#10 Central Park Zoo

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2008

⏱️ 23 minutes

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From an odd assortment of abandoned creatures, to one of the most notorious zoos in the world, take a tour with us through Central Park's storybook zoo. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	This is episode 10 of The Bowery Boys, the Central Park Zoo.
0:05.2	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys!
0:09.6	Hey!
0:14.6	Bowery Boys is brought to you by Eurochipo.
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0:27.6	Hello, and welcome to The Bowery Boys. My name is Greg Young.
0:30.6	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:31.6	And we appreciate you ever so for tuning in once again for another episode.
0:36.6	Yes, and for joining us here on episode 10.
0:39.6	That's an unbelievable ten of them.
0:41.6	And we're celebrating number 10 with a look at a very quaint little area of Manhattan, the Central Park Zoo.
0:50.6	And it has a crazy history, chock full of fun stories.
0:55.6	And so just kick back and get ready to hear some weird stuff.
1:01.6	And know that if you stick around at the end of the podcast in about 15 minutes,
1:06.6	we're going to have a top 10 list for you. It's our own ten most famous animals from the zoo,
1:13.6	from its history dating back about 120 years.
1:16.6	You'll be surprised you may have even heard a couple of these little creatures.
1:19.6	So it might even be frightened.
1:21.6	So stay tuned.
1:23.6	We're coming to the zoo.
1:35.6	So Tom, you were just at the zoo a couple days ago.
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