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
"Lil' Miss Hot Mess" stopped by the Park Slope public library over the weekend to read a book about gender nonconformity to local children.
Four people were hospitalized after a slashing Monday at a small high school in Queens.
Around 17 years late, but better than never, we suppose.
Plus: Updates on the possibly suspicious Lower East Side synagogue fire, and how to score a pass to Williamsburg's newest rooftop pool.
All the new ways for the city's laptop army to stand up to The Man.
Plus: Washington Square Park has a few less (alleged) drug dealers today, NYC's nicest lawn opens for summer and how to win 1,000 dumplings.
Some carcinogenic chemicals have been detected in the East River after Con Ed's 37,000-gallon spill last weekend, the Coast Guard says.
Solstice shmolstice. NYC seasons begin and end at the whim of Bryant Park's omnipotent lawnkeepers.
They're as integral a drawback of the MTA commute as the rats and drunks and signal problems. They're the storied subway perverts of NYC.
Plus: New design revealed for NYC's "I Voted" sticker, and how to sneak a peek of Brooklyn Heights' most hotly anticipated hotel remodel.
Plus: A body is pulled out of Swan Lake in Central Park — one day after another surfaced in the park's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis reservoir.
A dozen court officers and firefighters were injured Wednesday in a fire in the holding cell area of Brooklyn Criminal Court, the FDNY says.
Plus: A posh high school catches fire on the Upper East Side, and Paul Ryan is met with "boos" — and angry accordion players — in Harlem.
The Coast Guard is urging people to avoid coming into contact with East River waters from Midtown and Greenpoint on down to Red Hook.
An unlikely band of Brooklyn tenants takes on two landlord brothers hell-bent on flipping their rent-stabilized homes to the luxury market.
Plus: Brooklyn politicians hold a town hall on all things Trump, and Port Authority officials try to explain away the wet mess at Oculus.
Also: An indie Brooklyn coffee shop takes Starbucks to court over the unicorn frap, and an NYC tourist suffers a brutal sexual assault.
Jill Bloomberg, a loud critic of school segregation in NYC, is suing DOE officials for what she describes as a bizarre retaliation campaign.
Here's what all your neighbors were naming their dogs last year.
The alleged Mexican drug lord says his "small, windowless cell" in Lower Manhattan is driving him mad.
