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Edition #115 · Friday, August 14, 2026 · 2936 positive stories
Environment & Climate

What We’re Reading: New York City’s Summer of Soundwalking

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Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. Hearing things What does New York City sound like if you really, really listen? For a New York Times story story shared by Executive Editor Will Doig, Stockholm-based artist Jacek Smolicki took a writer and a photographer on “soundwalks” around Manhattan and Brooklyn, equipped with sensitive microphones to d

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