#327 Listener Stories: At Home In New York Part Two

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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EPISODE 327 This is Part Two of a special Bowery Boys podcast event featuring the voices of our listeners. What makes New York feel like home — whether you live here or not? Why do people feel comfortable in New York City -- even in troubling times? When do you officially become a New Yorker? In this episode, we focus on a few tales from New York transplants, those who were born here and moved to the city in search of employment, adventure, love -- or purpose. And stories from those native New Yorkers who have moved away but keep a part of the city with them always (and in a couple cases, we mean this literally.) ALSO: How the residents of New York City come together in crisis times. Featuring the 'origin stories' of both Tom and Greg, both of whom moved to New York City in the early 1990s. It took both the simple pleasures of urban living and major traumatic events to turn them into New Yorkers. boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys episode 327 at home in New York with the settlers.
0:06.4	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
0:08.0	Hey.
0:09.1	Support for the Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners.
0:12.7	Join us for as little as a dollar a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys.
0:21.5	Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:24.9	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:26.8	And welcome to the second part of our at home in New York listeners challenge.
0:33.3	Now last month we asked you our listeners to tell us about how you feel at home in New York City
0:41.2	and when you first felt that.
0:43.5	Yeah, and that's because we have all been spending a lot of time in our homes during these past few months.
0:50.0	We've received dozens of voicemails and emails from people with all kinds of answers to the question.
0:57.2	Home in New York it turns out means different things to different people.
1:02.0	Yeah, now we started last week by reading an excerpt from the 1948 essay by E.B. White.
1:11.6	Here is New York. I'm like copy still sitting by the computer here Tom just for this occasion.
1:17.4	By the way, your first edition copy. Don't overlook that.
1:20.8	Oh yeah, I got it in a used bookstore.
1:23.2	And then this week found out it was the first edition.
1:25.7	That's amazing.
1:27.2	Obviously I'm not going to store it under the bed anymore.
1:30.7	I'm going to put it on a shelf.
1:32.3	Anyway, in this marvelous essay, he divides the city into several camps.
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