Public Writing
“Opinion: It’s Time for NYC to Appoint a Heat Czar,” w/ Selassie Mawuko, City Limits, July 8, 2025.
“A Californian beach caught between erosion and appropriation: Questions for historian Kara Schlichting” (2024)
A Q&A on “The Narrowing of Broad Beach.” Coastal Change and Public Beaches in Malibu, California ,” Pacific Historical Review , vol. 92, no. 2, 2023, which considers how coastal erosion altered the parameters of public access on Malibu’s Broad Beach. At the turn of the 21st century , the long-standing challenge of public access to this exclusive Malibu enclave collides with the ongoing climate crisis, highlighting the intertwining of environmental risk and coastal urban development.
New York Times “New York City Doesn’t Have to Suffer This Summer” (2020)
Officials shouldn’t let the coronavirus end a long history of helping people stay cool.
“Sanitizing Playland: Establishing Expectations for Public Behavior in Greater New York’s Parks” (2017)
Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History
![a young man, hot from a baseball game in Riverside Park, stopping to enjoy the cool water of an open hydrant. Drew Carolan, UWS, Manhattan [W. 88th St. on the UWS], July 1975.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9558c9c46f6d5394eb748d/a00cfdb8-ecab-4c44-9edd-999975b4021d/image-asset.webp)
A young man, hot from a baseball game in Riverside Park, stopping to enjoy the cool water of an open hydrant. Drew Carolan, UWS, Manhattan [W. 88th St. on the UWS], July 1975. Via Melting Metropolis + Queens Memory + Urban Archive.
