Cindy Rodriguez

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The controversial International Freedom Center released revised plans for its exhibits today, in a bid to stay at the World Trade Center site. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: Besides some vocal family members who worry the museums exhibits may be anti-american, the police and a fire ...

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Lawyers for a group of Latino day laborers have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the Long Island town of Brookhaven is enforcing housing codes in a discriminatory manner.

REPORTER: In the past several months, town officials have closed down 11 homes because they say they were ...

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited communities in the Bronx this weekend. During a speech at an evangelical church, he offered a group of local residents discounts on oil, medical care and medical training for young people.

REPORTER: Angelica Otero heads a Bronx organization that deals with ...

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The communities of Oceanhill, Brownsville and Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn have long been plagued by poverty and crime. But there are signs the neighborhoods are improving – real estate prices are the highest they’ve been in decades and some residents say gunshots, once frequent, are now rare. ...

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A professional mediator has been brought in to resolve the dispute over whether a cultural center belongs near the soon-to-be-built World Trade Center memorial.

REPORTER: Peter Woodin most recently worked on the government's 9/11 victims compensation fund. Now he has been charged with facilitating discussions between ...

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The dispute over whether a museum dedicated to the "story of freedom" deserves to be at the rebuilt World Trade Center has grown so intractable that a professional mediator has been hired to end it.

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has entrusted Peter Wooden to resolve ...

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Six design proposals have been selected for a memorial in the Rockaways to commemorate those who died during a November, 2001 plane crash that killed 265 people.

REPORTER: American Airlines Flight 587 was headed to the Dominican Republic when it went down over the neighborhood of ...

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The Democratic candidates for Mayor took a tour of what housing advocates call some of the worst buildings in the city. WNYC'S Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: The group Housing Here and Now led a tour of sub-standard buildings in parts of the Bronx and West Harlem. ...

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City council speaker Gifford Miller says if he's elected mayor he will invest $7.2 billion to create 169-thousand units of housing. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: Miller is the third candidate for mayor to come out with a housing plan. He and opponent Fernando Ferrer are ...

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Gifford Miller grew up on Fifth Avenue. He graduated from an Ivy League University and his father was a Kennedy appointee. At 35, the speaker of the city council is the youngest candidate running for Mayor. Despite the fact that he is not a front ...

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Some immigrants, mostly from Mexico, continue to camp outside the Long Island home they were evicted from more than a week ago. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: The men, who are all day laborers, say they are victims of harassment and anti-immigrant sentiments but the town ...

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Jeanine Pirro says if elected to the Senate she would support the Patriot Act, permanent tax cuts, and a woman's right to an abortion. But as WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports, Pirro's campaign to unseat Hillary Clinton has gotten off to a rough start.

During her kickoff ...

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If she wins the Republican nomination for United States Senate, Jeanine Pirro promises to run an issue-based campaign. The Republican District Attorney for Westchester rejected claims that she's in the race just to bloody Hillary Clinton. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: Pirro says she comes to ...

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District 8 in Manhattan covers 96th to 110th streets on the upper west side, Randalls Island and a portion of the south Bronx. The majority of the district though lies in East Harlem. Despite that, it’s been difficult for East Harlemites to get one of ...

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Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro says she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Hillary Clinton in her re-election bid for the United States Senate.

Jeanine Pirro issued a press release announcing her intention to run. She plans to make campaign stops later this week in ...

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Mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer says he has an $8.5 billion housing plan that will create 167,000 housing units over 10 years.

Ferrer wants to force developers who participate in large scale rezonings to set aside 30 percent of their units for low and moderate income families.

Those ...

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Outside a dilapidated building in the Inwood section of Manhattan, tenants and housing groups called on the city to crack down on slumlords. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez has more on a list those groups assembled of the city's worst landlords.

REPORTER: Tenants complained about moldy bathrooms, falling ...

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Along the elegant side streets of the upper west side, the few remaining Single Room Occupancy Hotels for poor New Yorkers are under pressure to change. SRO owners are finding their prime locations can be marketed as youth hostels for young foreign travelers. And poor ...

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New York education advocates have been leading a national fight to restore funding for adult literacy programs. The Bush Administration wants to slash the national budget for GED and English classes by 64 percent. In June the House voted to restore the funds but advocates ...

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A group of homeless and formerly homeless people is calling on the city to show more respect to those buried on Potters Field. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: Sitting on Harts Island in the waters between the Bronx and Queens, the city run cemetery is where ...