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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#29 Brooklyn Bridge

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2008

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Bowery Boys explore the story and the family behind the Brooklyn Bridge, one of New York's most treasured landmarks -- caissons, anchorages and all. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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Episode 29 of the Bowery Boys, behold the Brooklyn Bridge.

0:05.0

Hey, it's the Bowery Boys!

0:07.0

Hey!

0:08.0

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0:12.0

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0:17.0

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0:22.0

Hello there and welcome to the Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.

0:26.0

And my name is Tom Myers.

0:27.0

We are going to jump right into it or right off of it, as we say, because we need to get it.

0:32.0

We have a big one. We have probably one of our biggest podcasts of all time.

0:37.0

Right before you, right now ladies and gentlemen, the Bowery Boys are taking on the Brooklyn Bridge.

0:42.0

Exactly. Now this is a New York landmark.

0:46.0

One of the, I guess, top three biggest landmarks of New York, the people know about with the Statue of Liberty.

0:51.0

Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Brooklyn Bridge.

0:55.0

You can argue that debate that later, but it's, it's needless to say, an icon of the New York skyline.

1:01.0

It was built scandal. It was built with people died.

1:05.0

You know, many, many people died.

1:07.0

And it was completed by an act of love.

1:09.0

Exactly. And the course of 13 years.

1:12.0

So we have a lot of juicy, juicy details for you coming up.

1:17.0

We've got the story behind it. Let's cross that bridge.

1:20.0

All right. So we're, we're to begin Greg. I mean, we've got the Brooklyn Bridge before us.

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