Bowery Boys History

Podcast Collections

62 curated collections spanning 534 episodes of New York City history.

43 episodes

Featured Collection

Neighborhoods

  • Pride and Preservation: The West Village in the Modern Era — Jane Jacobs, Stonewall and Carrie Bradshaw
  • How The West Village Became A Neighborhood: A Tale of Speakeasies and Subways
  • Creating the Streets of the West Village
  • 19th Century NoHo: Glamour, Greed, Money, and Murder
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32 episodes

Mysterious Stories


  • Gotham’s Greatest Ghosts: The Bowery Boys Halloween Specials
  • Ghost Stories of Long Island: Revolutionary Ghosts, Haunted Mansions and Other Peculiar Things
  • Getting a Bad Rap: Spiritualism in the 19th Century
  • Whatever Happened to Dorothy Arnold? A tale of New York’s most famous missing person
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23 episodes

Gilded Age New York


  • Frozen In Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888
  • Hot Victorian Holiday: Bowery Boys History Live at City Winery — now in your podcast feed
  • Gilded Age Golden Girls: Bowery Boys History Live at City Winery
  • The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue: At Home with the Astors and Vanderbilts
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23 episodes

Writers and Artists


  • The Phrenology Craze: New York’s Head-Scratching 19th Century Obsession
  • How The West Village Became A Neighborhood: A Tale of Speakeasies and Subways
  • The History of Brooklyn Heights and the Promenade — and that infamous section of the BQE
  • Pete’s Tavern and McSorley’s Old Ale House: The Oldest Bars in New York City
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21 episodes

Landmarks


  • The Treasures of Carnegie Hall
  • Made in France: The Origin of the Statue of Liberty
  • Special Delivery: A History of the Post Office in New York City
  • The Return of the Waldorf Astoria: Grace, Glamour and International Intrigue
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19 episodes

American History


  • The Great Fire That Transformed New York
  • Made in France: The Origin of the Statue of Liberty
  • For More on The American Revolution, Check Out These Bowery Boys Podcasts
  • The Grand Tale of the Erie Canal: New York’s Engineering Icon Celebrates 200 Years
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19 episodes

Health and Living


  • The Phrenology Craze: New York’s Head-Scratching 19th Century Obsession
  • New York used to be the City of Oysters. Can it be again?
  • New York by Gaslight: Illuminating the 19th Century
  • The Notorious Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue
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19 episodes

Planes Trains and Automobiles


  • Subway Tokens, Metrocards and Other Historic Fare: A Trip Through Transit History
  • The Many Mysteries of Amelia Earhart: Stories from the Golden Age of Aviation
  • Special Delivery: A History of the Post Office in New York City
  • A History of the New York City Subway — from A to Z (and 1 through 9)
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16 episodes

Amusements and Thrills


  • Century of Cheer: A History of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
  • The Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916
  • The History of the Ticker-Tape Parade: A Very New York Way to Celebrate
  • When Longacre Square Became Times Square: Before the Bright Lights of Broadway
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15 episodes

It's Showtime


  • Rodgers and Hammerstein: Some Enchanted Broadway History
  • Harlem in the Jazz Age: A Renaissance in New York, a Revolution on Swing Street
  • Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village: The Neighborhood Which Shaped American Music
  • The Ramones at CBGB: A musical revolution on the Bowery
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