From the Bowery Boys website:

"Arguably New York's least conventional hotel, the Chelsea Hotel (or rather, the Hotel Chelsea) is the one of New York's counter-culture centers, a glamorous, art-filled Tower of Babel for both creativity and debauchery. From Mark Twain to Andy Warhol, it's been both inspiration and location for artistic wonder. We wind back the clock to the beginnings of Chelsea and to the hotel's early years as one of the city's cooperative apartment buildings. What made the Chelsea so different? And why are people still fighting over this storied structure today?"

From the Bowery Boys website:

"For millions of Americans, Ellis Island is the symbol of introduction, the immigrant depot that processed their ancestors and offered an opening into a new American life. But for some, it would truly be an 'Island of Tears,' a place where they would be excluded from that life. How did an island with such humble beginnings—'Little Oyster Island,' barely a sliver of land in the New York harbor—become so crucial? Who is the 'Ellis' of Ellis Island? And how did it survive decades of neglect to become one of New York's most famous tourist attractions?"

From the Bowery Boys website:

"New Yorkers are serious about their pizza, and it all started with a tiny grocery store in today's Little Italy and a group of young men who became the masters of pizza making. In this podcast, you'll find out all about the city's oldest and most revered pizzerias—Lombardi's, Totonno's, John's, Grimaldi's and Patsy's in all its variations. But if those are the greatest names in New York-style pizza, then who the heck is Ray—Original, Famous or otherwise?"

From the Bowery Boys website:

"You cannot understand New York without understanding its most corrupt politician—William 'Boss' Tweed, a larger than life personality with lofty ambitions to steal millions of dollars from the city. With the help of his 'Tweed Ring', the former chair-maker had complete control over the city—what was being built, how much it would cost and who was being paid. How do you bring down a corrupt government when it seems almost everybody's in on it? We reveal the downfall of the Tweed ring and the end to one of the biggest political scandals in New York history. It begins with a sleigh ride. ALSO: Find out how Tammany Hall, the dominant political machine of the 19th century, got its start—as a rather innocent social club that required men to dress up and pretend they're Indians."

From the BackStory website:

"Historian Peter Norton speaks with 20th Century History Guy Brian Balogh about how automobile companies in the 1920s managed to re-define streets as a space for cars, rather than pedestrians. And he explains the little-known history of the term 'jaywalker.'"

Greg Young and Tom Meyers describe the history of New York's Roosevelt Island, which once housed many of the city's prisons, mental institutions, and hospitals.

Rachel Quimby looks at the pop culture icon the Yellow Kid and the connection of this figure with yellow journalism.

In this podcast from the Bowery Boys, Greg Young narrates the history of New York's Puck Building, built to house the offices of the turn-of-the-century periodical Puck Magazine.

Greg Young of the Bowery Boys details the history of the New York Shakespeare Festival, more commonly known as Shakespeare in the Park. Originating in 1954, in workshops and free performances spearheaded by Joseph Papp, the festival now takes place yearly at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Young looks at Papps's struggle with park commissioner Robert Moses over holding the festival in Central Park, resulting in the construction of the Delacorte Theater in 1961, and at the recent history of the festival and at the actors who have participated in it.

Greg Young and Tom Meyers follow the 19th-century creation and development of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who had previously designed Central Park.