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The FirstAugust 25, 2017
THE FIRST PODCAST The story of Benjamin Franklin at the end of his life -- at the birth of a new nation. Part Three of The Invention of Benjamin Franklin. Check Part One (Franklin Gothic) and Part Two (Lightning Strikes) to catch up on…
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Greg Young has been doing several appearances on the Travel Channel program Mysteries at the Museum with Don Wildman. He's on tonight talking the construction of…
On Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the busts of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, located on the campus of Bronx Community College, would be…
LOCATION: Subway Tavern Bleecker and Mulberry, Manhattan In operation 1904-05 The early planners of the New York City subway negotiated that very first route through…
The passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919 -- prohibiting the sale of alcohol in the United States -- failed to sober up the country. It…
Jimmy Walker, the man who would become the mayor of New York during one of its most prosperous periods, was famously cavalier about politics. [Listen to…
THE FIRST PODCAST How much do you know about one of the most famous scientific experiments in American history? In 1752 Benjamin Franklin and his son…
The early 1950s provided residents of New York with ample reasons for doom and gloom, thanks to fears of an atomic attack. America paid the price…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Sam Shepard, Â who passed away today at age 73, is remembered for many classic film roles and triumphant plays which…
THE FIRST PODCAST Â Benjamin Franklin did more in his first forty years than most people do in an entire lifetime. Had he not played a…
Bayard's Mount, one of the highest points in Manhattan, has been gone for more than two hundred years. Where other hills and high points have been…
You may know Nathan Hale well from history books or from New York's numerous memorials as a symbol of American patriotism, dying for his country long before anybody…
When news circulated this week that East Village nightclub Webster Hall would be closing for renovation in August, people understandably freaked out. It seems we're losing…
