Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
How to Donate Clothes and Textiles in NYC — and Where It All Goes
Spring is finally here — a time for letting the light in, especially on the dark corners of your (overstuffed) closet. The average New York City household throws out 92 pounds of textiles per year, so before you toss those old sheets or out-of-style pants in the trash, take a pause. There are many ways […]
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More Than 40k 311 Calls From Rikers Go Into a Black Hole Every Year
After visiting her son on Rikers Island last June, Benjamin Kelly’s mother dialed 311 in a panic. He was hallucinating about an insect crawling up his nose, dead bodies in the walls and something reaching up from the floor to grab him, Angela Kelly told the operator. She urged the jail’s medical staff to change […]
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LISTEN: A Full Plate for a Young New Mayor
Zohran Mamdani has been Hizzoner for just 88 days, and he’s already navigating the “poisoned chalice” of a big budget deficit he inherited while the credit agencies that could make it much more expensive for the city to borrow money are taking an increasingly dim view of its finances on his watch. Hosts Christina Greer […]
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A Gale Brewer Imposter Scammed NYC’s Pension Fund Out of $32,980
Gale Brewer has long been one of the city’s best-known elected officials. In the summer of 2022, she was starting her second stint as a City Council member for the Upper West Side, after eight years as Manhattan borough president. Practically everybody involved in civic matters had known her for decades. At times, she attended […]
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LISTEN: The Readymade Art Bomb Who Exploded NYC
An epic art show at the Lexington Avenue Armory made a young Marcel Duchamp, who was back in France, one of America’s first modern celebrities even before he first arrived in New York City for what became decades of painting, conceiving, chess-playing and love-making — though not always in that order. John Strausbaugh, the author […]
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