New York Morgue's Dark Secrets

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The unclaimed dead of New York City's streets and rivers were brought to the New York Morgue in the second half of the nineteenth century. This history is full of dark, sad stories and buried secrets.

Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney are joined by Cat Byers who is a writer and historian based in Paris currently finishing a PhD on the barely-studied New York Morgue.

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0:00.0	Noah and Sarah have been trapped miles below the Denver International Airport.
0:03.7	They've faced horrors from aliens to human experiments and a shadow government agency held bent on their demise.
0:09.2	This season on escaping Denver, the tables turn as the hunted become the hunters and
0:13.3	Noah and Sarah go on the offensive to protect the fate of the world.
0:16.7	I don't think you brought enough men.
0:18.8	I'm not scared!
0:20.4	Then why do you sound scared?
0:22.1	escaping Denver, batch four. Listen on Apple. And why do you sound scared? Escaping Denver.
0:23.0	Batch 4.
0:24.0	Listen on Apple Podcasts.
0:26.0	Amazon Music, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Hello folks welcome welcome to American History Hit. I'm your host, Don Wildman, a proud citizen of
0:48.6	the city of New York, where I've lived and worked for decades side by side with my fellow 8 million souls.
0:55.3	It's by far the most populous city in the land, not even close, never mind the millions who come
0:59.9	just a visit.
1:01.6	With so much attention paid the place, you'd be hard-pressed to find a stone
1:05.3	unturned, historically speaking, but that's where Cat Buyers comes in. In today's episode
1:10.9	from our sister podcast After Dark, we're offering up a special gift on this
1:15.2	Halloween. Kat takes us to the streets and back alleys of the Big Apple.
1:19.3	Joining Anthony and Maddie to explore the grim and gruesome history of the New York morgue. and magnets and Robert Barons like John Jacob Astor, Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
1:36.1	Iron-pillared department stores loomed over the avenues as massive public works like the
1:40.7	L and the Brooklyn Bridge transformed the landscape.
1:44.9	But in the midst of all that seemed so gilded were the smudgy, smelly neighborhoods
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