A tribute to Walt Whitman in honor of his 200th birthday! Live podcast recording at the Bell House
Tom and Greg are thrilled to announce their latest live show — a celebration of one of the greatest writers
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The Murder on Bond Street: Who Killed Dr. Burdell?
PODCAST A gaslight murder mystery with more twists than an Agatha Christie novel! On January 31, 1857, a prominent dentist
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RIP Stan Lee, the comics publisher whose love for New York City inspired Marvel’s most iconic heroes
Stan Lee, who died yesterday at age 95, will live forever. The iconic characters that he helped develop for Marvel
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America’s first World War I memorial sits in Battery Park, giving New Yorkers the time of day
Manhattan’s shoreline was for much of its history crowded with piers of various lengths and structural integrities. The western side
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The end of war: New York newspapers celebrate Armistice Day and the end of World War I
Tomorrow is Veterans Day in the United States, a holiday devoted to the memory and service of those in the
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The enchanted street life of Brooklyn in the 1970s, in photographs by Larry Racioppo
From 1970 to 1983, photographer Larry Racioppo roamed South Brooklyn (from Park Slope to Sunset Park) and captured the frivolity, the
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Bush Leaguers: A Simpsons-esque animated short celebrating 19th century Brooklyn
And how about some post-Election Day frivolity? This Matt Groening-inspired short pilot Bush Leaguers comes to us from animators Robert McKeon and Sam
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New Yorkers: Vote to change the city charter! Flip your ballot for three proposals this Election Day
This Tuesday, November 6, will be a very monumental Election Day in American history — and in New York City
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Return to Tin Pan Alley: Saving American music history from the threat of demolition
PODCAST Let the music play! In 2009 we recorded a podcast about the history of Tin Pan Alley, the cluster
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The Malbone Street Wreck: The Deadliest Crash in the History of the New York City Subway
The eastern entrance to Prospect Park — at the intersections of Ocean Avenue, Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard — invites
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Is the Museum of Modern Art haunted?
We’ve seen some disturbing and unsettling exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art. But is the supernatural also staging a
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The Complete Bowery Boys Halloween Collection: New York City’s Most Famous Ghost Stories
Here is the complete collection of Bowery Boys Halloween specials. Creep yourself out while listening to these spooky legends of
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‘Ghostbusters’ to Tribeca to the Upper West Side — Bowery Boys Movie Club, Episode Two
Welcome to the Bowery Boys Movie Club, an exclusive Patreon podcast where Tom and Greg discuss classic New York City
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Coney Island Babies: The disconcerting sight of Dr. Couney’s infant incubators on the boardwalk
Among the unusual delights of the Coney Island sideshows of the early 20th century were a row of premature infants,
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The original Metropolitan Opera House, aka the ‘yellow brick brewery’, opened 135 years ago today
The city’s old and new money worlds sat cheek-to-cheek at the original Metropolitan Opera House, which opened on this date
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