Books. Art. The New York Mets. Sometimes I write about all three. For The Economist, LA Review of Books, The Forward, Urban Omnibus, City Lab, & elsewhere.
Joined June 2011
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Feb 9
My new essay - about the wonderful documentary Drop Dead City and why watching it feels like looking at the reels of your own home movies - the films of the 70s. For @AWFJ
50 years ago New York City was on the edge of bankruptcy, dangerous and decrepit. Wonderful #FearCity doc #DropDeadCity from #MichaelRohatyn & #PeterYost about the 1975 fiscal crisis is a retelling of this pivotal moment in NYC history. @idapost reviews: awfj.org/blog/2026/02/06/dro…
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For Anthony Mason 🧡💙
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Jun 14
awwwww the Knicks just needed their emotional support down by double digits
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Jun 11
Knicks fans to OG Anunoby from now until forever
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Jun 11
THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN NBA FINALS HISTORY.
THE KNICKS LEAD THE NBA FINALS 3-1!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jun 6
Really missing him extra tonight🧡💙
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Jun 6
Game 3: The lights go out in MSG, Charles Oakley emerges from a cloud of smoke like the Undertaker and hits Dolan and Trump at the same time with the Three Stooges slap as the force ghost of Anthony Mason nods in approval from the rafters, it is foretold let it manifest
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Jun 4
Walt Frazier on Jalen Brunson to @theathletic:
"He's got the tenacity of Willis Reed and he's got my cool."
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We hereby offer Mr. Wembanyama tickets to our Sunday, June 7 screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning five-and-a-half hour epic 1900 when he is in the city later this week on a work-related trip...
Source confirms that Victor Wembanyama treated the team to a screening of the movie “Obsession” as the Spurs tried to wind down from the emotional toll of Game 7 heading into the Finals.
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May 29
We won a Murrow for our @ny1 podcast about feminist trailblazer and NYC icon Bella Abzug! @errollouis @bobhardt
The 2026 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award winners are now live! 🏆
Congratulations to the outstanding journalists and news organizations being recognized for excellence in journalism across local and national news.
View the full list of winners: buff.ly/tTWeqAU
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May 25
In an alternate timeline, I head straight there tonight to buy my Eastern Conference Champions drip
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May 25
“We'd go to Rockaway on Sundays, which is like, I don't know, two-and-a-half hours or something with the A train, and nobody would be on [the train] Sunday morning. So we'd be like writing everywhere. We'd jump out of stations in the middle of nowhere, write our names, get back on the train. That's how we were doing it.” gothamist.visitlink.me/C2I_s…
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May 20
Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, John Starks, Latrell Sprewell, Marcus Camby, Iman Shumpert & Stephon Marbury are locked in as Jalen Brunson brings the Knicks back
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7 comebacks in May, 5-1 home-stand. Ya gotta believe. LFGM!
Yankees will forever suck.
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May 15
I’ve written about one of my favorite shows in a very long time - it’s somehow Martha Cooper’s first retrospective in NYC, and I can’t think of a better way to showcase the work of this legendary woman whose images of NYC in the 70s, 80s, of kids creating their own worlds, helped ignite a global street art movement.
deardavemagazine.com/deardav…
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Maybe they shoulda kept Pete Alonso, T.
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The NYC department of records, to their eternal glory, has digitized hundreds of historic videos and audio recordings from @WNYC’s history since 1937.
Anyone who is an NYC-phile needs to get into this STAT.
nycrecords.access.preservica…
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Apr 6
Spring is grand!
A terrific new book, Cinematic Immunity, by Michael Lee Nirenberg, is a fascinating and teeming oral history of New York movie-making (Hollywood-produced), such as On the Waterfront, The French Connection, The Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, Do the Right Thing, and Goodfellas—
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Mar 26
RT @emilyagain: Mrs. Met is Puerto Rican and Jewish, grew up in Woodside, worked at a bakery as a teen and went to a large public HS wherea…
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