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TALKS ARCHIVE

  • Tenement Speaks Podcast Episode 1: A Taste of the Lower East Side

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  • Interview With Chef Sandor Katz

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  • Eat the City: Taste and Talk with Robin Shulman July 19th, 2012


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  • Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World with John Szwed in conversation with Steve Zeitlin July 10th, 2012

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  • Five Little Gefiltes with Dave Horowitz June 28th, 2012

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  • Behind the Scenes: Goldie Lustgarten's Kosher Butcher Shop and the Riot of 1902 June 19th, 2012

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  • Field Guide to the Street Trees and Natural World of New York City with Leslie Day and Trudy Smoke June 14th, 2012


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  • Tabloid City: A Novel with Pete Hamill June 7th, 2012

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  • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King with Rich Cohen and Nicholas Lemann June 5th, 2012

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  • May 2012 Tenement Talks Podcast Newsletter

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  • Inside the Jewish Bakery: Taste and Talk May 29th, 2012

     

     

     

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  • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art & Science of Remembering Everything with Joshua Foer May 24th, 2012

     

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  • New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham with Steven Jaffe May 22nd, 2012


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  • Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots with Deborah Feldman May 17, 2012


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  • More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and NY's Year of Anarchy with Thai Jones in conversation with Bill Ayers May 3rd, 2012

     

     

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  • April 2012 Tenement Talks Podcast Newsletter

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  • Walt Whitman's New York with Suzanne Wasserman, David Blake, Karen Karbiener, & Greg Trupiano April 26th, 2012

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  • Leaving Story Avenue: My Journey from the Projects to the Front Page with Paul LaRosa in conversation with Martin Gottlieb April 19th, 2012

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  • Naturalization Ceremony April 17th, 2012

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  • The Jewish Trinity: Gefilte Fish, Chicken Soup, and Chopped Liver with Mimi Sheraton April 11th, 2012

     

     

     

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  • Edith Wharton: 150th Anniversary Celebration April 10th, 2012

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  • Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica - The Perils and Promise of Fracking April 9th, 2012

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  • Unterzakhn with Leela Corman April 5th, 2012

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  • Behind the Scenes: Caroline Schneider's Kitchen April 3rd, 2012

     

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  • March 2012 Tenement Talks Podcast Newsletter

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  • Public Markets: Talk & Tasting with Robert LaValva, Anne Saxelby, and Suzanne Wasserman March 27th, 2012


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  • Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York with Richard Zacks Introduced by Kevin Baker March 20th, 2012

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  • High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky with Joshua David and Robert Hammond March 15th, 2012

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  • Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica March 12th, 2012


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  • Life on the Lower East Side, Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950 Gallery Reception with Rebecca Lepkoff March 7th, 2012

    Interview: Museum Associate Leah Mollin-Kling in conversation with Rebecca Lepkoff


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  • The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 with Hilary Ballon Introduced by Sarah Henry, Curator of MCNY March 6th, 2012

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition with Marni Davis March 1st, 2012

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  • February 2012 Tenement Talks Podcast Newsletter

     Music by: Jersey Rhythm Devils

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  • Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City with Carla Peterson February 29th, 2012

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  • From High Line to Low Line: Building an Underground Park Beneath Delancey Street with Dan Barasch and James Ramsey February 16th, 2012

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  • Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica: Money Well Spent? February 13th, 2012

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  • Ladies of the Lower East Side with Rev Jen, Michele Carlo, and Rachel Shukert February 9th, 2012

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  • Behind the Scenes: A Biography of 103 Orchard Street February 7th, 2012

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  • Breads of New York: Taste and Talk with Eli Zabar, Orwasher's, Parisi, & Hot Bread Kitchen February 2nd, 2012

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  • December 2011/January 2012 Tenement Talks Podcast Newsletter

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  • New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 with Teresa Carpenter January 26th, 2012

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  • Behind the Scenes: The LES and the Hebrew Technical Institute January 24th, 2012

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  • Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools with Steven Brill January 19th, 2012

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  • Edible Brooklyn:Talk & Tasting with Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn Kitchen, & DiPalo's Fine Foods January 17th, 2012


     

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  • Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica: The Foreclosure Crisis December 13th, 2011


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  • Amore: The Story of Italian American Song with Mark Rotella in conversation with David Hajdu December 7th, 2011

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  • The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper with Kate Ascher December 5th, 2011


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  • Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge with Grace Young

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  • November 2011 Tenement Talks Podcast Newsletter

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  • Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life with Vivian Gornick Introduced by Annie Polland


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  • The Emperor of Lies with Steve Sem-Sandberg

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  • Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion with Jean Baker in conversation with Cristina Page

     

     

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  • Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making & Eating Delicious Food with Ed Levine


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  • October 2011 Tenement Talks Podcast Newsletter

     Music by: Jersey Rhythm Devils

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  • Appetite City: Screening & Panel Discussion with William Grimes

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  • Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica

    The College Debt Crisis: Where We Are, What Needs to Change
    With many recent graduates and their families burdened by enormous loan debt, panelists Marian Wang, Mark Kantrowitz, Randall Deike and more address what schools, students, parents, and the government can do to help people get a good education while putting and end to the college debt crisis.

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  • Raised by the Church: Growing up in NYC's Catholic Orphanages with Edward Rohs and Judith Estrine

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  • Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories with Simon Winchester

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  • New York from the Air: A Story of Architecture with John Tauranac

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  • A Tasting & Preview of Kutsher's Tribeca: A Modern Jewish American Bistro

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  • The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens with Brooke Hauser Introduced by Steve Long

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  • Ellis Island: A Novel with Kate Kerrigan introduced by Peter Quinn

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  • Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica

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  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration with Isabel Wilkerson

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  • Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of His Funny Stuff with Calvin Trillin

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  • Stories in Stone New York: A Field Guide to NYC Area Cemeteries & Their Residents with Douglas Keister

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  • September 2011 Tenement Talks Podcast Newsletter

     Highlights from September 2011's Tenement Talks

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  • Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast At Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman with Sam Wasson

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  • The Smartest Woman I Know with Ilene Beckerman in conversation with Elisabeth Scharlatt

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  • Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein with Julie Salamon 9/14/11 (Part 1)

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  • Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein with Julie Salamon 9/12/11 (Part 2)

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  • Essays with Wallace Shawn 8/8/11 (Part 1)

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  • Essays with Wallace Shawn 8/8/11 (Part 2)

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  • The Little Bride with Anna Solomon & Music by Clare Burson, 9/7/11 (Part 1)

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  • The Little Bride with Anna Solomon & Music by Clare Burson, 9/7/11 (Part 2)

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  • Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women with Rebecca Traister in conversation with Jessica Valenti, 6/30/11

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  • Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women with Rebecca Traister in conversation with Jessica Valenti, 6/30/11 (part 2)

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  • Behind the Scenes: An Architectural Tour with Andrew Dolkart, June 14, 2011

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  • Behind the Scenes: An Architectural Tour with Andrew Dolkart, June 14, 2011 (part 2)

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  • Pox: An American History with Michael Willrich, June 7, 2011 (part 1)

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  • Pox: An American History with Michael Willrich, June 7, 2011 (part 2)

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  • Back in the Days Remix: 10 Year Anniversary with Jamel Shabazz, June 2, 2011

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  • Back in the Days Remix: 10 Year Anniversary with Jamel Shabazz, June 2, 2011 (part 2)

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  • The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding with Sarah Burns in conversation with Kevin Baker, May 19, 2011 (part 1)

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  • The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding with Sarah Burns in conversation with Kevin Baker, May 19, 2011 (part 2)

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  • Lower East Side Eats: BabyCakes, Clinton Street Baking Company, & Russ and Daughters, May 10th, 2011


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  • Lower East Side Eats: BabyCakes, Clinton Street Baking Company, & Russ and Daughters, May 10th, 2011 (part 2)

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  • Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class with Mosette Broderick and Paula Uruburu, May 5th, 2011

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  • Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class with Mosette Broderick and Paula Uruburu, May 5th, 2011 (part 2)

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  • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time with Judith Shulevitz, May 3, 2011

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  • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time with Judith Shulevitz, May 3, 2011 (part 2)

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  • The Bowery: Past, Present and Future with David Mulkins, April 12, 2011

     

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  • The Bowery: Past, Present and Future with David Mulkins, April 12, 2011 (part 2)

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  • 97 Orchard: An Edible History with Jane Ziegelman, April 4, 2011

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  • Triangle: The Fire That Changed America with David Von Drehle, March 23, 2011

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  • Triangle: The Fire That Changed America with David Von Drehle, March 23, 2011 (part 2)

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  • The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge with T.J. English in conversation with Michael Daly, March 15, 2011


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  • The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge with T.J. English in conversation with Michael Daly, March 15, 2011 (part 2)

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  • New Perspectives on Italian American History with Nancy Carnevale in conversation with Jennifer Guglielmo, moderated by Joanna Clapps Herman, January 19, 2011

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  • An Evening with Pete Hamill, December 14, 2010

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  • Kenneth Jackson, The Encyclopedia of New York City, 2nd Edition, December 8, 2010

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  • Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of NYC with Jonathan Soffer in conversation with Ed Koch (part 1), October 26, 2010

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  • Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of NYC with Jonathan Soffer in conversation with Ed Koch (part 2), October 26, 2010

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  • Monk Eastman: The Gangster Who Became a War Hero with Neil Hanson, October 19, 2010

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  • Jane Adams: Spirit in Action with Louise Knight in conversation with Vivian Gornick (Part 1), October 4, 2010

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  • Jane Adams: Spirit in Action with Louise Knight in conversation with Vivian Gornick (Part 2), October 4, 2010

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  • The Man Who Never Returned with Peter Quinn in Conversation with Kevin Baker (Part 1), September 30, 2010

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  • The Man Who Never Returned with Peter Quinn in Conversation with Kevin Baker (Part 2), September 30, 2010

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  • The Five Points with Tyler Anbinder (Part 1), September 23, 2010

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  • The Five Points with Tyler Anbinder (Part 2), September 23, 2010

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  • There is Power in a Union with Phillip Dray and Ryan Gillam (Part 1), September 15, 2010

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  • There is Power in a Union with Phillip Dray and Ryan Gillam (Part 2), September 15, 2010

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  • The Pigeon Game Co-Sponsored by City Lore (Part 2), September 1, 2010

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  • The Pigeon Game Co-Sponsored by City Lore (Part 1), September 1, 2010

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  • Fish Out of Agua: My Life on Neither Side of the (Subway) Tracks with Michele Carlo in conversation with former LES Stories host HR Britton (Part 2), August 25, 2010

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  • Fish Out of Agua: My Life on Neither Side of the (Subway) Tracks with Michele Carlo in conversation with former LES Stories host HR Britton (Part 1), August 25, 2010

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  • Super Sad True Love Story with Gary Shteyngart and Co-sponsored by The Museum at Eldridge Street, August 18, 2010

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  • Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 with Edward Kohn in conversation with Richard Greenwald (Part 2), August 12, 2010

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  • Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 with Edward Kohn in conversation with Richard Greenwald (Part 1), August 12, 2010

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  • Displaced Persons with Ghita Schwarz in conversation with Sara Ivry (Part 2), August 11, 2010

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  • Displaced Persons with Ghita Schwarz in conversation with Sara Ivry (Part 1), August 11, 2010

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  • The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose With It, Alice Sparberg Alexiou in conversation with Miriam Berman, July 14, 2010


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  • Elizabeth Street: Laurie Fabiano in conversation with Maria Laurino (Part 2), July 13, 2010

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  • Elizabeth Street: Laurie Fabiano in conversation with Maria Laurino (Part 1), July 13, 2010

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  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Thing Around Your Neck, June 17, 2010

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  • LES Stories: Holidays in the City (Part 3), December 17, 2009

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  • LES Stores: Holidays in the City (Part 2), December 17, 2009

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  • LES Stores: Holidays in the City (Part 1), December 17, 2009

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  • Alix Dobkin, My Red Life, December 10, 2009 (Part 2)

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  • Alix Dobkin, My Red Life, December 10, 2009 (Part 1)

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  • Ilan Stavans and Pete Hamill, Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, December 3, 2009

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  • LES Stories: Apartment Tales (Part 2), November 12, 2009

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  • LES Stories: Apartment Tales (Part 1), November 12, 2009

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  • LES Stories: Chinatown (Part 2), October 29, 2009

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  • LES Stories: Chinatown (Part 1), October 29, 2009

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  • James T. Fisher, On the Irish Waterfront, October 22, 2009

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  • Rich Cohen, Israel Is Real, October 15, 2009

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  • Anthony Flint, Wrestling With Moses, October 8, 2009

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  • Michael Greenberg and Edmund White, October 7, 2009

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  • Michelle & James Nevius, Inside The Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City (excerpt), October 5, 2009

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  • Joyce Mendelsohn, The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood, September 23, 2009

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  • Eric Sanderson, Robert Sullivan & Douglas Hunter, Mannahatta & Half Moon (Part 2), Sept 17, 2009

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  • Eric Sanderson, Robert Sullivan & Douglas Hunter, Mannahatta & Half Moon (Part 1), Sept 17, 2009

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  • Russell Shorto, Island at the Center of the World, September 8, 2009

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  • Joan Nathan, Jewish Cooking, September 10, 2009

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  • Kat Long, Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin in NYC (Part 2), April 2, 2009

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  • Kat Long, Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin in NYC (Part 1), April 2, 2009

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  • Carl Capotorto, Twisted Head, January 27, 2009

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  • Mort Zachter, Dough, January 27, 2009

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  • Jeffrey Shandler & Barry Trachtenberg, Yiddish: A Vanishing Language, December 9, 2008

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  • Erin Einhorn, This American Life (The Pages In Between), November 17, 2008

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  • Richard Roper, Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War (Part 1), November 12, 2008

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  • Richard Roper, Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War (Part 2), November 12, 2008

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  • Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name (Vanzetti's Garden), May 13, 2008

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  • Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name (A Polish American Vintner and a Japanese American Berry Farmer), May 13, 2008

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  • Richard Price, Lush Life, April 15, 2008

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  • Colm Toibin, St Patricks Day Readings (Brooklyn), March 17, 2008

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  • Colum McCann, St Patricks Day Readings (This Side of Brightness), March 17, 2008

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  • Andrew Dolkart, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City (Introduction), April 5, 2007

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  • Andrew Dolkart, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City (Banks), April 5, 2007

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  • Andrew Dolkart, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City (Public Housing), April 5, 2007

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