.Mark Chiusano profiled the NYC rat czar and didn't throw up once
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

“If she doesn’t have a team, she’s got to have the weight of the mayor,” says onetime rat czar Joe Lhota about the new rat czar, who does not have a staff nymag.com/intelligencer/…

This did not make it into the piece but I read Robert Sullivan’s great book RATS and learned that Audubon hunted rats on the waterfront and also that rats ate through bodies at the coroner’s office on Chambers Street in the 19th century nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Potential Adams challenger Scott Stringer on the czar system: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The political side of this piece is that Adams may have found his moonshot, universal pre-k-style initiative: trash containerization. But will he stick with it?
At a town hall last week you could already see hints of people angry about containerized trash nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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This week on #personoftheweek : The one and only Christiane Amanpour on why it's so hard to get the story on the ground in Gaza, how the conflicts of 2024 compare to earlier ones she's covered, and why the world is at such a tipping point right now
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This Charlotte Alter story was so good so it’s no surprise !!!! deadlineclub.org/2024-awards-fi…

Surreal but true: Soon owners of every NYC residence of <10 apartments will have to buy trash bins from this one North Carolina company, and only from this one company. Gabriel Poblete & katie honan have the details. thecity.nyc/2024/04/09/gar…

The midtown of it all nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/…

Watching an Eric Adams town hall and he just raised up an iPhone to the crowd.

'This was an iPod...now your whole life is on it'

The message: 'you evolve'

It's an argument about containerizing trash and how much he hates rats...

everybody chill out

Lot of great moments in this Tisch/DSNY piece but one is when a sanitation worker says people in the West Village 'eat their food out of takeout containers. 'You go to Chinatown, they still cook,' he went on.' newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

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Santos on why he wants to run in Suffolk County, via Will Bredderman: “My husband and I both enjoy that kind of life. We’re dying to have a chicken coop and stuff like that, and in Suffolk County it’s much easier to get that' thedailybeast.com/george-santos-…

The baby just refused to give me something because “it’s for grownups”

Going to be doing a CUNY talk about Santos and CD3 on Friday.

On Zoom and open to the public! gc.cuny.edu/events/book-ta…

This Friday April 5 at 1pm, for our next Book Talk we are thrilled to welcome writer, reporter and City Tech lecturer Mark Chiusano for a discussion of his latest book, 'The Fabulist.' Join us! gc.cuny.edu/events/book-ta…