Jason DeCanio

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER

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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thequeensnewyorker/subscribe HELLO EVERYONE IM JASON DECANIO A NATIVE NEW YORKER RESIDING IN OVIEDO FLORIDA, AND THE HOST OF THIS GREAT CHANNEL, THAT FOCUSES ON THE HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS AND NEW YORK CITY. EACH WEEK FOR 15-20 MINUTES WILL LOOK BACK AT WHAT MAKES QUEENS NOT ONLY THE BIGGEST BOROUGH OF THE 5 BUT HOW IT CAME ABOUT. THIS CHANNEL WILL ENTERTAIN, INFORM, INSPIRE AND CONNECT WITH RICH HISTORY THAT MADE QUEENS THE TALK OF THE TOWN. JOIN ME TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY FOR A LOOK AT ALL THAT QUEENS HAS TO OF...

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May 31, 2026

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THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 203: ENTENMANN'S BAKERIES 23.04.2022

Entenmann's is an American company that manufactures baked goods and delivers them throughout the United States to supermarkets and other retailers for sale to the public. [1] The company offers dessert cakes, donuts, cookies, cup cakes, loaf cakes, pies, cereal bars, muffins, Danish pastries, crumb cakes, and buns among other baked goods. [2] In the past several years, they have added designer co...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 202: DRAKES CAKES PART 2 22.04.2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake%27s_Cakes American Coffee cake—also referred to as gugelhupf or Austrian German : kaffekuchen —evolved from other sweet dishes from Vienna . [12] In the 17th century, Northern/Central Europeans are thought to have come up with the idea of eating sweet cakes while drinking coffee. [13] [14] As the region's countries were already known for their sweet yeast breads...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 201: THE HISTORY OF DRAKES CAKES PART 1 20.04.2022

Drake's is a brand of American baked goods. The company was founded by Newman E. Drake in 1896 in Harlem , New York, as The N.E. Drake Baking Company , [1] but it is now owned by McKee Foods . The company makes snack cake products such as Devil Dogs, Funny Bones, Coffee Cakes , Ring Dings , and Yodels . Drake's has traditionally been marketed primarily in the Northeastern U.S., but it expanded to...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 44: RHEA PERLMAN(actress) 17.04.2022

Rhea Jo Perlman [2] (born March 31, 1948) is an American actress. She played head-waitress Carla Tortelli in the sitcom Cheers (1982–1993). [3] Over the course of 11 seasons, Perlman was nominated for ten Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress – winning four times – and was nominated for a record seven Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series. She has also app...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 43: MARY TYLER MOORE( actress, producer, and social advocate) 10.04.2022

Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, producer, and social advocate. She is best known for her roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), which "helped define a new vision of American womanhood" [1] and "appealed to an audience facing the new trials of modern-day existence". [2] [3] [4] [5] Moore won seven Prime...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 42: ISABEL SANFORD(actress, comedian) 04.04.2022

Isabel Sanford (born Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford; August 29, 1917 – July 9, 2004) was an American stage, film, and television actress and comedian best known for her role as Louise "Weezy" Mills Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1975) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985). In 1981, she became the second black actress to win a Primetime Emmy Award , and the first and, to date, the only bla...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 200: THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW 02.04.2022

THANK YOU ALL FOR 200 EPISODES INCLUDING NICK JONES, JASON KELLY, AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE FACEBOOK GROUPS!!!!!!! JASON KELLY:  ANNOUNCER "SHE'S MY PUMPKIN PIE":  PERFORMED BY MR. INSTRUMENTALIST NICK JONES:  https://www.youtube.com/c/MrInstrumentalistMusic

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 199: THE HISTORY OF A&P PART 3 29.03.2022

Nationwide, Walmart gained a dominant position in the grocery industry, forcing much of the competition to downsize, though in A&P's core Northeast region, Walmart still had not become a major grocery competitor. In 2003, after declaring its largest loss, A&P closed Kohl's Food Stores and A&P's remaining stores in Vermont and New Hampshire , [40] reducing it to just over 500 stores. [2...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 41: PAT HARRINGTON JR(stage and screen actor) 28.03.2022

Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. (August 13, 1929 – January 6, 2016) was an American Emmy Award -winning stage and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–1984). His father Pat Harrington Sr. was also an actor. PICTURE BY:  By CBSUploaded by We hope at en.wikipedia - eBay itemphoto frontphoto backTransferred from...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 198: THE HISTORY OF A&P PART 2 23.03.2022

ON THIS EDITION OF THE HISTORY OF A&P WILL LOOK AT THE 1930s UP TO 2000:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26P PICTURE BY:  CC BY-SA 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26711919

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 40: JOHN McENROE( american tennis player) 14.03.2022

John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959), nicknamed Johnny Mac , is an American former professional tennis player. He was known for his shot-making and volleying skills, in addition to confrontational on-court behavior that frequently landed him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities. McEnroe attained the world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles , finishing his career with...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 197: THE HISTORY OF A&P PART 1 11.03.2022

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015. [1] From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (and, until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind). [2] A&P was considered an American icon that, according to The Wall Street Journal , "was as well known...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 196: THE HISTORY OF ESPRESSO 23.02.2022

Angelo Moriondo , from Turin , is often erroneously credited for inventing the beverage, since he patented a steam-driven coffee beverage making device in 1884 (No. 33/256), probably the first Italian coffee machine similar to other French and English 1800s steam-driven coffee machines. The device is "almost certainly the first Italian bar machine that controlled the supply of steam and water sepa...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 39: RON JEREMY(ACTOR, PORN STAR, COMEDIAN) 21.02.2022

Ronald Jeremy Hyatt (born March 12, 1953) is an American former pornographic actor , filmmaker, movie actor, and stand-up comedian. [3] [1] Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", Jeremy was ranked by AVN at No. 1 in their "50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list. [4] Jeremy has also made a number of non-pornographic media appearances, and director Scott J. Gill filmed a documentary about him and his legacy, Porn S...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 195: THE HISTORY OF THE CAPPUCCINO 16.02.2022

By Daniel Case - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74025228 A cappuccino ( /ˌkæpʊˈtʃiːnoʊ/ ( listen ); Italian pronunciation:  [kapputˈtʃiːno] ; Italian plural: cappuccini ) is an espresso -based coffee drink that originated in Austria with later development taking place in Italy , and is prepared with steamed milk foam ( microfoam ). [1] Variations of th...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 194: THE HISTORY OF CORNED BEEF 09.02.2022

Corned beef, or salt beef in the British Commonwealth of Nations , is salt-cured brisket of beef. [1] The term comes from the treatment of the meat with large-grained rock salt , also called "corns" of salt . Sometimes, sugar and spices are added to corned beef recipes. Corned beef is featured as an ingredient in many cuisines. Most recipes include nitrates , which convert the natural myoglobin in...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 38: RUDOLPH VALENTINO(latin lover, actor) 07.02.2022

Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover , was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , The Sheik , Blood and Sand , The Eagle , and The Son of the Sheik...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 193: THE HISTORY OF THE NEW STYLE CHEESECAKE 28.01.2022

Cheesecake is a sweet dessert consisting of one or more layers. The main, and thickest, layer consists of a mixture of a soft, fresh cheese (typically cottage cheese , cream cheese or ricotta ), eggs , and sugar . If there is a bottom layer , it most often consists of a crust or base made from crushed cookies (or digestive biscuits ), graham crackers , pastry , or sometimes sponge cake . [1] Chees...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 37: DEAN GOSS(radio and television announcer) 24.01.2022

Dean Wendell Goss (born September 22, 1949 in Santa Clara, California) is an American disc jockey who has also had several announcer roles on television game shows . As a disc jockey, he has been employed by several radio stations in California , including KCBQ San Diego from 1976 to 1979 and KFRC 99.7 in San Francisco . His first announcing role was in 1985, on the second season of the 1984-86 ve...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 36: JOSE REYES(baseball infielder) 17.01.2022

José Bernabe Reyes (born June 11, 1983) is a Dominican -American former professional baseball infielder . He played, most notably at shortstop , in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets , Miami Marlins , Toronto Blue Jays , and Colorado Rockies . Reyes is a four-time MLB All-Star . He led MLB in triples in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2011. Reyes also led the National League (NL) in stolen ba...

THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 192: THE HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK BAGEL 14.01.2022

The New York style bagel is the original style of bagel available in the United States , originating from the Jewish community of New York City , and can trace its origins to the bagels made by the Ashkenazi Jews of Poland . A traditional New York style is typically larger and fatter than a mass-produced bagel, or a wood-fired Montreal-style bagel . They have also grown over time, from about 3 oun...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 35: REGINALD VEL JOHNSON(actor) 10.01.2022

Reginald VelJohnson (born Reginald Vel Johnson; August 16, 1952) is an American actor. He is best known for playing police officer characters such as Carl Winslow on the sitcom Family Matters , which ran from 1989 to 1998, and LAPD Sgt. Al Powell in the films Die Hard and Die Hard 2 . He played air traffic controller Bob Abbot in the 2012 film Air Collision . PICTURE:  By Sidewalks Entertainm...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 34: BETTY WHITE(actress and comedian) 03.01.2022

Betty Marion White Ludden (January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021) was an American actress and comedian. [1] [2] A pioneer of early television , with a career spanning seven decades, White was noted for her vast work in the entertainment industry. She was among the first women to exert control in front of and behind the camera [3] and the first woman to produce a sitcom ( Life with Elizabeth ),...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 33: PERRY COMO(singer, actor and television personality) 27.12.2021

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como ( /ˈkoʊmoʊ/ ; May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer, actor and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century, he recorded exclusively for RCA Victor for 44 years, after signing with the label in 1943. [1] He recorded primarily vocal pop and was renowned for recordings in the intimate, easy-listening genre pioneered by multi-medi...

THE LEGACY OF QUEENS EPISODE 32: NANCY WALKER(actress, director, broadway) 20.12.2021

Nancy Walker (born Anna Myrtle Swoyer; [1] May 10, 1922 – March 25, 1992) was an American actress and comedian of stage, screen, and television. She was also a film and television director (such as of The Mary Tyler Moore Show , on which she also made several guest appearances). During her five-decade-long career, she may be best remembered for her long-running roles as Mildred on McMillan & W...

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