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February 22nd is what's known as Lizzie's Day to honor Elizabeth Jennings Graham, the Black schoolteacher who successfully challenged the racist transportation system in New York City. Her push for justice came in the 1850s, a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Her effort also preceded the start of the Civil War by almost a decade. Concetta Bencivenga is the director of the New York Transit Museum . She joined WNYC's Michael Hill to discuss how Elizabeth Jennings Graham started a wave of change in New York City.…
 
Governor Hochul says she won’t remove Mayor Adams from office in spite of growing calls for his exit. But through all of the controversies surrounding the mayor, Brooklyn Democratic Chair and State Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermalyn has stood by the Mayor. In a letter released yesterday, she and a group of Black lawmakers criticized the effort to remove Adams, and warned of the political fallout if Hochul followed through on it.…
 
Refugee newcomers have an outsize impact in upstate New York communities where houses sit empty after deindustrialization hurt the local economy and drove population down. But President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending new refugee admissions cut into services that helped refugees who were here already, forcing resettlement agencies to lay off staff who had been helping newcomers acclimate to life in the United States. The order and subsequent directives from the State Department froze federal funding that nonprofits use to pay their employees, and to cover rent and household goods for recently arrived refugees.…
 
In just one short year, dating coach Niko Emanuilidis has amassed hundreds of clients. And it hasn’t been hard to do either, he said. His clients span across different ages, genders and races, and live both in and out of the city. But he said those in New York, where he is based, often echo a similar sentiment: The dating scene is worse here than anywhere else. “It’s funny, there’s so many people here in New York City, and yet, I feel like a lot of people are very lonely,” he said. More than 1 in 3 American adults have used an online dating app at some point in their life, and they are also common tools among younger adults, according to data from the Pew Research Center. The same survey found that apps are popular across racial and ethnic groups. And those not on dating apps might still be searching in real life. Social activities like run clubs , book clubs, climbing gyms, casual sports teams, speed dating and niche dating events have become more common in recent years, attracting crowds of New Yorkers eager to meet their next romantic prospect. And a new wave of dating apps allows users to sit back and let AI write their profile. It seems there have never been more ways to find true love, and some New Yorkers are turning to dating coaches like Emanuilidis for help navigating them all. He is one of three New York City-based dating coaches who shared his thoughts on what the dating scene is really like within the five boroughs. One thing all the coaches could all agree on is that New Yorkers are eager to date. And perhaps, more controversially, they agreed that New York is not hell for single people.…
 
Countless people in New York City are making differences in their communities. WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk has been highlighting some of those people, our neighbors. We're calling them community champions. Today we meet Davina Furbert, the creator of Compassionate Cleaning, which provides cleaning and remodeling services to underserved and overlooked communities in New York City. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. I started compassionate cleaning in March, 2019. We do cleanings for underserved communities such as NYCHA and people who are suffering from mental disorders or mental illnesses, and two years later we expanded from cleaning to also doing rental friendly makeovers for NYCHA tenants. The first time a lot of my customers see me is on social media. I'm not too professional, crisp khaki pants, white collared shirt, embroidered logo. I'll show more of my personality and if I know other people that have the same experience as something that I have. I'll share that experience as well, because some people they think, "Oh, your house must be super duper neat, like you must hate a crowded house, look what you do." No, I'm a person too. So, I show some of that, like me cleaning up my own apartment, just so people can be at ease. It's like, it happens, especially in this city, like, people have like two and three jobs trying to just pay rent. So, I try to just show my face, talk, they can hear my voice, and I feel like that's the part that gets the people like, "okay I'll let her in." I would say there aren't a lot of cleaning services that would go into these conditions that we do. They don't care what your apartment looks like. They don't care who you are. They just heard NYCHA and they're like, no, because of the stigma. When a client reaches out to me, we talk about what they need because every client is different. We see what they want to do with whatever they have in their home, we sort through things and spread it out so we can see what's at the bottom of it. That's something that's really important that we do because. My clients, they usually have pictures, birth certificates. I even got asked about a wedding ring one time, and there's so many things in this pile of what somebody would see as trash. It's just, everything's just mixed together. Compassionate Cleaning has grown so much over the years. People in other cities, even other countries, have been reaching out, telling me like, "oh, I've seen what you do, and I think it's really, really, like, needed," because regardless of where you live, you know, everybody has something going on whether you can see it or not.…
 
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is engulfed in chaos. Critics say the Justice Department moved to drop corruption charges against Adams in exchange for cooperation with President Trump’s immigration enforcement. That prompted four deputy mayors to resign. Now, prominent Democrats are considering whether – and how – to remove Adams. One of the people at the center of those talks is Comptroller Brad Lander. He’s also running against Adams in the Democratic primary. He talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more about it.…
 
New York City will mark a key milestone this year: The transit system hired its first Black train conductor 90 years ago, shattering a barrier that has since offered tens of thousands of African Americans and other people of color a pathway to the middle class. Jotham T. Coleman, whom researchers have little information about, was hired as a conductor by the Independent Subway System on Oct. 15, 1935, when the city agency first opened motorman and conductor positions to Black New Yorkers, according to Polly Desjarlais, a content manager at the New York Transit Museum. The move came as the Board of Transportation, a bygone agency that ran the city’s publicly owned subway system at the time, began to expand its workforce, according to Desjarlais. “It was the Depression, and having civil service rules was more equitable,” Desjarlais said. “Suddenly jobs were opened up that were formerly closed to African Americans.” Prior to Coleman’s hiring, the city’s public and private transportation systems relegated Black employees to jobs as cleaners and porters, who earned lower wages than conductors and motormen — the people who drive trains. “In the 1930s, transit workers were poorly paid,” said Joshua Freeman, a labor historian and retired professor at the CUNY School of Labor. “It was a notoriously badly paid industry and Black workers in it were paid the worst. But once you get to unionization, you begin a path towards benefits and salary increases that really blossoms after World War II.” Within a decade of Coleman’s unprecedented appointment, the number of Black conductors on the subways skyrocketed. Board of Transportation records show the number of Black conductors employed by the agency grew from 63 in 1939 to 405 in 1944. Today, roughly 40% of the MTA’s 70,000 workers are Black, including several of the agency’s highest-ranking employees. Last year, Demetrius Crichlow became NYC Transit's first Black president, overseeing the agency’s subway and bus operations.…
 
What makes a restaurant fun? For some, it might be a giant singing mechanical rodent and a roomful of video games. For others, it could be a quiet space as far removed from video screens and screaming youngsters as possible. So obviously, it's a different answer for everybody. Our friends at Eater New York just released a list of places they consider the most fun restaurants in New York City. Eater New York Editor, Emma Orlow joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to talk about a few of their choices.…
 
The Justice Department filed a motion Friday asking a judge to dismiss federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The request caps off a week of legal drama between the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and DOJ officials in Washington D.C. The Justice Department directed prosecutors in New York City to toss the charges against Adams, saying the case impeded the mayor's ability to help the Trump administration carry out immigration enforcement. The lead prosecutor resigned in protest, and several others followed. Adams says he's innocent and wants to move forward. A judge still has to sign off on the request. Political strategist, Columbia University professor and MSNBC contributor Basil Smikle joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to discuss how this week's news will shape the mayor's race.…
 
Mayor Adams says he’s preparing an executive order to allow federal immigration officers to operate on Rikers Island, where they have essentially been banned for the last decade. Adams made the announcement after meeting with President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan. Former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who helped pass the city’s sanctuary laws during former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s first term, talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about ICE's return to Rikers.…
 
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