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She posted an ad for a roommate. What’s the worst that could happen?
Bridget Read New York Feb 2021 20min Permalink
In high school, I started to become like a local legend. A hood celebrity, if you will. And you really gotta understand how poppin’ New York City basketball was at that time. I’m playing against Stephon Marbury, Skip 2 My Lou, Alimoe (rest in peace), all these guys who would become household names, they were just kids from around the way. Man, even Cam’ron was super nice!!!
I knew all these guys from when we was little kids playing church basketball, and now all of a sudden we got Jay-Z, Puff, Dame Dash — all these guys are showing up to our games. That’s how insane New York City basketball was at that time.
God Shammgod Player's Tribune Dec 2020 Permalink
What’s the future of NYC real estate?
Andrew Rice Curbed Oct 2020 30min Permalink
A portrait of Harlem.
James Baldwin Esquire Jul 1960 30min Permalink
How Mayor de Blasio lost New York.
David Freedlander New York Jun 2020 30min Permalink
As mass demonstrations against police brutality continue across the country, thousands gather in New York to demonstrate against generations of police brutality and racial injustice in America.
Tyler Tynes The Ringer Jun 2020 10min Permalink
On loving and hating and living in Manhattan.
Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Oct 2014 10min Permalink
The initial coronavirus outbreaks on the East and West Coasts emerged at roughly the same time. But the danger was communicated very differently.
Charles Duhigg New Yorker Apr 2020 Permalink
Antoine Yates spent three years living in New York City public housing with a 450-pound Siberian tiger named Ming.
Zaron Burnett III MEL Magazine Apr 2020 Permalink
A week in the life of a family weathering the coronavirus.
Reyhan Harmanci The Cut Apr 2020 10min Permalink
A new apartment; exercises in surrealism.
J.I. Daniels Juked Magazine Feb 2020 10min Permalink
How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.
Joshua Hunt The Nation Feb 2020 15min Permalink
In an instant it was gone.
Peter Flax Bicycling Sep 2019 25min Permalink
An Indian-American journalist navigates racism in the midst of a crime investigation.
Chaya Bhuvaneswar Barrelhouse Jun 2019 10min Permalink
On life in New York with an impossible neighbor named Jared.
Sloane Crosley New Yorker Mar 2018 25min Permalink
Childhood, basketball, getting lost.
Gideon Jacobs Joyland Magazine Mar 2019 10min Permalink
When New Yorkers lived knee-deep in trash.
Hunter Oatman-Stanford Collectors Weekly Jun 2013 20min Permalink
“I’ve increasingly become aware of how much of my reputation in Taiwan is built on the knowledge of my New York upbringing.”
Brian Hioe Popula Oct 2018 10min Permalink
It won’t be easy.
William Finnegan New Yorker Jul 2018 25min Permalink
“Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, with large wads of cash, with the indicia of wealth, if you show them the money, they will be virtually unable to see anything else. And the thing was: It was so easy.”
Jessica Pressler The Cut May 2018 35min Permalink
Doug Schifter waged a one-man campaign to stop Uber from putting his fellow black-car drivers out of business. Then he decided to take his own life.
Jessica Bruder New York May 2018 20min Permalink
Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.
Jane Mayer, Ronan Farrow New Yorker May 2018 25min Permalink
To understand the rise of Donald Trump is to understand his mentor, Roy Cohn — and the New York City establishment that aided and abetted him.
Frank Rich New York Apr 2018 30min Permalink
Two men. Five days. Five boroughs. Five 140.6-mile triathlons.
Bill Bradley Deadspin Jan 2018 15min Permalink
An interview with the activist.
Katie Halper New York Dec 2017 10min Permalink