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Legends Never Die

Archival photos courtesy Gunars Elmuts; all other photos by Jonathan Weiskopf August 1990, St. Marks Place. Priscilla Forsyth, one month shy of her fourteenth birthday and just home from summer…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6918 words)

Life in Public Housing

Photos by Shino Yanagawa More than 400,000 New Yorkers live in housing developments overseen by the New York City Housing Authority—towers more commonly known as “the…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3035 words)
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The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed

Published in the March 2013 issue Phil Bronstein is the former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and currently serves as executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting. This piece…
LENGTH: 60 minutes (15039 words)

Silencing the Subway

Inside a high-tech effort to minimize the maddening racket in the New York underground. If  you’ve ever stood in the deafening racket of the Spring Street subway station in Manhattan and…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3172 words)

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

The Ins and The Outs

Along one of New York's most rapidly changing boulevards, a look below the surface exposes what—and who—is really driving gentrification in Crown Heights. A hypothetical time-lapse…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6587 words)

Think always of me

In the early hours of October 16th, 1793, nine months after the execution of her husband, Louis XVI, the 37-year-old former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, wrote the following tear-stained…
PUBLISHED: July 10, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1650 words)

Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part Five)

This is part five of a five-part series. Parts 1 | 2 |
PUBLISHED: June 23, 2011
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4513 words)
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