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Public historian of New York Harbor
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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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@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”?

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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

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Cleaning up the AI transcription of an interview with a NYC waterfront organization founder and it keeps turning Bronx River into "wrong server". Trying not to read too much into that--aside from the fact that I far prefer to live in my reality than that of the AI.

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you think the trains are bad now? when the capital budget was created, in 1982, subway trains were failing every 7,186 miles on average. nowadays, it’s 122,000 miles.

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#todayinhistory , the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. #maritime #museum #hamburg A thread:

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It makes me sick to consider rejoining the Democratic Party but as much as I hate them (especially the NYC machine) I hate Adams and Cuomo even more. I haven't committed to the switch yet. I'd love a convincing reason not to--or a way to rejoin them while protesting

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City of Yes watches idly as a shopping mall destroys affordable housing

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Kathy Hochul just said “The rent is too damn high.” Please do not disrespect Jimmy McMillan this way

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LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

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I’m all for eating the rich, but how does one source ethically raised, cruelty free rich? How much grass does it take to count as pasture-raised?

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I’ve been looking at a lot of 19th century maps and they’re just littered with something called a “Meth Church”

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One of my favorite #HarborHistory tales

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A friend of mine is very serious about board games and always has a pot of oolong for luck. Partway through a game of Monopoly, he realized he was drinking earl grey and lost the game because he didn't have the property.

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Flurries in NYC in December This can mean only one thing Someone is having a romcom!

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When I was 7 we lived near the Frost family and the neighborhood kids all sang “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, [redacted] picking at her nose…” With apologies to [redacted] Frost and to Mel Torme and Robert Wells too, I still find it funny.

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Recently I had to explain that we presume the accused are innocent until proven guilty because it's better not to convict a few guilty people than to wrongly convict any innocent ones and now I wonder why we don't approach social programs (e.g. SNAP) the same way but focus on stopping fraud instead

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