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Site and Sounds: TWA Terminal, JFK International Airport

Site and Sounds: TWA Terminal, JFK International Airport

By Nicholas D. Bloom

This year marks the fourth season of Sites and Sounds, a podcast series by the Gotham Center for Open House New York’s annual OHNY Weekend. All this week Gotham will bring you new episodes of this award-winning podcast. Check out more about OHNY Weekend, happening October 16-17. In today’s episode of Sites and Sounds, Nicholas D. Bloom talks about the TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport.

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Podcast Interview: Jessica Dulong's Saved at the Seawall

Podcast Interview: Saved at the Seawall

Jessica DuLong interviewed by Robert W. Snyder

In Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift (Cornell University Press, 2021), Jessica DuLong reveals the dramatic story of how the New York Harbor maritime community heroically delivered stranded commuters, residents, and visitors out of harm's way.

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Podcast Interview: Larry Kirwan's Rockaway Blue

Podcast Interview: Rockaway Blue

Larry Kirwan interviewed by Robert W. Snyder

Twenty years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the novel Rockaway Blue (Cornell UP, 2021) probes the griefs, trauma and resilience of Irish American New Yorkers wresting with the deaths and aftershocks of that terrible day. The book weaves throughout New York City, from the Midtown North precinct in Manhattan to Arab American Brooklyn, but it is so grounded in the Irish section of Rockaway in the borough of Queens that Rockaway itself becomes a kind of character.

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The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War

The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War

Van Gosse interviewed by Jessica Georges

It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections.

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All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York

Podcast Interview: All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York

Rob Snyder Interviewed by Bruce Cory

All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York by Frederick M. Binder, David M. Reimers, and Robert W. Snyder (Columbia University Press, 2019) covers almost 500 years of New York City’s still unfolding story of cultural diversity and political conflict, economic dynamism and unmatched human diversity.

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Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York

Podcast Interview: Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York

Edgardo Meléndez Interviewed by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskoff

Edgardo Meléndez's book Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York (Centro Press, 2019) examines the activities and ideals of Puerto Rican revolutionary exiles in New York City at the end of the nineteenth century. The study is centered in the writings, news reports, and announcements by and about Puerto Ricans in Patria, the official newspaper of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. Both were founded and led by the Cuban patriot José Martí.

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New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore

Podcast Interview: New York Recentered

Kara Murphy Schlichting Interviewed by Garrett Reed Gutierrez

In New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore, Kara Murphy Schlichting offers a fresh perspective on New York City’s history by shifting readers’ gaze away from Manhattan and towards the coastal periphery—where local planning initiatives, waterfront park building, the natural environment, and a growing leisure economy each had a stake in the regional development of New York City. Schlichting’s regional and environmental approach frames New York’s extensive waterways as points of connection that unite, rather than divide, the urban core and periphery to one another.

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Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

Podcast: Rebel Cinderella

Adam Hochschild interviewed by Robert W. Snyder

In the political ferment of early 20th century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant Jewish woman from Russia appeared in the Yiddish press, in Carnegie Hall, and at rallies. Her name was Rose Pastor Stokes, and she fought for socialism, contraception and workers’ rights.

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Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York

Podcast Interview: Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity

Rose Muzio Interviewed by David Monda

In Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York, Rose Muzio analyzes how structural and historical factors — including colonialism, economic marginalization, racial discrimination, and the Black and Brown Power movements of the 1960s — influenced young Puerto Ricans to reject mainstream ideas about political incorporation and join others in struggles against perceived injustices. This analysis provides the first in-depth account of the origins, evolution, achievements, and failures of El Comité-Movimiento de Izquierda Nacional Puertorriqueño, one of the main organizations of the Puerto Rican Left in the 1970s in New York City.

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Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family

Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family

Bruce Haynes Interviewed by Tyesha Maddox

Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth century — the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements--as well as the many forces that ravaged black communities, including Haynes's own. As an authority on race and urban communities, Haynes brings unique sociological insights to the American mobility saga and the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class.

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