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Tribeca

Neighborhoods Podcasts 

Tales from Tribeca: The Hidden History of Manhattan’s Old Market Neighborhood

March 16, 2018May 19, 2019 Bowery Boys 19327 Views 0 Comments Tribeca, Washington Market, World Trade Center

PODCAST Tribeca (or TriBeCa, Triangle Below Canal) is a breathtaking neighborhood of astounding architectural richness. But how much do you know about this

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Podcasts Politics and Protest 

New York City and the Underground Railroad: Escaping to freedom through a hostile city

February 2, 2018May 19, 2019 Bowery Boys 11157 Views 0 Comments black history, Henry Ward Beecher, Newspaper Row, Plymouth Church, slavery, Tribeca, Underground Railroad

PODCAST For thousands of people escaping the bonds of slavery in the South, the journey to freedom wound its way

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Politics and Protest 

Frederick Douglass and the life saver of Lispenard Street, a stop on the Underground Railroad

February 1, 2018July 2, 2019 Bowery Boys 4899 Views 1 Comment abolitionists, Frederick Douglass, slavery, Tribeca

In the early and mid-nineteenth century, the Underground Railroad secretly escorted tens of thousands of Southern enslaved people to Northern

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Neighborhoods 

The hole that swallowed Greenpoint and other treasures at Old NYC

May 27, 2015May 27, 2015 Bowery Boys 1895 Views 2 Comments Alice Austen House, cemeteries, Grant's Tomb, Greenpoint, New York Public Library, Tribeca

The New York Public Library‘s Old NYC interface is pretty much one of the best things to happen to New

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Those Were The Days 

Detonations and flying cheese: Annotated news from 1913

June 6, 2013January 15, 2015 Bowery Boys 1238 Views 3 Comments cheese, explosions, Tribeca, Washington Market

I present this little news item from the June 6, 1913 New York Tribune in its entirety: 1)  The idea

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Name That Neighborhood: TriBeCa not so triangular

November 24, 2008July 1, 2019 Bowery Boys 2180 Views 0 Comments Hudson River, Meatpacking District, Name That Neighborhood, Soho, Tribeca

Some New York neighborhoods are simply named for their location on a map (East Village, Midtown). Others are given prefabricated

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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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