Please visit our page on Patreon and watch a short video of us recording the show and talking about our expansion plans. We are now a member of Patreon, a patronage platform where you can support your favorite content creators for as little as a $1 a month. We’re also looking to improve the show in other ways and expand in other ways as well - through publishing, social media, live events and other forms of media. We are now producing a new Bowery Boys podcast every two weeks. The Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast is brought to you …. PLUS: Captain Kidd’s startling connection to New York’s Trinity Church! And where in New York City might one find some of Captain Kidd’s fabled treasure today? This is the tale of how a dashing New York sea captain became branded (perhaps unfairly) as one of the most evil men of the ocean. And yet, for many years, he was a respectable New York gentleman, with connected friends, a wealthy wife and a sumptuous home on Pearl Street near the original wall of Wall Street.īut Kidd sought adventure as a privateer and made a deal with prominent New Yorkers to scour British trading routes for pirates. After all, the port of New York was far away from the supervision of the crown, providing local merchants with ample temptations to do business with the high sea’s most notorious criminals.Ĭaptain William Kidd is a figure of legend, the most ruthless and bloodthirsty pirate on the planet. In the early decades of the British colony of New York, the city was quite an appealing destination for pirates and their ships filled with stolen treasure. ![]() ![]() But did you know, over 300 years ago, that the same streets were once crawling with pirates? The area of Lower Manhattan below Wall Street is today filled with investment bankers, business people and tourists. PODCAST The tale of Captain William Kidd, a respectable New York citizen and landowner, and his transformation into the ruthless pirate of legend.
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