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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Senate Nearing Critical Stage of Negotiating Historic Medicare Expansion; ...
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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Longtime New Yorkers recall a bygone era of NYC when eating out was a rare luxury, and eateries that vanished long ago -- automats, Nedick's (hot d...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:13
Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:18
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:04
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 01:14
Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:56
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Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: :48
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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...
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:28
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Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:04
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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...
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:08
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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...
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:01
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Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:56
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Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.
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- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:07
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City living proves less glamorous than anticipated to one wide-eyed newcomer -- but there are lessons about family to be learned.
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- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 10:23
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