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"Funding projects that might help Americans who haven’t even been born yet might be good policy, but it’s not going to get anyone elected. So instead of considering those projects rationally, leading Republicans now strip them of context and mock them for political gain; indeed, they’ve made doing so into a habit."
— Alex Koppelman on the House’s failure to deal with the Sandy relief bill, and the G.O.P.’s lack of foresight: http://nyr.kr/ZW3B55 -
Click-through for a look back at 20 of the most striking images of our home planet as seen from orbit in 2012: http://nyr.kr/UosuxW, images courtesy of NASA’s Earth Observatory,
(Source: newyorker.com)
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A month ago today, Hurricane Sandy blew up the East Coast, leaving behind wreckage, from torn-up beaches to battered city streets. The photographers Peter van Agtmael, Adrian Fussell, and others captured the storm and its aftermath for The New Yorker. Click-through for a look back at what they saw: http://nyr.kr/U53AlF
(Source: newyorker.com)
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The Big Story
How can New York prepare for the next Hurricane Sandy? If you’re in New York, come to this month’s Big Story event: On Monday, December 3rd, at 7 P.M., David Remnick will moderate a panel of experts, including Stony Brook University’s Malcolm Bowman, New York City Deputy Mayor for Operations Cas Holloway, Columbia University’s Klaus Jacob, and the staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert. Tickets are free and will be available to the first hundred people to sign up, via this link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bigstory
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The Martha Graham Dance Company, Underwater
Marina Harss on the Martha Graham Dance Company, and their loss after Hurricane Sandy: http://nyr.kr/ZKscpA
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Rebecca Mead on the continuing effects of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey.
Photograph by Peter Van Agtmael/Magnum.
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…a bustling insouciance prevailed. Volunteer artists and friends pitched in where professionals could not be afforded. Laughter was heard.
“Community” is so abstract a notion, until it isn’t.
"— Peter Schjeldahl on the community of art galleries in Chelsea, after Hurricane Sandy: http://nyr.kr/RN8dRo(Source: newyorker.com)
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“Undeterred,” the Nov. 12, 2012 cover of the magazine. Here, the artist Adrian Tomine talks about the inspiration for his cover.
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Alone in Seward Park
Rebecca Mead visits the Seward Park Cooperative in New York City’s Lower East Side after Hurricane Sandy:
In the absence of institutionalized solidarity, spontaneous coöperation prevailed…. despite the prospect of at least one more night without power, [the elderly residents found themselves] a little less in the dark.
Photograph by Peter Van Agtmael/Magnum.
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Shannon stands beside what’s left of her bed, after fire completely destroyed her home yesterday.
As others took refuge from Sandy indoors, Brooklyn-based photographer Radcliffe Roye took to the streets—and beaches—of New York City. Follow @newyorkermag on Instagram to see how New Yorkers weathered the storm on Monday, and click-through for a selection of his images: http://nyr.kr/ShAPDO
