Live Recording: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen on Freedom Trail NYC

Please join us in person on May 13th for a special live recording of Person Place Thing — the popular radio show created and hosted by Randy Cohen, which asks guests to speak about one person, place, and thing of particular meaning to them. Peter-Christian Aigner and Ted Knudsen will discuss the ‘freedom trail’ they created for New York City, for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. NYC Revolutionary Trail, a multimedia walking tour which reframes NYC as “the city at the heart of the Revolution,” is now a free smartphone app sponsored by the Downtown Alliance. It is also the basis of “The Occupied City,” a giant exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York opening May 1st and co-presented by The Gotham Center for New York City History, at The Graduate Center (City University of New York). In June, the Gotham Center will also be releasing Echoes of Revolution: NYC, a gamified version of the Trail using augmented reality from the universe of Assassin’s Creed, developed in partnership with the French video game publisher Ubisoft and the Welsh technology studio Sugar Creative.

Peter-Christian Aigner is Director of the Gotham Center and principal on the aforementioned projects. Ted Knudsen is a PhD Candidate at The Graduate Center and the co-founder of NYC Revolutionary Trail. 

Randy Cohen is a five-time Emmy winner and the author of many popular works, including "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine.

Martin E. Segal Theater, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave., btw. 34th & 35th St.