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Public historian of New York Harbor
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This book is a lot of fun. Cynthia knows how to throw a party. I make a brief appearance or two in the book; I’ll stick around longer at the party—and not just because it’s on a boat.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

So you say you love to hate on Robert Moses? Now is your chance to help stop his reanimated corpse.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Last week I pulled one of these #DukeRiley soccer balls out of the harbor at the Waterfront Museum. Still haven't decided whether the whole experience was ironic or too on the nose. www.palomasport.com/store/p/duke...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Took a much-needed pseudo-vacation morning to collect photos of maritime public history sites for an impending conference presentation. Do bars on old boats count as maritime public history? If not, what would it take to make them count?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The War of 1812 left a seemingly indelible mark on NYC’s waterfront, so I am delighted to learn of 1812 veteran Hiram Cronk and the film of his funeral.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

In 1977, New York City changed its seal to designate 1625 as its official year of establishment. But in 2025, you can still ride subway trains that are so old the wallpaper has the pre-77 city seal listing 1664 as the year the city was born nygroove.nyc/the-one-plac...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Constellations as finding aids for the celestial archive

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I attended this once and it may have been the most useful library training I’ve ever received. Highly recommend!

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Two plays that need to be produced in every theatre market this season 1. Timon of Athens (Shakespeare, ya’ll) because now we hurl invective at the ingratitude of those whom federal spending benefited most 2. le Balcon by Jean Genet because www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...

submitted 47 days ago • 397 comments

Yay, Canada; celebrate the win, but with a phew not a hurray, and go back and fight even harder because we need the wins to be a whole lot bigger. Make fascism gross to everyone.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, today’s the day I stop lurking and start earning my handle: OTD in 1963 brush fires devastated the Staten Island community of Sandy Ground (100 homes lost), whose residents for much of the 19th century were Black oyster industry workers, many migrating from MD in 1828 to escape racist regs

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, NYC, it’s been cooler than we’d like, but while you’re out celebrating 80°F note that it has also been dry. Take care with open flames and appreciate the blossoms while you can.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Instead of building a sometimes light, airy faint echo of old Penn Station encumbered with luxury mixed use towers, what if we just clad Madison Square Garden in gold tinted glass panels

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Frost seems like a certainty tomorrow morning in NYC, so get out there and enjoy spring extra hard today before all the blossoms turn to mud

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I rejoined the Democratic Party (literally kicking & screaming in frustration) to unelect our trumper cop mayor and defeat our narcissist former governor, but now I’m looking forward to retiring this delusional coward too. I still wish it didn’t require joining this moribund anti-democratic machine

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Clay figurines buried in 400 BC in western El Salvador have open mouths suggesting they were made to convey an utterance of speech or song. Archaeologists say their articulated heads capable of turning sideways, some with holes for strings, point to the existence of Mesoamerican puppet theaters.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

@nytimes.com by what definition of “misleading” is this usage appropriate? Did your past headlines include “Bullet Makes Contact with JFK’s Head”? “RMS Titanic’s Arrival Delayed”? “Hitler Meh About Jews”?

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

my cynical reading of the future -- if Trump's eventually taken down, it's because he's so dumb that he'll eventually make life worse for rich people *too,* and they'll decide to do something -- and thus, for most of us, the fire won't be quenched, but at least the house won't explode

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments