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The Brian Lehrer Show

Your Niche Neighborhood Dramas

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Bryan, Politics, Arts, Npr, News, Wnyc, News Commentary, Nyc, Daily News, Lerer, New, Public, Radio, Media, York

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in to share the drama from their neighborhoods—whether it's over pickleball court space, pet owners not doing their part to keep the streets clean or other local issues.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Lair on WNYC and for the last 15 minutes of our show today we're going to wrap it up

0:14.0

with your calls on niche local dramas that you and your neighbors can't stop talking or fighting

0:22.4

about what I'll say it again what is the niche local drama that you and your neighbors can't

0:30.3

stop talking about or in some cases fighting about two one two four three three WNYC tell us the

0:37.2

story from your neighborhood of a neighborhood obsession right now two one two four three three

0:43.2

nine six nine two you know we do this call these call ends from time to time just the news from your

0:49.6

hyper local neighborhoods so we don't just focus on things that make the papers because they affect

0:54.7

whole bunches of people and whole cities and states we do neighborhood call ends we do call ends

1:01.1

for immigrants on news from your country of origin we've done Friday after Thanksgiving call ends

1:07.8

on news from your Thanksgiving table and from your neighborhoods from time to time now we're going

1:13.6

to try it with this twist what is the niche local drama that you and your neighbors can't stop

1:20.5

talking about two one two four three three WNYC two one two four three three nine six nine two

1:30.2

and how's it playing out are people fighting through passive aggressive notes in your buildings

1:35.2

elevator or in any other way call to one two four three three nine six nine two and tell us a story

1:43.5

if you live in Brooklyn Heights maybe this local beef might ring a bell and it's what inspired

1:51.1

this call in a turf war has spung up at Cadman Plaza Park between local dog owners and those

1:58.4

who want to keep the park canine free the park began enforcing a no dogs rule after community members

2:04.6

complained of unsanitary conditions that made the area less hospitable to children at play of

2:10.1

course dog owners in the area when we're unhappy with this new development as they had formed a

2:15.4

community and enjoyed morning gatherings while walking their furry companions before work

2:21.3

every day the dispute culminated in the arrest of a local dog owner on September 14th who had

2:28.2

forgotten his ID while taking a seven month old pup out for a morning walk according to the daily

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