Your Hometown

03/03/2025

Rest in peace to an icon.

12/07/2022

occurred this evening. Listen to the interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson, who first popularized this concept. As a child, Neil visited Stonehenge and was inspired to bring some of that cosmic alignment to his hometown, :

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-hometown/id1549589688?i=1000518782115

‎Show Your Hometown, Ep Neil deGrasse Tyson – Riverdale, the Bronx - Apr 26, 2021

22/12/2021

“It’s a city where you can be alone in the multitude…. But also … everything’s come here, everything’s been through here.... So those two senses of the city kind of exist simultaneously…. As much as I say, I’m tired of New York… it’s been 60 years. Here I am. So, I think I am a New Yorker in that sense…. There’s some extraordinary hold it has on me that keeps me here.” - Glenn Ligon

Each of us has our own unique connection to the place we call home. What does yours mean to you? Don’t miss renowned artist Glenn Ligon exploring his New York at yourhometown.org (or wherever you listen to podcasts).

📸 Kevin Burke

20/12/2021

“I’m not very good at dates…. But I do remember emotions.” - Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon. Artist. New Yorker. Hear him explore his memories of growing up in the city and the map of feelings that overlays the wide landscape he traveled on his journey of becoming. Find us at yourhometown.org (or wherever

Artwork by: Nick Gregg

Museum of the City of New York

16/12/2021

Out now‼️ A new episode featuring renowned artist Glenn Ligon, who gives us fresh ways of seeing our history and ourselves. How can we see him better through the lens of childhood? Hear his story — from the Bronx to the Upper West Side to the world.🎧 Listen today at yourhometown.org.

15/12/2021

Can't wait for tomorrow! Internationally-acclaimed artist talks about growing up in in the '60s and '70s. Glenn's work gives us new ways of seeing our history and ourselves. Don't miss his story of becoming. Subscribe to our podcast at yourhometown.org.

13/12/2021

“I don't feel I'm trying to live up to someone else's standard – just my own. Maybe there's something very New York about that, too.”

Sewell Chan story began in Chinatown in the late ’70s. His parents’ immigrant stories were epic, but home was quiet. With boundless curiosity to feed, Sewell found his way to the Queens Public Library , Hunter College High School, and in magical trips to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Metropolitan Opera, and Broadway.

Today, he’s the editor of the Texas Tribune and one of the most thoughtful, and respected, of his generation. “I don't feel I'm trying to live up to someone else's standard – just my own,” he tells Kevin Burke. “Maybe there's something very New York about that, too.” Discover Sewell’s NY journey only at yourhometown.org.

Museum of the City of New York

10/12/2021

The only child born in the US to his working-class Chinese immigrant parents, future journalist Sewell Chan grew up singing “New York, New York” in school like it was the national anthem. Hear him talk about coming of age in in the ‘80s/90s and how his world within it was a “third space … that wasn't Asia but wasn't exactly America either.”

Don’t miss our newest episode of Your Hometown, available at yourhometown.org or wherever you like to listen.

🗽 Museum of the City of New York

08/12/2021

In episode 18, Sewell Chan reflects on what in his childhood in NYC led him to his calling as a reporter: “I guess I did feel a little bit like an outsider, and that may have influenced my interest in journalism where curiosity is rewarded – as well as nosiness.”

This curiosity flowered while he was running a newspaper with his classmate Jennifer 8. Lee at Hunter College High School, which led to a special meeting with then Mayor David Dinkins.

All of this sparked a prominent career Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Washington Post, and now to the Texas Tribune . 🎧Hear Sewell tell Kevin Burke his story at yourhometown.org or your favorite podcast app!

Museum of the City of New York

06/12/2021

Sewell Chan didn’t take a bus to school in . His father drove him in his taxi at the start of his shift. The rides were quiet but echo across time in Sewell’s work as an incisive today.

🎧Hear about the deeper roots of his work in our latest episode at your hometown.org

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02/12/2021

Today! In our latest episode, we welcome Sewell Chan, the new editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune . But before his move to , and before his previous roles at the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times , and the Washington Post, he was a kid growing up in a working-class Chinese immigrant family in the outer boroughs of , where his father worked long shifts driving a taxi. What's at the root of Sewell's calling as a journalist, how was his NY different from the one his parents moved in, and what were the portals that led this inquiring mind from their home to the larger world he reports on today? Learn more about Sewell Chan's coming-of-age story at yourhometown.org or your favorite podcast app.

Artwork by: Charlotte Yiu

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27/11/2021

When you think about your personal map of the city, where would you say is the safest place on your map?

For Tiffany Cabán, it's the feeling she has when she's with her dogs. "They are my safe place." It's been that way since she was a kid in South Richmond Hill, , NYC.

"Growing up, we had a Siberian Husky. Her name was Bonnie and, God, I loved her so much. We talk about experiencing death for the first time. Quite honestly, the first death that I experienced that really shook me was hers. We were just inseparable, like my first day of kindergarten when my mom walked me across the street.... All of a sudden people are hollering and yelling.... And my mom's like, 'Whose dog is that?' And the dog gets closer and it's our dog. She had jumped our six-foot fence to run after me into the schoolyard.... I loved that dog so, so much."

Listen to Tiffany Cabán story about her childhood in and how it led her to become a public defender and Council Member at yourhometown.org or your favorite podcast app.

Tiffany Cabán captured national headlines when she came within a hair’s breadth of winning the primary for district attorney in her hometown of Queens, New York, in 2019. It was an audacious move: a young, out-of-nowhere candidate running in her home borough against the establishment on a platfor...