ABC Gotham

BEER

In Episode 2,  ABC Gotham's amateur historians, Kate and Kathleen, discuss beer and breweries  in the 5 boroughs throughout history.  We start in the 1850's with Knickerbocker, Ruppert, Ballantine, Schlitz, Rhenigold, and Piels, and take you all the way up to today with Brooklyn Brewery, Bronx Brewery, Sixpoint, and Chelsea.  Beer is unstoppable!  Neither Prohibition nor anti- German sentiment could stop NYC brewing for good.  You better grab a pint for this episode, because all that talking is going to make you thirsty. Links to check out after listening: Website of Gotham Center for NYC History, a CUNY center that provided a lot of info for this episode Brooklyn Brewery Bronx Brewery Urban Oyster-- excellent, informative walking/ bus tours of NYC NY Historical Society Beer Here Exhibition NY Historical Society Beer Appreciation Night on July 10-- see you there!

The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel

In Episode 1,  ABC Gotham's amateur historians, Kate and Kathleen, discuss the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel.  Built in 1844, closed under suspicious circumstances in 1861, rediscovered in 1980, and then closed in 2010 AGAIN under suspicious circumstance, there's definitely something going on here.  This star- studded story includes contributions from Walt Whitman, John Wilkes Booth, H. P. Lovecraft, Bob Diamond, AND Electus Litchfield.  (Who's Electus Litchfield?  Tune in the find out!) (Photo:  John Leita, 2007) Link to check out after listening: Bob Diamond's page, BrooklynRail.net