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From WNYC, New York Public Radio, join WNYC's cultural attaché Sara Fishko for her personal radio essays on music, art, culture and media.
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Major news events throughout the world continue to be largely ignored until they reach tragic proportions. Underreported, a weekly feature on The Leonard Lopate Show, tackles these issues and gives an in-depth look into stories that are often relegated to the back pages.
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Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich use state-of-the-art sound design, mind-bending story-telling, and a sense of humor to ask big questions and blur the boundaries between science, philosophy, and human experience. Radiolab is produced in New York at WNYC, and heard on over 300 public radio stations across the country.
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A podcast about how and why gentrification happens. Season 3, produced in partnership with WLRN, Miami’s public radio station, introduces us to “climate gentrification,” reporting about the ways climate change, and our adaption to it, may seriously intensify the affordable housing crisis in many cities. In many parts of the US, black communities were pushed to low-lying flood prone areas. As Nadege Green reports, in Miami, the opposite is true. Black communities were built on high elevation ...
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Will Black voters stand by Mayor Adams amid crisis? Some Harlem residents say no.
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Black voters are considered the mayor’s most loyal base, but some have started to question his competence.
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The Adams administration and the NYPD are still answering a lot of questions about a police shooting at a Brooklyn subway station last weekend as resignations from city government pile up and federal corruption investigations continue. WNYC's Elizabeth Kim covers City Hall. She joins Weekend Edition host David Furst with the latest.…
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The New York Liberty start their playoff run this weekend, taking on the Atlanta Dream Sunday afternoon. The Liberty got close to the big prize last year, and New York’s WNBA team is poised for a serious run for the championship. Sports reporter Priya Desai joins Weekend Edition host David Furst with a preview.…
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Black voters have long been Adams' strongest source of political support. Although the mayor has yet to suffer any defections from high-profile Black allies, interviews with attendees at the African American Day Parade suggest some voters' patience with him may be wearing thin. Last November, a survey found the mayor’s support among Black New Yorke…
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New York City's public advocate is pressing the mayor to investigate allegations of sexual abuse on Rikers Island.
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State officials are holding a community session after concerns over toxic air in Gowanus buildings
Many residents of Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood are concerned about toxic air detected in several buildings, including a popular shuffle board bar and a local elementary school. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has been taking air samples in hundreds of properties in the neighborhood surrounding the heavily polluted Gowanus Cana…
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Dozens of the United States' leading rat experts — as well as a Canadian delegation — descended on Pier 57 in Chelsea with a single goal: bludgeoning the vermin into submission, once and for all. Rodent experts gave sweeping presentations that included maps of rat populations and slides of dissected opossums.…
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'Politics is not just old heads and millionaires': Voters speak out with less than 50 days to the November election
With under 50 days to go, the clock is certainly ticking toward election day. Today marks an important moment along the way – it’s National Voter Registration Day. It’s a day when civic groups scramble to get as many people as possible signed up to vote. For its part, WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk has been hanging out in laundromats, talking t…
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'Around this election. I would like to register and vote': Voter voices for National Voter Registration Day
It’s National Voter Registration Day, and with less than 50 days until the election, voter registration efforts are in full swing across the country, including right here in our region. WNYC has been connecting with voters at laundromats through our 'Suds and Civics' project. Community Partnerships editor George Bodarky joins All Things Considered …
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The New Jersey Attorney General's Division of Civil Rights is cracking down on housing violations. The office has issued notices to 25 landlords who it says has illegally used the criminal history of applicants to deny them housing. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin joined WNYC's Michael Hill to talk about the violations of the state's Fa…
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'I have no idea who I'm going to vote for': Voter concerns and engagement as the 2024 election looms
Do you want to take part in the November election, but you haven't signed up to vote yet? Well, you're in luck. Today is National Voter Registration Day. Many civic organizations have events planned to make it easy for all of us to register, including in New York City. For its part, WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk has been working to better unde…
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Today is National Voter Registration Day, and as election day gets closer, civic groups are racing against the clock to get people registered. At WNYC, we've been popping up in laundromats all over the New York metro area, having conversations with voters about the upcoming election. We call it 'Suds and Civics.' George Bodarky heads our Community …
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Most people detained on Rikers Island are eligible to vote. But under New York City’s current system, thousands of them may not get a chance. As the election season intensifies, advocates are warning that this population in pretrial detention faces the risk of systematic disenfranchisement. They point to data indicating that in a recent primary, on…
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Joan As Police Woman Celebrates Joy and Love, In-Studio
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The singer, songwriter, and multi instrumentalist Joan Wasser, is "not a cop" and has been recording for the past twenty years under the name Joan As Police Woman – a saucy reference to the 1970s cop show that starred Angie Dickinson. She’s also collaborated with a huge range of musicians, from the worlds of rock, funk, folk, and experimental music…
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For more than a century, New York state officials have struggled to control generations of invasive pigeons that roost in the Capitol’s huge central courtyard, an otherwise ornate, open-air space. The courtyard’s intricately carved, four-story stone walls have nooks and crannies perfect for providing the birds with cover from the elements. The stat…
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‘Neighborhood navigators’ offer snacks and services to Manhattan’s homeless population
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Whether riding the subway or walking along a busy stretch of sidewalk, New Yorkers are likely to cross paths with people who have nowhere to sleep. Some of those people might also need mental health or substance abuse treatment. Those with unmet needs sometimes get stuck in a cycle of homelessness, hospitalization and jail. The Manhattan district a…
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New York City is hosting its inaugural National Urban Rat Summit this Wednesday and Thursday, where experts can connect and share best practices on rodent mitigation. Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann and Matt Frye from Cornell University both research pest mitigation in urban settings and are participating in the National Urban Rat Summit. They talked with W…
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The city's crackdown on fare evasion turned bloody on Sunday afternoon when four people — including an NYPD officer — were shot by police officers responding to a man who allegedly skipped the turnstile in a neighborhood where many people can’t afford basic needs, much less the cost to ride the train every day.…
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Yemen Blues Connects The Traditional And Modern With Swagger and Groove
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Yemen Blues is a band led by Israeli singer and songwriter Ravid Kahalani. For more than a decade now, the group has incorporated the sounds of Moroccan trance, Arab and Bedouin folk, and Western funk and rock into a high energy, groove-filled dance party. But behind that sound is a social conscience, and the band’s latest album is pointedly called…
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Over a hundred films from all over the world will screen in Manhattan September 17th through 22nd for the 25th annual New York Latino Film Festival. The festival opens with a new documentary called "Clemente" about the life of baseball legend Roberto Clemente from director David Altrogge and executive producer Lebron James. It wraps September 22, w…
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This week, things came to a head with the federal investigations swirling around the administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD. Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned and Adams appointed Tom Donlon as interim commissioner. WNYC’s Bahar Ostadan has been covering it all and joins Weekend Edition host David Furst with the latest…
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Former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Garry McCarthy thinks Caban's resignation undermines NYPD's legitimacy
Federal authorities are still investigating Mayor Adams’ inner circle as well as former NYPD commissioner Edward Caban and his twin brother. Caban stepped down yesterday, a week after federal authorities seized his phone in a connection with a probe investigating his twin brother’s business as a nightlife consultant. Garry McCarthy served in the NY…
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A year after New York City began cracking down on illegal short-term apartment rentals, the number of Airbnb listings in the five boroughs plummeted by 85%, according to a Gothamist review of listings posted on the vacation rental giant’s website. Split Here Fewer than 2,000 apartments in the five boroughs remain on the home-sharing site — down fro…
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