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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#20 United Nations Headquarters

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2008

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It's the only area of Manhattan that actually belongs to the entire world (literally). Come along with the Bowery Boys as we cut the security line to uncover the true story about the unusual headquarters of the United Nations, and why they ended up in New York City in the first place. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

Transcript

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0:00.0

Episode 20 of The Bowery Boys.

0:04.4

The United Nations.

0:06.4

Come into America.

0:07.4

Hey!

0:08.4

It's The Bowery Boys.

0:09.4

Hey!

0:10.4

Bowery Boys is brought to you by Eurochipo.

0:15.2

Eurochipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.

0:20.1

Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at Eurochipo.com.

0:25.2

Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys.

0:27.4

This is Greg Young.

0:28.4

And this is Tom Myers.

0:29.7

Welcome back.

0:30.7

It's so glad to have you back in the stream again.

0:32.5

Thank you.

0:33.5

It's great to be back.

0:34.5

Greg, I must compliment you on your solo podcast last week.

0:37.8

Thanks, you know.

0:38.8

I mean, it wasn't too bad.

0:40.0

I mean, I think, you know, the two of us together, we'll pull it together.

0:43.4

We're you lonely, though.

0:44.8

We're you lonely all alone.

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