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New on the blog! Robert Snyder interviews Matthew Spady about his recent book, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot. https://www.gothamcenter.org//the-neighborhood-manhattan-f

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We're live! Join us as we explore how 19th century Democrat and Republican officeholders pioneered the ways of using modern government to get rich. If prompted, use passcode 370335. https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/j/91591529326

Calling all art lovers! This May we're offering a deep dive into the artists and the works of art inspired by NYC! This course offers a close look at New York’s social and cultural history throughout the 20th century. https://www.gothamcenter.org/gothamed-month-/course-1-8axmf

New episode alert! Episode 8 of Covid University New York is now available on our website and wherever you get podcasts! This episode explores vaccine hesitancy and spotlights members of the CUNY community working to meaningfully engage and educate New Yorkers on the Covid-19 vaccine.

New on the blog! Emily Hawk looks at the "dance boom" in New York in the 1960s and 70s. https://www.gothamcenter.org//stages-streets-and-screens-t

We're going live at 6:30 PM! John Buttler will be in conversation with Annie Polland to discuss his new book, God in Gotham. Click the link below to join! https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/j/91046691009

Our next public event is tomorrow! Jon Butler will be discussing his book, God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan, with Annie Polland, co-author of New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920. Join us for this wide-ranging conversation! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-god-in-gotham-tickets-

New on the blog! Katie Uva interviews Sunny Stalter-Pace about her recent book, Imitation Artist. https://www.gothamcenter.org//imitation-artist-an-intervie

Did you catch Brendan Cooper's podcast on the old Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for Lost NYC? Now a giant complex of condominiums, by the mid-1800s the factory was the largest sugar refinery in the world, capable of melting over 3 million pounds of raw sugar in a single day! Learn about its rise and fall here. https://www.gothamcenter.org/podcasts/ohny-weekend-podcasts

Check out Sharon Zukin’s podcast for Lost NYC, on B. Altman’s, the famous department store that for many decades occupied the building in Midtown that is home to the Gotham Center and the graduate school of NYC’s public university, CUNY. Zukin explains why this building’s gorgeous exterior is really a window onto a pivotal time in our history. https://www.gothamcenter.org/podcasts/ohny-weekend-podcasts

Randall Mason takes us on a tour of North Brother Island and tells us why this now-abandoned, once-feared part of Gotham is still very much worth remembering and (perhaps one day) visiting. Be sure to listen to this episode of Lost NYC! https://www.gothamcenter.org/podcasts/ohny-weekend-podcasts

Have you heard Bob McGees' podcast on Ebbets Field for Lost NYC yet? The author of "The Greatest Ballpark Ever," talks about the former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, in Crown Heights. It’s been 63 years since the baseball team left NYC for Los Angeles. But for many of a certain generation, the wound is still open. Learn about the stadium and the team's controversial departure! https://www.gothamcenter.org/podcasts/ohny-weekend-podcasts

Open House New Yorkers -- enjoying our new podcast series, Lost NYC? Tag us on Instagram if you visit these locations! @gothamcenternychistory

Hey! Look at that! We're in the New York Post! Check out this nice profile by Hannah Frisberg on Lost NYC, our new podcast series. https://nypost.com//the-mysterious-histories-behind-nycs-/

For our new series, Lost NYC, Shane White told us about the African Grove, a theater company with an entirely black cast and crew that played to mostly black audiences in the last days of slavery in New York City. Click here to learn more about their incredible story: https://www.gothamcenter.org/podcasts/ohny-weekend-podcasts

Ever wonder about the darkly storied institutions that once stood on Roosevelt Island? Stacy Horn takes us on a tour of the notorious Gilded Age lunatic asylum, prison, workhouse, and hospital that used to be on Blackwell's (as it was then called) for our new series, Lost NYC. https://www.gothamcenter.org/podcasts/ohny-weekend-podcasts

Why don't we know more about Seneca Village? Alexander Manevitz talks about the community established by Manhattan’s free blacks in 1825, most often described simply as the neighborhood destroyed to make way for Central Park, and the question of why its history still remains shrouded in mystery -- for our new series, Lost NYC. https://www.gothamcenter.org/podcasts/ohny-weekend-podcasts