The Brian Lehrer Show

Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for housing and economic development, and Carl Weisbrod, chair of the City Planning Commission, talk about the revised deal with Two Trees to include more units of affordable housing in exchange for greater height in the development of the Domino Sugar factory site in Williamsburg. They explain how the deal came together and how the mayor's goal of adding 200,000 units of affordable housing over 10 years can be achieved. .@NYCPlanning, re: Domino and overall approach: "When a developer is seeking a substantial increase in value...we want the public to share." — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 6, 2014 Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen says that the Domino deal will lead to "permanent affordable housing." http://t.co/DaPcI2eyRj — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 6, 2014 Alicia Glen: "moderate income are (also) facing an affordability crisis." Domino units will target range of $30k-110k for a family of four. — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 6, 2014 Weisbrod says Two Trees has "a good track record" that "does point the way to a different economic future for the city." — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 6, 2014

Hanna Rosin, national correspondent for The Atlantic, writer for Slate and author of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, discusses her article about her son's Asperger's diagnosis, and why it was helpful to their family when, right after his diagnosis, Asperger's was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus at NYU and Princeton, contributing editor to The Nation and author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, explains the political forces in the U.S., E.U. and Russia that are driving the crisis in Ukraine - and the possibilities for how it might end.

Time Magazine was given exclusive access to be the first to photograph from the top of One World Trade. Jonathan Woods, senior editor of photo and interactive for TIME, explains the technology behind the project and what it was like to see the city from the tallest building in the West. We found the WNYC offices from the panorama. If you can find your office or house, tweet us the link or post in the comments below. #NYCFromAbove: A Photo Project of Our Own Update: See Our Favorites Here! We're asking you to take a photo of NYC from a high vantage point -- your roof, your work, a bridge, wherever -- and send it to us. Tag it with #NYCFromAbove on Instagram (search) or Twitter (search), and we'll collect our favorites on the site! We found the WNYC studios from TIME's 1WTC panorama. http://t.co/Gn76Qzjk7E If you find your office/home, send a link pic.twitter.com/Ta9taErwFB — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 6, 2014 Video: How Time Got the Panorama Shot

This week marks the start of the 6th annual New York ReelAbilities Film Festival, a collection of films "dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities." Festival director and co-founder, Isaac Zablocki and co-founder, Anita Altman, discuss this year's lineup and some of the policy issues that the films present. Plus filmmaker Jake McCafee discusses his film "The Commute." Watch: "The Commute" Directed by Jake McCafee  

Historian Gilbert Tauber put together an on-line database of all of NYC's honorary street names from 1998-2013, from A. Philip Randolph Boulevard to Zora Neale Hurston Place after the idea was suggested by Michael Miscione, acting Manhattan borough historian.  They discuss the results and the process of street-naming.   [View the story "Honorary Streets In Your Neighborhood" on Storify]

New York Times Washington correspondent and the author of The Obamas (Back Bay Books, 2012) Jodi Kantor discusses the media coaching given to first ladies in light of the now-public documents from the Clinton-era White House, and how the old documents may affect Hillary Clinton today and her plans for the future.

It’s Ash Wednesday and this month is the one-year anniversary of the Francis papacy. Catholics, are you participating this year for the first time in a while? Are you getting ashes today? Are you going to make a sacrifice for lent this year?

Stokely Carmichael was a controversial figure in black rights, straddling both the non-violent and Black Panther movements. In his new biography, Stokely: A Life, Peniel Joseph, professor of history and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University and contributing editor at theroot.com, traces Carmichael’s life and what it says about the struggles for black power.

Scott Gurian, Sandy recovery reporter for NJ Spotlight, WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio, looks at how certain cities, including Hoboken, are not scheduled to receive what some officials in those cities say is a sufficient amount of Sandy aid money.

Mary Madden, senior researcher at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, talks about how teens engage with privacy online, and how parents and families can navigate digital lives and privacy concerns.  

Deborah Estrin is a professor of computer science at Cornell NYC Tech, an open source advocate and the co-founder of the non-profit Open mHealth. She talks about how the data you generate about yourself -- through smartphones, your habits, and even sensors -- can be used to find clues about your health, and what the technology says about our privacy. How uncomfortable are you with a company searching your online behavior for clues about your personal health? Your small data won’t be shared with others, but would be used to provide health recommendations. -- One of the questions in our Privacy Conundrums Quiz

Today's two-hour show is all about privacy. Where do you draw the line with what you're willing to share with companies? With the government? Your friends and neighbors? And why? We'll talk about possible solutions to privacy dilemmas, and hear from you about sharing and power dynamics in a world where big corporations and the government know an awful lot. Deborah Estrin of Cornell NYC Tech will talk about health and your small data, and Mary Madden of Pew discusses how teens in your family talk about digital privacy. Plus: computer scientist Jaron Lanier, author of Who Owns the Future?, and Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts.

Jeff Jarvis, the man behind buzzmachine.com, is a vocal champion of sharing and Jaron Lanier,  'the father of virtual reality', is more skeptical of the economics of opening up online. They wrestled on the issue of inequality in privacy, who knows what about our data, the humanity of sharing, and even what all this means for your health insurance. Jarvis is also a professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and the author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live. Lanier is also a computer scientist, composer, visual artist and the author of Who owns the Future?, out now in paperback.  Can two 'experts at the internet' agree on what is scary out there on the web and what isn't? On what ‘They’ know about what you know (about what they know): Jeff Jarvis: “I have a transaction there that I chose to make [with Amazon]. I have no transaction, no transparency, there is no accountability for the NSA in the executive, judiciary, legislative – journalists were shut off. We were left with the accountability of last resort which was whistleblowers, so that is the issue when it comes to government.” Jaron Lanier: Here I have to say that what you’re saying just sounds bizarre to me. I live in the sausage factory and I’ve sold a company to Google and have worked with Microsoft and Apple and all of them and I gotta tell ya, there’s no transparency. You have no idea what they’re doing and there’s only an illusion of it because they’re consumer-facing companies that create that illusion for you… It is theater. It’s not real.” On how big data makes insurance better (or worse):  Lanier: “I was a consultant to … the largest American private health insurance consortium, and there was this moment where the CEO was at this retreat and he said, “My god, with all this data our business reverses totally. Our strategy has to become opposite of what it once was. It used to be that to grow we’d have to insure as many people as possible, but now that we can know them as individuals we’ll be more profitable if we can insure as few as possible – specifically the ones who need it the least.” Jarvis: “This is why Obamacare is so necessary, because it gives you the right to have health insurance no matter what the data say about you. The issue isn’t there’s data about you. Indeed, I would argue we have to have less stigma about disease, more protection for your employment, more protection for your insurance about disease, and the more we can open up data about disease the better off society is going to be.” On why the information economy is like favelas, kind of: Lanier: “It’s just like in finance, what’s said often and is very true is that we’ve socialized risk while privatizing the benefits, and we’re doing exactly the same thing with information. We’re privatizing the benefits and creating these incredible instant fortunes for What’s App or whatever. Meanwhile everybody is losing security or losing wealth because we’re entering into an informal economy as if we were some kind of favela or slum.” On Kodak Cameras (yep, Kodak Cameras): Jarvis: “[The first Kodak camera was released in 1890] It freaked people out, we didn’t know what to do about it. It took a while for us to negotiate our norms around that and then indeed we did. And now people are worried that you’re going to take your Google glass into restrooms and take pictures of people’s private parts. As if somehow the technology is going to make you do stupid and evil and awful things. We have to have more faith in humanity at some level here.” On monetizing your data as a solution: Lanier: “Accountants are in a way more powerful than police. If there’s money at stake, somebody will chase it. And that might create this moderate thing where you can set the price of your information, which equals how much privacy you want and people can come to different decisions.” How uncomfortable are you with companies recommending products to you based on what you've

Sarah Lewis, art critic at Yale's MFA program and a member of President Obama’s Arts Policy Committee, is the author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (Simon & Schuster, 2014). In it, she tells the stories of people like Frederick Douglass and J.K. Rowling and how they acquired creative success from what they learned from failure. →EVENT: Sarah Lewis, Anna Deavere Smith and Angela Lee Duckworth at the New York Public Library, March 26, 7-8 p.m., 5th Avenue at 42nd Street. Excerpt: THE RISE: Creativity, The Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery by Sarah Lewis. ARCHER’S PARADOX The women of the Columbia University archery team stepped out of their van on a cold spring afternoon with a relaxed focus; one held a half-eaten ice cream cone in her right hand and a fistful of arrows with yellow fletching in her left; another sported a mesh guard over her shirt, on top of her breast as protection from the tension line of the bow. Baker Athletics Complex, the university’s sporting fields at the northern tip of Manhattan, seemed to have a set of carefree warriors on its grounds. A man who maintains the property never thought they would arrive. Maybe he was new, because I asked where the archery team would practice and he looked at me quizzically. He didn’t believe that archery was a real Columbia team sport. It was understandable. I had arrived early and the targets were not yet up. Releasing arrows at up to 150 miles per hour aimed at targets seventy-five yards away means safety issues for all around, so the archery team doesn’t practice next to any other. Mastery of this high-precision sport stays largely out of sight. Coach Derek Davis drove up with the archers and greeted me with his elbow leaning against the gray van’s driver’s side window. His silvery-white dreadlocks hung past his shoulders, covered under a blue patterned bandana that matched his Columbia University archery sweatshirt. He struck me as a composite fit to match this clan: gregarious and at ease, yet focused. On the phone a few days earlier, he had told me that he first picked up the sport as a casual hobby at his wife’s insistence in the late 1980s (“It was safer than pool and didn’t involve alcohol”). He has led the varsity and intramural club teams since 2005 as one-part biomechanical expert, one-part yogi—a university sage fit for ancient warfare turned sport. The young women smiled and sized me up a little, then passed as I stood beside the chain-link fence entrance to their designated turf. One threw away her melting cone and joined the others who were unpacking the gear from the van’s trunk. They spoke not with words, but by exchanging numbers, their ideal scores or degrees to position themselves to hit their targets. The women were preparing for an upcoming Nationals competition. (There are no men on this varsity team, only at the intramural level of play.) I watched as they carefully set down their compound and recurve bows—like those used at the Olympics, with tips that bend away from the archer—then drew and let loose arrows that curved and fell out of sight as they hit the round target face. Davis didn’t hover, but stood a good distance behind them, perhaps assessing who might need support. Spread out, farther off at the edge of the turf, were tool- kits filled with spools, pliers, wrenches, hammers, and nails. Two archers lined up to shoot. Only one wanted to know her score. Davis was looking with his binoculars downrange, the length of nearly two tennis courts from their location, as one archer let her first arrow fly. I could just hear the sound of a whip cracking the air. “Seven at six o’clock.” “Nine at two o’clock.” Her shots weren’t grouping yet. “Ten, high.” “Ten, way high.” After the next arrow sailed, there was no sound. “No. Don’t look at that one!” she said, shifting her feet, dropping her bow. “I don’t even think it hit the target.” “Yeah,” Davis confirmed, “I don’t even see it.” As I stood be