#93 City Hall and City Hall Park

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2009

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

New York City Hall sits majestically inside a nostalgic, well-manicured park, topped with a beautiful old fountain straight out of gaslight-era New York. But its serenity belies the frantic pace of government inside City Hall walls, and disguises a tumultuous, vibrant history. There have actually been two other city halls -- one an actual tavern, the other a temporary seat of national government -- and the one we're familiar with today is a little less than 200 years old. Join us as we explore the unusual history of this building, through ill-executed fireworks, disgruntled architects, and its near-destruction -- to be saved only by a man named Grosvenor Atterbury. PLUS: We look at the park area itself, a common land that once catered to livestock, British soldiers, almshouses and a big, garish post office. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 93 of The Bowery Boys, City Hall and City Hall Park.
0:04.9	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys!
0:06.5	Hey!
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0:22.0	Hello there, welcome to The Bowery Boys, this is Greg Young.
0:24.5	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:25.9	Great to be back.
0:26.9	It feels like we've been gone for ages, doesn't it?
0:29.4	Well, you were a little sick there for last week.
0:32.6	So we were a little late in the show.
0:34.0	We're working ordering, yes.
0:35.1	And in that time, we have a new mayor.
0:38.1	Well, actually, we have the same old mayor.
0:40.5	Right.
0:41.0	But I knew it was close.
0:42.3	I didn't know it was that close.
0:44.1	No, he actually, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will begin his third term next year.
0:48.8	He just got elected for that term last week.
0:51.8	So this week's topic is actually the place in which he will be doing most of his business.
0:57.0	City Hall and that patch of green right in front, City Hall Park.
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