It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc.

It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning everyone.

It's Friday, it's March 1st.

Happy Friday, happy March.

Spring begins this month.

It's going to feel like it on Sunday,

supposed to be a nice weekend day to be outside for once.

Hope you have a chance to enjoy it.

Also, happy women's history month.

Later in the show, we'll have today's 10 question Women's History Month quiz.

Well, we're only doing one Women's History Month quiz,

but it's today's 10 question quiz.

We're doing these 10 question quizzes each day during the membership drive get two in a row right

and win a brane layer show baseball cap that's coming up also Stephen Dubner from

Freakonomics and more but here's how we'll start One of the big stories in New York City this week has been

the discovery of two makeshift shelters, right? One in Queens, one in the Bronx, you've heard this,

where many, many migrants from Africa have been

staying 74 beds in the basement of a furniture store in South Richmond Hill

in Queens, 45 more beds between the first floor and the basement of another store on East Kingsbridge

Road in the Fordham section of the Bronx, where the migrants were apparently paying around

$300 a month in rent to the owner, same store owner of both places, as I understand it, an immigrant from Africa himself.

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