This week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the payphone challenge, a contest asking people to submit ideas for reinventing New York’s payphones.
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New York City looks to Reinvent its Pay Phones: Marketplace
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Sound Picture of New York
By legendary sound artist Tony Schwartz
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SE Podcast #36 – We Got Hit by a Hurricane « Blog – Stack Exchange
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/11/se-podcast-36-we-got-hit-by-a-hurricane/
Nerdiest Dunkirk spirit you’ve ever heard. Incredible story.
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Thinking About Central Park - On Point
July 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM - 46 min
Thinking About Central Park 19 writers on the magic of Central Park.
New York City’s Central Park is a place and a state of mind. The oasis in the midst of frenetic life. The dream of ordered nature – just a little wild – within reach of urban life. From the sky, it’s that striking, great green rectangle laid out in the heart of an island metropolis. On the ground, it’s 843 acres of memories and legend and lore. Favorite haunt of movie makers. Summer concerts. Strolling lovers. Stolen moments. A new anthology captures nineteen writers on the mystique of Central Park. This hour, On Point: it’s summertime, and we’re going to the park. -Tom Ashbrook
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/07/10/thinking-about-central-park
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Jupiter Broadcasting | Unfilter #22: Half Ton Entrapment
The latest on the would be terrorist plot to bomb the Federal Reserve, and we look at the claims being made that a Cyber-9/11 could be around the corner.
http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/26276/half-ton-entrapment-unfilter-22/
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Chris Rock on Here’s the Thing
Chris Rock and Alec talk about the play, the movie business and Rock’s career in stand-up.
Alec asks Rock about how the people in his life respond to his stand-up — which as Alec says, can "filet them on stage." "I’m like a lawyer," says Rock; "it would all hold up in court." That said, he admits that everybody is uncomfortable.
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Fred Armisen on Here’s the Thing
This week, Alec talks with Fred Armisen. Armisen has been a punk rock drummer, currently he’s a cast member on Saturday Night Live and is also the co-creator and co-star of IFC’s Portlandia. Armisen has always been ambitious; when he was a drummer, he recalls, he always "wanted much more."
Long ago, Armisen played drums with the Blue Man Group in Chicago and he tells Alec he learned a lot: about "simplicity," "reinvention" and "that audiences want to be entertained." Armisen admits that he’s always working; when SNL is on hiatus, he’s producing Portlandia. But he still dreams about what might come next: "I want to invent a type of entertainment that is really blurry between comedy and something else. That doesn’t have a name yet…another level of fooling people as opposed to just doing a character. Something a little bigger than that."
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Robin Shulman, author of Eat the City, interviewed. - Slate Magazine
The popular image of New York City involves high-rise buildings, glass, and concrete, but all over the five boroughs, people grow vegetables, fish local waters, keep bees, brew beer, and make wine. While reporting her new book, Eat the City, Robin Shulman traveled all over New York, meeting people who want to make things grow. Until the early 20th century, New York was a great center of farming, brewing, and sugar refining, and that history is still present all over the city. The conversation lasts around 25 minutes.
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Into The Tunnels: Exploring The Underside Of NYC : NPR
Steve Duncan lives dangerously: The urban explorer has plunged far below the city surface to examine the subways and sewers of New York. Follow him on one of his (illegal) journeys through the city’s underground.
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/02/132482428/into-the-tunnels-exploring-the-underside-of-nyc
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Cities for People, Not Profits – Podcasts – CUNY
Podcasts from The City University of New York
http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2008/04/30/cities-for-people-not-profits/