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Hosts Amy Sohn, Harry Siegel and others sit down each week to commune with artists, writers, critics, cranks, visionaries and loons and how their work, and their lives, relate to the past, present and future of New York. The podcast is a project of The City, a nonprofit newsroom serving the people of New York.

  1. 1 dag siden

    John Strausbaugh's New York Press

    John Strausbaugh, the longtime editor of fNew York Press, joins Amy Sohn — who kicked off her career there as a 22-year-old columnist there — and guest host Brian Berger of Strauss Media for a deep dive into the late, great and occasionally lamented alt-weekly that humbled the then-mighty Village Voice and launched a generation of new writers.

    35 min.

  2. 29. maj

    Alan Mikhail´s Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York

    Anthony Janszoon van Salee and his wife Geitje were always feuding with neighbors and authorities, who put them down as the Turk and a whore and who kept putting them on trial before they were finally exiled from Manhattan — only to become the biggest landowners in what’s now Brooklyn, with descendants who married into American royalty.  Alan Mikhail, the author of Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York, joins Harry Siegel and guest host Asad Dandia — the new Brooklyn historian and an informal Mamdani advisor who gives a walking tour or Lower Manhattan’s old Little Syria that includes a capsule history of van Salee — for a lively conversation about the contested story of a man who came to be known, a century after his death, as the city”s first free Muslim.

    59 min.

  3. 22. maj

    Philip T. Yanos´ `Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island´

    Clinical psychologist Philip T. Yanos, the author of "Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island," talks about host Amy Sohn about growing up in a place a stone’s throw from Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx that’s been used over decades to house the mentally ill, the homeless and migrants — and that’s now connected through landfill with the sports fields of Randall's Island.

    48 min.

  4. 15. maj

    Sade Lythcott´s National Black Theatre

    Sade Lythcott, the CEO of the National Black Theatre, the longest continually run black theater in New York, visits Lit NYC to talk with hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about the theater her mother, Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, founded in 1968, how she found her way back to it after charting a different path in life, the new building the theater is putting up now to ensure its future and much more:

    35 min.
  5. Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

    7. maj

    Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

    Writer, journalist, artist and illustrator sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss her sweeping new history of the Jewish Labor Bund, her family connection to it and much more in a conversation that ranges all the way from the Pale of Settlement all the way to Occupy Wall Street and beyond.

    55 min.
  6. John Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York

    29. mar.

    John Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York

    An epic art show at the Lexington Avenue Armory made a young Marcel Duchamp, who was back in France, one of America’s first modern celebrities even before he first arrived in New York City for what became decades of painting, conceiving, chess-playing and love-making — though not always in that order. John Strausbaugh, the author of Duchamp Takes New York, joins Amy Sohn and Brian Berger for a wide-ranging discussion of the artist’s life in the Big Apple’s old San Juan Hill and all around Manhattan.

    41 min.
  7. Kenneth Cobb and Marcia Kirk’s Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’

    13. mar.

    Kenneth Cobb and Marcia Kirk’s Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’

    NYC Department of Records Associate Commissioner Kenneth Cobb and Research Associate Marcia Kirk visited Lit NYC to explain how the Municipal Archives came across the death ledger for the town of Newtown, Queens where George Rex, who froze to death in 1885 at the age of 89, had his occupation recorded as “The Last Slave,” what the Municipal Archives has found since then about his life, death and family history, and much more.

    46 min.
  8. Andrew Lynch’s QueensLink

    7. mar.

    Andrew Lynch’s QueensLink

    Geographer, cartographer and urban explorer Andrew Lynch, the chief operating officer of QueensLink, joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the group’s vision to transform the borough for the better by extending the M train from Queens Boulevard to the Rockaways on a railway that’s abandoned for 60 years while surrounding that with new parks and trails, how he got involved in this crusade, and much more.

    40 min.
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Hosts Amy Sohn, Harry Siegel and others sit down each week to commune with artists, writers, critics, cranks, visionaries and loons and how their work, and their lives, relate to the past, present and future of New York. The podcast is a project of The City, a nonprofit newsroom serving the people of New York.

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    Harry Siegel
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