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This week was my last week at the Daily News. I’m so deeply thankful for the great friends and colleagues I’ve got to know over the course of three years running around the city, and even more thankful for the people who trusted me and let me tell their stories
I can’t thank people enough—from the editors, reporters & photographers at the News to the ones from other papers & stations in the field, to the press secs & neighbors wanting to tell you something, to the gas station & deli workers letting me use their cameras & bathrooms
Sincerely, thank you to all and I can’t wait to keep working with you in the future.
That being said, everyone does this, so here’s a thread of some of my favorite stories/pics/moments from when I first interned in 2017
That being said, everyone does this, so here’s a thread of some of my favorite stories/pics/moments from when I first interned in 2017
A problem facing plenty of NYers: landlords trying to skirt the rules against their documentation status. Was very excited to hear Ms. Ramos had found a place to live after a reader saw our story http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/adults-housing-harsh-reality-new-yorkers-kids-article-1.3337088
A mom trying to explain how her son couldn’t have stolen a 95lb tortoise from Alley Pond Park because he’s scrawny: feat me typing in the Queens Criminal Court http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/suspected-tortoise-thief-mom-case-ridiculous-article-1.3378118
I got to finally use my native language for reasons outside of sounding pompous at restaurants http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/italian-man-shot-staten-island-park-feels-scared-new-york-article-1.3430046
My first front page, about a man using his backpack as a makeshift umbrella, getting shot in the head by a stray bullet, and then surviving because the backpack absorbed the blow http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-man-backpack-absorbs-brunt-bullet-saves-life-article-1.3437150
This pic of me unimpressed by Cuomo http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-cuomo-slams-nycha-20180722-story.html
This story I found on Reddit turned into a huge lawsuit by Tish James: a ghost kitchen quietly shut its doors without telling over 175 entrepreneurs who relied on the facilities http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-pilotworks-shutters-operations-businesses-stranded-20181016-story.html
This day that the news solved the government shut down https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-queens-laguardia-flights-halted-air-traffic-controllers-20190125-story.html
Another story I found on Reddit, about gym owners who similarly shut down their doors to clients (including Sen. Brad Hoylman) and employees https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-troubled-gym-20190220-story.html
This super fun story about a women’s motorcycle club riding in the Gay Pride Parade https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-sirens-women-motorcycle-club-gay-pride-parade-20190630-mgz764xcqnaznbxtitlltusao4-story.html
Before Covid, when none of us minded getting a little too close with each other at an ICE facility http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-pol-immigration-detention-center-ice-20180617-story.html
That time tourists couldn’t believe streets weren’t made for people https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-nyc-holiday-street-closures-rockefeller-christmas-tree-20191129-3fhbjfmd6jh6bezdakrkxvq2be-story.html
Of course, the protests
And this year, with people trying to make New Yorkers’ lives a little better during Covid https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-photographers-fund-raiser-elmhurst-hospital-20200419-lin3czlvsrcbnmwi6jszn5bis4-story.html https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-brooklyn-distilleries-create-hand-sanitizers-20200322-tamxmyegzfgl7poxewuxthtoxi-story.html https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-restaurants-coronavirus-response-20200326-kyzyjffcdjcifhfba6nbhlr6bi-story.html
Thanks for the memories
