Pollen is in the air again, and experts are predicting a particularly severe allergy season this year. Luckily, New York City residents can track what’s floating around and where it’s coming from — all thanks to one man.
Robinson checking the pollen monitoring station on the roof of Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. Photo: Brennan LaBrie
Dr Guy Robinson, a biologist and former professor of natural sciences at Fordham University, runs the city’s only certified pollen monitoring station from the terrace at the school’s Lincoln Center campus at W60th Street and Columbus Avenue. Each week during the spring, he provides a pollen report on the Fordham Pollen Index, and continues to give monthly updates throughout the year.
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Brennan LaBrie is a Manhattan-based multimedia journalist who originally hails from Washington State. He began reporting in elementary school, when he published a handwritten weekly paper covering local news for three years, and reported on events like the 2010 Winter Olympics for TIME For Kids. He returned to journalism in college, reporting for the school paper and his hometown newspaper during summer breaks. He also co-directed three feature documentaries, one of which received a 2021 College Emmy. He moved to New York City in 2022, and, following a stint as a server in fine dining restaurants, began freelancing for publications around the city. His favorite topics to cover are urban development, housing, education and environmental issues, and his work can be found in The Rockaway Wave and the BK Reader.