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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
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Plan out your whimsical future as a New York City sea commuter.
It was one thing after another at Penn Station on Friday night. Here's the latest.
Multiple passengers live-tweeted the terrifying experience of being stuck in a Hudson River train tunnel.
Here's the cause of all the smoke and sirens Friday afternoon near Rogers and Crown.
When the victim of a random Manhattan subway groping told her attacker to leave her alone, he pushed her into the train bed, cops say.
Here's where all that smoke is coming from.
Have you seen a guy on a motorcycle handing out Nazi propaganda in Williamsburg this week?
Weird solidarity on the L train.
A pair of alleged L train tunnel trespassers is to blame for your ugly Wednesday night commute, according to the MTA.
Plus: 2 Brooklyn grannies, one of them an NYPD school cop, go head-to-head in an alleged street brawl over picking up their shared grandson.
No, it's not Juliana's. Or Grimaldi's.
Week in review: A blue whale turns up dead in the Rockaways; an NBA star wins big against the NYPD; mail thieves take Manhattan; and more.
City plans slow, painful death for Rikers; Brooklyn neighbors fight back against new homeless shelter; petition targets Melania; and more.
"We just don't want you to Donald Trump us," one Rogers Ave. resident told flustered city officials at a packed emergency meeting Wednesday.
Cuomo and Brown released an adorable joint statement Tuesday — a foreshadowing, one hopes, of their eventual move toward joint secession.
City officials have been pushing to move 104 homeless men into a new shelter on Bergen Street. Not so fast, a Brooklyn judge said Tuesday.