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New York City officials are launching a multi-year effort to reconnect communities that have been, for decades, divided by the Cross Bronx Expressway. Meanwhile, the Adams Administration is considering yet another new design to replace part of the notorious Brooklyn Queens Expressway. Kate Slevin is the executive vice president at the Regional Plan…

New Jersey is known for having one of the most generously funded public education systems in the nation. But a new report from the Education Recovery Scoreboard shows students in the state still haven't fully recovered the academic ground they lost when schools moved to predominately remote instruction. State Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz of N…

The wealthy Wilf family has committed to include affordable housing to get the plan approved. But thousands of trees will be lost and locals worry it poses a flooding risk.

New York City’s wet markets – stores that house and slaughter mostly live poultry – landed in the spotlight last month after bird flu was detected at nine downstate markets, prompting Gov. Kathy Hochul to temporarily shut down markets in the New York City metro area to prevent its spread.Since the wet markets reopened in mid-February, inspectors ha…

The politics of a new Penn Station plan, as well as the latest in New York City transit news in this week's On The Way.

WNYC asked decision makers, educators and students to share their memories of the days leading up to March 15, 2020, when the nation’s largest school system shut down.

New York City Public Schools are marking Civics Week. Students are focusing on the theme "Democracy Begins Here!" with projects that encourage them to use their voices to advocate for changes in their communities. As part of the curriculum, students were invited to submit soapbox speeches on issues they care about. Second-grader Rafael Serras from …

On March 15th, 2020, the largest school district in the country closed its doors to students. Cases of the new COVID-19 virus were beginning to soar, and New York City Public Schools made the call to send students home. Within a week, kids were learning remotely from kitchen tables and beds and living rooms — marking the start of a new era for educ…

March is Women's History Month, and to mark it, we're profiling women in music and their journeys through the industry. Today, we hear from Sky Hume, who is a music business major and vice president of the Women in Music chapter at Hofstra University on Long Island. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. I've been interested …

It's the weekly Politics Brief from WNYC. This week, senior politics reporter Brigid Bergin and Capitol reporter Jon Campbell discuss the various problems plaguing Hochul, Cuomo's campaign treasurer's past work for a statewide anti-trans effort, and ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil, who federal authorities arrested for his pro-Palestine political ac…

New York City Public Schools are marking Civics Week. Students are focusing on the theme "Democracy Begins Here!" with projects that encourage them to use their voices to advocate for changes in their communities. As part of the curriculum, students were invited to submit soapbox speeches on issues they care about. Fifth-grader Damon Hudes from PS …

New York City Public Schools are marking Civics Week. Students are focusing on the theme "Democracy Begins Here!" with projects that encourage them to use their voices to advocate for changes in their communities. As part of the curriculum, students were invited to submit soapbox speeches on issues they care about. First grader Phoemela Carsula at …

The St. John's University men's basketball team has already clinched the Big East regular-season title. Now, they'll play for the Big East Tournament title. The games start at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. St. John's plays its first game on Thursday. Then next week, the Johnnies will go for it all at the NCAA tournament, also know as March Ma…

New York officials regularly deploy lofty language to describe the importance of the subway system to the city. Phrases like “backbone” “lifeblood” and “economic engine” are regularly found in public statements from governors, mayors and elected officials across government. Sarah Feinberg is the former interim president of the MTA’s New York City T…

The Tri-State area is reflecting on five years since COVID brought the world to a halt. Do you remember where you were in March 2020 when hospitals were overwhelmed with patients and struggled to have enough beds? James Colon was one of these patients, who arrived at Mount Sinai Queens in April 2020 and eventually beat an extreme case of COVID. Jam…

It’s been five years since the once-ubiquitous injury law firm Cellino & Barnes ceased to exist as more than a persistent earworm — (800) 888-8888 — and a memory. In the half-decade since its dissolution after a contentious professional breakup, a number of local law firms have begun jostling to succeed Cellino & Barnes as the new personal injury l…

When COVID-19 began spreading around the world five years ago, America’s Chinatowns were among the first places in the U.S. to feel the pandemic’s impact. Many restaurants and banquet halls usually filled to the brim with revelers celebrating the Lunar New Year sat empty. Xenophobic rhetoric and hate crimes targeting Chinese-Americans spiked, leadi…

According to recent New York City Health Department Data, the Bronx has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the city. Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson is pushing for more birthing centers, which are different from hospitals, to open in her borough. She released a Birthing Center Report today and talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more…

The New York City area is still grappling with the effects of the COVID pandemic, five years after it first shut down the city. While many are back at their jobs five days a week, some things haven't returned to what we once called normal. WNYC's Arun Venugopal joins Weekend Edition host David Furst us to talk about the ways our lives have been alt…

The St. John's University men's basketball program is having quite a year. They already claimed the Big East regular season conference title. They're undefeated at home this season. And they're currently ranked #6 in the nation. On Saturday, March 8 the team wraps up its regular season against Marquette in Milwaukee. And then it's on to the Big Eas…

Consumers aren't usually aware of the products that Saratoga County's Precision Valve & Automation make. But PVA builds machines that spray adhesives to hold together everything from electronics to aircraft -- mainly using Canadian steel. The company is one of many manufacturers worried about how President Donald Trump's tariffs could harm their bu…

The latest on congestion pricing lead's this week's On The Way roundup of New York City transit news. Plus, a new plan to repair the BQE in Brooklyn Heights.

Cara Kennedy-Cuomo, 30, said she found a place and is now a “proud Brooklyn resident.” But she failed to mention a key detail about her apartment hunt: She’d recently moved out of a $8,242-a-month two-bedroom apartment in Midtown East now occupied by her dad, Andrew Cuomo.

Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom is the oldest Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn and the only one in Williamsburg that isn’t Hasidic, according to long-time members. The congregation’s building stands on the dividing line between drastic gentrification to the north and an insular Hasidic Jewish community to the south. Until a few months ago, the synagogue follo…