Few areas of the United States have as endured as long as Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood with almost over 375 years of history and an evolving cultural landscape that includes Quakers, trees, Hollywood films, world fairs, and new Asian immigration.

Tom visits the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side to walk through the reconstructed two-room apartment of an African-American couple who lived in 1870 on Laurens Street in today’s Soho neighborhood.

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s most famous novel, an enduring classic of Old New York that has been rediscovered by a new generation. What is it about this story of Newland Archer, May Welland and Countess Olenska that readers respond to today?

Tom and Greg are joined by Kevin Baker, author of The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, to discuss the early history of the sport and its unique connections to New York City.

The Chrysler Building remains one of America's most beautiful skyscrapers and a grand evocation of Jazz Age New York. But this architectural tribute to the automobile is also the greatest reminder of a furious construction surge that transformed the city in the 1920s.

Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery, built in 1882, was more than a factory. During the Gilded Age and into the 20th century, this New York landmark was the center of America's sugar manufacturing, helping to fuel the country's hunger for sweet delights.

A look at 200 years of history and culture in and surrounding Madison Square Park, one of America's most famous parks thanks to the performing venue which bears its name.

Truman Capote's 1966 masquerade ball at the Plaza Hotel would bring together a most outrageous collection of famous folks -- movie stars, socialites, politicians, publishing icons. An invite to the ball was the true golden ticket, coveted by every celebrity and social climber in America.

Why is the Kosciuszko Bridge, one of New York City's most essential pieces of infrastructure, named for the Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko, a man who spent little time in New York City?

Maestro Leonard Bernstein is one of New York’s most influential cultural figures. He spent most of his life in the city, and that’s the focus of today’s story. The creator and his urban inspiration – Leonard Bernstein’s New York.

Grace Church was one of the most fashionable churches in New York City for several decades in the 19th century. The fashionable weddings and funerals hosted at Grace sometimes drew thousands of onlookers, and a few celebrated ceremonies were as raucous and chaotic as rock concerts.

An especially festive podcast with double the holiday fun, tracing the history of Christmas and holiday celebrations over 19th-century New York City history. And a look at Charles Dickens and "A Christmas Carol."

For decades New Yorkers celebrated Evacuation Day every November 25, a holiday marking the 1783 departure of British forces from the city they had occupied for several years during the Revolutionary War. So where did it go?

Greta Garbo in New York! A story of freedom, glamour and melancholy, set at the intersection of classic Hollywood and mid-century New York City.

Easter Sunday, 1886, and a new war is brewing in Gilded Age society. Are you ready to pick a side?

At the heart of New York’s Gilded Age — the late 19th-century era of unprecedented American wealth and excess — were families with the names Astor, Waldorf, Schermerhorn, and Vanderbilt, and all would make their homes — and in the case of the Vanderbilts, their great many homes — on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.

A brand new batch of haunted houses and spooky stories, all from the gaslight era of New York City, the illuminating glow of the 19th century revealing the spirits of another world.

The story of Theodore Roosevelt -- naturalist, hunter and conservationist -- with special guest Ken Burns discussing his new documentary mini-series The American Buffalo.

The rebirth of the East Village in the late 1970s and the flowering of a new and original New York subculture -- "the Downtown Scene" -- arising from the shadow of urban devastation and anchored by a community that reclaimed its own deteriorating neighborhood.

When Manhattan's Third Avenue El was torn down in 1955, those who were attracted to the culture of Greenwich Village -- with its coffeehouses, poets, and jazz music -- began flocking to the east side, attracted to low rents. And thus the East Village was born.

The history of Tompkins Square Park, a place of counter-culture, protest and pride in the heart of Manhattan's East Village.

Stroll the romantic, rambling paths of historic Central Park in this week's episode, turning back the clock to the 1860s and 70s, a time of children ice skating on The Lake, carriage rides through the Mall, and bewildering excursions through The Ramble.

The tale of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is one of New York's true epic adventures, mirroring the course of American history via the ships manufactured here and the people employed to make them.

Interviews with three "new storytellers" who explore the culture and history of New York City, including Nicolas Heller (New York Nico, the "unofficial talent scout of New York City"), Riley Arthur (Diners of NYC) and Tommy Silk (Landmarks of NY).