The Untapped New York Podcast is featured in Hidden Histories, a new series of podcast guides embedded into Apple Podcasts and Apple Maps. The guide uncovers the untold stories, weird lore, and best-kept secrets behind New York City’s landmarks. According to Apple, the guides focus on "surfacing little known histories tied to those places." You can also discover Hidden Histories guides in four other cities—Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
For our part, Michelle and Justin take listeners to the Brooklyn Bridge and talk about the secret champagne vaults hidden within. As Justin shares in the episode, "The Brooklyn Bridge has so many levels of history to it, so many stories—a lot of them considered to be myth, a lot of them true. And this is a very true one. It's about the champagne vaults that were put into the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge, both on the New York Manhattan side and on the Brooklyn side. And we go into some of the companies that were running these champagne vaults, why they were there and how long that they were part of the bridge structure. And it's just a lot of fun. And I remember personally, it was probably one of the most fun podcasts for us to record because we were literally down there running around under the anchorages, getting the audio of the bridge and it was great."
