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#323 The Bowery Wizards: A History of Tattooed New York
EPISODE 323 Two tales from New York’s incredible history with tattooing.
The art of tattooing is as old as written language but it would require the …
5 years, 11 months ago
#322 Nickelodeons and Movie Palaces: New York and the Film Industry 1893-1920
EPISODE 322 The historic movie studio Kaufman Astoria Studios opened 100 years ago this year in Astoria, Queens. It remains a vital part of New York …
5 years, 11 months ago
#321 Lauren Bacall ... At Home At The Dakota Apartments
EPISODE 321 The Hollywood icon and Broadway star Lauren Bacall lived at the Dakota Apartments on the Upper West Side for 53 years. Her story is inter…
5 years, 11 months ago
#320 Hart Island: The Loneliest Place in New York
Few people are allowed to go onto Hart Island, the quiet, narrow island in the Long Island Sound, a lonely place in sight of the bustling community o…
5 years, 11 months ago
#319 The Tale of Charging Bull and Fearless Girl
EPISODE 319 In simpler times, thousands of tourists would flock to the northern tip of Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan to take a picture with a rath…
5 years, 11 months ago
#318 Moonstruck: That's Amore!
EPISODE 318 Moonstruck, the 1987 comedy starring Cher and Nicolas Cage, not only celebrates that crazy little thing called love, but also pays tribut…
5 years, 11 months ago
#317 Vaccinated: New York and the Polio Outbreak
EPISODE 317 In 1916 New York City became the epicenter of one of America's very first polio epidemics.
The scourge of infantile paralysis infected th…
5 years, 11 months ago
#316 Jenny Lind at Castle Garden
EPISODE 316 What happens when P. T. Barnum, America's savviest supplier of both humbug and hoax, decides it's time to go legit? Only one of the great…
6 years ago
#315 Abandoned Pantheon: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans
EPISODE 315 The Hall of Fame for Great Americans, founded in 1900, was a precursor to the Nobel Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a vaunte…
6 years ago
#314 Tillie Hart - The Holdout of London Terrace
London Terrace, an English-inspired apartment complex, is a jewel of apartment living in the neighborhood of Chelsea. In 1929, a set of historic town…
6 years ago