#96 The Cloisters and Fort Tryon Park

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2009

⏱️ 18 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Cloisters, home of the Metropolitan Museum's repository for medieval treasures, was a labor of love for many lovers of great European art. In this podcast, I highlight three of the most important men in its history -- a passionate sculptor, a generous multimillionaire and a jet-setting curator. Equally as fascinating is the upper Manhattan park that houses the museum, a site of a Revolutionary War fort of the same name and the exploits of the war's most heroic women. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 96, The Cloisters, and Fort Trian Park.
0:05.3	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys!
0:06.8	Hey!
0:07.8	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
0:12.3	EuroChipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
0:17.1	Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at EuroChipo.com.
0:21.6	Hi there, welcome to The Bowry Boys.
0:23.0	This is Greg Young bustling around the week before the holidays, getting stuff done.
0:26.9	But I just wanted to slip in one more solar show for the year.
0:30.7	Today we're going arguably to one of the luscious, loveliest areas of Manhattan, in my opinion,
0:36.7	the very north of the island, to a place called Fort Trian Park, and to the adjoining museum
0:41.8	called The Cloisters.
0:43.5	The Cloisters is an outpost of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that specializes in medieval
0:47.6	European treasures, built with amazing examples of middle-aged paintings, reliquary, tapestries,
0:53.5	and tombs.
0:54.5	Almost as amazing as the objects contained within the museum is the actual museum itself.
0:59.9	Its walls, corridors, and apps has actually cobbled together from various European
1:04.3	holy sites and cloisters.
1:06.4	This place is incredible.
1:07.4	It's one of my personal favorites in the entire city.
1:09.7	You have all these echoey chambers, dimly lit corridors, starrows down into rooms with
1:15.9	stained glass and mysterious golden objects behind glass.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tom Meyers, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tom Meyers and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.