Episode 40 of The Bowery Boys. It's Union Square. Hey, it's The Bowery Boys! Hey!

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Hello there, and welcome to The Bowery Boys. I'm Greg Young.

And I'm Tom Myers. And Tom, welcome back from your travels. How are your journeys? How was Europe?

Oh, Europe was wonderful. It was a great two weeks away. I, of course, missed The Bowery Boys.

But I had a good time checking out hotels for EuroChipo.

Right, in Bruges. I was in Bruges, right? And it was a lot of fun. I have to say, I took a train from Brussels to Bruges and listened to you.

Oh! Talk about Henry Ward Beecher. That was both surreal and comforting. Well, that's great.

And informative. Oh, thank you. Yeah, that was a fun podcast. But it's nice to have you here.

And it was great to have a guest star last week, but great to have you here.

I'm impressed by how much you know about the Yankees. I had no idea.

Well, that's why I had, you know, I could imagine if I did that myself.

It was good to have like someone there who knew a lot about the Yankees.

But this week, we are focusing our attentions on downtown Manhattan, a place called Union Square.

A park, a square, a place with political significance. A gathering point.

We're going to start the Revolutionary War. We're going back there for a little bit.

And it's going to take us all the way up to the 70s. And along the way, you'll find out the story behind the name Union Square.

Because it turns out there are a lot of conflicting stories about this.

A lot of different theories abound as to why it's even called Union Square.

For instance, is it called Union Square because of the labor unions and the park significance and political rallies?

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