Comments for Radio Row: The Neighborhood Before the World Trade Center

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This piece belongs to the series "The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories"

Produced by Joe Richman/Radio Diaries and Ben Shapiro

Other pieces by The Kitchen Sisters

Summary: Before the WTC was built, the neighborhood was known as the bustling "Radio Row."
 

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Review of Radio Row: The Neighborhood Before the World Trade Center

I had no idea that such a place existed never mind in the Towers' Location. A centralized bazaar of technology and dreams bulldozed for unprecedented high-rises which would later be decimated by an entirely different league of fanaticism and nightmares. UltraSoundRich. Analog warmth. Surly dispositions softened by time and memory. Listening to this piece I felt the warm glow of the "black magic" tubes...