Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
People wait for the reopening of the security check at JFK Airport on August 15, 2016. Photo: Xinhua/Wang Ying When the first stampede began, my plane had just landed. It started, apparently, with a group of passengers awaiting departure in John F. Kennedy Airport Terminal 8 cheering Usain Bolt’s superhuman 100-meter dash. The applause sounded…
The 2012 Olympics never came to New York, but they changed its course forever.View Full Caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Almost 5,000 miles away from the site of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games there lies a city forever changed by its own bid to host the games. New York City was one of five finalists when the International…
For the first time in the last 15 years, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has not only failed to mention that he was the New York City Mayor during 9/11—he appears to have forgotten that 9/11 happened altogether. Did we collectively quantum leap into a warped alternate dimension? Giuliani, who’s also known in…
Every weekday morning, I used to stop at a hole-in-the-wall bodega, before a long commute from Brooklyn into Manhattan, to buy a coffee before I got on the subway. There was nothing uniquely special about the place, besides that the man behind the counter knew my order (small, milk, no sugar), and it cost just 75…
Height – 3646 | Width – 5353 Photo: Buck Ennis MARCHING ON: A Chinese family begins a funeral procession from Wan Shou Funeral Home. Brooklyn’s burial businesses have needed to adapt to the burial rites of new populations—or die. After 40 years of working in Williamsburg, Keith Senko thought he’d heard and seen it…
Photo A weather phenomenon called a “heat dome” is due to arrive in New York City just in time for the weekend. Credit Spencer Platt/Getty Images We are domed. Or will be, at any rate, very soon. In case you have not heard, a scary-sounding weather phenomenon called a “heat dome” is creeping across the…
[UPDATES BELOW] There are currently extensive delays on every single subway line, thanks to a power outage at the MTA’s Rail Control Center in Manhattan. #ServiceAlert: b/d, all train lines expect extensive delays, due to power outage. Allow additional travel time. — NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) July 13, 2016 The outage was first reported at…
Noëlle Santos, the Bronx native behind the proposed bookstore and wine bar in the South Bronx.View Full Caption Noëlle Santos Soon, the Bronx will be lit. Noëlle Santos, 29, an HR manager, is planning to open a much needed independent bookstore in the South Bronx. She recently submitted her idea to New York Public Library’s…
(Mark Mellone) New video has surfaced showing the moment an off-duty police officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man in an apparent road rage incident in Brooklyn this week. Officer Wayne Isaacs, a three-year veteran of the force, fired two shots at Delrawn Small in East New York early Monday morning. Small, who was…
Surveillance footage provided exclusively to BuzzFeed News ID: 9120137 Two teenage Muslims boys were viciously beaten outside a Brooklyn mosque early Sunday morning as their attacker called them terrorists, according to Mohamed Bahe, the director of the mosque. The incident allegedly happened around 1:18 a.m. at the Muslim Community Center of Brooklyn in Sunset Park,…