Arun Venugopal

Senior Reporter, WNYC News

Arun Venugopal appears in the following:

A very noncorporate project floated in Queens where Amazon wanted ‘HQ2’

Thursday, June 20, 2024

By Arun Venugopal : Senior Reporter, WNYC News

A community land trust wants to turn a city-owned building in Long Island City into a shared, community space, and put it out of reach of for-profit developers.

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On Jackson Heights’ open street, NYC’s ‘moped crisis’ is in full throttle

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Queens neighbors, voicing concerns heard across the five boroughs, say they worry about being struck by e-bikes and other two-wheeled, motorized vehicles.

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Key Queens lawmaker says she will formally oppose Citi Field-area casino

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

By Arun Venugopal : Senior Reporter, WNYC News

Sen. Jessica Ramos says the "vast majority" of the project’s neighbors are against it.

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Inside CUNY's antisemitism probe: Campus talks, professors, students under scrutiny

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the investigation in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel.

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Inside a Brooklyn kitchen that trains migrants for restaurant jobs, lifting an industry

Friday, May 10, 2024

A kitchen in Brooklyn is feeding the aspirations of new migrants in New York and the needs of the restaurant industry as well.

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A hotel row in Queens is getting a new look. New affordable housing is part of the mix.

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The former JFK Hilton is being transformed into affordable housing; project admirers wish there were more projects like it.

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Churches, synagogues, mosques could help NYC shelter migrants

Friday, December 08, 2023

Talks are progressing on a plan to pay houses of worship to provide sanctuary to migrants.

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Live at The Public Theater: A reframing of the origin story of Manhattan

Monday, November 27, 2023

Mary Kathryn Nagle’s play tells the story of "Manahatta" through the eyes of the dispossessed.

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‘Malcolm X,’ the Met Opera revival, returns to New York. Oh, and there’s a spaceship.

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

By Arun Venugopal : Senior Reporter, WNYC News

The production was ground-breaking nearly four decades ago; it’s been updated to touch on new racial strains.

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In New Jersey, the largest Hindu temple in the U.S. set to open amid controversy

Friday, October 13, 2023

The BAPS Akshardham looms over former soy fields in Robbinsville, in central New Jersey. The Hindu temple is billed at the largest of its kind in the U.S.

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Monday Morning Politics; MTA Update; A Push for Reparations in New Jersey; Overcoming Childhood Trauma

Monday, September 25, 2023

Monday Morning Politics; MTA Update: Free Buses, Crowded Subways; A Push for Reparations in New Jersey; Overcoming Childhood Trauma

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Before becoming urban jewels, NYC's community gardens overcame neglect – and Rudy Giuliani

Thursday, September 07, 2023

In the 1990s, the former mayor sought to sell off the lands that were community gardens.

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Tibetan cultural resistance in Queens, with help from TikTok and YouTube

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Though the weekly dance at a local playground might look like fun, it actually has a much deeper meaning for its participants.

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Summer Decluttering Before the Fall

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Lauren Iannotti, editor-in- chief of Real Simple, joins us to give us practical tips to organize your personal space, and take your calls.

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Kid Capri Celebrates Hip Hop 50

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Kid Capri celebrates Hip Hop 50 at a concert at Yankee Stadium on August 11.

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A Prolific Art Thief Who Kept What He Stole

Thursday, August 10, 2023

A new book tells the story of one of the most prolific art thieves in history, who, rather than selling the art he stole, kept it all on display in secret rooms.

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