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A show that samples WNYC’s best podcasts, curated to fit all your travel needs.
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The latest articles from WNYC 9/11 Specials
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We spoke with the stars, writers and directors of Tony nominated Broadway productions! Check out our favorite conversations as the June 10th awards ceremony approaches!
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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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New Sounds is unlike any radio show you've ever heard: a whirlwind tour of new and unusual music from all corners of the globe. New Sounds combs recent recordings for one of the most informative and compelling hours on radio, and aims to make the world smaller. For over 25 years, host John Schaefer has been finding the melody in the rainforest and the rhythm in an orchestra of tin cans. Defying rigid categorization and genre pigeonholing, New Sounds offers new ways to hear the ancient langua ...
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After a gubernatorial election that gained plenty of national attention, you might think New Jerseyans would be getting a short news break. But that's not the case. Outgoing governor, Phil Murphy, has a lengthy to-do list before he leaves office next month. 13 different candidates are vying to replace incoming governor Mikie Sherrill in Congress. A…
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Listen as a McDonald's employee in Pennsylvania tells a 911 operator she thinks she's spotted Luigi Mangione.
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MTA Chair Janno Lieber said next month’s retirement of the MetroCard will enable the agency to ramp up its crackdown on fare evaders. Lieber’s planned enforcement blitz would come right as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani takes office following a campaign that promised to eliminate the fare on the MTA’s buses. (Lieber has dismissed the idea as infeasible…
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This week's Politics Brief features an examination of the political dynamics between the mayor-elect and the presumptive City Council speaker.
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The newest challenge to New York’s rent-stabilization law is, on its face, a narrow dispute over a handful of long-vacant apartments. But the attorneys who filed the complaint say they’ve got a specific audience in mind: the U.S. Supreme Court. The nonprofit libertarian Institute for Justice says it crafted the lawsuit to offer the court the kind o…
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A fight over a historic Upper West Side church that has pitted A-list celebrities against a small Presbyterian congregation could finally be resolved next month.
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'Pieces of April,' starring Katie Holmes, takes place on a single Thanksgiving day on the Lower East Side, jumping between parallel stories of a New Jersey family piling into the car to visit their estranged daughter in the city, and the daughter frantically preparing to host them in her Suffolk Street walkup. It’s both deeply of its time, and shoc…
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A New York City mayor's second term is missing from the official record, and the implications span centuries.
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Greenmarkets are full of colorful varieties of kale, which are at their most flavorful this time of year when the cold weather forces the plant to produce more sugar. Amelia Tarpey is the Program and Publicity Manger for GrowNYC Greenmarkets. She said head to the Greenmarkets this weekend for the perfect veggie to cleanse from your Thanksgiving fea…
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A very special Thanksgiving edition of On The Way rounding up the latest transit news.
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The author of Fear City -- a book about NYCs 1970s financial crisis -- puts Mamdani's New York in historical context
Free buses, city-owned grocery stores, and free universal childcare. Those are just some of the policy proposals that attracted a majority of New Yorkers to vote mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani into office. Those same proposals also turned off many voters who worried about the impact they could have on the city's finances. The policies have been labeled…
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On Thanksgiving, we're usually celebrating the turkey on the table. This year, we're also celebrating New York City's most famous turkey on the streets. Astoria is the only wild turkey in Manhattan. She first popped up in Queens, which is why she's named after the neighborhood. David Barrett runs the popular social media account Manhattan Bird Aler…
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Zohran Mamdani sends more than 100 government employees pink slips, state Attorney General Letitia James scores a big win against the Justice Department and more in this special Thanksgiving edition of Politics Brief.
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The incoming mayor and his police commissioner disagree over bail reform. Now a report sheds light on results.
Mayor-to-be Zohran Mamdani's decision to keep Jessica Tisch on as commissioner of the NYPD surprised some of his base. Mamdani has praised Tisch's work rooting out alleged corruption, but the two differ on other strategies regarding public safety. One of those is bail reform. Mamdani supports it. Tisch criticizes it, blaming it for a post-COVID ris…
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The runoff election for Jersey City mayor is this Tuesday, December 2nd. Former Governor Jim McGreevey and city councilmember James Solomon will face off against each other, after neither got enough votes to declare a winner on November 4th WNYC's Morning Edition spoke with both candidates. Councilmember James Solomon told WNYC's Michael Hill why h…
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The runoff election for Jersey City mayor is this Tuesday, December 2nd. Former Governor Jim McGreevey and city councilmember James Solomon will face off against each other, after neither got enough votes to declare a winner on November 4th WNYC's Morning Edition spoke with both candidates. Former Governor McGreevey served from 2002 to 2004. He tol…
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Two-thirds of the families living in a Queens housing complex — most of them formerly homeless — have been served with eviction papers in the last two years, court records show. The high rate of eviction filings in a single supportive housing building, one that gets public dollars to subsidize rents and provide supportive services, is raising red f…
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More New Yorkers are running out of food to feed their families — an uncertainty that was exacerbated this month after an unprecedented freeze on federal food assistance left people in limbo for two weeks. With Thanksgiving approaching and SNAP funds resumed, families are figuring out how to stock their fridges, pay their end-of-the-month bills and…
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New Yorkers say they’re still playing catch-up after a historic two-week disruption in federal food assistance benefits earlier this month. The Trump administration’s decision to stop Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments during the government shutdown overwhelmed New York City’s food pantries, pushed SNAP recipients to skip meals or s…
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Such trainings, which are largely organized by mutual aid and advocacy groups, have become more popular and numerous following an ICE raid on Canal Street in Lower Manhattan in late October, according to local organizers and advocates. WNYC's Arya Sundaram discussed the trainings and canvassing with All Things Considered host Sean Carlson. Read the…
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Halloween may be over but pumpkins still have a chance to shine. Amelia Tarpey is a program and publicity manger for GrowNYC Greenmarkets. She said fresh squash and pumpkin are the stars of the greenmarket this week, and perfect for making some Thanksgiving favorites from scratch this year. "The nice thing about a lot of squash varieties," Tarpey s…
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These days, lunchtime at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Queens is a boisterous affair, a far cry from before the smartphone ban went into effect, when most students spent their spare time scrolling and teachers said you could hear a pin drop.
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Beginning August 1st, the Women’s Pro Baseball League will play its inaugural season at Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Illinois. There will be four teams: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and New York. The draft selection will be livestreamed on the Women's Pro Baseball League’s social media pages at 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 20.…
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New Jersey Governor-Elect Mikie Sherrill officially resigned from her old seat in Congress this week. The North Jersey Democrat will be inaugurated as the Garden State's next governor on Jan. 20th and there's a wild scramble on to replace her in the House of Representatives. WNYC's Mike Hayes joins Weekend Edition host David Furst with the details.…
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