Today at the Times, I rounded-up the early morning news, reported on an armed robbery, ate a Fiber One bar and reported on an airport worker who assumed the identity of a man who was murdered in Queens two decades ago. Some other recent clips: -Morning Buzz: A crackdown at the...

I worked with a team of investigative journalists to report the articles contained in the March/April issue of City Limits magazine, “The Phantom Landlord,” about a notorious Bronx landlord and the system that allowed him to slip through the...

  To be filed under, “Look, mom…” A slightly different online version of the story. More of what I’m doing at the New York...

Starved after teaching, I ate dinner at the nearest bar. Fried shrimp and potato wedges. The bartender was blowing up blue balloons, for the Giants, and an officer sent a shot of whiskey over.  I didn’t realize it was a cop bar. I hate shots. I thanked the officer, and sipped the...

Originally published in the New York Times’ City Room blog, January 23rd, 2012 Three months and a lawsuit after their son’s death, the parents of Mathieu Lefevre, a Canadian bicyclist struck and killed by a truck in Brooklyn in October, were relieved to finally receive records about...

It’s not that I miss the fruit flies but they sure did stick around through the winter months when I kept no fruit I just hoped you’d ask me to dinner.   They’re all dead now, their wings singed in the bulbs of my bedside lamp and I remember tilting my head back and...

The 2012 Olympics will be the first time female boxers are allowed to take the ring. But change has been a coming for a long time at Gleason’s Boxing Gym in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Les Boxeuses: Meet the women who dominate Gleason’s Boxing Gym from Hannah Miet on Vimeo. Produced by...

Misplaced Proverbs I’m a choosey little beggar, so you say I broke your mold, or stole it off to Everest for a ceaseless climb Every man thinks I’m someone else, might as well be Marilyn, your mother in a red silk nothing touch of something Might as well, if the weather’s right, for...

Originally published in the Times-Picayune, November 28th, 2011 Residents of Broadmoor began to get serious about organizing the neighborhood’s post-Hurricane Katrina recovery in January 2006, when a rebuilding commission set up by then-Mayor Ray Nagin suggested razing the entire...

Everyone who speaks “in conversation” at the New York Public Library is asked for a seven word bio. “Seven words that define you.” Joan Didion’s seven words were, “seven words do not yet define me.” Her most recent book, Blue Nights, is about the death...