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New York City's parks have long doubled as free, open air gyms, and the tradition stretches back to groups like The Bartendaz, who started training on playground bars in the Bronx and Brooklyn in the early 2000s. WNYC producer James Ramsey headed to Chelsea Park to get a lesson in that scene from Brooklyn-born trainer Danny Kavadlo, and shared what he learned with us.


Photo: Walter Wuthmann

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South Bronx Legionnaires’ outbreak death toll rises to 2
NYPD expects daily UN General Assembly protests as NYC street closures begin
NYC deploys robotoilets. The public bathrooms have a strict 10-minute time limit.

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Fifteen years after Occupy Wall Street began in Zuccotti Park, NYC Now returns to WNYC’s archives to ask what the movement changed, where it fell short and what remains today. WNYC reporter Stephen Nessen reflects on covering Occupy in real time, while City Council member Sandy Nurse looks back on her experience inside the movement and the path that eventually took her from activism into elected office.
Photo: Getty/Paul McKinnon

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NYC raises snow shoveler pay to $30 an hour this winter
Park Slope rejoices after catnappers return stolen kitten to bodega

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New York City has launched its new 2-K program as the first major step toward universal childcare. But some providers started the school year without city funding they were counting on, leaving some to borrow money or dip into their own savings to cover payroll, rent and supplies. WNYC’s Karen Yi explains why payment and contracting delays keep happening and what they could mean for the city’s plans to expand free childcare.
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Photo: Kara McCurdy / Mayoral Photography Office
COVID hospitalizations are on the rise in NYC. Here's how to protect yourself.
Gov. Hochul expected to send rebate checks to New Yorkers shortly before Election Day
As NYC's free 2-K begins, childcare providers say they're still waiting to get paid

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Twenty five years ago, WNYC reporters fanned out across the city recording New Yorkers in the hours and days after the attacks on the World Trade Center. Today, we revisit two of those New Yorkers: a scared, pregnant 21 year old wondering if her baby would grow up to enjoy the city she loves, and a 15 year old Muslim girl bracing for the Islamophobia that followed. WNYC's Samantha Max found both women 25 years later to find out what became of those fears and joins us to discuss what both of their lives look like now.
Photo: Courtesy Janelle Lewis and Nahima Ahmed
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Families gather at ground zero to remember 9/11 — 25 years later
South Bronx Legionnaires’ cluster kills 1, sickens 5, NYC says
Autonomous Tesla Cybercabs hit the streets of New York City
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Keeping chickens in city backyards is becoming more popular. WNYC’s Morning Edition producer Verónica Del Valle visits a Jersey City backyard farm to see what urban chicken keeping actually looks like and the rules to know before starting a flock of your own.
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Photo cred: Verónica Del Valle/WNYC
Mayor Mamdani releases 170K documents related to post-9/11 air quality
New renderings of the MTA's IBX project serving Brooklyn, Queens are out

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