If you talked to me for more than five minutes at any point between 2020 and 2024, I probably rambled your ear off about The Power Broker. In case you haven’t read it (or haven’t patiently listened to me trying to convince you to read it), it’s a biography written by Robert Caro about Robert…
Month: November 2025
New York City Can’t Live With Its Birds, And It Can’t Live Without Them
No place in America has occupied a more dramatic intersection between its people and its birds than New York City. It was the end of the rail for birds killed for food, which poured into the city’s markets by the ton. It was the destination for feathers for the Millinery Trade, which defined the country’s…