Matthew Algeo

Bylines

Presidential Physicians Don’t Always Tell the Public the Full Story

They are beholden only to their patient, not to the American people.

by Matthew Algeo via The Atlantic
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on October 3, 2020
A Yacht, A Mustache: How A President Hid His Tumor

Grover Cleveland believed that if anything happened to his mustache during his surgery at sea, the public would know something was wrong.

by Matthew Algeo via NPR on July 6, 2011

Book

New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit

Matthew Algeo

2025

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Podcast

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Secret Subway Under Broadway

Decades before New York City’s subway system opened to the public, an eccentric inventor set about building his own underground system – IN SECRET – beneath Broadway. It wasn’t powered by steam engine…or electrical engine…or even horses. It was powered by pneumatic tube (yes, like those tubes you occasionally see at the bank, or at cannabis dispensaries.)

January 29, 2026

Podcast

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Secret Subway Under Broadway

Decades before New York City’s subway system opened to the public, an eccentric inventor set about building his own underground system – IN SECRET – beneath Broadway. It wasn’t powered by steam engine…or electrical engine…or even horses. It was powered by pneumatic tube (yes, like those tubes you occasionally see at the bank, or at cannabis dispensaries.)

January 29, 2026

Drawing of a competetitve pedestrian walking in the late 1800s with spectators watching.

America’s Earliest Sports Stars Were … Professional Walkers?

Walking needs no publicist. The simplest, most accessible form of exercise has been around since humans first foraged and traveled on the ground.

by Jackie Mansky via Zócalo Public Square on October 18, 2024

Matthew Algeo

Bylines

Presidential Physicians Don’t Always Tell the Public the Full Story

A Yacht, A Mustache: How A President Hid His Tumor

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America’s Earliest Sports Stars Were … Professional Walkers?