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Tim Donnelly

@timdonnelly.com
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NYC journalist and other words; co-owner of The New York Groove. (Subscribe today! nygroove.nyc). Co-founder of Vocabaret. Formerly NY Post, Lifehacker, Brokelyn and so forth.

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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 24/09/2026
there are so many other people you can interview besides tucker carlson. just look outside, there are people everywhere, some of them even have consistent belief systems
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 24/09/2026
The city's greatest documentarians are back with a claim for who was New York City's greatest modern mayor: Mike "who wrote this crap?" Bloomberg. Read @davecolon.bsky.social's analysis here: nygroove.nyc/new-york-a-d...
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Bloomberg was the city’s greatest modern mayor, say the city’s greatest documentarians
Ric Burns lays out the case for Mike Bloomberg’s place on the mountain top with Fiorella LaGuardia.
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 24/09/2026
we've been down this road already nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/
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Photos: Everyone hates those AI subway ads as much as you
Friend dot com? More like Enemy dot com!!
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 24/09/2026
they really gotta make more politics that's not totally embarrassing to be associated with in any way
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 23/09/2026
saw the leaked footage of the Endgame re-release and oh boy i miss when disney didn't have active disdain for its audiences
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 23/09/2026
"Oh yeah, I would hope so. Raise [congestion pricing] 20 more dollars. Jack that shit up as much as they can."
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 23/09/2026
absolute humiliation king, you gotta admire it (you don't have to admire it) gothamist.com/news/early-a...
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Early Addition: Chris Christie says of course he's thinking about a 2028 presidential run
Because he told a crowd in New Hampshire he's considering a third presidential run, here are your early links: Cool photos of MTA workers behind the scenes, Thierry Henry's SoHo penthouse for sale, Ga...
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 23/09/2026
i assumed we'd eventually force everyone to be vegan by lack of resources but if they want to self-own their way into it that's fine with me too
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Kristin Toussaint @ktoussaint.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am often invited to climate-themed dinners where I have to specifically request a vegan option, because the event isn't naturally vegan, which is always interesting to me...
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 22/09/2026
what is the metric by which the NY Post decides what is a 'hipster' neighborhood
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 18/09/2026
For years - YEARS, maybe a decade - Republicans spent a bunch of time drumming up a panic that Democrats want to take away beef due to the impact cattle farming has on climate change. This was a real thing they used to whine about constantly.
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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 17/09/2026
here's a horrifying stat: textile waste in the U.S. has grown 80% between 2000 and 2018. so how are we going to keep it from choking landfills even more than it already has? nygroove.nyc/nyc-curbside...
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The city is looking at the ‘next frontier’ of trash: your old clothes
A City Council bill would look into the idea of curbside textiles recycling, a new attack on the city's zero waste goals.
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 17/09/2026
This week's New York Groove newsletter is here! nygroove.nyc/email/612c2c...
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Issue No. 170: Fashion garbage + Livin' la vida LIC-a
Good morning New York Groove, what's new? Last week I watched Metropolitan for the first time ever. Nice little city film, enough so that it even makes the winter an attractive proposition, which you ...
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 17/09/2026
they're def making google search worse so you have to rely on the AI right
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ska priest, somberly: pick it up pick it up (ska pall bearers hoist up coffin)
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 16/09/2026
they gotten open the schools and teach people how to use the emergency cord on the trains already (you almost are never gonna want to use it)
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 16/09/2026
it's almost climate week so thinking of this again
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 15/09/2026
"Arguing that restaurant AI slop is bad because it *looks* bad is a losing game...The focus becomes the images themselves, not the mechanisms by which they are made." www.weareravenous.com/for-ai-food-...
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For AI Food Slop, Gross Is in the Eye of the Beholder
AI food imagery would still be a problem even if it didn't look horrifying.
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 16/09/2026
tough news for the Rockaway Film Festival www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/n...
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A Cinema Paradiso in Queens Faces an Uncertain Future
The Arverne Cinema, in the Rockaways, has offered viewers a drive-in feel where the city meets the sea. It wasn’t meant to last.
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 16/09/2026
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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 12/09/2026
every issue comes with hand-selected picks of what to do this weekend from our FOMO Calendar too nygroove.nyc/email/dea71e...
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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 12/09/2026
Get caught up on our issue this week, packed, as always, with two juicy pieces of original local reporting: Inside the citys' club for historical whimsy + a new campaign to end subway noise pollution (and a fresh question of the week too) nygroove.nyc/email/dea71e...
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Issue No. 169: Antique whimsy + Ending subway noise pollution
Welcome to the working week New York City. The post-Labor Day productivity rush is on, but remember: summer is not over until the vernal equinox. This week we have a peek at some of New York’s most c...
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Defector @defector.com · 11/09/2026
How an unsubtle 9/11 tribute was added to Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man' defector.com/how-an-unsub...
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How An Unsubtle 9/11 Tribute Was Added To Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man' | Defector
Name an iconic scene from the first Spider-Man movie, the one directed by Sam Raimi that came out in 2002. You’re saying it’s the upside-down kiss? Yeah, that’s fair. Let me ask my question in a…
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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 10/09/2026
Was great to talk to Tim about the scourge of announcement noise pollution on NY transit. It not only causes travelers to tune out potentially important information and makes travel harder for the visually impaired and those who don't speak English as a first language, but also disrespects riders.
The assault of noise coming out of the speakers in the subway system can feel as random as it is grating, with an onslaught of PSAs and other announcements penetrating any moment of peace on a commute. But the issue reached a real breaking point a few months ago: ads. 

Last year, the MTA announced it would test a pilot program piping 30 seconds ads into select stations and trains every 10 minutes or so, which would last until June. The implication was dire: we have you trapped, Black Mirror style, in a tube where you have to listen to commercials at a volume of our choosing. 

“That’s really a step too far,” Blair Lorenzo, executive director of the Effective Transit Alliance, said. “You can look away from an advertisement … You really can’t turn off hearing. It’s exploiting people.”
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 10/09/2026
For the @nygroove.nyc this week: Subway noise pollution has gotten too damn loud, a new report says. I talked to the @etany.org about their call for peace underground
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PSA: The subway PSAs have gotten ridiculous, advocates say
25% of your ride might be taken up with annoying announcements; here's a plan to change that
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 10/09/2026
hearing they already sabotaged the sitcom about a community newspaper by making it about bad journalism. there was a market for a good show about this, i think, but oh well
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 10/09/2026
ladies and gentleman, we got 'im
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 10/09/2026
holding space for my shorties doin time back at school today
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 10/09/2026
why would you be watching football when there's currently meaningless Mets baseball with a football score on also
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 09/09/2026
had such a bad snackbar experience at 1 of the only movies I saw this summer that I packed my bag with $30+ worth of snacks only to be forced to spend $30 for spiderman because it was in RPX, a technology i do not understand the purpose of beyond that it makes the movie louder & more expensive
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 09/09/2026
i saw donald trump at the pile and he was adding to it. any piece of building he could find he was putting it on top and smiling like he thought that's what you were supposed to do. people screamed at him to stop and he just waved
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 03/09/2026
truly bizarre attempt to turn Philly's fentanyl crisis into comedy on the latest Always Sunny
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 03/09/2026
This week's @nygroove.nyc newsletter is out, and it's the official debut of the W.O.B. nygroove.nyc/email/840c6b...
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Rick Paulas @rickpaulas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Incredible journey here.
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 01/09/2026
this DJ party, it sounds awful but don't worry, the AI poster makes it seem much much worse
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 01/09/2026
never got into tennis before i was priced out of it anyway, just as well i guess
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 27/08/2026
yo what is going on www.tmz.com/2026/08/27/p...
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'Transformers' Voice Actor Peter Cullen Dead at 85
Peter Cullen, famous for voicing Optimus Prime in the 'Transformers' franchise, is dead.
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Virginia K. Smith @vksmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
look if the Chicago River and the Seine can become swimmable this really might not be that nuts nygroove.nyc/swimming-in-...
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Urban swimmers eye next target: the Prospect Park Lake
The team behind Prospect Swims wants to make the lake safe for human swimming.
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 27/08/2026
It's WET WEEK at @nygroove.nyc!! nygroove.nyc/email/ee7947...
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Issue No. 167: Swimming in Prospect Park? + The surf report we needed
And a Good Thursday to you! Every week we send you two freshly reported, original stories directly to your inbox in this newsletter and sometimes they line up with an unintentional theme. So welcome t...
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 27/08/2026
put up this chain to get a dollar out of me, as i do every day
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 27/08/2026
hoping we are all rising and grinding and going Forward Brookyln today
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 26/08/2026
he finally stopped eating the sesame cake 🥺
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 26/08/2026
"Fuck-ee's"
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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
rodneyse bo bichette hermelyn
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 26/08/2026
The AI posters on the front of the building where the Brooklyn Dems held their closed-door meeting to complete their corrupt power grab is really a nice touch www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/25/r...
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly ugh
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 25/08/2026
i guess I take back a lot of the bad things I ever said about cable
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 25/08/2026
One week from today: Join Hamilton Nolan, Liz Hynes and Team @nygroove.nyc as we talk LABOR DAYS, live. Last day for early bird tickets! nygroove.nyc/nyg-live-lab...
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Sept. 1: Get organized for the next New York Groove Live!
Liz Hynes and Hamilton Nolan join us to talk all things labor in the city.
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 24/08/2026
lesser appreciated part of enshittifcation is that everyone's wifi looks like this now
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