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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#41 New York Post

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2008

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

EXTRA! EXTRA! Origins of New York Scandal Sheet Revealed! Post May Be Responsible For Central Park! Rupert Murdoch Property Was Once A Nest of Liberal Sympathizers! PLUS: Was there really a "headless body" in a "topless bar"? www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0

Episode 41 of The Bowery Boys, The New York Post.

0:04.4

Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.

0:06.0

Hey.

0:07.0

The Bowery Boys is brought to you by eurochipo.com.

0:12.0

Eurochipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.

0:16.8

Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at eurochipo.com.

0:21.6

Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys.

0:23.7

My name is Greg Young and I'm Tom Myers.

0:26.4

And this week we are talking about journalism.

0:29.5

New York Journalism and one of the rockest institutions of the city, the New York Post.

0:35.6

The old grade like, no, not the gray lady, the maybe kind of crazy lady, the crazy lady

0:43.8

of New York Journalism.

0:44.8

But I mean, as you know, like you just said, it's an institution.

0:48.2

It's the 13th oldest newspaper in the United States.

0:52.1

And The New York Post is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.

0:57.9

And it's one of the only newspapers that I know of that actually starts with the founding

1:02.1

father.

1:03.9

And you know, it still runs today and is one of the most eye catching pieces of prints

1:08.7

that you can get for a quarter in this city, definitely.

1:11.4

One of the only remaining pieces of print you can have for a quarter.

1:15.2

The only paper I know that puts page six on page 10.

1:18.8

It's a paper we all love and we all love to hate.

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