The Sonic Memorial Project

Irving Simon, who owned a business on Radio Row, describes the fight to save the neighborhood.

Irving Simon talks about what happened to the small businessmen after the destruction of Radio Row.

Blan, the Radio Man, talks about the family businesses on Radio Row.

Blan, the Radio Man, explains the intricacies of sales.

Blan, the Radio Man, talks about the friendly business competition on Radio Row before World War II, and the shift in attitudes afterward.

Blan, the Radio Man, talks about losing his business on Radio Row when WTC construction began. He explains that he never had any hard feelings against the Port Authority--he believes in progress.

Eugene Blan, better known as Blan, the Radio Man, introduces himself.

Sy Denby, who owned a parts business on Radio Row, introduces himself and talks about the neighborhood's early days.

Sy Denby, who owned a store on Radio Row, talks about the romance of radio. He and his friends were in it because they loved it.

Sy Denby talks about the fight he and other small businessmen from Radio Row waged with the Port Authority in opposition to the WTC.

In this recording of street sounds from Radio Row in 1929, you can hear shopkeepers blasting phonographs and radios.

Bill Schneck describes the growth of Radio Row and Cortlandt Street, as radio broadcasting became popular.

Bill Schneck's describes growing up on Radio Row.

Bill Schneck talks about Atwater Kent, a wealthy industrialist who began manufacturing top-of-the-line radios and who knew his father.

Bill Schneck talks about the public's first reactions to radio and describes his father's sales technique.

Bill Schneck, whose father opened the first radio distributorship on Cortlandt Street, Radio Row, describes how his father got the idea.

This radio ad for "modern age" radios by Atwater Kent was broadcast in the 1930s.

Business on Radio Row was booming starting in the 1920s. This advertisement for the RCA-Victor Model 108 radio is an example of the types of sound one might have heard blasting from stores in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Radio Row was demolished ot make…

This radio ad from the 1930s promotes Columbia stereophonic high-fidelity phonographs.

The Stewart-Warner radio advertised in this 1930s radio spot was designed for the "sensational new metal tubes."