#184 The Flatiron Building: A Story from Three Sides

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For our 8th anniversary episode, we're revisiting one of New York City's great treasures and a true architectural oddity -- the Flatiron Building. When they built this structure at the corner of Madison Square Park (and completed in 1902), did they realize it would be an architectural icon AND one of the most photographed buildings in New York City?

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0:00.0	Episode 184 The Bowry Boys, The Flat Iron Building, a slice of New York history.
0:06.1	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
0:07.7	Hey.
0:08.9	Support for The Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners.
0:12.4	Join us for as little as a dollar month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys.
0:21.4	Hi there, welcome to The Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:24.0	And this is Tom Myers.
0:25.2	We are celebrating our eighth year of podcasting this month.
0:29.6	Is that unbelievable?
0:30.7	I can't believe it. Eight years.
0:32.4	How do we even know what a podcast was eight years ago?
0:35.6	I don't... did we know what a podcast was eight years ago?
0:38.1	We started recording randomly and hope that something would catch on.
0:41.5	But Greg, I did just say episode 184.
0:44.6	That means we've recorded somehow 183 episodes,
0:49.2	many of which are still available on iTunes.
0:51.7	A couple of the early ones are no longer available because they were...
0:57.0	Due to quality concerns.
0:59.1	But we thought for our two shows this month,
1:01.9	we thought we would revisit a couple of those old classics and check in again on those histories.
1:08.9	We've been sort of, you know, thumbing through the dusty archives, looking for good topics.
1:14.2	And this one is a particular interest to us because it's re-examining the subject of one of
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