Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race
The Chrysler Building remains one of America's most beautiful skyscrapers and a grand evocation of Jazz Age New York. But this architectural tribute …
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#426 Behind the Domino Sign: Brooklyn's Bittersweet Empire
The Brooklyn waterfront was once decorated with a yellow Domino Sugar sign, affixed to an aging refinery along a row of deteriorating industrial stru…
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#425 It Happened at Madison Square Park
So much has happened in and around Madison Square Park -- the leafy retreat at the intersections of Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street -- that te…
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Truman Capote and the Black and White Ball (Rewind)
FX is debuting a new series created by Ryan Murphy — called Feud: Capote and the Swans -- regarding writer Truman Capote's relationship with several …
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#424 Kosciuszko! The Man. The Bridge. The Legend.
The Kosciuszko Bridge is one of New York City's most essential pieces of infrastructure, the hyphen in the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that connects t…
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#423 Leonard Bernstein's New York, New York
On the morning of November 14th, 1943, Leonard Bernstein, the talented 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, got a phone call…
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#422 Grace Church: A Most Fashionable History
Manhattan's Grace Church sits at a unique bend on Broadway and East 10th Street, making it seem that the historic house of worship is rising out of t…
2 years, 3 months ago
Christmas in Old New York: Holiday History
This week we're highlighting an especially festive episode of the Gilded Gentleman Podcast, a show with double the holiday fun, tracing the history o…
2 years, 4 months ago
#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution
For decades New Yorkers celebrated Evacuation Day every November 25, a holiday marking the 1783 departure of British forces from the city they had oc…
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#420 Garbo Walks: Old Hollywood in New York
Greta Garbo in New York! A story of freedom, glamour, and melancholy, set at the intersection of classic Hollywood and mid-century New York City. The…
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