My $10 lunch on Tuesday, soup, lemonade and hot sauce included 😎

The Lower East Side’s 1931 Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged is set to reopen as luxury condos. For The Forward, I wrote about how a symbol of collective achievement now stirs up locals’ anxieties of rising rents and displacement. forward.com/culture/654678…

Come to KGB Bar and Red Room on Tuesday at 7pm for their legendary journalist reads series! I was invited to present my THE CITY article about migrant lunch vendors. Have a listen or just have a drink!

Within hours of finish someone put their 2024 NYC marathon medal up for sale on FB marketplace. And when I say someone, I know exactly who, because you can look up bib numbers.

Reposting my THE CITY article about migrant lunch ladies after the New York Post did their own bad and sensationalist version of it. Read the original if you want an in-depth and nuanced look into a complex issue: thecity.nyc/2024/09/19/mig…

When you rip off another outlet’s work AND make it a lot more racist. Read the original from THE CITY: thecity.nyc/2024/09/19/mig…

The shuttering of Absolute Bagels on NYC’s Upper West Side is driving some to anguish — others to poetry Great read by Adam Langer forward.com/culture/682573…

I decided I’m going to passively scroll, and rarely post elsewhere: bsky.app/profile/andrew…

Essential reading about what’s become a part of city life.

For the @JDForward, I wrote about how Trump is using a McCarthy-era antisemitic law to deport pro-Palestine students. forward.com/news/702427/mc…

My colleague Andrew Silverstein spoke to Zohran’s Mamdani’s Jewish constituents in Astoria. Here is what they say about him becoming mayor and his positions on Israel. forward.com/news/733324/zo…