Brian Lair on WNYC.

Now we're going to talk about new investigative reporting from the WNYC in Gothamist Newsroom

that shows the number of apartments in New York City that still have

dangerous lead-painted surfaces, despite a law that dates back to 2004, so 20 years exactly,

that was meant to force landlords to remove lead paint. When looking at city data,

WNYC found that more than 12,000 apartments in the city have been cited for lead paint

violations, some of them over and over again. And kids in New York City, not as many, but kids in

New York City are still being poisoned by lead in their apartments. Can you believe it?

This is another great example of how my newsroom colleagues aren't just covering

what politicians say showing up in news conferences and taking notes and things like that, but are doing

real original reporting. And we like to give them an extra chance to explain their work on this show

when we can, since we have the luxury of time in our long form format here, right? So here to explain what

she found when looking at the data and the new laws going into place this year to enforce

lead paint removal even more is WNYC and Gothamist data reporter Jacqueline Jeffrey Walensky.

Hi, Jacqueline. Hi, Brian. Thank you for having me. And in the

spirit of pitch, I just feel like I have to say there aren't a lot of public radio stations that

are able to have a data reporter. So that's something that your support makes possible and makes

this reporting possible. Oh, well, you anticipated my first question because I was going to ask you

to remind people of your beat to start

out. Why don't you tell everybody what it means to be a data reporter? Absolutely. So a data

reporter is just like any other type of reporter except that in addition to interviewing people,

looking through documents, good old-fashioned shoe leather. We also interview data sets. And honestly,

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