As part of WNYC's centennial celebration, each week we'll take listeners on a tour of key moments from the WNYC and NYC Municipal archives.

In this clip, it's June 1962, and New York City and New York Shakespeare Festival founder Joseph Papp are exulting in the completion of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

Read more about "The Taming of Robert Moses" — https://www.wnyc.org/story/44469-the-...

Read and listen to more from the WNYC Archives: https://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-hi...

View a timeline of our history: https://www.wnyc.org/timeline

Upcoming From the Archives selections include press conferences, events, and interviews with notables such as Jack Kerouac (1958), Bob Dylan (1961), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964), Martin Scorsese (1970), Gloria Steinem (1982), and Barack Obama (2007). Listeners will also hear key historic news reports that aired on WNYC, including the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), a broadcast of a town hall meeting on the Atom Bomb (1951), and WNYC journalists running toward the Twin Towers to report on 9/11 (2001).

As we celebrate our 100th birthday and beyond, check out our full calendar of on-air and live centennial events, listen to more historical audio gems from our archives, share your own New York story, and learn about our first century of serving New York: https://www.wnyc.org/100

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From the Archives is produced by Andy Lanset and Karen Frillmann.
This spot is narrated by Sara Fishko.
Video by Kim Nowacki.

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