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rachelholliday.bsky.social
Rachel Holliday Smith
@rachelholliday.bsky.social
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managing editor at THE CITY (@thecity.nyc) • news if I must, local joy where I can find it • bird enjoyer • bluesky elder (derogatory) • tell me something good: [email protected] 📍 queens / fun hell
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · Nov 8
hi new readers, I work for an independent, nonprofit, never-paywalled local newsroom that regularly punches way above our weight.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 49m
truly. I just went to Fraunces Tavern for the first time and I was like wait lmao how is this still here for real
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 57m
yes yes yes yes this ROCKS
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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1h
I walked by here the other day
ornate logo on wall reading Excelsior Power Co. Bldg. 1888 AD.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 1h
I wasn’t aware of all the ballot measures coming up in NYC—important to catch up before the vote
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 18h
yes, us! here you go:
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 1h
omg you work at the Horse Insurance building?????
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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 1h
I asked a friend who works for the city if they had opinions on these housing related ballot initiatives and they said YES and then asked if I had 30 minutes free for them to get into it 😮‍💨
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 18h
yes, us! here you go:
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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 1h
It'll forever kill me that the oldest extant remnants of New Amsterdam, pieces of a city now 400 years in the past, can be found directly in front of a Le Pain Quotidien
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 1h
YES THIS EXACTLY
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 1h
the financial district is too funny … tell me why every old office building has a name etched in stone like The Amalgamated Steamship, Corn Refining and Horse Insurance Co., 1888

and now it’s a WeWork with a salad place
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 18h
yes, us! here you go:
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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...
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Camera-on-Hudson @camonhudson.moacir.com · 1d
🌇 on Monday, October 6, 2025 at 18:30 in New York City.

Current conditions (via NOAA):
🌞 Fair/clear
Temperature: 22.2°
Relative Humidity: 66.22%
Heat Index: 22.2°
A photo of the Hudson river, at about (40.81, -73.96), taken at 10/6/2025, 6:30:59 PM.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · Feb 7
just spent hours on the phone with my doctor, pharmacy and insurance company so you know what that means: I’m now the joker
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2d
You work hard as a journalist. You lead with empathy, and you sweat details. You operate in good faith. You believe in honesty and truth. You get yelled at by the president of the United States. You worry that you'll get laid off. Again and again.

And then you see this. www.wsj.com/business/med...
Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million
Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 2d
I love it
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 2d
that’s wonderful, who puts it on? I think every borough should have soup contests
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 2d
hold on there’s a Staten Island Best Soup contest???
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Rachel FigueroAAAH! 👻💀 🎃 @jewyorican.bsky.social · 2d
At the annual Staten Island Best Soup contest with a voter who is taking his decision very seriously
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Matt Brickman @mattbrickman.bsky.social · 2d
Bit of an NYC Madlibs, but just walked past Tyler the Creator filming something inside Barney Greengrass. Hope he gets to try the latkes.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 2d
A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.
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Errol Louis @errollouis.bsky.social · 3d
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social visited my church this morning!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d
reading this book in october on a beach day in new york city really drives (pun intended) the point of this book home.

congrats @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social !
the book Life After Cars by Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, photographed on the beach
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Spookers @squeakers.bsky.social · 2d
84 degrees in nyc - another beach day! Sporting all black because it’s OCTOBER
(For those in other lands, October is not a beach month in nyc. Until today.)
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 2d
this is wonderful
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 2d
what the … how … ? did this involve a police chase? any idea?
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