Karrie Jacobs
@karrieurbanist.bsky.social
Writer. Mostly cities, architecture and design. Also the politics of public space, technology and trees. Faculty at SVA’s DCrit. South Brooklyn and the Western Catskills.
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The Transformation of the New York Waterfront
From the Navy Yard and Industry City to the recent remaking of Bush Terminal, developers are attempting to remake Brooklyn’s coastline.
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I visited the newly renovated section of Bush Terminal a few months ago. The last I’d heard, the city had designated it as a new garment district. As with all things NYC, the story was much more complicated.
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Sharon Camp started a tiny pharmaceutical company to manufacture the morning-after pill.
“She knew she would need some deep-pocket investors, and she approached 150 venture capital firms. They all turned her down.”
Instead, the women’s health community financed her startup.
“She knew she would need some deep-pocket investors, and she approached 150 venture capital firms. They all turned her down.”
Instead, the women’s health community financed her startup.
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Sharon Camp started a tiny pharmaceutical company to manufacture the morning-after pill.
“She knew she would need some deep-pocket investors, and she approached 150 venture capital firms. They all turned her down.”
Instead, the women’s health community financed her startup.
“She knew she would need some deep-pocket investors, and she approached 150 venture capital firms. They all turned her down.”
Instead, the women’s health community financed her startup.
“Ms. Wilson is a co-founder of the Transit Riders Union, an advocacy group behind a number of local measures to expand transit access, increase renter protections and add housing through new and higher taxes on the rich.”
Sensing a trend…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Sensing a trend…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Katie Wilson, a Political Newcomer, Is Elected Mayor in Seattle
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Ms. Wilson is a co-founder of the Transit Riders Union, an advocacy group behind a number of local measures to expand transit access, increase renter protections and add housing through new and higher taxes on the rich.”
Sensing a trend…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Sensing a trend…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Sharon Camp started a tiny pharmaceutical company to manufacture the morning-after pill.
“She knew she would need some deep-pocket investors, and she approached 150 venture capital firms. They all turned her down.”
Instead, the women’s health community financed her startup.
“She knew she would need some deep-pocket investors, and she approached 150 venture capital firms. They all turned her down.”
Instead, the women’s health community financed her startup.
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Sharon Camp started a tiny pharmaceutical company to manufacture the morning-after pill.
“She knew she would need some deep-pocket investors, and she approached 150 venture capital firms. They all turned her down.”
Instead, the women’s health community financed her startup.
“She knew she would need some deep-pocket investors, and she approached 150 venture capital firms. They all turned her down.”
Instead, the women’s health community financed her startup.
Oh, and BTW:
“The Pentagon has moved large amounts of naval-based firepower more appropriate for major land attacks than for striking small boats into the region, and Mr. Trump in public has mused about expanding to land strikes.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“The Pentagon has moved large amounts of naval-based firepower more appropriate for major land attacks than for striking small boats into the region, and Mr. Trump in public has mused about expanding to land strikes.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Oh, and BTW:
“The Pentagon has moved large amounts of naval-based firepower more appropriate for major land attacks than for striking small boats into the region, and Mr. Trump in public has mused about expanding to land strikes.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“The Pentagon has moved large amounts of naval-based firepower more appropriate for major land attacks than for striking small boats into the region, and Mr. Trump in public has mused about expanding to land strikes.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
We’re murdering random people in small boats based on Trump’s delusional nonsense.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
We’re murdering random people in small boats based on Trump’s delusional nonsense.
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Pete Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Pete Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
“…the crown prince will be meeting with Trump at the White House earlier in the day, and will host a U.S.-Saudi investment summit at the Kennedy Center...Trump signed a $142 billion weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, following a pledge from MBS to invest $600 billion in the U.S…”
Snark fails me.
Snark fails me.
Trump Plans Lavish Dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Investing in Kushner
Mohammed bin Salman isn’t the head of Saudi Arabia, but Donald Trump is pulling out all the stops for him anyway.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
“…the crown prince will be meeting with Trump at the White House earlier in the day, and will host a U.S.-Saudi investment summit at the Kennedy Center...Trump signed a $142 billion weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, following a pledge from MBS to invest $600 billion in the U.S…”
Snark fails me.
Snark fails me.
What I hope is that a lawsuit will force the Pentagon to reveal how and why they target certain boats, and that subjecting the intelligence — or whatever it is — to scrutiny will shut this ongoing atrocity down.
The family of a Colombian fisherman killed by one of the Trump admin’s air strikes on small boats in the Caribbean have hired a US attorney to file a wrongful death suit against the US government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
What I hope is that a lawsuit will force the Pentagon to reveal how and why they target certain boats, and that subjecting the intelligence — or whatever it is — to scrutiny will shut this ongoing atrocity down.
The family of a Colombian fisherman killed by one of the Trump admin’s air strikes on small boats in the Caribbean have hired a US attorney to file a wrongful death suit against the US government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The family of a Colombian fisherman killed by one of the Trump admin’s air strikes on small boats in the Caribbean have hired a US attorney to file a wrongful death suit against the US government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
A big, beautifully illustrated story about Penn Station as an emblem of “American Inertia.” I’ve only skimmed it.
Hint: You can’t fix Penn Station w/o relocating MSG. Moynihan was an end run around the intransigence of the Dolan clan.
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Hint: You can’t fix Penn Station w/o relocating MSG. Moynihan was an end run around the intransigence of the Dolan clan.
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Why Is It So Hard to Fix Penn Station?
The nation’s busiest transit hub stands as a symbol of a condition that afflicts so many attempts to get big things done in America: inertia.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A big, beautifully illustrated story about Penn Station as an emblem of “American Inertia.” I’ve only skimmed it.
Hint: You can’t fix Penn Station w/o relocating MSG. Moynihan was an end run around the intransigence of the Dolan clan.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hint: You can’t fix Penn Station w/o relocating MSG. Moynihan was an end run around the intransigence of the Dolan clan.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is turning into an episode of Ray Donovan.
“The messages hint that Mr. Epstein or his advisers believed they had inside — and potentially damaging — knowledge of Mr. Trump’s far-flung properties and business dealings…”
And then he committed suicide.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
And then he committed suicide.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is turning into an episode of Ray Donovan.
“…About three weeks before F.B.I. agents arrested Epstein…his longtime accountant, Richard Kahn, told Mr. Epstein in an email that he had just finished reviewing Mr. Trump’s federal financial disclosure form. Mr. Kahn called the form ‘100 pages of nonsense.’”
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November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“…About three weeks before F.B.I. agents arrested Epstein…his longtime accountant, Richard Kahn, told Mr. Epstein in an email that he had just finished reviewing Mr. Trump’s federal financial disclosure form. Mr. Kahn called the form ‘100 pages of nonsense.’”
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“The messages hint that Mr. Epstein or his advisers believed they had inside — and potentially damaging — knowledge of Mr. Trump’s far-flung properties and business dealings…”
And then he committed suicide.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
And then he committed suicide.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“The messages hint that Mr. Epstein or his advisers believed they had inside — and potentially damaging — knowledge of Mr. Trump’s far-flung properties and business dealings…”
And then he committed suicide.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
And then he committed suicide.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Normal!?!?
Maybe after the mid-terms. But January 2029…if we live that long.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Maybe after the mid-terms. But January 2029…if we live that long.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
The Shutdown Is Over. When Will Things Get Back to Normal?
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Normal!?!?
Maybe after the mid-terms. But January 2029…if we live that long.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Maybe after the mid-terms. But January 2029…if we live that long.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
I visited the newly renovated section of Bush Terminal a few months ago. The last I’d heard, the city had designated it as a new garment district. As with all things NYC, the story was much more complicated.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Transformation of the New York Waterfront
From the Navy Yard and Industry City to the recent remaking of Bush Terminal, developers are attempting to remake Brooklyn’s coastline.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I visited the newly renovated section of Bush Terminal a few months ago. The last I’d heard, the city had designated it as a new garment district. As with all things NYC, the story was much more complicated.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
You get the sense that what Epstein knew about Trump went well beyond his sex life and could’ve been uniquely damaging…
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
You get the sense that what Epstein knew about Trump went well beyond his sex life and could’ve been uniquely damaging…
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This is the defense they are floating?
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is the defense they are floating?
Sorry. We’ve fired the entire Dept. of Kerning and replaced it with the Dept. of Gilding.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Sorry. We’ve fired the entire Dept. of Kerning and replaced it with the Dept. of Gilding.
“‘This rises above politics and partisanship,’ remarked one bishop on the floor, emphasizing that protecting immigrants is not partisan — it’s basic Christianity.”
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“‘This rises above politics and partisanship,’ remarked one bishop on the floor, emphasizing that protecting immigrants is not partisan — it’s basic Christianity.”
It would be nice if this unscrupulous effort was an embarrassing failure.
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Trump Admin’s Nationwide Gerrymandering Assault Faces Setbacks
President Trump’s pressure campaign to get red states across the country to...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It would be nice if this unscrupulous effort was an embarrassing failure.
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Do you think Trump knows that the room isn’t intended for that kind of situation?
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Exclusive: Trump administration holds Situation Room meeting over House effort to force release of all of DOJ’s Epstein files | CNN Politics
Top Trump administration officials met Wednesday with a key GOP lawmaker about an effort in the US House to force a vote on releasing Justice Department case files related to Jeffrey Epstein, accordin...
www.cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Do you think Trump knows that the room isn’t intended for that kind of situation?
www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...
“In October 2016, shortly before Trump won his first election, the author Michael Wolff wrote an email to Epstein with the subject line: ‘Now could be the time.’ It was unclear what Wolff was referring to or whether Epstein responded.”
Yeah, mid-October 2016 would’ve been the time.
Yeah, mid-October 2016 would’ve been the time.
Update from Jessica Silver-Greenberg
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“In October 2016, shortly before Trump won his first election, the author Michael Wolff wrote an email to Epstein with the subject line: ‘Now could be the time.’ It was unclear what Wolff was referring to or whether Epstein responded.”
Yeah, mid-October 2016 would’ve been the time.
Yeah, mid-October 2016 would’ve been the time.
Oversight, indeed.
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Oversight, indeed.
