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Gilded Age New York

Gilded Age New York Podcasts 

That daredevil Steve Brodie! Did the former newsboy really jump off the Brooklyn Bridge?

July 11, 2019July 12, 2019 Bowery Boys 4899 Views 0 Comments Brooklyn Bridge, Bugs Bunny, Five Points, Friday Night Fever, George Raft, Owney Geoghegan, Steve Brodie, The Tombs

PODCAST A tale of the ‘sporting life’ of the Bowery from the 1870s and 80s. A former newsboy named Steve

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Gilded Age New York Podcasts 

Boss Tweed’s House of Corruption: A Tale of Crooked Schemes and Unchecked Power

March 8, 2019May 15, 2019 Bowery Boys 3681 Views 0 Comments Boss Tweed, City Hall, corruption, courtroom drama, Irish, New York State Supreme Court, Tammany Hall, Tweed Courthouse

PODCAST: How the Tweed Courthouse became a symbol for everything rotten about 19th century American politics. The roots of modern

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Gilded Age New York Podcasts 

Frozen In Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888

March 7, 2018May 19, 2019 Bowery Boys 12922 Views 0 Comments Blizzard of 1888, Brooklyn Bridge, snowstorms

PODCAST The story of the devastating snowstorm that changed New York City forever. This year marks the 130th anniversary of

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Gilded Age New York 

What did New York City really look like in 1896? Enter the real world of The Alienist

February 19, 2018February 23, 2018 Bowery Boys 14484 Views 1 Comment History Behind The Scene

HISTORY BEHIND THE SCENE What’s the real story behind that historical scene from your favorite TV show or feature film?

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Gilded Age New York 

The Astors vs. the Vanderbilts! A clip from the new PBS American Experience film ‘The Gilded Age’

February 5, 2018February 5, 2018 Bowery Boys 7215 Views 0 Comments

The Gilded Age, the captivating new installment from PBS’ American Experience, presents a familiar period in American history from a

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Gilded Age New York 

The Unexpected President: Chester A. Arthur and the joys of reading about a mediocre man

January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 Bowery Boys 3992 Views 0 Comments

“The nomination of Arthur is a ridiculous burlesque …. He never held an office except the one he was removed

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Gilded Age New York 

The Gilded Age: The Bowery Boys join PBS for a discussion at the New-York Historical Society

January 16, 2018January 16, 2018 Bowery Boys 4848 Views 0 Comments

The Gilded Age, a fascinating new documentary from PBS’s American Experience, premieres in early February. But we’ve got your ticket

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Gilded Age New York Podcasts 

The Fall of the Fifth Avenue Mansions: Where to find the remnants of an opulent past

December 3, 2017December 15, 2017 Bowery Boys 18202 Views 3 Comments Andrew Carnegie, Cartier, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Frick Collection

PODCAST The story of how Fifth Avenue, once the ritziest residential address in America, became an upscale retail strip and

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Gilded Age New York Podcasts 

The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions: Revisiting Forgotten Architecture of New York’s Gilded Age

November 24, 2017December 8, 2017 Bowery Boys 19333 Views 1 Comment Fifth Avenue, Madison Square Park, The Gilded Age, Waldorf-Astoria

PODCAST At the heart of New York’s Gilded Age – the late 19th century era of unprecedented American wealth and

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Gilded Age New York 

The Boss Tweed connection to St. Sava, the cathedral destroyed by fire

May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 Bowery Boys 2012 Views 3 Comments Boss Tweed, fires, Nikola Tesla, Trinity Church

New York City lost a very interesting landmark this past weekend. Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, at West 25th

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Gilded Age New York Podcasts 

The Spark: Nikola Tesla in New York

April 29, 2016May 10, 2019 Bowery Boys 3954 Views 1 Comment Greenwich Village, inventors, Nikola Tesla, Podcasts

PODCAST The strange and wonderful life of Nikola Tesla in New York City. The Serbian immigrant Nikola Tesla was among the

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Gilded Age New York 

Chelsea’s former opera house and the murder of a New York robber baron

August 19, 2015 Bowery Boys 1788 Views 4 Comments

Our last podcast detailed the scandalous murder of Stanford White in 1906, on the rooftop of the very building be

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Gilded Age New York Podcasts 

The Murder of Stanford White

August 7, 2015May 10, 2019 Bowery Boys 10959 Views 4 Comments Evelyn Nesbit, Floradora, Madison Square Garden, McKim Meade and White, murder, Stanford White, The Tombs

PODCAST The tale behind the brutal murder of renown architect Stanford White on the roof garden of Madison Square Garden, the building that

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Bowery Boys Gilded Age New York 

Odds and Ends: Washington Irving, Modern Ruin, Tourist Advice, The Slide

May 20, 2015 Bowery Boys 1510 Views 1 Comment Flushing-Meadows, gay New York, New York World's Fair 1964-65, Washington Irving

Irving Place is the remarkably pretty street that travels from the south side of Gramercy Park to the less charming

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Gilded Age New York Neighborhoods 

Chelsea and the Chocolate Factory (or rather, Hershey and his Sixth Avenue chewing gum plant)

May 29, 2014January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 3021 Views 0 Comments candy, Chelsea, factories, Ladies Mile, Sixth Avenue

Hershey’s employees cut and pack chewing gum at Sixth Avenue and 21st Street. For five glorious years in the early

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