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The epizootic of 1872 was a massive outbreak of a flulike illness primarily among horses in North America, Central America, and some islands in the Caribbean. Research: "WHEN A FLU REINED IN NEW YORK." States News Service, 28 Apr. 2020. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A622209555/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=2bf7de71. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025. Andrews, Thomas G. “Influenza’s Progress: The Great Epizootic Flu of 1872-73 in the North American West.” Utah Historical Quarterly. Vol. 89. No. 1. Andrews, Thomas G. “The Great Horse Flu of 1872-1873.” The Bill Lane Center for the American West. Stanford University. https://west.stanford.edu/events/great-horse-flu-1872-1873 Andrews, Thomas. “The Great Horse Flu of 1872-1873.” Bill Lane Center for the American West Stanford Department of History. 5/4/2023. https://west.stanford.edu/events/great-horse-flu-1872-1873 Bierer, Bert W. “History of Animal Plagues of North America.” USDA. 1939. https://archive.org/details/CAT75660671/page/22/mode/1up Department of Health, the City of New York. “Report on the Epizootic Influenza Among Horses in 1872-73.” https://archive.org/details/reportdepartmen05unkngoog/page/n259/mode/1up Durkin, Kevin. “The Great Epizootic of 1872.” Reprinted from SustainLife: uarterly Journal of the Ploughshare Institute for Sustainable Culture. Fall 2012. https://www.heritagebarns.com/the-great-epizootic-of-1872 Freeberg, Ernest. “The Horse Flu Epidemic That Brought 19th-Century America to a Stop.” Smithsonian. 12/4/2020. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-horse-flu-epidemic-brought-19th-century-america-stop-180976453/ Judson, A B. “History and Course of the Epizoötic among Horses upon the North American Continent in 1872-73.” Public health papers and reports vol. 1 (1873): 88-109. Judson, A.B. “Report on the Origin and Progress of the Epizootic among Horses in 1872, With a Table of Mortality in New York (Illustrated with Maps). The Veterinarian : a monthly journal of veterinary science. Volume 47 (Vol. 20 of Fourth Series), January - December 1874. https://archive.org/details/s2023id1378227/page/492/mode/1up Kelly, John. "Why the long face? Because in 1872, nearly every horse in Washington got very ill." Washingtonpost.com, 5 Nov. 2016. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A468927553/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=26db57c2. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025. Kheraj, Sean. “The Great Epizootic of 1872-73.” NiCHE. https://niche-canada.org/2018/05/03/the-great-epizootic-of-1872-73/ Kheraj, Sean. “The Great Epizootic of 1872–73: Networks of Animal Disease in North American Urban Environments.” Environmental History, July 2018, Vol. 23, No. 3 (July 2018). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/48554105 Law, James. “Influenza in Horses.” Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 1872. 1874. https://archive.org/details/reportofcommissi1872unit/page/203/mode/1up Lazarus, Oliver. “The Great Epizootic of 1872: Pandemics, Animals, and Modernity in 19th-Century New York City.” The Gotham Center for New York City History. 2/25/2021. https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-great-epizootic-of-1872 Liautard, A.F. “Report on the Epizootic, as it Appeared in New York.” Report of the Department of Health, the City of New York. https://archive.org/details/reportdepartmen05unkngoog/page/n295/mode/1up McCloskey, Patrick J. “The Great Boston Fire & Epizootic of 1872.” Dakota Digital Review. 12/3/2020. https://dda.ndus.edu/ddreview/the-great-boston-fire-epizootic-of-1872/ McClure, James P. “The Epizootic of 1872: Horses and Disease in a Nation in Motion.” New York History , JANUARY 1998, Vol. 79, No. 1 (JANUARY 1998). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23182287 McShane, Clay. “Gelded Age Boston.” The New England Quarterly , Jun., 2001, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Jun., 2001). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3185479 Morens and Taubenberger (2010) An avian outbreak associated with panzootic equine influenza in 1872: an early example of highly pathogenic avian influenza? Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 4(6), 373–377. Powell, James. “The Great Epizootic.” The Historical Society of Ottawa. https://www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/publications/ottawa-stories/momentous-events-in-the-city-s-life/the-great-epizootic Sack, Alexandra, et al. "Equine Influenza Virus--A Neglected, Reemergent Disease Threat." Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 25, no. 6, June 2019, pp. 1185+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2506.161846. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025. Stolte, Daniel. “UA Study on Flu Evolution May Change Textbooks, History Books.” University of Arizona. https://news.arizona.edu/news/ua-study-on-flu-evolution-may-change-textbooks-history-books See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and then covered up the crime with hellfire. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emelin's sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new “penny press” explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she's a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple abortions. Between June 1844 and April 1846, the nation was enthralled by her three trials—in Staten Island, Manhattan, and Newburgh—for the “Christmas murders.” My guest is Alex Hortis, author of "The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice." He shares with us some of the incredible twists and turns in this absolutely fascinating case. The author's website: https://alexhortis.com/ Register here for the author's online "History of the New York Mafia Class", through The Gotham Center for New York City History (Starting 1/29/2025): https://www.gothamcenter.org/gothamed-january/history-of-the-new-york-mafia Support the show and ditch overpriced wireless with Mint Mobile's deal and get 3 months of premium wireless service for 15 bucks a month! https://www.mintmobile.com/notorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that's been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes in New York real estate, to working-class Cubans rolling cigars in Lower Manhattan decades before the industry took hold in Tampa. Cubans in New York had their own businesses, newspapers, and clubs, and many were involved in the struggle to liberate Cuba from colonial Spain. Among those New York-based political activists was the great hero and poet Jose Marti, who lived most of his adult life here. In fact, says Perez, a professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York in the department of Latin American and Latino/Latina studies, New York was the most important city in the U.S. for Cubans until 1960, when of course Miami became the destination for Cubans fleeing communism. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Beth Harpaz is the editor for the CUNY website SUM, which showcases books and research from the CUNY community.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that's been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes in New York real estate, to working-class Cubans rolling cigars in Lower Manhattan decades before the industry took hold in Tampa. Cubans in New York had their own businesses, newspapers, and clubs, and many were involved in the struggle to liberate Cuba from colonial Spain. Among those New York-based political activists was the great hero and poet Jose Marti, who lived most of his adult life here. In fact, says Perez, a professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York in the department of Latin American and Latino/Latina studies, New York was the most important city in the U.S. for Cubans until 1960, when of course Miami became the destination for Cubans fleeing communism. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Beth Harpaz is the editor for the CUNY website SUM, which showcases books and research from the CUNY community.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is a truism that Lower Manhattan has been America's town square since its founding in 1524, even though its history is much deeper. Virtually every aspect of global, local and national significance can be in some manner traced to this Downtown stage. Some have been forgotten and some have been transformative in our culture and many have fallen between. It Happened Here captures the multiple and overlapping stories that are woven throughout our city's life. It embraces America's history as the museums, monuments and memorials that dot its streetscape do. It highlights many of the concerns, events and places that the people who lived, fought, worked and visited here thought were important at their moment in time. The July 4, 2023 program at Fraunces Tavern Museum was the first of many prequels to the United States' upcoming 250th birthday and a 4-day It Happened Here celebration the weekend of July 4, 2025 and included speakers on the following topics: Fraunces Tavern: Its Revolutionary Story; The Birch Trials at Fraunces Tavern; the New York City Revolutionary Trail by The Gotham Center for New York City History; George Washington's First Command; Alexander Hamilton; Revolutionary Forebears; It Happened Here.

Bringing you a special, location-specific post! Your guide to Visiting the Presidents in the Big Apple, as we go through the birthplaces, gravesites, and homes of the Presidents who called New York City home--no matter how brief! Created in collaboration with Ryan Purcell and The Gotham Center for New York City History! Check out The Gotham Center and all that they do for New York City history! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information!Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2022/10/10/visiting-new-york-citys-presidents/Featured Episodes: "Theodore Roosevelt and Manhattan""Donald Trump and Queens" "George Washington and Mount Vernon""James Monroe and Highland""Ulysses Grant and Galena" "Chester Arthur and Manhattan" Support the show

He revolutionized the oyster bar - but his other, secret, work was more important. Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn Check out all our episodes so far here. If you like, pledge a buck or two on Patreon. Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Useful Smart Mouth merch! Use code shipshiphooray! for free shipping. Related episode: Diversity in Native American Food with Loretta Barrett Oden  Sources: Debra Freeman, Southern Grit  Smart Mouth  Splendid Table  The Virginian-Pilot  The Old Salt Blog  The Black Gotham Digital Archive  Union Oyster House  Restauranting Through History  Oxford Companion to Food  American Heritage  New York Times  The Gotham Center for New York History  Foodtimeline.org  America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking  History of Food  Music: Hard Times Come Again No More, Stephen Foster  Check out: Gayest Episode Ever

Site and Sounds: TWA Terminal, JFK International AirportBy Nicholas D. BloomThis year marks the fourth season of Sites and Sounds, a podcast series by the Gotham Center for Open House New York's annual OHNY Weekend. All this week Gotham will bring you new episodes of this award-winning podcast. Check out more about OHNY Weekend, happening October 16-17. In today's episode of Sites and Sounds, Nicholas D. Bloom talks about the TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport.

In northern Manhattan in 1841, the naturalist John James Audubon bought 14 acres of farmland on the banks of the Hudson River and built his family a home far from the crowded downtown streets. Audubon’s country homestead is long gone, but his story launches Matthew Spady’s The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It (Fordham UP, 2020). The book traces the complex path by which woodlands became a multi-ethnic big-city neighborhood. Framing his narrative in the lives of two families—the Audubons and the Grinnells—Spady tells how family dysfunctions, economic crises, and technological change created a Manhattan neighborhood that no one could have predicted at its birth. This interview was produced with the collaboration of the Gotham Center for New York City History.  Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, is the author of Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York and co-author of All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York. He can be reached at rwsnyder@newark.rutgers.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Peter-Christian Aigner is a historian of twentieth-century America. In this episode, we discuss the Journey to Esquire: Oral History Project and its importance to recent events. Dr. Aigner's first book explores the life and career of Daniel Patrick Moynihan as a view onto the strains of American liberalism between the New Deal and the present century. The manuscript is contracted with Simon & Schuster and will be the first scholarly biography to date of the national political/intellectual figure and New York City icon. He’s begun research on a second book, interrogating the structural dimensions of American exceptionalism, re-conceptualizing local and national history from a modern global perspective. Dr. Aigner has published essays in The Nation, The Atlantic and The New Republic, presented original research on a variety of topics before numerous professional academic associations, worked for several years as the Journal of the History of Ideas’ assistant editor and hosted a podcast on urban history for the New Books Network. Prior to being named The Gotham Center's acting director (2016-2019), he served as the organization's administrator, during which time he spearheaded the redesign of its website and the creation of several new features, including the semiweekly digital publication Gotham. Email: paigner@gc.cuny.edu https://www.gothamcenter.org/ Podcast: https://www.gothamcenter.org/podcasts/ohny-weekend-podcasts Blog: https://www.gothamcenter.org/gotham-a-blog-for-scholars-of-new-york-city-history Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GothamCenter/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GothamCenter Books mentioned: Vitale, The End of Policing; Zinn, A People's History of the United States. #DiversityAccessPipeline #JourneytoEsquire #DiversityandInclusion #Scholarship #Diversity #Excellence #FloridaBar #FloridaAttorney #YoungLawyer #Florida #LawSchool #FloridaLawyer #FloridaBarYoungLawyersDivision #barexam #barexamprep #BarBri #kaplan #themis #agape #barprep --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/support

In honor of Black History Month, Journey to Esquire: The Podcast would like to share a glimpse into the beginnings of an oral history of African-American Pioneering lawyers in Tampa Bay. Featured speakers are Delano Stewart, Arthenia Joyner, and Donald Odom. Special thanks to Ricky Roberts and Ricky Roberts Photography www.rickyroberts.com, and Dr. Peter-Christian Aigner Director of the Gotham Center, www.gothamcenter.com for their assistance and support in this project. For the full video visit our YouTube Page and the website www.journeytoesquire.com/oralhistory. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/support

This episode features Kubi Ackerman, then-Director of the Future City Lab at the Museum of the City of New York. Ackerman is not interested in monuments for the past, but instead asks how we might memorialize the present and the future, as well as send warnings or messages to future generations. Encompassing topics like socio-economic inequality and the climate crisis, Ackerman and the Future City Lab help us challenge conventional notions of monuments and develop participatory exhibitions about urban futures.This episode features audio from the program “Monuments of the Future: Alternative Approaches," held on February 6, 2019, in the Martin E. Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. This program was sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, The Gotham Center for New York City History, and the CUNY Public History Collective.  The series is supported by a grant from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

This episode features Marisa Williamson, a multimedia artist based in Newark, New Jersey whose site-specific works, videos, and performances focus on the body, authority, freedom, and memory. Speaking during the third and final event in our public seminar series, “Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation,” Williamson details her work on “Sweet Chariot,” a smartphone-based, augmented-reality tour of Philadelphia’s spaces of black freedom struggle. By inviting the viewer to interact and engage with this history, Williamson opens new doors for alternative approaches to monuments and memorialization. This episode features audio from the program “Monuments of the Future: Alternative Approaches," held on February 6, 2019, in the Martin E. Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. This program was sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, The Gotham Center for New York City History, and the CUNY Public History Collective.  The series is supported by a grant from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

“Lots of hard work, lots of collaboration, and a long horizon.” These, according to Mary Anne Trasciatti, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hofstra University, are the keys to erecting a public art memorial from the ground up in New York City. In this episode, Trasciatti speaks about the Reframing the Skymemorial for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. As president of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, Trasciatti and her colleagues—all volunteers—dialogued with government and outside organizations to secure grants, donations, and permits.  Her detailed and comprehensive summary offers a window into the public memorial creation process in New York City.  This episode features audio from the program "Who Decides? The History and Future of Monument Creation in New York City," held on October 9, 2018, in the Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. This program was the second event in the series “Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation,” sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, The Gotham Center for New York City History, and the CUNY Public History Collective.  The series is supported by a grant from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

How do we think about history? Whose history is it? And how is history constructed, both in academic terms and in a public way?These questions were made apparent in discussions of the NYC Mayor’s Commission on Monuments, where Jack Tchen, Professor of Public History and the Humanities at Rutgers University, served as a panelist. In this episode, Tchen walks us through the ways the city’s public history has been organized, the processes and findings of the Commission, and a vision to re-establish Lenape life, history, and culture into historical discourse of the region.This episode features audio from the public program "Who Decides? The History and Future of Monument Creation in New York City," held on October 9, 2018, in the Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. This program was the second event in the series “Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation,” sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, The Gotham Center for New York City History, and the CUNY Public History Collective.  The series is supported by a grant from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

In this episode, Michele Bogart, professor and author of the recently published Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal In New York City, untangles the bureaucracy of monument creation in New York City. Delving into decision-making processes behind the City's monuments and memorials, Bogart looks to the past and the present in discussing whose voice is heard and valued in constructing urban spaces of meaning and rememberance. This episode features audio from the program "Who Decides? The History and Future of Monument Creation in New York City," held on October 9, 2018, in the Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. This program was the second event in the series “Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation,” sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, The Gotham Center for New York City History, and the CUNY Public History Collective.  The series is supported by a grant from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome. Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Empire States Editions, 2018), co-edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan (Fordham University Press, 2018), examines the Greco-Roman influence on buildings, monuments and public spaces from Rockefeller Center to the Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College. Walking around New York, Macaulay-Lewis says she “was struck by how many classical-looking buildings there were.” Indeed, references to the myths, gods, motifs and structures of the ancient world are seemingly everywhere: in courthouses, museums and libraries, in arches and columns, in Latin inscriptions and sculptures. But these classical references aren't just about aesthetics or engineering. They also symbolize the aspirations of a city that saw itself as a capital of learning, culture, and civic life, on par with the finest institutions of the ancient world. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome. Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Empire States Editions, 2018), co-edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan (Fordham University Press, 2018), examines the Greco-Roman influence on buildings, monuments and public spaces from Rockefeller Center to the Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College. Walking around New York, Macaulay-Lewis says she “was struck by how many classical-looking buildings there were.” Indeed, references to the myths, gods, motifs and structures of the ancient world are seemingly everywhere: in courthouses, museums and libraries, in arches and columns, in Latin inscriptions and sculptures. But these classical references aren’t just about aesthetics or engineering. They also symbolize the aspirations of a city that saw itself as a capital of learning, culture, and civic life, on par with the finest institutions of the ancient world. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome. Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Empire States Editions, 2018), co-edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan (Fordham University Press, 2018), examines the Greco-Roman influence on buildings, monuments and public spaces from Rockefeller Center to the Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College. Walking around New York, Macaulay-Lewis says she “was struck by how many classical-looking buildings there were.” Indeed, references to the myths, gods, motifs and structures of the ancient world are seemingly everywhere: in courthouses, museums and libraries, in arches and columns, in Latin inscriptions and sculptures. But these classical references aren’t just about aesthetics or engineering. They also symbolize the aspirations of a city that saw itself as a capital of learning, culture, and civic life, on par with the finest institutions of the ancient world. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome. Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Empire States Editions, 2018), co-edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan (Fordham University Press, 2018), examines the Greco-Roman influence on buildings, monuments and public spaces from Rockefeller Center to the Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College. Walking around New York, Macaulay-Lewis says she “was struck by how many classical-looking buildings there were.” Indeed, references to the myths, gods, motifs and structures of the ancient world are seemingly everywhere: in courthouses, museums and libraries, in arches and columns, in Latin inscriptions and sculptures. But these classical references aren’t just about aesthetics or engineering. They also symbolize the aspirations of a city that saw itself as a capital of learning, culture, and civic life, on par with the finest institutions of the ancient world. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome. Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Empire States Editions, 2018), co-edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan (Fordham University Press, 2018), examines the Greco-Roman influence on buildings, monuments and public spaces from Rockefeller Center to the Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College. Walking around New York, Macaulay-Lewis says she “was struck by how many classical-looking buildings there were.” Indeed, references to the myths, gods, motifs and structures of the ancient world are seemingly everywhere: in courthouses, museums and libraries, in arches and columns, in Latin inscriptions and sculptures. But these classical references aren’t just about aesthetics or engineering. They also symbolize the aspirations of a city that saw itself as a capital of learning, culture, and civic life, on par with the finest institutions of the ancient world. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome. Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Empire States Editions, 2018), co-edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan (Fordham University Press, 2018), examines the Greco-Roman influence on buildings, monuments and public spaces from Rockefeller Center to the Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College. Walking around New York, Macaulay-Lewis says she “was struck by how many classical-looking buildings there were.” Indeed, references to the myths, gods, motifs and structures of the ancient world are seemingly everywhere: in courthouses, museums and libraries, in arches and columns, in Latin inscriptions and sculptures. But these classical references aren’t just about aesthetics or engineering. They also symbolize the aspirations of a city that saw itself as a capital of learning, culture, and civic life, on par with the finest institutions of the ancient world. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome. Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Empire States Editions, 2018), co-edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan (Fordham University Press, 2018), examines the Greco-Roman influence on buildings, monuments and public spaces from Rockefeller Center to the Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College. Walking around New York, Macaulay-Lewis says she “was struck by how many classical-looking buildings there were.” Indeed, references to the myths, gods, motifs and structures of the ancient world are seemingly everywhere: in courthouses, museums and libraries, in arches and columns, in Latin inscriptions and sculptures. But these classical references aren’t just about aesthetics or engineering. They also symbolize the aspirations of a city that saw itself as a capital of learning, culture, and civic life, on par with the finest institutions of the ancient world. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Marjorie Feld talks about Henry St. Settlement. This neighborhood agency has been providing immigrant, poor, and working class people from Manhattan’s Lower East Side with social services, art programs, education and health care for 125 years. It was founded by pioneering social worker Lillian Wald, at whose table, you’ll soon hear, presidents and businessmen from around the nation, and the world, came to visit -- occasionally even sitting down alongside labor organizers and radicals to discuss solutions to the various problems of the day. Feld, the author of a prize-winning biography of Wald, discusses the origins of this nationally path-breaking New York City institution, and the many ways in which its founder’s spirit still appears to animate the Settlement -- which sprang into existence to face the mass immigration and inequality of the First Gilded Age, and is now grappling with the Second. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast "Sites and Sounds," Barbara Christen talks about the Brooklyn Army Terminal, the military site-turned-manufacturing complex in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, designed by the famous architect Cass Gilbert. Christen, who holds a PhD in architectural history from The Graduate Center (CUNY), is the author of a celebrated biography of Gilbert, who gained a national reputation for designing the Alexander Hamilton custom house and pioneering skyscrapers downtown, like the Woolworth. Here, she tells us about Gilbert’s commission in the last year of World War I: to build a cargo station, later the largest military supply base in World War II, and since then, a commercial warehouse and space for light industry. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast "Sites and Sounds," Richard Kopley talks about the Edgar Allan Poe cottage in Fordham, The Bronx, where the famous author lived from 1846-1849 -- experiencing the devastation of his wife Virginia’s death, and later the elation of writing some of his most important work, from Ulalume to Eldorado. As you’ll hear, the story of Poe’s life at the Fordham cottage is one of moving suffering and remarkable overcoming. Kopley, Distinguished Professor of Literature at Penn State DuBois, is the author of Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Don Hawkins talks about Federal Hall on Wall Street, home to colonial New York’s city hall, former site of the US sub-treasury, and most famously, the place where George Washington took the oath as America’s first President. Hawkins, considered by many the dean of Washington D.C.’s architectural history, is working on a book about Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who redesigned the building. He is also an urban planner, who has played a role in more than two-hundred-fifty building projects throughout the nation’s capital. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” R. Scott Hanson talks about the Quaker meeting house in Flushing, Queens, the first house of worship in the area, and the oldest continually operating one in all of New York City. Often cited as a birthplace of religious liberty in America, because of the famous Flushing Remonstrance (written against the sectarian rule of Peter Stuyvesant in the Dutch Era), the meetinghouse now sits in perhaps the most religious diverse neighborhood in the world. Hanson, lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of City of Gods, exploring this unique history. He began his research with the pluralism project at Harvard and did much of the New York City field work for the multimedia CD-ROM Uncommon Ground, exploring world religions in the country. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” May Joseph talks about Governor’s Island, the small landmass just south of Manhattan, which for much of New York’s history served as the city’s military guardian, and is now, after decades of obsolescence and invisibility, a vibrant if still secluded park in the harbor, whose future in the hyper-built city is anxiously debated. Joseph is a professor of social science at Pratt Institute and the author of Fluid New York, which explores the many ways residents have begun to incorporate the city’s archipelago ecology into plans for sustainable use and leisure. She’s also the founder of Harmattan Theater, which produces site-specific outdoor productions exploring the history of New York through its architecture, design, and natural environment. Her newest project is called Metrolax: Performing the City.  For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” we speak to Peter Derrick about New York City’s transit museum in Downtown Brooklyn -- located, appropriately enough, in a decommissioned subway station. Derrick, a retired professor of history, is the author of Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York. He also ran capital projects for the MTA and helped establish the museum in 1976 for the subway’s 75th anniversary, and in response to popular demand over a temporary installation featuring old cars and exhibits. The museum’s popularity has continued, with subway, bus, railway, bridge, and tunnel memorabilia, lectures, seminars, films, and tours -- all explaining why, as Derrick argues in his book, New York’s history is unimaginable without this enormous public investment, which has long made the city an economic powerhouse, among other things. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Simon Baatz, an historian of crime and science in late 19th and early 20th century America, talks about the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village. Formerly a courthouse, this beautiful Victorian-Gothic landmark was also one of the first architecturally notable buildings to distinguish the rising New York City metropolis among the great cities of the world. You’ll also hear from the CUNY John Jay scholar about some of the notorious cases that made it famous. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Blanche Wiesen Cook talks about Roosevelt House, the private home of Franklin and Eleanor, in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, now a progressive think tank affiliated with Hunter College. Cook is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, as well as the definitive biographer of Eleanor -- a powerful force in the making of the New Deal, the founding of the UN, and post-war American liberalism. Here, Cook reminds us that it was in this home that Eleanor first came to her own, leaving behind the doubt and depression of her early years to become, as many knew her, the "First Lady of the World."  For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Gail Fenske talks about the Woolworth Building in Lower Manhattan. Fenske is a Professor of architecture at Roger Williams University and the author of a celebrated book on the Woolworth, situating the pioneering skyscraper within the broader issues of early 20th century urban America -- providing an encyclopedic, but highly readable background on its construction, life, and relevance in terms of business, architecture, technology and, of course, New York City. Here, we get a taste of that larger work.  For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Edith Gonzalez talks about the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Canarsie, Brooklyn, the oldest structure in the city and the first to be designated a landmark. Typifying the architectural vernacular of the Dutch, New York’s first colonial settlers, the farmhouse also bears the physical reflection of the myriad social changes which came afterward, thus offering a unique window onto the city’s past. Gonzalez, an historical archaeologist specialized in the colonial Americas, has excavated a number of agricultural estates in the West Indies and NYC, including Wyckoff House -- and in this podcast asks, 'What's in a home?' For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Fred Goodman talks about Woodlawn Cemetery in the north Bronx. A massive necropolis of 400 immaculately and privately maintained acres, Woodlawn serves as the final resting place for 300,000 New Yorkers, counting among its long term inhabitants Herman Melville, Duke Ellington, Robert Moses, Fiorello LaGuardia, Miles Davis, and dozens of Gilded Age titans. Although it remains unknown to many who live in New York City, it’s a place of great cultural and historical significance as well as architectural distinction. Drawing on his book about the subject, Goodman reminds us here that before the age of philanthropic foundations, tombstones served as a way for the rich and famous to demonstrate their stature in the afterlife, and, in a series of portraits, restores some of the once eminent-half-forgotten New Yorkers now buried in this, the city’s largest cemetery. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Kurt Schlichting talks about the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn. This small barge, listed on the national registry of historic places, which is the last wooden vessel still floating in New York’s harbor, serves as the organization’s physical front. But the goal of the museum is far larger: to educate the public about the city’s outstanding maritime history and its contemporary importance. Schlichting, a  sociologist at Fairfield University, uses the museum to similarly explore this much larger subject, drawing on his recent book Waterfront Manhattan, the first to exclusively focus on the ways New York’s global and unique harbor and shoreline decisively shaped the fate of the city across its 400 years. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Pamela Hanlon talks about the United Nations headquarters, in Turtle Bay. Hanlon, an independent historian, is the author of A Worldly Affair: New York, the United Nations, and the Story behind Their Unlikely Bond. Here you’ll get in digest some of that larger narrative. The world may now take it for granted that the international diplomatic body is headquartered in Manhattan, but long after New York’s mayor Fiorello LaGuardia declined to compete with other cities for it, the UN’s address remained uncertain. And while New Yorkers may complain about things like the noisy traffic jams caused by its location, Hanlon reminds us that the city has gotten much benefit in return, economic and otherwise. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Olga Sooudi talks about the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, designed and created by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sooudi, an anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam, is the author of Japanese New York, an intimate, ethnographic portrait of Japanese creative migrants living and working in New York City. Here, she uses the example of Isamu Noguchi to discuss the larger community of Japanese artists who made NYC home to one of the largest overseas Japanese populations in the world.  For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Margaret Oppenheimer talks about the Morris-Jumel Mansion, the oldest house in Manhattan. Built in 1765 as a summer home for Roger Morris, the prominent colonial British military officer, realtor, and slaveowner, the mansion originally sat on 135 acres of land stretching from the Harlem to Hudson rivers, on the island's second highest point. It was later made famous as the temporary residence of General Washington during the American Revolution, and then for Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson’s first Vice President and the infamous killer of Alexander Hamilton. Here, Oppenheimer draws on her biography of Eliza Jumel, wife of Morris and Burr, and the mansion’s most permanent tenant, for an intimate history of the home. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” we speak to David Gary about King Manor, in Jamaica, Queens. The author of a dissertation on Rufus King -- an influential federalist who served as Alexander Hamilton’s "right-hand man," and later became an important anti-slavery leader -- Gary is a former Gotham Center Fellow and holds a PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is now a curator at the American Philosophical Society. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Sergey Kadinsky talks about the Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park, a source of water for Brooklyn until the consolidation of Greater New York, provided the borough with access to the Croton aqueduct. Kadinksy, a Parks Department analyst, is the author of Hidden Waters of New York City: A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes, Ponds, Creeks, and Streams in the Five Boroughs. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Michael Hattem talks about the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where the remains of nearly eleven thousand soldiers are buried, captives of the British who often died from unspeakable treatment and torture during the American Revolution. New York was central to the military strategy of both the patriots and loyalists, and the scene of that war’s most important battle. Yet the city is seldom remembered as a major stage in our nation’s struggle for independence. Here, Hattem -- a visiting professor of history at Knox College, finishing a book on the surprisingly tense debates over popular memory of the Revolution during the early years of the republic -- explains why. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Robin Nagle talks about the Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Nagle, who teaches at New York University, is the anthropologist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation and the author of Picking Up, a book that asks readers to think about the labor, infrastructure, spatial demands, organization, and general relationship between trash and modern urban life. Here, Nagle uses the Newtown Plant, one of the largest wastewater treatment facilities in the world, to discuss New York’s long, tortured history with clean water production, and the public health crises which ravaged the city before it resolved the problem. What do Aaron Burr, Collect Pond, Five Points, and JP Morgan-Chase have in common? Listen to find out. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Steve Lang talks about the Newtown Creek Alliance, a group of neighborhood activists advocating for environmental rehabilitation and increased recreational use of this notoriously polluted waterway running through Long Island City, Greenpoint, Sunnyside, and East Williamsburg. As you’ll hear, the organization has done much to revitalize this formerly inaccessible Superfund site, but is struggling, like other communities around the world, to reclaim the formerly industrial shoreline without paradoxically closing it off to residents through gentrification. Lang, a sociologist who’s been studying these efforts is a professor of urban studies at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

In this four-speaker panel, professors, artists, and activists delve into the ongoing re-evaluation of public monuments and memorials, particularly those in New York City (NYC). Dr. Harriet Senie, professor of art history at The Graduate Center CUNY, offers insights into the decision making process of the 2017 Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, an initiative convened to advise NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio about controversial monuments and markers on city-owned land.  Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, professor of history at Queens College CUNY, details the work of J. Marion Sims, who developed gynecological procedures by practicing on the bodies of enslaved black women.  Marina Ortiz, activist and founder of East Harlem Preservation, discusses the decades-long fight to remove an East Harlem statue of Sims.  Francheska Alcantara, artist and activist, explores the ways in which art can and should engage social protest.  This panel took place on June 13, 2018, as the first program in the series “Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation,” sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, The Gotham Center for New York City History, and the CUNY Public History Collective.  The series is supported by a grant from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes in New York real estate, to working-class Cubans rolling cigars in Lower Manhattan decades before the industry took hold in Tampa. Cubans in New York had their own businesses, newspapers, and clubs, and many were involved in the struggle to liberate Cuba from colonial Spain. Among those New York-based political activists was the great hero and poet Jose Marti, who lived most of his adult life here. In fact, says Perez, a professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York in the department of Latin American and Latino/Latina studies, New York was the most important city in the U.S. for Cubans until 1960, when of course Miami became the destination for Cubans fleeing communism. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Beth Harpaz is the editor for the CUNY website SUM, which showcases books and research from the CUNY community.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes in New York real estate, to working-class Cubans rolling cigars in Lower Manhattan decades before the industry took hold in Tampa. Cubans in New York had their own businesses, newspapers, and clubs, and many were involved in the struggle to liberate Cuba from colonial Spain. Among those New York-based political activists was the great hero and poet Jose Marti, who lived most of his adult life here. In fact, says Perez, a professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York in the department of Latin American and Latino/Latina studies, New York was the most important city in the U.S. for Cubans until 1960, when of course Miami became the destination for Cubans fleeing communism. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Beth Harpaz is the editor for the CUNY website SUM, which showcases books and research from the CUNY community.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes in New York real estate, to working-class Cubans rolling cigars in Lower Manhattan decades before the industry took hold in Tampa. Cubans in New York had their own businesses, newspapers, and clubs, and many were involved in the struggle to liberate Cuba from colonial Spain. Among those New York-based political activists was the great hero and poet Jose Marti, who lived most of his adult life here. In fact, says Perez, a professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York in the department of Latin American and Latino/Latina studies, New York was the most important city in the U.S. for Cubans until 1960, when of course Miami became the destination for Cubans fleeing communism. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Beth Harpaz is the editor for the CUNY website SUM, which showcases books and research from the CUNY community.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes in New York real estate, to working-class Cubans rolling cigars in Lower Manhattan decades before the industry took hold in Tampa. Cubans in New York had their own businesses, newspapers, and clubs, and many were involved in the struggle to liberate Cuba from colonial Spain. Among those New York-based political activists was the great hero and poet Jose Marti, who lived most of his adult life here. In fact, says Perez, a professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York in the department of Latin American and Latino/Latina studies, New York was the most important city in the U.S. for Cubans until 1960, when of course Miami became the destination for Cubans fleeing communism. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Beth Harpaz is the editor for the CUNY website SUM, which showcases books and research from the CUNY community.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes in New York real estate, to working-class Cubans rolling cigars in Lower Manhattan decades before the industry took hold in Tampa. Cubans in New York had their own businesses, newspapers, and clubs, and many were involved in the struggle to liberate Cuba from colonial Spain. Among those New York-based political activists was the great hero and poet Jose Marti, who lived most of his adult life here. In fact, says Perez, a professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York in the department of Latin American and Latino/Latina studies, New York was the most important city in the U.S. for Cubans until 1960, when of course Miami became the destination for Cubans fleeing communism. This interview is part of an occasional series on the history of New York City sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY. Beth Harpaz is the editor for the CUNY website SUM, which showcases books and research from the CUNY community.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month on SWTB we revisit segments that use history to tell the story. Mike Wallace of the Gotham Center walks us through the history of New York City activism; Barry Rosen shares his experience being one of the 52 Iranian hostages of 1979...and more.

In Episode 2,  ABC Gotham's amateur historians, Kate and Kathleen, discuss beer and breweries  in the 5 boroughs throughout history.  We start in the 1850's with Knickerbocker, Ruppert, Ballantine, Schlitz, Rhenigold, and Piels, and take you all the way up to today with Brooklyn Brewery, Bronx Brewery, Sixpoint, and Chelsea.  Beer is unstoppable!  Neither Prohibition nor anti- German sentiment could stop NYC brewing for good.  You better grab a pint for this episode, because all that talking is going to make you thirsty. Links to check out after listening: Website of Gotham Center for NYC History, a CUNY center that provided a lot of info for this episode Brooklyn Brewery Bronx Brewery Urban Oyster-- excellent, informative walking/ bus tours of NYC NY Historical Society Beer Here Exhibition NY Historical Society Beer Appreciation Night on July 10-- see you there!

Doug welcomes Mike Wallace, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Gotham Center for NYC History, and Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY. The two discuss the country’s current political climate.