#31 Battery Park and Castle Clinton

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2008

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Castle Clinton, built to defend New York City from a war that never arrived, has worn a lot of hats in its almost 200 year history; it's been a performance hall, an immigration center and an aquarium! And you can find it in Battery Park, today host to a variety of monuments and made from the materials of ole Fort Amsterdam. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 31 of The Bowery Boys, the castle in Battery Park.
0:04.7	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys!
0:06.2	Hey!
0:08.4	The Bowery Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
0:12.2	EuroChipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
0:17.0	Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at EuroChipo.com.
0:21.8	Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys.
0:24.2	My name is Greg Young.
0:25.6	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:27.0	And we are back for another duo episode.
0:30.4	We are going to the southernmost tip of Manhattan.
0:34.3	That's right.
0:35.1	We've been all over this town.
0:36.8	We've been up to the Bronx.
0:38.1	And now we're going down to the battery.
0:40.7	As they like to say in song.
0:42.5	This is Battery Park and it's primary landmark, Castle Clinton,
0:47.1	what we call Castle Clinton today.
0:48.5	But it's gone through many different and strange variations.
0:52.5	And even kind of spectacular and star-studded.
0:56.0	It's saw every star of the 19th century has gone through their
0:59.3	and every new American from a certain period of time
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