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Last Chance Foods covers produce that’s about to go out of season, gives you a heads up on what’s still available at the farmers market and tells you how to keep it fresh through the winter.
Real stories by New York City teenagers take listeners inside their lives and their communities in this Peabody Award-winning youth journalism initiative. For teens, by teens and about the challenges of teen life, Radio Rookies gives students the tools and the training to share their own stories through the medium of audio. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Nancy a ...
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Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
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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 give an in-depth look into the stories that are often relegated to the back pages.
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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New York City has long been considered a writers’ town, attracting aspiring authors from all over the world. WNYC’s Amy Pearl visited the Bronx Library Center, where librarian Belarmino Ortega has started a writer's club for teens.Von WNYC Radio
New York City is a notoriously noisy place, and all that noise can come out a cost. Prolonged exposure to loud sounds can have serious health effects. According to the EPA, it can cause high blood pressure, speech interference and stress related illnesses. In the first four months of this fiscal year, the NYPD found "unreasonable noise summonses" i…
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Mayor Eric Adams wants to build a half million homes over the next decade, but that will be impossible without new tax incentives meant to spur housing development—and maybe even changes to current building codes to allow for single-room occupancy units, he said Monday. With budget negotiations underway in Albany, Adams said state lawmakers risk co…
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It’s a family’s worst nightmare. After years of battling addiction, Leford Williams, 55, fatally overdosed in a Starbucks bathroom in the East Village on a cocktail of fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin. Police arrived, and EMS workers rushed him to Mount Sinai Hospital. But he couldn’t be saved. But for 53 days in 2022, Williams’ family had no i…
12 Catholic schools in New York City will close at the end of the academic year. The Archdiocese of New York says it will shutter the schools due to low enrollment. The closures come as the Church attempts to navigate low attendance at Sunday Mass, the continuing fallout from the Child Victims Act and Cardinal Dolan inching up against the Vatican's…
There were 2,700 drug overdose deaths in New York City in 2021 and for the fifth year in the row, fentanyl was the most common substance involved. New York City's medical examiner Dr. Jason Graham talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about the reasons behind the uptick in overdose deaths and what the city is doing to address it.…
The trick to being great at cue cards is not just about the handwriting – it’s also about being calm under pressure. That’s according to Wally Feresten, and he would know: He’s run cue cards for “Saturday Night Live” for 33 years, and for “Late Night with Seth Meyers” since it started in 2014. His first night of work at “Saturday Night Live” was in…
When it comes to famous Staten Islanders, many know about The Wu Tang Clan and Christina Aguilera but what about Grandpa? Amy Pearl went out to meet the beloved resident of the Staten Island Zoo where he has lived since 1976. His keeper, Emma Jackson, spends so much time with Grandpa that she had his picture tattooed on her arm. Emma Jackson showin…
A big part of New York City's essence comes from the bars and restaurants that line its streets. But the restaurant industry has experienced significant setbacks during the pandemic years. According to the National Restaurant Association, 90,000 restaurants in the US closed by the spring of 2021. Andrew Rigie is the executive director of NYC Hospit…
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Drugs, cash and razor blades are flowing into the city’s juvenile detention centers through a network of employees supplying teenagers with contraband, according to current and former employees.Von WNYC Radio
Aside from the schedule confusion and marathon transfers, there’s a much simpler reason why last month’s opening of full service to Grand Central Madison has caused problems for riders: Nearly a quarter of the Long Island Rail Road’s train cars can’t run through the East River tunnel that serves the new station.…
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Once a long shot, a plan to demolish and rebuild Chelsea public housing complex sees new life
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The Fulton Houses and Chelsea-Elliott Houses are home to thousands of people across roughly 2,000 apartments, but residents say deteriorating conditions, heat outages and busted elevators make life difficult, and often unsafe. The residents, who have the final say on any demolition or renovation plan, initially rejected a 2019 proposal to tear down…
Unknown artists are featured alongside living legends like Jamel Shabazz and Richard Renaldi at “New York Now: Home,” a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. The exhibit, which has been in the works for over two years, is the first installment of a planned triennial celebrating local photography, and the first exhibit to kick off the m…
For years a non-descript, 3-story building on West 17th Street in Chelsea has sat empty, but the structure is a repository of New York City’s history of segregation and it’s now edging closer to landmark status. WNYC’s Arun Venugopal has more on what was once known as "Colored School Number 4."Von WNYC Radio
The 2017 truck attack that killed eight people on the Hudson River Greenway can feel like a distant or even forgotten memory to anyone using the path today. But a lasting legacy of the tragedy is hard to miss: Dozens of barriers and bollards that keep drivers from entering the country’s busiest bike path.…
A panicked run on withdrawals at New York-based Signature Bank helped lead to the institution’s government takeover Sunday night, but state and federal leaders are urging customers — at Signature and other institutions — to remain calm. President Joe Biden and Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered separate public statements Monday morning, seeking to calm fe…
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The free use of public sidewalks and streets by restaurants during the pandemic is about to come to an end as New York City lawmakers work to finalize a highly anticipated bill that will make outdoor dining permanent and transform the landscape of the city. But the question is at what cost? As part of the legislation, the City Council is expected t…
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This Women's History Month, Newark, New Jersey, is honoring a hero of the Underground Railroad by unveiling a monument depicting her. Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and returned to plantations to help others run to freedom. Part of the Underground Railroad ran through Newark. Now, New Jersey's largest city is honoring Tubman and its legacy of Black…
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The new play “War Dreamer” is taking the stage this month at The Wild Project in Manhattan. But it first found its footing inside a Brooklyn apartment known as the Loading Dock Theater, taking its audience from a living room to a Humvee in Iraq. The play centers on a United States veteran who’s returned from Iraq and is struggling with war trauma, …
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An inaugural class of 21 New York City high school students recently completed a new program designed and operated by Carnegie Hall, which provided them with an in-depth tour of the music industry. Ten years in the making according to its organizers, The B-Side – short for business side – launched in February.On a recent Thursday afternoon, partici…
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Weekend Arts Planner: A panoply of puppet shows and a chamber music festival featuring Rhiannon Giddens
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There's always so much music and art and theater happening in New York City -- we can never cover everything. But speaking with Weekend Edition host David Furst, WNYC's Culture and Arts Editor Steve Smith once again highlights a few of the "can't miss" events on the calendar. 1. "Puppetopia" at HERE "Puppetopia" has just opened at the downtown arts…
Many former city workers will see big changes to their existing health coverage after a committee voted to approve a new Aetna-run Medicare Advantage Plan for municipal retirees. The switch will provide some new benefits, such as routine hearing and vision exams, hearing aids, and mental health care provided via telemedicine. Michael Mulgrew is the…
Click "listen" to hear an audio feature for this story, and visit Gothamist for the full details. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation took a year to alert Gowanus Canal residents about toxic fumes rising into the building that houses the popular Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club in Brooklyn, according to documents reviewed by Go…
