Rachel Holliday Smith
managing editor at THE CITY (@thecity.nyc) • news if I must, local joy where I can find it • bird enjoyer • bluesky elder (derogatory) • tell me something good: rsmith@thecity.nyc
📍 queens / fun hell
- gotta tap the sign
- new hudson williams lore just dropped and guess what: everyone says he’s an adorable lil freak who deserves nothing but success!!!! take a bow hudson, america’s newspaper couldn’t dig up a single person who had something bad to say about you
- omg no but my cat is!!!!! screaming at the top of his lungs actually thanks!!!
- so Heated Rivalry-pilled, I had to find the local angle about it 🏒🌈 New York’s queer hockey club is seeing a LOT more interest these days! (and so are leagues like it around the country.) new story from me:
- in case anyone is wondering, the Big Snow Melting Machine is still melting snow all goddamn day in Lower Manhattan and it has been nonstop since the snowstorm. the snow pile seems to get dirtier every day yet never seems to get smaller
- ballot petitioning starts later this month and we still don’t really know what shape the brooklyn-staten island house district will take
- NEVER forget
- you bet your ass I’m headed to the ilya and shane look alike contest!!!!! of course I am!!!
- I will keep you updated oomfies never fear
- ok after some moving around, I’ve found the contest: at mercer playground! I could hear the screams three blocks away
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View full threadI was interviewing people throughout and holy shit I forgot how hard it is to write things down while your fingers are frozen lmao. I did remember a pencil tho! (ink inside pens freeze in this weather)
- had the pleasure of screaming this news to all the girlies in line for coat check at the heated rivalry club night tonight. 10/10
- a tiny bit of joy: my christmas cactus is blooming for the first time in like three or four years 🥹