Margaret Oppenheimer, on Manhattan's Oldest House, and its Least Famous, and Most Peculiar Resident by The Gotham Center for New York City History

Margaret Oppenheimer, author of "The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel," talks about the oldest house in Manhattan, the Morris-Jumel mansion in Washington Heights, famed for its architecture and notable inhabitants (General Washington and Aaron Burr among them). Here, Oppenheimer talks about its most long-standing tenant, Eliza Jumel, wife to both the influential British officer and slave-holding landowner Robert Morris, and the notorious Vice President under Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr.