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Tenement Talks are free and held at the Museum Shop at
103 Orchard unless otherwise noted. RSVP to events@tenement.org

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Winter Tenement Talks at the Tenement Museum
February. 29 at 6:30 PM
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City with Carla Peterson
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City with Carla Peterson

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.

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March. 1 at 6:30 PM
Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition with Marni Davis
Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition with Marni Davis

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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March. 6 at 6:30 PM
The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 with Hilary Ballon
The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 with Hilary Ballon
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March. 7 at 6:30 PM
Life on the Lower East Side, Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950 Gallery Reception with Rebecca Lepkoff
Life on the Lower East Side, Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950 Gallery Reception with Rebecca Lepkoff
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March. 12 at 6:30 PM
Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica
Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica

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.

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March. 15 at 6:30 PM
High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky with Joshua David and Robert Hammond
High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky with Joshua David and Robert Hammond

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.

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March. 20 at 6:30 PM
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York with Richard Zacks Introduced by Kevin Baker
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York with Richard Zacks Introduced by Kevin Baker

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.

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March. 27 at 6:30 PM
Public Markets: Talk & Tasting with Robert LaValva, Anne Saxelby, and Suzanne Wasserman
Public Markets: Talk & Tasting with Robert LaValva, Anne Saxelby, and Suzanne Wasserman

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

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April. 5 at 6:30 PM
Unterzakhn with Leela Corman
Unterzakhn with Leela Corman

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. 

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April. 19 at 6:30 PM
Leaving Story Avenue: My Journey from the Projects to the Front Page with Paul LaRosa
Leaving Story Avenue: My Journey from the Projects to the Front Page with Paul LaRosa

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.

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Listen to Past Talks

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

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  • Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica: Money Well Spent?

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

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  • Behind the Scenes: A Biography of 103 Orchard Street

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

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  • December 2011/January 2012 Tenement Talks Podcast Newsletter

     Music by: Jersey Rhythm Devils

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  • New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 with Teresa Carpenter

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  • Behind the Scenes: The LES and the Hebrew Technical Institute

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  • Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools with Steven Brill

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


     

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  • Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica: The Foreclosure Crisis:


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  • Amore: The Story of Italian American Song with Mark Rotella in conversation with David Hajdu

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  • The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper with Kate Ascher


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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

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  • Appetite City: Screening & Panel Discussion with William Grimes

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  • Investigate This: Conversations with ProPublica


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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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