feed03.fireside.fm Thu, 07 May 2026 18:16:55 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Lit NYC https://litnyc.fireside.fm Thu, 07 May 2026 19:15:04 -0400 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. en-us © 2026 Harry Siegel episodic The ABCs of arts, books, culture, etcetera in NYC Harry Siegel 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. false arts, books, culture, new york city Harry Siegel harrysiegel@gmail.com Episode 66: Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund https://litnyc.fireside.fm/66 4531fb50-6572-4130-b788-f1024a920dd6 Thu, 07 May 2026 19:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel The wrtier, 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 from the Pale of Settlement all the way to Occupy Wall Street. 55:17 false The wrtier, 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 from the Pale of Settlement all the way to Occupy Wall Street.

]]> The wrtier, 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 from the Pale of Settlement all the way to Occupy Wall Street.

]]> The wrtier, 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 from the Pale of Settlement all the way to Occupy Wall Street.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+YZYXJJIo ]]> Episode 65: John Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York https://litnyc.fireside.fm/65 33e24c72-8b6b-407c-a674-79c5cd71217a Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel 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. 41:10 false 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.

]]> 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.

]]> 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.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+5psWdo5C ]]> Episode 64: Kenneth Cobb and Marcia Kirk’s Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’ https://litnyc.fireside.fm/64 ea060b66-a249-487c-84c3-4e91ec2695d2 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel 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. 46:15 false 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.

]]> 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.

]]> 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.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+gpyNdfRX ]]> Episode 62: Andrew Lynch’s QueensLink https://litnyc.fireside.fm/62 89a6ecf3-4b49-442b-9a0f-c93c8f021a12 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel 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. 39:49 false 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.

]]> 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.

]]> 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.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+CIoz60J5 ]]> Episode 63: Joe Flaherty’s Managing Mailer https://litnyc.fireside.fm/63 b0d2c138-65e8-4c84-b694-8d7ee3171e02 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city’s most famous writers made their bid to run it on a 51st State platform built around the idea of giving New Yorkers more control of their own neighborhoods and slogans including “No More Bullshit” and “The Other Guys Are The Joke.” Joe’s son Liam joins Lit NYC to talk about the very different Park Slope he grew up in, what his father accomplished in his short life before succumbing to prostate cancer at just 47 years old, what his dad would make of Mamdani’s new era, and much more. 43:05 false Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city’s most famous writers made their bid to run it on a 51st State platform built around the idea of giving New Yorkers more control of their own neighborhoods and slogans including “No More Bullshit” and “The Other Guys Are The Joke.”

Joe’s son Liam sits down with Amy Sogn and Harry Siegel to talk about the very different Park Slope he grew up in, what his father accomplished in his short life before succumbing to prostate cancer at just 47 years old, what his dad would make of Mamdani’s new era, and much more.

]]> Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city’s most famous writers made their bid to run it on a 51st State platform built around the idea of giving New Yorkers more control of their own neighborhoods and slogans including “No More Bullshit” and “The Other Guys Are The Joke.”

Joe’s son Liam sits down with Amy Sogn and Harry Siegel to talk about the very different Park Slope he grew up in, what his father accomplished in his short life before succumbing to prostate cancer at just 47 years old, what his dad would make of Mamdani’s new era, and much more.

]]> Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city’s most famous writers made their bid to run it on a 51st State platform built around the idea of giving New Yorkers more control of their own neighborhoods and slogans including “No More Bullshit” and “The Other Guys Are The Joke.”

Joe’s son Liam sits down with Amy Sogn and Harry Siegel to talk about the very different Park Slope he grew up in, what his father accomplished in his short life before succumbing to prostate cancer at just 47 years old, what his dad would make of Mamdani’s new era, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+DX2ZrzKI ]]> Episode 61: Eric Goldwyn’s A Better Billion https://litnyc.fireside.fm/61 f1b84618-b8b9-4e37-98e5-06787563508c Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Eric Goldwyn, one of the authors of a new report from the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University with a modest proposal to remap the city with 12 new projects, 64 new subways stations and 41 new miles of rail talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about that idea and much more. 50:45 false Eric Goldwyn, one of the authors of a new report from the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University with a modest proposal to remap the city with 12 new projects, 64 new subways stations and 41 new miles of rail talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about that idea and much more.

]]> Eric Goldwyn, one of the authors of a new report from the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University with a modest proposal to remap the city with 12 new projects, 64 new subways stations and 41 new miles of rail talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about that idea and much more.

]]> Eric Goldwyn, one of the authors of a new report from the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University with a modest proposal to remap the city with 12 new projects, 64 new subways stations and 41 new miles of rail talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about that idea and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+BPO1uT2_ ]]> Episode 60: Arthur Tress’ The Ramble: NYC 1969 https://litnyc.fireside.fm/60 62444bab-dc09-498a-9938-b2680d7b00ad Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Arthur Tress, “the last Confederate widow’ whose newly published photographs of gay men in Central Park’s Ramble in 1968 and 1969 are the earliest shots of outdoor cruising in a natural setting, joins Alex Krales and Harry Siegel to discuss his work in a New York City where homosexuality was still both a taboo and a crime, and much more. 47:01 false Arthur Tress, “the last Confederate widow’ whose newly published photographs of gay men in Central Park’s Ramble in 1968 and 1969 are the earliest shots of outdoor cruising in a natural setting, joins Alex Krales and Harry Siegel to discuss his work in a New York City where homosexuality was still both a taboo and a crime, and much more.

]]> Arthur Tress, “the last Confederate widow’ whose newly published photographs of gay men in Central Park’s Ramble in 1968 and 1969 are the earliest shots of outdoor cruising in a natural setting, joins Alex Krales and Harry Siegel to discuss his work in a New York City where homosexuality was still both a taboo and a crime, and much more.

]]> Arthur Tress, “the last Confederate widow’ whose newly published photographs of gay men in Central Park’s Ramble in 1968 and 1969 are the earliest shots of outdoor cruising in a natural setting, joins Alex Krales and Harry Siegel to discuss his work in a New York City where homosexuality was still both a taboo and a crime, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+BeInExJ- ]]> Episode 59: St. John Frizell’s Gage & Tollner https://litnyc.fireside.fm/59 811bbed2-29ef-4a30-8b1d-7c4e6d3d7c54 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel An iconic restaurant in Fulton Mall became an Arby's, before it was revived amid the pandemic. St. John Frizell, one of the stewards of Gage and Tollner joins Lit NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about the craft of the cocktail, the business of Brooklyn, the nature of the great good place, and much more. 50:46 false An iconic restaurant in Fulton Mall became an Arby's, before it was revived amid the pandemic. St. John Frizell, one of the stewards of Gage and Tollner joins Lit NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about the craft of the cocktail, the business of Brooklyn, the nature of the great good place, and much more.

]]> An iconic restaurant in Fulton Mall became an Arby's, before it was revived amid the pandemic. St. John Frizell, one of the stewards of Gage and Tollner joins Lit NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about the craft of the cocktail, the business of Brooklyn, the nature of the great good place, and much more.

]]> An iconic restaurant in Fulton Mall became an Arby's, before it was revived amid the pandemic. St. John Frizell, one of the stewards of Gage and Tollner joins Lit NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about the craft of the cocktail, the business of Brooklyn, the nature of the great good place, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+eOispgHE ]]> Episode 58: William H. Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces https://litnyc.fireside.fm/58 c92cb5b2-8a49-437e-9aa9-92bca4b59903 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel In 1980, a movie narrated by a sociologist once described as Jimmy Stewart’s urban planner cousin, and full of surveillance footage of the city's public spaces, delivered perhaps the richest and wisest look ever made at how New Yorkers use the city's public spaces. Municipal Art Society president Keri Butler joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the film, Whyte's zen koans about public spaces that have stood the test of time in a technologically transformed world, and much more. 50:20 false In 1980, a movie narrated by a sociologist once described as Jimmy Stewart’s urban planner cousin, and full of surveillance footage of the city's public spaces, delivered perhaps the richest and wisest look ever made at how New Yorkers use the city's public spaces. Municipal Art Society president Keri Butler joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the film, Whyte's zen koans about public spaces that have stood the test of time in a technologically transformed world, and much more.

]]> In 1980, a movie narrated by a sociologist once described as Jimmy Stewart’s urban planner cousin, and full of surveillance footage of the city's public spaces, delivered perhaps the richest and wisest look ever made at how New Yorkers use the city's public spaces. Municipal Art Society president Keri Butler joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the film, Whyte's zen koans about public spaces that have stood the test of time in a technologically transformed world, and much more.

]]> In 1980, a movie narrated by a sociologist once described as Jimmy Stewart’s urban planner cousin, and full of surveillance footage of the city's public spaces, delivered perhaps the richest and wisest look ever made at how New Yorkers use the city's public spaces. Municipal Art Society president Keri Butler joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the film, Whyte's zen koans about public spaces that have stood the test of time in a technologically transformed world, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+9_qOtSf_ ]]> Episode 57: Henry H. Sapoznik’s The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City https://litnyc.fireside.fm/57 1956109d-120a-41f1-90f8-22215d4b35a2 Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Henry H. Sapoznik sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about assimilation and adaptability, the difference between faux music and folk music, the overlaps between kosher, halal and Chinese foods, and much more. 1:06:58 false Henry H. Sapoznik sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about assimilation and adaptability, the difference between faux music and folk music, the overlaps between kosher, halal and Chinese foods, and much more.

]]> Henry H. Sapoznik sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about assimilation and adaptability, the difference between faux music and folk music, the overlaps between kosher, halal and Chinese foods, and much more.

]]> Henry H. Sapoznik sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about assimilation and adaptability, the difference between faux music and folk music, the overlaps between kosher, halal and Chinese foods, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+Q0RU2tjV ]]> Episode 56: Baruch Herzfeld’s Brilliant Battery Brain https://litnyc.fireside.fm/56 d416483f-56c5-4e10-a732-4df8852e4042 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel The ineffable and inimitable gadfly and entrepreneur Baruch Herzfeld joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about schemes and dreams, the thousand-dollar bet he lost to  a Fugee but hasn’t paid, the guys who climbed telephone poles when Williamsburg was wild, and much more — but mostly the city-wide battery-swap network he’s trying to build. 46:30 false The ineffable and inimitable gadfly and entrepreneur Baruch Herzfeld joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about schemes and dreams, the thousand-dollar bet he lost to  a Fugee but hasn’t paid, the guys who climbed telephone poles when Williamsburg was wild, and much more — but mostly the city-wide battery-swap network he’s trying to build.

]]> The ineffable and inimitable gadfly and entrepreneur Baruch Herzfeld joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about schemes and dreams, the thousand-dollar bet he lost to  a Fugee but hasn’t paid, the guys who climbed telephone poles when Williamsburg was wild, and much more — but mostly the city-wide battery-swap network he’s trying to build.

]]> The ineffable and inimitable gadfly and entrepreneur Baruch Herzfeld joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about schemes and dreams, the thousand-dollar bet he lost to  a Fugee but hasn’t paid, the guys who climbed telephone poles when Williamsburg was wild, and much more — but mostly the city-wide battery-swap network he’s trying to build.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+1LBgVKlx ]]> Episode 55: Michael Rohatyn and Peter Yost’ Drop Dead City https://litnyc.fireside.fm/55 6d1ea246-5330-4154-9480-0874222a305f Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel The creators of the acclaimed new documentary about Gotham’s close brush with bankruptcy in 1975 sit down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the film, the city that was, how its near collapse led to the city of today how Michael’s father Felix helped pulled it back from the brink with Big MAC, or the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and more. 48:41 false The creators of the acclaimed new documentary about Gotham’s close brush with bankruptcy in 1975 sit down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the film, the city that was, how its near collapse led to the city of today how Michael’s father Felix helped pulled it back from the brink with Big MAC, or the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and more.

]]> The creators of the acclaimed new documentary about Gotham’s close brush with bankruptcy in 1975 sit down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the film, the city that was, how its near collapse led to the city of today how Michael’s father Felix helped pulled it back from the brink with Big MAC, or the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and more.

]]> The creators of the acclaimed new documentary about Gotham’s close brush with bankruptcy in 1975 sit down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the film, the city that was, how its near collapse led to the city of today how Michael’s father Felix helped pulled it back from the brink with Big MAC, or the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+kbXHWiaq ]]> Episode 54: Ben Fractenberg’s In Tension https://litnyc.fireside.fm/54 88965e40-f32f-4d6d-b5f4-5bad6a56174f Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Ben Fractenberg, visuals editor for THE CITY, joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about street photography, photo journalism and much more., ahead of the opening reception for his solo show, In Tension, this Friday evening from 6-9 at Gallery 198, at 198 24th St. in Brooklyn, with his work then on display there through November. 47:59 false Ben Fractenberg, visuals editor for THE CITY, joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about street photography, photo journalism and much more., ahead of the opening reception for his solo show, In Tension, this Friday evening from 6-9 at Gallery 198, at 198 24th St. in Brooklyn, with his work then on display there through November.

]]> Ben Fractenberg, visuals editor for THE CITY, joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about street photography, photo journalism and much more., ahead of the opening reception for his solo show, In Tension, this Friday evening from 6-9 at Gallery 198, at 198 24th St. in Brooklyn, with his work then on display there through November.

]]> Ben Fractenberg, visuals editor for THE CITY, joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about street photography, photo journalism and much more., ahead of the opening reception for his solo show, In Tension, this Friday evening from 6-9 at Gallery 198, at 198 24th St. in Brooklyn, with his work then on display there through November.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+CyAN_6CQ ]]> Episode 53: Drew Friedman’s Schtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy https://litnyc.fireside.fm/53 47f3597d-1fb1-4346-969d-e3a477d29979 Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel The ubiquitous illustrator talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about what he wants to illustrate now that he no longer needs to take assignments, how New York City shaped his work, why he thinks being called "the Vermeer of the Borscht Belt" is a misnomer, and much more. 35:36 false The ubiquitous illustrator talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about what he wants to illustrate now that he no longer needs to take assignments, how New York City shaped his work, why he thinks being called "the Vermeer of the Borscht Belt" is a misnomer, and much more.

]]> The ubiquitous illustrator talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about what he wants to illustrate now that he no longer needs to take assignments, how New York City shaped his work, why he thinks being called "the Vermeer of the Borscht Belt" is a misnomer, and much more.

]]> The ubiquitous illustrator talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about what he wants to illustrate now that he no longer needs to take assignments, how New York City shaped his work, why he thinks being called "the Vermeer of the Borscht Belt" is a misnomer, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+BShtTA6u ]]> Episode 52: Jonathan Mahler’s The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990. https://litnyc.fireside.fm/52 79cbf505-5baa-4166-a217-21552dde0b87 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel "The tabs were this incredibly paradoxical force in New York during these years’ Jonathan Mahler said in his coversation with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel. “On the one hand, they were totally polarizing, turning the world into into heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys — like comic books for adults. On the other hand, everyone is reading the Post and the News and Newsday, and they were unifying all of New York around these storylines.” 41:27 false "The tabs were this incredibly paradoxical force in New York during these years’ Jonathan Mahler said in his coversation with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel. “On the one hand, they were totally polarizing, turning the world into into heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys — like comic books for adults. On the other hand, everyone is reading the Post and the News and Newsday, and they were unifying all of New York around these storylines.”

]]> "The tabs were this incredibly paradoxical force in New York during these years’ Jonathan Mahler said in his coversation with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel. “On the one hand, they were totally polarizing, turning the world into into heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys — like comic books for adults. On the other hand, everyone is reading the Post and the News and Newsday, and they were unifying all of New York around these storylines.”

]]> "The tabs were this incredibly paradoxical force in New York during these years’ Jonathan Mahler said in his coversation with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel. “On the one hand, they were totally polarizing, turning the world into into heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys — like comic books for adults. On the other hand, everyone is reading the Post and the News and Newsday, and they were unifying all of New York around these storylines.”

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+uNlh7f9U ]]> Episode 51: Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon https://litnyc.fireside.fm/51 bf17ac25-b9fc-405e-8716-c3c142f1ef5d Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:30:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Laurie sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to dig into what they don't tell you in the children's books about the life and death of the world's most iconic aviatrix, and the story of how the New York publishing world helped cast her in that role. 56:58 false Laurie sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to dig into what they don't tell you in the children's books about the life and death of the world's most iconic aviatrix, and the story of how the New York publishing world helped cast her in that role.

]]> Laurie sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to dig into what they don't tell you in the children's books about the life and death of the world's most iconic aviatrix, and the story of how the New York publishing world helped cast her in that role.

]]> Laurie sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to dig into what they don't tell you in the children's books about the life and death of the world's most iconic aviatrix, and the story of how the New York publishing world helped cast her in that role.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+3fxyncEt ]]> Episode 50: Stanley Greenberg’s Waterworks: The Hidden Water System of New York https://litnyc.fireside.fm/50 ea2e566a-5514-45f6-9359-748c352bca5e Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel The photographer sits down with Lizzie Walsh and Harry Siegel to talk his decades shooting the city’s incredible, almost invisible water system, how the Department of Environmental Protection tried to stop his first edition of Waterworks from being published after 9/11, how COVID helped lead him to create a totally new second edition, and much more. 48:31 false The photographer sits down with Lizzie Walsh and Harry Siegel to talk his decades shooting the city’s incredible, almost invisible water system, how the Department of Environmental Protection tried to stop his first edition of Waterworks from being published after 9/11, how COVID helped lead him to create a totally new second edition, and much more.

]]> The photographer sits down with Lizzie Walsh and Harry Siegel to talk his decades shooting the city’s incredible, almost invisible water system, how the Department of Environmental Protection tried to stop his first edition of Waterworks from being published after 9/11, how COVID helped lead him to create a totally new second edition, and much more.

]]> The photographer sits down with Lizzie Walsh and Harry Siegel to talk his decades shooting the city’s incredible, almost invisible water system, how the Department of Environmental Protection tried to stop his first edition of Waterworks from being published after 9/11, how COVID helped lead him to create a totally new second edition, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+Ia3AQ8-j ]]> Episode 49: J. Hoberman’s Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop https://litnyc.fireside.fm/49 87819381-131a-489b-96a3-a7f14ae4bbc1 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Hoberman talks with Alyssa Katz about an era when ‘the cheap rents were essential. And the fact that there were areas of the city, of Manhattan, which had been in a way deserted because various light industries had left and there were spaces that artists were willing to colonize,” “a sense of community that the city kind of fostered in its indifference,” and much more. 39:41 false Hoberman talks with Alyssa Katz about an era when ‘the cheap rents were essential. And the fact that there were areas of the city, of Manhattan, which had been in a way deserted because various light industries had left and there were spaces that artists were willing to colonize,” “a sense of community that the city kind of fostered in its indifference,” and much more.

]]> Hoberman talks with Alyssa Katz about an era when ‘the cheap rents were essential. And the fact that there were areas of the city, of Manhattan, which had been in a way deserted because various light industries had left and there were spaces that artists were willing to colonize,” “a sense of community that the city kind of fostered in its indifference,” and much more.

]]> Hoberman talks with Alyssa Katz about an era when ‘the cheap rents were essential. And the fact that there were areas of the city, of Manhattan, which had been in a way deserted because various light industries had left and there were spaces that artists were willing to colonize,” “a sense of community that the city kind of fostered in its indifference,” and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+RNLhnCld ]]> Episode 48: Jay and Eli Neugeboren’s Whatever Happened to Frankie King https://litnyc.fireside.fm/48 aa49c7b1-1337-4f09-b229-98b0b14360ee Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Writer Jay Neugeboren and his son, illustrator Eli Neugeboren, talk with Harry Siegel about a Brookltyn Basketball legend who withdrew from public life while remaining in and of the city — writing pornography for the mob to pay the rent, ambitious novels in his own voice and then a million-book-selling “cozy cat” series under the pen name Alice Nestleton. 50:29 false Writer Jay Neugeboren and his son, illustrator Eli Neugeboren, talk with Harry Siegel about a Brookltyn Basketball legend who withdrew from public life while remaining in and of the city — writing pornography for the mob to pay the rent, ambitious novels in his own voice and then a million-book-selling “cozy cat” series under the pen name Alice Nestleton.

]]> Writer Jay Neugeboren and his son, illustrator Eli Neugeboren, talk with Harry Siegel about a Brookltyn Basketball legend who withdrew from public life while remaining in and of the city — writing pornography for the mob to pay the rent, ambitious novels in his own voice and then a million-book-selling “cozy cat” series under the pen name Alice Nestleton.

]]> Writer Jay Neugeboren and his son, illustrator Eli Neugeboren, talk with Harry Siegel about a Brookltyn Basketball legend who withdrew from public life while remaining in and of the city — writing pornography for the mob to pay the rent, ambitious novels in his own voice and then a million-book-selling “cozy cat” series under the pen name Alice Nestleton.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+0hoiIwka ]]> Episode 47: Elon Green’s The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York https://litnyc.fireside.fm/47 b3ed866b-552c-4626-a907-334ea89a38e0 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Elon Green talks with Rachel Holiday Smith and Harry Siegel about the direct line from the Transit Police beating Michael Stewart to death in front of horrified art students in 1983 to Eric Adams being elected mayor in 2021 — one that intersects with Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Spike Lee and Tucker Carlson. 46:28 false Elon Green talks with Rachel Holiday Smith and Harry Siegel about the direct line from the Transit Police beating Michael Stewart to death in front of horrified art students in 1983 to Eric Adams being elected mayor in 2021 — one that intersects with Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Spike Lee and Tucker Carlson.

]]> Elon Green talks with Rachel Holiday Smith and Harry Siegel about the direct line from the Transit Police beating Michael Stewart to death in front of horrified art students in 1983 to Eric Adams being elected mayor in 2021 — one that intersects with Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Spike Lee and Tucker Carlson.

]]> Elon Green talks with Rachel Holiday Smith and Harry Siegel about the direct line from the Transit Police beating Michael Stewart to death in front of horrified art students in 1983 to Eric Adams being elected mayor in 2021 — one that intersects with Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Spike Lee and Tucker Carlson.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+QEuRktrf ]]> Episode 46: Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Crime Novel https://litnyc.fireside.fm/46 8fc3ef22-e8ac-4992-8374-d4cd62a714e9 Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel 54:02 false Lethem talks with Brian Berger and Harry Siegel about his excellent and almost undefinable Brooklyn Crime Novel, and how COVID led him to again excavate the Brooklyn of his youth, two decades after novelizing it in The Fortress of Solitude.

]]> Lethem talks with Brian Berger and Harry Siegel about his excellent and almost undefinable Brooklyn Crime Novel, and how COVID led him to again excavate the Brooklyn of his youth, two decades after novelizing it in The Fortress of Solitude.

]]> Lethem talks with Brian Berger and Harry Siegel about his excellent and almost undefinable Brooklyn Crime Novel, and how COVID led him to again excavate the Brooklyn of his youth, two decades after novelizing it in The Fortress of Solitude.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+pGf-9JSw ]]> Episode 45: Amy Sohn’s The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age https://litnyc.fireside.fm/45 55f0b27e-cee7-42a7-a6fe-d649dec2db73 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Amy Sohn talks with Harry Siegel about how the American government's original anti-sex law, suppressing as obscene information about birth control, created the mechanisms used to this day to suppress unpopular thoughts. 58:21 false Amy Sohn talks with Harry Siegel about how the American government's original anti-sex law, suppressing as obscene information about birth control, created the mechanisms used to this day to suppress unpopular thoughts.

]]> Amy Sohn talks with Harry Siegel about how the American government's original anti-sex law, suppressing as obscene information about birth control, created the mechanisms used to this day to suppress unpopular thoughts.

]]> Amy Sohn talks with Harry Siegel about how the American government's original anti-sex law, suppressing as obscene information about birth control, created the mechanisms used to this day to suppress unpopular thoughts.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+0Ks0EJF7 ]]> Episode 44: Joel Kokin’s Urban Supremacy Suspicions https://litnyc.fireside.fm/44 736da2ef-ed9c-48dd-b742-40ab986501bf Sat, 23 Nov 2024 14:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Joel Kotkin discusses Americans’ demonstrated preference for suburban life, the waning of “urban supremacy,” and much more with Alyssa Katz, 39:23 false Joel Kotkin discusses Americans’ demonstrated preference for suburban life, the waning of “urban supremacy,” and much more with Alyssa Katz,

]]> Joel Kotkin discusses Americans’ demonstrated preference for suburban life, the waning of “urban supremacy,” and much more with Alyssa Katz,

]]> Joel Kotkin discusses Americans’ demonstrated preference for suburban life, the waning of “urban supremacy,” and much more with Alyssa Katz,

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+kaU-tmet ]]> Episode 43: Ross Perlin’s Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York https://litnyc.fireside.fm/43 aee08063-427e-4fab-8d15-fb706e6a1a78 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 13:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Ross Perlin sat down with Haidee Chu and Harry Siegel to discuss his work mapping the languages spoken here in what may be the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world, why our melting pot is also a threat to many of those languages, and much more. 43:56 false Ross Pellin sat down with Haidee Chu and Harry Siegel to discuss his work mapping the languages spoken here in what may be the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world, why our melting pot is also a threat to many of those languages, and much more.

]]> Ross Pellin sat down with Haidee Chu and Harry Siegel to discuss his work mapping the languages spoken here in what may be the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world, why our melting pot is also a threat to many of those languages, and much more.

]]> Ross Pellin sat down with Haidee Chu and Harry Siegel to discuss his work mapping the languages spoken here in what may be the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world, why our melting pot is also a threat to many of those languages, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+AgOkZDT2 ]]> Episode 42: Jill Gill’s Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2002 https://litnyc.fireside.fm/42 5d973002-a188-4ace-bea5-70f403fd7690 Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel “They all disappear. That's the thing. It's extremely ephemeral” — Jill Gill, the 91-year-old author of Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2022, talks with host Harry Siegel about her decades painting watercolors of her city. 32:15 false “They all disappear. That's the thing. It's extremely ephemeral” — Jill Gill, the 91-year-old author of Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2022, talks with host Harry Siegel about her decades painting watercolors of her city.

]]> “They all disappear. That's the thing. It's extremely ephemeral” — Jill Gill, the 91-year-old author of Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2022, talks with host Harry Siegel about her decades painting watercolors of her city.

]]> “They all disappear. That's the thing. It's extremely ephemeral” — Jill Gill, the 91-year-old author of Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2022, talks with host Harry Siegel about her decades painting watercolors of her city.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+Trtw5LMr ]]> Episode 41: Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995 https://litnyc.fireside.fm/41 a3b50b21-9d8a-4b3e-9551-bee19f9cc64f Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Stank Mack talks with Alyssa Katz about his two decades listening to New Yorkers and documenting their sayings and subcultures in cartoon form, with “all dialogue guaranteed verbatim.” 40:23 false Stank Mack talks with Alyssa Katz about his two decades listening to New Yorkers and documenting their sayings and subcultures in cartoon form, with “all dialogue guaranteed verbatim.”

]]> Stank Mack talks with Alyssa Katz about his two decades listening to New Yorkers and documenting their sayings and subcultures in cartoon form, with “all dialogue guaranteed verbatim.”

]]> Stank Mack talks with Alyssa Katz about his two decades listening to New Yorkers and documenting their sayings and subcultures in cartoon form, with “all dialogue guaranteed verbatim.”

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+90pAbFxt ]]> Episode 40: Julie Satow's When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion https://litnyc.fireside.fm/40 1937047f-b87b-4e9b-babc-f704e76fc22c Sat, 01 Jun 2024 13:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Julie Satow talks with Sarah Shears about the women behind the business of fashion. 46:08 false Julie Satow talks with Sarah Shears about the women behind the business of fashion.

]]> Julie Satow talks with Sarah Shears about the women behind the business of fashion.

]]> Julie Satow talks with Sarah Shears about the women behind the business of fashion.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+YbGG_tG8 ]]> Episode 39: Talking Pictures in Harvey Wang’s New York https://litnyc.fireside.fm/39 aa003d85-2017-4288-a9c7-d2cb3e9dfc1a Sun, 26 May 2024 13:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel 47:15 false The book’s namesake talks with host Harry Siegel about chornicling the hold-outs in trades and businesses that were vanishing in the 1980s and early 1990s, old New Yorks past and present, and much more.

]]> The book’s namesake talks with host Harry Siegel about chornicling the hold-outs in trades and businesses that were vanishing in the 1980s and early 1990s, old New Yorks past and present, and much more.

]]> The book’s namesake talks with host Harry Siegel about chornicling the hold-outs in trades and businesses that were vanishing in the 1980s and early 1990s, old New Yorks past and present, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+hXKvkL5x ]]> Episode 38: Steve Fishman’s The Burden https://litnyc.fireside.fm/38 4a7653c9-7928-44ff-87e0-72a46284b5a2 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 13:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Steve Fishman talks with Harry Siegel about his his new podcast, The Burden, where he speaks with and digs into the history of former NYPD super-cop Louis Scarcella, the detective who locked up New York’s baddest guys back in the city’s “bad old days” — and with the convicted murderers turned jailhouse law firm who won their freedom by digging into police work that sometimes seemed, as journalists will joke, too good to check. 52:26 false Steve Fishman talks with Harry Siegel about his his new podcast, The Burden, where he speaks with and digs into the history of former NYPD super-cop Louis Scarcella, the detective who locked up New York’s baddest guys back in the city’s “bad old days” — and with the convicted murderers turned jailhouse law firm who won their freedom by digging into police work that sometimes seemed, as journalists will joke, too good to check.

]]> Steve Fishman talks with Harry Siegel about his his new podcast, The Burden, where he speaks with and digs into the history of former NYPD super-cop Louis Scarcella, the detective who locked up New York’s baddest guys back in the city’s “bad old days” — and with the convicted murderers turned jailhouse law firm who won their freedom by digging into police work that sometimes seemed, as journalists will joke, too good to check.

]]> Steve Fishman talks with Harry Siegel about his his new podcast, The Burden, where he speaks with and digs into the history of former NYPD super-cop Louis Scarcella, the detective who locked up New York’s baddest guys back in the city’s “bad old days” — and with the convicted murderers turned jailhouse law firm who won their freedom by digging into police work that sometimes seemed, as journalists will joke, too good to check.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+k-x9SfHU ]]> Episode 37: Lucy Sante’s I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition https://litnyc.fireside.fm/37 a9abdcea-102f-412c-a213-c0a478c585cf Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel The writer returns to the pod for an depth-conversation with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about her new memoir, and her gender transition. 1:01:20 false The writer returns to the pod for an depth-conversation with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about her new memoir, and her gender transition.

]]> The writer returns to the pod for an depth-conversation with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about her new memoir, and her gender transition.

]]> The writer returns to the pod for an depth-conversation with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about her new memoir, and her gender transition.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+KYeUYW-k ]]> Episode 36: Tricia Romano’s The Freaks Come Out To Write: The Definitive History of The Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture https://litnyc.fireside.fm/36 413385ba-924a-4800-ac4a-618bf2f3bde2 Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Tricia Romano talks with Alyssa Katz about the pre-internet world where the Village Voice was a newspaper like no other: a haven for writers about avant garde arts, Black politics, queer identity and a million things more — and that's after the pages devoted to exposing the seamy side of New York City politics. 38:30 false Tricia Romano talks with Alyssa Katz about the pre-internet world where the Village Voice was a newspaper like no other: a haven for writers about avant garde arts, Black politics, queer identity and a million things more — and that's after the pages devoted to exposing the seamy side of New York City politics.

]]> Tricia Romano talks with Alyssa Katz about the pre-internet world where the Village Voice was a newspaper like no other: a haven for writers about avant garde arts, Black politics, queer identity and a million things more — and that's after the pages devoted to exposing the seamy side of New York City politics.

]]> Tricia Romano talks with Alyssa Katz about the pre-internet world where the Village Voice was a newspaper like no other: a haven for writers about avant garde arts, Black politics, queer identity and a million things more — and that's after the pages devoted to exposing the seamy side of New York City politics.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+F0gsah7D ]]> Episode 35: Kai Wright and Lizzie Ratner’s The Plague in the Shadows https://litnyc.fireside.fm/35 a793af87-608b-4a56-bad4-9a538ef11bbc Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner talk with The City editor-in-chief Richard Kim about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions failed. 50:48 false Journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner talk with The City editor-in-chief Richard Kim about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions failed.

]]> Journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner talk with The City editor-in-chief Richard Kim about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions failed.

]]> Journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner talk with The City editor-in-chief Richard Kim about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions failed.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+P1VSmgvG ]]> Episode 34: Jake Berman’s The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been https://litnyc.fireside.fm/34 979e9124-d3ea-49f6-acc1-90fe5039d437 Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Author and cartographer Jake Berman talks with Alyssa Katz about how the great and not-so-great mass transit systems of the U.S. and Canada. the art of mapmaking, the secrets to the success of the few cities where riding the subway is the norm instead of the exception, and the future of New York City’s subways. 32:17 false Author and cartographer Jake Berman talks with Alyssa Katz about how the great and not-so-great mass transit systems of the U.S. and Canada. the art of mapmaking, the secrets to the success of the few cities where riding the subway is the norm instead of the exception, and the future of New York City’s subways.

]]> Author and cartographer Jake Berman talks with Alyssa Katz about how the great and not-so-great mass transit systems of the U.S. and Canada. the art of mapmaking, the secrets to the success of the few cities where riding the subway is the norm instead of the exception, and the future of New York City’s subways.

]]> Author and cartographer Jake Berman talks with Alyssa Katz about how the great and not-so-great mass transit systems of the U.S. and Canada. the art of mapmaking, the secrets to the success of the few cities where riding the subway is the norm instead of the exception, and the future of New York City’s subways.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+PSxaFwa7 ]]> Episode 33: Ellen Moynihan’s Recovered Cat and More New York Stories https://litnyc.fireside.fm/33 0658f5f4-d268-4e76-9a65-ccd92ba213c5 Sat, 30 Dec 2023 13:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel In the third and final installment of the pod's year-end mini-series of stories about a "New York minute," you'll hear from Michael Gartland and Ellen Moynihan of the Daily News, telling yarns about found beef, cops and lost cats. They’re followed by Justin Miller of New York Magazine on hearing an unsolicited tale of massages and romances. Finally, Mark Jacobson, the journalist and novelist who, among other things, wrote the articles Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet and The Return of Superfly that respectively became the TV show Taxi and the movie American Gangster, with a ramble about comedy in the city back in the day. 32:31 false In the third and final installment of the pod's year-end mini-series of stories about a "New York minute," you'll hear from Michael Gartland and Ellen Moynihan of the Daily News, telling yarns about found beef, cops and lost cats. They’re followed by Justin Miller of New York Magazine on hearing an unsolicited tale of massages and romances. Finally, Mark Jacobson, the journalist and novelist who, among other things, wrote the articles Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet and The Return of Superfly that respectively became the TV show Taxi and the movie American Gangster, with a ramble about comedy in the city back in the day.

]]> In the third and final installment of the pod's year-end mini-series of stories about a "New York minute," you'll hear from Michael Gartland and Ellen Moynihan of the Daily News, telling yarns about found beef, cops and lost cats. They’re followed by Justin Miller of New York Magazine on hearing an unsolicited tale of massages and romances. Finally, Mark Jacobson, the journalist and novelist who, among other things, wrote the articles Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet and The Return of Superfly that respectively became the TV show Taxi and the movie American Gangster, with a ramble about comedy in the city back in the day.

]]> In the third and final installment of the pod's year-end mini-series of stories about a "New York minute," you'll hear from Michael Gartland and Ellen Moynihan of the Daily News, telling yarns about found beef, cops and lost cats. They’re followed by Justin Miller of New York Magazine on hearing an unsolicited tale of massages and romances. Finally, Mark Jacobson, the journalist and novelist who, among other things, wrote the articles Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet and The Return of Superfly that respectively became the TV show Taxi and the movie American Gangster, with a ramble about comedy in the city back in the day.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+LC-FNJXU ]]> Episode 32: J.T. Price’s Courteous Robber and More New York Stories https://litnyc.fireside.fm/32 fb5a6046-9838-4a40-ba29-ae3287b652e2 Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel In the second of three year-end episodes featuring stories about "a New York minute," natives Katie Honan and David Ray Martinez talk soap operas and families before transplants J.T. Price and Adam Levy talk about courteous robbers and courting wives. 42:56 false In the second of three year-end episodes featuring stories about "a New York minute," natives Katie Honan and David Ray Martinez talk soap operas and families before transplants J.T. Price and Adam Levy talk about courteous robbers and courting wives.

]]> In the second of three year-end episodes featuring stories about "a New York minute," natives Katie Honan and David Ray Martinez talk soap operas and families before transplants J.T. Price and Adam Levy talk about courteous robbers and courting wives.

]]> In the second of three year-end episodes featuring stories about "a New York minute," natives Katie Honan and David Ray Martinez talk soap operas and families before transplants J.T. Price and Adam Levy talk about courteous robbers and courting wives.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+dtITMrwO ]]> Episode 31: Steve Lynn's Kingpin Career and More New York Minute Stories https://litnyc.fireside.fm/31 ae0fb25c-7a44-4a3b-9d32-0108b3052933 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Four stories about four New York minutes, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and a pair about gloom, glamor and gunmption told by Huge Perez and Flo Ankah. 37:08 false Four about four New York minutes, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and a pair about gloom, glamor and gunmption told by Huge Perez and Flo Ankah.

]]> Four about four New York minutes, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and a pair about gloom, glamor and gunmption told by Huge Perez and Flo Ankah.

]]> Four about four New York minutes, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and a pair about gloom, glamor and gunmption told by Huge Perez and Flo Ankah.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+erUegfFC ]]> Episode 30: Mark Chiusano’s The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos https://litnyc.fireside.fm/30 430ecd10-53df-4e42-973e-ce80121e0bf5 Sat, 18 Nov 2023 13:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Mark Chiusano, author of "The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos," talks with Azi Paybarah of the Washington Post about this character in the aftermath of the brutal new House ethics report about him. 39:30 false Mark Chiusano, author of "The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos," talks with Azi Paybarah of the Washington Post about this character in the aftermath of the brutal new House ethics report about him.

]]> Mark Chiusano, author of "The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos," talks with Azi Paybarah of the Washington Post about this character in the aftermath of the brutal new House ethics report about him.

]]> Mark Chiusano, author of "The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos," talks with Azi Paybarah of the Washington Post about this character in the aftermath of the brutal new House ethics report about him.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+dj0012AZ ]]> Episode 29: Sean Howe’s Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s. https://litnyc.fireside.fm/29 6c9bb909-e7b6-40b7-a69b-937e993cd84b Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Sean Howe talks with Harry Siegel about his sprawling history of an American crack-up. 47:11 false Sean Howe talks with Harry Siegel about his sprawling history of an American crack-up.

]]> Sean Howe talks with Harry Siegel about his sprawling history of an American crack-up.

]]> Sean Howe talks with Harry Siegel about his sprawling history of an American crack-up.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+B81njHd6 ]]> Episode 28: Bill Griffith’s Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, The Man Who Created Nancy https://litnyc.fireside.fm/28 e1fbfdf5-bafa-4481-9d33-17739fe81281 Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Zippy creator Bill Griffith talks with Harry Siegel about his new graphic novel, "Three Rocks," about Ernie Bushmiller, the cartoonist who created the iconic strip, and goes deep into some New York City newspaper history in the process. 45:44 false Zippy creator Bill Griffith talks with Harry Siegel about his new graphic novel, "Three Rocks," about Ernie Bushmiller, the cartoonist who created the iconic strip, and goes deep into some New York City newspaper history in the process.

]]> Zippy creator Bill Griffith talks with Harry Siegel about his new graphic novel, "Three Rocks," about Ernie Bushmiller, the cartoonist who created the iconic strip, and goes deep into some New York City newspaper history in the process.

]]> Zippy creator Bill Griffith talks with Harry Siegel about his new graphic novel, "Three Rocks," about Ernie Bushmiller, the cartoonist who created the iconic strip, and goes deep into some New York City newspaper history in the process.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+zPoKCSat ]]> Episode 27: Stephen Yang Talking Pictures https://litnyc.fireside.fm/27 eb2fbdaa-dd54-46ef-b7d8-0cbff77f54e2 Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Photographer Stephen Yang joins Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel for a conversation about capturing private moments in public settings, the differences between photojournalism and street photography, why tabloids have traditionally frowned on high-contrast shots (spoiler: those require too much black ink to print) and much more. 53:54 false Photographer Stephen Yang joins Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel for a conversation about capturing private moments in public settings, the differences between photojournalism and street photography, why tabloids have traditionally frowned on high-contrast shots (spoiler: those require too much black ink to print) and much more.

]]> Photographer Stephen Yang joins Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel for a conversation about capturing private moments in public settings, the differences between photojournalism and street photography, why tabloids have traditionally frowned on high-contrast shots (spoiler: those require too much black ink to print) and much more.

]]> Photographer Stephen Yang joins Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel for a conversation about capturing private moments in public settings, the differences between photojournalism and street photography, why tabloids have traditionally frowned on high-contrast shots (spoiler: those require too much black ink to print) and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+SbjnEX_R ]]> Episode 26: Ben Smith’s Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral https://litnyc.fireside.fm/26 c6bf2cd5-db3c-45fb-89fd-5362a3e640d7 Sun, 25 Jun 2023 11:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Ben Smith talks with Azi Paybarah about Silicon Alley, the internet of the early 2000s, and why local politics is less scalable than it used to be. 40:50 false Ben Smith talks with Azi Paybarah about Silicon Alley, the internet of the early 2000s, and why local politics is less scalable than it used to be.

]]> Ben Smith talks with Azi Paybarah about Silicon Alley, the internet of the early 2000s, and why local politics is less scalable than it used to be.

]]> Ben Smith talks with Azi Paybarah about Silicon Alley, the internet of the early 2000s, and why local politics is less scalable than it used to be.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+rJ46x0nv ]]> Episode 25: Paul Moses’ The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia https://litnyc.fireside.fm/25 a3ac04a1-04a5-444b-abb4-2706dffbbef8 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Years before the NYPD targeted Muslims, Black radicals and other groups with specialized and sometimes undercover operations, the Italian Squad prompted pushback for its aggressive tactics, and from Italian-American leaders concerned about their community’s public image as immigrants sought to assimilate. Paul Moses, author of “The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia” recounts the NYPD’s efforts to grapple with organized criminals preying on Italian immigrants and the challenges and threats faced by the Italian-American officers trying to stop them. 32:59 false Years before the NYPD targeted Muslims, Black radicals and other groups with specialized and sometimes undercover operations, the Italian Squad prompted pushback for its aggressive tactics, and from Italian-American leaders concerned about their community’s public image as immigrants sought to assimilate.

Paul Moses, author of “The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia” recounts the NYPD’s efforts to grapple with organized criminals preying on Italian immigrants and the challenges and threats faced by the Italian-American officers trying to stop them.

]]> Years before the NYPD targeted Muslims, Black radicals and other groups with specialized and sometimes undercover operations, the Italian Squad prompted pushback for its aggressive tactics, and from Italian-American leaders concerned about their community’s public image as immigrants sought to assimilate.

Paul Moses, author of “The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia” recounts the NYPD’s efforts to grapple with organized criminals preying on Italian immigrants and the challenges and threats faced by the Italian-American officers trying to stop them.

]]> Years before the NYPD targeted Muslims, Black radicals and other groups with specialized and sometimes undercover operations, the Italian Squad prompted pushback for its aggressive tactics, and from Italian-American leaders concerned about their community’s public image as immigrants sought to assimilate.

Paul Moses, author of “The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia” recounts the NYPD’s efforts to grapple with organized criminals preying on Italian immigrants and the challenges and threats faced by the Italian-American officers trying to stop them.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+OM3VMaBk ]]> Episode 24: James Zollar Talking Jazz https://litnyc.fireside.fm/24 7b994fc9-7cd0-495f-a53e-b2cc06343233 Mon, 22 May 2023 11:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Host Greg Glassman and fellow trumpeter James Zollar play together, and talk about what it takes to make it a musician in the Big Apple and much more. 31:12 false Host Greg Glassman and fellow trumpeter James Zollar play together, and talk about what it takes to make it a musician in the Big Apple and much more.

]]> Host Greg Glassman and fellow trumpeter James Zollar play together, and talk about what it takes to make it a musician in the Big Apple and much more.

]]> Host Greg Glassman and fellow trumpeter James Zollar play together, and talk about what it takes to make it a musician in the Big Apple and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+L9osJ6wO ]]> Episode 23: Steven Thrasher’s Viruses on Film https://litnyc.fireside.fm/23 be36f749-a7c3-4538-bc22-6dcc20b18393 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 11:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Dr. Steven Thrasher — curator of the Viruses on Film series screening at BAM — talks about the experience of people coming together to watch movies about something that's everywhere but can't be seen. . 38:01 false Dr. Steven Thrasher — curator of the Viruses on Film series screening at BAM — talks about the experience of people coming together to watch movies about something that's everywhere but can't be seen. .

]]> Dr. Steven Thrasher — curator of the Viruses on Film series screening at BAM — talks about the experience of people coming together to watch movies about something that's everywhere but can't be seen. .

]]> Dr. Steven Thrasher — curator of the Viruses on Film series screening at BAM — talks about the experience of people coming together to watch movies about something that's everywhere but can't be seen. .

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+eWfchthC ]]> Episode 22: Gary Weiss’ Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie https://litnyc.fireside.fm/22 f13e8953-7bb8-4334-8bfe-cca149d1717f Sun, 26 Feb 2023 10:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Gary Weiss talks with Harry Siegel about his wild history of New York City's original retail gangster. 44:22 false Gary Weiss talks with Harry Siegel about his wild history of New York City's original retail gangster.

]]> Gary Weiss talks with Harry Siegel about his wild history of New York City's original retail gangster.

]]> Gary Weiss talks with Harry Siegel about his wild history of New York City's original retail gangster.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+k1cXn6Zz ]]> Episode 21: Rusty Zimmerman’s Free Portrait Project https://litnyc.fireside.fm/21 c791579f-46a1-45f7-ac67-68b3edfde4e1 Sat, 18 Feb 2023 10:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Rusty Zimmerman is spending the year making oil paintings of and collecting oral histories from 200 people living in South Brooklyn. That includes Harry Siegel, who joined Rusty for a conversation about the project, how people can support it and see it, and why he's giving the portraits away for free to their subjects. 42:03 false Rusty Zimmerman is spending the year making oil paintings of and collecting oral histories from 200 people living in South Brooklyn. That includes Harry Siegel, who joined Rusty for a conversation about the project, how people can support it and see it, and why he's giving the portraits away for free to their subjects.

]]> Rusty Zimmerman is spending the year making oil paintings of and collecting oral histories from 200 people living in South Brooklyn. That includes Harry Siegel, who joined Rusty for a conversation about the project, how people can support it and see it, and why he's giving the portraits away for free to their subjects.

]]> Rusty Zimmerman is spending the year making oil paintings of and collecting oral histories from 200 people living in South Brooklyn. That includes Harry Siegel, who joined Rusty for a conversation about the project, how people can support it and see it, and why he's giving the portraits away for free to their subjects.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+ks_sojlN ]]> Episode 20: Stacy Dillard Talking Jazz https://litnyc.fireside.fm/20 7dfbc59c-b5d7-4eb0-ba31-25c349f3a833 Sun, 05 Feb 2023 10:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Trumpeter Greg Glassman sits down with saxophonist Stacy Dillard for a conversation — along with the two of them improvising on their instruments — about what it means, and what it takes, to make it as a jazz musician in New York City. 36:37 false Trumpeter Greg Glassman sits down with saxophonist Stacy Dillard for a conversation — along with the two of them improvising on their instruments — about what it means, and what it takes, to make it as a jazz musician in New York City.

]]> Trumpeter Greg Glassman sits down with saxophonist Stacy Dillard for a conversation — along with the two of them improvising on their instruments — about what it means, and what it takes, to make it as a jazz musician in New York City.

]]> Trumpeter Greg Glassman sits down with saxophonist Stacy Dillard for a conversation — along with the two of them improvising on their instruments — about what it means, and what it takes, to make it as a jazz musician in New York City.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+us3aFqC4 ]]> Episode 19: Annemarie Gray’s Open New York https://litnyc.fireside.fm/19 44a87d16-1261-4f77-9df6-83ef8398672a Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Open New York is an organization advocating to make it easier to build and manage housing in New York City — and now it’s broadening its agenda to also support advances in tenants’ rights. Will that be enough to change state laws and neighborhood politics to get more housing built? Alyssa Katz talks with Open New York Director Annemarie Gray about her group’s game-changing ambitions. 33:38 false Open New York is an organization advocating to make it easier to build and manage housing in New York City — and now it’s broadening its agenda to also support advances in tenants’ rights. Will that be enough to change state laws and neighborhood politics to get more housing built? Alyssa Katz talks with Open New York Director Annemarie Gray about her group’s game-changing ambitions.

]]> Open New York is an organization advocating to make it easier to build and manage housing in New York City — and now it’s broadening its agenda to also support advances in tenants’ rights. Will that be enough to change state laws and neighborhood politics to get more housing built? Alyssa Katz talks with Open New York Director Annemarie Gray about her group’s game-changing ambitions.

]]> Open New York is an organization advocating to make it easier to build and manage housing in New York City — and now it’s broadening its agenda to also support advances in tenants’ rights. Will that be enough to change state laws and neighborhood politics to get more housing built? Alyssa Katz talks with Open New York Director Annemarie Gray about her group’s game-changing ambitions.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+Zfw7MeZD ]]> Episode 18: Susan Watts Talking Pictures Again https://litnyc.fireside.fm/18 e9250abf-2177-48e4-922f-bdb6129b347c Sun, 25 Dec 2022 10:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Daily News legend Susan Watts and THE CITY's Ben Fractenberg talk with Alex Brook Lynn about the art of shooting the news in New York, and share the stories behind some of their most powerful photographs. 40:20 false Daily News legend Susan Watts and THE CITY's Ben Fractenberg talk with Alex Brook Lynn about the art of shooting the news in New York, and share the stories behind some of their most powerful photographs.

]]> Daily News legend Susan Watts and THE CITY's Ben Fractenberg talk with Alex Brook Lynn about the art of shooting the news in New York, and share the stories behind some of their most powerful photographs.

]]> Daily News legend Susan Watts and THE CITY's Ben Fractenberg talk with Alex Brook Lynn about the art of shooting the news in New York, and share the stories behind some of their most powerful photographs.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+UZnyes_F ]]> Episode 17: Michael Kimmelman’s The Intimate City: Walking New York https://litnyc.fireside.fm/17 9505f3d7-b282-47a1-bbe5-f7ac884e1519 Sun, 11 Dec 2022 10:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, author of The Intimate City: Walking New York, joins Alyssa Katz in the latest installment of her occasional series asking the big question: What Is New York For? 39:32 false New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, author of The Intimate City: Walking New York, joins Alyssa Katz in the latest installment of her occasional series asking the big question: What Is New York For?

]]> New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, author of The Intimate City: Walking New York, joins Alyssa Katz in the latest installment of her occasional series asking the big question: What Is New York For?

]]> New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, author of The Intimate City: Walking New York, joins Alyssa Katz in the latest installment of her occasional series asking the big question: What Is New York For?

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+nK6sl8mp ]]> Episode 16: Pervaiz Shallwani’s Stinky Lunch Kids https://litnyc.fireside.fm/16 03f73c3c-e4f7-46f2-9585-89260cc43d40 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 18:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Pervaiz Shallwani dipped a hot dog into New York’s melting pot, and what came out was the delicious chaat dog. 26:05 false Pervaiz Shallwani dipped a hot dog into New York’s melting pot, and what came out was the delicious chaat dog.

]]> Pervaiz Shallwani dipped a hot dog into New York’s melting pot, and what came out was the delicious chaat dog.

]]> Pervaiz Shallwani dipped a hot dog into New York’s melting pot, and what came out was the delicious chaat dog.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+rK2wygEd ]]> Episode 15: Jereemiah Moss’ Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York https://litnyc.fireside.fm/15 b1dbc80b-b2a5-4d9a-ada6-cc109e7501ad Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Jeremiah Moss talks with THE CITY's Alyssa Katz about the "tremendous community connection and and oftentimes joyfulness in a moment of tremendous trauma and tragedy” for the people out in the streets amid the city's shutdown and reopening. 32:52 false Jeremiah Moss, the author of Feral New York, talks with THE CITY's Alyssa Katz about the "tremendous community connection and and oftentimes joyfulness in a moment of tremendous trauma and tragedy” for the people out in the streets amid the city's shutdown and reopening.

]]> Jeremiah Moss, the author of Feral New York, talks with THE CITY's Alyssa Katz about the "tremendous community connection and and oftentimes joyfulness in a moment of tremendous trauma and tragedy” for the people out in the streets amid the city's shutdown and reopening.

]]> Jeremiah Moss, the author of Feral New York, talks with THE CITY's Alyssa Katz about the "tremendous community connection and and oftentimes joyfulness in a moment of tremendous trauma and tragedy” for the people out in the streets amid the city's shutdown and reopening.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+wpOHN_2l ]]> Episode 14: Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil Years as ‘The Girl Behind the Fishtank’ https://litnyc.fireside.fm/14 02ad7319-90b6-40d8-b4fb-9ea2e087f65c Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Ann Nocenti, the writer, journalist and filmmaker who wrote and edited some of the most iconic Marvel comics of the late 1980s and early 1990s — and who created the iconic characters Elektra and Longshot — joins the FAQ NYC podcast to discuss her early years in New York as “the girl who lived behind the fishtank,” quite literally, how her work in asylums influenced her stories about superheroes, creating Marvel’s first openly transgender character, the role of “fake news” in the comics she’s working on now, and much more. 40:06 false Ann Nocenti, the writer, journalist and filmmaker who wrote and edited some of the most iconic Marvel comics of the late 1980s and early 1990s — and who created the iconic characters Elektra and Longshot — joins the FAQ NYC podcast to discuss her early years in New York as “the girl who lived behind the fishtank,” quite literally.

She digs into how her work in asylums influenced her stories about superheroes, creating Marvel’s first openly transgender character, the role of “fake news” in the comics she’s working on now, and much more.

]]> Ann Nocenti, the writer, journalist and filmmaker who wrote and edited some of the most iconic Marvel comics of the late 1980s and early 1990s — and who created the iconic characters Elektra and Longshot — joins the FAQ NYC podcast to discuss her early years in New York as “the girl who lived behind the fishtank,” quite literally.

She digs into how her work in asylums influenced her stories about superheroes, creating Marvel’s first openly transgender character, the role of “fake news” in the comics she’s working on now, and much more.

]]> Ann Nocenti, the writer, journalist and filmmaker who wrote and edited some of the most iconic Marvel comics of the late 1980s and early 1990s — and who created the iconic characters Elektra and Longshot — joins the FAQ NYC podcast to discuss her early years in New York as “the girl who lived behind the fishtank,” quite literally.

She digs into how her work in asylums influenced her stories about superheroes, creating Marvel’s first openly transgender character, the role of “fake news” in the comics she’s working on now, and much more.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+I2kQYJBh ]]> Episode 13: Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time Warp https://litnyc.fireside.fm/13 61f20c7b-777b-43da-b221-ef7d11e20faf Sun, 09 Oct 2022 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Alyssa Katz talks with America’s “least known great documentarian” about his 86 years living here, his work during the pandemic editing his footage of the city from the 1950s (and that you can see over the next two weekends at the Museum of the Moving Image), how graffiti trains inspired his film Stations of the Elevated, and the big question: What is New York for? 32:34 false Alyssa Katz talks with America’s “least known great documentarian” about his 86 years living here, his work during the pandemic editing his footage of the city from the 1950s (and that you can see over the next two weekends at the Museum of the Moving Image), how graffiti trains inspired his film Stations of the Elevated, and the big question: What is New York for?

]]> Alyssa Katz talks with America’s “least known great documentarian” about his 86 years living here, his work during the pandemic editing his footage of the city from the 1950s (and that you can see over the next two weekends at the Museum of the Moving Image), how graffiti trains inspired his film Stations of the Elevated, and the big question: What is New York for?

]]> Alyssa Katz talks with America’s “least known great documentarian” about his 86 years living here, his work during the pandemic editing his footage of the city from the 1950s (and that you can see over the next two weekends at the Museum of the Moving Image), how graffiti trains inspired his film Stations of the Elevated, and the big question: What is New York for?

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+lxcYGqT7 ]]> Episode 12: Andrew Kirtzman's Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor https://litnyc.fireside.fm/12 ccf80dcb-0ec2-4ced-b400-c879329ea378 Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Biographer Andrew Kirtzman talks with Harry Siegel about his quarter-century covering “America’s mayor” and the inevitable question: What happened to Rudy Giuliani? 37:00 false Biographer Andrew Kirtzman talks with Harry Siegel about his quarter-century covering “America’s mayor” and the inevitable question: What happened to Rudy Giuliani?

]]> Biographer Andrew Kirtzman talks with Harry Siegel about his quarter-century covering “America’s mayor” and the inevitable question: What happened to Rudy Giuliani?

]]> Biographer Andrew Kirtzman talks with Harry Siegel about his quarter-century covering “America’s mayor” and the inevitable question: What happened to Rudy Giuliani?

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+H6Z3ZMLv ]]> Episode 11: Twenty-one Eulogies for New York City https://litnyc.fireside.fm/11 ada7c521-8acf-4b16-9dce-ac4b4fa4a901 Sat, 13 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Twenty-one eulogies for the City of New York, in large or small part, collected for Alex Brook Lynn's installation “Eulogy For New York,” which ran during the month of October in the West Village. 1:17:49 false Twenty-one eulogies for the City of New York, in large or small part, collected for Alex Brook Lynn's installation “Eulogy For New York,” which ran during the month of October in the West Village.

]]> Twenty-one eulogies for the City of New York, in large or small part, collected for Alex Brook Lynn's installation “Eulogy For New York,” which ran during the month of October in the West Village.

]]> Twenty-one eulogies for the City of New York, in large or small part, collected for Alex Brook Lynn's installation “Eulogy For New York,” which ran during the month of October in the West Village.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+3q8UErBG ]]> Episode 10: Issa Ibrahim’s Eulogy for Jamaica https://litnyc.fireside.fm/10 bf9de974-c94a-43c9-8ce3-3b3674575739 Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Artist and musician Issa Ibrahim talks with Alex Brook Lynn about a song he wrote in New York's Creedmoor psychiatric facility, eulogizing the neighborhood he grew up in. 29:52 false Artist and musician Issa Ibrahim talks with Alex Brook Lynn about a song he wrote in New York's Creedmoor psychiatric facility, eulogizing the neighborhood he grew up in.

]]> Artist and musician Issa Ibrahim talks with Alex Brook Lynn about a song he wrote in New York's Creedmoor psychiatric facility, eulogizing the neighborhood he grew up in.

]]> Artist and musician Issa Ibrahim talks with Alex Brook Lynn about a song he wrote in New York's Creedmoor psychiatric facility, eulogizing the neighborhood he grew up in.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+8p3TMIS2 ]]> Episode 9: Talking Pictures With David Godlis and Luc Sante https://litnyc.fireside.fm/9 cd9866a8-0f12-4554-b001-6e402f98a0be Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Photographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and the different ways that shooters, and writers, captured glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring "generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade." 1:04:57 false Photographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and the different ways that shooters, and writers, captured glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring "generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade."

]]> Photographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and the different ways that shooters, and writers, captured glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring "generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade."

]]> Photographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and the different ways that shooters, and writers, captured glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring "generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade."

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+wHTADQ8E ]]> Episode 8: Charles Farrell’s (Low)Life: A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and the Mob https://litnyc.fireside.fm/8 5165ee8e-86fd-4cd8-92e7-341ce3c17198 Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Jazz great turned boxing manager Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Vice's Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too. 1:20:29 false Jazz great turned boxing manager Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Vice's Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too.

]]> Jazz great turned boxing manager Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Vice's Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too.

]]> Jazz great turned boxing manager Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Vice's Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+SKEcBMcM ]]> Episode 7: Elon Green’s Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York https://litnyc.fireside.fm/7 50418881-3ee4-48ae-b854-0b4e19daa941 Wed, 19 May 2021 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Author Elon Green joins Nolan Hicks and Harry Siegel to talk about Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York and how a city crew including Rudy Giuliani's mom, Bernard Kerik, Robert Morgenthau, Linda Fairstein, William Bulger and Mike McAclary all tie into that story. 52:37 false Author Elon Green joins Nolan Hicks and Harry Siegel to talk about Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York and how a city crew including Rudy Giuliani's mom, Bernard Kerik, Robert Morgenthau, Linda Fairstein, William Bulger and Mike McAclary all tie into that story.

]]> Author Elon Green joins Nolan Hicks and Harry Siegel to talk about Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York and how a city crew including Rudy Giuliani's mom, Bernard Kerik, Robert Morgenthau, Linda Fairstein, William Bulger and Mike McAclary all tie into that story.

]]> Author Elon Green joins Nolan Hicks and Harry Siegel to talk about Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York and how a city crew including Rudy Giuliani's mom, Bernard Kerik, Robert Morgenthau, Linda Fairstein, William Bulger and Mike McAclary all tie into that story.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+Y-f5KLke ]]> Episode 6: Alec MadGilllis' Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America https://litnyc.fireside.fm/6 458ebbf4-5593-4d41-8edc-e9e4130e7c3e Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel A conversation with Alec MacGillis, the author of Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, about Amazon and, among many other things, its expansion in New York City AFTER the collapse of its HQ2 plan here as the brave new pandemic economy has accelerated America's great divergence. 45:12 false A conversation with Alec MacGillis, the author of Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, about Amazon and, among many other things, its expansion in New York City AFTER the collapse of its HQ2 plan here as the brave new pandemic economy has accelerated America's great divergence.

]]> A conversation with Alec MacGillis, the author of Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, about Amazon and, among many other things, its expansion in New York City AFTER the collapse of its HQ2 plan here as the brave new pandemic economy has accelerated America's great divergence.

]]> A conversation with Alec MacGillis, the author of Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, about Amazon and, among many other things, its expansion in New York City AFTER the collapse of its HQ2 plan here as the brave new pandemic economy has accelerated America's great divergence.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+pAKp-Mpd ]]> Episode 5: Dave Manheim’s Dopey https://litnyc.fireside.fm/5 8045f49c-86f4-433e-b172-688d92c2159c Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Dave from the "DOPEY," podcast shares a few stories with Alex Brook Lynn about drug addiction and recovery in New York City. 34:58 false Dave from the "DOPEY," podcast shares a few stories with Alex Brook Lynn about drug addiction and recovery in New York City.

]]> Dave from the "DOPEY," podcast shares a few stories with Alex Brook Lynn about drug addiction and recovery in New York City.

]]> Dave from the "DOPEY," podcast shares a few stories with Alex Brook Lynn about drug addiction and recovery in New York City.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+XkXd9BdM ]]> Episode 4: Talking Pictures with Susan Watts https://litnyc.fireside.fm/4 d0cc4b49-df74-404a-ab1c-f4828ef98cc0 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:30:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Susan Watts, director of visual content for Scott Stringer, sits down with the FAQ gang for a look back over some of the shots from her 25 years as a photographer for the Daily News, New York's Picture Newspaper. 37:48 false Susan Watts, director of visual content for Scott Stringer, sits down with the FAQ gang for a look back over some of the shots from her 25 years as a photographer for the Daily News, New York's Picture Newspaper.

]]> Susan Watts, director of visual content for Scott Stringer, sits down with the FAQ gang for a look back over some of the shots from her 25 years as a photographer for the Daily News, New York's Picture Newspaper.

]]> Susan Watts, director of visual content for Scott Stringer, sits down with the FAQ gang for a look back over some of the shots from her 25 years as a photographer for the Daily News, New York's Picture Newspaper.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+pSqu1amZ ]]> Episode 3: Julie Satow’s The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel https://litnyc.fireside.fm/3 8f4ccfc8-7829-4a19-b9fb-5d139d334adb Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel Journalist Julie Satow, author of The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel, joins Harry and Alex Brook Lynn to share some of those secrets. 35:42 false Journalist Julie Satow, author of The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel, joins Harry and Alex Brook Lynn to share some of those secrets.

]]> Journalist Julie Satow, author of The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel, joins Harry and Alex Brook Lynn to share some of those secrets.

]]> Journalist Julie Satow, author of The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel, joins Harry and Alex Brook Lynn to share some of those secrets.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+L0B7Zx3P ]]> Episode 2: Mark Alan Stamaty's MacDoodle Street https://litnyc.fireside.fm/2 ad607e93-5a77-4d7f-8da8-9783d8f53027 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:00:00 -0400 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel MacDoodle Street—the story of dishwashing poet Malcolm Frazzle that first appeared in the pages of the Village Voice in the late 1970s—is back in print thanks to the fine nerds of the New York Review of Books. Bill Bramhall, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News, joined Harry Siegel and Alex Brook Lynn for a conversation with Stamaty about his work, God, drugs, those hacks Artman and Andy Warhol, donuts and love, and, of course, umbilical oralism and the ultimate painting. 38:31 false MacDoodle Street—the story of dishwashing poet Malcolm Frazzle that first appeared in the pages of the Village Voice in the late 1970s—is back in print thanks to the fine nerds of the New York Review of Books.

Bill Bramhall, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News, joined Harry Siegel and Alex Brook Lynn for a conversation with Stamaty about his work, God, drugs, those hacks Artman and Andy Warhol, donuts and love, and, of course, umbilical oralism and the ultimate painting.

In the spirit of his work, there are tangents within tangents — Emmylou Harris, maybe, helping a drunk Dave Van Ronk up from the sidewalk of MacDougal Street after a Kris Kristofferson show — as we stroll through the lost New York of MacDoodle Street without ever leaving Alex’s Bleaker Street apartment.

]]> MacDoodle Street—the story of dishwashing poet Malcolm Frazzle that first appeared in the pages of the Village Voice in the late 1970s—is back in print thanks to the fine nerds of the New York Review of Books.

Bill Bramhall, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News, joined Harry Siegel and Alex Brook Lynn for a conversation with Stamaty about his work, God, drugs, those hacks Artman and Andy Warhol, donuts and love, and, of course, umbilical oralism and the ultimate painting.

In the spirit of his work, there are tangents within tangents — Emmylou Harris, maybe, helping a drunk Dave Van Ronk up from the sidewalk of MacDougal Street after a Kris Kristofferson show — as we stroll through the lost New York of MacDoodle Street without ever leaving Alex’s Bleaker Street apartment.

]]> MacDoodle Street—the story of dishwashing poet Malcolm Frazzle that first appeared in the pages of the Village Voice in the late 1970s—is back in print thanks to the fine nerds of the New York Review of Books.

Bill Bramhall, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News, joined Harry Siegel and Alex Brook Lynn for a conversation with Stamaty about his work, God, drugs, those hacks Artman and Andy Warhol, donuts and love, and, of course, umbilical oralism and the ultimate painting.

In the spirit of his work, there are tangents within tangents — Emmylou Harris, maybe, helping a drunk Dave Van Ronk up from the sidewalk of MacDougal Street after a Kris Kristofferson show — as we stroll through the lost New York of MacDoodle Street without ever leaving Alex’s Bleaker Street apartment.

]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/ZlalOjun+ifHqhOeP ]]> Episode 1: John Strausbaugh's Victory City and Ron Howell's Boss of Black Brooklyn https://litnyc.fireside.fm/1 f0233a00-6d5d-4731-a8b5-b0c81e12e252 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:00:00 -0500 harrysiegel@gmail.com (Harry Siegel) full Harry Siegel White supremacists holding rallies with fascists and anti-fascists brawling outside, and war looming. Maybe that sounds like NYC in 2018, but we're talking NYC in WWII and the years around it along with special guests John Strausbaugh, author of "Victory City: A history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II," and Ron Howell, author of "Boss of Black Brooklyn: The life and times of Bertram L. Baker." 47:13 false White supremacists holding rallies with fascists and anti-fascists brawling outside, and war looming. Maybe that sounds like NYC in 2018, but we're talking NYC in WWII and the years around it along with special guests John Strausbaugh, author of "Victory City: A history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II," and Ron Howell, author of "Boss of Black Brooklyn: The life and times of Bertram L. Baker."

]]> White supremacists holding rallies with fascists and anti-fascists brawling outside, and war looming. Maybe that sounds like NYC in 2018, but we're talking NYC in WWII and the years around it along with special guests John Strausbaugh, author of "Victory City: A history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II," and Ron Howell, author of "Boss of Black Brooklyn: The life and times of Bertram L. Baker."

]]> White supremacists holding rallies with fascists and anti-fascists brawling outside, and war looming. Maybe that sounds like NYC in 2018, but we're talking NYC in WWII and the years around it along with special guests John Strausbaugh, author of "Victory City: A history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II," and Ron Howell, author of "Boss of Black Brooklyn: The life and times of Bertram L. Baker."

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