If you have been following this loose “guide” to visiting New York, you already know how to avoid Museum Headache and to Ride the Subway. Now you have earned a third piece […]
Live New York History: Get a Drink
Ride the Subway
Ride the subway. The New York subway system is unforgivable. This ancient warren of tunnels, bridges, and elevated rails has not aged well over the last one hundred years. As you descend to […]
Ep 9 -To Kidnap a Prince – Hanover Square
In this episode of the City Between we travel to the heart of the Anti-Revolutionary War – New York City in 1781. This city teeming with Loyalists and the headquarters of the British […]
Museum Headache – CURED!
For a long time, I have been working on the diagnosis of an affliction I and many others I know have experienced: Museum Headache. But I also have been hard at work […]
Ep 8 – Conspiracy Afoot – A Walk in the Village
In this episode of the City Between podcast we go on a walk in Greenwich Village in the cold winter of 1864 with two men – one who was contemplating the worst […]
Ep 6 – A Pirate Farm in Brooklyn – The Turk’s Plantation
In this episode of City Between – the podcast of New York History’s forgotten and mysterious corners – we go on a slightly Quixotic hunt in Brooklyn for a remanent of the […]
Ep 4 – A Vanished Mohawk Village in Brooklyn
In this episode of the City Between Podcast–a show where we explore New York City’s uncommon history–we seek out the lost village of the Mohawk Indians near downtown Brooklyn. We search for […]
Ep 3 – The Kingdom of Ice
In this episode we travel to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn to a last sign of the Lost Kingdom of Ice, the Rubel Coal and Ice Corporation building. Once upon a time natural […]
Ep 2 – A Tavern in Exile
In this episode we take a trip out to Queens to explore a bar in exile, a tavern of a country no longer there: the Gottscheer Hall in Ridgewood, Queens I am joined […]
Ep 1 – Santa Claus is From New York City
Santa Claus in the City Today we explore the birth of Santa Claus in New York City in the early 1800s, the progeny of a prankster writer from downtown (Washington Irving) and […]
