#97 Trinity Church

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2010

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Trinity Church, with its distinctive spire staring down upon the west end of Wall Street, is more than just a house of worship. Over three different church buildings have sat at this site, and the current one by architect Richard Upjohn is one of America's finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture. The church collected Manhattan's upper crust for decades and functions as one of the city's most powerful landowners. Listen to our short history on the New York institution and find out who's buried in their famous churchyards -- Founding Fathers, inventors and a whole lotta Astors. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 97 of The Bowery Boys, Trinity Church.
0:04.0	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.
0:06.0	Hey.
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0:20.0	Hi there, welcome to The Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:23.0	And this is Tom Myers.
0:24.0	Happy New Year, everyone. We are back.
0:26.0	Happy New Year to you, Greg.
0:27.0	It's our first new show of the year.
0:29.0	And I thought that it would be a good idea if it goes straight to church for this one.
0:33.0	Excellent.
0:34.0	We haven't actually done a church in a very long time.
0:36.0	And New York is home to hundreds of churches, many of them.
0:40.0	Thousands.
0:41.0	Many of them spectacular examples of architecture.
0:44.0	Trinity Church is arguably probably the most important to the history of New York City.
0:49.0	Not just because of the people who went there, but because of where it happens to be situated in the city.
0:55.0	And in actually studying the history of Trinity Church, we're studying the history of the entire city of New York.
1:01.0	Throughout many of the situations in New York City, history that we've covered in previous episodes, Trinity has always been there.
1:07.0	We'll talk about it as a gathering place for New York's wealthy.
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