Kate Hinds

Your Guide to NYC’s Ballot Questions for 2025 Voters will weigh in on housing reforms, a change to election years and an Olympic Sports Complex in upstate New York.

News you can use: NYC ballot questions, explained www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b... via @thecity.nyc

Thomas Perry Dies at 78; Writer of Popular, Unconventional Thrillers

oh I am sad -- I spent many happy hours reading Thomas Perry www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...

"A single mom agrees to be the partner of a bird enthusiast for a birding competition but misunderstands the assignment and tells everyone she's his new girlfriend instead of just his teammate." www.hallmarkchannel.com/adventures-i...

Hudson Yards Developer May Get Another $2 Billion Boost From New York

"New York City is poised to pay $2 billion to build a platform over a Manhattan rail yard at the behest of one of the country’s biggest developers, who would then erect mostly luxury housing along the Hudson River." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Are These Fish Sending a Message With Their Mysterious Spots? Redfish with perfect numbers, letters and symbols on their tails are all the rage on the water.

I, for one, welcome our new redfish overlords www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

Heavyweight’s Return From the Dead Jonathan Goldstein’s podcast has survived multiple podcasting eras. Will it outlast this one?

My long national nightmare is over www.vulture.com/article/heav...

All Of It Summer Reading Challenge | All Of It | WNYC This summer, from July 1st to the end of Labor Day weekend, we are challenging YOU, our listeners, to complete a summer reading challenge. Just like in school, but for fun!

You have one week left to complete the All Of It Summer Reading Challenge! You can do it! And when done, remember to tell us what you've read by filling out the form here www.wnyc.org/story/all-it...

Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost).

Libraries: one of humanity's greatest achievements www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

At airport libraries, books fly off the shelves Little Free Libraries, book exchanges and honor-system stores are bringing literary joy to terminals across the country.

I love this! Also: FLYBRARY www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

“I can see how this looks strange” is really quite understated in this circumstance www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Why Is Everything Spicy Now? More Americans are setting their mouth on fire—for extreme sport, and for everyday thrills.

"The first person to eat a hot pepper probably did it somewhere in the lowlands of southern Mexico more than 10,000 years ago, and I would guess they probably thought it would kill them. But they went back for more, or at least they told their friends." www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

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Have construction costs been revised downward!?

Say what now

Bzzz! What's making people's hair stand up at 41st and Seventh in Times Square? Con Ed says it didn't find anything unusual. The MTA says it has no info. And experts are curious but confused.

I love this kind of local reporting -- a little mystery, hiding in plain sight gothamist.com/news/bzzz-wh...

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

Why Did a Large Harpy Eagle Attack an Adult Woman? The incident, which took place in the forest in French Guiana, was an extremely rare occurrence

because nature is metal, and they are the most metal members of the bird family www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Cuomo will resign, but first he needs to get through five stages of grief A few short months ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was heralded as the noblest, boldest and sexiest governor in American history.

The primary postmortems remind me of this 2021 piece: “Coming to terms with his precipitous fall & recognizing his own part in it will occupy the rest of Andrew Cuomo’s life. It will require him to undergo ego-death on a scale unseen in the spiritual history of humanity.” nypost.com/2021/08/07/c...

Allow me to share some of the quotes from this article
“Cuomo Doesn’t Blame Himself for Losing the Primary. Others Do.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/n...

Say what now www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/w...

Some of the best money I spend is to support @hellgatenyc.com. If you live in NYC, you really should too. I am planning to subscribe to @thecity.nyc starting in July. Their coverage is stellar. Thank you to both of these publications.

@allofitwnyc.bsky.social is about to go live in the @wnyc.org Greene Space. Here’s the view from the control room.

Bears eat week’s worth of honey after escape from Devon enclosure Five-year-old Mish and Lucy get their paws on some snacks before being safely contained at Wildwood Devon

I love this for them www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dead End: Crime and Politics: Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts Where true crime meets political corruption.

“Hi, it's me, calling my very handsome senator. I have a favor to ask you." The latest season of Dead End delves into the downfall of former NJ Senator Bob Menendez, gold bars, pedestrian-killing wife and all. Great work from @nancysolomon2.bsky.social www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dea...

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New Yorkers! It's primary day! Polls are open until 9pm

Find where to vote/what's on your ballot --> findmypollsite.vote.nyc

How ranked choice voting works --> gothamist.com/news/what-to...

And stay with @wnyc.org all day long for updates. Special coverage w/Brian Lehrer starts at 7pm tonight.

This Reviled Pest Is the Unsung Hero of Every Major City in the World

PREACH www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/m...

The Dem candidates for NYC mayor are making their final pitches on The Brian Lehrer Show today! Listen on @wnyc right now!
They are up in alpha order:
Adrienne Adams
Michael Blake
Andrew Cuomo
Brad Lander
Zohran Mamdani
Zellnor Myrie
Jessica Ramos
Scott Stringer
Whitney Tilson

John Wells, 64, Who Fled New York for the Solitude of the Desert, Dies

"His biggest expense was the $500 annual donation he made to the Marfa public radio station, a lifeline in the months before he had internet." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/s...

I, for one, welcome our new gull overlords. "They know not to hang around schools on the weekend. Gulls also know the routes of garbage trucks and which days of the week they will be in certain places, Rock said, so they perch on rooftops and wait for inevitable spillage."