Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years

By The Bowery Boys

Included here are the Bowery Boys back catalog of shows from our first year. If you'd like to hear our new episodes, simply search for New York City History: The Bowery Boys and subscribe.

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The podcast currently has 7 episodes available.

Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years episodes:

October 17, 2011 #65 Spooky Stories of New York
By popular demand, we return to the creepier tales of New York City history, ghost tales and stories of murder and mayhem, all of them at some point involving great American icons -- Alexander Hamilton, P.T. Barnum, Dorothy Parker and Mark Twain. Featuring a murder at a Manhattan well, a bloody slaying in rural Staten Island, the lingerings of New York's most fabulous undead, and the most haunted home in Greenwich Village!
This is a Special Illustrated Edition. Just hit play and images of the things discussed will pop up on your media player.
(Original version released Oct. 10, 2008)
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35min
December 28, 2008 #47 Grants Tomb
What's buried in Grant's Tomb? A quirky history that includes an ambitious architect, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, lots of ugly raspberry paint, and charges of prostitution and animal sacrifice! Oh yeah, and that Civil War guy's buried here too....
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17min
December 23, 2008 #46 Barnum's American Museum
You know PT Barnum from his circus, but he was bringing the freakshow to New York long before then. Come take a tour with us of the craziest museum to ever hit New York City. Co-starring the Fejee Mermaid, the Witch of Staten Island, Tom Thumb, the original Siamese twins, some unfortunate whales, and the strange and mortally offensive What IS It?
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34min
December 20, 2008 #44 Rikers Island
What do Salvador Dali, John Jacob Astor, Peter Stuyvesant, the Civil War, and a big pile of trash have to do with the world's biggest penal colony? We connect the dots in this history of Rikers Island.
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17min
December 13, 2008 #40 Union Square
New York's most hectic park has been the stage for massive Civil War rallies, somber funerals, passionate workers gatherings and both premier and inexpensive shopping. Today, it's got a little bit of everything for everyone. Join the Bowery Boys as they did into the history of Union Square.
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33min
November 15, 2008 #28 One Times Square
Times Square's New Years Eve celebration would not be the same without One Times Square and its annual ball drop. But the quirky history of this sometimes abused building reaches all the way back to the naming of Times Square and its original tenent -- the New York Times.
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14min
October 21, 2008 #22 Staten Island
The Bowery Boys take on the history of New York City's most 'forgotten' borough, from its beginnings as a British outpost during the Revolutionary War to the controversy over that big stinky landfill. And we do it all in exactly the time it takes for the Staten Island ferry to take you across the New York harbor! (No really, try it.)
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26min

FAQs about Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years:

How many episodes does Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years have?

The podcast currently has 7 episodes available.