Moving Day: Tips and Stories
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
From the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th, May 1st was a day when scores of New Yorkers would change their residencies. As a nod to that old tradition, we open up the lines for listeners in the midst of moves and hear some tips and stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on |
| 0:07.0 | on WNYC and for a last 15 minutes today we'll open up the phones now to those of you who are in the process of moving right now, or maybe just moved yesterday. |
| 0:20.0 | Where are you moving or where did you just move and why? |
| 0:23.6 | 212 433 WNY C 212 433 9692. |
| 0:30.4 | Why are we asking this today? |
| 0:31.8 | Well yesterday was May 1st, a day with a lot of historical |
| 0:35.2 | significance in New York City. An article on the website Untapped City describes that history |
| 0:40.5 | this way. In the mid-18th century, mayhem filled the streets of New York City every |
| 0:46.2 | May 1st when every lease, residential and commercial, expired simultaneously. This was an annual event called Moving Day. |
| 0:56.4 | So think about that. Every commercial and residential lease in the city expired on the same day. |
| 1:01.1 | Picture the streets overflowing with horse-drawn carriages, carts, wagons, |
| 1:05.6 | do you have a sense of the mayhem? And apparently this was a long tradition dating back to colonial times |
| 1:11.0 | and lasting through the beginning of the 20th century. |
| 1:15.0 | But our question for today is, we know that a lot of people still move on May 1st. |
| 1:20.0 | It's one of the months of the year where a lot of leases tend to expire. So kind of a three-part |
| 1:26.6 | question. Did you move yesterday? Did you move more from or more to? |
| 1:36.7 | You understand the question? |
| 1:38.0 | If you just moved or if you're in the process of moving soon, |
| 1:41.8 | are you moving more to get away from the place you're leaving or |
| 1:45.6 | are you moving more to go to the place you're going to? 212 433 WNYC 212 433. 2123 |
| 1:54.4 | 3rd 9692 and beyond that do you have any tips and |
| 2:00.2 | beyond that do you have any tips and tricks maybe if you just went through the process and so you're good for a while you can share |
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