NYC Schools Prepping to Open; UWS NIMBYism and Shelter Residents; Maria Hinojosa's Memoir; Business Execs vs. NYC's Mayor - a podcast by WNYC

Coming up on today's show: 

As New York City schools are preparing to re-open, WNYC and Gothamist reporter Sophia Chang and WNYC reporter Jessica Gould talk about the hygiene and ventilation conditions in schools, how teachers are feeling and the stats on teachers and COVID cases, so far.






Helen Rosenthal, Manhattan District 6 City Council Member, and Josh Goldfein, staff attorney in Legal Aid's Homeless Rights Project, talk about the successful NIMBY campaign mounted by some residents in the Upper West Side to evict several hundred homeless men living in the Lucerne Hotel and move them to a different hotel in Midtown, forcing the relocation of the residents there.






Maria Hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, and the author of the Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America (Simon and Schuster, 2020), talks about her own life and where her story intersects with national issues.






Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, talks about the letter she helped orchestrate, signed by 163 chief executives, which implored the mayor to focus on quality-of-life problems.

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