This great reporting demonstrates: (1) the necessity of passing the Stop Super Speeders Act (call Carl Heastie and say so); and (2) the contempt the NYPD holds for the idea that its law enforcement officers should abide by the laws they're ostensibly in charge of enforcing.

America’s largest bank is expanding its data center in Orangeburg, NY, near the New Jersey border. In exchange for $77 million in tax breaks from the state and county, the bank promises to create exactly one permanent job. My story in @nysfocus.com: nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...

Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hand Send me off to a foreign land To go and eat the silver ham

Lofty Pigeon, my neighborhood bookstore, is an awesome place and I'll be leading a bird walk for them on Sunday, May 3, in Prospect Park.

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"

The Senate voted on Thursday to allow mining upstream from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of the largest and most visited expanses of federally protected lakes and forests in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...

“It is heartbreaking to see it all playing out as we have predicted for so long,” Dr. Abby Frazier, a climatologist and assistant professor at Clark University, said. “The changes we have teed up for ourselves are going to be catastrophic.”

Join me next month at the Center for Brooklyn History for a talk with some great guests about birding in New York! Registration is in the link. www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

If the Israeli Knesset members' lapel pins shaped as little nooses isn't where you say peace-out to that fascist state, you're just carrying residual nostalgia for some fantasy version of Israel that exists only in your head.

While sitting at a table outside Barbes in Park Slope yesterday, I watched a pair of kestrels fly in and out of a hole in the upper right corner of this cornice. One would perch on a lamppost in front of the cafe. I didn't capture the birds in the photo, but zoom in to see their nest site!

1/ As I reported my book, I noticed something that has completely changed American life: widespread chronic under-staffing. It leads to, among other things, deadly medication errors at pharmacies, flight delays, messy stores, and the crime wave. From me @prospect.org prospect.org/2026/03/19/u...

This is in two days! Kick off spring with a bird chat and bird walk in beautiful Fort Tryon Park.

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani is ending the Adams/Tisch-era policy of slapping cyclists and e-bike riders with criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses. -- with @sophlebo.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/18/m...

“Scientists say the move to dismantle the center would weaken research that is crucial to understanding the atmosphere, space and oceans, air pollution and climate change. It would leave emergency officials and planners less prepared for extreme weather events, critics said.”

Making buses free might help but there are real structural reasons why people don’t take the bus in NYC, like 42 minute waits

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda

Want to know more about birding in the city, and get to try it out? Come join me to discuss @ryangoldberg.bsky.social's great new book Bird City on March 21 in Washington Heights!

Next Saturday, on the first full day of spring, I'll be discussing my book Bird City with @kevinduggan.bsky.social at The Fountain Bookshop in upper Manhattan, followed by a bird walk in nearby Fort Tryon Park. Come join us!

Why does this read so very much like a particularly deranged brand of AI-speak

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

The new mayor said he wants "streets that are the envy of the world" — yet his Department of Transportation continues its predecessor's flawed policy on daylighting. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/03/n...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

From The Archives:

The lesson of the Great Snowball Freakout of 2026 is that Mamdani's efforts to appease and engage the power centers inclined to hammer him on public safety are doomed, because they're going to hammer him anyway, even for something as goofy as a snowball fight. hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Funny how hard these guys are for Return To Office, but when it’s time for the mass firings we have to be absolutely sure there are no possible gatherings

Common sense is to destroy it and salt the earth so nothing like it can ever grow again.

This is phenomenal from my friend @robinks.com.

I talked to Jack Shalom of WBAI's "Arts Express" about Bird City; the first of a two-part interview aired last night. Next week's show will have the second part. Jack ended on a cliffhanger when I admitted to being a curmudgeon about NYC's celebrity birds! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

First in @nygroove.nyc: Montero is on the verge of being sold nygroove.nyc/breaking-leg...

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Just flat-out declaring that everything Adams did as mayor after the indictment—in the final fifteen months and five days of his term of office—was presumptively corrupt, and undoing everything that's in his immediate power to undo with a single stroke of the pen. This is the way.

This is in one hour! I'll be giving NYC Bird Alliance's first talk of its winter lecture series. Come join if you wanna hear about the colorful characters of NYC birding, human and feathered. Register for the link. nycbirdalliance.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/n...

"more children should die" is a cornerstone tenet of American conservatism

I had a grand old time talking about the culture of birding with @annehelen.bsky.social.

To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.

I wrote about why leeks, puddles, and abandoned lots are worth paying attention to in the realm of urban conservation. ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/bringing-c...

'Now I know and have experienced days in Prospect Park where you could see a hundred species in a day in migration. I left the park that day and I felt drunk.” On a bird-watching mission with @ryangoldberg.bsky.social of 'Bird City' nygroove.nyc/bird-watchin...

one unexpected way to be a better New Yorker? start paying closer attention to the birds that are all around us. in this week's issue, Bird City author @ryangoldberg.bsky.social shows us what the city can look like when you take a birds-eye view: nygroove.nyc/bird-watchin...

It was really fun to talk to journalist Alesandra Tejeda out in the Rockaways for this @nygroove.nyc story. Love the subhead too.

Join author Ryan Goldberg as he discusses the experiences that inspired his #book, Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds. When: Monday, Dec. 1 at 6:30 PM Where: Teaneck Public #Library Books available for purchase and signing. @teaneckcreek.bsky.social @ryangoldberg.bsky.social

Come hang out and chat New York City birding with me and @ryangoldberg.bsky.social — and read his new book! Tomorrow night in Ditmas Park.

If you're in Brooklyn, I'll be discussing my new book tomorrow with @hanner.bsky.social at the great indy bookstore Taylor & Co. Books in Ditmas Park. It starts at 7:30pm. Plus! On Thursday I'll be at the Hoboken Library, and on Saturday at the Montauk Library. Links to those in the comments.

All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism