Rediscovering New York

The Impact of Scottish Immigrants on the City and our Cityscape

On this week’s show, broadcast during Tartan Week here in New York, we will celebrate how Scottish immigrants contributed to and influenced New York, especially our architectural heritage.

My guests will be architect John Kinnear, founder of John Kinnear Architects, and board member of the American Scottish Foundation; and Graham Dobbin, business coach and public speaker at Asentiv New York, and host of his own trailblazing radio program “The Mind Behind Leadership”

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tonight on Rediscovering New York we’re taking a deep dive into Scottish heritage. Starting with tartan week, it is a Celebration of Scotland contributions Scott’s have made in the United States United States. If you look up AmericanScottishfoundation.org there you will find the events that are going on this week. there is no parade this year so all events are happening virtually. Our first guess is John Kinnear, founder of John Kinnear Architects, and board member of the American Scottish Foundation. John found a passion for architecture very early in life. He was Building things and taking trips around New York. So he felt it would be a great fit. The Scottish been here since the formation of New York. The Livingstons were the first family to Really make a name for themselves and they purchased land across the Hudson River. Alexander Hamilton One of the founding fathers. his family was also one of the wealthiest families in Scotland, but he did not end up inheriting, and had to work his way up. John McCone was another Scottish man who became famous for his architecture in New York and eight of his buildings have become landmarks. He has cemented himself in New York history.

if you’d like to contact John you can go to JohnKinneararchitect.com. Charles McCain was a Architect of Scottish descent born in America. The University club on fifth Avenue is such a gem.It’s marketed as an Italian Renaissance. The interior of the building is beautiful; the library is modeled after the Vatican library. He also helped develop Pennsylvania station, the original Penn station, another staple in New York architecture. Wallter cook is known for being the architect of the Carnegie mansion. Frank Lloyd Wright was another Scottish an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Sadly he designed a house for Marilyn Monroe that was never built and he passed away in New York.

Our second guest is Graham Dobbin, business coach and public speaker at Asentiv New York, and host of his own trailblazing radio program “The Mind Behind Leadership. Graham I just was drawn to New York and it’s magic and decided to build a home here. Carnegie, One of the most famous architects Settled in Pennsylvania. Carnegie became well off at a young age as his investment paid off . Putting money into Railroads Oil derricks and bridges. And he founded Carnegie steel. We should become the biggest steel company in the world. He understood people and business and that made him the success that he was.

Graham Works with multiple companies such as BMW, google. As a business coach he really is involved. He takes a practical approach and knows that one size does not fit all when it comes to working with businesses. If you wanna get in contact with Graham go to Lincoln.

On this week’s show we will visit East Harlem. My guests will be returning Rediscovering New York historian Kevin Draper, Director of New York Historical Tours; and Julio Valdez, Founder of JVS Project Space, which provides professional artists the opportunity to develop and present their work in the City.

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Tonight we are going back to the island of Manhattan and visiting East Harlem The first guest is Kevin Draper. He is the Director of New York Historical Tours. Kevin. Is a respected historic consultant for media publications such as CBS ABC The New York Times. Kevin grew up on Long Island, And he went to school in New York and he’s just never left. Kevin always had a passion for New York history since he was five years old and when he got older he just decided to switch up his career and make his passion his career. During the 19 century is where East Harlem really started to take shape as they put in the railroad. As the neighborhood was first developing The businesses that you would see were restaurants and barrel making for The breweries. East Harlem gods name Late 19 century is when the local started calling It East Harlem. The communities that would move to East Harlem in the 19th century were Irish, Jewish, and Italian and German.He’s tall and became a model for urban living during those times.

Covid has really affected a lot of businesses but thankfully Kevin has reinstated his tours If you go to his website NewYorkhistoricaltors.com all the tours that are listed are now available. They are available as private tours. Meaning that it’ll just be you .East Harlem was the original Little Italy. East Harlem has a rich histories of Italians and Patty’s is one of the most famous restaurants in New York opened up in the 1930s. Was also home to a lot of organized crime, such as The blackhand. They would scare people into extortion and that was really the beginning of the Mafia

Our second guest on tonight's show is Julio Valdez. Julio was born in Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic. He’s a painter, a printmaker teacher, and an installation artist. has exhibited internationally since 1984. This training and print making an oil painting in New York and in the Dominican Republic. Julio studied in the national school of fine arts in the Dominican Republic from 1984 to 1986. He founded the Julio Valdez Studio. specializes in. Nontoxic contemporary printmaking. He's had 31 printmaking exhibitions most recently In 2020 at June Kelly’s Gallery in Soho. Julia was always interested in it but decided to really take it seriously when he was 15. His father had passed away but right before his passing he set up Oil painting classes for Julio. He was Offered the fellowship for a year in New York and just built a life here.

Julio has a studio in East Harlem. Originally his first year was in the Lower Eastside. He became unhappy there because he felt like it was very pretentious and it was at home to real artists. I felt that Estar warm was home to a larger Latino community. and East Harlem brought that flavor and feel of culture that he was missing.

On This Week’s show we will celebrate Women’s History Month by looking at some remarkable New York women you may not have heard of who’ve made great contributions through their work, and achievements. My guests will be returning Rediscovering New York expert Joyce Gold, Founder of Joyce Gold History Tours; Wendy Hilliard, the first African American rhythmic gymnast to compete on a U.S. national team and founder of the Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation; &Alexis Page, former US National Rhythmic Gymnast and Head Coach at the Foundation.

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On tonight’s show, we’re celebrating women’s history month with an important woman from our past as well as The present. Our first Guest is Joyce Gold History. She's been doing tours for 40 years, and on her tour, she discusses famous women like Elizabeth Irwin, She was an educator at the beginning of the 20th century. She had different ideas about teaching. On the way to go about it. She wanted to let the children experience what they were learning about by letting them go on the field trips instead of lecturing them. They Ended up firing her. She lost her job but she got offered a church to use a classroom because some people really loved the way she taught children. Henrietta Rodman was another woman who impacted our education system. Henrietta was a member Liberal club in the emergency park and they did not allow African-Americans to join; she was against it and ended up leaving the club because of it. If you want to find out more about Joyce this is toward you can go to Joyce gold historytour.com or you can check her out on Instagram at Joyce gold history tours.

Because of the pandemic Joyce is now doing private tours. She’s designing some new tours for Rose Hill, The Hudson square, and many more. Maple Dodge She had a salon where once a week she would choose a topic like Margaret Sanger,Contraception Labor movement. She wanted to create a space where nothing was off-limits and women didn’t have to feel restricted about their conversations. Ida Tarbell was a woman from western Pennsylvania who had traveled to Paris, a very sophisticated woman. Her father ended up going into business with Rockefeller but, shortly after became bankrupt. Ida is responsible for pulling back the curtain on big business and really bringing to light the monopoly of it and how it works.

Our next guests are Wendy Hilliard Wendy is a gymnastics Hall of Fame member. She was the first African-American woman To represent the US rhythmic gymnastics and coached a 1996 Olympian And was the first black president of the women’s Sports foundation. In 1996 she founded The Windee Hillford gymnastics foundation. Which provides free low cost Gymnastics for 55,000 Youth in New York City. Alongside Wendy is Alexis Page, and she was raised in Harlem in 2003 she joined The Hilliard gymnastics foundation. 2009 Fifth on the rhythmic gymnastics Junior National team.From there she’s completed all over the world.Wendy got inspired at 12 years old by watching gymnastics on television that’s where it all started. Alexis just started doing flips and kind of acrobatics at home and it just went from there.

Alexis Found a great opportunity through Wendy’s program and now she is Head Coach there. They have a program where they started doing it 18 months ago. Introduction to gymnastics. Rhythmic gymnastics opens the door for you young people to learn about music and how to take care of their bodies and it’s something that can help you in all different aspects. This organization really has come full circle with Alex and opened the doors for so many kids.

On this week’s show we will visit Red Hook, in Brooklyn. My guests will be returning tour guide, Jeremy Wilcox, Founder and Owner of Custom NYC Tours; and longtime Red Hook resident Susan Povich, co-founder and co-owner of Red Hook Lobster Pound.

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Tonight on the show we have a returning guest Jeremy Wilcox. He’s a New York Native and the owner of custom NYC tours. His small walking tours focus on neighborhood history and architecture. as a New York Native he grew up In Richmond Hill. Now he lives in Flatbush. Jeremy was looking for a change of pace in his career and he just loved New York in the fact that you could get lost in it so he decided to start his own walking tours. Red Hook got its name during the colonial times they first called it Roadhock. The red came from the soil and the clay that was underneath the ground, and the hock came from the fact that it came out pointing to a New York Harbor. The Lenape people were the first to settle in Redhook. Name for the canal got the name for the Gowanus canal Comes from one of the Lenape Chiefs. RedHook was very crucial during the Civil War because of its location near the water. A Very famous battle ensued on the water during the Civil War where the boat was getting shot from Governors Island and Redhook at the same time.

Jeremy, likes to focus on small personal walking tours Posed to the bigger tours he wants to create more of a person feeling for his tours. As an outdoor Central Park tours well as a He doesn’t Midtown architectural tour focusing on the art deco style. Does street art tours, and much more. If you wanna reach Jeremy you can go to www.customnyctours.com, and he also does customize tours. You can email him to him know what kind of tour you would like him to create

Second guest is Susan Povich, Long time Redhook resident and business owner. She graduated from Harvard Law school in 1988 After a brief time in law school she left two Pursue another passion of The culinary arts. In 2009 she opened a restaurant Red Hook lobster Pound with her husband In 2009. She expanded with a mobile food truck. The food truck was anointed best food truck in the county in 2013. Susan spent a lot of time in Maine and her husband one day came up with the idea of opening a place where they would sell lobster rolls. That little idea I was able to take them on a journey they could’ve never imagined. She started selling lobster rolls at a market underneath a little tent. The recipe came from her childhood of growing up in Maine. She came up with her own style of lobster roll called the main style, Made with homemade mayonnaise. She also has the Connecticut style that is made with butter instead of mayonnaise. That’s what really put her on the map.

RedHook is going under some serious construction as they’re taking the waterfront and building hundreds of warehouses. The worry is in the next five years Redhook is going to be consumed with trucks and the soil won’t hold up the infrastructure. After Hurricane Sandy a lot of focus was put on red Hook and they came back stronger as they opened restaurants and businesses. RedHook is like a little seasonal town. Which means you won’t make money six months out of the year but if you understand that you will be a successful business owner in Redhook.

On this week’s show we will visit what is one of New York’s more remote neighborhoods, but a treasure, City Island in the Bronx. My guests will be Barbara Burn Dolensek, Administrator at the City Island Nautical Museum, and Paul Klein, President of the City Island Chamber of Commerce.

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On tonight’s episode we venture out into city Island in the Bronx . Our first guest is Barbara Burn Dolensek, she moved to city Island in 1976 with her husband; he was the veterinarian at the Bronx zoo. Barbara has her hands in many things. She’s on the staff of the island currently as a copy editor and reporter, since 1985. She's been an officer of the city Island Fiffick Association since 1992 , and so much more. She is passionate about city Island and it shows. Barbara Didn’t grow up in New York. She's actually from Massachusetts. She loves the water so she got a chance to move to the Bronx because of her husband‘s position at the zoo. She fell in love with it right away. City island has been around forever but the name hasn't got its name before the civil War it was called a number of different names before that. It was purchased because a man thought it could Compete with New York Harbor. The Lenape people were the first people to settle and call the island home for over 400 year.

Barbara is the administrator for the city Island nautical museum. Sadly They didn’t open last year because of the pandemic but they are Hoping to open in May they did a series of webinars for the past couple months. They have tours in the spring and summer and they’re hoping to continue that this year. If you want to know more information about the museum go to ww.Cityislandmuseum.org. During the 1940s that’s one city Island got into the oyster business.Unfortunately towards the end of the century oysters became polluted, and oysters were overfished. People known as the oyster pilots would steal hundreds of oysters.

Our Second guess tonight is Paul Klein, President of the City Island Chamber of Commerce. Paul grew up in Baltimore After college he decided to move to New York he knew he had to live there. Paul is a jewelry designer who worked at David Yurman’s. He ended up opening his own jewelry store in the village in 1988. Paul opened another jewelry store in the city but after meeting his husband he decided to close it and open another store in city Island. Now has a gallery called Kaleidoscope Gallery. Where he sells important jewelry and different types of gemstones. He also sells local artists' work.

Paul is a big part of the city Island arts and craft fair. He has permits for the first weekend of June. June 5 and 6 and September 11 and 12th. It usually brings a crowd of 50 to 60 arts and crafts people. They even have a clam chowder contest, and live music. The culture of city Island is alive and well hopefully we can all enjoy what they have to offer this season

On this week’s show we will look at how some of New York’s local community institutions have been responding to the pandemic. My guests will be Robert Snyder, Author, Professor Emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University and the Manhattan Borough Historian, and Victoria Neznansky, Chief Development and Social Services Officer at the YM/YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood, located in and serving a community that has been especially hard hit by COVID.

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In tonight‘s episode we’re going to talk about Nonprofit organizations that have had a hand in helping New Yorkers during this pandemic our first guest tonight is Robert Snyder. Robert is a successful writer Who has published a number of books such as Crossing Broadway in Washington Heights and the promise of New York and many more. Robert grew up in suburbia but his family has many routes in New York. His grandmother grew up in the Bronx and his parents were New Yorkers. Robert's passion for history was always apparent but started to grow during the Vietnam war when he wanted to know the reason behind it. The flu pandemic of the 19 century and the pandemic we’re facing now has strong similarities. We are using some of the same practices social distancing mask-wearing. Crowding was one of the ways the flu spread whether it was in tournaments and troop ships. In 1918 kids were encouraged to go to school because it was seen as a safer place for children to be than for them to be home. Responses to the flu were left to the people of the city because the government was more focused on World War I. During the 19 century New York had departments that handled the Health system ,Settlement house worker is visiting nurses, Reformers working to save the people of New York City and it laid the foundation of the public health system we have today.

Some of the organizations are providing help through this pandemic for the local communities are The Northern Monahan improvement incorporation. Founded during the 1970s. The Covid NYC documentary project it’s a network of historians activists Photographers etc.Who started meeting last April. This project helps record the pandemic so in the future we don’t repeat our mistakes and handle a state of emergency better and begin the work to make sure if something like this does not happen again. Digital production is really a big part of capturing what’s going on with the black lives matter movement as well as the pandemic itself. And that way we can kind of put together a time capsule to Help better understand what is going on right now.

Second guest is Victoria Neznansky,Came to New York in 1989.Victoria came to New York because it was a city of dreams and they were very welcoming to refugees.Victoria has a degree in social work from NYU. She was witnessed to the trauma and heartbreak that immigration can cause.That’s when she decided that she wanted to devote her career to helping immigrants. The Y was established in 1917. She started working at the Y in 2009. She was drawn to it because it was a place where refugees from World war one would find refuge. The idea that they could reset somewhere and have a better life in New York really caught her attention and that’s why she wanted to be a part of it. The Y has many programs for Holocaust survivors, The staff only spoke German and they did the same thr Dominicans who came to the US. The Y has adapted to the people that need it and that’s what makes it so successful. Whether they’re helping teens or early childhood development they have a team ready for all aspects of life that they assist with. 

As a local community organization, the Y struggled during this pandemic. Overnight people lost their health and their lives there jobs. The Y Felt the need so strongly during the pandemic so they stepped into action. They were able to pay local restaurants and just keep the community working. Since the kitchen at the Y was closed because of Covid. They reached out to local restaurants to get food out to those who needed it. They got a list together of the most vulnerable sinners and started delivering meals to them. They served 300 seniors. They were able to get half $1 million to give out to the families in need. This organization and many others like it just go to show that New York does what it needs to do to keep their city alive.

On this week’s show we will celebrate New Yorkers whom you may not have heard of but who have played an important role in the City’s African American History.

My guests will be author and local historian Erik K. Washington, who will talk about his recent book Boss of the Grips, The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal; and Founder and Artistic Director of On Site Opera, who will speak about On Site’s upcoming production of The Road We Came, a project that explores the composers, musicians and places that define the rich African American history of the City.

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On tonight's episode we’re going to take a walk through the past and talk about very influential people Eric K Washington as our first guest He’s the owner of tagging the past which reconnects forgot history to present landscapes. Through articles and talks and tours. Eric loves New York and sadly when he was three months old his parents moved to Staten Island, and when he was 16 he returned to New York to live in Harlem and New York has become the best for most of his life now. Eric is a writer who has won an award for his book called boss of the grips The life of James H Williams. It’s a heartwarming story about the determined nation and ambition. The inspiration for his book came from a mature tour through Grand Central Station that he created. 

if you want to take a look at Eric’s tours for tagging the past you can go to ekwashington.com. James H Williams grew up in New York. He was a child of two former slaves in Virginia. He was born in 1878. His florist Charles Thoroughly played a major part in Williams's life because he helped him get the job at Grand Central Station he was the first African-American to work on Grand Central Station. Williams worked with Charles at the flower shop and it helped him really in the city. They were thinking of changing the system From all white red cab to all black red caps. and they thought William was the perfect candidate because he knew the city and had a good temperament and he was great with people. In six years he would move up to be one of the head guys working on Grand Central Station and also be an activist Working with NAACP And raising the most money.

Our second guest are the creators of an opera Celebrating Black New Yorkers. The opera company is called on-site opera and I produce operas in nontraditional venues. By staging operas in places traditional to the opera itself itself. amplifying the world of the opera and its audience. The creators of the latest creation which will be premiering in June called the Road we came. Eric Einhorn, is the artistic director of the company. Glimmerglass festival and the MET are just some of his achievements. Robert McKinney is another part of the company. He’s been called one of the finest singers of his generation and is celebrated by the opera news as a voice that drips with gold. With many things closed because of the pandemic Ryan adapted his love of opera to the film screen. At the beginning of the quarantine he found a keep the music going productions. He took live and recorded performances to raise money for The artist struggling during this time.

On-site opera takes place It’s centers around three Part of Manhattan and upper Manhattan Midtown tour. The places that this takes place this place is that you’ll No already. Carnegie Hall Lincoln Center just to name a few. It takes pleasure in places you know if you were in New Yorker but also places that you would walk by and think nothing of. They include a lot of historical figures like links to Hughes Shag burgers center. there’s a lot of sections about the underground, And information on Frederick Douglass. very influential people tor black history. You can be standing in such an influential place with so much history and you wouldn’t even be aware of it. That’s what Eric and Robert really try to show you through the power of opera.

On this week’s show we will visit Woodhaven in Queens.

My guests will be Ed Wendell of the Woodhaven Historical Society, and Mark Gallagher, owner of the famous Manor Deli, and other Queens culinary businesses.

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Tonight we’re going to journey to Queens With Edwin Dell, Everything Ed has done has been local he’s lived in Woodhaven most of his life. He's President of the Woodhaven block association, and the president of Woodhaven's cultural at historical Society. When he’s not championing Woodhaven history he is a Head of an IT department Quick international courier shipping company that specializes in clinical trials and dangerous goods. Woodhaven block Association was Founded in 1970 Was a place for people to come in air their complaints and meet their local elected officials. School Sisters of Notre Dame Education for women. They offer free English as a second language education, and GED for women. Cultural and historical Society was founded in 1992 by A group of resident , who started printing the Woodhaven history book and hanging up historical markers and promoting the history of Woodhaven.

Ed is working on a book of Woodhaven history if you’d like to get in touch with him email him at [email protected] or you can go to projectwoodhaven.com. he has weekly zoom meetings where they look at old photographs. On October 15 1821 the union course race track was the largest dirt track at the time. They would have a match races the north versus the south with hundreds of people showing up to witness it. Ed does a small walking tour where you can see pieces of the race track . Bridges together old and new Woodhaven. The union course race track during 1860s was a camp for soldiers. Then later on they ended up building houses over it. Residential development really started in 1900s when the farm started dying off and they started making room for new developments. Woodhaven gave birth to a lot of factories after the Civil War one of the biggest was the tin factory where they made kitchen utensils.

Our second guest is the fifth generation of Woodhaven Mark Gallagher. Mark is the proud owner of Mark delicatessen he's been in business since 1905 he also started Another business called toberfest marks great great grandfather worked in one of the factories in Woodhaven that’s how he made his roots there. He started Working there when Mark was 16-year-old He was working at the deli through college and He went to baroque for business and didn’t know what he wanted to do. When he realized that once the owner was gone there would be no one to take over he decided that he wanted to fill that role.

Mark has two restaurants called Oktoberfest Where they make beer and schnitzel it just has a really authentic German feel he opened that in 2006 and 2009 He opened up a full bar and restaurant. The thing about Woodhaven is it’s always constantly changing it went from working class to upper middle class and now it’s more of a working class but it’s ever-changing.

On this week’s show we will explore two famous “Roundtables” of New York: at the Algonquin Hotel, and Andy Warhol’s Factory.

My solo guest will be Rediscovering New York regular and the show’s Special Consultant, David Griffin of Landmark Branding.

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This week’s show David Griffin will take us on a journey to explore two famous “Roundtables” of New York: at the Algonquin Hotel, and Andy Warhol’s Factory. David is a lifelong architect enthusiast and the founder and CEO of landmark branding, David also has a special series “Called Room at the Top”, where he is the host with Jennifer Wallace. “ Call room on the Top” it’s a networking series that features tours of Manhattan's greatest buildings. David got interested in architecture when he first got hired as a kid to be costume interpreters at a Long Island museum. The Elegante hotel wasn’t always a hotel, it was a normal building where people got to pay rent and lived in their apartments. It was very common for people such as bachelors or people that have small families. It opened in 1902. Some of the famous members of the roundtable were Robert Benchley; he was a very well-known writer of that period. Dorothy Parker, ’s probably one of the most famous of the round table, she was well known for tossing around vicious insults at her friends.

Tula Bankhead was the model for the Disney villain Cruella Deville. Tula Bankhead was a stage actress at the time. She was part of a show called the “Little Fox” which was known as one of the greatest live performances of that time. The round table began to fade in 1869 in part to the Stock Market crash. It affected the style of the round table for these well-known funny lavish writers. The time wasn’t all glitz and glam, it was falling apart and you could no longer live that type of lifestyle. There was an oak room at the Elegante it was a very highly guarded place to perform. It was a very conservative and intimate room because not too many people were couldn’t get inside . It became one of New York's most premier nightclubs. Later on it closed down permanently in 2002 due to the fact David was tired and exhausted.

David is now doing a number of writing projects. David has an article and Ground Stoner he’s working on. David is also writing an article about the oldest brownstone in New York. A blog is also being created by David. The blog is about every building in The fifth Avenue. He’s also doing a new series for the New York adventure club, where they do virtual tours of global architecture. He has a talk coming up on the 26 which will be about artist homes and studios. It’s about how the great artists of the world have created their own environments, David mentioned. Andy Warhol had a way of really getting into the commercial reality of America. He did commercial drawings in fashion drawing advertisements. Andy Warhol's factory had three different locations. One of those locations was an industrial building on 241 E. 37th St. The rent Was only 100 dollars per year. Warhol had to leave in 1967 when they tore down the building. His first factory was covered in tin foil and silver paint. He did a lot of silkscreen work at his first factory. He also dipped into the filmmaking industry. The factory really had a feeling of studio 54 did as a Liza Minnelli and so many more walk through those doors.

The velvet underground was really bad. Warhol was also associated at the time. Meiko was the vocalist for the first two albums and she had a very unique voice. Baby Jane Warhol was The first of the Warhol superstars. She’s a major figure in the art world. She was an early start of Andy Warhol films. E.g. Sedgwick was a young lady who came from a very upper-class family and she kind of broadened Andy’s mind. But sadly she died of a drug overdose. The Andy Warhol era was full of artists and young people who passed away at a young age because they couldn’t keep up with the lifestyle. That was one of the reasons why the factory fell apart.

On this week's show we visit Bushwick, in Brooklyn.

My guests will be Jeremy Wilcox, Founder and Owner of Custom NYC Tours, and local business owner from the wonderful neighborhood of Bushwick, Toby Moskovitz. Toby Moskovits is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Equity Partners.

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Tonight Jeff Introduces us to Jeremy Wilcox a licensed New York City tour guide. A New York native and the owner of custom NYC tours. His small group Of private walking tours Focuses on the neighborhoods and their history art And it’s architecture. Jeremy is no stranger to New York as he is a New York native who grew up in Richmond Hill. He's been running his Tours for 5 years. It all started when he realized he could make a living exploring the city that he loved. Tonight we take a tour with him through Bushwick. The name Bushwick originates from the 1600s comes from the Dutch, It means deep woods. Some of the first people to Settle in Bushwick In the 19 century where the Germans population they were the first immigrants to really create identity with that part of Brooklyn. You can still find the remnants of The then in the old churches and some of the street signs. Beer brewing really put Bushwick on the map.

Jeremy offers a wide variety of different tours Midtown Art Deco architecture tour as well as A Bushwick Tour and a beautiful Walk around Central Park. He also customizes tors for the individuals. Jeremy once did a Customize ninja turtle tour around New York. They went to a pizza place and a ninja gear shop. Pfizer the pharmaceutical company started in Bushwick , founded by a German immigrant named Charles Pfizer. The birthplace of Pfizer pharmaceutical l corner of Harrison Avenue and barlet street. Bushwick is a place of rebirth and transformation as A lot of buildings transformed and adapted for new uses. The Pfizer building is now being used for food production and school. Edwin Heckelman brewery is now a Recording studio and a bar called the well. Bushwick has went through many changes , it had seen a lot of rioting and looting during the 70s it was a very different place. The younger generation of This century has really given a new face to Bushwick they have migrated there and with them they have brought coffee shops restaurants and turned old buildings into art studios. Along with that comes a vibrant street art scene That Jeremy is a part of as he leads groups see . If you’re interested in customizing your own tour you can get in touch with Jeremy by www. Customnyctours.com

For the second half of the night show our guest is Toby Moskovits is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Equity Partners. She also runs a l mentor program at Williamsburg high school. For architect and design. Toby‘s grandfather migrated to the US from Poland in 1973. He would buy army uniforms and repair and sell them, and that’s how her family made their routes in New York. She got her NBA in Israel. In the 90s she was interested in venture-capital and entrepreneurship. She used here knowledge that she gains in Israel to get into real estate. She helped people find Construction financing when the market crashed in 2007 and she realize she had a passion for real estate. She loves converting old buildings in to new things but she also loves the architecture of New York and tries to stay true to that . She does a lot of work with nonprofits such as spring board enterprises. Springboard enterprises is a Woman’s nonprofit organization that helps Women owned company raise money. Her goal is to build a bridge with her nonprofit organizations for young people to discover new opportunities that they would not be aware of otherwise.

Toby is the Founder of The bushwick generator. The idea first came to be in 2014. She wanted to bring more workspaces into Brooklyn. She was drawn to the energy and the creativity of Bushwick. Toby found a site that was being used to make large garbage containers, and was able to converted into Bushwick generator. The thing that makes Bushwick charming is that it’s still has a lot of industrial production near the Morgan Avenue stop. Converted buildings into bars and movie theaters. Warehouse converted into a grocery store, and then you have the historic Corner stores and stores that have been there for a while so it’s the perfect collaboration of the new. And old. Brooklyn generator concept really is to bring everyone together and create jobs and opportunities that benefit everyone that live there. It’s about getting all the smart people in one room to make a please where the older generation and younger generation can be successful.