Doesn’t anybody care what I want? Potholes have feelings too. Maybe I shouldn’t take it personally, but when the one thing that Republicans and Democrats can agree on is getting rid of — well, me — it’s hard not to. Do you know what it’s like to have everybody hate…

This morning I woke up at 11 AM and then I scrolled through Twitter for an hour! Then I made coffee and had a bagel and went back to bed! I scrolled on my phone some more, including Snapchat, which I don’t even use, but then I got sleepy so…

“America is the place where anything can happen. America is the place where anyone can rise. And here, on this land, on this soil, on this continent, the most incredible dreams come true, if you pay off the right people.”​ — Donald J. Trump New York, NY​ — The Trump…

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How one Jewish community leader emphasizes social justice June 2, 2020 On the eve of the conclusion of George Floyd’s shiva, the seven day Jewish mourning period, Rabbi Jeremy Markiz is fasting. The Pittsburgh rabbi organized a public fast day on Sunday, calling for a community-wide day of mourning that also serves as a call for justice against…

Dear fellow Jewish Americans (who are also white), This is not our time. This is not about us. This is about black people who have suffered at the hands of the systemic racism that fed slavery and police brutality in our country for the past 400 years. This is not…

A Q&A with Judith Berdy, President of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society Over the last four centuries, the strip of land on the East River between Manhattan and Queens in New York City, today called Roosevelt Island, underwent a series of repurposing and renaming. In the 17th century, what was…

Originally published in The Journalist as Historian They didn’t have what I was looking for, exactly. The Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University’s Butler Library supposedly had a collection of Joseph Pulitzer’s private papers. Pulitzer was a newspaper magnate of the early 20th century, the owner of the…

How one NYCHA complex still struggles with repairs and environmental issues seven years after Hurricane Sandy (December 2019) Karen Blondel has been semi-packed for the last seven years. In preparation for Hurricane Sandy in 2012, she removed any projectiles from the walls — picture frames, various décor — of her ground floor apartment in Red Hook Houses. She remembers the moment the water began to enter…