BUZZ and NEWS About Naming Gotham
Learn all about Naming Gotham in Rebecca’s interview on PBS MetroFocus with Rafael Pi Roman.
Are you Bruckner curious? Watch Rebecca’s interview on CUNY TV’s Book It With Carol Anne
Want some Anne Hutchinson and Gertrude Whitney gossip? Listen to Rebecca and Jessica Cale on Dirty Sexy History
Listen to Rebecca spill some Kosiuszko tea on Professor Buzzkill.
Get your Major Deegan fix on D Listers of History
Other Podcasts and News Articles About Naming Gotham
Inside Voices Podcast, Rebecca talks NY history with her CUNY Law colleague Natalie Gomez-Velez (Sept. 2024).
Onest Podcast Olga interviews Rebecca about New York’s Hidden History (May 27, 2024)
Most Popular Dig in to NYC history and find out why Thaddeus Kosciuszko should be Most Popular! (May 1, 2024)
Tell Me About Your Book join the gossip about Adam Clayton Powell Jr, Jackie Robinson and so many more (May 1, 2024)
PIX 11 You’re Saying It Wrong: New York City Street Names (Mar. 14, 2024)
D Listers of History Fayge and Mazal quiz Rebecca about Major William Francis Deegan (Nov. 27, 2023)
Batting the Breeze Steve and Rebecca talk about Jackie Robinson ending racial exclusion in baseball (with some Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. info thrown in for fun) (Nov. 16, 2023)
Fascinating People, Fascinating Places Dan asks Rebecca “who was that Major Deegan Anyway? (Oct. 27, 2023)
Curiousaholic Learn about Gotham’s Villains—the Rikers Family—and the horror that is Rikers Island—The Dark Secret of New York City (Oct 26, 2023)
Nobody Knows Your Story fun conversation combining Naming Gotham, Environmental Justice, and Sailing the Pacific on the Endeavour, (Sept. 29, 2023)
Lean to the Left and Justice Counts podcasts teamed up to interview with Rebecca about the Environmental Justice Chronicles, climate change, and how to build a better, fairer city.
Author’s Alcove conversation with Agnes Wolf about writing Naming Gotham, and spilling some tea about who I think are the heroes and villains of the NYC story. (Sept. 20, 2023)
Memoir Lane conversation with Allison Santana about Mott Street and Naming Gotham (Aug. 15, 2023)
The Rotunda 99WBOB Scott Rotondo interviews Rebecca about Major Deegan, traffic jams, and more (Aug. 16, 2023).
Awesome Gang Interview with Rebecca about Naming Gotham, and about writing more generally
Qns.com article about Rebecca and her online lecture in collaboration with the Queens Memory Project (March 26, 2023)
CUNY Research Foundation featured Naming Gotham and Rebecca’s work in its Women’s History Month Coverage
FAQNYC Podcast, interview with Rebecca about the policy of naming and Naming Gotham (March 26, 2023)
It’s in Queens Podcast, interview with Rebecca about Naming Gotham (March 8, 2023)
TheCityLife.Org wrote about Naming Gotham on February 17.
Gothamist featured Naming Gotham on February 16, 2023 under the headline “Extra, Extra, Rikers Island Is Named After an Infamous Slaveholder Who Led NYC’s Effort to Capture People Who’d Escaped Slavery”
Hellgate published a wide-ranging interview about Naming Gotham titled “So Who the Hell Was Major Deegan” on February 16, 2023.
The New York Daily News devoted a 2-page spread to Naming Gotham in the January 29, 20230 print edition. The article is titled Good, Bad, and Forever, written by Jacqueline Cutler. You can read the online version here
WBAI City Watch (99.5 FM) Had a great conversation with Jeff Simmons at 8:30 on Sunday January 22nd to talk NYC history. You can listen here (I start around minute 27)
1010WINS interview https://omny.fm/shows/winsam-on-demand/a-new-book-uncovers-the-history-behind-new-york-ci
The Queens Gazette https://www.qgazette.com/articles/naming-gotham-the-villains-rogues-heroes-behind-new-yorks-place-names/
Untapped Cities: Nicole Saraniero wrote The Hidden Stories Behind New York Place Names. You can read it here.
Rebecca’s Environmental Scholarship In The News
We are Being Gaslighted into Thinking We’re Doomed, List Envy Podcast (Jul. 2, 2024)
Environmental Optimism, The 5 C’s Podcast (Four-part series) (June 2024)
Transportation, EJ, and Climate in NYC, Perspectives on Sustainable Development Podcast (May 28, 2024)
How a Local Garden’s Fight Touched a ‘Generation’ of Lawyers, Law360 (Apr. 19, 2024)
You’re Saying It Wrong, PIX11 (Mar. 14, 2024)
The Vision of a Renewable Rikers Island in NYC, YES Magazine (Nov. 7, 2023)
NY AG Points to Pepsi’s Packaging in Lawsuit Over Buffalo River Pollution, CourtHouse News (Nov 2023)
Judge to Developer: Lay off Children’s Magical Garden—and Protect Its Mulberry Tree Too, The Village Sun (Oct. 5, 2023)
Naming Gotham, 99WBOB The Rotunda (Aug. 16, 2023)
Skepticism Builds About City Hall Push for Giant Cricket Stadium in the Bronx, The City (July 26, 2023)
Why the Montana Climate Kids Can’t Lose, HeatMap (Jun. 23, 2023)
A Bellweather Climate Case in Montana, Wall Street Journal (Jun. 11, 2023)
Did NY Leaders Leave Residents Unprepared for the Air Quality Crisis? New York Times (Jun. 9, 2023)
New York “Smoke Wave” Response Time Criticized, ABC News (Jun. 7, 2023)
Nature for All: Disrupting Structural Inequality in the Provision of Nature and Its Benefits to People, The Nature of Cities Roundtable (Nov. 28, 2022)
Legislating Environmental Justice: Lessons Learned from New York Clean Law podcast (with Hannah Perls)(October 2022)
Ari Ephriam Feldman, There Are Four Ballot Measures Facing New York City This General Election, NY1 (October 19, 2022)
Environmental Racism and the Jackson Water Crisis, Mike Gilliam: Let It Rip, CUNY TV (October 4, 2022)
Isabella Borshoff, Seed Savior? The Wire China (September 25, 2022)
Katie Honan and Samantha Maldonado, For Ida-Flooded Denied City Payouts, Legal Options and Political Promises, The City (August 18, 2022)
Umair Irfan and Neil Dhanesha, The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Isn’t The Only Legal Attack on the Environment, Vox (June 30, 2022)
New Yorkers Environmental Rights Are Under Attack (with Prof. Katy Kuh) Bloomberg Insights (June 24, 2022)
Environmental Law Toward Sustainability Targets (with multiple co-authors) OneEarth (June 15, 2022)
No Sacrifice Zones in Research Either! SPARK magazine (June 5, 2022) (lead author)
Robin Braveneder, Biden’s CEQ Has a Stephen Miller Problem, E&E News (April 20, 2022)
The Renewable Rikers Prison Reclamation Project, Chaire Normandie pour la paix Good News Stories (November 2021)
Rikers Island Could Become Renewable Energy Hub, Yale Climate Connection (September 27, 2021)
Sean Reilly, Trump’s Cost-Benefit Rule Under Fire As EPA Mulls Revamp, E&E News (June 9, 2021)
Mayor Signs Off On Plan That Could Turn Rikers Jail Into Green Garrison, Real Estate Weekly (February 25, 2021)