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Rewind: The American Museum of Natural History
Ancient space rocks, dinosaur fossils, anthropological artifacts and biological specimens are housed in New York's world famous natural history compl…
5 years, 7 months ago
#338 A New Deal for the Arts: Murals, Music and Theatrical Mayhem
PART 2 of our two-part podcast series, "A NEW DEAL FOR NEW YORK"
In this episode, we look at how one aspect of FDR's New Deal -- the WPA's Federal Pr…
5 years, 7 months ago
#337 Robert Moses and the Art of the New Deal
PART ONE of a two-part podcast series A NEW DEAL FOR NEW YORK. For Part One, we look at the impact FDR and New Deal funding had in shaping New York …
5 years, 7 months ago
Rewind: TESLA -- The Inventor in Old New York
The Serbian immigrant Nikola Tesla was among the Gilded Age's brightest minds, a visionary thinker and inventor who gave the world innovations in ele…
5 years, 7 months ago
#336 The War on Newspaper Row
The newspapers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst -- the New York World and the New York Journal -- were locked in a fierce competition f…
5 years, 7 months ago
#335 Pulitzer vs Hearst: The Rise of Yellow Journalism
In the 1890s, powerful New York publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst engaged in an all-out battle for readers of their respective n…
5 years, 8 months ago
Rewind: The Land of the Lenape
The story of the Lenape, the native people of New York Harbor region and their experiences with the first European arrivals — the explorers, the fur …
5 years, 8 months ago
#334 Midnight Cowboy (Bowery Boys Movie Club)
It's summer in the city, so we're re-issuing our Bowery Boys Movie Club podcast devoted to Midnight Cowboy, the 1969 buddy film starring Dustin Hoffm…
5 years, 8 months ago
Rewind: The Secret Origin of Comic Books
A history of the comic book industry in New York City, how the energy and diversity of the city influenced the burgeoning medium in the 1930s and 40s…
5 years, 8 months ago
#333 Tearing Down King George: The Monumental Summer of 1776
In New York City, during the tumultuous summer of 1776, the King of England lost his head.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, Colonial New York receive…
5 years, 9 months ago