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Neighborhoods Podcasts 

The Story of SoHo: The Iron-Clad History of ‘Hell’s Hundred Acres’

July 21, 2017July 12, 2019 Bowery Boys 6381 Views 3 Comments artists, classic hotels, fires, James Bogardus, Niblo's Garden, prostitution, Soho

PODCAST The history of SoHo, New York’s 19th century warehouse district turned shopping mecca Picture the neighborhood of SoHo (that’s

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Pop Culture 

History in the Making 11/18: Celebrated Jumping Frogs Edition

November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 Bowery Boys 1274 Views 0 Comments classic hotels, firearms, Mark Twain, Times Square

Hoppin’ History: Samuel Clemens broke through 150 years ago today.  The man who would become Mark Twain first published his

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It's Showtime Podcasts 

Billie Holiday’s New York: Here’s to Swing Street, Harlem’s 133rd Street and other landmarks of jazz

January 23, 2015May 10, 2019 Bowery Boys 6756 Views 9 Comments Apollo Theater, Billie Holiday, Carnegie Hall, classic hotels, drugs, Friday Night Fever, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, jazz, Music History, Roosevelt Island

PODCAST Grab your fedora and take a trip with the Bowery Boys into the heart of New York City’s jazz

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Union busted: Hotel and restaurant workers end their strike

June 25, 2012January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1387 Views 1 Comment classic hotels, Hotel Astor, Sherry's Restaurant, unions

Above: Restaurant workers walk off the job at Sherry’s Restaurant at Fifth Avenue in 1912 One hundred years ago today,

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Gilded Age New York 

The Fifth Avenue Hotel: Opulence atop a potter’s field, and accommodations for heated Republican power brokering

January 6, 2012January 16, 2015 Bowery Boys 4183 Views 3 Comments Chester A. Arthur, Civil War, classic hotels, Fifth Avenue, Fifth Avenue Hotel, Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park

By the date of this photo (1890), the Fifth Avenue Hotel, facing Madison Square Park, had already seen its share

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Troubled times: Dr. King and Abe Lincoln visit New York

February 10, 2011January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1528 Views 1 Comment Abraham Lincoln, classic hotels, Martin Luther King Jr., NYU

February 1961: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is presented with an award by the Americans for Democratic Action. On either

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Try getting this catchy tune out of your head!

January 28, 2011January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1192 Views 3 Comments classic hotels, Madison Avenue, Sex Pistols

And a little something silly for Friday: The Hotel Seville was a brilliant Beaux-Arts jewel exemplar of the glory days

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A TV shout-out to a debonair palace for independent women

July 26, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1552 Views 6 Comments classic hotels, Mad Men, Upper East Side

postcard from Old New York With Mad Men making its return last night on AMC, myself and many other bloggers

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Before CBGB’s, parties at 315 Bowery were for the birds

June 1, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1625 Views 0 Comments Bowery, CBGBs, classic hotels, Music History

Above: The first of hundreds of Bowery hotels — the old Gotham Inn in 1862. The inn, which dated from

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Antoni Gaudi’s grand New York hotel — built by sci-fi

May 25, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 3807 Views 5 Comments classic hotels, World Trade Center

Joshua Jackson, looking down at Gaudi in an alternate universe. Courtesy Fringe Files I promise, this is my last post

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Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky….

May 10, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1338 Views 1 Comment Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, classic hotels, Copacabana, Lena Horne, Music History

Above: Lena Horne at the Copacabana, October 1948 Lena Horne, the Brooklyn-born entertainer who broke color barriers in the New

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Mad Men 

Cocktails with ‘Mad Men’ at the Hotel Pierre

November 9, 2009May 17, 2015 Bowery Boys 1184 Views 1 Comment classic hotels, Copacabana

The following posting is littered with television spoilers, so please avert your eyes if you’re a ‘Mad Men’ fan who

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Postcard from the Past: New York, September 1959

September 3, 2009January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1684 Views 0 Comments classic hotels, Madison Square Garden, Rockefeller Center

TEXT: “Sept 16th and 17th 1959‘Ice Capades’Plymouth Hotel Fire at 4:30 AMThursdayMerman in ‘Gypsy’” The Hotel Chesterfield (130-136 West 49th

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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

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