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Fun weird NYC history, one topic for every letter of the alphabet.
Who thought these were a good idea? Seriously. On Day 1, when the money guys met with the building guys, why didn't they scream and run away...
Imposing concrete blocks surround New Yorkers, but WHY? Who built them? Were they truly considered to be good decisions at the time? Will we...
Raising the dead on Jupiter! This idea is why one person has embedded linoleum tiles in the asphalt of major avenues of NYC and in other cit...
Today, Snug Harbor in Staten Island is a busy cultural center and gorgeous botanic garden. But when Sailors' Snug Harbor initially opened in...
Doctors and medical students have not always been respected, rigorously- trained, caring professionals. In fact, around the time of the Revo...
Discreetly hidden away in Prospect Park, there is a 10- acre cemetery. The land belonged to the Quakers of New York City long before the par...
New York City has an admirable history of investing in public art. Ordinances require a certain amount of money to be spent on art in all ci...
CSI tells us only part of the story. After an unexplained death, what happens back at the morgue? Who is in charge of making sure clues are...
The exciting conclusion is here! Listen to Kate and Kathleen explain how the unfortunate members of Operation Pastorius journey across the A...
Nazi spying operations in New York City didn't end with the Duquesne. Germans were reeling from the obliteration of their vast spy ring, and...
Remember how we left World War II out of Episode E: Espionage ? Here's why! There's so much cool information that we needed to separate it f...
Up in Washington Heights, on Jumel Terrace between 160th and 162nd Streets, sits a beautiful Federal- style mansion that played a critical r...
Some laws in New York City are different than the rest of the state or country, and Kate and Kathleen tell you all about the most interestin...
Murder is not uncommon in any big city and New York is not without this heinous crime and the monsters who commit it. Kate and Kathleen tell...
Activist, journalist, and groundbreaking outsider who shook up the field of urban planning: Jane Jacobs is one woman you definitely want to...
Hello ABC Gothamites! We're thrilled to announce the ABC Gotham Pub Quiz on Sunday Aug 17th at 4 pm! Cherry Tree Bar65 4th AveBrooklyn, NY T...
In Episode I, Kate and Kathleen tell you all about areas of New York City that are somehow separate or apart from the rest of us. These aren...
"The Harlem Hellfighters" was the nickname of the 369th Infantry Regiment, a regiment made up entirely of African-American and African Puert...
The layout of New York City can be a mystery. Why are blocks in Manhattan so long when you walk east/ west, but so short when you walk north...
Join Kathleen and Kate as they discuss the evolution of the foster care system in New York City. Learn about the bad old days of childhood i...
Espionage and spying have been part of New York City history (and, indeed, US history) since before the Revolutionary War. Right or wrong, s...
Brave men have done astonishing (stupid?) things to shock and awe New Yorkers since New York started. And we love every minute of the specta...
Join Kathleen and Kate as they discuss the crack epidemic. It struck not just New York City, but the country as well. Learn all about the co...
We'd like to introduce you to Nellie Bly, Girl Reporter. Ever feel that travel bug coming on? Learn how to travel around the world in 72 day...
Here comes Season Two!! Kate and Kathleen revisit the alphabet starting with one of the most iconic symbols of New York City, the Anthora. L...
Wait, come back here!! Zoning is RIDICULOUSLY important and surprisingly interesting. In Episode Z, your hosts Kate and Kathleen take you th...
Yellow cabs are everywhere throughout New York City, but where did they come from? Why do we have them? And why are they, of all possible co...
Malcolm X had an immeasurable impact around the world, but a great deal of his activism happened while he was living in New York City. Kate...
Weeksville was a bustling community, far off in the wilds of Brooklyn, established by former slave James Weeks in 1838 for free African- Ame...
There are 1165 acres of hills, ridges, valleys, verdant forest, wide- open fields, and other assorted gorgeousness waiting for you up in the...
The Underground Railroad was an organization of safe houses, churches, schools, and brave people willing to break the law to help slaves esc...
Today it is merely a symbol of corruption in city government, but Tammany Hall was once the political machine to end all political machines....
Secret subway stations are the lonely places where trains and riders no longer go. Many of the “ghost stations” were abandoned when the Metr...
What happens when a group's simmering rage boils over? Kate and Kathleen describe 3 of the many riots that New York City has seen: the Draft...
The Queens Museum of Art, in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, has the coolest thing you've never seen: The Panorama of the City of New York. It...
During the Revolutionary War, British forces imprisoned 11,000 captured Americans in foul, overcrowded, disease-infested, rotting ships with...
Like Maine's lobster, New York's oyster used to be our iconic food. New Yorkers feasted on them, exported them, and bragged about them. This...
From 1806 to 1966, The Brooklyn Navy Yard in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn, constructed and repaired our nation's ships-- especially battleships--...
In the second part of the Robert Moses podcast, Kate and Kathleen discuss Moses’ downfall: his compromises, his miscalculations, and his fai...
It's almost impossible to overstate the impact Robert Moses ("Master Builder") had on New York City, Long Island, and New York State. Head o...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the greatest mayors in US history. New Yorkers agree-- they reelected him twice. The Progressive Republi...
It's August 14, 1945, V-J Day, in Times Square. The war is finally over and everyone's celebrating. A sailor grabs a nurse and plants one on...
Stunning and unusual, with a basement dungeon and a tower you ascend by spiral staircase, Jefferson Market served as a courthouse, survived...
The largest cemetery in the United States is right here in New York City, on Hart Island in the Bronx. There's a sovereign nation on U Thant...
The Hell Gate, part of the East River that passes between Astoria in Queens and Randall/ Ward's Islands, is the site of hundreds of shipwrec...
Crumbling ruins + free bicycle rentals + people in Revolutionary War uniforms + ice cream + art + hammocks + Buttermilk Channel = Governor's...
In Episode F, your hosts Kate and Kathleen describe the fetid rancid squalid nightmare that was the Five Points neighborhood. This was the w...
The Trial of the Century was a smoking- hot mess that made a mockery of justice and ultimately destroyed the life of the luminously beautifu...
In Episode D, ABC Gotham's amateur historians Kate and Kathleen debunk some of the NYC stories you learned in school or heard from friends....
In Episode 3, ABC Gotham's amateur historians, Kate and Kathleen, discuss the history of contagions NYC, including intractable battles with...