Amy Eddings

New York, NY —

When the city suspended plastic and metal recycling last summer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg argued the programs were an expensive failure. But recycling advocates wonder why New York City has failed where other cities have succeeded. Today and tomorrow, recycling advocates are hosting a roundtable in ...

New York, NY —

Bishop Thomas Daily, the Bishop of Brooklyn, says he knew an alleged pedophile priest had endorsed sex between men and boys before Daily appointed him to lead a Boston suburban parish twenty years ago. Daily was the second-in-command in the Archdiocese of Boston from the ...

San Francisco, CA —

While the city council heard debates on the merits of the mayor's proposed smoking ban, California has been living with such a ban for four years. WNYC's Amy Eddings went west to see what may be in store for smokers here.

James Dawson has some ...

Brooklyn, NY —

About 50 people protested in front of the world headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses, in Brooklyn Heights, calling for a change in the way the church handles allegations of child sexual abuse. WNYC's Amy Eddings reports.

People, chanting: One two three four! Silent Lambs, no more!

The ...

New York, NY —

The Indian Point Two nuclear power plant's bienniel emergency drills are typically conducted under close watch; the drills are evaluated by federal nuclear regulators and emergency response officials. Yesterday's drill, the first for the plant since September 11th, came with heightened scrutiny by the media, ...

New York, NY —

After three years of legal battles, the future of New York's 600 city-owned community gardens is no longer in doubt. Under an agreement between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, hundreds of them will be protected from development. Others will be used ...

New York, NY —

Next week's anniversary of the terrorist attacks will find most New Yorkers at the same place they were a year ago: their jobs. At companies and organizations near the World Trade Center site, the workplace on that day could be an uncomfortable place. WNYC's Amy ...

New York,, NY —

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is backing away from former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's plan to send half the city's trash to a proposed waste transfer station in Linden, New Jersey. That facility was going to take raw garbage and load it into containers for shipment to out-of-state ...

New York, NY —

The first international conference of lay Catholics to convene as a result of the child sexual abuse scandal drew about 180 people from the Tri-State area. Saturday's day-long "Voice of the Faithful" conference in Boston focused on ways to encourage greater involvement by the laity ...

New York, NY —

Mayor Michael Bloomberg had orginally planned to unveil a new strategy for handling the city's trash by today, his 200th day in office. He now says that announcement will come next week. The administration has been trying to save a proposal to ship half the ...

Staten island, NY —

Another chapter in the World Trade Center tragedy ended yesterday, with the closure of the recovery effort at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island. The simple ceremony honored the hundreds of people who toiled for the last ten months, sifting through one-point-six million tons ...

By borrowing one point five billion dollars, the mayor and the council claim they've been able to close a staggering five billion dollar deficit without too much pain.

Dallas, Texas —

The head of the New York Archdiocese, Cardinal Edward Egan, was active during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Dallas, putting a New York face on that gathering. His views helped shape the new policy on child sexual abuse by priests. WNYC's Mark Hilan speaks ...

Dallas, TX —

In a closed-door session, after a morning spent listening to victims and concerned lay Catholics, bishops discussed a draft policy on child sexual abuse. Bishops have indicated that they're close to agreeing on a "zero tolerance" policy for any priest who abuses children, in the past ...

New York, NY —

Top Roman Catholic officials from the metropolitan area are heading to Dallas today for the U-S Conference of Catholic Bishops, where they'll vote on a draft set of procedures for handling priests who are accused of sexually abusing a minor. Some of the proposal's recommendations ...

New York, NY —

The Bloomberg Administration and the City Council are expected to miss today's deadline for a budget agreement. One of the sticking points in the negotiations has been the fate of the city's glass, metal and plastic recycling program. Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to suspend it ...

New York, NY —

A Roman Catholic priest from India, who was studying and working in New York City, has been charged with sexually abusing a twelve year old girl. The alleged abuse took place in 1999, when Father Francis Nelson was working at St. Mary's Star of the ...

New York, NY —

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will have an apartment clean-up program in place by the end of the month for Lower Manhattan residents whose homes were shrouded in dust and ash after the World Trade Center collapsed. The EPA is calling the effort unprecedented, ...

New York, NY —

Brooklyn's Bishop, Thomas V. Daily, formerly served in the Archdiocese of Boston as an Auxiliary Bishop, as one of the deputies of the late Cardinal Humberto S. Medeiros. Because of his role in the Archdiocesan administration, Bishop Daily has been named as a defendant in ...

New York, NY —

12 people remain critically injured from an explosion that took place in a 10-story commercial building on West 19th Street. At least 40 people were injured. Fire officials say the explosion took place in the building's basement. They're still not sure what caused it, but ...