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In this special two-part episode, we're celebrating the history of New York City's oldest and most historic bars with the people who know that history the best.

Right after the war, it actually becomes the nation's first executive office building. It houses the Department of Foreign Affairs, today's Department

of State, Department of War, Department of Treasury. And so a lot of the planning and a lot of those

activities in real life, mobster life happened in this area. You can come here and you know not only

was the movie filmed here, but it did actually happen here

when you sit here at four o'clock in the morning and the last customer has left and you're

saying okay i got to close up i got to do the paperwork and you just stop and you look and you

just imagine what it was like back then that's's the thing. It is not a museum.

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Their business is selling ale.

Mm-hmm.

We're about our first and formal.

Yeah.

The Bowery Boys episode, 465.

The oldest bars in New York City.

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