Thoughts About Stuff
Josh GreenmanMusings on New York City politics, policy and culture by Josh Greenman, managing editor of Vital City (www.vitalcitynyc.org) and former Daily News op-ed and editorial page editor. Opinions are mine alone, not those of the publication where I work.
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Thinking About Paris and New York
This isn’t real.
My family recently spent about 10 days in France — half with my brother and his family in Burgundy, half in Paris. I know that’s not a long time; Alexis de Tocqueville spent the better part of a year in the States before h...
Psst, have you heard about AI?
Not me. Not a real person. Not a real cat wearing glasses.
Like your brother and your cousin and your coworker, I too have been playing with AI. After being an inveterate Gemini and Claude Pro hobbyist, I just splurged on Claude Code Max,...
Walking New York City’s Safe (and Not So Safe) Streets, In Numbers
Photo by Lacie Cueto on Unsplash
This week, Vital City (where I’m managing editor) released its new crime data explorer, which lets anyone parse more than three decades of New York City public safety data. It’s a genuinely impressive tool...
When Candidates Lose And Ideas Live On
Also by AI (Gemini)
I was curious to learn more about policy proposals of losing mayoral candidates over the decades, so I asked Claude to build a searchable database. (Gemini helped with the research too, as did Perplexity.) A dozen or so...
Beware Radical Urbanism
Photo by Tom Rumble on Unsplash
I am a city person by choice and by trade. My wife and I are raising our two daughters here in Brooklyn, and I spend most of my working hours at Vital City thinking about how to make New York’s complicated m...
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