dodai
@dodai.bsky.social
writer at large on the Metro desk at The New York Times ✨ raised in Manhattan ✨ https://www.nytimes.com/by/dodai-stewart#latest ✨ https://instagram.com/dodai
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dodai
@dodai.bsky.social
· May 8
‘Paris Here I Come!’
www.nytimes.com
My fave guide to Paris was written in 1953 by Ollie Stewart, my great-uncle, a WWII correspondent, + one of the many Black expats who chose Paris over USA's Jim Crow -- his little book for Black travelers is called PARIS HERE I COME 💘 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/t...
ppl put metrocards in their mouths???? 👀
you cannot fish out something stuck between your teeth with a token.
December 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ppl put metrocards in their mouths???? 👀
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It's definitely "goodbye" to the MetroCard simply because it's a tangible symbol of New York. It is globally known and unique.
Its replacement, the OMNY card, will never know this love.
Its replacement, the OMNY card, will never know this love.
December 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It's definitely "goodbye" to the MetroCard simply because it's a tangible symbol of New York. It is globally known and unique.
Its replacement, the OMNY card, will never know this love.
Its replacement, the OMNY card, will never know this love.
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"Try to throw one away, and it would zigzag through the air with an unexpected trajectory, like a chaotically deflating balloon. Piles of them accumulated near trash cans.
A gust of dank wind rushing through a subway tunnel would send several cards fluttering onto the tracks like confetti."
A gust of dank wind rushing through a subway tunnel would send several cards fluttering onto the tracks like confetti."
December 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Try to throw one away, and it would zigzag through the air with an unexpected trajectory, like a chaotically deflating balloon. Piles of them accumulated near trash cans.
A gust of dank wind rushing through a subway tunnel would send several cards fluttering onto the tracks like confetti."
A gust of dank wind rushing through a subway tunnel would send several cards fluttering onto the tracks like confetti."
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The MetroCard will take its last ride in this heavily guarded room in Queens. Take a tour with me, the transit nerd in the chocolate factory
www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...
Inside the Room Where MetroCard Will Take Its Last Ride
The floppy plastic fare card is retiring this month, after three decades of production at this high-security facility in Queens.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The MetroCard will take its last ride in this heavily guarded room in Queens. Take a tour with me, the transit nerd in the chocolate factory
www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
@bstaples.bsky.social will you email me? [email protected]
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
@bstaples.bsky.social will you email me? [email protected]
I went to visit the dinosaurs for sale! great visuals by Lanna Apisukh 🦖
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...
Does Your Backyard Need a Stegosaurus?
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I went to visit the dinosaurs for sale! great visuals by Lanna Apisukh 🦖
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...
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A #bike jumble in every U.S. city would be massive #ClimateInfluence.
"She was off to buy a lock, she said, as she gazed lovingly at her blue bike, with its retro orange and yellow logo. 'This is my new commute,' she said. 'I’m so excited.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/n...
Thx @dodai.bsky.social
"She was off to buy a lock, she said, as she gazed lovingly at her blue bike, with its retro orange and yellow logo. 'This is my new commute,' she said. 'I’m so excited.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/n...
Thx @dodai.bsky.social
Welcome to the Jumble: Inside Brooklyn’s Bike Flea Market
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
A #bike jumble in every U.S. city would be massive #ClimateInfluence.
"She was off to buy a lock, she said, as she gazed lovingly at her blue bike, with its retro orange and yellow logo. 'This is my new commute,' she said. 'I’m so excited.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/n...
Thx @dodai.bsky.social
"She was off to buy a lock, she said, as she gazed lovingly at her blue bike, with its retro orange and yellow logo. 'This is my new commute,' she said. 'I’m so excited.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/n...
Thx @dodai.bsky.social
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some personal news: I'm writing a book!
some personal news: I'm writing a book!
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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some personal news: I'm writing a book!
some personal news: I'm writing a book!
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Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...
Nobody Wants to Be a Foodie
How “foodie” went from badge of honor to cringey term to pejorative smear and all the way back again.
www.eater.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...
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My fave guide to Paris was written in 1953 by Ollie Stewart, my great-uncle, a WWII correspondent, + one of the many Black expats who chose Paris over USA's Jim Crow -- his little book for Black travelers is called PARIS HERE I COME 💘 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/t...
‘Paris Here I Come!’
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
My fave guide to Paris was written in 1953 by Ollie Stewart, my great-uncle, a WWII correspondent, + one of the many Black expats who chose Paris over USA's Jim Crow -- his little book for Black travelers is called PARIS HERE I COME 💘 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/t...
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This is lovely:
My fave guide to Paris was written in 1953 by Ollie Stewart, my great-uncle, a WWII correspondent, + one of the many Black expats who chose Paris over USA's Jim Crow -- his little book for Black travelers is called PARIS HERE I COME 💘 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/t...
‘Paris Here I Come!’
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is lovely:
My fave guide to Paris was written in 1953 by Ollie Stewart, my great-uncle, a WWII correspondent, + one of the many Black expats who chose Paris over USA's Jim Crow -- his little book for Black travelers is called PARIS HERE I COME 💘 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/t...
‘Paris Here I Come!’
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
My fave guide to Paris was written in 1953 by Ollie Stewart, my great-uncle, a WWII correspondent, + one of the many Black expats who chose Paris over USA's Jim Crow -- his little book for Black travelers is called PARIS HERE I COME 💘 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/t...
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learning to write... is learning to think
structurally, intentionally, deliberately
it organizes how one arrives at conclusions
structurally, intentionally, deliberately
it organizes how one arrives at conclusions
May 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
learning to write... is learning to think
structurally, intentionally, deliberately
it organizes how one arrives at conclusions
structurally, intentionally, deliberately
it organizes how one arrives at conclusions
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CBS published a story yesterday about this, but if you want to read @dodai.bsky.social ‘s original story from early January, it is a much better read.
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
CBS published a story yesterday about this, but if you want to read @dodai.bsky.social ‘s original story from early January, it is a much better read.
all these technological advances and i still can't take a picture of the moon w my phone
January 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
all these technological advances and i still can't take a picture of the moon w my phone
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He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There.
Beautiful story by @dodai.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
Beautiful story by @dodai.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There.
Beautiful story by @dodai.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
Beautiful story by @dodai.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
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Mr. Khalil had an idea and a piece of wood — part of a stump — that he had found close to a park a few blocks away from his small storefront studio in Bayonne, N.J. Over the next six months, he plotted and created his sculpture. By @dodai.bsky.social
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There.
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Mr. Khalil had an idea and a piece of wood — part of a stump — that he had found close to a park a few blocks away from his small storefront studio in Bayonne, N.J. Over the next six months, he plotted and created his sculpture. By @dodai.bsky.social
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On this day of horror and impending chaos, a wonderful NYT story by Dodai Stewart of an immigrant from Egypt, now U.S. citizen, who found his dream job as a security guard at the Met Museum, and now has his sculpture featured in one of the its major exhibitions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
On this day of horror and impending chaos, a wonderful NYT story by Dodai Stewart of an immigrant from Egypt, now U.S. citizen, who found his dream job as a security guard at the Met Museum, and now has his sculpture featured in one of the its major exhibitions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
In 2023, Armia Khalil, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw a visitor wandering through a gallery, clearly looking for something specific.
The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life…
nyti.ms/3Wcevnr
The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life…
nyti.ms/3Wcevnr
A Security Guard, a Chance Encounter and a Sculpture Called ‘Hope’ (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
nyti.ms
January 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In 2023, Armia Khalil, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw a visitor wandering through a gallery, clearly looking for something specific.
The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life…
nyti.ms/3Wcevnr
The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life…
nyti.ms/3Wcevnr
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I'd heard @dodai.bsky.social was working on this story, then found myself in the exhibit one day a few weeks ago while trying to get someplace else in the Met, so stopped to find the sculpture and was quite taken with it. I'm looking forward to reading the full story over my morning coffee.
A Security Guard, a Lucky Break and a Sculpture Called ‘Hope’ (Gift Article)
How a chance encounter led to the dream of a lifetime for a sculptor from Egypt.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I'd heard @dodai.bsky.social was working on this story, then found myself in the exhibit one day a few weeks ago while trying to get someplace else in the Met, so stopped to find the sculpture and was quite taken with it. I'm looking forward to reading the full story over my morning coffee.
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as a user, i am having an experience
November 29, 2024 at 11:14 AM
as a user, i am having an experience