Sewer Socialism? Start Here, City Hall
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lair on WNYC, to end the show for our last 15 minutes, we're going to do one of our |
| 0:14.5 | occasional hyper-local call-ins about news from your neighborhood. In this case, |
| 0:20.0 | hook to the mayoral election and the change of administration that's coming, |
| 0:24.2 | we want to invite you to call in and mention on the air a small, everyday piece of public infrastructure |
| 0:32.8 | that shapes life on your block or in your neighborhood that needs some attention from city government. |
| 0:40.6 | 212-433 W-N-YC, 212-433-9692. |
| 0:48.6 | So we talk about all these sweeping issues, free universal child care, everything else, |
| 0:54.1 | but what's the tiny fix that your block really needs? |
| 0:59.5 | 212-433, WNYC. |
| 1:03.3 | If you have the ear, and you may well, |
| 1:05.9 | because people from all sectors of New York City politics |
| 1:09.7 | often listen to the show. |
| 1:12.0 | If you have the ear of anybody who's going to be connected to the incoming Mamdani administration, what's the |
| 1:18.3 | hyper-local fix that your block really needs? 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. The mayor elect ran on fighting inequality. This is one of the things where |
| 1:35.2 | arguably there is a lot of inequality, some neighborhoods, some blocks, get more attention to their |
| 1:40.5 | particular hyper-local needs than others. So what about on your block? |
| 1:45.8 | The trash can that vanished? |
| 1:47.9 | The crosswalk that's faded to nothing. |
| 1:51.2 | The puddle that never drains after it rains. |
| 1:54.6 | What is it on your block? |
| 1:56.2 | 212-433. |
| 1:58.4 | WNYC, 212, 433-92. |
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