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EPISODE · May 22, 2026 · 48 MIN

Philip T. Yanos´ `Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island´

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Clinical psychologist Philip T. Yanos, the author of "Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island," talks about host Amy Sohn about growing up in a place a stone’s throw from Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx that’s been used over decades to house the mentally ill, the homeless and migrants — and that’s now connected through landfill with the sports fields of Randall's Island.

Clinical psychologist Philip T. Yanos, the author of "Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island," talks about host Amy Sohn about growing up in a place a stone’s throw from Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx that’s been used over decades to house the mentally ill, the homeless and migrants — and that’s now connected through landfill with the sports fields of Randall's Island.

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