Elaine Chen

Into community engagement and citizen science. Before @nytimesEvents, @WNYC, and @nycgov. 🇹🇼

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

Love for the NYC subway - when the weather is freezing and you get from 103rd to 42nd Times Square in 10 minutes (INCLUDING wait time) for $3.

I know the system is held together with duct tape but thanks @MTA for making it work.

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

Whatever historic claims China may make, Taiwan has been a self-governing country - yes, country - for almost 80 years, and a capitalist democracy for the last 30.

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

China has amazing culture and people but I will not go there while the government keeps doing this to Taiwan.

China Fires Rockets Near Taiwan in Display of Military Power https://t.co/AR1uETJB3m via @NYTimes

[Jess Coleman @jesskcoleman]

This is the housing crisis in action.

If a loud minority can organize to stop affordable housing on the city’s own land—even when it promises to preserve 80% of the open space—anything goes.

Just file some frivolous lawsuits, get some celebrities on board, and you can stop any project, anywhere, anytime.

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

Who’s running for NYC mayor again??….besides the 2 who shall not be named….

Find the candidate who matches your views in this fun quiz powered by @THECITYNY and @Gothamist: https://t.co/MXVmMLdHzA

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

After years in Big Pharma, a chemist has pivoted to help save the species that made Ozempic possible. https://t.co/vVKhM1xD3n via @NYTimes

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

Fair points by @pahlkadot: Federal bureaucracy wasn't great. Goal should be an "effective administrative state.... Mr. Musk’s recklessness will not get us there, but neither will the excessive caution and addiction to procedure that Democrats exhibited..."
https://t.co/QpZGmZhI2i

[Grace Meng @RepGraceMeng]

In Congress, I am continuing the fight by pushing legislation I’ve authored to make Lunar New Year a federal holiday so that its importance could be recognized all across our country. https://t.co/u87AtDkWrq 2/2

[The City Reporter @THECITYNY]

If you want to weigh in on who gets the major-party nomination for mayor or city council, you’ll need to vote in the June primary elections.

And to do that, you may need to make a big change in your voter registration now.

https://t.co/SdK1oj205V

[Alyssa Katz @alykatzz]

Not your imagination: fewer food vendor carts are on the streets because vendors are staying home to avoid receiving NYPD tickets that could get them deported. @haideechu reports from a very full Manhattan garage. https://t.co/7I0zStezgZ

[Lev Nachman @lnachman32]

After pausing foreign aid to Taiwan, Trump is now also going to place tariffs on Taiwan’s semiconductor chips:

https://t.co/xZFGJmDKGw

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

Donald Trump is the president you get when political decisions are largely informed by social media.

For the left and right, I bet the candidate most likely to get clicks and views, to trigger an emotional reaction (whether “heck yeah” or revulsion), was Trump.

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

NYC voters, here’s your cheat sheet on the ballot measures https://t.co/j4dHhNwFoF

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

The best detail is a decal at John Waters’ favorite bookstore that reads "Baltimore: Actually, I Like It." https://t.co/rm6l8ugqMe

[Reuters @Reuters]

Hundreds of people in Taiwan and Hong Kong attended candlelight vigils to mark the 35th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China https://t.co/WqG7B6vcxs

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

35 years ago in Tiananmen Square, the world witnessed one of the most courageous acts of dissent – and one of the most violent & brutal crackdowns – in modern history. 

As we said shortly after the Massacre in 1989, we must remember what happened because Beijing denies history.

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

With sets like the Notre Dame, Lego is trying to reframe playing with its toys as “a legitimate leisure-time activity” for adults.

Fun read by @jggross
https://t.co/TDdqa7z6pM

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

NYC has both skyscrapers and horseshoe crabs. Every year this prehistoric and vulnerable species comes to the city to lay its eggs. There's even a festival to celebrate it. H/t @THECITYNY https://t.co/nVyvqeYiug

[Elaine Chen @elainejchen]

😱 “They have a very high number of genes, so they have a high, high potential for adaptation,” Dr. Bornberg-Bauer said. “To rapidly evolve into anything further.” https://t.co/uonM5pRrM5

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

You may not know that Jules Verne wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism.

It was lost for 131 years and only published in 1994.