{"id":241617,"date":"2026-05-23T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241617\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:03:10","slug":"new-york-teenagers-are-addicted-to-their-phones-and-the-culture-is-suffering-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241617\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Teenagers Are Addicted to Their Phones, and the Culture is Suffering For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each day brings news of climate disasters, rising tides, heat waves, floods. But no one is talking about another sign of impending doom: the disappearance of teenagers. Before you jump on a Reddit thread to disprove this (\u201cI just saw one in Starbucks!\u201d), try taking a walk around your city or town\u2014if you still leave your house instead of being chronically online\u2014and see how many teenagers you encounter outside. You probably won\u2019t see many.<\/p>\n<p>Things were once very different\u2014especially in <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/arts-intel\/cities\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York,<\/a> where I live. I may notice the de-teenification of public spaces more than most because, about 30 years ago, I accidentally became what was awkwardly called a \u201cyouth-culture reporter.\u201d \u201cWe want to do a story on rich kids,\u201d a magazine editor told me airily. \u201cGo find out what they\u2019re doing.\u201d Being new to the job, and not having many connections to rich people (the private schools I called and requested access to also responded with a resounding no), I just started wandering around, hoping to run into some teens. And they were literally everywhere, as they might have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each day brings news of climate disasters, rising tides, heat waves, floods. But no one is talking about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94562,9,11,10,33560],"class_list":["post-241617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-nancy-jo-sales","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}