#240 The Ghosts of Greenwich Village

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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For this year's annual Bowery Boys Halloween ghost story podcast, we cautiously approach the dark secrets of Greenwich Village, best known for bohemians, shady and winding streets and a deep unexpected history. You will never look at its parks and townhouses again after this show! The stories featured this year: -- The hidden history of Washington Square Park with the oldest tree in New York -- nicknamed the Hangman's Elm -- and some truly grave secrets beneath its lovely walkways -- The Brittany Residence Hall for New York University students has a very famous ghost, a child who experienced a horrible death and continued to haunt the halls of this former hotel, looking for friends to play with -- Mayor Jimmy Walker once lived across from an old burial ground in the West Village. But when its ancient plots were replaced with a city park (to be named after the notorious mayor), the bodies and the tombstones were mostly paved over. To this day, a single grave marker sits astride the baseball field, a sole reminder of the area's macabre past. -- And finally the ceiling of a old Bank Street townhouse reveals an unusual object. How did it get there? This is a tale that stretches from the mid 1920s to the early 1980s. And from the haunted streets of the West Village to a peaceful respite in Northern California! boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	This episode of The Bowry Boys is brought to you by Burrows of the Dead.
0:04.3	A boutique tour company devoted to strange, dark, and unusual walking tours of New York City.
0:10.8	They provide in-depth, meticulously researched tours throughout the burrows,
0:15.3	offering haunted historical walks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens.
0:20.6	And they now have tours on Roosevelt Island.
0:23.5	If you head over to BurrowsoftheDead.com, you'll still find a few tickets left for this Halloween season,
0:28.5	including tours in Brooklyn Heights, Astoria, Lower Manhattan, and Greenwich Village on All Souls Day.
0:35.6	But the great thing about BurrowsoftheDead is that they operate year round and they offer gift certificates.
0:41.8	So no matter where you live in New York or if you're coming from out of town,
0:45.5	you can always take an amazing BurrowsoftheDead tour.
0:50.4	For tickets, head to burrowsoftheDead.com and use offer code BOWRY for $5 off any regular Burrows of the Dead public walking tour through December 31, 2017.
1:04.7	Episode 240 of The Bowry Boys.
1:07.9	The Ghosts of Greenwich Village.
1:12.1	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
1:13.7	Hey.
1:15.2	Support for The Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners.
1:18.4	Join us for as little as $1 a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys.
1:28.0	Hi there. Welcome to The Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
1:31.3	And this is Tom Myers.
1:32.9	And welcome to the show where we put on our dramatic voices.
1:38.0	It's The Bowry Boys annual Halloween special for 2017,
1:43.0	where we weave tales of haunted houses and spooky spirits into actual New York City history and using well-known urban legends.
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