Listen to For the Ages, the New York Historical Society's podcast exploring the rich and complex history of the United States.

In the episode, Hitler's American Gamble, Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War,

host David M. Rubinstein chats with authors Brendan Sims and Charlie Latterman to dissect the five crucial days between the

attack on Pearl Harbor and Nazi Germany's Declaration of War on the United States.

Then Beverly Gage joins David to discuss her Pulitzer Prize winning book, G-Man, J. Edgar Hoover

and The Making of the American Century. She'll trace the lawman's

decade-long career shaping the American legal and political landscape, a period of immense

influence that would span eight presidents. And in How the Best Did It, Leadership Lessons from

Our Top Presidents. Historian and lawyer

Talmadge Boston discusses the leadership lessons that can be learned from America's most effective

presidents and how they can be instructive to today's leaders. That's for the ages, available

on Apple and Spotify. Hey, it's the Bowery Boys.

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Hi there. Welcome to the Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young. And this is Tom Myers. So, Greg, 120 years ago this year on October 27th, 1904, New York City finally got a genuine working subway system. The very first line of the IRT, or the Interboro Rapid Transit Company.

That original line went from City Hall to 145th Street in Harlem.

Today, that is the one train, or the two, three, as express stops in Manhattan, 120 years old, older, really,

I guess, with the construction of those tunnels beginning in 1901. Today, complaining about the subway

has become a common way of bonding with other New Yorkers. And certainly, you know, there are some genuine

problems unique to New York in 2024, which we'll get to. But you have to appreciate that

legacy, those many, many, many miles of track, which today spread throughout the boroughs,

665 miles of track, which today spread throughout the boroughs, 665 miles of track.

So to celebrate, we decided to do something very special here.

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