Alexandra Lange

The Long Comeback of the Erie Canal One of America’s first major public works projects is marking its 200th anniversary — and seeking a path to the future.

Loved reading this @timothyaschuler.bsky.social piece about the Erie Canal’s first 200 years … and what’s next (bridges! trails! art!) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

yes, us! here you go:

??? I'm seeing mid-major publishing house but I suppose the font-first logos had to get phased out eventually. In 10 years everything will be geometric symbol again.

Keri Russell = Brooklyn neighbor, kids the same age, AND also allergic to success (I broke out in hives for the first time ever after I won the Pulitzer) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How Queensbridge’s “Baby Park” Became an Orphan and a Battleground for LIC Rezoning Public housing residents want to bring back a once beloved, New Deal-era strip of playgrounds under the Queensboro Bridge. Local Councilmember Julie Won said she won’t approve the rezoning plan withou...

TIL about Baby Park in Queens and I am fully on board with the Restore Baby Park movement www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/07/b...

Women's History Illuminated Women's History and the National Historic Landmarks Program

@skpawlicki.bsky.social was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

More nuanced than most writing on this topic! The social aspect of gaming, and the social currency of knowing about games, should not be overlooked (balance is everything)

It would be poetic if Benjamin Franklin Parkway went pedestrian ... they did it for the Bicentennial!

"At a time when families are leaving cities for the leafy suburbs, open streets show how kids can play, bike, and run around the city — particularly if we reduce car lanes."

Lots of people equate charisma with what movie stars have but there are lots of different kinds ...

The quest for every Gap store playlist ever Gap Playlists is an exercise in data collection and nostalgia.

My favorite thing to listen to right now is Michael Bise's trove of Gap in-store playlists from the late 1990s to early 2000s. He's been hunting for these pieces of ephemera for 20 years! www.theverge.com/report/79080...

As I freelancer I am not on a payroll so I guess I have that at least!

Thanks for this response! Not trying to start a fight, it is just that this is my crossing and there was an SUV parked in it yesterday afternoon which caused me to ?!?!

New Tariffs Could Worsen America’s Housing Crisis

Great example of how tariffs harm broad economic segments but benefit narrow niche interests: housing analysts + NAHB worry (rightly) that tariffs on cabinets will slow housing production. Who's happy? The American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

Also local, walkable elementary school is the best opportunity there is to gain community with other parents

Yes everyone is freaking out because they think it is the SHSAT when it is the obviously flawed program for 4yos

Feels worth noting that this phase-out is for kindergarten through 2nd/3rd grade, where there’s a separate gifted track that doesn’t rely on pre-k teachers nominating students

This is the intersection I posted about yesterday (Court/Baltic). I am totally pro-bike lane, but shouldn't those crosswalk lines be continuous?

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Would have been nice to get some money for the one I wrote for no money ;)

3/4 were published before 2021 so I thought they might be! Just wanted to underscore that this database is different from some of the other links that have been shared.

I just looked and my books appeared in previous searchable lists but not this one so -- worth checking again

Did you have the Waterhouse Hawkins book, speaking of unhinged dinosaurs www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Wa...

I have been searching for my photos from when we went here! Now 18yo was a big fan.

I keep wondering if we can put our taxes in an escrow account like you do with a bad landlord

This is really so funny because if you write about cities people seem to want all the good urban examples to come from Scandinavia, but also then insist they won't work here, when there are plenty of good US examples that can work here

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

The casual nudity? The child running free in the forest? The eating of bugs? What would make you say that?

I feel as if I always knew who Jane Goodall was thanks to this high 1970s children's book, Grub: The Bush Baby. RIP. www.abebooks.com/978000195273...