Amy Eddings

Trenton, NJ —

Along with the flow of US dollars to the tsunami devastated region of South Asia has come a flow of US officials to monitor the pace of the relief efforts and evaluate what more can be done. New Jersey Democratic Senator Jon Corzine, who is also ...

New York, NY —

A program designed to provide incentives for small firms to locate downtown expired on December 31st. And as Crains New York Business reported today, some landlords are worried small businesses will no longer be able to stay, now that the grants have dried up. Joining ...

New York, NY —

In the year-end ritual that is the year-in-review, Broadway had a lot to be happy about. Box office and attendance was up slightly over 2003 figures, with productions grossing just under 749 million dollars, and attendance rising slightly to 11 million, 300 people. That's the ...

The Battle against the Big Box Store is raging again, this time in Rego Park, where Wal-Mart announced last week it wants to open a 135-thousand square foot store by 2008.

But, unlike the Red Hook site of the recently approved IKEA or the East Harlem site of a proposed Home ...

New York, NY —

You might not know this, but, under current New York law, residents can't go online and order directly from their favorite out-of-state vineyard. New York has a strict distribution system for alcohol, which also restricts New York wineries that want to sell to out-of-state customers. ...

New York, NY —

Oskar Eustis has been named the new artistic director of the Public Theater. He will replace George C. Wolfe, who is stepping down to return full time to his own playwriting. Eustis is currently the artistic director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode ...

New York, NY —

Since the 1970s, homeless families have been introduced to the city shelter system through a bleak and infamous intake center in the Bronx. It's called the Emergency Assistance Unit, or EAU. And it's been the subject of lawsuits because families had to sleep on floors ...

New York, NY —

Mayor Bloomberg's plan for handling the city's garbage for the next twenty years relies on exporting most of the city's trash by barge, cutting down on truck trips. Bloomberg says the reduced pollution, traffic, and street wear and tear will benefit all New Yorkers. ...

New York, NY —

Today marked a shift in the way the city handles its recycling program. It's a shift that Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty never imagined when he first began his career as a New York City garbage collector forty-four years ago.

Doherty: When I started on the ...

New York, NY —

About five thousand Republican delegates will storm into the Democratic stronghold that is New York next week, adding their numbers to about half million registered Republicans here. Republicans make up only about fifteen percent of the registered voters in New York City. So who are ...

New York, NY —

Taking a tour around the tip of Manhattan in a boat filled with treated sewage may not sound like your idea of fun. But for some, as we reported yesterday, it's become an annual summertime ritual.

The Department of Environmental Protection, which manages the city's ...

New York, NY —

This is New York Public Radio, 93.9 and AM 820, WNYC and wnyc.org. Good afternoon, I'm Amy Eddings.

On a recent, rainy evening, along the Hudson River, 28 people clambered across a slippery metal gang plank to the deck of a waiting ship. They were heading ...

You’ve probably seen the sign on the Brooklyn Bridge: Welcome To Brooklyn: How Sweet it is! or the one on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge: Leaving Brooklyn: Fugeddaboudit! The man behind those quirky signs, Borough President Marty Markowitz, has now turned his considerable energy toward finding a "catch phrase" for the ...

Brooklyn, New York —

You've probably seen the sign on the Brooklyn Bridge: Welcome To Brooklyn: How Sweet it is! Or the one on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge: Leaving Brooklyn: Fugeddaboudit! The man behind those quirky signs, Borough President Marty Markowitz, has now turned his considerable energy toward finding ...

New York, NY —

The city's grand, public staircases are not just a means of transporting people up from the street to the doorway of a courthouse, or a museum. They're a place to sit and watch the world go by. And, for choreographer Stephen Koplowitz, they are a ...

Roman Catholic leaders have been weighing in on the issue of giving communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights.

New York, NY —

Since the 1950s, adopted children in most states have not been allowed to view their original birth certificates. Those records were sealed. Slowly, the stigma of being an unwed mother, and of being adopted, has changed, and so have the laws. Earlier this week, New ...

New York, NY —

Derek Jeter, the shortstop for the New York Yankees, broke his highly unusual 0- for-32 batting slump last night against the Oakland A's. Jeter got a home run during his first at-bat, and smiled with relief as his teammates greeted him at home plate. Perhaps ...

New York, NY —

Those of you bleary-eyed from calculating your income taxes for the April 15th filing deadline are probably wishing there was an easier way to do this. Well, there is, according to one economist: abolish income taxes! Ed Feige, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin ...

Staten Island, New York —

For 53 years, Staten Islanders put up with the smells and stigma of the Fresh Kills landfill, one of the world's largest man-made landscapes. This week, they started the process of turning this liability into an asset - a park, almost three times the ...