Lee Hernandez

In May 1962, President John F. Kennedy dedicated the Penn South Co-Ops in Chelsea. His speech didn't sound much different than what you might hear from an elected leader today.

Ok, it's not THAT Alexander Hamilton. But in 1956, a descendant of the founding father joined the station to talk about immigration.

During World War II, WNYC aired a lot of war-related programming, including one show about tender feelings between a soldier and his SUV.

When the city needed to get folks to cut back on water they produced a hilarious radio play about a man who cops an attitude with a ghost and pays the price.

Before Lin-Manuel Miranda dropped a freestyle in the Rose Garden, WNYC got presidential when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt spun some beats on our airwaves in 1957.

Before Bernie Sanders' accent turned heads on the campaign trail, Brooklyn's own Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman to seek a major party nomination.

The book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi was published 30 years ago this month. Hear Pileggi talk about gangsters and a young Martin Scorsese discuss adapting books to film.

During the longest transit strike in New York history, union leader Mike Quill stopped running the trains, but kept running his mouth. Hear an excerpt of Quill's words for Mayor Lindsay.

In 1950, kids from city hospitals attended a Christmas party at City Hall with Santa. St. Nick couldn't quite get his own reindeer names right but the kids still got a nice treat.