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The Ghettoes of East New York
In 1966 riots broke out in Brooklyn’s blighted East New York. The mayor at the time, John Lindsay, tapped city planner Walter Thabit to help solve the neighborhood’s problems. We’ll talk to Thabit about the decay and apartheid-like conditions that have plagued East New York for decades, and about recent signs of revitalization. Also, a former deputy Mayor and member of the Charter Revision Commission on why he’s voting against nonpartisan elections.
The Voices of the World Trade Center
Dr. Shyam Sunder, Lead Investigator at the National Institute for Standards and Technology in the federal investigation of the World Trade Center and Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Reporter, on the Port Authority transcripts of calls made from the WTC on September 11 and the continuing federal investigation of disaster
Political Machine Maintenance
Bill Lynch, Member of the Mayor's Charter Revision Commission on non-partisan elections, former Deputy Mayor of the City of New York under David Dinkins, and CEO of Bill Lynch, finds fault with Mayor Bloomberg’s plan for non-partisan elections
East of Eden
Walter Thabit, Community Planner and author, How East New York Became a Ghetto (New York University Press), on the rise and fall of East New York, Brooklyn
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