Frozen In Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888
PODCAST The story of the devastating snowstorm that changed New York City forever. This year marks the 130th anniversary of
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Gilded Age New York
What did New York City really look like in 1896? Enter the real world of The Alienist
HISTORY BEHIND THE SCENE What’s the real story behind that historical scene from your favorite TV show or feature film?
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The Astors vs. the Vanderbilts! A clip from the new PBS American Experience film ‘The Gilded Age’
The Gilded Age, the captivating new installment from PBS’ American Experience, presents a familiar period in American history from a
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The Unexpected President: Chester A. Arthur and the joys of reading about a mediocre man
“The nomination of Arthur is a ridiculous burlesque …. He never held an office except the one he was removed
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The Gilded Age: The Bowery Boys join PBS for a discussion at the New-York Historical Society
The Gilded Age, a fascinating new documentary from PBS’s American Experience, premieres in early February. But we’ve got your ticket
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The Fall of the Fifth Avenue Mansions: Where to find the remnants of an opulent past
PODCAST The story of how Fifth Avenue, once the ritziest residential address in America, became an upscale retail strip and
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The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions: Revisiting Forgotten Architecture of New York’s Gilded Age
PODCAST At the heart of New York’s Gilded Age – the late 19th century era of unprecedented American wealth and
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The Boss Tweed connection to St. Sava, the cathedral destroyed by fire
New York City lost a very interesting landmark this past weekend. Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, at West 25th
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The Spark: Nikola Tesla in New York
PODCAST The strange and wonderful life of Nikola Tesla in New York City. The Serbian immigrant Nikola Tesla was among the
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Chelsea’s former opera house and the murder of a New York robber baron
Our last podcast detailed the scandalous murder of Stanford White in 1906, on the rooftop of the very building be
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The Murder of Stanford White
PODCAST The tale behind the brutal murder of renown architect Stanford White on the roof garden of Madison Square Garden, the building that
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Odds and Ends: Washington Irving, Modern Ruin, Tourist Advice, The Slide
Irving Place is the remarkably pretty street that travels from the south side of Gramercy Park to the less charming
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Chelsea and the Chocolate Factory (or rather, Hershey and his Sixth Avenue chewing gum plant)
Hershey’s employees cut and pack chewing gum at Sixth Avenue and 21st Street. For five glorious years in the early
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Consolidation! The tale of five boroughs and one big city
PODCAST Our 150th episode! Here’s the story of how two very big cities and a whole bunch of small towns and
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“The First Dandelion” and Walt Whitman’s very bad timing
In 1888, the New York Herald ran this poem by the great Walt Whitman:
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