Christopher Bonanos
@heybonanos.bsky.social
Longtime @nymag city editor and the invisible hand of Instagram’s @OldNYMag. Books: Weegee, Polaroid, Greeks.
Unintended headline/photo adjacency.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Unintended headline/photo adjacency.
Trump likes people who win, especially if they start as underdogs, and Mandani did.
And I bet he thinks he's commiserating with someone who has been treated unfairly in the press, because on the news sources Trump consumes (Fox etc.) Mamdani has been turned into a supervillain.
And I bet he thinks he's commiserating with someone who has been treated unfairly in the press, because on the news sources Trump consumes (Fox etc.) Mamdani has been turned into a supervillain.
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Trump likes people who win, especially if they start as underdogs, and Mandani did.
And I bet he thinks he's commiserating with someone who has been treated unfairly in the press, because on the news sources Trump consumes (Fox etc.) Mamdani has been turned into a supervillain.
And I bet he thinks he's commiserating with someone who has been treated unfairly in the press, because on the news sources Trump consumes (Fox etc.) Mamdani has been turned into a supervillain.
"Exododus": They got so excited about this poll at the Post that they're trembling at the keyboard
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Exododus": They got so excited about this poll at the Post that they're trembling at the keyboard
Amazing AI work. (Not a word of this is accurate.)
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Amazing AI work. (Not a word of this is accurate.)
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Conservatives want to pitch the White House demolition as YIMBY. This is a bad-faith brain-dead take.
You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes.
You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.*
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes.
You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.*
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Conservatives want to pitch the White House demolition as YIMBY. This is a bad-faith brain-dead take.
You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes.
You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.*
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes.
You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.*
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
I took a walk around Revolutionary-era New York with Ken Burns, and managed to slip in a Julia Child quote that I had banked. www.curbed.com/article/ken-...
Ken Burns at the Barricades
Talking British New York and PBS cuts with the co-director of The American Revolution.
www.curbed.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I took a walk around Revolutionary-era New York with Ken Burns, and managed to slip in a Julia Child quote that I had banked. www.curbed.com/article/ken-...
Donald Trump, Socialist.
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Donald Trump, Socialist.
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Well, it's finally a real thing! Our funny, helpful, NOT-just-about-freakin menopause book about getting to get what you want in your 40s and 50s, tentatively titled "Midseason Plot Twist!" (we've been through quite a few changes), will be out in Fall 2026!
September 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Well, it's finally a real thing! Our funny, helpful, NOT-just-about-freakin menopause book about getting to get what you want in your 40s and 50s, tentatively titled "Midseason Plot Twist!" (we've been through quite a few changes), will be out in Fall 2026!
I had an illuminating chat with one of the greatest photographers on earth.
www.curbed.com/article/step...
www.curbed.com/article/step...
Stephen Shore After School
The master of the American still life revisits the New York photographs he made as a teenager.
www.curbed.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I had an illuminating chat with one of the greatest photographers on earth.
www.curbed.com/article/step...
www.curbed.com/article/step...
[politics joke goes here]
August 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
[politics joke goes here]
An observation: April Fool's Day fake-news stories, particularly the ones that went viral, do bad things to the AI database.
August 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
An observation: April Fool's Day fake-news stories, particularly the ones that went viral, do bad things to the AI database.
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Call it the East Megawing, Trump's new ballroom is "the most on-the-nose embodiment of let-them-eat-cake Versailles extravagance — just as he throws old people off Medicare and kids off food stamp."
via @heybonanos.bsky.social
via @heybonanos.bsky.social
Trump’s White House Ballroom Is a Neoclassical Bludgeon
An overscale, reactionary solution to the question of where to host a big state dinner.
www.curbed.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Call it the East Megawing, Trump's new ballroom is "the most on-the-nose embodiment of let-them-eat-cake Versailles extravagance — just as he throws old people off Medicare and kids off food stamp."
via @heybonanos.bsky.social
via @heybonanos.bsky.social
If you hear explosions of cursing and rage from midtown in the next three or four hours, know that I’m setting up a new printer.
July 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If you hear explosions of cursing and rage from midtown in the next three or four hours, know that I’m setting up a new printer.
Magazine Freaky Friday?
July 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Magazine Freaky Friday?
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Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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yes
I think about this constantly
July 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
yes
Watched this during a somewhat stressful trip, and it really was a mood-elevator. To use a Gondelmanian word, I cherished it.
My new standup special Positive Reinforcement premieres TONIGHT at 8pm eastern time on Blonde Medicine’s YouTube channel. I’m really proud of this hour and grateful to all the people who helped make the special happen.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
July 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Watched this during a somewhat stressful trip, and it really was a mood-elevator. To use a Gondelmanian word, I cherished it.
From Joseph Heller's (satire!) 'Catch-22':
"Then there was the educated Texan…who looked like someone in Technicolor and felt, patriotically, that people of means—decent folk—should be given more votes than drifters, whores, criminals, degenerates, atheists and indecent folk—people without means."
"Then there was the educated Texan…who looked like someone in Technicolor and felt, patriotically, that people of means—decent folk—should be given more votes than drifters, whores, criminals, degenerates, atheists and indecent folk—people without means."
JD Vance is suggesting that neo-Nazis and the descendents of confederate soldiers have more claim to being part of this nation because they're white than immigrants who believe in the Declaration of Independence.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
From Joseph Heller's (satire!) 'Catch-22':
"Then there was the educated Texan…who looked like someone in Technicolor and felt, patriotically, that people of means—decent folk—should be given more votes than drifters, whores, criminals, degenerates, atheists and indecent folk—people without means."
"Then there was the educated Texan…who looked like someone in Technicolor and felt, patriotically, that people of means—decent folk—should be given more votes than drifters, whores, criminals, degenerates, atheists and indecent folk—people without means."
Sightseeing in the cradle of democracy, looking at the ruins. Not at all a metaphor.
We are in Athens, Greece with our entire family. Children and grandchildren. Guess who was found with his family at the Parthenon yesterday. TED F’ING CRUZ.
July 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Sightseeing in the cradle of democracy, looking at the ruins. Not at all a metaphor.
“Sophomoric mischief.” In college. When he was, give or take, an actual sophomore. Clearly he’ll never come back from this hit.
The bar is high, but I think this is the dumbest anti-Zohran argument I've read so far www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/is-z...
June 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Sophomoric mischief.” In college. When he was, give or take, an actual sophomore. Clearly he’ll never come back from this hit.
Happy 99th birthday to this great American artist.
June 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Happy 99th birthday to this great American artist.
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"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
June 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
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@heybonanos.bsky.social spoke to engineers and public officials about how New York City can survive increasingly extreme heat.
On New York’s First 110-Degree Summer Day, What Will Break First?
Asphalt like molasses, grounded planes at midday, sun-buckled railroad tracks: a sweat-inducing list.
www.curbed.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
@heybonanos.bsky.social spoke to engineers and public officials about how New York City can survive increasingly extreme heat.
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Really love this banger column on fonts and signage and what they say about candidates and campaigns. Great/classic @heybonanos.bsky.social piece =>
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.
www.curbed.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Really love this banger column on fonts and signage and what they say about candidates and campaigns. Great/classic @heybonanos.bsky.social piece =>