The People

Episodes

1. 10

   Nadav

   Nadav Ben-Eliezer spends his mornings at the coffee shop directly across the street from my apartment. He was born in Baghdad in 1936, emigrated to Israel along with most Iraqi Jews in 1951, and later landed in Brooklyn, where he’s lived for 30 years. For the last 8 of those years, he’s enjoyed...

   Jul 5, 2015

   10m
2. 9

   Mohel

   One thing I really agonized about in the days immediately following my son’s birth was the question of circumcision. Where I come from, circumcision is the norm. Was I about to yield to a needlessly brutal practice? Today on the podcast I talk to Emily Blake. Emily left her job as an OB-GYN to...

   May 31, 2015

   10m
3. 8

   Parrot Guy

   Steve Baldwin is the self-appointed authority on the wild parrots of Brooklyn — wild Argentinean parrots, likely escaped from either a pet store or the cargo area of JFK airport, have been observed in the city since the late 1960's. And for the last decade, Steve has been leading free public…

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   Apr 9, 2015

   6m
4. 7

   Jennifer Daniel

   2014 interview of Jennifer Daniel, then a graphics editor at The New York Times.

   Apr 9, 2015

   5m
5. 6

   Juan

   Juanluis Pimentel is from The Bronx and still lives in the neighborhood he grew up in, right across from Yankee Stadium. In this interview, Juan talks about his parents (his mother is from the Dominican Republic and his father from Puerto Rico), why he chooses to work in Brooklyn, and his brushes...

   Feb 27, 2015

   9m
6. 5

   Mom

   Roberta Malkin is my mother. Here I offer you a bit of our usual schtick, in which she tells me what a major pain in the ass I was as a child. And while I accept that I was difficult — she says I was a projectile vomiter! — I think she was pretty damn proud of it. Follow my mom on Instagram, and...

   Dec 29, 2014

   7m
7. 4

   Skateboarder

   Jamie Nieves is a non-binary transgender skateboarder and a columnist for Wheelbase Magazine, which promotes diversity in the skateboarding community. In this interview, Jamie talks about growing up queer in Brooklyn, their* troubles in the school system, and their dream of living on some land…

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   Dec 20, 2014

   6m
8. 3

   Hypnotherapist

   30 years ago, Maxine Sitkowski abandoned a career in fashion design to study Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), a controversial type of therapy involving hypnosis. In this episode, Maxine argues that hypnosis is not a magic act but rather a natural part of our everyday experience. And she...

   Nov 7, 2014

   8m
9. 2

   Farmer

   Two summers ago, Meg Paska left her small garden in Brooklyn to farm an acre of land in coastal New Jersey. Despite poor soil and a meager budget, she soon offered fresh produce, flowers and honey to her neighbors in Monmouth County. In this episode, we drop in on Meg near the end of her second...

   Oct 1, 2014

   6m
10. 1

    Critic

    Steven Heller is a writer, lecturer, art director, and critic who cut his teeth in the underground newspaper scene in the late 1960's. At the age of 17, he walked into the office of The New York Free Press, trying to sell his cartoons, and ended up with a job "pasting up mechanicals.” Soon after,...

    Jun 12, 2014

    6m