The Pride of Brooklyn: Ebbets Field and the Glory Days of the Brooklyn Dodgers
PODCAST The Brooklyn Dodgers were more than just a baseball team and their home Ebbets Field was more than just
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Meet the Mets! The Metropolitans, that is, an early New York baseball team
The New York Mets, 2015 National League Champions and New York’s perpetual baseball underdogs, are only 53 years, formed in 1962
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The Bowery Boys Springtime Podcast Collection
Finally! The days are beautifully comfortable in New York City and the flowers have returned to distract you from long
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Join the Bowery Boys at St. John the Divine to celebrate the Cathedral’s 125th anniversary
Tom and Greg are pleased to announce that they will emceeing a very special event at the Cathedral on Wednesday,
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‘New York Exposed’ (now in paperback): Taking on corruption in the Gilded Age
NOTE: This review originally ran on August 24, 2016. This book is being released in a paperback version this week,
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The secrets of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the unfinished beauty of Morningside Heights
PODCAST The history of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and a tour of its unique artistic treasures The
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Jane’s Walk 2018: Free walking tours this weekend
No need to walk around New York City this weekend completely devoid of purpose and context! The Municipal Art Society
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Now streaming on Spotify — Every Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast from the beginning
Finally you can find the entire collection of Bowery Boys: New York City History podcasts on the Spotify streaming service.
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Downtown Heroes: How Greenwich Village became an unlikely locale for the Marvel Comics universe
NOTE: This post contains minor location spoilers for the film Avengers: Infinity War, but steers clear of any big plot
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When the moon is in the seventh house: The musical Hair opened on Broadway 50 years ago
Fifty years ago today this weekend, on April 29, 1968, the musical Hair debuted on Broadway and basically changed New
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The Uprising at Columbia University: The voices of 1968 and the complicated story of a campus crisis
Fifty years ago this week, Columbia University erupted. The founders of Columbia originally built an uptown campus (in the area
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The Bowery Boys’ William Shakespeare Collection: Four stories of the Bard and the big city
William Shakespeare died 402 years ago today — April 23, 1616. Seven years earlier, his countryman Henry Hudson, sailing for
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The Huddled Masses: Emma Lazarus and the many meanings of the Statue of Liberty
PODCAST The words of “The New Colossus,” written 135 years ago by Jewish poet Emma Lazarus in tribute to the Statue of
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Meet us at the Grassroots Preservation Awards, presented by the Historic Districts Council
Please join the Bowery Boys this Tuesday, April 24th, at the Grassroots Preservation Awards and Preservation Party, presented by the Historic District
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A tribute to Inwood Hill Park, the location of Manhattan’s last natural forest
The weather is finally going to be beautiful in the New York City region this weekend. May we suggest a
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