My name is Stephen Stirling and I’m a New York City-based writer, reporter and storyteller with a deep passion for journalism.

For the better part of the last three years, I have been a staff reporter for TimesLedger Newspapers in Queens, New York covering the communities of Willets Point, Flushing, North Flushing, College Point, Whitestone, Auburndale, Beechhurst and Broadway-Flushing.

My exhaustive (probably unnecessarily so) coverage of Willets Point led me to start the Iron Triangle Tracker, which has a dedicated readership of any and all that even have a passing interest in the city’s plans to redevelop the area.

I also is a regularly contribute to PopMatters.com and hockey blog, 2manadvantage.com, where I rant and rave about my beloved New Jersey Devils.

I got to this point after I graduated from Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, where I got myself an undergraduate degree in journalism in 2006.

Prior to coming to TimesLedger, I also completed reporting internships at the Village Voice and the New York Daily News. While at the Voice I  contributed research to Wayne Barrett’s book Grand Illusion: the Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11, published by Harper Collins in 2006.

Outside of my journalistic endeavors I serve as the executive vice president of the Kastia Foundation, a family-run philanthropy fund that annually gives thousands of dollars to non-profits and citizens in need.

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This is a test to see what shows up in the Auto slider. The little dog is going to get much larger in the future. But not now. For now, he remains a small dog.

This is a test to see what shows up in the Auto slider. The little dog is going to get much larger in the future. But not now. For now, he remains a small dog.