dodai
@dodai.bsky.social
writer at large on the Metro desk at The New York Times ✨ raised in Manhattan ✨ https://www.nytimes.com/by/dodai-stewart#latest ✨ https://instagram.com/dodai
got an unexpected email: someone looking for a 2012 Jezebel post I wrote. It was a funny catalog dissection titled "Get To Know Your Carhartt Boyfriend." Thx to various issues including a private equity sale, millions of posts/images are missing from the Gawker/Jezebel archives. Gone! Lost forever.
i contributed a new installment to the “AFFORDING NEW YORK” series: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How an Artist Lives on $36,000 a Year on the Upper West Side (Gift Article)
Gaya Palmer credits her rent-stabilized apartment for making a life filled with art, monthly lunch dates at Cafe Luxembourg and spontaneous dance parties possible.
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manhattan has one wild turkey and she has an entourage. i spent the afternoon with Astoria and her godmothers… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...
Manhattan’s Only Wild Turkey Has Her Own Entourage
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spent some time getting to know my neighbors... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/n...
An Evening With the Central Park Coyotes
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learning to write... is learning to think structurally, intentionally, deliberately it organizes how one arrives at conclusions
CBS published a story yesterday about this, but if you want to read @dodai.bsky.social ‘s original story from early January, it is a much better read.
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
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all these technological advances and i still can't take a picture of the moon w my phone
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. Beautiful story by @dodai.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
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Mr. Khalil had an idea and a piece of wood — part of a stump — that he had found close to a park a few blocks away from his small storefront studio in Bayonne, N.J. Over the next six months, he plotted and created his sculpture. By @dodai.bsky.social
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There.
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
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On this day of horror and impending chaos, a wonderful NYT story by Dodai Stewart of an immigrant from Egypt, now U.S. citizen, who found his dream job as a security guard at the Met Museum, and now has his sculpture featured in one of the its major exhibitions. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
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In 2023, Armia Khalil, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw a visitor wandering through a gallery, clearly looking for something specific. The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life… nyti.ms/3Wcevnr
A Security Guard, a Chance Encounter and a Sculpture Called ‘Hope’ (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
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I'd heard @dodai.bsky.social was working on this story, then found myself in the exhibit one day a few weeks ago while trying to get someplace else in the Met, so stopped to find the sculpture and was quite taken with it. I'm looking forward to reading the full story over my morning coffee.
A Security Guard, a Lucky Break and a Sculpture Called ‘Hope’ (Gift Article)
How a chance encounter led to the dream of a lifetime for a sculptor from Egypt.
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