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Eric Goldwyn’s A Better Billion
Season 2 Episode 61
Eric Goldwyn, one of the authors of a new report from the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University with a modest proposal to remap…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Arthur Tress’ The Ramble: NYC 1969
Season 2 Episode 60
The self-described “ last Confederate widow,’ whose newly published photographs of gay men in Central Park’s Ramble in 1968 and 1969 are the earliest…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
St. John Frizell’s Gage & Tollner
Season 2 Episode 59
An iconic restaurant in Fulton Mall became an Arby's, before it was revived amid the pandemic. St. John Frizell, one of the stewards of Gage and Toll…
5 months ago
William H. Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Season 2 Episode 58
In 1980, a movie narrated by a sociologist once described as Jimmy Stewart’s urban planner cousin, and full of surveillance footage of the city's pub…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Henry H. Sapoznik’s The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
Season 2 Episode 57
Henry H. Sapoznik sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about assimilation and adaptability, the difference betwee…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Baruch Herzfeld’s Brilliant Battery Brain
Season 2 Episode 56
The ineffable and inimitable gadfly and entrepreneur Baruch Herzfeld joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about schemes and dreams, the thousand-d…
6 months, 1 week ago
Michael Rohatyn and Peter Yost’ Drop Dead City
Season 2 Episode 55
The creators of the acclaimed new documentary about Gotham’s close brush with bankruptcy in 1975 sit down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss t…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Ben Fractenberg’s In Tension
Season 2 Episode 54
Ben Fractenberg, visuals editor for THE CITY, joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about street photography, photo journal…
7 months, 1 week ago
Drew Friedman’s Schtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy
Season 2 Episode 53
The ubiquitous illustrator talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about what he wants to illustrate now that he no longer needs to take assignments, ho…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Jonathan Mahler’s The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990.
Season 2 Episode 52
"The tabs were this incredibly paradoxical force in New York during these years’ Jonathan Mahler said in his coversation with Amy Sohn and Harry Sieg…
8 months, 2 weeks ago