Asad🗽🍎 ✓

@AsadFromNYC · The World’s Greatest City · joined 23 Jul 2014

Brooklyn-born public NYC historian, urbanist, lecturer, tour company founder. I like to walk and talk. EMAIL to do it with me: asad@newyorknarratives.com.

40 330Followers

5 552Following

44 139Posts total

49.8KViews on collected posts

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Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC13 Sep

@AsadFromNYC It is underwhelming. Especially since Chicago is known for their Anish Kapoor Cloud Gate. “Can’t buy taste”, they say. 145 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC13 Sep

@AsadFromNYC Oh I walked by this today it looks so strange like it’s being squeezed by the building 😭 186 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC13 Sep

@AsadFromNYC The lesson to take from the NYC bean is that Chicago gave their bean a whole park. Ours got wedged under the corner of a building, because that's all the attention it deserved in this town. 217 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC13 Sep

I encountered New York’s “Bean” for the first time yesterday, and I must say, I was underwhelmed. We didn’t need this. https://t.co/RJjXCklQwa

3.2K views · 105 likes · 0 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC13 Sep

"But the advent of shipping containers, which were too big for the Red Hook port, cost local longshoremen their jobs in the 1960s and ’70s and set off a steady Italian exodus — often to NJ, Staten Island, or Queens — that has continued ever since." https://t.co/1PAFGLsuvR 640 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC12 Sep

"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says Rhode Island State Rep. David Morales’ Providence mayoral primary victory as evidence voters support rent stabilization policies." https://t.co/AfWGw4OpxH 1.9K views · 21 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC12 Sep

"Rooted in the same principles of the Young Lords, Alianza Islámica was the largest Latino Muslim organization in the U.S., which focused on melding faith and culture as tools to organize Latines and Muslims and promote community self-development." https://t.co/FGwEnAVbBC 764 views · 26 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC23 Aug

@AsadFromNYC Wow what amazing coverage! Congratulations! 484 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC23 Aug

@AsadFromNYC Mashallah! 136 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC23 Aug

@AsadFromNYC Last week I learned of a decades-old Muslim community in West Valley in WNY. I'm trying to get a tour from someone connected to the community. 377 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Asad🗽🍎 ✓@AsadFromNYC23 Aug

My work was profiled in the NYT today, this time for my “Muslim Harlem” tour, which covers 5 different Muslim communities in one walk, from Puerto Rican Muslims to West African Muslims. If you’re curious about it all, check it out: Harlem’s Muslim Map. https://t.co/5Dr8o80F5p 41.8K views · 585 likes · 120 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views484this account1 088median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.20%this account3.86%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.43%this account1.66%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	484	1 088	0.44×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.20%	3.86%	0.31×
Engagement rate	1.43%	1.66%	0.86×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

41.8K23 Aug

377

136

484

76412 Sep

1.9K

64013 Sep

3.2K

217

186

145

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.72%23 Aug

0.80%

0.74%

0.41%

3.93%12 Sep

1.43%

1.56%13 Sep

3.53%

2.76%

1.08%

1.38%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.66%.

What the audience does

Likes70.9%759 in total

Reposts11.9%127 in total

Replies2.6%28 in total

Bookmarks14.6%156 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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