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Having worked for years as an artist and teacher, Akwesasne Mohawk Brad Bonaparte returned to ironworking in 1999. He describes what brought him back and what his first few months on the job were like as he tried to relearn the trade…

Akwesasne Mohawk ironworker Brad Bonaparte has lost many family members and friends to construction-site accidents. Remembering these losses and some of his own close calls, he explains how he deals with his ever-present fear of falling.

Bill Oakes discusses his dedication to preserving the Mohawk language and the reason many of his family members have lost the ability to speak it.

This Philco radio spot from 1940 features Bing Crosby.

This spot introducing a program called "The Phantom Spoilers" includes an ad for Majestic radios. It was broadcast in the 1930s.

This ad for Brunswick radios and musical piece (typical of what would be recorded for Brunswick sets) was broadcast in the 1930s.

The Stewart-Warner radio advertised in this 1930s radio spot was designed for the "sensational new metal tubes."

This radio ad from the 1930s promotes Columbia stereophonic high-fidelity phonographs.

Business on Radio Row was booming starting in the 1920s. This advertisement for the RCA-Victor Model 108 radio is an example of the types of sound one might have heard blasting from stores in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Radio Row was demolished ot make…

This radio ad for "modern age" radios by Atwater Kent was broadcast in the 1930s.

Bill Schneck, whose father opened the first radio distributorship on Cortlandt Street, Radio Row, describes how his father got the idea.

Bill Schneck talks about the public's first reactions to radio and describes his father's sales technique.

Bill Schneck talks about Atwater Kent, a wealthy industrialist who began manufacturing top-of-the-line radios and who knew his father.

Bill Schneck's describes growing up on Radio Row.

Bill Schneck describes the growth of Radio Row and Cortlandt Street, as radio broadcasting became popular.

In this recording of street sounds from Radio Row in 1929, you can hear shopkeepers blasting phonographs and radios.

Sy Denby talks about the fight he and other small businessmen from Radio Row waged with the Port Authority in opposition to the WTC.

Sy Denby, who owned a store on Radio Row, talks about the romance of radio. He and his friends were in it because they loved it.

Sy Denby, who owned a parts business on Radio Row, introduces himself and talks about the neighborhood's early days.

Eugene Blan, better known as Blan, the Radio Man, introduces himself.