PRX - Pieces for Tagging: New York City
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 17:56
Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:55
Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:15
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 26:07
When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:41
Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 20:54
This week on the show: DIY solutions for secondhand clothing, gardens & beehives - When communities face challenges they often find thei...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WXDU
- Added: Aug 20, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
With garden space on earth getting more limited, growing up instead of out is the new normal for the farm industry.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
First impressions are everything, but sometimes they don't come cheap. A New York man is providing at-risk youth with suits to give them the shot t...
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
A man finds a way to use his Amazon-hacking skills for good when he takes to the streets of New York to help the homeless.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
This week on the show: Wildfires and reforestation -
We've got trees on the brain in light of devastating wildfires raging across Australia. W...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU
- Added: Jan 10, 2020
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
“He told me she had stolen about 40 thousand dollars from people. Then he told me I should lawyer up."
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 12:32
- Purchases: 1
The story of William Cimillo, a New York City bus driver who snapped one day in 1947, left his regular route in the Bronx, and drove his municipal ...
Bought by American Voices, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 17:37
- Purchases: 4
"A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic" is the autobiography of New York City's 106th mayor, David Dinkins. The book recounts the li...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 01:00:24
An episode about appointments featuring Randall Jarrell, Tina the Tyrant, and Pillowman. Music by The Suitcase, Film Society for Nomads, Tumblewee...
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 51:07
Three views of the New York City non-profit meal delivery program, God's Love We Deliver.
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 08:37
- Purchases: 1
Good morning! Mercenaries are lurking all around you, threatening to swarm your shores! Get up! Get up! Go, go, GO!
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 06:45
