About

Founded by Kyle Walker in 2016, the New York Transatlantic is Europe’s home away from home in New York City. We know, you thought that that was the European Delegation to the United Nations. But no, it’s right here, where the NYTA team admires (and periodically chastises) its charming crush across the pond. Whether Europhile or Euroskeptic, each of us feels some strange fascination with that second most diminutive of continents, and it’s here where we quibble, ponder, fret over and generally wrestle with Europe.

Which Europe, you ask? An excellent question. What exactly counts as Europe seems to change almost as regularly as the weather. At The New York Transatlantic, we take Europe at its most broad: not merely the European Union of 28, but the Europe of 47 that composes the Council of Europe (naturally, we also include Belarus and Kosovo.) As our name suggests, we’re also interested in the wider transatlantic world and the Mediterranean, and in everything from policy to art.

The NYTA editorial team came together under the the roof of NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. We wanted to create a hybrid blog/online magazine that would capture the variety and depth to “thinking Europe” that New York City supports, not least through the likes of CEMS, whose leaders were kind enough to sponsor this project with a small operating budget.

The dozens of talks, concerts, film screenings, festivals and conferences put on by New York City’s various European organizations are our bread and butter here. We can’t cover everything, but we’re working to get a broad cross-section of “Europa in New York” as a foundation from which to launch original reporting projects. So if there’s a topic or an event that you think we ought to cover, send us an email to hk3304@nyu.edu. We like mail!

The personalities behind The New York Transatlantic are …