Aimee Ortiz
🗞️ New York Times reporter
📧 aimee.ortiz@nytimes.com
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- Reposted by Aimee OrtizWe stand with you, @postguild.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aimee OrtizWe stand in solidarity with the @postguild.bsky.social. Democracy dies in darkness, and it's a lot harder to shine a light from a shrinking newsroom. #SaveThePost
- Reposted by Aimee OrtizTwo nights a week at Refettorio Harlem, a nonprofit restaurant and food pantry, chefs turn donated food that would otherwise go to waste into a multicourse dinner that is served to anyone who is hungry. The chef Massimo Bottura said he wanted to “create places where food becomes a connector.”
- Amid the chaos, I’ve been thinking a lot about what Mr. Rogers said: “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” So I did just that. And I found them in Harlem, feeding body and soul. This is the story of Refettorio Harlem
- At Refettorio Harlem, everyone is treated to a gourmet three-course meal surrounded by art and beauty. As one person told me, this place can make the overwhelming challenges of food insecurity, waste and loneliness “feel a little lighter,” as if “it’s possible to have change.”
- A dinner guest who was there with her little girl told me that while she gets many of her meals at churches, there’s nothing that comes even remotely close to what Refettorio provides. At Refettorio, “people love my baby, they love me,” she said. “It has to do with respect.”
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View full threadOne of the volunteers at Refettorio Harlem told me the work he does there feels akin to divinity. I could see it in the way he took time to speak with every guest he served. I looked for the helpers and I found them. They reminded me of what @pattonoswalt.bsky.social said, “it’s chaos, be kind.”
- Reposted by Aimee OrtizA prolonged drought and other factors have muffled the kaleidoscopic blend of reds, oranges and yellows in some areas of New England this fall. As a result, disappointed leaf peepers have been left to wonder what fall will look like in a changing climate.
- Reposted by Aimee Ortiz“Memory is the way you have an afterlife in the Roman world,” she said. “To be remembered is to exist beyond your regular lifetime.” @aimee-ortiz.bsky.social in @nytimes.com
- Reposted by Aimee OrtizPrint hub is the best crew in the biz (and thanks to our presses for holding)
- I should really stop listening to my running playlist while I can’t run
- Reposted by Aimee OrtizThe Bureau of Labor Statistics is cutting back its collection of data on consumer prices, raising questions about the reliability of federal economic statistics under President Trump. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...
- This one is about the first amateur sumo club in NYC. When Oscar Dolan realized there were no amateur clubs in the city, he begrudgingly started his own. That was three years ago. Earlier this month, the club held its first tournament. But this about more than sumo. It’s about community
- The community built by the club is an inclusive one, where “all body types, all gender expressions” are welcome, said Daniel Robert Douglas, the club’s vice president
- The New York Sumo Club has grown steadily since its inception, even accounting for hiccups, Mr. Dolan said. The club has about 100 wrestlers, with around 20 regulars. When it first started, members met and grappled on the meadow in Prospect Park
- This one is about a tiny zoo that’s opening in Brooklyn. Earlier this month I got a preview of The Gecko Gallery NYC where visitors will get a chance to hang with about 150 lizards in a roughly 400-square-foot room. It opens this weekend
- At the Gecko Gallery NYC there are New Caledonian giant geckos, psychedelic rock geckos, monkey-tailed skinks, giant leaf-tailed geckos, peacock day geckos, and even a tiny juvenile (although almost fully grown) carpet chameleon that can easily curl up on your fingertip — just to name a few
- This one is about traditional Chinese medicine shops, tariffs, and access to health care
- Traditional Chinese medicine boomed over the last two decades. Most shops and practitioners are small, operating on slim margins. Trump’s tariffs threaten both that growth and consumers’ access to this type of health care
- This one is about overspending, overconsumption, shopping addiction, marketing, and consumers who are pushing back.
- Incredibly honored to have joined @jholman.bsky.social (the 🐐) on this important piece. Give it a read.
- This one is about roses, tulips, sustainability, and love (all kinds of it). I know there’s a lot going on in the world, but there’s also some beauty. Come for the details on the tulip’s quiet war on roses, stay for the absolutely gorgeous photos 🌷
- The night before a story runs: 😳🤢🤢🤢🥴🥴🥴😵💫😵💫😵💫
- Southern California is burning. Here's how you can help:
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- WE HAVE A DEAL: We have reached a tentative agreement with the @nytimes.com for our members. Read more here...
- This one is about small businesses and holiday markets where shopping becomes “a little bit more wholesome.”
- Reposted by Aimee OrtizSome reeeeeeeeal Tuesday-before-Thanksgiving vibes going on at CNN today
- This one is about food, family, modernity and business. It's a love story packaged in a can of vanilla ice cream. It's the tale of a downfall that was decades in the making. This one is about Yelloh, formerly Schwan's Home Delivery, and how it closed
- Picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
- I guess I should also do one of these. Hello new followers I’m a reporter at NYT. I don’t post very often. I didn’t post much in the other place either. I’ll try to be better about it. But you can bet your ass I’m lurking 👀 Here are some gift links to things I’ve written this year:
- This one is about long lost Lego dragons and sharks. It’s also about plastic in the ocean
- This one is about Halloween’s long transformation from a pagan celebration into a hulking commercialized retail monstrosity
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View full threadThere’s plenty more, but I think I’ll stop here. Thank you for reading my stuff! Tips are welcomed. Email in bio or you can DM. If you’ve got a story, let’s chat
- Reposted by Aimee OrtizNYT starter pack? NYT starter pack. bsky.app/starter-pack...at://did:plc:gwo3gkexjhfpujb5pxefirgg/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3larc3azbw52x
- We got gifs now?!?
- “Society looks at women who choose not to make life harder for themselves as crazy.”
- Reposted by Aimee OrtizFollow the guild 😵💫 follow the guild 😵💫 you are getting sleepy follow the guild 😵💫
- I stand with my @nytguildtech.bsky.social colleagues as they bargain for their first contract.
- Renewing your passport is wild. Shipping off all of your most sensitive information + a check for more than $100 with nothing more than a hope and a dream that it doesn’t get lost or fall into bad hands. Then you just wait for it to theoretically come back to you. I was not built for this anxiety
- There’s a trillion cicadas coming this spring
- Reposted by Aimee OrtizHere's my final report on tonight's ruling. Gift link:
- Reupping this because ya girl needs recs!
- Hidden in a corner of Central Park there lives a tree that if you walk by at just the right time of the year will share with you its secret identity as the Pet Memorial Christmas Tree… My latest:
- What’s your favorite holidays horror movie? I’m trying to plan xmas week! All subgenres are welcome
- New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients. Gift link:
- Léelo en Español: El Hospital Bellevue de Nueva York realiza miles de estas lucrativas cirugías cada año, incluso a pacientes que no cumplen con los requisitos para ser intervenidos.
- New headshots, new gig: Some professional news www.nytco.com/press/aimee-...
- Utterly devastated at how well foam rolling your back works
- Baby’s first bread 🍞
- Omg I actually did it
