Being with means bearing witness to remarkable work, from the Amazon rainforest to the wine terroirs of China. But this last year, I've never seen herself put more into any project than this one, as lead producer. Hope y'all can tune in :)
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Cities and their discontents. Prof-alum . Senior Fellow for Climate and Opportunity . Grad . Chair . Allora!
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Sorry, time for some sass: Listen, you can blame the media for a lot of things (~believe me~) but don't come at us because you fell into a developer's dumb headline trap and then didn't show up to your job half the time. That is most certainly *not* my (our) problem.
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Hey - I filed a 311 complaint about this corner, and even listed the specific coordinates. Guys came and said they found nothing to report. But the mess is still here. Please come back!
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Oh look, what everyone predicted would happen has happened.
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"Even with the gradual post-pandemic recovery of many transit systems, Citi Bike would still rank as the 30th biggest transit system in the country."
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New York is this bizarro place where you can be so down in the dumps about the state of how it all functions, and then a beautiful day comes along, and all of a sudden, you're like, "New York, New Yorkkkkkk!"
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What is bad, ofc, is the high costs driving all of this. I’m less worried about people leaving coastal cities than the folks struggling to live in them. Cities shouldn’t be taking action to save the white collar workers, exclusively. They should be taking action to help everyone.
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Again, the hot take: this isn't necessarily a bad thing. NYC and SF have held a white-collar monopoly for too long—and created urban environments that often catered too much to that crowd. A balancing act is long overdue. nytimes.com/interactive/20
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Again, the hot take: this isn't necessarily a bad thing. NYC and SF have held a white-collar monopoly for too long—and created urban environments that often catered too much to that crowd. A balancing act is long overdue.
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These ideas read like an anthology of what U.S. urban planning got right — and wrong.
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First makers market of the season organized by QNS Collaborative on , which has ballooned into a fair that attracts 60+ vendors. This is what setup looked like.
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Hearing through the grapevine that lots of folks have been filling out the survey. We love to see it - if you live nearby, work nearby, just love or have visited 31st Ave of late, fill 👏 it 👏 out.
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We’re looking for feedback to improve safety, public space & #BikeNYC connections in Astoria, #Queens!
Check out this survey (& send it to your neighbors) to give input on 31st Ave & also share ideas for new north/south routes: surveymonkey.com/r/astoriaplann
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Citi Bike turns 10 this year - but it almost didn’t happen! A flooded warehouse, people predicting bloodbaths - now it feels as essential to getting around the city as the subway. talked to 12 who helped it get off the ground
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This is smart policy! The city's late-night delivery program hasn't picked up a lot of steam, but it's because it lacked financial incentives like this one.
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This is likely to Trump's disadvantage—he's trying to use a late 20th/early 21st century model of media that's increasingly irrelevant and out of sync with how people consume the news. Just ask around: most people you speak with *probably didn't even know* there was a town hall.
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Cable news isn't really 'national TV' anymore; it's watched by a portion of the population that's dwindling each year. And so the rancor about it derives from a pretty outdated view of the media in 2023, imo. CNN? The only time I watch CNN is at the gym lol and I'm a journalist!
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Of course Trump's viability to be on TV is questionable. But that's CNN's decision; don't watch it then. Thankfully, fewer and fewer people actually are—cable's on the decline. And those that still tune in are locked into arena politics. That audience is a lost cause, imo.
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"At least 145 of these lots are used by the New York City Police Department to park their vehicles, leading some organizers to ask: is parking more important than housing?"
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Some of the first looks at phase 2 of the Willets Point development and the new soccer stadium for
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It did have that vibe this AM. I couldn't even read my book.
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We’re thrilled to welcome back as Senior Fellow for Climate & Opportunity. John will be leading new research on building a stronger and more sustainable NYC.
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Delighted to share that I’ll be returning to @nycfuture as their Senior Fellow for Climate & Opportunity! That means lots of research coming your way soon on everything I love most: transit, open space, parks and NYC. It’ll be fun 
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After three years, ’s Missing Them project is closing a major chapter and transitioning into an archive.
Join us in celebrating this work — and this amazing community — at our exhibits in The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn through Memorial Day.
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Delighted to share that I’ll be returning to @nycfuture as their Senior Fellow for Climate & Opportunity! That means lots of research coming your way soon on everything I love most: transit, open space, parks and NYC. It’ll be fun
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Delighted to share that I’ll be returning to as their Senior Fellow for Climate & Opportunity! That means lots of research coming your way soon on everything I love most: transit, open space, parks and NYC. It’ll be fun 👌
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Line-editing 13 senior theses (which, for journalism students, is 3,000-word deeply reported, magazine-length features) over the next few days. And what's the one thing they all have in common?
Writing 'NYC' instead of 'New York City.'
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Breaking: says cops have arrested the driver who killed 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun on Newtown Rd. in Feb. And the charge is criminally negligent homicide, a far more serious charge than is typical (aka "failure to yield").
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If I could frame a digital article, it would be this one.
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“I joke that Long Island City is becoming the yuppie Flushing.”
surveyed the growing Asian food scene in southwest Queens
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Gotta love the publicly available corn hole set at the 31st Ave open street
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But knowing how this goes, planners are going to take this info + present zones to community boards, businesses are going to say they don't want to lose parking, and we're gonna end up with the same old congested streets we have now. Because the system is... 🫠
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Much love to Astorians for taking the new portal to report double-parked cars (for loading zone planning) and really running with it. This is just one avenue.
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The Jordan Neely situation strikes me as profoundly sad, and I don't see nearly enough sadness in the way people are talking about it. Lots of righteous anger, lots of unrighteous anger, lots of focus on, like, culture-war posturing and point-scoring.
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"How will being at one with the Force prepare me for today’s job market?" #MayThe4thBeWithYou
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May the 4th be with you, and also: Andor is the GOAT; the third season of Mando was mediocre; Bad Batch is fun; Star Wars Visions, too; Jedi Survivor looks amazing (but I don't have the right console); another Simpsons mashup is here; and, wow, this content machine is endless.
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We’re looking for feedback to improve safety, public space & #BikeNYC connections in Astoria, #Queens!
Check out this survey (& send it to your neighbors) to give input on 31st Ave & also share ideas for new north/south routes: surveymonkey.com/r/astoriaplann
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