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A Tale of Two Tours

Countless tour buses and souvenir kiosks sit on State Street, right outside Battery Park. This sidewalk – because of its proximity to the Ellis and Liberty Islands ferries – is often crowded with out-of-towners waiting to ride the red Big Bus tours that hastily take them around Manhattan’s landmarks. And […]

Eras Merge in FiDi

BY JENNA JARDINE—A great metal snake, courtesy of Alfred Ely Beach, grinds to a halt beneath what is truely old New York. I remember being told the story almost as a right of passage to become a New Yorker. Peter Minuit is said to have stood here when he purchased […]

Is Twitter The Home For Accountability?

Alyssa Newcomb had just celebrated her one-year anniversary as a Tech reporter at NBC News in San Francisco when the Charlottesville protests began. “There were questions about who was marching in Charlottesville. It felt as though people were so shocked to see this happening in 2017,” Newcomb said. In Aug. […]

Algorithm SLUG

Flanked by two monitors, software engineering student Paul Ho’s eyes reflect back the strings of characters specifying a set of instructions. These instructions are made specifically to print the phrase, “Hello, World,” the first thing most computer scientists learn when they’re beginning to learn coding languages: >>> print (“Hello, World!”) […]

A Commenter’s Philosophy

BY JENNA JARDINE–His eyes flash down to the corner of the screen, to the little box showing his end of the video chat, checking his reflection. Australian social media buff Ben Walsh quickly adjusts the collar of his button-up shirt which had been laying just a little skewed, then straightens […]

Bar Discussion: Slacktivism

Like a flock of seagulls going after food, a horde of canvassers turned to me and started waving and walking in my direction as I arrived onto Astor Place. Their bright-colored parkas are like warning signs to pedestrians, their clipboards and pamphlets in hand, a provoking question at the ready. […]

The better group 1

A Tale of Two Tours

Eras Merge in FiDi

Is Twitter The Home For Accountability?

Algorithm SLUG

A Commenter’s Philosophy

Bar Discussion: Slacktivism

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