Summer Friday: Why the Rent is Still So High; End of Summer?; Updating Animal Rights; Summertime Memories
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including:
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Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics reporting program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the author of Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City (St. Martin's Press, 2012), explains why the rent in NYC is still at record highs, despite a lower population and a weaker economic picture than other parts of the country.
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As temperatures rise, the way children experience summer is changing drastically. Emma Pattee, climate journalist, discusses how the dangers of extreme heat are leading to empty playgrounds, camps moving indoors, tough decisions for parents, and the possible ramifications of severing children's ties to the outdoors. Plus, Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, director for the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offers advice on how to keep kids healthy in the heat.
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Peter Singer, philosopher, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, author of Animal Liberation in 1975 and Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed (Harper Perennial, 2023), talks about the new edition of his classic 1975 work, connecting animal rights to crises from climate change to the spread of new viruses.
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Elizabeth Glazer, founder of the journal Vital City and former director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, talks about indelible NYC summer memories, and shares her thoughts on the state of public safety and criminal justice in the city.
On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including:
Why the Rent is Still So High (Aug 7, 2023)
Is It the End of Summer as We Know It? (Aug 1, 2023)
Updating Animal Rights (Jun 1, 2023)
NYC Summer Memories with Elizabeth Glazer (Jul 5, 2023)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Bryan Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. On the summer Friday, we've |
| 0:16.1 | put together a special show today of some of our favorite recent conversations. Edited |
| 0:20.8 | just a bit for clarity and time. We've got two takes on summer itself, and my recent |
| 0:27.0 | conversation with philosopher Peter Singer on the newly updated edition of his groundbreaking |
| 0:32.2 | work Animal Liberation. And we start here with a question that could begin any show |
| 0:37.7 | on any day around here. Why are rents in New York City going up if the population is going |
| 0:44.3 | down? What happened to supply and demand? Greg David covers business and economics for |
| 0:49.4 | the news organization The City. He also runs the business and economics reporting program |
| 0:54.0 | at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. And he's got an article in the |
| 0:58.8 | city that finally tries to address this question head on. We've been asking it on the show kind |
| 1:03.8 | of tucked into other housing segments that we've done. His article is called simply |
| 1:08.6 | why our New York City rents so high is complicated. Greg, thanks for coming on for this head |
| 1:15.2 | scratcher that's so central to life in our area. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you. And |
| 1:20.7 | it is a head scratcher Brian, you know, I sent out to find some great smoking gun here. |
| 1:27.4 | Because as you said, and there are the population of New York is less than before the pandemic. |
| 1:33.1 | The numbers are a little uncertain, but we are sure it's less. Secondly, despite the |
| 1:38.6 | mayor's spin, the city said a relatively anemic economic recovery from the pandemic. We |
| 1:45.7 | are about to recover all the jobs we've lost. But the nation has a whole has regained several |
| 1:51.7 | million jobs beyond what it had before the pandemic, about 3%. And the third thing that |
| 1:58.0 | troubled me was that while rents went up in the rest of the country in 2021 and 2022, |
| 2:05.2 | they haven't been going up in 2023. And some places they've been going down. And yet |
| 2:10.6 | our rents continue to go up in 2023. So I said to myself, this doesn't make any sense. |
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