Remembering Richard Hake 📻

Is Your Sidewalk Good for Social Distancing? [View this email in your browser]( [This Week on WNYC]( WNYC’s beloved and trusted morning host, Richard Hake, passed away on Friday, April 24. His colleagues have been [remembering him and honoring his life and his work]( all week. Find highlights of our coronavirus coverage below, get regular updates on [Gothamist.com]( and listen on WNYC 93.9 FM, AM 820 and [wnyc.org](. For live online events, including a conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr., and a live Get Lit with All of It book club event and go to [thegreenespace.org]( Featured [Richard Hake, at the WNYC microphone] [Remembering Richard Hake]( Listen to heartfelt tributes to the life and work of Richard Hake. You can hear a conversation among Brian Lehrer, listeners and WNYC colleagues about [what made Richard]( special and so loved](. In loving memory, here is his [radio obituary](. [Hear More Remembrances]( [Are Your Sidewalks Good for Social Distancing?]( A new, interactive map reveals how much of New York City lacks sidewalk space to socially distance properly. Stay on top of the crisis with Gothamist's rolling COVID-19 updates [here](. [Gothamist]( [A City at the Peak of Crisis]( April 15 was estimated to be the apex of COVID-19 in New York. Writers of The New Yorker talked with people across the city to document 24 hours at the epicenter. [The New Yorker Radio Hour]( [Everything You Need to Know About Face Masks]( Tara Parker-Pope, founding editor of The New York Times's consumer health site, answers questions about on how to buy, wear, make and donate face masks. [All of It]( [COVID Dispatch: Why Six Feet?]( Everyone has been told to stay six feet apart. But why six? Radiolab uncovers the answer, and talks with scientists who now say six might not be the right number after all. [Radiolab]( Coming Up This Week [Row of colorful Brooklyn apartment buildings] WED • 10 am • 93.9 FM • AM 820 New York City's Been Down Before Justin Davidson, New York magazine architecture and classical music critic, finds some solace in NYC's history and how the city has come back after past crises. [The Brian Lehrer Show]( WED–FRI • 2 pm • 93.9 FM • AM 820 Some of that Jazz All this week, Alison Stewart speaks with artists who would have played the now-canceled New Orleans Jazz Festival. Listen to Tuesday's conversation with the band Sweet Crude [here](. [All of It]( WED • 8 pm • 93.9 FM | SAT • 2 pm • 93.9 FM It's in the DNA Hear stories all about the double helix — genetic makeup, inherited disease and family secrets. Featuring Mike Birbiglia, Carmen Rita Wong and others. [The Moth Radio Hour]( THU • 8 pm • 93.9 FM Creative Solitude Loneliness was a problem long before this era of social distancing. TED speakers explore creative ideas that help us live with — and make peace with — isolation. [TED Radio Hour]( Events [Get Lit with All of It book club title logo.] This Thursday at 7pm, All of It's Get Lit book club, in partnership with New York Public Library, brings author James McBride, host Alison Stewart, and readers together for a [livestream conversation and audience Q&A]( around McBride's Deacon King Kong. --------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday at 4pm, Micropolis host and WNYC reporter Arun Venugopal welcomes historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a special live-streamed conversation on [the ongoing fight for the right to vote.]( On May 11 at 7pm, pianist Jeremy Denk wraps [his residency in The Greene Space]( with a conversation on Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Guests from the worlds of music, science, philosophy and theology explain what our minds do when we hear Bach. On May 28 at 7pm, Journalist-in-Residence Imara Jones continues her series of[frank conversations by and for trans people]( about issues affecting their communities. All livestream events and encore video streams of The Greene Space classics will continue to be available for on-demand viewing at [thegreenespace.org]( [Facebook]( and [YouTube](. Viewing is free and registration is not required. Podcasts from WNYC Studios [Judy Collins headshot] [Helga Davis in Conversation with Judy Collins]( Musician and activist Judy Collins speaks with Helga Davis on her decades-long career. Despite loss and addiction, she maintains a clarity of voice, passion and vision as a conduit for music. [Helga]( [Student Loans and the Pandemic]( Death, Sex & Money teams up with NPR's Life Kit podcast to explain what has changed in the student loan landscape since COVID-19 hit. [Death, Sex & Money]( [A Little Less White]( Author Robin DiAngelo joins Rebecca Carroll for an important conversation on whiteness, racism and what white people can do to combat their own fragility. [Come Through]( [He Went to Jared]( The president’s son-in-law wants to bring the "disrupter" mindset to the COVID emergency-response supply chain — but that’s not always a good thing. [Trump, Inc.]( 5 Most Popular Articles This Week 1. [Statement From CEO Goli Sheikholeslami to the NYPR Staff on the Death of WNYC’s Richard Hake | WNYC News]( 2. [When Is It Safe to Ease Social Distancing? Here's What One Model Says for Each State | NPR]( 3. [COVID Testing; Half of New Yorkers are Worried about Hunger; COVID-19 in NYC By the Numbers; At Home with Jim Gaffigan | The Brian Lehrer Show]( 4. [Rent Suspension Bill | The Brian Lehrer Show]( 5. [Now That It's the Only Sound They Hear, New Yorkers Are Complaining About Their Neighbors | WNYC News]( Copyright © 2018 New York Public Radio. 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