Mental asylums, shopping palaces and more explored in new ‘Lost NYC’ podcast
a new season of its podcast “Sites and Sounds,” called “Lost NYC,” about the stories of extinct borough spots.Going digital also means that the festival will be accessible to a global audience, as well as locals who failed to score limited tickets to OHNY’s most popular experiences in years past.Here’s a selection of the vanished city locales the free series will explore in roughly 20-minute segments on OHNY this weekend.This remote, 20-acre East River island 1,000 feet from the South Bronx shoreline was once the home of Riverside Hospital, an infectious-disease institution used to quarantine New Yorkers — most famously Typhoid Mary.