New York City

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 […]
January 1, 2020

Inside the Fake Igloo Rooftop Wars

When New York City was hit with a snow squall a few weeks ago, Albert Hei, 29, took refuge in an igloo. Well, a fake one, […]
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.