The curatorial staff shares the history of 103 Orchard Street, the new visitor center and museum shop, on the corner of Delancey. When was the building built and how has it been altered over time? Who lived and worked here? What stories have Museum researchers uncovered?

These three downtown performers claim to be inspired and influenced by the LES. They are also authors of critically acclaimed memoirs and they join together to share how each began in the downtown performance art scene and emerged as provocative writers.

Eye on the Stimulus: Money Well Spent? Did the stimulus/Recovery Act save the economy or was it a waste of money? ProPublica's Michael Grabell, the New York Times' Michael Cooper and VP Biden's former economic adviser Jared Bernstein share their thoughts.

Explore the history, current state, and potential future of the abandoned trolley terminal below Delancey St. Can it be transformed into a cutting edge subterranean green space for the LES?

Discussion of accepted "truths" from African American history, including the assumption that the "19th-century black American" means a slave and that "New York before the Civil War" was a place of freedom.

When the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution made alcohol commerce illegal, Jews discovered that anti-Semitic sentiments had mixed with anti-alcohol ideology, threatening their reputation and their standing in American society.

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Women in the Newsroom: From Fashion Pages to the Front Lines In honor of Women's History Month, Man Down author Dan Abrams speaks with ProPublica's Robin Fields, Kim Barker and Nikole Hannah-Jones and The Jane Dough's Amy Tennery about the changing role of women in the newsroom.

The co-founders discuss the most innovative urban reclamation project in memory: the transformation of a derelict elevated freight rail line into a grand and beloved public park now celebrated worldwide.

When Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner, he tried to shut down brothels, gambling joints and saloons. This is the story of how Roosevelt took on Manhattan vice...and vice won.

Long before the supermarket or the corner grocery, New Yorkers shopped for food at public markets, city-owned venues of staggering bounty and social diversity. Explore the past, present and future of this extraordinary food institution. Jane Ziegelman hosts. $10 Admission

Unterzakhn - Yiddish for "underthings" - is a mesmerizing, heartbreaking story of immigrant life on New York's LES at the turn of the 20th-century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. 

The CBS News producer reveals his own story of how a kid from the James Monroe Houses in the Bronx landed a reporting job at the NY Daily News and covered all the major events of the 1970s from the City’s near bankruptcy, the reign of Son of Sam, to the blackout riots.