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Holmdel, New Jersey!!!!!!! www.curbed.com/article/seve...

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“The study found that 58 percent of New Yorkers, or more than 4.8 million people, were in families with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty line…” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/n...

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so how is everyone’s black history month going

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“In the first week of February, weekday traffic inside the tolling zone was down 9 percent … And foot traffic, a measure of business activity, has improved since the tolls took effect” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

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even though her pre-recorded message used to reach me WEEKLY, i havent gotten a spam scam call from the Mandarin-speaking lady in AGES… HOWEVER I am getting multiple texts a day that just say “Hi” or “Hello” 🫠 does it ever end

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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“The slab edges on the north side of the building are misaligned by up to 8 inches,” the developer disclosed. 1 Seaport was six hundred and seventy feet tall, and leaning. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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CBS published a story yesterday about this, but if you want to read @dodai.bsky.social ‘s original story from early January, it is a much better read.

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there's a massive protest in LA with the 101 shut down and i can't find it anywhere on TV here in nyc but I can watch it live on Tiktok

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“So I have a van that I can rent for, like, $250 from a nun,” he said. “We take him to a farm and let the hogs eat him. Now you can go with me if you want.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/n...

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I can't believe tuberculosis is back

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A Record-Number of Kids Were Killed on NYC Streets Last Year “Half of the children were killed either walking or biking.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/28/r...

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“Among the stolen artifacts were three golden bracelets and the golden helmet of Cotofenesti, an elaborately decorated, solid-gold headpiece from the fifth century B.C.” nyti.ms/4g9AfYc

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I just finished reading the chapter in Fauci's autobiography about the creation of PEPFAR. What stood out to me, aside from respect for the vision and hard work that made it happen, is that it's impossible to imagine the US creating anything like it today. PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives.

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In the 1980s when the Village Voice still overflowed with ambition Barry Michael Cooper began his writing career. It was the textual hip-hop of his groundbreaking 1988 article, “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing,” that I really began to pay attention to how to tell OUR stories. #RIP my brother.

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Barry Michael Cooper, the famed writer and producer who wrote “New Jack City,” “Above The Rim” and “Sugar Hill,” has died at 66

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i say this every year but i really do NOT thrive during Q1

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🖤🖤🖤 www.thedrum.com/news/2025/01...

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mid-january polar vortex of sadness

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This is admittedly conjecture but it’s telling David Lynch’s art is so perverted, horrifying or even horny… Yet his collaborators & even exes overwhelmingly talk about his decency, respect & protectiveness. Like proof you don’t have to be an abusive monster to explore darkness in the human psyche.

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40 Big Ideas to Make New York City More Affordable www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Hundreds of employees at The Washington Post sent a letter to Jeff Bezos on Tuesday evening, asking the Amazon founder for a meeting amid widespread concern about the future of the newspaper.

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Delicious Uyghur cuisine comes to Gravesend! For this week’s $20 Dinner, Hell Gate samples the laghman, beshbarmak, and ladziao rou of the newly opened Laghman Express. hellgatenyc.com/laghman-expr...

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"feels like 16°" in nyc and you have bare ankles?

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all these technological advances and i still can't take a picture of the moon w my phone

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“Unlike the restaurant that keeps traditional business hours, the diner shape-shifts as the night wears on and different kinds of customers pour in. It can be whatever they need it to be — its menu, mood and playlist often changing from hour to hour.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/d...

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NEW: Media outlets are rushing to prepare for govt subpoenas and investigations under the Trump admin. Protective steps include: • Switching to encrypted communications • Conducting internal audits • Increasing libel insurance By me & @katierobertson.bsky.social 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

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It’s time for more freedom. It’s time for a 4-day week. ⏰

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100% this. A NY Mag subscription right now is 60% off. It's $1 for four weeks. Doing a piece like the Gaiman article takes an intense amount of time from a ton of people, and only with financial support can investigations like this continue to happen.

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i love this 😍 Meet the Latino Boys Decked Out for Their Version of the Quinceañera www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

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just had a minor meltdown bc i typed Jelly Roll into Spotify and the top result is not MORTON

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I’m quoted in the New York Times today on congestion pricing, stating, as an NYC street educator—for the newspaper of record—that the passing of this policy could lead to a “street renaissance” in NYC history. Thank you @dodai.bsky.social for inviting my input! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/n...

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He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. Beautiful story by @dodai.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...

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Mr. Khalil had an idea and a piece of wood — part of a stump — that he had found close to a park a few blocks away from his small storefront studio in Bayonne, N.J. Over the next six months, he plotted and created his sculpture. By @dodai.bsky.social

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On this day of horror and impending chaos, a wonderful NYT story by Dodai Stewart of an immigrant from Egypt, now U.S. citizen, who found his dream job as a security guard at the Met Museum, and now has his sculpture featured in one of the its major exhibitions. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...

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In 2023, Armia Khalil, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw a visitor wandering through a gallery, clearly looking for something specific. The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life… nyti.ms/3Wcevnr

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