Posts tagged New York
the stolen history of new york
the stolen history of new york

Examining the stories of the people and places lost in time to uncover the legacy of slavery and colonialism in modern-day Manhattan

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culturejayemseyNew York, New York City, history, oral history, A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, colonialism, Benoît Challand, slavery, racism, anti-racism, systemic racism, Black Lives Matter, Occupy City Hall, protests, Manhattan, Mannahatta, Lenape, Walking Purchase, The Mannahatta Project, Wildlife Conservation Society, Chinatown, Spanish Harlem, Harlem, Flushing, Greenpoint, Crown Heights, linguistics, language, Endangered Language Alliance, Rivers Cosmogram, Langston Hughes, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, African-American, Dutch, immigrants, Harlem Renaissance, Great Migration, LGBTQ, El Barrio, El Museo del Barrio, Malcolm X, Puerto Rico, the Bronx, Latino, World War II, Casa Latina Music Shop, Tito Puente, Seneca Village, Seneca Village Project, Vox, Missing Chapter, Tanner's Spring, catacombs, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Catholicism, Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust, Holocaust, Auschwitz, Madison Square Park, Repertorio Español, Murray Hill, The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Stonewall Inn, Pride, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, Stonewall 50 - WorldPride NYC 2019, Gay Liberation, George Segal, Stonewall National Monument, Christopher Park, Washington Square Park, Dutch West India Company, Hangman's Elm, Astor Place, John Jacob Astor, La Plaza Cultural, art, 97 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, tenement, Little Guangdong-Hong Kong, Mott Street, Chinese Exclusion Act, Irish Hunger Memorial, Brian Tolle, Gail Wittwer-Laird, Great Irish Famine, Museum at Eldridge Street Synagogue, Greetings From Chinatown, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, Little Fuzhou, Manhattan Bridge, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, bloody angle, Doyer Street, Wilson Tang, Wing on Wo & Co., Mei Lum, Walter Eng, the W.O.W. Project, COVID-19, coronavirus, Five Points, Gangs of New York, Triumph of the Human Spirit, Lorenzo Pace, African Burial Ground, New Amsterdam, national park, National Park Service, autonomous zone, community, justice, NYPD, Park Row, Ah Ken, 74 Wall Street, New York slave market, Atlas Obscura, The Seaman's Bank for Savings in the City of New York, Netherland Monument, The Battery, Black Gotham, Tenement Museum, Museum of Chinese in America, The 1619 Project, NYPL Community Oral History Project, NYPLComment
minute thoughts 2.13.20
minute thoughts 2.13.20

On the delights of geomapping and the difficulty of reading as an adult

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minute thoughtsjayemseyParasite, the Oscars, Bong Joon-ho, Vulture, Architectural Digest, YouTube, West Village, Apartment Therapy, The Washington Post, Lily Lines, The Disposables, Kristen Bell, photography, travel, memory, New York, New York City, linguistics, subway, what3words, UCSB, Storke Tower, Year in Review, alcohol, drinking, snow, climate change, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, reading, representation, Barnes & Noble, Panda Express, orange chicken, hot and sour soup, '90s, the '80s, playlist, Asian AmericanComment
year in review: 2019
year in review: 2019

My year & decade in review and 2019 favorites

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lifejayemseyYear in Review, blogging, Y2K, millennium, San Diego, Singapore, New York, New York City, love, travel, oral history, working holiday visa, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Cambodia, France, London, Scotland, Costa Rica, Chicago, Portland, LA, mass shootings, democracy, kitten, graduation, Big Bear, Super Mario Odyssey, Arrowhead Village, Nintendo Switch, Super Mario Galaxy, Mandarin duck, hot duck, waterfall, La Fortuna Waterfall, Alajuela, La Fortuna, Monteverde, Chapman University, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Gov Ball, Randall's Island Park, ZHU, Florence and the Machine, Fyre Festival, The Strategy Super Sizer Megaclass, Julian Cole, Mark Pollard, Maine, anniversary, sunrise, Alaska, Baltic Sea, Mendenhall Glacier, silent disco, weddings, KAABOO, influencers, Snoop Dogg, Long Island City, LIC, Pepsi-Cola, Mia, Fish, Christmas, Instagram, housewarming, Samin Nosrat, Salt Fat Acid Heat, scallion pancakes, Molly Yeh, my name is yeh, Bouchon Bakery, laser tag, Ramen Ishida, ramen, Chinatown, How Sweet Eats, Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine, Bar Pa Tea, Oscar Wilde, tea, Burp Bowl Café, KitKat, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama, The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin, Educated, Tara Westover, Intimations, Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond, The New Yorker, millennials, gentrification, San Francisco, The Pudding, happiness, Ariana Grande, cultural appropriation, E. Jean Carroll, gaslighting, sexual assault, Central Park Five, grocery store, taxi, Aperol spritz, culture, pop culture, Gamergate, Allbirds, Uniqlo, Krave Beauty, Great Barrier Relief, Kale-lalu-yAHA, Stratia Liquid Gold, gua sha, Lauren Singer, zero-waste, Great Jones, Dutch oven, Secret Eyelash NYC, Dyson, Decrypto, Los Espookys, Booksmart, Hustlers, The Hustlers at Scores, The Haunting of Hill House, Cambodian Rock Band, Cambodian Genocide, Fleabag, Parasite, Luigi's Mansion 3Comment
minute thoughts 12.15.19
minute thoughts 12.15.19

On the psychological implications of microcopy and the usefulness of holiday gift guides

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minute thoughtsjayemseyholiday, gifting, Deadspin, Drew Magary, Williams-Sonoma, Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, For Him, For Her, curation, The Cut, New York, New York City, Humans of New York, Guy Fieri, Diners Drive-Ins and Dives, Esquire, Q&A, Hot Ones, Food Network, cooking, Marie Kondo, celebrities, influencers, KonMari, VICE, racism, Gwyneth Paltrow, Goop, Google Calendar, friendship, breakups, Dear Data, data visualizations, data, microcopy, strategy, psychology, UX, purchasing behaviors, WIRED, Target, Mailchimp, Slack, tea, exoticism, Ronan Farrow, Tarana Burke, Megan Rapinoe, Sports Illustrated, politics, 5 Love Languages, Quality Time, Acts of Service, Words of Affirmation, Physical Touch, Receiving GiftsComment
minute thoughts 5.23.19
minute thoughts 5.23.19

On kitchenware lust and the challenges of a zero-waste lifestyle

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minute thoughtsjayemseyGong Cha, Street Food, street food, Netflix, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Taiwan, Delhi, Singapore, hawker center, Apartment Therapy, Clever, IKEAhacks, kitchenware, KitchenAid, Met Gala, Camp: Notes on Fashion, Susan Sontag, Notes on 'Camp', aesthetics, fashion, popcorn, Stephen Curry, NBA, data, data visualizations, The Pudding, design, redesign, Tan France, Queer Eye, YouTube, roti prata, zero-waste, privilege, environmentalism, composting, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, Ira Glass, creativity, creative strategy, Twitter, Bill Gates, AMA, Reddit, mean world syndrome, abortion, Alabama, Georgia, Brass Monkey, New York, New York City, Jenna Spurlock, Pixar, SVA, Material Girl, campComment
pocket philosophy 2019
pocket philosophy 2019

My second all-night philosophy festival

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culturejayemseyA Night of Philosophy and Ideas, Brooklyn Public Library, philosophy, calm, anger, equanimity, halo effect, Patton Oswalt, Twitter, New York, New York City, zen, peace, 52 Places Traveler, Jada Yuan, Sebastian Modak, Panama, Puerto Rico, submission, BDSM, Desperate Housewives, The Odyssey, Muslim, hijab, agency, history, power, music, Franz Schubert, Im Frühling, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, Lithium, spring, antidepressant, Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, commodification, colonialism, capitalism, Manhattan, African Burial Ground, African-American, Jim Crow, post-colonialism, ICE, Black Gotham Experience, bite-sized philosophyComment
minute thoughts 2.10.19
minute thoughts 2.10.19

On the reason my family is no longer welcome at the Carlsbad strawberry fields and the appeal of Ina Garten

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minute thoughtsjayemseyWealthfront, investing, money, finance, purchasing behaviors, Gen X, millennials, Dollar Shave Club, Quip, Casper, Away, aesthetics, social signaling, Vox, The Best of Everything, direct-to-consumer, Summer Palace, St. Petersburg, Carlsbad U-Pick Strawberry Fields, Hallmark, stock photo, child model, MacBook Pro, Apple, John Saito, Medium, innovation, Edible Arrangements, gifting, Paris, sexuality, PornHub, OkCupid, data, Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa, Good Eats, Iron Chef, Samin Nosrat, Salt Fat Acid Heat, Marie Kondo, Queer Eye, Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, Bobby Berk, Tan France, Karamo Brown, Fab Five, Chrissy Teigen, soup group, clam chowder, bread, KitchenAid, dinner party, New York, New York CityComment
snaps episode 04: long island, new york
snaps episode 04: long island, new york

A quick trip for some work research, and finding a small sense of home in a surprising place

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snapsjayemseyLong Island, wine, winery, grapes, New York, Riesling, rosé, pinot noir, cabernet franc, charcuterie, winemaking, Wölffer Estate Vineyard, Jamesport Vineyards, chardonnay, Peconi Bay, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bedell Cellars, Macari Vineyards, Avelino, Long Island Sound, Torrey Pines Gliderport, waves, passionComment