How NY-ers Can Help Mexico and Puerto Rico; Rezoning & Affordable Housing; Crime in NYCHA; Chinese Schools

Coming up on today's show: 

• Diego Gomez Pickering, the consul general of Mexico in New York City, discusses the latest news following Mexico’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake, including relief efforts on the ground and what listeners can do to help. Then Melissa Mark-Viverito, speaker of the New York City Council, talks about what's happening in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria pounded the island Wednesday, and how New Yorkers can help.
• Jessica Gould, WNYC reporter, and Caroline Nagy, the director of policy and research at the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, discuss the city's proposed rezoning and how it impacts the mayor's affordable housing goals.
• NYCHA's emergency transfer system is meant to help victims and witness of violent crimes move to a new development. But Ese Olumhense, a freelance journalist and former Ida B. Wells fellow at The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, reports on the pitfalls of the transfer system, which leaves families to live in fear, plus Gregory H. Umbach, assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York’s Public Housing, talks about crime rates in NYCHA housing.
• Lenora Chu, former TV correspondent with Thomson Reuters, contributing writer with CNNMoney.com and the author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve (Harper, 2017), talks about her personal experience with sending her young American son to public school in Shanghai and her reporting on the strengths and weaknesses of that high achieving system.