Explore the archived WRVO series 'New York in the World' with Garrick Utley. Discover stories of economic change from Buffalo to Wall Street across New York State.
The WRVO documentary series "New York in the World" with Garrick Utley brought you stories of union workers in Buffalo, fashion designers in New York City, and farmers in the Finger Lakes—all talking about how they found a place amid the new economic realities of the time.
From Niagara Falls to Long Island, from the North Country to the Southern Tier, Upstate, Downstate... we are nearly twenty million. The concerns we New Yorkers voiced about our lives and future were shared by Americans across the country.
But New York is special. In that era of globalization, no other state had benefited as much—and suffered as much—as New York. From the bonuses, bailouts, and wealth on Wall Street, to the remains of once mighty manufacturing industries in much of the rest of the state... this was New York in the World: our lives, our future.
This documentary series is a production of WRVO Public Media. The archived episodes are available for playback or download in the following collection.
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The SUNY Levin Institute’s New York in the World report was prepared by the Center for an Urban Future headed by Jonathan Bowles. Bowles sat down with… -
New York in the World, the documentary hosted by Garrick Utley, is now available online. The full, hour-long broadcast, as well as the text of the… -
Back in the 1930s, when Finger Lakes resident Carl Mortensen was a kid, agriculture was his small town’s link to the rest of the state.“New York City was… -
The SUNY Levin Institute conducted an in-depth study on New York state's competitive position in the world, and its ability to sustain and grow the…
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As more and more young people flock to the world’s largest cities, smaller cities have had to struggle to keep up. Perhaps nowhere has this played out… -
In 1950, New York City’s garment industry employed 300,000 workers. During the last several decades, those production jobs have all but disappeared. But… -
In 1975, the workforce in several major cities in upstate New York had more than 40 percent of their jobs in manufacturing. Today, that number hovers… -
All this week, we’ll be bringing you a series of stories from the documentary about the state of the economy in New York state. "New York in the World"…
