Silver Chains, Playgrounds, and the Oval: A Celebration of Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town

A podcast intended to share recollections, memories, and anecdotes about growing up in a large middle-class housing development in New York City between 1960 and 1980.

Episodes

May 23, 2025

1 hr 16 min

Mary Anderson Gallagher, Robyn Muskat Frank, SueEllen Levine Eshed, and Laura Capuano Schmidt share their memories of divided bedrooms, table manners, long telephone cords, and parents out on the bench on summer evenings.

May 23, 2025

1 hr 16 min

Apr 30, 2025

1 hr 2 min

Susan and Gil take us back to P.S. 61, school plays, Freidel's, and first crushes.

Apr 30, 2025

1 hr 2 min

Apr 4, 2025

1 hr 22 min

Eileen and Tim take us back to the summer point tourney, awful memories of cream cheese and jelly, "spending time" in jail cells, and the coolest people they knew growing up.

Apr 4, 2025

1 hr 22 min

Mar 14, 2025

1 hr 18 min

Kevin takes us along to the East River, the Bash, and several memorable nights out.

Mar 14, 2025

1 hr 18 min

Feb 21, 2025

1 hr 11 min

Patti and Joe chat about Stuy Town, Immaculate Conception School, roller hockey, and the Dirt Bowl.

Feb 21, 2025

1 hr 11 min

Jan 30, 2025

1 hr 9 min

The Nieporent brothers reminisce about roller hockey, the 23rd street pool, their parents, and more in this episode about growing up in Peter Cooper Village.

Jan 30, 2025

1 hr 9 min

Jan 9, 2025

55 min

Ken and Richard take us back to growing up in Stuy Town in the 1950s and early 1960s

Jan 9, 2025

55 min

Dec 20, 2024

38 min

Stuyvesant Town resident Tommy Issing recalls his growing up years in Stuy Town the 1960s and 1970s.

Dec 20, 2024

38 min

Dec 2, 2024

33 min

This inaugural episode has two components: in the first half, we provide a refresher on the physical layout of Stuyvesant Town.  The second half is a conversation with our first guest, Ellen Sullivan Hart.

Dec 2, 2024

33 min

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