THE QUEENS NEW YORKER
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thequeensnewyorker/subscribeHELLO EVERYONE IM JASON DECANIO A NATIVE NEW YORKER RESIDING IN OVIEDO FLORIDA, AND THE HOST OF THIS GREAT CHANNEL, THAT FOCUSES ON THE HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS AND NEW YORK…
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THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 177: JOAN SHAWLEE(film and television actress) (opens the original)
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Joan Shawlee ( née Fulton ; [2] March 5, 1926 [3] – March 22, 1987) was an American film and television actress. She is known for her recurring role as Fiona "Pickles" Sorrell in The Dick Van Dyke Show , a career-defining turn in Billy Wilder 's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) playing Sweet Sue, the abrasive martinet in charge of Marilyn Monroe 's all-girl jazz band, and as the flamboyant Madame Pompey in the 1957 Maverick episode " Stampede " with James Garner . She was sometimes credited under
THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 176: ALYSSA MILANO(actress, singer, activist) (opens the original)
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Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress, singer and activist. She has played Samantha Micelli in Who's the Boss? (1984–1992), Jennifer Mancini in Melrose Place (1997–1998), Phoebe Halliwell in Charmed (1998–2006), Billie Cunningham in My Name Is Earl (2007–2008), Savannah "Savi" Davis in Mistresses (2013–2014), Renata Murphy in Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017), and Coralee Armstrong in Insatiable (2018–2019). As an activist, Milano is known for her role
THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 351: 1524 GIOVANNI DE VERRAZZANO (opens the original)
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The Cèllere Codex (officially, Del Viaggio del Verrazzano Nobile Fiorentino al Servizio di Francesco I, Ri de Francia, fatto nel 1524 all'America Settentrionale , also Morgan MS. MA. 776 ) [1] is one of three surviving copies of a manuscript letter sent by Giovanni da Verrazzano (1481–1528) in 1524 to King Francis I of France describing the former's navigation of the East Coast of the United States . It is nowadays preserved at the Morgan Library of New York . Verrazzano was an Italian who lived
THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 350: TIMELINE HISTORY (opens the original)
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The history of New York City has been influenced by the prehistoric geological formation during the last glacial period of the territory that is today New York City . The area was shortly inhabited by the Lenape ; after initial European exploration in the 17th century, the Dutch established New Amsterdam in 1624. In 1664, the British conquered the area and renamed it "New York"PICTURE: By sometimes attributed to Johannes Vingboons - Image of map at Library of Congress ([1])., Public Domain, http
THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 175: JOHN VENTIMIGLIA(actor) (opens the original)
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John Ventimiglia ( /vɛntɪˈmiːljə/ , Italian: [ventiˈmiʎʎa] ; born July 17, 1963) [1] is an American actor. He portrayed Artie Bucco in the HBO television series The Sopranos and had a recurring role as Dino Arbogast , an Organized Crime Control Bureau Chief for the NYPD , on the American police procedural /drama series Blue Bloods on CBS .PICTURE: By Greg2600 - John Ventimiglia, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91062858
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