Peter Derrick, MTA veteran and the author of Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York , on the Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn.
Sep 17, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Robin Nagle, author of Picking Up and the anthropologist-in-residence at NYC's Department of Sanitation, on the Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant in Greenpoint.
Sep 17, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Olga Sooudi, an anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Japanese New York: Migrant Artists and Self-Reinvention on the World Stage , on the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City.
Sep 17, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Steve Lang, professor of urban studies at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY and the author of “Striving for Sustainability on the Urban Waterfront,” on the Newtown Creek Alliance.
Sep 17, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Margaret Oppenheimer, author of The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel, on the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, Manhattan's oldest house, famed for its notable inhabitants General Washington and Aaron Burr.
Sep 17, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 9
David Gary, curator at the American Philosophical Society, on King Manor, in Jamaica, Queens, the home of Alexander Hamilton's "right-hand man," the influential Federalist and early antislavery leader Rufus King.
Sep 17, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Simon Baatz, John Jay College historian of crime and science in the 19th and early 20th century, on Jefferson Market Library, the Victorian Gothic courthouse in Greenwich Village.
Sep 17, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Marjorie Feld, author of Lillian Wald: A Biography , on the famous Progressive reformer’s Henry Street Settlement, celebrating its 125th year of offering social services, art, and health care to the immigrant families of the Lower East Side.
Sep 17, 2021•24 min
May Joseph, professor of social science and cultural studies at Pratt Institute, and the author of Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination , on Governors Island.
Sep 17, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Don Hawkins, "dean of Washington, DC architectural history," on the early city hall remodeled by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for the seat of America's first government, on Wall Street.
Sep 17, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Richard Kopley, distinguished professor of literature at Penn State DuBois, author of Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries , on the writer's cottage in Fordham, the Bronx.
Sep 17, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Barbara Christen, author of Cass Gilbert, Life and Work , on Brooklyn Army Terminal, the military-site-turned-manufacturing-complex in Sunset Park, designed by the famous architect.
Sep 17, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Andrea Frohne, author of The African Burial Ground in New York City , on the site containing the remains of 20,000 slaves in lower Manhattan
Sep 17, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Kathleen Murphy Skolnik, co-author of The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière , on the lobby of the AT&T Long Distance Building in Tribeca
Sep 17, 2021•18 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Eric Dregni, author of Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America , on Scandinavia House in Murray Hill.
Sep 17, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Francis Morrone, the noted architectural historian, author of eleven books, on the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture in Midtown.
Sep 17, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Angela Kane, professor of dance at the University of Michigan and the forthcoming author of the first critical study of Paul Taylor, on the famous choreographer’s studio in the Lower East Side.
Sep 17, 2021•21 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Martin Melosi, author of the forthcoming Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City , on the infamous landfill-turned-park in Staten Island
Sep 17, 2021•7 sec•Ep. 2
Amy Starecheski, author of Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City , on Bullet Space in the Lower East Side
Sep 17, 2021•20 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Mark R. Wilson, author of Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II and The Business of Civil War, on the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Sep 17, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Lindsay K. Campbell, author of City of Forests, City of Farms: Sustainability Planning for New York City’s Nature , on the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm at the Navy Yard
Sep 17, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Bonnie Yochelson, author of a forthcoming study of Alice Austen, on the pioneering Gilded Age photographer’s home in Staten Island
Sep 17, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Joseph Alexiou, author of Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal , on the notoriously polluted creek, and the Conservancy working to restore it.
Sep 17, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Sergey Kadinsky, NYC Parks Department analyst and the author of Hidden Waters of New York City , on the Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park, on the Queens-Brooklyn border.
Sep 17, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 16
