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Brian Lear 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 Wulensky.

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

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