New York
482 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Clinton's Ditch, The Erie Canal and the Making of the Empire State
- Frederick Douglass in Rochester, The North Star and the Last Stop
- New Netherland, The Dutch Gamble That Became New York
- Saratoga, The Fourteen Days That Saved the Revolution
- Seneca Falls, July Nineteen, Eighteen Forty-Eight
- The Adirondacks, Forever Wild and the Idea That Saved Them
- The Burned-Over District, Where American Reform Was Born
- The Catskill Mountains, America's First Landscape
- The Empire State, Why New York Is What It Is
- The Gateway of Nations, Immigration and New York State
- The Great Law of Peace, A Constitution Before the Constitution
- Wall Street and the Architecture of American Finance
Near Albany
- Albany Plan of Union: Ben Franklin's First Draft of America
- Bleecker Stadium
- Castleton-on-Hudson: A Dutch River Landing
- Clifton Park: A Name from a Colonial Land Petition
- Erastus Corning and the Railroad He Built from Ten Companies
- Fort Crailo: Where Yankee Doodle Was Born
- Fort Nassau, Fort Orange, and the Oldest Continuous Settlement
- Fort Nassau: The Dutch Fur Trade Foothold
- Fort Orange: Where Albany Began
- General Schuyler and the House Where Hamilton Came to Court
- Joseph Henry and the Motor in the Academy
- Kinderhook: Children's Corner of the Hudson
- Lark Street, Albany's Left Bank
- Lindenwald: Martin Van Buren's Long Retirement
- Miss Albany Diner
- Nipper on the Rooftop
- Rapp Road Community Historic District
- Ravena: Ice, Bricks, and a Cement Giant
- Rensselaer, New York
- Schuyler Mansion: Albany's Revolutionary Heart
- Stuyvesant: Henry Hudson Stopped Here
- The Albany Congress and Benjamin Franklin's Undelivered Idea
- The Anti-Rent War, Calico Indians and the End of Feudal New York
- The Anti-Rent War, Calico Indians in the Helderbergs
- The Capitol That Took Thirty-Two Years to Build
- The Empire State Plaza and What Was There Before
- The Erie Canal's Eastern Gate
- The Luykas Van Alen House: Dutch New York Preserved
- The O'Connell Machine, Forty-Two Years of One-Party Albany
- The Pastures: Albany's Oldest Neighborhood
- The Patroon System and the Last Great American Landlord
- The People of the Waters That Are Never Still
- The USS Slater, Last American Destroyer Escort
- University at Albany, The Campus Rockefeller Built
- University at Albany: New York's First Public College, Born in a Railroad Depot
- University at Albany: The First Public College in New York
- USS Slater, The Last Destroyer Escort
- USS Slater: The Last Destroyer Escort
- Watervliet: America's First Shaker Community
Near Buffalo
- Battle of Scajaquada Creek Bridge
- Buffalo Central Terminal: An Art Deco Palace That Missed Its Moment
- Dart's Elevator and the Grain Coast
- Father Baker's Basilica: Built on Pennies, Consecrated Debt-Free
- Graycliff: Frank Lloyd Wright on Lake Erie
- Graycliff: Frank Lloyd Wright's Summer Estate Above Lake Erie
- Hamburg, New York: Where the Hamburger Was Invented
- Lackawanna and the Age of Steel
- Lackawanna: Steel Town at the Edge of Buffalo
- Love Canal, Lois Gibbs and the Neighborhood That Built Superfund
- Michigan Street and the Last Crossing
- Millard Fillmore's Buffalo
- Olmsted's First Complete Park System
- Ralph Wilson Stadium: The House That Four Super Bowls Built
- The Blizzard of Seventy-Seven
- The Buffalo Bills: Founding, Heartbreak, and Four Super Bowls
- The Burning, December 1813
- The City of Light
- The Darwin Martin House
- The Niagara Movement, Nineteen-oh-Five
- The Rainbow City
- The Rise and the Reckoning
- The Seneca and the Western Door
- The Temple of Music, September 1901
- The Wedding of the Waters, October 1825
- Warren Hull House
- Wings
Near Burlington
- Ausable Chasm: The Grand Canyon of the Adirondacks
- AuSable: Iron Town on the Champlain Shore
- Elkanah Watson House: Father of the County Fair
- Keeseville: Horseshoe Nails and Sandstone Streets
- Plattsburgh: The Battle That Ended the War of 1812
- Plattsburgh: The Naval Battle That Saved the North
- SUNY Plattsburgh and the Battle That Saved New York
Near Cooperstown
- Cherry Valley
- Cherry Valley Massacre
- Council Rock and the Susquehanna Source
- Doubleday Field
- Induction Weekend
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Oneonta: Where the Railroad Brotherhood Was Born
- Otsego Lake, the Glimmerglass
- The Cardiff Giant Hoax
- The Doubleday Myth
- The Fenimore Art Museum
- The Iroquois and the 1779 Campaign
- The National Baseball Hall of Fame
- The Otesaga Hotel and the Clarks
- William Cooper Founds the Village
Near Geneva
- Clifton Springs: The Cure in the Water
- Elizabeth Blackwell: The First
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Seneca Falls
- Geneva: Queen City of the Finger Lakes
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Two Colleges, One Campus, a Two-Century History
- Kanadaseaga: The Seneca Capital That Vanished
- Montezuma: Marshes Brought Back from the Dead
- National Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls
- Rose Hill Mansion
- Seneca Falls 1848, The Declaration They Almost Did Not Vote For
- Seneca Lake Wine Country
- Smith Opera House
- The Agricultural Experiment Station
Near Ithaca
- Buttermilk Falls and the Treman Gift
- Carl Sagan on the Edge of the Gorge
- Cayuga Lake and the Ice That Made It
- Cornell University: Any Person, Any Study
- Cortland County Courthouse: Built from Ashes in Indiana Limestone
- Ithaca College and the Sound of a City
- Ithaca Is Gorges: Ithaca Falls
- Moosewood and the Vegetarian Revolution
- Taughannock Falls, Taller Than Niagara
- The Cayuga People and the Town Destroyer
- The Gorge Bridges and the Nets Below
- The Salt Mine Beneath Cayuga Lake
- Wharton Studio: When Hollywood Was Ithaca
Near Jones Beach
- A Beach for the People
- Before Levittown: Massapequa Land, Potato Farms, and the Suburb That Changed America
- Building the Beach: Sand, Dredges, and Grass
- Forest Hills Gardens: Lenape Land to a Widow's Utopia
- Garden City: Stewart's Folly on the Metoac Plain
- Guy Lombardo and the Marine Theater
- Jones Beach Island: A Barrier in Motion
- Jones Beach Today: Concerts, Storms, and Renourishment
- Jones Beach: The Beach Robert Moses Built for the People
- Major Thomas Jones and the Whaling Island
- Oyster Bay's Fallen: Including a President's Son
- Robert Moses: The Power Broker
- The Low Overpasses: A Disputed History
- The Parkway System That Made Jones Beach Possible
- The Venetian Water Tower and the Ohio Sandstone Bathhouses
Near Lake Placid
- Adirondack Forty-Sixers, The Obsession of the High Peaks
- Elizabethtown: Gateway to the Adirondack High Peaks
- Eric Heiden's Five Golds at the Speed Skating Oval
- John Brown's Farm and Grave
- Lake Placid: The Town That Hosted the Winter Olympics Twice
- Melvil Dewey and the Lake Placid Club
- Mirror Lake: The Lake the Village Actually Sits On
- Mount Marcy and the Adirondack High Peaks
- Mount Van Hoevenberg: North America's First Bobsled Run
- The Adirondack Great Camps
- The Adirondack Park: Forever Wild
- The Miracle on Ice
- The Miracle on Ice, February 22, 1980
- The Olympic Ski Jumps at MacKenzie Intervale
- Timbuctoo: Gerrit Smith's Black Farming Settlement
Near Rochester
- Avon's Mineral Springs
- Bausch and Lomb, A Rubber Spectacle Frame and a Partnership
- Frederick Douglass in Rochester, The Newspaper Built on a Border Town
- From Flour to Flowers, Rochester Reinvents Itself
- Ganondagan: The Town of Peace They Burned for Corn
- Genesee Country Village: New York's Largest Living History Museum
- George Eastman, The Man Who Put a Camera in Your Pocket
- High Falls and the Yankee Leaper
- Hiram Sibley and the Wire That Crossed a Continent
- Mendon Ponds: Glaciers Left the Blueprint
- Mount Hope Cemetery, Two Americans on a Hillside
- Susan B. Anthony, The Vote, the Arrest, the Fine She Never Paid
- The 1964 Rochester Race Riot, Three Days in July
- The Douglass-Anthony Alliance, Reform Across the Color Line
- The Eastman School of Music, Philanthropy and the Sound of a City
- The Illegal Vote, Susan B. Anthony's 1872 Arrest
- The North Star, Frederick Douglass in Rochester
- The Rochester Subway, A Canal Reborn Underground
- The Seneca and the Genesee, Before Rochester Was Rochester
- The Young Lion of the West, Rochester's Erie Canal Boom
- Tinker Cobblestone Farmstead
- Xerox and the Machine That Changed the Office
Near Syracuse
- Cazenovia and the Holland Land Company
- Chittenango Landing Dry Dock
- Crouse College: America's First Fine Arts School
- Haudenosaunee Confederacy, The Government Beneath the Government
- Hendricks Chapel, A House for Every Faith
- Jermain Loguen, King of the Underground Railroad
- Keepers of the Central Fire
- Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Suffragist They Left Out
- Onondaga Lake, The Sacred Site That Became Most Polluted
- Onondaga Lake: The Most Sacred, Then the Most Polluted
- Reuel E. Smith House
- Sainte Marie among the Iroquois
- Sainte Marie among the Iroquois: Two Years on Onondaga Lake
- Salina: Salt Capital of Early America
- Salt City: The Brine That Built a Nation
- SUNY ESF: Where American Forestry Science Was Born
- Syracuse University and the Legend of Number Forty-Four
- Syracuse University: The Hill
- The Erie Canal Comes to Clinton Square
- The Erie Canal, Clinton's Ditch and the Canal That Made America
- The Erie Canal's Invisible Dead
- The Fifteenth Ward
- The Franklin Automobile
- The Jerry Rescue, October 1, 1851
- The Landmark Theatre
- The Loud House: Syracuse's Dome
- The Two Row Wampum
- The Typewriter City
- Willis Carrier and the Invention of Summer
Near The Hamptons
Near Watkins Glen
- Corning Museum of Glass
- Corning, New York: The Crystal City on Seneca Land
- Erwin: Painted Post and the Pennsylvania Settlers
- Finger Lakes National Forest — New York's Smallest Federal Wilderness
- National Soaring Museum: America's Soaring Capital
- Painted Post: A Name from the Seneca Trail
- Seneca Lake Wine Country
- The Death on Franklin Street
- The Gorge and Its Nineteen Waterfalls
- The Race That Revived American Road Racing
- The Salt Beneath Seneca Lake
- The Seneca Nation and the Burning of the Villages
- Twenty Years of Formula One at the Glen
- Watkins Glen 1973, Six Hundred Thousand People and a Field
- Watkins Glen: The Village That Got Famous Twice
Along the way
- A Living Memorial: Strawberry Fields
- ACT UP and the AIDS Crisis: The Deaths That Changed Medicine
- Adirondack Forever Wild, A Constitution That Beat the Loggers
- Afton, New York
- Alexander Hamilton's Grave
- Allegany State Park: New York's Largest State Park
- Angelica: Named for Hamilton's Sister-in-Law
- Arden: The Railroad Baron's Mountain Kingdom
- Arkell Museum
- Bainbridge, New York
- Ballston Spa's Mill: Cotton, Paper Bags, and Chocolate
- Barcelona Light: The Natural Gas Lighthouse
- Bartow-Pell Mansion: The Manor on the Edge of New York City
- Batavia, New York
- Bath, New York: Named for a British Spa City
- Battle of Cobleskill
- Battle of Fort Washington: The Worst Day of the Revolution
- Battle of Lake George: Johnson's Triumph and King Hendrick's Death
- Battle on Snowshoes: Rogers' Rangers at Lake George
- Battle Pass: Where Long Island Was Lost
- Beacon, New York: Signal Fires and the Factory That Became a Cathedral
- Bemus Point: The Ferry and Chautauqua Lake
- Brewster, New York: Gail Borden and the Milk That Fed a War
- Bronck House: Oldest Home in Upstate New York
- Canajoharie: The Pot That Washes Itself
- Canfield Casino: Saratoga's American Monte Carlo
- Castle Clinton's Three Lives
- Catskill: Where Thomas Cole Invented American Landscape Painting
- Central Bridge: Birthplace of George Westinghouse
- Central Park: The Public Space Built on a Displaced Community
- Champlain: The Border Town and Fort Blunder
- Chazy: Where the British Army Camped Before Plattsburgh
- Chelsea Market and the Birth of the Oreo
- Chemung County's First Traffic Death: July 1914
- Civil War Prison Train Wreck at Shohola
- Cleveland to Buffalo: The Lake Erie Corridor
- Cobleskill, New York
- Coffee, Cardboard, and an Ugly Name on Purpose: DUMBO's Empire Stores
- Coxsackie: The Hoot-Owl Place on the Hudson
- Daniel D. Tompkins: Forgotten Founding Father
- Dia Beacon: The Museum Inside a Factory
- DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of Hip-Hop
- Dobbs Ferry: Where Washington Decided to Win the War
- Endicott: Birthplace of IBM
- FDR and Hyde Park: The Patrician Who Built the Safety Net
- Five Points
- Flight Six Two Three One: The Storm King Crash
- Fort Decker: Where Brant Burned Minisink
- Fort Hunter: Queen Anne's Fort on the Mohawk
- Fort Klock: A Farmer's Fortress on the Mohawk
- Fort Lee: The Cliff Where Washington Ran
- Fort Montgomery: Built on the Wrong Side of the Border
- Fort Montgomery: The Chain Across the Hudson
- Fort Ticonderoga, The Fort That Changed Hands Four Times
- Fort Washington: The Worst Day of the Revolution
- Fort William Henry: The Massacre on Lake George
- Fraunces Tavern: The Farewell That Built a Republic
- Fredonia: Where the Natural Gas Industry Was Born
- From Illegal Dump to Open Air Gallery: Socrates Sculpture Park
- Fultonville: Steamboat Dreams on the Mohawk
- General Worth: The Soldier Who Named Two Cities
- German Flatts: Two Raids, Twenty-One Years Apart
- Glover's Rock: The Delay That Saved Washington's Army
- Grand Central Terminal and the Fight That Reached the Supreme Court
- Grant Cottage: The General's Last Campaign
- Guy Park: A Loyalist's Estate on the Mohawk
- Harriet Tubman in Auburn, The Safe House at the End of the Road
- Harriet Tubman's Final Resting Place, Auburn
- Harriman, New York: The Railroad Baron's Village
- Herkimer, New York
- Holland Land Office: Where Western New York Was Sold
- Homer, New York, First Stop in Cortland County
- Hotel Chelsea and the Night Nancy Spungen Died
- Howe Caverns, One Hundred and Fifty-Six Feet Below the Schoharie Valley
- Huguenot Street: The Oldest Authenticated Street in America
- Irving, New York
- Irving: Capital of the Seneca Nation
- Johnson City: George F. Johnson's Square Deal
- Kanatsiohareke: The Mohawks Come Home
- Kaser: The Most Densely Populated Town in New York State
- Kingston Stockade District: New York's First Capital
- Kingston: New York's Forgotten First Capital
- Kingston's Senate House: New York's First Capitol
- Kiryas Joel: A Shtetl Rebuilt in New York
- Knox's Headquarters: A Georgian House and Three Generals
- Lafayette in Brooklyn: The Frenchman Who Fought for Freedom
- Lake George: Named by a General, Fought Over by Empires
- Last Call for Men Only
- Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made a President
- Little Falls and the Highest Lock in the World
- Lyndhurst: Jay Gould's Gothic Castle on the Hudson
- Mabee Farm: Oldest House in the Mohawk Valley
- Macy's Herald Square and the Parade That Outgrew a Publicity Stunt
- Madam Brett Homestead: Beacon's Oldest House
- Maizefield: Where Aaron Burr Hid After the Duel
- Malone: Border Town, British Raid, and the Road to Canada
- Mamaroneck: Sound Town, Sinatra's Hometown
- Marble Hill: The Piece of Manhattan That Is No Longer an Island
- Margaret Corbin: First Woman to Fight for America
- Marion Steam Shovel: The Last of Its Kind
- Marist University and the Brothers on the Hudson
- Maybrook: The Switching Yard That Fed New England
- Mayor Gaynor: The Mayor Who Survived a Bullet
- McGrawville's Radical College
- McIntosh Laboratory: High Fidelity Made in Binghamton
- Middletown, New York: Where the Erie Railroad Changed Everything
- Mohawk Akwesasne, The Nation That Straddles Three Governments
- Montgomery: Named for a Revolutionary Hero
- Moses Van Campen: Gauntlet at the Western Door
- Moss Island: Potholes and an Ancient Waterfall
- Mount Gulian
- New Paltz: Three Centuries on One Street
- New Rochelle's Huguenot Parish
- New Windsor: Where the Purple Heart Was Born
- New York Central College: America's First Integrated Campus
- New York Mills: The Village the Looms Built
- New York's Forever Wild: The Forest Preserve at One Hundred
- Newburgh and the Conspiracy That Nearly Ended the Republic
- Newtown Battlefield: The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign
- Nicholas Herkimer: The General Who Led from the Ground
- Nikola Tesla: Last Room at the New Yorker
- Ninety-Seven Orchard Street: Seven Families, One Building, a Century of Immigration
- Nyack: The Fishing Place That Made American Art
- Old Fort Johnson
- Old Fort Johnson: Sir William and the Mohawk Alliance
- Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome: America's First Flying Museum
- Old Stone Fort, Schoharie
- Olean: Where Standard Oil Was Born
- Orleans: Named for a Victory Still Fresh
- Palatine Bridge: Germany on the Mohawk
- Peekskill Freight Depot: Lincoln's Whistle-Stop
- Philipsburg Manor: The North Had Slavery Too
- Port Byron: Named for a Poet No One Can Confirm
- Port Chester: Saw Pit to Sound Shore
- Port Jervis: Where Three States Meet
- Preble: Named for the Commander Who Broke the Barbary Pirates
- Prince Hall Plaza: America's First Black Freemason
- Pulaski, New York
- Queensbury: Warren County's Oldest Town
- Reformed Church of Beacon
- Rosendale Cement: Built Into America's Monuments
- Rosendale: The Cement That Built America's Monuments
- Round Lake: Methodist Camp Meeting Turned Chautauqua Town
- Rye: The Oldest City in Westchester
- Saint Paul's Church: Where Freedom of the Press Was Born
- Salamanca: The City on Seneca Land
- Saratoga 1777, Benedict Arnold's Leg and the Turn of the Revolution
- Saratoga Springs: Health, History, Horses
- Schoharie Crossing: Three Canals in One View
- Schoharie Village: Breadbasket of the Revolution
- Schroon Lake: The Name Nobody Can Quite Explain
- September Eleventh: The Morning and What Came After
- Sidney, New York
- Sing Sing, Up the River to the Prison That Named a Phrase
- Skidmore College: Mind and Hand
- Sleepy Hollow: Washington Irving and the American Ghost
- Sloatsburg: Mills in the Ramapo Pass
- South Glens Falls: Mills Below the Great Falls
- Southeast, New York: Iron, Iron Ore, and a Railroad Deal
- St. Johnsville: Palatine Roots on the Mohawk
- Staatsburgh: Stanford White's Beaux-Arts Masterpiece
- Stewart International Airport: From West Point Airfield to Cold War Fortress
- Stonewall: June Twenty-Eighth, Nineteen Sixty-Nine
- Storm King Art Center: Sculpture on the Scale of Mountains
- Storm King: The Fight That Made Environmental Law
- Suffern Post Office: New Deal Stone and Plaster
- Suffern: The Crossroads Where Washington Kept His Army
- SUNY Fredonia: Where New York Learned to Teach
- Tarrytown Music Hall: Older Than Carnegie Hall
- Tarrytown: The Capture That Unraveled Benedict Arnold
- The African Burial Ground: Seventeen Thousand Dead Under City Hall
- The Apalachin Meeting: When the Mob Came to Upstate New York
- The Autograph and the Shooting: John Lennon at the Dakota
- The Bar That Meant to Book Bluegrass
- The Battle of Klock's Field
- The Borscht Belt: How a Mountain Resort Circuit Invented American Comedy
- The Bridge Fitzgerald Called First Wild Promise
- The Bridge Out of the Tenements
- The Bridge: Queensbridge Houses and the Making of Illmatic
- The Brooklyn Bridge: Caisson Disease and the Women Who Built It
- The Bull That Police Confiscated
- The Cathedral of Commerce
- The Chrysler Building's Secret Spire
- The Church That Auctioned Freedom
- The Courthouse That Cost More Than a Country
- The Courthouse That Outlived Its Jail, Twice
- The Cross Bronx Expressway: Robert Moses's Most Consequential Cut
- The Culinary Institute of America
- The Eighteen Sixty-Three Draft Riots: Four Days That Exposed the Union
- The Elephant Hotel: Where the American Circus Was Born
- The Empire State Building and the Longest Survived Elevator Fall
- The Esopus Wars: Dutch and Lenape in Conflict
- The Flatiron Building and the Wind That Named a Slang Phrase
- The George Washington Bridge: Where the Country Ends
- The Gilded Age: Fifth Avenue and the Economics of Inequality
- The Girl Who Gave Lincoln His Beard
- The Harlem Renaissance: When Black America Built a Capital
- The High Line: From Death Avenue to Design Icon
- The Highway That Became a Park
- The Hill Named for a Lost Battle
- The House Nobody Could Afford to Empty
- The Hudson River School: How Painters Invented Conservation
- The Hyde Collection: Old Masters in Glens Falls
- The Inebriate Asylum: America's First Addiction Hospital
- The Jay Estate: America's First Chief Justice and the Fight Against Slavery
- The Land Tortoise: North America's Oldest Intact Warship
- The Lenape Homeland: Mannahatta Before Manhattan
- The Lily of the Mohawks: Kateri Tekakwitha at Fonda
- The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
- The New York Slave Trade: The City Nobody Calls a Slave City
- The Oneida Community: Utopia Turned Silver
- The Oneida Institute: The Most Radical School in America
- The Park Built Over a Graveyard
- The Refinery That Sweetened a Nation
- The Renwick Ruin and the Reporter Who Faked Madness
- The Sanctuary That Slept for Fifty Years
- The Schomburg Center: One Man's Library Against Erasure
- The Spill Beneath Greenpoint
- The Sprite Who Watched the Magazine Fold
- The Tappan Zee Bridge: Three Miles Across the Hudson
- The Titanic's Lighthouse
- The Tombs
- The United Nations Headquarters and the Slaughterhouse It Replaced
- The Wall Street Bombing
- The Wappinger Confederacy: The Eastern Hudson's Erased Nations
- The Westies: Hell's Kitchen's Last Gang War
- The Yard That Armed a War
- The Young Lords and El Barrio: Puerto Rican New York Fights Back
- Treason Site: Arnold and Andre at West Point
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: March Twenty-Fifth, Nineteen Eleven
- Tudor City and the Man Who Saved Its Parks
- Tuxedo Park: The Gilded Age Enclave That Named a Suit
- Tuxedo Park: The Town That Named a Suit
- Unadilla: Place of Meeting
- Utica Union Station: Grand Central's Little Sibling
- Utica: The Name from a Hat
- Van Cortlandt House: The Oldest Building in the Bronx
- Van Cortlandt Park: America's First Public Golf Course
- Van Wyck Homestead
- Wallkill: Gunpowder Town of the Revolution
- Walter's: The Pagoda Hot Dog Stand
- Watertown: Where the Five-and-Dime Was Born
- Watertown's Public Square: The Oldest Covered Mall in America
- West Point: The Fort Benedict Arnold Nearly Surrendered
- Westfield, New York: Where Lincoln Grew His Beard
- Where the Army Got Its Salami
- Where Washington Took the Oath
- Whitney Point, Where Two Rivers Meet
- Wiawaka: A Holiday for Working Women
- Wilderstein: Daisy Suckley, FDR, and a Dog Named Fala
- William H. Seward House
- Woodlawn Cemetery: Jazz Corner of the Bronx
- Woodstock: The Festival That Wasn't in Woodstock