#193 St. Mark's Place: Party in the East Village!

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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St. Mark's Place may be named for a saint but it's been a street full of sinners for much of its history. One of the most fascinating streets in the city, St. Mark's traces its story back to Peter Stuyvesant, meets up with the wife of Alexander Hamilton in the 1830s, experiences the incredible influx of German and Polish immigrants, then veers into the heart of counter-culture -- from the political activism of Abbie Hoffman to the glamorously detached parties of Andy Warhol. And that's when the party gets started! St. Mark's is known for music, fashion, rebellion and pandemonium. Let it be known -- this is one of the wildest, most creative, most exciting streets in New York City history. www.boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:30.4	Episode 193 of The Bowry Boys, the wild story of St. Mark's Place.
0:36.3	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
0:37.8	Hey.
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0:51.9	Hi there, welcome to The Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:54.4	And this is Tom Myers.
0:55.6	And for today's episode, some may call it East Eighth Street, but the cool kids call it St. Mark's Place.
1:03.1	One of the most exciting and interesting streets in New York City, I think.
1:06.8	I mean, the story is just that crazy.
1:09.4	The reason I find it so entertaining is because it includes some of the great names of early New York,
1:15.6	including colonial era New York City, to the 1970s and 1980s, figures of punk and new wave music.
1:22.7	So we're going to be going in this story from the wife of Alexander Hamilton to Cindy Lopper.
1:30.2	I wish we could do that in every show.
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