reflection

Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan took a closer look at the Times' increasing embrace of hacky trend stories in her column today.

Ex-con Charles Bunn spoke to the Times about his experience being attacked by two teenage girls on a 4 train in Brooklyn last month.

There were plenty of Dorothy/Wizard of Oz references and lots of hipster bashing among the tornado tweets today. We're just pleased to report that the spicy local culture of Brooklyn and Queens has survived.