Stacy Horn

Another great NYC perk! A free dress rehearsal of the Vienna Philharmonic playing Bartok and Mahler. I’m embarrassed to admit I’m not as familiar with Mahler as I should be. Bernstein’s great love!

A park full of people who look even vaguely like JFK, Jr would be worth a visit, I think. But please do Oscar Issac next. Thank you in advance.

The next entry in my ongoing series, Faces I Can’t Resist. (I work in an animal hospital and I love your babies.) A sweet girl who was here to have surgery for a pyometra. We see this a lot. Spay your animals, please. (No shade on the owner, many people don’t know about this danger.)

Snowmen I passed on my way to choir practice last night. I almost didn’t include the last one, because I immediately flashed on a famous LA cold case. I saw the crime scene photos and I’m still traumatized!

More views of the West Village, post snowstorm. Was it a blizzard? I remember the Blizzard of 1978 in Boston, when I walked into Harvard Square (to Buddy’s Sirloin Pit!). I couldn’t see where I was going. It was hard to even tell when I was on a road. There was zero visibility, it felt like.

On 11th St. there’s a stretch of cherry trees where for a brief time during the spring the blossoms are so abundant and so lush they make a big, fat, fluffy white-and-pink canopy that stretches from sidewalk to sidewalk. We lost a few of those trees during Hurricane Sandy. We just lost another.

I grew up near the water, always collecting shells. But I never knew what to do with them. I didn’t enjoy them in bowls or jars or sitting on shelves. I finally realized I enjoyed them just as they were, in the sand, and stopped picking them up. (This is Leroy Street, West Village.)

Shoes I must possess at Anthropologie. I want the green ones at the top and the cranberry ones on the left. Yeah, and I’ll take those brown ones on the top right, too.

The next entry in my ongoing series, Faces I Can’t Resist. (I work in an animal hospital and I love your babies.) Yesterday was pretty cat day, apparently.

The first thing I saw when I walked out into the street on Valentine’s Day. West Village, New York City.

Ilia Malinin, I’m sorry for your spectacularly bad day, but you are still great. Talk to Nathan Chen. Talk to Mikaela Shiffren. It happens to the best!! You’ll come back from this.

fresh audio product:

• Stacy Horn @stacyhorn.bsky.social on the damage mortgage fraud did to East New York
• David Backer @schooldaves.bsky.social on how we finance schools and how we could do better

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This is a sign that was up at St. Paul’s Chapel during the entire 9/11 recovery effort. I’ve never forgotten it, and to this day I think of Oklahoma fondly. Thank you, Oklahoma!

The next entry in my ongoing series, Faces I Can’t Resist. (I work in an animal hospital and I love your babies.) Additional proof that kittens in the hospital need a stuffed animal for comfort.

The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood - Transparency Task Force CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR PLACE WhenTuesday, 10th February 2026, from 6pm - 7:00pm GMT WhereOnline via Zoom. FormatThere'll be a great line-up of speakers plus ample scope for discussion and debate. Abo...

My final virtual talk (for now) for my book The Killing Fields of East New York is tomorrow at 1pm!

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Last night I did a book event & was part of an evening that is a monthly thing that I will never miss again. You get comedy, NY history, an interview with someone knowledgeable. It was just so insanely fun & informative. GO. Trust me, it was that good. caveat.nyc/events/tom-d...

My event tonight will be livestreamed (for $10)! I know we’re supposed to have sub-zero temperatures tonight, so you can enjoy comedy and history from under a blanket!

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My next book event is tomorrow night, 7pm, at Tom D’s Big New York Show! There will be history, comedy, trivia and prizes!

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The Killing Fields of East New York: Book Talk with Stacy Horn East New York, once a thriving working-class neighborhood on its way up, has the highest number of unsolved murders in New York City. Why?

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The Killing Fields of East New York: Book Talk with Stacy Horn East New York, once a thriving working-class neighborhood on its way up, has the highest number of unsolved murders in New York City. Why?

If you can’t make tonight’s virtual talk for my book The Killing Fields of East New York, you have options! Tomorrow night ...
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Someone fed the pigeons on Hudson Street, West Village, NYC. Thank you, pigeon-feeder!

The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood — The Gotham Center for New York City History In the early 1990s, murder rates in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York climbed to the highest in the city’s history. How did this once thriving, diverse, family enclave fall into such ruin? In...

My next book event, Feb. 3, 6:30pm, it's virtual and free!
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Yeah, talking about silicon alley, it all got started in the 80s, really. I started Echo while I was in grad school at NYU's ITP (1986-1989) and this world had already begun.

I wasn't able to go, and yeah. I appreciated being included but so many people were not and I wasn't familiar with a lot of the names that were. I think there must have been a few parallel worlds going on then.

So many problems in the U.S. can be traced to this, which has been a problem for more than a century.

I’m always posting about other people’s pets, but I have 3 cats myself (& long to add a dog to the mix). This is Bleecker, at the vet, AGAIN. He has been diagnosed with diabetes, feline herpesvirus, & IBD. He’s just started having nose bleeds. And I am $700+ poorer.

The next entry in my ongoing series, Faces I Can’t Resist. (I work in an animal hospital and I love your babies.) A sleeping baby. Plus a blep. Be still my heart.

Reminder! My next book event for The Killing Fields of East New York is at the Yorkville Public Library tomorrow, 5PM! 222 E.79th St. “Horn unspools a fast-paced and at times crackling yarn about the Brooklyn prosecutors and F.B.I. agents who pursued predatory lenders and brokers …” New York Times.

The very polite line of people waiting for John’s Pizza on Bleecker. They stay moved off to the side so you can get by. The very opposite of the people waiting on line at L’industrie Pizzeria a few blocks away on Christopher. In their defense the street is narrower, but still. Pay attention!

East New York in the 1970s was “nuts.” Fire companies typically went out on over 10,000 runs yearly. It was like a constant flame was burning at all times in ENY, and the FDNY had to race from block to block, playing a deadly game of whack-a-mole to put it out. The FDNY called them the “war years.”