The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#430 The Story of Flushing: Queens History, Old and New

Few areas of the United States have as endured as long as Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood with...

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#429 The Moores: A Black Family in 1860s New York

In today’s episode, Tom visits the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side to walk through the...

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The Age of Innocence: Inside Edith Wharton's Classic Novel

Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence is a perfect novel to read in the spring — maybe its all the...

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#428 The New York Game: Baseball in the Early Years

Baseball, as American as apple pie, really is “the New York game.” While its precursors come from...

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#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race

The Chrysler Building remains one of America's most beautiful skyscrapers and a grand evocation...

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#426 Behind the Domino Sign: Brooklyn's Bittersweet Empire

The Brooklyn waterfront was once decorated with a yellow Domino Sugar sign, affixed to an aging...

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#425 It Happened at Madison Square Park

So much has happened in and around Madison Square Park -- the leafy retreat at the intersections...

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Rewind: Truman Capote and the Black and White Ball

FX is debuting a new series created by Ryan Murphy — called Feud: Capote and the Swans --...

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#424 Kosciuszko! The Man. The Bridge. The Legend.

The Kosciuszko Bridge is one of New York City's most essential pieces of infrastructure, the...

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#423 Leonard Bernstein's New York, New York

On the morning of November 14th, 1943, Leonard Bernstein, the talented 25-year-old assistant...

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#422 Grace Church: A Most Fashionable History

Manhattan's Grace Church sits at a unique bend on Broadway and East 10th Street, making it seem...

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Christmas in Old New York: Holiday History

This week we're highlighting an especially festive episode of the Gilded Gentleman Podcast, a...

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#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution

For decades New Yorkers celebrated Evacuation Day every November 25, a holiday marking the 1783...

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#420 Garbo Walks: Old Hollywood in New York

Greta Garbo in New York! A story of freedom, glamour, and melancholy, set at the intersection of...

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The Official Gilded Age Podcast: S2 E1 with Lord Julian Fellowes

Here's the first episode of HBO's The Official Gilded Age Podcast, hosted by Tom Meyers of the...

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Rewind: The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue

So we don't know if you’ve heard, but New York City is an expensive place to live these days. So...

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#419 Ghost Stories by Gaslight

A brand new batch of haunted houses and spooky stories, all from the gaslight era of New York...

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#418 Theodore Roosevelt's Wild Kingdom

Theodore Roosevelt was both a New Yorker and an outdoorsman, a politician and a naturalist, a...

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#417 Walking the East Village 1976-1996

The rebirth of the East Village in the late 1970s and the flowering of a new and original New...

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#416 Creating the East Village

Before 1955 nobody used the phrase "East Village" to describe the historic northern portion of...

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