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Tammany Hall

Know Your Mayors 

New York’s first mayoral election in 1834: Riots, chaos and the election of New York’s ‘crying congressman’

November 5, 2013January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 2164 Views 0 Comments Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, elections, Tammany Hall

New York in 1834, looking up Broadway from Bowling Green (NYPL) New Yorkers will go to the polls today to

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Know Your Mayors 

The Boy Mayor of New York: John Purroy Mitchel and a series of unfortunate events shake up a New York election

September 20, 2013January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 1799 Views 0 Comments John Purroy Mitchel, Know Your Mayors, New York City Hall, Tammany Hall, William Jay Gaynor

John Purroy Mitchel, the ‘boy mayor’, after his resounding victory. (LOC)PODCAST As New York City enters the final stages of

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Know Your Mayors 

Meet Andrew H. Mickle, perhaps the least qualified man to ever serve as the mayor of New York City

September 6, 2013January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 1489 Views 1 Comment Blackwell's Island, Know Your Mayors, Tammany Hall, telegraph, tobacco

New York City Hall and its brand new water fountain, in 1846, courtesy Currier and Ives (LOC)KNOW YOUR MAYORS A modest

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Fernando Wood: More on Lincoln’s wily scoundrel

November 20, 2012January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1510 Views 0 Comments Abraham Lincoln, Fernando Wood, Tammany Hall

While the Confederacy may be the enemy in Stephen Spielberg‘s new film ‘Lincoln‘, it is a defeated and toothless one,

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Tammany Hall hosts the city’s first Democratic Convention: Susan B. Anthony, the KKK, and a reluctant nominee

September 6, 2012January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1719 Views 1 Comment Civil War, draft riots, Fernando Wood, Ku Klux Klan, Madison Square Garden, suffrage, Tammany Hall, women's history

Many of you may remember New York’s sole Republican National Convention, held in 2004 at Madison Square Garden, celebrating the

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Defying gravity: New York’s most famous daredevils

July 12, 2011January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1233 Views 2 Comments Brooklyn Bridge, Tammany Hall, Willliamsburg Bridge, World Trade Center, Zeigfeld Follies

Bird in the sky: The delicate Ms. Millman makes it look easyLast night on my walk home, I observed something

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A chemical company in Union Square sells a kingly elixir

June 23, 2011January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 796 Views 0 Comments Tammany Hall, Union Square

One hundred years ago today (June 23), the big news was the coronation of England’s King George at Westminster Abbey.

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The ‘barbarous customs’ of a New York Fourth of July

July 2, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 658 Views 0 Comments Broadway, Fourth of July, Tammany Hall

Pic courtesy LOC The caption for the above 1894 illustration, looking back to headier days, reads: “Have we improved upon

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Mayor John O’Brien: his heart is as black as yours!

February 25, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1858 Views 2 Comments Fiorello Laguardia, Great Depression, Know Your Mayors, Robert Moses, Tammany Hall

Above: An unemployment line in November 1933. The O’Brien administration offers no relief to the city. KNOW YOUR MAYORS Our

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New York governor resigns* in disgrace (in 1913)!

February 9, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 873 Views 0 Comments Charles F. Murphy, state politics, Tammany Hall

STRESSED: William Sulzer in 1911, a New York City representative on his way up…and out *okay, technically he was removed

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Mayor Cadwallader D. Colden: Would grandpa be proud?

November 20, 2009January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1644 Views 7 Comments City Hall, Dewitt Clinton, Know Your Mayors, Tammany Hall

KNOW YOUR MAYORS Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of

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Mayor Aaron Clark: lucky Whig and New York lotto king!

September 16, 2009January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1044 Views 0 Comments City Hall, Croton Reservoir, Know Your Mayors, Tammany Hall, Woolworth Building

KNOW YOUR MAYORS Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of

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Mayor Charles Godfrey Gunther, Coney Island-bound

August 20, 2009January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1230 Views 2 Comments Civil War, Coney Island, Fernando Wood, Know Your Mayors, Tammany Hall

KNOW YOUR MAYORS Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of

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Martling’s Long Room: power plays, power drinkers

July 10, 2009January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 873 Views 1 Comment Friday Night Fever, Tammany Hall

Well, would you?Illustration from sheet music 1908 FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER To get you in the mood for the weekend, every

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Podcasts Those Were The Days 

William ‘Boss’ Tweed and the bitter days of Tammany Hall

July 2, 2009November 21, 2018 Bowery Boys 3169 Views 3 Comments Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall

  Hail to the thief: an imposing man with money on his mind PODCAST Listen to it for FREE on

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