It's the Brian Lairer Show on WNYC.

I'm Kusha Navadar, a host here at WNYC filling in for Brian today.

Here's what's coming up on today's show, the second avenue subway

extension, which was recently postponed after Governor Hockel paused the congestion pricing

program. It's been revived. We'll talk about that and the fate of other projects that MTA

has had to put on hold. Plus, later in the show, why the decision to take the plunge to retire can be really

hard for some people.

We'll definitely want to hear from you on that if you're approaching retirement age or have

recently retired.

That conversation will be in about an hour.

And then we're going to wrap up today's show with the ninth thing in our

Centennial series, 100 years of 100 things. It's going to be pizza. We'll talk about the history

of the best food. I mean pizza here in New York. But first, it's been two weeks since President

Biden withdrew from the 2024 election campaign and endorsed

his vice president, Kamala Harris.

Does it only feel like yesterday to anyone else or actually somehow even longer?

Well, at the very least, it's long enough to get some polling results.

And the good news is good for the Democrats in that VP Harris is polling

better than President Biden did, but it's still a tie game. And today's probably the day

she makes her first big decision of the campaign, naming her running mate. To catch up with the

latest, we're joined by Nancy Cook, senior national political correspondent for Bloomberg News.

Nancy, welcome.

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