AUDIO: A Garden Grows in Inwood

Posted on September 26, 2010 by chiarasottile

Listen to Audio Version: Inwood Community Garden (*) In the small, neglected corner of Inwood’s Dyckman Marina, volunteers of the Inwood Gardener Initiative transformed a black stockade steel fence into a community vegetable and flower garden. Serendipitously-named Linda Gardener inaugurated the vertical garden when she mounted six sturdy, black panels and 48 planting pouches on [...]

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VIDEO: “12-9,” as told by George Fernandez

Posted on September 15, 2010 by chiarasottile

New York City subway driver George Fernandez has been driving trains for 26 years. From behind the wheel, he sees danger, stupidity and desperation of which the public is completely ignorant. Perhaps the most horrific example is the “12-9:” the MTA’s radio code for Man Under. Fernandez says he faces jumpers, people pretending to jump, and people who fall retrieving items from the tracks on a daily basis. He tries to numb these experiences at the end of the working day, because otherwise he says he couldn’t do his job.

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Sending You Audio Postcards from New York City

Posted on August 21, 2010 by chiarasottile

Our second assignment this week as part of our radio training was to record an “audio postcard” from any location in the city:  to capture the sound and feel of some place in under three minutes. The two examples linked below both explore a place that is significant to cultural identity, in two very different [...]

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Feifan Oh: The Acoustics of Culture

Posted on August 18, 2010 by chiarasottile

In my first ever broadcast piece reported, written, edited, and produced for radio, I interview talented pianist Feifan Oh of the Manhattan School of Music. Feifan moved to New York City from Malaysia when she was 17 (she’s now 20) to pursue her love of piano. This wonderful interview subject expounds on how acclimating to [...]

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