Ep 5 - Fernet Branca: Made in NYC

07/25/18 • 22 min

Dovecote - Dispatches from the Forests of NYC - A City Between Podcast

This is the City Between Podcast where we find and explore unusual stories about New York City that gives us fresh and unexpected perspective on this amazing town.

In this episode we go looking for a forgotten factory that once made an iconic Italian spirit: Fernet Branca. We uncover the wild story of how the company managed to make an alcoholic beverage in the middle of Manhattan during Prohibition and also how they got busted. Find more information at www.citybetween.com. Join us!

SEASON 1 - ESSAYS ABOUT NEW YORK HISTORY AND CULTURE

This is the City Between Podcast where we find and explore unusual stories about New York City that gives us fresh and unexpected perspective on this amazing town.

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Ep 4 - A Vanished Mohawk Village in Brooklyn

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In the City Between Podcast we seek after the lost and forgotten stories of New York City's history. Join us!

In this episode we ask what became of a "Downtown Mohawk" - A community of Native Americans in the middle of 20th-century Brooklyn. We visit the descendant of the last Mohawk Bar on Atlantic Avenue and raise a glass to those who have come and gone. Find more information at www.citybetween.com.

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Ep 6 - A Pirate Farm in Brooklyn - The Turk's Plantation

In this episode of City Between – the podcast of New York History’s forgotten and mysterious corners – we go on a slightly Quixotic hunt in Brooklyn for a remanent of the farm of Anthony Jansen van Sale, New York’s first documented Muslim. This farm dates from 1639 and to make our journey 400 years into the past we follow old Indian and colonial roads whose ghosts can be traced in the modern city. We begin in New Utrecht – once a Dutch Village – and head south in search of the old bowery. For more information, references and images of the maps referenced in the episode, go to www.citybetween.com.

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