Young, Gay And Homeless: Fighting For Resources
A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or...
View ArticleLiz Taylor's Jewel-Dripping Collection On The Block
Celebrity auctions have become common, but once in a while there's an event that will make almost anyone stand up and take notice. After a world tour, the entire collection of Elizabeth Taylor's...
View ArticleReconstituting The Constitution: How To Rewrite It?
Most Americans haven't read the U.S. Constitution in a long time, if ever. They may be able to tell you about the Second Amendment, or the Fifth, maybe even part of the First. But other than that? A...
View ArticleNew York Hasidic Women Want Separate EMT Unit
If you live in New York City, you will often see the Orthodox Jewish ambulance service known as Hatzolah on the street. Hatzolah has some 1,200 volunteers — all men — in New York City and is known for...
View ArticleMuslim Men Rescue Bagel Shop And Keep It Kosher
Coney Island Bialys and Bagels claims to be the oldest bialy bakery in New York City. Founded in 1920, it's faced hard economic times and changing neighborhood demographics. Now, the shop has been...
View ArticleWarm Winter Leads To Early Blooms In Northeast
If you live in the Northeast, this has been a wacky winter: It has been deathly cold in Eastern Europe, as flowers bloom in New York City and temperatures rise to the high 40s and even 50s. I went in...
View ArticleKnicks Star Jeremy Lin Capture's Big Apple's Heart
The New York Knicks have won seven games in a row after struggling all season — and some would say they've struggled for years. Point guard Jeremy Lin, the man few knew a week and a half ago, scored a...
View ArticleTourism Boom Pays Off For N.Y. Hotel Union
When the New York Hotel Trades Council ratified a new contract for hotel workers last month, much of the media coverage focused on "panic buttons." Coming after the sexual assault allegations against...
View ArticleOccupy May Seem To Be Receding, But Look Closer
For people who watch TV news or read newspapers, the Occupy movement might seem to be in hibernation. Most of the encampments are gone, and diminished numbers take part in protests. But there's a lot...
View ArticleCrowds Join Slain Youth's Parents In 'Hoodie March'
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today, Justice Department officials meet with family of Trayvon Martin. The unarmed African-American teen was shot in Florida by a neighborhood watch volunteer. Last...
View ArticleWanted: Digital Bloodhounds For The Hotel Industry
These days, hotels aren't just looking to hire bellhops, concierges and housekeepers. What the industry really needs are digital bloodhounds: people who understand how to use new technologies to track...
View ArticleAlternative Banking Groups Aid Occupy Movement
Groups within the Occupy Wall Street movement are trying to overhaul the banking system and even dream of creating a new kind of bank. Occupy isn't in the headlines so much these days, but work...
View ArticleTo Some Hindus, Modern Yoga Has Lost Its Way
About 20 million people in the United States practice some form of yoga, from the formal Iyengar and Ashtanga schools to the more irreverent "Yoga Butt."But some Hindus say yoga is about far more than...
View Article'Scream' Still Echoes After More Than A Century
It's perhaps the most reproduced piece of art ever created. It has adorned key chains and coffee mugs, and the cover of Time magazine. Andy Warhol used it, and now one of the four versions of The...
View ArticleThese Apps Are Going To The Birds — And People Who Watch Them
I'm standing in the Manhattan office of Andrew Farnsworth, a research associate at Cornell University's ornithology lab. Farnsworth is using meteorological data, radar data, crowd-sourced eBird data...
View ArticleMonet's Green Thumb: How Art Grew From A Garden
Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, France, draws half a million visitors a year, but for the next several months, you won't have to travel farther than the Bronx to get a taste of the artist's green...
View ArticleLoud Debate Rages Over N.Y. Library's Quiet Stacks
Enter the glorious Rose Reading Room on the third floor of the New York Public Library on a weekday afternoon, and you'll find almost every chair filled. Scholars and researchers still submit their...
View ArticleThousands Line Up For Rare Rowling Appearance
While much of America was watching the second presidential debate, about 2,000 people — many of them between the ages of 20 and 40 — were doing something very different. They had gotten a rare and...
View ArticleParts Of Manhattan Go Dark As Sandy Rolls Through
New York City has seen some of the worst damage from Sandy. Large parts of Manhattan were without power on Monday night, a building crane was knocked loose, and there were reports of flooding in the...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Woke Up To Strangely Quiet City
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: I'm Audie Cornish. And we begin this hour with Sandy by the numbers. At least 39...
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