Thanksgiving may still be several weeks away, but now is not the time to procrastinate getting your turkey from the market.

Housing advocates said even the smallest issue — like a burned out light bulb during an apartment inspection or a typo on a form — can delay a family moving out of a shelter and into an apartment by weeks. The pitfalls can happen at nearly every step of the process: from the moment a household applies for rental assistance, to finding an available unit, to the nearly 70-100 pages of paperwork and forms the city requires before giving a final OK. “ We're talking about people's lives,” Mann said. “Every day in shelter is a day too long for a family.” Housing advocates said the municipal voucher program is unnecessarily convoluted, trapping New Yorkers who desperately need a place to live in shelters for too long.

When Daniel Cho crosses the finish line of this year’s New York City Marathon, he’ll join more than 18,000 first-time runners to do so. But this time last year, he was part of a different statistic.

With the death penalty back in the news, we revisit a 2016 episode that asks: what is cruel and unusual punishment?

Outwitting the far-right at its own game.

The reporter Barton Gellman discusses threats to the upcoming elections.

New York Democrats won big on election night, with Governor Kathy Hochul winning a second full term, Democrats flipping a Hudson Valley House seat, and supermajorities taking shape in the state legislature. WNYC and Gothamist accountability editor Stephen Rex Brown and Albany reporter Jon Campbell join us to break down the results and what they say about where New York voters are right now. Photo: Leonardo Munoz / AFP via Getty Images Got any questions, comments or story ideas? Send us a message at NYCNow@wnyc.org