An Eyesore and a Plague Podcast
1) Saddle Rock
In 1910, Roswell Eldridge had it all: cars, yachts, money, and a beautiful beachside mansion. There was just one problem...In New York, villages are a type of municipality. They were intended to be de...Show More
2) Bonus: Briarcliff Manor
Welcome to Briarcliff Manor! Like our regular episodes, this is the story of the incorporation of one of New York City's suburbs. It is a bonus ep because it's shorter and has less music tha...Show More
3) Bronxville
Bronxville wasn't exactly an estate village, since it wasn't incorporated under Section 33. (What is Section 33? That's the law that allowed rich people to incorporate their tiny neighb...Show More
4) Bonus: Recording The Beaches
This bonus episode is about Episode 3: The Beaches! Here Jon and Paulina talk about:Â Writing songs that are not supposed to sound evil, creepy or ironicGood guitar solos (and silly-in-a-good-way guita...Show More
5) The Beaches
In 1910, New York State made it possible for tiny neighborhoods to incorporate as villages. Some villages incorporated to dodge local taxes, or escape a school district they didn't feel like cont...Show More
6) Bonus: Recording Sands Point
Welcome to the Sands Point bonus episode! In this episode, Jon and Paulina talk about:Making quotes sound different even when they're all read by one person (throw some vintage tone on the audio,...Show More
7) Sands Point
In 1910, the New York State legislature made it possible to incorporate any neighborhood with at least 50 people into a village. (What is a village? We explain in Episode 1, but it's an unnecessa...Show More
8) Bonus: Recording Saddle Rock
Welcome to the Saddle Rock Bonus Episode! (If you haven’t listened to Episode 1 of this podcast, you may want to do that first, since we talk about how we made the episode here.)Jon and Paulina talk a...Show More
9) Introducing An Eyesore and a Plague, a podcast about the creation of the NYC suburbs
In 1910, a group of rich people who owned massive homes in Long Island were tired of middle-class people moving to the neighborhood. The middle-class people wanted public schools, police departments, ...Show More