Amy Eddings

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Two years ago, it was the possible site of an Olympic and football stadium. Today, state officials are seeking bids from developers for 26 acres of the West Side Railyards New York Observer reporter Matthew Schuerman talks with All Things Considered local host Amy Eddings ...

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Do you recycle?

CYNTHIA MARTINEZ: No. I live in city housing, and I just put everything in the – I live in city housing, so I put everything in the chuter. REPORTER: the chute, in the hall.

MARTINEZ: Yes.

REPORTER: You know the city has a recycling program?

MARTINEZ: ...

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Women Center Stage is an arts festival connecting the arts with pressing social issues. Amy Eddings speaks with theater critic Alisa Solomon about the mission of the festival.

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Mikhail Baryshnikov is probably the most famous dancer of our time. This weekend, he’ll be performing in a series of new works by choreographers who aren't exactly household names. It’s part of his project called Hell’s Kitchen Dance. The dance critic Claudia LaRocco joined Amy ...

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Earlier this spring, while some teens were coping with senioritis and worrying about what to wear to the prom, a group of theater students at Wilton High in Connecticut were battling what some were calling censorship. Voices in Conflict is a set of monologues based on ...

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For many fans, the future of ballet hangs on the work of the young choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. It competes against ballet's warhorses like the current American Ballet Theater production of Sleeping Beauty. Dance critic Claudia LaRocco joins Amy Eddings to discuss whether an old form ...

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Last week 32 young people from Bushwick, Brooklyn were arrested on their way to a wake for an 18 year-old friend who police say was in a gang, and shot by a rival gang member. The teens, and the NYPD, are painting two very different ...

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10 years ago Arthur Aviles was a rising star with the celebrated Bill T. Jones Dance company and an award winning choreographer. He could have had the kind of career most dancers these days only dream about. Instead he gave it up to form a ...

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Sex toys, consumer culture, pop music and pregnancy -- so goes another night on the downtown dance scene. This weekend, three emerging choreographers are presenting new work that take on some of the more unconventional topics of the day. Dance critic Claudia LaRocco has a ...

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The legal battle has ended over the multi-billion-dollar insurance payout for the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. The builders of the site and seven insurers have reached a $2 billion settlement Joining me now to discuss the news is Regis Coccia, the ...

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While some of New York’s downtown clubs have been closing, New York’s downtown cabaret scene hasn’t completely disappeared. Elisabeth Vincentelli is Arts and Entertainment editor at Time Out New York and she’s been watching the best of the acts.

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Officials from cities around the globe are here to talk about climate change, and various strategies to fight it, but the buzz this morning was on congestion pricing. WNYC’s Beth Fertig attended a panel discussion featuring the Mayor of London. His city's program of charging ...

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Teen sex, neighborhood gentrification and the world’s most popular nanny. Those were just some of the subjects touched on in the pool of this year's Tony Nominations. The 2007 nominations were announced this morning at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. David ...

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Prima ballerinas aren’t exactly a dime a dozen, and their numbers are getting even smaller these days. Two of the world’s greatest ballerinas, Kyra Nichols of the New York City Ballet and Alessandra Ferri of the America Ballet Theater are both retiring this year. The ...

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The battle to expand New York's bottle bill cost $20 million of political money, spending that the good government group, Common Cause, says needs reform. WNYC's Amy Eddings has more.

The Bigger Better Bottle Bill would have added water bottles and other containers to the state's ...

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Long-time traffic engineer Sam Schwartz, better known to New Yorkers as Gridlock Sam, says attempts to charge drivers more to be in Midtown have floundered over the years because of opposition from Brooklyn and Queens politicians. He says if Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan is ...

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Hip-hop, breakdance, breaking, urban theatre. Those are some of the ways to describe a series of performances taking place through this weekend at PS 122. "Hip-hop to da Head” is a multimedia production that combines music, dance, spoken word and film to get at the ...

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Mayor Bloomberg invoked the deadly shooting at a previously scheduled conference on illegal guns, saying the death toll is repeated every day across America as a result of gun violence. Bloomberg and others in his coalition against illegal guns launched an ad campaign to lobby ...

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The 2006 Pulitzer Prize announcements were made earlier this afternoon. Among the winners were David Lindsay-Abaire for his play “Rabbit Hole,” and the award for general nonfiction was given to Lawrence Wright for his book, ``The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.'' This ...

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WNYC’s Brooke Gladstone, host of NPR’s “On the Media,” talks about Don Imus’ firing, and his career, with WNYC All Things Considered host Amy Eddings.