In the second episode of the FAQ NYC podcast’s three-part special series, A Knickerbocker History of America, Katie Honan, Harry Siegel and guest cohost Asad Dandia, the Brooklyn borough historian, sat down in front of a live audience at P&T Knitwear to discuss just three of the city’s many, many “riots” — “a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd” — and how the Harlem riot of 1934, the hardhat riot of 1970 and The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association riot of 1992 — and how each was understood at the time and in hindsight.
https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?riots
Listen to part one, on Blackouts, here. We’ll be back at P&T for part three, on Terror, on Friday, Sept. 18 with free tickets available here. You can subscribe to the pod on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, through RSS and wherever podcasts are found, or listen right here at The City Reporter.
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