Brooklyn is, population-wise, the largest of New York City’s five boroughs. It’s got more people than Houston, TX, Philadelphia, PA, and three-and-a-half Detroits. Kings County, with which Brooklyn is coterminous, is the most populated in New York State and the eighth most-populated in the United States. Should you attempt to find the most racially, ethnically, religiously, […]
I’ve been re-reading and thinking about this article recently. There are some unfortunate clichés here and there, but ultimately the author does a great job making a meaningful point in the din of “who are Millennials anyway?” stuff that shrinks and grows every couple of news cycles.
My TL;DR:
Gen Y folks value business attitudes that encourage entrepreneurship, hustling, […]
Us Fellows just wrapped up five weeks of work in the wacky world of Detroit education. To call our strange collection of schools and learning opportunities a “system” is perhaps a bit ambitious—some schools inspire and sustain real growth, some are just buildings now, some are crippled beyond sensibility. I drive by two excellent schools on my […]
I lived in New York for a few months before I moved to Detroit. I subleased a hot but otherwise pleasant walk-up in Sunset Park (traditionally Brooklyn’s Chinatown, presently the next stop on the “where’s the cheap rent” train not-so-slowly pushing through the outer boroughs) and interned at a pharmaceutical advertising agency, so it was […]
I hopped in the car after a quick dinner and headed east, a bottle of scotch rolling around the trunk. During my week at home in southeast Pennsylvania I ate, lounged, relaxed, and swapped the scotch (a gift for my dad) with a case of Yuengling—which rolled around my trunk on the ride home.
I was […]
Yesterday, while eating a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat, I thought back to a Turkey Day potluck a few years ago at which there were so many dishes that I had to form two distinct layers of food on my plate in order to sample everything. Today I wake up to read that a […]
Everyone has a reason for being in Detroit—staying, coming, returning, passing through, stopping by, whatever. Though my Detroit experience is pretty charmed, I haven’t had too many “Detroit” conversations where the conversation doesn’t end up at “why Detroit?” Jobs, art, taking stances, exploring, graduating from the suburbs, and having something to talk about are all common topics, […]
My time spent in Detroit was limited to about 90 hours when the rented U-Haul pulled off I-94 into the heart of Midtown . I was fresh off a summer in New York City, where I lived in a (somewhat) far-flung immigrant neighborhood and worked in Manhattan, the hyper-everything caricature of human life that manages to […]