Parhaat New York City History Podcastit (2023)

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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

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Christmas in Old New York: Holiday History 53:04

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This week we're highlighting an especially festive episode of the Gilded Gentleman Podcast, a show with double the holiday fun, tracing the history of Christmas and holiday celebrations over 19th-century New York City history. Licensed New York City tour guide and speaker Jeff Dobbins joins host Carl Raymond for a look at the city’s holiday traditi…

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#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution 1:04:55

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For decades New Yorkers celebrated Evacuation Day every November 25, a holiday marking the 1783 departure of British forces from the city they had occupied for several years during the Revolutionary War. The events of that departure -- that evacuation -- inspired annual celebrations of patriotism, unity, and a bit of rowdiness. Evacuation Day was h…

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#420 Garbo Walks: Old Hollywood in New York 51:25

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Greta Garbo in New York! A story of freedom, glamour, and melancholy, set at the intersection of classic Hollywood and mid-century New York City. The biography of a legendary star who became the city's most famous 'celebrity sighting' for many decades while out on her regular, meandering walks. Garbo had once been Hollywood's biggest star, a screen…

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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

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The Official Gilded Age Podcast: S2 E1 with Lord Julian Fellowes 55:01

29d ago55:01

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Here's the first episode of HBO's The Official Gilded Age Podcast, hosted by Tom Meyers of the Bowery Boys Podcast and Alicia Malone of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the official companion podcast for the HBO series The Gilded Age, streaming on Max. Each week Tom and Alicia will discuss what happened on screen and the real people, places and events …

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Rewind: The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue 1:30:57

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So we don't know if you’ve heard, but New York City is an expensive place to live these days. So we thought it might be time to revisit the tale of the city’s most famous district of luxury — Fifth Avenue. For about a hundred years, this avenue was mostly residential -- but residences of the most extravagant kind. At the heart of New York’s Gilded …

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#419 Ghost Stories by Gaslight 1:11:50

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A brand new batch of haunted houses and spooky stories, all from the gaslight era of New York City, the illuminating glow of the 19th century revealing the spirits of another world. Greg and Tom again dive into another batch of terrifying ghost stories, using actual newspaper reports and popular urban legends to reveal a different side to the city'…

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#418 Theodore Roosevelt's Wild Kingdom 53:18

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Theodore Roosevelt was both a New Yorker and an outdoorsman, a politician and a naturalist, a conservationist and a hunter. His connection with the natural world began at birth in his Manhattan brownstone home and ended with his death in Sagamore Hill. He killed thousands of animals over his lifetime as a hunter-naturalist, most notably one of the …

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#417 Walking the East Village 1976-1996 1:11:16

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The rebirth of the East Village in the late 1970s and the flowering of a new and original New York subculture -- what Edmund White called "the Downtown Scene" -- arose from the shadow of urban devastation and was anchored by a community that reclaimed its own deteriorating neighborhood. In the last episode (Creating the East Village 1955-1975) this…

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#416 Creating the East Village 1955-1975 58:07

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Before 1955 nobody used the phrase "East Village" to describe the historic northern portion of the Lower East Side, the New York tenement district with a rich German and Eastern European heritage. But when the Third Avenue El was torn down that year, those who were attracted to the culture of Greenwich Village -- with its coffeehouses, poets and ja…

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Rewind: The Rebellious History of Tompkins Square Park 45:32

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This episode on the history of Tompkins Square Park ties right into an all-new two-part episode coming in September, the first part coming at you next week. Tompkins Square Park is the heart and soul of the East Village. And it's also one of New York City's oldest parks! However this was not a park designed for the service of the upper classes in t…

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#415 The Early Years of Central Park 55:39

4M ago55:39

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Stroll the romantic, rambling paths of historic Central Park in this week's episode, turning back the clock to the 1860s and 70s, a time of children ice skating on The Lake, carriage rides through the Mall, and bewildering excursions through The Ramble. You’re all invited to walk along with Greg through the oldest portion of Central Park. Not only …

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#414 The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill 59:34

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The tale of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is one of New York's true epic adventures, mirroring the course of American history via the ships manufactured here and the people employed to make them. The Navy Yard's origins within Wallabout Bay tie it to the birth of the United States itself, the spot where thousands of men and women were kept in prison ships…

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#413 The New Storytellers: Landmarks, Diners and Everyday New Yorkers 1:04:01

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Instead of looking back to the history of New York City in this episode, we are looking forwardto the future -- to the new generation of creators who are celebrating New York and telling its story through mediums that are not podcasts or books. Today we are celebrating the historians, journalists and photographers who bring New York City to life on…

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A Gilded Age Tour Up the Island of Manhattan 1:01:48

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It’s one of the great narratives of American urban history — the northward trek of New York society up the island of Manhattan during the 19th century. Bringing you this special story today is writer, tour guide and historian Keith Taillon from KeithYorkCity, joining Carl Raymond from the Gilded Gentleman podcast to analyze this unique social migra…

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Rewind: The Deadly Draft Riots of 1863 50:03

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This month we are marking the 160th anniversary of one of the most dramatic moments in New York City history – the Civil War Draft Riots which stormed through the city from July 13 to July 16, 1863. Thousands of people took to the streets of Manhattan in violent protest, fueled initially by anger over conscription to the Union Army which sent New Y…

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The Making of the Pledge of Allegiance 29:44

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The Pledge of Allegiance feels like an American tradition that traces itself back to the Founding Fathers, but, in fact, the original version is only written in 1892. (And the version you may be familiar with from elementary school is less than 70 years old.) This is the story of the invention of the Pledge, a set of words that have come to embody …

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#412 The New York Parking Wars 1:05:18

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Take a look at a historic photograph of New York from the 1930s and you'll see automats, newsies, elevated trains and men in fedoras. What you won't see -- dozens and dozens of automobiles on the curb. In a city with skyrocketing real estate values, why are most city streets still devoted to free car storage? It's a situation we're all so used to t…

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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

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A Great Big City — New York City News, History, and Events

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Christmas in Old New York: Holiday History 53:04

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#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution 1:04:55

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#420 Garbo Walks: Old Hollywood in New York 51:25

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The Official Gilded Age Podcast: S2 E1 with Lord Julian Fellowes 55:01

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Rewind: The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue 1:30:57

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#419 Ghost Stories by Gaslight 1:11:50

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#418 Theodore Roosevelt's Wild Kingdom 53:18

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#417 Walking the East Village 1976-1996 1:11:16

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#416 Creating the East Village 1955-1975 58:07

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Rewind: The Rebellious History of Tompkins Square Park 45:32

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#415 The Early Years of Central Park 55:39

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#414 The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill 59:34

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#413 The New Storytellers: Landmarks, Diners and Everyday New Yorkers 1:04:01

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A Gilded Age Tour Up the Island of Manhattan 1:01:48

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Rewind: The Deadly Draft Riots of 1863 50:03

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The Making of the Pledge of Allegiance 29:44

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#412 The New York Parking Wars 1:05:18

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