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Hello there. Welcome to the Bowry Boyz. This is Greg Young and this is Tom Myers and this episode of the Bowry Boyz

New York City History is on Harold Square, which is one of New York's most famous intersections perhaps even the second most famous after Times Square. Now Greg

How do you propose that we even attempt to do a show on an intersection or on a on a square? It's a little bit tricky. It is such a deep and

interesting history. I would even say it's an untold history. I think a lot of people have written books about Times Square. Times Square certainly gets a lot of

more attention, but Harold Square has a lot of the same elements, the entertainment, the hotels, the history of newspapers, all of this stuff

flows through Harold Square. So we will find a way to sort of do a thematic history through some of the more profound and interesting things that have occurred here. Right, because we're not just telling the story about the

square, you know, well, they built this road that went this way and another one that went that way and some buildings went up and you

had a square. We're telling the New York stories of institutions of, like you said, newspapers of theaters and of course stores. Just knowing how we're able to talk to each other

and Leslie, this does seem to pose a unique challenge to us. But I'm ready to take up that challenge, plus we have a little egg timer. So that

won't go and besides after you hear the story, you're not going to want to go up to Times Square. Why not stay here? Where you'll hear stories of a basement of freaks, a whale, and a secret doorway that

exists in Harold Square, perhaps one of the most secret doorways in all of New York. And those are just your stories. So you see what I have in

the store for you. So without further ado, Tom, let's give our regards to Harold Square.

We must leave all of us here, travel around and leave everything we live in right now. If I were gone too far away, we'd miss him because he's not

Harold Square. There's a gang and four people sleeping and I will still be there. We far apart, I'm

sure you've plunked that down on a piano. And to millions of others, of course, by the great George M. Cohen. Right. That performance was recorded in 1905. Of course, we'll be spending a lot of time in that particular

decade in this show, recorded by Billy Murray. And of course, that was give my regards to Broadway with its of classic mention. Remember me to Harold Square, which is interesting because I think that when I used to play that on the piano, back home in Ohio, I think that I was thinking about Broadway as in the theater

district, up saying in the 40s, when Cohen wrote the song, of course, I think that the theater district was right here around Harold Square.

Well, before we get to Harold Square as a theater district, let's situate it because it is a very unique shape here. And let's get the geography down here.

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