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Back to Search#442 Urban Legends of New York City
New York City has its fair share of famous 'urban legends' -- persistent rumors, too good to be true, often macabre and dark.
No, we're not talking ab…
1 year, 6 months ago
#441 The Recluse of Herald Square: The Ida Wood Mystery
Ida Wood had a secret. Born Ida Mayfield in New Orleans, Ida moved to New York in the 1850s and through her marriage to Benjamin Wood, publisher of t…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Ghosty Men: Inside the Collyer Mansion (Rewind)
In 2022, Greg received a large box in the mail, containing hundreds of news clippings and documents related to the Collyer Brothers. This expanded, n…
1 year, 6 months ago
#440 When Longacre Square Became Times Square
What was Times Square before the electric billboards, before the Broadway theaters and theme restaurants, before the thousands and thousands of touri…
1 year, 7 months ago
#439 The Ticker-Tape Parade: A Very New York Celebration
In 1886, during a miles-long parade celebrating the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, office workers in lower Manhattan began heaving ticker tape …
1 year, 7 months ago
#438 The Ramones at CBGB: Revolution on the Bowery
One-two-three-four! The Ramones, a four-man rock band from Forest Hills, Queens, played the Bowery music club CBGB for the very first time on August …
1 year, 8 months ago
The Hidden World of Gramercy Park
Carl Raymond of The Gilded Gentleman podcast and his guest Keith Taillon invite you into one of the most historically exclusive spaces in New York Ci…
1 year, 8 months ago
#437 Haarlem, Breukelen, Utrecht: Exploring New York's Dutch Roots
Follow along with Greg and Tom in this stand-alone travelogue episode as they visit several historic cities and towns in the Netherlands -- Utrecht, …
1 year, 8 months ago
#436 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: Finding Peter Stuyvesant
The name Stuyvesant can be found everywhere in New York City -- in the names of neighborhoods, apartments, parks and high schools. Peter Stuyvesant, …
1 year, 9 months ago
#435 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Radical Walloons
Our adventure in the Netherlands continues with a quest to find the Walloons, the French-speaking religious refugees who became the first settlers of…
1 year, 9 months ago