The Guardian • October 2023 Central Park warned a festival would ruin its lawn. New York went ahead with it The Great Lawn will be closed for months after the city held a concert in torrential rain.
The Guardian • September 2023 ‘They’re big, bad bullies’: New York’s bitter fight over a 34,000-seat cricket stadium Is cricket truly ready to expand in the United States?
The Guardian • August 2023 New York is building the world’s tallest jail in Chinatown. Can anyone stop it? A brutal symbol of incarceration, or the sign of an improving justice system?
The Guardian • August 2023 ‘The police see us as disposable’: what life’s really like in New York’s maligned ‘red light district’ "People need to survive. And we’re not going anywhere."
Curbed • July 2023 New York’s first Narcan vending machine Is working In Brownsville, the city’s latest experiment in harm reduction has already stopped overdoses.
The Guardian • June 2023 ‘Any mistake can take your life’: the immigrant women working construction in New York Why more immigrant women are training to be construction workers — despite the danger.
The Guardian • June 2023 Four more people just died in an e-bike fire. If nothing changes, they won’t be the last After yet another deadly lithium battery fire, why isn't more being done to prevent them?
The Guardian • May 2023 Will America’s first ‘right to sleep outside’ actually help unhoused people? It leaves out the one right that would actually solve homelessness: housing.
Fast Company • May 2023 I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty The judge called its defense ‘persuasive.’
The Guardian • May 2023 ‘It’s a failure of the system’: before Jordan Neely was killed, he was discarded How did Jordan Neely fall through New York City's sprawling safety net?
The Guardian • April 2023 Forty-three druggings, seven deaths: New York clubgoers face wave of violent robberies How do you stay vigilant in venues meant to let you drop your defenses?
Fast Company • March 2023 NYC is about to regulate AI in hiring. Critics say the new law doesn’t do much Why Local Law 144 isn't just a missed opportunity, but dangerous.
Curbed • March 2023 What if we made It easier for renters to buy their buildings? A new bill in Albany would give tenants the right to purchase their buildings — and the funding to do it.
The Guardian • March 2023 ‘It’s legal, there’s just no precedent’: the first US town to demand a rent decrease When housing prices soared in Kingston, it tried something no other city had ever done.
The Guardian • March 2023 Starbucks fired a union organizer. New York City got him rehired Austin Locke was sacked days after he helped unionize workers. A monumental new labor law means he’s back on the job.
Curbed • January 2023 Does New York’s Chinatown really need an arch? New York has approved funding for the city's first Chinatown gate. Not everyone is happy.
Curbed • December 2022 The crumbling building where no one claims to be the landlord The strange case of a Crown Heights building that no landlord claims to own.
The Guardian • November 2022 The other New York: how Republicans made ‘shocking’ gains in the empire state Why the midterm "red wave" surfaced in immigrant-heavy southern Brooklyn.
Curbed • November 2022 What happens when you house more than 1,000 refugees on a cruise ship? Temporary cruise-ship housing for migrants has become a real trend — does it work?