#50 Canal Street and Collect Pond

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2008

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Downtown Civic Center used to have a big ole pond in the middle of it which provided drinking water for the island's first inhabitants. What happened to it, why is it important today and how did it give rise to Canal Street, New York's biggest traffic thoroughfare? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 50 of The Bowery Boys.
0:03.0	What happened to collect porn?
0:05.0	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys!
0:07.0	Hey!
0:08.0	The Bowery Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
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0:22.0	Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys.
0:24.0	My name is Greg Young.
0:25.0	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:27.0	Welcome.
0:28.0	You've made it to our 50th episode of the show.
0:32.0	Wow.
0:33.0	And most of you, probably all of you are scratching your heads and thinking, why on earth have you chosen
0:40.0	probably your most...
0:41.0	Central Park?
0:42.0	No, the grid system.
0:43.0	In part state building?
0:44.0	No.
0:45.0	None of those.
0:46.0	Some ways.
0:47.0	No, we've chosen a rather obscure topic, collect porn and the making of Canal Street.
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