New York City

November 16, 2016

Where Everybody Knows Your Name and Accepts Your Politics

The wall on the left side of Neary’s, a green-canopied Irish restaurant and bar on East 57th Street that will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, […]
October 15, 2016

Cultural Studies: The Art of Making (and Not Making) Plans

Adult life is full of commitments: bills to pay, family to see and a job you probably have to show up for. But in a world […]
September 13, 2016

In the Studio: In the Studio With the Creative Director of Coach

In the Studio By VANESSA FRIEDMAN Welcome to Episode 1 of our fifth season of In the Studio, which goes behind the closed doors and shaded […]
August 5, 2016

August in New York: Newcomer to the Old Ball Game

It’s not Cooperstown. But the people who come upon, or seek out, the baseball cards in a dimly lighted corridor of the American Wing at the […]
June 27, 2016

Bill Cunningham Looked for Subjects. And They Looked for Him.

Bill Cunningham worked as discreetly as he could. “My whole thing is to be invisible,” he wrote in 2002. “You get more natural pictures that way, […]
June 26, 2016

What It Was Like to Be Photographed by Bill Cunningham

This article was first published in 2002. He calls grown-up women child, and his coterie of young friends muffin. Bill Cunningham has been a habitual presence […]
June 26, 2016

Bill Cunningham on Bill Cunningham

This article was first published in 2002. The author, a longtime Times photographer, died on Saturday. I STARTED photographing people on the street during World War […]
June 10, 2016

Tiny Home Test Drive

By PENELOPE GREEN June 10, 2016 Last week, the first tenants moved into the city’s first micro apartment development on East 27th Street. I did, too, for one […]
April 26, 2016

‘Real Housewives’ Invited Me In. How Could I Say No?

By KATIE ROGERS April 26, 2016 On a cold April morning in Manhattan, Ramona Singer, a cast member of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” is teetering […]
April 5, 2016

Up Next: Nigel Sylvester’s Ride Into Fashion Is No Stunt

April 5, 2016 By JOANNA NIKAS Age 28 Hometown Queens Now Lives In a brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Claim to Fame Mr. Sylvester is a professional […]