Margot Adler is a National Public Radio correspondent based in NPR's New York Bureau. Her work as a correspondent can be heard regularly on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg narrowly has won a third term. He won by just 5 percentage points. There was resentment by many New Yorkers against the mayor for overturning a term limits law twice approved by voters so he could run again.
The 1947 musical gets its first full-scale Broadway revival starting Oct. 29. The production took 10 years to assemble, but producers say the timing is great: Yip Harburg's witty lyrics and the show's pointed political satire make it the perfect musical for a country still reeling from a major economic recession.
New York State health officials say only 23 percent of the state's anticipated supply of H1N1 vaccine will be available by the end of the month. That means they can't even vaccinate all the health care workers they wanted to. Pregnant women, who are considered to be at high risk, are worried.
Whenever the president comes to New York City, traffic stops. This week, however with President Obama, the U.N. General Assembly and meetings on climate change, gridlock may be even worse.
Last Friday, citizen scientists fanned out across New York City, and learned the sounds of seven different kinds of crickets and katydids in the urban wild. They were particularly anxious to document the common true katydid. Naturalists believe that species left the city 100 years ago, but some people say they can hear them every night.
With more than three dozen widely viewed YouTube videos, celebrity courtships and performances with Tori Amos and Stevie Nicks, the PS 22 Chorus is a bona fide sensation. Based on Staten Island, N.Y., the chorus gives 10- and 11-year-old kids a chance to let out their emotions in song.
In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent their honeymoon in bed, in an effort to promote a message of world peace. Now, the World March for Peace and Nonviolence has brought back the bed-in — starting on a Sunday afternoon in New York's Central Park — to raise awareness of nuclear proliferation.
A violent storm damaged about a hundred trees in New York's Central Park this week: oaks, ginkgos, maples and more, some more than a hundred years old. For NPR's Margot Adler, who has lived across from Central Park for 60 years, the loss of the trees is personal.
An invite to a Facebook group led NPR's Margot Adler to take a closer look at the ads on her profile page. What she saw were pitches for smoothing wrinkles and weight loss. Then she decided to ignore them.
Chaos continues in New York's state government, ever since Republicans and two dissident Democrats tried to take control of the state Senate on June 8. Bills that need passing are in limbo, and control of New York City's schools passed from the mayor to a hastily appointed Board of Education, when a June 30 deadline passed.
Forty years ago, gay street youth started a riot at a bar in New York City that would forever change the struggle for gay rights in America.
Wicked Plants is a new book documenting the sometimes deadly plant kingdom. Author Amy Stewart writes about illegal, dangerous and toxic species, including oleander and poison sumac. This summer, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden features some of these "evil" plants skulking among its lily ponds and greenhouses.
Seven years ago, Ken Rabb was a legal aid lawyer and a weekend painter. But at the age of 53, he was diagnosed with young onset Alzheimer's. Although he talks relatively little now and can no longer read, his art has flourished and he spends much of his time painting.
There is an interesting new phenomenon fueled by the financial crisis: Some families in foreign countries are now sending money to immigrants in the United States. This reversal of fortunes is tiding some people over during the economic downturn.
