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Rediscovering New York is a weekly show that showcases New York City’s extraordinary neighborhoods. Each week we focus on a particular neighborhood; we explore its history, its vibe, its feel and its energy, really what makes the neighborhood special.
Triple-hung windows, Gatsby's Valley of Ashes: your New York rabbit hole gets remarkably specific.
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The Plaza Hotel becomes a vivid crossroads for New York fiction, memory, glamour, and mystery.
This episode treats literary New York as something almost architectural, with the Plaza Hotel holding the center of the room. It moves from The Great Gatsby to Eloise with an eye for how one address can gather glamour, privacy, childhood fantasy, and a faint haunted-house…
A grounded Yorkville episode linking German-American memory with the housing reforms that reshaped neighborhood life.
Yorkville comes through as a Manhattan neighborhood built from German and German-American memory, with the Steuben Parade opening the door back into the archives.
A focused look at how Fitzgerald's Valley of Ashes was overtaken by New York's habit of remaking itself.
Rediscovering New York traces Fitzgerald's Valley of Ashes from a bleak emblem of sterility and a spent American dream to the ground now occupied by Flushing Meadows Park.
Governor's Island becomes a clear map of wartime logistics, military administration, and the women who served within it.
Governor's Island comes through as a practical military landscape, and that gives the episode its firmest footing. Jeff Goodman and his guest follow the island through World War One warehouses, rail traces used to move heavy material, and its later life as a World War Two…
A measured look at making New York history accessible beyond the city itself.
Rediscovering New York tracks a turn away from pandemic-era virtual tours and toward programming with a firmer editorial shape. The conversation points to broader thematic work, from Lost New York sessions on the Crystal Palace and vanished Madison Square Gardens to an abandoned…
Miller Beach chaos, served breakfast-style.
Pennsylvania by county, landmark, and stone.
Nebraska culture, live and close to home.
Jeff Goodman and David Griffin frame Rediscovering New York around children depicted in New York fiction, with Eloise at the Plaza and Harriet the Spy as the main reference points.
["Rediscovering New York revisits Yorkville on Manhattan's Upper East Side, tracing its shift from 18th-century country estates to a German and German-American neighborhood bounded by 79th to 96th Street east of 3rd Avenue.", "Jeff Goodman's guest Lucy Levine ties Yorkville's growth to the New York and Harlem Railroad, the 2nd and 3rd Avenue els, Jan Hus, the Cherokee Apartments, and Andrew Carnegie's first Yorkville branch library.", "Goodman and Levine also connect the neighborhood to the General Slocum disaster of 1904, which pushed many German families north from Kleine Deutschland in the East Village, and to civic markers like Gracie Mansion and the Hamilton fireplace reused for WPIX's first Yule Log in 1966.", "The episode closes with Jeremy Schaller of Schaller & Weber describing his family's 1937 butcher shop, its medal-winning meats, and the company's expansion toward Essex Crossing and a new Stube concept."]
Rediscovering New York episode 127, 'Hard Cover New York,' uses F.
["Rediscovering New York uses two harbor islands to connect New York City history, public memory, and the tours led by Mandy Edgecombe and Joyce Gold.", "Mandy Edgecombe links lower Manhattan bedrock, Grand Central Terminal's 1913 growth, and New York's coastline and wetlands to the city's development.", "She traces Governor's Island from Lenape use and Paganac, Noten, and Nutten names to Revolutionary War earthworks, Castle Williams, Confederate prisoners of war, World War I warehouses, and World War II administration.", "Joyce Gold then turns to Ellis Island, where Samuel Ellis, Castle Clinton, and the 1892 immigration station lead into the Island of Tears and its 2 percent rejection rate."]
Jeff Goodman uses Rediscovering New York to examine how Untapped New York moved from in-person tours to virtual programming after the March 2020 shutdown.
This episode introduces the show's format of exploring New York City's history and culture through interviews and thematic episodes.
A weekly show exploring the history, texture, and vibe of New York City neighborhoods through interviews with local experts.
A weekly show exploring the history, texture, and vibe of New York City neighborhoods through interviews with experts and locals.
A weekly show exploring the history, texture, and vibe of New York City neighborhoods through interviews with historians, local business owners, and community figures.
A weekly show exploring the history, texture, and vibe of New York City neighborhoods through interviews with local experts.
A weekly show exploring the history, texture, and vibe of New York City neighborhoods through interviews with local experts.
A weekly show exploring the history, texture, and vibe of New York City neighborhoods through interviews with historians, local business owners, and artists.
A weekly show exploring the history, texture, and vibe of New York City neighborhoods through interviews with local experts.