Greg Young

1 month ago | shorturl.at | Greg Young

Calling all history geeks, New Yorkers and lovers of great storytelling! Greg is bringing you another edition of BOWERY BOYS HISTORY LIVE for July 2nd, 2025. And this time we’re headed to the fabulous City Winery in the Meat Packing District at Pier 57. Bowery Boys History Live is a storytelling cabaret of all-true tales and spellbinding secrets from the past, brought to you by a rotating roster of the city’s greatest historians.

1 month ago | boweryboyshistory.com | Greg Young

Calling all history geeks, New Yorkers and lovers of great storytelling! Greg is bringing you another edition of BOWERY BOYS HISTORY LIVE for July 2nd, 2025. And this time we’re headed to the fabulous City Winery in the Meat Packing District at Pier 57. Bowery Boys History Live is a storytelling cabaret of all-true tales and spellbinding secrets from the past, brought to you by a rotating roster of the city’s greatest historians.

1 month ago | boweryboyshistory.com | Greg Young

In 1939, Robert Moses sprung his latest project upon the world — the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge, connecting the tip of Manhattan to the Brooklyn waterfront, slicing through New York Harbor just to the north of Governor’s Island. To build it, Moses dictated that the historic Battery Park would need to be redesigned. And its star attraction the New York Aquarium would have to be demolished.

1 month ago | boweryboyshistory.com | Greg Young

When Prospect Park was first opened to the public in the late 1860s, the City of Brooklyn was proud to claim a landmark as beautiful and as peaceful as New York’s Central Park. But the superstar landscape designers — Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux — weren’t finished. This park came with two grand pleasure drives, wide boulevards that emanated from the north and south ends of the park.

2 months ago | boweryboyshistory.com | Greg Young

On October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford walked into a press conference at the National Press Club and, using more precise, more eloquent words than legend remembers, but in no uncertain terms, told New York City to drop dead. The following day the New York Daily News — the city’s first tabloid newspaper summarized his blunt, castigating speech into one succinct and memorable headline — FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. Of course, the president never actually said DROP DEAD.