Comptroller's Audit
Thursday, June 19, 2003
| In 1998, then City Comptroller Alan Hevesi audited the emergency hotel payments by the Department of Homeless Services and the Human Resources Administration.
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The Fate of NYC Rent Laws
Thursday, June 19, 2003
The fate of the rent laws that govern over a million apartments units in New York City will likely be decided within the next 24 hours. The laws were last renewed in 1997 and officially expired Sunday but the state legislature has been unable to come to a consensus.
Mayor Bloomberg's Image
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Mayor Bloomberg is setting new records - for low approval ratings. Polls show most New Yorkers wouldn't even want to have dinner with him. And even many sympathetic observers think he could do better at getting out the message that things will be okay. WNYC's Fred Mogul reports on some ...
A Ralph Ellison Monument
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Nine years after author Ralph Ellison died in his Harlem apartment, a monument has been erected in his honor on Riverside Drive. The design is meant to illustrate the basic premise of his novel, Invisible Man, a portrait of the struggles of a Black man in a hostile society. Reporter ...
Corruption in New Jersey
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
In New Jersey state and federal prosecutors are busy with several high profile public corruption probes. Polls show a major erosion in public trust with voters estimating that half of all their elected officials are corrupt. Bob Hennelly has more.
Disabled Pre-schoolers File Lawsuit
Monday, June 16, 2003
On June 16, a class action lawsuit will be filed against the city on behalf of more than 500 disabled pre-school children. Their attorneys claim the children aren't receiving special education services required by federal law. And in many cases, they aren't even going to school. WNYC's Beth Fertig has ...
Commentary: New York is Still New York
Sunday, June 15, 2003
The news of this week was dominated by violence in the Middle East and wrangling over tax cuts in Washington. But WNYC's Brian Lehrer says just below the surface were any number of reminders that New York is still New York.
They say 9/11 changed everything. Well, not quite. It struck ...
They say 9/11 changed everything. Well, not quite. It struck ...
From Brooklyn Heights to South Korea
Friday, June 13, 2003
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US officials recently announced that American troops will be withdrawn from the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, that narrow strip of land that separates North and South Korea. The troops will be repositioned south about 75 miles to 'hub bases'. 50 years ago ...
US officials recently announced that American troops will be withdrawn from the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, that narrow strip of land that separates North and South Korea. The troops will be repositioned south about 75 miles to 'hub bases'. 50 years ago ...
Nina Simone's Music and Social Consciousness
Friday, June 13, 2003
A sold-out concert this evening celebrates the life and legacy of the great jazz vocalist Nina Simone. WNYC's John Schaefer took time on his afternoon music program Soundcheck to explore not only Simone's music, but her legacy of social consciousness......
Unmanned Sub Seeks Leaks from Catskills to the Bronx
Saturday, June 07, 2003
Click here for a slide showNew York's city water system is losing between 15 and 36 million gallons each day because of leaks in a huge water tunnel that runs from the Catskills to the Bronx. Engineers have known about these leaks in the Delaware Aqueduct for ...
Local Reaction to the New York Times Resignations
Friday, June 06, 2003
Some New York Times staffers were in tears yesterday as the paper's Executive and Managing editors stepped down. Inside the Times, there's been anxiety over former reporter Jayson Blair's made-up stories and then Rick Bragg's use of a stringer to report major portions of at least one feature. WNYC's Marianne ...
Philip Levine Reads Philip Larkin
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
Levine:
25 years ago this coming Saturday, I saw at the Belmont race track the greatest race I've ever seen. Maybe I think it was the greatest because I had bet on Affirmed to win the Triple Crown and that day he did in a neck by neck, ...
Carnegie Hall & New York Philharmonic To Merge
Tuesday, June 03, 2003
Soon it might take more than practice to get to Carnegie Hall. Yesterday it was announced by the boards of the NY Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall that the 2 institutions have agreed to merge. Not only will the orchestra make the Hall its new home, but its board will have ...
New Jersey Elections
Monday, June 02, 2003
In New Jersey an unprecedented number of primary challenges in tomorrow's state legislative races have sent campaign spending into the stratosphere. Bob Hennelly has more.
Philip Levine Reads Lu Yu
Monday, June 02, 2003
Levine: Good morning this is Phil Levine. With all the fraud and deceit you read about every day in the paper you wonder - how do you react to it?
Levine: How do you take it? And I scoured the poetry I knew and I ...
Teen Drinking
Monday, June 02, 2003
Last fall, hundreds of Scarsdale High School students arrived at the homecoming dance so drunk that many were taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. Around the same time, a 17-year-old boy from Harrison was killed in a drinking-related accident. Now, after eight months of meetings, strategizing and lots of ...
J.S. Bach's Irresistible Chaconne
Friday, May 30, 2003
Every composer dreams of having a work last forever. Some spectacular pieces of music, Sara Fishko tells us, do seem to last. One such undying favorite is the subject of today's Fishko Files - J.S. Bach's Chaconne.
Another Evening with Bill T. Jones
Friday, May 30, 2003
Veteran choreographer Bill T. Jones, sultry singer Cassandra Wilson and up-and-coming composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain are collaborating on a project called "Another Evening." This work features the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and will be performed this weekend at Aaron Davis Hall. All three artists visited the ...
NYC Communities Compare Police Cases
Friday, May 30, 2003
New York's police commissioner says the department will issue a report in the next few days detailing changes it will make after its mistaken and fatal raid on Harlem resident Alberta Spruill's apartment. Now that Commissioner Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg are facing some high profile cases of possible police abuse, ...
June Street Fairs
Friday, May 30, 2003
Love or hate them, it's that time of year when New York City's neighborhoods are inundated with summer street fairs. According to the Mayor's Office, there are 270 chances to stumble upon one this year. Below is a complete schedule for June.
Sunday June 1
The Greenwich Village Fair ...