Goodbye, New York. Our LA Marketplace crew will miss you. Photo by Vidiot.
FRIDAY
Lewis Black on NYC
Stereotypically angry New Yorkers have plenty to be grumpy about. And then there's Lewis Black, who's more than angry. Hear him talk (at normal volume) with Kai Ryssdal. An extended interview is available at right.
The shops of Wall Street
How do you take the pulse of Wall Street? How about a stroll around the Stock Exchange's neighborhood? WNYC's Fred Mogul visits the small businesses that may just feel the pulse of the markets on their cash registers.
New York's toniest address
It's no surprise that housing in New York is some of the costliest in the nation, but how much does the most expensive apartment go for, and what do you get for the mint you have to pay? Bob Moon takes a look.
Leaving New York
For people like filmmaker Peter Nicks, it's just not worth the cost or the hassle to seek their fortunes in New York City. Ashley Milne-Tyte reports.
THURSDAY
Not the same without the shouting
Veteran traders wonder how 'electronic' the New York Stock Exchange will become once it merges with Archipelago. What's it like to trade behind a computer all day? Ashley Milne-Tyte finds out.
14 characters who found an author
Kai Ryssdal talks to performance artist Sarah Jones about making it as an artist in New York, and her one-person show "Bridge and Tunnel," which features 14 unique New York characters.
NY as the American Dream
At a taxi stand at Kennedy Airport, Marketplace talks to immgrants who drive the streets of the city they once dreamed of from Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
English as a second language
Millions of foreign immigrants call New York City home. A miniature United Nations convenes regularly at ESL classes across the city. Alisa Roth takes a look at one.
WEDNESDAY
Women in "the pit"
In the commodities markets, less than 2 percent of the brokers at the New York Board of Trade are women. But the spitting and hollering may not last forever. Amy Scott reports.
Writing checks for the NY Yankees
The Yanks get criticized (not unjustly) for outspending the other major league baseball teams. Host Kai Ryssdal talks to Jean Afterman; she helps George Steinbrenner decide how to spend the team's millions.
Broadway can be murder
The woman behind Broadway's "The Perfect Crime" stars, takes tickets, and sweeps floors at her theater. Is this mad scramble what it takes to compete with the Disneys and Comcasts of Broadway?
The gilded age
A small businessperson struggles to make a go of it, and explains why it's worth it to be in New York, even when the bottom line might say otherwise.
TUESDAY
Pulitzer-prizewinner Robert Caro on NYC
Robert Caro wrote the definitive biography of Robert Moses, the man who built many of the roads and bridges that define New York. He talks to host Kai Ryssdal about New York, his hometown.
What about the next 200 years?
Depending on who you talk to, the New York Stock Exchange's merger with Archipelago may have little effect, or it could mean the end a way of life that's lasted more than 200 years. Alisa Roth spoke to NYSE veterans.
Breaking in on Wall Street
This summer a new crop of female MBAs and college graduates entered the securities workforce. What makes them want to join a profession with such a bad reputation for workplace equality? Amy Scott reports.
MONDAY
Changes at the NYSE
The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange looks chaotic and disorganized. But up close and in person it's not all that crazy. Marketplace's Bob Moon begins our special coverage.
A hot NY topic: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Over the weekend, NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that developer Larry Silverstein should be removed rebuilding Ground Zero. Silverstein is the New York builder who signed a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center 6 weeks before September 11th. He talks to host Kai Ryssdal in lower Manhattan.
If you can make it there
Editors at
Inc. Magazine rate New York the 184th-best place to set up and operate a business. What can be done — and who's finding a way to make it pay? Bob Moon reports.
Working the subway
New York subway riders are used to seeing kids walk into their car and make a pitch to sell candy. Riders are so familiar with the sales routine that they can pitch the script right back. Amy Scott reports.
