Tag: New York City

In 1961, Joan Didion reviewed J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey for The National Review.

The first thing [the machine’s creator, industrial designer Masamichi] Udagawa did was to provide some context for the realities of New York City in the late 1990s, when the MTA ticket vending system was being developed. What I hadn’t realized before was exactly how novel these machines were at the time.

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Mark Singer (The New Yorker)

Rilla Askew (Author, “Fire in Beulah”)

Ginger Strand (Author, “Inventing Niagara”)

Kiera Feldman (Writer, “Grace in Broken Arrow,” “This Is My Beloved Son”)

Marcos Barbery (Journalist and Documentarian, Writer, “From One Fire”)

Wednesday, Oct. 29th, 7:00 p.m.
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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street
New York, NY 10012

The New York City Housing Authority began construction on the North Bronx’s Parkside Houses in 1948. The first tenants—including the family of novelist Richard Price—began moving in during the spring of 1951. In a recent piece for Guernica, Price detailed the rise and fall of public housing in New York, told through the lens of his […]

A depressed writer sends a letter to a popular advice columnist: I couldn’t seem to go above the Twelfth Street location of my class, not to Central Park or the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the New York Public Library. I had no interest in going below Twelfth Street, either. I definitely couldn’t go to […]

“The real hourly median wage in New York between 1990 and 2007 fell by almost 9 percent. Young men and women aged twenty-five to thirty-four with a bachelor’s degree and a year-round job in New York saw their earnings drop 6 percent. Middle-income New Yorkers—defined broadly by the FPI as those drawing incomes between approximately […]