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The Brian Lehrer Show | May 24, 2011

The Yankees pushed for more parking spaces ahead of their new stadium, but now much of the parking is underutilized. WNYC’s transportation reporter Jim O'Grady discusses his reporting on the Yankees parking garage facing financial ruin even after public subsidies. Plus: playwright Tony Kushner on politics and his plays; and author Brooke Gladstone and illustrator Josh Neufeld on the new graphic non-fiction book “The Influencing Machine” about the media and it’s history.

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