. Hopefully, history doesn't repeat itself with the current storm hammering the American northeast, but it's fascinating to hear how Old New York dealt with a weather catastrophe during the Gilded Age.
In this Friday's new Bowery Boys podcast: The tragic incident that launched a thousand tabloid headlines
In this Friday's new Bowery Boys podcast: The tragic incident that launched a thousand tabloid headlines
In the newest Bowery Boys podcast, we presesnt a 1930s true-crime mystery. On August 6, 1930, judge Joseph Force Crater stepped into a taxi on West 45th Street and vanished without a trace. Was it murder? Blackmail? Or a carefully planned escape? And will Tom solve the crime in this episode?
museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go
