Oscar Fock

I’m a New York-based journalist from Sweden. I write about the environment, how climate change impacts us humans, and how we are responding.

Charas returning to its neighbors, someday

Arts / Oscar Fock

After decades of fighting, the former PS 64 building — which for some time, following the closing of the school, housed the CHARAS/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center — on 605 East 9th St. will be restored and turned back into a building for the community. The building was sold in January 2024 to an […]

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Celebrating Christmas in Sweden

Uncategorized / Oscar Fock

Sweden is a place of plenty of holiday celebrations. My American friends usually say midsummer with the fertility pole and the wacky dances when I tell them about Swedish holidays, but to me — and I’d wager few Swedes would argue against this — no holiday is as anticipated as Christmas. Further, I would argue

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