Gotham Center Podcasts

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.

Season 2, Episode 2: AT&T Long Distance Building

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

09-17
18:14

Season 2, Episode 11: Scandinavia House

Eric Dregni, author of "Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America," on Scandinavia House in Murray Hill.

09-17
25:43

Season 2, Episode 9: Institute of Classical Art and Architecture

Francis Morrone, the noted architectural historian, author of eleven books, on the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture in Midtown.

09-17
42:40

Season 2, Episode 10: Paul Taylor Dance Studio

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.

09-17
21:01

Season 2, Episode 5: Bullet Space

Amy Starecheski, author of Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City, on Bullet Space in the Lower East Side

09-17
20:06

Season 2, Episode 4: Brooklyn Navy Yard

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.

09-17
31:13

Season 2, Episode 3: Brooklyn Grange

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

09-17
29:23

Season 2, Episode 1: Alice Austen House

Bonnie Yochelson, author of a forthcoming study of Alice Austen, on the pioneering Gilded Age photographer’s home in Staten Island

09-17
30:32

Season 2, Episode 8: Gowanus Canal Conservancy

Joseph Alexiou, author of Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal, on the notoriously polluted creek, and the Conservancy working to restore it.

09-17
40:27

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.

09-17
28:54

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.

09-17
16:19

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.

09-17
29:23

Season 1, Episode 19: The Waterfront Museum

Kurt Schlichting, author of "Waterfront Manhattan: From Henry Hudson to the High Line," on the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook.

09-17
36:35

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.

09-17
26:30

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.

09-17
18:25

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.

09-17
20:49

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.

09-17
15:25

Season 1, Episode 13: NYC Transit Museum

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.

09-17
21:30

Season 1, Episode 11: Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

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.

09-17
22:53

Season 1, Episode 12: Noguchi Museum

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.

09-17
19:53

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