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NIMBY vs. YIMBY Housing Battles Continue

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2025/06/25

The Adams administration announced earlier this week that the plan for affordable senior housing at the Elizabeth Street Garden was dead. David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, reports on how that happened, plus explains why some lawmakers and residents are skeptical of a proposed massive redevelopment - also including affordable housing - at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Red Hook.

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Zohran Mamdani on His Big Night

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2025/06/25

Zohran Mamdani, New York State assembly member (D-36, Queens), talks about his big win in last night's Democratic primary election for mayor.

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Primary Day Informal, Unofficial, Thoroughly...

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2025/06/24

Loading... On today's show: Listeners call in to share who they ranked in the mayoral primary election, and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, shares her most recent reporting on the election. Black lung had largely been eradicated by the end of the last century. Now, the disease has reemerged in coal country, and federal cuts threaten at-risk miners. Kate Morgan, Pennsylvania-based freelance journalist, talks about her reporting on black lung for the New York

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Primary Day Informal, Unofficial, Thoroughly...

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2025/06/24

Listeners call in to share who they ranked in the primary election, including in races besides just the mayoral, and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, shares her most recent reporting on the election, including the latest on what we know about early voting numbers.

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100 Years of 100 Things: The Fight for Gay Rights

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2025/06/24

As our centennial series continues, Marc Stein, the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker professor of history at San Francisco State University, director of the OutHistory website, author and editor of many books, including Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism (University of California Press, 2022) and The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (NYU Press, 2019), takes us through the history of LGBTQ rights in the US, from the founding of the first, though short-lived, gay rights organization

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Primary Day Informal, Unofficial, Thoroughly...

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2025/06/24

Listeners call in to share who they ranked in the mayoral primary election, and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, shares her most recent reporting on the election, including the various campaigns' "get out the vote" efforts.

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How Black Lung Reemerged

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2025/06/24

Black lung had largely been eradicated by the end of the last century. Now, the disease has reemerged in coal country, and federal cuts threaten at-risk miners. Kate Morgan, Pennsylvania-based freelance journalist, talks about her reporting on black lung for the New York Times.→ How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country

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The Mayoral Candidates Make a Final Pitch to...

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2025/06/23

Loading... On today's show: On the day before the primary election, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, former State Assembly Member Michael Blake, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, State Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, State Senator Zellnor Myrie, State Senator Jessica Ramos, former New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Whitney Tilson, former hedge fund manager and philanthropist, make their final pitch to voters who haven't cast

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Heat Emergency

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2025/06/23

The National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning for the area through 8pm Tuesday. Zach Iscol, NYC Emergency Management commissioner, talks about what New Yorkers can do to stay safe.

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Early Voting Numbers Roll In

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2025/06/23

WNYC's senior political correspondent Brigid Bergin shares her reporting on the early voting numbers so far, plus listeners call in to react to the mayoral candidate interviews from the first hour of the show.

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The Mayoral Candidates Make a Final Pitch to Voters

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2025/06/23

On the day before the primary election, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, former State Assembly Member Michael Blake, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, State Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, State Senator Zellnor Myrie, State Senator Jessica Ramos, former New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Whitney Tilson, former hedge fund manager and philanthropist, make their final pitch to voters who haven't cast their ballots yet.

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Two Opinions on Andrew Cuomo; Former Mayor Bill de...

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2025/06/20

Loading...On today's show: Bill de Blasio, former mayor of New York City, explains why he does not think Andrew Cuomo should be the next mayor of New York City, plus responds to The New York Times editorial that blamed his administration for many of the city's problems. Then, Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, New York State Assembly member (D-42 - includes Flatbush, East Flatbush, Ditmas Park and Midwood), and chair of the Kings County Democratic County Committee, offers her reasoning for why she

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Legal News Roundup: Trump and the California National...

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2025/06/20

Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), discusses the latest news coming out of the Supreme Court, including President Donald Trump's legal battle for control of the California National Guard and more.

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Two Opinions on Andrew Cuomo

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2025/06/20

First, Bill de Blasio, former mayor of New York City, explains why he does not think Andrew Cuomo should be the next mayor of New York City, plus responds to the New York Times editorial that blamed his administration for many of the city's problems, then New York State Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn (D-42) chair of the Kings County Democratic County Committee, offers her reasoning for why she has endorsed Andrew Cuomo to be the next mayor.

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Are We Going To War With Iran?

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2025/06/20

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (Miniver Press, 2024), offers analysis of the Iran-Israel conflict and discusses his recent column appraising the odds of the United States joining the fight

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The Mayoral Candidates on Transportation

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2025/06/20

Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom, talks about where the mayoral primary candidates stand on issues related to public transportation.

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Mayoral Primary Campaign Ad War; Ask Gov. Murphy:...

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2025/06/19

Loading... On today's show: Juan Manuel Benitez, professor of local journalism at Columbia Journalism School and member of the New York Editorial Board, and Jeffery Mays, New York Times reporter covering politics with a focus on New York City Hall, talk about the broadcast (as well as print and digital) advertisements flooding the zone in the week before the mayoral primary campaign, many paid for by the deep-pocketed super PAC supporting Andrew Cuomo; plus they discuss how the candidates are

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Ask Governor Murphy: June 2025 Recap

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2025/06/19

Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, recaps her conversation with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, including the results of the gubernatorial primary election, and the latest new on an immigrant detention center in Newark at the center of a fight between New Jersey Democrats and President Donald Trump.

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A Doctor's Perspective on the SCOTUS Youth Gender...

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2025/06/19

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court's decided to uphold Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care for minors in the United States v. Skrmetti case. Jack Turban, MD, MHS, adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and author of Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity (Atria Books, 2024), offers his perspective on the ruling and how it will affect transgender children and their families.

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Juneteenth at Lincoln Center

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2025/06/19

Carl Hancock Rux, poet, playwright, recording artist, essayist and radio journalist, talks about Lincoln Center’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration, which pays tribute to enslaved people and their use of folklore to survive the trauma of the Transatlantic slave trade.

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