#14 Peter Stuyvesant

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2008

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Back when New York was New Amsterdam, it was the domain of the bullheaded, pear-growing, peglegged Peter Stuyvesant, who cleaned up the city and gave us our most important street. Find out why he still matters and why he's the king of the East

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0:00.0	Episode 14 of The Bowery Boys. Look! It's Peter Stivocent. Hey, it's The Bowery Boys. Hey!
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0:21.7	Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young. And this is Tom Myers.
0:26.6	Thanks for tuning in for another episode. We just wanted to thank you all very much. We've
0:31.2	been getting a lot of emails and and good wishes and suggestions and all sorts of stuff.
0:36.2	And some interesting reviews too on iTunes. Thanks for the reviews.
0:39.9	Yeah, we want to thank you so much. And as a matter of fact, next week we're going to
0:43.8	read a few of what we've been getting and just share those opinions with all of you.
0:48.4	Can't wait. I'll be here. You will? Excellent. And we should also remind you to tune into the website.
0:55.3	boweryboyspodcast.com. Greg up the hits the website every day with very interesting bits of
1:02.0	New York trivia stories and the news. Just anything that sort of catches our fancy what we think might
1:07.4	interest you as a New York history geek. And we are all proud New York City history geeks.
1:12.9	Oh, of course. And to illustrate that today we bring you episode 14 on Peter Stivocent.
1:18.9	What could possibly be more geeky than a podcast about Peter Stivocent? Well, the reason we're
1:23.7	bringing him up is because he is a New Yorker that I think that you should know about. If you
1:27.4	checked out our podcast in the third episode, we talked about Alexander Hamilton. So this is our
1:32.0	second New York personality that we're doing. Right. And Peter Stivocent actually predates Alex by
1:37.6	what about a hundred years or so? A little bit more, yes. He's somebody we all need to know.
1:42.5	And he's actually still hanging around today, isn't he? He's the king of the East Village. Find out
1:46.9	where he's hanging out in the East Village after this. Wow, that was some dramatic music. And it
2:00.8	really sets the tone for New Amsterdam in the early parts of the 17th century. Actually,
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