Aaron W. Gordon
aaron wittes gordon no spaces at gmail
I’m a senior staff writer at Motherboard, VICE’s tech and science website. I used to write about sports. Then I wrote about the New York City subway. Now I write about transportation, infrastructure, and the environment.
Keep up with my work by subscribing to my newsletter or using an RSS feed for my author page at the VICE website. Here are some select clips:
Why the US Sucks at Building Public Transit
How Uber Turned A Promising Bikeshare Company Into Literal Garbage
‘It’s Going to End Up Like Boeing’: How Freight Rail Is Courting Catastrophe
‘The Worst and Most Egregious Attendance Policy’ Is Pushing Railroad Workers to the Brink
Who Killed the Electric Mail Truck?
New York’s E-Bikes Keep Catching Fire, and It’s Getting Worse
Paradise Burned to the Ground. Now It’s Another Hot Housing Market
The Mail: A Special Project on the USPS
Before Motherboard, I was a senior reporter at Jalopnik, transportation reporter for the Village Voice, founder of the NYC subway newsletter Signal Problems, and staff writer at VICE Sports. I also freelanced for various local and national news outlets including Slate, Deadspin (original), The New Yorker, Curbed, Gothamist, and many other publications that no longer exist. Here are a few clips from those beats:
‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’
Uber and Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say
The Five-buck Bump of Cocaine That Destroyed an Olympic Dream
Rio Didn't Need an Olympic Golf Course, But They Built One Anyway
In my leisure time, I enjoy biking, birdwatching, soccer-watching, and staring at my cat Harriet (catwatching). I live in Brooklyn, NY. You can usually find me in Prospect Park.