Not the guy from Blue's Clues, though he wrote me a letter once. @PANYNJ communications. Formerly reported the news on the late, great WCBS 880.
New York, NY
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Leading up to the 9/11 anniversary, I've been honored to help @PANYNJ preserve some extraordinary stories. Here are a few of them:
In non-PATH news, I interviewed the then-general managers of JFK and LaGuardia on 9/11 about shutting down their airports. LGA's GM was due to get married the following weekend. He was ready to call it off, until he heard from his colleagues. panynj.gov/port-authority/en…
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I spoke with several longtime Port Authority Tunnel-Bridge Agents, who had the impossible job of shutting off Lower Manhattan from the rest of the world while still ferrying supplies, donations and people to and from Ground Zero. panynj.gov/port-authority/en…
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Whatever happened with this
Local leaders have their fingers crossed that @MetLifeStadium will be among the hosts selected tonight for the 2026 World Cup @wcbs880
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100 years ago today, digging teams from Jersey City and NYC met under the Hudson, forming what would become the Holland Tunnel.
12 years ago today, the river attempted to reclaim it.
On eerie coincidences and prepping for the future at the Holland: panynj.gov/port-authority/en…
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I loved WCBS so much I worked there for several years as a reporter. It was taken off the air when its corporate owners found there was more money in simulcasting sports talk shows than in bringing vital info on politics, weather, and the day's happenings to the region.
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It's been a lot to take in these past few weeks. I might be the only person on Earth mourning the loss of these two things together. But they expose the same decay.
Communities getting sacrificed. Social bonds getting severed. Because there's more money to be made elsewhere.
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What does it mean for our society when these enduring ties can be so suddenly and irreversibly cut? What good is more money if we're all in our own little worlds, without any news? Without any #FossePosse?
Is it worth it?
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The economics stopped mattering to me a while ago. Now, it was the energy - the irrepressible energy of a battered but unbroken fanbase that welcomed me and so many others into this weird little corner of sports.
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A week after that A's game, I learned another foundational part of my upbringing was disappearing. NYC's news radio station, WCBS 880, was going off the air. It had been a steady New York presence since 1967, a year before the A's moved to Oakland. xitter.cf/StvBurns/status/182305…
This is devastating - for my former coworkers, for journalism, for the city. Forever proud that I was able to make a small contribution to WCBS's incredible 57-year history chronicling New York.
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I went to the Coliseum for my second and final time this past August, for an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday night game. I wanted the normal fan experience, as opposed to the more eventful visit 13 years earlier. xitter.cf/StvBurns/status/182100…
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I knew in that moment that I had made the right decision, staring at that dot graph a decade earlier. What other fanbase would do this? What other fanbase would celebrate the eccentric, encourage the inane the way A's fans do?
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I finally got to my first A's home game that summer. The team heard I was coming. They rolled out the green carpet.
I met Ray in the booth. I filmed a TV segment. I was interviewed on the scoreboard. A random fan bought me a hot chocolate as a welcome gift. Because of a hashtag.
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One day in 2011, I was sitting in a college writing class, mindlessly refreshing Twitter. In very 2011 fashion, the A's TV broadcast was looking for its hashtag of the game.
I enjoyed listening to the A's color commentator. Ray Fosse was genial and genuine, just like the team.
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#FossePosse was born.
The hashtag was used for that game. And the next. And the next. A "Fosse Posse" section at the Oakland Coliseum appeared. It became a rallying cry.
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