Lisa Chow

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The city's population has climbed to a record 8.36 million. That's according to new Census figures released today. And the number is growing faster than expected. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports.

REPORTER: Brooklyn added the largest number of people, but Staten Island saw the biggest percentage jump. ...

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Two top aides of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi are facing charges of enterprise corruption, grand larceny and money laundering in an indictment announced today.

REPORTER: State officials say Henry Morris, Hevesi's top political advisor, and David Loglisci, chief investment officer, took millions of dollars in ...

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All real estate is local, and a report published by NYU's Furman Center confirms it. The center analyzed price trends across the city since the 1970s and found that in the last housing bust, when prices fell by nearly 30 percent citywide, some neighborhoods were ...

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950 tons of north Brooklyn's residential and municipal trash will take the train out of the borough instead of a truck.

Mayor Bloomberg says this change is part of the city's broader plan to have every borough handle its own solid waste thus reducing the number ...

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City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson says the city's on track to spend more than a billion dollars on overtime. And that's $111 million over the budgeted amount.

THOMPSON: I think it's important that first, the city look obviously for ways to reduce overtime, but ...

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Hundreds of people turned out at the Javits Center yesterday to bid on 250 foreclosed homes in the New York metropolitan area. WNYC's Lisa Chow followed the action on one house in Brooklyn, to see how it fared.

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The new president of the New York Fed, William Dudley, says he's prepared to make sure the nation's banks don't fail. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports on his first major speech since taking over for Tim Geithner, who's now Treasury Secretary.

REPORTER: Dudley spoke at the Council ...

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A 2008 year-end report on Manhattan's housing market is out, and sales prices were up, despite a weak second half of the year. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports.

REPORTER: No matter which price you look at: average sales price, median sales price, or price per square foot, ...

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Earlier today, Amy Eddings spoke to WNYC's president Laura Walker and asked her how she makes plans for a non-profic organization like WNYC, since she never knows if the station is going to meet its donation targets.

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Stock prices of financial bellwethers Citigroup and Bank of America continued to slide today but regained some lost ground after the White House tamped down fears the government would nationalize the banks. Citigroup fell 22 percent, while Bank of America fell 3.6 percent today. Thomas ...

With Wall Street's reputation in tatters, and massive layoffs hitting the industry, bankers, and those who date bankers, are rewriting the rules of courtship.

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JPMorgan Chase's CEO says his bank is lending despite this tough economic environment, and blames the credit crisis on nervous investors. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports.

REPORTER: Jamie Dimon, the head of JPMorgan, says banks are lending even if they're tightening their credit standards. So if banks ...

Coverage continues with: Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City; Mark Wagar, president of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield; Andrew Kimball, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Industrial Park; Melba Olmeda, director of the ...

WNYC's Lisa Chow took a walk down Smith Street in Brooklyn, between Atlantic Avenue and Bergen Street, and checked in with some of the folks who work and live there to find out how things are faring at the start of 2009.

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The crisis that started on Wall Street is now hitting main streets everywhere. WNYC has started a new project called Main Street NYC to track the changes on five streets, in the five boroughs, over the next year. We’ll talk to business owners, landlords, retailers, ...

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New York State's unemployment rate jumped to seven percent last month, the highest level in 14 years. In New York City, the rate grew to 7.4 percent. With numbers like that, unemployed New Yorkers are in for additional help. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports.

REPORTER: Up until ...

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Home prices in Queens dropped more than 10 percent from a year ago. That's the news from brokerage firm Prudential Douglas Elliman's fourth quarter report. Of the five boroughs, Queens has faced the greatest number of foreclosures, but there's a silver lining. WNYC's Lisa Chow ...

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"Madoff: a Jewish Reckoning." That was the title of a panel discussion that drew an overflow crowd at the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Thursday night. Speakers with divergent views reflected on Bernie Madoff and his impact on Jewish people. It's been widely reported that ...

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Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have agreed to combine their brokerages. Morgan Stanley is paying Citigroup $2.7 billion for a 51 percent stake in the joint venture. New York University Stern Professor Larry White says it's a deal that shows how much Citigroup wants to slim ...

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Brooklyn's real estate market has taken a beating. A new report from the appraisal firm Miller Samuel shows prices are down and the number of sales are down even more. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports.

REPORTER: The eastern part of Brooklyn was hit the hardest. We're talking ...