WNYC Newsroom

On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered to the World War II allies.

Rosie Perez hosted a lively town hall style discussion on how communities can save the places they love. Landmarks Preservation Commission Chair Bob Tierney took pointed questions from the audience, writer Nelson George remembered the positive side of the gritty Ft. Greene he grew up in, while preservationists, urbanists and ...

A Creative Marriage

Screenwriter and playwright David Rabe and actress Jill Clayburgh, who have been married since 1979 and have a daughter, the actress Lily Rabe, speak about their careers and the creative exchange that happens in a family.

Richard Goode
Pianist Richard Goode performs ...

The Greene Space’s first visual arts exhibition, opening May 8, celebrates New York City’s artistic diversity with works by emerging and experienced artists from all five boroughs along with a dialogue with curators and artists, moderated by Studio 360 Host Kurt Andersen. The exhibit is curated and produced ...

by Annie Shreffler
Brooklyn-based artist Alessandra Olanow draws a segment of news every morning as a matter of routine. For this slide show, she focused on week's worth of news produced at WNYC. Other favorite images from her blog are included. Click on the captions for story names and ...

by Jennifer Hsu of The Takeaway

You can't get swine flu from eating pork. (And it’s not even called swine flu anymore--technically it’s H1N1 Influenza A.) Nonetheless, the pork industry can’t be ...

Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Eddie Glaude launched The Next New York Conversation Series on May 5 in The Greene Space. The series identifies and furthers the dialogues that are reshaping, redefining, and re-imagining our world in the 21st century.

Photos by Scott Ellison Smith

Oh, the gods have been good to us today. Morning Edition has proffered up the most glorious Cinco de Mayo battle of all: Lucha VaVoom. It's a cross between lucha libre wrestling and burlesque dancing. Do not miss Cassandro -- the wrestler whose teeth were knocked out AGAIN by ...

Merryl Tisch, Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents

The new Chancellor of the Board of Regents says New York State will apply this summer for a piece of the federal stimulus package dedicated to education reforms. The Obama Administration has made $5 billion available for states and districts to come up new assessments, data systems and ways of improving teacher effectiveness. Chancellor Merryl Tisch says New York's application will include a proposal to track graduates of teaching colleges to see which ones are most effective when they're placed in urban areas.

'It will help us give them the appropriate professional development,' she says. 'And mostly if we do those things right, the preparation and the professional development, we will be able to retain teachers throughout the system instead of hemorrhaging teachers in urban centers.'

It's back to school day for students at St. Francis Preparatory School. Mayor Bloomberg and other officials were on hand to welcome the students returning to the Queens parochial school, which closed last week after 45 students came down with confirmed cases of swine flu. All of the cases have ...

The original production of Fall starred Orson Welles, who went on the following year to create the most notorious broadcast in radio history, “The War of the Worlds.”

Terrance McKnight and David Garland brought Evening Music to the new Greene Space stage Thursday night with live performances by some of the brightest lights of the classical, contemporary and new music scenes today: Simone Dinnerstein, Don Byron, Jason Moran, Ute Lemper, John Zorn, and Nico Muhly as well ...

For decades, the term 'downtown' described the experimentalism of music, art and culture in lower Manhattan. On Wednesday, WNYC's Soundcheck explored how that shorthand definition is changing in a live broadcast from The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. Guests included rocker Lou Reed, indie new-wave artist Santigold and string quartet ...

by Jennifer Hsu of The Takeaway


We hear it and we think PANIC. But strangely the word pandemic has no other synonym in the English language. The Takeaway asks Grant Barrett, lexicographer, ...

by Femi Oke and Jennifer Hsu of The Takeway

Femi Oke and Jennifer Hsu of The Takeaway talk with middle school students in Brooklyn, New York, about how they're dealing with ...

WNYC's first substantive in-house venue for live audiences since its old WPA studios.

Mexican athletes wear face masks at the ...

On April 27, 1947, the ailing baseball legend appeared before 60,000 in Yankee Stadium to speak on 'Babe Ruth Day.

The Brooklyn pastor and gospel singer, Timothy Wright, has died, after an eight-month struggle to recover from injuries he received in a car crash last year. Wright was 61 years old. Wright, the pastor at the Grace Tabernacle Church of ...

As promised the Federal Aviation Administration released a report today documenting the number of bird strikes on airplanes. From 1990 to 2007, the FAA reports there have been 82,000 bird strikes involving birds and land animals like deer. During ...