Burning Gotham

Right now, experience New York City like you’ve never before.  Will you make the right deal? Or fall to greed? But whatever you choose, just make sure you get out in time. Out now on your favorite podcast app, Burning Gotham — The 2022 Tribeca Select audio soap opera about the fastest growing city in the world, and the opportunists who shaped it. Find out more at BurningGotham.com

Beyond Burning Gotham: Episode 4 These episodes are the history compendium for the preceding Burning Gotham chapters. They’ll help paint the picture on what was really going on in 1835. Our characters live in a New York rapidly becoming the most important city in the western world. In this episode we’ll wrap up the first eight Burning Gotham chapters. Burning Gotham Chapter seven is called: Welcome To Hell Gate.  ___________ Download Episode Transcript [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T8Y-Zb1jAZuOhUlGT61Bt0uPgpqz5pKI/view?usp=share_link] ___________ Featured interviews: Greg Young Daniel Levy Glen Umberger Jeff Broxmeyer Gary Urbanowicz Carol Ward ___________ Important Links New York Landmarks Conservancy [https://nylandmarks.org] Greg Young & Tom Myers’ Bowery Boys Podcast [https://www.boweryboyshistory.com] Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age [https://www.amazon.com/Electoral-Capitalism-American-Governance-Politics/dp/0812252365]— By Jeff Broxmeyer Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York [https://www.amazon.com/Manhattan-Phoenix-Great-Emergence-Modern/dp/0195382374]— Daniel Levy New York City Fire Museum [https://www.nycfiremuseum.org] The Morris-Jumel Mansion [https://morrisjumel.org] ___________ Director & Post-Producer: James Scully ___________ Support Burning Gotham on Patreon [https://Patreon.com/BurningGotham]

BURNING GOTHAM 008: MIDNIGHT ON SOUTH STREET Aaron and Sorina have a tense meeting with Captain Jones. Chaos and violence soon erupts as Aaron receives bad family news.  ___________ Download Episode Transcript [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cw4PyJzdgzNG-d_5hkFG1obHEzwMVOcn/view?usp=share_link] ___________ Written By: Olga Lysenko & James Scully ___________ The Entire Cast: Eirik Gislason Alain Laforest Kacie Laforest Roland Lane Mary Murphy Anna Pirogov Nancy Pop Gustavo Rodriguez Matthew Roper James Scully ___________ Music Thank you to both The Hesperus Early Music Ensemble [http://www.hesperus.org/] and The Itinerant Band [https://www.itinerantband.com/]. They were gracious enough to allow their music to appear in Burning Gotham. I’ll have a links for both in the show notes. ___________ Engineer: Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio [https://www.brooklynpodcastingstudio.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiAmuKbBhA2EiwAxQnt7x8V2I2gA9huRoJLZ19VKbRaQsYIqy9cbV2VTE5xYhv51Qa9MTfppxoCyOwQAvD_BwE] ___________ Director & Post-Producer: James Scully ___________ Support Burning Gotham on Patreon [https://patreon.com/BurningGotham]

BURNING GOTHAM 007: WELCOME TO HELL GATE Aaron, Wyndham, Sorina, and Raisa go to John Jacob Astor’s estate, only to find he isn’t receiving. Sorina is angry. Aaron and Wyndham argue about mortgaging their future money on $2 Second National Bank plates.   ___________ Download Episode Transcript [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19issmci3txKfD_rgPmYxDE5G_61GxCb_/view?usp=share_link] ___________ Written By: Olga Lysenko & James Scully ___________ Cast: Eirik Gislason Alain Laforest Kacie Laforest Roland Lane Nancy Pop Gustavo Rodriguez James Scully ___________ Music: The Itinerant Band [https://www.itinerantband.com/] ___________ Engineer: Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio [https://www.brooklynpodcastingstudio.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiAmuKbBhA2EiwAxQnt7x8V2I2gA9huRoJLZ19VKbRaQsYIqy9cbV2VTE5xYhv51Qa9MTfppxoCyOwQAvD_BwE] ___________ Director & Post-Producer: James Scully ___________ Support Burning Gotham on Patreon [https://patreon.com/BurningGotham]

Beyond Burning Gotham: Episode 3 These episodes are the history compendium for the preceding Burning Gotham chapters. They’ll help paint the picture on what was really going on in 1835. Our characters live in a New York rapidly becoming the most important city in the western world. In this episode we’ll focus on The spoils system, John Jacob Astor, and development up Manhattan island. Burning Gotham Chapter five is called: Irving and Astor.  ___________ Download Episode Transcript [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oZ1vEKrqEhy8nxgq2PZyn6iuGNQhg1LK/view?usp=share_link] ___________ Featured interviews: Daniel Levy Glen Umberger Jeff Broxmeyer ___________ Important Links New York Landmarks Concervancy [https://nylandmarks.org] Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age [https://www.amazon.com/Electoral-Capitalism-American-Governance-Politics/dp/0812252365]— By Jeff Broxmeyer Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York [https://www.amazon.com/Manhattan-Phoenix-Great-Emergence-Modern/dp/0195382374]— Daniel Levy ___________ Director & Post-Producer: James Scully ___________ Support Burning Gotham on Patreon [https://Patreon.com/BurningGotham]