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Brussels metro map pays tribute to feminist pioneers
Brussels commuting re-imagined. Only a few metro stations are currently named after women, including Sainte Catherine, Louise, the daughter of Belgium s King Leopold II, and Joséphine-Charlotte, the first child of (Photo: Friends of Europe)
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A feminist remake of the Brussels metro map pays tribute to the women who have shaped European history, from Simone Veil to Joan of Arc.
Inspired by writer Rebecca Solnit s and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro s City of Women project, European think-tank Friends of Europe redesigned the Brussels map to mark Europe Day.
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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro asked me to meet him on Frieda Zames Way, which is not an easy place to find on Google Maps.
No street view photos, no subway wait times nothing to feed our iPhone-era inclination to know exactly where we’re going,
all the time. As any serious investigative journalist would, I immediately turned to the internet, where a website called Oldstreets.com informed me that Frieda Zames Way is just an honorary name for the very workaday stretch of East 4th Street that lies between First Avenue and Avenue A.
When I finally made my way there on a blustering, unseasonably chilly afternoon, Jelly-Schapiro told me that the corner named for Zames is responsible for our most accessible catalog of New York City’s honorary street names. When a neighborhood resident wanted to know who exactly Zames was (a pioneering disability rights activist, in case you were wondering), she called the borough’s historian, who then commissioned retired urban planner Gilbert Tauber to
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New York Public Library is launching its first World Literature Festival to celebrate its World Languages collection (books and materials in over 60 languages available digitally and at branches throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island) through events with authors from around the world, book discussion groups, and bilingual storytimes for children. Don t miss Names of New York: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro with Suketu Mehta on April 21 at 8pm or A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women: Readings, Music & Conversation on April 29 at 8pm. Register before the event to take part. Posted:
The City That Wonât Shut Up Fills Two New Books With Its Babble
A sign directing people to a Statue of Liberty ticket office in Battery Park, in Lower Manhattan. In New York, much of what surges by is unexplained, including basic questions like who is a New Yorker.Credit.Karsten Moran for The New York Times
By Craig Taylor
By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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Before reading a word of Craig Taylorâs âNew Yorkers,â I decided to construct a dramatis personae to keep track of the characters in his intriguing oral history. My canât-tell-the-players-without-a-scorecard hunch was borne out after only a few pages, when I read that he had conducted long interviews with more than 180 New Yorkers, filling 71 notebooks and nearly 400 hours of audio recordings. Wow.