Greenpoint has been the NY Times a lot lately. We had a large 10-car alarm fire a few weeks ago. There has been talk about the Newtown Creek oil spill. I even saw one really bad feature on “The Thing” a famous record store in our neighborhood.
Then there was this story about Pastor Ann and the Greenpoint Reformed Church. Right now this is my favorite Greenpoint story because… well, to be honest because I wrote it.
My first New York Times piece. Needless to say, I am excited.
The story is about a lesbian Pastor in my neighborhood. Her father was also a minister and he presided over her wedding to her partner when it was legal in Massachusetts. But soon afterwords her father was stripped of his title as minister. It’s also believed that she would have been granted the title of minister had she not been so open about her sexuality.
It’s a pretty interesting situation. The Pastor was very nice while I was researching for this story. She talked very candid with me and got me in touch with her father.
In truth, she was the individual who said she would only let me hang around the church and interview people if I tried to get the story published. I was committed to trying, but I had no idea it would be published in the Times.
My professor ended up liking the piece and he works at the Times so he sent it along to the right people and boom…. here I am with my first NY Times piece.
I hope more will come.
I do know that more will come to this blog over the summer than I have done in the last week or two. I took a small break, what can I say. But I’m back with lots of new ideas.
Tomorrow I’ll post about a Wired story that’s coming out. Then, I’ll also start discussing new domain names. I cringe when I see this one.
Rudy on what?