Yael Friedman

Books. Art. The New York Mets. Sometimes I write about all three. For The Economist, LA Review of Books, The Forward, Urban Omnibus, City Lab, & elsewhere.

[Yael Friedman @idapost]

My new essay - about the wonderful documentary Drop Dead City and why watching it feels like looking at the reels of your own home movies - the films of the 70s. For @AWFJ

[Alliance of Women Film Journalists @AWFJ]

50 years ago New York City was on the edge of bankruptcy, dangerous and decrepit. Wonderful #FearCity doc #DropDeadCity from #MichaelRohatyn & #PeterYost about the 1975 fiscal crisis is a retelling of this pivotal moment in NYC history. @idapost reviews: https://t.co/IOM4d1ulWj

[Ian O'Connor @Ian_OConnor]

Walt Frazier on Jalen Brunson to @theathletic:

"He's got the tenacity of Willis Reed and he's got my cool."

[Film at Lincoln Center @FilmLinc]

We hereby offer Mr. Wembanyama tickets to our Sunday, June 7 screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning five-and-a-half hour epic 1900 when he is in the city later this week on a work-related trip...

[Yael Friedman @idapost]

@aherman2006 Hahah, it’s almost just terrible writing but actually worse (considering the outlet and considering this person had an editor)

[Vinson Cunningham @vcunningham]

no

[Anthony Roman @Antonharmony]

We won a Murrow for our @ny1 podcast about feminist trailblazer and NYC icon Bella Abzug! @errollouis @bobhardt

[Saint Jimmy @JKrigg]

In an alternate timeline, I head straight there tonight to buy my Eastern Conference Champions drip

[Gothamist @Gothamist]

“We'd go to Rockaway on Sundays, which is like, I don't know, two-and-a-half hours or something with the A train, and nobody would be on [the train] Sunday morning. So we'd be like writing everywhere. We'd jump out of stations in the middle of nowhere, write our names, get back on the train. That's how we were doing it.” https://t.co/ngJ3Cp1WUk

[Yael Friedman @idapost]

@TheFakeAbeBeame Yeah ; )

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, John Starks, Latrell Sprewell, Marcus Camby, Iman Shumpert & Stephon Marbury are locked in as Jalen Brunson brings the Knicks back

[Lincoln Restler @LincolnRestler]

7 comebacks in May, 5-1 home-stand. Ya gotta believe. LFGM!

Yankees will forever suck.

[Yael Friedman @idapost]

I’ve written about one of my favorite shows in a very long time - it’s somehow Martha Cooper’s first retrospective in NYC, and I can’t think of a better way to showcase the work of this legendary woman whose images of NYC in the 70s, 80s, of kids creating their own worlds, helped ignite a global street art movement.
https://t.co/T3VZrXE83n

[Christopher Moltisanti Weighs In On Current Events @MoltisantiThots]

Maybe they shoulda kept Pete Alonso, T.

[Yael Friedman @idapost]

@souljagoyteller A recent one - The Village Voice oral history - The Freaks Came Out to Write by Tricia Romano- brilliant.

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

The NYC department of records, to their eternal glory, has digitized hundreds of historic videos and audio recordings from @WNYC’s history since 1937.

Anyone who is an NYC-phile needs to get into this STAT.

https://t.co/t8NhhhL5Qe

[Yael Friedman @idapost]

Spring is grand!

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

A terrific new book, Cinematic Immunity, by Michael Lee Nirenberg, is a fascinating and teeming oral history of New York movie-making (Hollywood-produced), such as On the Waterfront, The French Connection, The Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, Do the Right Thing, and Goodfellas—

[em @emilyagain]

Mrs. Met is Puerto Rican and Jewish, grew up in Woodside, worked at a bakery as a teen and went to a large public HS whereas Mr. Met is canonically Irish and Italian, grew up in Ozone Park and went to multiple Catholic schools, it's wild some of you are trying to debate this

[Yael Friedman @idapost]

It’s a fun game.

[Yael Friedman @idapost]

@SamAdlerBell Sometimes the Family Guy bit is not a bit.