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Trumix.com listings available of The Bowery Boys Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. #45: Grand Central Join the Bowery Boys for a trip through the history of Grand Central -- the depot, the station, and the terminal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #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. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #43: Studio 54 Join us as we step behind the velvet ropes to explore the history of Studio 54, legendary dance club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #42: The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911 Come listen to the strange and shocking facts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, of a workplace tragedy that changed how New Yorkers live and work in a world of tall, flammable buildings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New York Post Extra! Extra! Scandal Sheet Revealed To Be Started By Founding Father! New York Post May Be Responsible For Central Park! Rupert Murdoch Property Was Once A Nest of Liberal Sympathizers! PLUS: Was there really a "headless body" in a "topless bar"? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #40: Union Square Join the Bowery Boys as we dig into the history of Union Square. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #39: The New York Yankees Get ready for nine innings (or 30 minutes) of the greatest sports team ever -- the New York Yankees. Hear about their modest beginnings, their best players, and the fate of Yankee Stadium, their home for 85 years. (And I apologize in advance for this week's wonky recording sound!) www.boweryboyspodcast.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #38: Breakfast at Tiffany & Co. You'll be surprised by Tiffany's 170-year history as a vanguard in New York luxury. See how they went from selling horse whips to world class diamonds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Henry Ward Beecher and Plymouth Church We've never done such a saucy show -- full of sex, lies, and petticoats. Meet Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn Heights' most notorious resident, and find out about the fascinating and provocative history of the church that turned him into a national celebrity. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #36: Life in British New York Join us as we stroll through the streets of revolutionary New York, examining what it would have been like to be a New Yorker under British rule. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #35: The British Invasion It's 1776 and revolution is in the air. Join the Bowery Boys as we tackle the British invasion and takeover of New York City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #34: Katz Delicatessen We stop for a nosh at three Jewish culinary stalwarts of the Lower East Side -- Katz Delicatessen (a movie-friendly dining experience), Russ and Daughters (a tale of herrings and girl power) and the Yonah Schimmel Knishery (and its surprising connection to Coney Island). www.boweryboyspodcast.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #33: The World's Fair of 1964-65 It's 1964 and we're heading out to Flushing Meadows, where Robert Moses has constructed the World's Fair of his dreams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #32: Museum of Modern Art The biggest surprise behind the revolutionary creation of the Museum of Modern Art is that the characters who put it together were almost as colorful as the modern art they championed. Tag along as we peek behind the canvas of New York's oldest temple of avant garde. PLUS: we debut our first Bowery Girl! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Battery Park Take a stroll through the Battery Park and Castle Clinton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #30: Peter Cooper and Cooper Union Cooper Union is one of New York City's more storied institutions, not only fostering the best and brightest of art and architecture, but playing host to presidents and activists. Also, find out a little about its amazingly resourceful founder Peter Cooper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #29: The Brooklyn Bridge The Bowery Boys explore the story and the family behind the Brooklyn Bridge, one of New York's most treasured landmarks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #27: Radio City Music Hall Behind the glamour of New York's greatest stage, Radio City Music Hall, is a story involving a toothpaste tube designer, an allergy to Brazil nuts, a hydraulic lift protected from the Nazis, and a grandstanding but forgotten man by the name of Roxy. PLUS: The Bowery Boys go backstage (well, figuratively) with the Rockettes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #26: The Flatiron Building What are the Bowery Boys doing in Chicago? Just a little detour in our search for the origins of the Flatiron Building, the wedge shaped, wind producing oddity -- built as an office space in a department store neighborhood which grew to become one of the most romantic, elegant buildings in New York City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #25: The Original Bowery Boys For our very special 25th episode, we give you all sorts of Bowery boys -- the cultural and fashion trend of the 1840s, the notorious enemy of the Five Points gangs, and that slapstick bunch of New York actors from the 1930s and 1940s. And of course, a little bit about us! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #24: The Copacabana During the 40s and 50s, any celebrity worth their weight in fame either frequented or performed at the Copacabana, a swanky nightclub known for its showgirls, its Chinese food and its mafia ties. On this mini-podcast, we take you on a night on the town with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and a rowdy table of New York Yankees. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #23: Macy's - the Man, the Store, the Parade Did you know that the man whose name adorns one of the most successful department stores in the world was a sailor turned failed businessman? Or why Macy's Department Store ALMOST takes up an entire city block? Or how many clowns have been in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade? The Bowery Boys let you in on those answers and lots of other fun facts about one of New York City's premier retailers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #22: Staten Island: A Brief History 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 the Staten Island ferry to take you across the New York harbor! (No really, try it!) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Astors and the Waldorf-Astoria We're going to the 'original' Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in this podcast to hang with the filthy rich. Our guides are the styling and eccentric Astor family, the centerpiece of 19th Century New York wealth and socity. Come along as we weave through a family tree of Williams and John Jacobs, not to mention THE Mrs. Astor, the one and only (even if there was more than one). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #20: The United Nations It's the only area of Manhattan that actually belongs to the world (literally). Come along with the Bowery Boys as we cut the security line to uncover the true story about the unusual headquarters of the United Nations, and why they ended up in New York City in the first place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #19: Washington Irving and Sleepy Hollow In this mini-podcast, we bring you New York City's first internationally famous writer Washington Irving and his creepy tale of the Headless Horseman. We'll tell you where you can go to celebrate his life and work, and what famous Irving landmark has nothing really to do with him at all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #18: Ghost Stories of New York City A city this size certainly has its share of ghosts, and the Bowery Boys spend the spooky season with some of the most famous -- a suicide showgirl, a grumpy landowner, a womanizing theater owner and a rich spinster. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #17: New York Public Library The New York Public Library may be one of the most revered libraries in America, but it took a farflung combination of bookworms, millionaires and do-gooders to make it into the institution it is today. Also: find out why the architectural style of the Beaux Arts sometimes reminds us of an old French prostitute. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #16: The Statue of Liberty Her torch may shine bright, but what story is she hiding under that copper-toned skin? The Bowery Boys bring you the story of the dinner party that created an American icon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #15: The Apollo Theater Harlem's jewel, the Apollo Theater, has more than lived up to its promise as a place "where stars are born and legends are made." It's been the cultural centerpiece of New York for more than seven decades, not bad for a former burlesque theater. And find out which icon made his name -- and held his funeral -- on the same stage. Visit www.boweryboyspodcast.com for more info. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #14: Peter Stuyvesant Back when New York was New Amsterdam, it was the domain of the bullheaded, pear-growing, peglegged Peter Stuyvesant, who cleaned up the city and gave us our most important street. Find out why he still matters and why he's the king of the East Village. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #13: Coney Island: 20th Century Sideshow Come see the Wonder Wheel, the king of hot dogs, the "Freaks" in the Dreamland Sideshow, a beached whale and Donald Trump's dad -- all in one place! It's Coney Island in the 20th Century. But will it be around much longer in the 21st? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #12: Coney Island - Playground of the World A world of amusement starts here in New York -- Coney Island, the world's oldest and strangest collection of amusement parks, a mishmash of sideshows, concession stands, gambling halls, new-fangled rides and luxury hotels. Take a daytrip with us back to the early days of Coney Island. Hold on to your hat! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #11: The Chrysler Building Ah, the classic Chrysler Building! She's got style, glamour and all that jazz. But what magical surprise did she spring on New York in October of 1929? Join us as we tell the story of New York's most beautiful art deco treasure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #10: Central Park Zoo From an odd assortment of abandoned creatures, to one of the most notorious zoos in the world, take a tour with us through Central Park's storybook zoo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #9: NoLIta, Scorcese and Ole St. Pat's The fashionable district of NoLIta happens to be home to a few ghosts as well, tucked behind the walls of St Patrick's Old Cathedral. Come with us as we unearth some info about a mysterious New York fraternal order, the occupants of a few cemetery crypts, and the origins of a legendary film director. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #8: 'Rosemary's Baby' and the Dakota Apartments Angels and Demons Part 1: New York's most famous horror movie and the fascinating story behind its insidious setting. Plus: Lauren Bacall, Connie Chung and some dumb waiters! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowery Boys #7: Washington Square Park Something's afoot in Washington Square Park. Join the Bowery Boys this week on an expedition through one of New York's quirkiest (and most beloved) parks -- from Hangman's Elm to Bob Dylan. You'll be moved... fifteen feet! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowery Boys #6: Governors Island New York's most underappreciated treasure gets the Bowery Boys treatment. Its Governors Island: a fort, a small town, a prison and a Burger King ... all bought for one dollar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowery Boys #5: BLACKOUT Flash back to the summer of 1977, when Star Wars and the Yankees ruled, gas prices were high, a serial killer roamed the streets, and the city experienced a little inconvenience called the New York Blackout. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowery Boys #4: Man(hattan)'s Best Friend Take a stroll with us as we chart New York's most famous canine crusaders, from a Central Park icon to the biggest star on Broadway history ever found in a kennel. Oh and watch where you step. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowery Boys #2: What's in a name In our first REAL episode, Greg and Tom explain their name and talk about the first Bowery Boys (not to mention the "Bowery Boys" of stage and screen). Also, a quick discussion of the origins of the names of all five boroughs. And a couple bad jokes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowery Boys #3: Alexander the Great It's Independence Day and we're spending it with our favorite New York Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton. The Bowery Boys visit his life, his hangouts, and his New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website