Ruth Brown

A candidate disappeared months ago after an ocean swim. Can he still win? apnews.com/article/missin…

@Julcuba Nobody is more qualified to write this story

Perhaps one of the most Brooklyn stories I've written crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/an…

@GershKuntzman @brooklynpaper They drive the bus!

Wow, reading the @brooklynpaper story about Fifth Avenue small business owners, I realize that today's reporters in desperate need of Gersh Kuntzman's photo primer, which is old, but still accurate. "Gersh Kuntzman: Regional Treasure since 1989." docs.google.com/document/d/15e…

Five months ago, the NYPD claimed the teen in the below photo – 15 year old Camden Lee – was behind the mass shooting at the West Indian Day Parade. They were wrong. A few days later, detectives privately told Lee's family it was a mistake. But... (1/4) apnews.com/article/nypd-w…

BREAKING: A federal judge rejected the sale of the conspiracy platform Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet after Alex Jones claimed that a recent bankruptcy auction was fraught with illegal collusion. apnews.com/article/infowa…

This upstate village loves its mute swans. New York state... not so much. apnews.com/article/manliu…

The kids who as first graders survived the Sandy Hook shooting are graduating from high school today. @DaveCollinsAP spoke with five of them: apnews.com/article/newtow…

Engaged Sun teammates Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner find work-life balance in the WNBA (from @AP) apnews.com/article/2225df…

Getting food delivered in New York is simple. For the workers who do it, getting paid is not apnews.com/article/uber-e…

@jangelooff ... stay for this flashback to a time when people were just beating up animals at the zoo in the 1970s nytimes.com/1974/03/13/arc…

Come for @jangelooff's great deep-dive into the mystery that has "improbably remained unsolved" for a whole year... apnews.com/article/flaco-…

@createcraig @AneetaBhole Ask for BBQ Shapes in exchange

Sounds to me like 600 *competed* timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…

Park Slope telescope guy speaks, calls for more telescopes in streets @catalinagonella gothamist.com/news/astronomy…

My mum and another ex-colleague just published a report on what they found inside... abcalumni.net/2023/08/24/sec…

For most of my life, they and their former colleagues didn’t know for sure why this happened — Cabinet documents are kept secret for 30 years. The files were finally found recently in an incorrectly-labelled folder in the National Archives.

🧵 In 1975, Australia's ABC launched two successful new radio stations. One went on to become Triple J. But the other, 3ZZ — where both my parents worked — was forcibly closed by the government two years later, with the help of federal police.

@SpeedyDG02 @bradlander I stand corrected. IIRC, Girls once did a wildly inaccurate community board storyline

Hot summer trend: Sex and the City and What We Do in the Shadows are both doing “NYC Comptroller election” storylines.

@Glenworking In the 2000s, Barbie briefly had an Australian boogie boarder boyfriend called Blaine, who loved hip hop. Cruelly he was discontinued in 2006 when Barbie got back together with Ken.