Outstanding news.

I know this storm is bad because the soccer fanatics have not yet begun shoveling out their field.

I just ran some errands and it’s drizzling and quite mild out there. I know temps are set to drop but it’s hard to feel like a blizzard is imminent. #nyc

They’re just making up weather terms now.

I work in comms, so I still have to check Twitter occasionally for professional reasons. Thank you to whichever @governor.ny.gov staffer was responsible for this delightful and utterly wholesome political screw-up. Simpler times...

Amazing. I researched and scripted a walking tour of Black history in Lower Manhattan 20 years ago and now want to go back in time and add a location.

Four hours later there are still quite a few of them out there re-shoveling.

Whenever it snows, a group of dudes almost immediately shovels out a soccer field in the park across from my apartment and there are like 30 of them out there right now. They are dedicated! (I unfortunately cannot get a decent photo due to my window screen.)

I really struggle with the fact that my daughter’s friend from high school is now some big power player. And he wasn’t even in her class, he’s two years younger. #nyc

Monday is a PD day for high schools and students are not in session so 🤷‍♀️. (And this is following Regents Week when they've barely attended as well.)

Life hacks: 1. Check the weather before you leave the house. 2. Never wear Chucks in the snow.

New: A look at what we know and don't know about the last decade of test score declines. –They've been remarkably pervasive and started before the pandemic. –Other countries have been hit too. –Experts (and everyone else) have theories, but not definitive answers. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/01/08/w...

Why is JFK airport so consistently awful In every way.

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For many years at the beginning of the internet era you couldn't get through the Xmas season without getting spammed (usually stripped of attribution) this 1991 SPY Magazine investigation into the physics of Santa Claus. I haven't seen it in a while which means you've maybe never seen it at all?

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

My husband got Star Wars so obviously this is reminding us that a new season of “Shrinking” is coming in January.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. (Not so excited for the snakes or being chased by a boulder, but willing to deal with all of that to get to the Nazi face melting.)

This entire weekend

Santacon update from my 17 yo. #nyc

This UCSD story is driving the national conversation around math education right now. There is plenty of evidence that math outcomes are not nearly where we'd want them to be, but Matt has a predictably nuanced and research-backed take. #edusky

"The study found that, from January through June 2025, average daily maximum PM2.5 concentrations in Manhattan’s CRZ declined by 3.05 micrograms per cubic meter – a reduction of 22% compared to a projected average of 13.8 micrograms per cubic meter had congestion pricing not been implemented."

When I think of the hours my daughter spent writing and rewriting her essay, plus eleventy billion supplementals, and refusing AI even to proofread. SIGH It will end up like the awful job market where candidates use AI to write CVs & cover letters and employers use AI to review them. WE HAVE BRAINS

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild: Tapir Hippo Zebra Lion Sloth Bonus: Baby rhino noshing

An alarming account of how dynamic-pricing algorithms undermine #affordability in gasoline, groceries, and more. In housing, AI tools advised landlords to price apartments above market rate and leave them empty rather than reduce rents. An urgent call for AI policy! www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Tis the season for updating my holiday playlist. I am looking for songs that are holiday-adjacent (“There is a Light That Will Never Go Out” is a Chanukah song, “I Will Die 4 U” is a Christmas song.) HMU with your suggestions—be creative anything vaguely seasonal works.

Current status: Waiting on a long line at Four & Twenty Blackbirds because I forgot to preorder a pie before they sold out. Send be good vibes for securing one of the rare spares. 🤞🤞🤞

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's education agenda is a bit of a mystery. Pedro Noguera has some (excellent!) recommendations for the incoming mayor. #nyc #edusky (Also, @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social is so great. If you're a New Yorker and you don't already subscribe, I definitely recommend it!)

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

The thing is, #NYC is really an unmatched place to live and work, especially for the people rich enough to take advantage of all it has to offer. They're not going anywhere.

I have to say, I am in Manhattan this afternoon and it is decidedly NOT a ghost town.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Marathon Day is perfect as always. My husband wants to leave Brooklyn at some point but I don’t think I’m built for anyplace else.

Good morning! I just had a minor panic attack that my daughter was not awake for her 9 am college interview, so please let me remind you that we fall back an hour today!

Voting in Park Slope and I have never seen this polling place as close to as crowded as it is today, even during a Presidential year. #nyc 👀🗽🗳️

Achievement unlocked: Have reached the stage of life where I can relax in a French restaurant and watch all the trick or treaters go by.

Normal Park Slope things

Gotta love a comptroller pun

Happy Anniversary to my daughter accidentally getting her 15 minutes of fame in the most wholesome way.

I think we can all agree that this woman is from New Jersey, right?

i NEED to know the backstory here

The staggering total is larger than the entire Dallas school system.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Pretty sure it was Lupin.

Interesting to hear that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social might be open to retaining the current Chancellor. My husband has worked for the DOE for 27 years, under 10 Chancellors (one of whom served for a third of that time). He could write a dissertation on the impact of leadership churn. #NYC #edusky

I hear rumors that there are a bunch of new folks joining. If any of you are #education nerds, here's my starterpack of education reporters and wonks. #edusky go.bsky.app/EUtjscv

Would you like me to tell you the phone number of this girl Jennifer who I was close to in first and second grade before she moved away?

NEW: These are all the Education Dept. offices that staffers and managers say have been impacted by layoffs since Friday, according to the union for the agency’s employees. They include workers that supported HBCUs, tribal colleges, charter schools, civil rights reviews, special ed & more.

If H‑1Bs “took jobs,” you’d expect lower wages for U.S. grads. The best available studies show the opposite: 1990–2010 H‑1B inflows raised wages of American college grads by 4.2% and non‑college by ~2%, with native employment unchanged. Think complements, not substitutes.

This is an incredibly important challenge for the next Mayor, not only in terms of getting families into permanent housing but also making sure that support systems (transportation, social services, counseling, even access to laundry) to provide consistency for highly mobile students.