Overview
562 Episodes
George Washington reads the freshly inked Declaration of Independence, inspiring New Yorkers to tear down their least favorite monument.
Transcribed - Published: 26 June 2026
Some of the ways New York City celebrated the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976 will return for the massive party for America 250.
Transcribed - Published: 19 June 2026
How the Knicks got their name -- from little marbles to basketballs.
Transcribed - Published: 5 June 2026
The world's biggest movie star -- on the streets of New York City (and over the subway grates) in the mid 1950s.
Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2026
Eliza Jumel was one of the richest women in New York City in the early 19th century. And after she passed, the subject of vicious rumors.
Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2026
The actors who play Harry Houdini and Evelyn Nesbit in the new Broadway revival "Ragtime" find the real-life inspirations behind their roles.
Transcribed - Published: 15 May 2026
The world according to Frederic Church, the master artist whose work was like the cinema of the mid-19th century
Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2026
A history of the Garment District, one of New York City's great centers of manufacturing and the birthplace of many 20th-century fashion trends.
Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2026
During the mid 19th century, New Yorkers flocked to a very curious tourist attraction near City Hall -- a "house of skulls," the phrenological cabinet of the Fowler family.
Transcribed - Published: 24 April 2026
The greatest nights in American music history took place at Carnegie Hall -- but that's just the start of the story.
Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2026
Before there were food trucks and hot dog carts, there were pushcarts, mostly concentrated on the Lower East Side in the late 19th century.
Transcribed - Published: 10 April 2026
The great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton meets a beautiful woman with a dubious past in this thrilling true-crime Gilded Age caper.
Transcribed - Published: 3 April 2026
The West Village is born -- thanks to Jane Jacobs and a group of local activists. And the Stonewall Uprising ignites a new movement, leading to the neighborhood's first national monument. What would Carrie Bradshaw think?
Transcribed - Published: 27 March 2026
Speakeasies, subways and smoky jazz clubs come to the early 20th century West Village.
Transcribed - Published: 13 March 2026
Our epic history of the West Village begins here -- tracing the winding streets back to the earliest days of country estates, creeks and burial grounds.
Transcribed - Published: 27 February 2026
Remembering one of the worst weather incidents in American history -- the Great Blizzard of 1888.
Transcribed - Published: 22 February 2026
Transcribed - Published: 20 February 2026
Looking back at the violent 'Subway Vigilante' incident and the subsequent trial which dominated headlines in mid-1980s New York City
Transcribed - Published: 13 February 2026
The notorious disappearance of a famously corrupt judge unearths a deep well of misdeeds in 1930s New York City.
Transcribed - Published: 30 January 2026
The epic tale of Brooklyn Heights and its Promenade -- which might help explain current events upon the New York City transportation landscape today.
Transcribed - Published: 16 January 2026
The fascinating tale of 'accidental' president and New York poltiical boss Chester A. Arthur who travelled a very unconventional path to the White House -- via Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
Transcribed - Published: 2 January 2026
Live from City Winery -- it's Greg Young! An an irreverent look at the holidays through a Victorian lens.
Transcribed - Published: 23 December 2025
The surprisingly interesting story of paying for the subway, the streetcar and the bus -- on the occasion of the MetroCard retirement.
Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2025
On a cold winter's evening in 1835, a terrible fire tore through lower Manhattan, destroying hundreds of buildings. But this fire also changed the course of New York City history.
Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2025
The history of the Statue of Liberty -- from the other side of the Atlantic. Tom heads to Colmar, France and the museum devoted to sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2025
Historian Steven Ujifusa discusses the unique circumstances surrounding the arrival of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States -- and draws on his own personal story.
Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2025
For over fifty years, most European immigrants arriving into the United States came through Ellis Island in New York Harbor. But for an unfortunate few, their new lives could not begin until they spent some time on "the other side" of the island -- the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital.
Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2025
The history of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and its annual lighting tradition -- through good times and bad.
Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2025
The secret world of Amelia Earhart -- from New York City to the skies -- as told by her biographer Laurie Gwen Shapiro,
Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2025
How Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II became two of the most important artists in Broadway history? The story of their incomparable legacy.
Transcribed - Published: 24 October 2025
The haunted mansions, the ancient folktales, the spirited theaters, and the Revolutionary War ghosts of Long Island.
Transcribed - Published: 10 October 2025
Celebrating the construction of the Erie Canal, which opened 200 years ago this year.
Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2025
The story of Dominican immigration into New York City -- from the very first immigrant (ever!) to the massive wave of new arrivals in theh 1960s.
Transcribed - Published: 19 September 2025
The name 'NoHo' might be relatively new, but the history of those blocks north of Houston Street in Manhattan dates back to the beginnngs of New York City.
Transcribed - Published: 12 September 2025
In 1913, a young reform candidate named John Purroy Mitchel navigated a very strange electorial year to become the city's new (and second youngest) mayor.
Transcribed - Published: 5 September 2025
The debut of George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue', one of the 20th century's most important pieces of music.
Transcribed - Published: 29 August 2025
The swashbuckling tale of Captain William Kidd and the notorious pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham
Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2025
The strange, sad tale of the Brooklyn Theatre Fire, the Gilded Age disaster that has been nearly forgotten today.
Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2025
The history of New York City's oldest surviving bars continues, recorded within two of the city's most treasured 19th century drinking establishments.
Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2025
The history of New York City — as told through the stories of its oldest taverns and ale houses.
Transcribed - Published: 1 August 2025
New York City used to be closely associated with the oyster but pollution and overfarming erased them from the harbor. Could they be making a return?
Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2025
A celebration of the Gilded Age's most interesting women and the world they created in New York society. Recorded live at City Winery.
Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2025
Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2025
What was in the water when sharks began killing people in New Jersey in 1916?
Transcribed - Published: 3 July 2025
The saga of Fifth Avenue's Gilded Age mansions, those that once stood in Midtown Manhattan and those survivors which still decorate the Upper East Side today.
Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2025
Inwood and Marble Hill -- aka "upstate Manhattan" -- are far from the center of New York's midtown urban activity but that distance provides both neighborhoods with fascinating and even unusual origin stories.
Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2025
The children of the Gilded Age were seen but not heard. Until now!
Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2025
The Brooklyn Museum, known for its wildly popular cutting-edge exhibitions, can actually trace its origins back to a more rustic era -- and to the birth of the city of Brooklyn itself.
Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025
It's super developer Robert Moses vs. civic activist Albert S. Bard in a battle for the New York harbor and the historic landmarks of lower Manhattan.
Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025
It's William Cosby vs. John Peter Zenger in a trial which gave birth to the freedom of the press and other foundational aspects of American democracy.
Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025
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