New York City

December 20, 2019

The Subway Crush Who Crushed Me

We met on the subway on a Saturday morning nearly 14 years ago. Our meeting had been a long time coming. He had been my subway […]
November 7, 2019

You Have to Hear This: The Human Beatbox Champion

In the early 1980s, beatboxers backed up rappers when drum machines were unaffordable. Today, the art form remains largely underground and misunderstood. Some people dismiss it […]
October 23, 2019

Inside the Nordstrom Dynasty

Blake Nordstrom was a model Nordstrom. He was nice about being competitive and competitive about being nice. He would wish employees happy birthday a day early, […]
July 14, 2018

The Look: The Impolite Pleasure of People-Watching

Observation is, at once, a glorified lack of activity and an invasion of privacy. But there’s so much to see in New York.
January 2, 2018

Sneaker Heads Share Secrets to Scoring the Hottest Shoes and Keeping Them Fresh

Advertisement Damien Rosa, 14 (center), and his buddies at Sneaker Con. CreditKrista Schlueter for The New York Times Sneaker Con, a gathering of shoe fanatics founded […]
November 4, 2017

Four More Zzzs for Snooze City

There it was, that word again. “I’m going to call you ‘the boring’ because that’s what you are,” a Donald Trump impersonator blustered to New York […]
April 7, 2017

Last of New York’s Master Wigmakers

Nicholas Piazza keeps 600 pounds of hair in his Staten Island garage. He stores it in plastic bins and cardboard boxes, opposite the fishing supplies. “Got […]
March 31, 2017

Vows: She Loves the Met. He Loves LeBron James.

Vows By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI Sally Wang has a theory as to why she did not date many Asian men before meeting Jason Liang in February […]
March 1, 2017

Styles Q. and A.: Filmmaker Bart Freundlich on Shooting Hoops at 47

Two or three times a week, for 20 years, Bart Freundlich has played basketball with a group of guys in gymnasiums around New York City, where […]
November 17, 2016

Yoga? Weaving? Vigils? The Search for Postelection Calm

They were a cheerful, if slightly dazed, group last Thursday evening at Voz, a store on Elizabeth Street that sells ethical fashion made by indigenous people […]