This week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the payphone challenge, a contest asking people to submit ideas for reinventing New York’s payphones.
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New York City looks to Reinvent its Pay Phones: Marketplace
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StackExchange #36 – We Got Hit by a Hurricane
So as you may have heard in the news, the east coast got hit pretty hard by Hurricane Sandy – in particular, our datacenter in Lower Manhattan was almost knocked entirely offline. If not for the incredible efforts of Fog Creek Software, Squarespace, and Peer1 (the datacenter) there would have certainly been days of outages for everyone involved.
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Peter Ong on Calling
Peter Ong is pastoring at Living Faith Community Church, an Asian-American church in Flushing, Queens. He is participating in our Fellows Program and preparing to plant in downtown Flushing.
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The Bowery Boys NYC History: #87 The Kings of New York Pizza
New Yorkers are serious about their pizza, and it all started with a tiny grocery store in today’s Little Italy and a group of young men who became the masters of pizza making. In this podcast, you’ll find out all about the city’s oldest and most revered pizzerias — Lombardi’s, Totonno’s, John’s, Grimaldi’s and Patsy’s in all its variations. But if those are the greatest names in New York-style pizza, then who the heck is Ray — Original, Famous or otherwise? (www.boweryboyspodcast.com)
The podcast highlight for Episode 138 of Forgotten Classics (http://hcforgottenclassics.blogspot.com)
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The Bowery Boys NYC History: #103: Case Files of the NYPD
We’re playing Good Cop / Bad Cop this week, as we take a close look at four events from the early history of the New York Police Department. You’ll meet shining stars of the force like Jacob Hays, who kept the peace in the early 19th century armed with a mean billyclub — and the only man to ever hold the title of High Constable of New York. And then you’ll encounter Joseph Petrosino, the Italian immigrant turned secret weapon in the early battles against organized crime.
Not all the early men in blue were so recommendable. During the Police Riot of 1857, cop turned against cop while the city burned and "Five Points criminals danced in the streets." And finally there’s the lamentable tale of officer Charley Becker, the only member of the New York Police Department to be executed for criminal misdeed. But did he really commit the crime — commissioning the murder of a nervous gambler who was prepared to rat him out? (http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/)
The podcast highlight for Episode 138 of Forgotten Classics (http://hcforgottenclassics.blogspot.com)
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AOT #193: Jonathan Lethem Podcasts Chronic City
Jonathan Lethem, the acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, reads from and discusses his new book Chronic City, a gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Like Manhattan itself, Lethem’s newest masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.
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NYC History 95: Tin Pan Alley and the birth of modern popular music
The Bowery Boys look at where the modern music industry began…. on 28th Street? A seemingly nondescript street in midtown Manhattan contains some of the most important buildings where early American pop music was created.
Tin Pan Alley was a bustling and frenzied area, the most creative area of the city, with songwriters — and song pluggers — churning out iconic music. Sing along as we talk about the greatest songwriters and the process they went through to create the most influential tunes of the century. (http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/)
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Most recent croncast
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Building out of a recession, part 1
Just weeks after the Wall Street Crash in 1929, work began on the Empire State Building. The Guardian’s architecture correspondent Jonathan Glancey assesses the economics of building out of a recession.
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Cambridge Forum: Cornelius Vanderbilt - The First Tycoon
T.J. Stiles, author of The First Tycoon, discusses the life of 19th century railroad magnate, Cornelius Vanderbilt. Born humbly on Staten Island, an un-schooled fist fighter, he lived to earn the respect of New York’s social elite and amassed one of the nation’s first impossibly vast fortunes. Stiles contends that Vanderbilt did more than any other individual to shape the economic world today.
What business innovations, including the modern corporation, did Vanderbilt successfully create? How did he rout every competitor? What did President Lincoln ask of him in the Civil War? Why did he, one of the North’s leading business man, embrace the philosophy of the southern Jacksonian Democrats?