Joining the 21st century

WNYC’s Planned Move Will Finish Its Breakup With the City

After broadcasting since 1924 from the marble-and-mosaic corridors of the Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street in Manhattan, WNYC is going from drab to fab. WNYC, which has the largest audience of any public radio station in the United States, will finally sever its umbilical cord to the bureaucracy that gave it life and sheltered it so persistently. Escaping its 51,400 square feet of tired but rent-free space scattered on eight floors of the Municipal Building, the station will make a $45 million move northwest to two and a half floors of a 12-story former printing building at 160 Varick Street. ...

Glenn Collins in the Times: Nicki Newman Tanner, WNYC’s board chairwoman for the past two years, said the station and its programming strive to be “diverse in gender, ethnically and racially, given our responsibility to reflect New York as completely as we can.” Her 37-person WNYC board has 14 women, 4 African-Americans, 2 Hispanics, an Asian and a South Asian.

Huh? South Asians are Asians--that's like writing 'a European and a southern European'.

Not to mention it's probably a couple of Asian Americans who sit on WNYC's board, rather than say a Japanese and a Pakistani.

And the headline's totally misleading as well.

Photo of WNYC building from WNYC's website.