Ryan Goldberg
@ryangoldberg.bsky.social
Journalist and author of BIRD CITY: ADVENTURES IN NEW YORK'S URBAN WILDS (Algonquin), out November 2025. Buy it here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-goldberg/bird-city/9781643755564/.
Pinned
Pub Day
Bird City has landed
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Bird City is out today, and you can find it wherever you buy books.
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All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism
This is disgusting. "We need to govern in reality," Hochul said. How about the reality of burning more fossil fuels and ramming a pipeline through sensitive and already-stressed marine ecosystems?
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Hochul, Murphy OK key permits for Trump-backed gas pipeline in NYC, NJ
The move reverses an environmental policy victory won by the Cuomo administration.
gothamist.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is disgusting. "We need to govern in reality," Hochul said. How about the reality of burning more fossil fuels and ramming a pipeline through sensitive and already-stressed marine ecosystems?
gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...
gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...
I did an interview with Alain Clavette for the CBC which was a lot of fun, talking Bird City and urban wildness.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I did an interview with Alain Clavette for the CBC which was a lot of fun, talking Bird City and urban wildness.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
Bird City is out today, and you can find it wherever you buy books.
ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/pub-day
ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/pub-day
Pub Day
Bird City has landed
ryangoldberg1.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Bird City is out today, and you can find it wherever you buy books.
ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/pub-day
ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/pub-day
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@ryangoldberg.bsky.social makes the case for birdwatching in the winter and fall.
Birding on the Beach: Why Fall and Winter Are Great Times to Bird Watch
Late August days were once bittersweet for me. Growing up on the Jersey Shore, where my family were members of a rickety old beach club, I still remember the feel of the cooler air in the evenings …
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November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
@ryangoldberg.bsky.social makes the case for birdwatching in the winter and fall.
For LitHub I wrote about my favorite time of year at the beach...after Labor Day!
Birding on the Beach: Why Fall and Winter Are Great Times to Bird Watch
Late August days were once bittersweet for me. Growing up on the Jersey Shore, where my family were members of a rickety old beach club, I still remember the feel of the cooler air in the evenings …
lithub.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For LitHub I wrote about my favorite time of year at the beach...after Labor Day!
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their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
My book Bird City comes out on Tuesday! But for a little sneak preview, head on over to @defector.com: defector.com/the-owl-code...
The Owl Code Tearing Apart New York's Birders | Defector
We followed the Owl Whisperer around the gun battery toward a grove of pitch pines, where he had seen the saw-whet owl. Then I heard someone ask behind me, “Where are they going?” I turned around and ...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My book Bird City comes out on Tuesday! But for a little sneak preview, head on over to @defector.com: defector.com/the-owl-code...
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I wrote a hot take for the first time in my life www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Is Legal Sports Gambling Creating Cheaters or Exposing a Long-Held Secret?
Last week NBA stars were accused of faking injuries and insider trading. This type of thing has been going on forever
www.rollingstone.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I wrote a hot take for the first time in my life www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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This story about Melissa DeRosa allegedly threatening Cornell's funding after an undergrad dared to ask her about Cuomo's sexual harassment allegations is not gonna do anything for this crew's reputation as frothing bullies.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
‘Watch Yourself’: Top Cuomo Advisor Melissa DeRosa ’04 M.P.A. ’09 Berates Undergrad Who Probes Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Allegations
Melissa DeRosa ’04 M.P.A. ’09, secretary to former governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) berated a Cornell undergraduate student at a Oct 1. Cornell Political Strategy Group event after asking about Cuomo’s ...
www.cornellsun.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This story about Melissa DeRosa allegedly threatening Cornell's funding after an undergrad dared to ask her about Cuomo's sexual harassment allegations is not gonna do anything for this crew's reputation as frothing bullies.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
Next month I'll be doing a bunch of events with some great people to talk about BIRD CITY, my book coming out in 8 days! Come join! You can get more details on ryangoldberg.net.
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Next month I'll be doing a bunch of events with some great people to talk about BIRD CITY, my book coming out in 8 days! Come join! You can get more details on ryangoldberg.net.
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Yet another over-the-top story about a third party candidate who lost his party's primary by a large margin but has name recognition so that earns him a boatload of free publicity.
Fashioning himself a 21st-century Cassandra, Mr. Cuomo has unspooled a grim prophecy for a city that seems poised to elect as its mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist half his age. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/n...
With Dire Picture of a Mamdani Mayoralty, Cuomo Plays to Voters’ Fears
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yet another over-the-top story about a third party candidate who lost his party's primary by a large margin but has name recognition so that earns him a boatload of free publicity.
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NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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For New York Times Magazine, I wrote about the ethical complexity of one of the most irritating shows on television... SuperKitties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...
The Villains on Pre-K TV Are Cuddly, Annoying and … Morally Interesting
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For New York Times Magazine, I wrote about the ethical complexity of one of the most irritating shows on television... SuperKitties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...
In two weeks you can vote and pick up your copy of Bird City on the same day:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-...
Bird City
For readers of What an Owl Knows and The World Without Us, this infectiously impassioned tour of the five New York City boroughs offers city dwellers and bir...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In two weeks you can vote and pick up your copy of Bird City on the same day:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-...
I wrote about a great morning of watching bird migration and the very big problem of window collisions: ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/stop-birds...
Stop birds hitting windows
The downside to a big night of migration
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October 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I wrote about a great morning of watching bird migration and the very big problem of window collisions: ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/stop-birds...
I wrote about one of my favorite places in the city, the hawk watch at Fort Tilden in the Rockaways: ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/hawk-watch
Hawk Watch
Watching hawks from the ruins of a New York City fort
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October 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I wrote about one of my favorite places in the city, the hawk watch at Fort Tilden in the Rockaways: ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/hawk-watch
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Still amazed by this. Can you imagine FDNY saying sprinklers or fire escapes are only needed in buildings where there's already been a fire?
Imagine if we treated any other form of safety like this:"We should only install outlet covers in day care centers on a case-by-case basis, such as where a toddler has stuck his fingers in an electrical socket."
September 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Still amazed by this. Can you imagine FDNY saying sprinklers or fire escapes are only needed in buildings where there's already been a fire?
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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No words. I believed in Ryan. We moved to Oklahoma because he promised that my awful sons Enigmus Rex and Pance would be given handguns in kindergarten and then not be given any instruction on how to use them safely. I bought a shitty gray house in Tulsa because he promised they wouldn't be woke.
BREAKING: Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters says he is resigning. (Of course, he announced this on Fox News.)
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
September 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
No words. I believed in Ryan. We moved to Oklahoma because he promised that my awful sons Enigmus Rex and Pance would be given handguns in kindergarten and then not be given any instruction on how to use them safely. I bought a shitty gray house in Tulsa because he promised they wouldn't be woke.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The wildflower meadows at Green-Wood Cemetery are in full bloom right now. A must visit.
September 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The wildflower meadows at Green-Wood Cemetery are in full bloom right now. A must visit.
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After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE
September 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE
I launched a Substack today, and here's the first post if you want to check it out. I'll be sending the occasional update about my book, the stories I’m working on, and field notes from my travels around New York City’s wild places.
Tribute in Light
How the September 11th memorial will spell trouble for migrating birds in New York City
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September 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I launched a Substack today, and here's the first post if you want to check it out. I'll be sending the occasional update about my book, the stories I’m working on, and field notes from my travels around New York City’s wild places.