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This episode will give you all the spots you need to check out in the popular Financial District of New York City! Where is the Financial District in NYC? While most neighborhoods in NYC do a bit of blurring together, the Financial District technically covers most of the southernmost tip of Manhattan. It runs from the West Side Highway on the west to the Brooklyn Bridge and East River on the east. This neighborhood runs from the north, starting at Chambers Street and City Hall and running south until The Battery. Battery Park and Battery Park City are not technically a part of the Financial District, but we will include them as part of our guide to the lowest part of Manhattan. Things to Do in Financial District NYC The Oculus--transportation hub, shopping mall, lots of restaurants One World Trade Center+Observation Deck 9/11 Museum Charging bull  Wall St. Museum of Jewish heritage  The Battery (+ Battery Park City) Brookfield Place Mall (mostly for the view and yachts and park nearby but also a high end mall) Ferry to Staten Island for Statue of Liberty view Pier 17- lots of concerts here Brooklyn Bridge City hall Elevated Acre - Park space with lawn, boardwalk and seasonal beer garden Woolworth building Stone street (cobblestone, no cars) South street seaport  South Street Seaport Museum St. Paul's Chapel - originally built in 1766 and is the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan Trinity Church - Burial place for the likes of Alexander Hamilton, Robert Fulton, Francis Lewis, Angelica Church, and other prominent figures in the early period of the United States NYC Financial District's Best Bars Dead Rabbit - Rated best bar in the world in 2016 Fraunces Tavern Overstory - 64th floor deck with panoramic views WarrenPeace - Dimly lit cocktail bar with friendly staff White Horse Tavern - NYC's 2nd-oldest bar, circa 1880, with a storied history and watering hole for Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, and James Baldwin Carragher's - Soccer-themed sports pub Brickyard Craft Kitchen & Bar Stout NYC O'Hara's Restaurant and Pub - Classic Irish Pub This Episode's You'll Have to Check It Out Segment - Pisillo Italian Panini Bread is sourced from a bakery in Brooklyn and is fresh daily. All ingredients are imported from Italy and these are massive AND delicious sandwiches! Check it out here. Coffee Shops in the Financial District Hungry Ghost Coffee Black Fox Coffee 787 Coffee La Colombe Coffee Workshop Birch Coffee Laughing Man Cafe-technically Tribeca, owned by Hugh Jackman Restaurants in FiDi NYC Fraunces Tavern Joe's Pizza Delmonico's Manhatta - 60th floor, high-end New American cuisine Siena Pizza Eataly El Vez and Burrito Bar Pick A Bagel Los Tacos #1 Smorgasburg WTC Multiple spots in Pier 17, including The Fulton by Jean-Georges JR Sushi (technically Tribeca) Nish Nush (technically Tribeca) Download the full NYC Navigation & Transportation Guide here + join our newsletter here: ⁠https://rebrand.ly/nyc-navigation-guide⁠ Get the NYC Basic Tips & Etiquette book here: ⁠https://amzn.to/4fo5TRj

Sorry this one's a little late folks, Dre was caught up with the day job, but allow yourself to catch up with what we thought about one of the most chaotic races in recent times, the 2024 Detroit Grand Prix! It was THE chaotic race of 2024. Eight cautions, 12 driving penalties handed out (Four of which to Will Power, whose race position looked like an EKG monitor), and FORTY-SEVEN per cent of the race ran under yellow, including 20 straight in the middle of a damp Detroit where everyone was caught out by the bumpy braking point into Turn 3 on Chambers Street. Yikes. In the end, Scott Dixon kept a cool head and did what he does best - save fuel brilliantly when a race broke out at the end and lead a Honda 1-2-3-4 in Chevrolet's back yard, and the gang try to make sense of one of the craziest IndyCar races in modern times, including a Penske implosion! But there was also two major PR nightmare the series delivered that we had to discuss - Santino Ferrucci having a shoving match with Kyle Kirkwood and dropping a homophobic remark when interviewed about it (Right on the first day of Pride Month). Then Agustin Canapino and the first part of his verbal tirade after Theo Pourchaire hit him during the race, and Ricardo Juncos calls him a "Son of a thousand whores" on the team radio. There'll be more on this next week, but see where the story began. All that and more on another Motorsport101!

HOST, CRISTINA MACAYA: This morning, the city council debated the 2025 budget for health, mental health, disability, and addiction. An hour before the hearing, protestors gathered on Chambers Street to rally against what they say is the criminalization of mental illness. Giulia Leo was there. LEO 1 From the age of 17 until her early 40s Helen “Skip” Skipper says she cycled in and out of jail SKIPPER 1 Every year I was locked up or getting released. But every year I came in with unchecked mental illness, with substance abuse problems. I was never given treatment. I was never given support LEO 2 Skip says she was an addict who sold drugs. And because she didn't get the support she needed, she continued to break the law… and to get arrested. SKIPPER 2 Mental illness, behavioral health as a whole has always been criminalized. Instead of providing us treatment and support, they throw us up under the jail. LEO 3 Today, Skip is joined by a crowd of dozens rallying outside City Hall. [FADE IN “CHANTING” AND RUN UNDER LEO 3] They are asking the City to invest in community support for people with mental illnesses - rather than spending money on more beds for jails. Jay Edidin is with The Women's Community Justice Association. He says the city's justice system is broken and women are the most impacted. EDIDIN 1 So this is happening at a time when the incarceration of women is increasing at double the rate of the incarceration of men, where it's just taken off exponentially over the last decade. Nationwide, 70% of women involved in the criminal legal system have mental health diagnosis. At Rikers Island that's actually 80%. LEO 4 As an alternative to incarceration, Edidin would like to see more programs offering peer support. Skip agrees. She's working towards a phD in criminology. SKIPPER 3 Peer support is an evidence based practice. It has been empirically researched to work. Use us, allow us to have a seat at the table. Your recidivism problems and costs problems of those with behavioral health will be mitigated. LEO 5 Skipper says she got help. Not from the city. But she did manage to get clean. SKIPPER 4 And I haven't looked back ever since then. LEO 6 Giulia Leo, Columbia Radio News

Paul Murnane and Tanya Hansen have the morning's top local stories from the WCBS newsroom.

A small tornado rated EF-0 with wind gusts estimated between 65 to 85 mph traveled through south Cherokee, damaging a car and a baseball complex in its path. The tornado snapped a few trees along Dreamcatcher Drive and continued eastward, causing more tree damage along Loraine Parkway and at Bell Park Drive and Bell Court. The tornado lifted as it reached Mill Creek Road. At the South Cherokee Recreational Complex, the tornado blew off the roof of a dugout, overturned bleachers, and blew over a press box. Volunteers from area youth baseball programs helped to clean up the site the following day. According to a report from SafeWise, Holly Springs has been named the safest city in Georgia for 2023, with a violent crime rate of zero incidents per 1,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2.7. Canton ranked 14th and Woodstock 20th on the list of safest cities in Georgia. The average violent crime rate in Georgia is 3.9, and the average property crime rate is 17.5. Violent crime in Georgia fell by about 3% and property crime decreased by about 13% compared to the previous year. The top five safest cities in Georgia are Holly Springs, Kingsland, Hampton, Johns Creek, and Barnesville. Student artists from the University of Georgia created three new murals in Downtown Ball Ground over the weekend. Led by Professor Joseph Norman and Cherokee County native Katie Brannen, the students added the murals to walls on the side of Ireland Restorative Dentistry and the corner of Mound Street and Gilmer Ferry Road. One mural featurse an illustration of a Native American playing stick ball, which is where the city got its name, another features a black and white photo of a group of men and Henry Calvin Farmer, the “engineer of the Amicalola Marble and Power Co. Railroad.”, and the final mural features a hand offering a glass Coca-Cola bottle. The pieces celebrate the city's history and culture. Gibbs Gardens in Ball Groundis bringing back its Twilight Concert Series after a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19. The concerts will feature local and regional cover bands every Saturday from May to October. Unlike previous years, admission to concerts is now an additional cost. Seating will be first-come, first-serve, and attendees may bring lawn chairs. The concerts will be held from 6-9 p.m. in May and June, and from 5-8 p.m. in September and early October. Boxed dinners from the Arbor Cafe will be available by pre-order, and the cafe will be selling food and drinks from their regular menu during the concerts. A new Middle School Honor Band program was recently launched by Cherokee County School District, with 100 young musicians from all seven middle schools performing together. The seventh and eighth grade students rehearsed and performed a concert at Dean Rusk Middle School under the direction of guest conductor Matt Price. The event was considered a "resounding success" by Dean Rusk Middle School band director Lloyd McDonald, who received positive feedback from students and parents. Cherokee County Superintendent Brian Hightower congratulated the students and thanked the band directors for organizing the program. A section of East Main Street in downtown Woodstock between Wheeler Street and Arnold Mill Road will permanently close the first week of April, the city announced, as construction crews start work associated with the City Center project. Construction fencing will be installed for work to extend Chambers Street from Wheeler Street to Arnold Mill Road. The former Ace Hardware parking lot will no longer be accessible. Access to the area will be available through the intersection of Fowler Street and Main Street during this phase of construction. The Chambers Street extension is expected to be completed this fall. An Etowah High School instructor has been named the Cherokee County School District's Teacher of the Year. Science teacher Lara McDonald is CCSD's 2023 Teacher of the Year, the district announced Thursday night at its Legacy Makers CCSD Teachers of the Year Celebration. Other educators were also honored during the event. The Legacy Makers event, held at the Northside Hospital Cherokee Conference Center in Canton, honored the Teacher of the Year for every CCSD school, including four finalists who were announced in February.   And now, as we get closer to the start of the 2023 Masters, Times-Journal Incorporated sports editor John Bednarowski joins the show to continue to take us on a tour of Augusta National presented by Ingles. #CherokeeCounty #Georgia #LocalNews           -          -          -          -          -          -          The Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast is local news for Woodstock, Canton, and all of Cherokee County. Register Here for your essential digital news.             This podcast was produced and published for the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger and TribuneLedgerNews.com by BG Ad Group     For more information be sure to visit https://www.bgpodcastnetwork.com/    https://cuofga.org/   https://www.drakerealty.com/   https://www.esogrepair.com/           See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Noreen Doyle, President & Chief Executive Officer of the Hudson River Park (between Chambers Street and West 59th Street along Manhattan's west side) is … Read More

our ce nouvel épisode du Wine Makers Show, je suis parti à la rencontre de Pascaline Lepeltier ; nul part ailleurs qu'à New York. Recommandée par Manuel Peyrondet, Pascaline nous dévoile son parcours. Si le vin ne se révèle que tardivement pour elle, il devient pourtant une évidence. Depuis, Pascaline en a franchit des obstacles. J'ai pris un immense plaisir à interviewer Pascaline. Elle fait partie des personnes qui ont une réflexion profonde sur leur domaine et qui en sont vraiment à la pointe, « on the edge » comme on pourrait dire. Sans plus attendre, je vous laisse découvrir cette rencontre.  Pour me rejoindre :  Suivez moi sur Instagram   Venez découvrir la Chaine Youtube   Visitez le site et découvrez les articles   

Teacher, author and former globetrotter, Fiona Scott-Barrett doesn't let partial-sightedness define her (except when it suits her).  In 'Seeing Squint - Tales From A Partially Sighted Author' she reveals the confusion, embarrassments, and unexpected benefits of gradual sight loss through macular degeneration.  Her show is coming up at the Edinburgh Fringe and our Robert Kirkwood spoke to to the author to find out what why it's worth a gander.  Catch 'Seeing Squint' for free at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this coming Sunday 14th and Monday 15th of August 2022.  It starts at 12:10 PM each day at Revolution, 30a Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HU. Image shows the official festival logo. On a white background, a blue marker squiggle and atop it 'fringe' written in white. Above the word in smaller letters: 'The Edinburgh Festival' and bellow: 'Defying he norm since 1947'.  

MJ's guest today is Founder and President of Fass Selections, Lyle Fass. Lyle has over 25 years of experience in the wine business, and has served as the founding wine buyer at Crush in New York City, as well as the German wine buyer at Chambers Street. He founded Fass selections in 2013 and has grown it to be one of the leading importer retailers in the United States. Fass Selections specializes in wines from France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. In this episode, MJ and Lyle talk about Lyle's early days growing up in NYC, his long career in the wine industry, and everything in between. Lyle shares his early fascination with wine, particularly his initial desire to discover what makes some bottles more expensive than others. Lyle and MJ also discuss sneakers and hip-hop, as Lyle is an aficionado of both! A huge thank you to Lyle Fass! Follow him on IG at @grapeylyle and @fassselectionsCheck out his website: http://www.fassselections.com/ This episode's in studio wines:2016 Thörle Hölle Spätburgunder Trocken2019 Domaine Rebourgeon Pommard 1er Cru "Les Pezerolles" 2020 Domaine Partage (Gilles Berlioz) Chignin-Bergeron "Les Christine" _____________________________________________________________Until next time, cheers to the mavericks, philosophers, deep thinkers, and wine drinkers! Don't forget to subscribe and be sure to give The Black Wine Guy Experience a five-star review on whichever platform you listen to.For insider info from MJ and exclusive content from the show sign up at: Blackwineguy.comFollow MJ: @blackwineguy Thank you to our sponsor: Taub Family Selections. Taub Family Selections is a dynamic fourth generation, family-owned wine import company with a truly enviable portfolio of fine wines from 11 countries. They are proud to represent an exceptional portfolio of high quality, terroir centric and historic producers from around the world, including Italy and France - where they have an exciting roster of burgeoning vignerons from Burgundy coming your way soon. Learn more at www.taubfamilyselections.comThank you to our sponsor: Independence Wine and Spirits - or IWS. IWS is one of the hot up and coming distributors of fine wines and spirits headquartered in New York City. Like Taub Family Selections, IWS is owned by the Taub family, who have re-entered the NY wholesale market, bringing the family back to its roots in distribution where they held court from 1951 – 2004. To learn more about IWS go to: https://independencewine.com Love this podcast? Love the cool content? Get a producer like mine by reaching out to the badass team at Necessary Media. www.necessarymediaproductions.com@necessary_media_ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Hatzopoulos, AKA "Big Dave from Chambers," came through fucking bossed up to talk about Mondeuse, his life, and what's going on with Kevin's big toe.  Oh no, fuck, we accidentally open 5 bottles (again), so frankly, we're experts now too.  Go visit David at Chambers Street wines (they ship, don't be a dork), but more than anything, make sure you get the Chambers street newsletters. Anything David signs off on is gonna be bomb af. He's got a bright future ahead of him as long as we cut out all the weird shit he said. ////LIST////Domaine Partage “La Deuse” 2020  //Giachino, Vin de Savoie Rouge, 'Black Giac,' 2018 //Cellier de la Baraterie, Vin De Savoie Rouge /St Jean de La porte, 2019//Domaine des Cotes Rousses, Vin de Savoie Rouge, " Coteau de la Mort,' 2018//Domaine Magnin, Vin de Savoie / Arbin, ‘Le Rouge' 2015 ////Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Disgorgeous)

Philip Williams is the prolific collector and director of Philip Williams Posters, founded in 1973. His Tribeca gallery, located on Chambers Street, is the largest vintage poster gallery in the world with over 100,000 unique posters dating from 1870 to the present. The Tribeca brick-and-mortar storefront is supplemented with an online platform, PosterMuseum.com, which contains some 26,000 posters. In this episode, Philip Williams tells fascinating stories cultivated from over 40 years of collecting vintage posters and details how it all started, after finding letters from aviation pioneer Orville Wright in an abandoned suitcase.  We also learn about the poster as cultural artifact: From the first golden age of the vintage poster in the late 19th century driven by innovative printing techniques and emerging mass markets; to the second golden age in the mid 1960s, where posters were repurposed as countercultural protest; to its use today, as a staple in contemporary interior design  

Nancy A. Rankin AIA LEED AP, Principal at John G. Waite Associates Architects, describes the process of restoring, preserving and reusing the historic Tweed Courthouse at Chambers Street, New York City.  In this podcast, she describes the restoration of the iconic stone staircase.

Nancy A. Rankin AIA LEED AP, Principal at John G. Waite Associates Architects, describes the process of restoring, preserving and reusing the historic Tweed Courthouse at Chambers Street, New York City. In this podcast, she describes the process of restoring the stone facade.

Nancy A. Rankin AIA LEED AP, Principal at John G. Waite Associates Architects, describes the process of restoring, preserving and reusing the historic Tweed Courthouse at Chambers Street, New York City. In this podcast, she describes the process of restoring the stone facade.

Nancy A. Rankin AIA LEED AP, Principal at John G. Waite Associates Architects, describes the process of restoring, preserving and reusing the historic Tweed Courthouse at Chambers Street, New York City. In this podcast, she describes the process of restoring the octagonal central rotunda.

Nancy A. Rankin AIA LEED AP, Principal at John G. Waite Associates Architects, describes the process of restoring, preserving and reusing the historic Tweed Courthouse at Chambers Street, New York City. In this podcast, she talks about the late discovery and subsequent restoration of the metal corrugated roof.

Nancy A. Rankin AIA LEED AP, Principal at John G. Waite Associates Architects, describes the process of restoring, preserving and reusing the historic Tweed Courthouse at Chambers Street, New York City. In this podcast, she provides an overview of the design process undertaken by the firm.

Nancy A. Rankin AIA LEED AP, Principal at John G. Waite Associates Architects, describes the process of restoring, preserving and reusing the historic Tweed Courthouse at Chambers Street, New York City. In this podcast, she describes the major changes made to the building through the 20th century.

Nancy A. Rankin AIA LEED AP, Principal at John G. Waite Associates Architects, describes the process of restoring, preserving and reusing the historic Tweed Courthouse at Chambers Street, New York City. In this podcast, she describes the materiality of the courtrooms in the building.

Nancy A. Rankin AIA LEED AP, Principal at John G. Waite Associates Architects, describes the process of restoring, preserving and reusing the historic Tweed Courthouse at Chambers Street, New York City. In this podcast, she provides an overview of the design and construction of the historic site.

Architectural historian Gail Cornell talks about the Manhattan Municipal Building. Home to thirteen of NYC’s municipal agencies, the Municipal Building is one of the city’s most imposing presences, with an influence on civic architecture that reached as far as Stalinist Russia. Its tower is topped by Adolph Weinman’s statue “Civic Fame” and its grandly proportioned arch frames a tunnel once traversed by Chambers Street traffic.

Architectural historian Gail Cornell talks about the history of the Surrogate's Courthouse on Chambers Street. Exemplifying the ideals of the “City Beautiful” movement, this opulent Parisian courthouse was originally built as a storage facility for the city’s records. Statues on the exterior, by Philip Martiny and Henry Kirk Bush-Brown, depict various allegorical figures such as Law and Philosophy, as well as prominent features of New York history.

Best pals Ellie and Claire are keen podcasters, feminists and two Aussies living in Edinburgh. They take us on a feminist walk, checking out all the history hotspots around the Southside of Edinburgh! Start: National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, EH1 Map: https://tinyurl.com/feminism-Edinburgh

Author Rich Cohen joins Tim to talk about his latest book called The Last Pirate of New York. As the title would suggest, it's about the end of the days of pirates in New York, and the birth of the celebrity gangster, all in the story of one man, Albert Hicks and the grisly case in 1860 that changed the way Americans saw crime. https://traffic.libsyn.com/shapingopinion/Last_Pirate_of_New_York_auphonic.mp3   In the 1990s John Gotti was the face of organized crime in New York, following a long tradition of gangsters in the Big Apple. Long before him, there was Lucky Luciano and Tammany Hall. But where did it all get started? And who started it all? These are the kinds of questions that were on the mind of Rich Cohen as he dug deeper and deeper into New York's organized crime history. The end result was his book, “The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, A Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation.” The Scene on March 21, 1860 A boat adrift. The crew of the J.R. Mather saw it when the boats crashed into each other. Saw a darkened, lifeless boat but had to get back to port to fix their own damage quickly. Another boat came upon it less than an hour later. That boat was the Telegraph. They boarded the boat. The EA Johnson (an oyster sloop) was found on March 21st 1860. It was floating in New York's Lower Bay off Brooklyn. Its foresails were torn off during a predawn collision with the J.R. Mather. The scene was grisly. The crew had vanished, but down in the cabin, the crew found ax marks in the ceiling and the floor, a sailor's shirt with slash marks from a knife, and drawers and closets ransacked. Pools of blood ran from beam to beam as the ship swayed in the waves. Blood was everywhere. The Police detectives would find four amputated fingers and a thumb still clinging to the starboard rail. Newspapers and Public Reaction Word of mouth was extremely powerful and fast at that time. Word would spread through the ship crews and in the taverns and tenements. The shipyards and maritime life was centered in what is now the Financial District. The major newspapers that covered the crime were the New York Herald, New York Sun, Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the New York Times. The police followed the perpetrator's trail to him. Albert Hicks was described as stalky and strong and handsome. He was also described as having an unsettling look in his eyes. He was an alcoholic. Known as aloof and a mean drunk. He had a wife and a son who did not know of his alternate life. He was a career criminal known as a “pirate.” He would admit to committing crimes from New Orleans to Hawaii, always coming back to New York. He used an alias which was “William Johnson.” The Trial He was held in a large prison building called the Halls of Justice, but they were better known as the Tombs because they resembled the tombs of the ancient Egyptians. Corruption was rampant. Some prisoners had it pretty good thanks to bribes to the warden and jail guards. Hicks didn't have it that good. The trial at U.S. Circuit Court on Chambers Street drew standing room only crowds. Hicks became a prototype of an American archetype – the celebrity gangster. The U.S. marshal detaining Hicks at The Tombs prison was a corrupt politician and gambling kingpin who also ran the toughest gang in Five Points. Hicks confessed to stealing $150 in gold and silver coins; $26 in money; a watch from the captain and some clothes. After being found guilty and sentenced, Hicks was executed on Bedloe's Island. That island is better known as Liberty Island today, where the Statue of Liberty now stands. Links The Last Pirate of New York, by Rich Cohen (Amazon) A Walking Tour of New York, Circa 1860, Accompanied by the Last Pirate, Vulture "The Last Pirate of New York" Review, Wall Street Journal About this Episode's Guest Rich Cohen Photo Credit: Pascal Perich

Author Rich Cohen joins Tim to talk about his latest book called The Last Pirate of New York. As the title would suggest, it’s about the end of the days of pirates in New York, and the birth of the celebrity gangster, all in the story of one man, Albert Hicks and the grisly case in 1860 that changed the way Americans saw crime. https://traffic.libsyn.com/shapingopinion/Last_Pirate_of_New_York_auphonic.mp3   In the 1990s John Gotti was the face of organized crime in New York, following a long tradition of gangsters in the Big Apple. Long before him, there was Lucky Luciano and Tammany Hall. But where did it all get started? And who started it all? These are the kinds of questions that were on the mind of Rich Cohen as he dug deeper and deeper into New York’s organized crime history. The end result was his book, “The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, A Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation.” The Scene on March 21, 1860 A boat adrift. The crew of the J.R. Mather saw it when the boats crashed into each other. Saw a darkened, lifeless boat but had to get back to port to fix their own damage quickly. Another boat came upon it less than an hour later. That boat was the Telegraph. They boarded the boat. The EA Johnson (an oyster sloop) was found on March 21st 1860. It was floating in New York’s Lower Bay off Brooklyn. Its foresails were torn off during a predawn collision with the J.R. Mather. The scene was grisly. The crew had vanished, but down in the cabin, the crew found ax marks in the ceiling and the floor, a sailor’s shirt with slash marks from a knife, and drawers and closets ransacked. Pools of blood ran from beam to beam as the ship swayed in the waves. Blood was everywhere. The Police detectives would find four amputated fingers and a thumb still clinging to the starboard rail. Newspapers and Public Reaction Word of mouth was extremely powerful and fast at that time. Word would spread through the ship crews and in the taverns and tenements. The shipyards and maritime life was centered in what is now the Financial District. The major newspapers that covered the crime were the New York Herald, New York Sun, Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the New York Times. The police followed the perpetrator’s trail to him. Albert Hicks was described as stalky and strong and handsome. He was also described as having an unsettling look in his eyes. He was an alcoholic. Known as aloof and a mean drunk. He had a wife and a son who did not know of his alternate life. He was a career criminal known as a “pirate.” He would admit to committing crimes from New Orleans to Hawaii, always coming back to New York. He used an alias which was “William Johnson.” The Trial He was held in a large prison building called the Halls of Justice, but they were better known as the Tombs because they resembled the tombs of the ancient Egyptians. Corruption was rampant. Some prisoners had it pretty good thanks to bribes to the warden and jail guards. Hicks didn’t have it that good. The trial at U.S. Circuit Court on Chambers Street drew standing room only crowds. Hicks became a prototype of an American archetype – the celebrity gangster. The U.S. marshal detaining Hicks at The Tombs prison was a corrupt politician and gambling kingpin who also ran the toughest gang in Five Points. Hicks confessed to stealing $150 in gold and silver coins; $26 in money; a watch from the captain and some clothes. After being found guilty and sentenced, Hicks was executed on Bedloe’s Island. That island is better known as Liberty Island today, where the Statue of Liberty now stands. Links The Last Pirate of New York, by Rich Cohen (Amazon) A Walking Tour of New York, Circa 1860, Accompanied by the Last Pirate, Vulture "The Last Pirate of New York" Review, Wall Street Journal About this Episode’s Guest Rich Cohen Photo Credit: Pascal Perich

Nick Turner, Will Miles and special guest Anna Hossnieh review all the new Netflix Originals including I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, Bonding, Chambers, Street Food, The Protector, and Remastered: Devil at the Crossroads. 

This is the major new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street

This week on Food Talk with Mike Colameco, the full hour goes to father and son David and Eben Lillie of Chambers Street Wines, one of Mike's favorite wine stores on planet Earth. Chambers Street Wines has been selected as one of the first recipients of the Slow Food NYC Snail of Approval, for its contributions to the quality, authenticity and sustainability of the food we eat and the beverages we drink in the city of New York.

Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. David talks about his recent radio visit on WPKZ (FM & AM) in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, our newest Extreme Genes affiliates. The guys kick around all the new news the new year has brought with it, including new evidence concerning the sinking of the Titanic; three sets of twins born in both the old year and the new year; New York City moving centuries’ worth of documents from their Chambers Street home to the State Archives in Albany; and a firefighter who discovered a unique piece of memorabilia in his firehouse. David also shares his tip of the week. Fisher then begins the first of his two segment visit with CeCe Moore, the “DNA Detective.” CeCe is a frequent guest on 20/20 and is a regular on “Finding Your Roots” with Dr. Henry Louis Gates. CeCe talks about the organization she has created to coach people, particularly adoptees, as they go about their journey to discover their birth families. Next, Fisher and CeCe talk about the unique challenge of “foundlings,” people who were abandoned as babies. CeCe has had some unique experiences in reuniting these foundlings with the very people who abandoned them. Next, Tom Perry talks preservation, legalities, and technology. He fields some great listener questions with his usual dexterity! That’s all this week on Extreme Genes, America’s Family History Show!

New Yorkers' interest in where their food comes from and how it is raised has led to a robust farmers' market system, a growing interest in communty gardens and backyard enterprises like raising chickens and keeping bees, and a surprising number of urbanites who are ditching their pots of basil on their fire escape to become farmers. While there’s not what you’d call a mass exodus from New York City, there is a perceptible upward trend in the number of people wanting to learn more about agriculture.  With the number of farmers nationwide in decline, support programs are cropping up to help in that transition: Just Food runs Farm School NYC, the Stone Barns Center in Westchester County runs farmer training programs and hosts an annual sold-out Young Farmers Conference, and a growing number of other non-profits help new farmers find everything they need to take root — from land to capital to customers.  Closer to home, Chris Wayne runs FARMroots, the new farmer development program at GrowNYC, the non-profit that manages New York City's Greenmarkets program. In their offices on Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan, they offer a USDA-funded, 10-week training class that Wayne said begins with a reality check: “Can you spend 16 hours in 95 degree heat, working your tail off, for very little money?  That's the first question.”   The question is intended to knock the stars out of people's eyes and get them to start thinking more realistically about farming.  But Wayne said dreaming is still necessary, and is encouraged. "One of the first things we have [students] do," said Wayne, "is look deep into their own values: Why are they interested in starting a farm business, and what's going to be that core, central piece that they can look back on at Hour 15 on their farm, and say  'This is why I'm doing this, this is why this is important to me.'" Once you figure the why, Wayne said it's time to consider the what, the produce or product sector that you want to get into. What are you interested in growing, or raising? Wayne said people often come to the class already inspired by a vegetable or fruit that they had success with in their community or backyard gardens.   What skills do you already have that you could utilize?  Wayne explained that farming requires "an incredibly wide range of skills," from welding to marketing plans to graphic design work for that perfect label that's going to sell your pickled green beans.  "You may not be coming to agriculture with a production skill, but there's probably a lot of other things that you don't realize, other skills and experiences that you already have, that are going to play into a successful farm business."  Is there a niche you can fill with your farm product?  Wayne said beginning farmers can do their own market research.  "What do you see when you walk through a farmer's market?  Are there some products there that are lacking? What's one of the things that you can't seem to find?" This Farm Beginnings course takes beginning farmers from mission statement to financial plan to marketing plan.  But it’s not all Excel spreadsheets. Wayne said it's also important for aspiring farmers to get out of the classroom and into the field.  He said farmers in the Northeast are increasingly accepting interns and apprentices who can earn a small stipend and learn on the job.  He said he believes that kind of experience, under the tutelage of an experience farmer, is essential in learning the "true art of agriculture." "I always say, if I decided tomorrow that i wanted to be an electrician, would I walk into a house the next day, after reading a couple books, and try to set up a house with electricity? Of course not.  The same is true with agriculture."  Wayne said that at the end of the course, if participants decide they want to keep their office day job after all, he considers that as much of a success as helping to launch a Future Farmer.  "We really want folks who are devoted to this to get out into farms," he said. Check out our Farm School Resources Page for more farming classes, literature about starting a farm and organizations that connect aspiring farmers with internship opportunities.

To celebrate getting more downloads than ever last month, we’ve turned in our most rambling nonsense yet. Listen as we amuse ourselves on a number of topics including backwoods horror, the upcoming all-dayer event, the scientific name for having your penis forcibly removed by a Bigfoot and stuffed monkeys in the Chambers Street museum. Happy […]

Our listener email includes: Mitch recently discovered a great video, Ken Burns' Horatio's Drive. He also wants to know if other listeners know of other movies or documentaries that are historically educational. Jennifer is seeking court transcripts of a murder trial in Harford County, Maryland, and a federal trial in the Baltimore Circuit Court in 1922-1923. Gary asked for information about census enumerators' instructions for listing names on censuses. George points to the Minnesota Population Center's IPUMS site at http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/tEnumInstr.shtml for 1850 to 1950 instructions. He also asks for information about the availability of census Enumeration District maps. Jeff asks for advice about how to handle birth date discrepancies where the Kentucky records list one date and family tradition insists it is another date. Richard has started his first blog at http://yehlegenealogy.blogspot.com, and he has posted some photos and postcard images from La Plata, Argentina. He hopes people will see his blog and recognize locations and people shown. Gus asked for guidance about the dictionary of first names that Drew spoke about in a previous episode. The book is the New American Dictionary of First Names. Please see last week's show notes for title and author details. Judy responds to Drew's challenge to locate Chambers Street in the 1920 census. She also suggests that Drew check the WWI Draft Registration cards for his William H. Smith. (He did after the podcast and found some good information.) Helen Shaw has published an article about the Maine Legislature's actions concerning limiting access to that state's vital records. Check this link. Chris asks for advice about how common are name spelling and birth/death date errors from the 1800s and early 1900s. Marily asks for help with tracing her great-great-grandfather who died in the Civil War. Tim is seeking details on his great-grandfather who was orphaned in Oklahoma. He has located Dawes papers and wants suggestions on how to continue. George reviews several books this week: Genealogical Proof Standard: Building a Solid Case by Christine Rose Scots-Irish Links - Part Eight by David Dobson Chickasaw by Blood Enrollment Cards, 1898-1914 - Volume III - transcribed by Jeff Bowen The Surnames of North West Ireland: Concise Histories of the Major Surnames of Gaelic and Planter Origin by Brian Mitchell Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster, 1641-1691, compiled by Brian Mitchell