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In 2025, the minimum wage in New Jersey will go up by 36 cents to $15.49 an hour. In New York City, Long Island and Westchester, the minimum wage for most workers will rise to $16.50 an hour. Stephanie Hoopes is director of United for ALICE, founded by the non-profit United Way of Northern New Jersey. She joined WNYC host Michael Hill to discuss ho…

Food has a way of bringing back memories. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk is asking folks in our area to share stories about family recipes that mean something special to them. We talked to Damira Inatullaeva, a Brooklyn resident, and the Uzbek instructor with The League of Kitchens. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. …

In New York City, selling Christmas trees is big business. Every year, an army of "tree men" sell off little forests of evergreens right on the curb from their makeshift plywood shacks. They’ve done so for decades. And many of them travel down from the Northeast to work here for a month. But tree costs have shot up over the last few years. Reporter…

'Tis the season for food, family, friends and fun, too. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk is asking New Yorkers to share stories behind their favorite family recipes and the memories they conjure up. Today we hear from Jeanette Chawki, a Staten Island resident and a cooking instructor with The League of Kitchens The following transcript has been l…

Every day in New York City, countless people work quietly behind the scenes to make their community stronger and support their neighbors in need. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk is spotlighting some of them. We're calling them community champions. Prithipal Khahera is a volunteer at the Queens Community House's Older Adult Center in Forest Hills…

The “Wicked” movie has won over fans around the world, but one kindergarten class in Midtown has scored a level of access to the hit musical that would make the most die-hard followers green with envy. For 20 years, a who’s-who of Broadway has been visiting kindergartners in Bryan Andes’ class at P.S. 212. In October, Gregory Maguire, the author of…

Each year, thousands of visitors flood to Lincoln Center to see George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker" on stage. In the ballet, a little girl is gifted a wooden nutcracker on Christmas Eve and goes on a holiday adventure through her snowy, fantastical dreams with the doll, which turns into a prince. Among those in the crowd this year were David Zohar…

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy recently pardoned 33 people and shortened the prison sentences of three more. It was his first time exercising his clemency powers in his seven years in office. Amol Sinha, the executive director of ACLU of New Jersey, talks more about clemency in New Jersey with WNYC's Sean Carlson.…

Food has a way of bringing back memories. This holiday season WNYC'S Community Partnerships desk is asking resident in our area to share stories about recipes that are special to them. We talked with New York City resident Joe Irving. He works as a kitchen assistant at Hot Break Kitchen, a nonprofit dedicated to training women, immigrants, and peop…

Food has a way of connecting us to our past. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk set out to hear from New Yorkers across the city about the memories that come to mind from certain family recipes. This week we hear from Aiko Cascio, a resident of Manhattan, and cooking instructor with The League of Kitchens. The following transcript has been lightly …

The latest, as always, on congestion pricing, headlines this week's On The Way roundup of city transit news. Plus, Gov. Hochul sends more National Guard members into the subways, even as transit crime declines.

They may not be household names, but across the New York City area, countless individuals are contributing to their communities, in big and small ways. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk is spotlighting some of them. We're calling them community champions. This morning, we meet a former teacher who stepped up to help the Bay Ridge community. During…

President Joe Biden recently ordered all lead pipes carrying drinking water in the United States be replaced in 10 years. Closer to home, there are nearly 250-thousand pipes carrying drinking water in New York City that are made of lead or may contain lead. Joshua Klainberg, the senior vice president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, t…

A new report from New Jersey's Comptroller finds state troopers are letting dangerous drivers keep on driving, as long as they know someone in law enforcement. The report says in a quarter of traffic stops reviewed, motorists were allowed to leave without a penalty after they presented so-called "courtesy cards," which indicates a driver has some p…

Thousands of New York City public housing residents trying to flee domestic violence often wait years for emergency transfers to new homes. That’s according to a new report from to the legal nonprofit Legal Services NYC. Shervon Small is the executive director of Legal Services NYC. City Council Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala is the chair of the Counci…

New York City landlords are required to provide tenants with heat in the winter. Now a bill before the City Council would require they provide cooling in the summer as well. The legislation would establish a "cooling season" in the hottest part of the summer. It would also require that tenant-occupied housing be provided with "cooled and dehumidifi…

The New York City Campaign Finance Board has decided not to give Mayor Adams public matching money for his next mayoral campaign -- for now. It's a blow to his reelection campaign and comes as he and high-ranking members of his administration face corruption charges. The Board says the decision was prompted by the mayor's criminal indictment, as we…

The taste of a family recipe can bring back a flood of warm memories. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk is asking folks in this area to share what comes to mind when thinking about a certain dish. Today we hear from Kandy Williams. Williams lives in New Jersey and is a culinary instructor with Hot Bread Kitchen The transcript of Kandy Williams' st…

Change is underway at NJ Transit. The agency's longtime CEO Kevin Corbett is stepping down from his position. And he's being replaced by an official with a long record of working on the Garden State's transportation issues, who is also tied to the criminal indictment of South Jersey political boss George Norcross. WNYC transit and infrastructure ed…

Several government officials in New Jersey and New York are asking the federal government for more information about the drones that have been spotted in the skies in the region. And while most officials, federally and locally, are stressing that there’s no evidence the drones are a threat to public safety, their presence has raised a lot of questi…

More than 4,000 people sleep on the streets in New York City every evening, even on the coldest nights, according to the latest New York City data. For years, Cynthia English was one of those people. English lived on the street for 10 years before finding her way into stable housing. She joined WNYC's Michael Hill to reflect on her life then and no…

This week's On The Way roundup of transit news opens with an examination of the explosion in an MTA substation left thousands of subway riders stranded for hours.

Despite President Biden previously expressing opposition to private jails, his administration has laid the pathway for ICE to expand its immigration detention capacity at centers across the country. And some of these private detention centers have been under scrutiny by government watchdogs, activists and government officials for inhumane condition…

Dozens of New York City mothers will soon receive regular cash payments through a new program funded by the City Council. The program will provide 160 pregnant New York City mothers who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or attempting to flee domestic violence with cash assistance for the next three years. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams tal…