Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Stuyguy gets published in the NY Times!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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As many of you know, I’m something of a NYC history wonk. So I wrote an article about my idea of renaming one of our bridges after a hero of mine, an utterly forgotten – but deserving – nineteenth century moverandshaker named Andrew Haswell Green.

Well, the Times is going to publish it on Sunday (5/20/01)!

All you Gothamites can see it in the CITY section (as a “City Lore” column, which usually runs on page 3 – nice placement, eh?).

Out-of-towners (who don’t get the CITY section in their Sunday Times package) should be able to read it on the NYT website, though it may take some digging – CITY section stories tend to get buried.

Naturally, the byline is in my IRL name: Michael Miscione.

Oh, and now I know why Eve and the rest of you writers gripe about cruel, heartless editors. The piece started as 800 words, but got chopped down to about 500. [Frownie goes here.]

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Congrats, stuyguy! The City is one of my favorite sections. As a former newspaper reporter, I always read bylines. I’ll keep an eye out for yours.

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Cool Stuyguy! That is awesome! I hope you can post a link to the article here when it comes out.

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My congratulations, and consolations. Editors have to justify their existence, though. Next time you might give them something to cut out, just so they’ll feel better. But they might decide to leave it in, anyway.

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Wow, congratulations!

I’m assuming your day job isn’t as a writer…to have a piece in the NYT, super!

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Congratulations! Ol’ Peg-Leg Pete will be proud.

I’ll look for the link.

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Neat-o! The New York Fucking Times! Maybe you can take over the Streetscapes column if Christopher Gray ever retires!

[grumbling about living in Joisey, so I won’t get that section]

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That’s GREAT!

The City section is about the only part of the Sunday paper I read front to back these days (if you had a piece coming out in Styles Of The Times I’da been worried about you); I’ll look forward to it being enhanced further by your fine prose.

– Ukulele Ike, Professional Editor, Working Tirelessly to Make It Better For You

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I promise to steal it from the library, and keep it in my box :smiley:

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Congratulations!

And I second three bunny mama, that you should post a link if you can.

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Congratulations, stuyguy! Looking forward to reading your article.

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Thanks everyone for your kind words of congratulations.

Okay, here’s the link:

http://www.nytoday.com/articles/990121069242.html?nyt_webid=990121069242&nyt_webasset=NYT_Article&nyt_webtype=News

Hope you like the piece. If so, join my crusade to rename the bridge!

Oh, and Ike, obviously someone at the NYT is not working tirelessly enough for me. They left a word (“funds”)out of the middle of a sentence in paragraph 5. Now everyone will go “huh?” when they read the piece. And then they downloaded the picture of the bridge with the arrow cursur still on the screen!

Oh well, I’m still delighted that they ran it!

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I think you meant this, stuyguy:

http://www.nytoday.com/articles/990121069242.html

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Very nice! Congratulations!

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Great article, stuyguy. :slight_smile: I always like learning new and interesting things about NY. Congrats!

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Very nice, and well written, as one would expect from a New York Times contributor.

Living in flyover country as I do, it’s refreshing to read about someone who shaped your city at its start. We all have our local heroes, and it’s nice to know about New York’s local heroes.

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Great job, stuyguy!

I even learned a few things. I crossed that bridge a number of times and never knew it’s history.