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#138: St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery
St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery is one of Manhattan's most interesting and mysterious links to early New York history. This East Village church was built in…
13 years, 11 months ago
New York City and the World of Radio
EPISODE 137 The discovery of radio changed the world, and New York City was often front and center for its creation and development as America's prim…
13 years, 11 months ago
#136 High Line Walking Tour
Welcome to the unofficial High Line audio walking tour! In our last podcast, we gave you a history of the High Line, the one-mile linear park situate…
14 years ago
#135 The High Line
The High Line, which snakes up New York's west side, is an ambitious park project refitting abandoned elevated train lines into a breathtaking contem…
14 years ago
#134 St. Patrick's Cathedral
One of America's most famous churches and a graceful icon upon the landscape of midtown Manhattan, St. Patrick's Cathedral was also one of New York's…
14 years, 1 month ago
#133 Red Hook: Brooklyn on the Waterfront
Red Hook, Brooklyn, the neighborhood called by the Dutch 'Roode Hoek' for its red soil, became a key port during the 19th century, a stopping point f…
14 years, 2 months ago
#132 Electric New York: Edison and the City Lights
The streets of New York have been lit in various ways through the decades, from the wisps of whale-oil flame to the modern comfort of gas lighting. W…
14 years, 3 months ago
#131 The First Apartment Building
Well, we're movin' on up....to the first New York apartment building ever constructed. New Yorkers of the emerging middle classes needed a place to l…
14 years, 4 months ago
#130 Haunted Histories of New York
What mischievous phantoms and malevolent spirits haunt the streets of New York City today? In our fifth annual podcast of local ghost stories, we bri…
14 years, 5 months ago
#129 Chinatown
Manhattan's Chinatown is unique among New York neighborhoods as its origins and its provocative history can still be traced in many of the buildings …
14 years, 6 months ago