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Shop Listener 2025: Face-to-Face

The Brian Lehrer Show

Listeners call in to shout out their in-person holiday shopping opportunities (craft fairs, pop-ups, brick & mortar stores) for a Brian Lehrer Show listener-sourced gift guide.
An NYC rent fight is being picked with the Supreme Court in Mind

The newest challenge to New York’s rent-stabilization law is, on its face, a narrow dispute over a handful of long-vacant apartments. But the attorneys who filed the complaint say the...
Zohran Mamdani cleans house at City Hall as he prepares to become mayor

Zohran Mamdani sends more than 100 government employees pink slips, state Attorney General Letitia James scores a big win against the Justice Department and more in this special Thank...
'Our neighbors are in danger': New Yorkers prep for an immigration crackdown

Such trainings, which are largely organized by mutual aid and advocacy groups, have become more popular and numerous following an ICE raid on Canal Street in Lower Manhattan in late O...
In Season: kale

Greenmarkets are full of colorful varieties of kale, which are at their most flavorful this time of year when the cold weather forces the plant to produce more sugar. Amelia Tarpey is...

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Let’s talk democracy at the laundromat!

Soap gets laundry done. Conversation gets democracy going. This election year, WNYC is turning some laundromats in the New York metro area into hubs of civic dialogue.

Ask Governor Murphy

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy takes questions from WNYC’s Nancy Solomon, other guest journalists and listeners for an hour every month during this live show, a co-production with WBGO and WHYY. Ask Governor Murphy airs the second Wednesday of most months at 7 p.m., dependent on schedule availability.

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One of the Country's Earliest African-American Radio Programs on WNYC 1929-1930

The NAACP scores a regular Wednesday slot for talks on a broad spectrum of issues.
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Lilian Supove Blake

When most women in Radio were doing home-ec shows, she was WNYC's News and Special Events Director.
Take A Dive into the WNYC Archives

As part of WNYC's centennial celebration, each week we'll share key moments from the from the vast WNYC and NYC Municipal archives.

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Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney

The New Yorker Radio Hour

The director talks with the New Yorker editor Susan Morrison about his new film, in which a famous actor wonders whether he’s made the right choices.
Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster

The New Yorker Radio Hour

The novelist talks with David Remnick about his new book, set a century in the future, and why writers should try to describe the wider world—not just themselves.
‘Hedda’ Director Nia DaCosta and Star Tessa Thompson

All Of It

A provocative reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, “Hedda” stars Tessa Thompson as the aristocrat caught between a past love and a stifling marriage. Thompson and director Nia ...
How 'Divine Egypt' Showcases Ancient Egyptian Spirituality

All Of It

The new exhibit "Divine Egypt" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art brings together nearly 250 works of art from Ancient Egypt that depict the deities they worshiped. Curator Diana Craig...
Go Local: Manhattan

All Of It

Local shop enthusiast Caroline Weaver, aka, The Locavore, prepares us for the holiday season. She joins us each week through the holiday season, to go to explore each borough's local ...