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These are a few things I have written. I hope you enjoy them.

Tech/Media

For blind New Yorkers, a different, and complex, relationship with technology
Capital New York - September 19, 2011

Cupidtino: Where Love Is In An iPhone App
Bloomberg Businessweek - January 20, 2011

The singularities of Josh Harris
Capital New York - November 1, 2010

Bye Bye Brooklyn! Gilt Groupe moves their operations out of scrappy Brooklyn Navy Yard
Capital New York - October 8, 2010

Taking time to read on the web: Instapaper gets ready for the big show
Capital New York - October 6, 2010

The education of ‘Mosque’-tweeter Oz Sultan
Capital New York - August 18, 2010

How the New York Times’ Home Page Gets Made
New York Observer - July 21, 2009

Paint Me, Please! Facebookers Clamor for Peeping Portraitist
New York Observer - February 16, 2009

It’s Living Room 2.0
New York Observer - November 25, 2008

Rahm Poked Me! The Facebook Administration
New York Observer - November 11, 2008

Drop.io: Get a Room—er, Internet Drop!
New York Observer - October 6, 2008

The Facebook Holdouts
New York Observer - January 15, 2008

Books

On Huckleberry Finn, the N-Word—and What Basquiat Would Have Done
Thirteen - January 11, 2011

The Making of the Times’ 10 Best Books of 2010
Thirteen - December 14, 2010

My Book Deal Ruined My Life
New York Observer - June 5, 2007

Food

Welcome to meatopia! Williamsburg’s blossoming carnal id
Capital New York - August 23, 2010

The morning massacre at Ed’s Lobster Bar
Capital New York - July 30, 2010

Jim Lahey’s farmer’s market gamble: Summer corn, for pizza
Capital New York - July 20, 2010

Attack of the Amusing Little Snack Cakes
New York Observer - May 27, 2008

Misc.

Stitch by Stich, Block by Block (A profile of a traveling seamstress)
New York Times - February 16, 2011

On rap, rape and dudes in a room (rap music and personal politics)
Notable selection in Best Music Writing 2011 - November 11, 2011

Carriers of the Torch, in a Chorus of Red Hair (Beauty)
New York Times - October 26, 2010

In a changed city, Soho bike mecca Bicycle Habitat grows up (Bikes)
Capital New York - August 31, 2010

The Bench Bunch (Nightlife)
New York Observer - August 7, 2007

The Trust Fund D.J.s (Nightlife)
New York Observer - May 8, 2007

Personal

Black coffee, cigarettes and 45s
Tumblr/zine - December 30, 2010