At Renee's Kitchenette, three generations cook Filipino specialties to honor their family's legacy. The home-style restaurant is named after Renee, the matriarch who has been working at her restaurant for over thirty years. Taking inspiration for their native Pampanga in the Philipines, Renee now gets help from her sons, daughter, and granddaughter running the restaurant. The restaurant is known for kare kare, and a variety of grilled meats like longanisa, atchara as well as chicken, pork belly, and barbecued pork.

Join me as I paddle the entire length of the infamous Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. The canal is known to be one of the most polluted waterways in the United States, but finally the EPA has started its cleanup efforts. The canal was bustling with activity and there was so much to see. I also took a detour to check out the old Red Hook Grain Terminal and paddled alongside a huge vessel which looked to be out of commission. It was great to be back on the Gowanus Canal and I hope you enjoyed this adventure as much as I did!

Rockefeller Center is one of New York’s most iconic landmarks—but it was never supposed to exist. Originally planned as a new home for the Metropolitan Opera, the project collapsed before it even began. The stock market crashed, investors fled, and John D. Rockefeller Jr. was left alone with a six-million-square-foot lease and no clear plan.

But instead of walking away, he built something bigger. In the depths of the Great Depression, Rockefeller Center rose from nothing—an audacious mix of office towers, broadcast studios, and underground infrastructure that would reshape Midtown Manhattan. In this episode, we uncover the improbable story of how one man’s gamble became a new blueprint for urban America.