Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC and Gothamist newsroom, talks about Mayor Mamdani's plan to repair the crumbling BQE.
Photo: View southwest along Interstate 278 (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade from Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, June 2024 (Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) , via Wikimedia Commons)
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Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC and Gothamist newsroom, talks about Mayor Mamdani's plan to repair the crumbling BQE.
Photo: View southwest along Interstate 278 (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade from Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, June 2024 (Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) , via Wikimedia Commons)
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![Choice and AI in Disruption
[REBROADCAST FROM July 28, 2026] The new play Disruption (https://www.disruptionplay.com/) follows a Silicon Valley engineer who presents his three best friends with a new AI algorithm that he claims can make all of their life decisions for them. But at what cost? Playwright Andrew Stein discusses the play, alongside actors John David Washington and Conrad Ricamora. Disruption is running at Pershing Square Signature Center through Sept. 27th.
Photo by Emilio Madrid: Irene Sofia Lucio, John David Washington, and Jason Ralph in the 2026 production of DISRUPTION Choice and AI in Disruption](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y5W1KKrr6dE/mqdefault.jpg)
![Joy Harjos Jazz Poetry Album
[REBROADCAST FROM April 24, 2026] From 2019 to 2022, Joy Harjo served as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, the first Native American to serve in that position. Now, Harjo has released a new album, Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace (https://folkways.si.edu/joy-harjo/insomnia-and-seven-steps-to-grace) , which combines her passion for jazz and poetry. The album, out today, is Harjos debut on the historic Smithsonian Folkways label. To celebrate National Poetry Month, Joy Harjo shares some of her music for an All Of It Listening Party.
Photo by by Melissa Lukenbaugh Joy Harjos Jazz Poetry Album](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y5cD4E52joo/mqdefault.jpg)


![Cat Cohens Broad Strokes
[REBROADCAST FROM July 23, 2026] After cabaret comedian Cat Cohen suffered a stroke at the age of 30, the comedian was inspired to write about it in the way she knows how: through funny songs. Cohen discusses her new one-woman show, Broad Strokes (https://www.catcohenbroadstrokes.com/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23956452625&gclid=CjwKCAjwpefSBhBvEiwAzyEtZyQ-SliI8yXegKTtmTCTSyfZYXmrI-ydN5tG0vJTmhu_1eZcPQ8DhhoCh1UQAvD_BwE) , running at the Lucille Lortel theater through September 5.
Photo by Matthew Murphy Cat Cohens Broad Strokes](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YWOK9LvRjqo/mqdefault.jpg)





