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Joseph Alexiou
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Contributor, Freelance
New York, Prospect Heights
Beats
Biography
Joseph Alexiou is the author of Gowanus: Brooklyn's Curious Canal, published October 2015 by NYU Press. He has previously worked as an associate editor at Time Out New York and Out Magazine, wrote the sixth edition of Paris for Dummies, and also as a licensed New York City tourguide. His freelance work has been published in the New York Times, Gothamist, the New York Observer, Paper Magazine the Brooklyn Eagle.
and other gay stuff., the Gowanus Canal combined sewage overflow, toxic waste environmental cleanup, BrooklynUrban history, and once upon a time drag queens Paris
Stocks, sports
Content
By Joseph Alexiou| PureWow Verified The self-deprecating humor begins at the title of this book: a nickname from the author’s immigrant mother for not getting into an Ivy League school. (The family also changed his first name to Gary from Igor, because he “had enough problems already.”) It’s a hilarious, touching recollection of the awkwardness of shaping an American identity in his adopted home of Queens and beyond
By Joseph Alexiou| Business Insider Verified Up until this week Jay Severin was a successful, conservative talk radio host on WTKK, 96.9 FM, in Boston. He was making nearly $1,000,000 a year. However, earlier today the radio station fired him, Boston.com reports. His daily radio show during a prime "drive-time" slot, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. had been suspended since the previous Tuesday after Severin discussed the current sexual harassment case of American Apparel CEO Dov Charney
By Joseph Alexiou| nyupress.org@ The surprising history of the Gowanus Canal and its role in the building of BrooklynFor more than 150 years, Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has been called a cesspool, an industrial dumping ground, and a blemish on the face of the populous borough—as well as one of the most important waterways in the history of New York harbor. Yet its true origins, man-made character, and importance to the city have been largely forgotten
Company Info
Freelance
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