Stacy Horn

Pictures from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Double Helix Medals Dinner at the American Museum of Natural History (in the squid and the whale room!). Picture 1: The room. Picture 2: scientists from the lab who were asked to stand. Picture 3: Martina Navratilova, who, along with Chrissie Evert, were honored for their contributions to science. Dr. Bob Langer was honored for his contributions in biotechnology. He was such a mensch. Google him, he’s amazing.

I loved how Martina and Chrissie, who were such fierce competitors, came to be true friends. At the dinner, Martina mentioned how nice it was for her and Chrissie to be happy on the same day. When they were competing, one of them would always be happy because they won, and the other would be sad because they lost.

My brother, Douglas Horn, is on the board of the Laboratory, that’s how I got to go! Who doesn’t love celebrating science? Thank you, Douglas!

On November 6, at 6:00, I’ll be talking about my new book, The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood in East New York!

The event will be moderated by Sarita Daftary-Steel, a member of the board of the Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation. Joining me for the discussion will be: Brother Paul Muhammad, the Coalition for Community Advancement, and representatives from East New York Farms! and the East New York Community Land Trust.

The talk is sponsored by the Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, The East NY Coalition for Community Advancement, and the United Community Centers.

Place: United Community Centers
613 New Lots Avenue
East New York

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Concidentally, I am on two podcasts this week talking about my book Damnation Island. Philip Yanos, Ph.D., the author of excellent and important book, Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward’s Island, has started a podcast which focuses on stories of banishment. I am the guest in the current episode! From my blurb for Yanos’s great book: “A riveting look at the untold history of the treatment and mistreatment of marginalized groups banished to Ward’s Island. Combining compassionate understanding with clear and informed insight, this account is impossible to put down. The final chapter, with an alternative vision for the island’s future, is positively thrilling.”

I am also on Travis Myers’ podcast, Another Nobody! Myers is a crime author, including the three book series which begins with Sister Margaret, A Tommy Keane Novel. “Sister Margaret is a gut punch of a tale that takes the reader behind the crime-scene tape and onto an exhilarating tour of the streets, drug dens, dive bars, and precinict houses of New York City, with an insiders view that rarely makes the papers.” -Jesse Smith, Crime Journalist, Kingston Times

As part of the Bryant Park Author Series, I will be on a True Crime Panel on August 13 at 12:30pm. Bryant Park (40th & 42nd) is in back of the New York Public Library. We’ll be on the 42nd Street side of the park, in between the back of the NYPL and 6th Ave. Look for the yellow and white umbrellas.

The panel will be hosted by the fabulous Peter Moskos, who is a former Baltimore police officer, now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the author of Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990’s Crime Drop. On the panel will be myself (The Killing Fields of East New York) and author Casey Sherman, Blood in the Water: The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy.

This is a picture of me on another panel, for Claire L. Evan’s book Broad Band: The Untold History of the Women Who Made the Internet. That’s Claire on the left, me, and Jaime Levy, a new media artist and interface designer.

I’m on Another Nobody podcast hosted by crime author & NYC history buff Travis Myers, talking about The Killing Fields of East New York. His questions came from the perspective of someone born and raised in NYC and who worked for years for the NYPD.

I was also recently interviewed by Matthew Cox for The Saucetown Investor Podcast! Always a bit scary talking to people who are experts about something you wrote about, but this was a pleasure!