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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 1h

AAAAAHHHHH www.curbed.com/article/rei-...

The Soho REI Is Closing

The outdoor chain’s flagship, its only store in the city, will shut down late next year.

www.curbed.com

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 2d

News you can use: NYC ballot questions, explained www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b... via @thecity.nyc

Your Guide to NYC’s Ballot Questions for 2025

Voters will weigh in on housing reforms, a change to election years and an Olympic Sports Complex in upstate New York.

www.thecity.nyc

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 7d

oh I am sad -- I spent many happy hours reading Thomas Perry www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...

Thomas Perry Dies at 78; Writer of Popular, Unconventional Thrillers

www.nytimes.com

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 11d

"A single mom agrees to be the partner of a bird enthusiast for a birding competition but misunderstands the assignment and tells everyone she's his new girlfriend instead of just his teammate." www.hallmarkchannel.com/adventures-i...

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 12d

"New York City is poised to pay $2 billion to build a platform over a Manhattan rail yard at the behest of one of the country’s biggest developers, who would then erect mostly luxury housing along the Hudson River." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

Hudson Yards Developer May Get Another $2 Billion Boost From New York

www.nytimes.com

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 14d

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 14d

I, for one, welcome our new redfish overlords www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

Are These Fish Sending a Message With Their Mysterious Spots?

Redfish with perfect numbers, letters and symbols on their tails are all the rage on the water.

www.wsj.com

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 21d

My long national nightmare is over www.vulture.com/article/heav...

Heavyweight’s Return From the Dead

Jonathan Goldstein’s podcast has survived multiple podcasting eras. Will it outlast this one?

www.vulture.com

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All Of It, with Alison Stewart @allofitwnyc.bsky.social · Aug 25

You have one week left to complete the All Of It Summer Reading Challenge! You can do it! And when done, remember to tell us what you've read by filling out the form here www.wnyc.org/story/all-it...

All Of It Summer Reading Challenge | All Of It | WNYC

This summer, from July 1st to the end of Labor Day weekend, we are challenging YOU, our listeners, to complete a summer reading challenge. Just like in school, but for fun!

www.wnyc.org

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 22

Libraries: one of humanity's greatest achievements www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost).

www.nytimes.com

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 21

I love this! Also: FLYBRARY www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

At airport libraries, books fly off the shelves

Little Free Libraries, book exchanges and honor-system stores are bringing literary joy to terminals across the country.

www.washingtonpost.com

Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 21

“I can see how this looks strange” is really quite understated in this circumstance www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

www.thecity.nyc

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 18

"The first person to eat a hot pepper probably did it somewhere in the lowlands of southern Mexico more than 10,000 years ago, and I would guess they probably thought it would kill them. But they went back for more, or at least they told their friends." www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Why Is Everything Spicy Now?

More Americans are setting their mouth on fire—for extreme sport, and for everyday thrills.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 15

Have construction costs been revised downward!?

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 15

Say what now

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · Aug 15

The agency has heard the critiques of how many people worked on the tunnel boring machine for the first phase of the subway and reduced the staffing by 40 percent

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 14

I love this kind of local reporting -- a little mystery, hiding in plain sight gothamist.com/news/bzzz-wh...

Bzzz! What's making people's hair stand up at 41st and Seventh in Times Square?

Con Ed says it didn't find anything unusual. The MTA says it has no info. And experts are curious but confused.

gothamist.com

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Jul 16

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Jul 15

because nature is metal, and they are the most metal members of the bird family www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Why Did a Large Harpy Eagle Attack an Adult Woman?

The incident, which took place in the forest in French Guiana, was an extremely rare occurrence

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Jun 28

The primary postmortems remind me of this 2021 piece: “Coming to terms with his precipitous fall & recognizing his own part in it will occupy the rest of Andrew Cuomo’s life. It will require him to undergo ego-death on a scale unseen in the spiritual history of humanity.” nypost.com/2021/08/07/c...

Cuomo will resign, but first he needs to get through five stages of grief

A few short months ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was heralded as the noblest, boldest and sexiest governor in American history.

nypost.com

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Jun 28

Allow me to share some of the quotes from this article
“Cuomo Doesn’t Blame Himself for Losing the Primary. Others Do.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/n...

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Jun 25

Say what now www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/w...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jun 25

Some of the best money I spend is to support @hellgatenyc.com. If you live in NYC, you really should too. I am planning to subscribe to @thecity.nyc starting in July. Their coverage is stellar. Thank you to both of these publications.

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Jun 24

@allofitwnyc.bsky.social is about to go live in the @wnyc.org Greene Space. Here’s the view from the control room.

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Jun 24

I love this for them www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bears eat week’s worth of honey after escape from Devon enclosure

Five-year-old Mish and Lucy get their paws on some snacks before being safely contained at Wildwood Devon

www.theguardian.com

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