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1 New Jersey Attorney General's office has new guidance for police on how to interact with autistic people
The New Jersey attorney general’s office is out with new guidance for police when it comes to their interactions with Autistic people, and people with other communication disorders. New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin talked more about this initiative with WNYC's Sean Carlson.
National Eating Disorder Awareness week turns the spotlight onto the many disorders that fall under the eating disorder spectrum. Research from Harvard University estimates that about 28.8 million Americans will suffer from an eating disorder in their lifetime, which are among the most fatal mental illnesses. Doctor Evelyn Attia directs the Center for Eating Disorders at New York-Presbyterian. She joined WNYC's Michael Hill to talk about the illnesses.…
An effort to revive Airbnb in New York City is not going well, after a city councilmember significantly amended the legislation meant to legalize more short-term rentals. The original bill would allow owners and occupants of one- and two-family homes to host renters for less than 30 days without being present. Margenett Moore-Roberts is a homeowner in Bed-Stuy who is no longer able to rent out her extra room. She's also part of an advocacy group of one and two family New York City homeowners called “Restore Homeowner Autonomy and Rights.” She talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about how the Airbnb ban in New York City is affecting her and other small homeowners.…
Across New York City, people support their neighbors by being a positive resource in their communities. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk has been highlighting some of these folks, our neighbors. We're calling them community champions. Today, we meet Frankie Thompkins, who has volunteered with Advent Lutheran Church, located in Manhattan's Upper West Side since 2004. Thompkins serves as the church's volunteer food pantry director and runs several of their special projects. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Volunteering for me has just always been important. I was always raised with the belief that you share blessings, and I think this is just one way that, you know, I can share some of my blessings. I got involved with Advent right after I moved to New York in 2004 when I was 25 years old. I was looking at places to volunteer and walked by, saw the church and talked to the pastor at the time. That was just over 20 years ago and I haven't left since. Advent is unique because it's involvement within the community. They've had language classes. We've had cooking classes. We've had immigration clinics. We've had a number of different things, in addition to our food ministry. They put a lot into action so you can find people here so many different days of the week, and I just think that's beautiful. The pantry has evolved so much in 20 years. When I first came in and started working, we had one small bag once a month, maybe 75 of them. Prior to COVID, we were around 150, 175 bags a month. Now we operate twice a month and we serve about a thousand households a month. Each bag is significantly larger, contains a lot of fresh produce, shelf stable milk that we never had before. Logistically, we also started a reservation system. Our pantry doors open at 10:30 in the morning. When I get here at seven o'clock, people are lined up already. The system shortens people's time from waiting for groceries for hours to 15 minutes. There are a lot of misconceptions about people that come to the food pantry. One of the largest ones is that people aren't working, and that's not true for so many of our guests. A lot of them work a couple of jobs. They might be taking care of family members or they're retired and maybe not in a position to work anymore. I always say of the pantry, the core of it is food, but it's about so much more than that. We build trust with the community. People know that we're here. They know we'll show up whether it's a holiday or bad weather, you know, we're not just behind the table passing out things like we're actually out there with our guests talking to them because we want to be seen as a resource looking out for you with the love of a neighbor.…
Weeks of repair work are on the horizon for a busy New Jersey highway after a void opened up during morning commute hours in early February. State Department of Transportation officials say the hole was caused by a relic of New Jersey's mining history: an abandoned iron mine. This hole is just 75 feet away from one that popped up in late 2024, caused by a collapsed mine shaft. Bill Kroth is the president and CEO of the Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Sussex County, New Jersey about 30 minutes away from the sinkhole. He's also a civil and geotechnical engineer. Kroth joined WNYC's Michael Hill to talk about the state of the road and the work ahead.…
Food critic Robert Sietsema has been writing about dining in New York City since the 1990's, with two decades at the Village Voice and over ten years at Eater New York. He recently launched his own newsletter, Robert Sietsema's New York . And starting this week, look for Robert's food writing on our news site Gothamist as well. Robert joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to talk about some of the best places to eat in Jersey City.…
Eric Adams is still the mayor of New York City and it seems that he will be for at least the near future. The mayor has since last year faced charges of corruption, bribery, wire fraud and soliciting and accepting campaign donations from foreign nationals. The Department of Justice under President Trump has sought to drop the charges, and a judge is considering whether such a move is legal. Governor Hochul said she won't remove Adams from office. The court proceedings are playing out as the mayor faces several challengers in a primary election that's just four months away. WNYC's Jon Campbell joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to discuss what comes next.…
President Donald Trump's administration moves to revoke congestion pricing, which is met almost immediately with an MTA lawsuit. That and more in this week's On The Way roundup of New York City transit news.
February 22nd is what's known as Lizzie's Day to honor Elizabeth Jennings Graham, the Black schoolteacher who successfully challenged the racist transportation system in New York City. Her push for justice came in the 1850s, a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Her effort also preceded the start of the Civil War by almost a decade. Concetta Bencivenga is the director of the New York Transit Museum . She joined WNYC's Michael Hill to discuss how Elizabeth Jennings Graham started a wave of change in New York City.…
Governor Hochul says she won’t remove Mayor Adams from office in spite of growing calls for his exit. But through all of the controversies surrounding the mayor, Brooklyn Democratic Chair and State Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn has stood by the Mayor. In a letter released yesterday, she and a group of Black lawmakers criticized the effort to remove Adams, and warned of the political fallout if Hochul followed through on it.…
WNYC's State Capitol reporter Jon Campbell and senior politics reporter Brigid Bergin join host Sean Carlson to talk about the week's top political news. Hear about the Trump administration's threat to congestion pricing, the latest in Mayor Eric Adams' legal case and the mayoral race still heating up in New York City.…
Refugee newcomers have an outsize impact in upstate New York communities where houses sit empty after deindustrialization hurt the local economy and drove population down. But President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending new refugee admissions cut into services that helped refugees who were here already, forcing resettlement agencies to lay off staff who had been helping newcomers acclimate to life in the United States. The order and subsequent directives from the State Department froze federal funding that nonprofits use to pay their employees, and to cover rent and household goods for recently arrived refugees.…
In just one short year, dating coach Niko Emanuilidis has amassed hundreds of clients. And it hasn’t been hard to do either, he said. His clients span across different ages, genders and races, and live both in and out of the city. But he said those in New York, where he is based, often echo a similar sentiment: The dating scene is worse here than anywhere else. “It’s funny, there’s so many people here in New York City, and yet, I feel like a lot of people are very lonely,” he said. More than 1 in 3 American adults have used an online dating app at some point in their life, and they are also common tools among younger adults, according to data from the Pew Research Center. The same survey found that apps are popular across racial and ethnic groups. And those not on dating apps might still be searching in real life. Social activities like run clubs , book clubs, climbing gyms, casual sports teams, speed dating and niche dating events have become more common in recent years, attracting crowds of New Yorkers eager to meet their next romantic prospect. And a new wave of dating apps allows users to sit back and let AI write their profile. It seems there have never been more ways to find true love, and some New Yorkers are turning to dating coaches like Emanuilidis for help navigating them all. He is one of three New York City-based dating coaches who shared his thoughts on what the dating scene is really like within the five boroughs. One thing all the coaches could all agree on is that New Yorkers are eager to date. And perhaps, more controversially, they agreed that New York is not hell for single people.…
Countless people in New York City are making differences in their communities. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk has been highlighting some of those people, our neighbors. We're calling them community champions. Today we meet Davina Furbert, the creator of Compassionate Cleaning, which provides cleaning and remodeling services to underserved and overlooked communities in New York City. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. I started compassionate cleaning in March, 2019. We do cleanings for underserved communities such as NYCHA and people who are suffering from mental disorders or mental illnesses, and two years later we expanded from cleaning to also doing rental friendly makeovers for NYCHA tenants. The first time a lot of my customers see me is on social media. I'm not too professional, crisp khaki pants, white collared shirt, embroidered logo. I'll show more of my personality and if I know other people that have the same experience as something that I have. I'll share that experience as well, because some people they think, "Oh, your house must be super duper neat, like you must hate a crowded house, look what you do." No, I'm a person too. So, I show some of that, like me cleaning up my own apartment, just so people can be at ease. It's like, it happens, especially in this city, like, people have like two and three jobs trying to just pay rent. So, I try to just show my face, talk, they can hear my voice, and I feel like that's the part that gets the people like, "okay I'll let her in." I would say there aren't a lot of cleaning services that would go into these conditions that we do. They don't care what your apartment looks like. They don't care who you are. They just heard NYCHA and they're like, no, because of the stigma. When a client reaches out to me, we talk about what they need because every client is different. We see what they want to do with whatever they have in their home, we sort through things and spread it out so we can see what's at the bottom of it. That's something that's really important that we do because. My clients, they usually have pictures, birth certificates. I even got asked about a wedding ring one time, and there's so many things in this pile of what somebody would see as trash. It's just, everything's just mixed together. Compassionate Cleaning has grown so much over the years. People in other cities, even other countries, have been reaching out, telling me like, "oh, I've seen what you do, and I think it's really, really, like, needed," because regardless of where you live, you know, everybody has something going on whether you can see it or not.…

1 NYC Comptroller Brad Lander meets with Governor Kathy Hochul as she considers whether to remove Mayor Adams from office
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is engulfed in chaos. Critics say the Justice Department moved to drop corruption charges against Adams in exchange for cooperation with President Trump’s immigration enforcement. That prompted four deputy mayors to resign. Now, prominent Democrats are considering whether – and how – to remove Adams. One of the people at the center of those talks is Comptroller Brad Lander. He’s also running against Adams in the Democratic primary. He talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more about it.…
New York City will mark a key milestone this year: The transit system hired its first Black train conductor 90 years ago, shattering a barrier that has since offered tens of thousands of African Americans and other people of color a pathway to the middle class. Jotham T. Coleman, whom researchers have little information about, was hired as a conductor by the Independent Subway System on Oct. 15, 1935, when the city agency first opened motorman and conductor positions to Black New Yorkers, according to Polly Desjarlais, a content manager at the New York Transit Museum. The move came as the Board of Transportation, a bygone agency that ran the city’s publicly owned subway system at the time, began to expand its workforce, according to Desjarlais. “It was the Depression, and having civil service rules was more equitable,” Desjarlais said. “Suddenly jobs were opened up that were formerly closed to African Americans.” Prior to Coleman’s hiring, the city’s public and private transportation systems relegated Black employees to jobs as cleaners and porters, who earned lower wages than conductors and motormen — the people who drive trains. “In the 1930s, transit workers were poorly paid,” said Joshua Freeman, a labor historian and retired professor at the CUNY School of Labor. “It was a notoriously badly paid industry and Black workers in it were paid the worst. But once you get to unionization, you begin a path towards benefits and salary increases that really blossoms after World War II.” Within a decade of Coleman’s unprecedented appointment, the number of Black conductors on the subways skyrocketed. Board of Transportation records show the number of Black conductors employed by the agency grew from 63 in 1939 to 405 in 1944. Today, roughly 40% of the MTA’s 70,000 workers are Black, including several of the agency’s highest-ranking employees. Last year, Demetrius Crichlow became NYC Transit's first Black president, overseeing the agency’s subway and bus operations.…
What makes a restaurant fun? For some, it might be a giant singing mechanical rodent and a roomful of video games. For others, it could be a quiet space as far removed from video screens and screaming youngsters as possible. So obviously, it's a different answer for everybody. Our friends at Eater New York just released a list of places they consider the most fun restaurants in New York City. Eater New York Editor, Emma Orlow joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to talk about a few of their choices.…
The Justice Department filed a motion Friday asking a judge to dismiss federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The request caps off a week of legal drama between the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and DOJ officials in Washington D.C. The Justice Department directed prosecutors in New York City to toss the charges against Adams, saying the case impeded the mayor's ability to help the Trump administration carry out immigration enforcement. The lead prosecutor resigned in protest, and several others followed. Adams says he's innocent and wants to move forward. A judge still has to sign off on the request. Political strategist, Columbia University professor and MSNBC contributor Basil Smikle joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to discuss how this week's news will shape the mayor's race.…

1 Mayor Adams plans to allow ICE agents on Rikers Island, former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito weighs in
Mayor Adams says he’s preparing an executive order to allow federal immigration officers to operate on Rikers Island, where they have essentially been banned for the last decade. Adams made the announcement after meeting with President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan. Former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who helped pass the city’s sanctuary laws during former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s first term, talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about ICE's return to Rikers.…
Privacy advocates raise concerns about the MTA's student OMNY cards, and a baby is born on a subway train. That and more in this week's On The Way roundup of NYC transit news.
New Yorkers can be innovative when it comes to making use of their tiny backyards. Some install swimming pools, raise chickens, build tree houses and even tend Manhattan’s only wine vineyard . But a hockey rink in a 12-by-18 foot patch of Western Queens? That may be a new one.
Last year more than 5,000 people in Haiti were killed in gang-related violence. The country has been in a political crisis for years. And for Haitians in the U.S. with feet in two worlds, reality in both countries is unstable. To better understand the story, public radio stations in the three cities with the largest Haitian populations in America are teaming up to open the phones and hear from Haitian listeners. Brian Lehrer (WNYC), with Saraya Wintersmith (GBH News) and Tim Padgett (WLRN), will host the 90-minute special “HAITI ON THE LINE,” which will air live across all three stations, and a transcript of the program translated into Haitian Creole will be made available following the broadcast. If you're Haitian or Haitian-American, we want to hear your thoughts on the country's past, present and future. Tune in at 7 PM, and if you're part of the Haitian community, we'd love to hear from you at 844-745-8255, so get ready to call in to share your concerns and your hopes for Haiti. This call-in special will highlight the personal experiences of listeners in these communities, sharing their stories about their relationship to Haiti and the current crisis and exploring the new realities migrants and refugees face here in the U.S. The hosts will be joined by special guests and experts on the situation, including: Widlore Merancourt, journalist and editor-in-chief of Haitian news outlet AyiboPost Jacqueline Charles, reporter for the Miami Herald who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work covering the 2010 Haiti earthquake Dr. Geralde Gabeau, executive director of the Immigrant Family Services Institute Rep. Sheila Cherfilus McCormick (D-FL), co-chair of the House Haiti Caucus and the only Haitian-American currently serving in Congress Tune in Monday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. Eastern Time to listen live to the 90 minute program: WNYC 93.9 FM, AM 820 and wnyc.org in New YorkGBH 89.7 FM and gbhnews.org in BostonWLRN 91.3 FM and wlrn.org in Miami Resources and Related Links: 'Haiti cannot die': How two Haitian sisters help amid ongoing gang war , from GBH News in Boston. For more than a decade, Dr. Geralde Gabeau has worked tirelessly to help Haitian refugees find safety and a new life in Boston. But there's one Haitian she has been unable to resettle — her older sister, Guerda Previlon. Previlon remains in Haiti where she, too, works to help Haitians in crisis. The Creole Pig: Haiti’s Great Loss , from WLRN in Miami, recounts the story of a vital, resilient animal central to Haitian life for generations. Indigenous to Haiti, the Creole pig was a critical resource for peasant farmers. However, in the 1980s an outbreak of swine flu prompted USAID and the Haitian government to exterminate the entire population of Creole pigs. This drastic measure delivered a devastating economic blow to an already struggling nation. The documentary explores how this mass culling accelerated Haiti’s economic decline while examining the political and social fallout. Featuring interviews with farmers, economists, educators, and political analysts, the film delves into Haiti’s history and politics to unpack the profound impact of this tragic event. 'A dictatorship of indifference': Haitian priest outraged over treatment of immigrants , from WLRN in Miami, explains the concerns of a religious leader in Miami's Little Haiti, who is concerned about the impact of President Trump's immigration policies on his congregation.…
A letter from the Department of Justice told federal prosecutors to drop Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Monday, arguing he needs space to focus on supporting Trump’s immigration agenda. “Either he comes to the table or we go around him,” said Trump's border czar Tom Homan. Raising the stakes for Adams is the fact that the DOJ’s letter issued no judgment on the merits of the mayor’s case. Trump can hold the threat of prosecution over Adams if he doesn’t play ball, not only on immigration, but also on any number of issues facing the president’s hometown.…
Community boards in New York City are one way for people to dip their toes into local government. In Brooklyn and the Bronx, the deadline to apply is just around the corner. Applications to join the boards in those two boroughs close on Valentine's Day. Mike Racioppo — district manager for Community Board 6 in Brooklyn, which covers Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Red Hook, and the Columbia Street Waterfront — joined WNYC's Michael Hill to talk about how community boards help craft local policy from the ground up.…
It's been an off-season like none other for the New York Mets. Pete Alonso has agreed to stay, and star slugger Juan Soto chose the team from Queens, too. Tim Ryder, a Mets fan and host of the podcast, Simply Amazin, joined WNYC host Michael Hill to preview the upcoming season.
After losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2024 World Series and losing slugger Juan Soto to the New York Mets, the Yankees are hoping to bounce back this season. Dave Sims is the radio play-by-play commentator for the New York Yankees and host of the Hey Now! podcast. He joined WNYC host Janae Pierre to preview the coming season, which officially begins in March.…
The Justice Department’s move to dismiss Mayor Adams’s federal corruption charges isn’t necessarily the end of the road for the Mayor’s legal troubles. Daniel Richman is a former federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and currently the Paul J. Kellner Professor of law at Columbia Law School. He talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about what’s supposed to happen next.…
New York is a Democratic city, and the makeup of the City Council reflects that. Of the Council's 51 seats, just 5 are currently held by Republicans. But the Republicans in the City Council have a new leader: Joann Ariola. Her district includes the Rockaways, parts of Southern Queens and her home neighborhood of Howard Beach. She talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more about her new role.…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy both want schools in their respective states to ban cellphones in classrooms. This comes after former President Biden’s Surgeon General advocated warning labels to alert young people of the dangers social media poses to their mental health. Schools across the country, including California, have already begun implementing cell phone bans in their classrooms. Jayden Stuckey, a senior at Central High School in New Jersey's largest city, Newark, Newark Public Schools superintendent Roger Leon, and Dr. Stephanie Marcello, the chief psychologist at Rutgers University Behavioral Healthcare, talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more about cellphone use in schools.…
A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History goes in depth on the impact of slavery on the borough's past and present. The Chief Historian at the Center for Brooklyn History, Dominique Jean-Louis, joined WNYC host Michael Hill to discuss Traces: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery, which encourages visitors to explore their own history and identity The exhibit runs at the Center's Fransioli Gallery through August 30th. Admission is free.…
Across the New York City area, people are making a positive impact on the communities around them. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk is spotlighting some of those people. We're calling them community champions. Today we talk to Darnell Benoit. The founder and director of the Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project. That's a community based organization in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, focuses on supporting and uplifting Haitian immigrant youth. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. I came here in the 80's. I was 13 years old and we lived in Queens. And the high school I went to, I didn't feel that the Haitian students the immigrant students were well supported. So, the idea of having a space for Haitian youth, because I wasn't lucky to have a space like that. It was always in my mind. I got older. I became different things. One of the things was to be an ESL adult education teacher. I encountered so many immigrants that struggled with the public schools. Students who were pushed out of high school, or who dropped out, and after so many years of seeing those problems, I decided to look into it, to investigate it. That's how everything started. So, Flamboyant is like a fiery red tree that grows in Haiti. It's everywhere, and it's always beautiful, it stands out. So for me, that tree is a symbol that wherever you are, you can shine, you can bloom, you can be beautiful just like that tree. The Literacy Project, for us, is reading the word and the world. It's learning everything around you. Students have access to books, workshops, dance classes, drum circles, and guests that we bring into the space. We make sure that students are rooted in their own culture. We were lucky to find this space here, in East Flatbush, right in the heart of the Haitian community, which is super exciting. In this community, we don't have too many organizations, and the organizations we do have often service older immigrants. So, to have a youth space in the community, it's very special. Families, when they come here, it's Haitian Creole that's spoken. They feel right at home. They're not afraid to ask questions. They're not afraid to be themselves. So, it's an immediate comfort. We're happy to be celebrating 20 years this year, and for the next 20 years, we want the flamboyant tree to grow bigger and more people that do their own flamboyant. Create your own space where you are in the community and support other people.…
The MTA is in the process of replacing its oldest subway trains. Those are the ones with the vintage looking orange and yellow seats. They’re replacing them with its newest trains - the “futuristic” looking ones that are currently running on the A and C lines. But some riders say they like the seating arrangement of the old trains that allows couples to cozily sit next to each other in the two or three seat configurations. WNYC's All Things Considered producer Elizabeth Shwe talked with some commuters on their thoughts on the old trains. Also, New York Transit museum curator Jodi Shapiro and museum director Concetta Bencivenga talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more about the history of the R46 trains.…
The MTA is reporting less traffic and emptier streets in Manhattan after congestion pricing tolls went into effect earlier this month, and with that New York City has an opportunity to transform the ways city roads are used. Sara Lind is a co-executive director of Open Plans, a group that advocates for more livable streets. She talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about ways to reimagine New York City streets.…
As the Harlem venue celebrates its 91st birthday on Sunday, January 26th, WNYC host Michael Hill discussed its storied history with the Apollo theater's Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes, and Billy Mitchell, a longtime tour guide and ambassador for the theater who's also known as Mr. Apollo.
For a third year in a row, WNYC is celebrating all things public domain. Hundreds of things are entering the canon in 2025: George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," Ernest Hemmingway's "A Farewell to Arms," and the famed showtune "Singin' in the Rain" are just some of the many examples. Once more, WNYC's Public Song Project invites listeners to put their own spins on this year's latest and greatest in free use through song. Public Song Project producer Simon Close joined WNYC's Michael Hill to provide an update on the initiative's goals for 2025, and to explain how brave creatives can submit.…
Maybe this has happened to you. You're out at the movies in New York City, get your popcorn and settle in. When the movie starts, it has captions. Not subtitles for a foreign film. But English captions, telling you that [wind blows], or [ominous music intensifies]. Captions are increasingly common here, because of a city ordinance requiring them in most theaters for a certain percentage of screenings. It's an accessibility feature and it's taking some viewers by surprise. Including WNYC's Ryan Kailath . Speaking with Weekend Edition host David Furst , Ryan explains the debate over captions.…
Phil Murphy is nearing the end of his two-term limit so New Jersey will elect a new governor this year. And the race got real for many voters this week, as primary debates kicked off among Democratic and Republican candidates. The primary is scheduled for June 10th, with early voting starting on June 6th. Kristoffer Shields is Director of the Eagleton Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University. Speaking with Weekend Edition host David Furst , he helps us get a handle on the race - and a mountain of candidates.…
Brush fires are not just a problem on the west coast. Last fall, New York City and New Jersey, like most of the country, faced abnormally dry conditions. New York City firefighters responded to over 200 brush fires in a span of two weeks between October and November, setting a record. So what lessons were learned during the historic drought? NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more about brush fires, as well as lifeguard training for the summer, bird flu and the upcoming snowstorm.…
The MTA's top official warns of the risks of not funding transit during closely watched testimony in Albany. That and more in this week's On The Way roundup of New York City transit news.
Mayor Adams reveals he was recently under anesthesia, but leaves many questions unanswered about delegation of power while he was under. That and more in the inaugural edition of the rebooted Politics Brief.
New York City schools are bracing for major disruptions as President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operations get underway.
Long before Brooklyn was pavement and buildings, the borough was covered with hardwood forest. And many of the trees in that forest were American chestnuts. The tree was a vital part of the ecology and early economy, but over the last century have been all but wiped out by a blight from an airborne fungus. Now, an effort to bring the tree back to Brooklyn is finding success. Bart Chezar is a chestnut expert and a volunteer with the Prospect Park Alliance. He spoke with WNYC Morning Edition host Michael Hill about his decades-long work to restore the tree. Interested in planting one and helping it grow? Email bchezar@nyc.rr.com…
New Jersey has its own group of athletes who could vie for the gold medal in geographic incongruity: the teens of the Lodi High School Surfing Club.

1 New York City Health officials are working on raising life expectancy rates, which dipped during the pandemic
New York City health officials are trying to figure out how to deal with an issue that affects us all: life expectancy rates. The city's department of health recently released a report that lays out a plan to reach Mayor Adam's goal of raising the life expectancy to 83 years by 2030. New York City’s Acting Health Commissioner Michelle Morse talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more about their efforts.…
Sunsets are extra special this month for stargazers. All of the planets in the solar system are on display at twilight. There's also a star that could go 'nova' at any moment. WNYC's Rosemary Misdary joins Weekend Edition host David Furst for an update on the February night skies.
The MTA's $9 daytime congestion pricing tolls kicked in about a month ago for drivers heading into Manhattan below 60th street. The program aims to push commuters out of their cars and onto mass transit. But at the same time, the cost to ride the PATH transit lines between New Jersey and New York City went up by 25 cents. As an added bonus, the Hoboken PATH station is now closed for track and station upgrades, with work expected to run through Feb. 25. Clarelle DeGraffe , Director and General Manager of the PATH system for the Port Authority, joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to talk about the closure.…
A roundup of new revenue sources Albany politicians are considering to fund the MTA's $65 billion construction plan. Plus, new traffic data on the effects of congestion pricing. That and more in this week's On The Way roundup of transit news.
Many candidates in New York City's Democratic primary for mayor are striking a different tone on policing. That hasn't gone unnoticed by Mayor Eric Adams, who is running for reelection.
Once arguably the most powerful politician in New Jersey, Menendez told a judge he was a "chastened man." Outside of court, the disgraced Democrat praised President Donald Trump.
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