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Holidays Podcasts 

The history of the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights: An electric holiday tradition illuminates Brooklyn

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 Bowery Boys 587 Views 0 Comments

PODCAST: The history of the Dyker Heights Christmas lighting extravaganza, Brooklyn’s fabulous and flashy celebration of the holiday season. EPISODE

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Holidays Podcasts The First 

How Electric Light Changed Christmas Forever

December 12, 2019December 14, 2019 Bowery Boys 8396 Views 0 Comments

‘THE FIRST’ PODCAST The surprisingly rich history of Christmas lights in America. That string of multi-colored Christmas lights wrapped around

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Podcasts Preservation 

Return to Tin Pan Alley: American music history, saved from the threat of demolition

December 11, 2019December 11, 2019 Bowery Boys 4683 Views 1 Comment

GOOD NEWS! On December 10, 2019, five buildings along 28th Street were unanimously declared official New York City landmarks. This

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Christmas 

The wildest Rockefeller Center Christmas display ever also caused an equally insane traffic jam

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 Bowery Boys 5220 Views 2 Comments Christmas, Rockefeller Center

For the 1949 season, the caretakers of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree decided to go fantastically over the top. Just

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The Takeout 

On The Takeout, the Bowery Boys’ new after-show podcast, the tragic tale of a lost LES landmark

December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 Bowery Boys 819 Views 0 Comments

We’re now recording a second Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast for each topic, an after-show conversation where we

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Podcasts Religious History 

The Miracle on Eldridge Street: Restoring a landmark of American Jewish history

November 28, 2019December 10, 2019 Bowery Boys 2162 Views 0 Comments

EPISODE 304 The Eldridge Street Synagogue is one of the most beautifully restored places in the United States, a testament

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Holidays 

Moon Cows, Munsters and marionettes: Revisiting the windy 1964 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 Bowery Boys 8763 Views 2 Comments balloons, Broadway, classic television, Columbus Circle, holidays, Macy's, Thanksgiving

Linus the Lion-Hearted at the 1964 Macy’s Parade The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade of 1963 had been a downer of

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Bowery Boys 

Listen to our WNYC interview for a sneak peak at this week’s new podcast episode

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 Bowery Boys 823 Views 0 Comments

We were grateful to be featured on last Friday’s episode of All of It, the WNYC daily radio show hosted

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Bowery Boys 

Join the Bowery Boys podcast for a live recording in December at WNYC’s Greene Space

November 21, 2019November 21, 2019 Bowery Boys 2052 Views 0 Comments

Tickets are now on sale for the new Bowery Boys podcast live event — this time a live podcast recording

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Bowery Boys Bookshelf 

The story of the Bowery Mission: A new book finds shelter in New York’s once-gritty neighborhood

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Bowery Boys 1453 Views 0 Comments

The most enduring landmark on the Bowery isn’t a tavern or a bawdy theater, a restaurant or even an old

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Podcasts Politics and Protest 

Building Stuyvesant Town: The housing solution that became an emblem of the Jim Crow North

November 14, 2019December 11, 2019 Bowery Boys 3782 Views 0 Comments

EPISODE 303 The residential complexes Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, built in the late 1940s, incorporating thousands of apartments

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Neighborhoods 

The grimy glow of the former Gashouse District

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 Bowery Boys 5468 Views 0 Comments East Harlem, gashouse district, Stuytown

Pictured above: An elevated view of Stuyvesant Square and surrounding neighborhoods, ca. 1920-1935, photographed by the Wurts Brothers, courtesy Museum of

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Know Your Mayors 

A short history of New York City mayors who ran for President of the United States

November 10, 2019November 10, 2019 Bowery Boys 5979 Views 0 Comments Bloomberg, elections, Franklin Roosevelt, Guiliani, Know Your Mayors, Robert Livingston, theodore roosevelt

Last week former mayor Michael Bloomberg very unofficially — and somewhat belatedly — entered the 2020 presidential race by filing

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Bowery Boys 

The Bowery Boys Live at Joe’s Pub: Join us on Patreon to get the audio — and some new swag!

November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 Bowery Boys 1205 Views 0 Comments

We want to thank everybody who came out to our live Halloween ghost stories shows at Joe’s Pub at the

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Film History 

Motherless Brooklyn: Ten things to know before checking out Edward Norton’s detective film

November 7, 2019December 11, 2019 Bowery Boys 1959 Views 0 Comments current film, Harlem, Jane Jacobs, Motherless Brooklyn, Robert Caro, Robert Moses

Motherless Brooklyn, a radical retro transformation of Jonathan Lethem’s book of the same name, refits the bright noir of the

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Bowery-Boys-Book-Cover-R6--revised Our first-ever Bowery Boys book, "Adventures in Old New York" is now out in bookstores! A time-traveling journey into a past that lives simultaneously besides the modern city.

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