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...

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...

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...

Originally published in the New York Times, Sunday, February 27th, 2011 JEAN MEYER, a business student at Columbia University and a founder of Datemyschool.com, an online matchmaking service, believes modern ambition is the death of love. Enlarge This Image Standing at the bottom of...

Seven blighted New Orleans properties with outstanding city fines were sold Tuesday at a sheriff’s auction, a method officials hope will soon become one of the primary means for getting such structures back into commerce in a city that is considered the nation’s most...

Originally published on page one of the Times-Picayune, Monday, July 25th, 2011 Rather than simply to respond to crime, The New Orleans Police Department is taking a more proactive approach to preventing thefts and catching lawbreakers before they commit more serious offenses. Police are...

Originally published on page one of the Times-Picayune, Monday, August 18th, 2011 On Bourbon Street, they blend into the chaos. The endless stream of neon daiquiri cups, the come-ons of the strip-club barkers. The girls in short-shorts hustling test-tube Jell-O shots. The age-old...

Originally published in the Times-Picayune, Monday, August 8th, 2011 The Regional Transit Authority is nearing the end of a two-year, $5 million project to install 210 shelters across the city to shield bus and streetcar passengers from harsh weather. The new shelters will cover 11 percent...