Daily Schedule

On today’s show, Sharon Zukin explains how gentrification happens and how it has changed some New York neighborhoods, from Harlem to Red Hook. Then, we’ll look at the pluses and minuses of electric cars, and find out how viable they are in the city.

Leonard Lopate has been ...

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

The bailout of major Wall Street banks was a controversial decision whose effects are still up in the air. But here in New York, new numbers show that the bailout may have helped soften the blow of the recession on the city's economy. Plus: rule of law in Afghanistan; Food ...

Broadway producers are investing more time and energy in crafting clever announcements that advise patrons to turn off their cell phones. Today: we'll hear the cream of the crop. Plus: soul and rockabilly meet in the music of Dublin-born vocalist Imelda May. She performs live in our studio.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

From the New Sounds Live concerts, we'll hear the Bang on a Can All-Stars performing world premieres by Swiss ambient-funk-pianist-composer Nik Bärtsch and by composer/instrument-maker Oscar Bettison, who runs with both the concert hall and the rock ensemble. Plus, hear music by Brooklyn's David Longstreth, the driving force behind the ...