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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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What if Van Gogh's paintings came to life and you could walk through them into a world of flowers and sculpture? That's the fanciful idea behind "Van Gogh's Flowers," a new exhibit opening Saturday, May 24, at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. The interactive exhibit pays tribute to the Dutch painter with botanical displays and large-scal…
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Former NYC Transit President Andy Byford has been tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the long-stalled redevelopment of Penn Station, White House officials confirmed on Friday. The project will put Byford at the center of one of the most high-profile construction projects in the country. MTA Chair Janno Lieber had previously planned to run the…
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In Sunset Park, the Center for Family Life supports 54 AmeriCorps volunteers who support kids and their parents with educational enrichment programs that serve some 800 children from 11 public schools. Federal funding from AmeriCorps typically covers a stipend for the volunteers, who mostly come from the neighborhood, as well as money toward their …
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The week is normally a joyous occasion where New Yorkers buy drinks for the visiting mariners as they take in the sights across the nation’s most important city. But this year’s event began with a vigil hosted by Mayor Eric Adams honoring the Mexican sailors killed when their towering sailboat struck the Brooklyn Bridge last week. This Sunday, memb…
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To illustrate the major repairs needed in one of Amtrak’s East River tunnels, a top railroad official only needed to brush his hands along a piece of metal.
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Randy Mastro, who was appointed in late March, has taken firm control of critical pieces of the mayor’s agenda: pushing for the return of ICE agents onto Rikers Island, delaying the destruction of a public garden on the Lower East Side popular among celebrities to make way for low-income housing for seniors, sparing small landlords from composting …
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When the final bells of the school year ring next month, local parents may be sad to leave behind the steady routine of the school day and the fleeting conversations in the pickup line. But one thing they might not miss? The class WhatsApp chats, which can overload parents with information and, sometimes, endless gossip and speculation. “Oh my God,…
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Stephen “Demo” DeMaria has been building sets for “Saturday Night Live” since before the show even aired — he helped build seats for the live studio audience ahead of "SNL's" Oct. 11, 1975 premiere. Over the decades, he ascended the ranks from set builder to “The Boss of The Carpenters,” as the 87-year-old Brooklyn native calls himself. His officia…
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Forest fire season is well underway all over the country and in our region. In New Jersey, wildfires on average damage about 7,000 acres in the state each year. Over the last 12 months, big blazes in both north and south Jersey have made headlines for putting large swaths of the Garden State at risk. Eric Weber has been a firefighter for more than …
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Diabetes is one of the leading causes of illness and death nationally. And New York City isn’t any different. But it doesn’t equally impact all populations equally. The City Health Department says New Yorkers of color are twice as likely to have the disease as white New Yorkers. And city residents who live in high poverty neighborhoods are twice as…
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It's day three of the NJ Transit rail strike. The union representing locomotive engineers and agency officials were back at the bargaining table on Saturday, May 18. They will resume negotiations again today. WNYC's Ramsey Khalifeh has been covering the strike since it went into effect at midnight on Friday. Speaking with Weekend Edition host David…
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A new 95-bed shelter for families with children opened last month thanks to a city tool that helps nonprofits own the shelters they manage. New York City officials said the model will help shelter providers develop their own buildings instead of relying on private landlords for space, as they've done for decades. And those buildings will be more pl…
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Antisemitism and Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza will remain at the center of the mayoral race as the primary approaches. Andrew Cuomo, who is the front-runner according to polls, and Mayor Eric Adams are staunch defenders of Israel who are vying for Orthodox and conservative Jewish voters — a key voting bloc for any citywide candidate. On the oth…
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The new phone ban in New York schools that will dramatically change classroom dynamics comes with several exemptions.
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In this area, used needles are easy to come by. Zyre Howard, who’s staying at a nearby homeless shelter, turned in 55 during a “buy back” Monday and got $10, the maximum amount one can earn per day at one of the locations where the van stops. It's a circumstance that hits some neighborhoods harder than others. Read the full story here.…
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What do an organic farmer from upstate New York, a social worker from the South Bronx, a liberal nutritionist from Ithaca and a Republican sausage-maker in Otsego County have in common? They all support a state bill that marries blue-state regulatory muscle with “Make America Healthy Again,” the Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-led movement that mixes a prefe…
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There's a bar in Manhattan at the center of an investigation into Mayor Adams' former top aide, Ingrid Lewis-Martin. In Albany, state senators are discussing prison policy in the wake of the killings of multiple incarcerated people and a three-week wildcat strike. Plus: The latest polling numbers in the New York City mayoral race -- and what to mak…
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Newark Liberty Airport continues to struggle, as runway shortages and ground stop programs combine with equipment troubles and air traffic controller shortages. A report this week from the New York Times found that as few as three air traffic controllers were working Monday, eleven fewer than the target number of 14 set by the Federal Aviation Admi…
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A federal judge has ruled that New York City’s jails need an independent manager to run them. Judge Laura Taylor Swain said a “remediation manager” will collaborate with correction officials until they make appropriate improvements. Martin Horn is a former New York City correction commissioner who ran city jails under the Bloomberg administration. …
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A local magician has transformed an empty Carroll Gardens storefront into a speakeasy magic venue. The intimate performance space is hidden behind Precision Clock & Watch, a fake repair shop at 449 Court St. It’s in the space that was home to P.J Hanley’s for 139 years until it shuttered in 2013. The lobby is outfitted with various esoteric, old-ti…
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New York City’s Park Commissioner Sue Donoghue is stepping down at the end of the month, after leading the city’s parks department since the start of Mayor Adams administration. She talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about her tenure and what’s next for her.
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A cloud of uncertainty now hangs over the research projects that were disrupted and the researchers themselves. Academics who discussed their work with Gothamist said they worried about the incalculable loss of scholarship in fields touching lives around the globe. But they also are considering the next steps in their careers and how to pay the ren…
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Food writer Robert Sietsema says St. Mark's Place in the East Village is one of the most 'electric' streets in the city. Speaking with Weekend Edition's David Furst, he says with 63 restaurants along a 3-block stretch, there's lot of good food to choose from.
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Newark mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on Friday night by immigration officials during a chaotic confrontation at Delaney Hall, a newly reopened private prison contracted by the Department of Homeland Security as a holding facility for migrant detainees. He was joined by three U.S. members of Congress conducting an oversight tour of the jail. Rep. Bo…
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