New York City

October 16, 2023

Swashbucklers of Comic Con: Please Report to the Lost and Found

They come as Vikings, superheroes and extraterrestrials. As all sorts of Spider-Men and Spider-Women, and at least one Mermaid Man and a Barnacle Boy. Once a […]
October 3, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘To the Skinny Girl with Sad Eyes’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Wishing Her Well To the skinny girl with sad eyes wearing a peacoat […]
September 18, 2023

A Summer of Singles Events, in Pictures

At a speed-dating event in August, $25 bought attendees about 25 dates with strangers, each roughly five minutes long. When the first blind dates began, it […]
September 7, 2023

The Story of the King of Diamonds

Harry Winston’s nickname is just one element in a new biography by one of his sons. “Talk to me, Harry Winston. Tell me all about it,” […]
August 26, 2023

A Family’s Secret Life in a Landmark Building of Manhattan

Family life in Scheffel Hall, a New York City landmark, could get a little complicated. I was 15 the first time it happened. I was staring […]
August 12, 2023

Couples Look Back on Their Weddings During the 2003 Blackout

Couples who married during the widespread power outage reflect on their chaotic but fulfilling wedding days as they approach their 20th anniversaries. It was shortly after […]
July 1, 2023

Paper Magazine: The Oral History of a Downtown Institution

Paper Magazine made its debut in June 1984. The first issue was a foldout poster with a look as minimalist as the publication’s name, matching the […]
July 1, 2023

Paper Magazine: The Oral History of a Downtown Institution

Paper Magazine made its debut in June 1984. The first issue was a foldout poster with a look as minimalist as the publication’s name, matching the […]
June 28, 2023

Does ‘And Just Like That …’ Signal the End of Stealth Wealth?

So does the pop culture and fashion wheel turn. And just like that, stealth wealth, the aesthetic made viral by “Succession,” with its toxic billionaires in […]
June 12, 2023

WW Norton, a Defiant Book Publisher, Throws a 100th Anniversary Party

Rita Dove, Michael Lewis and Richard Powers were among the authors who took part in a crowded, swinging party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan. As the […]