De Blasio Demands Explanation, as Decline in Registered Brooklyn Democrats...
Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall.The request comes the...
View ArticleLIVE RETURNS: The New York Primary Vote
As New York Democrats and Republicans cast votes for their nominee, we'll be tracking the vote totals live.Today's vote will help determine how many of New York's delegates go to each candidate as they...
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Symphomania Redux: 24 Hours with the 21st-Century Orchestra
Join Q2 Music on Sunday, April 24 (with an encore presentation Tuesday, April 26) for our second annual Symphomania, a 24-hour marathon stream of music that offers a vision of orchestral repertoire...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: Portrait of An American Voter
The United States is one of the most diverse nations on earth. It's a truth that The American Communities Project (ACP) has tried to capture.Ahead of the November election, The Takeaway is looking to...
View ArticleHave We Lost the Art of Conversation in Our Digital World?
Has technology destroyed our ability to have meaningful face-to-face conversations? What happens when we look up from our phones and try to communicate? On today's Please Explain, media scholar and MIT...
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A Little Brown Bird, Struggling to Hang On
The Saltmarsh Sparrow is a little brown bird with an orange face. It lives in the salt marshes of coastal areas, including New York City — but those habitats are shrinking, and the bird's population is...
View ArticleNew Jersey's Liquor Laws Were Created for a Very Different Population
Finding a restaurant in New Jersey where you can order a glass of wine with your dinner isn’t easy. And it wasn't meant to be. The state’s liquor laws were created after Prohibition to limit access to...
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Section 8 Housing: 'We All Deserve the Right Thing'
The Section 8 federal housing subsidy has been a lifeline for low income New Yorkers struggling to stay housed in one of the most competitive real estate markets in the country. It was created in the...
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Section 8 Housing: Poor But Not Impoverished in Hasidic Williamsburg
The federally funded Section 8 housing voucher is intended to disperse poverty, but in today's New York it’s having the opposite effect: landlords don’t want to accept the voucher, so voucher holders...
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Section 8 Housing: A New Window After 36 Years
More people live in public housing in New York City than in any other place in North America. But as government funding for public housing has fallen off, buildings and their infrastructure have...
View ArticleChange Slow to Come to Rikers
In what is the first of several reports to come, investigators monitoring Rikers Island said significant progress has been made towards reforming the troubled jail system but the report also points to...
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'Controlled Choice' for Integrating Schools: What It's All About
Some parents in New York City's School District 1 have proposed a system known as controlled choice in order to better integrate its schools. The school district includes the East Village, part of...
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How Downtown Manhattan Wants to Create More Integrated Schools
Click the player above to hear our story about a renewed effort to better integrate schools in one part of Manhattan. Click here to see how new admissions rules could change where students in District...
View ArticleInfomagical: BOOTCAMP
You haven't watched Lemonade all the way through yet, have you? Oh, you didn't notice the extra twist of the knife in Sunday's Game of Thrones?Yes, Hillary just became the presumptive nominee. Yes, we...
View ArticleJumping the Gun
On Monday night, before Tuesday's primary polls opened, the Associated Press called the Democratic presidential nomination in favor of Hillary Clinton. The AP based its decision on its survey of...
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What Happens When We Skimm the News
Think about where you go to find news. Podcasts? WNYC? The New York Times? Facebook? Twitter? Newsletters? Do you want us to stop asking questions?Welcome to the Attention Economy. There is fierce...
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The Rockaway Peninsula Isn't as Old as You Think
Think of things that are about 400 years old: the Île Saint-Louis in Paris (created in 1614); the King James Bible (finished in 1611); Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (painted 1517); Harvard College...
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Brooklyn Voter Purge Hit Hispanics Hardest
Ever since New York State’s presidential primary in April, officials from the city Board of Elections have been trying to explain what led to two illegal voter purges that removed more than 120,000...
View ArticleYour 2016 NY Congressional Election Guide
Find your polling site in New York City or elsewhere in New York State.Research assistance for this guide provided by Brigid Bergin, Haddy Badjie and Demi Rodriguez.
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