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Burning Gotham

Burning Gotham

Written by: The WallBreakers
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 New York 1835: A City at its tipping point. It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. Most of these people live below Fourteenth Street in wooden or brick buildings no taller than five stories. The gap between rich and poor is rapidly expanding as each week thousands of new men and women pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Many come to earn an honest living. Others for more nefarious reasons. Several historical lives converge in this scripted audio fiction series about the fastest growing city in the world, and the opportunists who shaped it.© 2025 Burning Gotham Art Drama & Plays Entertainment & Performing Arts
Episodes
  • Burning Gotham: Out Now

    Burning Gotham: Out Now
    Aug 25 2023

    Right now, experience New York City like you’ve never before. Will you make the right deal? Or fall to greed? But whatever you choose, just make sure you get out in time.

    Out now on your favorite podcast app, Burning Gotham — The 2022 Tribeca Select audio soap opera about the fastest growing city in the world, and the opportunists who shaped it.

    Find out more at BurningGotham.com
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    2 mins
  • Beyond Burning Gotham: Episode 4

    Beyond Burning Gotham: Episode 4
    Dec 23 2022

    Beyond Burning Gotham: Episode 4

    These episodes are the history compendium for the preceding Burning Gotham chapters. They’ll help paint the picture on what was really going on in 1835. Our characters live in a New York rapidly becoming the most important city in the western world.

    In this episode we’ll wrap up the first eight Burning Gotham chapters. Burning Gotham Chapter seven is called: Welcome To Hell Gate.

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    Featured interviews:

    Greg Young
    Daniel Levy
    Glen Umberger
    Jeff Broxmeyer
    Gary Urbanowicz
    Carol Ward
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    Important Links
    New York Landmarks Conservancy
    Greg Young & Tom Myers’ Bowery Boys Podcast
    Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age — By Jeff Broxmeyer
    Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York — Daniel Levy
    New York City Fire Museum
    The Morris-Jumel Mansion

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    Director & Post-Producer:
    James Scully

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    24 mins
  • Burning Gotham 008: Midnight On South Street

    Burning Gotham 008: Midnight On South Street
    Dec 20 2022

    BURNING GOTHAM 008: MIDNIGHT ON SOUTH STREET

    Aaron and Sorina have a tense meeting with Captain Jones. Chaos and violence soon erupts as Aaron receives bad family news.

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    Written By:
    Olga Lysenko & James Scully

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    The Entire Cast:
    Eirik Gislason
    Alain Laforest
    Kacie Laforest
    Roland Lane
    Mary Murphy
    Anna Pirogov
    Nancy Pop
    Gustavo Rodriguez
    Matthew Roper
    James Scully

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    Music
    Thank you to both The Hesperus Early Music Ensemble and The Itinerant Band. They were gracious enough to allow their music to appear in Burning Gotham. I’ll have a links for both in the show notes.

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    Engineer:
    Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio

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    Director & Post-Producer:
    James Scully

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    17 mins
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