Sean Carlson

Host, WNYC/WQXR News

Sean Carlson appears in the following:

NYC had one of the world's deadliest COVID outbreaks in 2020. What lessons have we learned?

Thursday, August 31, 2023

A new report says New York City's initial COVID-19 wave hit weeks earlier than initially reported and says leaders should apply lessons from spring 2020 to prepare for the next pandemic.

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"We Can't Sustain This" Staten Island Borough President on NYC's migrant crisis

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Republican Vito Fossella says he wants the state legislature to revisit NYC's right to shelter mandate.

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'Now is our moment': Councilmember details decision to extend Madison Square Garden's permit 5 years

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

On Monday, a City Council committee voted to extend the arena's permit for five years. 

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Weekly Music Roundup: Mon Laferte, jaimie branch, and Say She She

Monday, August 28, 2023

New Sounds
This week, Prince through the looking glass, Mon Laferte’s trip-hop bolero, and a posthumous stunner from trumpeter jaimie branch. Plus new discodelica from Say She She, and more.
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Gov. Hochul turns up heat on President Biden over migrant crisis

Thursday, August 24, 2023

The Democratic governor delivered a rare statewide address to highlight her call for federal assistance.

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Political musical chairs: As Codey retires, party leaders pick entire legislative district ticket

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

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Reformers say the machinations after Richard Codey's retirement announcement show New Jersey politics are about back-room deals and not democracy.

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Fireflies are under threat, so NY scientists are trying to count how many are left

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

There’s a movement underway to understand how imperiled firefly populations are and safeguard the charismatic beetle beloved for its bioluminescent abdomen. 

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Weekly Music Roundup: Dolly Parton, Polo G., and Black Market Brass

Monday, August 21, 2023

New Sounds
This week: Dolly Parton, rock star; Polo G’s moving ballad; and Amore Muere’s dark debut. Plus, ambient pop by Vines (Cassie Wieland) and Afropop-leaning music by Black Market Brass.
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Jails union boss Norman Seabrook, 6 months out of prison, is looking for a job in politics

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The once formidable head of the correction officers union has returned from two years in prison with $19 million in debt and a new perspective on incarceration.

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NYC's eviction hotspots: Tracking the 10K removals since moratorium ended

Thursday, August 10, 2023

While evictions have yet to reach pre-pandemic levels, they’re steadily on the rise and concentrated in central Brooklyn, portions of the Bronx and parts of Staten Island.

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Adams weighs plan to set up migrant tents in Central Park, other major green spaces

Wednesday, August 02, 2023

The plan comes as scores of migrants have been forced to sleep outside a Midtown intake cente

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Minimum Wage -- and Other Rights -- For Food Delivery Workers

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Tens of thousands of gig food delivery workers were about to get a pay increase...until a judge blocked NYC's new minimum wage law a day before it was set to take effect.

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LI architect who worked in NYC charged with multiple Gilgo Beach murders, Suffolk DA says

Friday, July 14, 2023

The series of killings has gone unsolved for more than a decade.

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New York ordered to redraw congressional maps, which could decide control of US House

Thursday, July 13, 2023

The state’s top court is now expected to take up the case, which could have enormous implications for who controls the House of Representatives.

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Adams administration faults state air quality forecasts at heated NYC Council hearing

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

At a New York City Council hearing on Wednesday, municipal agency heads were grilled about what they knew and when they acted during the wildfire smoke crisis in

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What can the rapid reopening of I-95 in Philadelphia teach us about the BQE rebuild?

Monday, July 10, 2023

Interstate 95 reopened in Philly less than two weeks after a deadly collapse, thanks to the construction of an interim roadway. Can a similar plan work on a crumbling stretch of the BQE?

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NYC Council finance chair on new city budget

Friday, June 30, 2023

Bay Ridge Council Member and Finance Committee Chair Justin Brannan on New York City's new $107 billion budget.

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Weekly Music Roundup: Big Freedia, Elisapie, and Wye Oak

Monday, June 26, 2023

New Sounds
This week, a NOLA party with Big Freedia, celebrations of Indigenous culture from Elisapie and Saltwater Hank, and new singles from Palace and Wye Oak. 
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NY lawmakers passed nearly 900 bills. Now it’s Gov. Hochul’s turn to act.

Friday, June 23, 2023

The state Legislature approved more than 600 bills in the month of June alone. Now the real negotiations begin.

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Councilmember pushes bill to improve quality of life for NYC sex workers

Friday, June 23, 2023

New York City has been changing its approach towards sex workers for years.  Now, new legislation hopes to make life easier for New Yorkers participating in it. 

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