Big changes are coming to Grand Army Plaza, one of the busiest and most chaotic hubs in NYC. We took a closeup look at how the space is transforming www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🇮🇷 The US and Israel have said they carry out “precision strikes” on Iranian regime assets. But a Bloomberg News analysis reveals that targets can often be found in mostly residential or commercial areas, with many civilian buildings suffering extensive damage ⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I put together a list of recent job openings I've seen posted in cartography, GIS, design, and journalism: www.linkedin.com/posts/lauren...

I made a blender Artemis and a little 3js path and I gift the link to you www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Where oil and gas normally travel by tanker ship from the Persian Gulf. A story by @lazarogamio.bsky.social, Blacki Migliozzi and River Akira Davis 🎁 tinyurl.com/5dd83fk3 #sankey

Record heat is colliding with a snow drought across the Western United States, where snowpack accounts for much of the water supply 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... w/ @byscottdance.com & @sachimulkey.bsky.social

La victoire écrasante de @egregoire.bsky.social ce 22 mars prouve qu’une majorité de Parisiennes et de Parisiens souhaitent poursuivre les transformations urbaines profondes initiées par @annehidalgo.bsky.social ⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

French cities, including Paris, will vote on Sunday for their city councils & mayors. Transformations in Paris over the past decades are astonishing (see @bloomberg.com article below!) & are the product of years of transit & bike investment, changing how people move: www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

Got to make many maps of where i'm from for this story - with @feargusosull.bsky.social + @tomfevrier.bsky.social (🎁 link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I mean it's one barrel of oil, Michael. What could it cost? A hundred dollars?

The final form of historic preservation is a Gilded Age mansion where 10 apartments used to be: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

This week: Mega-mansions in Manhattan, Minneapolis after ICE, Oslo architecture, self-driving safety, snow-day solutions. And my fave part: A delightful reader email on how she created a “15-minute city for friendship” inspired by a @sarahholder.bsky.social story www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

We looked at where and how the ultra-rich are buying and combining two – sometimes three – adjacent townhomes to convert them into single-family housing (often featuring an elevator and a flashy central staircase.) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NYC’s newest billionaire status symbol: a double-wide townhouse. Ultra-wealthy buyers are combining 2–3 historic townhomes into mega-mansions designed to feel like suburban estates — in the middle of the Manhattan. Here's the latest with @sooophie.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Behind the preserved historical facades, the ultra-rich are buying up adjacent townhomes in the West Village and Upper East Side, combining them into a megamansion. It's part of a broader trend of small multifamily buildings being turned into single-family homes. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Ultra-rich buyers are consolidating New York townhouse apartments into giant single-family homes. Some are buying two, even three adjacent townhomes to build a franken-house. Step inside a Manhattan mega-mansion, the latest status symbol in this second Gilded Age: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Keep these safety tips in mind while using a space heater today, NYC:

Attention visual journalists: I’m always open to pitches for @sciam.bsky.social’s Graphic Science column. The column tells concise stories on topics in science via graphics (dataviz, illustrated diagrams, comic-style explainers, etc). It appears in both print & online. DM me for a pitch guide.

The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊

One way or another the changes coming to Southwest are going to have huge consequences for the District. Read this feature by me and @mariepastora.bsky.social on the city's past, present and possible future: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Washington has long weighed a plan to redevelop a vast federal office enclave in SW DC. Along comes a president willing to demolish the East Wing without warning. Neoclassical designers sense their moment. Welcome to DC's next neighborhood-in-waiting, FEDLANDIA: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

If 3,000 federal agents land in Minnesota, their footprint will be bigger than the 10 largest metro police departments combined.

All the cool kids take BtB and turn into birding weirdos

I wrote about how surprised I still am a candidate for NYC mayor won in large part by talking incessantly about buses, and also about how making them fast as promised will be an immense challenge. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So about that font news ... gift article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Haven't been posting much lately but had to come share the latest piece I helped edit + produce @bloomberg.com — worth your time! Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel Illustrations by the amazing Anand RK (anandrk.art) Written by a crack reporting team Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The holiday movie formula (we don't want to ruin the ending for you). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NYC people: @suryamattu.com, @mariepastora.bsky.social and I will be talking about our NJ Transit/NYC commuter rail story on Nov 5. Hope to see some of you there! www.meetup.com/transit-tech...

Amsterdam might never have become a city if not for climate change. But the city's secret sauce is that it turned its greatest challenges into advantages, @feargusosull.bsky.social and Charlotte Hughes-Morgan explain in this great piece.

Ross Douthat writes that by bulldozing the White House without permission Trump is cutting red tape in an Abundance-y way. It's true, you don't want historic federal reviews for every new townhome. But you do want historic federal reviews for White House additions! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Remarkable story about a wave of foreclosures in Baltimore triggered by incomprehensible DSCR loan activity from New York investors. This @thebaltimorebanner.com story reads like the sixth season of "The Wire": www.thebanner.com/community/ho...

Chaque année, 1 500 kilomètres carrés de nature et de terres agricoles disparaissent sous les constructions en Europe. À l’aide d’images satellites et d’un modèle d’intelligence artificielle, nous révélons l’ampleur et les conséquences de cette artificialisation massive. #GreenToGrey

The amazing thing about the hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on AI development is it doesn't even include all the externalized costs like higher electricity prices for hundreds of millions of people.

I wrote about how Earth's wobble causes our view of the skies to shift over time. Here's a paywall-free gift link. With @fparis.bsky.social and @iamrumz.bsky.social

Housing Secretary Scott Turner wants to build-baby-build. But so far his tenure at HUD has looked more like slash-slash-slash — with plunging numbers for staff, grants and proposed funding. @sarahholder.bsky.social and I profiled Turner and his unorthodox agenda: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

In a new excerpt from "The Unfinished Metropolis," I lay out the book's high-level argument: American cities are stuck in a mid-20th century pattern of urban development. As a result, we've been unable to tame the enormous challenges that this pattern perpetuates.

ICYMI: NYC has three commuter railroads. Two of them run (more or less) fine. One does not. Read our data investigation into NJ Transit, using live location data from more than 190,000 trains. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NJ Transit is much worse than all other commuter rails in the NYC area. @agordon.me and @suryamattu.com collected and analyzed many weeks of transit feeds to quantify how bad (and it includes angry emojis). www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

What happens when government disinvests from public transit? Commutes get longer & more frustrating. A NJ Transit case study from me, @suryamattu.com and @mariepastora.bsky.social : www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NJ Transit's official data makes it difficult to tell just how bad it is. So @suryamattu.com and I spent three months collecting the raw location data for more than 190,000 trains on NJT, Metro-North, and LIRR. Then @mariepastora.bsky.social made the graphics to show you. The answer: Very bad.

Who voted for Zohran Mamdani? A Bloomberg News analysis of New York City’s election results reveals the new network assembled by the Democratic Socialist

Masterful, infuriating story from @mslaurabliss.bsky.social & @rachaeldottle.bsky.social. The insane part is the burning garbage & its impact on people. But they don't shy away from loads of important context, nuance & science! A+ explanatory journalism. Gift link www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

American cities have stagnated. Residential neighborhoods, transportation systems, and commercial districts have changed little in 50+ years. My new book, "The Unfinished Metropolis," explores how that happened — and how to fix it. Preorder now: shorturl.at/PInVb

From the vantage point of the US, you might think a WFH slump for transit was inevitable. But data from around the world shows that's not true. What a treat to work w/ @agordon.me on this definitive guide to the data, w/ graphics by the great @mariepastora.bsky.social

Proud that this big story on Canada's fraying social safety net won gold in multimedia at the SABEW Canada Best in Business Awards. A true team effort with writing, data & video from @daniellebochove.bsky.social, @mathieudion.bsky.social, @kevinorland.bsky.social, @mariepastora.bsky.social and more

My heart is still beating so fast. Thank you @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social Thank you @bloomberg.com and especially the CityLab team @kristoncapps.bsky.social @nicflatow.bsky.social and David Dudley Stories here! www.bloomberg.com/features/des...

The NYPD has quietly changed its enforcement policy towards bicyclists, slapping them with criminal summonses instead of regular traffic tickets for low-level offenses such as passing through red lights or not stopping at a stop sign.

where NYC's upzoning unlocks more housing, and where developers are already taking advantage: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...