The Bowery Boys podcast is proud to be sponsored by founded by NYC, celebrating New York City's

400th anniversary in 2025 and the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2006.

Read all about the exciting events and world-class institutions commemorating the five borough's

legacy of groundbreaking achievements and find

ways to celebrate the city that's always making history at founded by nyc.com.

Well, it's mayoral election season in New York City once again, and a very intriguing

slate of candidates will be on our ballot this November.

So we thought it was finally time for this very special presentation of a show.

We recorded many years ago, but I think you'll agree this is a story more profoundly relevant

today. There will be about seven points in this show, actually, where you stop,

look down at your player, however you're listening to this, and ask, did they just record this today?

This is the story of John Peroy Mitchell, the boy mayor of New York.

Hey, it's the Bowery Boys. Hey.

Hey. Hey.

Hi there, welcome to the Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers.

It is election season in New York City.

We are choosing a brand new mayor. It's an exciting time, Greg. We've had Bloomberg for years and years and decades and decades, it seems. So we're picking a new person for the job. And now as we record this,

we are less than two months away from the election of New York's next mayor.

So we wanted to look at a prior mayor for the show. There's some obvious candidates that we haven't

really tackle in the show yet, like Fiorella LaGuardia, glamorous old Jimmy Walker, or even Ed Koch

would be a good choice. But instead, we're going to turn back the clock to exactly

...