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Real stories by New York City teenagers take listeners inside their lives and their communities in this Peabody Award-winning youth journalism initiative. For teens, by teens and about the challenges of teen life, Radio Rookies gives students the tools and the training to share their own stories through the medium of audio. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Nancy a ...
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Major news events throughout the world continue to be largely ignored until they reach tragic proportions. Underreported, a weekly feature on The Leonard Lopate Show, tackles these issues and give an in-depth look into the stories that are often relegated to the back pages.
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New Sounds is unlike any radio show you've ever heard: a whirlwind tour of new and unusual music from all corners of the globe. New Sounds combs recent recordings for one of the most informative and compelling hours on radio, and aims to make the world smaller. For over 25 years, host John Schaefer has been finding the melody in the rainforest and the rhythm in an orchestra of tin cans. Defying rigid categorization and genre pigeonholing, New Sounds offers new ways to hear the ancient langua ...
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There are no heat-specific federal or New Jersey laws regulating conditions for the roughly 25,000 farmworkers in New Jersey — even as state environmental experts expect the number of heat-related deaths to double over the next three decades.A Biden administration initiative to protect farmworkers from heat, setting standards for limits on working …
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For the past six years the MTA has allowed a small group of people in the Access-A-Ride program to take as many trips as they want, whenever they want, using an app-based taxi service. Each ride costs just $2.75. But last month, the agency killed the program. WNYC’s Stephen Nessen reports on what happened next.…
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Both Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul have described the influx of migrants and asylum seekers into New York City as unprecedented. “We are facing an unprecedented state of emergency. The immigration system in this nation is broken. It has been broken for decades. Today, New York City has been left to pick up the pieces,” Adams said last mont…
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New York City is gearing up for a citywide "day of action" against street harassment. The city — along with the Street Harassment Prevention Advisory Board and the local community — recently launched a public survey that aims to track the prevalence and impact of street harassment on New Yorkers. Anne Patterson, Deputy Commissioner of Community Ini…
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One of Mayor Eric Adams’ key education initiatives is to better serve students with dyslexia in New York City public schools. WNYC education reporter Jessica Gould has been reporting on one family’s struggle to navigate the labyrinth of services for students with dyslexia.Oleh WNYC Radio
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After at least 11 people drowned in New York City basement apartments when the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through the region, city officials promised better protection for people living in these illegal units. Advocates say the unlawful conversions are often the only affordable option for many New Yorkers, but they can become death traps durin…
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Federal prosecutors have indicted Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and his wife on corruption charges, alleging he took bribes to enrich New Jersey businessmen while offering benefits to the Egyptian government. The indictment alleges real estate developer Fred Daibes; Wael Hana, who owns a halal meat certification business in New Jersey; and bus…
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Hundreds of world leaders gathered in New York City for Climate Week to help brainstorm ways to slow down the climate crisis. But the loudest voices in the climate movement aren't typically leaders in business and government; they're young people. Laura Beckman is a volunteer organizer with the New York City chapter of Sunrise Movement, Ryan Chen i…
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There was a New York elected official making news in Washington, D. C. on Wednesday, and it wasn't one of the usual suspects. Staten Island-based City Council member and Republican Minority Leader Joe Borelli was in D. C. testifying to the House's Homeland Security Committee about New York's migrant crisis. He spoke to WNYC’s Janae Pierre about his…
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Members of the Rutgers University Senate are considering a vote of no confidence against school President Jonathan Holloway. A draft of the Senate’s resolution obtained by Gothamist accuses Holloway of “disdain for the diverse community of students, staff and faculty across all Rutgers campuses.” It says he’s dismissed a tradition of shared governa…
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Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York is being sued by a group of female professors for what they say is gender-based salary discrimination. Five former or currently tenured Vassar professors filed the suit, which says female faculty members receive lower average salaries than men performing the same work. And Vassar isn’t alone. The American As…
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The NYPD is making nearly twice as many narcotics arrests per month since Mayor Eric Adams took office — a strategy police officials say is key to reducing community violence, but that has alarmed public defenders and advocates. According to a Gothamist analysis of police data, police made 740 drug arrests citywide in January 2022 when Adams was in…
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More than 17-hundred nurses are on strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It's been more than a month, and the two sides only recently held their first face-to-face bargaining session since the strike began. RWJ leadership says the negotiating schedule has been dictated by the federal mediator. Hospital offi…
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As the new school year gets underway, one New York City-based youth journalism program is teaching high school students how to tell stories that directly affect them. The Bell audio journalism project puts the mics into the hands of public school students. Sabrina DuQuesnay is the program manager at The Bell, and Tovi Tankoano is a junior at the Ma…
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Fall is when New Yorkers finally reunite after dispersing for the summer and get serious about what the city is known for: culture, fun, community and a surfeit of pumpkin-flavored things. After having some time and space to process the pandemic against the backdrop of the ongoing writers' strike and the increasing presence of AI, New Yorkers are h…
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It was a blockbuster summer for hip-hop as the culture marked 50 years since bursting onto the scene in the Bronx. WNYC and Gothamist have been celebrating this milestone by spotlighting women who've made their own distinct mark on the culture. Peaches Rodriguez is a breakdancer from the '80s who went on to become a stand-up comic. The transcript o…
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Hours before Genesis Reynoso’s death, she sent a note to an acquaintance — a man operating a food truck outside the Brooklyn Mirage, a music venue in industrial East Williamsburg. She offered to pay him for “E” and “molly,” different forms of the drug known as MDMA. By the end of the night, Reynoso would be transported from the Mirage by ambulance …
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With the first day of fall coming up next weekend and New Yorkers settling back into a new school year, we turn our attention to what's on the horizon in arts and culture. Hispanic Heritage Month just got underway, and the fall season is packed with opportunities to take in film, music, festivals and more. WNYC contributor Lee Walker Helland has a …
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Another week, another testy exchange with Mayor Eric Adams over New York City's migrant crisis. And as more than 110,000 migrants have arrived in the city, the mayor's rhetoric is ratcheting up. Adams says the migrant influx will destroy New York City. To demonstrate his point, he ordered a whopping 15 percent budget cut. And on Thursday, he abrupt…
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With COVID rates up in the city and a new school year just underway, a map of COVID cases in schools from the New York City Department of Education has gone dark. Amy Zimmer, New York bureau chief at ChalkBeat New York, recently reported on the disappearance of the map. She joins WNYC host Michael Hill to discuss how schools are approaching the vir…
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This story includes detailed descriptions of sexual abuse. A Columbia University gynecologist is serving a 20 year sentence for sexually abusing his patients. More than 240 people have alleged that Dr. Robert Hadden abused them under the guide of clinical care, but the university where he worked for 25 years has faced few consequences. Reporters Bi…
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New York City continues to grapple with how to accommodate more than 100-thousand migrants who have arrived since last year. Mayor Adams has been calling for expedited work permits from the White House, but that's a complicated process. Now Governor Kathy Hochul and others are weighing the possibility of issuing New York-based work permits. Grace R…
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