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Gotham Center Podcasts

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A podcast featuring scholars and experts talking about New York City’s most important historical sites and organizations, for Open House New York (OHNY) Weekend. Each recording presents a story or narrative about some participating location or institution, which can be used to supplement in-person visits, or to bring the OHNY Weekend experience home to anyone unable to see these NYC treasures.
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Season 4, Episode 1: 9/11 Memorial

This 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 now. In today’s episode of Sites and Sounds, James Young talks about the 9/11 Memorial.

Oct 21, 2021

Season 4, Episode 7: TWA Terminal, JFK International Airport

This 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.

Oct 14, 2021

Season 4, Episode 6: National Lighthouse Museum (Copy)

This 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, Eric Jay Dolin talks about the National Lighthouse Museum.

Oct 14, 2021

Season 4, Episode 5: New York Botanical Garden (Copy)

This 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, Jane Garmey talks about the New York Botanical Garden.

Oct 14, 2021

Season 4, Episode 4: Hart Island

This 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. On today’s episode of Sites and Sounds, Melinda Hunt talks about the public graveyard at Hart Island.

Oct 14, 2021

Season 4, Episode 3: International Caribbean Center African Diaspora Institute

This 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 now. In today’s episode of Sites and Sounds, Tyesha Maddox talks about the International Caribbean Center African Diaspora Institute.

Oct 14, 2021

Season 4, Episode2: Bike New York

This 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. On today’s episode of Sites and Sounds, Evan Friss talks about the the history of the bicycle and cycling spaces in New York.

Oct 14, 2021

Season 3, Episode 8: Mother Zion AME Church

Graham Russell Gao Hodges, author of David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City , on Mother Zion A.M.E. Church and its nationally influential antislavery leaders.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 2: Domino's Sugar Factory

Brendan Cooper, author of The Domino Effect: Politics, Policy, and the Consolidation of the Sugar Refining Industry in the United States, 1789–1895 , on the rise and fall of the enormous Williamsburg, Brooklyn factory.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 3: Ebbets Field

Bob McGee, author of The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers , on the iconic stadium (formerly in Crown Heights) and its still-bemoaned departure.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 4: B. Altman's

Sharon Zukin, author of Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture , on ‘B. Altman’s,’ the famous Midtown department store, and the new world of consumption it helped make.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 5: Blackwell Island

Stacy Horn, author of Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York , on the notorious ‘lunatic asylum,’ prison, workhouses, and hospitals that once stood on Roosevelt Island.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 6: The African Grove

Shane White, author of Prince of Darkness and Stories of Freedom in Black New York , on the African Grove, a theater company which played with an entirely black cast and crew to mostly black audiences in the last days of slavery in NYC.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 7: Seneca Village

Alexander Manevitz, author of The Rise and Fall of Seneca Village: Remaking Race and Space in Nineteenth-Century New York City (forthcoming), on the free black community destroyed to build Central Park.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 9: African Meetinghouse

Leslie Alexander, author of African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 , on the African meetinghouse, headquarters of the secret society that created the state’s first incorporated black organization; for a century, NYC’s most prominent black mutual aid group.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 10: James Rivington Printshop

Christopher F. Minty, author of “American Demagogues”: The Origins of Loyalism in New York City (forthcoming), on James Rivington and his controversial printshop in Hanover Square.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 11: Fort Amsterdam

Russell Shorto, author of the national bestseller The Island at the Center of the World , on Fort Amsterdam and the Dutch colony it protected.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 3, Episode 1: North Brother Island

Randall Mason, co-author of North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City , on this now-abandoned, once-feared part of Gotham’s archipelago, which served for decades as (often forced) quarantine for the ill during various epidemics.

Sep 28, 2021

Season 1, Episode 22: The Wyckoff House

Edith Gonzalez, a historical archaeologist, on Wyckoff House, the oldest structure in NYC, a Dutch-era farmhouse situated in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie.

Sep 17, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 22

Season 1, Episode 21: The Woolworth Building

Gail Fenske, author of The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York , on the architectural landmark in Tribeca.

Sep 17, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 21

Season 1, Episode 20: Woodlawn Cemetery

Fred Goodman, former Rolling Stone editor and the author of The Secret City: Woodlawn Cemetery and the Buried History of New York , on the Bronx graveyard next to Van Cortlandt Park.

Sep 17, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 20

Season 1, Episode 15: Prison Ship Martyr Monument

Michael Hattem, co-founder of the Junto and historian of colonial NYC, on the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, where the remains of nearly 11,000 P.O.W.'s in the American Revolution are buried, in Fort Greene .

Sep 17, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 15

Season 1, Episode 18: United Nations Headquarters

Pamela Hanlon, independent historian and the author of A Worldly Affair: New York, the United Nations, and the Story Behind Their Unlikely Bond , on the international body's headquarters in Turtle Bay.

Sep 17, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 18

Season 1, Episode 17: Roosevelt House

Blanche Wiesen Cook, Graduate Center historian and the definitive biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt , on her former home, now a CUNY-affiliated think tank in the Upper East Side.

Sep 17, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 17

Season 1, Episode 14: The Old Quaker Meeting House

R. Scott Hanson, NYC field researcher for Harvard’s Pluralism Project and the author of City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens , on the neighborhood's famous Quaker meetinghouse.

Sep 17, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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