Asad🗽🍎

It has just occurred to me that I give talks and curate walking tours on NYC’s Muslim histories and communities and that … I will need to make a significant update to my material LOL

It's going down. Meet me after school tomorrow.

Small note about Brad’s mannerisms that meant a lot: We were in a progressive neighborhood so of course everyone wanted a selfie w/him. Each time, he’d say, “Listen you should know Asad. He’s doing this amazing tour for my birthday. Follow him!” He decentered himself every time.

The Pope should go to Gaza, and bring aid in. He should dare the Israelis to block him. Words, no matter how heartfelt, will not save a single starving child.

Lots of praise for Asad - he isn’t just telling stories and bringing people together but also changing the narrative. You’ll see how impactful this’ll be down the line.

Thanks so much @AsadFromNYC for the great tour yesterday! And to @m_barnette13 for arranging this excellent birthday present. Loved learning more about the history of our neighbors & neighborhoods. Was delicious, too!

Asad is a treasure for New York City

My son Brad Lander in Yemen cafe before gta 6

"Manhattan’s precolonial topography is to blame for the 28th Street Station subway geyser that bursts with bubbling water during heavy rain. A topographical map from 1865 shows that the station at 28th Street and Seventh Avenue was built on marshland." gothamist.com/news/nyc-subwa…

Strong critique of Tisch: "Seventy years later [after Robert Moses], unelected bureaucrats in New York City still hold outsized power over the elected executives at whose pleasure they purportedly serve." substack.com/home/post/p-16…

"To win, Mamdani had to shift his stance on public safety so as not to alienate working-class voters. Yet, to what degree can Mamdani further adjust his previous positions, in service of the broader electorate, without irking his ideological base?" michaellange.nyc/p/zohran-mamda…

"Adams believes in a New York of ethnic blocs of jostling but concordant identity politics that is not allergic to Zionism—after all, what is Israel but a big Jewish neighborhood?—while Mamdani believes in a model of universal, cosmopolitan citizenship." unpopularfront.news/p/as-the-smear…

Palestinian Christians who trace their lineage to the oldest Christian communities on earth aren’t “actual Christians” but the Managing Editor of The Babylon Bee based in Toledo, Ohio is.

Zohran and now Omar Fateh's rising success signals that the Dem base is sick of the conservative wing of the party.

“Faith Leaders Can Now Endorse. Will That Swing the N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race? Many of New York’s faith leaders said they regard the new policy as a slippery slope, and worry that their institutions may be viewed as political chess pieces for candidates.” nytimes.com/2025/07/17/nyr…

A Revolutionary War Tour of New York: Historians have put together an app that guides users to significant sites around the city, just in time for the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/nyr…

A Mecca for Black History Turns 100: The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack. nytimes.com/2025/06/12/art…