Our January issue has arrived! Check out the Editor’s Note to learn more about what’s in store for the next two weeks and beyond.
“It’s time to start thinking about the future again. No matter how hard we try, this endless cycle of climbing, maintaining and escaping will never get us anywhere unless we look ahead every once in a while. Over a decade into this new millennium, our world is starting to feel very different. Planets are being discovered, technology is evolving, storms are rising, wars are winding down, our economy is stabilizing, the elections are over and new possibilities are in the air.”
Today in Work:
Maintain: The Directory - Every day, Laura lies to businesses all over the country in the name of information.
“This was a hostile takeover. They were getting listed whether they liked it or not. I’ve described the company I work for as the Borg, the Star Trek villains whose main goal is to assimilate all forms of life into their own quasi-robotic state to create a massive hive-mind of free-flowing information. On our mapping programs, vast areas around major cities have been covered in green, signifying that they now belong to us.”
One week left. As those ominous subway ads and billboards have been saying, September is just the beginning…
Today on the site: Heidi’s moving saga comes to a welcome end in “Climb: The Great Apartment Hunt - Part Three”
Above, her new home in Astoria.
Emily, one of our new writers, found comfort in this view today. The Manhattan Bridge as seen from the DUMBO waterfront.
-Photo by Emily Albarillo
