Hi, Brian Lairer here.

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

three of our favorite segments from the week,

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

on WNYC and WNYC, package theft. Those of you who live in buildings, can you even make it through your lobbies yet

with all the holiday season packages from Amazon and wherever starting to pile up?

Or those of you who live in private homes, can you make it through your porch?

But our real question is, do you deal with a lot of package theft?

Has this become a bigger issue for you and your neighbors in recent months or years?

Also tips for how you can deal with it so that other listeners can take a page out of perhaps

the success in your package theft prevention book, building supers, landlords,

residents, private homeowners.

I know package theft happens, you know, in both contexts.

Maybe some of you have even heard of the New York City Department of Transportation's pilot

program, Locker, NYC, where they're setting up public lockers to help ensure safe delivery.

But joining us now to talk about this is Julie Bessonan, who has an article in the New York Times,

actually from a few years ago, about how her East Village building came together to address a rampant package

theft problem there and then. Hey, Julie, thanks for coming on. Welcome to WNYC. Hi, thanks for having

me. So do you have a success story? We had some success. No, it's a problem all over again,

because my building has a lot of turnover

since it's close to NYU and Cooper Union. So we get a new batch of students, usually every fall.

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