I'm Ryan Ler on WNYC and now we'll wrap up today's show with some very special guests.

These next few days today, tomorrow and Friday, we'll hear from a few of our radio rookies

at this point in the show.

They may be high school students but don't underestimate them.

The stories they're bringing us are big and ambitious and told with humor and personality.

We'll hear from them about the process of organizing tenants against the privatization of

NYCHA, as well as what home means when it's a place you've never been to.

Today we'll see what the gentrification of part of our city looks like through the eyes

of one of today's teams.

Let's set the scene with a clip from today's radio rookies story reported by Christina

Aja, a 16-year-old from the hybrid concourse area of the Bronx, here's 30 seconds.

If there were one way to describe my neighborhood, it would be now.

There's always a party going on.

You can hear them from down the block.

And sometimes the ground shakes as cars drive by, blast the music.

There's a lack of play and fire hydrants and people union out their windows to talk to each other.

Mance it outside the bodega playing dominoes.

They crowd around a small table and they're always yelling at each other.

Alright, feels like she has transported you to the south Bronx, right?

All that natural sound in addition to the voices and I'll say the sophistication that these

students are bringing to the mics already make it difficult to earnestly call them rookies,

but they are because they're new at it.

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