Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
speaker
1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 3.
Appearances
Our executive producer is Jacob Smith.
Fact-checking by Sam Russick.
Sound design and mastering by Jake Gorski.
Original music by Stellwagen Symphonette, Luis Guerra, and Jake Gorski.
Special thanks to Todd Reynolds for his track The Solution from the album Outer Burrow.
And thanks, of course, to Malcolm Gladwell.
So many people shared their time and expertise with me as I made this series.
You don't hear all their voices, but it wouldn't have been possible without them.
Thanks in particular to Derek Alves, Chris Bauer, Chris Beecham, Ed Burke, Jerry Camerata, Gretchen Dykstra, Art Eisenberg, Richard Emery, Ray Fasano, Fernando Ferrer, Ken Gold, Eric Lane, Jill Lepore,
Thomas Main, Thomas Matteo, Chris McNichol, Marty Malossi, Susan Molinari, Patrick Nugent, Carol O'Clerican, Philip Pappas, Jose Ramirez Garofalo, David Schleicher, Eric Vitaliano, Joseph Vittoretti, and Kevin Wade.
Several archivists were, as always, the backbone of this story.
Huge, huge thanks to James Kayser and Rebecca Lambert at the College of Staten Island Archives, to Danny Swardella at WNYC, and to the whole staff of the New York City Department of Records and Information Services.
At Pushkin, thanks to Staten Island's own Morgan Ratner, and to Greta Cohn, Jake Flanagan, Eric Sandler, Kira Posey, Jordan McMillan, and Grace Ross.
And thanks also to Julia Conrad for teaching me to love this city and its history as much as she does.
I'm Ben Matta-Faffrey.
One of my favorite books is Middlemarch by George Eliot.
It's about the life and manners of a small English town in the 19th century.
It's also a cautionary tale for the kind of person I am.
There's a character in the book named Edward Cazabon, a dreary middle-aged man who's engaged in a decades-long writing project.
Cazabon collects facts he writes on little sheets of paper that he stores in the pigeonholes of his library shelves.
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