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 immigr

#429 The Moores: A Black Family in 1860s New York

28 days ago 1h 11m

In today’s episode, Tom visits the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side to walk through the reconstructed two-room apartment of an African-American couple, Joseph and Rachel Moore, who lived in 1870 on Laurens Street in today’s Soho neighborh

The Age of Innocence: Inside Edith Wharton's Classic Novel

Mar 22nd, 2024 54m 21s

Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence is a perfect novel to read in the spring — maybe its all the flowers — so I finally picked it up to re-read, in part due to this excellent episode from the Gilded Gentleman which we are presenting to you this we

#428 The New York Game: Baseball in the Early Years

Mar 15th, 2024 1h 14m

Baseball, as American as apple pie, really is “the New York game.” While its precursors come from many places – from Jamestown to Prague – the rules of American baseball and the modern ways of enjoying it were born from the urban experience and

#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race

Mar 1st, 2024 1h 30m

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 transforme

#426 Behind the Domino Sign: Brooklyn's Bittersweet Empire

Feb 16th, 2024 1h 18m

The Brooklyn waterfront was once decorated with a yellow Domino Sugar sign, affixed to an aging refinery along a row of deteriorating industrial structures facing the East River.The Domino Sugar Refinery, completed in 1883 (replacing an older r

#425 It Happened at Madison Square Park

Feb 2nd, 2024 1h 24m

So much has happened in and around Madison Square Park -- the leafy retreat at the intersections of Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street -- that telling its entire story requires an extra-sized episode, in honor of our 425th episode.Madison S

Rewind: Truman Capote and the Black and White Ball

Jan 19th, 2024 56m 45s

FX is debuting a new series created by Ryan Murphy — called Feud: Capote and the Swans -- regarding writer Truman Capote's relationship with several famed New York society women. And it's such a New York story that listeners have asked if we’re

#424 Kosciuszko! The Man. The Bridge. The Legend.

Jan 5th, 2024 50m 27s

The Kosciuszko Bridge is one of New York City's most essential pieces of infrastructure, the hyphen in the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that connects the two boroughs over Newtown Creek, the 3.5 mile creek which empties into the East River.The br

#423 Leonard Bernstein's New York, New York

Dec 21st, 2023 1h 10m

On the morning of November 14th, 1943, Leonard Bernstein, the talented 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, got a phone call saying he would at last be leading the respected orchestral group — in six hours, that afterno

#422 Grace Church: A Most Fashionable History

Dec 8th, 2023 1h 8m

Manhattan's Grace Church sits at a unique bend on Broadway and East 10th Street, making it seem that the historic house of worship is rising out of the street itself.But Grace is also at another important intersection -- where religion and high

Christmas in Old New York: Holiday History

Dec 1st, 2023 58m 33s

This week we're highlighting an especially festive episode of the Gilded Gentleman Podcast, a show with double the holiday fun, tracing the history of Christmas and holiday celebrations over 19th-century New York City history.Licensed New York

#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution

Nov 22nd, 2023 1h 10m

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.The events of that departure -- that evac

#420 Garbo Walks: Old Hollywood in New York

Nov 10th, 2023 51m 25s

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. The biography of a legendary star who became the city's most famous 'celebrity sighting' for many

The Official Gilded Age Podcast: S2 E1 with Lord Julian Fellowes

Nov 3rd, 2023 56m 26s

Here's the first episode of HBO's The Official Gilded Age Podcast, hosted by Tom Meyers of the Bowery Boys Podcast and Alicia Malone of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the official companion podcast for the HBO series The Gilded Age, streaming on

Rewind: The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue

Oct 27th, 2023 1h 34m

So we don't know if you’ve heard, but New York City is an expensive place to live these days. So we thought it might be time to revisit the tale of the city’s most famous district of luxury — Fifth Avenue. For about a hundred years, this avenu

#419 Ghost Stories by Gaslight

Oct 13th, 2023 1h 16m

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.Greg and Tom again dive into another batch of terrifying ghost

#418 Theodore Roosevelt's Wild Kingdom

Sep 29th, 2023 58m 29s

Theodore Roosevelt was both a New Yorker and an outdoorsman, a politician and a naturalist, a conservationist and a hunter. His connection with the natural world began at birth in his Manhattan brownstone home and ended with his death in Sagamo

#417 Walking the East Village 1976-1996

Sep 15th, 2023 1h 11m

The rebirth of the East Village in the late 1970s and the flowering of a new and original New York subculture -- what Edmund White called "the Downtown Scene" -- arose from the shadow of urban devastation and was anchored by a community that re

#416 Creating the East Village 1955-1975

Sep 1st, 2023 1h 2m

Before 1955 nobody used the phrase "East Village" to describe the historic northern portion of the Lower East Side, the New York tenement district with a rich German and Eastern European heritage.But when the Third Avenue El was torn down that

Rewind: The Rebellious History of Tompkins Square Park

Aug 25th, 2023 50m 13s

This episode on the history of Tompkins Square Park ties right into an all-new two-part episode coming in September, the first part coming at you next week. Tompkins Square Park is the heart and soul of the East Village. And it's also one of N

#415 The Early Years of Central Park

Aug 18th, 2023 59m 21s

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 Th

#414 The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill

Aug 4th, 2023 1h 2m

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.The Navy Yard's origins within Wallabout Bay tie it to t

#413 The New Storytellers: Landmarks, Diners and Everyday New Yorkers

Jul 21st, 2023 1h 5m

Instead of looking back to the history of New York City in this episode, we are looking forwardto the future -- to the new generation of creators who are celebrating New York and telling its story through mediums that are not podcasts or books.

A Gilded Age Tour Up the Island of Manhattan

Jul 14th, 2023 1h 1m

It’s one of the great narratives of American urban history — the northward trek of New York society up the island of Manhattan during the 19th century. Bringing you this special story today is writer, tour guide and historian Keith Taillon from