Storm surge barriers threaten the very life of the Hudson River. Jessica Roff of Riverkeeper on the Army Corps of Engineers alternative plan for building $60 billion for a vast dam across the mouth of New York harbor from Brooklyn to New Jersey and across Long Island Sound. Public input has been a joke and the public doesn't know what is coming down the pike. A full hour first half Jessica Roff describes the alternatives followed by questions from the listening audience. Don't miss this crucial news. Join Paul DeRienzo for a journey into environmental Armageddon and dystopian future alternatives for New York City.

Storm surge barriers threaten the very life of the Hudson River. Jessica Roff of Riverkeeper on the Army Corps of Engineers alternative plan for building $60 billion for a vast dam across the mouth of New York harbor from Brooklyn to New Jersey and across Long Island Sound. Public input has been a joke and the public doesn't know what is coming down the pike. A full hour first half Jessica Roff describes the alternatives followed by questions from the listening audience. Don't miss this crucial news. Join Paul DeRienzo for a journey into environmental Armageddon and dystopian future alternatives for New York City.

The looming closure of the L Train between northern Brooklyn and Manhattan to his damage from superstorm Sandy 6 years ago to the tunnel under the East River led to a cacophonous meeting earlier this week as the full scope of the project has begun to sink in with the public. The closure next spring will last 18 months and already 14th Street at Avenue A has become a massive construction site with no end in site. While complaints are many there are few alternatives to the fixing the damage to one fo the city’s busiest subway lines. The plan is to replace the L line with busses and ferries, but there is no easy answer to the increased air and noise pollution that will be there result of construction

The problem facing the city is the result of climate change, but under rules made by President Trump the causes of the problem are banned from discussion. Looming in the future is a the Seagate, a major construction project that will build dams across blocking storm surges from the harbor. A potentially massive project that will define the city for generations.

Manhattan Boro President Gale Brewer joined the WBAI news to discuss the L train shutdown and the broader issue of climate change ad its effect in New York.

Gale Brewer is the Manhattan Borough President.

The L Train shut down will commence in April. 2019 and continue for 15 months. The line will be replaced by busses over the Williamsburg Bridge, increased service on other subway lines and a new ferry service at 20th street. The Army Corps of engineers is yet to decide on a plan for the Seagate project. The public comment period for that project ends this week.

The looming closure of the L Train between northern Brooklyn and Manhattan to his damage from superstorm Sandy 6 years ago to the tunnel under the East River led to a cacophonous meeting earlier this week as the full scope of the project has begun to sink in with the public. The closure next spring will last 18 months and already 14th Street at Avenue A has become a massive construction site with no end in site. While complaints are many there are few alternatives to the fixing the damage to one fo the city’s busiest subway lines. The plan is to replace the L line with busses and ferries, but there is no easy answer to the increased air and noise pollution that will be there result of construction

The problem facing the city is the result of climate change, but under rules made by President Trump the causes of the problem are banned from discussion. Looming in the future is a the Seagate, a major construction project that will build dams across blocking storm surges from the harbor. A potentially massive project that will define the city for generations.

Manhattan Boro President Gale Brewer joined the WBAI news to discuss the L train shutdown and the broader issue of climate change ad its effect in New York.

Gale Brewer is the Manhattan Borough President.

The L Train shut down will commence in April. 2019 and continue for 15 months. The line will be replaced by busses over the Williamsburg Bridge, increased service on other subway lines and a new ferry service at 20th street. The Army Corps of engineers is yet to decide on a plan for the Seagate project. The public comment period for that project ends this week.

the 165 year old St. Denis Hotel at 11th street and Broadway is going under the wrecking ball. The ornate structure, currently providing office space to therapists and esoteric businesses will be replaced by a sterile glass box that will house boutiques. Completed in 1853. It was designed by James Renwick Jr., the architect who built Grace Church across the street. A cherry orchard has once stood on the land which was bisected by Broadway when the thoroughfare was a dirt track.

Abraham Lincoln may have slept there, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone in the hotel, Sarah Bernhardt penned letters in the ladies writing room and Ulysses S. Grant wrote his memoirs there. When Susan B. Anthony spoke to the local women’s Suffrage Association at the hotel, “She began,” reported the Times, “by stating that she never had paid the income tax and she never would. If men wanted to put Susan B. in jail she would go.” In the 1920s it became headquarters for labor unions and the communist party ran a free Worker’s Music School.

The St. Denis was often mentioned in FBI files and the hotel’s address 799 Broadway was printed on leaflets handed out by Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s presumed assassin, in New Orleans.

Crain's reported last week that Columbia Property Trust is "paying more than $70 million...to purchase a roughly 50% stake" in the property with co-owner Normandy Real Estate Partners.

the 165 year old St. Denis Hotel at 11th street and Broadway is going under the wrecking ball. The ornate structure, currently providing office space to therapists and esoteric businesses will be replaced by a sterile glass box that will house boutiques. Completed in 1853. It was designed by James Renwick Jr., the architect who built Grace Church across the street. A cherry orchard has once stood on the land which was bisected by Broadway when the thoroughfare was a dirt track.

Abraham Lincoln may have slept there, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone in the hotel, Sarah Bernhardt penned letters in the ladies writing room and Ulysses S. Grant wrote his memoirs there. When Susan B. Anthony spoke to the local women’s Suffrage Association at the hotel, “She began,” reported the Times, “by stating that she never had paid the income tax and she never would. If men wanted to put Susan B. in jail she would go.” In the 1920s it became headquarters for labor unions and the communist party ran a free Worker’s Music School.

The St. Denis was often mentioned in FBI files and the hotel’s address 799 Broadway was printed on leaflets handed out by Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s presumed assassin, in New Orleans.

Crain's reported last week that Columbia Property Trust is "paying more than $70 million...to purchase a roughly 50% stake" in the property with co-owner Normandy Real Estate Partners.

It's been 7 years since Occupy Wall Street, listen to an analysis and talk of the future with activists Marni Halasa and journalist Priya Reddy on Let Them Talk hosted by Paul DeRienzo on WBAI in New York City.

It's been 7 years since Occupy Wall Street, listen to an analysis and talk of the future with activists Marni Halasa and journalist Priya Reddy on Let Them Talk hosted by Paul DeRienzo on WBAI in New York City.

The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is marked as dozens of protesters claim the it was an inside job, 1 million ordered to evacuate as hurricane Florence takes aim at the Carolina’s, while voter suppression and security take center stage ahead of New York’s democratic primary.

The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is marked as dozens of protesters claim the it was an inside job, 1 million ordered to evacuate as hurricane Florence takes aim at the Carolina’s, while voter suppression and security take center stage ahead of New York’s democratic primary.