Episode 36 of The Bowery Boys. Life in British New York. Hey, it's The Bowery Boys. Hey!

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Hello and welcome to The Bowery Boys. My name is Greg Young.

And I'm Tom Myers, part of the accents. We were going to do the whole podcast in British accents, but we thought that may be a little unseemly.

I might scare some people off at my.

And the reason is because this is part two on the Revolutionary War here in New York. Part one last week was of course on the invasion of the British into New York and George Washington the Continental Army scooting out.

And part two today, we're going to talk about what it was like to live in British New York because the city was occupied for these seven years.

What was it like to be an American or British loyalist who happened to be living inside the city of New York under British rule?

And you may think it might just be the same with different people who talk funnier, but no.

The fact that the city itself, the whole culture changed in many ways is the physical makeup changed and a lot of things were going on.

This was a centerpiece for the British military operations.

And the city of New York before the war was not the same city that was during the war and it wasn't the same city that would be after the war.

The war profoundly changed the city.

So we hope to give you a little bit of a glimpse.

A lot of this is probably information you've never seen.

This is literally unveiling some secrets.

Some of this is information we've never seen.

So of the of a hidden New York that it's difficult to see as you walk down the street, but just over 200 years ago was the reality of this city.

Let's go back to British New York.

Alright, so before we get back into the story, Greg, and dive inside the city walls of New York during the Revolutionary War, why don't you take us back to where we were last episode?

I will just sort of like a brief recap of my lengthy diet tribe on the British invasion.

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