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Poet Philip Levine

Philip Levine Reads Theodore Roethke

Thursday, June 26, 2003

By Philip Levine

 

For kids attending public schools in the city, the last day of school is here. Although it's been over 50 years since he was in school, WNYC poet in residence Phil Levine remembers vividly what it feels like to be heading into summer.

Levine: One of ...

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Handshake Hotels: Part 2

Thursday, June 26, 2003

By Andrea Bernstein / Amy Eddings

WNYC's seven month examination of the city's emergency homeless housing program continues. As WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reported yesterday, more than 180 million dollars has been spent in the last fiscal year alone, for emergency shelter in often poor quality apartments and hotels where the homeless languish for years. WNYC's Amy ...

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Handshake Hotels: Part 3

Thursday, June 26, 2003

By Andrea Bernstein / Amy Eddings

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On Nancy Wackstein’s office wall, there’s a framed copy of an old report.

Wackstein: We had done this whole report, when Mayor Dinkins was borough president of Manhattan and I had worked for him then. We had done a whole report, a shelter ...

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Handshake Hotels: Part 1

Wednesday, June 25, 2003

By Andrea Bernstein / Amy Eddings

Twenty years ago, New York City began moving homeless people into hotel rooms rented by the night. That business has continued to grow, and this year the city is on track to spend more than one-hundred eighty (M) million dollars placing homeless people in hotels and temporary apartments. But this ...

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Handshake Hotels: Part 2

Wednesday, June 25, 2003

By Andrea Bernstein / Amy Eddings

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For several weeks, there was a banner that hung outside the new, six-story red brick building at 65 Clermont Avenue, in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. The banner trumpeted the arrival of luxury condominiums to passing drivers along the nearby Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. So Peter ...

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Handshake Hotels

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

By Andrea Bernstein / Amy Eddings

New York City is on track to spend $180 million this year to put homeless people in hotels and temporary apartments. And all of that money changes hands OUTSIDE of the city's usual contracting process. Competition, public scrutiny, and many of the city's homeless people have suffered as ...

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Handshake Hotels: Part 1

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

By Andrea Bernstein / Amy Eddings

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Walking down the long brown hallway in the Marion Hotel on the Upper West Side, Jacqueline Davis fingers a keychain around her neck.

Bernstein: You’ve got a lot of keys on that keychain. What are they to?
Davis: Hotels I’ve ...

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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.


In both cases, ...

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The Fate of NYC Rent Laws

Thursday, June 19, 2003

By Cindy Rodriguez

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.

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Mayor Bloomberg's Image

Wednesday, June 18, 2003

By Fred Mogul : Reporter, WNYC News

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 ...

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A Ralph Ellison Monument

Wednesday, June 18, 2003

By Allison Keyes

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 ...

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Corruption in New Jersey

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

By Bob Hennelly

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.

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Disabled Pre-schoolers File Lawsuit

Monday, June 16, 2003

By Beth Fertig

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 ...

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Commentary: New York is Still New York

Sunday, June 15, 2003

By Brian Lehrer

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 ...

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From Brooklyn Heights to South Korea

Friday, June 13, 2003

By Judith Kampfner

For pictures and a weblog, click here.

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 ...

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Nina Simone's Music and Social Consciousness

Friday, June 13, 2003

By John Schaefer

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......

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Unmanned Sub Seeks Leaks from Catskills to the Bronx

Saturday, June 07, 2003

By Beth Fertig



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 ...

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Local Reaction to the New York Times Resignations

Friday, June 06, 2003

By Marianne McCune : Reporter, WNYC News

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 ...

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Poet Philip Levine

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, ...

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Carnegie Hall & New York Philharmonic To Merge

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

By Alicia Zuckerman : Senior Editor for Enterprise, WLRN-Miami Herald News

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 ...

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