Rewind: Birth of the Five Boroughs

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The story of how two very big cities (New York and Brooklyn) and a whole bunch of small towns and villages — completely different in nature, from farmland to skyscraper — became the second largest city in the world on January 1, 1898.

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0:00.0	After listening to this week's Bowry Boys episode, we encourage you to check out the latest
0:05.7	episode of For the Ages, the new podcast from the New York Historical Society.
0:12.0	Host David M. Rubenstein chats with America's most influential historians and creative thinkers
0:17.5	in engaging conversations about the people who have shaped the American story.
0:22.9	Latest episodes include conversations with Alan C. Guelzone discussing his new biography
0:28.3	on Robert E. Lee.
0:30.0	Foreign policy expert Richard Haas, explaining what the Council of Foreign Relations does,
0:35.0	and what the challenges are throughout the world.
0:38.2	And you'll also find a wide-ranging conversation with historian Eric Foner, an author we love
0:44.5	on this show.
0:45.8	David Rubenstein discusses Foner's work on American icons such as Thomas Payne, Abraham Lincoln,
0:52.0	and his substantial scholarship on the Civil War, slavery, and 19th century America.
0:58.5	That's For the Ages, available on Apple and Spotify.
1:03.1	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
1:07.2	Support for the Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners.
1:10.7	Join us for as little as a dollar a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys.
1:20.1	Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys.
1:22.3	This is Greg Young.
1:23.8	And this is Tom Myers.
1:25.6	And we have a very exciting late fall and early winter coming up on the Bowry Boys podcast.
1:32.0	Lined up in the coming weeks we've got shows about a historic neighborhood that is going
1:37.0	through some incredible changes.
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