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Thursday February 20, 2025

    7:00 PM

Bowery Boys Talks at the Montauk Club presented by Bowery Boys Walks

It is impossible to tell the story of New York City without telling the story of its newspapers, which have been chronicling and shaping the rise of Gotham almost from the city’s founding.

Newspaper publishing dates back to 1725, 60 years after New York became a British Colony, and 64 years before the First Amendment guaranteed the right to a free press.

This talk will be given by licensed New York City tour guide Michael Morgenthal, a former reporter and editor who has been fascinated by the New York Newspaper scene from the time of his first job, assembling the Sunday New York Times in his uncle’s store — he often says the ink seeped into his blood and never left!

We will see New York through the eyes of the legendary reporters, editors and publishers who shaped New York and the United States through their words, cartoons and photographs.

Please let us know if you plan to attend: rsvp@montaukclub.com