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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1h

I think I talked to someone about Bayfair last year (even I get the malls mixed up) and it did seem like a site that should be a TOD no-brainer

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1h

My dad just sent me the one millionth article on San Francisco Centre I really think the reporters need to get out more

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 14h

Loved reading this @timothyaschuler.bsky.social piece about the Erie Canal’s first 200 years … and what’s next (bridges! trails! art!) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Long Comeback of the Erie Canal

One of America’s first major public works projects is marking its 200th anniversary — and seeking a path to the future.

www.bloomberg.com

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 19h

yes, us! here you go:

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 20h

??? I'm seeing mid-major publishing house but I suppose the font-first logos had to get phased out eventually. In 10 years everything will be geometric symbol again.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 21h

Keri Russell = Brooklyn neighbor, kids the same age, AND also allergic to success (I broke out in hives for the first time ever after I won the Pulitzer) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

TIL about Baby Park in Queens and I am fully on board with the Restore Baby Park movement www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/07/b...

How Queensbridge’s “Baby Park” Became an Orphan and a Battleground for LIC Rezoning

Public housing residents want to bring back a once beloved, New Deal-era strip of playgrounds under the Queensboro Bridge. Local Councilmember Julie Won said she won’t approve the rezoning plan withou...

www.thecity.nyc

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 6d

@skpawlicki.bsky.social was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

Women's History Illuminated

Women's History and the National Historic Landmarks Program

storymaps.arcgis.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

More nuanced than most writing on this topic! The social aspect of gaming, and the social currency of knowing about games, should not be overlooked (balance is everything)

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 5d

How Video Games Are Shaping a Generation of Boys, for Better and Worse www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

How Video Games Are Shaping a Generation of Boys, for Better and Worse

www.nytimes.com

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

It would be poetic if Benjamin Franklin Parkway went pedestrian ... they did it for the Bicentennial!

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

"At a time when families are leaving cities for the leafy suburbs, open streets show how kids can play, bike, and run around the city — particularly if we reduce car lanes."

Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 5d

“There are a number of reasons to think that we have a unique window of opportunity to make more pedestrian streets permanent right now,” writes Diana Lind. “We shouldn’t squander this moment.”

Can Pedestrian Pop-Ups Go Permanent in the U.S.? — Streetsblog USA

Can temporary pedestrian pop-ups spur permanent change?

buff.ly

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

Lots of people equate charisma with what movie stars have but there are lots of different kinds ...

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 5d

My favorite thing to listen to right now is Michael Bise's trove of Gap in-store playlists from the late 1990s to early 2000s. He's been hunting for these pieces of ephemera for 20 years! www.theverge.com/report/79080...

The quest for every Gap store playlist ever

Gap Playlists is an exercise in data collection and nostalgia.

www.theverge.com

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

As I freelancer I am not on a payroll so I guess I have that at least!

Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for this response! Not trying to start a fight, it is just that this is my crossing and there was an SUV parked in it yesterday afternoon which caused me to ?!?!

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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 5d

Great example of how tariffs harm broad economic segments but benefit narrow niche interests: housing analysts + NAHB worry (rightly) that tariffs on cabinets will slow housing production. Who's happy? The American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

New Tariffs Could Worsen America’s Housing Crisis

www.nytimes.com

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

Also local, walkable elementary school is the best opportunity there is to gain community with other parents

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

Yes everyone is freaking out because they think it is the SHSAT when it is the obviously flawed program for 4yos

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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 5d

Feels worth noting that this phase-out is for kindergarten through 2nd/3rd grade, where there’s a separate gifted track that doesn’t rely on pre-k teachers nominating students

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 6d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

www.nytimes.com

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

This is the intersection I posted about yesterday (Court/Baltic). I am totally pro-bike lane, but shouldn't those crosswalk lines be continuous?

Vincent Barone ⛲️ @vinbarone.bsky.social · 8d

Protected bike lane markings are coming in on Court Street. 👍🏻

A woman with a stroller crosses an intersection of Court Street with partial markings in place for the new protected bike lane design.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 6d

🥂

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 6d

Would have been nice to get some money for the one I wrote for no money ;)

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 6d

3/4 were published before 2021 so I thought they might be! Just wanted to underscore that this database is different from some of the other links that have been shared.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 6d

I just looked and my books appeared in previous searchable lists but not this one so -- worth checking again

Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 6d

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--Money comes between now and 2027 (in separate tranches)

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