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Michael Wilson

@MWilsonNYT

Reporter for the Metro Desk of The New York Times. Email: wilsonm[at]nytimes[dot]com.

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'The Boys of the NYPD Choir,' known 'round the world through the greatest Christmas song ever, react to the death of Shane MacGowan with utter silence. Why? My holiday gift link: nytimes.com/2023/12/01/nyr…

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'Signgate began around midnight in late October, as an old, red Ford Escort stopped and started along the darkened streets.' Dan Barry on the fake Trump election signs that turned well-heeled Greenwich CT into a high school prank gone wrong. nytimes.com/2023/10/23/nyr…

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A special story by Michael Wilson, about a woman whose love for her disabled husband is so strong that she drives from Indiana to Manhattan with two goats, parks outside Rockefeller Center, and -- well, just read it! You'll be glad you did. nytimes.com/2023/10/25/nyr…

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'I am the daughter of a newspaperman.' So begins this gripping story about a father's abduction while reporting in Libya. And they tell it together. And they're
Lucy Sexton and, if NYT Metro had a Mt. Rushmore, he'd be on it, joe sexton. magazine.atavist.com/held-together-…
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When the floodwaters arrive and the emergency responders can't get there right away, it's your neighbors who may save your life. nytimes.com/2023/07/10/nyr…

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I laughed out loud at least five times—on a subway— with this Dan Barry classic. “Hey Dad, Can You Help Me Return the Picasso I Stole?” nytimes.com/2023/06/15/art…

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A very old NYC hotel sees a cash windfall for housing migrants from the Southern border: $200 a night. A win-win, until the owners decide it's time to kick out the old waiter who's lived there forever, to rent his room, too. Dan Barry takes us inside. nytimes.com/2023/05/08/nyr…

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We traced the paths of Jordan Neely & Daniel Penny.

Neely had gotten a fresh start out of jail in Feb.

Penny was looking for bartending work b/c he wanted 'to serve and connect with the most interesting and eccentric.'

By Michael Wilson & me
nytimes.com/2023/05/07/nyr…

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The homeless Michael Jackson impersonator, the Marine vet, the chokehold: Inside the F Train car where a life ended. nytimes.com/2023/05/07/nyr…

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The scene outside the courthouse: ‘Right now is when it starts getting a little weird.’ nytimes.com/2023/04/04/nyr…

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“He describes himself as an unremarkable man. Yet he is also an everyman through-line between two remarkable events.” ⁦Dan Barry⁩ on a man haunted after surviving two WTC attacks. nytimes.com/2023/02/26/nyr…

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