New York
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In the Trump era, all climate progress will be local
When the federal government is run by climate science deniers, it’s up to cities and states to lead.
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New York City hopes a 10-foot wall can save it from rising seas
Now New York really is New Amsterdam.
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Behold the nightmare Manhattan would become if everyone commuted by car
Without public transit, New York would have to build nearly 50 multi-lane bridges to accommodate its commuters. Yikes.
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Meet a climate marcher
Couldn't make the People's Climate March? Meet a few who did -- and learn what they were fighting for.
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Beer brewers are joining forces to fight fracking
New York craft breweries are worried that fracking could pollute their water and threaten beer production -- so they're speaking out.
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Pretty much everyone evacuating Lower Manhattan lives on land we created
Writer Don Rogerson has noticed something interesting about Zone A in Lower Manhattan, an area that's been evacuated.
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In Brooklyn, even the factories are artisanal
Manufacturing is back in Brooklyn! But only in a Renaissance Florence sort of way, where skilled artisans produce craft-objects for wealthy patrons with finicky desires. The New York Times reports that there are, against all odds, still factories in Brooklyn, although they’ve morphed from behemoth plants stamping out assembly-line goods to smaller shops: This building, […]
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How to eat ice cream and end an unjust criminal system at the exact same time
Driving around upstate New York, you see a lot of abandoned dairy farms and a lot of struggling towns with prisons nearby. They’re connected: As milk prices dropped and the state’s dairy industry started suffering, politicians brought prisons upstate as a job-creation programs. Milk Not Jails aims to break that connection by creating economic opportunities […]
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If Park Slope parents suck so bad at contraception, what hope is there for the rest of us?
In fiscal year 2012, the federal budget marked out $610 million for international family planning programs. But perhaps some of that funding needs to be directed inward, to fix the backwards bourgeois parents of Park Slope. Amy Sohn writes in the Awl: You would think people with multiple children would be responsible about contraception because […]