#90 Columbia University

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2009

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We're going back to school with one of New York's oldest continually operating institutions -- Columbia University. Or should we say, King's College, the pre-Revolution New York school that spawned religious controversy and a few Founding Fathers to boot. Listen in as we chart its locations throughout the city -- from the vicinity of Trinity Church to midtown Manhattan. And finally to its permanent home on the 'Academic Acropolis' in Morningside Heights. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 90, King's College, Columbia University.
0:05.7	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys!
0:07.4	Hey!
0:09.4	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
0:13.2	EuroChipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
0:18.0	Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at EuroChipo.com.
0:22.6	Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:25.5	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:26.8	We are back again with another episode, we can call this one our Back to School episode.
0:32.0	Well, you know it is, it's after Labor Day, the kids have gone back to school,
0:36.3	and it has us thinking about things academic.
0:39.6	And today's topic, Columbia University, has a special place for Tom, in fact,
0:45.3	because he is a graduate of our topic today.
0:48.4	Despite those rumors, I did graduate about, well, over 10 years ago now, from Columbia College,
0:55.0	which we will get into the differences of the different schools.
0:58.0	Distinctions.
0:59.0	And I'll tell you, going through this research for the show, made me a little nostalgic.
1:04.4	Well, it's exciting that we get to talk about something that one of us have this connection to.
1:08.7	It's like, what if I graduated from the Chelsea Hotel?
1:12.6	I think you have, Grant, I think we've all graduated from the Chelsea Hotel.
1:16.2	But what's really unique about this topic is it goes from the British era of New York,
1:22.2	all the way to today, that is a lot of history to cover.
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