Jonathan Corum

Yesterday I published a memorial archive of 1,800 photographs of NYC since 9/11: 25years.org

I’ve never discussed my leukemia (CML) diagnosis before, which happened nine years after 9/11. Was it related to the acrid air and persistent dust that filled my apartment on Canal Street? Or just a genetic accident as I aged 25 years? There’s no way to know.

25years.org25 Years Since 9/11 · 1,800 Photographs of New York CityA memorial archive of the day itself, the long cleanup and the city as it changed over a quarter century.

There’s a lot here, and I tried to make it easy to navigate. Mobile swipes or keyboard arrows turn pages, or type R for a random page. These photographs are meant for large screens when you have some time to explore and reflect.

Yesterday I published a memorial archive of 1,800 photographs of NYC since 9/11: 25years.org

The photo archive is split into nine sections: the day itself, cleanup, rebuilding, commerce, patriotism, elections, protests, security and remembrance.

It’s also a time capsule of NYC street life before smartphones and social media, when memes were posted on walls and protests were organized through flyers and stickers.

Yesterday I published a memorial archive of 1,800 photographs of NYC since 9/11: 25years.org

I visited the same locations again and again to take before/after/now comparisons: memorials aging and disappearing, trees growing and dying, street art painted over and emerging again. Sometimes I remembered exactly where I stood in 2001, sometimes I had to check reference photos.

In late July I started sifting through the more than 100,000 snapshots I’ve taken since 2001. More than 30,000 of them were related to 9/11 or to the changes it brought to NYC. I edited those down to 3,300 photos, then cut again to 1,800.

Yesterday I published a memorial archive of 1,800 photographs of NYC since 9/11: 25years.org

André Picard @picardonhealth

I posted some of these photos in 2001, shrunk down for low-res screens and dial-up modems. A quarter century later, they can now appear at full size. Over 1,000 of them have never been shown before.

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9 Apr

The Fast-Changing Chemistry of New, Dangerous Drugs. Today’s illicit chemists can quickly cook up drugs far more potent than fentanyl, by @13pt.com, Matt Richtel www.nytimes.com/interactive/... www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @nytimes.com #ToxicDrugCrisis

nytimes.comThe Fast-Changing Chemistry of New, Dangerous DrugsToday’s illicit chemists can quickly cook up drugs far more dangerous than fentanyl.

style.orgThe Weight of RainMy talk at Visualized.

13 Feb

“The Weight of Rain” is back! Video of my 2014 talk disappeared for years, but Visualized kindly pulled a copy from their archives: style.org/visualized/

style.orgHow to Give a TalkMy farewell talk at The New York Times.

1 Jan

After 20 years of NYT graphics, I’ve switched back to freelance and personal projects. My farewell talk is here: style.org/talk/

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Clara Jeffery

@clarajeffery.bsky.social

14 Dec 2025

It’s not often the general public gets a crash course on the considerations of type design, but this is a delightfully geeky article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.comIs Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department?Type designers weigh in on the recent decision to replace Calibri with Times New Roman in official documents.

13 Dec 2025

So about that font news ... gift article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

10 Dec 2025

All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped — gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...

nytimes.comWe Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

20 Nov 2025

Monarch butterfly tracks in today’s NYT. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

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John Schwartz

@jswatz.bsky.social

17 Nov 2025

"There’s nothing that’s not amazing about this." Fact check: true. Also, a @danfagin.bsky.social byline in the NYT, with amazing graphics from @13pt.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

nytimes.comA Manhattan Gunman Had C.T.E. Here Is How Doctors Search for It. (Gift Article)A definitive diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., can only happen posthumously through a weeks-long process of removing, processing and studying brain tissue.

26 Sept 2025

We visited the Mount Sinai brain bank to understand the long process of preparing brain tissue to diagnose C.T.E. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

16 May 2025

20 years ago today I started work at the NY Times. I’d studied design and typography, but everything else was a crash course: journalism, cartography, CMYK printing, editing, etc.