#Gowanus 83

[eslieber]

Bass Guitar 83/365 #Hipstamatic #Lumière #DTypePlate #Standard (at Gowanus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqPShI4tKR1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jakganim]

92 truths

Rules: Answer these 92 statements and tag people!

tagged by my smol child @artist-aroha​

if you have a lot of time on your hands, this is the post for you :’)

THE LAST: 1. Drink: hot water 2. Phone call: called my dad to pick me up from a train station lmao 3. Text Message: “home~ good night get home safe!” @ my manager LOL 4. Song you listened to: love don’t hurt (feat. amber) - shannon 5. Time you cried: i cry easily but usually it’s just like me tearing up and shit but i don’t like straight up bawl that often. last time i teared up was literally two hours ago while driving home i was singing this song at the top of my lungs and it reminded me of some sad times LMAO. last time i cRIED like really cried. i can’t remember. but no more than a few months ago.

HAVE YOU: 6. Dated someone twice: sort of? idk if it counts, we were like 14...  7. Kissed someone and regretted it: nah 8. Been cheated on: yeah??? it’s the same guy from when i was 14. it was a weird time ok LOL 9. Lost someone special: yes 10. Been depressed: yes 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: nope

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLOURS:

12-14. pastel yellow (or well just yellow in general), peach, anddddd maybe sky blue?

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU: 15. Made new friends: yes :’)) and i love them very much. 16. Fallen out of love: no lmao didn’t exactly fall in love so i meannn 17. Laughed until you cried: heck yeah :’) 18. Found out someone was talking about you: yeah 19. Met someone who changed you: everyone i meet affects me in some way. but it’s rare to find someone who significantly changes me. i’d say i’ve found people who are at that halfway point. they’ve truly made an impact on me. but i do not feel as though i have changed in any huge way. 20. Found out who your friends are: well. i’ve known who my friends are. but sometimes i get to rediscover. so yes. 21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: if by fb list you mean like my friend list then yes.

GENERAL: 22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: all of them. 23. Do you have any pets: yes a dog and her name is brody and i love her very much 24. Do you want to change your name: my name isn’t legally jordan. so technically yes. but i only go by jordan so would i change my name to something other than jordan? no. 25. What did you do for your last Birthday: i held a semi awkward party at my house bcos my parents were adamant about inviting my cousins and my family friends to the same gathering and they’re two very different groups of people so i find it difficult to cater to them both at once. but it was a good time nevertheless. 26. What time did you wake up: around 9:30 ish. but i slept again and didn’t get out of bed til noon. 27. What were you doing at midnight last night: trying to sleep 28. Name something you can’t wait for: astro’s next comeback. 29. When was the last time you saw your mum: today 30. What is the one thing you wish you could change in your life: i don’t know if there’s anything i’d really want to change. unless that includes just being able to attain the things that i want. 31. What are you listening to right now: the rain 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: lmao yes i have a friend named tom. 33. Something that is getting on your nerves: spanish 1002 34. Most visited Website: idk maybe youtube, maybe tumblr

LOST QUESTIONS. I JUST PUT IN A RANDOM INFO ABOUT ME: 35. Mole/s: nope 36. Mark/s: i have lots of random tiny birthmarks and i also have freckles lol. most noticeable mark is a little one on my upper lip and another lil one on my left thigh. 37. Childhood dream: i wanted to be a singer, a musician, an artist. i wanted to be talented and have what it took to showcase it. it’s not much but, in a way, i’m living that out now in my a cappella group. i may never be a kpop star or whatever, but i still get to perform and that’s enough now i guess. 38. Haircolour: just my natural dark hair. basically black. 39: Long or short hair: short 40. Do you have a crush on someone: i don’t think so lmao 41. What do you like about yourself: my resilience. 42. Piercings: 7 43. Bloodtype: i still don’t know, can you fuckin believe. i need to go get a blood test done just for health purposes like good lord. 44. Nickname: my brother calls me gowanus. it’s complicated LOL 45. Relationship status: single 46. Zodiac: pisces 47. Pronouns: they/them (but i also don’t care if you use he/him or she/her) 48. Favorite TV Show: ok but... the last airbender... LOL ok but if we’re not talking cartoons i’m gonna go with classic friends or how i met your mother 49. Tattoos: 1 50. Right or left hand: Right 51. Surgery: nope 52. Hair dyed in different color: brown, dark red, blue streak. 53. Sport: i was on the swim team once but don’t be mistaken, i was doing it for fun i’m a slow swimmer i never competed at meets i just went to scream my voice away and cheer for my team. but i liked soccer?  56. Pair of trainers: is this a yes or no question?

MORE GENERAL: 57. Eating: nothing rn 58: Drinking: nothing rn 59. I’m about to: go the fuck to sleep 60. Waiting for: this semester to be over already 61. Want: to do what i love for a living 62. Get married: depends 63. Career: if i get what i want i’ll be into event production/concert touring

WHICH IS BETTER: 65. Hugs or kisses: hugs 66. Lips or eyes: eyes 67. Shorter or taller: i don’t really care but i like being the same height or taller than the other person 68. Older or younger: doesn’t matter 69. it’s honestly an incredibly inefficient position imo, would not do 70. Nice arms or nice stomach: idk? i don’t really have a preference 71. Sensitive or loud: both, because i’m both and they gotta be able to keep up. 72. Hook up or relationship: relationship 73. Troublemaker or hesitant: in the middle

HAVE YOU EVER: 74. Kissed a stranger: nope 75. Drank hard liquor: yeah 76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: nope 77. Turned someone down: yeah 78. Sex on the first date: nope 79. Broken someone’s heart: yeah 80. Had your heart broken: yeah 81: Been arrested: nope 82: Cried when someone died: yeah 83. Fallen for a friend: yeah

DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 84. Yourself: yeah 85. Miracles: yeah 86. Love at first sight: err no? i believe in attraction at first sight lmao 87. Santa Claus: nope 88. Kiss on the first date: idk, it’s not really my thing but in terms of whether i “believe in” it or not, i literally don’t fucking care LOL 89. Angels: nope

OTHER: 90. Current best friends name: julia 91. Eye color: light brown 92. Favorite movie: idk if i have ONE favorite movie ya know? but i always enjoy watching tangled and how to train your dragon. they make me laugh :’)

tagging: whoever the fuck wants to sit through 92 of these fucking questions i kind of wish i just went to bed but no, so now congrats to my followers for knowing 92 more useless things about me :’)))

[jutetower8-blog]

Every Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast in chronological order by subject

Twelve years ago (officially on June 19, 2007) we recorded the very first Bowery Boys podcast, appropriately about Canal Street, the street just outside our windows.  

We cannot have possibly imagined on that hot June night, wielding only a bad microphone, a new laptop and some reasonably interesting information about a terribly polluted water source, that would still be doing this, stronger than ever.

Thank you listeners and readers for helping us celebrate almost four hundred years of history in the past twelve. We have so many exciting things on the way for 2019.

Here’s a new way to experience our old podcasts. Below is our entire list of shows, placed in a particular chronological order, based on a critical date in that subject’s history.

Viewing our back catalog of podcasts in this fashion, we hope that you can really start seeing the entire history of New York City emerging. Naturally there are some blatant holes in our coverage that we hope to close up in future shows.

So enjoy! And thank you all again.

You can find our podcasts anyplace. Read here for more information on where you can find our shows.

DUTCH AND ENGLISH PERIOD

#206 The Lenape: The Real Native New Yorkers (Pre 1609 inhabitants)

#83 Henry Hudson and the European Discovery of Mannahatta (1609 – Hudson sails into the harbor)

#272 Life in New Amsterdam (1624 First permanent European on Manhattan Island)

#212 Bronx Trilogy: The Bronx Is Born (1639 Jonas Bronck sets up a farm on what would be called the Bronx River)

#267 Broadway: The Story of a Street (1642 First mention of the street in Dutch documents)

#273 Peter Stuyvesant and the Fall of New Amsterdam (1647 Stuyvesant arrives)

#22 Staten Island (1680 Conference House built)

#228 The Pirate of Pearl Street: The New York Adventures of Captain Kidd (1690 Kidd moves to New York)

#97 Trinity Church (1698 First Trinity Church opens)

#149 John Peter Zenger and the Power of the Press (1735 Zenger trial)

#90 Columbia University (1754 King’s College established)

#115 African Burial Ground (Mid 18th century — Burials begin in area south of Collect Pond)

REVOLUTION

#121 Fraunces Tavern (1762 Samuel Fraunces opens tavern)

#266 New York City During the Revolutionary War (1776-1783)

#201 GOWANUS! Brooklyn’s Troubled Waters (1776 Battle of Brooklyn)

#191 The Great Fire of 1776 (1776 Fire at the Fighting Cocks Tavern)

#157 Early Ghost Stories of Old New York (1778 Mohican tribe fighting for the Continental Army slaughtered)

NEW YORK IN THE NEW NATION

#220 George Washington’s New York Inauguration (1789)

#221 New York: Capital City of the United States (1789-1790)

#63 New York Stock Exchange (1792 Buttonwood Agreement)

#240 Ghosts of Greenwich Village (1797 The area of today’s Washington Square becomes a potter’s field)

#112 Archibald Gracie and His Mansion (1799 Mansion constructed)

#138: St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery (1799 Chapel opens)

#239 Murder at the Manhattan Well (1799 Elma Sands is murdered)

##65 Spooky Stories of New York (1799 Featuring the ‘ghost story’ version of the tale above, among other tales)

#41 New York Post (1801 Alexander Hamilton establishes the paper)

#19 Washington Irving (1802 Irving begins writing)

#169 DUEL! Aaron Burr vs. Alexander Hamilton (1804 The infamous duel between Burr and Hamilton)

# #185 Adventures in Governors Island (1807 Castle Williams constructed)

#258 Tales from Tribeca History (1807 St. John’s Chapel and the first ‘upscale’ neighborhood are created)

#31 Battery Park and Castle Clinton (1808 Castle Clinton constructed)

#9 St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral (1809 Cathedral begins construction)

#50 Canal Street and Collect Pond (1811 Collect Pond is filled)

# #163 South Street Seaport (1811 Schermerhorn Row counting houses constructed)

# #93 City Hall and City Hall Park (1811 City Hall constructed)

#40 Union Square (1815 Union Place opened)

#145 Bicycle Mania! From Velocipede to Ten-Speed (1819 First bicycle on the streets of New York)

NEW YORK, NEW WEALTH

#152 Bellevue Hospital (1821 Hospital opens)

#52 DeWitt Clinton and the Erie Canal (1825 Canal opens)

#230 Before Harlem: New York’s Forgotten Black Communities (1825 Seneca Village founded)

#7 Washington Square Park (1826 City buys potter’s field to create a military parade ground)

# #70 The Bowery Files (1826 – Bowery Theatre opens)

#252 The Underground Railroad: Escape Through New York (1826 David Ruggles moves to New York)

#58 Delmonico’s Restaurant (1827 First restaurant opens)

#142 New York University (NYU) (1831 College founded on Washington Square)

#193 St. Mark’s Place: Party In The East Village (1831 Hamilton-Holly house constructed)

#241 Edgar Allan Poe in New York (1831 Poe moves to New York)

#91 Haunted Tales of New York (1832 Merchant’s House built)

#171 The Keys to Gramercy Park (1833 Gramercy Park enclosed with a private fence)

#94 Corlear’s Hook and the Pirates of the East River (1833 First tenement built in the Hook)

#140 Rockaway Beach (1833 Marine Pavilion opens)

#224 The Arrival of the Irish: An Immigrant Story (1830s)

#113 Niblo’s Garden (1834 William Niblo opens the theater)

#208 Great Hoaxes of New York (1835 The Moon Hoax runs in the New York Sun)

#78 The Great Fire of 1835

#211 The Notorious Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue (1836 Ann Lohman begins work)

#222 Who Killed Helen Jewett? A Mystery By Gaslight (1836 Jewett murdered that Spring)

#59 Five Points: Wicked Slum (1837 Old Brewery becomes a slum)

#38 Tiffany & Co. (1837 Tiffany’s first opens)

#64 Green-Wood Cemetery (1838 Cemetery opens in Brooklyn)

#291 The Tombs: Five Points’ Notorious House of Detention (1838 Prison opens)

#82 Roosevelt Island (1839 – Lunatic asylum opens)

#242 New York and the Dawn of Photography (1839 John Draper and his sister Dorothy Catherine first work on the photographic process at NYU)

#130 Haunted Histories of New York (1841 – Most Holy Trinity in Bushwick constructed)

#46 Barnum’s American Museum (1841 Museum opens)

#66 Who Killed Mary Rogers? (1841 Rogers is murdered)

#143 Water for New York: Croton Aqueduct (1842 Croton Aqueduct opens)

NEW YORK: THE GROWING CITY

#133 Red Hook: Brooklyn on the Waterfront (1847 Atlantic Basin constructed)

#37 Henry Ward Beecher and Plymouth Church (1847 Beecher moves to Brooklyn)

#281 The Treasures of Downtown Brooklyn (1848 Brooklyn City Hall constructed)

#289 Blood and Shakespeare: The Astor Place Riot (1849 Riot erupts outside Astor Place Opera House)

#160 Tompkins Square Park (1850 Park opens)

#181 Park Slope and the Story of Brownstone Brooklyn (1850s Edwin Litchfield purchases parcels of land in South Brooklyn)

#75 Williamsburg(h), Brooklyn (1852 City of Williamsburgh)

#178: The Crystal Palace: America’s First World’s Fair (1853 Crystal Palace opens)

#92 Steinway: the Piano Man (1853 Henry Steinway opens first shop in Manhattan)

#117 Mark Twain’s New York (1853 Young Mark Twain first visits New York)

#60 Five Points Part Two: The Fate of Five Points (1953 New Mission replaces the Old Brewery)

#51 McSorley’s Old Ale House (1854 Tavern opens)

#25 The Original Bowery Boys (1855 Death of Bowery Boys leader Bill the Butcher)

#283 Walt Whitman in New York and Brooklyn (1855 Whitman first publishes Leaves of Grass)

#103: Case Files of the NYPD (1857 Infamous police riot between Municipals and Metropolitans)

#54 The Creation of Central Park (1857 Park opens)

#232 The Story of SoHo (1857 E.V. Haugtwout’s emporium opens)

#276 Murder on Bond Street (1857 Harvey Burdell is murdered)

#134 St. Patrick’s Cathedral (1858 Cornerstone laid)

#30 Peter Cooper and Cooper Union (1858 Cooper Union begins construction)

#23 Macy’s : the Man, the Store, the Parade (1858 Rowland Macy opens first store)

#129 Chinatown (1858 First Chinese resident of New York documented)

#268 The Astonishing Saga of the Atlantic Cable (1858 First communications made)

#126 Fernando Wood: The Scoundrel Mayor (1860 Wood becomes mayor of New York)

#139 Brooklyn Academy of Music (1861 Academy opens)

#285 Boss Tweed’s House of Corruption (1861 Construction begins on the courthouse)

#286 Uncovering Hudson Yards (1861 Abraham Lincoln first arrives in New York via the Hudson River Railroad)

#183 Orchard Street: Life On The Lower East Side (1863 Construction of 97 Orchard Street)

#127 The Civil War Draft Riots (1863 Summer of Draft Riots)

#10 Central Park Zoo (1864 Menagerie opens)

#128 Hoaxes and Conspiracies of 1864 (1864 Confederate fires set in November)

NEW YORK: BEGINNING THE GILDED AGE

The Bowery Boys Presents: The First Musical (1866 The Black Crook debuts)

#84 Prospect Park (1867 Park opens to the public)

#141 New York Beer History (1867 George Ehret opens brewery)

#102 Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach (1868 – First resort in Brighton Beach)

#274 Ghost Stories of Hell’s Kitchen (1868 Landmark Tavern opens)

#114 Supernatural Stories of New York (1869 – Hart Island first used as a potter’s field)

#131 The First Apartment Building (1869 Stuyvesant Apartments constructed)

#207 The First Subway: Beach’s Pneumatic Marvel (1869 Alfred Ely Beach builds under Broadway)

#161 Fire Department of New York (FDNY) (1870 City-funded fire team founded)

#238 Astoria and Long Island City (1870Long Island City becomes an official municipality)

#177 The Big History of Little Italy (1870s Italian immigrants began arriving in large numbers)

#86 Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall (1871 Boss Tweed arrested)

#45 Grand Central (1871 Grand Central Depot opens)

#198 Greenpoint, Brooklyn: An Industrial Strength History (1874 Faber Pencil Factory opens)

#270 Heaven on the Hudson: A History of Riverside Park (1875 Riverside Park first opens)

#116 American Museum of Natural History (1877 First portion of museum opens)

#215 Ghosts of the Gilded Age (1877 Mysterious body found in an abandoned Queens farmhouse)

#107 New York’s Elevated Railroads (1878 First regular elevated railroad in service)

#172 Ghost Stories of Brooklyn (1878 Reports of a ghostly doorbell in Clinton Hill)

NEW YORK: CITY OF INNOVATION

#99 Madison Square Garden (1879 First Madison Square Garden opens)

#8 Dakota Apartments and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (1880 Dakota begins construction)

#167 Cleopatra’s Needle and the Freemasons Secret (1881 Obelisk erected in Central Park)

#186 Hell’s Kitchen: New York’s Wild West (1881 Incident at Hell’s Kitchen tenement)

#225 P. T. Barnum and the Greatest Show on Earth (1881 Barnum and Bailey Circus formed)

#132 Electric New York: Edison and the City Lights (1882 Pearl Street Station opened)

#108 Cable Cars, Trolleys and Monorails (1883 New York’s first cable car system)

#29 Brooklyn Bridge (1883 Bridge completed)

#261 The Huddled Masses: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty (1883 Lazarus writes poem)

#89 Chelsea Hotel (1883-5 Hotel is constructed as a cooperative)

#79 The Whyos: Gang of New York (1884 Whyos list of ‘killing prices’ published)

#179 The Fight for Bryant Park (1884 Park renamed for William Cullen Bryant)

#275 Return to Tin Pan Alley: Saving American Music History (1885 First music publishers move to West 28th Street)

#81 The Puck Building: “What Fools These Mortals Be!” (1885 Puck Building constructed)

#34 Katz Delicatessen (1886 Deli opens as the Iceland Brothers)

#73 Webster Hall “The Devil’s Playhouse” (1886 Webster Hall completed)

#16 Statue of Liberty (1886 Statue dedicated)

#194 Nellie Bly – Undercover In the Madhouse (1887 Nellie goes to the asylum)

#269 Harry Houdini and the Golden Age of Magic in New York (1887 The future Harry Houdini moves to New York)

#148 Frozen In Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888 (1888 The blizzard hits)

#203 Nikola Tesla In New York (1888 Westinghouse licenses Tesla patents)

#216 Edwin Booth and the Players Club (1888 Booth forms the Players Club in Gramercy Park)

#169 The Tallest Building In New York: A Short History (1890 Construction of the New York World Building)

#213 Bronx Trilogy: The Bronx Is Building (1890 Construction begins on the Grand Concourse)

#256 DUMBO: Life on Brooklyn’s Waterfront (1890 Robert Gair invents the cardboard box)

# #57 Carnegie Hall (1891 Hall opens)

#120 NYC and the Birth of the Movies (1892 First Kinetoscope parlor)

#88 Ellis Island (1892 Immigration station opens)

#237 Columbus Circle: A Century of Controversy (1892 Columbus Circle opens)

#262 Secrets of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1892 Work begins on the cathedral)

NEW YORK: CITY OF SCANDALS

#21 The Astors and the Waldorf-Astoria  #244 The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions (1893 Waldorf Hotel Opens)

#146 Herald Square (1894 New offices for the New York Herald)

#165 Ladies’ Mile (1896 Siegel-Cooper Department Store opens)

#87 The Kings of New York Pizza (1897 Lombardi’s Pizza opens)

#47 Grants Tomb (1897 Tomb completed)

#189 TAXI: History of the New York City taxicab (1897 first electric taxis)

#150 Consolidation! Five Boroughs, One Big City (1898 Five boroughs created)

#71 Saks Fifth Avenue (1898 Store founded)

#101 The Bronx Zoo (1899 Zoo opens)

#251 McGurk’s Suicide Hall (1899 – McGurk’s earns its grim nickname)

#219 Newsies on Strike! (1899 Strike freezes newspaper delivery)

#290 Bagels: A New York Story (1900s First bagel unions established)

#159 The Broadway Musical: Setting the Stage (1901 Florodora opens)

#184 The Flatiron Building: A Story from Three Sides (1902 Flatiron constructed)

#259 Crossing to Brooklyn: How the Williamsburg Bridge Changed New York (1903 Bridge opens)

#166 General Slocum Disaster 1904 

#12 Coney Island: The Golden Age (1904 Dreamland opens)

#109 New York City Subway, Part 1: Birth of the IRT  #253 Opening Day of the New York Subway (1904 — First subway opens)

#28 One Times Square (1904 New York Times opens new headquarters)

#118 Times Square (1904 – New York Times opens new headquarters)

#106 Staten Island Ferry (1905 – New York takes over private ferry service)

#188 The Murder of Stanford White (1906 White is killed at MSG)

#190 The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary (1906 Mary gets a job in Oyster Bay)

NEW YORK AT THE END OF THE GILDED AGE

#245 The Fall of the Fifth Avenue Mansions (1906 B. Altman’s department store opens on Fifth Avenue)

#69 The Plaza Hotel (1907 Hotel opens)

#74 The Ziegfeld Follies (1907 The first Follies)

#284 Scott Joplin in New York: A Ragtime Mystery (1907 Joplin moves to New York)

#279 A New Year in Old New York: From Times Square to Chinatown (1907 – first Times Square ball drop)

#98 Manhattan Bridge (1909 Bridge opens)

#280 House of Mystery: The Story of the Collyer Brothers (1909 The Collyer family moves to Harlem)

#180 The Chelsea Piers and the Age of the Ocean Liner (1910 – Chelsea Piers constructed)

#205 The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold (1910 – Dorothy Disappears)

#80 Pennsylvania Station (1910 – Penn Station opens)

#42: The Triangle Factory Fire (1911 Disaster occurs in March)

#17 New York Public Library (1911 Main branch opens)

#271 Counter Culture: Diners, Automats and Luncheonettes in New York (1912 — The first automat opens in NYC)

#147 Art Insanity: The Armory Show of 1913 (1913 — Exhibition debuts)

#110 New York City Subway, Part 2: By the Numbers (and Letters) (1913 — The Dual Contracts agreement inspired subway growth)

#158 Hotel Theresa: The Waldorf of Harlem (1913 — Hotel constructed)

#156 The Boy Mayor of New York (1913 – Mitchel elected mayor)

#76 Woolworth Building (1913 — Woolworth Building completed)

#249 Madam C.J. Walker: Harlem’s Hair Care Millionaire (1913 Walker opens her first salon in Harlem)

#39 New York Yankees (1913 Highlanders renamed the Yankees)

#263 Ebbets Field and the Glory Days of the Brooklyn Dodgers (1913 Ebbets Field opens)

#202 The Lower East Side: A Culinary History (1914 – Russ & Daughters opens)

#226 Beauty Bosses of Fifth Avenue (1915 – Rubinstein opens her first shop)

#199 Battle For The Skyline: How High Can It Go (1916 – Zoning Law)

#197 Danger In The Harbor: The Black Tom Explosion (1916 – Explosion Occurs)

NEW YORK IN THE JAZZ AGE

#223 The Algonquin Round Table (1919)

#264 The Landmarks of Coney Island (1920 Wonder Wheel opens)

#144 Mysteries and Magicians of New York (1920 – Joseph Rinn debunks spiritualists at Carnegie Hall)

#137 NYC and the World of Radio (1920 – First radio station)

#18 Ghost Stories of New York City (1920 Showgirl Olive Thomas commits suicide)

#243 New York In Neon: Signs of the City (1920s The first neon signs in NYC)

#265 Absolutely Flawless: A History of Drag in New York (1920s Harlem drag balls draw thousands of spectators)

#125 Sardi’s Restaurant (1921 – Sardi’s opens for business)

#196 Ready to Wear: A History of the Garment District (1920s – Moves from LES to Midtown)

#100 Robert Moses (1922 Robert Moses begins work on New York City parks)

#192 Haunted Landmarks of New York (1923 – John Campbell leases his Apartment in Grand Central)

#260 Journey to Grey Gardens: A Tale of Two Edies (1924 — The Beales move to the Grey Gardens estate)

#153 NYC and the Birth of Television (1925 – First television broadcast from Roosevelt Hotel)

#174 American Kicks: A History of the Rockettes (1925 – Dance troupe founded in St. Louis)

#233 The Roaring ’20s: King of the Jazz Age (1926 Jimmy Walker becomes Mayor of New York

#170 The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino (1926 – Rudolph Valentino dies)

#182 Mae West, “Sex” on Broadway (1926 – The play ‘Sex’ opens)

#204 The Cotton Club: Aristocrat of Harlem (1927 – Duke Ellington debuts)

#234 Queen of the Speakeasies: A Tale of Prohibition New York (1928 Texas Guinan arrested for operating a speakeasy)

#32 Museum of Modern Art (1929 Museum established)

#278: Newark vs. LaGuardia: A Tale of Two Airports (1929 Newark Airport opens)

#235 The Crash of ’29: New York In Crisis (1929 stock market crashes)

#11 The Chrysler Building (1930 Building completed)

#162 George Washington Bridge (1931 – GWB opened)

# #209 The Waldorf-Astoria’s Complicated History (1931 Hotel opens)

#250 The Empire State Building: Story of an Icon (1931 Empire State Building opens)

NEW YORK DURING THE DEPRESSION

#44 Rikers Island (1932 Jail opens)

#27 Radio City Music Hall (1932 Opening night)

#55 The Evolution of Central Park (1934 New York Parks Department created)

#15 The Apollo Theater (1934 Vaudeville house becomes the Apollo)

#53 Glamour and Gore: The Meatpacking District (1934 Elevated railway opens)

#135 The High Line (1934 Elevated railway opens)

#136 High Line Walking Tour (1934 Elevated railway opens)

#56 Randall’s Island (1936 Jesse Owens wins the Olympic trials)

#227 The Hindenburg Over New York (1937 The zeppelin crashes in New Jersey)

#187 Super City: New York and the History of Comic Books (1938 – Action Comics debuts)

#96 The Cloisters and Fort Tryon Park (1938 – Cloisters Museum opens)

# 49 LaGuardia Airport and Early New York Flight (1939 New York Municipal Airport opens)

#288 The World of Tomorrow: The New York World’s Fair of 1939

#72 Rockefeller Center (1939 Opens to the public)

#176 Billie Holiday’s New York (1939 – Billie Holiday sings “Strange Fruit”)

#24 The Copacabana (1940 Club opens)

#247 Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Golden Age of Broadway (1943 Oklahoma! opens on Broadway)

NEW YORK POST-WAR

#13 Coney Island: 20th Century Sideshow (1944 Luna Park damaged in fire)

#154 New York in the Golden Age of Television (1947 – Howdy Doody first broadcast

#124 Idlewild/JFK Airport (1948 — New York International Airport opens)

#246 Tales from a Tenement: Three Families on the Lower East Side (1950s — The Epsteins move to Orchard Street)

#20 United Nations Headquarters (1952 Building Completed)

#85 Shakespeare in the Park (1954 — Festival founded by Joe Papp)

#67 Guggenheim Museum (1959 — Upper East Side museum opens its doors)

#218 Lincoln Center and West Side Story (1959 — Groundbreaking and construction begins)

#77 Freedomland U.S.A.: New York’s Weirdest Theme Park (1960 – Park opens in the Bronx)

#61 Pan Am Building (1960 Construction begins)

RADICAL NEW YORK

#287 Greenwich Village in the 1960s

#200 Jane Jacobs: Saving the Village (1961 – The Death and Life of Great American Cities)

#254 The Destruction of Penn Station (1963 — Penn Station demolished)

#277 The New York Comedy Scene: A Marvelous History (1963 — Budd Friedman opens The Improv)

#119 The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (1964 – Bridge opens)

#33 The World’s Fair of 1964-65 (1964 World’s Fair opens)

#173 Ruins of the World’s Fair: New York State Pavilion (1964 – World’s Fair opens)

#62 Shea Stadium (1964 – Stadium opens)

#292 Sip-In At Julius’: Gay New York in the 1960s (1966 Mattachine Society engages in the ‘sip in’)

#217 Truman Capote’s Black And White Ball (1967 Ball is held at the Plaza Hotel)

#155 Sesame Street to Seinfeld: NYC TV 1969-2013 (1969 – Sesame Street on the air)

#231 The Stonewall Riots (1969 Riots erupt in the early morning hours)

#236 Times Square in the 1970s (1970)

NEW YORK IN THE MODERN ERA

#68 New York City Marathon (1970 The first marathon)

#104 CBGB & OMFUG (1973 Hilly Kristal opens club)

#43 Studio 54 (1977 Disco opens)

#5 Blackout (1977 Blackout occurs)

#214 Bronx Trilogy: The Bronx Was Burning (1977 Game 2 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium)

#282 Taxi Driver (Bowery Boys Movie Club) (1978 Taxi Driver opens in theaters)

#255 The Rescue of Grand Central (1978 The fate of Grand Central heads to the Supreme Court)

#248 Sitting Down with Roz Chast (1978 Chast begins working at the New Yorker)

#123 TRUMP (1978 — Trump develops Grand Hyatt Hotel)

#210 Digital City: New York and the World of Video Games (1978 Space Invaders takes New York by storm)

#111 Subway Graffiti 1970-1989 (1980s – Koch cracks down on subway graffiti)

#151 The Limelight: Church, Nightclub and Mall (1983 Limelight Club opens)

Hurricane Sandy Update (2012)

#175 Bowery Boys 2014 Year In Review (2014)

#229 LIVE IN BROOKLYN! The Bowery Boys: Ten Years of Podcasting (2017)

Pictured at top:   That’s Midtown Manhattan! The American Horse Exchange at 1634 Broadway and 50th Street. Somebody did a great annotation of this photograph here

Source: http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2019/06/every-bowery-boys-podcast-chronological-order-subject.html

[michaelewood]

'Gowanus 83' is a comedy short I made 3 years ago at NYU for a directing class with John Hamburg. Co-written with my longtime friend Chris Arp in a few days, and then shot in just a few more, this film came together quickly and chaotically -- an experience that entirely mirrored the spirit of the film.

Thinking the project was mainly for fun, I originally released it online but then took it down to pursue a brief festival run where it won the Spirit Award at the 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival. The full film is now available online above and on my vimeo page. Enjoy!

[andyfliz]

Gowanus 83

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[michaelewood]

Gowanus 83 wins Spirit Award

Very excited to report that Gowanus 83 won the Spirit Award in the Narrative Shorts category at the 14th Annual Brooklyn Film Festival -- a special jury prize.

[michaelewood]

Gowanus at Brooklyn Film Festival

Gowanus 83 will premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival on June 10th and 11th. Looking forward to screening such a Brooklyn film at such a Brooklyn venue.

[michaelewood]

Gowanus 83

"Get the f*@k out the cab!!!" Finally getting around to cutting Gowanus 83, a short film I co-wrote with my buddy Chris Arp. Hoping to have an edit together by mid-January. More soon...