The Bowery Boys

03/07/2025

A summertime thriller for your podcast feeds. What lurked along the Jersey Shore during the summer of 1916? A series of shark attacks shook the region, sending beachgoers into a ‘shark panic’ and frightening a country on the verge of entering a world war. Hear the entire terrifying tale on the latest Bowery Boys Podcast:

TERROR ON THE BEACH! Seaside resorts from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk, Long Island, were paralyzed in fear during the summer of 1916. Not because of the threat of lurking German U-boats and saboteurs. But because of sharks.On July 1, 1916, Charles Epting Vansant was killed by a shark while sw...

01/07/2025

She ruled New York's high society during the Gilded Age. But is it possible she's misunderstood today? Carl Raymond on The Gilded Gentleman podcast looks at her story with historian Tom Miller (from the Daytonian in Manhattan website). Listen today!

We bring you a classic episode of The Gilded Gentleman, hosted by social and culinary historian Carl Raymond, just in time for a new season of HBO’s The Gilded Age. In The Real Mrs. Astor, Carl looks at one of the most legendary figures of the period – Caroline Astor, or the Mrs Astor, the ru...

24/06/2025

Fun New York City hack — in Inwood Hill Park it’s about 20 degrees cooler than the average temperature. Okay that’s not a scientific fact but it does feel that way near the caves and deep down the paths. Anyway — enjoy these pictures of Inwood Hill Park. And listen to the podcast!

23/06/2025

The Gilded Age returned for another season last night on HBO — and so did the Official Gilded Age podcast! If you’ve been missing Tom Meyers on the regular podcast, you can catch up with what he’s been doing here, with co-host Alicia Malone from TCM.

22/06/2025

All historians -- New York City and beyond -- owe Mr. Silver the deepest gratitude. His 'Lost New York' is a masterpiece. We wouldn't be able to do what we do without his inspiration. RIP

An architect, he wrote in his book “Lost New York” about the many buildings that were destroyed before passage of the city’s landmarks preservation law.

21/06/2025

It’s always great when we get to record a show outside, and it was a special pleasure being joined (in Fort Tryon Park) by Led Black of Uptown Collective and Inwood historian supreme Cole Thompson and historian dog Billy (in Isham Park).

Listen to our epic new show on the history of Inwood and Marble Hill, available now.

20/06/2025

On the new Bowery Boys podcast, explore the history of Manhattan's two northern-most neighborhoods, from the ancient forest of Inwood Hill Park to the bustling social scene along Dyckman Street. Listen today on your favorite podcast player:

People who live in Inwood know how truly special it is. Manhattan’s northernmost neighborhood (aside from Marble Hill) feels like it’s outside of the city — and in some places, even outside of time and space. Unlike the lower Manhattan’s flat avenues and organized streets, Inwood varies wi...

19/06/2025

In tomorrow's new Bowery Boys podcast, a neighborhood story unlike any other. Greetings from "upstate Manhattan"!

Pic courtesy Cole Thompson/My Inwood

14/06/2025

On June 15, 1904, over one thousand people lost their lives in a devastating boat accident on the East River. The General Slocum disaster hastened the demise of the Lower East Side's German community.

Listen to our podcast on the General Slocum Disaster: The General Slocum Memorial Fountain is one of the sole reminders of one of New York City’s darkest days, and it’s not a very awe-inspiring memorial. This is no dig at the custodians of Tompkins Square Park, where the memorial has been on ...

09/06/2025

Apparently we were on CBS Sunday Morning for two seconds today in a segment on Patreon. This is my old Cobble Hill apartment, and this was a video commercial we made for Patreon. Video probably from 2017, judging from the Helen Jewett book on the desk.