Local Switchboard NYC: Recent Episodes
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For Pride Month, Local Switchboard reports on the history of the rainbow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker.
For Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating women’s contribution to the theatre, where they have had a dramatic presence since classical times and a professional presence as actors since the 17th century. Today, women are award-winning playwrights, theatre directors, and visionary founders of companies. They have also contributed to the craft of theatre as creators of new practices. On this program, we share three different perspectives: devoted librarian and archivist stewards the collection of a great male thespian; a fruitful educator who is also a playwright and director; and the founder of a young, enterprising and provocative theatre company.
It’s the holidays: friends, family, gifts and gelt, tree lightings, and ‘good will towards men.’ Not so fast. Our brief show for this season does indeed include an uplifting tree lighting in Greenwich Village’s Abingdon Square, but also two divisive issues. The sound of the picket line at the New School’s flagship University Center building at 5th and 13th Street bore witness to month-long strike by the University’s part-time faculty over a host of issues including better wages and health care benefits. And a proposed ferry dock demolition and reconstruction project has Long Island City residents worried about crowds, pollution and trading an cherished view for an eyesore.
Every year since 2009, the Municipal Art Society of New York has organized “Jane’s Walk,” a series of tours on the hoof honoring the urban activist Jane Jacobs. This year, Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague joined several.
On this episode we say goodbye to spaces lost during the pandemic, as part of a new series. First, Local Switchboard's Sarah Montague gets a tour of her old apartment building -- an historic family home that's now on the market. And host and Local Switchboard producer Jordan Gass-Poore' spends a night in the fabled Roosevelt Hotel just before it closes, and talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture writer Paul Goldberger about its past and future.
A look at some of the ways the COVID-19 pandemic, politics, and the weather have changed New York City.
"It’s a local look at the news from NYC’s five boroughs, from a women-led team. Completely beautiful, underreported stories," writes Lauren Passell on Local Switchboard NYC in the latest Podcast The Newsletter.
In this episode, we take a look back at the annual New York City Village Halloween Parade and explore the colorful past and uncertain future of the beloved Lower East Side neo-burlesque venue, The Slipper Room.
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