In The Bay Ridge Digest Podcast episode 6 we focus on some of the women making our community one of leaders, entrepreneurs, creative minds, and strong personalities in a way that only Bay Ridge can be.

Highlights:

• Erica Stavrou of Owl’s Head Yoga on growing up In South Brooklyn and becoming a Yogi

• Emily Pagano on loving retail, owning Mixx Boutique, and the New Year’s Refresh

• Michelle Perricone on being a foodie, ad sales, and owning Anthony’s Butcher & Deli

• A January 1978 brutal cold front

• Catherine O’Rourke of Cellary on falling in love with, and becoming educated about wine

• New Year jokes from Freddie Friday

• Reminiscences of Lock Yard with Council Member Kayla Santosuosso

• Jan Rideout on Growing up in Canarsie, the 1980 Transit Strike, and Leaving Bay Ridge

• Watching Saturday Night Fever at the Alpine in 1978

• Looking Ahead with a Bay Ridge blizzard

The reading material used in today’s episode included articles from:

• A Dangerous Woman: New York's First Lady Liberty — By Victor H. Cooper

As well as articles from:

• The Chicago Tribune

• The New York Daily News

• The New Yorker

• The New York Times

• The Staten Island Advance

• Variety

Interested in learning more about Bay Ridge and hey seeing me in person too!? I’m leading two separate history-based walking tours this month. They’re Murder, Mayhem, Money, and History in Old Bay Ridge. One covers the northern side of the neighborhood on January 18th, and one covers the south side on January 25th. I’m also co-launching a new tour around the past, present and future of Gowanus. More deets to follow in a couple of weeks. For tickets and more info to my walking tours, please go to Linktr.ee/TheWallBreakers. You can also find ticket links through @thewallbreakers on Instagram or the tours and events tab at TheWallBreakers.com.

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