City Politics and News; Ken Burns on the Brooklyn Bridge; Pop Culture Quiz; Your Guilty Pleasures; Hip Hop's 50th Events
Coming up on today's show:Â
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Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, host of the podcast FAQNYC, host of The Blackest Questions podcast on the Grio and the author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University Press, 2013), talks about how the city is managing the needs of migrants, the political forces behind financial support for Daniel Penny, who has been charged with killing Jordan Neely on the F train, the city's budget and more local news.
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It has been 140 years since the Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public. Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker who made his first film about it back in the 1980s, and Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times and the author of The Intimate City: Walking New York (Penguin Press, 2022), talk about walking across the iconic bridge, the history of who built it and the "why" behind beautiful infrastructure.
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Have you been paying attention to pop culture this year? Call-in to test your knowledge and perhaps you'll win a prize.
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Listeners call in to tell us how they align their consumption habits, budgets and love of guilty pleasures.
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With so many not-to-be-missed cultural offerings this summer, Precious Fondren, WNYC/Gothamist culture and arts reporter, shares some of the highlights. Today, she previews some of the celebrations planned to mark 50 years of Hip Hop.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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