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Ep.240 Rujeko Hockley is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Her current project at the Whitney is Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Other projects include Inheritance (2023), 2 Lizards (2022), Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing (2021), Julie Mehretu (2021), Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined (2017) and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1940-2017 (2017). Previously, she was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she co-curated Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (2014) and was involved in exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection as well as contemporary artists. She is the co-curator of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 (2017), which originated at the Brooklyn Museum and travelled to three U.S. venues in 2017-18. She serves on the Boards of Art Matters, Institute For Freedoms, and Museums Moving Forward, as well as the Advisory Board of Recess. Photograph by Jody Rogac Whitney Museum ~ https://whitney.org/2019-biennial-curators ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald-four-ways-of-being ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/inheritance ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2-lizards ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/jennifer-packer ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/julie-mehretu ~ https://whitney.org/press/protest ~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/toyin-ojih-odutola Time Magazine https://time.com/7210625/rujeko-hockley-hank-willis-thomas-art-inclusivity/ Observer https://observer.com/2025/04/exhibition-amy-sherald-american-sublime-whitney-dinner-opening-party/ Ursula https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/inside-the-issue-ursula-issue-11/ Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/when-i-call-who-listens-rujeko-hockley-excerpt-for-freedoms/# Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashagural/2025/04/04/amy-sherald-american-sublime-at-the-whitney-re-imagines-american-realism-with-singular-visual-narratives/ M.M.Lafleur https://mdash.mmlafleur.com/most-remarkable-woman-rujeko-hockley/ Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/rujeko-hockleys-top-picks-frieze-los-angeles-viewing-room-2023 CCL https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-smh-curators-forum/rujeko-hockley/ Artealdia https://www.artealdia.com/News/NEW-APPOINTMENTS-FOR-MARCELA-GUERRERO-AND-RUJEKO-HOCKLEY-AT-THE-WHITNEY-MUSEUM Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/rujeko-hockley/ artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/career-stories-rujeko-hockley-1962842 Athens Now https://athensnowal.net/sharing-the-spotlight/

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Today's guest is Peter Moskos, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He spent two years as a police officer in Baltimore. I asked him to come on and talk about his new book, Back from the Brink, Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop. It's one of my favorite books I've read this year (and it was one of my three book recommendations on Ezra Klein's show last week).Peter spoke with hundreds of police officers and NYC officials to understand and describe exactly how the city's leaders in the early 1990s managed to drive down crime so successfully.We discussed:* How bad did things get in the 1970s?* Why did processing an arrest take so long?* What did Bill Bratton and other key leaders do differently?* How did police get rid of the squeegee men?I've included my reading list at the bottom of this piece. Thanks to Harry Fletcher-Wood for his judicious transcript edits.Subscribe for one new interview a week.Peter, how would you describe yourself?I would say I'm a criminologist: my background is sociology, but I am not in the sociology department. I'm not so big on theory, and sociology has a lot of theory. I was a grad student at Harvard in sociology and worked as a police officer [in Baltimore] and that became my dissertation and first book, Cop in the Hood. I've somewhat banked my career on those 20 months in the police department.Not a lot of sociologists spend a couple of years working a police beat.It's generally frowned upon, both for methodological reasons and issues of bias. But there is also an ideological opposition in a lot of academia to policing. It's seen as going to the dark side and something to be condemned, not understood.Sociologists said crime can't go down unless we fix society first. It's caused by poverty, racism, unemployment, and social and economic factors — they're called the root causes. But they don't seem to have a great impact on crime, as important as they are. When I'm in grad school, murders dropped 30-40% in New York City. At the same time, Mayor Giuliani is slashing social spending, and poverty is increasing. The whole academic field is just wrong. I thought it an interesting field to get into.We're going to talk about your new book, which is called Back from the Brink, Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop. I had a blast reading it. Tell me about the process of writing it.A lot of this is oral history, basically. But supposedly people don't like buying books that are called oral histories. It is told entirely from the perspective of police officers who were on the job at the time. I would not pretend I talked to everyone, because there were 30,000+ cops around, but I spoke to many cops and to all the major players involved in the 1990s crime drop in New York City.I was born in the ‘90s, and I had no idea about a crazy statistic you cite: 25% of the entire national crime decline was attributable to New York City's crime decline.In one year, yeah. One of the things people say to diminish the role of policing is that the crime drop happened everywhere — and it did end up happening almost everywhere. But I think that is partly because what happened in New York City was a lot of hard work, but it wasn't that complicated. It was very easy to propagate, and people came to New York to find out what was going on. You could see results, literally in a matter of months.It happened first in New York City. Really, it happened first in the subways and that's interesting, because if crime goes down in the subways [which, at the time, fell under the separate New York City Transit Police] and not in the rest of the city, you say, “What is going on in the subways that is unique?” It was the exact same strategies and leadership that later transformed the NYPD [New York Police Department].Set the scene: What was the state of crime and disorder in New York in the ‘70s and into the ‘80s?Long story short, it was bad. Crime in New York was a big problem from the late ‘60s up to the mid ‘90s, and the ‘70s is when the people who became the leaders started their careers. So these were defining moments. The city was almost bankrupt in 1975 and laid off 5,000 cops; 3,000 for a long period of time. That was arguably the nadir. It scarred the police department and the city.Eventually, the city got its finances in order and came to the realization that “we've got a big crime problem too.” That crime problem really came to a head with crack cocaine. Robberies peaked in New York City in 1980. There were above 100,000 robberies in 1981, and those are just reported robberies. A lot of people get robbed and just say, “It's not worth it to report,” or, “I'm going to work,” or, “Cops aren't going to do anything.” The number of robberies and car thefts was amazingly high. The trauma, the impact on the city and on urban space, and people's perception of fear, all comes from that. If you're afraid of crime, it's high up on the hierarchy of needs.To some extent, those lessons have been lost or forgotten. Last year there were 16,600 [robberies], which is a huge increase from a few years ago, but we're still talking an 85% reduction compared to the worst years. It supposedly wasn't possible. What I wanted to get into in Back from the Brink was the actual mechanisms of the crime drop. I did about fifty formal interviews and hundreds of informal interviews building the story. By and large, people were telling the same story.In 1975, the city almost goes bankrupt. It's cutting costs everywhere, and it lays off more than 5,000 cops, about 20% of the force, in one day. There's not a new police academy class until 1979, four years later. Talk to me about where the NYPD was at that time.They were retrenched, and the cops were demoralized because “This is how the city treats us?” The actual process of laying off the cops itself was just brutal: they went to work, and were told once they got to work that they were no longer cops. “Give me your badge, give me your gun."The city also was dealing with crime, disorder, and racial unrest. The police department was worried about corruption, which was a legacy of the Knapp Commission [which investigated NYPD corruption] and [Frank] Serpico [a whistleblowing officer]. It's an old police adage, that if you don't work, you can't get in trouble. That became very much the standard way of doing things. Keep your head low, stay out of trouble, and you'll collect your paycheck and go home.You talk about the blackout in 1977, when much of the city lost power and you have widespread looting and arson. 13,000 off-duty cops get called in during the emergency, and only about 5,000 show up, which is a remarkable sign of the state of morale.The person in my book who's talking about that is Louis Anemone. He showed up because his neighbor and friend and partner was there, and he's got to help him. It was very much an in-the-foxholes experience. I contrast that with the more recent blackout, in which the city went and had a big block party instead. That is reflective of the change that happened in the city.In the mid-80s you get the crack cocaine epidemic. Talk to me about how police respond.From a political perspective, that era coincided with David Dinkins as [New York City's first black] mayor. He was universally disliked, to put it mildly, by white and black police officers alike. He was seen as hands off. He was elected in part to improve racial relations in New York City, to mitigate racial strife, but in Crown Heights and Washington Heights, there were riots, and racial relations got worse. He failed at the level he was supposed to be good at. Crime and quality of life were the major issues in that election.Dinkins's approach to the violence is centered around what they called “community policing.” Will you describe how Dinkins and political leaders in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s thought about policing?This is under Ben Ward, the [NYPD] Commissioner at the time. The mayor appoints the police commissioner — and the buck does stop with the mayor — but the mayor is not actively involved in day-to-day operations. That part does go down to the police department.Community policing was seen as an attempt to improve relations between the police and the community. The real goal was to lessen racial strife and unrest between black (and to a lesser extent Hispanic) communities and the NYPD. Going back to the ‘60s, New York had been rocked by continued unrest in neighborhoods like Central Harlem, East New York, and Bushwick. Community policing was seen as saying that police are partly to blame, and we want to improve relations. Some of it was an attempt to get the community more involved in crime fighting.It's tough. It involves a certain rosy view of the community, but that part of the community isn't causing the problems. It avoids the fact there are people who are actively criming and are willing to hurt people who get in their way. Community policing doesn't really address the active criminal element, that is a small part of any community, including high-crime communities.Arrests increased drastically during this era, more than in the ‘90s with broken windows policing. If the idea is to have fewer arrests, it didn't happen in the ‘80s. Some good came out of it, because it did encourage cops to be a bit more active and cops are incentivized by overtime. Arrests were so incredibly time-consuming, which kind of defeated the purpose of community policing. If you made an arrest in that era, there was a good chance you might spend literally 24 hours processing the arrest.Will you describe what goes into that 24 hours?From my experience policing in Baltimore, I knew arrests were time-consuming and paperwork redundant, but I could process a simple arrest in an hour or two. Even a complicated one that involved juveniles and guns and drugs, we're talking six to eight hours.In the ‘80s, Bob Davin, [in the] Transit Police, would say they'd make an arrest, process at the local precinct, search him in front of a desk officer, print him, and then they would have to get a radio car off patrol to drive you down to central booking at 100 Centre Street [New York City Criminal Court]. Then they would fingerprint him. They didn't have the live scan fingerprints machine, it was all ink. It had to be faxed up to Albany and the FBI to see if it hit on any warrant federally and for positive identification of the person. Sometimes it took 12 hours to have the prints come back and the perp would be remanded until that time. Then you'd have to wait for the prosecutor to get their act together and to review all the paperwork. You couldn't consider bail unless the prints came back either positive or negative and then you would have that initial arraignment and the cop could then go home. There are a lot of moving parts, and they moved at a glacial pace.The system often doesn't work 24/7. A lot of this has changed, but some of it was having to wait until 9 am for people to show up to go to work, because it's not a single system. The courts, the jails, and policing all march to their own drummer, and that created a level of inefficiency.So much of the nitty-gritty of what cops actually do is boring, behind-the-scenes stuff: How do we speed up the paperwork? Can we group prisoners together? Can we do some of this at the police station instead of taking it downtown? Is all of this necessary? Can we cooperate with the various prosecutors? There are five different prosecutors in New York City, one for each borough.There's not a great incentive to streamline this. Cops enjoyed the overtime. That's one of the reasons they would make arrests. So during this time, if a cop makes an arrest for drug dealing, that cop is gone and no cop was there to replace him. If it's a minor arrest, there's a good chance in the long run charges will be dropped anyway. And you're taking cops off the street. In that sense, it's lose-lose. But, you have to think, “What's the alternative?”Bob Davin is a fascinating guy. There's a famous picture from 1981 by Martha Cooper of two cops on a subway train. It's graffitied up and they're in their leather jackets and look like cops from the ‘70s. Martha Cooper graciously gave me permission to use the picture, but she said, "You have to indemnify me because I don't have a release form. I don't know who the cops are." I said, "Martha, I do know who the cop is, because he's in my book and he loves the picture.” Bob Davin is the cop on the right.Davin says that things started to get more efficient. They had hub sites in the late ‘80s or ‘90s, so precincts in the north of Manhattan could bring their prisoners there, and you wouldn't have to take a car out of service to go back to Central Booking and deal with traffic. They started collecting prisoners and bringing them en masse on a small school bus, and that would cut into overtime. Then moving to electronic scan fingerprints drastically saves time waiting for those to come back.These improvements were made, but some of them involve collective bargaining with unions, to limit overtime and arrests that are made for the pure purpose of overtime. You want cops making arrests for the right reason and not simply to make money. But boy, there was a lot of money made in arrests.In 1991, you have the infamous Crown Heights riot in Brooklyn. Racial tensions kick off. It's a nightmare for the mayor, there's this sense that he has lost control. The following year, you have this infamous police protest at City Hall where it becomes clear the relationship between the cops and the mayor has totally evaporated. How does all that play into the mayoral race between Dinkins and Giuliani?It was unintentional, but a lot of the blame for Crown Heights falls on the police department. The part of the story that is better known is that there was a procession for a Hasidic rabbi that was led by a police car. He would go to his wife's grave, and he got a little three-car motorcade. At some point, the police look at this and go "Why are we doing this? We're going to change it." The man who made the deal said ‘I"m retiring in a couple weeks, can we just leave it till then? Because I gave him my word." They're like, "Alright, whatever."This motor car procession is then involved in a car crash, and a young child named Gavin Cato is killed, and another girl is severely injured. The volunteer, Jewish-run ambulance shows up and decides they don't have the equipment: they call for a professional city ambulance. Once that ambulance is on the way, they take the mildly-injured Jewish people to the hospital. The rumor starts that the Jewish ambulance abandoned the black children to die.This isn't the first incident. There's long been strife over property and who the landlord is. But this was the spark that set off riots. A young Jewish man was randomly attacked on the street and was killed.As an aside, he also shouldn't have died, but at the hospital they missed internal bleeding.Meanwhile, the police department has no real leadership at the time. One chief is going to retire, another is on vacation, a third doesn't know what he's doing, and basically everyone is afraid to do anything. So police do nothing. They pull back, and you have three days of very anti-Semitic riots. Crowds chanting "Kill the Jews" and marching on the Lubavitch Hasidic Headquarters. Al Sharpton shows up. The riots are blamed on Dinkins, which is partly fair, but a lot of that's on the NYPD. Finally, the mayor and the police commissioner go to see what's going on and they get attacked. It's the only time in New York City history that there's ever been an emergency call from the police commissioner's car. People are throwing rocks at it.It took three days to realise this, but that's when they say “We have to do something here,” and they gather a group of officers who later become many of Bratton's main chiefs at the time [Bill Bratton was Commissioner of the NYPD from 1994-1996, under Giuliani]: Mike Julian, Louis Anemone, Ray Kelly, and [John] Timoney. They end the unrest in a day. They allow people to march, they get the police department to set rules. It still goes on for a bit, but no one gets hurt after that, and that's it.It was a huge, national story at the time, but a lot of the details were not covered. Reporters were taken from their car and beaten and stripped. The significance was downplayed at the time, especially by the New York Times, I would say.That's followed by the Washington Heights riots, which is a different story. A drug dealer was shot and killed by cops. There were rumors, which were proven to be false, that he was executed and unarmed. Then there were three days of rioting there. It wasn't quite as severe, but 53 cops were hurt, 120 stores were set on fire, and Mayor Dinkins paid for the victim's family to go to the Dominican Republic for the funeral. The police perspective again was, “You're picking the wrong side here.”Then there's the so-called Police Riot at City Hall. Nominally, it was about the CCRB, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and setting up an accountability mechanism to control cops. But really it was just an anti-Dinkins protest. It was drunken and unruly. The cops stormed the steps of City Hall. I have the account of one of the cops who was on the top of those steps looking at this mob of cops storming to him, and he's getting worried he's going to be killed in a crush. There were racist chants from off-duty cops in the crowd. It did not reflect well on police officers. But it showed this hatred of David Dinkins, who was seen as siding with criminals and being anti-police. The irony is that Dinkins is the one who ends up hiring all the cops that Giuliani gets credit for.In the “Safe Streets, Safe City” program?Yes. That was because a white tourist, Brian Watkins, was killed in a subway station protecting his parents who were getting robbed. That led to the famous headline [in the New York Post] of “Dave, do something! Crime-ravaged city cries out for help.” He, with City Council President Peter Vallone, Sr., drafted and pushed through this massive hiring of police officers, “Safe Streets, Safe City.”The hiring wasn't fast-tracked. It might be because Dinkins's people didn't really want more cops. But it was a Dinkins push that got a massive hiring of cops. When the first huge class of police officers graduated, Bill Bratton was there and not David Dinkins.Some interviewees in your book talk about how there's physically not enough room in the police academies at this time, so they have to run classes 24/7. You cycle cohorts in and out of the same classroom, because there are too many new cops for the facilities.You have thousands of cops going through it at once. Everyone describes it as quite a chaotic scene. But it would have been hard to do what the NYPD did without those cops. Ray Kelly, who was police commissioner under Dinkins at the end [from 1992 to 1994] before he became police commissioner for 12 years under Bloomberg [from 2002 to 2013] probably could have done something with those cops too, but he never had the chance, because the mayoral leadership at the time was much more limiting in what they wanted cops to do.Crime starts declining slowly in the first few years of the ‘90s under Dinkins, and then in ‘93 Giuliani wins a squeaker of a mayoral election against Dinkins.One of the major issues was the then-notorious “squeegee men” of New York City. These were guys who would go to cars stopped at bridges and tunnel entrances and would rub a squeegee over the windshield asking for money. It was unpleasant, intimidating, and unwanted, and it was seen as one of those things that were just inevitable. Like graffiti on the subway in the ‘80s. Nothing we can do about it because these poor people don't have jobs or housing or whatever.The irony is that Bratton and Giuliani were happy to take credit for that, and it was an issue in the mayoral campaign, but it was solved under David Dinkins and Ray Kelly and Mike Julian with the help of George Kelling [who, with James Wilson, came up with broken windows theory]. But they never got credit for it. One wonders if, had they done that just a few months earlier, it would have shifted the entire campaign and we'd have a different course of history in New York City.It's a great example of a couple of things that several people in your book talk about. One is that disorder is often caused by a very small set of individuals. There's only like 70 squeegee men, yet everybody sees them, because they're posted up at the main tunnel and bridge entrances to Manhattan. And getting them off the streets solves the problem entirely.Another emphasis in the book is how perceptions of crime are central. You quote Jack Maple, the father of Compstat, as saying, “A murder on the subway counts as a multiple murder up on the street, because everybody feels like that's their subway.” The particular locations of crimes really affect public perception.Absolutely. Perception is reality for a lot of these things, because most people aren't victimized by crime. But when people perceive that no one is in control they feel less safe. It's not that this perception is false, it just might not be directly related to an actual criminal act.The other thing I try to show is that it's not just saying, “We've got to get rid of squeegee men. How do you do it?” They had tried before, but this is why you need smart cops and good leadership, because it's a problem-solving technique, and the way to get rid of graffiti is different to the way you get rid of squeegee men.This book is in opposition to those who just say, “We can't police our way out of this problem.” No, we can. We can't police our way out of every problem. But if you define the problem as, we don't want people at intersections with squeegees, of course we can police our way out of the problem, using legal constitutional tools. You need the political will. And then the hard work starts, because you have to figure out how to actually do it.Will you describe how they tackle the squeegee men problem?Mike Julian was behind it. They hired George Kelling, who's known for broken windows. They said, “These people are here to make money. So to just go there and make a few arrests isn't going to solve the problem.” First of all, he had to figure out what legal authority [to use], and he used Traffic Reg 44 [which prohibits pedestrians from soliciting vehicle occupants]. He talked to Norm Siegel of the NYCLU [New York Civil Liberties Union] about this, who did not want this crackdown to happen. But Norman said, “Okay, this is the law, I can't fight that one. You're doing it legally. It's all in the books.” And So that took away that opposition.But the relentless part of it is key. First they filmed people. Then, when it came to enforcement, they warned people. Then they cited people, and anybody that was left they arrested. They did not have to arrest many people, because the key is they did this every four hours. It was that that changed behavior, because even a simple arrest isn't going to necessarily deter someone if it's a productive way to make money. But being out there every four hours for a couple of weeks or months was enough to get people to do something else. What that something else is, we still don't know, but we solved the squeegee problem.So in 93, Giuliani is elected by something like 50,000 votes overall. Just as an aside, in Prince of the City, Fred Siegel describes something I had no idea about. There's a Puerto Rican Democratic Councilman who flips and supports Giuliani. Mayor Eric Adams, who at the time was the head of a nonprofit for black men in law enforcement, calls him a race traitor for doing that and for being married to a white woman. There was a remarkable level of racial vitriol in that race that I totally missed.10 years ago when I started this, I asked if I could interview then-Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams, and he said yes, and the interview kept getting rescheduled, and I said, “Eh, I don't need him.” It's a regret of mine. I should have pursued that, but coulda, woulda, shoulda.Giuliani is elected, and he campaigns very explicitly on a reducing crime and disorder platform. And he hires Bill Bratton. Tell me about Bratton coming on board as NYPD commissioner.Bratton grew up in Boston, was a police officer there, became head of the New York City Transit Police when that was a separate police department. Right before he becomes NYPD Commissioner, he's back in Boston, as the Chief of Police there, and there is a movement among certain people to get Bratton the NYC job. They succeed in that, and Bratton is a very confident man. He very much took a broken windows approach and said, “We are going to focus on crime.” He has a right-hand man by the name of Jack Maple who he knows from the Transit Police. Maple is just a lieutenant in transit, and Bratton makes him the de facto number two man in the police department.Jack Maple passed away in 2001 and I didn't know what I was going to do, because it's hard to interview a man who's no longer alive. Chris Mitchell co-wrote Jack Maple's autobiography called Crime Fighter and he graciously gave me all the micro-cassettes of the original interviews he conducted with Maple around 1998. Everyone has a Jack Maple story. He's probably the most important character in Back from the Brink.Jack Maple comes in, no one really knows who he is, no one respects him because he was just a lieutenant in Transit. He goes around and asks a basic question — this is 1994 — he says, “How many people were shot in New York City in 1993?” And nobody knows. That is the state of crime-fighting in New York City before this era. There might have been 7,000 people shot in New York City in 1990 and we just don't know, even to this day.One citation from your book: in 1993, an average of 16 people were shot every day. Which is just remarkable.And remember, shootings have been declining for two or three years before that! But nobody knew, because they weren't keeping track of shootings, because it's not one of the FBI Uniform Crime Report [which tracks crime data nationally] index crimes. But wouldn't you be curious? It took Jack Maple to be curious, so he made people count, and it was findable, but you had to go through every aggravated assault and see if a gun was involved. You had to go through every murder from the previous year and see if it was a shooting. He did this. So we only have shooting data in New York City going back to 1993. It's just a simple process of caring.The super-short version of Back from the Brink is it was a change in mission statement: “We're going to care about crime.” Because they hadn't before. They cared about corruption, racial unrest, brutality, and scandal. They cared about the clearance rate for robbery a bit. You were supposed to make three arrests for every ten robberies. It didn't matter so much that you were stopping a pattern or arresting the right person, as long as you had three arrests for every ten reported crimes, that was fine.This is a story about people who cared. They're from this city — Bratton wasn't, but most of the rest are. They understood the trauma of violence and the fact that people with families were afraid to go outside, and nobody in the power structure seemed to care. So they made the NYPD care about this. Suddenly, the mid-level police executives, the precinct commanders, had to care. and the meetings weren't about keeping overtime down, instead they were about ”What are you doing to stop this shooting?”Tell listeners a little bit more about Jack Maple, because he's a remarkable character, and folks may not know what a kook he was.I think he was a little less kooky than he liked to present. His public persona was wearing a snazzy cat and spats and dressing like a fictional cartoon detective from his own mind, but he's a working-class guy from Queens who becomes a transit cop.When Bratton takes over, he writes a letter up the chain of command saying this is what we should do. Bratton read it and said, “This guy is smart.” Listening to 80 hours of Jack Maple, everyone correctly says he was a smart guy, but he had a very working-class demeanor and took to the elite lifestyle. He loved hanging out and getting fancy drinks at the Plaza Hotel. He was the idea man of the NYPD. Everyone has a Jack Maple imitation. “You're talking to the Jackster,” he'd say. He had smart people working under him who were supportive of this. But it was very much trying to figure out as they went along, because the city doesn't stop nor does it sleep.He was a bulls***er, but he's the one who came up with the basic outline of the strategy of crime reduction in New York City. He famously wrote it on a napkin at Elaine's, and it said, “First, we need to gather accurate and timely intelligence.” And that was, in essence, CompStat. “Then, we need to deploy our cops to where they need to be.” That was a big thing. He found out that cops weren't working: specialized units weren't working weekends and nights when the actual crime was happening. They had their excuses, but basically they wanted a cushy schedule. He changed that. Then, of course, you have to figure out what you're doing, what the effective tactics are. Then, constant follow up and assessment.You can't give up. You can't say “Problem solved.” A lot of people say it wasn't so much if your plan didn't work, you just needed a Plan B. It was the idea that throwing your hands in the air and saying, “What are you going to do?” that became notoriously unacceptable under Chief Anemone's stern demeanor at CompStat. These were not pleasant meetings. Those are the meetings that both propagated policies that work and held officers accountable. There was some humiliation going on, so CompStat was feared.Lots of folks hear CompStat and think about better tracking of crime locations and incidents. But as you flesh out, the meat on the bones of CompStat was this relentless follow-up. You'd have these weekly meetings early in the morning with all the precinct heads. There were relentless asks from the bosses, “What's going on in your district or in your precinct? Can you explain why this is happening? What are you doing to get these numbers down?” And follow-ups the following week or month. It was constant.CompStat is often thought of as high-tech computer stuff. It wasn't. There was nothing that couldn't have been done with old overhead projectors. It's just that no one had done it before. Billy Gorta says it's a glorified accountability system at a time when nobody knew anything about computers. Everyone now has access to crime maps on a computer. It was about actually gathering accurate, timely data.Bratton was very concerned that these numbers had to be right. It was getting everyone in the same room and saying, “This is what our focus is going to be now.” And getting people to care about crime victims, especially when those crime victims might be unsympathetic because of their demeanor, criminal activity, or a long arrest record. “We're going to care about every shooting, we're going to care about every murder.”Part of it was cracking down on illegal guns. There were hundreds of tactics. The federal prosecutors also played a key role. It was getting this cooperation. Once it started working and Giuliani made it a major part of claiming success as mayor, suddenly everyone wanted to be part of this, and you had other city agencies trying to figure it out. So it was a very positive feedback loop, once it was seen as a success.When Bratton came on the job, he said, “I'm going to bring down crime 15%.” No police commissioner had ever said that before. In the history of policing before 1994, no police commissioner ever promised a double-digit reduction in crime or even talked about it. People said “That's crazy.” It was done, and then year after year. That's the type of confidence that they had. They were surprised it worked as well as it did, but they all had the sense that there's a new captain on this ship, and we're trying new things. It was an age of ideas and experiment.And it was a very short time.That's the other thing that surprised me. Giuliani fired Bratton in the middle of ‘96.It's remarkable. Bratton comes in ‘94, and August 1994 is where you see crime drop off a cliff. You have this massive beginning of the reduction that continues.That inflection point is important for historical knowledge. I don't address alternatives that other people have proposed [to explain the fall in crime] — For example, the reduction in lead [in gasoline, paint, and water pipes] or legalized abortion with Roe v. Wade [proposed by Stephen Dubner].Reasonable people can differ. Back from the Brink focuses on the police part of the equation. Today, almost nobody, except for a few academics, says that police had nothing to do with the crime drop. That August inflection is key, because there is nothing in a lagged time analysis going back 20 years that is going to say that is the magic month where things happened. Yet if you look at what happened in CompStat, that's the month they started getting individual officer data, and noticing that most cops made zero arrests, and said, “Let's get them in the game as well.” And that seemed to be the key; that's when crime fell off the table. The meetings started in April, I believe, but August is really when the massive crime drop began.To your point about the confidence that crime could be driven down double digits year over year, there's a great quote you have from Jack Maple, where he says to a fellow cop, “This is going to be like shooting fish in a barrel. As long as we have absolute control, we can absolutely drive this number into the floor.”One detail I enjoyed was that Jack Maple, when he was a transit cop, would camp out under a big refrigerator box with little holes cut out for eyes and sit on the subway platform waiting for crooks.For people who are interested in Jack Maple, it is worth reading his autobiography, Crime Fighter. Mike Daly wrote New York's Finest, which uses the same tapes that I had access to, and he is much more focused on that. He's actually the godfather of Jack Maple's son, who is currently a New York City police officer. But Maple and co were confident, and it turned out they were right.As well as having changes in tactics and approach and accountability across the NYPD, you also have a series of specific location cleanups. You have a specific initiative focused on the Port Authority, which is a cesspool at the time, an initiative in Times Square, the Bryant Park cleanup, and then Giuliani also focuses on organized crime on the Fulton Fish Market, and this open-air market in Harlem.I was struck that there was both this general accountability push in the NYPD through CompStat, and a relentless focus on cleaning up individual places that were hubs of disorder.I'm not certain the crime drop would have happened without reclamation of public spaces and business improvement districts. Bryant Park's a fascinating story because Dan Biederman, who heads the Corporation, said, “People just thought it was like a lost cause, this park can't be saved. The city is in a spiral of decline.” He uses Jane Jacobs' “eyes on the street” theory and then George Kelling and James Q. Wilson's broken windows theory. The park has money — not city money, but from local property owners — and it reopens in 1991 to great acclaim and is still a fabulous place to be. It showed for the first time that public space was worth saving and could be saved. New York City at the time needed that lesson. It's interesting that today, Bryant Park has no permanent police presence and less crime. Back in the ‘80s, Bryant Park had an active police presence and a lot more crime.The first class I ever taught when I started at John Jay College in 2004, I was talking about broken windows. A student in the class named Jeff Marshall, who is in my book, told me about Operation Alternatives at the Port Authority. He had been a Port Authority police officer at the time, and I had not heard of this. People are just unaware of this part of history. It very much has lessons for today, because in policing often there's nothing new under the sun. It's just repackaged, dusted off, and done again. The issue was, how do we make the Port Authority safe for passengers? How do we both help and get rid of people living in the bus terminal? It's a semi-public space, so it makes it difficult. There was a social services element about it, that was Operational Alternatives. A lot of people took advantage of that and got help. But the flip side was, you don't have to take services, but you can't stay here.I interviewed the manager of the bus terminal. He was so proud of what he did. He's a bureaucrat, a high-ranking one, but a port authority manager. He came from the George Washington Bridge, which he loved. And he wonders, what the hell am I going to do with this bus terminal? But the Port Authority cared, because they're a huge organization and that's the only thing with their name on it — They also control JFK Airport and bridges and tunnels and all the airports, but people call the bus terminal Port Authority.They gave him almost unlimited money and power and said, “Fix it please, do what you've got to do,” and he did. It was environmental design, giving police overtime so they'd be part of this, a big part of it was having a social service element so it wasn't just kicking people out with nowhere to go.Some of it was also setting up rules. This also helped Bratton in the subway, because this happened at the same time. The court ruled that you can enforce certain rules in the semi-public spaces. It was not clear until this moment whether it was constitutional or not. To be specific, you have a constitutional right to beg on the street, but you do not have a constitutional right to beg on the subway. That came down to a court decision. Had that not happened, I don't know if in the long run the crime drop would have happened.That court decision comes down to the specific point that it's not a free-speech right on the subway to panhandle, because people can't leave, because you've got them trapped in that space.You can't cross the street to get away from it. But it also recognized that it wasn't pure begging, that there was a gray area between aggressive begging and extortion and robbery.You note that in the early 1990s, one-third of subway commuters said they consciously avoided certain stations because of safety, and two thirds felt coerced to give money by aggressive panhandling.The folks in your book talk a lot about the 80/20 rule applying all over the place. That something like 20% of the people you catch are committing 80% of the crimes.There's a similar dynamic that you talk about on the subways, both in the book and in your commentary over the past couple years about disorder in New York. You say approximately 2,000 people with serious mental illness are at risk for street homelessness, and these people cycle through the cities, streets, subways, jails, and hospitals.What lessons from the ‘90s can be applied today for both helping those people and stopping them being a threat to others?Before the ‘80s and Reagan budget cuts there had been a psychiatric system that could help people. That largely got defunded. [Deinstitutionalization began in New York State earlier, in the 1960s.] We did not solve the problem of mental health or homelessness in the ‘90s, but we solved the problem of behavior. George Kelling [of broken windows theory] emphasized this repeatedly, and people would ignore it. We are not criminalizing homelessness or poverty. We're focusing on behavior that we are trying to change. People who willfully ignore that distinction almost assume that poor people are naturally disorderly or criminal, or that all homeless people are twitching and threatening other people. Even people with mental illness can behave in a public space.Times have changed a bit. I think there are different drugs now that make things arguably a bit worse. I am not a mental health expert, but we do need more involuntary commitment, not just for our sake, but for theirs, people who need help. I pass people daily, often the same person, basically decomposing on a subway stop in the cold. They are offered help by social services, and they say no. They should not be allowed to make that choice because they're literally dying on the street in front of us. Basic humanity demands that we be a little more aggressive in forcing people who are not making rational decisions, because now you have to be an imminent threat to yourself or others. That standard does need to change. But there also need to be mental health beds available for people in this condition.I don't know what the solution is to homelessness or mental health. But I do know the solution to public disorder on the subway and that's, regardless of your mental state or housing status, enforcing legal, constitutional rules, policing behavior. It does not involve locking everybody up. It involves drawing the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. It's amazing how much people will comply with those rules.That presents the idea that someone's in charge, it's not a free-for-all. You get that virtuous loop, which New York had achieved in 2014–2016, when crime was at an all-time low in the city. Then the politicians decided public order wasn't worth preserving anymore. These are political choices.I had a similar version of this conversation with a friend who was shocked that there were zero murders on the subway in 2017 and that that number was stable: you had one or two a year for several years in the mid-2010s.It was five or fewer a year from 1997 to 2019, and often one or two. Then you have zero in 2017. There were [ten in 2022]. It coincides perfectly with an order from [Mayor] de Blasio's office and the homeless czar [Director of Homeless Services Steven] Banks [which] told police to stop enforcing subway rules against loitering. The subways became — once again — a de facto homeless shelter. Getting rule-violating homeless people out of the subway in the late ‘80s was such a difficult and major accomplishment at the time, and to be fair it's not as bad as it was.The alternative was that homeless outreach was supposed to offer people services. When they decline, which 95% of people do, you're to leave them be. I would argue again, I don't think that's a more humane stance to take. But it's not just about them, it's about subway riders.There's one story that I think was relevant for you to tell. You were attacked this fall on a subway platform by a guy threatening to kill you. It turns out he's had a number of run-ins with the criminal justice system. Can you tell us where that guy is now?I believe he's in prison now. The only reason I know who it is is because I said, one day I'm going to see his picture in the New York Post because he's going to hurt somebody. Am I 100 percent certain it's Michael Blount who attacked me? No, but I'm willing to call him out by name because I believe it is. He was out of prison for raping a child, and he slashed his ex-girlfriend and pushed her on the subway tracks. And then was on the lam for a while. I look at him and the shape of his face, his height, age, build, complexion, and I go, that's got to be him.I wasn't hurt, but he gave me a sucker punch trying to knock me out and then chased me a bit threatening to kill me, and I believe he wanted to. It's the only time I ever was confronted by a person who I really believe wanted to kill me, and this includes policing in the Eastern District in Baltimore. It was an attempted misdemeanor assault in the long run. But I knew it wasn't about me. It was him. I assume he's going to stay in prison longer for what he did to his ex-girlfriend. But I never thought it would happen to me. I was lucky the punch didn't connect.Peter Moskos's new book is Back from the Brink, Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop.My reading listEssays:Johnny Hirschauer's reporting, including “A Failed 'Solution' to 'America's Mental Health Crisis',“ “Return to the Roots,” and “The Last Institutions.” “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety,” by George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson. ​“It's Time to Talk About America's Disorder Problem,” Charles Lehman.Books:Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Jill Leovy.​Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life, Fred Siegel.​ Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District, Peter Moskos.​Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, Sam Quinones.​Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.statecraft.pub

Our guest (Female, 26, Bushwick, Bisexual) is a professional Dominatrix and Sex Coach. She talks all about her career path, how psychology plays into her job, how much she makes, some of the craziest things she's experienced, her experience dating, and more!If you have any feedback- please reach out to us on IG or leave a comment below!We recorded this episode at Jac's On Bond in NoHo. Jac's is one of our favorite date spots in the city. They have award winning cocktails, N/A options, great dessert, and a pool table you can reserve and play (for free)!If you are interested in matching with this week's guest, go to our instagram @drinks.first, our flow page or directly to our matching form.YOU CAN ALSO NOW WATCH THE EPISODE ON OUR YOUTUBE. Get full access to Drinks First at drinksfirst.substack.com/subscribe

This week I am joined by actor and comedian, Lucy Shelby. We talk about her upcoming play at The Brooklyn Art House "Georgia Mertching is Dead", how she got into acting and stand up, bouncing between St Louis and Colorado as a kid, and how she ended up in New York.Great EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Lucy talks about teaching yoga in the Hamptons (drunk), her black out adventures, moonshine in Bushwick, what lead to her getting sober, and so much more.Follow Lucy on Instagram and get tickets for "Georgia Mertching is Dead"Get tickets to my upcoming shows and all the links through my LINKTREE

This week on the Girls Rewatch Podcast, we're joined by the hilarious Lily Marotta from the Celebrity Book Club Podcast to break down Broad City Season 3, Episode 4: "Rat Pack." Lily was living his best life in Bushwick during the golden age of Broad City, and he's got all the inside scoops and memories from that wild time. The trio dives into the gritty reality of New York rats, the unspoken rules of house party etiquette, and the rise of hard kombucha in the culture. With plenty of laughs and behind-the-scenes stories, this episode is a deep dive into the city, the show, and the era that defined it. You won't want to miss it! Want to see exclusive Girls Rewatch Bonus Content? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/GirlsRewatchPodcast to be the first to see our latest Podcast Videos & get Patreon Exclusives! Follow our guests on Instagram: @lilyblueeyes Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠@girlsrewatchpodcast Follow the hosts on Instagram: ⁠⁠@ameliaplease⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@elazie⁠⁠ For advertising opportunities please email HBOGirlsRewatchPodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week we are joined by Marty Cunnie! Marty Cunnie is a New York based comic originally from San Francisco. He produces shows in Bushwick and Astoria. Make sure to check him out!In this episode, Marty shares his deep love for cats and rugby, including the unique culture surrounding the sport, and the community it fosters. We discuss finding direction in college and transitioning into comedy, highlighting the motivations and experiences that led to this career path. We also discuss Marty's love of wrestling, including the evolution of wrestling as an art form, and the importance of storytelling in both comedy and wrestling. Give this episode a listen!Recommendations From This Episode: SNL - Whiskers R WeGLOWFollow Marty Cunnie: @martycunniecomedyFollow Carly: @carlyjmontagFollow Emily: @thefunnywalshFollow the podcast: @aloneatlunchpodPlease rate and review the podcast! Spread the word! Tell your friends! Email us: aloneatlunch@gmail.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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From our studio in Bushwick, NY, here is--for the 321st time--Mondo Jazz bringing you delightful recent and upcoming releases! The playlist features Butcher Brown; Rachel Eckroth, John Hadfield; Believers, Brad Shepik, Sam Minaie, John Hadfield; Misha Mullov-Abbado; John Zorn, Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith; Marie Krüttli [pictured]; and Cecilie Strange. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/20281925/Mondo-Jazz [up to "Skrova Fyr"]. Happy listening!

Originally from Morocco, Layla is a lovely young lady who recently moved to Bushwick from Park Slope a few months ago to find and nurture her creative side which she is pursuing seriously. We talk about the how's and why's she moved to NYC to Morocco, mostly through her career in finance. She is thinking of playing in a black metal band eventually and as a trans woman, finding photographers and fashion designers to collaborate with and explore different sides of her identity in including androgyny. Personally I loved hearing Layla describe her hometown in Morocco surrounded by the beach.

The federal government is ordering the MTA to shut down congestion pricing by March 21st, but Governor Hochul is preparing for a legal battle with the Trump administration. Meanwhile, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has officially filed paperwork to form a citywide campaign committee, adding another contender to the mayoral race. Also, the city is investing $390 million to upgrade Bushwick's aging sewer system, the largest flood protection project in decades. Plus, in this week's Politics Brief, WNYC's Jimmy Vielkind and Brigid Bergin break down the latest from City Hall and Albany, including Mayor Adams skipping a candidate forum, Governor Hochul's struggles to increase oversight of city government, and the ongoing statewide prison strike.

Summary: The New York City Council is expected to pass a bill Thursday aimed at protecting domestic violence survivors by making their voter records confidential. Friday is the deadline for New York City parents to enroll their kids in New York City's free 3-K and Pre-K programs. Plus, the city is investing $390 million to upgrade flood protections in Bushwick. And finally, how a Dominican native has made her mark in the city as one of its most prominent food influencers. WNYC's Amanda Rozon reports.

Abbas goes off about the upside down Delta flight, other recent crashes and what's going on, the type of people in Bushwick, and getting used to NYC parking NEW TOUR DATES! Brooklyn, NY - Feb 19 Edmonton, AB - Feb 26, 27 Calgary, AB - Feb 28, 01 London, ON - Mar 14 Houston, TX - Mar 20 Austin, TX - Mar 21 Dallas, TX - Mar 23 Chicago, IL - Mar 27 Minneapolis, MN - Mar 30 Detroit, MI - April 10 Boston, MA - April 12 Miami, FL - April 17 San Diego, CA - May 1 Los Angeles, CA - May 2 Washington, D.C. - May 15 Seattle, WA - May 22 Portland, OR - May 23 Halifax, NS - June 06 St. John's, NL - June 07 Montreal, QC June 16 Ottawa, ON - July 17, 18 Tell me what city to go to next! https://shorturl.at/cdJX4 socials: Abbas: www.instagram.com/abbaswahab_/

Newburgh bar shares works by 'new Bohemian' artists Beginning Friday (Feb. 7), there will be reunions for the ages in Newburgh at a new gallery called Assisted Living. Artists who escaped from Williamsburg before it began to gentrify in 2000, moving to Beacon and other spots in the Hudson Valley, will exhibit a work completed in Brooklyn and a more recent piece. The gallery is tucked in the back of the dive bar Untouchable, owned by Tom and Yukie Schmitz, who also own Quinn's on Main Street in Beacon. They moved across the river several years ago. "Beacon doesn't remind me of Brooklyn anymore," says Tom. "Newburgh reminds me of Brooklyn." Anna West, who lived in Williamsburg from 1989 to 2004 before moving to Beacon, curated The New Bohemia Now, which includes works by 31 artists who live up and down the river, from Catskill to Hastings-on-Hudson. Besides West, the Beacon contributors include Ron Horning, Katherine Mahoney, George Mansfield, Sue Rossi and Laurel Shute. After Soho gentrified in the 1970s and the galleries disappeared from the East Village in the 1980s, artists decamped to Williamsburg's cheap lofts. For a 1992 article in which New York magazine christened the working-class neighborhood as "the new Bohemia," a carefree West appeared on the cover with two friends at a cafe beneath the Williamsburg Bridge. More media converged, attracting hipsters and investment bankers. "When someone built the first luxury building with no parking in the middle of a rough neighborhood, I knew the times were changing," says West. "That happened in Beacon, too, across from the post office" at 344 Main St. After 2000, many Williamsburg artists dispersed upstate and to nearby Bushwick, where luxe buildings are popping up again, says West. As Beacon experienced growing pains, especially for artists, the larger burgh across the river became a refuge. One slogan is "Don't Beacon Our Newburgh." The Untouchable complex is located on semi-chic Liberty Street at the far end of the commercial strip past Washington's Headquarters and a block from Big Mouth Coffee Roasters, a satellite of the flagship Beacon store. Entering the bar is like stepping into a time machine. The smell of fresh-cut wood infuses the back room as Schmitz continues building panels and creating clever and practical interior designs to accommodate bands, artists and exhibitors. The backyard is huge. As at Quinn's, Yukie handles the food. For now, the menu is a work in progress because the prep area is a nook off the bar. Tom takes care of the arts and events. In 1991, he opened Earwax Records in Williamsburg (mentioned twice in the 1992 New York story) and promoted illicit and infamous warehouse parties. Eventually, he sold the business and the couple moved to Japan. After the country's 2011 earthquake, they came to Beacon at the behest of George Mansfield, a close friend who had relocated after 9/11. (Tom and George opened Dogwood on East Main Street, which they sold in 2023 and is now Cooper's.) West, her curation complete, reminisces about those halcyon Brooklyn days of the early 1990s. "There were a zillion zines," she recalls. "With the open studios, you could see everyone else was doing something, not just sitting around. It wasn't a competition - it was more about inspiration because you wanted to be a part of the energy and excitement." Then rents ballooned and new buildings along the East River blocked the views of the quaint four-story walkups. West and her husband could only afford Coney Island, an hour by subway from Manhattan, so the couple initiated a "one-hour policy," she says. After visiting Beacon on Metro-North in 2004, they put down roots. Is it ironic for Beacon artists to participate in a show about a once-dicey locale revitalized by an artistic community that gentrified 25 years ago? "Everyone sees what's happening here," says West. "I'm glad I bought my house back in the day." Assisted Living is located inside the Untouchable Bar & Restauran...

It's News Day Tuesday! Sam and Emma break down the biggest headlines of the day. First, they run through updates on Trump's illegal freezing of government funds, firing of an NLRB commissioner, mass ICE raids, Hegseth's confirmation, Bird Flu, the gutting of consumer protections, Trump's DOJ, labor action among Whole Foods and Delta, Trump's ban order on trans people in the military, the return of Palestinians to North Gaza, and the implosion of AI-adjacent Tech Stocks amid the release of Chinese AI tech DeepSeek, also unpacking Lindsay Graham's predictably slimy response to Trump's improper firing of myriad Inspectors General. After diving a little deeper into the drama behind the emergence of DeepSeek, a drastically cheaper and more efficient LLM AI technology out of China, Sam and Emma shift to Trump's sweeping order to completely freeze all Congressionally-ordered federal funding, parsing through the devastating and overarching impact this order will have on the American public and any federally-funded organizations and Trump's active targeting of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 in an attempt to legitimize this maneuver, as they explore the rapid initiation of the Project 2025 assault on (and “traumatization of” to quote the OMB head) federal workers. They also expand on Trump's recent firing of the third NLRB board member, effectively barring them from taking actions until a new one is confirmed, the emergence of various public health threats in the wake of Trump's killing of any federal public health communications, and wrap up with a killer Kickstarter project without a world without billionaires. And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma watch notorious immigration expert… uh… Dr. Phill engage in a ride-along raid with ICE, and dive deep into Trump's overwhelming anti-immigration orders and the utter dearth of any productive opposition from Democrats with some help from Ronald Raygun. Kyle from Columbus unpacks the Big Tech freakout over China's DeepSeek AI, Josh from Bushwick unpacks the absurdity of charging for public transit, and Jim from Portland highlights his ongoing Kickstarter campaign for an anti-billionaire graphic novel. The MR Team also unpacks developments around RFK Jr.'s impending confirmation hearing, plus, your calls and IMs! Check out the KickStarter page for the new graphic novel "F**K BILLIONAIRES" here!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/f-ckbillionaires/f-ck-billionaires Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Follow us on TikTok here!: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here!: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here!: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here!: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase! Check out today's sponsors: Liquid IV: Embrace your ritual with extraordinary hydration from Liquid I.V. Get 20% off your first order of Liquid I.V. when you go to https://LiquidIV.com and use code MAJORITYREP at checkout. That's 20% off your first order when you shop better hydration today using promo code MAJORITYREP at https://LiquidIV.com. Select Quote: Get the RIGHT life insurance for YOU, for LESS, at https://SelectQuote.com/majority. Go to https://SelectQuote.com/majority to get started. Blueland Cleaning Products: Blueland has a special offer for listeners. Right now, get 15% off your first order by going to https://blueland.com/majority. You won't want to miss this! That's https://blueland.com/majority to get 15% off. Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

I had the great fortune of meeting Claire at an open mic in Bushwick. After they called my name she came up to me and asked me if I knew her parents. I did. Claire Pelllegrino has known of me since she was born because I am a leading character in her parent's, Jean Galton and Ron Pellegrino's origin story. I was really close to her mother bacaue we both worked for the same difficult boss at our first jobs in advertising. And I met her Dad while I was working at other agency freelance. I dated him for about 6 months. And as Claire already knows, they met at an apartment party I had. Ron and I had broken up by then and were good friends, and as was Jean and I, even though we were no longer working together. It seems like Jean and Ron were a case of love at first sight. And in my very own home. And as I tell Claire-he traumatized me once on a date for not letting me to get off a bus in New Jersey to the bathroom. Looking back I'm glad he dissuaded me—we'd still be wandering around NJ. Even tho I had nothing to do with shaping her now, I do take pride in her report that her parents were a good match and me cause of me. The weird thing for her I think is that even though, she's never seen me interact with her parents, I knew so m much about them. It made me so pleased to hear Claire discuss how happy and grateful for her parents doing such a great job in raising her which she describes beautifully. Claire is a super talented comedian. Check her out on Insta! @pellegrino_claire

Police are searching for multiple suspects after a man was stabbed and killed in Bushwick Thursday. Meanwhile, NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams says Mayor Eric Adams should have done more to prepare for President Trump's deportation plans. Also, lawmakers in Albany are considering a bill that would ban wearing masks to menace or threaten violence. Plus, WNYC's Tiffany Hanssen speaks with State Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr. about legislation to address cockloft fires, which break out in the space between the ceiling and the roof of a building and can spread quickly.

Producer Grant joins Ryan to talk about how Mark Zuckerberg went from looking and acting like “Every Guy Walking Down the Street in Boston in the Mid-2000s” to his current era, “I Work in the Financial District and I'm Dating A Girl from Bushwick,” and said man's recent announcement that Meta would no longer be employing fact checkers, instead relying on community notes to flag offensive content.Catch the full episode and plenty of other great bonus content, plus ad-free episodes, by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PanicWorld. Use code "PANIC" at checkout to get your first month for just $0.50!Want to sponsor Panic World? Ad sales & marketing support by Multitude, hit them up here: ⁠http://multitude.productions⁠.Credits- Host: Ryan Broderick- Producer: Grant Irving- Researcher: Adam Bumas- Business Manager: Josh Fjelstad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Producer Grant joins Ryan to talk about how Mark Zuckerberg went from looking and acting like “Every Guy Walking Down the Street in Boston in the Mid-2000s” to his current era, “I Work in the Financial District and I'm Dating A Girl from Bushwick,” and said man's recent announcement that Meta would no longer be employing fact checkers, instead relying on community notes to flag offensive content. Catch the full episode and plenty of other great bonus content, plus ad-free episodes, by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PanicWorld. Use code "PANIC" at checkout to get your first month for just $0.50! Want to sponsor Panic World? Ad sales & marketing support by Multitude, hit them up here: ⁠http://multitude.productions⁠. Credits - Host: Ryan Broderick - Producer: Grant Irving - Researcher: Adam Bumas - Business Manager: Josh Fjelstad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This year's Spout Lore Christmas Special is a Patreon Exclusive playtest of our new campaign Up All Night. Join Mo, Stephen and Amber as they navigate life as teens in the 90s in their small weird hometown of Bushwick. [Content Warning: Debaucherous Curling Clubs, Middle Eastern Ice Cream Places, Part Time Jobs] Want more Spout Lore in your Life? Check out our spinoff show

This week on the Zen Perry Project we welcome Brandon Gallagher, the Bushwick-based mastermind best known for his blisteringly brutal one-man experimental industrial project TRACE AMOUNT. Recorded shortly before a run of December NYC shows (sorry this is dropping after the fact!) and in the thick of recording his second full length, Brandon weighs in on balancing freelance work to support artistic pursuits, reflects on striking rhythm with everything from his equipment to whom he collaborates with, and ponders the place for harsh charged music in a harsh charged world. Happy Holidays y'all! Photo courtesy of Annalie Bouchard. Support the showIntrospective interviews with artistic individuals - an ongoing audiovisual journal of Zen Perry. Behold a wall of periodically updated webpages!Official Website: https://www.zenperryproject.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/breakingnorthInstagram: @https://www.instagram.com/zenperryproject/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breakingnorthpodcastTwitter: @BreakingNorthTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/breakingnorth_Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@zenperryproject160Email: info@zenperryproject.comThanks for listening - hope you enjoy!

Plant Papi is a lil under the weather, so rather than the usual love fest, we do a little dedications to some folks in the music space that keep me going. Think of it like a mixtape you found somewhere on the street in Bushwick, except not as new wave-y UK Garage-y and to be clear, not that, that's not cool, just, you know, it's Bushwick, what do you expect ? For more info and tracklisting, visit: https://thefaceradio.com/aftercare,/Tune into new broadcasts of Aftercare, 1st and 3rd Thursday from 10 PM - Midnight  EST / 3 - 5 AM GMT. (Friday)//Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host of "TV, I Say w/ Ashley Ray" and avid tv-tweeter, Ashley Ray, flys all the way from LA to join us in Bushwick to discuss Broad City's iconic Season 2 Episode 2 "Mochalatta Chills"! We discuss bad roommates, the messy politics and feminism of Broad City, and hear Ashley's straight-out-of-the-writer's-room #BroadCityMoment she had in college. NGL THIS EPISODE IS ELITE UR GONNA WANNA LISTEN AND SHARE WITH A FRIEND XO. Want to see exclusive Girls Rewatch Bonus Content? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/GirlsRewatchPodcast to be the first to see our latest Podcast Videos & get Patreon Exclusives! Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/BroadCityRewatchYouTube Follow our guest on Instagram: @theashleyray Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠@girlsrewatchpodcast Follow the hosts on Instagram: ⁠⁠@ameliaplease⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@elazie⁠⁠ For advertising opportunities please email HBOGirlsRewatchPodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edgar Asencio shares his experience of being wrongfully convicted of a violent crime and serving three years in a New York State prison. Edgar discusses the events that led to his conviction, the challenges he faced while incarcerated, and the impact this experience had on his life. This conversation sheds light on the flaws in the justice system and the resilience required to navigate such an ordeal. #WrongfulConviction #InnocentBehindBars #NYStatePrison #ViolentCrime #TrueCrimeStories #JusticeSystemFailure #PrisonSurvival #lifebehindbars Thank you to AURA FRAMES for sponsoring today's episode: Exclusive $35-off Carver Mat at https://auraframes.com/. Use code LOCKEDIN at checkout to save! Connect with Edgar Asencio: Email: d2daizzo26@yahoo.com Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://www.ianbick.com/shop Use code lockedin at checkout to get 20% off your order Timestamps: 00:00:00 Life Growing Up in Bushwick, Brooklyn 00:04:25 Navigating GED and Vocational Training Challenges 00:08:26 Navigating School Challenges and Skipping Strategies 00:12:46 Reflecting on Youthful Mischief and Environment 00:17:12 Growing Up with Mischief 00:21:10 Unjust Accusation and Arrest Encounter 00:25:10 Co-Charged Encounter and Trial Strategy 00:29:33 Accusations and Misunderstandings in Court 00:33:42 The Challenges of Proving Innocence in Court 00:38:06 Verdict Day: Mixed Emotions in Court 00:42:45 Wrongful Conviction in the Pre-Digital Age 00:46:31 Navigating the Prison System: From Arrest to Incarceration 00:50:54 Life Inside Prison: Stories and Lessons 00:54:37 Lessons from Past Mistakes: Guidance for the Next Generation 00:59:02 From Assistant to District Manager: A 12-Year Retail Journey 01:03:12 Impact of Felony Records on Employment and Housing 01:07:28 Clearing My Name and Preventing Future Accusations Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Die Skyline von Manhattan, legendäre Viertel wie Greenwich Village oder Williamsburg, Blicke von über 300 Meter Höhe, die Graffiti-Kunst von Bushwick, Drehorte von tausenden Filmen, und all das ist nur der Anfang. Ist New York City die beste Stadt der Welt? Wir waren gerade dort, und sind geneigt zu sagen: Yes! :) Stellt euch alle Restaurants vor, von denen ihr jemals geträumt habt - sei es in der angesagten Lower East Side oder im schicken Chelsea. Sei es als Street Food oder in wunderschönem Ambiente. Oder ihr flaniert acht Meter über dem Boden zwischen Blumenwiesen quer durch die Wolkenkratzer Manhattans - im smartesten Park der Welt. Wir finden für euch den besten Ausblick über diese Mega-City, verraten euch die coolsten Foto-Spots, werden zu Fans an den Häusern von Carrie Bradshaw („Sex and the City“) und „Friends“. Wir schenken euch versteckte Orte, unfassbare Cafés, die beste New-York-Pizza… Schnallt euch an für die Stadt der Städte und den ersten Teil unserer NYC-Trilogie!Diese Folge entstand mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Deutschen Lufthansa.Unsere Werbepartner dieser Folge findet ihr hier: https://www.reisen-reisen-der-podcast.de/werbepartner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Pricey pours. A recent study has uncovered the most expensive states in America to grab a cup of coffee — and New Yorkers may be shocked to learn that the Empire State doesn't even come close to cracking the top 10. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults at New York's Madison Square Garden, turning what his campaign had dubbed as the event where he would deliver his closing message into an illustration of what turns off his critics. A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly $4,000 a month to live with rat feces on the countertops, moldy ceilings and leaky roofs in the trendy area — causing them to form a tenant union to fight the alleged slumlord who owns the place. And in Decision 2024, on a recent weekday afternoon, an Amish man in a horse-drawn buggy navigated through a busy intersection of auto traffic in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, past a billboard proclaiming: “Pray for God's Mercy for Our Nation.” The billboard featured a large image of a wide-brimmed straw hat often worn by the Amish. Researchers say most of the Amish don't register to vote, reflective of the Christian movement's historic separatism from mainstream society, just as they've maintained their dialect and horse-and-buggy transportation. But a small minority have voted, and the Amish are most numerous in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, American voters are approaching the presidential election with deep unease about what could follow, including the potential for political violence, attempts to overturn the election results and its broader implications for democracy, according to a new poll.

This hour, we speak with a few of the artists selected for a new show at the Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, which displays work from over 200 local artists in celebration of the museum's 200th anniversary. Tabitha Whitley grew up and still lives in Bushwick, and she discusses her piece on view, "Botanic Luncheon," and her creative practice.

Send us a textCodename 69, a 47-year-old podcaster, is suspended due to a culturally insensitive joke. He finds out a 59-year-old Mark, who loses his way by supporting The Big Orange Machine needs to be taken out. On Episode 639 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss The Shadow Strays, the latest film from the maestro of mayhem, Timo Tjahjanto! We also discuss the diversity of Krypton, dive into a passionate debate about politics and wrestling, and take a thrilling ride on the "conveyor belt of carnage" as we explore violent action films. So grab your favorite artery severing blade, limber up your gun fu grip, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Elvira, Ariana Grande, Cassandra Peterson, anxiety attacks, horror drama, paizone, Caldor, Jewel, Krypton is diverse, RIP Undertaker, the one man crime spree, what was more crazy the week in politics or wrestling, Tuesday Night Wars, Mick Foley, Kevin Nash, Jim Corvette, Dave Batista, Bushwick, search history, Muhammed Hassan, Chris Pratt, Super Mario Bros., patio furniture, Troy O'Leary, Blood and Black Lace, The Comeback, Kevin Millar, Dave Roberts, Fernando Valenzuela, What We Do in the Shadows, Deathwatch starring the Family Circus, Andy Serkis, The Exorcist II: The Heretic, Max Von Sydow, James Early Jones, Repossessed, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Trainspotting, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, anime, Starblazers, Cowboy Bebop, New and Noteworthy, Crossroads, Black Phillip, Nobody, Bob Odenkirk, The Night Comes For Us, Kazuo Kamimura, Lady Snowblood, The Shadow Strays, Timo Tjahjanto, Killers, Headshot, revenge stories, Kazuo Koike, Kill Bill, John Wick, deplorable people, Temu Timo, Julie Estelle, Giant Gonzalez, RPGs, gun on gun action, M83, balls to balls action, St. Anger, Timo is Primo, The Italian Demon Gabaghoul, The Ghost Meat with the Most Heat, Terrifier, Train to Busan, Frankie Freako, Connor Sweeney, funky funkface, Psycho Goreman, Manborg, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason Segel, Cocktober, Demons, The Super Bava Bros., Gun Fu Grip, The Super Mo Bros., and The ABCs of Stooges.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

We sit down with Ryan Czerwonko and David Garelik of Adult Film, a trailblazing theater company and artistic training center thriving out of a Bushwick basement. Known for their hyper-intimate performances that blur the line between artist and audience, Adult Film is redefining what indie theater looks like in New York. We dive deep into their process of building a community many established theaters envy, their artistic values, and how they've crafted a safe space for creativity in a challenging industry. Whether you're an artist seeking new ways to take ownership of your work or just curious about this raw and intimate movement reshaping NYC's theater scene, this episode is not to be missed! Listen now and get inspired by the brilliance happening beneath the surface of the city's creative underground.Learn more about Adult Film+ Theater:Website: https://www.adultfilm.nyc/Social Media: www.instagram.com/adultfilm.nyc/Ryan: www.instagram.com/ryanczerwonko/David: www.instagram.com/davidgarelik/—Learn more about TIN CHURCH:OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 23 AT THE CHAIN THEATER IN NYCwww.insideoffthewall.comUSE CODE TA 24 FOR 50% OFF—Learn more about DISTANT THUNDER:NOW - OCTOBER 27 AT THE A.R.T. / NY THEATERSwww.amasmusical.orgListen to “Hold On”Listen to “Strong Enough”—Learn more about GABRIEL AIELLO III:www.gabeaielloart.comwww.instagram.com/aiellostudio EPISODE #41 of CREATIVE RISK— Thanks for watching! Get motivated, get inspired, Get RISKY! Join our Patreon for ad-free early access to episodes, exclusive discounts, weekly Q&As, and so much more. Choose the tier that fuels your creative journey and unlock your full potential! JOIN OUR PATREON Leave a review on Apple Podcasts as we will read it on an episode (even if it's bad!) Follow Us on IG Follow Us on TikTok Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify Join our email list for exclusive content and perks Free Training Video all on what it takes to be an actor in 2024 Sign Up for a Free Consultation

Explore how trauma shapes our relationship with food and coping mechanisms. In this episode, Lesley and Brad dive into conversation with trauma-informed emotional eating coach, Lisa Schlosberg. Lisa shares her holistic approach to healing disordered eating and emotional challenges by addressing the underlying root cause that often shapes our coping mechanisms. Tune in to discover how working through discomfort can lead to lasting changes in your unhealthy habits.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How restrictive diets can reinforce unhealthy coping mechanisms.The importance of trauma-informed approach to healing emotional eating.Techniques to navigate discomfort without compromising your sense of safety.Strategies to replace harmful eating patterns with healthier, supportive habits.Steps to reconnect with your most resourceful and authentic self.Episode References/Links:Cambodia February 2025 RetreatFlashcards WaitlistPilates Studio Growth AcceleratorOPC Winter TourCreate, Sell and Lead your Own Profitable RetreatLisa Schlosberg WebsiteLisa Schlosberg InstagramLisa Schlosberg TikTokLisa Schlosberg YouTubeOut of the Cave PodcastEp. 5 ft. Amy Ledin If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. DEALS! DEALS! DEALS! DEALS!Check out all our Preferred Vendors & Special Deals from Clair Sparrow, Sensate, Lyfefuel BeeKeeper's Naturals, Sauna Space, HigherDose, AG1 and ToeSox Be in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramThe Be It Till You See It Podcast YouTube channelFacebookLinkedInThe OPC YouTube Channel Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  So many women are so obsessed with either eating or not eating, or what they look like and how they're eating or not eating is going to help them that they are not being it until they see it because their brain is so hyper-focused on this thing that is taking away their brain space. Lesley Logan 0:18  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 0:59  Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap where my co-host in life, Brad, and I are going to dig into the eye-opening convo I have with Lisa Schlosberg in our last episode. If you haven't yet listened to that one, you missed out. We had a lot of fun. She's great. (inaudible) I know. I know. I, also, I was on her podcast, and she has the most amazing intuitive I thought she was like fucking followed me around high school and knew too much about me. It was amazing. It's so good. Lesley Logan 1:25  Okay, today is Thursday, October 24th and it is World Polio Day. So, you guys, a lot of people think that Polio is gone, but it is not gone. It's gone in a lot of places where the vaccine was very much welcomed, but there are some places that haven't had the vaccine, or there's some people who have been concerned about vaccinations, but there's no cure for polio. The only way to prevent you getting Polio is to have the vaccine. Brad Crowell 1:51  Literally. My uncle is in his 80s and he's had polio since his 40s, so he literally got it in his 40s which is crazy. Lesley Logan 2:01  Yeah, he survived. Brad Crowell 2:02  Yeah, he and he didn't let it stop him. He's a badass, but still, that sucks. Lesley Logan 2:06  I'm pretty sure Mia Farrow had polio and survived it and it was really rare. I watched the whole documentary on it. Anyway, and then she went around the world trying to help out with preventing polio. So, you guys, let me tell you a little more about this day. But World Polio Day is now annually observed on October 24th. This day commemorates global efforts towards a polio-free future as well as selfless sacrifices of those working on the front line of the battle to eradicate polio from every corner of the world. Polio is contagious through the ease with which the polio virus spreads. Although the virus is now exceedingly rare because of modern interventions, it can impair the brain regions that govern respiration, resulting in death. Polio has no recognized therapy, can only be avoided through vaccination. So make sure that people around you and wherever you live in this world are aware, because we know that we have people living who listen to this in many countries and so, you know. Brad Crowell 2:54  Well, yeah, I mean, they just sent in a bunch of peacekeepers to vaccinate kids in the war zone over in the Middle East right now. Also, there was cases in 2022 in New York State from people who are, you know, from someone who (inaudible) vaccine, so. Lesley Logan 3:10  And there's a lot of different reasons. We don't need to get a debate on this, but we're going to tell you that the science says on this. And if you are able to, you should, should understand what you're looking at, and then make sure that, if you feel really strongly about this, support the efforts of those people who are going around the world to help people in places where it has not been eradicated. So yeah, it's World Polio Day. Brad Crowell 3:31  It's World Polio Day. Lesley Logan 3:32  All right, you guys, we are back from Cambodia. We are gearing up for our next couple of amazing weeks, and we've got a lot going on, but you can still come join us in Cambodia, if you're like, oh my god, I had so much FOMO. I looked at Lesley's Instagram, and this, everything looks so beautiful, and I want to go there. You can, you can come in February. So go to crowsnestretreats.com do snag one of the last few spots. I'm going to be in Arizona in a couple weeks, and I'm gonna come home, and I'm gonna be in LA for a week because we're doing the Accessories Deck photo shoot. We're doing the photo shoot earlier because the team hated that we did it later last time. So we're doing it earlier, which means I have to be on top of my my strength game to being able to do these photos, because we don't even have one of the pieces of equipment that I'm doing things on. So that's why I'm gonna be in LA all week, truly cramming. Truly cramming. So you want to go to opc.me/flashcardwaitlist. If the accessories deck is something you're interested in.Brad Crowell 4:26  What is going to be included in the Accessories Deck? Lesley Logan 4:28  So there's a marble exercise, which you obviously you don't have to go buy a Pilates marble. You can just use marble. There's towel exercises. You can use a dish towel. There's toe corrector exercises. You can actually use rubber bands. There are push-up devices. We are going to actually figure out how to make a pair of those with PVC pipes, so that we can teach you how to do this. Because the beautiful wood ones are hand spun wood. And you know what they originally were, and we have these babe, you know, those wooden weights, so that's what they originally were. He took those wooden weights and drilled a hole into and make a base. And so now they just make these beautiful hand-spun wood and that's why they're like $700. Brad Crowell 5:08  Yeah, they're not cheap. Lesley Logan 5:08  We're gonna show you how make PVC ones. We got to work on that still. But at any rate, we'll have a foot corrector. You can't make that. You have to get that. We have the Ped-O-Pul. That one people, like I said (inaudible). Brad Crowell 5:18  You can have it made but it's complicated. Lesley Logan 5:20  It's complicated. It really depends on if you have access to the length of the metal. But it's also not that expensive. What else we're gonna have? We made two by four. You can make that. Sandbag. You can make that. So my goal is that more than 50% of this deck you can make, I have to count if I can get it to like 70% you can make, and then the rest is just these, like three random pieces. I'm so, so proud of myself. So that's what's in the Accessories Deck. It's all the tools that help you build yourself up to exercises you can't do yet. Brad Crowell 5:43  Yeah, love it. Well, next up. If you are a Pilates studio owner or home studio owner or you're renting space, come join me for a free webinar called the Pilates Studio Growth Accelerator. I'm going to be helping you hurdle how do you increase your income? We're going to be covering how to double your income over the next 12 months. We're going to basically be talking about three big secrets that Lesley and I have figured out after we've coached more than 2000 fitness businesses just like yours, literally, just like ours. I mean, this is something that we had to go through, and then we've been able to help people through and we know that we can help you through this as well, where it is absolutely possible for you to instead of barely keeping your head above water, you can actually make the money that you need to make so that you can take a deep breath and you can actually enjoy running your own business. I know that it can be super stressful, and this webinar will help you along that path, and we'd love to have you come join us for free. So join me by going to prfit.biz/accelerator. That is profit without the O, prfit.biz/accelerator. And then after that, come join Lesley and I on the road. We're going to be driving around the country during the winter. We're leaving at the beginning of December. We are going to be driving all the way to the East Coast, all the way up to Maine, and then all the way down to Florida, Miami, and then back along through the South, and we're going to be doing pop-up classes, over 8000 miles, 23 locations, almost 50 events. It's going to be amazing. We'd love to come meet you in person. So if you're going to be traveling for the holidays, maybe it lines up. Lesley Logan 7:15  We might be where you are. Brad Crowell 7:16  Yeah, come hang out. Go to opc.me/tour, opc.me/tour for tickets and merch. We got shirts. We got fun shirts. You get to come meet our pups, and it's gonna be a great time. We can't wait to meet you. So, yeah. Brad Crowell 7:29  All right, before we go any further, we do have an audience question. This one was from, don't mention my name. Anonymous. That's fair. Yeah, you can write in too and say, hey, love you. Please don't mention my name, but here's my question. Question is this, Hey Lesley, I read an article you wrote about running retreats. Would you feel comfortable if I asked a few questions? I recently was asked by my employer to help teach at our retreat. I had flights and accommodations paid for. Do you ever run retreats with employees (instructors)? And do you pay them for their role? My role far exceeded just being a Pilates instructor at the retreat, and I'm struggling to move past that. I feel like I should ask for compensation but I also want to be fair. Thanks for your time.Lesley Logan 8:16  I love the inflection on this question. Way to go, babe. You did a great job. You could you could read more questions. Nailed it. Yeah. So I don't answer questions like this in DM, so I answer them here, unless you are an agency or a member or agency on demand member, that's where we answer questions. Brad Crowell 8:30  Yeah. So thanks for asking the question. Lesley Logan 8:32  And also, I just want to say why I would never get him work done. The amount of questions we get asked that's why we do them here. For those who are non-members and I really appreciate that you trust us with this answer. So here's the deal. The mistake was made in that I can't decide because you said our retreat, but I can't decide as if you two designed this retreat together and then, but because you work as an employee, that there was a different compensation. So I can't decide that. Brad Crowell 8:55  That's not how I took it. I took it as if she's hired as at the studio, as a teacher. Lesley Logan 8:59  Yeah, so, and that's just as an employee. So then I was like, well, are you salaried? Do you have like, you always work 20 hours a week, and they pay you a salary. So no matter how much you work, you're paid. Brad Crowell 9:09  Somehow I find that unlikely. Lesley Logan 9:11  Okay, but do you see how, like, this is why.Brad Crowell 9:13  There are a lot of it. There's a lot of potential caveats here (inaudible). Lesley Logan 9:17  So let's just say you are paid hourly. This was their retreat. Brad Crowell 9:20  They probably pay, they pay based on how much you teach at your studio. That's typical.Lesley Logan 9:25  And you were paid by the class, or paid by the hour, whatever it is. And then they sold this retreat and they're bringing you on to teach the classes. What they should have done is said, we are going to pay for your flights and accommodations in exchange for you to teach at this retreat, because that is actually quite normal. Now, you can get mad at me and say, we're not paying someone for their time or (inaudible). Brad Crowell 9:46  But I think that's not the question. So it seems like it was more than just teaching at the retreat, as if that was the understanding then I think that's fair. Lesley Logan 9:54  Right. So this is another this is, so I'm not gonna, I'm not there yet. So, had the conversation been had, hey, Jessica, the people who are coming, they love you the most. We want you to be the one teaching the classes. So, this retreat is paid for and so your flights. All you have to do is teach the classes. By the way, this is how a lot of resorts work. A ton of resorts won't even pay for your flights. They'll just pay for your accommodations. Brad Crowell 10:19  Your food and accommodations. Lesley Logan 10:20  And you get to be at the resort, and you get to live at the resort for free, and eat for free, and work a couple hours a day in exchange for you teaching some classes. Now, obviously, as we get to that, your role far exceeded just teaching Pilates. I think you should actually have an honest conversation with them. Brad Crowell 10:39  I totally agree.Lesley Logan 10:40  I think you should feel comfortable doing that and just saying, hey, you know, when we talked about X, my understanding was that you are going to pay for X, Y and Z, and I was going to do B and D. However, I think we can both agree that at the retreat, I actually was doing what, I was doing B and D and. Brad Crowell 10:57  Probably client coordination, facilitating, making sure you're running around, prepping things, or go run an errand real quick.Lesley Logan 11:04  Yeah. And I would just say, like, I feel less comfortable with the agreement that we had, because I feel like I should have been paid for those extra roles, or those extra roles should have been something I was asked to do ahead of time.Brad Crowell 11:18  Yeah, because, you know, like, I understand this. If I'm going to show up to teach, then I probably have envisioned the rest of the retreat experience that I'm going to have and then to have that hijacked by, oh, can you be my, you know, executive assistant while I'm on the road, is frustrating. So I totally get that. I do think that it is reasonable to say, hey, something's been bothering me. I would love to sit down and talk with you about this. The way that it all unfolded at the retreat was not my expectation based on what we talked about before. Lesley Logan 11:50  Yeah, but I would be really specific. What did you guys talk about? What was your understanding, and then what did you specifically do that was outside of that understanding? Brad Crowell 11:58  Yeah, and it may be because you probably have a really close relationship with the studio owner or your employer, I mean, and it may be that you say, listen, I just really need to talk to you about this because I can't do it again that way next time. And if that's the extent of it, then you can tell them, you know, listen, I'm gonna let it go, but I have to have this problem. Or maybe the answer is, I need you to pay me for that. Lesley Logan 12:22  I think when you do this in person or at least over Zoom like you want facial, you want it, you want expressions there, you want to get a read, I would just say I need to get this off my chest, because it is making me uncomfortable here. And I just want to get your thoughts on it. And if they say, oh, this is what we agree to, and if they don't offer to immediately pay you, and if they like, go well, this is what we thought, you can just say okay, next time, I won't go under those conditions. You can say, I will teach, I will do this, but I won't do those other things. You have a right to say what you will or won't do. You can. If they agree to pay you, you can say thank you. But what I would just say is, like, really map out, be very specific, because if you are not, it doesn't go well. And everyone's like, what else did you, like, you know what I mean? I think you need to be really specific.Brad Crowell 13:06  And specific on the things that you didn't expect to be asked to do (inaudible). Lesley Logan 13:10  Yeah, so you also asked if I hire teachers for my retreats. I don't. And there's a few reasons for that. One, we sell the retreat as I'm the teacher. So there's that. We have brought people on our team to help us with retreats and it's very clear we're going to pay for X, Y and Z and you are going to have to do these roles at the retreat, and then the rest of the time is yours. So we brought our project manager last time, and she is a salaried employee, so therefore, you know, like that was just part of her work week. But we were also very clear, here's all the time you have off, here's all the things that you get to do, here's what we're paying for. Brad Crowell 13:49  And she came with her husband, and her husband was like, put me to work, man, I'm here to hang and I'm here to help out. And I was like, okay, cool. But he volunteered and so, you know, instead of being volun-told, not fun. Lesley Logan 14:00  Yes, it's not fun. And also, for anyone listening, this is why have conversations beforehand. You have to normalize talking about money and go what am I? What do you expect me to do here? What are your expectations of me on this retreat? Because it's very, it's very possible that they actually thought that you would be doing all the things you do at the studio. So, so this sounds like a miscommunication and also, employers, can you see how it's not cool to not be honest with your team members in like, what their expectations are? Like?Brad Crowell 14:30  Not even, I can't imagine that the employer was trying to pull a one, one-over, pull the wool over their eyes. I feel like this is just bad communication. Lesley Logan 14:38  Bad communication. Yeah, yeah. No, I agree. I agree with that completely. So here's the deal, we do have a course on how to create, sell and plan retreats. It's about 90 minutes. And I highly recommend that if you're wanting to do retreats. I also did a talk on Pilates anytime they asked me about marketing retreats and some things to think about. And so if you use LLogan, you'll get a 30-day trial and you can check out that course, and then you can buy our course, and it goes into much more detail about margins and how to plan things out. But I do not do joint retreats because the margins aren't really you have to sell even more people in it for the margins to be there. Retreats are not paid vacations to me, and when I do anything with anyone on my team, I am 100% doing my very best to make sure it is very clear. Here's what I expect of you, here's what you can expect of me. Now, does that? Is that perfect all the time? No. And that is where reflection is important, as the person who's hosting the thing, what could we've done better? And also trying to be a person where they can come to me and say, hey, I actually worked more than I anticipated. We also actually tell our people, you can only work X amount. We actually max it so that if they are running against a time clock, they don't run up the time clock before they talk to us. They can say, hey, I need more time to do this project and here's why. So, you know.Brad Crowell 15:58  Well, anyway, great question. Thanks for asking. That's a tough one. I love questions like that. Lesley Logan 16:02  Fingers crossed. Let's see how it goes. Brad Crowell 16:04  So if you have a question, just reach out. You know, text us at 310-905-5534 or you can hit us up on Instagram or YouTube or wherever, and we'd love to answer your question. Stick around. We'll be right back. We're going to talk about Lisa Schlosberg in just a second. Brad Crowell 16:21  Okay let's talk about Lisa Schlosberg. Lisa is a trauma-informed, emotional eating coach, licensed social worker and former personal trainer. She now helps people struggling with their relationship with food, body image and eating habits, offering a holistic approach to healing. Lisa's personal journey of overcoming obesity and disordered eating deeply informs her work today. Lesley Logan 16:44  So I don't like to do a lot of diet type things on here, but this is not about dieting. It's actually about emotional eating and disordered eating, and I really appreciate her approach to that, because she's not trying to get everyone to lose weight. We have friends who focus on macros, and everyone's just trying to lose weight, and she's not like that at all. She's really, like you said, holistic and trauma-informed about this kind of stuff and she is actually saying that a lot of times, people do a lot of things to restrict, like, you can't eat these things, you can't eat these things, and that actually, the restricting, can be a coping mechanism. So your food is a coping mechanism. That's why you're emotionally eating. And then by restricting food, that's a new coping mechanism so we're actually not solving any problems. And so she actually doesn't like to focus on restriction. She actually wants to get to the root of the cause. What is making you actually have these struggles with eating? And because if it wasn't eating, it would be something else. Brad Crowell 17:36  She said for her, when she was going through her personal journey of weight loss, she had been eating as a coping mechanism to deal or hide or numb the thing, whatever the thing was. And she didn't get into the specifics, but the reality is, she just postponed dealing with the thing until later on in life, when she was finally willing to tackle that thing. She says it still came up. She still had to deal with it. It just, it was like a postponement.Lesley Logan 18:06  Amy Ledin, episode five, that is similar stories. She lost all the weight but didn't actually deal with the thing, and that's why it came back. And so she was like, I, where, she doesn't want to remove coping mechanism without offering something in return. So she says she is, with her trauma-informed way of doing things, and it doesn't have to be with her, but, like, if anything, you have a coping mechanism with what you can, have to think about is, I'm not going to just remove that. I have to actually have a life jacket so that I don't feel like I'm drowning as I'm trying to remove the coping (inaudible).Brad Crowell 18:38  Yeah, what she was talking about was the food, you know, like for her, the food was the life jacket. And so she said, a lot of people that come into work with her, actually one person specifically said, I signed up for your program, and then I immediately started binge eating, because I was afraid that when we started the program, you were going to take all my food away from me. So before I lost it all, I was going to have the last little bit that I possibly could. I remember the, when I quit smoking cigarettes, I smoked two packs the day I quit because I was like, this is the end of the cigarettes (inaudible). Lesley Logan 19:10  That might have helped you get, like, sick of them.Brad Crowell 19:13  Yeah. But she said no, actually, when you come through my program, I'm not taking your food away. That's not what we're doing here. We are trying to identify the thing that you're avoiding or the thing that you're numbing by doing the action that you're taking, whether that is eating or drinking or whatever. She shared a pretty powerful mantra. She said, you're uncomfortable, you're not unsafe. Yeah, right, you're uncomfortable, you're not unsafe. I'm gonna say one more time, you're uncomfortable, you're not unsafe, right? She explained that our animal, this is really interesting, she said, we're an animal, we're a spiritual being living in a Lesley Logan 19:48  Animal's brain? Brad Crowell 19:49  She said we're a spiritual being with a body that eats food, with an animal brain. And I was like, this is really amazing, the way that she said those four things I can't remember exactly how she said that. Lesley Logan 19:59  Yeah, no, I think that's, I think you're pretty close. Brad Crowell 20:01  She said our animal brain is designed to keep us safe and it resists change and new habits because what it knows today is keeping us we are currently safe. That's why we're uncomfortable. We're not unsafe. So our brain thinks today you're not dying or you're safe, right? Lesley Logan 20:19  Well, also, people who have an emo, have a coping mechanism, which is food, the food makes them feel safe. And she is also saying it is okay to be uncomfortable. You have to tell yourself you're not unsafe. So you are uncomfortable, you're not on, you're not unsafe. Brad Crowell 20:33  Yeah, and so, well, the point is that while you might logically know that binge eating isn't going to be beneficial in the long run, even the idea of changing from that which you know is detrimental for you in the long run, your brain is going to say, but in this moment, I'm safe, so we're just going to keep doing what we're doing. I don't want to change. Right? And so what she said is by having this mantra, I'm uncomfortable, but I'm not unsafe, she's slowly training her subconscious, her animal mind, brain, to begin to relinquish that control, that fear of making the change. And she said that well, first off, she says she interprets this stepping outside of her comfort zone as potentially life-threatening danger even when it might not be right. And she emphasized the importance of using conscious thought to remind ourselves that discomfort is survivable. So that's another one. While we're uncomfortable, we're not unsafe. Discomfort is survivable is like another way to look at that same sense, and she said we need to leverage the power of our conscious mind by saying, I know this is scary, I know this is uncomfortable, but we're not going to die here. We are going to breathe through this. I know this is scary, I know this is uncomfortable, but we're not going to die here. We're going to breathe through this. And if this were me, I probably would have to put that on, (inaudible) cards all over the place to just continuously remind myself. Lesley Logan 21:56  I think you can do it for any coping mechanism. And so that's why I really like Lisa so much. And the other thing I want to say is, like so many women, are so obsessed with either eating or not eating, or what they look like, and how they're eating or not eating is going to help them that they are not being it until they see it, because their brain is so hyper-focused on this thing that is taking away their brain space. And so I really love that mantra. And I think you guys can use it for anything.Brad Crowell 22:24  Yeah, you know. And some people use Pilates as their coping mechanism, right? Because they can control it, and everything has to be perfect, and all this kind of a thing and then.Lesley Logan 22:34  And then they meet me and we take away the perfection, and I get to go, you're uncomfortable, you're not unsafe. And that's a hey, Jay said it ugly but not dangerous. Brad Crowell 22:42  That's right. That's exactly right. Ugly Pilates is okay.Lesley Logan 22:45  Dangerous Pilates never.Brad Crowell 22:46  Dangerous Pilates never. That's exactly right. These are great. I really love these concepts. Really great things to chew on. Stick around. We'll be right back as we're gonna dig into the Be It Action Items in just a minute. Brad Crowell 22:57  All right, so finally, let's talk about those, be it action items, what bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted action items can we take away from your convo with Lisa Schlosberg? She said, step one, identify the person that you want to be. Who is that person that you want to be in quality, right? What is the energetic blueprint of this human being that you are aspiring to be? Focus on qualities like being brave or compassionate or patient, rather than surface-level traits like thin or muscular, strong or whatever. I can't remember her story actually about this now, but she, she said for her, it was about being brave, and she had to focus on being brave. And I, I thought that was really cool. It's a clever way to kind of flip the script here on this like, just, I think she was talking about the restriction concept, and how restriction can just be just as controlling as the binging. Yeah. Focus on qualities like being brave, compassionate and patient. Step two, what would that energetic blueprint of a human that you're aspiring to be, what would they do? So imagine the actions that the person that you are aspiring to become, what would they actually do? With that energy and those qualities, what would they do in the situation that you are in or you are trying to navigate? And finally, step three, how do I do that. Right? Consider how you can embody those actions today, right now. And what does it look like, you know? What does it look like for me?Lesley Logan 24:23  I love this because it's like, we all give our friends the best advice for the highest place of love and light. And then when we are talking to ourselves, like, I can't do that, but she's asking to, like, take up a different view of yourself and then plan it out. And then go, okay, now it's my turn. I'm gonna do it. Brad Crowell 24:37  Yeah. And I would say this. I would pull out a piece of paper or a journal and I would write it down. And I would say write down step one, who do I want to be? Describe that person. You know? Who are they? What are the qualities of that person? What is that energetic blueprint? And then step two, write down, what would they do? And step three, how can I take a small step towards doing that today?Lesley Logan 24:58  All right, I. Love that. And then this.Brad Crowell 25:00  So what about you?Lesley Logan 25:01  Okay, so this is another thing you can put on a post it that you can repeat. So when you're facing a tough choice, she said ask yourself how do I want to show up in my life at this moment? So how do I want to show up in my life at this moment? And then she ex, she outsources the answer to her higher self, and she says what would the most resourceful version of me do right now? The most resourceful, I can't think of a better be it till you see it question, what would the most resourceful version of me do right now? And she said I connect to the highest, wisest, most resourceful version of me and have that kind of guidance. So if you were the most resourceful version of yourself with all the answers, and you're like, okay, I went to the person to ask for the advice, and it would just have to be the most resourceful version of you. Then you give yourself the best advice, and then you can go, you can solve that problem. I love it. I think it's great. Brad Crowell 25:51  I love it. Awesome. Lesley Logan 25:52  I can't, I mean it's a be it till you see it. So Lisa's so fun. I'm hoping we're gonna see her on tour, actually, she's gonna be at the Bushwick area, so that is really cool. And you know, whether or not I'm not saying everyone like that, you, you listening here have binge eating issues, but I do think we all have coping mechanisms. And I think you can insert your coping mechanism here when she's talking about it, and start to see, like, how am I doing? What am I doing? Why am I doing that? And then just make sure you find someone who's trauma-informed always to work with who understands. But Lisa's amazing. So thank you, Lisa. And are you guys gonna go listen to my story on her podcast? Out of the Cave?Brad Crowell 26:26  Oh yeah, Out of the Cave? Yeah, yeah, that's what it's called. Lesley Logan 26:29  Yeah. I'm Lesley Logan. Brad Crowell 26:31  And I'm Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan 26:32  Thank you so much for joining us today. How are you gonna use these tips in your life? You know, send this to a friend who you think is struggling with this. You don't have to be given one. Give some advice list, you can do it, and then they'll hear that we told you to do that, so that's how it goes. But please do. That's how this podcast helps more and more people and until next time, Be It Till You See It. Brad Crowell 26:48  Bye for now. Lesley Logan 26:51  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod. Brad Crowell 27:33  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan 27:38  It is transcribed, produced and edited by the epic team at Disenyo.co.Brad Crowell 27:43  Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music and our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 27:50  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals.Brad Crowell 27:53  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally to Meridith Root for keeping us all on point and on time.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This is your afternoon All Local update on October 19, 2024.

Hosts Andreina, Aiyana, and Breeze head out to Bushwick to visit Kings County Brewers Collective to interview co-owners Tony Bellis and Zack Kinnery in front of a live audience. KCBC is celebrating their 8th Anniversary and have become of the most beloved craft breweries in NYC. Though producing a wide array of beer styles KCBC has put a lot of energy into bringing Lagers back into the craft beer conversation with their Lager Appreciation Month. Don't forget to like and subscribeFollow @doyouevendrinkbeerpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After her celebrated run at Mena in Tribeca, Chef Victoria Blamey has returned to New York's culinary scene, taking the helm at Blanca in Brooklyn—a restaurant revered for its daring tasting menu and intimate 12-seat setting. With support from Carlo Mirarchi, Blanca's original founder, Blamey brings her inventive, globe-trotting techniques and Chilean heritage to a new chapter at the once Michelin-starred gem.Set behind Bushwick's famed Roberta's, Blanca offers an immersive, nearly three-hour culinary journey that pushes the boundaries of fine dining. Each course showcases Blamey's meticulous attention to detail. The menu doesn't reveal how much work each course entails; that the fermentation process takes days; that before the end of an evening's service Blamey is preparing dough which needs 19 hours to process; that the spinach leaves take hours to press and wrap; there are shells to shuck; the Donabe rice pot has to be continuously stirred; and a wood oven outside needs regular attention. Beyond the kitchen, Blanca's experience is enhanced by an extensive natural wine list and music as eclectic as the food.Executive Chef Victoria Blamey and Chef and Co-owner Carlo Mirarchi sit down with Forbes editor Maggie McGrath to discuss Blanca's revival, their creative process, and what's next for the iconic restaurant.Read more on Forbes:https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinwolfe/2024/01/26/stars-have-aligned-chef-victoria-blamey--blanca-in-brooklyn-are-reborn/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The 17th Annual Bushwick Film Festival will take place this October 16 - October 20. Today I'm joined by the festival's founder, Kweighbaye Kotee. This year's theme, "Producing The Dream," is about exploring what it takes to realize a dream, and celebrating the incredible artistry, effort and creativity that filmmakers pour into their creative work to reflect our stories. Since its founding in 2007, the Bushwick Film Festival has been a cornerstone for emerging and underrepresented filmmakers, providing a stage where unique voices can be heard and dreams can take flight. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/followingfilms/support

In the 1970s, the Mafia still had a powerful presence in New York City. Near the end of the decade, a series of events transpired that ushered in the downfall of the notorious five families that controlled the streets of New York. In 1979, Carmine Galante, a powerful boss in the Bonanno crime family, was killed while having lunch in an Italian restaurant in Bushwick. The murder would become a cornerstone in the Mafia Commission Trial, the case that forever hamstrung organized crime in the United States and ended the Mafia's golden era. A new true crime podcast series from the Law & Order franchise called “Law & Order: Criminal Justice System” reveals how an unlikely team of young local police and prosecutors beat the odds in dismantling the Mafia's grip on the city. Former Brooklyn homicide prosecutor Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi hosts the series, and she joined Errol Louis on this week's "You Decide" to discuss season 1. They also talked about the unique production style of the podcast, what topics future seasons may cover, and why the Mafia captured the minds of so many. Join the conversation, weigh in on Twitter using the hashtag #NY1YouDecide, give us a call at 212-379-3440 and leave a message, or send an email to YourStoryNY1@charter.com.

On this week's episode, New York City firefighter, Alex Porta, tells us about a July 4th celebration on the roof of a Bushwick loft that includes guests from skateboarders to landlords, to children living in the building, to the FDNY, all enjoying the fireworks together!Check out Alex on InstagramHave fun like Alex?Donate to Friends Of FirefightersThis week's Rachel's Recs: Volunteering with New York Cares, Riding the FerryWhat did you think of this week's episode?They Had Fun on Instagram, YouTube, and our website

Emmett KaiTake a walk with me down Fascination Street as I get to know Emmett Kai. After growing up in a Sonoma County area farming community, Emmett decided to move across the country to New York City; to pursue a music career. In this episode, we chat about what it was like growing up in a rural community and trying to find his own specific musical identity. We cover Emmett's time as a DJ, and some of his other projects including DJ Blap Deli, Valley Girl Baby Powder, Young Maserati, and Unity Ambulet. We even discuss an unreleased project that hopefully will find its way to the public very soon. Finally, we talk about Emmett's newest album called Whale Milk. He shares some of the thoughts behind the meanings of some of the songs on this album, and he lets me play the first track from it. The song is called Holy Nitros, and is his favorite track from Whale Milk. Throughout our conversation, Emmett opens up about an artist's need to be seen and heard, gaining confidence, and his personal motto 'shut up and listen'. A few of the songs on the new album deal with the idea that our current society is in decline, so naturally we elaborate a bit on that as well. We also touch on his producing Jordana's upcoming album. Be sure to check our Emmett everywhere you get music, and his website for upcoming releases and possible live shows.

Send us a Text Message.On any list of my personal favorite CU 2.0 podcasts is episode 149 - it dropped May 2021 - with Samira Rajan, CEO of the Brooklyn Cooperative, a small, scrappy credit union.How did a Bryan Mawr graduate - who also has a master's from Harvard's Kennedy School - wind up in Bushwick at a tiny credit union?She started there in 2001 as a volunteer and these many years later she's the CEO.Hers is a brilliant credit union story.Listen up.

The family of a man who died at the Rikers Island Jail in 2022 is suing the city of New York, for allegedly allowing him to ingest a fatal dose of fentanyl. Plus, New York's law criminalizing adultery has been on the books since 1907, but WNYC's Jon Campbell reports on a pending bill that would repeal it. Also, WNYC's Bryant Denton looks into a popular activity in the gaming world that's also gaining momentum in Bushwick, ahead of the return of Play NYC.

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Katherine Lewin is the founder of Big Night, an entertaining-focused home goods store with two locations here in New York City. She's also the author of Big Night, the cookbook, which is a truly excellent new back-pocket hosting companion, with recipes, menu ideas, and more. It's so fun to have her on the show to talk about summer cooking, entertaining as an introvert, and more.Also on the show, Aliza and Matt discuss three things they each are interested in right now. These include: The vibes at Greenpoint's Million Goods, Korean drinking food at Bushwick's Orion Bar, The Old Town Bar, a legend in Manhattan, Achilles Heel has a great new chef, Carolina Gellen's debut cookbook Pass the Plate, The Bean Book by Rancho Gordo's Steve Sando. Do you enjoy This Is TASTE? Drop us a review on Apple, or star us on Spotify. We'd love to hear from you.MORE FROM KATHERINE LEWIN:Big Night, the Cult-Favorite Party Store, Now Has Its Own Cookbook [Vogue]I Own a Store Dedicated to Dinner Parties—Here's Hos I Fight Pre-Company Stress [Domino]Welcome to the Shoppy Shop [NY Mag]See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sean KB welcomes to the show two teachers (Carolyn Hietter and Ian Seda) from the John Jay College Department of Economics (Marxist) to discuss their program and the goings-on at the City University of New York since the beginning of the atrocities in Gaza: the McCarthyite administration's war on free speech, the massive shifts within the bourgeois university over preceding decades which led to it, and how John Jay's Econ department is pushing in another direction.We ask the essential question: What might a working class education by and for the working class might look like? Find out for yourself and apply to the CUNY if you are looking for a radical education.For Discord access and all our bonus content support the Antifada at http://patreon.com/theantifadaAttend the CUNY JJ econ rock show: People's Garden in Bushwick, June 8th 2pmContact Ian Seda, Graduate Program Director iseda@jjay.cuny.eduInformation about Masters Program: https://johnjayeconomics.org/how-to-apply/Rick Wolff and Ian Seda on heterodox economics at John Jay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLY-ftZnF0Ludy Thenor and Geert Dhondt on heterodox economics at John Jay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU8dT6jWHHI&t=32sMusic: Phony ppl - John Jay

Announcing an epic new Bowery Boys mini series -- The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands. Exploring the connections between New York City and that fascinating European country.Simply put, you don't get New York City as it is today without the Dutch who first settled here 400 years ago. The names of Staten Island, Broadway, Bushwick, Greenwich Village and the Bronx actually come from the Dutch. And the names of places like Brooklyn and Harlem come from actual Dutch cities and towns.Over the course of several weekly shows, we'll dig deeper into the history of those Dutch settlements in New Amsterdam and New Netherland -- from the first Walloon settlers to the arrival of Peter Stuyvesant.But we'll be telling that story not from New York, but from the other side of the Atlantic, in the Netherlands.Walking the streets of Amsterdam and other Dutch cities, searching for clues. Uncovering new revelations and new perspectives on the Dutch Empire, And finding surprising relationships between New York and Amsterdam.For this series we visited Amsterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, Haarlem and more places with ties to New York. We kick off this mini series next week (June 7). talking with the man who literally wrote the book on New Amsterdam -- Russell Shorto (The Island at the Center of the World)That's the Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands. Coming soon.June 7 The New Amsterdam ManJune 14 Adventures in the Netherlands Part OneJune 21 Adventures in the Netherlands Part TwoJune 28 Adventures in the Netherlands Part ThreeJuly 4 Adventures in the Netherlands Part Four 

Rachel Coster, comedian and host of the hit internet program Boy Room, joins the BJS NYC studio to talk about her show where she explores nasty male bedrooms and why so many of its subjects live in Bushwick, the cultural pendulum swing vis a vis ass, and providing a safe space to serve cunt. Come see Brandon FRIDAY AND SATURDAY in NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA . JOIN THE PATREON for some recent bangers. Been cooking extra hard on there as of late and it's well worth a measly 5 dollars. Weekly bonus episodes. Boy Room: Instagram, TikTok Rachel Coster: Instagram, TikTok New York Times piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/style/boy-room-rachel-coster-nyc.html

Get in the sprinter van and get your neon facepaint, we're celebrating birthdays this week. After a quick catchup about Andrew's 28th, a Joechella power hour, and an extensive discussion on Nikki Blonsky, travel back in time to prehistoric 2018 and 2019 as we unpack two of the most chaotic Bushwick nights we've ever had. For more, join the community on Patreon! 

Meatball and Big Dipper get ready for their trip to New York by talking about the best ways to flirt with someone when they have a customer facing job, how to pronounce ‘rise up lights,' and all of the things they've ever said about famous people on the podcast. Plus they listen to your voicemails about oral sex and extra marital relations. Get your last minute tickets to Sloppy Seconds Live - April 9th in Bushwick at The Sultan Room! www.thesultanroom.com Listen to Sloppy Seconds Ad-Free AND One Day Early on MOM Plus Call us with your sex stories at 213-536-9180! Or e-mail us at sloppysecondspod@gmail.com FOLLOW SLOPPY SECONDS FOLLOW BIG DIPPER FOLLOW MEATBALL SLOPPY SECONDS IS A FOREVER DOG AND MOGULS OF MEDIA (M.O.M.) PODCAST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices