The Bowry Boys episode 112. Gracie Mansion. Hey, it's the Bowry Boys! Hey!

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Hello there. Welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young and this is Tom Myers and we aren't going back to basics on this show, Tom

and we have we've been spending a few months on topics that were thematic on expansive on events

Now we're going back series. We were doing mini series. Yes. We're no longer doing a mini series. This is a

self-contained episode

back to our discussion of an

location a slow slog through the history of that particular location and that would be Gracie Mansion

an elegant old house that was the home of one of early New York's most prominent

merchants and one of the New York's wealthiest men and later would become for at least nine mayors

I believe the official mayoral residents and when I think it's kind of fun Greg is so we get to go back to the Dutch days

we get to pedal forward through the revolution and the civil war and we even get to talk about Robert Moses

It's been a while since since Bobby popped up. This may seem like a typical

podcast for us because it's it's going to go very slowly chronologically

but it actually takes some unexpected directions and at the end we'll even take you inside the mansion

because one of us went there this week and we'll tell you how you can visit as well

So come in for a visit as we take a stroll through Gracie Mansion

Now as our regular listeners know we begin every show with situating where a particular location is at in New York

and I think that's important for this one a lot of people don't really know where Gracie Mansion is

and it's a little bit off the beaten path

It certainly was when it was built

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