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Construction of luxury apartments is stressing out Prospect Park's horses
Construction of a nine-story luxury apartment building next door to the Prospect Park Stable is stressing out its 11 horses, according to owner John Quadrozzi Jr., 63.
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Democratic Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani meets with top NYC business leaders
New York City Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist who is campaigning on the promise of raising taxes on the city’s top 1-percent of earners. But h... -
Planning for Inevitable Climate Disaster
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The Atlantic hurricane season is currently underway – and in fact, it was the tail end of tropical storm Barry that contributed to the deadly flash floods in Texas two weeks ago that...
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A Story of Change and Cheesecake on the Upper West Side
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Mark Kurlansky is a James Beard Award-winning writer whose books span fiction and non-fiction but share food-related subjects, with titles like Salt, Milk, and Salmon. He'll talk abou... -
OMNY's Rocky Rollout Continues
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Carrie Brownstein on Cat Power. Plus, “Materialists,” “Too Much,” and the Modern Rom-Com.
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For The New Yorker’s series Takes, Carrie Brownstein—the co-creator of Sleater-Kinney and “Portlandia”—writes about an iconic rock-and-roll image. In the summer of 2003, the musician ... -
A Bushwick woman’s recovery from drug addiction starts on TikTok
Addiction specialists said finding community, even online, is crucial to success. -
Where to find delicious eats in Williamsburg
Food writer Robert Sietsema serves up some restaurant picks with a side of neighborhood history.
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Let’s talk democracy at the laundromat!
Soap gets laundry done. Conversation gets democracy going. This election year, WNYC is turning some laundromats in the New York metro area into hubs of civic dialogue. - Edit Bucket
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One of the Country's Earliest African-American Radio Programs on WNYC 1929-1930
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Lilian Supove Blake
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Take A Dive into the WNYC Archives
As part of WNYC's centennial celebration, each week we'll share key moments from the from the vast WNYC and NYC Municipal archives.
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With His Camera, Larry Fink Documented 60 Years of American Life
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The Center for Photography at Woodstock calls Larry Fink (1941-2023) "one of the last great humanist photographers." CPW has organized an exhibition of Fink's photographs, which depic... -
Season 2 of "The Retrievals" Seeks Solutions to Women's Surgical Pain
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C-sections are among the most commonly performed surgeries in the world. But despite interventions aimed at numbing the pain of the procedure, many women can still feel the painful su... -
NYC Summer Read: 'The Doorman'
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[REBROADCAST FROM May 20, 2025] The new novel The Doorman follows Chicky Diaz, the titular character working at a high end Manhattan building who becomes ensnared in the web of secret... -
Jonathan Adler's Ceramic Art At The Museum of Arts and Design
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Jonathan Adler's 30 year career is being celebrated at the Museum of Art & Design in a show titled "The Mad, MAD World of Jonathan Adler," which looks at his ceramic work over the pas... -
Morgan Spector on 'The Gilded Age'
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"The Gilded Age" star Morgan Spector discusses the third season of the period drama, and takes calls from our listeners who have questions about the series. "The Gilded Age" airs Sund...
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On The Media: Tuning Into the Divided Dial
Join us on June 11th at 7 PM for a conversation between OTM host Micah Loewinger and journalist Katie Thornton as they discuss their Peabody-winning series, new season of “The Divided Dial.” The first season, released in late 2022, examined how the right came to dominate talk radio in the US — and how one company was launching an ultra-conservative media empire from the airwaves. The second season, released May 2025, explores the world of shortwave radio: the lesser-known cousin of AM and FM radio that travels thousands of miles across rough terrain and geopolitical borders. This once-ubiquitous medium went from a utopian experiment in global communication to a propaganda tool for governments at war — and then became a vehicle for American right-wing extremists and cults. Katie visits a very strange station in Northern Maine. And explains what a little-known battle playing out on the shortwaves right now — between radio fanatics and Wall Street — can tell us about how we value our public airwaves.
Micah goes behind the scenes with Katie — to hear about her reporting process, how she found these stories and audio recordings (some of which had never been digitized), and the talk radio and shortwave gems that were left on the cutting room floor.
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Current threats to public media and what you can do about it
As threats to funding for public media have been in the news, many of you- our audiences, supporters, and community partners—have been asking how to stay informed and support public media
