This week on Done and Dunne, we are going to scoot through the 1890s from the Astor side of things, including warring cousins and their hotel legacy, the end of…
Month: November 2021
24. The Social Network: The Knickerbocker Queen | Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
This week, we take a turn in a whole new direction by wandering through high society in 19th century New York City. The Knickerbockers had their own peculiar ways, and…
23. The Amazing Life and Curious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen
In this edition of A New York State of Crime, Alicia illuminates a Dominick-adjacent story, that of the mysterious 1965 death of crime reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. Was her death an…
22. Cafe Society Scandal: The Murder of Patricia Burton Lonergan
Today, Alicia takes us back to wartime New York, for the scandal that rocked 1940s cafe society. Our man Nick described the case this way in his July 2000 Vanity…
21: Deadly Divorce | The Murder of Ted Ammon
Welcome to Season 2: A New York State of Crime! Today, Alicia has the story of the lethal love triangle, and gruesome murder, that sent shockwaves from Long Island to…