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#187: Super City: New York and the History of Comic Books
In the 1890s a newspaper rivalry between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer helped bring about the birth of the comic strip and, a few decad…
10 years, 8 months ago
#186 Hell's Kitchen: New York's Wild West
Hell’s Kitchen, on the far west side of Midtown Manhattan, is a neighborhood of many secrets. The unique history of this working class district veers…
10 years, 8 months ago
#185 Adventures on Governors Island
What can you find on Governors Island? Almost 400 years of action-packed history! This island in New York Harbor has been at the heart of the city'…
10 years, 9 months ago
#184 The Flatiron Building: A Story from Three Sides
For our 8th anniversary episode, we're revisiting one of New York City's great treasures and a true architectural oddity -- the Flatiron Building.
Whe…
10 years, 9 months ago
#183 Orchard Street: Life in the Lower East Side
The Lower East Side is one of the most important neighborhoods in America, with a rich history as dense as its former living quarters. Thousands of …
10 years, 10 months ago
#182 Mae West: "Sex" on Broadway
Mae West (star of I'm No Angel and She Done Him Wrong) would come to revolutionize the idea of American sexuality, challenging and lampooning ideas o…
10 years, 10 months ago
#181 Park Slope and the Story of Brownstone Brooklyn
Park Slope – or simply the park slope, as they used to say – is best known for its spectacular Victorian-era mansions and brownstones, one of the mos…
10 years, 11 months ago
#180 The Chelsea Piers and the Age of the Ocean Liner
The Chelsea Piers were once New York City’s portal to the world, a series of long docks along the west side of Manhattan that accommodated some of th…
10 years, 11 months ago
#179 The Fight for Bryant Park
In our last show, we left the space that would become Bryant Park as a disaster area; its former inhabitant, the old Crystal Palace, had tragically b…
11 years ago
#178: The Crystal Palace: America's First World's Fair
New York's Crystal Palace seems like something out of a dream, a shimmering and spectacular glass-and-steel structure -- a gigantic greenhouse -- whi…
11 years ago