Diana Hubbell

The Coolest Underground Restaurants, Art Spaces, and Speakeasies Hidden Inside NYC Subway Stations A tasteful selection awaits underground in New York City.

There's some truly wild stuff buried in the New York subway system (a dinosaur-run bodega, a soundbooth for buskers, an iconic dive bar, and a Michelin-starred restaurant, to name a few). I wrote about it for AFAR www.afar.com/magazine/bes...

The Rise of Cool in Frankfurt With booming dining and design scenes, the financial city is now moving beyond its stiff reputation.

Check out my latest piece in the March print issue of @cntraveler.com.web.brid.gy www.cntraveler.com/story/the-ri...

This ICE agent lost it and killed an innocent woman. Despite the bloodthirsty braying of JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., and Tom Cotton that this is exculpatory, that is what this video "proves." I didn't think Vance could be more of a moral abomination after "They're eating the pets," but I was wrong.

Café Sabarsky Is Manhattan’s Ultimate Coffee Break — Resy | Right This Way The magic of this grand kaffeehaus never fails to enchant and transport you.

Wrote about my favorite way to escape New York without buying a plane ticket blog.resy.com/letter-of-re...

Zohran kneeling, smiling and giving the thumbs up, next to a chalking on the sidewalk that says "Have You Voted Today" and "Make History, Vote Zohran, Nov. 4, 6am to 9pm"

Well have you?

If not, here's where: zohranfornyc.com/vote

Berlin’s Cemetery Cafés Are Very Much Alive A journey through Berlin’s cemetery cafés—inviting green spaces where locals gather for cake, coffee, and community between life and death.

So thrilled to see my first piece for @saveur.com out in the world www.saveur.com/travel/berli...

How WWII made Hershey and Mars Halloween candy kings From sugar shortages to military contracts, World War II helped make M&Ms and Hershey’s bars into symbols of American abundance.

"Sugar was scarce."

Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @dianahubbell.bsky.social & @popsci.com!

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Meet NYC’s Most Under-the-Radar Pastry Maven Chika Hanyu is making next-level cream puffs and cakes out of a ghost kitchen in Sunnyside

Over the past few years, Chika Hanyu has built up a cult following entirely by word of mouth, all while making extraordinary cream puffs, canelés, and cakes out of a ghost kitchen in Sunnyside, Queens. Check out my latest piece for @eater.bsky.social. ny.eater.com/dining-out-i...

Goodbye to Dirty Precious — Off Assignment “I’ve heard it said that the key to loving New York is learning to live with perpetual loss. The longer you stay in this inconstant city, the more rubble accumulates on the map etched into your psyche...

I said goodbye to a lot of things this past summer, among them my favorite bar in New York. I wrote about letting go, a thing I am fundamentally bad at and do not like one little bit. Shoutout to the wonderful folks at @offassignment.bsky.social www.offassignment.com/gttp/diana-h...

How WWII made Hershey and Mars Halloween candy kings From sugar shortages to military contracts, World War II helped make M&Ms and Hershey’s bars into symbols of American abundance.

I'm constantly amazed how deeply entwined the US food system is with the military industrial complex. Here's why Hershey's became "The Great American Chocolate Bar," featuring a rogue pilot who became known as "The Berlin Candy Bomber" www.popsci.com/health/hersh...

Chez Ma Tante Is the Ultimate Neighborhood Restaurant — Resy | Right This Way Greenpointers are proud to call this chic, unassuming bar and restaurant — named after a storied Montreal Hot Dog shack — their own.

Wrote a love letter to my local blog.resy.com/2025/09/chez...

Samsaen Whisks Diners on a Journey Through Regional Thai Gastronomy — Resy | Right This Way One of Queens’ top Thai chefs now has a place in Manhattan, named for his childhood Bangkok neighborhood and inspired by its train station.

New York is awash in really fantastic Thai food right now. I wrote about one of the best newcomers blog.resy.com/2025/08/sams...

As we listen to RFK's heavy, heavy breathing before Congress, take a moment and read @wired.com's package on what is really going on with science and medicine right now! www.wired.com/beyond-welln...

Today, Labor Day stands for little more than summer’s end, sales, and maybe a barbecue. But it was originally meant to honor both the individual worker and what workers accomplish together through activism and organizing, Chad Broughton wrote in 2014. https://theatln.tc/AIcURZrb

Money can't buy you class!

Real question for editors out there: has gen AI killed the em dash? Are we no longer allowed to use the most fun form of punctuation?

What's really the safest seat in a car? An auto expert weighs in. One is definitely better than the rest, but there are a lot of other factors to consider.

Check out my latest for @popsci.com www.popsci.com/science/what...

Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations: “AI is still a huge deal, they’re suggesting. But after years of issuing one sort of warning, they’re now voicing another: Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” nymag.com/intelligence...

Breaking News 1m ago A close adviser to Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his campaign after trying to give a journalist cash inside a potato chip bag.

They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say

we love to see it

This is not a joke: I’ve started opening my drafts with “The woman wondered what she had gotten herself into” and writing about whatever from there, and it’s honestly been nuking my writer’s block

Why do we put seatbacks up for landing? An aviation expert explains. Two inches might not seem like a big deal, but there’s a good reason for it.

My first "Ask Anything" column for @popsci.com is live! www.popsci.com/science/why-...

Bittersweet but still really something to see the first big editorial package I commissioned and ran out in the world. The Great Escape features on-the-ground reporting and photography from regions across the U.S., plus some beautiful illustrations www.atlasobscura.com/hubs/the-gre...

Google Ends Recipe Pilot That Left Creators Fearing Web-Traffic Hit Google has ended tests of a feature that would have let users open a snapshot of cooking-recipe content directly in web search results — a welcome development for creators and food bloggers who were c...

Good, now stop stealing traffic from the food journalists reporting the stories too thx www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A Gastro Obscura Guide to Sydney Wattleseed pudding, Vegemite-braised ribs, and more freewheeling fusion in the harbor city.

Last year, I wrote a Sydney dining guide for Gastro Obscura's Feast. The series covered 9 cities (from Lagos to Penang) and has just won a James Beard media award for Dining & Travel! Congrats to @dianahubbell.bsky.social, Anne Ewbank and Sam O'Brien on the win!
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whe...

The Explorer’s Guide to Road Tripping Around Appalachia Seek out old-growth forests, live bluegrass, and an old-school fish fry.

Next up is Mason J. Adams, who takes readers on a remarkable journey from mountain string-music jamborees to old-growth forests to a chef serving up her own rendition of a Black Appalachian fish fry www.atlasobscura.com/itineraries/...

The Explorer’s Guide to Road Tripping Down Highway 61 Highway 61 is known as “The Blues Highway” as it makes its way from New Orleans to Memphis, following the Mississippi River through lands forged over eons, from the coastal swamps of Louisiana to the ...

The first piece of the first big editorial package I commissioned is out and it's a real banger. Aaron Joel Santos road tripped 400 miles from Memphis to his hometown of New Orleans for @atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com/itineraries/...

ChatGPT Turned Into a Studio Ghibli Machine. How Is That Legal? Three possible arguments against the tech company

OpenAI has benefitted from generating images in distinctive creative styles, particularly that of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli.

In doing so, it's trampled over human creativity—and perhaps even legal precedent, Alex Reisner writes.

Great to see @atlasobscura.com's National Parks package out in the world. This was a big collaborative effort in the works for months--please go give it a read www.atlasobscura.com/hubs/nationa...