Julia Edelstein

2 months ago | nymag.com | Paula Aceves |Julia Edelstein |Alyssa Shelasky |Rachel Sklar

When you live in the wealthiest city in the world, it's not hard to come up with people you suspect have access to their parents' money. But when we set out to put faces to the generational wealth that sustains - and inflates - New York's economy (and which is projected to be in the trillions over the next few decades), finding people who would be willing to talk about it in minute detail was a very different project. See AllThe rejections were swift and often vague.

Feb 13, 2024 | curbed.com | Julia Edelstein

It’s a historic day in New York City, and not just because at least half a foot of snow is expected to fall for the first time in two years. Almost one million public-school students were instructed to log into Zoom or Google Classroom between 8 and 9 a.m. for the debut of remote learning, snow-day edition.

Sep 29, 2023 | thecut.com | Julia Edelstein

This morning, I rushed my kids out the door (running our usual five minutes late) to make the 30-block commute to their school. They are 6 and 9. Ten seconds in, they had both stepped in swirling pools of polluted water that rushed like a river at every corner. Block after block, there was no other way to cross. Forty-five seconds in, my older one was screaming in a panic thinking we had lost his little brother, who was nearly invisible a foot behind us with my bodega-bought umbrella over his face.

Feb 15, 2023 | curbed.com | Julia Edelstein

getting around Feb. 15, 2023 Photo-Illustration: by Curbed; Photo Getty Images ​​On weekday afternoons from 3 to about 5 p.m., certain streets on the Upper East Side can become almost impassable. Volvos, Beemers, and Teslas idle or double-park, and the (mostly) moms behind the wheel crane their necks, trying to glimpse the school door. Nannies line up with tanklike strollers, zip-top bags of apple slices and Goldfish crackers at the ready.