NY Hotline host Bob Herbert practices his intro for an episode focusing on riots in Tompkins Square Park
Footage of protests at Tompkins's Square Park over the forced removal of homeless camps
Intro to the Tompkins Square park episode of New York Hotline, including an interview with a local resident upset about homeless camps.
Extended interview with woman upset about the homeless population making it difficult for her to access Tompkins's Square Park
Extended interview with sexual assault victim who was later contacted by her assaulter who had murdered previous victims. She explains how she survived and escaped from her attacker and the difficulties and successes in coping with her experience.
Various billboards around the City as part of a New York Hotline episode about Reverand Clavin Butt's campaign against cigarette advertising in Harlem
Children playing in an apartment in relation to a New York Hotline episode about homeless camps in Tompkins's Square Park making it impossible for residents to enjoy.
Footage following a mentally ill man in New York City and how he manages his life, like prescriptions and transportation
Interview about New York's educational system, with specific focus on the Puerto Rican community in the City. Magda recalls the mindset she grew up with that discouraged her from completing school as a teenager and how she was inspired to found a program that would help improve the literacy rate in the City. Magda emphasizes the need for teachers to act as social workers involved in more aspects of their students lives in order to sufficiently teach them.
Interview with black clergy members of various faiths in Brooklyn talking about their need to arm themselves to stay safe in an episode about gun violence.
More interviews with black clergy members about waves of violence in Brooklyn from an episode about gun violence in the City
Interview with principal of PS 61 Magda Echevarria, four months into her job, discussing the school's declining performance and how it triggered a review by the State Education Department
Magda Echevarria discusses the rising number of dropouts and the ways in which the school system is failing. She blames an unchanging curriculum that is not related to the lives of her students, specifically students from black and Puerto Rican backgrounds. She also notes a lack of education is having a bigger impact on workers today than in previous generations when less work depended on literacy.
Interview with a a young Puerto Rican man who grew up in the Lower East Side, focusing on his experience of the New York City school system. After hitting a teacher for grabbing him by his shirt and going to court, he bounced around between many schools and taking drugs.
Interview with a Harlem boy scout troop about cigarettes for an episode about cigarette advertising in black neighborhoods. Also features promos recorded with young children and an interview about the efforts to stop tobacco billboard advertising.
Interview with a woman who had been sexually assaulted on a date and her efforts with the New York Police Department (New York Police Department (NYPD)) to capture her attacker and the inability to successfully prosecute him. The case was unique in that the rapist reached out to his victim afterward.
Interview with a man living with mental illness about his life, how the City assists him and the basic challenges he still goes through on a daily basis to remain healthy.
Topic of discussion is cigarette advertising and the anti-cigarette billboard campaign undertaken by Reverend Calvin Butts to paint over billboards.
Interview about Asian immigrants into New York City and the difficulty members of different Asian communities find when trying to vote or otherwise become involved in the political process. Placing a prison in Manhattan's Chinatown is described as a sobering lesson for the Chinese community, says the interviewee, describing the city council as a private club.
Interview about legal action regarding discrimination against black and Hispanic populations in affordable housing applications by the Housing Authority. Jonathan Williams Plaza, Independence Towers and Taylor-Wythe Houses were all named in the suit. The interviewees attest that government officials conspired to discriminate against non-Hassidic applicants.
Representative from the United Jewish Organizations rejects the idea that Jewish applicants are favored over black and Hispanics for affordable housing. He argues that Hassidic Jews in the neighborhood have invested a great deal of time and money in building schools and synagogues and represent half of the population in the area.
Interviews with people on the street about the Bensonhurst case that resulted in the burning of a store front and the death of Yusef Hawkins.
