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MYSTERY! “Doctor Busted” and the skeleton of College Point

October 7, 2014January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 111 Views 5 Comments College Point, maps, Queens

Above is an illustrated bird’s eye view of College Point, Queens, from a 1917 guidebook “Illustrated Flushing and vicinity.” As

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Notes from the podcast: (#141) New York Beer History

July 31, 2012January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 67 Views 3 Comments beer, Brooklyn Bridge, Bushwick, College Point, New York Historical Society, Stapleton, Steinway

Year-Round Brews: This calendar from 1895 celebrates the Harlem breweries of James Everard. An older Everard brewery building on W. 28th

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