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99% Invisible - The Sunshine Hotel

Dive into the underworld of NYC's last standing flop hotel

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Bailey Smith
@baileyspace · Co-founder, Pop Up Archive
This is one of the best things I've ever heard "on the radio." The narrator is the manager of the hotel, so there's not sanitized other guiding you but a voice from the place itself, and the ambient sounds are so rich it almost sounds like a radio play. The Sunshine Hotel is one of the those pieces that really transports you to a time and place.
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Ed Shelley
@mr_ed · @ChartMogul, @ Berlin Startup Radio
This is my absolute favorite episode of the excellent 99% Invisble podcast: "The Bowery, in lower Manhattan, is one of New York’s oldest neighborhoods. It’s been through a lot of iterations. In the 1650s, a handful of freed slaves were the neighborhood’s first residents. At the time, New York was still a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam, and the Lower Eas… See more
Tyler Swartz
@tylerswartz · Product @ Tripping
I loved the part about the former military guy that does errand runs for tenants that don't want to leave the building. Interesting to learn more about the people who live in cheap motels and their backgrounds.