Flatbush + Main: A Podcast from Brooklyn Historical Society
Latest Episodes
Flatbush + Main Episode 36: Making Brooklyn History
In Episode 36 of Flatbush + Main, Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia say farewell to Brooklyn Historical Society by revisiting their favorite segments from the podcast's history.
Flatbush + Main Episode 35: Wandering Brooklyn With Walt Whitman
In Episode 35 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia trace Walt Whitman's footsteps around Brooklyn.
Flatbush + Main Episode 34: Land and Labor in Agricultural Brooklyn
In Episode 34 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss Brooklyn's long farming history
Flatbush + Main Episode 33: Queer Coney Island
In Episode 33 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia and guest Hugh Ryan explore Coney Island's queer history.
Flatbush + Main Episode 32: Muslims in Brooklyn
In Episode 32 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the history of Muslims in Brooklyn, drawing on BHS's groundbreaking public and oral history project that launched in 2018.
Flatbush + Main Episode 32: Muslims in Brooklyn
In Episode 32 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the history of Muslims in Brooklyn.
Flatbush + Main Episode 31: The Blackout of 1977
In Episode 31 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the infamous Blackout of 1977, the economic and social context that led up to the event, its impact on many Brooklyn neighborhoods,
Flatbush + Main Episode 31: The Blackout of 1977
In Episode 31 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the infamous Blackout of 1977.
Flatbush + Main Episode 30: Listening to Puerto Rican Brooklynites
In Episode 30 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss Brooklyn Historical Society's Puerto Rican Oral History Project (1973-1975), the institution's first oral history collection,
Flatbush + Main Episode 29: Cholera in Brooklyn
In Episode 29 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, host Zaheer Ali and guest-host Erin Wuebker, fellow BHS historian, discuss the impact of cholera on Brooklyn, which led to the illness and death of thousands of residents in the 19...