Local Switchboard NYC
New York City Local News
- Update frequency
- every 95 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 19
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Celebrating Pride All Year
Pride may be over this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate and support the LGBTQ community all year long.
New York in the Wake of Trump
On this episode, we look at the impact of a few of the policy goals and changes initiated by the Trump administration on New York City.
From the podcast This Way Out, we have a report on the re…
A Nice Town
On our latest episode, we revisit the poet Dorothy Parker’s famous quip, that New York “will be a nice town if they ever get it finished” from two perspectives.
We Are Family: NYC’s Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center Opens
On June 28th, 1969 patrons at The Stonewall Inn, a well-known nightspot and refuge for the queer community in New York’s Greenwich Village, had had enough. Raided and ridiculed by local police most …
Saving and Savoring the Planet, New York Style
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, helped to inspire environmental awareness and climate activism in the United States.
This spring of 2024, we wish to be anything but silent. On …
Women Make Theatre: Bonus Episode
Actor Ellen Lauren was once a competitive show jumper, but theatre goers of the last 30-odd years will know her as a founder and principal actor with the SITI Company, where she played roles as vari…
NYC: Women Make Theatre
For Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating women’s contribution to the theatre, where they have had a dramatic presence since classical times and a professional presence as actors since the 17th c…
Happy Holidays From Local Switchboard NYC
On this episode, Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague talks with Lauren Keating, adapter and director of “A Christmas Carol” at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey.
And Jordan Gass…
October Fests
This month on the show, we feature two different ways of celebrating New York and honoring New Yorkers. It’s the 50th anniversary of the iconic Village Halloween Parade, and Sarah Montague talked w…
Pride Full
For Pride Month, Local Switchboard reports on the history of the rainbow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker.
Voices Raised In Song & Protest
It’s the holidays: friends, family, gifts and gelt, tree lightings, and ‘good will towards men.’ Not so fast. Our brief show for this season does indeed include an uplifting tree lighting in Greenwi…
Pride Acts Up
Local Switchboard NYC celebrates Pride month by revisiting significant parts of its past: the activist group ACT UP, and the participatory project The Gay Rub, founded by Steven Reigns, which …
Take A Walk
Spring has finally sprung, and people see eager to get outdoors. But the return of “normal” business and social life has also meant a return to the subway. Never fun, and even less so these days. Si…
Closed Doors
On this episode we say goodbye to spaces lost during the pandemic, as part of a new series. First, Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague gets a tour of her old apartment building — an historic family h…
Introducing Our New Series: ‘We’re Still Here’
In this bonus episode, Local Switchboard’s Heather Chin presents the New Ohio Theatre’s latest production, “Journey Around My Bedroom.”
Hats Off To Bella Abzug
Liz Abzug, the daughter of feminist icon and former New York Representative Bella Abzug, spoke with Local Switchboard host Jordan Gass-Poore’ during the summer about running her mom’s political camp…
New York City In Changing Times
Local Switchboard’s Betsy Laken in conversation with local theater director Adrienne Campbell-Holt on the resiliency of New York City’s performing arts community.
And as we prepare for a new preside…
The Ghosts Get Furloughed
In this episode, we take a look back at the annual New York City Village Halloween Parade and explore the colorful past and uncertain future of the beloved Lower East Side neo-burlesque venue, The S…
Dial In For Season Two of Local Switchboard NYC
In our season two kickoff, we go back in time to September 16, 1920, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Wall Street Bombing, the worst terror attack in American history before 9/11.