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  This week investigators began following new leads in the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz. He hasn’t been seen since 1979, when he left his family’s SoHo apartment for the school bus stop. Investigators have never come up with physical evidence, and no one’s ever been criminally charged with Etan’s disappearance. But Leanna Orr reports that this week, [...]

Just 62% of Jewish voters say they will cast a ballot for Obama this November, according to a recent poll. That’s down from 78% in the election four years ago. The new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute indicates that Republicans may be luring voters away from the Democrats. As Rachel Rogers reports, this could [...]

  France heads to the polls this Sunday. Among ten candidates with varying political views, there are already two front runners — incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on the right, and François Holland on the left. As Holland creeps up in the polls Sarkozy is positioned to become the country’s first one-term president since 1981. Acacia Squires talked [...]

There are more people riding the New York subway today than at any time since 1950. More people live in the city and the newcomers choose to live outside of Manhattan.Reporter John Light took a look at how the subway system is handling the growing ridership. – John Light, Reporter: The L train from Brooklyn [...]

Two new initiatives are bringing high-culture below-ground. The MTA’s Arts for Transit program is reintroducing its Poetry in Motion series, and a new app to showcases the subway’s installation art. Will Sloan reports. – Narr: After a long absence, the Poetry Society of America is reviving “Poetry in Motion” to select poems each month be [...]

Commentator Mackenzie Issler has volunteered in a clinic in Haiti and has also reported from the island nation. She made many friendships she hopes will last a lifetime. But she’s learned that in Haiti, a lifetime can be short.

The Taxi and Limousine Commission has just changed the rules for livery cars—those stickered sedans you can call for a pickup. City officials hope it will soon be easier for New Yorkers to catch rides in the outer boroughs. But Nat Herz reports that the city’s yellow taxi drivers aren’t happy about the change. – Here’s [...]

Libraries have shared information in the same way for centuries, collecting and preserving written material for their users. The form has shifted from clay tablets to computers. Now, it’s digital books. They are the fastest growing area of publishing, and libraries are seeing a surge in demand for e-book titles. Ben Bradford reports that this is [...]

New York University is planning to grow its Greenwich Village campus and it’s sparking fierce debate. Opponents say the 2 million- square foot expansion would damage the neighborhood’s character. Last week, the university agreed to scale back the plan, as a compromise to those concerns but protests continue. Acacia Squires talks with reporter Jacqueline Guzman live from [...]

Sandra Newman’s book The Western Lit Survival Kit takes us on an irreverent and sometimes hilarious tour of the canon at the expense of our favorite writers and bards. Celia Llopis-Jepsin talks with Newman about boiling down a couple millennia worth of literary culture into just 300 pages.

Last week, Commentator Jason Slotkin decided to finally reverse his first adult decision. He quit smoking.

If you have a dog and it’s not registered, you’re breaking the law. The city wants more people to license their dogs, but only 1 in 5 have. That’s why the Health department ran a large subway ad campaign for six months, and launched an online service to help find lost dogs. But now that [...]

Harlem’s Sugar Hill neighborhood is a stately enclave of 19th and 18th century houses. In the 1920’s they were the epicenter of the Harlem renaissance, but by the 70’s, the area had deteriorated. Much of Harlem has been gentrifying since then. Sarah Laing tells us about the growing interest in reviving what locals call Sugar Hill’s “sweet [...]