Hello, I'm Caroline Spivack, a multimedia journalist based in New York City who specializes in local news, features and investigations. Currently, I am a reporter for Vox Media's Curbed at New York Magazine where I cover housing, transportation and neighborhood news that intersects with the built environment. During my nearly three years at Curbed, I have published more than 650 stories including a two-part feature on pandemic-induce rents debts shouldered by tenants and small landlords, a 3,000-word piece digging into the varied proposals to reinvent a crumbling stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and several scoops on private and public development. Prior to Curbed, I reported from breaking news scenes for the New York Post, covered local news in Lower Manhattan for Patch and covered a variety of local beats in Brooklyn's Park Slope, Gowanus, Sunset Park and Redhook neighborhoods for DNAinfo New York. I began my career as a local news hound at the Brooklyn Paper and the Courier Life newspapers where I broke news on the city’s failure to warn Coney Island residents that 200,000 gallons of raw sewage were illegally released into Coney Island Creek on a daily basis by 16 residential buildings — possibly for years. |
In 2016, I earned a Masters in Science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. A year earlier, I received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature with a concentration in journalism from Mount Holyoke College.
My work has been recognized by the New York Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. I've appeared on WNYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show", Monocle's "The Urbanist" and WCNY's "The Capitol Newsroom". In 2017, I was featured by Bric TV.
My work has been recognized by the New York Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. I've appeared on WNYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show", Monocle's "The Urbanist" and WCNY's "The Capitol Newsroom". In 2017, I was featured by Bric TV.