Andrea Bernstein

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With the unveiling of the new downtown transit hub, officials say the last of the major pieces of the World Trade Center site design are in place. Civic boosters and critics alike say the design is part of a new moment in New York City ...

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A jury in New York City has chosen a design featuring pools of water, a paved stone field, and a grove of trees for the World Trade Center memorial. The choice of the design by a New York ...

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As the deadline for a final design for the 1776 foot tall freedom tower approaches, discussions between its architects have been on again, off again. Yesterday both men, master planner Daniel Libesind and Larry Silverstein's architect, David Childs, joined Governor Pataki at a ceremony marking ...

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As the deadline for a final design for the 1776 foot tall freedom tower approaches, discussions between its architects have been on again, off again. Yesterday both men, master planner Daniel Libesind and Larry Silverstein's architect, David Childs, joined Governor Pataki at a ceremony marking ...

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This morning, for the first time since September 11, a PATH train will roll into Lower Manhattan. There is a huge blue and white sign that hangs over the platform. It says World Trade Center Station. In this reporter's notebook, WNYC's Andrea Bernstein takes a ...

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New York is now one step closer to getting a memorial for the September 11 attacks. Yesterday officials unveiled 8 finalists. Selected from among 5200 entries the eight have a varied approach to remembering those who died. But all are organized around the geometry of ...

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Governor Pataki has a busy day stumping around the state for Republican candidates today. This is part of a massive fundraising effort by the governor for the GOP nationwide, which also includes a stop in the key early-caucus state of Iowa next week. All this ...

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When prisoners are released on parole, the state requires they have an address. For parolees with AIDS or HIV, that address is often a small private rooming house. As WNYC's Andrea Bernstein found, the combination of little regulation, a souring economy - and a guaranteed ...

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced the city will change the way it does business with the owners of emergency hotels for the homeless. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein and Amy Eddings reported last June how the current system fails both the homeless and city taxpayers. WNYC's Andrea ...

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Former Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin spends her first full day on parole after 22 years in prison. Her case won national attention when the Bryn Mawr graduate turned fugitive was involved in a robbery that left three people dead. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.

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Two years ago this month, the world literally looked on in horror as the twin towers collapsed. New Yorkers - and the world shared a communal sense of loss. As the months and years have passed, the effort to decide what to do with the ...

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City Councilmember James Davis, a 41-year-old former police officer, died from gun shots to his chest - a sad coda to a life spent fighting gun violence. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has this report.

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A state assembly panel held hearings last week on the conduct of the Thruway Authority. The hearings are just the latest in a series of probes of state authorities, increasingly under scrutiny for financial mismanagement, patronage hires - and corruption. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein takes a ...

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New York City has been putting homeless people in private hotels for two decades, and in the last few years city payments to hotels has skyrocketed. A WNYC investigation found that this business goes to just a few landlords and that the city knows almost ...

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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 ...

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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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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...