Aaron Timms

Plucking, Primping, and Politicking | Aaron Timms Eric Adams frequently combines mayoral business with personal grooming—in many ways it is the highest priority of his administration.

For @thebaffler.com I wrote about Eric Adams in the beautician’s chair

thebaffler.com/latest/pluck...

22.07.2025 12:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

For @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social I wrote about New York’s interminable war on rats
nyra.nyc/articles/rat...

31.03.2025 12:04 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Includes thoughts on strip clubs, ghost kitchens, migrant shelters, the Astoria food scene, the modern urban megadevelopment, the 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange, and Mark Wahlberg’s accent in 2000 crime thriller The Yards

28.06.2024 20:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I spent the late winter stomping around Sunnyside Yard and trying to imagine what the great 192-acre rail depot of northwestern Queens will look like once it disappears under the developers’ hood. The result is this 7,000 word essay for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/ava...

28.06.2024 20:09 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

First ever comment on Reddit #nailedit #upvote

21.03.2024 20:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is culture stuck? And if it is, what can we do to shake it loose? My latest for The New Republic
newrepublic.com/article/1794...

19.03.2024 16:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

As part of my ongoing series for The Guardian on the political economy of sport, I wrote about the Saudi takeover of European football

www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/j...

25.01.2024 20:35 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Renters’ Constituency The politics of homeownership in Australia

My first (what do you call a post here) on Blue Sky and my first piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social . If you are struggling to rent, let alone buy and also question why the Social Democratic left doesn't really care, this piece is for you! www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ren...

15.10.2023 13:19 — 👍 32    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 2

Good week to be researching the limitations of situational crime prevention theory

12.10.2023 19:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, it’s almost as if pickleball has experience colonizing the ancestral lands of a deeply entrenched historic rival…

12.10.2023 03:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just what you always needed in your life: 5,000 words from me about toilets
nyra.nyc/articles/nyc...

11.10.2023 00:39 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

myself included of course!!!

07.10.2023 03:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was hoping that people might have used the mass migration from twitter as an opportunity to evolve/develop more interesting personalities but nope, everyone’s the same old tedious cunt on here that they were over there

07.10.2023 03:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hell yeah now we’re talkin

19.09.2023 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Useful (from Sasha Frere-Jones’s Earlier)

05.09.2023 01:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0