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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.

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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 to speak out and put pressure on the government there.

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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 questions.

Greene Space ticket info here.

Nelson George at the Brooklyn Historical Society on May 13th, to discuss his book City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success (Viking, 2009).

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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.

Steve Lonegan's campaign website

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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 of its community.

YUEI: Add your story to Your Uncommon Economic Indicators.

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