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Chelsea Piers

On The Waterfront 

A Haunting Look Inside the Lusitania

May 6, 2015May 6, 2015 Bowery Boys 3591 Views 0 Comments Chelsea Piers, ocean liners, RMS Lusitania, Titanic

The Lusitania gets dwarfed by recollections of the Titanic.  But in many ways, the destruction of the Cunard Line’s premier ocean

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On The Waterfront Podcasts 

Chelsea Piers: New York City
 in the Age of the Ocean Liner

April 17, 2015April 20, 2015 Bowery Boys 4767 Views 5 Comments Chelsea, Chelsea Piers, George McClellan, landfill, ships, Titanic, waterfront, West Side Highway, West Side Improvement, Westway

PODCAST The Chelsea Piers were once New York City’s portal to the world, a series of long docks along the west

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Bowery Boys Bookshelf 

The Lusitania’s final voyage, breathlessly told

April 16, 2015April 16, 2015 Bowery Boys 1352 Views 1 Comment Bowery Boys Bookshelf, Chelsea Piers, RMS Lusitania, World War I

They said the Lusitania couldn’t be sunk. The German telegrams to the contrary were merely cheap scare tactics. Besides, England will provide

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Wartime New York 

Voyage into war: New Yorkers enlist for France a century ago

August 5, 2014January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 1184 Views 0 Comments Chelsea Piers, France, John Purroy Mitchel, World War I

Men and women aboard La Lorraine, heading to France and the prospects of a grave war. War was newly ablaze

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On The Waterfront 

In 1863, the Russians invaded New York City

September 25, 2013January 10, 2017 Bowery Boys 2379 Views 2 Comments Chelsea Piers, Civil War, New York Academy of Music, New York harbor, Russia, Union Square

In 1863, New Yorkers flocked to the waterfront to see a startling sight — Russian war ships in New York

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On The Waterfront 

Where golf balls fly: Pier 59 at Chelsea Piers

April 10, 2012January 16, 2015 Bowery Boys 1406 Views 1 Comment Chelsea Piers, Titanic

The West Side Elevated Highway zooms past Pier 59, still in operation but long past her prime. (1951) Courtesy NYPL

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Bowery Boys On The Go: History of NYC Transportation

June 24, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1240 Views 0 Comments Chelsea Piers

Wheels converge: Motor buggies, horse drawn carriages and other conveyances glide and to and from the railroad terminal ferry station

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Know Your Mayors 

Know Your Mayors: George B. McClellan Jr.

January 9, 2009April 16, 2015 Bowery Boys 2053 Views 2 Comments Chelsea Piers, Classic Film, Grand Central Terminal, Know Your Mayors, New York City Subway, New York Public Library, Tammany Hall

Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of New York City.

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The boat that keeps on sinking

April 15, 2008January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 931 Views 1 Comment Astors, Chelsea Piers, Guggenheim, Macy's

The Carpathia docks off of Pier 54, emptied of its cargo of Titanic survivors Ninety-six years ago today, the RMS

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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.

Bowery Boys Walking Tours

Are you ready to walk through time? We’re excited to announce Bowery Boys Walks, our new walking tours developed around our podcast. Join us in the streets — beginning in October 2018!

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