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Atlantic Monthly, and the Wall Street Journal. The story was re-reported, shared and commented on by countless social media channels as well as on personal blogs and blogs covering tourism, “gentrification” and, generally, New York City. Photos as well as quotes and full-on excerpts of the flyers—including a complete excerpt in Time magazine—made it into the above-mentioned traditional media, new media and social media coverage, making it one of the biggest viral media stories of 2012.
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Goldstein Nutter also became the first writer to report on downtown Manhattan gay men moving to Harlem in a 2000 piece titled "Home Boys", and the first writer to do an exposé of gay men who work in the rap music business in a 2001 piece
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The virus permanently changed the conversation in the media about the High Line by forcing the media to report on the destructive effect of tourism on the surrounding neighborhood. The media storm inspired an op-ed in the Times about tourism's effect on
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Beginning in 2012, Nutter became a vocal opponent of the High Line's effect on
Chelsea's commercial and gay life by writing the first op-ed on the subject – "When Kansas Invaded Oz: An Enemy Of The High Line Speaks Out"—which was published in the
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