Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRewind: When The Irish Came To New York
We just reedited and reworked our 2017 show on Irish immigration in time for St. Patrick’s Day and a celebration of all things Irish! So much has cha…
3 years ago
#406 How Wall Street Got Its Name
Wall Street, today a canyon of tall buildings in New York's historic Financial District, is not only one of the most famous streets in the United Sta…
3 years, 1 month ago
#405 Mona Lisa at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's stoic portrait and one of the most valuable paintings on earth, came to America during the winter of 1963, a single-pi…
3 years, 1 month ago
The First Woman Ever Photographed
Dorothy Catherine Draper is a truly forgotten figure in American history. She was the first woman to ever sit for a photograph — a daguerrotype, in t…
3 years, 1 month ago
#404 Nighthawks and Automats: Edward Hopper's New York
Within the New York City of Edward Hopper's imagination, the skyscrapers have vanished, the sidewalks are mysteriously wide and all the diners and Ch…
3 years, 2 months ago
#403 The Fulton Fish Market: History at the Seaport
In the 19th century, the Fulton Fish Market in downtown Manhattan was to seafood what the Chicago stock yards were to the meat industry, the primary …
3 years, 2 months ago
Rewind: A Bar Named Julius', New York's Newest Landmark
New York City has a new landmark, a little bar in the West Village named Julius', officially recognized by the New York City Landmarks Preservation C…
3 years, 2 months ago
#402 Treasures from the World's Fair
Flushing-Meadows Corona Park in the borough of Queens is the home of the New York Mets, the U.S. Open, the Queens Zoo, the New York Hall of Science a…
3 years, 2 months ago
Side Streets: Good Diners, Great Pizza and Mars 2112
Greg and Tom -- with some help from producer Kieran Gannon -- reflect nostalgically upon old New York City restaurants from the 1990s (Mars 2112, any…
3 years, 3 months ago
#401 The World Before Wordle: Talking Puzzles With AJ Jacobs
Crosswords, jigsaws, mazes, rebuses, Rubik's cubes, Myst, Words With Friends -- and now Wordle? Not only have people loved puzzles for centuries, the…
3 years, 3 months ago