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D10/11 The SUB/URBAN Review

Advances sub/urban criticism through essays, polemics, and cultural analysis at the contested boundary of city and suburb in North Jersey and NYC.

Interview

When Local Institutions Are Strapped for Cash, Bad Actors Find Open Doors

Bloomfield Fire Captain Says He Was Unaware of Extremist Ties When Booking Vengeance Fest at Local VFW

15 hrs ago • Lo Sontag

2026 North Jersey Transit Forum, Interview with Jack McKee of Hudson County Complete Streets

What if North Jersey had a transit system that truly served everyone?

Jul 8 • Lo Sontag

Lo in conversation with Samuel Bowles

Samuel Stebbins Bowles, is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he continues to teach courses…

Jul 8 • Lo Sontag

Dorothy Parker Reads Here interview with Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta

Mar 8 • Lo Sontag

Save Montclair Schools: Rich Reynics Explains What’s on Tuesday’s YES/YES Ballot

📣 Interview: Save Montclair Schools with Rich Reynics — Why “YES / YES” Matters on Tuesday

Mar 6 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

25:50

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Events

Dorothy Parker Read Here featuring Ed Lin, Nikki Mammano, & Zarinah

August 9 at Core's Tavern

Jul 4 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

3 Practices Bloomfield in Cooperation with D10/11

One Place in Bloomfield You Return To. Monday June 29.

Jul 4 • Lo Sontag

D10/11 sponsors the Friendly 8 Ride

Weekly Bicycle Ride

Jul 4 • Lo Sontag

D10/11 proudly presents the second installment of Dorothy Parker Read Here

Core's Tavern, Sunday, May 17

Jul 4 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

Inaugural Dorothy Parker Read Here Reading

March 22, 2026 Core's Tavern

Jul 4 • Lo Sontag

Bicycles are partisan now.

Neoliberalism Has Failed Bicycle Advocacy

13 hrs ago • Lo Sontag

When Local Institutions Are Strapped for Cash, Bad Actors Find Open Doors

Bloomfield Fire Captain Says He Was Unaware of Extremist Ties When Booking Vengeance Fest at Local VFW

15 hrs ago • Lo Sontag

35:45

The Naz!s came to Bloomfield and no one (said) they knew, a discussion on hate music & strategies so there won't be a next time

A conversation prompted by the black metal VENGEANCE show held in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

Jul 12 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

2026 North Jersey Transit Forum, Interview with Jack McKee of Hudson County Complete Streets

What if North Jersey had a transit system that truly served everyone?

Jul 8 • Lo Sontag

Lo in conversation with Samuel Bowles

Samuel Stebbins Bowles, is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he continues to teach courses…

Jul 8 • Lo Sontag

37:04

Hot Girl Summer, Urbanist Nightmare

Watch now | The heat wave made one thing explicitly sticky: freedom is unevenly distributed, and its limits are a manmade phenomenon straight out of…

Jul 7 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

D10/11 The SUB/URBAN Review

D10/11 The SUB/URBAN Review

D10/11 advances sub/urban criticism through essays, polemics, and cultural analysis at the contested boundary of city and suburb in North Jersey and NYC.

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The Bicycle as Wedge: How “solutions” journalism and storytelling advocacy pave the way for corporate capture of our streets

The urban critic’s role has never been more vital, yet more untenable.

Jul 5 • Lo Sontag

Dorothy Parker Read Here featuring Ed Lin, Nikki Mammano, & Zarinah

August 9 at Core's Tavern

Jul 4 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

3 Practices Bloomfield in Cooperation with D10/11

One Place in Bloomfield You Return To. Monday June 29.

Jul 4 • Lo Sontag

D10/11 sponsors the Friendly 8 Ride

Weekly Bicycle Ride

Jul 4 • Lo Sontag

D10/11 proudly presents the second installment of Dorothy Parker Read Here

Core's Tavern, Sunday, May 17

Jul 4 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

Criticism

Bicycles are partisan now.

Neoliberalism Has Failed Bicycle Advocacy

13 hrs ago • Lo Sontag

The Middle Class Was Built in Washington, Not at City Hall

The same people who mock Moody’s negative outlook for Newark neither appreciate nor understand what Bloomfield’s excellent Moody’s short-term credit…

Jul 3 • Lo Sontag

The Mad Hatter & Mr Toad Rides their bikes in Traffic: John Forrester’s World

English literature for precocious young adults is filled with wild feats of fantasy.

Jul 3 • Lo Sontag

The green monster filled with Black people behind Delaney Hall

Here are some inconvenient truths of an inconvenient protest.

Jun 1 • Lo Sontag

Podcast

35:45

The Naz!s came to Bloomfield and no one (said) they knew, a discussion on hate music & strategies so there won't be a next time

A conversation prompted by the black metal VENGEANCE show held in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

Jul 12 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

Hot Girl Summer, Urbanist Nightmare

Watch now | The heat wave made one thing explicitly sticky: freedom is unevenly distributed, and its limits are a manmade phenomenon straight out of…

Jul 7 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

37:04

Organizing Isn’t Neutral: Who Gets Seen Winning? (DSA + Newark Rail)

What does it actually mean to win—and who gets to claim organizing as a victory?

Jul 2 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

42:21

The World Cup is showing us that ANOTHER way to commute within New Jersey IS POSSIBLE!

The World Cup is revealing something New Jersey has long insisted was impossible: we can move people by public transit to places other than Midtown…

Jun 18 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

33:13

Cycling PorchFest: Extending the Greenway into Essex Streets

Many people think of National Trails Day as an escape.

Jun 10 • Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa-Solo

24:04

D10/11 The SUB/URBAN Review

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