I was born and raised in Healdsburg, CA, where I was the editor of the Healdsburg High School Hound's Bark. I have since worked as a local journalist for publications in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City and the Middle East — and most recently, as a senior product manager for Patch
Also: A baby is found dead at his nanny's Brooklyn apartment, and more than a dozen NYC kids are injured when their school bus crashes.
Who would have thought the whiteness abolition movement would find a home base on the Upper East Side?
Also: A missing school cop turns up dead in the East River, and StreetEasy advises NYC college grads on which neighborhood to gentrify next.
At least 10 women jailed in Brooklyn's "windowless," "unconscionable" federal prison were allegedly raped or abused by high-ranking guards.
Plus: Some horrible people are starting to call South Harlem "SoHa," and a jail guard's gun goes off in a busy Mexican joint in Manhattan.
The three winners of the "MTA Genius Transit Challenge" will be awarded $1 million each.
"Uber is a thief," one longtime New York City driver says. "It's not a mistake."
The NYPD bomb squad rushed to the Yankee Stadium subway station on Tuesday evening to investigate reports of a suspicious package.
Also: What's up with all the weird wave sculptures popping up around NYC, and where to catch Brooklyn's new "online dating rock opera."
Candida auris is a deadly, drug-resistant fungus spreading within NYC hospitals. More than 50 cases have been reported in the past year.
Plus: A strange woman in a surgical mask attacks a Brooklyn bus driver with an unknown "burning" liquid for no apparent reason, cops say.
Did you — or someone you know — buy a New York Lotto ticket from a hole-in-the-wall bodega on Church Street around this time last year?
Plus: Sickening video shows the extent of the horror in Times Square yesterday, and a scuffle over a skateboard turns bloody in Brooklyn.
Busted.
Where and when to stalk the city's hawks, eagles, bullfrogs, turtles, deer, coyotes, salamanders, foxes, owls, possums, crabs and more.
Plus: Meet LA and NYC's "bicoastal bank bandit" and see the extravagant "adult treehouse" being built into a Lower East Side condo tower.
This could mean the death of a controversial plan to redevelop Crown Heights' historic armory.
Also: A woman has been hit and killed by a garbage truck in the Village, and another injured in Brooklyn by an NYPD cruiser in reverse.
Plus: A famous Tribeca designer disappears in the Bermuda Triangle, and MTA officials respond to the growing chorus of subway haters.
UPDATES: Debris from the same type of plane Blumin, her kids and her boyfriend were in has surfaced off the Bahamas, the Coast Guard says.