In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Pamela Hanlon talks about the United Nations headquarters, in Turtle Bay.

Hanlon, an independent historian, is the author of A Worldly Affair: New York, the United Nations, and the Story behind Their Unlikely Bond. Here you’ll get in digest some of that larger narrative. The world may now take it for granted that the international diplomatic body is headquartered in Manhattan, but long after New York’s mayor Fiorello LaGuardia declined to compete with other cities for it, the UN’s address remained uncertain. And while New Yorkers may complain about things like the noisy traffic jams caused by its location, Hanlon reminds us that the city has gotten much benefit in return, economic and otherwise.

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