The Federal Writers Project employed thousands of writers to do state guides, oral histories, local histories and ethnographic work during the Depression. Many future famous writers got their start in the FWP.
CUNY TV, the 24/7 professionally staffed television station offered to metro-area viewers by the City University of New York, is broadcast over-the-air in the New York metropolitan area (NY-NJ-CT, within a 35-mile radius from Times Square) on digital Ch. 25.3, and cablecast in the five boroughs of New York City on Ch. 75 (Time Warner and Cablevision Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN Cable), and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS).
