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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
All Collections
Adventures In Old New York
3 eps
Alternate Side History
3 eps
At The Movies
1 ep
Black History
8 eps
Bowery Boys
4 eps
Bowery Boys Bookshelf
4 eps
Bowery Boys Movie Club
6 eps
Bridges
8 eps
Bronx History
4 eps
Brooklyn History
14 eps
Christmas
1 ep
Current Events
1 ep
Film History
8 eps
Food History
13 eps
Founded by NYC
3 eps
Friday Night Fever
5 eps
Holidays
9 eps
Hudson Valley
5 eps
Know Your Mayors
2 eps
Long Island
6 eps
Museums
9 eps
Music History
11 eps
New Amsterdam
12 eps
New York Islands
1 ep
Newspapers and Newsies
4 eps
ON TELEVISION
3 eps
On The Waterfront
14 eps
Parks and Recreation
13 eps
Podcasting
1 ep
Politics and Protest
14 eps
Pop Culture
7 eps
Preservation
10 eps
Queens History
8 eps
Religious History
7 eps
Revolutionary History
11 eps
Roaring 20s
1 ep
Robert Moses
2 eps
Science
7 eps
Side Streets
1 ep
Skyscrapers
4 eps
Sports
3 eps
Staten Island History
2 eps
The Alienist
1 ep
The Deuce
1 ep
The First
2 eps
The Gilded Gentleman
5 eps
The Immigrant Experience
8 eps
The Jazz Age
10 eps
Those Were The Days
7 eps
True Crime
5 eps
Wartime New York
6 eps
Women's History
6 eps