Our podcasts #120 NYC and the Birth of the Movies and #127 The Civil War Draft Riots and were our most popular shows of the year, but our most downloaded show of 2011 was recorded in December 2010 -- #118 Times Square.
We both would like to thank everybody for listening in this past year! And we look forward to bringing you new tales of the city in 2012. Also, if everything falls in place, we'll be doing our first real expansion into different media next year.
This is also my 1,000 post for the Bowery Boys: New York City History blog. Onward to 2,000!
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Blog page: Building blocks: The Commissioners Plan of 1811, inventing a New York grid of streets and avenues
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Blog page: Welcome to 1864! A 24-karat hoax, New York's first theme restaurant, and a Confederate plot to torch the city
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Blog page: Manhattan's Chinatown: A tribute to the old neighborhood, and to the temptations of rich delicacies and basement vices
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Blog page: Haunted Histories of New York: What horrors lie beneath the foundations of the city's treasured landmarks?
#131 The First Apartment Building
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Blog page: The Stuyvesant, New York's first apartment building: Imported luxury style for a new middle class
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Blog page: Electric New York: From gaslight to Edison's Pearl Street Station, illuminating the shadows, re-visualizing the night
