The Pushcarts of the Lower East Side (Rewind)
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
Tom Meyers
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Calling all history geeks, New Yorkers, and lovers of great storytelling. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm hosting another edition of Bowery Boys History Live at City Winery on Tuesday, May 26th. |
| 0:11.1 | Bowery Boys History Live is a storytelling cabaret for history lovers. |
| 0:15.1 | And the theme for this show? |
| 0:16.8 | Heated rivalries from American history. |
| 0:19.4 | Spotlighting the nation's most combative frenemies and jaw-dropping personal clashes, |
| 0:24.2 | Alexander Hamilton versus Aaron Burr, was only the beginning. |
| 0:28.0 | I'll be joined on stage by Carl Raymond from the Gilded Gentleman podcast |
| 0:31.1 | and special guest Lori Gwen Shapiro, author of the new Amelia Earhart biography, The Aviator, and the Showman. |
| 0:37.9 | That's Bowery Boys History Live at City Winery at Pier 57 in Manhattan on May 26th. |
| 0:43.9 | Alexander, Aaron, prepare a duel. |
| 0:47.2 | Get your tickets at citywinery.com. |
| 0:50.5 | Hey, it's the Bowery Boys. |
| 0:51.8 | Hey. |
| 0:52.5 | Hey. |
| 0:53.3 | Hey. |
| 1:08.3 | Hi there, welcome to the Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young. |
| 1:09.7 | And this is Tom Myers. |
| 1:12.6 | And today, we're looking back to the Lower East Side to one of the neighborhood's most distinctive features during the 19th and |
| 1:18.2 | early 20th centuries, the push cart, which was really an entire retail system of buying and selling food and clothing and other items, which first |
| 1:31.7 | rolled out onto the streets in the late 19th century. Of course, today, how we get groceries |
| 1:37.6 | and street food is different in some ways. Of course, we have huge grocery stores that offer the worldwide delicacies. You've got |
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