#22 Staten Island

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2008

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Bowery Boys take on the history of New York City's most 'forgotten' borough, from its beginnings as a British outpost during the Revolutionary War to the controversy over that big stinky landfill. And we do it all in exactly the time it takes for the Staten Island ferry to take you across the New York harbor! (No really, try it.) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 22 of The Bowery Boys.
0:03.4	Staten Island, short and sweet.
0:05.8	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.
0:07.4	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.
0:10.4	Bowery Boys is brought to you by Euro Cheepo.
0:13.7	Euro Cheepo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
0:18.7	Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at EuroCheepo.com.
0:23.6	Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys.
0:25.6	My name is Greg Young.
0:26.6	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:28.0	And believe it or not, this week's episode, we are tackling an entire burrow, the burrow
0:33.6	of Staten Island.
0:35.0	How dare we, you might say.
0:36.9	It is pretty audacious that we're going to try to shove a short history of Staten Island
0:41.2	into 30 minutes.
0:42.5	But we have a good reason for trying to pull this off in one podcast.
0:46.4	What is that reason?
0:47.4	Well, the reason is we're not actually doing like an exhaustive history.
0:51.6	I mean, it would take about two hours to really do like one that would do Staten Island
0:56.2	justice.
0:57.3	This is really some of the greatest hits of Staten Island history because it really is
1:02.2	once you look into it.
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