Alex Vadukul

December 15, 2022

‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes

On a brisk recent Sunday, a band of teenagers met on the steps of Central Library on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn to start the weekly […]
September 25, 2022

Ghosts of New York’s Glamorous Past Haunt an Empty Pub

A bar from the Stork Club, once a gathering spot for Grace Kelly, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, collects dust in a downtown tavern […]
August 10, 2022

For Sale: The ‘Sexiest’ Hourly Rate Hotel in Manhattan

The Liberty Inn, the last hourly rate hotel in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, sits alone on a tiny triangular block beside the West Side Highway. Its website […]
August 10, 2022

For Sale: The ‘Sexiest’ Hourly Rate Hotel in Manhattan

The Liberty Inn, the last hourly rate hotel in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, sits alone on a tiny triangular block beside the West Side Highway. Its website […]
July 27, 2022

The Life and Death of Daniel Auster, a Son of Literary Brooklyn

In a Brooklyn subway station one April morning, as commuters waited for a G train, a 44-year-old man named Daniel Auster was found unconscious on a […]
May 18, 2022

Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York

Now guarding trees in Lower Manhattan, the poet and author of “Chelsea Girls” says: “Things that might have once been corny to me don’t feel corny […]
April 8, 2022

Forlini’s Italian Restaurant Closes

The beloved red-sauce restaurant in New York’s Chinatown has served its last clams casino. “It’s hard, but we’re leaving while we’re still on top,” Derek Forlini […]
March 31, 2022

A Playwright Makes the Scene in New York’s Living Rooms

In the fall of 2020, a young playwright named Matthew Gasda decided to entertain some friends by staging a one-act drama on a grassy hilltop of […]
February 26, 2022

The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’

On a mild October morning during last year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, Rebecca Panovka and Kiara Barrow set up their display tent outside Borough Hall. They were […]
February 26, 2022

The Drift Is Not Your Dad’s Intellectual Journal

On a mild October morning during last year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, Rebecca Panovka and Kiara Barrow set up their display tent outside Borough Hall. They were […]