Buried at the bottom of the post is of course exciting news; books came in yesterday.

I wrote about one of my favorite places in the city, the hawk watch at Fort Tilden in the Rockaways: ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/hawk-watch

Still amazed by this. Can you imagine FDNY saying sprinklers or fire escapes are only needed in buildings where there's already been a fire?

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

No words. I believed in Ryan. We moved to Oklahoma because he promised that my awful sons Enigmus Rex and Pance would be given handguns in kindergarten and then not be given any instruction on how to use them safely. I bought a shitty gray house in Tulsa because he promised they wouldn't be woke.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Even caught a monarch butterfly slipping into that photo, there were almost a dozen around the meadows yesterday afternoon.

I wrote about them and all the other meadows at Green-Wood in my new Substack post! ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/the-hill-o...

The wildflower meadows at Green-Wood Cemetery are in full bloom right now. A must visit.

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

I launched a Substack today, and here's the first post if you want to check it out. I'll be sending the occasional update about my book, the stories I’m working on, and field notes from my travels around New York City’s wild places.

With fall migration upon us in NYC, I'm leading a bunch of free walks in Prospect Park this season for the Brooklyn Bird Club. Come check one out! The first Sunday (tomorrow) in Sept. and Oct., meeting at 8 AM at the Boathouse, and Tuesdays at 7:30 AM, meeting at Vanderbilt St. and Prospect Park SW.

DC getting eric adams at the trade deadline is a huge win now move for the city. especially if we can move him to a secondary position and a powerless admin appointee bench role. new york also getting to clear payroll and move their rebuild window forward makes this win-win

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

Imagine if NYTimes journalists were being routinely massacred by a foreign state and competing media outlets responded by explaining that the Times is a mouthpiece for imperialism and propaganda arm of the US and Israeli governments such that murdering its workers was defensible.

On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.

I rarely write about racing anymore, but I had fun talking to my friend @davidhill.bsky.social on his American Gambler podcast about the memoir of union organizer-turned-handicapper Len Ragozin, as well as my own book and whether birding is like gambling. davidhill.substack.com/p/the-odds-m...

Imagine sitting around a table dreaming about bootlicking

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

The normalization of lawless mass disappearances in major US cities is chilling beyond belief. Ghosts of the disappeared everywhere, in plain sight.

"Asked why they chose to support Adams [with $4,200 in donations], she replied, 'I don’t really know how to explain. It sounded like he could help us if we supported him.'" www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

This is such a strong piece by Liv Veazey for @hellgatenyc.com offering the banality of ICE agents as they huddle and lounge around Lower Manhattan, engaging in the most barbaric of activities, kidnapping and holding people in a gulag and then talking about slurpees.
hellgatenyc.com/what-ice-age...

This is an incredible post even by Adam Johnson standards

returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...