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Wondery Presents: The Apology Line
If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Ma…
5 years, 2 months ago
#349 The Queensboro Bridge and the Rise of a Borough
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in …
5 years, 2 months ago
Rewind: The Destruction of Penn Station
To celebrate the opening of Moynihan Train Hall, a new commuters' wing at Penn Station catering to both Amtrak and Long Island Railroad train passeng…
5 years, 2 months ago
Rewind: The Construction of Penn Station
On January 1, 2021 Moynihan Train Hall officially opens to the public, a new commuters' wing catering to both Amtrak and Long Island Railroad train p…
5 years, 3 months ago
#348 Cheers! The Stories of Four Fabulous Cocktails
It's the happiest of hours! The tales of four fabulous cocktails invented or made famous in New York City's saloons, cocktail lounges, restaurants an…
5 years, 3 months ago
Rewind: Historic Vaccines -- The End of Polio and Smallpox
We released the following show on the history of vaccines back in early April 2020 when the idea of a COVID 19 vaccine seemed little more than distan…
5 years, 3 months ago
#347 Steam Heat! A Gilded Age Miracle
It's HOT in the city even during the coldest winter months, thanks to the most elemental of resources -- steam heat.
This is the story of the innovat…
5 years, 3 months ago
The City in Flames - The Great Fire of 1835
PODCAST This month marks the 185th anniversary of one of the most devastating disasters in New York City history -- The Great Fire of 1835.
This mass…
5 years, 4 months ago
#346 The Beatles Invade New York!
How Beatlemania both energized and paralyzed New York City in the mid 1960s as told by the women who screamed their hearts out and helped build a phe…
5 years, 4 months ago
Rewind: The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary
An account of a mysterious typhoid fever outbreak from the early 20th century and the woman — Mary Mallon, the so-called Typhoid Mary — at the center…
5 years, 4 months ago