New York City

April 20, 2020

What It’s Like Self-Isolating in a Studio Apartment

Paris has its garrets; London, its bedsits. In New York, it’s the studio apartment — and its grittier cousin, the tenement railroad flat — that has […]
April 17, 2020

At Least New Yorkers Can Still Roll Their Eyes

In a city already locked up and hidden away behind lowered gates and darkened doors, its people now walk behind their own personal barriers. A population […]
April 16, 2020

How Does a New Yawker Tawk?

Surfacing How Does a New Yawker Tawk? The #BestNYAccent challenge on Instagram brought out the sound of an unflappable city. By For a city whose residents […]
April 9, 2020

Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend While Staying Inside

ImageCredit…Museum of Food and Drink A month into life under mandated social distancing, New Yorkers have been adjusted to this new reality by moving their social […]
April 2, 2020

Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend During Coronavirus Quarantine

ImageCredit…Caveat Three weeks into life under mandated social distancing, New Yorkers have been adjusting to this new reality by moving their social lives online. From virtual […]
March 23, 2020

From White Gloves to Latex, the Doormen of New York

They are the white-gloved sentries, standing guard at New York City’s better addresses, so signature a feature of life here that we tend to forget that […]
March 18, 2020

New York City Is Social Distancing

Since the arrival of the new coronavirus, each month, each week, each day has manifested a new city in place of the old one. At eye […]
February 4, 2020

Miuccia Prada Will Be Getting Sensitivity Training

In December 2018, Chinyere Ezie, a civil rights lawyer, posted a picture on Twitter that seemed to encapsulate a year’s worth of racial and cultural faux […]
January 13, 2020

How Tiffany Moved 114,000 Gems Without Getting Robbed

Tiffany & Company had millions of dollars’ worth of shining, sparkling jewelry in its famous Fifth Avenue store on Sunday: $4,000 rings that spell the world […]
January 10, 2020

She Was a Star of New York Real Estate, but Her Life Story Was a Lie

Wrapped in furs, dripping with diamonds and with her blond hair perfectly coifed, Faith Hope Consolo cut a glamorous figure in the flashy, late 20th-century world […]