It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone, and happy Friday.

Later in the show, heads up, those of you who sell holiday gifts, not in New York City.

We're going to have the latest episode of our holiday season call-in series called Shop Listener,

where we invite listeners who sell holiday gifts to call in, also post on our website

and tout your wares, and we invite our listeners who want to buy

and browse for holiday gifts to go to your websites or go to your stores and shop there

to support our community. Shop listener. So today's call-in is going to be for anybody who's a listener and has holiday gifts to sell outside of the five boroughs.

We've done a few cuts already of this that definitely included primarily people in the five boroughs.

Well, today we're going to give you a shot specifically, make sure the lines

are clear enough if you're in Long Island or on Long Island or in New Jersey or Connecticut,

Westchester, Rock, and other points north. So it's shop listener later in the show. Actually,

that'll be our last segment in the show in about an hour and a half.

Shop listener, for those of you selling holiday gifts from brick and mortar stores or just online, if you are anywhere in our listening area, let's say greater New York, city or

suburb, it can be Newark, it can be Bridgeport, you know, But in our general area, but outside the city, that's coming up.

Now, as you've been hearing on the news, New York City Council passed the so-called city of yes housing plan yesterday.

After months of negotiations between the Adams administration and city council, even with the

support of Mayor Adams and city council speaker Adrian Adams, no relation, the plan got only 31 yes

votes out of the 51 council members, but that was a majority. So city of yes is in. More relaxed

zoning rules in much of the city to incentivize

building, to ease the housing shortage. Hot topics included basement apartments and parking spot

mandates, infrastructure. So let's look at the fine print and we'll invite your questions

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