Sam Roberts on The New York Times
b'(10/27/2022) "The New Yorkers" introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; the couple whose soir\\xe9e ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; and the husband and wife who invented the modern celebrity talk show. \\n\\nIt reveals the victim of the city\'s first recorded murder in the seventeenth century and the high school dropout who slashed crime rates in the twentieth. The notorious mobster who was imperiously banished from the city and the woman who successfully sued a bus company for racial discrimination a century before Rosa Parks.\\n\\nJoin us when Sam Roberts, a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, an obituaries reporter and formerly the Urban Affairs correspondent at the New York Times takes us on a pulsating journey history of the world\'s most exceptional metropolis on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.'