For more than 25 years, Al Jones, originally from North Dakota, has driven the streets of New York City daily covering the news for all-news radio station 1010 WINS. He knows every street. He remembers almost every story he has covered.

His job requires him to witness the extremes of the human condition in one of the biggest cities in the world. Crime, disaster, political ups and downs.

We spent a day with him in early January to find out what it’s like.