Welcome to Briarcliff Manor! Like our regular episodes, this is the story of the incorporation of one of New York City's suburbs. It is a bonus ep because it's shorter and has less music than a regular episode (which you may recognize from prev

Bronxville

Dec 22nd, 2021 48m 13s

Bronxville wasn't exactly an estate village, since it wasn't incorporated under Section 33. (What is Section 33? That's the law that allowed rich people to incorporate their tiny neighborhoods as villages, which we talk about in the first three

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Bonus: Recording The Beaches

Dec 21st, 2021 25m

This bonus episode is about Episode 3: The Beaches! Here Jon and Paulina talk about: Writing songs that are not supposed to sound evil, creepy or ironicGood guitar solos (and silly-in-a-good-way guitar solos)Achieving the whistling tea kettle s

The Beaches

Dec 8th, 2021 39m 20s

In 1910, New York State made it possible for tiny neighborhoods to incorporate as villages. Some villages incorporated to dodge local taxes, or escape a school district they didn't feel like contributing towards. But many villages incorporated

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Bonus: Recording Sands Point

Dec 5th, 2021 31m 13s

Welcome to the Sands Point bonus episode! In this episode, Jon and Paulina talk about:Making quotes sound different even when they're all read by one person (throw some vintage tone on the audio, and/or impersonate Winston Churchill)How much po

Sands Point

Nov 24th, 2021 36m 21s

In 1910, the New York State legislature made it possible to incorporate any neighborhood with at least 50 people into a village. (What is a village? We explain in Episode 1, but it's an unnecessarily cutesy synonym for "municipality." It's basi

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Bonus: Recording Saddle Rock

Nov 17th, 2021 20m 22s

Welcome to the Saddle Rock Bonus Episode! (If you haven’t listened to Episode 1 of this podcast, you may want to do that first, since we talk about how we made the episode here.)Jon and Paulina talk about recording the music for Episode 1 of th

Saddle Rock

Nov 12th, 2021 35m 41s

In 1910, Roswell Eldridge had it all: cars, yachts, money, and a beautiful beachside mansion. There was just one problem...In New York, villages are a type of municipality. They were intended to be densely-populated places where officials could

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Introducing An Eyesore and a Plague, a podcast about the creation of the NYC suburbs

Nov 9th, 2021 1m 59s

In 1910, a group of rich people who owned massive homes in Long Island were tired of middle-class people moving to the neighborhood. The middle-class people wanted public schools, police departments, municipal water and public parks, but the mi

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