Are old-timers getting younger? Writer Nelson George and actress Rosie Perez remember the way their Brooklyn neighborhoods used to be. Plus, the latest on the MTA bailout; keeping resolutions; Pakistan politics; billboard art; and the New Jersey gubernatorial race.
New York News
Daily News columnist Liz Benjamin and Edward-Isaac Dovere, editor of City Hall, round up the latest from Albany and City Hall, including the MTA deal, budget woes, and some gay marriage polling.
Speak Out Forcefully
David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and Sabahat Ashraf, senior a writer/blogger who makes his living as a technical writer in Silicon Valley and covers events in Pakistan, discuss the latest in US-Pakistani relations, and Secretary of State Clinton's charge to the Pakistani diaspora ...
Stick With It
Dean Karlan, Yale economics professor and co-founder of StickK, talks about this innovative way to keep commitments.
Change in Brooklyn
Actress and activist Rosie Perez and writer and filmmaker Nelson George discuss the importance of mom and pop shops, stoops, civic gathering places, and neighborhood character in a changing city.
Events
Help produce WNYC’s neighborhood preservation event this Thursday; join the Public Insight Network and suggest topics and ...
New Jersey Governor's Race
Steve Lonegan, Republican candidate for New Jersey governor and the former mayor of Bogota, makes his case to New Jersey's primary voters.
YUEI: Billboard Art
Harry Coghlan, president of Clear Channel Spectacolor and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn, creator of Underwater Ballet discuss their collaboration on a new public art broadcast in Times Square. Then Jordan Seiler, founder of Public Ad Campaign talks about the need for public space to reflect the ideas ...
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