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About Robert Snyder
Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and journalism at Rutgers University, writes widely on New York City. His most recent book is When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers, published by Cornell University Press.NBN Episodes hosted by Robert:
December 19, 2025
Rural County, Urban Borough
The borough of Queens is the largest of New York City’s five boroughs. It holds more people than Chicago or Los Angeles. And thanks to immigration, i…
November 18, 2025
The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) by Henry H. Sapoznik explores a century of Yiddish popular culture in New York Ci…
August 27, 2025
Walter Lippmann
From the years before World War I until the late 1960s, the journalist and political theorist Walter Lippmann was one of the most influential writers …
May 18, 2025
Going Around
From 1949 until his death in 1997, Murray Kempton was a distinct presence in New York City journalism. Peddling around town on a three-speed bicycle w…
April 12, 2025
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill
For last 100 years, the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City has stood as the capital of Black America and the capital of the global African diaspo…
December 9, 2024
South of My Dreams
South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home, A Memoir (U South Carolina Press, 2024) by F. K. Clementi follows the adventures and misadventures of F…
November 20, 2024
Walking East Harlem
They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including P…
September 22, 2024
An Irish Passion for Justice
In the city of New York from the 1930s to the 1990s, Irish attorney Paul O’Dwyer was a fierce and enduring presence in courtrooms, on picket lines, an…
August 23, 2024
Progressive New York
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, New York State was a hotbed of change. Cities grew as immigrants arrived from Europe and African Am…
April 23, 2024
Mobilizing the Metropolis
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is everywhere in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1921, its portfolio includes airports, marin…
February 25, 2024
Kibbitz and Nosh
In the middle decades of the twentieth century in New York City, Dubrow’s cafeterias in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and the garment district of M…
January 22, 2023
Bob Dylan's New York
New York has long been a city where people go to reinvent themselves. And since the dawn of the twentieth century, New York City’s Green…
November 30, 2022
Heaven on the Hudson
On the west side of Manhattan, Riverside Park winds between the banks of the Hudson River and the elegant housing of Riverside Drive. In her new book …
November 11, 2022
The Crucible of Public Policy
During the early twentieth century New York State, with its settlement houses, muckraking journalists, labor unions and national political leaders lik…
August 3, 2022
Left in the Center
The history of small political parties and the history of the American left are closely intertwined, especially in the book Left in the Center: The Li…
April 29, 2022
Today in the Taxi
The first poem in Sean Singers’ new collection of poetry, Today in the Taxi, published by Tupelo Press, begins with, “Today in the taxi, I brought a m…
April 20, 2022
Four Streets and a Square
The poet Walt Whitman wrote in his 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass that New York was a “City of the world! (for all races are here, All lands of the e…
September 13, 2021
Saved at the Seawall
When terrorists struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 a small fleet of boats on a rescue mission converged on lower Manhattan. In one of…
August 23, 2021
Rockaway Blue
Twenty years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the novel Rockaway Blue (Cornell UP, 2021) probes the griefs, trauma and resilience of…
August 18, 2021
Names of New York
Geographer and writer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro has a sharp appreciation for place, history, and the stories we tell to give meaning to our lives. All of …
May 4, 2021
Rebel Cinderella
In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a…
February 19, 2021
They Left It All Behind
Hannah Hahn’s They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children (Roman and Littlefield, 202…
February 8, 2021
Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side
In Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Bloomingdale-Morningside Heights (Fordham UP, 2020), Jim Mackin introduces readers to almost 60…
December 9, 2020
The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot
In northern Manhattan in 1841, the naturalist John James Audubon bought 14 acres of farmland on the banks of the Hudson River and built his family a h…