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Episode 332 of the Bowrie Boys. Welcome to Yorkville.

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Hi there, welcome to the Bowrie Boys. This is Greg Young.

And hello, here's Thomas Meyers.

Sorry, I was just getting into Yorkville, Yorkville mood Greg. Now this is Tom Meyers.

And today we are going to focus on the history of a Manhattan neighborhood that I would say gets often overlooked by a lot of people.

And we hinted very strongly at the subject in our last show together Greg.

Yes, our destination today is Yorkville, a place on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Now if you were to survey some people out in the street this summer, ask them to give an impression about the Upper East Side generally.

They might refer to it as an ultra wealthy neighborhood, you know, private schools, gossip girl.

And it's true, the Upper East Side has hundreds of ritzy apartment buildings, condos, and townhouses.

Yes, Andy had also has a great many cultural institutions, you know museums and galleries and libraries.

But most of those are closer to Central Park or near Park Avenue or Madison Avenue or Fifth Avenue.

Addresses known for, you know, all things glitzy.

But Yorkville has a different reputation. For almost 170 years, it has been defined by waves of immigrant communities which have settled here,

particularly those cultures from Central and Eastern Europe, the Germans, the Austrians, the Hungarians, and the Checks and Slovaks.

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