Alex Vadukul

March 17, 2023

Chloe Flower, a Pianist Who Changes Key from Liberace to Cardi B

Chloe Flower has performed at the Grammys, and went viral during the Golden Globes. Naturally, a Christmas album is on the way. Name: Chloe Flower Age: […]
March 10, 2023

Nan Goldin, Subject of ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,’ Heads to the Oscars

A quintessential New York artist prepares for the ultimate red carpet. In the late 1970s, the photographer Nan Goldin began documenting hedonism and bohemia in New […]
February 24, 2023

Letting Go of Her Ballet Dream

One recent Saturday morning at Steps on Broadway, a rehearsal studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, ballet dancers pirouetted to recordings of classical piano […]
February 9, 2023

Hip-Hop Fashion Pioneers Reminisce About Clothes That Shaped the Genre

A proud crowd of hip-hop style pioneers gathered at the Museum at F.I.T. on Tuesday night to toast the opening of a show that celebrates the […]
January 19, 2023

A Wednesday Addams Contest Brings the Fans

At a Brooklyn club, fans of the Netflix series “Wednesday” showed off their takes on the pigtailed heroine’s signature moves in a midnight competition. On a […]
December 15, 2022

‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes

On a brisk recent Sunday, a band of teenagers met on the steps of Central Library on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn to start the weekly […]
September 25, 2022

Ghosts of New York’s Glamorous Past Haunt an Empty Pub

A bar from the Stork Club, once a gathering spot for Grace Kelly, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, collects dust in a downtown tavern […]
August 10, 2022

For Sale: The ‘Sexiest’ Hourly Rate Hotel in Manhattan

The Liberty Inn, the last hourly rate hotel in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, sits alone on a tiny triangular block beside the West Side Highway. Its website […]
August 10, 2022

For Sale: The ‘Sexiest’ Hourly Rate Hotel in Manhattan

The Liberty Inn, the last hourly rate hotel in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, sits alone on a tiny triangular block beside the West Side Highway. Its website […]
July 27, 2022

The Life and Death of Daniel Auster, a Son of Literary Brooklyn

In a Brooklyn subway station one April morning, as commuters waited for a G train, a 44-year-old man named Daniel Auster was found unconscious on a […]