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The New Yorker

How to Tag a Skyscraper, Six Hundred Feet Up

Along the Gowanus Canal, Notes of Tar and Manure

New York’s Clock Master to City Hall: Time’s Up!

The Associated Press

My most recent pieces published in the Associated Press can be found here. A selection:

A retired teacher saw inspiration in Columbia’s protests. Eric Adams called her an outside agitator

Who freed Flaco? One year later, celebrity owl’s escape from Central Park Zoo remains a mystery

Last operating US prison ship, a grim vestige of mass incarceration, set to close in NYC

On NYC beaches, angry birds fight drones patrolling for sharks and struggling swimmers

A tech company hired a top NYC official’s brother. A private meeting and $1.4M in contracts followed

Gothamist/WNYC

Emails show how wealthy donors exerted influence over Washington Square Park

The NYPD accidentally shot a fellow officer. A Queens man may spend life in prison for his death

Listen: George Santos eviction tapes show him begging to feed pet fish, mulling public assistance

Other

‘That Damn Hole Gave My Son Lead Poisoning’ (The Village Voice)

The Punk Rock Gilmore Girls Book Group: Cookies and wine with ‘Please Kill Me’s Legs McNeil (The Awl)

What Can You Do When the Cops Take Your Money and Won’t Give It Back? (VICE)