Brian Lehrer Weekend: Jumaane Williams; Online Returns?; Best Stadium Food
The Brian Lehrer Show
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🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams (First) | What Happens to Our Online Returns (Starts at 28:30) | Come For the Mets, Stay For the Food! (Starts at 48:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lehrer here. Up next, Brian Lehrer Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.8 | Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the |
| 0:09.5 | radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org. |
| 0:33.0 | Here's the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. We begin today with some |
| 0:39.4 | things that did not destroy New York City. The 1929 stock market crash did not destroy New York City. |
| 0:48.1 | Neither did the 1970s fiscal crisis, you know, Ford to City dropped at the 70s and 80s crime wave. |
| 0:55.7 | The 1987 stock market crash, oh 9-11, the financial crisis of 2008, Hurricane Sandy did not |
| 1:04.5 | destroy New York City, neither did the pandemic, or Donald Trump. Here's some things that definitely |
| 1:12.3 | did not destroy New York City. The Irish immigration wave of 1845 to 1855 and the Ellis Island |
| 1:19.9 | era that followed. The Great Migration from South to North during Jim Crow, the arrival of so |
| 1:26.4 | many US citizens from Puerto Rico over the decades. Let's look back at a couple of these. At the |
| 1:32.7 | peak of Irish immigration from 1845 to 55, about 100,000 Irish immigrants per year came to the |
| 1:40.4 | city more than 900,000 in one decade according to the website Irish Central. That's about the same |
| 1:46.5 | number of migrants per year as are arriving now. And Ellis Island, according to the History |
| 1:53.4 | Channel website from 1900 to 1914, around 700,000 people per year were admitted through Ellis |
| 2:02.1 | Island. The record year was 1907 with nearly 1.3 million people, a quarter of whom or more than 300,000 |
| 2:11.7 | settled in New York or New Jersey. Nobody looks back at the Ellis Island era and says it destroyed our |
| 2:17.6 | city. I'm flooding you with numbers here, right? Sorry, but they provide the context for today's |
| 2:24.6 | headline about Mayor Adams, which we'll get to. Here are just a few more. Bring us up to the present |
| 2:31.4 | from Crane's New York business in February of this year. Headline, a 56% drop in immigration |
| 2:39.4 | is hampering New York's recovery. The resulting labor shortage, the article says, has played out |
| 2:45.3 | across the economy as a silent headwind to the city's plotting recovery. That was this year |
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