Uncovering Hudson Yards

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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EPISODE 286: Hudson Yards is America's largest private real estate development, a gleaming collection of office towers and apartments overlooking a self-contained plaza with a shopping mall and a selfie-friendly, architectural curio known as The Vessel. By design, Hudson Yards feels international, luxurious, non-specific. Are you in New York City, Berlin, Dubai or Tokyo? And yet the mega-development sits on a spot important to the transportation history of New York City. And, in the late 20th century, this very same spot would vex and frustrate some of the city's most influential developers. The key is that which lies beneath -- a concealed train yard owned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority. (Only the eastern portion of Hudson Yards is completed today; the western portion of the Yards is still clearly on view from a portion of the High Line.) Prepare for a story of early railroad travel, historic tunnels under the Hudson River, the changing fate of the Tenderloin neighborhood, and a list of spectacular and sometimes wacky proposals for the site -- from a new home for the New York Yankees to a key stadium for New York City's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. PLUS: Trump Convention Center -- it almost happened! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:56.6	The Barry Boys Episode 286, uncovering the Hudson Yards.
1:01.6	Hey, it's the Barry Boys.
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1:16.2	Hi there, welcome to the Barry Boys.
1:18.6	This is Greg Young.
1:19.6	And this is Tom Myers.
1:21.2	And today we're heading to the far west side to the city's newest and largest ever real
1:27.8	estate development.
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1:31.8	In fact, it just opened Friday, this incredibly ambitious development, the largest private
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