Overview
520 Episodes
It's super developer Robert Moses vs. civic activist Albert S. Bard in a battle for the New York harbor and the historic landmarks of lower Manhattan.
Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025
It's William Cosby vs. John Peter Zenger in a trial which gave birth to the freedom of the press and other foundational aspects of American democracy.
Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025
When Prospect Park first opened to the public in the late 1860s, its superstar landscape designers — Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux -- were preparing a couple other special touches -- the creation of the first two parkways in the United States.
Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025
The story behind a legendary New York Daily News headline. While President Ford never literally told New York to "drop dead", his words did signal the severity of New York's problem -- the city was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2025
Keith Taillon, the historian behind the popular Instagram account @keithyorkcity, discusses his journey documenting New York's history and his new book "Walking New York: Manhattan History on Foot."
Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025
The Frick Collection, one of New York's most fascinating institutions, and the controversial life of the man who founded it -- Henry Clay Frick.
Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025
The history of the United States Postal Service as it plays out in the streets of New York City -- from the first post road to the first postage stamps.
Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025
Patrick Bringley discusses his book about being a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his new off-Broadway show based on his best seller.
Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2025
In the year 1664, New Amsterdam was taken over by the English, and the New York officially got its name.
Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2025
The New Yorker was first published one hundred years ago. And even though the present-day magazine is often quite contemporary in content, the New Yorker's tone and style still recall its glamorous Jazz Age origins.
Transcribed - Published: 28 February 2025
In honor of the Academy Awards, the Bowery Boys hosts pay homage to the great Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert while looking at five award-worthy films with strong New York City connections.
Transcribed - Published: 21 February 2025
We’re looking at the glamour and mystery of Harlem during the 1920s, a decade when the predominantly black neighborhood, in the words of Langston Hughes, “was in vogue.”
Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2025
One of America's first great Italian neighborhoods was once in East Harlem, an enclave almost entirely gone today except for a couple restaurants, a church and a long-standing religious festival.
Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025
The Waldorf Astoria is reopening this year, so we thought we'd again raise a toast to one of the world's most famous hotels.
Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025
Two podcast dinosaurs talk about history, memory and elephants -- Greg Young interviews Nate DiMeo from the Memory Palace
Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025
The extraordinary story of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the world of Gilded Age glass design he and his artisans helped inspire.
Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2025
The story of Greenwich Village, one of America's great music capitals, and one of its greatest stars -- Bob Dylan.
Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2024
The former library of J.P. Morgan -- one of the most powerful Americans to ever live -- is open to the public as the Morgan Library and Museum, continuing to highlight the world's greatest examples of the printed word
Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2024
The Rockettes are America’s best known dance troupe — and a staple of the holiday season — but you may not know the origin of this iconic New York City symbol. For one, they’re not even from the Big Apple!
Transcribed - Published: 29 November 2024
The history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- from wild balloon chases in the sky to kitschy celebrity appearances
Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2024
The history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- from wild balloon chases in the sky to kitschy celebrity appearances
Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2024
What is New York without its diners, its small book shops, its curious antique stores and its historic delis? New York Nico shares his favorite local businesses.
Transcribed - Published: 8 November 2024
The mysterious disappearance of a young woman becomes one of the most talked-about events in New York City history.
Transcribed - Published: 25 October 2024
Ghost stories from New York City's five boroughs -- from Staten Island's tombstone-toting ghost to the Hessian ghouls in a Flushing house of worship.
Transcribed - Published: 11 October 2024
Are there alligators in the sewers? Tom and Greg go deep into their favorite New York urban legends. breaking down their origins and revealing the hidden truths that live beneath the legends.
Transcribed - Published: 27 September 2024
This is the story of Ida Wood, a Gilded Age belle turned recluse, who chose to withdraw from society while still living in the heart of Old New York.
Transcribed - Published: 13 September 2024
New York City is filled with stories of people who just want to be left alone – recluses, hermits, cloistering themselves from the public eye, closing themselves off from scrutiny. None attempted to seal themselves off so completely in the way that Homer and Langley Collyer attempted in the 1930s and 1940s.
Transcribed - Published: 6 September 2024
What was Times Square before the electric billboards and the Broadway theaters? What was Times Square before it was Times Square?
Transcribed - Published: 30 August 2024
Transcribed - Published: 16 August 2024
In this episode we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Ramones' first performances in downtown Manhattan. But this also a tribute to New York rock music of the 1970s and to the most famous rock-music club in America.
Transcribed - Published: 2 August 2024
Come explore one of the most historically exclusive spaces in New York City -- the romantic and peaceful escape known as Gramercy Park.
Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2024
Follow along as Greg and Tom visit several historic cities and towns in the Netherlands -- Utrecht, De Bilt, Breukelen and Haarlem -- wandering through cafe-filled streets and old cobblestone alleyways, the air ringing with church bells and street music.
Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2024
The name Peter Stuyvesant can be found everywhere in New York City -- in the names of neighborhoods, apartments, parks and high schools. But what do we really know about legendary figure?
Transcribed - Published: 28 June 2024
All roads lead to Leiden where our adventure continues with a quest to find the Walloons, the French-speaking religious refugees who became the first settlers of New Netherland in 1624.
Transcribed - Published: 21 June 2024
The Bowery Boys Podcast heads to old Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, to find traces of New Amsterdam, the Dutch settlement which became New York.
Transcribed - Published: 14 June 2024
The Bowery Boys Podcast is going to Amsterdam and other parts of the Netherlands for a very special mini-series. But before they go, they're kicking things off with the man who inspired the journey.
Transcribed - Published: 7 June 2024
Announcing an epic new Bowery Boys mini series -- The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands. Exploring the connections between New York City and that fascinating European country.
Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2024
The Lenape were among the first in northeast North America to be displaced by white colonists. But the Lenape did not disappear. Through generations of great hardship, they have persevered.
Transcribed - Published: 24 May 2024
The New York City subway system turns 120 years old later this year so we thought we'd honor the world's longest subway system with a supersized overview history.
Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2024
The New York City subway system turns 120 years old later this year so we thought we'd honor the world's longest subway system with a supersized overview history.
Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2024
The story of a filthy and dangerous train ditch that became one of the swankiest addresses in the world -- Park Avenue.
Transcribed - Published: 26 April 2024
The story of a filthy and dangerous train ditch that became one of the swankiest addresses in the world -- Park Avenue.
Transcribed - Published: 26 April 2024
Few areas of the United States have as endured as long as Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood with almost over 375 years of history and an evolving cultural landscape that includes Quakers, trees, Hollywood films, world fairs, and new Asian immigration.
Transcribed - Published: 12 April 2024
Tom visits the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side to walk through the reconstructed two-room apartment of an African-American couple who lived in 1870 on Laurens Street in today’s Soho neighborhood.
Transcribed - Published: 29 March 2024
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s most famous novel, an enduring classic of Old New York that has been rediscovered by a new generation. What is it about this story of Newland Archer, May Welland and Countess Olenska that readers respond to today?
Transcribed - Published: 22 March 2024
Tom and Greg are joined by Kevin Baker, author of The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, to discuss the early history of the sport and its unique connections to New York City.
Transcribed - Published: 15 March 2024
The Chrysler Building remains one of America's most beautiful skyscrapers and a grand evocation of Jazz Age New York. But this architectural tribute to the automobile is also the greatest reminder of a furious construction surge that transformed the city in the 1920s.
Transcribed - Published: 1 March 2024
Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery, built in 1882, was more than a factory. During the Gilded Age and into the 20th century, this New York landmark was the center of America's sugar manufacturing, helping to fuel the country's hunger for sweet delights.
Transcribed - Published: 16 February 2024
A look at 200 years of history and culture in and surrounding Madison Square Park, one of America's most famous parks thanks to the performing venue which bears its name.
Transcribed - Published: 2 February 2024
Truman Capote's 1966 masquerade ball at the Plaza Hotel would bring together a most outrageous collection of famous folks -- movie stars, socialites, politicians, publishing icons. An invite to the ball was the true golden ticket, coveted by every celebrity and social climber in America.
Transcribed - Published: 19 January 2024
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