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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.
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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.…
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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.…
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