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Subject

Social Studies (NYS K-12 Framework Common Core)

Audio

Access this audio series at: http://www.radiodiaries.org/newyorkworks-home.html

Description

New York Works is an audio portrait of a vanishing city. From a knife sharpener who still makes house calls to one of Brooklyn's last commercial fisherman, New York Works tells the stories of those who keep the city's past alive.

Featuring:

Walter Backerman, seltzer man

Frank Schubert, lighthouse keeper

Selma Koch, bra saleswoman

Charlie Zimmerman, water tower builder

John Klein, farmer

Cali Rivera, cowbell and drum maker

Frank Sabatino, fisherman

The Project

New York Works is co-produced by Radio Diaries and Emily Botein of WNYC's The Next Big Thing, with help from Ben Shapiro. New York Works originally aired on WNYC's The Next Big Thing and NPR's All Things Considered in January 2002.

The series was rebroadcast as an hour-long special over Labor Day weekend. It was hosted by Dean Olsher of The Next Big Thing and distributed by American Radio Works, the documentary project of Minnesota Public Radio and NPR News.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

SS.SSP.5.4.4 Examine the role of job specialization and trade historically and during contemporary times in the Western Hemisphere.

SS.SSP.7.1.2 Identify, select, and evaluate evidence about events from diverse sources (including written documents, works of art, photographs, charts and graphs, artifacts, oral traditions, and other primary and secondary sources).

SS.SSP.8.1.2 Identify, describe, and evaluate evidence about events from diverse sources (including written documents, works of art, photographs, charts and graphs, artifacts, oral traditions, and other primary and secondary sources).

SS.SSP.9-12.1.2 Identify, describe, and evaluate evidence about events from diverse sources (including written documents, works of art, photographs, charts and graphs, artifacts, oral traditions, and other primary and secondary sources).

SS.E.1.1A Students know the roots of American culture, its development from many different traditions, and the ways many people from a variety of groups and backgrounds played a role in creating it.

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