America’s largest bank is expanding its data center in Orangeburg, NY, near the New Jersey border.
In exchange for $77 million in tax breaks from the state and county, the bank promises to create exactly one permanent job.
My story in @nysfocus.com: nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Send me off to a foreign land
To go and eat the silver ham
Lofty Pigeon, my neighborhood bookstore, is an awesome place and I'll be leading a bird walk for them on Sunday, May 3, in Prospect Park.
"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"
A headline reads: "Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Minnesota Wilderness." Aerial view of a frozen, blue lake. Brown trees are in the background. Photo by Tim Gruber for The New York Times.
The Senate voted on Thursday to allow mining upstream from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of the largest and most visited expanses of federally protected lakes and forests in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...
“It is heartbreaking to see it all playing out as we have predicted for so long,” Dr. Abby Frazier, a climatologist and assistant professor at Clark University, said. “The changes we have teed up for ourselves are going to be catastrophic.”
Join me next month at the Center for Brooklyn History for a talk with some great guests about birding in New York! Registration is in the link.
www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...
SECRETARY RUBIO: Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Irans had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have had a much different country.
objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country
If the Israeli Knesset members' lapel pins shaped as little nooses isn't where you say peace-out to that fascist state, you're just carrying residual nostalgia for some fantasy version of Israel that exists only in your head.
Yes! That's going to be a fun one. I intend on visiting it with some regularity.
While sitting at a table outside Barbes in Park Slope yesterday, I watched a pair of kestrels fly in and out of a hole in the upper right corner of this cornice. One would perch on a lamppost in front of the cafe. I didn't capture the birds in the photo, but zoom in to see their nest site!
1/ As I reported my book, I noticed something that has completely changed American life: widespread chronic under-staffing. It leads to, among other things, deadly medication errors at pharmacies, flight delays, messy stores, and the crime wave. From me @prospect.org
prospect.org/2026/03/19/u...
This is in two days! Kick off spring with a bird chat and bird walk in beautiful Fort Tryon Park.
BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani is ending the Adams/Tisch-era policy of slapping cyclists and e-bike riders with criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses. -- with @sophlebo.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/18/m...
“Scientists say the move to dismantle the center would weaken research that is crucial to understanding the atmosphere, space and oceans, air pollution and climate change. It would leave emergency officials and planners less prepared for extreme weather events, critics said.”
Bus timetable showing the next bus is in 4 minutes, then 46 minutes
Making buses free might help but there are real structural reasons why people don’t take the bus in NYC, like 42 minute waits
They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda
Want to know more about birding in the city, and get to try it out?
Come join me to discuss @ryangoldberg.bsky.social's great new book Bird City on March 21 in Washington Heights!
More details and tickets on the bookshop's website: fountainbookshop.com/event/2026-0...
Come for the bird chat, stay for the complimentary sundae.
Next Saturday, on the first full day of spring, I'll be discussing my book Bird City with @kevinduggan.bsky.social at The Fountain Bookshop in upper Manhattan, followed by a bird walk in nearby Fort Tryon Park. Come join us!
Why does this read so very much like a particularly deranged brand of AI-speak
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
The new mayor said he wants "streets that are the envy of the world" — yet his Department of Transportation continues its predecessor's flawed policy on daylighting. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/03/n...
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
The lesson of the Great Snowball Freakout of 2026 is that Mamdani's efforts to appease and engage the power centers inclined to hammer him on public safety are doomed, because they're going to hammer him anyway, even for something as goofy as a snowball fight.
hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...
i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
Funny how hard these guys are for Return To Office, but when it’s time for the mass firings we have to be absolutely sure there are no possible gatherings
