The number of those major crimes in the city all fell sharply last year — with some plunging to their lowest levels in modern recorded history. How much attention should New Yorkers pay to figures like these? Here's what to know:

“Literally had to take the earbuds out and pause the radio news broadcast about a riot in progress at the Capitol to get the best news of my life.” Ha! Now that I think about it, this is also a solid metaphor advocating for logging off in general, isn’t it

This is what happens when you elect a guy who actually bikes instead of a guy who double parks in a bike lane sideways.

Around this time 5 years ago today, I found out that my kid would finally be coming home after 30 days in the NICU. Literally had to take my earbuds out and pause the radio news broadcast about a riot in progress at the Capitol to get the best news of my life. Unforgettable day, indeed.

“This low death rate, in turn, contributes to New York’s high life expectancy, which according to provisional data reached 83.2 years in 2024, about 4 years higher than the national average.” Move to NYC, live longer!

We're bigger by population than like 38 of the 50 states and *just* missed 300 homicides. Really impressive stuff.

Goodnight, sweet prince.

This tracks, a totally unintended consequence of getting an e-cargo bike is that family errands on weekends are way less of a hassle, and dare I say fun!

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Okay, credit where credit is due, “Hello, Carol” on the theater marquee in the Roku city screensaver is legitimately funny.

I am an insufferable left-handed person when it comes to pointing this stuff out — it’s not ancient history, my mother had her left hand literally tied behind her back in grade school to force her to be right handed

This is a delightful story

I don’t know if it’s the overall best film of the year, but the single most intense chill I got this year while watching a movie was the orchestral swell when Sean Penn is walking down the hotel hallway in One Battle After Another

A hard problem with literary data is navigating btwn editions of books and what the "work," or the theoretical text that unites all editions. I've been lucky to work with @thisismattmiller.com and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, who built a tool to address this + do much more arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165

People asking LLMs "how many Rs are in the word 'strawberry'" and then laughing at the frequently incorrect results are, I suspect, vastly overestimating their own ability to correctly answer "how many Rs are in the word "'strawberry'" if they were put on the spot.

Good things are possible

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:

I'm not a big AI hype guy, but this feels like one of those moments where a really thorny and previously time-intensive/expensive problem just became much, much more straightforward: generativehistory.substack.com/p/gemini-3-s...

This is, unfortunately, correct

Hook it to my veins — if the NYPost is sputtering mad, it’s good enough for me

21 years ago today I paid $5 to sign up for Metafilter, just after signups were reopened. I’d been a lurker on the site since late 2000. So I’ve been reading that damn website, on and off, for 25 years. Computers were a mistake, but that website has brought me a lot of insight (and agita).

Denis Villeneuve’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...

Remember, while there's a lot of bad news nationally, there's plenty to be enraged about locally also! Driver Mariam Yarimi who murdered an entire family on Ocean Pkwy had a suspended license, 93 traffic violations, $10,000+ in fines, but ... whoopsy doodle!

New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers. hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-whitewa...

Quoting one of Mario Cuomo’s best lines without attribution is such a delightfully classy hater thing to do, I love it.

At this rate, Cuomo only has to run for mayor 3 or 4 more times this year before he wins.

Regular reminder that the best work covering this city is done by local outlets - @wnyc.org @thecity.nyc @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social @hellgatenyc.com and others. You don’t have to rely tonight on the newspaper you are constantly annoyed at!

Our team will be out all day covering the election, and we want to hear from you. Are there problems or long lines at your polling place? Electioneering? A voting sticker shortage? Drop a line at [email protected].

I think this is right, sadly

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

Very hyperlocal question, but does anyone know why there’s no Working Families line for Chi Ossé? I’m positive it’s not an interesting political reason, but I’m still curious. Does WFP not endorse at the council district level? I thought they did but perhaps my memory is failing me.

After we uncovered a pattern of altered data, CCRB officials confirmed the police watchdog is deliberately miscategorizing some NYPD misconduct allegations in public data to protect officers' reputations, at the request of unnamed "stakeholders." hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-lying-a...

Heading into the booth for early voting and confused about the three housing proposals on the ballot? We got you covered 👍 hellgatenyc.com/nyc-housing-...

I don’t mean this in the sense that I don’t believe it, but this article reads a bit like something hallucinated by AI — totally plausible, presented with confidence and explanatory heft, but somehow still feels completely made up in a way I have no means of verifying myself

this election isn't ONLY about the mayor, there are also a bunch of ballot referendums to sort through, most of them to do with the future of our city's housing supply. @davecolon.bsky.social waded into the policy weeds so you don't have to: nygroove.nyc/housing-refe...

I'm old enough to remember when Eric Adams stood up at Gracie Mansion and said “Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar." I am a two month old baby

Wowza! The anti Prop 2, 3, and 4 mailer from the NY City Council sure as hell feels like illegal electioneering

Slavic drink question: Kvass is a thing that small Polish/Ukrainian/Russian children regularly drink, right? …he asks as he reflects on sharing kvass with a 4 year old, only later realizing that it is (hopefully negligibly) alcoholic on account of fermented grain sugars.

On one hand: furloughed 👎 On the other hand: afternoon pinball with a 4 year old, hell yeah (2-player cooperative grand champion to boot 💪)

In the most delightful possible way, this thread identifies the petty delights made possible by print magazine editing and layout choices (I worked in magazine publishing for years before I became a librarian)

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Shohei Ohtani makes me understand Lex Luthor more deeply.

This is such an obvious, well-known, long-running issue and no one with the power to do anything about it cares nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/05/z...

The fact that kids look similar to both parents is simultaneously the most self-evident fact in all of human developmental history, and also somehow shocking to me every time. “That kid looks a little like his mom, and a little like his dad!”, I say gobsmacked as I fall out of my chair yet again

Can’t believe I am going to wash dishes on a Sunday evening while listening in on arguments in federal court, but here we are

Oh hell yeah @nygroove.nyc — no nostalgia in the world like NYC dive bar nostalgia! bsky.app/profile/nygr...

On one hand: furloughed On the other hand: weekday visit to NY Transit Museum with a 4 year old, hell yeah

Is @hellgatenyc.com or someone else working on the Gen X/Xennial “Bars That Shaped a Generation” oral history feature? I’m hearing Siberia, Continental, Alibi, Fish Bar, so many others…

I learned a lot about how to be (and how not to be!) an adult in NYC by drinking at Siberia.