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The Brian Lehrer Show

Shop Listener 2024: The Suburbs

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in to shout out their brick-and-mortar businesses located on Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and Westchester.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Lerer on WNYC and we'll end today by continuing our annual holiday gifting series Shop Listener.

0:10.8

If you're selling gifts from the New York City suburbs, you are up today.

0:15.4

For our purposes, that means anybody who owns a business on Long Island or in New Jersey or Connecticut or Westchester or Rockland or other points north. And we'll say suburbs very loosely defined

0:25.9

as, you know, the biggest definition of the greater New York area, even if it's an

0:31.9

excerpt or another metro city, Newark, Greenwich, whatever, just not in the five boroughs for today.

0:38.8

212-433 W-N-YC, 212, 433-9692. And this is a pretty straightforward invitation, right?

0:48.9

If you own a business in any suburb of New York City, loosely defined in a way that I just did,

0:55.3

and you sell items that would make great holiday gifts. You can call us right now for a shot to promote your business on

1:00.0

the air. 212-433 W-NYC, 212, 433-9692. And if you're new to this, what is shop listener?

1:10.5

Well, every year for a number of years now, when the holiday season rolls around, we run this series in which we invite those of you, mostly small business owners listening to call and promote yourself if you're a WNYC listener.

1:26.3

It's just one way we try to get back to our community of listeners by allowing you

1:31.8

to promote your holiday gift business to other listeners.

1:35.9

You get the idea.

1:36.9

And for everyone else, if you haven't gone gift shopping yet for the holidays or have more

1:41.7

to do, consider buying from a fellow Brian Lairshel or WNYC listener.

1:48.4

Everybody can post your store or web address and everybody can go shopping and browsing to see

1:57.9

what the listeners with things to sell are posting at w nyc.org

2:03.0

slash shop listener so it's not just for on the air anybody with holiday gifts to sell who's

2:09.1

listener you can go and post anybody who wants to browse the list and the map we also have a map

2:15.0

of brick and mortar stores in this project.

2:18.9

Go to WNYC.org slash shop listener.

2:23.0

WNYC.org slash shop listener.

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