Gary Dennis talks Real New York History and the Films You Need to See

Recorded at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, we chop it up with one of the best Tour Guides in NYC. Today’s guest on the show in Gary Dennis. In this episode we talk about the history of the Subway, film, architecture, cathedrals, theaters, old New York and the best places to find a restroom in the city.

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The Cliff Notes

1. Boroughs of New York (Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island)
2. Private Group Tour of Underground NYC (AKA The Empire Beneath The Streets)
3. NewYorkToursbyGary.com
4. #7 Train
5. Transit Museum Annex
6. Grand Central Terminal
7. Bayside, Queens
8. Hunts Point, Bronx
9. Archer Avenue Lines
10. R Train
11. N Train
12. W Train
13. Ditmars Boulevard
14. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
15. Charles T. Harvey
16. The History of New York Rapid Transit
17. Jay Gould
18. Hudson River Railroad
19. Metropolitan Railway
20. August Belmont, Jr.
21. IRT Third Avenue Line
22. IRT Ninth Avenue Line
23. Elevated Railway
24. William Tweed
25. Independent Subway System –IND
26. Multiple Unit Control
27. Frank Sprague
28. Bill de Blasio– Mayor of New York City
29. Red Hook, Brooklyn
30. Upper West Side
31. Harlem
32. 103^rd Street between Broadway and West End aka Humphrey Bogart Place
33. William Burroughs – Writer
34. Sara Roosevelt -mother of President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child, and subsequently the mother-in-law of Eleanor Roosevelt.
35. Office of Naval Intelligence and Lucky Luciano
36. Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich
37. New York City Housing Authority  (NYCHA)
38. Ed Koch – Mayor New York 1977-1989
39. Dark Shadows – Film
40. King of Kings – Film
41. Casablanca – Film
42. Ten Commandments – Film
43. The 4:30 Movie
44. The Million Dollar Movie
45. Night of the Hunter – Film
46. The Warriors – Film 
47. Blockbusters
48. Movie Place
49. Netflix
50. Lincoln Square Movie Theater
51. Betty Grable
52. Director’s Cut
53. Letterboxed
54. Night of the Hunter – Film
55. Sweet Smell of Success – Film 
56. American Graffiti – Film
57. Kings Row – Film 
58. In a Lonely Place – Film 
59. The French Connection – Film 
60. Lauren Bacall – Actress
61. West 103^rd Street Block Association
62. Riverside Park Conservancy – Riverside Fund
63. Tino Hernandez
64. Chico O’Farrill – Cuban Composer
65. Humphrey Bogart
66. Lost NY 1964
67. The Columbia Encyclopedia to New York
68. The Boulevard (Before it was Broadway)
69. Great Blizzard of 1888
70. Hippie
71. Buddy Holly – American Musician and Composer
72. Rick Rubin – American Record Producer
73. Oh! Calcutta! – Film
74. Richard Varick – 45 Mayor of New York City
75. Times Square – 42^nd Street
76. New Amsterdam Theatre
77. The Lion King – Musical
78. Mary Poppins – Musical
79. Aladdin – Musical  
80. Transportation Security Administration – TSA
81. Taxi Driver – Film
82. All That Jazz – Film
83. Fred Astaire – Dancer- Singer-Actor 
84. Marx Brothers – Comedy Group
85. The Cocoanuts – Film
86. Animal Crackers – Film
87. Vaudeville
88. The Times Square Theater
89. The Selwyn Theater
90. American Airlines Theatre
91. Apollo and Lyric Theaters
92. Apollo – 125^th 
93. Simon and Herzig Music Hall
94. Samuel Goldwyn
95. Edgar Selwyn & Archibald Selwyn (Selwyn Brothers)
96. Metro Goldwyn Mayer – MGM
97. Empire Theatre – Originally opened as Eltinge 42^nd Street Theatre in 1912
98. Julian Eltinge – Actor – Female Impersonator
99. Thomas W. Lamb – Architect – Madison Square Garden 1925
100. Kaufman Astoria Studios
101. The United Palace Theatre was the last of the Loew’s “Wonder Theaters” to be built in New York, Loew’s 175th Street
102. Beacon Theatre 
103. Roxy Theatre
104. The Capital Theatre
105. Radio City Music Hall
106. Reverend Ike – American Minister
107. Junior’s (Famous Cheesecake)
108. New York Times
109. Mark Hellinger Theatre – Home to Times Square Church
110. Cort Theatre
111. Washington Heights, Manhattan 
112. First Corinthian Baptist Church
113. Loew’s Valencia Theatre
114. Regent Theater
115. Dean Martin – American Singer
116. Jerry Lewis – Comedian
117. Sid Caeser – Actor
118. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Film
119. Richard Wayne Van Dyke – Actor
120. Lin-Manuel Miranda – Playwright
121. Sean Penn – Actor
122. Casablanca – Film
123. Ella Fitzgerald – American Jazz Singer
124. Walkman– Tried to find the yellow Amon talks about in the episode.
125. Penn Station

Special Content Alert – Where to take a poop in New York City – The Real New Yorker’s Bathroom List

1. Columbus Circle
2. Rocky’s Pizza Shop
3. Starbucks (with Bathrooms)
4. Brookfield Place
5. Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House
6. National Museum of the American Indian
7. Grand Central Terminal
8. Bryant Park Public Restrooms
9. JC Penny’s Manhattan Store
10. Home Depot Manhattan
11. Chelsea Market
12. Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
13. Tony Bennet
14. Brooklyn Bridge
15. The Municipal Building
16. Big Gulp
17. Eataly
18. Fred and Adele Astaire – Dancers
19. Coney Island Wonder Wheel
20. Nathan’s Famous
21. Fulton Ferry Landing
22. Coney Island Cyclone
23. Coney Island Parachute Jump
24. 1939 New York World’s Fair
25. Brooklyn Cyclones
26. Staten Island Yankees
27. Minor League Baseball
28. Eldorado bumper cars and Arcade
29. Fred Trump and the Coney Island Funeral 
30. Astroland Amusement Park
31. Luna Park
32. Coney Island
33. The Godfather Part 3
34. Dinosaur Playground in Riverside Park
35. Robert Moses Playground 
36. Spiderman Film Locations NYC
37. Heins & LaFarge Architectural Firm

This episode is sponsored by Gorilla Coffee.