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Longreads partners with 'The Atlantic'

Longreads, the long-form journalism aggregator founded by Mark Armstrong in 2009, has a struck a partnership with The Atlantic.Under the terms of the collaboration, The Atlantic's sales team will…

Lower Manhattan rebuilds again, until the next time

In the days immediately after Hurricane Sandy lashed lower Manhattan with high winds and a record storm surge, the neighborhood was like a ghost town. Law firms and insurance companies, J.P. Morgan…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1128 words)
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A collection of the most fun media stories we read (and wrote) in 2012

There are less than 12 hours left in 2012 (and less than 48 left in the media snooze-fest that is the week between Christmas and New Year), so we thought we'd end the year with a selection of some of…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4350 words)

From wildlife refuge to table: A story about the culled Jamaica Bay geese

4:43 pm Sep. 19, 2012 Since 2009, when Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenburger had to land in the Hudson due to a bird strike by a flock of geese, the federal Department of Agriculture has been doing…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1674 words)
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How some upstate environmentalists came to embrace fracking

ITHACA—Sitting on the porch of the ecolodge he's building, Bob Lyon pointed up the hill in front of us."That's where the company drilled the well," he said. "We sat here for a months with the…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1520 words)

Is the “New” Brooklyn Economy For Real?

Congratulations, Brooklyn—you are officially the white hot center of New York City’s labor market. From 2000 to 2010, the borough’s employment rolls grew by 11…
PUBLISHED: June 4, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4340 words)

The streets of Tirana and the roots of Albanian-American organized crime

In June 2010, 17 men were arrested and charged by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan with a long list of federal RICO mob charges that included robbery, kidnapping, murder, drug dealing,…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1104 words)

From the wrong side of Williamsburg to the top of New York City baseball

The list of distinguished alumni from George Washington High School in Washington Heights includes Henry Kissinger, Jacob Javits, and Alan Greenspan.Also: Manny Ramirez, the now un-retired hitting…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2998 words)
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A sometime thing: The history of 'Porgy and Bess,' as complex as the history of race in America

9:46 am Jun. 8, 2012 There is no one Porgy and Bess. It changes according to our perceptions—most obviously about race, but also about working-class versus middle-class Negro life …;…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (666 words)
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