The Bowery Boys: New York City History

PODCAST The mysterious disappearance of a young woman becomes one of the most talked-about events over one hundred years ago. The young socialite Dorothy Arnold seemingly led a charmed and privil...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/11/disappearance-dorothy-arnold-one-new-yorks-strangest-mysteries.html

Our first ghost stories show was released on October 11, 2007, featuring New York City’s famous haunted tales and urban legends (with historical context). Since that time we have released seven...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/10/bowery-boys-halloween-specials-complete-haunted-collection.html

Tickets for this year’s Bowery Boys Ghost Stories of Old New York show at Joe’s Pub are now sale over at the Joe’s Pub website.  Tom and Greg return to Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater w...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/10/the-bowery-boys-live-ghost-stories-of-new-york-tickets-now-on-sale.html

PODCAST This episode focuses on the special relationship between New York City and Puerto Rico, via the tales of pioneros, the first migrants to make the city their home and the many hundreds of ...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/10/nuyorican-the-great-puerto-rican-migration-to-new-york.html

In 1886, during a miles-long parade celebrating the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, office workers in lower Manhattan began heaving ticker tape out the windows, creating a magical, blizzard-...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/10/the-history-of-the-ticker-tape-parade-a-very-new-york-way-to-celebrate.html

 On January 1, 1898, Greater New York was formed from the union of two cities – New York and Brooklyn, along with other towns and villages of the region, creating the five boroughs we know and...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/10/ghost-stories-of-the-five-boroughs.html

New York City has its fair share of famous ‘urban legends’ — persistent rumors, too good to be true, often macabre and dark.  No, we’re not talking about just about ghost stories. (Those...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/09/urban-legends-of-new-york-city-alligators-maniacs-and-aliens-oh-my.html

Free event at Rockefeller Center! Join Greg Young from the Bowery Boys on Wednesday, September 18, at 6pm as he moderates a conversation with Victoria Johnson, author of American Eden: David Hosa...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/09/inside-american-eden-a-special-talk-at-rockefeller-center-with-victoria-johnson.html

Ida Wood had a secret. Born Ida Mayfield in New Orleans, Ida moved to New York in the 1850s and through her marriage to Benjamin Wood, publisher of the New York Daily News, she entered society. ...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/09/podcast-the-recluse-of-herald-square-the-mystery-of-ida-wood.html

You better clean your room or you’ll end up like the Collyer Brothers. New York City, a city crammed of 8.6 million people. It’s filled with stories of people who just want to be left alone â...

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/09/house-of-mystery-the-story-of-the-collyer-brothers.html