Ryan Goldberg

In 'Bird City,' looking up isn't just for tourists New York is a bird city. We’re just living in it.

one unexpected way to be a better New Yorker? start paying closer attention to the birds that are all around us. in this week's issue, Bird City author @ryangoldberg.bsky.social shows us what the city can look like when you take a birds-eye view: nygroove.nyc/bird-watchin...

In 'Bird City,' looking up isn't just for tourists New York is a bird city. We’re just living in it.

It was really fun to talk to journalist Alesandra Tejeda out in the Rockaways for this @nygroove.nyc story. Love the subhead too.

Join author Ryan Goldberg as he discusses the experiences that inspired his #book, Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds.

When: Monday, Dec. 1 at 6:30 PM
Where: Teaneck Public #Library
Books available for purchase and signing.

@teaneckcreek.bsky.social
@ryangoldberg.bsky.social

Come hang out and chat New York City birding with me and @ryangoldberg.bsky.social — and read his new book! Tomorrow night in Ditmas Park.

Author Event: Bird City by Ryan Goldberg Author reading and book sale.

The Hoboken Library! hobokenlibrary.libnet.info/event/14663533

And the Montauk Library! www.eventbrite.com/e/author-tal...

If you're in Brooklyn, I'll be discussing my new book tomorrow with @hanner.bsky.social at the great indy bookstore Taylor & Co. Books in Ditmas Park. It starts at 7:30pm.

Plus! On Thursday I'll be at the Hoboken Library, and on Saturday at the Montauk Library. Links to those in the comments.

All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism

Hochul, Murphy OK key permits for Trump-backed gas pipeline in NYC, NJ The move reverses an environmental policy victory won by the Cuomo administration.

This is disgusting. "We need to govern in reality," Hochul said. How about the reality of burning more fossil fuels and ramming a pipeline through sensitive and already-stressed marine ecosystems?

gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...

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I did an interview with Alain Clavette for the CBC which was a lot of fun, talking Bird City and urban wildness.

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Thanks Susie!

It’s Sunday Nov 16!

Pub Day Bird City has landed

Bird City is out today, and you can find it wherever you buy books.

ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/pub-day

Birding on the Beach: Why Fall and Winter Are Great Times to Bird Watch Late August days were once bittersweet for me. Growing up on the Jersey Shore, where my family were members of a rickety old beach club, I still remember the feel of the cooler air in the evenings …

@ryangoldberg.bsky.social makes the case for birdwatching in the winter and fall.

Birding on the Beach: Why Fall and Winter Are Great Times to Bird Watch Late August days were once bittersweet for me. Growing up on the Jersey Shore, where my family were members of a rickety old beach club, I still remember the feel of the cooler air in the evenings …

For LitHub I wrote about my favorite time of year at the beach...after Labor Day!

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

The Owl Code Tearing Apart New York's Birders | Defector We followed the Owl Whisperer around the gun battery toward a grove of pitch pines, where he had seen the saw-whet owl. Then I heard someone ask behind me, “Where are they going?” I turned around and ...

My book Bird City comes out on Tuesday! But for a little sneak preview, head on over to @defector.com: defector.com/the-owl-code...

Is Legal Sports Gambling Creating Cheaters or Exposing a Long-Held Secret? Last week NBA stars were accused of faking injuries and insider trading. This type of thing has been going on forever

I wrote a hot take for the first time in my life www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

‘Watch Yourself’: Top Cuomo Advisor Melissa DeRosa ’04 M.P.A. ’09 Berates Undergrad Who Probes Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Allegations Melissa DeRosa ’04 M.P.A. ’09, secretary to former governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) berated a Cornell undergraduate student at a Oct 1. Cornell Political Strategy Group event after asking about Cuomo’s ...

This story about Melissa DeRosa allegedly threatening Cornell's funding after an undergrad dared to ask her about Cuomo's sexual harassment allegations is not gonna do anything for this crew's reputation as frothing bullies.

www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

Next month I'll be doing a bunch of events with some great people to talk about BIRD CITY, my book coming out in 8 days! Come join! You can get more details on ryangoldberg.net.

Yet another over-the-top story about a third party candidate who lost his party's primary by a large margin but has name recognition so that earns him a boatload of free publicity.

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The Villains on Pre-K TV Are Cuddly, Annoying and … Morally Interesting

For New York Times Magazine, I wrote about the ethical complexity of one of the most irritating shows on television... SuperKitties.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...

Bird City For readers of What an Owl Knows and The World Without Us, this infectiously impassioned tour of the five New York City boroughs offers city dwellers and bir...

In two weeks you can vote and pick up your copy of Bird City on the same day:

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-...

Stop birds hitting windows The downside to a big night of migration

I wrote about a great morning of watching bird migration and the very big problem of window collisions: ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/stop-birds...

Buried at the bottom of the post is of course exciting news; books came in yesterday.

Hawk Watch Watching hawks from the ruins of a New York City fort

I wrote about one of my favorite places in the city, the hawk watch at Fort Tilden in the Rockaways: ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/hawk-watch

Still amazed by this. Can you imagine FDNY saying sprinklers or fire escapes are only needed in buildings where there's already been a fire?

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

No words. I believed in Ryan. We moved to Oklahoma because he promised that my awful sons Enigmus Rex and Pance would be given handguns in kindergarten and then not be given any instruction on how to use them safely. I bought a shitty gray house in Tulsa because he promised they wouldn't be woke.