The Bowery Boys: New York City History
By Tom Meyers, Greg Young
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Subscribers: 1994
Reviews: 4
Episodes: 547
Feb 6, 2023
Oct 29, 2022
Mar 24, 2022
jim Ragona
Nov 12, 2019
this podcast is wonderful. so interesting! I am from New Jersey and I love finding out the story behind my memories.
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The tides of American history flow through the streets of New York City — from the huddled masses on Ellis Island to the sleazy theaters of 1970s Times Square. Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.
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#481 The Streets of the West Village: How The West Village Became A Neighborhood (Part 2)
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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#480 The Streets of the West Village: Creating the Village (Part 1)
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Frozen in Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River (from HISTORY This Week)
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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#479 NYC '84: The Case of the 'Subway Vigilante'
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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#478 The Disappearance of Judge Crater
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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The History of Brooklyn Heights and the Promenade
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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#477 Chester A. Arthur: The Gentleman Boss
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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#476 Hot Victorian Holiday: Bowery Boys History Live! at City Winery
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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#475 Subway Tokens, MetroCards and Other Historic Fare
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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The Great Fire That Transformed New York
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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#474 Made in France: The Statue of Liberty’s Forgotten Origin Story
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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The Last Ships From Hamburg: An Immigration Story
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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#473 The Other Side of Ellis Island
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: A History in Lights
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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#472 The Many Mysteries of Amelia Earhart
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Rodgers and Hammerstein: Some Enchanted Broadway History
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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#471 Ghost Stories of Long Island
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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#470 The Grand Tale of the Erie Canal
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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#469 Dominican New York: A History In The Heights
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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19th Century NoHo: Glamour, Greed, Money, and Murder
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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The Boy Mayor of New York
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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#468 Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue": A Jazz-Age Drama
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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History Daily: Pirate Tales!
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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#467 The Brooklyn Theatre Fire: The Forgotten Gilded Age Tragedy
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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#466 Pete's Tavern and McSorley's Old Ale House
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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#465 The Oldest Bars in New York City
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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#464 New York: The City of Oysters
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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#463 Gilded Age Golden Girls (Live At City Winery)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Spirits Podcast: Urban Legends with Greg Young
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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#462 The Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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#461 The Story of Inwood and Marble Hill
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Children of the Gilded Age
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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#460 The Brooklyn Museum and the Birth of a New City
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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#459 Moses vs. Bard: The Battle for Castle Clinton
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May 23, 2025 |
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The Trial of John Peter Zenger (Rewind)
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May 16, 2025 |
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#458 Parkways and the Transformation of Brooklyn
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May 09, 2025 |
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#457 FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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#456 Walking New York: Manhattan History on Foot with Keith Taillon
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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#455 House of Beauty: The Story of the Frick Collection
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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#454 Special Delivery: A History of the Post Office
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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#453 All The Beauty In The World: Guarding the Met with Patrick Bringley
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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#452 How New York Got Its Name
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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#451 The New Yorker Magazine: Talk of the Town for 100 Years
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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At The Movies with Meyers and Young (Side Streets)
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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#450 Harlem in the Jazz Age: A Renaissance in New York
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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#449 Italian Harlem: New York's Forgotten Little Italy
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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The Return of the Waldorf Astoria (Rewind)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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#448 Inside the Memory Palace with Nate DiMeo
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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The World of Tiffany Glass: Lighting the Gilded Age
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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#447 Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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#446 Mr. Morgan and His Magnificent Library
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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The Radio City Rockettes: New York's Dancing Queens (Rewind)
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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#445 The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: A Century of Cheer
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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#444 New York's Classic Mom-and-Pop Shops (with New York Nico)
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Whatever Happened to Dorothy Arnold? (Rewind)
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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#443 Ghost Stories of the Five Boroughs
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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#442 Urban Legends of New York City
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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#441 The Recluse of Herald Square: The Ida Wood Mystery
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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The Ghosty Men: Inside the Collyer Mansion (Rewind)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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#440 When Longacre Square Became Times Square
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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#439 The Ticker-Tape Parade: A Very New York Celebration
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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#438 The Ramones at CBGB: Revolution on the Bowery
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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The Hidden World of Gramercy Park
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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#437 Haarlem, Breukelen, Utrecht: Exploring New York's Dutch Roots
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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#436 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: Finding Peter Stuyvesant
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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#435 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Radical Walloons
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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#434 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: Empire of the Seas
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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#433 New Amsterdam Man: An Interview with Russell Shorto
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands TRAILER
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May 31, 2024 |
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#432 The Lenape Nation: Past, Present and Future
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May 24, 2024 |
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History of the New York City Subway (Rewind)
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May 10, 2024 |
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#431 Park Avenue: History with a Penthouse View
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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#430 The Story of Flushing: Queens History, Old and New
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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#429 The Moores: A Black Family in 1860s New York
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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The Age of Innocence: Inside Edith Wharton's Classic Novel
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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#428 The New York Game: Baseball in the Early Years
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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#426 Behind the Domino Sign: Brooklyn's Bittersweet Empire
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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#425 It Happened at Madison Square Park
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Truman Capote and the Black and White Ball (Rewind)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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#424 Kosciuszko! The Man. The Bridge. The Legend.
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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#423 Leonard Bernstein's New York, New York
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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#422 Grace Church: A Most Fashionable History
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Christmas in Old New York: Holiday History
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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#420 Garbo Walks: Old Hollywood in New York
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The Official Gilded Age Podcast: S2 E1 with Lord Julian Fellowes
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Rewind: The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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#419 Ghost Stories by Gaslight
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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#418 Theodore Roosevelt's Wild Kingdom
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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#417 Walking the East Village 1976-1996
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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#416 Creating the East Village 1955-1975
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Rewind: The Rebellious History of Tompkins Square Park
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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#415 The Early Years of Central Park
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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#414 The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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#413 The New Storytellers: Landmarks, Diners and Everyday New Yorkers
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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A Gilded Age Tour Up the Island of Manhattan
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Rewind: The Deadly Draft Riots of 1863
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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The Making of the Pledge of Allegiance
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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#412 The New York Parking Wars
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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#411 Miss Subways: Queens of the New York Commute
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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#410 The Roeblings: The Family Who Built The Brooklyn Bridge
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May 24, 2023 |
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Rewind: The Birth of the Broadway Musical
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May 12, 2023 |
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#409 The Great New York City Pizza Tour
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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#408 The Titanic and the Fate of Pier 54
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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#407 New York by Gaslight: Illuminating the 19th Century
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Rewind: When The Irish Came To New York
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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#406 How Wall Street Got Its Name
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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#405 Mona Lisa at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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The First Woman Ever Photographed
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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#404 Nighthawks and Automats: Edward Hopper's New York
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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#403 The Fulton Fish Market: History at the Seaport
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Rewind: A Bar Named Julius', New York's Newest Landmark
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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#402 Treasures from the World's Fair
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Side Streets: Good Diners, Great Pizza and Mars 2112
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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#401 The World Before Wordle: Talking Puzzles With AJ Jacobs
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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The Mysteries of Absinthe: Dancing With The Green Fairy
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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#400 Jacob Riis: 'The Other Half' of the Gilded Age
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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#399 The Changing Lower East Side: A View From Seward Park
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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#398 Marilyn Monroe in New York
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Rewind: Birth of the Five Boroughs
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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#397 Ghost Stories of the Hudson River
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Rewind: An Evening at Sardi's
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#396 Samuel Tilden and the Presidential Election of 1876
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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#395 Jefferson Market and the Women's House of Detention
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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#394 New York Calling: A History of the Telephone
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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#393 Ric Burns and James Sanders on "New York: A Documentary Film"
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Rewind: The Story of the Yellow Taxi Cab
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Invisible Magicians: Domestic Servants in Gilded Age New York
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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#392 The Bowery Boys Podcast 15th Anniversary Special
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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#391 A Walk through Little Caribbean
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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#390 The Story of Flatbush: Brooklyn Old and New
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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#389 The Ruins of Roosevelt Island
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#388 The Hudson River School: An American Art Revolution
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May 20, 2022 |
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#387 Hyde Park: The Roosevelts on the Hudson
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May 06, 2022 |
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#386 On the Trail of the Old Croton Aqueduct
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Now Playing: History Daily Podcast
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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#385 Frederick Law Olmsted and the Plan for Central Park
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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#384 Nuyorican: The Great Puerto Rican Migration
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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#383 The Temple on Fifth Avenue
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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#382 Architect of the Gilded Age
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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#381 The Wonderful Home of Louis Armstrong
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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#380 Dorothy Parker's Last Party
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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#379 How Chelsea Became a Neighborhood
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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#378 The Ansonia: Only Scandals In The Building
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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The Real Mrs. Astor: Ruler or Rebel?
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Rewind: West Side Story and the Making of Lincoln Center
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Gilded Age or Gilded Cage? (With The Bowery Boys)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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#377 The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Introducing: The Gilded Gentleman
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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#376 Skid Row: The Bowery of the Forgotten
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Toxic Turkey Day: HISTORY This Week
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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#375 The Great Bank Robbery of 1878
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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#374 Gotham's Greatest Ghost Stories
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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#373 New York Underground: The Story of Cemeteries
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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#372 The Shuberts: The Brothers Who Built Broadway
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Rewind: Revolutionary Fire/The End of Nathan Hale
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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#371 A Visit to Little Syria: An Immigrant Story
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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#370 Tragic Muse: The Life of Audrey Munson
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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#369 Last Dance at the Hotel Pennsylvania
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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#368 Henry Bergh's Fight for Animal Rights in Gilded Age New York
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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#367 The Ice Craze: How the Ice Business Transformed New York
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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#366 North Brother Island: New York's Forbidden Place
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Rewind: The Historic New York City Hall
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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#365 Do The Right Thing (Bowery Boys Movie Club)
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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#364 The Very Gay History of Fire Island
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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#363 The Sunny Saga of Jones Beach
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May 21, 2021 |
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#362 Gatsby and the Mansions of the Gold Coast
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May 07, 2021 |
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#361 Landmarks of Coney Island (Extended Funhouse Mix)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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#360 The Botanical Gardens of New York City
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#359 The Magic of the Movie Theater
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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#358 The Muppets Take Manhattan (Bowery Boys Movie Club)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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#357 Edith Wharton's New York
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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#356 Pfizer: A Brooklyn Origin Story
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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#355 The Midnight Adventures of Doctor Parkhurst
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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#354 Who Wrote the First American Cookbook?
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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#353 Harlem Before the Renaissance
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Rewind: Harlem Nights at the Hotel Theresa
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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#352 The Birth of Black Harlem
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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#351 Auntie Mame (Bowery Boys Movie Club)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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#350 The World Trade Center in the 1970s
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Rewind: Strange Hoaxes of the 19th Century
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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#349 The Queensboro Bridge and the Rise of a Borough
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Rewind: The Destruction of Penn Station
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Rewind: The Construction of Penn Station
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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#348 Cheers! The Stories of Four Fabulous Cocktails
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Rewind: Historic Vaccines -- The End of Polio and Smallpox
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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#347 Steam Heat! A Gilded Age Miracle
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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The City in Flames - The Great Fire of 1835
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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#346 The Beatles Invade New York!
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Rewind: The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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#345 LaGuardia's War on Pushcarts: The Creation of Essex Street Market
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Rewind: On The Radio: A History of the Airwaves
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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#344 Ghostbusters (Bowery Boys Movie Club)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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#343 Literary Horrors of New York City
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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#342 Ghost Stories of Old New York (ALIVE at Joe's Pub)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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#341 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Rewind: The Mystery of the Central Park Obelisk
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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#340 The Real Life Adventures of Tom Thumb
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Rewind: The Revolutionary Tavern of Samuel Fraunces
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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#339 James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Rewind: The American Museum of Natural History
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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#338 A New Deal for the Arts: Murals, Music and Theatrical Mayhem
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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#337 Robert Moses and the Art of the New Deal
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Rewind: TESLA -- The Inventor in Old New York
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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#336 The War on Newspaper Row
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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#335 Pulitzer vs Hearst: The Rise of Yellow Journalism
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Rewind: The Land of the Lenape
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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#334 Midnight Cowboy (Bowery Boys Movie Club)
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Rewind: The Secret Origin of Comic Books
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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#333 Tearing Down King George: The Monumental Summer of 1776
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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#332 Welcome to Yorkville: German Life on the Upper East Side
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Rewind: Seneca Village and New York's Forgotten Black Communities
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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#331 The East Side Elevateds: Life Under the Tracks
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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#330 The Silent Parade of 1917: Black Unity in a Time of Crisis
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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#329 The First Ambulance: The Humans (and Horses) That Saved New York
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May 29, 2020 |
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#328 Chop Suey City: A History of Chinese Food in New York
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May 22, 2020 |
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#327 Listener Stories: At Home In New York Part Two
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May 18, 2020 |
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#326 Listener Stories: At Home in New York Part One
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May 15, 2020 |
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#325 The Staten Island Quarantine War
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May 08, 2020 |
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#324 Moving Day! Madness and Mayhem in Old New York
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May 01, 2020 |
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#323 The Bowery Wizards: A History of Tattooed New York
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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#322 Nickelodeons and Movie Palaces: New York and the Film Industry 1893-1920
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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#321 Lauren Bacall ... At Home At The Dakota Apartments
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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#320 Hart Island: The Loneliest Place in New York
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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#319 The Tale of Charging Bull and Fearless Girl
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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#318 Moonstruck: That's Amore!
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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#317 Vaccinated: New York and the Polio Outbreak
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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#316 Jenny Lind at Castle Garden
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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#315 Abandoned Pantheon: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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#314 Tillie Hart - The Holdout of London Terrace
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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#313 The Straw Hat Riots of 1922
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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#312 Has Jack the Ripper Come to Town? A Gilded Age Hysteria
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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#311 Uprising: The Shirtwaist Strike of 1909
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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#310 1918: The Harlem Hellfighters
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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#309 What Gets Saved? Landmarks & Historic Districts Explained
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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#308 Andrew Carnegie and New York's Public Libraries
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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#307 The Holland Tunnel: The Wonder of the Jazz Age
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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#306 Just Desserts: The Origins of New York Cheesecake, Cannoli and More
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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#305 Christmas in New York: The Lights of Dyker Heights
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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#304 The Miracle on Eldridge Street
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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#303 Building Stuyvesant Town: A Mid-Century Controversy
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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#302 Gangs of New York (Bowery Boys Movie Club)
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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#301 Haunted Houses of Old New York
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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#300 The Forgotten Father of New York City
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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#299 The Promenade and Preservation of Brooklyn Heights
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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#298 The Story of Brooklyn Heights
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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#297 Dr. Hosack's Enchanted Garden: Botany, Medicine, and Discovery in Old New York
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Introducing Mob Queens
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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#296 Talking Trash: The NYC Department of Sanitation
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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#295 Saving the City: Women of the Progressive Era
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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#294 That Daredevil Steve Brodie, 'King of the Bowery'
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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#293 Secret Places of Upper Manhattan
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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Sip-In At Julius': Gay New York In The 1960s
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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The Tombs: Five Points' Notorious House of Detention
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May 31, 2019 |
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#290 Bagels: A New York Story
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May 16, 2019 |
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Blood and Shakespeare: The Astor Place Riot of 1849
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May 02, 2019 |
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#288 The World of Tomorrow: The New York World's Fair of 1939
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Greenwich Village in the 1960s
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Uncovering Hudson Yards
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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#285 Boss Tweed's House of Corruption
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Scott Joplin in New York: A Ragtime Mystery
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Feb 23, 2019 |
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Walt Whitman in New York and Brooklyn
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Taxi Driver (Bowery Boys Movie Club)
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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#281 The Treasures of Downtown Brooklyn
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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#280 House of Mystery: The Story of the Collyer Brothers
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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#279 A New Year in Old New York: From Times Square to Chinatown
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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#278 Newark vs. LaGuardia: The Tale of Two Airports
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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#277 The New York Comedy Scene: A Marvelous History
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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#276 Murder on Bond Street: Who Killed Dr. Burdell?
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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#275 Return to Tin Pan Alley: Saving American Music History
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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#274 Ghost Stories of Hell's Kitchen
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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#273 Peter Stuyvesant and the Fall of New Amsterdam
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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#272 Life in New Amsterdam
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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#271 Counter Culture: Diners, Automats, and Luncheonettes in New York
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Sep 07, 2018 |
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#270 Heaven on the Hudson: A History of Riverside Park
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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#269 Harry Houdini and the Golden Age of Magic in New York
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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#268 The Astonishing Saga of the Atlantic Cable
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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#267 Broadway: The Story of a Street
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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#266 New York City during the Revolutionary War (1776-1783)
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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#265 Absolutely Flawless: A History of Drag in New York City
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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#264 The Landmarks of Coney Island
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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#263 Ebbets Field and the Glory Days of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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May 18, 2018 |
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#262 Secrets of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
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May 04, 2018 |
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#261 The Huddled Masses: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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#260 Journey to Grey Gardens: A Tale of Two Edies
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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#259 Crossing to Brooklyn: How the Williamsburg Bridge Changed New York
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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#258 Tales from Tribeca History
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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#257 Frozen In Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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#256 DUMBO: Life on Brooklyn's Waterfront
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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#255 The Rescue of Grand Central
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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#254 The Destruction of Penn Station
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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#253 Opening Day of the New York City Subway
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Feb 09, 2018 |
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#252 The Underground Railroad: Escape through New York
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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#251 McGurk's Suicide Hall: The Bowery's Most Notorious Dive
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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#250 The Empire State Building: Story of an Icon
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Jan 12, 2018 |
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#249 Madam C.J. Walker: Harlem's Hair Care Millionaire
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Jan 04, 2018 |
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#248 Sitting Down with Roz Chast of the New Yorker
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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#247 Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Golden Age of Broadway
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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#246 Tales from a Tenement: Three Families on the Lower East Side
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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#245 The Fall of the Fifth Avenue Mansions
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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#244 The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions
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Nov 24, 2017 |
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#243 New York In Neon: Signs of the City
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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#242 New York and the Dawn of Photography
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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#241 Edgar Allan Poe in New York
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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#240 The Ghosts of Greenwich Village
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Oct 20, 2017 |
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#239 Murder at the Manhattan Well
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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#238 Astoria and Long Island City
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Sep 29, 2017 |
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#237 Columbus Circle: A Century of Controversy
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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#236 Times Square in the '70s
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Sep 08, 2017 |
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The Crash of 1929: New York In Crisis
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Sep 01, 2017 |
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Queen of the Speakeasies: A Tale of Prohibition New York
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Aug 18, 2017 |
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#233 The Roaring '20s: King of the Jazz Age
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Aug 04, 2017 |
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#232 The Story of SoHo
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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The Bowery Boys Present: The First Broadway Musical
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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#231 The Stonewall Riots Revisited
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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#230 Before Harlem: New York's Forgotten Black Communities
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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#229 Live in Brooklyn! The Bowery Boys: Ten Years of Podcasting
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May 25, 2017 |
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#228 The Pirate of Pearl Street: The New York Adventures of Captain Kidd
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May 12, 2017 |
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#227 The Hindenburg Over New York
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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#226 The Beauty Bosses of Fifth Avenue
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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#225 P. T. Barnum and the Greatest Show on Earth
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Mar 31, 2017 |
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#224 The Arrival of the Irish: An Immigrant Story
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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#223 The Algonquin Round Table
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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#222 Who Killed Helen Jewett? A Mystery By Gaslight
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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#221 New York: Capital City of the United States
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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#220 George Washington's New York Inauguration
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Jan 20, 2017 |
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#219 Newsies on Strike!
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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#218 Lincoln Center and West Side Story
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Dec 09, 2016 |
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#217: Truman Capote's Black And White Ball
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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#216: Edwin Booth and the Players Club
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Nov 11, 2016 |
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01 The Wheel: Ferris' Big Idea ('The First' Podcast Special Preview)
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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#215 Ghosts of the Gilded Age
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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#214 Bronx Trilogy (Part Three) The Bronx Was Burning
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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#213 Bronx Trilogy (Part Two) The Bronx is Building
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Sep 16, 2016 |
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#212 Bronx Trilogy (Part One) The Bronx Is Born
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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#211 The Notorious Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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#210 Digital City: New York and the World of Video Games
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Aug 04, 2016 |
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#209 The Waldorf-Astoria's Complicated History
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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#208 Great Hoaxes of Old New York
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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#207 The First Subway: Beach's Pneumatic Marvel
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Jun 24, 2016 |
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#206 The Lenape: The Real Native New Yorkers
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Jun 10, 2016 |
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#205 The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
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May 26, 2016 |
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#204 The Cotton Club: The Aristocrat of Harlem
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May 13, 2016 |
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#203 Nikola Tesla in New York
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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#202 The Lower East Side: A Culinary History
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Apr 15, 2016 |
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#201 GOWANUS! Brooklyn's Troubled Waters
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Apr 01, 2016 |
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#200 Jane Jacobs: Saving the Village
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Mar 18, 2016 |
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#199.5: Bowery Boys - Behind the Scenes
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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#199 Battle For The Skyline: How High Can It Go?
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Feb 19, 2016 |
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#198 Greenpoint, Brooklyn: An Industrial-Strength History
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Feb 05, 2016 |
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#197 Danger In The Harbor: The Black Tom Explosion of 1916
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Jan 22, 2016 |
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#196 Ready to Wear: A History of the Garment District
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Jan 08, 2016 |
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#195 Midnight in Times Square: New Year's Eve in New York City
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Dec 10, 2015 |
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#194 Nellie Bly: Undercover in the Madhouse
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Nov 13, 2015 |
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#193 St. Mark's Place: Party in the East Village!
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Oct 30, 2015 |
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#192 Haunted Landmarks of New York
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Oct 16, 2015 |
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#191 The Great Fire of 1776
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Oct 02, 2015 |
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#190 The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary
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Sep 18, 2015 |
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#189 TAXI: History of the New York City Taxicab
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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#188: The Murder of Stanford White
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Aug 06, 2015 |
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#187: Super City: New York and the History of Comic Books
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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#186 Hell's Kitchen: New York's Wild West
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Jul 09, 2015 |
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#185 Adventures on Governors Island
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Jun 26, 2015 |
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#184 The Flatiron Building: A Story from Three Sides
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Jun 11, 2015 |
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#183 Orchard Street: Life in the Lower East Side
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May 29, 2015 |
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#182 Mae West: "Sex" on Broadway
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May 15, 2015 |
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#181 Park Slope and the Story of Brownstone Brooklyn
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May 01, 2015 |
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#180 The Chelsea Piers and the Age of the Ocean Liner
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Apr 17, 2015 |
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#179 The Fight for Bryant Park
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Apr 03, 2015 |
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#178: The Crystal Palace: America's First World's Fair
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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#177 The Big History of Little Italy
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Feb 20, 2015 |
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#176 Billie Holiday's New York
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Jan 23, 2015 |
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#175 Bowery Boys 2014 Year In Review
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Dec 25, 2014 |
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#174 American Kicks: A History of the Rockettes
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Dec 12, 2014 |
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#173 Ruins of the World's Fair: New York State Pavilion
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Nov 14, 2014 |
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#172 Ghost Stories of Brooklyn
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Oct 16, 2014 |
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#171 The Keys to Gramercy Park
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Sep 19, 2014 |
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#170 The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
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Aug 22, 2014 |
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#169 The Tallest Building In New York: A Short History
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Aug 07, 2014 |
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#168 DUEL! Aaron Burr vs. Alexander Hamilton
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Jul 11, 2014 |
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#167 Cleopatra's Needle and the Freemasons Secret
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Jun 27, 2014 |
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#166 General Slocum Disaster 1904
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Jun 13, 2014 |
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#165 Ladies' Mile
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May 30, 2014 |
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#164 The Astor Place Riot
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May 01, 2014 |
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#163 South Street Seaport
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Apr 04, 2014 |
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#162 George Washington Bridge
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Mar 07, 2014 |
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#161 Fire Department of New York (FDNY)
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Feb 07, 2014 |
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#160 Tompkins Square Park
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Jan 10, 2014 |
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#159 The Broadway Musical: Setting the Stage
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Dec 13, 2013 |
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#158 Hotel Theresa: The Waldorf of Harlem
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Nov 15, 2013 |
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#157 Early Ghost Stories of Old New York
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Oct 18, 2013 |
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#156 The Boy Mayor of New York
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Sep 20, 2013 |
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#155 Sesame Street to Seinfeld: NYC TV 1969-2013
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Aug 23, 2013 |
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#154 New York in the Golden Age of Television
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Aug 02, 2013 |
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#153 NYC and the Birth of Television
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Jun 28, 2013 |
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#152 Bellevue Hospital
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May 31, 2013 |
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#151 The Limelight: Church, Nightclub and Mall
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May 03, 2013 |
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#150 Consolidation! Five Boroughs, One Big City
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Apr 05, 2013 |
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#149 John Peter Zenger and the Power of the Press
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Mar 08, 2013 |
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#148 The Great Blizzard of 1888
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Feb 08, 2013 |
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#147 Art Insanity: The Armory Show of 1913
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Jan 11, 2013 |
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#146 Herald Square
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Dec 14, 2012 |
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#145 Bicycle Mania! From Velocipede to Ten-Speed
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Nov 16, 2012 |
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Hurricane Sandy Update
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Nov 02, 2012 |
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#144 Mysteries and Magicians of New York
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Oct 19, 2012 |
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#143 Water for New York: Croton Aqueduct
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Sep 21, 2012 |
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#142 New York University (NYU)
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Aug 24, 2012 |
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#141 New York Beer History
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Jul 27, 2012 |
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#140 Rockaway Beach
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Jun 29, 2012 |
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#139 Brooklyn Academy of Music
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Jun 01, 2012 |
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#138: St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery
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May 04, 2012 |
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New York City and the World of Radio
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Apr 05, 2012 |
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#136 High Line Walking Tour
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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#135 The High Line
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Mar 09, 2012 |
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#134 St. Patrick's Cathedral
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Feb 10, 2012 |
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#133 Red Hook: Brooklyn on the Waterfront
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Jan 13, 2012 |
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#132 Electric New York: Edison and the City Lights
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Dec 16, 2011 |
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#131 The First Apartment Building
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Nov 18, 2011 |
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#130 Haunted Histories of New York
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Oct 21, 2011 |
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#129 Chinatown
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Sep 23, 2011 |
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#128 Hoaxes and Conspiracies of 1864
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Aug 28, 2011 |
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#127 The Civil War Draft Riots
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Jul 22, 2011 |
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#126 Fernando Wood: The Scoundrel Mayor
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Jul 01, 2011 |
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#125 Sardi's Restaurant
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Jun 10, 2011 |
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#124 Idlewild/JFK Airport
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May 13, 2011 |
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#123 TRUMP
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Apr 29, 2011 |
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#122: The Grid - Commissioners Plan of 1811
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Apr 15, 2011 |
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#121 Fraunces Tavern
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Mar 18, 2011 |
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#120 NYC and the Birth of the Movies
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Feb 17, 2011 |
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#119 The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
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Jan 21, 2011 |
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#118 Times Square
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Dec 17, 2010 |
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#117 Mark Twain's New York
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Dec 03, 2010 |
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#116 American Museum of Natural History
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Nov 24, 2010 |
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#115 African Burial Ground
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Nov 05, 2010 |
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#114 Supernatural Stories of New York
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Oct 22, 2010 |
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#113 Niblo's Garden
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Oct 08, 2010 |
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#112 Archibald Gracie and His Mansion
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Sep 17, 2010 |
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Subway Graffiti 1970-1989
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Sep 03, 2010 |
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#110 New York City Subway, Part 2: By the Numbers (and Letters)
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Aug 20, 2010 |
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#109 New York City Subway, Part 1: Birth of the IRT
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Aug 06, 2010 |
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#108 Cable Cars, Trolleys and Monorails
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Jul 23, 2010 |
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#107 New York's Elevated Railroads
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Jul 08, 2010 |
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#106 Staten Island Ferry
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Jun 25, 2010 |
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#105 The Newsboys Strike of 1899
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Jun 11, 2010 |
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#104 CBGB & OMFUG
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May 28, 2010 |
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#103: Case Files of the NYPD
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May 14, 2010 |
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#102 Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach
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Apr 30, 2010 |
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#101 The Bronx Zoo
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Apr 16, 2010 |
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#100 Robert Moses
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Mar 19, 2010 |
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#99 Madison Square Garden
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Feb 19, 2010 |
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#98 Manhattan Bridge
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Feb 05, 2010 |
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#58 Delmonico's Restaurant
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Jan 29, 2010 |
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#97 Trinity Church
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Jan 22, 2010 |
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#96 The Cloisters and Fort Tryon Park
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Dec 25, 2009 |
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#95 Tin Pan Alley
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Dec 11, 2009 |
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#94 Corlear's Hook and the Pirates of the East River
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Nov 28, 2009 |
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#93 City Hall and City Hall Park
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Nov 13, 2009 |
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#92 Steinway: the Piano Man
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Oct 23, 2009 |
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#91 Haunted Tales of New York
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Oct 09, 2009 |
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#90 Columbia University
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Sep 13, 2009 |
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#89 Chelsea Hotel
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Aug 14, 2009 |
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#88 Ellis Island: The Immigrant Story
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Aug 01, 2009 |
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#87 The Kings of New York Pizza
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Jul 17, 2009 |
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#86 Boss Tweed and the Glory Days of Tammany Hall
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Jul 02, 2009 |
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#88 Joseph Papp vs Robert Moses: The Story of Shakespeare in the Park
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Jun 19, 2009 |
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#84 Prospect Park
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Jun 05, 2009 |
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#83 Henry Hudson and the European Discovery of Mannahatta
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May 22, 2009 |
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#82 Roosevelt Island
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May 08, 2009 |
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#81 The Puck Building "What Fools These Mortals Be!"
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Apr 24, 2009 |
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#80 Pennsylvania Station
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Apr 10, 2009 |
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#79 The Whyos: Gang of New York
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Mar 28, 2009 |
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#78 The Great Fire of 1835
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Mar 13, 2009 |
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#77 Freedomland U.S.A.: New York's Weirdest Theme Park
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Feb 27, 2009 |
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#76 Woolworth Building
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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#75 Williamsburg(h), Brooklyn
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Jan 30, 2009 |
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# 49 LaGuardia Airport and Early New York Flight
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Jan 17, 2009 |
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#74 Ziegfeld!
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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#73 Webster Hall 'The Devil's Playhouse'
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Jan 02, 2009 |
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#48 The Stonewall Riots
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Dec 29, 2008 |
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#47 Grant's Tomb
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Dec 28, 2008 |
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#46 Barnum's American Museum
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Dec 23, 2008 |
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#45 Grand Central
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Dec 21, 2008 |
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#44 Rikers Island
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Dec 20, 2008 |
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#72 Rockefeller Center
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Dec 19, 2008 |
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#43 Studio 54
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Dec 19, 2008 |
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#42: The Triangle Factory Fire
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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#41 New York Post
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Dec 13, 2008 |
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#40 Union Square
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Dec 13, 2008 |
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#39 New York Yankees
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Dec 07, 2008 |
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#38 Tiffany & Co.
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Dec 06, 2008 |
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#71 Saks Fifth Avenue
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Dec 05, 2008 |
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#37 Henry Ward Beecher and Plymouth Church
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Nov 30, 2008 |
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#36 Life In British New York 1776-1783
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Nov 29, 2008 |
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#35 The British Invasion 1776
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Nov 29, 2008 |
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#34 Katz Delicatessen
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Nov 29, 2008 |
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#33 The World's Fair of 1964-65
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Nov 29, 2008 |
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#32 Museum of Modern Art
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Nov 26, 2008 |
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#31 Battery Park and Castle Clinton
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Nov 23, 2008 |
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#30 Peter Cooper and Cooper Union
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Nov 23, 2008 |
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#70 The Bowery Files
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Nov 21, 2008 |
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#29 Brooklyn Bridge
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Nov 18, 2008 |
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#28 One Times Square
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Nov 15, 2008 |
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#69 The Plaza Hotel
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Nov 14, 2008 |
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#27 Radio City Music Hall
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Nov 02, 2008 |
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#26 Flatiron Building
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Nov 01, 2008 |
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#68 New York City Marathon
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Oct 31, 2008 |
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#25 The Original Bowery Boys
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Oct 26, 2008 |
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#24 The Copacabana
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Oct 26, 2008 |
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#23 Macy's : the Man, the Store, the Parade
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Oct 25, 2008 |
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#67 Guggenheim Museum
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Oct 24, 2008 |
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#22 Staten Island
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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#21 The Astors and the Waldorf-Astoria
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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#20 United Nations Headquarters
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Oct 19, 2008 |
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#19 Washington Irving
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Oct 18, 2008 |
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#66 Who Killed Mary Rogers?
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Oct 17, 2008 |
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#18 Ghost Stories of New York City
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Oct 16, 2008 |
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#17 New York Public Library
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Oct 13, 2008 |
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#16 Statue of Liberty
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Oct 13, 2008 |
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#15 The Apollo Theater
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Oct 12, 2008 |
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#14 Peter Stuyvesant
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Oct 12, 2008 |
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#65 Spooky Stories of New York
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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#13 Coney Island: 20th Century Sideshow
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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#12 Coney Island: The Golden Age
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Oct 07, 2008 |
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#11 The Chrysler Building
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Oct 06, 2008 |
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#10 Central Park Zoo
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Oct 05, 2008 |
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#9 St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
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Oct 05, 2008 |
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#8 Dakota Apartments and 'Rosemary's Baby'
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Oct 05, 2008 |
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#7 Washington Square Park
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Oct 04, 2008 |
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#6 Governors Island
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Oct 04, 2008 |
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#5 Blackout
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Oct 04, 2008 |
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#64 Green-Wood Cemetery
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Oct 03, 2008 |
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#63 New York Stock Exchange
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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#62 Shea Stadium
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#61 The Pan Am Building
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#60 Five Points: The Fate of Five Points
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#59 Five Points: Wicked Slum
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#57 Carnegie Hall
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#56 Randall's Island and the 1936 Olympic Trials
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#55 The Evolution of Central Park
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#54 The Creation of Central Park
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#53 The Meatpacking District: Glamour and Gore
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#52 DeWitt Clinton and the Erie Canal
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#51 McSorley's Old Ale House
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Sep 19, 2008 |
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#50 Canal Street and Collect Pond
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Sep 19, 2008 |