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 Laderman 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. Hey! Hi there, welcome to the Battery Boys, this is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Meyer.

So, Greg, 120 years ago this year on October 27,

1904, New York City finally got a genuine working subway system, the very first line of the IRT or the Interborough

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, 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

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