Hello, my name is Sam Hightower, and I am a blueprint wrangler, building detective, and the Director of the Office for Metropolitan History.
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The written version of this episode is available here: https://metmisc.substack.com/p/an-introduction
A housekeeping note: The audio and written versions will come out at the same time moving forward. Thank you for your patience while I work out the kinks here!
The music you hear at the beginning of this episode is Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata performed by Hans Goldstein and Clinton Adams, provided by an EFF Open Audio License. Thank you to Jeff Kowalski for his assistance with audio editing.





