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Back to Search#457 FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD
On October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford walked into a press conference at the National Press Club and, using more precise, more eloquent words than legend remembers, but in no uncertain terms, tol…
Published on 5 months ago
#456 Walking New York: Manhattan History on Foot with Keith Taillon
Join us for an interview with Instagram historian Keith Taillon (@keithyorkcity), whose detailed posts about New York's history have earned him nearly 60,000 followers and launched a successful tour …
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
#455 House of Beauty: The Story of the Frick Collection
We invite you to come with us inside one of America’s most interesting art museums – an institution that is BOTH an art gallery and a historic home.
This is The Frick Collection, located at 1 East 70t…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
#454 Special Delivery: A History of the Post Office
The history of the United States Postal Service as it plays out in the streets of New York City -- from the first post road to the first postage stamps. From the most beautiful post office in the cou…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
#453 All The Beauty In The World: Guarding the Met with Patrick Bringley
A special bonus episode! Two years ago we featured Patrick Bringley on the show, the author of All The Beauty In The World (Simon & Schuster), regarding his experiences as a security guard at the Met…
Published on 6 months ago
#452 How New York Got Its Name
It's one of the most foundational questions we could ever ask on this show -- how did New York City get its name?
You may know that the English conquered the Dutch settlement of New Netherland (and it…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
#451 The New Yorker Magazine: Talk of the Town for 100 Years
The New Yorker turns one century old -- and it hasn't aged a day! The witty, cosmopolitan magazine was first published on February 21, 1925. And even though present-day issues are often quite contemp…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
At The Movies with Meyers and Young (Side Streets)
Greg and Tom have taken off their historian hats and have become -- movie critics? Close but not quite!
This week we're giving you a 'sneak preview' of their Patreon podcast called Side Streets, a con…
Published on 7 months ago
#450 Harlem in the Jazz Age: A Renaissance in New York
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Alain Locke's classic essay "The New Negro" and the literary anthology featuring the work of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen and other sig…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
#449 Italian Harlem: New York's Forgotten Little Italy
One of America's first great Italian neighborhoods was once in East Harlem, once filled with more southern Italians than Sicily itself, a neighborhood almost entirely gone today except for a couple r…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago