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One of American music's original crossover kings, his music transformed a city and an industry forever.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 18:45
An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 10:26
Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old.
Ortiz started cooki...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 1
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old.
Over the years Colon ma...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:08
- Purchases: 1
Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 2
Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 2
His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 03:00
An oral history of Portland, Maine's long-lost Little Italy.
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 07:08
- Added: Nov 22, 2007
- Length: 08:49
In May 2002, seniors compare the post 9/11 world to Pearl Harbor and World War II.
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 28, 2007
- Length: 26:44
- Purchases: 1