Hits: 6 The Bright Side is a series about how optimism works in our minds and affects the world around us. Julieanna Stolley showed up 15 minutes early to Anita Michaud’s party. It was too soon to arrive, she decided, …
She’s Building a Little Jewish Magazine on Big Ideas
Hits: 2 After a rebellious youth and years spent on an unpublished novel, Arielle Angel, the editor of Jewish Currents, has carved out a role for herself as someone who questions entrenched ideas. On a nippy morning, Arielle Angel and …
Billy McFarland Is Out of Jail and Ready for His Next Move
Hits: 15 Five years after the Fyre Festival, the convicted fraudster is planning a comeback. “Is this technically Dumbo?” Billy McFarland asked, walking toward the East River shoreline. “It’s super cool. Are the rents here crazy too? “I never spent …
A Stranger Filmed Her on the Train. TikTok Users Decided She Had Monkeypox.
Hits: 10 With little government guidance on a fast-spreading virus, a new form of social-media vigilantism has emerged. Lilly Simon, a 33-year-old in Brooklyn, does not have monkeypox. She does have neurofibromatosis type 1, a genetic condition that causes tumors …
The Life and Death of Daniel Auster, a Son of Literary Brooklyn
Hits: 98 In a Brooklyn subway station one April morning, as commuters waited for a G train, a 44-year-old man named Daniel Auster was found unconscious on a platform after a drug overdose. He was brought to the Brooklyn Hospital …
Meet Bill Butler, the Godfather of Roller Disco
Hits: 63 When Grace Jones was strutting around Studio 54 and Donna Summer records were playing at New York clubs, Empire Rollerdrome was hitting its stride in Brooklyn. It was the end of the 1970s, disco fever was in full …