The tides of American history lead through the streets of New York City — from the huddled masses on Ellis Island to the sleazy theaters of 1970s Times Square. The elevated railroad to the Underground Railroad. Hamilton to Hammerstein! Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.
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The tides of American history lead through the streets of New York City — from the huddled masses on Ellis Island to the sleazy theaters of 1970s Times Square. The elevated railroad to the Underground Railroad. Hamilton to Hammerstein! Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.
The name 'NoHo' might be relatively new, but the history of those blocks north of Houston Street in Manhattan dates back to the beginnngs of New York City.
In 1913, a young reform candidate named John Purroy Mitchel navigated a very strange electorial year to become the city's new (and second youngest) mayor.
The saga of Fifth Avenue's Gilded Age mansions, those that once stood in Midtown Manhattan and those survivors which still decorate the Upper East Side today.
Inwood and Marble Hill -- aka "upstate Manhattan" -- are far from the center of New York's midtown urban activity but that distance provides both neighborhoods with fascinating and even unusual origin stories.
The tides of American history lead through the streets of New York City — from the huddled masses on Ellis Island to the sleazy theaters of 1970s Times Square. The elevated railroad to the Underground Railroad. Hamilton to Hammerstein! Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.
