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They Walk Among America - US True Crime

Fitton Benjamin

True Crime

4.1 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On this episode of They Walk Among America… A single block located between 5th and 6th avenue on 47th Street in New York is known as the Diamond District. The bustling epicentre of New York's diamond and jewellery sales industry sprang up on 47th Street in the 1920s and continues to be one of the most popular locations for jewellery shoppers today. The Diamond District expanded during WWII when thousands fled Nazi-occupied Europe and set up shop in New York City. The Diamond Dealers Club, which was founded in the 1930s as a place for dealers and brokers to store their diamonds, has described the arrival of new traders as follows: “Their influx into America, together with the unprecedented economic boom that took place in the country in the post-war period, shifted the balance of the diamond trade from Western Europe to New York. Indeed, immigration has long been a decisive factor in the growth of the U.S. diamond sector, and the DDC, both then and today, traditionally has served as a melting pot for a diverse group of nationalities and cultures”. Many store owners and workers in the Diamond District were Orthodox or Hasidic Jews. A small place that contained such valuable products was always bound to attract undesirables, but in 1977 the disappearance of two diamond cutters proved that pressure was only good for diamonds…

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‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.

This episode was hosted by Nina Innsted.

Researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.

Editing and scoring by Kory Hilpmann.

Script editing, additional writing and production direction by Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton.

MUSIC:

Shadow Passage by Cody Martin

Bamburgh by Stephen Keech

Insidiously by Wicked Cinema

A Most Sinister Kind by Dresden, The Flamingo

Those Lost by Moments

Sussex by Stephen Keech

Invisible Line by Stephen Keech

The Rite by Wicked Cinema

Playing Games by Cody Martin

Mutual I'm Sure by Fleece Mob

Additional musical compositions by Kory Hilpmann.

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1:34.8	On this episode of They Walk Among America, a single block located between 5th and 6th Avenue on 47th Street in New York is known as the Diamond District.
1:46.4	The bustling epicenter of New York's diamond and jewelry sales industry sprang up on 47th Street in the 1920s and continues to be one of the most popular locations for jewelry shoppers today. The Diamond District expanded during World War II
1:52.6	when thousands fled Nazi-occupied Europe and set up shop in New York City. The Diamond
1:58.8	Dealers Club, which was founded in the 1930s as a place for dealers
2:02.8	and brokers to store their diamonds, has described the arrival of new traders as follows.
2:09.0	Their influx into America, together with the unprecedented economic boom that took place in the
2:14.8	country in the post-war period period shifted the balance of the diamond trade
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