The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands TRAILER
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Tom Meyers, Greg Young
3d ago
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. Simply put, you don't get New York City as it is today without the Dutch who first settled here 400 years ago. The names of Staten Island, Broadway, Bushwick, Greenwich Village and the Bronx actually come from the Dutch. And the names of places like Brooklyn and Harlem come from actual Dutch cities and towns. Over the course of several weekly shows, we'll dig deeper into the history of those D ..read more
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#432 The Lenape Nation: Past, Present and Future
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Tom Meyers
1w ago
Consider the following show an acknowledgment – of people. For the foundations of 400 years of New York City history were built upon the homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, the tribal stewards of a vast natural area stretching from eastern Pennsylvania to western Long Island.  The Lenape were among the first in northeast North America to be displaced by white colonists -- the Dutch and the English. By the late 18th century, their way of life had practically vanished upon the island which would be known by some distorted vestige of a name they themselves may have given it – Manahatta, Manahahtáa ..read more
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#431 Park Avenue: History with a Penthouse View
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Tom Meyers, Greg Young
3w ago
The story of a filthy and dangerous train ditch that became one of the swankiest addresses in the world -- Park Avenue.  For over 100 years, a Park Avenue address meant wealth, glamour and the high life. The Fred Astaire version of the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' on the Ritz" revised the lyrics to pay tribute to Park Avenue: "High hats and Arrow collars/White spats and lots of dollars/Spending every dime for a wonderful time." By the 1950s, the avenue was considered the backbone of New York City with corporations setting up glittering new office towers in the International Style ..read more
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#431 Up and Down Park Avenue: History with a Penthouse View
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Tom Meyers, Greg Young
1M ago
The story of a filthy and dangerous train ditch that became one of the swankiest addresses in the world -- Park Avenue.  For over 100 years, a Park Avenue address meant wealth, glamour and the high life. The Fred Astaire version of the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' on the Ritz" revised the lyrics to pay tribute to Park Avenue: "High hats and Arrow collars/White spats and lots of dollars/Spending every dime for a wonderful time." By the 1950s, the avenue was considered the backbone of New York City with corporations setting up glittering new office towers in the International Style ..read more
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#430 The Story of Flushing: Queens History, Old and New
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Kieran Gannon, Greg Young
1M ago
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. In this special on-location episode of the Bowery Boys, Greg and special guest Kieran Gannon explore the epic history of Flushing through five specific locations -- the Bowne House, Kingsland Homestead (home of the Queens Historical Society), the Lewis Latimer House Museum, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and a downtown dumpling restaurant named Old ..read more
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#429 The Moores: A Black Family in 1860s New York
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Annie Poland, Tom Meyers
2M ago
In today’s episode, Tom visits the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side to walk through the reconstructed two-room apartment of an African-American couple, Joseph and Rachel Moore, who lived in 1870 on Laurens Street in today’s Soho neighborhood. Both Joseph and Rachel moved to New York when they were about 20 years old, in the late 1840s and 1850s. They married, worked, raised a family – and they shared their small apartment with another family to help cover costs.  Their home has been recreated in the Tenement Museum’s newest exhibit, “A Union of Hope: 1869.” The exhibit reimagines wh ..read more
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The Age of Innocence: Inside Edith Wharton's Classic Novel
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Emily Orlando, Carl Raymond, Greg Young
2M ago
Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence is a perfect novel to read in the spring — maybe its all the flowers — so I finally picked it up to re-read, in part due to this excellent episode from the Gilded Gentleman which we are presenting to you this week.  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? Noted Wharton scholar Dr. Emily Orlando joins Carl Raymond on The Gilded Gentleman podc ..read more
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#428 The New York Game: Baseball in the Early Years
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Tom Meyers
2M ago
Baseball, as American as apple pie, really is “the New York game.” While its precursors come from many places – from Jamestown to Prague – the rules of American baseball and the modern ways of enjoying it were born from the urban experience and, in particular, the 19th-century New York region.  The sport (in the form that we know it today) developed in the early 1800s, played in Manhattan’s many open lots or New Jersey public parklands and soon organized into regular teams and eventually leagues. The way that New Yorkers played baseball was soon the way most Americans played by the late 1 ..read more
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#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Tom Meyers
3M ago
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. After World War I, New York became newly prosperous, one of the undisputed business capitals of the world. The tallest building was the Woolworth Building, but the city's rise in prominence demanded new, taller towers, taking advantage of improvements in steel-frame construction and a clever 'wedding cake' zoning law that allowed ..read more
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#426 Behind the Domino Sign: Brooklyn's Bittersweet Empire
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
by Tom Meyers, Greg Young
3M ago
The Brooklyn waterfront was once decorated with a yellow Domino Sugar sign, affixed to an aging refinery along a row of deteriorating industrial structures facing the East River. The Domino Sugar Refinery, built in 1882 (replacing an older refinery after a devastating fire), was more than a factory. During the Gilded Age and into the 20th century, this Brooklyn landmark was the center of America's sugar manufacturing, helping to fuel the country's hunger for sweet delights. But the story goes further back in time -- back hundreds of years in New York City history. The sugar trade was one of th ..read more
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