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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers, Greg Young

The tides of American history flow through the streets of New York City — from the huddled masses on Ellis Island to the sleazy theaters of 1970s Times Square. Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring…

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#495 Gouverneur Morris: The Thrilling Adventures of a Founding Father 2026-11-06 · 64m
Boss Tweed and His Gilded Age House of Corruption (Rewind) 2026-10-23 · 55m
Ghost Stories of Old New York (Live At Joe's Pub 2025) 2026-10-16 · 68m
#494 Scary Stories of Old New York 2026-10-09 · 87m
New York's Most Haunted Historic Places (Best of) 2026-10-02 · 64m
#493 The Mysterious Fox Sisters 2026-09-25 · 84m
#492 How Mamie Fish Partied Her Way to Gilded Age Power 2026-09-18 · 62m
The World Trade Center in the 1970s (Rewind) 2026-09-11 · 64m
Little Italy: From Immigrant Enclave To Italian Theme Park (Rewind) 2026-09-04 · 55m
What's Up With Downtown Brooklyn? (Rewind) 2026-08-28 · 59m
The Story of SoHo: A Lofty History (Rewind) 2026-08-21 · 56m
The Gossip Game: The Man Who Blackmailed the Gilded Age 2026-08-14 · 60m
#491 Adventures in Old New York 2026-07-31 · 74m
#490 The Murder of Bill the Butcher 2026-07-17 · 49m
#489 Heated Rivalries from American History (Live at City Winery) 2026-07-03 · 75m
Tearing Down King George: Revolutionary Summer 1776 (Rewind) 2026-06-26 · 37m
#488 Party Like It's 1976! 2026-06-19 · 78m
#487 The Knicks and the Knickerbockers: The Story of a Name 2026-06-05 · 65m
Marilyn Monroe at 100: Her Life in New York City (Rewind) 2026-05-29 · 79m
#486 The Many Intrigues of Eliza Jumel 2026-05-22 · 64m
The Real Historical Figures from Broadway's 'Ragtime' 2026-05-15 · 49m
#485 The Painter Who Brought The World To New York 2026-05-08 · 51m
The Garment District: Where New York Fashion Is Made (Rewind) 2026-05-01 · 52m
#484 The Phrenology Craze 2026-04-24 · 55m
#483 The Treasures of Carnegie Hall 2026-04-17 · 77m
The Pushcarts of the Lower East Side (Rewind) 2026-04-10 · 58m
The Scandalous Hamiltons: Sex, Lies and Blackmail (The Gilded Gentleman) 2026-04-03 · 53m
#482 Pride and Preservation (The Streets of the West Village Part 3) 2026-03-27 · 85m
#481 How The West Village Became A Neighborhood (The Streets of the West Village Part 2) 2026-03-13 · 86m
#480 The Streets of the West Village: Creating the Village (Part 1) 2026-02-27 · 80m
Frozen in Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888 2026-02-22 · 48m
How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River (from HISTORY This Week) 2026-02-20 · 35m
#479 NYC '84: The Case of the 'Subway Vigilante' 2026-02-13 · 54m
#478 The Disappearance of Judge Crater 2026-01-30 · 65m
The History of Brooklyn Heights and the Promenade 2026-01-16 · 102m
#477 Chester A. Arthur: The Gentleman Boss 2026-01-02 · 47m
#476 Hot Victorian Holiday: Bowery Boys History Live! at City Winery 2025-12-23 · 76m
#475 Subway Tokens, MetroCards and Other Historic Fare 2025-12-19 · 77m
The Great Fire That Transformed New York 2025-12-12 · 35m
#474 Made in France: The Statue of Liberty’s Forgotten Origin Story 2025-12-05 · 82m
The Last Ships From Hamburg: An Immigration Story 2025-11-28 · 57m
#473 The Other Side of Ellis Island 2025-11-21 · 86m
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: A History in Lights 2025-11-14 · 47m
#472 The Many Mysteries of Amelia Earhart 2025-11-07 · 70m
Rodgers and Hammerstein: Some Enchanted Broadway History 2025-10-24 · 57m
#471 Ghost Stories of Long Island 2025-10-10 · 94m
#470 The Grand Tale of the Erie Canal 2025-09-26 · 82m
#469 Dominican New York: A History In The Heights 2025-09-19 · 82m
19th Century NoHo: Glamour, Greed, Money, and Murder 2025-09-12 · 65m
The Boy Mayor of New York 2025-09-05 · 49m
#468 Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue": A Jazz-Age Drama 2025-08-29 · 66m
History Daily: Pirate Tales! 2025-08-22 · 33m
#467 The Brooklyn Theatre Fire: The Forgotten Gilded Age Tragedy 2025-08-15 · 49m
#466 Pete's Tavern and McSorley's Old Ale House 2025-08-08 · 84m
#465 The Oldest Bars in New York City 2025-08-01 · 80m
#464 New York: The City of Oysters 2025-07-25 · 84m
#463 Gilded Age Golden Girls (Live At City Winery) 2025-07-18 · 87m
Spirits Podcast: Urban Legends with Greg Young 2025-07-11 · 54m
#462 The Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916 2025-07-03 · 49m
The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue 2025-06-27 · 89m
#461 The Story of Inwood and Marble Hill 2025-06-20 · 96m
Children of the Gilded Age 2025-06-13 · 50m
#460 The Brooklyn Museum and the Birth of a New City 2025-06-06 · 52m
#459 Moses vs. Bard: The Battle for Castle Clinton 2025-05-23 · 70m
The Trial of John Peter Zenger (Rewind) 2025-05-16 · 48m
#458 Parkways and the Transformation of Brooklyn 2025-05-09 · 56m
#457 FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD 2025-04-25 · 60m
#456 Walking New York: Manhattan History on Foot with Keith Taillon 2025-04-18 · 59m
#455 House of Beauty: The Story of the Frick Collection 2025-04-11 · 72m
#454 Special Delivery: A History of the Post Office 2025-03-28 · 83m
#453 All The Beauty In The World: Guarding the Met with Patrick Bringley 2025-03-21 · 59m
#452 How New York Got Its Name 2025-03-14 · 71m
#451 The New Yorker Magazine: Talk of the Town for 100 Years 2025-02-28 · 71m
At The Movies with Meyers and Young (Side Streets) 2025-02-21 · 60m
#450 Harlem in the Jazz Age: A Renaissance in New York 2025-02-14 · 84m
#449 Italian Harlem: New York's Forgotten Little Italy 2025-01-31 · 82m
The Return of the Waldorf Astoria (Rewind) 2025-01-17 · 52m
#448 Inside the Memory Palace with Nate DiMeo 2025-01-10 · 59m
The World of Tiffany Glass: Lighting the Gilded Age 2025-01-03 · 60m
#447 Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village 2024-12-20 · 80m
#446 Mr. Morgan and His Magnificent Library 2024-12-06 · 71m
The Radio City Rockettes: New York's Dancing Queens (Rewind) 2024-11-29 · 52m
#445 The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: A Century of Cheer 2024-11-22 · 77m
#444 New York's Classic Mom-and-Pop Shops (with New York Nico) 2024-11-08 · 59m
Whatever Happened to Dorothy Arnold? (Rewind) 2024-10-25 · 46m
#443 Ghost Stories of the Five Boroughs 2024-10-11 · 84m
#442 Urban Legends of New York City 2024-09-27 · 74m
#441 The Recluse of Herald Square: The Ida Wood Mystery 2024-09-13 · 61m
The Ghosty Men: Inside the Collyer Mansion (Rewind) 2024-09-06 · 53m
#440 When Longacre Square Became Times Square 2024-08-30 · 64m
#439 The Ticker-Tape Parade: A Very New York Celebration 2024-08-16 · 59m
#438 The Ramones at CBGB: Revolution on the Bowery 2024-08-02 · 65m
The Hidden World of Gramercy Park 2024-07-19 · 59m
#437 Haarlem, Breukelen, Utrecht: Exploring New York's Dutch Roots 2024-07-05 · 87m
#436 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: Finding Peter Stuyvesant 2024-06-28 · 81m
#435 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Radical Walloons 2024-06-21 · 78m
#434 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: Empire of the Seas 2024-06-14 · 78m
#433 New Amsterdam Man: An Interview with Russell Shorto 2024-06-07 · 68m
The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands TRAILER 2024-05-31 · 3m
#432 The Lenape Nation: Past, Present and Future 2024-05-24 · 82m
History of the New York City Subway (Rewind) 2024-05-10 · 93m
#431 Park Avenue: History with a Penthouse View 2024-04-26 · 80m
#430 The Story of Flushing: Queens History, Old and New 2024-04-12 · 95m
#429 The Moores: A Black Family in 1860s New York 2024-03-29 · 66m
The Age of Innocence: Inside Edith Wharton's Classic Novel 2024-03-22 · 48m
#428 The New York Game: Baseball in the Early Years 2024-03-15 · 69m
#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race 2024-03-01 · 85m
#426 Behind the Domino Sign: Brooklyn's Bittersweet Empire 2024-02-16 · 74m
#425 It Happened at Madison Square Park 2024-02-02 · 84m
Truman Capote and the Black and White Ball (Rewind) 2024-01-19 · 52m
#424 Kosciuszko! The Man. The Bridge. The Legend. 2024-01-05 · 50m
#423 Leonard Bernstein's New York, New York 2023-12-21 · 71m
#422 Grace Church: A Most Fashionable History 2023-12-08 · 64m
Christmas in Old New York: Holiday History 2023-12-01 · 53m
#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution 2023-11-22 · 65m
#420 Garbo Walks: Old Hollywood in New York 2023-11-10 · 51m
The Official Gilded Age Podcast: S2 E1 with Lord Julian Fellowes 2023-11-03 · 55m
Rewind: The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue 2023-10-27 · 91m
#419 Ghost Stories by Gaslight 2023-10-13 · 72m
#418 Theodore Roosevelt's Wild Kingdom 2023-09-29 · 53m
#417 Walking the East Village 1976-1996 2023-09-15 · 71m
#416 Creating the East Village 1955-1975 2023-09-01 · 58m
Rewind: The Rebellious History of Tompkins Square Park 2023-08-25 · 46m
#415 The Early Years of Central Park 2023-08-18 · 56m
#414 The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill 2023-08-04 · 60m
#413 The New Storytellers: Landmarks, Diners and Everyday New Yorkers 2023-07-21 · 64m
A Gilded Age Tour Up the Island of Manhattan 2023-07-14 · 62m
Rewind: The Deadly Draft Riots of 1863 2023-07-07 · 50m
The Making of the Pledge of Allegiance 2023-06-30 · 30m
#412 The New York Parking Wars 2023-06-23 · 65m
#411 Miss Subways: Queens of the New York Commute 2023-06-09 · 52m
#410 The Roeblings: The Family Who Built The Brooklyn Bridge 2023-05-24 · 80m
Rewind: The Birth of the Broadway Musical 2023-05-12 · 64m
#409 The Great New York City Pizza Tour 2023-04-28 · 71m
#408 The Titanic and the Fate of Pier 54 2023-04-14 · 62m
#407 New York by Gaslight: Illuminating the 19th Century 2023-03-31 · 58m
Rewind: When The Irish Came To New York 2023-03-17 · 54m
#406 How Wall Street Got Its Name 2023-03-03 · 57m
#405 Mona Lisa at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2023-02-17 · 60m
The First Woman Ever Photographed 2023-02-10 · 29m
#404 Nighthawks and Automats: Edward Hopper's New York 2023-02-03 · 72m
#403 The Fulton Fish Market: History at the Seaport 2023-01-20 · 65m
Rewind: A Bar Named Julius', New York's Newest Landmark 2023-01-13 · 64m
#402 Treasures from the World's Fair 2023-01-06 · 66m
Side Streets: Good Diners, Great Pizza and Mars 2112 2022-12-30 · 43m
#401 The World Before Wordle: Talking Puzzles With AJ Jacobs 2022-12-21 · 59m
The Mysteries of Absinthe: Dancing With The Green Fairy 2022-12-16 · 53m
#400 Jacob Riis: 'The Other Half' of the Gilded Age 2022-12-09 · 80m
#399 The Changing Lower East Side: A View From Seward Park 2022-11-24 · 83m
#398 Marilyn Monroe in New York 2022-11-11 · 80m
Rewind: Birth of the Five Boroughs 2022-10-28 · 55m
#397 Ghost Stories of the Hudson River 2022-10-14 · 74m
Rewind: An Evening at Sardi's 2022-09-30 · 54m
#396 Samuel Tilden and the Presidential Election of 1876 2022-09-16 · 81m
#395 Jefferson Market and the Women's House of Detention 2022-09-02 · 76m
#394 New York Calling: A History of the Telephone 2022-08-19 · 71m
#393 Ric Burns and James Sanders on "New York: A Documentary Film" 2022-08-05 · 67m
Rewind: The Story of the Yellow Taxi Cab 2022-07-29 · 56m
Invisible Magicians: Domestic Servants in Gilded Age New York 2022-07-22 · 49m
#392 The Bowery Boys Podcast 15th Anniversary Special 2022-07-08 · 63m
#391 A Walk through Little Caribbean 2022-06-28 · 49m
#390 The Story of Flatbush: Brooklyn Old and New 2022-06-17 · 62m
Now Playing: Cautionary Tales 2022-06-10 · 35m
#389 The Ruins of Roosevelt Island 2022-06-03 · 46m
#388 The Hudson River School: An American Art Revolution 2022-05-20 · 64m
#387 Hyde Park: The Roosevelts on the Hudson 2022-05-06 · 72m
#386 On the Trail of the Old Croton Aqueduct 2022-04-22 · 63m
Now Playing: History Daily Podcast 2022-04-15 · 38m
#385 Frederick Law Olmsted and the Plan for Central Park 2022-04-08 · 63m
#384 Nuyorican: The Great Puerto Rican Migration 2022-03-25 · 59m
#383 The Temple on Fifth Avenue 2022-03-11 · 45m
#382 Architect of the Gilded Age 2022-02-25 · 66m
Introducing: Love Thy Neighbor 2022-02-21 · 4m
#381 The Wonderful Home of Louis Armstrong 2022-02-11 · 49m
#380 Dorothy Parker's Last Party 2022-01-28 · 52m
#379 How Chelsea Became a Neighborhood 2022-01-14 · 55m
#378 The Ansonia: Only Scandals In The Building 2021-12-31 · 37m
The Real Mrs. Astor: Ruler or Rebel? 2021-12-23 · 37m
Rewind: West Side Story and the Making of Lincoln Center 2021-12-17 · 54m
Gilded Age or Gilded Cage? (With The Bowery Boys) 2021-12-10 · 27m
#377 The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree 2021-12-01 · 43m
Introducing: The Gilded Gentleman 2021-11-25 · 2m
#376 Skid Row: The Bowery of the Forgotten 2021-11-18 · 64m
Toxic Turkey Day: HISTORY This Week 2021-11-12 · 24m
#375 The Great Bank Robbery of 1878 2021-11-05 · 52m
#374 Gotham's Greatest Ghost Stories 2021-10-21 · 71m
#373 New York Underground: The Story of Cemeteries 2021-10-08 · 62m
#372 The Shuberts: The Brothers Who Built Broadway 2021-09-24 · 73m
Rewind: Revolutionary Fire/The End of Nathan Hale 2021-09-17 · 47m
#371 A Visit to Little Syria: An Immigrant Story 2021-09-10 · 61m
#370 Tragic Muse: The Life of Audrey Munson 2021-08-27 · 40m
#369 Last Dance at the Hotel Pennsylvania 2021-08-13 · 57m
#368 Henry Bergh's Fight for Animal Rights in Gilded Age New York 2021-07-30 · 63m
#367 The Ice Craze: How the Ice Business Transformed New York 2021-07-16 · 55m
#366 North Brother Island: New York's Forbidden Place 2021-07-02 · 41m
Rewind: The Historic New York City Hall 2021-06-25 · 41m
Rewind: The Historic New York City Hall 2021-06-25 · 41m
#365 Do The Right Thing (Bowery Boys Movie Club) 2021-06-18 · 64m
#364 The Very Gay History of Fire Island 2021-06-04 · 62m
#363 The Sunny Saga of Jones Beach 2021-05-21 · 67m
#362 Gatsby and the Mansions of the Gold Coast 2021-05-07 · 60m
Trailer: The Bowery Boys Road Trip to Long Island 2021-05-05 · 1m
#361 Landmarks of Coney Island (Extended Funhouse Mix) 2021-04-30 · 61m
#360 The Botanical Gardens of New York City 2021-04-23 · 60m
#359 The Magic of the Movie Theater 2021-04-08 · 63m
#358 The Muppets Take Manhattan (Bowery Boys Movie Club) 2021-04-02 · 56m
#357 Edith Wharton's New York 2021-03-26 · 72m
#356 Pfizer: A Brooklyn Origin Story 2021-03-19 · 31m
#355 The Midnight Adventures of Doctor Parkhurst 2021-03-12 · 57m
#354 Who Wrote the First American Cookbook? 2021-03-05 · 27m
#353 Harlem Before the Renaissance 2021-02-26 · 59m
Rewind: Harlem Nights at the Hotel Theresa 2021-02-19 · 27m
#352 The Birth of Black Harlem 2021-02-12 · 54m
#351 Auntie Mame (Bowery Boys Movie Club) 2021-02-04 · 79m
#350 The World Trade Center in the 1970s 2021-01-29 · 67m
Rewind: Strange Hoaxes of the 19th Century 2021-01-22 · 47m
Wondery Presents: The Apology Line 2021-01-19 · 7m
#349 The Queensboro Bridge and the Rise of a Borough 2021-01-15 · 58m
Rewind: The Destruction of Penn Station 2021-01-08 · 61m
Rewind: The Construction of Penn Station 2021-01-01 · 31m
#348 Cheers! The Stories of Four Fabulous Cocktails 2020-12-24 · 58m
Rewind: Historic Vaccines -- The End of Polio and Smallpox 2020-12-17 · 60m
#347 Steam Heat! A Gilded Age Miracle 2020-12-11 · 58m
The City in Flames - The Great Fire of 1835 2020-12-04 · 43m
#346 The Beatles Invade New York! 2020-11-27 · 67m
Rewind: The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary 2020-11-20 · 49m
#345 LaGuardia's War on Pushcarts: The Creation of Essex Street Market 2020-11-13 · 61m
Rewind: On The Radio: A History of the Airwaves 2020-11-06 · 57m
#344 Ghostbusters (Bowery Boys Movie Club) 2020-10-30 · 58m
#343 Literary Horrors of New York City 2020-10-23 · 83m
#342 Ghost Stories of Old New York (ALIVE at Joe's Pub) 2020-10-16 · 82m
#341 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2020-10-09 · 84m
Rewind: The Mystery of the Central Park Obelisk 2020-10-02 · 54m
#340 The Real Life Adventures of Tom Thumb 2020-09-25 · 68m
Rewind: The Revolutionary Tavern of Samuel Fraunces 2020-09-18 · 56m
#339 James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal 2020-09-11 · 61m
Rewind: The American Museum of Natural History 2020-09-04 · 58m
#338 A New Deal for the Arts: Murals, Music and Theatrical Mayhem 2020-08-28 · 70m
#337 Robert Moses and the Art of the New Deal 2020-08-21 · 56m
Rewind: TESLA -- The Inventor in Old New York 2020-08-14 · 50m
#336 The War on Newspaper Row 2020-08-07 · 62m
#335 Pulitzer vs Hearst: The Rise of Yellow Journalism 2020-07-31 · 60m
Rewind: The Land of the Lenape 2020-07-24 · 51m
#334 Midnight Cowboy (Bowery Boys Movie Club) 2020-07-17 · 88m
Rewind: The Secret Origin of Comic Books 2020-07-10 · 51m
#333 Tearing Down King George: The Monumental Summer of 1776 2020-07-03 · 38m
#332 Welcome to Yorkville: German Life on the Upper East Side 2020-06-26 · 72m
Rewind: Seneca Village and New York's Forgotten Black Communities 2020-06-19 · 58m
#331 The East Side Elevateds: Life Under the Tracks 2020-06-12 · 73m
#330 The Silent Parade of 1917: Black Unity in a Time of Crisis 2020-06-04 · 40m
#329 The First Ambulance: The Humans (and Horses) That Saved New York 2020-05-29 · 42m
#328 Chop Suey City: A History of Chinese Food in New York 2020-05-22 · 40m
#327 Listener Stories: At Home In New York Part Two 2020-05-18 · 37m
#326 Listener Stories: At Home in New York Part One 2020-05-15 · 38m
#325 The Staten Island Quarantine War 2020-05-08 · 42m
#324 Moving Day! Madness and Mayhem in Old New York 2020-05-01 · 32m
#323 The Bowery Wizards: A History of Tattooed New York 2020-04-28 · 33m
#322 Nickelodeons and Movie Palaces: New York and the Film Industry 1893-1920 2020-04-24 · 56m
#321 Lauren Bacall ... At Home At The Dakota Apartments 2020-04-21 · 42m
#320 Hart Island: The Loneliest Place in New York 2020-04-17 · 39m
#319 The Tale of Charging Bull and Fearless Girl 2020-04-14 · 36m
#318 Moonstruck: That's Amore! 2020-04-10 · 78m
#317 Vaccinated: New York and the Polio Outbreak 2020-04-07 · 60m
#316 Jenny Lind at Castle Garden 2020-04-03 · 47m
#315 Abandoned Pantheon: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans 2020-03-31 · 43m
#314 Tillie Hart - The Holdout of London Terrace 2020-03-27 · 41m
#313 The Straw Hat Riots of 1922 2020-03-24 · 33m
#312 Has Jack the Ripper Come to Town? A Gilded Age Hysteria 2020-03-20 · 51m
#311 Uprising: The Shirtwaist Strike of 1909 2020-03-06 · 60m
#310 1918: The Harlem Hellfighters 2020-02-21 · 66m
#309 What Gets Saved? Landmarks & Historic Districts Explained 2020-02-07 · 70m
#308 Andrew Carnegie and New York's Public Libraries 2020-01-23 · 61m
#307 The Holland Tunnel: The Wonder of the Jazz Age 2020-01-10 · 58m
#306 Just Desserts: The Origins of New York Cheesecake, Cannoli and More 2019-12-26 · 68m
#305 Christmas in New York: The Lights of Dyker Heights 2019-12-12 · 50m
#304 The Miracle on Eldridge Street 2019-11-28 · 65m
#303 Building Stuyvesant Town: A Mid-Century Controversy 2019-11-15 · 62m
#302 Gangs of New York (Bowery Boys Movie Club) 2019-11-01 · 80m
#301 Haunted Houses of Old New York 2019-10-17 · 72m
#300 The Forgotten Father of New York City 2019-10-04 · 73m
#299 The Promenade and Preservation of Brooklyn Heights 2019-09-19 · 60m
#298 The Story of Brooklyn Heights 2019-09-05 · 59m
#297 Dr. Hosack's Enchanted Garden: Botany, Medicine, and Discovery in Old New York 2019-08-23 · 71m
Introducing Mob Queens 2019-08-19 · 6m
#296 Talking Trash: The NYC Department of Sanitation 2019-08-09 · 70m
#295 Saving the City: Women of the Progressive Era 2019-07-25 · 60m
#294 That Daredevil Steve Brodie, 'King of the Bowery' 2019-07-11 · 49m
#293 Secret Places of Upper Manhattan 2019-06-28 · 71m
Sip-In At Julius': Gay New York In The 1960s 2019-06-13 · 65m
#291 The Tombs: Five Points' Notorious House of Detention 2019-05-31 · 57m
#290 Bagels: A New York Story 2019-05-16 · 60m
Blood and Shakespeare: The Astor Place Riot of 1849 2019-05-02 · 56m
#288 The World of Tomorrow: The New York World's Fair of 1939 2019-04-19 · 65m
Greenwich Village in the 1960s 2019-04-04 · 69m
Uncovering Hudson Yards 2019-03-22 · 55m
#285 Boss Tweed's House of Corruption 2019-03-08 · 58m
Scott Joplin in New York: A Ragtime Mystery 2019-02-23 · 67m
Walt Whitman in New York and Brooklyn 2019-02-08 · 73m
Taxi Driver (Bowery Boys Movie Club) 2019-01-31 · 78m
#281 The Treasures of Downtown Brooklyn 2019-01-25 · 54m
#280 House of Mystery: The Story of the Collyer Brothers 2019-01-10 · 45m
#279 A New Year in Old New York: From Times Square to Chinatown 2018-12-27 · 60m
#278 Newark vs. LaGuardia: The Tale of Two Airports 2018-12-14 · 58m
#277 The New York Comedy Scene: A Marvelous History 2018-11-30 · 66m
#276 Murder on Bond Street: Who Killed Dr. Burdell? 2018-11-16 · 57m
#275 Return to Tin Pan Alley: Saving American Music History 2018-11-01 · 56m
#274 Ghost Stories of Hell's Kitchen 2018-10-19 · 58m
#273 Peter Stuyvesant and the Fall of New Amsterdam 2018-10-05 · 70m
#272 Life in New Amsterdam 2018-09-20 · 59m
#271 Counter Culture: Diners, Automats, and Luncheonettes in New York 2018-09-07 · 63m
#270 Heaven on the Hudson: A History of Riverside Park 2018-08-23 · 57m
#269 Harry Houdini and the Golden Age of Magic in New York 2018-08-09 · 63m
#268 The Astonishing Saga of the Atlantic Cable 2018-07-26 · 55m
#267 Broadway: The Story of a Street 2018-07-13 · 56m
#266 New York City during the Revolutionary War (1776-1783) 2018-06-29 · 57m
#265 Absolutely Flawless: A History of Drag in New York City 2018-06-15 · 58m
#264 The Landmarks of Coney Island 2018-06-01 · 51m
#263 Ebbets Field and the Glory Days of the Brooklyn Dodgers 2018-05-18 · 61m
#262 Secrets of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine 2018-05-04 · 68m
#261 The Huddled Masses: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty 2018-04-20 · 67m
#260 Journey to Grey Gardens: A Tale of Two Edies 2018-04-06 · 55m
#259 Crossing to Brooklyn: How the Williamsburg Bridge Changed New York 2018-03-23 · 53m
#258 Tales from Tribeca History 2018-03-16 · 60m
#257 Frozen In Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888 2018-03-07 · 50m
#256 DUMBO: Life on Brooklyn's Waterfront 2018-03-02 · 59m
#255 The Rescue of Grand Central 2018-02-23 · 56m
#254 The Destruction of Penn Station 2018-02-16 · 62m
#253 Opening Day of the New York City Subway 2018-02-09 · 52m
#252 The Underground Railroad: Escape through New York 2018-02-02 · 63m
#251 McGurk's Suicide Hall: The Bowery's Most Notorious Dive 2018-01-18 · 53m
#250 The Empire State Building: Story of an Icon 2018-01-12 · 63m
#249 Madam C.J. Walker: Harlem's Hair Care Millionaire 2018-01-04 · 50m
#248 Sitting Down with Roz Chast of the New Yorker 2017-12-22 · 58m
#247 Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Golden Age of Broadway 2017-12-15 · 55m
#246 Tales from a Tenement: Three Families on the Lower East Side 2017-12-07 · 55m
#245 The Fall of the Fifth Avenue Mansions 2017-12-01 · 51m
#244 The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions 2017-11-24 · 49m
#243 New York In Neon: Signs of the City 2017-11-17 · 57m
#242 New York and the Dawn of Photography 2017-11-10 · 57m
#241 Edgar Allan Poe in New York 2017-10-26 · 61m
#240 The Ghosts of Greenwich Village 2017-10-20 · 55m
#239 Murder at the Manhattan Well 2017-10-13 · 49m
#238 Astoria and Long Island City 2017-09-29 · 59m
#237 Columbus Circle: A Century of Controversy 2017-09-15 · 51m
#236 Times Square in the '70s 2017-09-08 · 63m
The Crash of 1929: New York In Crisis 2017-09-01 · 56m
Queen of the Speakeasies: A Tale of Prohibition New York 2017-08-18 · 60m
#233 The Roaring '20s: King of the Jazz Age 2017-08-04 · 57m
#232 The Story of SoHo 2017-07-20 · 59m
The Bowery Boys Present: The First Broadway Musical 2017-07-06 · 26m
#231 The Stonewall Riots Revisited 2017-06-22 · 52m
#230 Before Harlem: New York's Forgotten Black Communities 2017-06-08 · 57m
#229 Live in Brooklyn! The Bowery Boys: Ten Years of Podcasting 2017-05-25 · 79m
#228 The Pirate of Pearl Street: The New York Adventures of Captain Kidd 2017-05-12 · 49m
#227 The Hindenburg Over New York 2017-04-27 · 47m
#226 The Beauty Bosses of Fifth Avenue 2017-04-13 · 47m
#225 P. T. Barnum and the Greatest Show on Earth 2017-03-31 · 54m
#224 The Arrival of the Irish: An Immigrant Story 2017-03-16 · 54m
#223 The Algonquin Round Table 2017-03-03 · 60m
#222 Who Killed Helen Jewett? A Mystery By Gaslight 2017-02-16 · 48m
#221 New York: Capital City of the United States 2017-02-02 · 49m
#220 George Washington's New York Inauguration 2017-01-20 · 51m
#219 Newsies on Strike! 2016-12-23 · 52m
#218 Lincoln Center and West Side Story 2016-12-09 · 56m
#217: Truman Capote's Black And White Ball 2016-11-24 · 51m
#216: Edwin Booth and the Players Club 2016-11-11 · 55m
01 The Wheel: Ferris' Big Idea ('The First' Podcast Special Preview) 2016-10-28 · 50m
#215 Ghosts of the Gilded Age 2016-10-14 · 61m
#214 Bronx Trilogy (Part Three) The Bronx Was Burning 2016-09-29 · 58m
#213 Bronx Trilogy (Part Two) The Bronx is Building 2016-09-16 · 57m
#212 Bronx Trilogy (Part One) The Bronx Is Born 2016-09-01 · 54m
#211 The Notorious Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue 2016-08-18 · 51m
#210 Digital City: New York and the World of Video Games 2016-08-04 · 52m
#209 The Waldorf-Astoria's Complicated History 2016-07-21 · 51m
#208 Great Hoaxes of Old New York 2016-07-07 · 49m
#207 The First Subway: Beach's Pneumatic Marvel 2016-06-24 · 51m
#206 The Lenape: The Real Native New Yorkers 2016-06-10 · 51m
#205 The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold 2016-05-26 · 45m
#204 The Cotton Club: The Aristocrat of Harlem 2016-05-13 · 34m
#203 Nikola Tesla in New York 2016-04-28 · 46m
#202 The Lower East Side: A Culinary History 2016-04-15 · 55m
#201 GOWANUS! Brooklyn's Troubled Waters 2016-04-01 · 58m
#200 Jane Jacobs: Saving the Village 2016-03-18 · 61m
#199.5: Bowery Boys - Behind the Scenes 2016-03-08 · 39m
#199 Battle For The Skyline: How High Can It Go? 2016-02-19 · 54m
#198 Greenpoint, Brooklyn: An Industrial-Strength History 2016-02-05 · 54m
#197 Danger In The Harbor: The Black Tom Explosion of 1916 2016-01-22 · 46m
#196 Ready to Wear: A History of the Garment District 2016-01-08 · 52m
#195 Midnight in Times Square: New Year's Eve in New York City 2015-12-10 · 49m
#194 Nellie Bly: Undercover in the Madhouse 2015-11-13 · 54m
#193 St. Mark's Place: Party in the East Village! 2015-10-30 · 50m
#192 Haunted Landmarks of New York 2015-10-16 · 54m
#191 The Great Fire of 1776 2015-10-02 · 50m
#190 The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary 2015-09-18 · 51m
#189 TAXI: History of the New York City Taxicab 2015-09-04 · 58m
#188: The Murder of Stanford White 2015-08-06 · 53m
#187: Super City: New York and the History of Comic Books 2015-07-24 · 52m
#186 Hell's Kitchen: New York's Wild West 2015-07-09 · 51m
#185 Adventures on Governors Island 2015-06-26 · 58m
#184 The Flatiron Building: A Story from Three Sides 2015-06-11 · 51m
#183 Orchard Street: Life in the Lower East Side 2015-05-29 · 58m
#182 Mae West: "Sex" on Broadway 2015-05-15 · 52m
#181 Park Slope and the Story of Brownstone Brooklyn 2015-05-01 · 58m
#180 The Chelsea Piers and the Age of the Ocean Liner 2015-04-17 · 51m
#179 The Fight for Bryant Park 2015-04-03 · 51m
#178: The Crystal Palace: America's First World's Fair 2015-03-20 · 47m
#177 The Big History of Little Italy 2015-02-20 · 52m
#176 Billie Holiday's New York 2015-01-23 · 37m
#175 Bowery Boys 2014 Year In Review 2014-12-25 · 51m
#174 American Kicks: A History of the Rockettes 2014-12-12 · 50m
#173 Ruins of the World's Fair: New York State Pavilion 2014-11-14 · 57m
#172 Ghost Stories of Brooklyn 2014-10-16 · 50m
#171 The Keys to Gramercy Park 2014-09-19 · 52m
#170 The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino 2014-08-22 · 49m
#169 The Tallest Building In New York: A Short History 2014-08-07 · 33m
#168 DUEL! Aaron Burr vs. Alexander Hamilton 2014-07-11 · 29m
#167 Cleopatra's Needle and the Freemasons Secret 2014-06-27 · 48m
#166 General Slocum Disaster 1904 2014-06-13 · 28m
#165 Ladies' Mile 2014-05-30 · 49m
#164 The Astor Place Riot 2014-05-01 · 49m
#163 South Street Seaport 2014-04-04 · 50m
#162 George Washington Bridge 2014-03-07 · 47m
#161 Fire Department of New York (FDNY) 2014-02-07 · 45m
#160 Tompkins Square Park 2014-01-10 · 47m
The Broadway Musical: Setting the Stage 2013-12-13 · 57m
#158 Hotel Theresa: The Waldorf of Harlem 2013-11-15 · 24m
#157 Early Ghost Stories of Old New York 2013-10-18 · 57m
#156 The Boy Mayor of New York 2013-09-20 · 45m
#155 Sesame Street to Seinfeld: NYC TV 1969-2013 2013-08-23 · 22m
#154 New York in the Golden Age of Television 2013-08-02 · 54m
#153 NYC and the Birth of Television 2013-06-28 · 52m
#152 Bellevue Hospital 2013-05-31 · 45m
#151 The Limelight: Church, Nightclub and Mall 2013-05-03 · 45m
#150 Consolidation! Five Boroughs, One Big City 2013-04-05 · 56m
#149 John Peter Zenger and the Power of the Press 2013-03-08 · 49m
#148 The Great Blizzard of 1888 2013-02-08 · 49m
#147 Art Insanity: The Armory Show of 1913 2013-01-11 · 25m
#146 Herald Square 2012-12-14 · 55m
#145 Bicycle Mania! From Velocipede to Ten-Speed 2012-11-16 · 21m
Hurricane Sandy Update 2012-11-02 · 16m
#144 Mysteries and Magicians of New York 2012-10-19 · 54m
#143 Water for New York: Croton Aqueduct 2012-09-21 · 46m
#142 New York University (NYU) 2012-08-24 · 46m
#141 New York Beer History 2012-07-27 · 50m
#140 Rockaway Beach 2012-06-29 · 49m
#139 Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-06-01 · 46m
#138: St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery 2012-05-04 · 53m
New York City and the World of Radio 2012-04-05 · 55m
#136 High Line Walking Tour 2012-03-22 · 33m
#135 The High Line 2012-03-09 · 45m
#134 St. Patrick's Cathedral 2012-02-10 · 46m
#133 Red Hook: Brooklyn on the Waterfront 2012-01-13 · 22m
#132 Electric New York: Edison and the City Lights 2011-12-16 · 48m
#131 The First Apartment Building 2011-11-18 · 22m
#130 Haunted Histories of New York 2011-10-21 · 51m
#129 Chinatown 2011-09-23 · 45m
#128 Hoaxes and Conspiracies of 1864 2011-08-28 · 45m
#127 The Civil War Draft Riots 2011-07-22 · 51m
#126 Fernando Wood: The Scoundrel Mayor 2011-07-01 · 23m
#125 Sardi's Restaurant 2011-06-10 · 45m
#124 Idlewild/JFK Airport 2011-05-13 · 49m
#123 TRUMP 2011-04-29 · 22m
#122: The Grid - Commissioners Plan of 1811 2011-04-15 · 48m
#121 Fraunces Tavern 2011-03-18 · 49m
#120 NYC and the Birth of the Movies 2011-02-17 · 52m
#119 The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge 2011-01-21 · 40m
#118 Times Square 2010-12-17 · 56m
#117 Mark Twain's New York 2010-12-03 · 25m
#116 American Museum of Natural History 2010-11-24 · 52m
#115 African Burial Ground 2010-11-05 · 19m
#114 Supernatural Stories of New York 2010-10-22 · 54m
#113 Niblo's Garden 2010-10-08 · 21m
#112 Archibald Gracie and His Mansion 2010-09-17 · 46m
Subway Graffiti 1970-1989 2010-09-03 · 21m
#110 New York City Subway, Part 2: By the Numbers (and Letters) 2010-08-20 · 48m
#109 New York City Subway, Part 1: Birth of the IRT 2010-08-06 · 49m
#108 Cable Cars, Trolleys and Monorails 2010-07-23 · 20m
#107 New York's Elevated Railroads 2010-07-08 · 45m
#106 Staten Island Ferry 2010-06-25 · 21m
#105 The Newsboys Strike of 1899 2010-06-11 · 40m
#104 CBGB & OMFUG 2010-05-28 · 19m
#103: Case Files of the NYPD 2010-05-14 · 49m
#102 Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach 2010-04-30 · 18m
#101 The Bronx Zoo 2010-04-16 · 40m
#100 Robert Moses 2010-03-19 · 67m
#99 Madison Square Garden 2010-02-19 · 46m
#98 Manhattan Bridge 2010-02-05 · 17m
#58 Delmonico's Restaurant 2010-01-29 · 19m
#97 Trinity Church 2010-01-22 · 35m
#96 The Cloisters and Fort Tryon Park 2009-12-25 · 18m
#95 Tin Pan Alley 2009-12-11 · 38m
#94 Corlear's Hook and the Pirates of the East River 2009-11-28 · 19m
#93 City Hall and City Hall Park 2009-11-13 · 41m
#92 Steinway: the Piano Man 2009-10-23 · 19m
#91 Haunted Tales of New York 2009-10-09 · 39m
#90 Columbia University 2009-09-13 · 42m
#89 Chelsea Hotel 2009-08-14 · 38m
#88 Ellis Island: The Immigrant Story 2009-08-01 · 35m
#87 The Kings of New York Pizza 2009-07-17 · 26m
#86 Boss Tweed and the Glory Days of Tammany Hall 2009-07-02 · 38m
#88 Joseph Papp vs Robert Moses: The Story of Shakespeare in the Park 2009-06-19 · 16m
#84 Prospect Park 2009-06-05 · 35m
#83 Henry Hudson and the European Discovery of Mannahatta 2009-05-22 · 15m
#82 Roosevelt Island 2009-05-08 · 42m
#81 The Puck Building "What Fools These Mortals Be!" 2009-04-24 · 21m
#80 Pennsylvania Station 2009-04-10 · 37m
#79 The Whyos: Gang of New York 2009-03-28 · 15m
#78 The Great Fire of 1835 2009-03-13 · 38m
#77 Freedomland U.S.A.: New York's Weirdest Theme Park 2009-02-27 · 16m
#76 Woolworth Building 2009-02-13 · 31m
#75 Williamsburg(h), Brooklyn 2009-01-30 · 18m
# 49 LaGuardia Airport and Early New York Flight 2009-01-17 · 20m
#74 Ziegfeld! 2009-01-16 · 36m
#73 Webster Hall 'The Devil's Playhouse' 2009-01-02 · 13m
#48 The Stonewall Riots 2008-12-29 · 36m
#47 Grant's Tomb 2008-12-28 · 17m
#46 Barnum's American Museum 2008-12-23 · 33m
#45 Grand Central 2008-12-21 · 33m
#44 Rikers Island 2008-12-20 · 16m
#72 Rockefeller Center 2008-12-19 · 39m
#43 Studio 54 2008-12-19 · 32m
#42: The Triangle Factory Fire 2008-12-15 · 23m
#41 New York Post 2008-12-13 · 31m
#40 Union Square 2008-12-13 · 32m
#39 New York Yankees 2008-12-07 · 31m
#38 Tiffany & Co. 2008-12-06 · 16m
#71 Saks Fifth Avenue 2008-12-05 · 30m
#37 Henry Ward Beecher and Plymouth Church 2008-11-30 · 22m
#36 Life In British New York 1776-1783 2008-11-29 · 31m
#35 The British Invasion 1776 2008-11-29 · 28m
#34 Katz Delicatessen 2008-11-29 · 13m
#33 The World's Fair of 1964-65 2008-11-29 · 29m
#32 Museum of Modern Art 2008-11-26 · 31m
#31 Battery Park and Castle Clinton 2008-11-23 · 31m
#30 Peter Cooper and Cooper Union 2008-11-23 · 13m
#70 The Bowery Files 2008-11-21 · 28m
#29 Brooklyn Bridge 2008-11-18 · 36m
#28 One Times Square 2008-11-15 · 13m
#69 The Plaza Hotel 2008-11-14 · 32m
#27 Radio City Music Hall 2008-11-02 · 30m
#26 Flatiron Building 2008-11-01 · 17m
#68 New York City Marathon 2008-10-31 · 30m
#25 The Original Bowery Boys 2008-10-26 · 25m
#24 The Copacabana 2008-10-26 · 16m
#23 Macy's : the Man, the Store, the Parade 2008-10-25 · 31m
#67 Guggenheim Museum 2008-10-24 · 33m
#22 Staten Island 2008-10-21 · 26m
#21 The Astors and the Waldorf-Astoria 2008-10-20 · 31m
#20 United Nations Headquarters 2008-10-19 · 26m
#19 Washington Irving 2008-10-18 · 13m
#66 Who Killed Mary Rogers? 2008-10-17 · 18m
#18 Ghost Stories of New York City 2008-10-16 · 28m
#17 New York Public Library 2008-10-13 · 24m
#16 Statue of Liberty 2008-10-13 · 28m
#15 The Apollo Theater 2008-10-12 · 27m
#14 Peter Stuyvesant 2008-10-12 · 28m
#65 Spooky Stories of New York 2008-10-10 · 35m
#13 Coney Island: 20th Century Sideshow 2008-10-09 · 27m
#12 Coney Island: The Golden Age 2008-10-07 · 29m
#11 The Chrysler Building 2008-10-06 · 22m
#10 Central Park Zoo 2008-10-05 · 23m
#9 St. Patrick's Old Cathedral 2008-10-05 · 15m
#8 Dakota Apartments and 'Rosemary's Baby' 2008-10-05 · 16m
#7 Washington Square Park 2008-10-04 · 21m
#6 Governors Island 2008-10-04 · 18m
#5 Blackout 2008-10-04 · 20m
#64 Green-Wood Cemetery 2008-10-03 · 16m
#63 New York Stock Exchange 2008-09-26 · 38m
#62 Shea Stadium 2008-09-19 · 16m
#61 The Pan Am Building 2008-09-19 · 31m
#60 Five Points: The Fate of Five Points 2008-09-19 · 33m
#59 Five Points: Wicked Slum 2008-09-19 · 32m
#57 Carnegie Hall 2008-09-19 · 31m
#56 Randall's Island and the 1936 Olympic Trials 2008-09-19 · 18m
#55 The Evolution of Central Park 2008-09-19 · 34m
#54 The Creation of Central Park 2008-09-19 · 30m
#53 The Meatpacking District: Glamour and Gore 2008-09-19 · 15m
#52 DeWitt Clinton and the Erie Canal 2008-09-19 · 32m
#51 McSorley's Old Ale House 2008-09-19 · 14m
#50 Canal Street and Collect Pond 2008-09-19 · 27m
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