Listen to Support it, WNYC Studios. Brian

on WNYc and yes, it's the final day of the membership drive and so the final installment

in our tour of less well-known but significant pieces of New York's history with

tour guide Tommy silk you might know him from his Instagram account, the very popular

at Landmarks of NY or his brand new book, Hidden Landmarks of New York, a tour of the city's most overlooked

buildings just came out this week hidden landmarks of New York a tour of the

city's most overlooked buildings and we're going through a few of them

hey again Tommy thanks for coming on one more time.

Hey, Brian, happy Friday.

So we're going to do something a little different for this last session

and talk about some landmarks where there's no edifice in one instance, no building

at all, at least in one instance, because that's the flaw with preserving history through

buildings that stayed standing.

Usually they were put up by rich people or companies for rich people or rich companies.

And you acknowledge that in your book and you've come up with a few ways to be more inclusive with whose stories you're

telling. So let's start way back with a site on Staten Island that goes back

over 18,000, 8,000 years really?

Yeah, so this site is in, or directly adjacent to the conference house park in Tottenville,

on the south shore of Staten Island.

It's officially known as AkawahWahung-Manahunung, which translates roughly to

island sheltered from the wind. And this is the only landmark in New York City that is dedicated to the indigenous population that was here prior to the European arrival.

And what this site is, is it's the location of a seasonal village that we have evidence of human activity dating back to around

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