BKLYN Community Audio

BKLYN Community Audio

BKLYN Mixtape is a podcast from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Information Commons at Brooklyn Public Library. It is a show about everyday creators and makers just like you living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Listen to interviews, music, and audio shorts created in the Info Commons by staff and patrons. Hear how Brooklynites create and what inspires them as artists, print-makers, musicians, podcasters, story tellers, poets, writers, zine designers, coders and more. We're asking, what will you make today?

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February 13, 2026 43 mins

On today's episode, Riann and Krishna sit down with Evolyn Brooks and Riche Holmes Grant, two independent filmmakers to talk about their film, Good Home Training! Evolyn is an award-winning TV Showrunner, Executive Producer, Director, Experiential Events Producer, and Independent Filmmaker. She has been nominated for an Emmy award and is the recipient of an NAACP Image Award and two Namic Vision Awards. Riche i...

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On today's episode, Riann and Krishna are joined by Taeesha Muhammad, the Macon branch's very own staff member who is the associate and curator for the African American Heritage Center. Taeesha is also a local artist based in Brooklyn! Taeesha shares her personal story of becoming an artist, her favorite memories of 2025 at the library, and advice for aspiring artists. So pour yourself a cup of tea, coffee or hot chocolate and enjo...

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October 17, 2025 55 mins

This episode was originally published in July, 2020.

In Episode 36 of Flatbush + Main, Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia say farewell to Brooklyn Historical Society by revisiting their favorite segments from the podcast's history.

 

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In Episode 35 of Flatbush + Main, we celebrate the 200th birthday of Brooklyn's bard, Walt Whitman. Whitman was a journalist, a poet, a lover, a wanderer, and a Brooklynite. We consider his experiences walking Bro...

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In Episode 34 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss Brooklyn's long farming history, and the complex interplay of power, land, and labor in Kings Coun...

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October 17, 2025 54 mins

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In Episode 33 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia explore Coney Island's queer history. Guest Hugh Ryan joins Julie and Zaheer this episode. Hugh is the au...

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October 17, 2025 40 mins

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In Episode 32 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the history of Muslims in Brooklyn, drawing on BHS's groundbreaking public and oral history p...

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October 17, 2025 41 mins

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In Episode 31 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the infamous Blackout of 1977, the economic and social context that led up to the event, its i...

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In Episode 30 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss Brooklyn Historical Society's Puerto Rican Oral History Project (1973-1975), the institution's...

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October 17, 2025 61 mins

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In Episode 29 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, host Zaheer Ali and guest-host Erin Wuebker, fellow BHS historian, discuss the impact of cholera on Brooklyn, which led to the illness a...

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In Episode 28 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the impact on Brooklyn of the 1863 New York City draft riots, the largest domestic uprising in Am...
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October 17, 2025 52 mins

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In Episode 27 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia are joined by guest Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the M...
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In Episode 26 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the tragic 1978 killing of Crown Heights resident Arthur Miller Jr. by police, and consider his imp...
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In Episode 25 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia, joined by fellow BHS historian Erin Wuebker, explore the fascinating history of gender and medicine in Broo...
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In Episode 24 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss a Revolutionary War tragedy: the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans inside prison ships duri...
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In Episode 23 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia revisit Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO to celebrate the opening of its new longterm exhibition, Waterfr...
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In Episode 22 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the legacy of black-owned businesses in Brooklyn.
 
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October 17, 2025 53 mins

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In Episode 21 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia dig into what we do at Brooklyn Historical Society: engaging our many visitors and constituents in the pr...
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In Episode 20 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia use one seemingly inconsequential manuscript collection to explore themes of memory and history-making ...
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October 17, 2025 60 mins

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In Episode 19 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine an important but long-for...
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