Local Switchboard NYC

On our latest episode, we revisit the poet Dorothy Parker's famous quip, that New York “will be a nice town if they ever get it finished” from two perspectives. The post A Nice Town appeared first on Local Switchboard.

Local Switchboard's Sarah Montague celebrated the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center. The post We Are Family: NYC’s Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center Opens appeared first on Local Switchboard.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, helped to inspire environmental awareness and climate activism in the United States. This spring of 2024, we wish to be anything but silent.  On this […] The post Saving and Savoring the Planet, New York Style appeared first on Local Switchboard.

On this episode, Local Switchboard's Sarah Montague talks with Lauren Keating, adapter and director of "A Christmas Carol" at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey; and Jordan Gass-Poore', host of Local Switchboard NYC, sits down with Regine L. Sawyer, a New York City-based comics writer, editor, and the founder of Women in Comics Collective International. The post Happy Holidays From Local Switchboard NYC appeared first on Local Switchboard.

This month on the show, we feature two different ways of celebrating New York and honoring New Yorkers.  It's the 50th anniversary of the iconic Village Halloween Parade, and Sarah Montague talked with director Jeanne Fleming about the beautiful, elegiac tone of this year's event.  And the documentary production house Radio Diaries brings us stories from Hart Island, a little-known burial ground in the Bronx.  Managing Producer Nellie Gilles talks about the evolution of the series. The post October Fests appeared first on Local Switchboard.

For Pride Month, Local Switchboard reports on the history of the rainbow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker. Your browser does not support the audio tag. The post Pride Full appeared first on Local Switchboard.

For Women's History Month, we're celebrating women's contribution to the theatre, where they have had a dramatic presence since classical times and a professional presence as actors since the 17th century. The post NYC: Women Make Theatre appeared first on Local Switchboard.

For Women's History Month, we're celebrating women's contribution to the theatre, where they have had a dramatic presence since classical times and a professional presence as actors since the 17th century. Today, women are award-winning playwrights, theatre directors, and visionary founders of companies. They have also contributed to the craft of theatre as creators of new practices. On this program, we share three different perspectives: devoted librarian and archivist stewards the collection of a great male thespian; a fruitful educator who is also a playwright and director; and the founder of a young, enterprising and provocative theatre company.

It's the holidays: friends, family, gifts and gelt, tree lightings, and ‘good will towards men.' Not so fast. Our brief show for this season does indeed include an uplifting tree […] The post Voices Raised In Song & Protest appeared first on Local Switchboard.

It's the holidays: friends, family, gifts and gelt, tree lightings, and ‘good will towards men.' Not so fast. Our brief show for this season does indeed include an uplifting tree lighting in Greenwich Village's Abingdon Square, but also two divisive issues. The sound of the picket line at the New School's flagship University Center building at 5th and 13th Street bore witness to month-long strike by the University's part-time faculty over a host of issues including better wages and health care benefits. And a proposed ferry dock demolition and reconstruction project has Long Island City residents worried about crowds, pollution and trading an cherished view for an eyesore.

  Local Switchboard NYC celebrates Pride month by revisiting significant parts of its past: the activist group ACT UP, and the participatory project The Gay Rub, founded by Steven Reigns, […] The post Pride Acts Up appeared first on Local Switchboard.

Spring has finally sprung, and people see eager to get outdoors. But the return of “normal” business and social life has also meant a return to the subway. Never fun, […] The post Take A Walk appeared first on Local Switchboard.

Every year since 2009, the Municipal Art Society of New York has organized “Jane's Walk,” a series of tours on the hoof honoring the urban activist Jane Jacobs. This year, Local Switchboard's Sarah Montague joined several.

On this episode we say goodbye to spaces lost during the pandemic, as part of a new series. First, Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague gets a tour of her old apartment […] The post Closed Doors appeared first on Local Switchboard.

On this episode we say goodbye to spaces lost during the pandemic, as part of a new series. First, Local Switchboard's Sarah Montague gets a tour of her old apartment building -- an historic family home that's now on the market. And host and Local Switchboard producer Jordan Gass-Poore' spends a night in the fabled Roosevelt Hotel just before it closes, and talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture writer Paul Goldberger about its past and future.

In this bonus episode, Local Switchboard's Heather Chin presents the New Ohio Theatre's latest production, “Journey Around My Bedroom.” The post Introducing Our New Series: ‘We’re Still Here’ appeared first on Local Switchboard.

Liz Abzug, the daughter of feminist icon and former New York Representative Bella Abzug, spoke with Local Switchboard host Jordan Gass-Poore' during the summer about running her mom's political campaigns, […] The post Hats Off To Bella Abzug appeared first on Local Switchboard.

Local Switchboard's Betsy Laken in conversation with local theater director Adrienne Campbell-Holt on the resiliency of New York City's performing arts community. And as we prepare for a new presidential […] The post New York City In Changing Times appeared first on Local Switchboard.

A look at some of the ways the COVID-19 pandemic, politics, and the weather have changed New York City.

In this episode, we take a look back at the annual New York City Village Halloween Parade and explore the colorful past and uncertain future of the beloved Lower East […] The post The Ghosts Get Furloughed appeared first on Local Switchboard.

In this episode, we take a look back at the annual New York City Village Halloween Parade and explore the colorful past and uncertain future of the beloved Lower East Side neo-burlesque venue, The Slipper Room.

In our season two kickoff, we go back in time to September 16, 1920, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Wall Street Bombing, the worst terror attack in American […] The post Dial In For Season Two of Local Switchboard NYC appeared first on Local Switchboard.

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