In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” R. Scott Hanson talks about the Quaker meeting house in Flushing, Queens, the first house of worship in the area, and the oldest continually operating one in all of New York City. Often cited as a birthplace of religious liberty in America, because of the famous Flushing Remonstrance (written against the sectarian rule of Peter Stuyvesant in the Dutch Era), the meetinghouse now sits in perhaps the most religious diverse neighborhood in the world. Hanson, lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of City of Gods, exploring this unique history. He began his research with the pluralism project at Harvard and did much of the New York City field work for the multimedia CD-ROM Uncommon Ground, exploring world religions in the country.

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